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Evening star., 1960-10-14
Sugar Mills
And Banks
Are Seized
Sugar Mills
And Banks
Taken Over

1ANAINA, OCG. IA VAR -
Fidel Castro's regime took a
giant step today toward COM
plete state control of Cuba's
basic industries by nationaliz-
ing 382 firms, including all Gu
ban banks and los sugar mills.
This was the first nationali-
zation of Cuban-owned prop
erty, but the government
previously had nationalized the
bulk of United States invest
ments in this country, includ-
ing 36 sugar mills and banks,
estimated to be worth a total
of a billion dollars.
The new naturalization de-
cree was hammered out by the
cabinet during the night and
signed by the Prime Minister
and President OSvaldo Dor
ticos. It included so textile
factories, 8 railways, II movie
chains. 13 department stores.
Is rice mills, 6 distilleries and
II coffee companies. Many had
been intervened-that is, taken
at least partially under gov
ernment control-previously.
20 U. S. Firms Affected
Some United States firms.
we're included in the decree
Dupont Interamerica Chemical
Co., Pittsburgh Plate Glass In
ternational and Bohon Trading
Corp, which manufactures pa
per.
The United States Embassy
said about 20 United States
owned firms were affected,
leaving about $50 to 400 Ameri-
can firms still operating in
Cuba.
The decree said payment ar
arrangements would be outlined in
a future law. So far no COM
pensation has been offered for,
previously nationalized proper
ties, except for long-term bonds.
Most of the newly nation
allied properties were turned
over to the National Institute
for Agrarian Reform, a huge
agency which has ties in al
most every area Of Cuban eco
nomic life.
There was no immediate
evaluation of the properties,
but they are worth hundreds
of millions of dollars.
All Sugar Involved
1t appears the country's en-
tire sugar production - the
backbone of Cuba's economy
now is a state responsibility.
The cabinet decree accused
big business interests of f1nanc-
ing counter revolutionary
groups Gin frank alliance with
international financial imper-
ialism" and of attempting to
block Castro revolutionary pro-
grams.
A separate decree national
izing the banks also said the
state should have exclusive con-
troll over money policy and
credit since private enterprise
functions under the spur Of
earnings, and with greater con-
sideration for individual than
for collective interests"
Protest Note Sent
The Cuban regime issued q
note of protest last night
charging United States author
tiles with completely in the at
tack on the Cuban consulate in
Miami yesterday by a band of
about 80 Cuban exiles.
The note said "gangSters''
carried out the attack, in which
Consul General Abelardo Leon
Blanco was beaten and the con-
See CUBA, Page AT
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Debafers Split
Widely on Isles
In3dTVSession
Kennedy and Nixon
Also Far Apart on
Other Questions
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star Stan Writer

The third televised set-to
between Vice President Nixon
and Senator Kennedy left them
clinging gTinly today to con-
f1icting stands on the defense
of Quemoy and Matsu defense
as a burning campaign issue.
On most other world and ma
tional issues except the Berlin
Debote Text. Pages A-S and 40
situation, religious prejudice
and former President Truman's
colorful stump speeches, the
Republican and Democratic
presidential candidates were
almost as far apart as the
5000 miles that separated them
last night.
Supporters of each man ac-
claimed the debate as the best
yet and claimed victory for
their side. Other comments
and some public opinion
samplings indicated this third
national TV encounter changed
few minds, but did show both
rivals battling harder and
more pointedly than in the first
two encounters, September 26
and october z.
Screen Split
In q split-screen arrange
ment presenting him from an
American Broadcasting Co.
studio in Hollywood, Mr.. Nixon
displayed still further improve
ment in performance as well as
appearance. Mr.. Kennedy, in
an ABC studio in New York
City, was generally regarded as
being up to par.
Several answers and COM
ments by both men as well as
Mr.. Nixon'S plan to make full
scale speeches ne xt week on
specific issues, paved the way
for q fourth TV meeting next
Friday. Whether there will be
a fifth great debate" before
the November 8 election has
not yet been determined.
Last nights debate on the
basis Of questions from a panel
Of four newspaper, magazine
and TV news correspondents
was viewed later by Mr.. Nixon
as good, fast-moving, a good
clash" Senator Kennedy said
he thought I'VE touched on i'm
portant matters that are at is
sue in the campaign" His wife
told him the debate for him
was "the best yet"
Primed for QuemOy Issue
Watchers as well as the pam
elists and candidates them
selves obviously were primed
for argument on the question
of defending the tiny islands of
Quemoy and MatSu held by Ma
tionalist China a few miles of
the coast of Red China.
But the two men, despite
sharper thrusts and some de-
tailed Qualification Of their po-
sitions, remained as much at
odds as when the issue first
popped up in the debate here
last Friday night.
OF the 13 questions asked in
last nights encounter, six dealt
either directly with Quemoy
and Matsu or with other foreign
policy, national defense and
prestige matters that gave the
candidates a chance to refer
to the islands.
Economic, fiscal, tax, emer-
gency strikes and the cost of
Democratic platform proposals
as well as the religious issue
and Mr.. Truman's style of
campaign oratory also were
discussed.
Mr.. Nixon resented" Sen
ator Kennedy'S reference to
"trigger-happy" Republicans.
He said his Democratic oppo-
See DEBATE, Page As
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ing in Cuba, and that she
feared for their safety.
Miss Casuso said she has
asked in the letter to be re-
lieved of her duties but already
considered herself detached.
See CASUSO, Page AS
Evening star., 1960-10-14
HUNTER BACK
FROM WILDS

