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Evening star., 1962-01-02
shombe Admits Loss
Of Kotongo Stronghold

> LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo,
Jan. 2 (AP).-Katanga Presi-
dent Noise Tshombe has con-
ceded the loss of the North
Katanga stronghold of Kongolo
to troops of the Central Congo
lese government, but claims his
forces have beaten off Congo
lese attacks at Kapona, south
of Baudouinville.
Mr.. Tshombe charged at a
news conference in Elisabeth
Vile yesterday that $4,000 Con-
goleSe troops advancing on
Kongolo had murdered hun
dredS of civilians and burned
villages in their path.
He said the Congolese aban-
doned heavy equipment and
fled in the face of strong Ka-
tangan resistance at Kapona.
The secessionist leader said
both sides suffered heavy cas-
.ualtieS there, asserting that
most Katangan casualties in
volved civilians.
RebuffS KaSavubu
Mr.. Tshombe also declared
that he has rejected an order
by Congo President Joseph Ka-
Savubu that the Katangan As
sembly convene tomorrow in
Kamina under United Nations
protection.
He said he had informed the
Evening star., 1962-01-02
Potomac Bridge
Opening Delayed

Motorists will have to wait
until the middle of this month
before the new southbound
Fourteenth Street Bridge can
be opened to traffic.
District highway officials said
today that the approaches on
the Virginia side of the new
George Mason Bridge are still
under construction.
Officials had hoped that the
new Potomac River span would
be opened shortly after jan
uary l.
They now say that if weather
conditions remain favorable,
the mid-month deadline will
probably be met.
Last months snow and freez-
ing weather slowed down con-
struction, they said.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
Montreal Jail
Riot Subsidies

MONTREAL, Jan. 2 (AP)-
Some 400 prisoners returned
quietly to their cells today after
they had rioted and battled
police for four hours in Mon
treal's Bordeaux Jail yesterday.
The men spent the night
tramping about in two flooded,
unheated cell wings where they
were herded after the violent
outbreak.
Authorities had expected
more trouble getting them back
to their regular cells, but Of
ficials said they returned with
out making any difficulty.
1t. Col. Leon Lambert, gov
ernor of the Jail, said prisoners
in a block for persons awaiting
trial took part in the rebellion
and that some of them looked
drunk-poSSibly from goof balls
(barbiturateS)."
He said three prisoners and a
fireman manning a water hose
were injured, none seriously.
The fireman was struck by a
piece of metal apparently
thrown by a prisoner.
Col. Lambert said the rioting
started with some grumbling
and shouting which about 4:3O
pm. developed into open re-
bellion as the men were being
served a roast beef New Years
dinner.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
KENNEDY
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WrightSman, and Mr.. Gilpatric
and Gen. Taylor would be over
night guests of Mrs. Robert R.
Young.
The Wrightsman and Young
residences are just two and
three doors removed from the
oceanfront home of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. Michael Paul, lent to
the President and Mrs. Ken
nedy for the holiday season.
Information Is Scarce
While information on the
purpose of the two-day series
of defense conferences was
Scanty, Mr.. Kennedy is known
to be concerned with maintain
ing and trying to increase what
he considers a marginal bal
ance of power on the side of
the free world in facing con-
slant Soviet pressures around
the globe.
Mr.. Kennedy already has ap-
proved an increase in military
spending for the new fiscal year
starting next July l, on top of
a Sc billion increase over the
Eisenhower administration de-
fense budget he ordered in 1861.
Apparently he feels the bal
ance of world power might have
shifted to the Soviets without
his administrations action pro-
viding for a so per cent in
crease in Polaris missile atomic
submarines by 1864, increas-
ing Minuteman missiles pro-
Evening star., 1962-01-02
Air Carrier
Cuts Fares
For Recruits
BY the Associated Press

