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Pren IntematlonaJ London Observer ALEXANDRIA-PI NEVILLE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Two Peetlom Twenty-Sjt Paet mm in lie mi rVt Worth Afeftt I I t'', TEXAS I AlA. Hurricane Poised Off Coastal Area By Preston McCraw CORPUS Tex (UPI) Hurricane Carla slammed full force into the Corpus Christi area today with winds as hish as 173 miles an hour. Killer tides that flooded the Texas-Louisiana gulf coast began rising toward 25-foot levels. The storm, one cf the worst in history, suddenly stopped its forward motion at a point 65 miles off Corpus I Jl I satire I Map shows location of Hurricane Carta as it prepared to strike Texas and Louisiana coasts and move inland. 'AP Wlrephoto) This scene was repeated In many costal towns.

The hurricane poised momentarily in its forward course. Waves and winds from hurricane Carla sweep down a street In Freeport, Texas, as the storm moves toward the coast today. UAW Calls Strike At General Motors By Robert Irvin DETROIT (UP!) The United Auto Workers Union went on strike against General Motors today in the first company-wide strike in the auto industry in 1 1 years and the biggest walkout some 310,000 workers in automotive history. The union struck the world's largest manufacturing corporation at the stroke of its 9 a.m. (CST) strike dead- Reds Reject Allied Warning Against Berlin Air Incidents By Joseph B.

Fleming BERLIN (L'PD East German communists today rejected a Western warning against interference in the Berlin air corridors and said it was time to put Allied air access to the city under East German administration. The United States, Britain and France issued the warning to 153 Associated Pre si United N. Y. HeraJd-Tnbune ine atter a marathon bar- gaining session, beginning Sunday morning and running all through the night, failed to produce agreement on a new contract. GM and the union reached ae- cprd last week on the "money" terms of a new contract but wpm still at odds over the so-called non-economic issues involving working conditions and production standards.

The walkout will shut down all GM automobile onerations. in 129 plants from coast to coast. just at the beginning of the 1962 model year. The UAW had a $50 million strike fund built up, but this would last only about six weeks under union estimates that it would take $8 million a week to support a strike at GM. Ford, Chrysler May Escape Current contracts run out at Ford and Chrysler this Wednes day, but the union plans to keep its members working at tlwse two companies without a con tract if necessary.

Not since a 104-dav strike against Chrysler in' 1950 has the UAW called a companywide strike against any of the Big Three. And not since the 113-day strike in 1945-46 has GM been shut down by a companywide strike. The non-economic differences that led to the strike included union demands on production standards, guarantees asainst supervisors doing the jobs of hourly workers, insistence on a strong anti-discrimination clause on hiring, a guarantee against compulsory overtime and a demand for more union representatives to handle grievances. In the production standards area, the union early today dropped its demand for a 10-min-ute coffee break and five minutes wash-up time a day and substituted a proposal for a guaran- (Turn to Page 5, Column J) PRICE 5 CENTS Infant Killed As Tornadoes Thrash State KAPLAN. La.

(AP) A roar filled the sky over this city late Sunday afternoon. Moments later a four-week-oid girl was dead, 50 persons injured, 100 homes leveled and damage was more than $1 million. Death and destruction cure from one of a series of tornadoes which lashed Southwestern Louisiana from squall lines on the outer fringe of monstrous Hurricane Carla. frl Vn -1 Tu n-ifrt Vi 1 lered at me and saw flv. ins, all om the sk, It looked like a hig cokimn of smokc said oaui a uuwii, au Fled In Car "It was daylight when the black cloud hit.

We got in our car and got out. "I saw two tornadues. They went through the town, the big one doing the damage and the second one just dipped down to the ground and then back into the air. It sounded like a bogged truck." A leveled path 14 blocks long and two blocks wide was left by tornadic winds. Similar funnels touched down at Gueydan, Hou-ma and Patterson.

Another was sighted over Intracoastal City. Two other persons were slightly i in hired at Guevdan. Communications were knocked out for hours. Only a Red Cross emergency radio unit could get through to tiie outside. Electricity was cut off.