ONE SEASONED Arlington hunter
found q world apart in the Cossoir
Mountains in British Columbia. Out
door Editor ChorIes CovelI tells
about this hunters adventures on
the Leisure Sports Pose, BIO.
AMARYLLIS need attention now
if they ore to bloom beautifully
later, Gorden Editor W. H. tBiD
Younsmon worms. His prescription
for hondIins new and old bulbs is
on the Garden Poee, Bill.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
President, 70, Receives
D. c. Gift of Red Oak
Praises Relations With Residents
In White House Tree Planting
BY JOHN McKELWAY
star stan Writer

President Eisenhower today accepted gift from the
people Of the District on his roth bthdaya red oak tree
which he helped plant Just south Of the White House in
ceremonies today.
Mr. Eisenhower said he found it difficult to express
his appreciation to the citizens of District who said
Evening star., 1960-10-14
KHRUSHCHEF FLIES
HOME FROM u. N.
By EARL H. VOSS
Star STAFF Writer

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Oct. 14.-A weary General As
sembly settled back to the
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had never shown him anything
but courtesy in his term Of
office.
A crowd estimated at 5000
gathered by the White House
Evening star., 1960-10-14
TILE AIEAruED. Full Report
IHE V6AIH6N. on Pase Az

District and vicinity-Fair and mild to-
night with low near So. Tomorrow some
cloudiness and continued warm. High and
low of the past "a hours: High, rs, at
pm. yesterday; low, SO. at am. today.
Evening star., 1960-10-14

Eisenhower chots in High Spirits.
Pnes A.;
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Power Estate Low,
Yet Pays Support

LOS ANGELES, Feb. Is (AP)
Actor Tyrone Powers three
children will continue to re-
ceive $3.50 a month each from
his estate. which bankers say
is close to bankruptcy.
Executors were ordered by
Superior Judge Harold Schweit-
ger yesterday to continue the
child support, although bankers
said the estate is appraised
at $625.884 with claims against
it totaling $522,725.
Mr.. Power, who died in 1853
in Spain, divided his estate into
five equal trust funds. One was
for his widow, Mrs. Deborah
Power Loew. Three were for
the children, two of whom were
by his former wife, Actress
Linda Christian, and the other
trust was for his sister, Mrs.
Anne Hardenbergh.
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COP. Chiefs Doubtful
On Postal Rate Rise

Administration proposals for
raising postal rates got a pes
simistic reception from Repub-
lican congressional leaders to-
day.
Postmaster General Summer
field outlined the adlninistra-
ton plans, which call for a s.
cent letter rate, at a conference
of Republican Senate and
House leaders with President
Eisenhower at the White House.
Senate Republican Leader
Dirksen said he personally will
support the proposals but can
not speak for other Repub-
licanS in the Senate.
House Republican Leader
Halleck lodged any personal
commitment. He said he can
not say yet what the position
of House Republicans will be.
In any event, Mr.. Halleck
noted, Democrats have about a
2-to-l majority in Congress.
He said he has seen no par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-16
GAS Orders
Truji||o Probe
BY the Associated Press