Eastern Air Lines put into
effect today a new low for
military flying from major
Eastern cities to Columbia, S. c.
With the permission of the
Civil Aeronautics Board, East
ern applied its night coach fare
to day coach flights for re-
cruits travelling in groups of
10 or more.
The new rates to Columbia
are $50 from New York or
Newark, N. j., and $26 from
Philadelphia, Baltimore or
Washington. Columbia is the
gateway to the military recruit
center at Fort Jackson, S. C.
Heretofore Eastern has pro-
vided only first-clasS service to
Columbia. The Washington
Columbia first class fare is
1885.
The new Eastern service re-
places that provided by a sup
Elemental carrier, Imperial Air
lines, which was suspended
after a fatal plane crash at
Richmond.
Eastern also plans to expand
its Washington-New York and
New York Boston shuttle serv-
ice February l with a nonstop
shuttle service between Wash
ington and Boston.
The direct fare will be $27,
compared with SIS between
Washington and New York and
$13 between New York and
Boston.
Eastern plans to provide five
flights a day on the new direct
service without reducing the
frequency of the other shuttle
service.
Evening star., 1962-01-02

inquiries about Mr.. YdigoraS'
speech should be directed to
the State Department.
In Washington, the depart
ment had no official comment.
But officials indicated they do
not consider the United States
has any unfulfilled duty to per-
form regarding the Cuban
situation.
Inter-American treaties, dip
lomats said, impose on the
United States and other hemi-
sphere nations the duty of re-
pelling aggression and defend
ing the inter-American demo-
cratic system. But United States
officials indicated they consid-
cred there was no obligation on
the part of President Kennedy
for any specific action, as was
indicated by the Guatamalan
chief executive.
Mr.. Ydigoras' statement con-
corning signed commitments"
could have referred to the mu-
tual defense pact of Rio de jan
EZRA, under which Columbia has
called for a foreign ministers
conference starting January %
to deal with the Cuban prob
lem; or it could have referred
to the declaration of Caracas
of 1854, which was a pledge to
tight Communist aggression or
infiltration in this hemisphere;
or to any other of a number
of inter American treaties and
agreements.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
Road Death Toll
Tops Forecasts,
Mounts to 335
BY the Associated Press

A sharp squirt of accidents in
the final hours of the New
Years holiday pushed the final
toll of traffic deaths beyond the
National Safety Councils pre-
holiday estimate.
At midnight last night, when
the three-day holiday period
ended, the count of traffic ia
talities stood at 1886. In addi-
ton, there were 83 deaths re-
sulting from fires, a record for
a New Year period since World
War II. and SO deaths attrib-
uted to miscellaneous accidents.
The overall toll from traffic,
fires and miscellaneous causes
was ATT.
The National Safety Council,
which had estimated that $50
persons might be killed in traf-
fic accidents during the ex-
tended week end, earlier had
hopes that the toll might be
a record low for the three-day
New Year period. However,
there was a sharp upward trend
in the death rate on the final
day of the holiday celebration
and the council then said it
appeared the final toll might
exceed its earlier estimate.
The record low of 269 high
way fatalities was set in the
1949-50 New Year period. The
record traffic toll for a three
day New Year period is 374,
set in 1959-60.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
GUATEMALA
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the American territory. There
are signed commitments in
South America"
Referring to the forthcoming
meeting of hemisphere minis
ters of foreign affairs at Punta
del Este, Uruguay, later this
month, Mr.. Ydigoras said:
Those protocols could trans
form the problem, giving it a
solution such as that of Korea
|. where troops of many ma
tions fought bravely."
Mr.. Ydigoras also reaffirmed
his determination to break with
the United Kingdom soon. The
issue is Belize, or British Hon.
duraS.
1--WE have examined our plans
to recover that indivisible part
of our territory" he said. I'VE
do not count on Great Britain,
whose arrogance and perfidious
diplomacy have made us waste
more than $50 years in talk
and more talk. We do not
count on the material force of
great armies to sink 45O years
of Christian civilization, as
happened a few days ago in
Goa. We do not count on in
ternational armies such as
those launched against Ka-
tanga by the United Nations.
"We count on two words
only: Reason and justice. And
we depend also on the moral
support of our sister nations of
Central and South America and
others. We count also on the
good will of thousands of pris-
oners in that horrible concen-
tration camp which British
jailerS called Belize"
Evening star., 1962-01-02

