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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
Four Die as Scores Flee
Hotel Fire in Boston

BOSTON. Mar. 20 (AP). =
Four persons persisted and al
least Is were injured today in
q pre-dawn fire that swept the
Sherry Biltmore Hotel or
Massachusetts, avenue.
Firemen carried about "a
persons down ladders from the
old brick building. Among those
rescued were members Of the
cast Of THE Sound Of Music,
now playing in a downtown
theater.
Most Of the cast was attend
ing a party on an upper floor
They we're unable TO leave by 6
door and climbed out a win.
dow. About 40 Of them lined III
on a narrow ledge and waited
until firemen raised aeria
ladders.
Three Victims Identified
The dead were two men anc
two women. One woman wa'
identified as Selma Nyman. so
a legal secretary, who resided
at the hotel. Two others were
identified as Fabian Jijon, 80
and his wife, Lola, "a. OF Quito
Ecuador.
Their daughter, Maria Ele,
ana. 5Na, is in Massachusetts
General Hospital for treatment
Of a congenital dislocated hip
Names Of three Of the in,
iured we're on the danger lis
at city hospital. Most Of tn
others were released aftei
treatment.
A general alarm was sounded
for the blaze. which broke on
on the fourth floor shortly be-
fore 4 am. Fire officials salt
the cause was not determined
Immediately and set damage
at about 100000.
A night bellman. Charlie
Io'Connor. discovered the fir,
and ran through corridor
awakening guests. Other EN-,
ployes tried 10 quench tn,
flames with fire extinguisheri
but the blaze quickly reared our
OF control.
Mrs. MaTelyn Meyers, who's
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motor ship Lgov. did not take
the necessary measures to pre-
vent similar dangerous provor
cations.
Moreover, to Judge by the
statement Of the Department
Of State of March 81, the
U. S. A. in actual fact still en-
courages such actions.
"The Soviet,government can
not ignore these provocations
and has been compelled to ex-
anime the question of taking
relevant measures to insure the
safety of Soviet merchantmen
going to Cuba.
"The USSR government in
sists that effective measures be
taken to prevent such provoca-
tons and that compensation
be paid for the material dam
age inflicted on the Soviet ship
Baku."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
HE TRIED TO KILL
HERWITHcAR, BUT
SHE'LL WE'D HIM

BRISTOL, England
(AP).-A man accused of
trying to kill his ex-fiance
proposed to her again in
court yesterday and she
said yes.
Kenneth Poole, "a, was
accused Of driving his car
into Barbara Loft. II, as
she walked along a street
with another man. The
girl was crushed against a
shop window and spent %
days in the hospital.
From the dock, Poole
asked the girl:
I'm view Of all that you
have suffered at my hands,
do you still want to marry
me?"
The girl, standing the
witness box, whispered
that she did.
Poole was held for trial
later on a charge of caus-
ing grievous bodily harm
with intent to murder. He
pleaded not guilty.
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said. 1t cannot defend against
a mass missile attack or against
missile warheads that spew de-
coys into space.
His testimony made 1t clear
that he believes the Russians
will be able to stage mass raids
and use decoys in a year or so
Intelligence estimates say the
Russians can have from soc
to 1000 land and sea-basec
ICBMs by 1868. They number
over 200 today, more than hall
Of them submarine-carried
Mr.. Mcnamara said also that
even if zeus could stop enemy
warheads aimed at our cities
the enemy could aim upwinc
from the cities, explode the war.
heads on the ground and send
great clouds of radioactive
fallout over the cities.
Urges Civil Defense
A batter way to save mil
lions Of lives, he said, would be
ito advance the civil defense
program at an expenditure
which is just a small fraction
Of" the zeus cost.
II personally will never rec
Iommend an anti-ICBM pro-
gram unless a fallout program
does accompany It," the Sec
rotary said. II believe that even
If we do not have an anti
ICBM program, we nonethe-
less should proceed with the
fallout shelter program"
Gen. Taylor told the SUBJ
committee that an improved
zeus should be put into pro-
duction now and then modi-
fled later as other expected
improvements become avail
able. 1t could be in operation
in four years.
Mr.. Mcnamara and tn e
President have decided that
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boat, which was not flying
q flag.
Also causing some concern
here is the problem Of Soviet
troops In Cuba. United States
sources said several hundred
more Russian personnel have
been observed leaving Cuba
since Mr.. Kennedy estimated
March 81 that 5000 troops had
been pulled out. Some 400 were
reported to have steamed from
Cuba aboard the Soviet liner
Baltika last week end.
With the earlier estimate Of
Russian military strength IN
Cuba at 1000, the Withdrawals
would lower the number left to
less than $4,000.
This is a slower withdrawal
rate than Washington had
hoped for and authorities said
1t is not yet known here what
kind Of personnel have been
sent back to Russia-whether
combat soldiers or technicians.
Mr.. Kennedy indicated that
by the end Of March the
United States Government
would have a clearer idea Of
what the Soviet withdrawal
amounts to.
Administration authorities
also showed rising concern over
the free lance raids by Cuban
refugees. Reports from Miami
yesterday said two anti-Castro
groups. Alpha So and the Sec
ond National Front Of Escam-
bray, are preparing still an
other assault.
While the Kennedy admin
istration tended to look the
other way when such attacks
have been made in the past,
authorities said the situation
is different now that the Rus
slams have become so heavily
involved in Cuba. They said
the raids could have the UNI
wanted effect Of stiffening
Russian intentions to stay on
in Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29

