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SECTION 1 4. THE COURIERJOntNAL. LOUISVILLE, MONDAY MORNING. JULY 27. 196 1 A round Rail Crash Kills 69 In Portugal IT'S NOT TOO LATE The World 3 i FOREIGN Ll take that trip you'vt been thinking about take advantage of the summer sales sign up for that special course to catch up on your back bills WE'LL BE GLAD TO PROVIDE THE CASH Oporto, Portugal (LTD At least 69 people were killed last night when the rear car of a two-car passenger train derailed and crashed into a stone bridge.

The other 92 people in the car were reported injured. Officials searching through the twisted wreckage feared that the death toll would rise. It was the worst train wreck in Portugal's history. The coupling snapped as the train, the Automara, was moving near the Carvalhas Bridge six miles north of here at 50 miles an hour. The rear car leaped from the tracks, hurtling along a bank, and split as it plummeted into the bridge.

Passengers spilled on the ground or lay trapped in the wreckage. It took rescuers 7 hours to remove the passengers from the wreckage. First reports said no foreigners were among the victims. The train, bound for Oporto from Povoa de Varzim, was filled almost to capacity with travelers returning from week-ends in the country or at Atlantic beaches. Taipei Dike Completed Taipei A $1.2 million dike to safeguard low-flying areas of Taipei from floods was completed yesterday, five days ahead of schedule.

It was built to control the Tamsui and Keelung rivers. AiMciitid fnn Wlrtphrt OFTEN-ACTIVE CUBAN PREMIER Fidel Castro's scorecard would have read no hits and no runs but plenty of airs as he and brother Raul stayed on the sidelines at an athletic exhibition by grade and high-school students yesterday at Santiago. Cuba Sanctions Signed As O.A.S. Ends Session From Curlr-Jurn(l Win fervktt ment was issued on the eve of British Foreign Secretary R. A.

Butler's arrival there for five days of talks with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Britain and the Soviet Union are cochairmen of the agreements guaranteeing Laos' neutrality. BLASTED EGYPTIAN SHIP PROBED: Algerian explosives experts searched blasted Egyptian munitions ship to see if counter-revolutionaries sabotaged it. The Star of Alexandria, with 2,000 tons of war materials and munitions in its holds, exploded and sank in the harbor of Bone Thursday night.

Latest casulty reports said 92 persons were killed and 162 injured. ROMANIAN CHIEF DUE IN PARIS: Romanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer will arrive today in Paris at the head of a large delegation for an official visit which French officials believe marks a new weakening of the Soviet hold over its Eastern European satellites. It will be the first visit by the Romanian Premier to a Western country. EXTREMISTS BLAMED IN RIOTS: Malaysian Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew blamed last week's Singapore race riots on extremists stirring up trouble between the Chinese and Malay communities. Police said 2,209 persons have been arrested since the violence flared last Tuesday.

Twenty-one persons were killed and 460 injured in the orgy of street fighting. Our loan service is quick and it's convenient, tool THANT PLANS TO QUIT: United Nations Secretary General Thant announced in Rangoon, Burma, where he returned for a visit, that he would not serve a second term. His present four-year term expires in November, 1966. He succeeded Dag Hammarsk-jold, who was killed in a plane crash in the Congo. CONGO WHITES THREATENED: Congolese rebel leader Gaston Soumialot threatened to kill all white persons in three rebel-held cities if there are white mercenaries among a Congolese police force marching on his headquarters, a Government spokesman said.

The cities are Albertville and Baudouin-ville in North Katanga Province and Uvira in Kivu Province. NEUTRALISTS ATTACK PATHET LAO: Laotian neutralist forces opened a second-front offensive against isolated Communist Pathet Lao positions in the Vang Vieng area. The main attack was directed at the Pathet Lao-held village of Pha Tang, 78 airline miles north of Vientiane. On the other front a bitter battle still was reported still raging around Phou Kout hill, on the edge of the Plaine des Jarres 110 miles north of Vietiane. REDS DEMAND GENEVA TALKS: The Soviet Union called for a new Geneva conference on Laos next month.

It said United States interference and military aid has created "a very dangerous situation" in the Southeast Asia kingdom. The Moscow state- 0 LOANS UP TO $800 CORPORATION -LOUISVILLE- at conciliation within the conference, was designed to give the opponents of the sanctions a maximum of flexibility in carrying them out in the light of their internal political situations. The four countries that voted against the sanctions are the only ones in Latin America that still have diplomatic relations with Cuba. call for the nonmaintenance of diplomatic and consular relations with Havana, and the suspension of trade and of maritime transportation with it. The resolution deliberately chose not to urge a "break" in relations, as originally proposed, but to declare simply that the American states would "not maintain" such ties.

This, along with other efforts By TAD SZULC Nw York Tlmtt Ntwi trvk Washington The American foreign ministers yesterday formally signed resolutions imposing mandatory sanctions on Cuba and strengthening defenses against Cuban subversion. This act concluded a conference of the Organization of American States that Secretary of State Dean Rusk called "the 330 W. Jefferson St 582-1866 458 S. Fifth St 587-1375 PLEASURE RIDGE PARK 6804 Dixie Highway. 921-1416 Opposite the Dixie Minor Shop.

Cen. DIRECT FT. KNOX LINE (no toll 942-2235 I Read the Classified Ads. NATIONAL most important ever held in this hemisphere." The resolutions were approved early yesterday after more than 14 hours of final negotiations. The ministers returned shortly before noon yesterday to the Pan American Union Building here for the signing ceremony.

