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a I Wednesday, September 13, 1901 THE NEWS TEXAN Page 7 Anti-Castro Sentiment Mounting HAVANA (UPI) A new wave of anti -Castro feeling swept Cuba Tuesday in the wake of stepped up activities by crimes' courts and for the death penalty for a Roman Catholic priest allegedly involved in Sunday's demonstrations. An official statement on Sunday's anti -Castro out breaks in Havana disclosed for the first time that demonstrations also broke out in Camaguey, Colon and Sancti Spiritus in the interior, and that rioters shouted pro- Police accused a priest, the Rev. Agnelio Blanco, of killing a government supporter, Arnoldo Socorro, in the Havana rioting. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS trees is the scene on morning tornado dipped be dead and 200 injured. HOUSE GROUP US, British Troops Ignore Red Threats BERLIN (UPI) American, British and French troops sent military patrols to the EastWest Berlin border barricades as usual Tuesday in defiance of a Soviet protest that such could be dangerous.

West Berlin police said at least 21 East Berliners -including two Communist policemen fled to West Berlin Monday night and early Tuesday as a Communist forced National Wire Twisted timber and -blown palm on this Galveston street shortly after an early into the city. Seven persons were known to UPI TELEPHOTO. Committee Working On US Backdoor Financing WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Appropriations Committee Tuesday took what it called the first long step' Nationalists Set Fire To US Firms SAN JUAN, P. R. (UPI) Arsonists set fire Tuesday to seven American owned establishments in the San Juan metropolitan area in an apparent outbreak of nationalist sentiment.

The fires coincided with the observation by local nationalist and separatist groups of what they described as the 70th anniversary of jailed independence leader, Pedro Albizu Campos. The establishments hit by the agitators in what police described as coordinated action included two Wool worth stores, two Grand Union supermarkets and Walgreen's drug store. At least two of the stores were burned out completely. No immediate arrests were reported, toward wiping out so-called for the State backdoor financing of federal draft speedup, a programs by the administra- et investigation, tion. projects to control It approved a $646,771,447 lution.

catch -all supplemental ap propriations ried a provision specifically barring the controversial Treasury financing plan previously authorized for slum clearance and other big programs. If still in the bill when it is finally approved by Congress, the provision would guarantee a congressional checkrein on the programs by requiring the administration to seek annual appropriations for them from the House and Senate, Rep. Albert Thomas, D- chairman of a subcommittee that engineered the move, said that if it is successful 'it will be a long first step toward wiping out" Treasury financing of such projects, The House considers the bill Friday. The bill carried funds for a wide assortment of government programs, including the of orbiting more weatherwatching satellites, purchase of spy-proof telephone devices Small Talk "What kind of masseur are "I also mix the drinks around you. Your hands are freez- here ing DAY SHIFT "Now they're taking a snap tally to determine a resolution to make a proposal on whether or not to GLAMOR GIRLS 061, King Features Syndicate, World rights reserved.

"But how would he look in a business suit? Has he GOT a business suit? Or a business?" OFFICE HOURS SON PRESIDENT "Why did we ever elect him chairman of the Griev ance Committee?" labor campaign went into effect. Manpower shortages caused by the flight of some 3,000,000 East Germans forced the Communist regime to step up -per-hour production. A similar labor -up touched off the 1953 uprising. Russia warned in a note Monday night that Western Allied troop patrols along the Berlin border could have "serious But Western troops were out as usual Tuesday along the 25-mile border as they have been since the Communists sealed off East Berlin on Aug. 13.

Western spokesman said the need for patrols was shown Tuesday when Communist People's police tossed a tear gas and smoke bombs into West Berlin to disperse a group of German residents of the American sector. The Germans were moving their possessions out of a summer cottage at the time, In the most spectacular of the escapes reported Tuesday, an engineer student who had worked as a street cleaner, placed his wife in the cab of his garbage truck and smashed it through the concrete wall into the American Sector. The dash to freedom was made so quickly the Communist border police did not shoot, Neither the 23-yearold student nor his wife was hurt. West German police said a 21-year-old people's policeman jumped over the barbed wire shortly after midnight and a 20-year-old transport policeman guarding the East German railway hurdled the concrete wall by his post into West Berlin. Nine other East Berliners reached the American sector overnight, Some swam the narrow Spree river; others descended ropes from East Berlin apartments fronting on the West, and several slipped or cut their way through the barbed wire.

West Berlin eyewitnesses said two women, 22 and 26, climbed through the barbed wire while Communist police watched without attempting to stop them, AND THE RAINS CAME -The town of Freeport was completely under Water Tuesday after Hurricane Carla caused flooding all along the Texas coast. UPI Pamela Hits TAIPEI, Formosa (UPU) Typhoon Pamela smashed a path of death and destruction across northern Formosa Tuesday and headed for the Chinese mainland. Police said the storm's 140- mile- an -hour center winds killed 27 persons and in jured 175. Nineteen others were missing. Authorities expect the figures to jump when workers restore communications to isolated areas, Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars.

More than 4,000 houses or buildings were reported destroyed or damaged heavily. Pamela hit 1,300 structures here alone. There are 6,000 Americans in this Nationalist Chinese capital. But U. S.

officials received no reports of death or injuries to Americans. NEWT Texan's 0 LONDON (UPI) An ad in the personal column of today's London Times said: "Happy birthday and many happy returns. Hope all is well. Worried no news. Have a LONDON (UPI) The difference between and "nonaligned," the Sunday Telegraph explained in an editorial is that ed neutral country like Switzerland is where the political boss of a non- -aligned country prefers to keep his private banking Nubbin By Jim Burnett George Crenshaw IM REAL GLAD CM VERY FOND OF YOU WORE THAT THIS HAT: IT 5 CHIC AN' IT CURED HAT TODAY! AND IT MY HICCUPS! FASHIONABLE! WHY, THANK NOU.

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