Over Cuban objections, the
Organization of American
States directed its inter-Amer-
lean peace committee to inves-
tigate Venezuelan charges of
fragrant violation of human
rights in the Dominican Re-
public"
The vote in the 21-member
GAS was 1871 with the Domin-
lean Republic opposing.
Cuba and Bolivia abStained.
Cuba refused to vote because
said Ambassador Enrique Perez
ClSneroS, What the council
should do is to denounce the sit
uation which has been brought
to the attention of this Or
ganization by Venezuela.
Edil Sandoval Moron of
Bolivia said his country alb
stained because it feels" it is
the duty of the Dominican
Republic. itself, to ask for an
investigation of charges made
by Venezuela"
John Dreier, United States
Ambassador to the GAS. is
chairman of the five-nation
peace committee. Other ma
tionS on the committee are Ell
Salvador, Mexico, Uruguay and
Venezuela. 1t was thought
likely that Venezuela, as an
interested party, would with
draw from consideration of the
case.
Mr.. Dreier said no plans
have yet been shaped for COM
mittee consideration of the
matter.
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A spy with an English accent
was reported arrested.
Pilots on the sub hunt said
they had picked up radio mes
sages in bad Yankee slang"
from the sub to friendly ships
standing off in the Atlantic.
One paper said not one but
three subs were in the area.
The Navy itself said at one
point there were two.
Navy Persists
The Navy still insisted there
was a strange submarine in the
gulf $50 miles southwest of
BuenoS Aires and claimed it's
ships and planes were continu-
ing the campaign to bring the
intruder to the surface and
capture it.
A team OF United States Navy
specialists has been flown to
Argentina to help its navy hunt
down the elusive submarine.
The l3-member team will
act only as advisers on the use
OF American anti-Submarine
equipment such as depth
charges, sound buoys. flares
and electronic detection de-
vices.
Capt. Ray M. Pitts Of the
office Of the chief of naval OPP
erations headed the unusual
task force.
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ticular enthusiasm on the Dem
ocratic side for increasing
postal rates"
The administration proposals,
designed to raise $544 million
to wipe out most of the postal
deficit, would increase first
class letters to cents, post
cards to 4 cents and air mail
letters to 8 cents. Other in
creases would affect second
and third-class mail.
Mr.. Halleck said he reported
to the President that his spe-
cial farm message last week
was very we'll received in TIE
country" He said there is gen.
eral recognition that lit is up
to the Democratic Congress to
respond with constructive leg
islation."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-16

free world" as a whole. For
Gen. de Gaulle, who is never
one to give away something
for nothing. it is a diplomatic
lever which might still be put
to good use. 1t is also worth
noting that during the recent
Instruction in Algeria Gen.
de Gaulle came under a spe-
cial obligation to the French
Navy, whose firm declaration
of loyalty and obedience helped
to tip the precarious military
balance in his favor.
Beyond this, there's the prob
lem of personality. The pres
sure which Mr.. Bourguiba
seems to be trying to bring
to bear is precisely the kind
least calculated to induce a
spirit of reasonable co-opera-
ton in Gen. de Gaulle. AS his
allies have become painfully
aware in the course of time,
the general is not easily pushed
anywhere.
In short, there may be little
inclination on anyone's part to
let the problem of Bizerte be-
come a major issue in the At
lantic community. Until now
there has been great sympathy
for the patience and reason
ableness shown by the Tunisian
government in the dispute.
And if more of the same can
result in an eventual agree
ment, everyone would certainly
be better of in the end.
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Israel Still Challenges
UAR on Its Suez Ban

which has been held at Port
Said since mid-December.
I'VE have no doubt of Mr..
Hammarskjold's good will to
solve this problem" she said.
we know he takes a special
interest in the Astypalaea,
which has been sent by us
under such conditions as will
make it possible for Mr.. Nasser
to let the ship through without
his prestige being impaired"
Quiet Along Border
The situation remained quiet
along the border between Israel
and the Syrian province of the
UAR, but Israel refused to at
tend a meeting today on the
Syrian-Israeli mixed armistice
commission called to discuss re-
cent fighting in the border de-
militarized zones.
DR.. Abraham Brian of the
Israeli Foreign Ministry said
the demilitarized zone is Israeli
territory and that the commits
sion therefore has no jurisdic-
ton in the matter.
Mr.. Nasser, in Damascus for
celebrations marking the 1858
merger of Syria and Egypt into
the UAR. met yesterday with
Syrian officials to Ndiscuss the
border clashes which have
taken seven lives.
Israeli press reports said
Syrian demolition teams dyna-
mited the ruins of the aban-
doned village of Tawafik in the
demilitarized zone. The re-
ports claimed the dynamiting
cleared the ground for new
military Notifications.
Israeli units blew up most of
Tawaf1k'S houses two weeks
ago. Israel claimed that Syrian
troops were using the village as
a military post. The Syrians
said only farmers with lands
in the area were using the viii
lage.
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Match in Oil Can
Burns Vienna Girl

