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THE FBESNO BEE THE RETUBUCAX VOL 81 NO 14797 Founded 1922 FRESNO CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20 G-l FIVE SECTIONS I'honc 2C8-5221 Pfr copy Daily Wet Sunaav By Carnar Uflivtry UKi Man'hiy 2 Russian Diplomats Are Beaten Jailed In Congo Police Pull Iraqi Students Seize Embassy In London LONDON AP More than 300 Iraqi students forced their way into the Iraqi embassy here today and seized control of the entire building Almost all the embassy' But one of the student leaders said the press attache had stayed is on our the student said The student spokesman said on the telephone: are upstairs and downstairs The embassy staff could not do anything with us Somebody called the police after we had forced our way in They tried to force us out apparently had no right to and they While scores of students fanned through the building dozens more squatted in the See Iraqi Page 6-A staff left as the students chanting slogans against the Iraqi regime of President Abdel Salam Aref moved in A student leader said: are staying in the embassy for as long as is He said the students are demonstrating against Aref regime and the military dictatorship We are supporting the Ba'ath The students occupied all four floors at the embassy The switchboard operator there said the diplomatic staff of about 20 had left when the students forced their way in Fresno Boy Bandit Suspect Is Nabbed A 16 year old youth who had been identified as the gunman who robbed two women in the past two days was cornered and arrested shortly before noon today in north central Fresno Pair Out Of Car By Feet LEOPOLDVILLE The Congo Congolese security agents and gendarmes dragged two Soviet diplomats feet first from their car yesterday beat them with clubs and hauled them off to jail They were still being held today Soviet embassy officials said the diplomats were embassy Counsellor Boris Noro-nin and Press Attache Yuri Miakotnykh The officials said they had no word on their fate Refused Search Eyewitnesses said Noronin and Miakotnykh refused to allow the Congolese to search their car on their return from Brazzaville capital of the former French Congo which is across the Congo River The diplomats claimed diplomatic immunity Soviet embassy officials said the Congolese also had cut the telephone and electric supply to the luxury apartment where the 100 man Soviet Mission lives and works Sources close to the Congolese Government hinted highly documents had been seized from the two arrested diplomats Gendarmes stood guard outside the embassy building last night refusing to allow callers to enter Relations between the Congolese Government and the Communist bloc have been bad and some members of Premier Cyrille Adoula's regime recently were agitating for a break with the Soviet Union Poland Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria the Communist nations with which the Congo has diplomatic relations An eyewitness to the arrest of the two Russians said when they refused to allow a search of their car at the Brazzaville ferry landing the Congolese let all the -air out of the tires An argument lasting more than an hour followed The Soviet diplomats sat stiffly in their car after the Congo- See Russ Page 6-A Caracas Red Terror Toll Nears 100 CARACAS AP firing bazookas today flushed snipers from buildings in downtown Caracas as officials strove to quell pro Communist violence which has left nearly 100 dead or wounded A woman was killed and six other persons including a policeman were wounded as fighting spread from the workers' suburbs to El Silen-cio a district of modern business buildings Coming on the heels of worst day of terrorism yesterday the new casualties put the two da' toll at 20 killed and 7i wounded President Romulo Betancourt remained in his office throughout the night directing the roundup of the terrorists by the police the army and the national guard The number under arrest rose to 150 and the police said most are Communist Party members Many are youths who wore black pants and red sweaters as a sort of uniform Among those held are 40 persons seized by troops last night for sniping at traffic Traffic Resumes With the return of quiet at dawn business houses reopened and traffic returned to the streets Merchants shut down because of telephoned threats and motorists stayed home yesterday when Castroite-Communist opponents of Betancourt abrutly stepped up their campaign to unseat him and disrupt the December 1st presidential election Briton Is Held In Threat To Slay Queen The London police today charged a man with writing a letter threatening to kill Queen Elizabeth George William Mead a 40 year old clerk appeared in the Mansion House Court today and was ordered held in custody until November 28th He was charged with a threatening to kill the queen Mead was picked up by detectives after he had spoken with a clergyman in historic St Cathedral Informed police sources