4 Countries Balk Although four countries Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and Mexico voted against the main resolution on the "application of measures to the present Government of Cuba," there were strong indications that at least the first three would comply before long with the injunction on sanctions. The sanctions, invoked against Cuba as a result of the conference's finding that she committed aggression against Venezuela last year, headed off a strike by the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen. The strike had been called for 6:01 a.m. today. Leaders said the strike order had been given to the union's 500 members because of "contract abrogations." PROBERS INVITE BAKER: A committee of House Republicans which is conducting an unofficial investigation of aspects of the Bobby Baker case announced in Washington it has invited Baker' and others to appear before it.

The five-man group has no authority from the House for its inquiry and lacks subpoena powers, so it can not compel anyone to appear. LAST TOWER TO GO: The last of the Air Force's obsolete Texas towers, giant radar platforms off the Atlantic Coast, will be blasted into the ocean today and towed ashore for salvage. Weather permitting, tower No. 3, located on Nantucket Shoals, off Nantucket, will be blown off its legs by about 10 tons of carefully placed gelatin explosives. CUSTOMS TOTAL RECORD: The United States collected a record $1,842,473,896 in customs during the fiscal year which ended June 30, according to reports compiled in Washington from the 10 district headquarters.

The totals is up 5.3 percent over last year's $1,749,044,552. BRUSH FIRE CONTROLLED: A five-day, $200,000 brush frre in the San Bernardino Mountains was declared controlled at 9 a.m. yesterday. The blaze, which started 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles, was fought by 1,250 men, 81 pumper trucks, 32 bulldozers, and 8 air tankers and 25 helicopters that dropped 326,500 gallons of fire-quelling chemicals. The fire destroyed three homes, numerous outbuildings, utility lines, and equipment for a total loss estimated at $200,000.

NORTH WESTERN AVERTS STRIKE: The Chicago and North Western Railway went Into United States District Court at Chicago and got a temporary restraining order that IjUIIIIMIIIIINIIIIIlllim KENTUCKY i Show Your Colors! I WAREHOUSE BURNS: A $250,000 fire at Owensboro reduced a block-long tobacco warehouse to ashes. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Owensboro Tobacco Warehouse Company owned it, but no leaf was inside. Six fire trucks were called and they had the flames under control in about 3 hours.

One fireman was treated for minor injuries. The cause of the blaze wasn't known. CHURCH COUNCIL MEETS: The Council of Agencies of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will meet today through Thursday at the College of The Bible, Lexington. More than 100 persons representing international, national, state, and area organizations will take part. INDIANA il COURT ACTION Bloomington's City health officer, Dr.

Otto F. Rogers, asked a contempt citation against the head of Indiana Hospital for Chest Diseases near Rockville after the fourth escape by a court-committed tuberculosis patient, but Dr. William D. May, superintendent of the State institution called the action "unfair." He said he has been able to hire only one guard; and State Health Commissioner Andrew C. Offut said the State had no facilities for treating court-committed patients against their will.

Dr. Rogers said the patient is creating "a health nuisance." ESCAPEES RECAPTURED: Ten boys fled Indiana Boys School and four kidnapped a woman at Plainfield, but all were back in custody within a few hours. Four invaded the home of Mrs. Ina Goff and, after being refused permission to stay all night, forced her to drive them to Brownsburg, 10 miles away. She saw a police car there, and jumped from her vehicle and called for help.

The boys fled into a field, but halted when police fired warning shots. Five boys were captured in a field near the school; the other one surrendered to police at Mooresville. f3 IN FAMILY DIE IN CRASH: Three members of a Mitchell family were killed near Lawrenceville, 111., 10 miles west of Vincennes, when their car was struck by fire truck racing to a barn blaze. Killed were William McClintic, 27, his wife, and daughter, 16 months. He had just returned from summer military training in Michigan, and picked up his family at the home of relatives.

sal If cashMi'E i at a very, special very, special Just Received! A Large Shipment Of Sweat Shirts In The School Colors And With The School Seal Of University of Louisville University of Kentucky Indiana University Western State Attacks Outside Vietnam Feared By PETER GROSE Ntw Yrfc Tlm Nw Srvlct Saigon Key United States field advisers have been told to look for possible South Vietnamese military preparations to extend war outside this country's frontiers and thus possibly provoke the United States into a larger conflict. 95 The instructions, reported by 2 Both young men and young women want them! They're short sleeve models, with raglan shoulders, in fleece-lined cotton knit. Get yours while our supply lastsl The beautifully luxurious feeling of 100 pure cashmere, the superb look of fine cut and rich hand-detailing: left, softly rounded collar, tapered sleeves on stitch-accented easy shape, in white, buttercream or black; right, notch-collar classic with flap-over pockets for a dash of charm, in black, bamboo or butter-cream; sizes 4 to 18. AlBolh Stores reliable sources, reflect the uncertainty and uneasiness in official American quarters about the intentions of South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Khanh. Khanh and senior military leaders of the country were holding a secret planning council over the weekend in the mountain resort of Dalat.

A militant faction is urging prompt implementation of the Government's stated policy to attack Communist North Vietnam. They envisage this as the only quick means of reducing the pressure from the Communist Viet Cong insurgents in the south. Qualified sources said detailed plans for various types of action have been drawn up covering both ground and air activities but none of these has been decided upon. Before flying to Dalat Friday, Hanh brushed aside warnings from U. S.

Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor that any extension of the war goes against current American policy. The Premier's insistence on sticking to a program of attacking North Vietnam has confronted the American Government with what observers here believe is a new and serious situation. career shop, fourth floor IV Market at 3rd and Shelbyville Road Plaza biiimiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiim.

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