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Evening star., 1960-04-23
Guatemala Lays
Plot to Cuban

GUATEMALA, April % (AP).
-Guatemalan authorities said
last night they have discovered
a plot financed by Cuba's Ma
tional Bank head, Maj. Ernesto
CChe) Guevara, to overthrow
the Guatemalan government.
The announcement followed
an accusation by a government
spokesman that there was
Cuban meddling in an at
tempted prison mutiny at
Central Penitentiary early yes
terday.
The mutiny was quickly put
down, but two guards were
stabbed.
A presidential spokesman
said the attempted break was
plotted by opposition politicians
in collusion with international
Communist agents, who had in
tended to time it with street
rioting and a similar movement
in nelghboring El Salvador.
Fernando Arce Behrens of
Guatemala, charged with
masterminding the plot, is in
the prison on charges Of sub
versive activity. On a recent
visit to Cuba he declared many
Guatemalans were ready to go
to Cuban Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's aid should he be
menaced by an invasion.
Enrique Trinidad Olivia, &C
cused of participating in the
murder of the late President
Carlos Castillo Armas, also was
implicated in the uprising
plans. a spokesman said.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Students Stage
Anti-U. S. Rally

BUENOs AIRES, Argentina,
April % (AP).-About 300 stu
dents demonstrated in down.
town Buenos Aires last night,
shouting Cuba yes, Yankee
no." Police fired several rounds
Of tear gas to disperse them.
Several demonstrators were
arrested. No injuries we're re-
ported.
The demonstration was
staged after authorities refused
to permit a meeting in the
Luna Park sports stadium. The
meeting was organized by the
Movement of Unity and Coor-
dination, a leftist labor organ
ization. It's announced purpose
was to express solidarity with
Cuba's government.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
CARS

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sion launched an investigation
against bait" advertising by
certain dealers and is expected
to complete its investigation
and issue complaints against
the offenders in the near future.
Dealers Warned
The Armed Forces Disciplin-
airy Control Board in this area
summoned a group of dealers
to a hearing and warned their
attorney to make them call a
halt to the fleeing of service
men.
Six dealers were denied their
applications for renewal of
their licenses and five of them
now are going through appeal
procedures.
The Metropolitan Automobile
Dealers Association was formed
to raise the standards of used
ear dealers and to police their
industry.
Under the new auto finance
law, the maximum charges
that can be imposed on cars
bought on the installment plan
are So per S100 per year on
new cars, Sl1 per $l00 per year
on cars up to two years old,
$14 per $100 per year on cars
up to four years old. and SIS
per S100 per year on cars more
than four years cid.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
U. S. VigiIontes
Formed to Guard
Homes in Laos

VIENTIANE, Laos, April %
(AP).-A group of American
residents here planned vigi-
lante action today to guard
their homes from possible ter
rorist attacks as prediction
tension grew in Laos.
United States Ambassador
Horace Smith ordered all Off
cial American personnel to be
off the streets from II pm. to-
day until after the end of to-
morrow's general election.
Fourteen families of the
United States Operations Mis-
sion that runs the American
aid program here set up groups
of two armed men in a jeep
patroling the area around their
homes in two-hour, round-the-
clock shifts. They live about
5 miles outside Vientiane near
a lonely wooded stretch.
Radio Hanoi of Communist
North Wet Nam has been
charging American interference
in the Laotian elections. There
were fears here the pro-Com-
munist Pathet Lao rebels may
take action against Americans
during the election week end.
A group of raiders who iden.
titled themselves as Pathet Lac
killed a French official Thurs
day and told his wife they die
it because they thought he was
an American.
The Slayers, numbering about
60 men. abducted the officials
wife from her home in a Lao.
tian resort village but later re.
leased her unharmed.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Missing Child, z,
Feared Kidnuped

LONDONDERRY, N. H. April
% (AP) Police Chief Ralph E.
Stevens expressed fear today
that 2-year-old Diane Fren-
nette was kidnapped.
The child, one of IL children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Fren-
nette, disappeared from her
yard Thursday afternoon.
Chief Stevens said he doesn't
think the child wandered away
from her home or fell into a
nearby brook.
Il think she was picked up
by a man who was seen speed
ing away from the scene Just
before the little girl was dis
covered to be missing" the
chief said.
The auto was described by
police as similar to one sought
in the sex-slaying of l8-year-
old Sandra Valade in nearby
Derry. The slayer of Miss VAL
ade has never been caught.
More than 400 persons are
assisting in the search for Di-
ane. Skindivers searched the
bottom of Bear Brook without
finding a trace.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Chou and Nehru
Confer at Lunch

