MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6. T9AI
Northeastern U.S. Battles
Strangling Snowstorms
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Northeast fought a relentless battle with muscle and machine yesterday to dig out
from under a strangling Saturday snowstorm.
The storm was blamed for nearly 100 deaths by unofficial estimate.
Entire communities, including some major cities, were virtually immobilized under
snow as high as 30 inches.^
Winds that were clocked steadily as high as 75 miles an hour swirled the snow in drifts
U.S., Poland
Conducting
Peace Talks
WASHINGTON m The Unit
ed States and Poland have started
informal talks on how to use some
$365 million on various “peace
projects” in that Communist coun
try.
The talks, it was learned yester
day, began in the wake of Presi
dent Kennedy’s State of the Union
message in which he announced
his intention “to explore with the
Polish government the possibility
of using our frozen Polish funds
on projects of peace that will
demonstrate our abiding friend
ship for the people of Poland.”
Officials said the talks are in
an exploratory stage.
The $365 million is the total
value of surplus food sold to Po
land and paid for in zlotys, the
Polish currency.
The United States has used
some of the zlotys for its embassy
in Warsaw, for participation in
trade fairs in Poland, and for a
limited cultural exchange pro
gram, But the bulk of the money
remains frozen.
The Battle Act forbids use of
such funds to aid Iron Curtain
countries.
The present talks, officials said,
are aimed mainly at reaching
some understanding with the Poles
on the character of projects to be
considered, should Congress give
authorization.
The administration, it was
learned, soon will ask for an
amendment of the Battle Act.
Kennedy told the House and Sen
ate he will request "increased dis
cretion to use economic tools” in
Eastern Europe “along the lines
I proposed as a member of the
Senate.”
The President referred to a bill
he co-sponsored with Sen. George
Aiken, (R-Vt.). It passed the Sen
ate but was stranded in the House.
That bill asked authority for the
president to make loans to East
ern European countries through
the Export-Import Bank.
The State Department, officials
said, would be satisfied if a bill
in this form is enacted now.
Sherry Shocks
Labor Leader
OXFORD, England (/P) Ten
bottles of golden sherry hive
plunged Hugh Gaitskell, British
Labor party leader, into a spot of
political embarrassment.
The sherry was served at a re
ception Jan. 27 for Gaitskell by
Oxford University’s Labor Club,
which takes its socialism very se
riously.
Everyone there enjoyed the
sherry, which was served from de
canters, so that no bottles with
labels were on view.
It was only afterward that he
terrible hews came out. Gaitskel'
and company had been drinking
South African sherry.
And everyone at the receptior
was pledged never to buy any
South African product as a protes'
against the South African racia'
laws.
“This may seem funny to yoi
but it’s not funny to Mr. Gaits
kell” said cluh organizer John Gy
ford Saturday night.
He ordered an inquiry into wh*
brought the South African sherr'
and who told the waiter to serv
it from decanters.
The waiter had the last word
“I had specific instructions to ge‘
that wine from a member whr
said the club couldn’t afford Span
ish sherry.”
higher than the tops of auto
mobiles.
The creeping paralysis began
early Saturday when the two
pronged storm swept into the
Northeast from the west and from
the south.
By mid-day Saturday the dis
ruption of travel and vital serv
ices was nearly complete as the!
storm swept northward from the
Carolinas, Virginia and West Vir
ginia thro u g h Pennsylvania,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York,
and southern and central New!
England.
Numerous major highways were
clogged with thousands of snow
stalled automobiles, bus lines and
commuter trains abandoned sched
ules and airports in the Northeast
closed down.
Entire communities lost power
and telephone service, principally
because overhead lines could not
stand the strain of the heavy
snow and high winds. ' I
For the first time ever. New
York City officially banned all
automobile travel except for of
ficial and emergency trips.
Nearly a dozen cities and
towns, mostly in New England,
proclaimed' emergency condi
tions.
As the Northeast was digging
out from under its heavy shroud,
heavy snow fell yesterday from
Nebraska southward over Kansas
and into Oklahoma and portions
of north central Texas. Heavy rain
fell in the southern areas.
The Weather Bureau reported
the storm in the south central por
tion of the nation was heading
eastward and a little to the north,
but added that it poses no im
mediate threat to the already
battered Northeast.
Sunny weather in the 30’s aided
the snowdiggers, who took no
Sunday holiday.
The storm followed 16 con
secutive days of below freezing
temperature. Oil dealer* in New
England reported consumption
of heating fuel was up 16 per
cent from the tame period last
year.
Rhode Island state officials
called the Saturday storm the
worst in that state in at least 57
years.
Major buslines said they hope
to restore service by today. Air
lines said plane travel also might
be possible by'morning.
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Rioting Renewed
In African Colony
LISBON,' Portugal (7P) Re
newed rioting broke out yesterday
in Luanda, capital of Angola, and
four persons were killed and sev
en wounded, the Portuguese news
agency Lusitania reported.