u. N. command in Elisabeth
vile that the order for the
Assembly to meet and ratify
his Kitona unity agreement
with Premier Cyrille Adoula
was contrary and in direct
violation of the Congo consti-
tuition and IAN abuse of power"
Mr.. Tshombe has cummoned
the Assembly to meet in Elisa
bethville tomorrow to discuss
the Kitona agreement. But he
said he was no longer sure the
meeting would be held on
schedule.
The U. N. command an
nounced that Bashi tribesmen
in Kivu Province had killed at
least IL of their tribal enemies
while trying to elect a new
chief.
Soviet Aid Due
A U. N. spokesman said a
Malayan patrol halted the
bloodshed but that reports from
the patrol indicated the death
toll may actually be much
higher. The U. N. was unable
to say whether the chief had
been elected.
The U. N. also announced
that two Soviet planes are due
in Leopoldville this week with
medical supplies and fuel for
victims of the Congo River
floods. Diplomatic sources said
the Soviet team included six
doctors and two assistants.
A spokesman said the U. NJ.
would distribute the supplies
even though the Russians by
passed the U. N. and chan
neled the aid material through
the international Red Cross.
Mr.. Adoula earlier said he
would refuse such Russian Of
fers unless they were made
through the U. N.
Meanwhile, 48O TunisianI
troops arrived here from their
homeland for duty with U. N.
forces. A spokesman said the
TuniSians would be based in
Leopoldville.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
KENNEDY
Marginal Power Gain
Believed PorIey's Aim

duction capacity by so per cent,
and bringing into active duty
five more ready divisions as
well as increasing Air Force
and Navy conventional warfare
forces.
The President spent most of
New Years Day quietly at the
ocean-front residence lent him
and Mrs. Kennedy for the hol-
iday season by Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul.
Father Improving
He made another one of his
daily visits to St. Mary's Hos
pital to see his father, reported
improving rapidly from the eff
fects of a stroke December 19
that paralyzed his right side
and left him speechless.
While still unable to talk
and with only a slight return
ing movement to his right leg,
the 73-year-old Joseph P. Ken
nedy has been started on a
rehabilitation program that
doctors hope eventually may
enable him to walk and talk
again.
He was helped out of bed
into a wheel chair Sunday, it
was learned, and moved around
from room to room on the third
floor of the hospital. He also
watched from his bed the tele-
vised Packers-Giants pro foot
ball game.
The President also attended
New Years Day mass at st.
Edwards Church at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
Jury Links 5
To Bogus Bills

Five men were indicted by a
District grand jury today on
charges of passing counterfeit
$40 bank notes in the Seventh
and P streets area of Northwest
Washington.
The defendants are: Inmone
S. Hicks, "a, of the $500 block
of Fourteenth street NV;
Howard H. Coleman, 80. Joseph
johnson, 80. and David B. Nc
Call, 25, all of the 1900 block
of Fifth street NV, and Odell
r. Lewis, 81. of the 1900 block
of Thirteenth place NE.
Assistant United States At
torney Frederick Smithson said
the Secret Service received in
formation November 20 that the
bills had been passed in the
Seventh and P streets area.
Mr.. Smithson said the inves-
tigation showed that Hicks, an
apartment building manager
and janitor, passed some of the
bills to Coleman and johnson,
who in turn distributed the
money to the other defendants.
Mr.. Smithson said the Secret
Service learned there were
efforts to sell $4,000 in counter
felt bills for 5000. He said
johnson and Coleman sold the
bills they had in their possess
sion for 20 cents on the dollar.
Hicks appeared in District
Court last year as a defense
witness in the fraud trial of
Daniel Jackson Oliver Wendell
Holmes Morgan. Hicks was
manager of the apartment
building in which Morgan had
his office. Morgan was subse-
quently convicted of posing
here as a lawyer for 18 months
ending last June.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
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step is expected to be a for
eign ministers conference to
determine the future of Berlin.
Mr.. Thompson's last round
Of talks with Mr.. Gromyko in
Moscow took place at the end of
october. The subject of those
talks was not the general Ber-
lin situation but the problem of
Identification procedures at the
checkpoints along the Berlin
border. This problem, involving
questions of whether allied
officials should show their
papers to East German guards,
had brought United States and
Russian tanks to the border for
a time.
ImpaSSe Remains
The tanks were withdrawn
but the impasSe on identifica-
ton remained. The West re-
fused to yield on the ground
that control of the East Berlin
border was the responsibility of
the Soviet Union as an occu-
pying power and not of the
East German Communist re-
gime, which the Western allies
refuse to recognize as a valid
government.
The allied approach to the
Russians through Mr.. Thomp-
son was agreed on by the West
ern allies at meeting of the
United States. British, French
and West German Foreign
Ministers in Paris last month.
1t was later approved by the
NATO Ministerial Council and
by President Kennedy and
Prime Minister Macmillan at
their Bermuda meeting.
The sounding-out approach
was decided on after French
President de Gaulle refused to
enter into formal allied nego-
tiations with the Russians on
Berlin unless they took con-
crete actions to remove the ten
sion which resulted from Soviet
Premier Khrushchev's attempts
to end the allied occupation of
West Berlin.
Separate Treaty Threatened
Mr.. Khrushchev previously |
had threatened to sign a sepa-
rate peace treaty with East
Germany by the end of 1861.
giving the Communist regime
control of allied access routes
to West Berlin. But he lifted |
his ultimatum at the Soviet
Communist Party Congress
after Mr.. Gromyko had held a |
series of talks at the United
Nations Assembly and in Wash
ington with Secretary of State
Dean Rusk and President Ken
nedy.
The Russians appear anxious
for negotiations with the West |
on Berlin. Mr.. Thompson's task
now is to find out whether they
are willing to relax their de-
mandS sufficiently to show
some promise of a Western
Soviet agreement which would
safeguard the Western presence
in West Berlin.
So far, however, Russian
SpokeSmen from Premier Khru-
shchev down have been insistent
in all public statements that
the Russians are going to sign
a peace treaty with East Ger
many and that the allied oc-
cupation of West Berlin must
be ended.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
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Evening star., 1962-01-02
u. S. OFFICIALS
ARE SILENT