NEW DELHI. India, April %
(AP).-Red Chinese Premier
Chou En-lai lunched today with
most of the Indian cabinet as
discussions of the border dis
pute remained wrapped in off,
cial silence.
Mr.. Chou and six advisers
went to Prime Minister Nehrus
house for the first meeting Of
the day over lunch. Indian
cabinet ministers absent in
cluded two who had talked
with Mr.. Chou earlier, Home
Minister Govind Ballabh Pant
and Finance Minister Morarji
DesaI. Defense Minister V. K.
KriShna Menon, who next to
Mr.. Nehru has seen most of
Mr.. Chou since he arrived Tues
day, attended the lunch.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
KOREA
Rhee to Surrender
Some of His Powers

mier presumably would be
elected from among the mem
bers Of the National Assembly
and would pick his own min
listers. The president, usually
is a flgurehead chief of state.
But when South Korea had
this type government before
Mr.. Rhee repeatedly still hand
picked ministers, acting
through the premiers.
Under Korea's election laws,
a new election must be called
within 40 days if Mr.. Lee
should step aside as vice pres
ident-elect.
Mr.. Lee is the main target
of the anti-government demon
strators.
Mr.. Rhee's move was the
latest in a series Of conciliatory
gestures aimed at appeasing
the inf1amed Korean public.
Earlier, he promised his people
an investigation would be made
and those with major griev-
ances satisfied. After that his
cabinet submitted a mass
resignation.
New Cabinet Expected
Home Minister Hong indi-
Gated announcement Of a new
cabinet, including men who are
not Liberal Party members,
would be made soon.
Before the announcement Of
Mr.. Rhee's decision, Mr.. Lee
issued a statement on the pos
sible new cabinet set-up in his
role AS a leader of the ruling
Liberal Party. 1t said:
"In order to cope with the
current crisis and stabilize the
political situation. I am con-
sidering reorganizing the Qib-
eraD party through merger of
various conservative elements
and reforming governmental
and political institutions based
on a responsible cabinet syS-
tenn"
Despite the protest demon
strations and minor disturb
ances elsewhere, South Korea's
army commander, 1t. Gen.
Song Yo-chan, said he hopes
martial law can be lifted in
Seoul and four other cities in
a few days. He said a target
date for the troop withdrawal
has already been suggested. He
would not disclose when.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Castro Charges U. S.
Plans Fifth Column

declared that former soldiers
of Fulgencio Batista's regime
employed at the base were in.
volved.
United States authorities have
told the Cuban government only
eight of the more than 5000
Cuban employees at the base
had records as former Batists
soldiers.
Mr.. Castro reiterated charges
that American military planes
had ranged over the Sierra
Maestro in Oriente in an effort
to make contact with Capt.
Manuel Beaton, ex-Castro Off
GER who is leading an inSurgent
band. Mr.. Castro said his noun.
tain toroops had encircled Capt
Beaton and captured five of his
men.
The Cuban leader brushed
aside American assertions that
aircraft had flown over the
mountains wish permission Of
his government to search for 3
missing American plane.
The Prime Minister accused
two American television men Of
twisting his remarks in Eastern
Cuba last week. The two, Rich
ard Bate, Coco Beach, Fla, and
Mario Biasetti, Boston, both Of
CHS, were expelled by Cuban
authorities Wednesday without
official explanation.
They had reported Mr.. Cas-
tro told them he was willing to
meet either Mr.. Eisenhower OF
Mr.. Herter for a private dis
cuSsion of Cuban American
differences. Mr.. Castro later
denied it.
This is similar to the Fascist
strategy of Goebbels Joseph
Goebbels. late propaganda
minister of Adolf Hitler)," Mr..
Castro said.
He charged that American
correspondents were really FBI
agents who hoped to enlarge
the Beaton incident into some
sort of counter-revolution ac-
tivity. Capt. Beaton took to
the hills in Oriente Province
after escaping from a military
prison.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Cuba Intrigue
Scanned by
U. S. Jury

