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Great Bend Daily Tribune FIRST PAPER Throughout Tho "GOLDEN tELT AREA" Of Wort Control Koiwoo THIS ISSUE 14 PAGES GREAT BEND, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1961 SINGLF COPY 7c 85TH YEAR, No. 214 First Strike at Capital Rebel Planes Bomb Havana was met by heavy antiaircraft fire. He mentioned no strafing. A By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rebel air raiders struck at Cuban air force headquarters and Havana during the night, bringing the conflict to the capital for the first time since invaders stormed ashore last weekend, the Cuban radio said today. The radio reported a twin-en gine B26 dropped a bomb on the air force headquarters at San Antonio de los Banos, 25 miles Ffrom Havana, then wounded three persons in a strafing run on Havana.

A diplomat in Havana reported a plane that swept over Havana Cuban rebel radio station on Swan Island off Guatemala claimed Havana was bombed twice by three planes. It asserted one of the planes attacked Camp Libertad, army headquarters on Havana's outskirts. The diplomat talked by telephone with an Associated Press correspondent at. the big U. S.

naval base on Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba. He said the plane passed over the city at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday but otherwise "all is quigl for the U. S. To Take Action If Soviets Aid Castro Dill; Tribal" staff rhiM LEARNING BY DOING Cub Scouts of Den 5, Pack 151, are studying "Air Adventure" this month.

Because their Den Mother is Mrs. Thon Schartz, and her husband's company, Schartz Construction owns plane, the whole den was treated to a plane ride this week. Above pilot Wade Schartz gives the boys a briefing before they start the flights. The Scouts are Tommy Carrier, Stanley Durler, Steve Dwyer, Steve Hickel, Doug Peschka, Tony Kuhn, Gary McGoff in, Shannon Schartz, Donald Wagner, David Welch and Den Chief Kevin Hall. Mrs.

Bill McGoffin is assistant den mother. their struggle for freedom" andlishing Khrushche By LEWIS GULICK i WASHINGTON (AP) Prcsi dent Kennedy has fired a straight from the shoulder warning lo Soviet Premier Khrushchev to keep hands off Cuba. Kennedy made it clear message to the Soviet leader I Tuesday night that the United Slates will take immediate steps to counter any military intervention by outside force in the Cuban lighting. The President declared moral support, for the "Cuban patriots in Local Support a Must For Flood Control Plan An expert in the field of flood control legislation last night told the Great Bend Citizens Flood Control Association that "there must be adequate local support of your flood control program in order to see it through to its UN Expected to Reject Soviet Demand on Cuba UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The U.N.

General Assembly is expected to reject a demand by the Soviet Union that it condemn the United States as an aggressor masterminding the invasion of Cuba. The assembly instead is he- Eichmann Is Ready, Expects Death Penalty Bv RELMAN MORIN (AP)-ln his own words replayed today from a tape recording. Adolf Eichmann said he expects the death penalty and "ready to atone." "I know that I can expect the death sentence and I don't ask for clemency," the former Ges-laoo colonel told Israeli police who auestioncci mm anei lure in Argentina last year I cannot claim mercy because I know I am not worthv of it." Eichmann said in the statement, which was recorded in 1960. In support of its charges that Eichmann was the operational director of the Nazi plan exterminate Europe's prosecution began rrplayi" extended excernts from 77 cartons of tape recordings of the pretrial interrogation. His voice echoing hoarsely through the Jerusalem courtroom while he himself sal likening in the prisoner's dock.

Eichmann said that before his death he would like to write a book. He said he wanted the younger generation to know what happened in Nazi Germany and the reasons 'Eichmann said ho had been told in Januarv 1" that "1 would be brought to trial and that 7 world not live beyond my 5fith He is 55 now He did not identify the prophet "The first part of this pronhcy already has come to pass." he aa'd in the recorded statement "This case finds in complete readiness and without anv regard for my personality to tell everything that I know. "I have alwavs been accus-tomes to disc-inline from mv childhood right through unreserved discipline. "I knew what disobedience would have meant for me Rut matters of planning until 1945 were not handed to me at anv time during the preceding 10 years. 1 was in a lower rank than the policy makers and planners.

cannot claim that 1 had clean hands. Those who planned and gave instructions, however, got off cheaoly hy suicide. Others are now dying or are not to be "I know I should have hanged myself in public so that all the anti-Semites in the world would have had these terrible events stressed for them." Eichmann pictured himself as a man who recoiled from the sight of blood and nearly fainted when he was forced to witness hejng gassed to death in the Nazi extermination camps. "I couldn't look. tried to avert my.

eyes from the sight. I wis too appalled to look," he said in describing his reactions the reactions the first time he saw Jews put to death. Eichmann also said: 1. The order for the physical extermination of the Jews during World War II came directly from Adolf Hitler. They were transmitted to him.

he said, hy Rein-hard Heydrich, chief of the security pjolice of Nazi Germany. 2. He protested to his immediate superior, SS Gen. Heinrich Mueller, and others, that execution was not the way to resolve "the Jewish problem." .1 He begged Mueller not to end him to the death campj for further reports. He said that when he did go, he saw as little is possible.

