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'V INDEX Amusements Com Im Crossword Puzzle Editorials Fftrm Market Oil Smrtn Women'll New Page 1U Page 181) Page 81) Page 2B Page 151) Page 111) Page JOA Page 1C Page 411 AA WEATHER Mild Favorable Yesterday' High Low Temperatures Airport 79-63 Downtown 75-62 Sunrise 7:20 am Set 6:03 pm Moonrise 1:17 pm Set 3:00 am Friday High Tides 1:11 pm Low 5:09 pm 48 Pages -PRICE FIVE CENTS itcond rim pottos pair tt Corpu Chrlitl Tam CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS THURSDAY JANUARY 23 1964 Method avfry wok day marninf Kf thd Cdltor-Tlmw SuMmung Co 'Kit Si Rusk Voices Fears Canal Sabota 42arsri: 'A 3 jS: Ml sy RUSK CALLS OK US ALLIES TO QUIT TRADING WITH CUBA More Latin Americas News os Page 18A NEW YORK Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged this country's allies Wednesday night to stop trading with Cuba He said such trade could frustrate efforts to reduce the Communist threat from Cuba cannot accept the contention that trade with Cuba is comparable to ordinary trade with any Communist Rusk said in a speech prepared for the 75th anniversary celebration of Barnard College speech was a wide-ranging review of world problems summing up as he said state of the cause of freedom in the Discussing Cuba he said it continues to export "active terrorism" into Latin America and that the recent disturbances in Panama were exploited by terrorists trained in Rusk also said: think that free nations outside the Western and especially our allies whose freedom is so actively bound up with ours should pursue with respect to Cuba policies which harmonize with those of the organization of American He named none of the allies but it was only recently that Britain challenged the US economic blockade of Cuba with a $10 million saw of buses to the Castro government Another important trouble spot Rusk mentioned prominently was Southeast Asia where he said 15000 US troops are assisting South Viet Nam in its fight against communism FX a Castro Support Affirmed MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union pledged Wednesday night to aid Prime Minister Fidel Castro with all means at its disposal if Cuba is attacked violation of the US commitments not to invade" the Red-ruled island The warning was issued in oint Soviet-Cuban communique marking the windup of Castro's 10-day visit to Moscow The communique reported by the Tass news agency said Cas'-Iro at the same time asserted hts readiness establish good neighbor relations between Cuba and the USA on the basis of the principles of peaceful coox-istancc" Complaints Aired Both sides joined in airing complaints of Western aggressive intent and applauded the anti-US upheaval in Panama One passage in the communique looked like a thinly veiled rebuke to Red China for rocking the international Communist boat Tass also reported Russia 'rr fP Panama Sessions Continue Caller-Times Wire Services WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dean Rusk expressed fear Wednesday that the severed 'relations between the United I States and Panama increased the danger of possible Communist sabotage of the Panama Canal The secretary discussed the subject at a meeting with the Inter-American Peace Committee His remarks were not released publicly but persons present disclosed the substance of the talks Grave Concern One aspect of the present crisis that the secretary emphasized was that the possibility of sabotage of the vital waters way was of grave concern to the security of the entire hemisphere as well as to the United States The meeting marked the beginning of a new round of high-level consultations by the committee The commitee is scheduled to meet with President Johnson Thursday morning Some of the Latin American delegates received the impression that Rusk had information SWIFT-FOILMING HEAVY FOG SMOTHERS SKYLINE IN MID-AFTERNOON SPECTACLE palm trees were also obscured minutes after this photo was taken Fog Hangs Grey Palf Over City Sandblom Attorney Seeks Lower Bond Escaped Killer Is Recaptured By PETER STAM BAUGH according to the noted poet Carl Sandburg comes on agreed to buy 241 million tom little cat feet of sugar from Cuba in the period Whatever it coincs on it came of 1963-1970 at six cents a pound Court Action Possible pay for it in Soviet agreement was lcars nphasized a bid for freedom but was captured of Panama in thei'Vednesday 0 miles west of here- msewseu km f- Km -ac antiroH dispute that led to disruption of Pan diplomatic relations month said there swiftly here by mid-afternoon yesterday with eye-straining