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THE SUNDAY PRESS Binghamton, N. March 19, 1967 -Associated Press WIREPHOTO. MT. ETNA FROM NORTH SIDE AFTER 1966 ERUPTION Alarm Clock for Mt. Etna By JAMES M.

LONG Associated Press Writer Catania, Sicily An alarm clock has been hooked up to the jittery nervous system of Mt. Etna. Scientists hope it will give warning any time Europe's mightiest volcano fully awakens. The first unit of the alarm system was set up along an eruption strained strata lava-scarred part sides of the 2-mile high volcano. Four more units of the warning system will be hooked up during 1967 in other stress zones down Etna's slopes.

The seismograph-like instruments are expected to register stress that would indicate lava is beginning to boil up the 30-mile deep throat of the volcano for a major eruption. As the lava rises, stress along various already-weak- ened strata might show where a surprise eruption could burst through some new vent far down the mountainside below the 3-mile wide central crater. This is the main danger from the half-million year-old mountain where the ancients believed Vulcan forged his thunderbolts. A score of towns have sprung up on the mountainslopes, and 150,000 people live under the shadow of the restless volcano, but their homes are many miles down from the central cone. Rarely has lava reached them, in centuries of eruptions.

And when it has destroyed villages, the molassesthick molten rock characteristic of this volcano has had to flow so many miles and has advanced so slowly that the threatend villagers have In 1669 one of Etna's worst eruptions destroyed Catania. Lava from the distant central cone would never have reached the city. Instead the molten rock gushed out of a rent torn open almost at the base of the volcano. Even so it had to flow 10 miles to reach Catania and the residents had time to clear out. No deaths were recorded from the terrific eruption, although a violent earthquake which preceded the eruption wrecked numerous small towns and took many lives.

Vulcanologists here attribute Etna's low toll of lives partly to the 30 mile deep throat down to the reservoirs of fluid rock. By comparison, Mt. Vesuvius, which has killed tens of thousands, has a throat only 3 or so miles deep and lava gushes up much faster. There is another factor. Etna spends more time in noisy eruption than in brooding silence.

The volcano has been in almost continuous activity since Jan. 12, 1966, thundering, firing artillery barrages of rocks and dust thousands of yards into the air, and frequently spilling out lava. Residents who live beneath the thunder and the fireworks consider these repeated minor outbursts a safety valve. When they really begin to worry is when the volcano is quiet for too long. Then incredible pressures can build up.

It is these pressures that the new alarm clock system is intended to detect. Cuban Exiles Keep Trying Next Plot in 5 Minutes FREEDOM TOWER -Associated Press WIREPHOTO, FIRST STOP AFTER CUBA-Manolo Reyes, a critic of some exile activists, greets Cuban refugees who have just arrived in Miami. They still come at the rate of 3,500 to 4,000 a month. men were captured after landing on the eastern tip of the island the following month. THE ANTI CASTRO exile factions in Miami are divided into "activist" and "propaganda" groups.

The 1 most noisily busy of the activist factions at the moment is MIRR, for Insurrectional Movement of Revolutionary Recuperation. The others are Commandos Brigade 2506, Los Pinos Nuevos and 30th of November, all operating or Cuban Representation' in Exile; and of Escambray, Alpha 66, CORE, or Committee of Revolutionary Orientation in Exile, and the Cuban Nationalist Association. The purely propaganda groups are Revolutionary. Unity and FORDC for Cuban Revolutionary Workers Front. Boss of the MIRR is a short, intense medical doctor, Orlando Bosch, 40, who has been picked up twice while apparently preparing anti Castro maneuvers.

News Stories And Novels Inspire Films Hollywood IP- Along with original stories and, adaptations of novels plays, the headlines are inspiring moviemakers these days. Topical titles upcoming include: "The Sheppard Murder Case," from Paramount, recounting the trial, conviction and subsequent acquittal of Cleveland osteopath Samuel Sheppard. "The Boston Strangler," from 20th Century-Fox. "In Cold Blood," which Columbia is filming on location in Kansas from Truman Capote's account of the murder of a family. "The Coasts of War," Steve Broidy Production from a novel about Vietnam.