CARMICHAEL i oppose, Three From Holyrood Are Killed in Wreck TOPEKA A five-vehicle accident Tuesday near Topeka claimed the lives of three Holyrood residents and resulted in minor injuries to two Ellinwood women. All five were bound for Topeka to attend a stale convention of the Order of Eastern Star. The dead were all natives of Ellsworth County. A triple service will be held Friday at 2:30 from St. Paul's and Church at Holyrood with burial in the church cemetery for Charles Jezek 45 and Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Ehler, 89 and 67 respectively. The Rev. T. .7.

Fry will officiate with graveside rites to be conducted by the Masons, OES and American Legion. Grubb chapel, Ellsworth, is in charge of arrangements. Jerek, an Air Corps veteran of World War II, farmed near Holy-rood. He was a member of all Masonic bodies, the American Legion and the and Church. Surviving him are the widow El-nita of the home; two brothers, Joe and Ernest of Holyrood; two sisters, Mrs.

Marion Stralmann, Salina and Mrs. Marty Hays, Great Bend; his father, Charles Jezek Mrs. Ehler was a member of the and Church, OES, Women's as nire ruuiuun Coach From Hill City 'J'lic hiring of a new head football coach for Great Bend High School highlighted a special meeting of the board of education last night. Vergil McKinzic, 37, present fool-ball coach at Hill City High School was hired as head football roach for the next school term, filling a vacancy created by former head football mentor Harry Kline who resigned from that post in January. McKinzie was hired at a salary ot $6,000 per year.

(Story on page 8.) In other business, the board discussed the textbook rental program and approved (he hiring of two new tcachers Superintendent of Schools Dan Swartz showed the board a letter In (he first group wan August Jack McNair of Miami, Fla. The broadcast said the second group included Howard F. Anderson, a ma resident from Seattle, an ex-Marine who one was the commander of Havana's American Legion post. He was arrested last month. A Cuban broadcast denied rebel claims of new landings in northern Matanzas and Oricntc Prov- and said an attack against the Isle of Pines had failed.

-Rebel leaders had asserted earlier this week that the prison island off Ihe south coast had (alien and its W.OOO political prisoners had joined the insurgents. Communist hloe governmente. and newspapers continued a prop aganda barrage depicting (he United Stales as the aggressor in Cuba. Such allies as President Gamal Abdel Nasser of (he Unit ed Arab Republic joined in. In Moscow, Asian, African ana Latin-American students at Patrice Lumumba University staged a violent anli-Amcrican rally and got set to march on the U.

S. Embassy again. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers and police guarded the embassy. It appeared that a demonstration more violent than Tuesday was imminent. Pro-Castro sympathizers, with leftists and Communists in (he.

forefront, whipped up fresh and violent anti-American demonstra- 1 d.1J" M-li. 170 miles west of Mexico City and director Eugene he had ,0 run toT hls 1 rrowd flf ,5 000 dcmoslriled jn Mexico City in thai capitals bicgest demonstration in years. 0m, pcon was killed and 18 mjurca mnh 500 ran wild Ihnaugh the streets of Caracas, capital of Venezuela. They broke windows in a Scars Roebuck store overturned cars and shouted death lo President Romulo Betan-court, once Castro's close friend but. now opposed lo him.

National Guardsmen were summoned out in Panama to break up a mob that tried lo march into the U. Panama Canal Zone. Three persons were injured, Including one man who fell off a ba.cony in the excitement. Communists paraded Tuesday night in three Italian cities-Milan, Genoa and Turin. The Milan demonstration erupted into a fight when a group of Fascists pounced on 500 marching Communists in Cathedral Square.

Police guarded the U. S. Embassy in Rome. Red China announced it would "forever stand" hy the Castro government but did not say what kind of support it might give. Santa Fe Stops Passenger Runs As of today the Santa Fe Railroad no longer oflcrs passenger service on its runs from Great Bend to Scott City and from Lar- ncd to Jctmore.