9-year-old daughter, Janella,
plays "Gretel" in THE Sound
Of Music" said she was aroused
in her fifth floor room by a
voice saying. There are no
more on this floor"
She opened the door and
shouted: mo. no. We're still
here"
Mrs. Meyers awakened janet
la and another daughter, Dawn,
n. who is an understudy. The
three Of them CROPPED their way
along the hallway and then
down the stairs to the lobby.
The Rt. Rev. Francis Phelan,
pastor Of nearby st. Cecilia's
Roman Catholic church, opened
the church TO the hotel guests.
He said he was awakened by
screams. when I opened the
front door," he said, II saw peo-
pie hanging out the windows,
choking from smoke"
Indian Pair Flees
The hotel, which has six
floors in the front and eight In
the rear. is Back Bay land
mark. 1t was an apartment
house for nearly a half-century
and was converted TO a hotel
about 10 years ago.
Two Indian doctors. a hus-
band and wife from Bombay,
fled barefoot and in pajamas
down a ladder from their sixth
floor room. DR.. Prafulla B.
Desai. 20. and his wife. DR..
Meena Desai. q. had been in
Boston only five days.
Among the injured we're
Kuliel famous, "a. He told this
story:
II smelled smoke. I was
coughing, but I knew enough
not TO open the door. / turned
on the faucets in the sink
and tub and then broke a win
dow. / stuck my head out the
window for air. Six or seven
minutes later. firemen hooked
a ladder up and took me down.
BY then the whole building was
enveloped In flames"
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Questioning Develops
Officers Reluctance

