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Evening star., 1962-04-09
Explosives Plant
Blasts Kill II

PONT-SAINT- ESPRIT,
France, April 9 (AP).-A series
Of four blasts wrecked an
explosives plant outside this
Rhone River town in southern
France today. Officials said at
least IL persons were killed
and 20 were injured.
The blasts broke windows
and shook buildings in Pont-
Saint Esprit, four miles away
They were heard as far as Is
miles from the plant, which
made both explosives for clear
ing farm land and munitions
for the French Army.
The cause was not deter
mined. Fire followed the OPEN
ing explosion. Firemen were
able to keep the flames from
spreading to a storehouse con-
tanning about so tons Of black
powder.
Officials said about 20 SOL
dierS and rs civilian workers
were in the plant when the
first of the explosions erupted
Firemen and disaster work
ers searched the ruins for
additional bodies.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
,
Two ruck Hit Wall ,
Flee Reds as Shots Fly

he got into the house. One
bullet went through a fourth
floor window and missed a man
in the room.
The East German guards
brought up an armored per-
sonnel carrier with a heavy
machine gun. The truck was
toWed away and extra armed
guards posted at the gap in
the wall.
A patrol of West Berlin riot
police was called out to bolster
the guard on the Western side
of the wall.
The two men were believed
to be working on some build
ing project near the wall. Nor
mally the border guards keer
people well away from the
wall to prevent such escape
attempts.
Several times last fall East
Germans managed to ram bis
vehicles through the wall OF
wire. But this has become in.
creasingly difficult since thu
Communist regime strength.
ened the barriers with tanl
traps.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
HowAIgerio
Voting Went

PARIS, April 9 (AP).-The
French Constitutional Council
today announced the following
official results for Metropolitan
France and Corsica in the ref
erendum on the Algerian peace
agreement.
Registered WORCESTERSHIRE
Ballots cast-20,402 SOB.
Abstentions-6,580,772 (24.3e
per cent?.
Valid ballots-l9,300,0
Invalid ballotS-1,102,47 (5.4
per cent?.
Yes votes-17,505,473 Co.,
per cent valid ballots, 64.87 pei
cent Of registered voters).
No votes-1,794,533 1913 pei
cent of valid ballots, 6.65 pei
cent of registered voters).
Evening star., 1962-04-09
PERONISTS
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here doubt he will fight to re-
turn.
His younger lleutenants
are in the frustrating position
of seeking power for themselves
on the coattails of a man whom
most privately believe has no
political future.
Furthermore, when Gen. Pc
ron dies or retireS, these
lieutenantS know they must
pick up the pieces of the move
ment in competition with the
Communists who will offer both
organization and theology to
the disillusioned believers.
After seven years in the polit-
ical wilderness the Peronist
movement is more divided than
ever over how to regain power.
Agitation for Reform
The intellectualS in the move
ment want to concentrate more
on social and economic gains
for the workers than on polit-
ical agitation. Liberal" union
leaders and politicians from
the professional classes want
to form a radical political
party-but within the demo-
cratic body polite.
The largest group of union
leaders and worker organizers
however. aims at a straight
Evening star., 1962-04-09
ALGERIA
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vote, Gen. de Gaulle may decide
to call new legislative elections.
Observers said the endorse
ment he got in the referendum
would seem to assure him
strong support in any new par
lament elected now.
Should new parliamentary
elections be called, the govern
ment of Premier Michel Debre
will resign and a new or re-
vamped cabinet is expected to
be installed to carry through
Gen. de Gaulle'S Algerian
policies.
A 12-man provisional execu-
tive dominated by Moslems al
ready is preparing the ground
in Algeria for the Self-de-
termination vote. A French
high commissioner is still in
charge, however, until an in
dependent Algerian govern
ment takes over.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
MCNAMARA
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provide a foundation for econ
omic growth"
Senator Sparkman, Demo-
crat of Alabama, said the pub
lie wondered why SEATO forces
were not used in Laos and Wet
Nam. The situation in Wet
Nam, Mr.. Mcnamara replied,
made it probably more effec-
tive for one nation in this
case the United States--to pro-
vide the assistance"
Laos, he said, did not request
troops from outside, but If it
had, SEATO probably would
have been called on ard would
have responded.
The alternatives to military
assistance, Mr.. Mcnamara said,
would be either "far greater
employment Of United States
forces overseas or the main
tenance of readily mobile forces
on a far greater scale than we
presently plan, or both"
Two years ago, the admins
tration asked 81 billion for
military aid. Last years re-
quest was $1.9 billion and about
SIG billion was appropriated.
The steady reduction, Mr..
Mcnamara said, "haS been
made possible by careful
country-by-country study of
the requirements for military
assistance, by tighter controls
and by a further reduction in
the programs for European
countries"
| The proposed program would
send 1914 million to Europe,
$423 million to the Near East
and South Asia, 1891 million
to the Far East, SIT million
to Latin America, $38 million
to Africa and SAT million to
other areas.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
Hearings Slated
On Marshall
BY the Associated Press