A 5-year-old Vienna (Va.)
girl today was burned over
most of her face when she
dropped a match in an empty
oil can.
Caroline Mason of Route 1,
Vienna, was playing in a bed
room when the accident oc-
CURED, her mother, Mrs.
Floraine Mason, said.
Caroline was taken to Ar
lington Hospital.
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Kenya Drive
Gets Push

LONDON. Feb. Is (AP).-I
Kenya'S drive toward Self-gov-
eminent got a push today as
all but one group attending the
colony's constitutional confer
ence gave conditional support
to Britain's plan for a louder
voice for Africans.
The all-white United Party
came out Solidly against the
proposal advanced by Colonial
Secretary lain Macleod, but
representatives said the party
would remain at the conference
to take part in discussions on
safeguards for white set
tiers once terrorized by the
Mau Mau. :"
The IA African representa-
tives at the conference and the
delegation from the New Kenya
Party led by white settlers &C
cepted the plan as a basis for
the next stage in the East
African colony'S drive toward
independence. So did repre-
sentatives of the Asian and
Arab minoritieS
The plan would give the vote
to a larger but still undeter-
mined percentage of Kenya'S
6 million Negroes. Whites,
Asian and Arabs total only
$4,000. Whites now control
the 9l-member legislative
council.
African nationalist leader
Robert Ngala told newsmen
Mr.. Macleod's plan fails to
realize fully the universal suf-
frage system sought by Kenya's
blacks. He said the Negroes are
willing to give it a try.
The plan proposes a legiSla-
ture of IS members with the
number Of Africans increased
by the direct election of SO
members.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 16 (AP)
Israeli Foreign Minister
Coda Meir says her govern
ment will continue to challenge
the United Arab Republics re-
fusal to let Israeli shipping
through the Suez Canal.
Referring to the U. A. r. con-
flscation of Israeli cargo on the
Danish freighter Inge loft,
Mrs. Meir declared:
I'VE have no intention Of &C
quiescing to President Nasser's
performance in this interna-
tional waterway"
The freighter sailed into the
Mediterranean from Port Said
yesterday after unloading the
cargo, which was originally
consigned to the Far East. The
ship had been tied up at the
canal entry port for nine
months.
The JAR says it will auc-
ton off the cargo and give the
proceeds to Palestine refugees.
Lashes Out at Claims
Mrs. Meir dashed out al
claims by VAR President Mas
ser that the ban on Israeli
shipping is justified because
his country still is at war with
Israel as a result of the 1915
Palestine conflict and Israel'S
invasion Of Egypt in 1856.
She said in an interview
yesterday:
mo member of the United
Nations has a right to such
permanent I-am-at-war dec
larations-not even Egypt, I'M
less Egypt has special privileges
under the U. N. Charter"
She said she hopes u. N
Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold's assistance will help
open the canal to another ship
carrying Israeli cargo, the
Greek freighter Astypalaea
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independence in 1856. For the
last two years, President Bour-
CUBA has tried without success
to negotiate an evacuation of
the base.
Today, Mr.. Bourguiba is
stepping up the pressure. Spe-
officially, in summoning his
Ambassadors from the major
NATO countries to TuniS for
consultations. he is preparing
to raise his private argument
with Gen. de Gaulle to the level
of a general NATO debate.
From the beginning Gen. de
Gaulle has argued that the BIZ
zerte base is of great strategic
Importance to the free world
and that this Importance justi-
fies France in retaining control.
He has held to this position in
the most recent exchanges with
Tunisian representatives here.
Linked to Algeria
Mr.. Bourguiba, on the other
hand, while protesting his
loyalty to the West. has de-
clared bluntly: eve see in this
installation not a defense Of
the free world but a veStige of
the spirit of Colonial domina-
ton and even a means of help
ing France to continue the AL
gerian war"
What Mr.. Bourguiba now
proposes to do is to confront
Frances NATO allies with
three pointed questions. They
are:
/. Is Bizerte in fact of any
real strategic military i'm
portance to the West?
2. If so, is France authorized
to act for the NATO alliance
in the matter?
3. If the answer to both these
questions is yes, does NATO
intend to impose its demands
on Tunisia regardless of its
wishes as a sovereign indie
pendent nation?
Ticklish Spot
These questions are shrewdly
calculated to put Gen. de
Gaulle-and perhaps his allies
as well-in an extremely sticky
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To Him Thut Hath