BY the Associated Press
In Palm Beach, Fla, White
House Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger told reporters that
Evening star., 1962-01-02

naQ suggested tne UnlteQ Ma
tions take a hand in the dis
pute, but this was rejected by
Indonesia.
Efforts Fruitless
Through its Embassy in
Jakarta, the United States has
been trying to use it's influence
with Mr.. Sukarno to consider
negotiations. But dispatches
from Jakarta reported yester-
day these efforts have been
fruitlesS.
Dutch New Guinea - 159, ,00O
square miles of jungles, noun
tains and swamps that saw
some of World War IFS hardest
fighting-haS been claimed by
Indonesia ever since it won
independence from the Dutch
in 1949. The Dutch say the
Papuans in the disputed terri
tory have no ethnic relation
ship to the IndoneSians and are
only beginning to learn self
government under Dutch tute-
lage.
Mr.. Sukarno, however, gave
no hint Of conciliation after a
meeting with his military ad-
visers at Bogor Palace. Asked
by reporters what was dis
cussed, he shook a clenched
fist and said: I'VE discussed
this"
Province Proclaimed
Then he issued an order de-
claring that Dutch New Guinea
is now the Indonesian province
of West Irian, the Indonesian
name for the disputed terri
tory. The order also said the
province is to have a Papuan
governor, a move apparently
aimed at Dutch public opinion
and educated Papuans.
Gen. Abdul Harris Nasution,
Security Minister and army
chief of staff. said in a New
Years statement that the army
is ready to invade New Guinea
"diSregarding risk of starva-
ton, the risk of hardship, even
the risk of DEATH"
Military experts say Mr.. Su-
karno by the end of the year
will be able to send a naval
flotilla against the Dutch mill
tary headquarters at Biak, while
jet bombers and paratroopS
would handle Hollandia. Am
phibiouS landings at other
towns would encounter scant
opposition.
Mr.. Sukarno has ample
ground forces 10000 troops
hardened fighting rebels in the
North Celebes and 100000 ex-
.perienced soldiers elsewhere
but seapower is the major ques-
ton.
Evening star., 1962-01-02
Will Buy Warships
Efforts Fruitless

The navy recently announced
it will buy cruisers, submarines
and deStroyers from Yugoslavia
and Poland. An Indonesian
Evening star., 1962-01-02

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had suggested the United Ma
tions take a hand in the dis
pute, but this was rejected by
Indonesia.
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Gunner Take $1,000
From Car Rental Firm

Two gunner held up the
Budget Rent-a-Car office at
1928 L street NV. last night
and escaped with an estimated
So 900 in cash and checks.
The firms manager, Carl
Mirman. AZ, of 1905 Fox street,
Hyattsville, told police one man
came in about $50 pm, pulled
a SO caliber revolver from his
belt and asked where the money
was kept.
Another man, also armed,
then came in. They took money
from a cash drawer and an
open safe. Mr.. Mirman said
the loss was about half checks
and half cash.
The men ordered Mr.. Mir
man to go into a restroom ano
lie on the floor. AS they began
to tie him up. they heard the
garage door being opened by
another company employe
Latimore mellow, 80. of 14C
Randolph place NV. He found
Mr.. Mirman, freed him ano
then tried to chase the fleeing
holdup men, but lost them al
the intersection of l. and Nine
tenth streets.
One man was described as
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U.S.. Offers Laos
New Aid Funds