Chairman Johnston Demo-
crat Of South Carolina. an
Inounced today public hearings
will start next Monday on
President Kennedy's nomina-
ton of Thurgood Marshall 10
be a member Of the 2nd Cir
cult Court Of Appeals. The
court serves New York. Cons
necticut and Vermont.
Mr.. Marshall. q former of
ficial of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement Of
Colored People, has been serv-
ing on the court by temporary
appointment since last October.
Besides Senator Johnston,
the subcommittee is composed
of Senators Mcclellan, Demo-
crat Of Arkansas, and Hruska.
Republican Of Nebraska.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
By the Associated Press

I
The Supreme Court told lower
Federal tribunals today they
may not overrule q National
Labor. Relations Board choice
between two fairly conflicting
views in cases involving charges
that workers were fired for
union activities.
By q 6-to-2 vote, the High
Court reversed decisions by the
United States Court Of Appeals
in New Orleans that set aside
labor board findings against
three Southern employers.
The Court Of Appeals was
directed to reconsider the cases
in the light Of the Supreme
Courts 1851 decision In what is
known as the Universal Camera
Corp. case.
The Supreme Court said the
1851 decision stated "a rule for
review by courts Of appeal in
all labor board cases."
Frankfurter, Harlan Dissent
The High Courts majority
opinion was not signed. Justice
Frankfurter wrote a dissent in
which Justice Harlan Joined.
The majority opinion said
the New Orleans court has been
following a rule the appeals
court set up in 1941 in ham
ding board orders for REIN
statement of workers with back
pay.
This 194l rule was that the
employer who fires a worker
knows the real cause Of dis
charge"
Further, the 1941 ruling was
that "if he (the employer)
says it was not union mem
bership or activity, but some
thing else which in fact existed
as a ground, this oath cannot
be disregarded because Of sus-
picion that he may be lying"
The Court Of Appeals held
also in the old ruling that
there must be impeachment Of
the employer or substantial
contradiction, or If circum-
stances raised doubts, they
must be inconsistent with the
positive sworn evidence on the
exact point.
The Supreme Court declared,
however, there is no place in
the statutory scheme for one
test Of the substantially Of
evidence in reinstatement cases
and another test in other
cases."
The Supreme Court then
cited its Universal Camera de-
cision and called for its use in
such cases.
The rule set out in that deci-
sion is that the courts may
Evening star., 1962-04-09

< BERLIN. April 9 (AP). -
Two East Berlin building work.
7ers rammed their way through
the Red wall in a heavy truck
today and escaped to the West
as bullets sprayed, the West
Berlin government reported.
The escape was made at the
Boyenstrasse. in the French
sector. Witnesses gave this ac-
count of the dramatic break:
The two men drove the heavy
truck full tilt at the wire bar
rier, broke through and
then slammed the dump truck
into the wall itself.
The truck smashed dowr
about IS feet of the wall anc
came to a stop. The two mer
Jumped out and ran desperately
across an open. bombed space
to a house about so yards or
the West side of the border.
While they were trying tt
open the door of the house tt
get cover, East German border
guards opened fire with sub
,machineguns.
Neither man was hit befor'
Evening star., 1962-04-09
President Marks
Butuun Day

President Kennedy today
cited the "lesson Of Bataan" In
declaring that courage and
devotion will prevail to bring
free choice and justice to man
kind"
The President sent a mess
age to President DioSdado
Macapagal Of the Philippines,
marking Bataan Day.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
Flood Routs
400 From
Red Cross

