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Evening star., 1961-12-23

explanation Of how the Ka-
tanga troops-moSt Of whom
were reported to have fled into
the bush following collapse of
their resistance in Elisabeth
ville-could have carried out a
massacre with 5000 U. N.
troops occupying the city.
The United Nations today
opened an investigation into
two charges of rape brought
against U. N. Ethiopian troops
in Elisabethville.
The United Nations spokesman
said incidents of indiscipline
apparently occurred among the
Ethiopian contingent, but he
claimed some reports about
their behavior had ben exag-
gerated.
A delayed dispatch from
Associated Press Correspondent
Jonn LatZ IN EllSaDeCnVllleS SAID
crowds of Europeans and some
Africans were seen in the streets
of the provincial capital Thurs
day for the first time in nearly
three weeks.
The population seems more
relaxed and watched with in
tereSt as Swedish Saab jets flew
over town, Mr.. Latz reported.
Only occasional rifle and ma
chine gun bursts could be heard
in the distance.
Also for the first time since
the fighting started, Swedish
armored troop carriers ventured
into the center of the town.
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AbeIlo to Replace
Envoy RomuIo

MANILA, Dec. % (AP).-
Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, retiring
Philippine Ambassador to the
United States, will be replaced
by Emilio Abello, the foreign
office announced tonight.
Jacinto Borja, former COVER
nor of Bohol, replaces Ambas-
sador Francisco Delgado as per-
manent delegate to the United
Nations.
Gen. Romulo. one of the
Philippines best-known diplo-
mats, had served as president
of the U. N. General Assembly.
There are reports he will be-
come president of the univer-
sity of the Philippines.
Mr.. Abello. a former minister
to Washington, has been in pri-
vate business for the last few
years. He is presently vice presi-
dent of the Philippine-Ameri-
can Life Insurance Co.
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Holiday Deaths
Climb Steadily
BY the Associated Press

Hazardous road conditions in
the wake of some of the sea-
sons worst storms sent traffic
fatalities climbing steadily to
mar the three-day Christmas
holiday week end.
In the opening hours OF the
Yuletide period, which began at
6 pm. last night. 100 persons
have been killed in traffic mis-
haps, IA were victims of fires
and 6 lost their lives in miScel-
laneous accidents. The totaI
was 1874.
The National Safety Council
estimates almost all of the 7t
million motor vehicles in the
United States will be used fol
travel at some time during the
long week end.
The record toll for a three.
day Christmas week end is 609
set in 1855. The record for any
holiday period was the four
day Christmas period in 1885,
when 706 persons died in high
way mishaps,
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$50 Housing Units
Will Be in District