VIENTIANE, Nov. "a (AP).-
The United States has offered
to provide Laos with an initial
aid fund of $40 million to fl
nance commodity imports. 1t
would be part of a new Ameri-
can aid program to help i'm
prove Laos sagging post-civil
war economy.
A Foreign Ministry commu-
niQue today said United States
Ambassador Leonard Unger
communicated the offer to For
eign Minister QUINN Pholsena
The communicate said con-
sultation between representa-
tives of Laos and the United
States will continue with a
view to studying additional
American aid for financing
commodity imports beyond the
initial $40 millions.
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Courses to Begin
In Civil Defense

Evening classes in basic civil
defense and Pathological moni-
toring will begin at two Mont
gomery County high schools
next week.
Monday classes at 1880 pm.
will begin December 3 at
Northwood High School, and
Wednesday courses will be Of
fered at 1880 pm. at Wheaton
High School.
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Sunday Sales Hit
In Charles Town

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va,
Nov. "a CAP) A proposed cas-
ing of laws to allow retail
stores to operate on Sundays
has met opposition from the
Charles Town Ministerial AS
ISOLATION and the Retail Mer-
chants Association.
The ministers group told the
town council that it had al
ready discussed its views with
officials of a retail store chain
and had been assured of con-
sideration.
And the merchants associa
ton said it would support pas
sage Of laws which would al
low sale of certain items in
order to maintain Sunday as q
day of rest.
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white. about 80 years old. five
feet 10 inches, with brown hair,
pencil mustache, wearing a gray
felt hat and dark car coat and
carrying a red plaid shopping
bag.
The other man also was
white. about 30, five feet eight
inches, $50 pounds. black hair
wearing a dark gray topcoat
and a dark gray hat.
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Storm Leaves Troll
OF Snow in Wide Area

Registration will be at the
first sessions at both schools.
A small, fast-moving storm
left trail of snow from Wis
consin to New England and
blew itself out yesterday. An
other storm was building up
in the Gulf of Alaska and al
ready was battering the North
ern Pacific coastline with gale
force winds.
The storm in the East
dumped from 2 to 4 inches
of snow in parts Of the mid
west, upstate New York and
New England.
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Gunmun Takes
$3.50, Cigarettes
In NE. HoIdup

An armed man stole $3.50 and
six packs of cigarettes from a
Northeast market last night.
Isadore Bindes, A, owner Of
Bindes Market at 1900 E street
NE, told police he was stand
ing at his cash register around
7:45 pm. when a man entered
stuck a revolver in his ribs and
said, This is a holdup."
Mr.. Bindes said he gave him
$40 from the cash register and
$l10 from his wallet.
The robber also grabbed six
packs Of cigarettes and a case
Of beer, but dropped the beer as
he fled through the door with
Mr.. Bindes in pursuit.
Police broadcast a lookout fol
a Negro % to % years old, thin
and about 5 feet 8 inches tall
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Eisenhower Adds Lond
To Gettysburg Farm

GETTYSBURG. Pa. Nov. "a
(AP)-F'ormer President Eisen-
hover has bought % more acres
for his farm home for $15.700,
increasing its size to 211 acres,
papers on file in the Adams
County Courthouse showed to-
day.
The papers on file in tie Of
flee of Recorder of Deeds Carl
S Menchey showed Gen. Eisen-
hover purchased the % acres
from the estate OF the late w,
Alton Jones, oilman-industrial-
ist and close friend of the form
err President. Mr.. Jones was
killed March in an airplane
accident.
Gen. Eisenhower's holdings
now are assessed at $22 900 for
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North Capitol Grocer
Beaten, Robbed of $24

A 59-year-old grocer was
pistol-Yhipped last night by two
thugs who fled after taking
s24 from the cash register in
his North Capitol street market.
Robbery Squad detectives
said the Capitol italian Prod
ucts grocery at 1927 North Cap
itol street was held up at 9:15
pm.
The store proprietor, Vito
Vallone, was treated for head
cuts at the Washington Hos
pital Center and released.
Police said the proprietor'S
wife, Annie. Sc, and her grand
daughter. Caroline Dant, 8, OF
Springville, Va, were alone in