A broken water main at the
American National Red Cross
headquarters at Eighteenth and
D streets NV. flooded the
Easements Of two buildings to-
day, causing the evacuation Of
400 workers.
1t threatened the organiza-
tion's archives, which date back
to the 1S00s.
The break was discovered
about 9 am. Firemen began
pumping out the buildings in
an attempt to save important
documents stored in hundreds
Of basement file cabinets. At
one point the cabinets stood in
nearly 2 feet Of water.
Firemen said the break oc-
CURED in q main located in
an unused boiler room of
the Eighteenth street building
They said the water flowed
freely through a tunnel which
connects the other building at
Seventeenth and D streets. The
passageway descends to the
second building by about a foot.
they said.
The basement Of the Eight
zenith street building contains a
motion picture office and a
$500,000 air conditioning unit.
To minimize damage to the
upper floors Of the Seventeenth
street building, firemen broke
through a basement wall.
The evacuated workers were
later permitted to 60 home be-
cause firemens indicated repair
work would go on through the
day. All power and water was
shut off.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
CUBA

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1t was estimated that it would
take up to SIT million to buy
enough tractors or bulldozers TO
free the prisoners.
Now, the prisoners may be
released one by one on payment
Of ranSomS or indemnitieS
ranging from S25.00O for a man
in the ranks to $500,000 for the
leaders OF the invasion.
Rescue Group Quits
In New York, the chairman
of the International Rescue
Committee, Leo Cherne, said
his organization would not ne
gotiate with the Cuban govern
ment to ransom the prisoners,
He compared the ransom offer
to that made by the Germans
during World War II-10,000
trucks for the lives Of 100000
Hungarian Jews.
The Families Committee,
which took over efforts to free
the captives after the interna-
tional rescue group gave up the
project. told Mr.. Castro, THE
concrete offer we are ready to
make you does not refer to
tractors"
Sentiment among Miami's
100000 or more Cuban exiles
did not appear unified.
Antonio de Varona, a men,
ber of the Cuban Revolutionary
Council, called the sentences
political blackmail. 1T is a YER
dict that could have been
Matched only in the mind of a
paranoic," he said.
One exile who asked not to
be named said. Instead of
spending $62 million to ransom
them, let's use the money to
buy arms. In any event. Castro
won't last 80 years (the length
of the sentences).
Evening star., 1962-04-09
Press PorIeY Set

President Kennedy will hold
a press conference at $3.50 pm.
Wednesday, the White House
announced today. Associate
Press Secretary Andrew P.
Hatcher said radio and tele-
vision networks way broadcast
the conference live" if they
so request.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
VietCongK Kills
7 Americans
From Ambush

SAIGON, South Wet Nam,
April 9 tAP) Communist guer-
rillas killed two American mill
tary advisers to South Wet
Nam troops and apparently
captured two others yesterday
in an ambush near q United
States helicopter base $50 miles
north of Saigon.
The four enlisted men were
ambushed on a training mission
with Wet Namese soldiers near
the town Of An Chau, on the
South China sea, United States
military authorities said. They
were not Immediately iden-
titled.
Reports reaching Saigon said
the four were with a group Of
35 Wet Namese soldiers at a
government outpost when a
large Wet Cong band attacked.
One Wet Namese was also
killed and four wounded.
u. s. Dead Now 18
The Communists withdrew Is
minutes after the raid, appar-
emily expecting a government
air strike, the reports said. A
government relief force arrived
too late to engage the guer-
rillas.
The ambush brought Ameri!
can casualties in South Wet
Nam since last December / to
ls killed. 2 wounded and 3
missing. Only one Of the pre-
vious dead was killed by the
Wet Cong. The other American
deaths were accidental.
South Wet Namese troops
killed Is guerrillas in a week
end attack near the Cambodian
border, the mi-official news
agency said.
The report made no mention
Of government casualties in the
two-hour engagement last Fri
day in An Giang Province,
about 135 miles southwest Of
Saigon.
Caught on Coral Bank
The news agency said govern
ment forces hit a Wet Cong
battalion which was concen-
trated in a swampy area pre-
pairing to attack outposts along
a road.
1t said the Wet Cong were
caught on the bank Of a canal
at My Due village.
The government also re-
ported that a special military
tribunal sentenced two Wet
Cong to death on charges Of
high treason. attempting to un-
dermine national security and
murder. Another prisoner got
life Imprisonment for trying to
bribe two militiamen and aid
ing in the Wet Cong capture Of
administrative buildings and an
ammunition depot. A fourth de-
| fendant was sentenced to prison
/ forse2O years for organizing
three Communist cells in Sal
gon. b.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
REAPPORTION
Suit Claims New Act
Distorts Constitution

