The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 18

EIGHTEEN DEATH TOLL 10 IN ATTEMPT ON SUKARNO'S LIFE tjk-arta Indonesia. Dec. 1( API The death toll in last night's bloody attempt to assassinate President Sukarno with hand grenades rose to 10 today. A oiwprnmpnt announcement 6aid 137 persons in the crowd around the President last night were still in Jakarta Municipal Central hospital for treatment of shrapnel wounds. Most of them are small children.

Seven per sons, including two cnnaren, were killed instantly. bodyguards threw him to the ground and covered his body. Apart from a terse announce ment and an "all's well radio, broadcast by Sukarno, there has been no omciai commtm incident. Reports of Shooting (There was heavy censorship in Jakarta but travelers arriving in Singapore from the Indonesian, capital said shooting broke out' Sunday near the cabinet buildings as the Indonesian went into emergency session. There also were reports that government buildings and the Jakarta radio station were under guard of army tanks, armored Government officials expressed grave concern about possmie con-j sequences of the bombing.

They; declined, however, to discuss possible motives or the persons be hind the incident. Military thorities have announced the rest of two persons in connection; with the grenade throwing but they have.not Been laenunea. One usually reliable source said an examination of the frag ments from the four grenades showed they were western-made weapons with four-second fuses. They were thrown, apparently on sienal from a pistol shot, as Su karno moved through a crowd outside a public school in Tiiki- ni. The President was taken part in the 15th anniversary of the school.

The National News agency An-tara reported Sukarno's son Gun-tar, II, and his daughter Nega-wati, 9, were in the official party but escaped injury. A heavy military guard was thrown around the school today. Traffic in the vicinity was normal. Jakarta's chief military se curitv commander. Lt.

Col. En- dong Dacbjar, termed the gre nade throwing an atiempc at political murder. Travelors arriving in Singapore from Jakarta said siiooting broke out there Sunday near the Royal Dutch Oil which is onlv a short distance from the build ing where the Cabinet went into The travelers described the two suspects held by military thorities as most likelv bers of a secret underground group led by Col. Zulkifi Lubis, former army deputy commander Lubis, reported hiding in West Java after last November to overthrow the government, is said to be supported by a Sun- danese youth movement which opposed to Sukarno. Previous grenade throwing and bombings of communist headquarters have Been attributed to this LORDSHIP MAN WINS IN TRADES CONTEST Victor S.

Lasnier of 282 Ryegati terrace. Lordshio. is one of sii top Connecticut apprentices in the metals trades to be honored tonight at a dinner in Hartford. Mr. Lasnier, a 27-year-old tool ano oie apprentice with the Bas-sick company, was chosen in a contest sponsored bv the Cen tral Connecticut Tool and Diet association, the Southern Connec ticut Tool and Die Manufacturers association and the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut.

The contest was the second annual Metal Trades Apprentice Competition. TWIN SISTERS DROWN ANTIOCH. Dec. 1-fAPl Eleven-year-old twin sisters drowned in a northern Illinois lake today when they fell through ice covering the sunace. Ihei: father also fell throueh in a res cue attempt but was pulled ashore.

Police said the girls, Mary Jane and Hazel Jean Beaman, were playing on the frozen surface ol Grass Lake. A boy who saw ice give way beneath them to their home nearbv and moned their father, Samuel Bea Beaman fell through when attempted to reach his daughters some 50 feet off shore. A neighbor pulled Beaman ashore safely with a rope. The bodies of the sisters were recovered about an hour later. Beaman and his wife have seven other children.

Ferry service between Manhattan and Brooklyn operated from 1638 until it was discontinued in 1942. 'Churches' Council Opens i n. Conclave ot. ST. LOUIS.

Dec. 1 (API America's biggest conclave of churches opened nere tonigni the blare of trumpets and a The Fourth General Assembly jf the National Council ol Lhurcn- set as its rallying tneme one- in Christ." Plea For Mutual Faith hpnrH a nlea for increased tual faith among all Christians. The Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the council, said ot an tne failures and weaknesses of the Christian church, there is today more costly to our than lack of faith in I another." He said mistrust and and damaging unnsuaniiy.

Today's session was the start of the council's triennial general assembly wnicti is tne top policy relieious organization. It includes most denominations outside the Roman Catholic church. Dr. Blake said Distrust of -te another in the churches. enntinuallv threatens the effec tiveness of much of the work and witness for Jesus Christ nation.

He pleaded "trust one another and learn from each other;" His successor will be elected this week and is expected to be the Rev. Dr. Edwin 1. Dahle- berg, Baptist pastor of St. Louis.

