THURSDAY, UCIUBfcK 28, 1704
Egyptian Premier
Escapes Assassin
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 27- crowds today put the torch to headquarters of the fanatic
i.' .Moslem Brotherhood enemies of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. Two hours later they embraced the
Premier as a hero on his return from Alexandria, where he escaped an assassin’s gunfire.
An official announcement said Mahmoud Abdel Latif, 32-year-old Cairo tinsmith who fired
eight shots while Nasser was speaking last night in the port city, is a Brotherhood member. He was
flown to Cairo this morning for
interrogation.
The announcement said 60 more
Brotherhood ‘members, including
four of its supreme councilmen,
were arrested toclay in Cairo and
Alexandria. Unofficial reports
said the total number of arrests
would run much ’ higher.
Confessed to Shooting
An official source in Alexandria
told newsmen Latif, who first said
he had fired the. shots as an ex
pression of joy, had confessed he
was sent to Alexondria to shoot
Nasser. The Moslem Brotherhood
has been criticizing the Premier
bitterly, for signing the British-
Egyptian treaty for the evacua
tion of 83,000 British troops from
the Suez Canal zone.
The Brotherhod has been mak
ing emotional appeals to the Egyp
tians, declaring the ■ government
should have insisted on immediate
evacuation of the British with
no strings attached. The agree
ment gives the troops 20 months
to get out and permits their re
turn any time within the next
seven years if any member of the
Arab League or Turkey is at
tacked
Rescuers
Probe Ruins
At Salerno
SALERNO, Italy, Oct. 27 (&)
Mud-caked workers struggled
wearily in darkness tonight in an
effort to restore normal life to
the Salerno area, devastated by
Italy’s worst flood disaster. Offi
cials said the final death toll may
reaqh 300.
Soldiers and firemen exhausted
by nearly 48 hours of continuous
labor dug through the ruins of
homes, seeking bodies of the miss
ing.
Coast guard boats fished some
bodies out of Salerno Gulf, adding
to the steadily mounting death
toll taken, by the flash floods and
landslides that struck without
warning late Monday night and
early yesterday.
Carabinieri reported 217 bodies
have been recovered. Seventy per
sons are missing and feared dead.
Hundreds were injured and
about 5000 left homeless along the
shoreline from Salerno to Amalfi,
a 10-mile stretch of fabled vaca
tionland.- Property damage was
estimated in the millions.
Premier Mario Scelba arrived
here this afternoon to make a
personal survey of relief require
ments. He flew over the ravaged
area in the plane that brought
him from Rome, then landed at
Naples and came here by car.
He toured much of the stricken
zone, but found some smaller vil
lages • still are cut off from aid
except by sea.
As Scelba entered the. Salerno
police headquarters to review the
situation with lieutenants already
on the scene, hundreds of the
homeless jammed nearby streets.
“We need help! Help us!” many
shouted at the Premier.
In Salerno,. where American
troops stormed ashore 11 years
ago, bulldozers and other heavy
machinery assaulted the sea of
mud. the floods washed into the
city of 70,000.
In Salerno alone the death toll
has exceeded 80. Another 80 dead
were counted in Vietri sul Mare,
world-famed pottery center, and
its suburbs of Marina and Molina.
Douceff Quadruplet Dies
BATHURST, N. 8., Oct. 27 (JP)—
Maria, smallest of the quadruplet
children born to Mr. and Mrs:
Lawrence Doucet nine days ago,
died last night.
Class Cuts for Voters
Class excuse blanks for stu
dents who wish to. cut classes to
vote in the Nov. 2 general elec
tion are available at the Student
Union desk in Old Main. The
forms are to be filled out by
elections officials at the student’s
polling place and shown to class
instructors when the student re
turns.
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Moslem Leader Protests
In Damascus, the leader of the
Syrian Moslem Brotherhood said
Egypt was trying to pin the as
sassination attempt on the Broth
erhood, which he insisted de
nounces political assassination.
The crowds, gathered to welcome
Nasser back to Cairo, moved on
the' Brotherhood headquarters
soonafter Latif was identified of
ficially as a member of the fanatic,
religious group. They broke into
the two-story building, smashed
furniture and windows, and set
fire to the structure and an ad
joining building where the Broth
erhood used to publish its maga
zine. No one was injured.
Reinforced police drove the
crowds back so' firemen could
fight the blaze, but the demon
strators continued to vent their
anger by wrecking an iron fence
around the burning buildings.
Adenauer 1$ in U.S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (JP)~
German Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer arrived, in Washington to
day for three days of talks de
signed to cement Germany into
the free world alliance.
Greeted by Secretary of State
Dulles as “one of the truly great
men of our times,” Adenauer re
sponded with a message of thanks
to this country and the declara
tion that, “The whole German
people are united in the desire to
live in continual, cordial friend
ship with the American people.”
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Man Kills
Self With
Dynamite
EDINBURG, Tex., Oct. 27 (JPJ—
An elderly can—despondent since
a dynamite blast injury in 1950
detonated a dynamite bomb in
his hands today, and blew himself
to pieces oh the second floor of
the Hidalgo County Courthouse
here.