congressional districts Of the
State equitably.
The Virginia Constitution
stipulateS that congressional
districts should be as nearly
equal in population as practi-
cable. But, although it requires
that the General Assembly be
reapportioned every 10 years,
it does not specify criiteria for
distribution of legislative seats.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
PERONISTS
ExiIed Dictator Holds
Loyalty of Workers

working-claSs party dedicated
to nationalism and the return
to most of the features of the
Peron dictatorship. They would
base the power and organiza-
ton of the party on unions oi
unskilled workers now con-
trolled by the Peronists.
Threat Brings Unity
Despite this latent disagree
ment, the surprise Peronist VIC
tory in the March Is elections
and the fierce military reaction
against any kind of Peronism
have cemented a surface unity
on the movement.
The co-ordinating council de.
cides local tactics here and any
unresolved problems go to Gen
Peron for a final decision
Nevertheless the fisSures art
there. They are bound Il
deepen the longer the aginI
Gen. Peron stays out of power
and out of Argentina.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
Butistu Expected

TAMPA, Fla, April 9 (AP)
High ranking former military
aides of Gen. Fulgencio Batista
said today the former Cuban
dictator will visit the United
States and his Daytona Beach
home some time after April %.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
Directors to Meet

The Hopkins House board Of
directors will hold its annual
meeting and banquet at z pm.
Wednesday in the Pendleton
street Rslreation Center. 1905
Pendlet6n street, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1962-04-09
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Evening star., 1962-04-09
Georgia Hunts
Nine Convicts
JESSUP. Ga. April 9 (AP)

JESSUP, Ga. April 9 (AP).
I-PosSemen with bloodhounds
today captured three more of
rs fugitives from a State prison
camp. including a leader in
the nighttime escape.
Nine convicts remained at
large from the group that over
powered guards and helped
themselves to shotguns and
pistols from the prison arsenal.
The latest to be caught had
Travelled 20 miles on foot since
the breakout. They were un-
armed and gave up without re-
sistance.
Among them was Billy Fouts,
25. Of Roswell, Ga, tabled by
prison officials as the main
spring in the escape. He was
serving / to 13 years for rob-
berry. burglary and assorted
JULIET CIlIucS.
Thirteen of the escapes
were recaptured within "a
hours after they fled Wayne
County State prison camp near
this Southwest Georgia town.
Fled Into Woods
Nearly 100 police officers
and volunteers helped round up
the fugitives, some of whom
fled into dense woods and
swampS.
The prisoners fled on foot
after overpowering the only
two guards on duty at the
fenced-in prison branch Satur-
day night.
They emptied the prison
arsenal Of two dozen shotguns
and pistols and ammunition;
locked the guards in a solitary
cell after cutting the wire sep
arating them from a guards
catwalk.
Had not one of the escaped
convicts brushed against a car
horn at a nearby residence, the
break might not have been
. discovered until much later.
AuovSad hx unr~S
Pulp mill worker o. H. Car
ter said he was aroused by the
faint sounding Of his car horn
, and looked out to see two men
in white prison clothes push
, ing his car.
, Mr.. Carter emptied a re-
volver at the fugitives and his
brother-in-law, Leo Edenfield
!. drove to the prison to alert
, Warden Harry Yawn, who was
asleep in his residence at the
prison.
4 Eighty-four prisoners re.
fused to join the break an6
stayed in their cells, said State
: Prisons Director Jack M
Forester.
Evening star., 1962-02-04
Man GetsHe|p
For rPrivateAid
Project in Peru