record. This is how I trapped
myself, putting myself in the
position Of an engineer.
Not on Record
The witness, responding to
questions, said his reservations
we're not incorporated in the
documents he signed and he
did not ask for them to be.
Curtis: But you stated them
Gregory: I did during the
course Of the discussion with
Mr.. Jones.
Curtis: But you were moi
pressured to sign.
Gregory: That is right, sir
1t was put to me this way: Il
you concur. we think maybe
you ought to agree to signing
this document / stated
that I had no basis to non.
concur, and I reluctantly signed
the papers.
Mcclellan: Did you tell then
you we're doing it reluctantly
Gregory: I don't think I did
Mr.. Chairman.
Curtis: In other words, while
you did not state that you were
signing it reluctantly. you felt
that it was a possibility they
may have so gathered :?
Gregory: Yes. sir.
Doesn't Recall Reason
Curtis: Neither of these doc
uments were in existence
when the decision Ton award
ing the contract to General Dy-
namics) was made by the Sec
rotary Of Defense?
Gregory: That is correct, sir
Senator Mundt, Republican
Of South Dakota: What was
the reason?
Gregory: II they gave me q
reason. ] don't remember what
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toned in the Department OF
State announcement and in
formed US that the Cuban ma
val vessel had turned back.
THE Cuban government in
this second message added that
the MICS probably fired in err
ror and that there had been no
intention on the part Of the
Cuban government to shoot at
the Floridian. These are the
facts as they are now known. +"
The haste with which the
Communist Cuban government
reacted indicated concern III
Havana against possible reac-
ton in Washington.
Mr.. White indicated the
United States was not protest.
ing the incident until the "full
explanation" sought from Cuba
is received.
The State Department an
nouncement early this after
noon was this first indication
the United States considers the
MIG aircraft to have been
Cuban.
Time Not Disclosed
The exact time Of receipt
here Of the first Cuban message
inquiring about the 'legiti-
macy" Of the Floridian was not
disclosed. The second message
came before midnight. but after
Havana had learned Of the
State DEPARTMENTS announce
ment Of the shooting incident
lin the Caribbean waters north
of Cuba.
Mr.. Hatcher said the White
House had no comment on the
! incident.
President Kennedy learned
Of the ship attack about $50
pm. yesterday and immedi-
ately began a series Of meet
ings with McGeorge Bundy,
his assistant for national Sc
curity affairs, and members
Of the National Security coun-
ell staff. He conferred with
Secretary Of State Rusk before
meeting with the national Sc
curity advisers today.
First Incident Recalled
Last month two MIG Jets
with Cuban markings fired on
q United States shrimp boat,
the Ala, while 1t was drifting,
its motors out Of commission,
in the Florida straits about so
miles off the Cuban coast.
The United States vigorously
protested the attack and Presi-
dent Kennedy ordered the De-
tense Department to make sure
that action will be taken
against any vessel or aircraft
which executes an attack
against a vessel or aircraft Of
the United States over interna-
tional waters in the Caribbean"
The Castro regime denied its
planes had fired on the shrimp
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few days. Then, with a cam
era linked to a 1,000-power
microscope, the action in the
vessels can be filmed.
A malignant tumor can be
placed in another part Of the
ear and the sloughted-off can
Ger cells viewed when they
reach the membrane.
The scientists thus showed or
film that the cancer cells gain
protection-so that they are moi
killed-when they become sur
rounded by a blood clot. Thu
clot not only protects them but
somehow helps them take hole
Of the blood vessel walls where
they can begin a cancer colony
Some researchers had alread.
used clot-preventing agent
thaparin and dicoumaroD tt
block the sticking Of cancer
cells in animals.
DR.. Wood and his group have
filmed the action of these
agents and started looking FOL
others with as good or better
effects.
They have found that Plas.
nina clot-dissolving engine
normally present in the blooc
of animals and mans effec.
tive within minutes after injec.
ton into the rabbits.
First, the clot surrounding
the cancer cell Is dissolved
Then. the cell itself Is WASHED
away from the blood vesse
wall.
I'VE have shown that cancer
cells can be made to unstick,
DR.. Wood told a reporter. "AnC
II they can't stick, they cam
grow"
No results Of the use Of
plasmin In human beings have
yet been announced.
DR.. Wood is the son. Of q
Rockville attorney, Sumner
Wood, ST.. and his wife. He at.
tended st. Adams School fol
Boys here.
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1t was. I recall having left the
Pentagon with the thought
that this was another item they
were going to place in the rec
ord.
Mundt: In this record?
Gregory: No, sir. In their
own record.
Mundt: I appreciate your
candor, and certainly as one
member Of the committee
have no criticism to make of
you because you made a mis-
take. and freely confessed it.
In this day and age Of protes-
tation and perfection, 1t is nice
to see someone once in a while
who says, Eyes, I made a mis-
take and / am sorry I did"
Gregory: I don't believe 1t is
a common practice, sir.
Board Members Quizzed
The Mcnamara questions
were submitted during the testi-
mony Of Mai. Gen. Robert @
Ruegg, chairman; Admiral
Frederick L. Ashworth, Col
Gregory and other members
of q board which recommended
the Boeing design.
Senator Mcclellan was only
about half way through the
Secretary's questions when the
hearings were recessed for the
week end.
The military witnesses, re-
leased testimony shows, stuck
by their findings in the face
Of the Secretary's challenges.
Some subcommittee members,
speaking privately. said they
thought Mr.. Mcnamara had
made a serious mistake In tao
tics in submitting the questions
in the first place.
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I).J
KAUFMAN