American International, which gave moviegoers the motorcycle riding "Wild Ansoon releases "Devil's Angels." It plans "The Miniskirt Mob," described as portraying "a wild female motorcycle "Riot on the Sunset Strip" was from the same studio, which has announced "The Trip," dealing with LSD. And Woolner Bros. says its next country-and-western film will be "Hillbillies in Outer Space." Senator Backs Internships Glens Falls -(UPI)- Establishment of an internship program in state government for young people was proposed yesterday by State Senator Ronald B. Stafford Peru). Speaking at a spring meeting of the Board of Governors of the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs, Stafford said he plans to study proposals which would establish a summer internship program, for persons between the ages of 19 and 30.

Orange Avenue Turns Green Suffern IP When the Rockland County Ancient Order of Hibernians hold their St. Patrick's Day parade today they will step down a street named after O'Connell, himself. But it's only a temporary name with cardboard signs covering up the regular street signs. Every other day of the year it's called Orange Avenue. was released for lack of evidence.

VIXAMAR WAS booted out of Haiti in 1962, Haitian sources here said, for organizing pro- Communist student union. One report said he called on U.S. State Department officials in April, 1964, and told them he had been "divinely commissioned" to overthrow Papa Doc. Vixamar's links with Masferrer-if any--are vague. But last November Masferrer, too, had Haiti on his mind, as a way station for an attack on Cuba.

The Haitian invasion force under Masferrer counted about 80 men and, according to its was equipped with $100,000 worth of weapons and ammunition. U.S. customs agents placed its actual value and battle worth at far less. "With that equipment," said one, "they could not successfully have invaded Burdine's." Burdine's is a large Miami department store. The equipment included 140 rifles, about a dozen machine guns, two rocket launchers and about 72,000 rounds of, assorted ammunition.

There also were two small vessels. For temporary barracks, some of the expeditionariesamong whom were a few Americans- -used Nellie Hamilton's boarding home in southwest Miami. A pleasant woman from Arkansas, Mrs. Hamilton, 74, still remembers the "boarders." "They were nice boys, no different from other boarders," she said. "I didn't know what they were up to.

Sure, some had guns but I thought it was for target THE INVADERS later moved to keep out of the way of authorities. By this time, mid-November, the "invasion" was known to practically anyone in Miami who regularly tunes in to refugee chit-chat along Flagler Street or Southwest 8th in "Little Havana." The scheme began coming apart on Nov. 23 when Napoleon Vilaboa, 29, a former Cuban rebel army officer, abandoned the little He told newsmen he had agreed to be chief of military opera- Court Shaves Principal On Long Locks Cadillac, Mich, -(UPI)-A 16- year-old high school junior will return to classes tomorrow with a court order allowing him to keep his long hair. Jeff Matlack was suspended March 8 by Principal William D. Smith because the long locks did not meet student handbook standards.

An attorney for Matlack contended the rule was not adopted officially by the board of a education and was not enforceable. Circuit Court Judge William R. Peterson agreed and ruled Matlack be allowed to return to school, hair and all. Boy Trapped, Dies in Drier Rochester -(P) Darrill Little, 3, died yesterday when he became trapped for 15 minutes in a clothes drier in operation in his suburban Henrietta home. He was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Little. ties said apparently Monroe County, sheriff's crawled into the drier. The door then snapped shut setting the appliance in operation, they added. BRINK-Funeral and Interment services of Earl (Beef) Brink will be held at 1 p.m.

Monday at the Coleman Daniels Funeral Home, 300 East Main Endicott. The Rev. Harry Henck will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, The family will recelve friends at the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p.m. COOK-Funeral and Interment services of Gayle M.

Cook will be held today at 3 p. m. at the First Baptist Church of Whitney Point, The Rev. Merle Whitbeck, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Whitney Point, at the convenience of the family, Arrangements are by the Nichols Funeral Home, Whitney Point.

CRAIG -The funeral. of Malcom J. Craig will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the John W. Conarton Funeral Home, 328 Main Great Bend, Pa.

The Rev. Russell Matthews, pastor of Great Bend Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Great Bend, at the convenience of the family. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Deaths No Fury Like A Man Scorned Madrid (UPI) Antonio Yuste Ferrer just stood there numbly when his girl friend told him their romance was through.