MIAMI, Fla. April % CAP).
Latin American revolution
airy intrigue is being investi-
gated by a Federal grand jury
now in session at Miami, the
Miami Herald has reported.
Three attorneys from the
Internal Security Division of
the Justice Department are in
Miami and the investigation
repeatedly will include muni-
tions exports, activities of all
foreign agents in South Flor
ida, check of aliens move
ments and a probe of flights
by United States citizens to
Latin American trouble spots.
A Cuban Air Force official,
Carlos Hernandez Lopez, failed
to answer a summons to appear
before the grand jury and was
Subpoenaed to appear before
Judge Emett c. Choate Thurs
day. The officer was reported
to have returned to Cuba.
The investigation also is eX-
pected TO include a Miami
Cuba fight possibly staged by
agents of Premier Fidel Castro
to embarrasS this country and
may touch on American citi-
zenS serving with foreign mill
tary units in Latin America.
One Of the prime targets OF
the jury is the March 81 flight
by William L. Shergalis, 33,
and Howard l.. RundquiSt, 35,
both of Miami. They were
captured by Cuban soldiers and
Shergalis signed a statement
saying the flight was arranged
by Castro's agents to embar-
rasS the United States.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Court Asked
To Restudy
Abel Decision
By the Associated Press

Each of five Supreme Court
justices who voted to uphold
the conviction of Col. Rudolph
I. Abel as a Soviet spy has been
asked to vigorously examine
his judicial conscience" and
grant a rehearing. -,t4
James B. Donovan, New York
attorney, in a petition filed
with the high tribunal yester-
day said it's 5-4 decision of
March % had opened the way
"for every type of police sub
terfuge."
This petition is made on
behalf Of the innocent millions
of United States residents sub
ject to the immigration and
naturalization laws, whose per-
sonal liberties have been sever
ly and unjustly curtailed by
this courts decision" Mr.. DON
ovan's request said.
Abel was arrested in New
York on an administrative
warrant used to hold aliens for
deportation proceedings. Mr..
Donovan had argued before the
Supreme Court on behalf of
Abel that this was Subterfuge
to permit immigration and FBI
agents to obtain evidence of
espionage.
The five-judge majority in
an opinion by Justice Frank
furter said the two agencies
were only engaging in rightful
cooperation.
Mr.. Donovan'S re-hearing pc
tition agued that this majority
opinion grants to administra-
tive officials possessing no
search warrant (but who had
ample time to obtain one) =,
greater power over a suspects
person and property than is
permitted to law enforcement
officers who obtain judicially
authorized arrest and search
warrants complying with the
requirements of the Fourth
Amendment to the ConStitu-
ton" (The amendment bars
unreasonable searches and
Seizures.)
Evening star., 1960-04-23
DE GAULLE
Stunning Of Berlin
Issue Is Indicted

that they had "a very good
conversation"
But those who knew Gen. de
Gaulle do not think he spent
much time on formalities. He
was believed to have given Mr.
Eisenhower = personal ap-
praisal of Mr.. Khrushchev's
views of summit prospects, par
ticularly his attitude toward
the Berlin crisis which the So
Wet leader himself precipitated
in November, 1858.
Gen. de Gaulle repeatedly
warned Mr.. Khrushchev that
if he presses the Berlin issue
he was certain to create a crisis
which would destroy the emerg-
ing detente in world affairs.
The only method of preserving
the calm now spreading over
the global scene. the French
President told Mr.. Khrushchev,
is to avoid controversy Oh
Berlin.
Before today's press confer
ence, Mr.. Eisenhower walked
with President de Gaulle from
the north portico Of the White
House across Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to lay a wreath at the
statue of Marquis de Lafayette
at Lafayette square.
Mr.. Eisenhower and Presi-
dent de Gaulle walked down
the White House drive between
lines of crack troops of the
four American services to the
monument honoring General
Lafayette and his CompatriotS, -
which stands at the southeast
corner of the square.
Anthems Played
Mr.. Eisenhower stood with
his gray fedora over his heart,
Gen. de Gaulle with his right
hand raised in a half salute as
the "Marseillaise" and then
The Star-Spangled Banner
were played.
Flanking the Lafayette statue
were four guards in red, white
and blue Revolutionary uni
forms.
Gen. de Gaulle, aided by an
American sergeant, placed a
large circular wreath of red
and white carnations, blue iris
and lilies of the valley at the
base of the statue.
Neither the President nor
the French leader spoke.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Rebel Seized
In Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela, April
% (AP) Jesus Maria Castro
Leon, leader of the abortive
revolt in western Venezuela,
was captured yesterday by
machete-wielding peasant S
loyal to President Romulo
Betancourt's regime.
Disguised as a peasant, Cas-
tro Leon was cornered with
three other rebel officers at a
village in Tachira Province
where the 24-hour revolt began
Wednesday. The government
identified the other officers as
1t. Coils. Hubadlo GRAHAM,
Manuel Silva Guillan and Jose
Isabel Gutierrez.
Castro Leon, a former Air
Force general. led his rebels
across the Colombian border
into Venezuela and took an
army post at San Cristobal,
capital of Tachira Province,
The rebels fed when a gov
ernment armored column ap-
preached the city Thursday.
Castro Icons chief aide, 1t,
Col. Juan de DioS Moncada,
was captured by peasants be-
fore he could get away.
The Colombian government
said Castro Leon and Dios
Moncada were in Colombia un-
der diplomatic passports from
the Dominican Republic.
Colombia's President Alber-
to Lleras Camargo charged that
the revolt appeared to have
been aided by the Dominican
Republic. His statement was
in a message congratulating
President Betancourt for put
ting down the revolt.
Evening star., 1960-04-23