and became a traffic-slowing hazard for the down- were not then town 5 pm rush The fog which had collected in wisps and strands of grey in the early morning swiftly wove itself up into a closely knit grey blanket by mid-afternoon wrapping up the skyline folding in the palm trees and snuggling in a grey mass in downtown main streets cloaking the town in dismal oliscurity for hours As it churned in three ships were left stranded in the with nary a pilot sent to help them into the Port by 7:30 pm all major airlines canceled all Moscow will goods The The two their support Canal Zone bloodshed and ama-US earlier this Trade Agreement The communique was justice mand for treaty that States perpetual Canal Zone Trade Agreement The communique after announced announced ien MEET OS OFFSHORE IIASIS FOR LARGE SHIPS SLATED A hearing is to lie conducted here March 10 on the advisability of providing a deep-draft anchorage basin on Ship Channel to serve ships Engineers has announced the hearing of Commerce on Shoreline that the basin be located four miles west of the inner end This would be along the district engineer said that only prepared and no dimensions yet for the anchorage basin It the basin would be located or created by widening both district engineer in Galveston will lie taken at the hearing basin purpose for the basin would be to to go to docks in the port the jetties at Port Aransas To Seek emor Raee in Panama's de-lghgn and knife but offered revision of the 1903-no resistance at the capture gave the United The shotgun had been taken control over thei when Lower)- robbed an auto service store ah the a physi- was issued ciani a axi a young i Khrushchev and UastroWomaDa a slore manager a Tuesdav but details OKLAHOMA CITY Okla (AP) A convicted 0f specific sabotage plans which Tuesdav but details murderer seized six hostages and stole lour cars Ved-he did not wish to discuss Thcy recalled repom from Panama Tuesday night that the US Navy in a special display of precaution stopped two Panamanian vessels at the Atlantic end of the canal for a two-hour search before allowing them to proceed No Evidence There was no evidence according to US sources that Panama was in any way connected with the suspected sabotage Officials pointed out that most vessels of Panamanian registry belonged British Greek or other shippers The secretary was said to hare cited a hypothetical use of neutral or western vessel to smuggle explosives into a strategic stretch of the canal and set them off to destroy the complex of locks Besides creating physical damage that would deal a psychological blow to the western defense posture such an incident could be used to fur-See PANAMA Page 8 a fpw davt nf hiintino in aer(Sl and 1 plaJStlC Ine Ln ollowin8 had been released unharmed mcnt on their long-range trade 'earlier auTeni' 11in The last three hostages store nnSw tn manaKer Max Franke 30 sales- mSJo man Bert Rathbim 26 and the sursk Dr Grp relaxation of international ten- sion" recently jer in Kimballs store It said the Cuban government regarded the limited nuclear test ban treaty as step Kimball said Lowery Franke and Rathbun drove up in Franke's car after the robbery flights both in and out of the jh-pan city and the weather bureau came out with a special bulletin Sg caution Meanwhile in the city the sound of church bells became a muffled echo: birds twittered i By ERNEST MORGAN An attorney for Paul Amos' Sandblom said yesterday that If the $100000 state bond set for the bankrupt investor is not rut he will file court action seeking a reduction all practical purposes this man who has been accused hut convicted of nothing is being held without bail" said attorney Oscar Spitz loukl Raise 821008 Spitz said he believed Sand-blnm could meet the $25 00(1 bond on a federal charge of us-j Ing the mails to sell unrrgi-j trrrd securities but that he' cannot meet a 8100000 bond on' a similar state charge Sandblom has beam in counts jail since Jan 12 when he sur-! rendered to federal authorities here lie fill'd a voluntary pcti- tion in bankruptcy Jan 7 and the federal charge was filed against him Jan 10 The state charge was filed Jan 17 by Hist Ally Sam AUSTIN tft (I Weakley Jones when it appeared Sand-jr i a pais insurance agent blom was about to make boiuland Methodist lay minister who Spitz said he and I jas nPVrr held public office Jones another Sandblom Wednesday he will seek ney haw talked to Sam Jones he Republican nomination for about steps to reduce the bond 'governor lle said Sam Jones told them mv fjrs vpnlure hat when he receives informa- with thP said WeakIcyi