The "mixed'" freights that make these schedules will hereafter be "Way freights. Patrons who Insist on riding (hem will be accommodated in the caboose as paying passengers (all freights must haul passengers on (his basis if the passenger wants (0 ride.) But the ancienl passenger-baggage cars which have been towed back and forth on the two linos will come off as soon as rabooses or "way cars" arc brought in to replace (hem. The Kansas Corporation Commission had railed a hearing on the auspension of passenger service over these lines, and then canceled Ihc hearings without explanation. Contacted by telephone. S.

C. Bennett assistant director of the KCC rale division, said today the hearings were cancelled when no protests developed. Bennett said th KCC was inlormed the communities had no strong objections to closing down the passenger service, if the freight service was not affected. "We advised the Sanla Fe it would be permitted to reclassify the trains as "way freight" but that there could be no change in the freight schedules without notice to the corporation commis- Thc Great Bend lo Scott City run is made westbound three days a week, and eastbound on alternate days. The old passenger cars, heated by pot-bellied stoves and lighted by extension cords and bare bulbs, hadn't been used more than once or twice a month by passengers.

George Marsh, passenger agent here, said there was one other change in passenger service coming up. After April 30, the east-bound train to Newton will leav Great Bend 20 minutes earlier, at 6 a.m. present." He had no information about the situation elsewhere in Cuba. The situation was quiet around the naval base. There was little news on the progress of the invasion force on the coastal front southeast and east of Havana.

The government put ils firing squads lo work, sending two Americans to their deaths. The Castro radio said five men who landed in Pmar del Rio Province of western Cuba In join the rebels were executed, and another group of four was shot for transporting weapons. ched Kennedy House made answer at the night thai Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave it to Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Mcnshikov. Authoritative sources said Ken nedy personally devoted much time lo wording his reply and conferring with advisers The result was a short 500 word message sheared I of usual diplomalic verbiage andl Salnrguennedy IS used so far in his effort to get along with the Soviets. Kennedy told Khrushchev: 1.

The United States morally supports and will not hinder "Cuban patriots" in "their strug file for freedom'' againsl the Cas tro government. 2. While (he United Sta(cs "intends no military intervention in Cuba, in the event of any military intervention by outside force we will immedialcly honor our ob ligations under the inter-American system lo protect this hemisphere against external aggression. Kennedy referred, as had Presi dent Eisenhower in a similar warning lo Khrushchev last sum mer, to the commitments by the American republics under the Rio de Janeiro Pact lo act together against any move by an outside power endangering peace in the hemisphere. 3.

Rather than using Ihe Cuban situation as a pretext "lo inflame other areas of the world," Moscow should in present, opportunities for peace in Laos and the Congo and for agreeing lo a ban on atomic tests 4. Contrary to Khrushchev's claim that communism is the in evitable wave of the future, "the great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free "What your government believes is ils own business," Kennedy said. "What it does in the world is the world's business." Kennedy's note made no men-lion of the rock-throwing demonstrators who broke windows of the American Embassy in Moscow Thursday. Washington officials said the embassy had authority to protest on the spot if it decided the facts warranted. Two Americans Executed in Cuba MIAMI, Fla.

(AP) A Cuban government broadcast today said two Americans were shot by firing squads which also executed seven Cubans. The broadcast heard in Miami, identified the Americans as Howard Anderson and Angus McNair. The news broadcast said the executions took place in Pinar Del Ioince where Anderson, a Seattle ex-Marine and Havana business man, and McNair, of Mi ami, were condemned on arms transportation charges. Anderson operated three Hava na automobile service stations and was commander of the Havana American Legion post before it disbanded during Fidel Castro's regime. The government radio said the two Americans and seven Cubans were shot Tuesday night soor after being condemned by a mili tary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where they had been held alter arrest by Castro police.

Anderson was arrested in March when he returned to Cuba after taking his family to the United States. He was held incommuni cado for three weeks before his seizure was disclosed. Cuban officials announced arrest of McNair March 21 and said he and four Cubans were caught trying to land an arms laden motor launch 30 miles west of Havana the school system is preparing Holyrood. Guild at the church. Surviving herlnody's warning lo Soviet Premier completion.

Lew Paramore, assistant lo me president of the Missouri Arkansas Basin Flood Control and Conservation Association, spoke to 52 men interested in the taming of the Arkansas River, Wei and Dry Walnut creeks in the Great Bend vicinity. The dinner meeting was called by Mayor Don Well-mcr, with C. Monte Parrish, president of the local association, presiding. The dinner was held in the I'arnsh hotel. Paramore outlined the steps involved in securing flood control through the federal government.