said he had written the threatening letter and handed or tried to hand it to the clergyman 1963 TRAFFIC RECORD 17 111 City County Deaths Deaths This Year This Year 13 105 A Year Ago A Year Age Stfiy for fty SiA Jfc'i Arsonist Is Hunted In Fatal Blaze ATLANTIC CITY UPI police today hunted a convicted arsonist seen near the Surf side Hotel less than an hour after fire swept the building killing 25 elderly persons Detective Captain William Rickert chief of the city's arson squad said the suspect moved from his known address but still was believed to be in the city He said the man whose identity was withheld boarded a bus just two and a half blocks from the Surfside Hotel about 40 minutes after the first alarm was sounded Recognizes Man The bus driver recognized the man as a arsonist and told Raymond Stark superintendent of the Atlantic Gty Transit Lines Stark notified authorities Rickert said the suspect had been convicted on an arson charge and had been arrested for prowling He said the man had been living with his mother Meanwhile an inquest has been ordered into the Monday morning fire Atlantic County Prosecutor Augustine A' Repetto said that the county grand jury will make an investigation of the fire He said the probe will begin as soon as reports from fire and police depart-ments are compiled Viet Nam Asia Policy Talks Open In Hawaii HONOLULU AP High level talks on the United future policies in Viet Nam and all of southeast Asia began today in Pacific Military Command headquarters near Honolulu The day long session brought together top drawer military men and diplomats from Washington and Saigon to map out future strategy in the fight against Communism in southeast Asia Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara arrived last night and termed the meeting another in a series in which we will review our program of commitments in Viet McNamara said in a plane-side interview that it is clear the previous (South Viet Nam) regime had lost the support of large segments of the population and in a war of this a war against guerrilla action and can only be won with full support of the people Has Backing "The new government appears to have that Also scheduled to attend the meeting was General Maxwell Taylor chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Secretary of State Dean Rusk was to arrive today From Saigon yesterday came Henry Cabot Lodge US ambassador to South Viet Nam and General Paul Harkins head of the US Military Advisory Group there They huddled informally at preliminary sessions with Admiral Harry Felt Pacific military commander and bathroom facilities of Studio City Los Angeles repair crews closed off the mud flow stopped Joel David and Sandy Brokaw wade through the mud in their bedroom after a storm drain became clogged and forced mud to back up through Courthouse Case Vagim Plans To File New Suit Tomorrow Edward Vagim says he will file a superior court suit tomorrow seeking to keep the board of supervisors from building a new Fresno County Courthouse in Courthouse Park The chairman of the Save The suspect was picked up following a three hour hide and seek game with the police The arrest came after the officers stopped a car which had been reported stolen The youth driving the car was the one identified by victims of the holdups from police department photographs uiQWTWPTnw ITPT He was arrested at Echo WASHINGTON UPI Avenue and peralta Way The In a major management officers said he did not resist shakeup Defense Secretary arrest Robert McNamara today directed the air force to set up a new office for supervising the rocket test ranges on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts An effect of the management shakeup was to enhance the air force's already dominant role in the military space program The navy lost much of its responsibility for the Pacific missile installations from which intercontinental ballistic missiles and polar satellites are launched Lose Point Arguello Specifically during the year starting next July 1st the navy will turn over Point Arguello Calif to the air force The Arguello launch area is adjacent to Vandenberg Air Force Base and though under navy control now largely serves the air force McNamara also directed the support facilities for anti missile tests at Kwajalein Island in the western Pacific be transferred from the navy to the army The reshuffling will take place over about 18 months and is designed McNamara said improve the overall management of these facilities by clarifying responsibilities which now overlap and by consolidating ICBM (intercontinental ballistics missile) and satellite test range facilities under the one central air force Find Holster Belt In the robberies the youth was armed with a 38 caliber revolver Arresting officers said the suspect was not armed when he was arrested but a gun holster and belt were found in another stolen car which was being watched by officers They said the suspect told them he threw the