Gas Escapes Gas flowed through many streets from broken mains, spreading the threat of fire or ex plosions. However, none occurred. Deputy sheriff Corny Lege said rescue workers scratched at mounds of debris to get to the injured. "They were hollering and cry ing at the hospital." Lege said. "People walked through the streets, looking for their furniture, looking where their houses were." The one dead person was identified as Nancy Ann Simon, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Dorris Simon of Kaplan. There were three others with critical injuries. Along its route the violent winds left an almost complete wake of destruction. Houses were tipped on end.

others were splintered and reduced to rubble. Some were jammed side by side upside down and still others were torn from foundations and dropped across roads. A small frame Catholic convent building, housing four nuns of the Sisters of Charity, was torn from its foundation. It was twisted beyond recognition and piled in the middle of a street. The four nuns were in the building when the twister hit, but were not injured.

The Southeastern area Red Cross headquarters in Atlanta moved disaster emergency staffs into the stricken area. 11, 1961 "I 1' JUfcijKfKJe- W. 2 More Atom Devices Fired By the Soviet By Eugene McLoughlin United Press International The Soviet Union sought to as- sure the world todav that its in tentions were peaceful, but the words were salted with two more nuclear explosions and announcement of a new series of rocket tests. Foreign diplomats in Moscow said they detected a milder tone on the part of Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in a weekend speech in Stalingrad in which he said there were "hopeful signs" for peace negotiations with the West.

But hours after Khrushchev spoke, the Soviet Union Sunday detonated the 5th and 6th nuclear explosions of its current series. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission said the 5th test had an explosive yield equivalent to several million tons of TNT the largest since Russia resumed testing a week ago Friday. Japan Detects It It was so big that five Japanese monitoring stations detected it al though they did not pick up the other explosions. Both of Sunday's blasts occurred near Russia's Arc tic testing area of Novaya Zem-lya.

Indian Prime Minister Jawahar- lal Nehru, returning home from four days of talks with Khrush chev, said he was "sure" there eventually would be a meeting be tween the Soviet leader and Pres ident Kennedy, although he did not predict when, Khrushchev himself repeated in his Stalingrad speech that the Soviet Union was ready for negotiations, but again he made it clear he intended to bargain on his own terms. He gave no hint that Rus sia was ready to give in on any points. The increased cower of Sun day's first explosion supported the U.S. government's belief that the Soviet Union is trying to explode weapon of sufficient power to buttress Soviet claims of beina able to build a 100-megaton bomb. At the same time, the Russians announced they would conduct a series of tests of "more powerful and improved versions of the multi-stage carrier rockets of space vehicles," firing them into the Central Pacific from Sept.

13 to Oct. 15. vnnsti and the mid-lexas! coast area braced for an hours-long ordeal before the storm thunders inland to wreak more damage with wind and rain. Damage was extensive on the coast. Buildings -and piers toppled and fell into the boiling sea.

hit Carla itself had caused no casualties directly, thanks to the record exodus of more than 300.000 residents from the two-state coastal region. Two refugees died of heart attacks. An infant died and 37 persons were injured in Kaplan, when a Carla-spawncd tornado struck the town Sunday. One man was bitten by a snake in Galveston, but was recovering treatment. Officials besan evacuating ro- maining residents in downtown Corpus Christ, a city of 170.000 population Only about 10.000 peo- pie had Led the city during the i ciiu.

wiruis in me city prop er rose toward 100 miles an hour 1 nl'Pir-S oi roofs and caus- i In? buililin2s to shake. The 173- nwc-ctii-iHJuj maais were outside the bay. city, across Corpus Christi Drinkina Water Problem Cities and towns began running out of drinking water. People who remained in badly-flooded Texas City after the storm hit were appealing desperately for water. The storm will pass inland this afternoon, the Weather Bureau reported, with undiminished fury.

nut the coast coul expect max imum punishment from the winds for many hours more as the storm dawdled in its forward Patn- Tides surging ur before the vMims rose toward 2 foot levels above normal and the Weather Bureau warned they would rise to 25-foot levels in bays and inlets. The coat gave the appearance of a swampland dotted with flooded buildings. Utility Lines Down Communications began to falter in the storm area from Houston and Galveston, south to Corpus Christi as telephone poles snapped like mntehsticks. Tele phone and electric power lines lay like tangled spaghetti on the ground in many areas. Six cities were without long distance telephone service.

Coast Guard officials at Port Aransas, just outside Corpus t-miaii, ciocKCd winns over a six-hour period ranging from 140 to 173 miles an hour. Winds farther up the coast toward the Louisiana border continued in 90-miIc-an-hmir blasts like those which punished the region Sunday. Galveston, protected by lfi-foot seawalls, had foods of from two to five feet in many sections. some 14,000 of ie is and ritv's residents were riding out the storm that ripped down a number of old wooden buildings Houston, sheltering 100.000 refugees, was buffeted by 70-mile-nn-hour winds. They may have gone higher, but a Weather Bureau (Turn to Page 8, Column 3) i Kennedy Delays Return to D.

C. HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPI) President Kennedy decided to stretch his Cape Cod weekend through most of today returning to Washington late this afternoon. On most summer weekends, the Chief Executive has returned to Washington from Cape Cod early Monday morning. Today, with a promise of good weather, he decided to remain on the Cape until 4 p.m..

EDT. He was due back at the White House shortly after 5 p.m. Berlin Press Blasts Paa Berlin (UPI) The West Berlin newspaper B. Z. said to ay television star Jack Paar soiled the honor" of American soldiers defending the city and made them "extras in a cheap propaganda trick." The newspaper, in an editorial titled "Get Lost.

Mr. Paar." said. "Pack your bags and go back to the United States." "Your countrymen arc vp welcome here all the time and so are American journalists but we can do without you," the newspaper said. The newspaper criticized Paar for filming a television show on the tense East-West Berlin border last Thursday. Six officers, including two colonels, and 50 armed American soldiers, took up positions at the Friedrichstrasse crossing point while Paar filmed the show.

It will be released in the United States Tuesday. The Army relieved one officer of his duties and admonished an other as a result. "American soldiers stand here along with British and French soldiers to defend the freedom of our city," the B. said. "We thank them and respect them.

But you, Mr. Paar, have soiled the honor of these soldiers and debased them to extras in a cheap propaganda trick. "We have no understanding for a television comic trying to gain personal popularity out of the Berlin crisis. We agree with the American public and politicians who say 'The Berlin crisis is bitterly serious and is no backdrop for play acting'." The newspaper said soldiers guarding the border were "misused for an undignified game." 83 Are Dead In Air Crash By Colin Frost SHANNON, Ireland AP) Working knee-deep in mud, rescue workers today dug for more bodies In the wreckage of the chartered American plane that plunged into the Shannon estuary killing all 83 persons aboard. The crash Sunday of the President Air Lines DCCB "Theodore Roosevelt" was the worst disaster ever to befall a U.S.

commercial plane overseas. Aboard were 77 European passengers and six American crewmen. As investigators sought to determine the cause of the crash, 19 bodies remained to be recovered from the wreckage. The tailpiece of the plane loomed above the slimy, gray mudflats like a giant tombstone. Lashed by rain, the people of Shannon toiled all day Sunday in a race against the incoming tides.

As the tide came in and again covered the remains of the airliner, floodlights cut across the mudbanks and illuminated the wreckage. The big four-engined plane plunged into the Shannon's waters minutes after taking off for the Atlantic hop after a refueling ston. The passennors had been taken aboard at Duesseldor, West Germany. The DCGB set off about the same time another charter plane carrying U.S. Army personnel and their families was called to to leave.

This led to erroneous re ports from Shannon Airport of ficials and a U.S. Air Force spokesman in London thai the Americans were victims. Todays Extra German troops have invaded Britain. It's a peaceful invasion, of course, but historic nonetheless. Protest demonstrations planned by pacifists and anti-Germans have fizzled out, and when the main body of the West German 84th Panzer Battalion arrived in Wales Saturday to begin training exercises there were no inimical demonstrations.

Apparently those who had planned to protest have awakened to the realization that Britain and Germany, twice at war with each other in this generation, are now allied against a formidable foe. Today's Extra, on Page 20, contains the whole story. Other major stories inside today's Town Talk: Pope John urges world leaders to negotiate to avert a third global disaster, Page 2. Kennedy administration holds key to reorganizing New York's widely split Democratic organization, Page 16. DeGaulle returns to Paris as French police crack down on group that tried to kill him, Page 7.

British chancellor of the exchequer pays 183-year-old American debt out of his own pocket, Page 17. Russia last Friday in notes de- livcred in Moscow. In rejecting the Western posit-on, the official communist party newspaper Neues Deutschland derided the West's charge that Russia, by asserting that "revan-chists, militarists and spies" were flown into Berlin by the West, had made an "upside-down" use of words. The newspaper claimed that scores of Nazis and revanchists wxn-e flown into West Berlin by the Western Allies. It said these included former ranking Nazi leaders and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, West German traffic minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm and West German Defense Minister Franz-Joseph Strauss.