public housing officials really
haven't faced up to before, u
she said.
PHA is working with HEW's
special staff on the aging to
ascertain how best to integrate
housing with voluntary and
public services for the aged
Examples of problems being
discussed are the location OF
projects in relation to com
munity facilities, and the in
clusIon of adequate space with
in elderly-housing projects for
recreation and counseling.
About 10000 of the Nations
citizens IS or over are residents
/ of public housing. Very few OF
them live in housing designed
specifically for the elderly.
DR.. Donald P. Kent, special
assistant on aging to HEW
Secretary Ribicoff. said many
of the older people in public
housing are drawing on re-
sources of HEW, such as Fam
lily Assistance formerly OLD
Age AsSistance) and health
programs backed by grants
from the Public Health Service
Coordination between HEW
and PHA is aimed at reducing
the dependency of these person.
and making public housing 6
better place for them to live
than it has been in the past
DR.. Kent said.
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housing units of all types, Mrs
MCGUIRE said, and to leave
about $40 million for rental
subsidies for elderly housing.
President Kennedy told Con-
gress this year that he hoped
$4,000 of the units would be
built specifically for the elder
ly.
The numer actually built will
depend on the demand from
local authorities, but the pros
pect now is that the $4,000
units will be built, the COM
missioner said. In the year
beginning July the PHA ex-
poets application for an esti-
mated 10000 units in. addition
to those now begun or being
processed.
ID. 4. PrOJectS Listed
Plans for 469 elderly housing
units in the District have been
approved by PHA, according to
Edward Aronov, assistant ex-
ecutive director of the Nation
al Capital Housing Authority
The projects are as follows
(numbers of units for the
elderly and expected contract
award date in parenthesis):
Carroll Apartments, M stree
between Fourth and Fifth
streets Sc. (60 units, March !
1862; Kentucky Courts, Kent
ucky avenue and Thirteenth
street Sc. (76 units, March /
1882; Garfield Terrace, Flo
rida avenue and Eleventh
street NV. (228, June 1862.
and LeDroit Apartments
Fourth and w streets NE
CLOS units, July 1862. .
The District does not nov
have any public housing de
signed for the elderly, but Mr.
Aronov estimates that abou
750 of the 1900 families il
public housing here are in tn,
senior-citizen age brackets (6!
or over). The age limit for ad
mission to elderly-housinl
projects has now been dropped
to 62.
The new housing for tn,
elderly will have such feature
as wide doorways for wheel
chairs, grab bars in bathrooms
non-skid floors, convenient.
located closets and electrica
outlets and elevators in multi
storied buildings, Mr.. Arono'
J said. 1t is not anticipated tina
any of the units will requir,
| Federal rental subsidies, n
said.
. NOn-HouSing Problems
, On the Federal level, PHI
: is working with the Department
: Of Health, Education and Wei
fare to plan housing project
that meet more than the sheIte
+, needs of the Nations Senio
' citizens.
I'VE know that you can be
very lonely person in a moder.
= apartment" Mrs. McGuire sale
This is q problem which son
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Of them rented, were brought
into service at Greyhound and
Trailways. and passengers were
even being embarked at the
main entrances to avoid ramp
congestion.
Union Station reported ex-
tremely heavy travel today with
extra trains being put on the
Florida run and extra sections
being added to other trips.
A Pennsylvania Railroad of
ficial reported that traffic
through Union Station was
three times as heavy as nor
NAL. He said the number of
passengers boarding trains in
Washington had more than
doubled.
One Richmond, Fredericks-
burg & Potomac and one South
ern Railway train inbound for
Washington. discharged their
passengers at Alexandria today
rather than subject the travel
erS to an indeterminate wait
before they could debark in
Washington's Union Station.
Officials said the passengers
who got off in Alexandria were
taken the rest of the way to
Washington by bus. The move
was caused by trains backing
up from the South waiting to
use terminal tracks at Union
Station.
Deputy Police Chief George
Wallrodt said he expected a
good-sized shopping crowd on
the streets but also anticipated
a leveling off today. He pointed
out that many thousands of
area residents had gone else
where for the holidays. The
downtown streets were being
handled by a normal Saturday
police shift. augmented by the
88 rockies who have been di-
recting traffic since just after
Thanksgiving.
Merchants also expected to-
day would not be one of the big
shopping days.
ION the last shopping day
before Christmas" said one
veteran of Washington busi-
ness, there is always a rush
of men who remember they
have a wife and some last-min-
ute shopping and wrapping"
But he said the biggest shop
ping day of the season gener-
ally is about six days before
Christmas. Some stores will
remain open until 8 o'clock to-
night, but most will close at
6 O'Clock.
The Christmas shopping sea-
son of 1861, probably set an all
time record for volume, accord
ing to Leland S. Mccarthy
managing director of the Better
Business Bureau. He said mer-
chants will have to await the
results of today's business be.
fore getting the final figures
, but many are reporting sale!
far ahead of last year.
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Of the capital to U. N. forces
during the undeclared two
week war.
Mr.. Tshombe asserted that
Assembly ratification would
take at least 10 days.
Mr.. Adoula served an ulti-
matum that his Leopoldvllle
government will take measures
to force compliance with the
agreement if it is not honored.
Both Mr.. Adoula and the
United Nations maintain that
Mr.. Tshombe's signature binds
Katanga to the agreement and
that ratification is not neces-
sary.
u. N. Undersecretary Ralph
Bunche, who accepted the
signed pact from Mr.. Tshombe
at Kitona, said upon his return
to New York that he felt the
Katanga leader acted in good
faith and that the agreement
would lead to peace in the
Congo.
But Valerian A. Zorin, chief
Soviet delegate to the United
Nations, charged in an inter-
view at U. N. headquarters
that DR.. Bunche, an American,
had apparently acted on orders
from Washington.
Mr.. Zorin accused the United
States of interference in in
ternal Congolese affairs, con-
tending that it was trying to
save Mr.. Tshombe'S secessionist
regime.
DR.. Bunche, a Negro and 6
Nobel Peace Prize winner
denied Mr.. Zorin's charges. "Ir
my 16 years of service to the
United Nations, my Govern
ment has at no time ever at
tempted to give me any advice
or instructions about anything
I had to do at the U. Nat NJ
time"
He said the U. N. team did
not try to influence the Congo
lese "in any way except tt
encourage them to reach theil
own conclusions and to give
them such assistance as We
could, with foundations oi
positions taken by the partie:
themselves.
1--WE gave them technica
rather than political assist
ance," he declared.
Meanwhile, four tribal Leaders
messaged U. N. headquarter'
here reports that white Of
ficers had let Katauga troops
in q massacre ct African
families hostile to the Tshombt
regime. The reports claimed
that the raiders killed victim!
indiscriminatey in and arounc
the EliSabethville area.
Confirmation of the report
was lacking and there was NJ
Evening star., 1961-12-23
Missile Firing
Pads Ready
ForMinutenlar'
BY the Associated Press