HAVANA, April % (AP).-
Fidel Castro accused the Eisen-
hover administration today of
trying to set up a fifth COL
umn" in Cuba aimed at spark
ing revolt against his revolu-
tionary government.
The Cuban Prime Minister
charged that recent remarks
by President Eisenhower and
Secretary of State Herter were
part of a well prepared and
premeditated plan" to create
an internal front.
In a 3l2-hour television
speech running well past mid
night, Mr.. Castro declared that
statements by Mr.. Eisenhower
and Mr.. Herter were "all part
Of a preconceived intent to
create a fifth column to en-
courage a counter-revolution-
airy struggle against the
(Cuban) government"
He also accused the United
States of trying to organize
some sort of action within the
Organization of American
States against Cuba.
Denies Betrayal
Mr.. Castro rejected Mr.. Eli
senhower's charge that he be-
trayed the Cuban revolution.
If we had done that" he
said, "the American president
would have called us loyal
friends"
In a recent letter to the
Chilean Students Federation,
Mr.. Eisenhower warned against
Communism and said demo-
cratic ideas of the Cuban revo-
luton were being betrayed.
The Chilean students replied
that they felt a true revolu-
tionary process is developing in
Cuba.
During his long TV appear
ance Mr.. Castro looked weary
and coughed repeatedly, as if
suffering from a cold.
He repeated charges that au-
thorities at the United States
naval base at Guantanamo ir
eastern Cuba were linked to a
plot against his regime. He
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Ghunu Protests
Denial of Room
To High Official

The Embassy of Ghana has
filed a protest with the State
Department charging that a
high official of the African ma
ton was refused a room at a
local boarding house Thursday
because of his color.
The State Department SAID
it has apologized to the En-
bassy for the incident and ini-
tiated an investigation by its
legal staff.
William E. Amman, Ghana's
Assistant Commissioner of La
Dor, said he had a room re-
served at Hartnett Hall, 1926
Twenty-first street NV, but
was turned away Thursday
when he tried to claim the
room.
He said room clerk and
the house manager told him
the boarding house does not
rent to Negroes.
Mr.. Amman said it was the
first racial incident he has
encountered during 2l2 months
in the United States on a trip
sponsored by the International
Cooperation Administration.
A spokesman at the Ghana
Embassy said today his gov
ernment considers the incident
quite serious" and is having
second thoughts about send
ing other high officials" to the
United States.
Neither the manager of Hart
nett Hall, nor its owner, John
D. Hartnett, could be reached
for comment.
Washington's laws on nom
discrimination in hotels and
restaurants do not cover board
ing houses, considered private
contracts under common law
according to Corporation Coun-
sci Chester H. Gray.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
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is the relation between East
and West" the French Presi-
dent emphasized. In my view
the summit conference must
above all grapple with this
problem"
Once there is an improve
ment in the atmosphere "solu-
tions no one would have
thought of posing under pres
ent circumstances" will appear
to help remove specific prob
lens.
Appraisal Likely
Yesterday afternoon Gen. de
Gaulle spent 70 minutes in a
private talk with President Eli
Senhower at the White House.
officials speculated that part of
the time was devoted to Gen.
de Gaulle's comments on his
impressions of the Khrushchev
mood when the Soviet dictator
visited Paris this month.
There was no definite word
on the substance of the first
White House conversations
White House Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty said merely
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Luwford Becomes
American Citizen