But not for long. He picked up the nearest good sized rock and pounding himself on the head with it. Antonio wound up in the hospital. But the girl, unmoved by a lover's despair, said she defi- -The funeral of Paul (Tietiefilis) Demetry will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Allen Memorial Home, 511-513 East Main Endicott, and at 2 p.m.

from the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation. The Rev. Constantine Combitches, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverhurst Cemetery, Endicott. The family will receive friends at the memorial home today from 7 to 9 p.m.

and Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. Trisogian service will be held Monday evening at 8 at the memorial home. Friends wishing to do so may make contributions to the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in memory of Paul Demetry. Deaths HERBUT-The funeral of Anthony Herbut will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m.

at the Pecko Ozvold Funeral Home, 210 Clinton and at 9:30 a.m. at St. Ann's Church. Burial will be in St. Cyril's Cemetery, Friends may call at the funeral home today and Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

HOLTE-Olaf: S. Holte, 59, of RD 1, Harpursville, died yesterday morning at his home. He is survived by his wife, Vennis, a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Kay) Carney; three sons, Jack, Dale and Danny, all of Harpursville; four grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Gunvald Anderson of Brooklyn, and four living in Norway; four brothers, all Ilving in Norway, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was a member of the Harpursville Methodist Church and was employed by the Harpursville Central School District as custodian since 1955. The body was removed to the Osterhoudt Funeral Home, Harpursville, where funeral and committal services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. The Rev. William F. Watson, pastor of the Harpursville Methodist Church, will officiate.

Interment will be in Riverview Cemetery, Harpursville, at a later date. The famIly will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p. m. today and from 7 to 9 p. m.

tomorrow. MORE DEATH NOTICES ON FOLLOWING PAGE Powell's Harlem Sermon To Be Preached in Bimini had time to flee. He was convicted last year, and is awaiting sentence, on a charge of transporting bombs. Bosch was arrested again Jan. 15 and charged with loading an airplane with bombs and explosives.

He was cleared of extortion charges last December after being accused of telephoning threats to four wealthy Cuban refugees in alleged attempts to obtain $20,000 for an antiCastro war chest. Of his clashes with the law, Dr. Bosch says: "The persecution continues. Those who call themselves allies are not our friends and those who call themselves friends are not our ANOTHER exile leader, Armando Fleites, said after his arrest in a Cuban raid attempt: "Another victory for Castro." Keeping tabs on people like Bosch and Fleites is a big job for the U.S. agencies responsible for enforcement of the Neutrality Act.

The plot to strike at Haiti, topple dictator Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier and use the island republic as a base Bimini, Bahamas -P- A surly Adam Clayton Powell said id yesterday he would preach on this tiny Bahamian island tomorrow the Palm Sunday sermon he dared not go to New York to deliver. The deposed representative had promised earlier that he would risk arrest by going to New York to walk the streets on Palm Sunday and to speak in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church on the theme, "When a Man Falls, He Shall Rise Again." But Powell changed his mind yesterday, saying he feared that his arrest would lead to violence and bloodshed by his people. Returning from a four-hour fishing trip, in which he lost a fight salat a big marlin, Powell he would deliver the sermon tomorrow afternoon in a hotel patio here. As Powell's boat came into HAITI TRIP TRIPPED with U.S. marshal and overthrow Fidel Castro tions on the understanding the operation had CIA support.

He and Masferrer had an argument, he said, and' he quit. The invasion finally foundered Jan. 2 when U. S. customs agents moved in and ar-, rested some 75 men.

Masferrer told reporters that "paid U. S. informers" scotched his plan. He, Father Georges and others are awaiting trail on charges of conspiring to invade Haiti, and to export arms without license. The failures of Bosch, Masferrer and other Cuban exiles have aroused little reaction among their compatriots in the Miami area.

Indignation with U.S. policy seems matched by criticism of the quality of leadership among the current crop of activists. Manolo Reyes, 41, a Cuban exile who has become one of the leading television personalities in the city, sums it up this way: "There are undesirables and misfits in all societies and certainly among us Cubans here. There are people who prey on our natural anxieties, like the plotters. But the worst of Cuban exiles, I believe, is better than any Castro Reyes calls the Miami area the dock, a little rain squall ripped across the island.

The clouds were as dark as his mood. Spotting one of his "disciples" drinking from bottle of German beer, Powell growled: "Give me a swig of that." He turned the bottle up, made a said: "I just can't like that facamand Usually, he drinks scotch in a little tavern here where he sings and plays dominoes. Stepping up on the white beach, Powell refused to answer any questions from newsmen about his case. And when a photographer pointed a camera at him, he became very angry. "No pictures!" he snapped.