Construction of the first 10
underground launching pads
for Minuteman intercontinental
ballistic missiles has been
completed, Air Force sources
said today.
Completion of this work on
the 80-foot-deep, concrete
lined silos and a launching
control center near Malmstrom
Air Force Base in Montana
opens the way for the year.
long job Of installing and
checking out the systems COM
plex electronic equipment.
The Air Force hopes it can
get the first flight of $500
mile-range Minutemen ready
for combat by late 1862.
The missile itself is expected
to become operational about
the middle of next year.
Earlier this week, the Min
uteman scored its Secon d
straight successful test flight
out over the Atlantic from a
pit at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The fixed-base Minuteman
program is being broadened In
next years military budget
from 600 to a reported 800 long
range, solid-fuel missiles, which
will be placed underground fol
maximum protection against
any enemy effort to knock them
out.
The Kennedy administration
has dropped a plan to mount
Minutemen on moving trains
and has decided to concentrate
instead on the underground
launch type.
Air Force experts said the
Minuteman baSe-building pro.
gram. profiting from lessons
learned in earlier missile bast
construction. is moving aheac
with relatively few bitches.
The work is most advanced
at Malmstrom, which will bt
the center of the first wing o.
$50 Of the quick-to-fire Min.
utemen. Other wings now art
planned around Minot Air Force
Base in North Dakota. Ellis.
worth Air Force Base in South
Dakota and Whiteman All
Force Base In Missouri.
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warrant returning to Rendova,
and the patrol continued
through the night.
Entering the harbor at day.
break, the men made a couple
of discoveries that testified to
their good luck. For one thing,
shrapnel piercing the hull had
gashed the ladder on which
Drawdy had been standing.
Somehow the conclusion of the
bombs had blown him out of
the hatch in time to save his
body from being mangled. For
another, an ugly dent had been
Dashed in the metal splinter
shield that ran, about head
high, along the port side of the
cockpit beside the wheel. .
Shippers Shield Hit
If the shield had not been
there or if it had not been
strong enough to withstand the
force of the shrapnel, it was
all too likely that PIT 109 would
have returned to Rendova that
morning minus a live skipper.
These were signs of good
luck, to be sure, but the bomb
ing represented a change of
luck for the worse for 109. She
had been hit in many places.
Her galley had been pierced. A
patch more than IL inches
square had to be placed above
the waterline on the starboard
side.
Worse still, the enemy had
drawn blood. Kowal and
Drawdy had to be sent back to
the hospital at Tulagi. They
would never see PIT 109 again.
Along with Edmond Drewitch,
however, they would be serving
with 1t. Kennedy again on an
other boat under different
hazards.
Tomorrow - Four japanese
destroyers sail through "the
Slot" toward villa.
tc) 1861, New York Herald Tribune
Inc.
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Launch Cupsizes,
S. Feared Lost