TULSA, Okla. (AP).-One of
the worlds" richest m n, j.
Paul Getty, has a $3.50 Gov
eminent check waiting for him
here. It is payment for a part
of his land which the Govern
ment wants.
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spot. Mr.. Bourguiba has excel
lent reason to believe that the
answer to all three questions
is a firm no. And he has reason
to hope that the result of his
diplomatic move will be a pow
erful reinforcement for his side
of the Bizerte argument.
NATO leaders long have
pointed out that in an atomic
era Bizerte or any other naval
base is of highly doubtful i'm
portance. AS it is, of three
Western fleets operating in the
Mediterranean only the French
use Bizerte today. The British
are based in Malta; the Amer
lean 9Th Fleet operates with
out any fixed European bases
whatever. The French them
selves have three others To-
Gated at Toulon. Mers FL Kebir
in Algeria and in Corsica.
President Eisenhower him.
self is reported to have told
President de Gaulle in the
course of his December visit
that Bizerte in his view had
no strategic Importance to the
West. The quick evacuation
of United States strategic air
bases in Morocco is a partic-
ularly pointed example of the
American attitude in such dis
putes.
If the allies have no justi-
fication for defending the
French side of the Bizerte ar
.gument, however, they also may
have little enthusiasm for get
ting involved in a dispute in
opposition to Gen. de Gaulle.
For him as well as for Mr..
Bourguiba there are psyche
Ngical and political factors in
volved which have little to do
with the practical value of the
base itself.
Diplomatic Lever
Indeed, as Mr.. Bourguiba
suggests, Bizerte in the eyes of
most Frenchmen has more sig
nificance in terms of the Al
gerian rebellion than for the
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visitor pursued in the 40-by-
20-mile gulf on the South Ar
gentine coast for the past 10
days. Here are a few gueSSes
voiced by the man in the street:
/. A Soviet sub scouting Ar
gentine naval bases in case of
war with the United States and
a need to invade South Amer
lea Argentina maintains a
base at Puerto Madryn, at the
head Of the gulf.
2. A United States sub try
ing to impress Argentina she
is defenseless against under
water attack and should sign
a mutual defense pact with the
United States.
3. A smuggling rings craft
transporting American ciga-
rettes, whisky and ball point
pens.
Hitler Story Revived
4. A sub carrying high Nazis
perhaps Adolf Hitler and Eva
Braun-who have been hiding
on a desert island since World
War II.
5. A Russian sub landing
agents to aSSaSsinate President
Eisenhower on his coming trip
to Argentina.
6. A flying saucer that blum
dered into the gulf and went
underwater.
Z. A government stunt to d.
vert public attention from rising
living costs.
8. A whale.
Lacking few solid facts from
the closed-mouthed navy, Ar
gentina's press has put forth
a colorful variety of rumors.
One story said a dead frog
man complete with oxygen tank
was washed up on a beach in
the gulf. The navy denied this
one.
Another account told of a
mysterious supply depot in the
area, with food enough to feed
5000 people, stated by a for
eign couple.
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Row Over Bizerte Base
Puts NATO on Spot
BY CROSBY S. MOVES

PARIS, Feb l6-Tunisa's Habib Bourguiba is warming
up diplomatic hotfoo which could result in trouble
between President Charles de Gaue of France and his
NATO allies.
The the French Naval Base at Bizere
which the French have held since TuniSia achieved its
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Argentines Speculate;
Does Sub Chase Go On?

BUENOS AIRES, Feb Is AP)-The Argentine Navy in
sisted today still chasing submarine in the Colo
skeptical public with multitude of theories in the
absence of capture and there growing belief the
had escaped into the Atlantic
Speculation widely identity of the phantom