Antonio Ventocilla has re-
ceived an offer from a volun-
teer to join him on his private
peace corps mission to Peru.
He. also has been offered a
panel truck, two barrels OF
clothing and other odds and
ends.
Last Sundays Star reported
that Mr.. Ventocilla. SO, of 1904
Park road. NV, is taking his
wife and five children this week
to his late fathers 25,000-acre
farm in the Andes, six hours
by horse from the port of Hau-
cho. He hopes he can lead the
Indians in the area to a better
life.
Mr.. Ventocilla said Richard
j. Southcott, 36. a construction
worker of 3605 Thirty-fourth
street, NV. volunteered to help
him on the farm. He will come
to the farm in September, to
be followed later by his wife
and three children, he said.
Mr.. Ventocilla said William
R. Simms of 4913 Sergeant
road NE, has offered him a
1852 panel truck, and old plow
and a surplus Army generator
He said he would buy shovels
and picks with $40 contributed
by two women and SAB by men,
bers of the Housing Division OF
Evening star., 1962-02-04
Engineers Book
Ballet Dancers

Some news aspects of motion
study will occupy the interest
of the Washington Society of
Engineers at its meeting at 8
pm. Wednesday in Powell Au-
ditorium, 2l70 Florida ave-
nue. NV.
The meeting will feature a
performance by the Washing
ton Ballet Company.
Miss Faye Atkinson, ballet
instructor and dancer, will dis
cuss the dance. Students of
the Washington School of Bal
let will demonstrate accom-
plishmentS of beginners, inter-
mediate and advanced classes.
A spokesman for the engi-
neers' group said the program
was designed for wives of men,
bers who are guests at the
organizations bimonthly meet
ings.
Evening star., 1962-02-04

the Bureau Of the Census,
where he worked as an econom-
ist. He said he would paint the
names Of the women and the
Housing Division on the tools
before giving them to the In
dians.
Other contributions include
an old pedal-operated sewing
machine, two pressure cookers,
a meat grinder, a keg of nails
and many good wishes, Mr..
Ventocilla said.
Evening star., 1962-02-04

answered a knock at the door.
Mr.. Chanenson, 43, said he
was asked to sign for a pack
age. Then three other men
walked in with guns. Mr.
Chanenson told police they
were Negroes. All wore false
mustaches and one wore a sur
gical mask covering the lower
part of his face.
Mr.. Chanenson said they de-
manded $4,000. Two of the
gunmen left with the mother
and two children, ordered them
to lie down in the back of a
station wagon belonging to Mr..
Chanenson's father, and drove
them to a tenement hideout on
the south side.
One of the gunmen remained
behind. He and Mr.. Chanenson
haggled for some six hours, un-
til dawn yesterday over the
amount of ransom.
Il said I haven't got $40,000,"
said Mr.. Chanenson, co-owner
of a tire and supply company.
Paid Them $4,000
The demand finally was
scaled down to $4,000.
Mr.. Chanenson said he with
drew the money from the bank,
drove a few miles from his
home as instructed, and deliv-
cred it in two paper bags to his
contact.
Soon after this, Mrs. Chan
enson said, there was a phone
call in the flat. Eventually, she
noticed NO one was around and
she and the children slipped
out to the street. They took a
cab home. They were un-
harmed.
Mr.. Chanenson did not re-
port the kidnapping to police
until his family was safely
home.
The FBI said it had no jur-
isdiction in the case because
the hostages were not harmed
and the kidnapers did not
cross state lines.
Evening star., 1962-02-04

lit down to Venice West, where
the beatniks hang out. He stood
up and read it and they listened
to it all. And then he told them
it was written by a machine
and they almost flipped."
Thank you. And now for a
final word from RPC 1000:
lode to a Newt"
"Ah. there plumbers their
frayed floors twine,
$50. because of frost, a figure
is fine"
Encore:
Lament for a Daughter"
mot for whimpering ice
boxes could truck.
Lastly, their sardines are
gentle yet awestruck."
Evening star., 1962-02-04
Mother, Children Held Radio Enqineer
5Hours by Kidnopers Awards Slated

CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-(AP)-
A mother and her two teen
age children told police today
of a terror stricken 5-hour Or
deal during which they were
abducted from their home by
two gunmen and held in a dingy
flat. They were freed after
$4,000 ransom was paid.
1--WE sat Frozen" Mrs. Gloria
Chanenson, AZ, told investi-
gators. Il told the kids not to
move. The two men kept finger
ing their guns"
Her daughter, Eileen Chanen-
son, l8, said, 1--WE were in dark
ness, sitting on the edge of the
bed afraid"
Lawrence ChanenSon, IA,
said, "It was like a bad dream"
Demanded $4,000
Mrs. Chanenson's husband,
Irving, said the family's ordeal
began Thursday night when he