zoos Penna. Ave. and I4th g Eye SIS.
Open 3o-doy, four or six month account
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SHIP
Crew Of Attacked Vessel
Says U. S. Flag Was Flying
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the port bow, firing. I could see
the wink Of the guns and the
sound got to me. The other
plane was up higher. covering"
Chief Mate Harold Keane of
Philadelphia also photographed
the MICS in action. Film from
both cameras was flown to the
Pentagon.
The incident occurred 20
miles north Of the city of
Matanzas, on Cuba's north
coast. The Floridian was es-
corted here by United States
Jet fighters, but no American
warships accompanied the
vessel.
THE Jets came out of the
sun, made seven passes and
fired four bursts" said the
ships cook, Sidney z. Berger of
Baltimore.
There were tracers all over
the place and over the bow Of
the ship" Mr.. Berger said.
The cook said the planes
were unmarked but clearly
were Russian-made MICS.
They Were Bum Shots"
Asked If he thought the
pilots were trying to hit the
ship. Mr.. Teeples replied: II
don't think so. They were bum
shots, anyway"
The Floridian left San Juan,
Puerto Rico, at 6 pm. Tues
day with a refrigerated cargo
for Miami.
The Floridian Morse code
message described the attack
this way:
The two aircraft swooped
out Of the east, one flashing
over the ship at about 200 feet.
A gun burst Of about 80 rounds
ripped into the Atlantic some
100 yards from the bow. More
shots kicked up spray in its
wake. The ship was travelling
at about II knots.
The planes then vanished
into the west.
The Floridian's owner, the
South American and Caribbean
Line, said the ship was carry
ing IS refrigerated trailers Of
food and has a crew Of "a in
GLIDING the captain.
Last month two MICS with
Cuban markings shot at-and
missed-a United States shrimp
boat whose engine had conked
out and was drifting in the
Florida straits so miles from
the Cuban coast.
The United States fired off
an angy protest against what it
called "this unprovoked and
willful attack" and President
Kennedy ordered the Pentagon
to ensure that action would be
taken against any attackers on
United States vessels or planes
in international waters off
Cuba.
The Castro regime denied
any Of its planes had fired on
the shrimp boat.
The Floridian, built in Balti-
more in 1860, once piled the
run between Jacksonville, Fla,
and New York.
In New York. Henry Engel-
brecht. the lines vice president,
said Floridian-type ships cost
a little over 81 million and can
travel at 1914 knots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
U. S. Will Represent
British in SomuIi

LONDON, Mar. 20 (AP).-
The United States will repre-
sent British interests in the
Somali Republic, which broke
off diplomatic relations with
the British this month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29
Mount Etnu Erupts

CATANIA, Sicily, Mar. 20
(AP).-Mount Etna erupted last
night, sending a flow Of lava
over the rim Of the northeast
crater. Authorities said no
communities were endangered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-29

billions Of dollars will be wasted
unless the Army waits for the
full Nike-X system to be de-
veloped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
By ALLEN w. DULLES
WASHINGTON

I HIS HAS BEEN an open season for uncOvering
traitors. The British, German, French and Swedish
governments have made embarrassing admissions
about grave violations of their security. We have
had our troubles too. In one brief period this fall
six us. soldiers abroad detected to the wrong side
OF the Iron Curtain, all of them presumably carry
ing some useful bits of information with them.
And the case of Sgt. Jack E. Dunlap, who com.
mitted suicide rather than face trial for spying for
the SOviets, really shocked our security people.
The SOviets, too, admitted that they we're
badly hurt by Col. Oleg Penkovsky, strategicaIIy
placed Kremlin official and World War II hero.
AS he stood in the dock at his espionage trial in
Moscow last May, the prosecutor claimed that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