gun in a canal The search for the suspect began Monday when Mrs Carmen Martinez of 937 West Woodward Avenue was robbed at East McKenzie Avenue and North Clark Street She said the young gunman took her 1962 model automobile and her purse containing $68 This is the car the police had been watching Mrs Marie Gould 55 of 1496 North Harrison Avenue was robbed of $5 by a neatly dressed youth yesterday at Safford Avenue near McKinley Avenue SF Bandit Kills Church Aide In $6000 Robbery SAN FRANCISCO AP A 54 year old accountant was shot and killed as he tried to stop with his umbrella a bandit who robbed him' of $6000 in church funds Storm Dumps Half Inch Of Rain On Fresno The weather bureau says the storm which brought more than half an inch of rain to Fresno and nearly 4 inches of rain to some parts of the mountains is moving into Nevada No more rain and snow are expected in Central California by the bureau for at least the next five days The storm caused street flooding in Fresno last night but there were no reports of flooded homes or stores Heavy wet snow caused the closing of the Generals Highway between the Sequoia and the Kings Canyon National Parks and the Glacier Point and Big Oak Flat Roads in Yosemite National Park Chains were required this morning on the Wawona Road leading into Yosemite from the south (Highway 41) entrance Up to 1 PM Fresno had received 64 of an inch of rain bringing the total since the season began July 1st to 344 inches Normal to this date is 112 inches and at this time a year ago only 73 of an inch had fallen The snowline was at about 4000 feet during the night and Yosemite Valley received See Storm Page 6-A The victim was Joseph James Cheswick auditor for the Evangelism and Charity Fund of the Glide Methodist Church just off Market Street Police Lieutenant Mortimer Mclnerney said the robber apparently saw Cheswick withdraw the money from a nearby bank and followed him as he took a shortcut through an alley to the church Witnesses said the robber described as a swarthy man in his snatched the money which Cheswick carried in an attache case and ran Cheswick gave chase and snared the arm with the umbrella handle Weather Andy Capp New Comic Strip Will Appear In Bee Andy Capp a new laugh loaded comic strip will make its first appearance in The Bee on Monday Andy and his wife Florrie came from the drawing board of Reggie Smythe cartoonist for the London Daily Mirror and as such are British characters of the Cockney variety Look for Andy Capp Monday through Saturday in The Bee starting next week the Courthouse Committee makes the announcement today in a telegram to the housing and home finance agency in San Francisco Vagim asks Paul Emmert regional director of the HHFA community facilities adminis-tratioin to delay approval of a site development contract for the new building until the suit can be heard Contract Meeting Meanwhile the Fresno County supervisors were scheduled to meet today to award formally the contract to Harris Construction Company Inc of Fresno The meeting had been scheduled for 11:30 AM but was continued to 2 PM when the HHFA continued to delay approval of the contract The county asked the agency November 13th to approve the selection of the Harris firm but no decision has been announced Emmert has told county officials that the delay has been caused by the volume of work the agency had to process Terms Of Grant The HHFA must okeh the contract under terms of a $19 million federal grant for the construction of a new court house Site development work for the proposed building is scheduled to begin Wednes- day a week before the deadline for the county to qualify under the federal grant In his telegram to Emmert Vagim says in part: "The suit will be based on the fact that Courthouse Park has been dedicated as a park and the county has failed to comply with applicable state and county laws in adopting its construction program To a large measure these difficulties have arisen because of the federal grant made by your agency We understand that approval of the site preparation scheduled for November 27th has not yet been granted We respectfully request that approval of this and any further proceedings under your grant be withheld until these legal questions can be resolved" Bond Proposal Falls WOODLAND Yolo Co UPI Voters in the Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District failed to produce the two thirds majority needed for approval of an $11 A million bond issue to finance the Cache Geek Project The vote was 2896 yes to 2163 no In The Bee Today Page Amusements Theaters 2-E Bridge Column 14-A Cartoon 12-E City News In Brief 6-E Classified 7-E To 11-E Comics 14-B Crossword Puzzle 7-E Editorials 12-E Financial 4-E 5-E Katherine Kitchen Section Letters 12-E Movie Times 2-E Nason On Education 11-B News Behind News 12-E Obituaries 3-E Patterns 13-A Politics By Rodda 6-A Radio 6-E Sports Section Sylvia Porter 4-E Television 15-B Valley News 5-E Vital Statistics 