"You could lose your camera that way." Later, he relented and allowed pictures to be taken as he accepted from a group -Rolando Masferrer (in short followers after arrest Jan. 2. by taking over Haiti as an foiled by customs agents. "a laboratory where Cubans that "internal as important law." What would role be in the the future? of native children palm fronds they had chopped for tomorrow's services. Palm Sunday, preceding Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm fronds in his path.

Powell will pass out fronds to those who hear his sermon. The 59-year-old Powell says he will stay at Bimini at least until April 4, when a court hearing is scheduled in Washington on his suit to regain the congressional seat he held for 22 years until he was barred from it by the House. In New York, a sheriff holds a warrant for his arrest on a criminal contempt charge stemming from a libel judgment he refused to pay. He later made a partial payment. He said yesterday there was a tenseness in Harlem that could explode into violence if he were arrested.

By ROBERT BERRELLEZ Associated Press Writer Miami, Fla. -This sub-tropical metropolis, a favorite refuge of winter sun-worshipers and Cuban exiles, has conspirators the way an old barn has mice. In 1963-65 alone, U.S. authorities shortstopped no, fewer than 23 expeditions bent on mini-invasions of Fidel Castro land. Nobody knows how many others got through the net.

One of the most ambitious plots involved 80 anti-Castroites who planned to take over Haiti last November and go on there. top man split the leader and from, talked. The enterprise had to be postponed and gagsters began calling it "the Bay of Piglets." Undaunted, the plotters bided their time until Jan. 2, when the helter-skelter invasion force began marshaling in the Florida Keys. At this point U.S.

customs agents moved in and arrested everybody in sight. EARLIER, an anti-Castro dreamer assembled a $25,000 invasion arsenal in a truck and left it in a downtown parking lot. Curses! Truck and cargo were grabbed by the gendarmes. Inept planning and a shortage of funds are not the only roadblocks for the busy conspirators. They also have to contend with five federal agencies, including Customs, Coast Guard, Immigration, Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.

For a plotter, it's something like a bullfight supervised by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Still, Fidel Castro's Cuba lies there, only 150 miles from Miami and only 90 from Key West, as a constant temptation to the revolutionaries. Exiles claim that in 1966 they staged six aerial harassments from "bases somewhere in the Caribbean" -generally translated as "the Florida Keys." Biggest of these, they claim, were bombings of the Cuban north coast chemical and sugar installations. One of their raiding planes, they say, was shot down over Cuba in midNovember and three of their -Associated Press WIREPHOTO. sleeves) is shown His involved plot to invasion base was in democracy" are learning disciplines are as external the refugees' free Cuba of "We certainly couldn't expect to be the leaders," Reyes says, "but I believe we would be influential components in a new, free Cuba shaped without rancor or vengeance.

We would make it very difficult for demagoguery to prosper." against Cuba had its genesis in Miami more than a year ago. Its architect was Rolando Masferrer, 47, lawyer, honor graduate of Havana University and a terror to Castro's followers in the final years of dictator Fulgencio Batista's rule. The Rev. Jean Baptiste Georges, an exiled Haitian priest in his early 40S, was a key figure in the operation. He was to be president of the country if the invasion succeeded.

Federal officials got their first signs of anti-Castro activity involving Haiti in December, 1965, when a truck loaded with rifles, rocket launchers and other armament was found in a parking lot.It was registered to a Henry Vixamar, a 24-year-old Haitian teacher, who readily claimed the weapons. He said he planned to invade Cuba, explaining he was not violating the law since the material would be used from a point outside the United States. Vixamar eventually Kirk Plays 'Real Roles' By BOB ROSE Special Press Writer Mexico City Kirk Douglas, a man of many parts, usually super- sized, says none of his roles are really those of heroes be it Ulysses, Spartacus or Vincent a Gogh. "They are all bigger than life. Any a racter worth portraying should be bigger than 11f Douglas said in aninterview.

"But none DOUGLAS of these characters I've portrayed are necessarily heroic. They're motivated by greed, lust, desire or for love or the need to be loved. "It's just that some go further than others might in order to attain their ends." Douglas was on the set of "The War Wagon," a BatjacSchwartz Production for Universal, being filmed at Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. He plays the part of a gunslinger with co-star John Wayne. "This gunslinger-I try to make him a contemporary human being, just as I do with my other characters," he said.

"If he's weak I try to show he has some strong points, and if he's srong, he's sure to have some human weaknesses. "I use whatever I have so that what I create isn't a complete satire.".

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