PenkOvsky had passed most valuable information
to the Americans and British
In my war and postwar intelligence work, one
OF my main jobs was to study deeply each Of the
major spy incidents and to try to understand the
traitors pattern of conduct Whenever new
story of treason and traitors makes shocking head
lines am certain to be asked, ''How can someone
turn against his homeland? What makes these
people commit treason?'I My conclusions may
help you to look beneath the surface the next time
your newspaper reveals new case Of treason,
which am using here in the colloquial sense OF
betrayal.
Here, in my opinion, are the principal reasons
that people become traitors:
y The theological COnsmu mist serves ''the cause.
Whitaker Chambers in Witness wrote that this
appears to the Communist not as a betrayal
NugeK , I, 1903
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

HAROLD PHLBV: Son Of a famous British explorer
Phiiby knew Burgess and MacIeGn at Cambridge Uni.
Ueraty. In 1919 he became first secretary of the
British Embassy in Washington. He tipped of
Burgess and MdcLean, enabling them to escape to
Rnssa. Investigated in his turn, PhiLby was cleared
When the case IcGs reOpened last January he runhed
from Beirut and toas granted asylum and citizenship
in the USSR. Why did he do h9 Al along he had
been dedicated Communist syn.PGtI,i=er.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
NAKE:SA
SPY?

Ever wonder what makes a man
turn traitor! It's nearly always
for one Of five reasons. But there's
mysterious sixth motive
that leaves even this expert bal1Ied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

THIS WEEK Moso.ia. ! December l. 1893
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-02
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BOILING VIEW
ID Apartments

Large, attractive l-bedrm. apis, $6'
incl. all utils. All-moderp EQUIP
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-02-05
Sunny Side

Feb. AIRS. NJ. A. French.
Mrs. Thomas Timberlake and
Mr. and Mrs. w. V. French at
tended burial services Sunday
afternoon at RICE for Richard
B. Walthall, brotherln-law Of
Mis-. French.
Mrs. E. D. Blackwell continues
Ill at S0uthslde Community Hos
pital. Her son. william. who is
with the Navy III Pacific waters
is at his mothers bedside.
There seems TO be quite a few
cases Of flu or severe colds in
our community.
Due to ICY roads church ser
vices were cancelled at Grove
Sunday.
Thursday. Nh. and Mrs. Her
bert H. Goodman accompanied
John Putney and Glen Hayes
to Roanoke to a tire eday Mid
Winter Sales Conference Of Vir-
gina Farm Bureau Mutual In
Surance Companies.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-02-05
Here For Weddings
During Week End

THROCK. Feb. An. and
Mrs. Bob Greer. Of Richmond,
spent the week end with her
brotAer-lnlaw and sister. Mr..
and MIS-. Ray Marston. and took
part in The weddings Of her sis
ter, Miss Lois Mylum. and of
her brother. Lacy Mylmm.
M. and Mrs Wilson Mylum.
of Cumberland. and Ms. Charlie
P. Mylum, and her 9I~anddau9h-
lei. Miss Dennis Young. Of
brakes Branch. were also here
fer the weddings during the
week end.
Mr.. and MIS- W. A. Collie
were called to Dan1ille on
Thursday because Of the death
Of her aunt. Mrs. Pat wright.
Mr. Collie returned home on
Thursday while Mrs. Collie re-
NAMED overnight with her SIS
ter-in-law. mrs. Walter Dodson.
She returned Friday and attend
cd the funeral service at cullen
Baptist Church
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Collie
ard children, Billy and Grace.
Of Richmond. Mere recent week
end guests ol his aareuts. Mr..
and Mrs. ". A. Colie.
MI. and Mrs. John Graft and
children. VI Tapp4hannock.
were week tud qlpSts of her
parents. Nj. 3lid MN. j.. ID.
Atchley, Others Who visited dlr
ing the week ond were MI. and
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-02-05

The United States Air Force
Recruiting office in Lynchburg
has announced that Sgt. Ro-
bert w Poff, who has recently
been assigned to that office,
will assume responsibility for
Air Force recruiting in Farm
Vile and vicinity Immediately.
Poff says he plans to spend
each Wednesday from 9 am. to
3 pm. in Farmvilie and will be
located at the Selective Service
Office, i'll the old Post Office
building. Poff also plans to be
in the Farmville area on Thurs
day. Sergeant Poff, a native of
Check, Va, vas recently assign
ed to Lynchburg from Bunker
Hill Air Force Base, Indiana.