7-E Weather 5-E Activities 13-A To 15-A Your Health 15-B the sink drains their home in County City sewer and the Highway Patrol Will Ask Funds For 1 50 More Men McCUtchy New! paper! Service SACRAMENTO Bradford Crittenden commissioner of the state highway patrol today announced he will seek funds for from 100 to 150 additional patrolmen at next budget session of the legislature But Crittenden stated this Today's Chuckle Good ideas are subjected' to 1 i a confinement when- they get into an empty head Nazi In Anne Frank Case Loses Vienna Police Job VIENNA Austria AP A 52 year old Vienna policeman has been suspended from duty after he admitted he was one of the Nazi officers who arrested Anne Frank and her family in wartime Amsterdam The interior ministry today would be far from the number sufficent to provide two man patrol cars at all times throughout the state There is some question he stated whether this would be necessary He said to put two men in patrol cars on all shifts would almost double the total cost of operating the highway patrol Crittenden pointed out some legislatures previous to that of this year frowned on expanding the patrol During the 1963 session the patrol asked for 75 additional men but got 150 hope the lawmakers will continue to recognize the need" he said He pointed out in reply to a suggestion from Assemblyman Edwin of Sacramento County that two man patrol cars be made standard that this is substantially the case now 'Two man cars are mandatory after 10 PM except on this Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay Bridges which are well Crittenden said Patrolman Glenn Carlson who was shot and killed by an escaping bank robber near Truckee Nevada County last week was traveling alone The shooting occurred before 10 PM However Crittenden said another patrol car was only two minutes away when the tragedy occurred and there still might have been a shooting if two men had been in the patrol cars Outside the mandatory after 10 PM rule set by headquarters local patrol zone commanders have authority to establish the rules Basically most remote places of the state are able to have two man cars after darkness However he said the local conditions are flexible depending upon vacation seasons density of traffic and other considerations Puts On Polish Woman Stowaway Meets Gets Fill Of Ship's Brass NEW YORK AP Mrs Esther Creef a 25 year old brunet from Norfolk Va says she will never become a stowaway again She had a miserable time in her first experience was locked up for 24 days on the ship and they only let me out to polish the said Mrs Creef last night upon arriving here by plane from Rio de Janeiro Mrs Creef stowed away October 24th on the Brazil bound American freighter In-verfield at Norfolk She surrendered to personnel the next day because was seasick and The ship's officers put her in the brig she said Mrs Creef said she stowed away because "I was just tired and disgusted I just wanted to get away and I took off I care where I She denied it had anything to do with her estrangement from her serviceman husband a stupid she said She said she was returning to Norfolk by bus and hoped to keep her promise of paying the steamship company for her air fare from Brazil identified the man as Karl Silberbauer a detective attached to police headquarters in Vienna's first district An investigation into his World War II activities is under way the ministry said The 12 year old Jewish girl who described her life in hiding in an Amsterdam garret in a moving diary subsequently died in a Nazi concentration camp The diary was found by her father Otto Frank the family's only sur-vivor after the war It achieved additional fame as a play and film suspension apparently came after the Austrian Government acted on a tip from Dr Simon Wiesen thal director of the Jewish Research Center in Vienna In Amsterdam the Dutch quoted Dr Wiesenthal as saying the policeman was a member of the Nazi security service at The Hague during World War II He fled The Netherlands after Germany's capitulation Dr Wiesenthal said Dr Wiesenthal has been credited with tracing Adolf Eichmann and scores of other Nazi war criminals It is understood he was helped by the Dutch Institute of War Documentation in his investigation of the arrest Frank his wife and two daughters Anne and Margot were arrested August 4 1944 after the Nazi authorities apparently were tipped off to their presence on the top floor of an old building where they had been in hiding for two jt years OFFICIAL FORECAST Partly cloudy this afternoon Gearing tonight Mostly fair tomorrow High temperatures today 55 to 60 degrees Lows tonight 33 to 39 Colder tonight with temperatures from 33 to 39 degrees Little change in temperatures tomorrow Gentle variable winds becoming northwesterly tonight and tomorrow FRESNO FACTS 59 Today's low 50 forecast 58 36 normals 65 38 Rain up to 1 PM 64 of inch Seasonal 344 Normal to 112 Details on page 5-E i newspaper Het Frije Volk.