The dispatch said the disorders
broke out at funeral services for
i seven police and soldiers killed in
a clash last Friday when a brawl
ing crowd was machine-gunned.
( Lusitania said persons involved
jin an attempted march Friday on
a police station in the Portuguese
territory in West Africa apparent
ly mixed with the funeral crowd
yesterday and suddenly began
shooting. The agency did not iden
tify the victims.
j Portuguese spokesmen, charg
ing that the Friday outbreak was
the result of an attempt to cap
ture police stations, said there
were 16 casualties, including sev
en security men and nine demon
strators. The spokesmen said
modern Czechoslovak weapons
were seized in the incident..
Three of the dead police were
whites, a police spokesman said.
About 20 person were known to
have been injured and five were
arrested.
An official of Portugal’s inter-;
national police denied the crowd;
was marching on a police station)
or taking part in an uprising in'
this Portuguese West African col
ony. He declined, however, to is
sue. any details.
Gov. Gen. Alvaro Silva Tavares
announced Saturday that an
armed uprising, supposedly timed
with the ill-fated seizure of the
Portuguese liner Santa Maria,
had been crushed. He said attacks
were made on Luanda’s police
headquarters and' the civil and
military prisons in an attempt to
free prisoners.
The governor general said both
sides suffered losses, but did not
say how many. The city was quiet
after the shooting. Transportation
ran on schedule and no army or
police patrols were to be seen on
the streets.
Angola is governed as a prov
ince of Portugal under the rigid
one-party system of Premier An
tonio de Aliveira Salazar’s nation
al union.
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Prisoners Released
From Pirate Ship
RECIFE, Brazil (/P) Most water and food and undergoing
of the Santa Maria’s European
passengers headed for Lisbon
yesterday aboard a heavily
guarded sister ship, the Vera
Cruz. Most of the Americans
from the hijacked liner packed
for a flight home Monday
Joining in the exodus were U.S.
planes and destroyers which hunt
ed down and kept watch on the
(Portuguese vessel finally surren
jdered to Brazil by rebel Capt.
IHenrique Galvao at the weekend
and then turned back to its own
ers, the Colonial Navigation Co.
About 450 of the nearly 800
j passengers mainly Spaniards
and Portuguese boarded the
j Vera Cruz for resumption of a
trip interrupted when Galvao
I and his band captured the San
: la Maria in the Caribbean two
| weeks ago.
| The Vera Cruz already was car
rying 220 passengers she took on
!at Rio de Janeiro and Santos,
ißrazil. Eastbound to Lisbon, her
jhome port, she is to stop at Por
itugal’s Cape Verde Islands, the
(Spanish island of Tenerife, Fun
ichal, Madeira, and Vigo, Spain.
| A strong Portuguese guard
1 patrolled the Vera Cruz to make
; certain there was no repetition
! of the Santa Maria episode, a
j seizure that Galvao said was
aimed to start the ouster of
Portugal's Premier Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar. i_ , „., . , _
! The Santa Maria, restored Sat-!® Methuselah Born
■urday to her regular skipper, re-1 BERLIN (A 5 ) The East Berlin
imained under strong guard. The;Zoo has a new baby pelican, one
jskipper, Capt. Mario Simoes Maiajof the rare instances of a pelican
jwept at the return of the ship. jborn' in captivity.
I The $16.6-million liner will, re-j Born in January, it now is the
main at this South American port size of chicken. It has been named
ithree more days, taking on oil,;Methuselah.
Circulation Staff
MEETING
Be There and Be Promptl
fa Scenic Artists
fa Pianists
fa Crew People
minor repairs.
A representative of the ship
ping line, in which Portugal'*
government has a minority in
terest. estimated Gnlvao's ad
venture cost the company
about $lOO,OOO a day, aside from
the blow to its prestige.
® Thirty-eight Americans parted
i their journey home last flight,
| They are booked to leave tfee
[Amazon delta city of Belem,
11050 miles northwest of Recife, at
13 a.m. this morning aboard the
|Real Airline flight 002 for Miami,
!Fla.
I Their mission accomplished,
i the U.S. destroyers Wilson,
! Gearing and Damaio and sever
| al U.S. military planes pulled
out of Recife. Under command
! of Rear Adm. Allen E. Smith
; Jr., who handled face-to-face
: negotiations with Galvao forf
I the captive passengers, they are
! returning io Caribbean waters.
I Galvao, who declares he will
Tight on, plans to go to Rio de
[Janeiro, Sao Paulo or Brasilia
ionce he is given permission to
[leave town. Although he had been
[promised political asylum, police
•have temporarily restricted his
'movements.
• Gen. Humberta Delgado, mas
itermind of the plot, left Saturday
[night for Rio de Janeiro. A politi
[cal exile from Portugal, he told
[newsmen that he and Galvao “are
already planning our next move.”
TONIGHT
6:15 p.m.
Collegian Office
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