In West Berlin, police said the latest refugees from East Berlin included four combat-dressed communist East German border guards. The guards deserted their border post and fled across the line to the French sector of Berlin, the police said. Eight civilian East Berliners also made it across the concrete wall and barbed wire city barrier since yesterday. Recruiting Increased The East German regime stepped up its armed forces recruiting drive as a series of incidents increased tensions on the border between East and West Berlin. The communist news asrenrv ADN said whole regiments of youths were marched many straight from their jobs to take their oaths before officials in a number of East German towns yesterday and sent to start immediate training today.

The scenes were reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party drive for more volunteers for the Wehr-macht. A communist newspaper in Karl Marx City said a factory at Wiesa simply "delegated'' all young men eligible for military training into the armed service in effect, compulsory military training for those youths. It was believed more factories would follow the line. The communists usually begin a campaign at one point and spread it from there. The 25-mile wall with which the communists have sealed off East Germany from West Berlin witnessed daring escapes and battles between West Berliners and ui-s ufiwceu west cernners i i lEast German police yesterday Ex-Senator Green Is Seriously Sick PROVIDENCE, R.I.

(UPI) Theodore Francis Green, 93, the oldest man to serve in the U.S. Senate, was reported in poor condition at Jane Brown hospital today with a heart ailment. Green, who served in the Senate from 1936 until his retirement last year, was in an oxygen tent. Green entered the hospital Friday after complaining of faintness. His ailment was diagnosed as "heart block," which his physician, Dr.

Con-stantine Georas, said occurred when the patient's heart muscle "beats very slowly." CatholicsDefy Police in Cuba By Jcse Maria Orlando HAVANA (AP)-Roman Catho lic demonstrators shouting "Cuba yes, Russia no" fousht police Sun day night in an unusual show of defiance of the Castro regime. Shots were fired as the police and militia broke up a march on the Presidential Palace. One man was killed, three wounded and scores suffered bruises from police clubs. The anti-Communist outburst erupted after about 4.000 Cubans massed in downtown Havana for the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, patron saint of Cuba. For five hours as they Gathered in front of the Church of Charity shouts rang out denouncing the Soviets.

Many shouted "Long live Jesus Christ." Word that the Interior Ministry had banned the procession sent the demonstrators into a fit of anger and they started to march on the Presidential Palace. The fighting erupted as the police and supporters of Prime Minister Fidel Castro pitched in to break up the crowd. An an nouncement that the authorities had granted permission for the procession failed to quiet the crowd. Church authorities stepped in and called off the procession. A priest pleaded with the demonstrators to go home.

The crowd ignored the appeals. Shots apparently fired by police and militia sent hundreds in a wild scramble for cover. Others tangled with the police and militia for more than an hour before order was restored in the narrow streets around the church. Many of the wounded were taken into the church for first aid. Ironically, while motels were crowded almost to the breaking point, Hotel Bentley spokesmen said they had some refugees from Texas and South Louisiana but tw fVm Woi tnat tne hotel was nowhere near fiiIpj The city park auditorium was the only public shelter placed in operation although several school buildings and the Pineville com munity center were offered.

The auditorium officially be- came a shelter Saturday night when E. L. Morgan, city park watchman, offered it to a family of eight from Lake Charles. The first persons to take refuge in the auditorium were Mrs. Myrtle Connor, her daughter, son-in-law and five grandchildren, all of Lake Charles.

Mrs. Connor, who lived in Cameron in 1957 when Hurricane Audrey lashed that city, leaving almost 600 dead, said, "I'm not going to go through another one of those. We are just running and (Turn to Page Column 3) City Park Auditorium Here Is Haven forCarla Refugees Scores of Texans and South Louisianians pulled out of Alex andria's city park auditorium early today after ipending all or part of the weekend in the Red Cross shelter there. Some were headed further north while others appeared de termined to turn back into the face of Hurricane Carla, a killer preparing to throw her punch at the Texas coast today. Donald Chambers.

disaster chairman for the Rapides parish Red Cross chapter, said 129 persons were registered at the auditorium over the weekend. Sixtv of these spent Sunday night in tne city-owned facility. This was only a Dart of the local refugee picture as literally hundreds iammed mntpls throughout the Alexandria Pine-ville area. One motel spokesman said ex tra roll-away beds were installed in meeting rooms to care for the overflow crowd. 'At twister, which struck suddenly Sunday, left from 80 to 100 homes totally wrecked.

This is one of the many homes In Kaplan, which were destroyed when a tornado ripped through the community. The.