MANILA, Dec. % (AP).-A
motor launch with more than
100 persons aboard capsized in
IA Mindanao Island bay today
and the Philippine News Service
said at least S persons drowned
and so were missing.
Survivors said the vessel, the
cotton Baby ANITA" over
turned after being sSwamped by
huge waves b. Panguil Bay.
About Is of the passengers were
believed to be children.
Authorities launched an ex-
tensive air and sea rescue
Operation.
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meeting at the United Nations
base at Kitona. A communique
said it had decided to put it
Qualification of the accord) be-
fore the National Assembly
the sole valid authority on such
matters"
The ministers asserted that
they did not have authority to
pass on the agreement. This
led observers in Elisabethville
to speculate that the initial
step may already have been
taken in ultimate rejection of
the pact by the Katanga
regime.
Majority sentiment of the
Katanga Assembly remains to
be determined, most Of the
assemblymen having faded into
the countryside with the fall
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Boom! Boom!" Two bright
orange flashes burst off the
port beam between 109 and the
other boat. PIT 100 was rocked
violently to starboard.
Head Hits Deck
Kowal felt a pain in his
scalp. Drawdy was blown clear
out of the hatch, and his head
crashed against the deck.
Fragments in the form of
Ford car door handles, safety
razors, faucets and other scrap
that Japan had been importing
from the United States for
years before the war, sliced
into 100 and her rigging from
bow to stern. BulkheadS were
pierced. One large chunk of
iron smashed clear through the
boat from port to starboard,
leaving a large hole above the
waterline on the starboard side
A glowing-hot fragment almost
simultaneously severed a gas
line and welded it together
again.
The engine on which the boat
was idling stalled. Mcmahon
was frightened. If the engines
should fail under an air at
tack, 109 would be an easy
target. In a moment, however.
he had all three engines run
ming. 1t. Kennedy jammed the
three throttles forward, swung
his wheel to port and racec
along a circle away from the
planes course.
Kowal removed his helmet
and ran his hand along hi,
head. He discovered that hi:
hair was standing on end, anc
he realized that the ache wa:
coming from the nervous tight.
ening of his scalp. He wa:
relieved to think he had not
been hit, and turned his at.
tention back to the guns.
Drawdy, sprawled on deck
appeared to be worst off
Mcguire jumped from the cock.
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pit and asked, "Were you hit?"
my head" he replie d.
Drawdy took off his helmet and
blood started to trickle down
his forehead.
Wipe Away Blood
Mcguire helped him down to
the charthouse and with the
aid of Mauer wiped away the
blood to dress the wound. Once
the blood had been removed,
however, they could find no
wound in Drawdy's head.
While they were looking for it.
Drawdy himself discovered that
his left arm and hand were
bleeding. Slivers of shrapnel
were stuck in his arm, and the
middle finger was sliced. Wher
he had removed his helmet or
deck, the blood from his hanc
had dripped to his head. Be-
cause his head hurt from the
blow of the fall, he assumed
the blood was flowing from 6
scalp wound.
Up in the after gun turret
Kowal, his headache gone, wa!
experiencing a strange senSa.
ton. He was high and dry
but his right foot was getting
wet. At first he paid no atten'
ton to it but presently, hi
right shoe began to squisf
whenever he stepped on it. Thi'
worried him, and he went tt
the charthouSe. In the din
blue light Mauer removed tn
shoe. It was half full of blood
Only then did Kowal discove,
a jagged piece of shrapne
sticking painlessly into his lei
; above the ankle.
Thus PIT 109's first casualtie,
inflicted by the enemy, though
to be head injuries, turned ou
to be a wounded arm and ,
wounded leg.
1t. Kennedy decided tina
neither Kowal nor Drawdy wa
wounded seriously enough Il
Evening star., 1961-12-23

= PHOTO SECTION
All the drama, wrath and
man interest in news
events Of 1860 and 1861
told with memorable pic
lures about the big news
stories Of the yeor. New
Frontier, Berlin, U.N, Crisis,
Hurricane Corlo, School In
teerotion, Astronouts, Alee-
rion Revolt, Sports, etc.
Evening star., 1961-12-23


nothing cold to drink, and all
became disgusted with the
heavy doses of chlorine in the
warm drinking water. Officers
and men we're eating out of
cans, mostly SPAN. One of the
men reported to 1t. John F.
Kennedy that another boat had
received a ration of bread from
an Army bakery. 1t. Kennedy
took off in a small boat, and
when he returned. everyone's
spirits were raised by a few
slices of fresh bread for the
first time in days.
Late in the afternoon of
July 19 the skipper came aboard
with word that they would be
going up to Blackett Strait to
patrol off Gizo again. When
a few hours later they arrived
at their station it was dark, as
usual, but the clouds were lu-
minous and hung very low over
the water. Together with
another boat some distance out
on her port beam, PIT 109 idled
back and forth on station be-
tween Gizo and Kolombangara.
Hours passed and nothing hap
pened to indicate that this
night would be different from
any of the preceding nights.
Stands at the Wheel
1t. Kennedy was standing in
the cockpit at the wheel. Radio
man John Mcguire, as usual
was standing at his right side
Bucky Harris had his fists
clenched on the machine guns
in the forward gun turret. Ed
Maurer was on deck leaning
against the quartermaster'
locker. Bill Johnston, off watch
was lying on the deck near the
ladder leading down into the
engine room. Leon Drawdy was
on the ladder, half in and halt
out of the hatch in a position
to drop quickly into the engine
room if he were needed by
Pappy Mcmahon, who was on
duty there. Drawdy was leaning
with his head and chest above
the deck talking with Maurice
Kowal, who was above him ir
the after gun turret on the
port side, facing the stern.
With his gaze upturned to-
ward Kowal, Drawdy saw ar
! airplane appear on the port
side at an altitude that looked
to be less than a hundred feet
The night clouds reflected
enough light for him to see the
Rising Sun on the wings.
He shouted hoarsely to En-
sign Leonard Thorn, who was
making his way forward tc
speak to 1t. Kennedy. At that
instant there was a tremendous
Evening star., 1961-12-23