To Map Plans More than 2,000 church leaders will map plans for more than 75 programs which they carry on cooperatively. The affair will last a week and is held every three vears. than 100 newsmen at a pre liminary briefing that "interest" in religion in America is at a new high." Banners of various demomina-llions bung overhead in spacious Kie as about ha laity and half as: bled for Dr. Blake's opening assmption of hypocrisy os a mark of the age. Popular knowledae of human psycho oev.

he said, "has made everybody more skeptical and mucn more ready to suspect (charge hypocrisy in others." This "general skepticism" most noticeable in politics, he! said, but it- also appears among churches "with blighting and nppimg enects. Dr. Blake said that in the inter- ational political arena, trust al- irom peing torn asunaer. He said: ine tree world laces a true crisis in that it be continue 100. per cent skep-l ticism of totalitarian communism Id be to believe all the protestations of peaceful inten- THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1957 lions that come from the Krcm- tin.

"Our on lone ranuo hoDe must be that God is powerful enough somehow some way to the communists." He said Biblical admonition to. trust that "love hplievesl didn't mean that gullibility is "a virtue." "A Christian is urged to be dove," he added. After the ooenine worship ser vice, iou singers ot rne M. Louis Bach society joined with the 1 i 1 1: i a i nii i'j i symphony orchestra it toral some 37 1-2 million of Bach's "Maj The Rev. Dr.

Roy G. Ross, the 'thodox denominations marched; council's general secretary, BIAS FOUND into Kiel Auditorium where tney IN NAVY ON NEGROES NEW YORK. Dec. I-'APl An i American civil Liberties union survey released today found practically no discrimination against the Negro on U. S.

Navy ships! The report observed, however. "there is room for even more improvement." Well-qualified Nearoes have dif-i ficulty being accepted for the Naval Reserve Officer Training corps colleges, tne survey Nesro command officers. tnougn tne merchant Marine has long had them. Mrs. Ruth Danenhower Wilson did the survev.

claimed: omcers start up the! line of promotion as white oifi-i cers do, but after having been deck officers are too often kept in recruiting or public relations posts." CALL 'TIMEOUT' IN UNION MERGER Efforts to meree the Bridee- port AFL and CIO union councils. i voluntary basis will lane out this week for the nation al AFL-CIO convention opening Thursday in Atlantic City. Charles R. Groves, president ol the CIO Industrial Union council, said negotiations between the two groups will definitely continue alter the convention, put pattern to be determined by the national organization. Mr.

Groves, who will attend the 'convention as an IUC observer "without voice or vote, noted that the convention's opening is the deadline set by the AFL-CIO for voluntary merging of local and state union councils. He said lie exDccts the convenlion to up the machinery for a forced consolidation of unmerged cils. But he took note of a press reDort that the convention mi2ht grant a 60 to 90-day extension of tne merger deadline. Onlv mereed councils will be entitled to send a voting delegate pected to last at least a week. Groups like the IUC and the AFL i triniiu'J to send onlv ing observer.

The CLU will be represented by Joseph P. Cleary, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 145 and recently resigned president of the CLU. Mr. Groves said no further at tempt would be made to reach a merger agreement this week before the AFL-CIO convention. He declined to comment upon progress made so lar in merger talks bevond savins: "We're in pretty good shape if we had time to work it out.

SAFE' YULE IS PUSHEDlJ BY BLACK ROCK CLUB The Black Rock Civic and Bus iness Men's Club. plans to erect posters extending season's greetings and the club's wishes a "sale and sane Lnnsimas signs at Fairfield and Railroad Fairfield avenues. The club will have its annual parlv at Marv Jour- Zoltan Sabo. president, said club members and their attend the event. Eddie Cantor lost a millioi rs in the stock market crash of! 1929.

He has worked himself back far beyond that figure again. Love Youi; It'll Drive 'em Crazy There are ways to discom-bobulate enemies which are valuable to because little enemies can grow into monsters! In the December Reader's business enemies and spite-fence builders gives some unusual methods for turning them into friends. You'llenjoyreadingDecem- entertaining and informative rne oesc irom maga- nPY 1 i ami oooks, condensed to today. I CHILDREN DIE IN QUEBEC FIRE death today when flames des- skirts of Sherbrooke. II Their father, Lionel Dcnault.

32, suffered third degree burns, cuts and shock and was reported in critical condition in a hospital Police identified the victims as child, Robert, 13, were at church when the fire broke out. Pulitt ba.J it is uclicvco tne fire started from an explosion In Ian oil stove. By the time firemen reached the scene, the wind-fan- nod flames were out of control. Suzanne, 12, Jeanmarc, 9, SoI-'twi hours later only two charred anges, 8, Michel, 6, Yves, 5, Gae- wans the 1 frame house tan, 4, Carole, 2, and Richard, remained standing. 18 months.

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