LOS ANGELES. April % (AP)
Peter Lawford became a
United States citizen in special
naturalization ceremonies yes
terday.
The London born actor was
accompanied to the court of
United States Judge Pierson
M. Hall by his wife Pat, sister
of Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts,. They have three
children.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
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at National University Hos
pital.
A government spokesman said
Mr.. Rhee stopped at the beds
of 40 or more Of the injured
during the hour-long visit.
He said one Of the injured
told the President, 81 am CRATE
full for your visit. I won't take
part IN another demonstration
like that.
Mr.. Rhee wept throughout
the visit and left money to use
for the patients.
The swift developments lef:
Korea's political scene in con-
fusion in the midst of the crisis
created by bloody anti-govern-
ment outbursts. Police shot and
killed at least l28 demonstrators
and wounded nearly 800 last
Tuesday.
The rioters were protesting
the mid-March landslide elec-
ton won by Mr.. Rhee and Mr..
Lee was rigged.
Police Hold Fire
Since Tuesdays blood-bath
the heavily armed police and
troops patroling the main CEN
ters have held their fire.
Today 5000 students
marched through the streets of
Inchon demanding that Mr.,
Rhee and Mr.. Lee resign. The
students paraded for more than
four hours and threw rocks at
police stations and the local
Offices of the Liberal Party,
Police made no effort to halt
the demonstration.
The announcement of Mr.
Rhee'S decision to change the
government came from Home
Minister Hong Chin-ki who
said the government would sub
NIT the required constitutional
changes to the National AS
sembly soon. There was still
much speculation on just how
much power Mr.. Rhee would
be willing to relinquish.
South Korea formerly had a
cabinet system of government
but abolished it. Since then
the nation has followed the
American pattern putting exec
utive powers in the hands OF
an elected president who picks
his own cabinet.
Under the contemplated pre-
mier cabinet system, the pre-
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Books on Exhibit

The 80 Books Of the Year
1859" selected by jury Of the
American Institute Of Graphic
Arts as the best examples Of
American book design and
manufacture. went on display
Yesterday in the Library Of
Congress. The exhibit will be
on the second floor Of the main
library until June 30.
Evening star., 1960-10-10
Chronic Escupee
Put on FBI List
BY the Associated Press

Charles Francis Higgins. a
chronic robber and Jail break
er who has spent more than
half of his lifetime in prison,
today was added to the FBTs
list of 10 most wanted men.
Higgins, now 54. is currently
sought as an escapee from the
Colorado State Penitentiary at
Canon City. Colo, where he
was serving a robbery sentence.
That was in July. 1859.
The FBI said he should be
considered extremely danger
Gus. 1t noted that in 1916
he attempted to lead a break
of prisoners from the Missouri
State Penitentiary by plunging
that big institution into dark
ness. He cut off the power
supply while working in the
power house.
He has escaped from various
prisons, the FBI said.
A native of st. Louis, Mo,
Higgins is of medium height
and build, with brown eyes and
brown-grey hair. He has a scar
over his right eye, and a tat
tooed heart with the initials
&C. H" on his right forearm.
Evening star., 1960-10-10
Four Arkunsuns
Die in Air Crash

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. Oct. 10
(AP). A. Searchers yesterday
found the bodies of four Cen
trail Arkansas businessmen in
the charred wreckage of a light
plane. The plane crashed and
burned Saturday en- route to the
ADMINISTRATION football game
in Fayetteville, Ark.
The plane fell in rugged
mountains about 30 miles north
of here. An Air Force helicop-
ter, which could not land be-
cause of the rough terrain, low
cred a doctor who identified the
bodies. He said none survived
the impact.
Dead were Charles Freeman,
a Hot Springs insurance man,
the pilot: L. L. Marshall of NAL
vern. Ark, an oil distributor:
James Stonecipher of Hot
Springs, a photographer, and
Johnny Holder of Hot Springs,
advertising manager of the Hot
Springs Sentinel-Record and
New Era.
Ground crews of State police
were dispatched through heavy
woods toward the crash site.
Cause of the crash has not been
determined.
Evening star., 1960-10-10
Eyershorp Agrees
To Modify Its Ads
On Schick Ruzors
BY the Associated Press

The Federal Trade Commits
sion said yesterday Eversharp,
Inc, and its advertising agency,
Compton Advertising, Inc,
have agreed to a consent order
forbidding them to use decep-
tive pictorial demonstrations
to sell Schick safety razors and
blades made by Eversharp.
The FTC order specifies that
the two firms, both of New
York, must stop:
/. Using demonstrations pur-
porting to prove that the
Schick razor is safer than other
safety raZors, in actual use,
when such proof is not in fact
given.
2. Disparaging competitive
razors by untruthful state
ments or misleading or decep-
tive methods.
8. disappearing conse-
quences that may result from
the use of competitive razors.
The agreement, the FTC
said, is for settlement purposes
only and does not constitute an
admission by either firm that
it has violated the law. The
commission filed its complaint
against the two companies last
March 10.