He noted that Great Bend has received $10,000 towards the cost of a preliminary survey and report, and will ask for $65,000 additional funds this year to complete the survey. He explained that the next step will be a Corps of Engineers report, which will require the approval of other federal agencies, plus affected slate agencies. Next the project goes back to Congress for authorization, if it clears mis hurdle, the city can then lobby for planning money. When planning funds are appropriated, the Corps will lay out ils working plans. Then the city seeks funds for actual construction, and at the same time provides the Corps with assurances that easements, rights-of-way, and relocations made necessary by the construction will all be paid for by local funds.

He commented that unless the local people are willing to assume this cost, the whole program fails. "Competition for these federal projects is keen. There may be a day in the future when even construction funds will be made available only on a matching fund basis." He congratulated Great Bend and its city officials for taking a forward look at this time, rather than in the midst of a flood period. But he urged the community to provide a continuing citizens' group to maintain interest and enthusiasm in the project. And he urged the city to continue its membership in the Mo-Ark organization, so as to join in "presenting a united front for work to be done in this area." He listed other Kansas cities and their progress toward flood control.

Salina, he said, started in 1953 and has virtually completed a $3,809,000 (federal funds) project. Abilene is working on a $1,106,000 project. Manhattan has taken care of authorizations and planning, and has it first construction money in a $3,000,000 program. Topeka started in 1952 on its program, and has spent $7 million of a $22 million federal project. Kansas City has expended $39 million of a $43 million project.

Ottawa has nearly completed a $4 million project they started in 1952. He cited Hays as a community that once was ready to go on a federal project, and then decided the local costs were too high. Now Hays has started all over, and is about as far along as is Great Bend. said again that the United Stales intends no military intervention. As Kremlin reaction to Kennedy's message was awailcd, officials here reported no evidence of any military follow-up by Khrushchev to his threat to sup ply "all necessary assistance" to Cuba's pro-Communisl Fidel Castro regime.

Khrushchev's threat to aid Castro came early Tuesday in a message to the White House. In lit-for-tal on Moscow's pub- BULLETIN MIAMI, Fla. (AP) The Cu- ban radio announced today a United Slates airplane piloted by a United Stales citizen was shot down over south-central Cuba today. The pilot was identified as Leo Francis Bell of Boston, Mass. He was said to be carrying documents including Social Security card No.

014-07-29Z1. The broadcast said the pilot was killed when his plane was shot down by Cuban antiaircraft batteries. His home was said to be In Students Vote On School Candidates An estimated vote hy 650 students narrowed the list of class officer candidates at Great Bend High School down to a total of 22 Tuesday. The 22 will be cut down to 11 in a general election Friday. Winners yesterday in the primary, of which one will be voted in to office for each position Friday are: Seniors: President Dale Cole and Ann Bagby; Vice president -Jeanne Roulh and Beverly Larsen; Secretary Lynda Lynch, Susan Stevenson: Treasurer Karin Burns and Jan Essmiller; Cheerleader David Lake and Ronnie Becker.

Juniors: President Richard Sankey and Don Beahm; Vice-president Mary Hansen and Lillian Kobcr; Secretary Carol Papay and Kalhy Porlman: Trea- surer Tom Curtis and E.arl C. Moses, III: Cheerleader Mickey iGunn and Karen Greene. Police partment Members of the police board said they cannot find there were any payoffs in connection with suppressing the records. They said they believe there is no connection between Brannon's dismissal and any investigation being pursued by the Jackson County grand jury. The police board appeared before the grand jury Monday right after five detective lieutenants who head the five bureaus in the police department.

Th grand jury subpoenaed the lieutenants' crime reports. Lt. Col. E. I.

Hockaday, second in command of the Missouri Highway Patrol, became Kansas City's acting chief of police at midnight. The 50-vear-old patrolman, a native of Pleasant Hill, will be on loan to Kansas City and will retain bis patrol status, He be came a patrolman in 1937, shortly after his graduation from West minster College at Fulton, and is known for his ability tor handle men and direct administrative work. send lo parents regarding the textbook program. Part of the information being sent to parents includes a question and answer sheet designed to clear up questions some may have regarding how the program will work. (See Page 2.) Two teachers were hired.