WORLD OF COMMUNICATIONS
Focts and figures obout leodine
newspapers, magazines, rodio
and teIevision stotions and net
works.
ASTRONOMY
Kinds OF time, lonoitudes and lat
itudes of American and foreign
cities; focts about the sun. moon,
plonets, comets, etc.
THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
Whot we purehose how much
we earn whot we own .
what we produce and how
much, etc. Imports and exports,
foreign aid, form income, etc.
FEDERAL INCOME TAX
Withholding tobIes for employees
poid weekly, rote toble for sepo-
rote returns, joint returns, etc.
Evening star., 1961-12-23
U. S, GOVERNMENT

All obout Government .deport-
ments and oeencies. Congress Of
the w. S., U. S. eobinet MEM
bers, ambassadors to and from
the U. S., Justices Of the Supreme
Court.
UNITED NATIONS
The full U. N. Chorter, list of
member nations, descriptions Of
specialized agencies; oIso concise
accounts Of oetions token by the
U, N, on international problems.
U. S. ARMED FORCES
Doto on U. S. MiIitory Academy,
Naval Academy, Coost Guord
Academy Merchant Marine, etc.
Histories Of the armed forces, poy
rotes Of officers and enlisted men,
war casualties, veterans bene-
fits, etc.
Evening star., 1961-12-23
ASTRONOMY

NEWS EvENTs-NEWS- -SToRIEs-NEWs COMMENTS
outstanding developments Of the year. eoneseN presented
designed to enterto and to remind Of things serious and o
lous, thot in the public eye.
Evening star., 1961-12-23
EDUCATION

EDUCATION
Statistics relotine to pupils
schools, ,teochers, etc, in eoch
stote. Academic degree obbrevi-
otions and much more.
SPORTS
Stotistics and records on mony
sports all the woy from l7lo tc
1861.
Evening star., 1961-12-23
CROSSWORD PUZZLE GUIDE
CELEBRATED PERSONS
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The birth and deoth dotes Of Aris-
iotle and Horotio AIeer, Lucretio
Boraio and Phineos Taylor Bor-
mum, Cosonovo and Confucius,
and several hundred other noto-
bles of the post.
Evening star., 1961-12-23
SPORTS
SOCIAL SECURITY

SUGINb SEOUNTT
Who is covered? Who poys
for the insurance and how
mueho How much do you or
your survivors get? Public
assistance. Unemployment
insurance. Much more.
Evening star., 1961-12-23
REVIEW SECTION

REVIEW SECTION
Fronk and searching reviews OF
theotre, science, books, music,
movies, medicine and teleVision
by q group Of top critics.
SPACE AND MISSILES
Our progress in space compared
10 Russio's. Where and why they
ore still oheod. Are we catching
Io?' Three-poee tobIe listing
achievements in roeketry since
le4e. BoIIistic missiles and how
they are detected. Tobles listing
Russion and U. S. missiles. with
detoiIs on size, ronee, tueI'
thrust, and number Of stoees.
SCIENCE SURPRISES
This fascinating section exploins
how much beer there is in O
barrel thot l8-corot gold is
only "a pure . thot O ham,
burger hos more colories than q
dish Of spoehetti other sur
prisine, amusing focts and gen.
eroI information.
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handy for puzzle soIvers who
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CELEBRATED PERSONS
This section gives you the oee
ond birthplace Of theotre and
movie stors and celebrities in oil
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Evening star., 1961-12-23
PIT 709-CHAPTER
japanese Bombs Draw First Blood
BY ROBERT J. DONOVAN

Life on the PIT boats was
becoming miserable. The men
had turned yellowish from at
abrine taken to suppress ma
laria. Dysentery was draining
their strength and stamina.
Some of them could tell they
were getting thin by the way
their wrist watches slid up and
down their arms. There was
This is the seventh in O series Of l8
articles based on the book, "PT l09
John r. Kennedy in World War
H." published by the MeGrow Hill
Book Co.. Inc, New York
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