The explosion wrecked the sec
ond floor of.the courthouse, tore
marble slabs off the Walls, broke
windows on two floors and shook
downtown Edinburg. The five
story'courthouse costing \Vz mil
lion dollars was dedicated only
last summer.
Several hundred persons were
in the building at the time of
the explosion at lp;04 a.im Two
women suffered severe shock.
Minor cuts and bruises were re
ported to other persons.
The man was Harry Miller,
about 60, of Realitos, Tex. He was
an oilfield worker who was in
court today £or a decision on his
suit for damages from injuries re
ceived in a dynamite explosion
in September 1950.
Miller had taken an elevator
to the second floor of the court
house, gone for a moment into
, the 92nd District courtroom and
then walked into the hall where
he stood beforb a mirror beside
the elevator and detonated fhe
blast.
The elevator girl, Dihora Car
rejo, about 22, had gone back
downstairs. She heard the blast,
went back to thg second floor,
opened her door and there saw
the man’s decapitated head -in
front of her. She fainted, later
awoke screaming and went into
sqvere shock.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Tom
Wipgert said he was about 30 to
40 feat from the scene of the
blastHe said he saw Miller
standing there with a package
in his arms, just shaking hjs
head.
“The next thing I knew there
was a trrific blast,” Wingert said.
I was knocked flgt. I got up and
started running but slipped on
the man’s leg. The corridor was
filled with thick blue-black
smoke.”
Naming of
Jury Again
CLEVELAND, Oct. 27 (TP)—The state twice approved a full panel
of jurors today at the murder trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, but
the defense still was not satisfied.
Meanwhile the illness of-one seated juror further slowed proceed
ings and the court recessed for the night with a full jury near, but
still not agreed upon.
The ailing juror was Thomas J.
Soli, foreman of a railroad track
gang. Repeated, severe bronchial
coughing spells led him to ask
Common Pleas Judge Edward
Blythin to excuse him. The judge
consented.
The defense used three of its
peremptory challenges during the
day, and wound up with only one
remaining.
One Juror Dismissed
The last juror dismissed was
Fred ■J. Brown, a Negro postal
clerk. He hardly had had time to
get settled in the jury box. He
had been selected as a replace
ment for 26-year-old Dorothy E.
Lee, who was dismissed by the
defense.
William C. Lamb, a handsome
construction superintendent with
a fullback's build, was seated in
Soli’s piace, and the defense then
dismissed Brown with a peremp
tory challenge—that is, without
giving any reason.
One Seat Vacant
The day ended with this one
jury seat vacant, and with the de
fense still holding in reserve its
final challenge. Defense lawyers
declined to say whether they will
use it.
Dr. Sheppard, 30, is accused of
beating his 31-year-old wife to
death July 4 in the bedroom of
their lakefront home. Marilyn was
four months pregnant with her
second child.
State Claims Romance
The state claims the slaying fol
lowed an illicit’ romance between
the handsome osteopath and a for
mer - technician in - his hosnital,
pretty Susan Hayes, 24. She is
scheduled later as a star state wit-'
ness. I
Sheppard, in pleading innocent,
claimed a bushy-haired intruder
killed his wife and knocked him
out when he tried to aid her.
Sheppard’s two brothers and
their attractive wives for the first
time today were prevented from
conferring with the defendant in
side the courtroom rail during re
cesses.
Sheriff Jos e p h M. Sweeney
claimed' such conferences, and the
handshaking and kisses that ac
companied them, might influence
the jurors.
Displacement Talks OK'd
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct.
27. (JP) —The UN Political Com
mittee, happy over rare agree
ment between the West and Rus
sia, unanimously approved today
a resolution calling for secret
five-power talks on disarmament
problems.
Sheppard
Delayed
Diplomats Wife
Ss Accused
Of Hitting Red
MOSCOW, Oct. 27 (TP)—The
Soviet ■ government tonight ac
cused the wife of a U.S. diplomat
of hitting a Soviet worker in the
face and “brutally” pushing a
Russian woman. The foreign min
istry has demanded that the dip
lomat’s wife leave Russia.
. The Russian version of the in
cident, which occurred Monday,
was subtantially different from
from that given by the State De
partment in Washington.
They are Mrs. Karl E. Sommer
latte, 32, wife of the second sec
retary, of the U.S. embassy, and
Mrs. Houston Stiff, wife of a
Marine lieutenant colonel who is
assistant naval attache here.
The Soviet version of the inci
dent as broadcast by the Moscow
radio was:
The two American women tried
to take some pictures Monday of
some Russian children against the
background of their factory -vil
lage home which was under re
pair and showed considerable rub
ble.
The father of one of the chil
dren and a friend, Andrianov, pro
tested and suggested that the
women go to the factory club
nearby.
At the club, Mrs. Sommerlatte
telephoned the American embas
sy, then went toward an exit. An
drianov met her at the door and
tried to call her attention to her
improper act,” whereupon Mrs.
Sommerlatte hit Andrianov in the
face and “brutally pushed away”
a woman worker nearby.
The Story of Brunhilda
Typical College Coed
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What about your date?
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