Mar-jorie Hartman, Otis teacher the past 12 years, was hired to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Ted Ryan. She will teach high school English. Frank Evans, Liberal teacher, was hired to teach junior high school art, replacing Thearon Mos-er, who has resigned. Late Bulletin Invasion forces have linked up with guerrillas In the Escambry Mountains of central Cuba and completed the first phase of their drive to topple Fidel Castro, Cuban exiles reported today. lieved certain to adopt a rival pro posal by seven Latin American nations appealing (o all U.N.

members to refrain from any action that might aggravate existing tensions. The Soviet proposal, introduced Tuesday nighl by Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin after a new assault on the United Stales in the assembly's 99-nation political committee, calls for cessation of all assislance to the forces invading Cuba and urges U.N. i members give aid to rioci Castro. The Latin American resolution was expected to win wide support from member states openly cerned over President Ken Khrushchev thai the United States would take action if the Soviets intervene mililarily in Cuba. Kennedy's warning was read lo the committee by chief U.S.

delegate Adlai E. Stevenson, who delivered a blistering attack on the Castro government and rejected its charges against the United Stales. Stevenson declared that Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa had not presented one shred of evidence to support his claims that the invasion Monday had been launched from Florida. Stevenson said Roa and the Soviet bloc representatives had reached a new low in trying to smear the United Stales with every innuendo and epithel in the book. He called for a settlement of the Cuban situation by Cubans themselves and denied that the role United States had played in the invasion.

Chief of for all mailers falling in their command," said Brannon. "Hence I have assumed official responsibility for supervisory failures in the handling and recording of complaint reports, although such failures were until the present unknown to me and contrary to long-established procedures and existing orders." The police board met in Kansas City, advised Brannon of its action plane to Jefferson City to make its announcement Tuesday afternoon from Dalton's office. It said Brannon was offered the job of superintendent in charge of education and training and director of the police academy. This would permit him to retire in four years on a pension -based on his $15,000 annual salary as chief. He has been in the department 16 years and was chief for nine.

He did not accept the lesser job immdiately. Brannon was interviewed in Chicago about two years ago when the nation's second city was seeking a new head for its police de Fire Kansas City are a brolner, George Mollenberg. Holyrood; four sisters, Mrs. Anna Horst, Holyrood; Mrs. Joe Nab-holz, Holyrood; Miss Minnie Stol-lenberg, Holyrood and Mrs.

John Soeken, Geneseo. She and her husband retired from farming last November and moved to a new home in Holyrood. Herman Ehler, a member of the Masons, OES, Consistory and Isis (Continued On Page 2) The Weather GOLDEN BELT AREA Tonight fair; westerly winds 10-20; lows in 40s; Thursday fair and turning line northwesterly 15-25: hifihs in 70s. Local Weather Data Tuesday's High 74, Low 40 A Year Ago Today, High 78, Low 49 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a.

m. None. Humidity 23 percent. Barometer reading at noon 29.53 and steady. tion on the police department or any law enforcement agency.

"The Board and tt(c citizens are entitled to the plain unvarnished facts," the chief said. "We plan to get to the bottom of this and find out what went wrong. We are interested in determining the individuals responsible." The board said in its announcement it has full confidence in Brannon's integrity and honesty. Members of the board said they believe other officers withheld the records. They said it has been going on five or six years.

Some have been found. They apparently were not destroyed or hidden. None was doctored. "Some of them just didn't find their way to the official record room," Thomson said. "We know something is wrong and we intend to find out who is responsible." The 48-year-old chief said he doesn't know anything about the records but will take the responsibility.

"1 have always required my sub ordinates to assume "If you want to get the workl" KANSAS CITY (AP) Lt. Col. EL I. Heckaday, second in command of the Missouri Highway Patrol, was sworn in today as acting chief of the Kansas City police department. He was appointed to the post late Tuesday after the unexpected discharge of Pernard C.

Bran-non, widely known and respected in his nearly nine years as head of the department. The new police board, which for the A breakdown in supervision." It said all crimes did not get into the records, pointing out that 450 burglaries in the first VA months of the year were not submitted to the police record center. "I can't conceive of what went wrong," Brannon said today. "I'm going to do everything I (an to find out who and why this happened." Brannon was offered another post in the department. After talcing the oth, Chief Hockaday said "there is gb place misrepresent- go by the rules set down by Congress," he said.

Paramore had to catch an 8 p.m. plane, and left shortly after completing his presentation. The group remained for nearly an hour, discussing the legislative features of the local project. Traffic Fatalities TOPEKA (AP) Kansas traf. fic death log: 24 hours to 9 a.m.

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