linn about the receipts and dis- a SUpprllr Arizona Senator buniements of money inwsted Barr Gidwater for the GOP with Sandblom reportedly presidential nomination excess of $20 million he will Weakley 3fi said his the Iort Aransas-Corpus C'hristi waiting to dock in port The Army Corps of will I at the Chamber Bld Port officials have proposed on the ship channel about of the jetties at Port Aransas south edge of Itcdfish Ray Duane Orr navigation tentative sketches have been have been firmly proposed has not been decided whether on one side of the channel sides of the channel Col James Maxwell announced that oral statements as to the advisability of the Orr said the primary serve ships having to wait Ships now have to wait outside Dallas Man GOP Goa in the parks lights atid street lamps tried manfully to restore and people about the streets were saying In their friends you ever?" A call to weatherman Jerry Burdwell 4918 Dudd Drive shed some light on the situation: reports on our fnggiesl days are he said normaly In the parks tad- forward toward peace and disarmament" There had been rumors of Soviet disenchantment with Castro Lowery forced Franke and Rathbun shionable home They a 1 wo Kimball I into the fa-j remained 1 i vwvswl ine is'Stuaeiit uiargea ery drank a root beer searched tele-1 fog is mast common during the because Jie has refused to sign winter months here" He along with other residents the test ban treaty Also denounced was the With Extortion calls tinued US occupation" of For- Kimball said handcuffs still mosa which the communique: dangled from the convict's wrist said rightfully belonged to Red as he sped away alone in the China for a hack saw and made late model car t-kes a very dim view of fog and explained what causes it: most frequently occurs when you hare a cold air mass over land As the cold air mass moves out over the bay the air above the water is almost saturated with moisture which causes the temperature to drop to the dew and when the temperature gets to this point you get he concluded Burdwell said there are types of fog: Radiation two fog Caller-Times News Sen Ice 1 were revealed by police Wednes- I HARLINGEN An 18-ycar- day- Lowery serving life for the hi gchooI junior was! According to police Mrs murder of Dan Sims 30 Breedlove found a large while Worthington Pa in July I960 charged envelope in the family mailbox had been taken to the hospital a bank president Tucsdav morning Wednesday with other prisoners roceived a letter threatening Thp handwritten letter said: for examination or treatment lhatJbngcn High School Mr Breedlove: Get Weather Map on Page 8D The daring escape occurred be Moni up if the writer $10 000 of (sic) the bank and we Fog and occasional light driz-almost three years to the day mm get siuuuu wjj Rive you directions where zle with mostly cloudy skies and after Lowery made another bold Ralph Anes Aialns described to take it Turn right at Ed Ter- mild temperatures is the fore-' break for freedom That escape as an average student w'as jy Road just before you cross cast for Corpus Christ! and vt-j took place on Jan 27 1961 and charged He is in jail under the railroad stun and walk m- campaign "will hinge around need to emancipate itself from the one-party state" on whelherj inevitably brings Sandblom has any large amount poorer service at higher prices of money in his control should Texas can never grow to nurn-bear heavily on the amount ofr one until it throws off the bond set i old concept of the one parly Spitz said that Jones dues tint simp" he told capital newsmen anticipate "too great a delay" during a brief news eonferenee $15000 bond after police arrest- wards San Benito about one cd him Tuesday afternoon at a fourth mile and there is an old with escape was on Ed Terry Driv? where house There will he a sign 'also involved a kidnaping expected Lowery's first hostage (cooling of a laver of air near cinity today the earth) and Advection fog I High temperatures (caused by winds moving a cold today are 72-78 degrees WEAKLEY JR first trv I AC WlrtpMtt) Gov formally a Democrat said two weeks ago he would seek reeleetlnn this year Weakley said although he had See CANDIDATE Page 8 a I the first to an noimcc ax a GOP candidate for governor said he knows of no other Republicans who intend to sock the job but "we could use a little more activity in the in getting such information from accountants working on Snnd-blnm's records hope it will lie in the next day or so" Spitz said we do nave some See SANDBLOM Page I Breedlove president of where you will put this money the First National Bank had by Tuesday at 3 pm Don't call been instructed to leave the the police or the Harlingen High money School will be blown apart with Details of the extortion threat See STUDENT Page I Everett Wiggins 35 a first-year resident physician at University Hospital As they left the hospital building Lowery See ESCAPEE rage 8 a warmer sur-: lows tonight of 62-66 degrees i Winds will be south at 6 to 10 miles an hour during the morning increasing to 10 to 18 miles an hour in the afternoon we have here? foggiest Idea" air mass over face) Which type do haven't the he quipped EXPORTERS OF BLOODSHED- African Revolts Tied to Skilled Patient Cuban Plotters Wednesday quoted an aide of Okclla as saying that he had been trained in Cuba along with other Zanzibaris Informed sources here also saw a relationship be-tweer Cuba's operations and the activities of the nine-man African Liberation Committee" based in Tan-ganayika It was suspected that Dar rs Salaam may have become a center for revolutionary activities for East and South Africa and that the Cuban embassy there which began functioning suddenly last month may be one of the key elements In this effort Also under study here was the report that the At-Lrian vessel Khalaiioun arrived in Dar es Salaant last in 2 with a cargo of arms supplies and uniforms Cuba has a close relationship with Algeria dating back to the latter's war with France Algeria Is openly training Angolese and South African and speculation now developing here is that Cuba may have joined in this African revolutionary effort diplomatic relations with nine African countries and trades with six was mainly concerned with commercial and cultural tics But the East African events of this month and new information now coming to light here is rapidly changing this evaluation Officials who were reluctant to accept that Cuba would become so deeply involved in African revolutionary move-luonls arc now taking a new look at this situation It was assumed that she was too busy with her internal problems and that the main thrust of her interest was directed at Latin America Facts that once seemed Insignificant and almost laughable such as the establishment in 1961 of the Havana office of the Zanzibar National Party are now pulled out of files and sludlcd with fascination One nf these facts is tha' the man who ran the Zanzibar office In Havana has now emerged as one of the top aides of John Okrlla the self styled field marshal of the Zanzibari revolution His name was not available here Wednesday night but press dispatches from Zanzibar last tty TAD Sl'IC Copyright 1964 New York Times News Seriier WASHINGTON Preparations for last week's pro-Communist revolution in Zanzibar liegnn quietly in Culm late in 1961 when a Zanzibar political office was established in Havana They reached their climax with the arrival of the Cuban charge d'affaires In Dnr rs Salaam Tanganyika six weeks ago The detailed story of I his Cuban Involvement in the Zanzibar revoll and nf other current Cuban activities in connection with the training of East ami South Alrt-can guerrillas ns well ns of other African grouiis has been pieced together from highly reliable rrsirts rrom many quarters Hint became available Wednesday In addition to tracing back the Cuban strategy In preparing for Iwo years the Zanzibar events Hie information available here shows that several liiindml African "students" are now being I rained In many disciplines including guerrilla warfare In at least Iwo instruction sites In Culm These students are divided Into four main groups with siecial emphasis being placed on trainees In the first group all from South Africa and on those from the second group composed of those from three East African countnrs: Kenya Tanganyika and Zanzibar This Is helievrd to indicate that Cuba working with Hie Soviet Union and possibly Communist China Is centering her attentions and activities on South Africa and on the east coast of Africa where a successful revolt or-ciiired in Zanzibar Jan 12 and an army uprising erupted in Tanganyika last Monday Students from Ghana Mali Hie Congo and Nigeria are said to form the third group The fourth group is made up nf students from Spanish Guinea which is on the northwest coast and wltcre there have lieen pro-m-dcxMKlencc movements Thai Cuba had Itcen steadily Increasing her (merest in African affairs has lieen known In officials here for a long time But this fact caused no particular concern unlit the event of Zanzibar and now of Tanganyika The assumption was that Culm which now maintains.

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