TUESDAY. MAY 2: 1961
Vathana Issues Protest
Against Plan for Talks
To Settle Laotian Crisis
VIENTIANE, Laos (W) King Savang Vathana came
out yesterday against the great powers settling the issue
of peace in Laos at a conference in Geneva, Prince Norodom
Sihanouk of Cambodia said.
The king wants Laotians to work out their own
Space Trip
Will Depend
On Forecast
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
—Space experts and astro
nauts tried to outguess the
weather last night—but clouds
and winds may postpone to
day's expected firing of an
American into space.
A midnight look at the weath
er by a caucus of experts will
decide whether the countdown,
now nearly half gone, will con
tinue.
Today's half of the countdown
Is the critical part, when the
rocket is fueled and the astronaut
prepared and iestalled in the
space capsule. Yesterday, mostly,
the rocket's electronic systems
were checked and the countdown
had gone without incident.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration has set
weather standards well above
what is required for an ordinary
missile launching.
Meanwhile, two Mercury astro
nauts flew mock missions yester
day in a capsule like that which
may take one of them into space.
No official announcement of
the date or time has been made,
but the space trip could come any
time after 7 a.m., Eastern Stan
dard Time, today, weather and
other factors permitting.
In the few hours ahead,. one of
the two will be named to man
the control. The other will be his
"backup," or, alternate. Late yes
tcrday neither knew which would
be which.
The identities of the two men
were closely guarded. The world
knew only that they were among
the three picked from the team
of seven Mercury astronauts:
Marine Lt. Col. John Glenn, 39,
Air Force Capt. Virgil. Grissom,
35, and Navy Comdr. Alan Shep
ard, 37.
Disclosure of the names of the
first U.S. spaceman and the back
up pilot is not expected until a
few hours before• the launching.
The man launched possibly to
day will be in space only about
five minutes, at the top of his
15-minute ride. It will be months
before an American astronaut or
bits the earth.
Indiana's Bellamy Signs
With New Chicago Club
CHICAGO (W) Walt Bellamy,
of Indiana, all-Big Ten and 1960
Olympia basketball player, yester
day was signed by David Trager,
owner of Chicago's new National
Basketball Association club.
"Bellamy received a good con
tract for one year and a bonus for
signing," said Trager, who did
not reveal terms of the agree
ment.
Za Critique
Tuesday, May 2nd
HUB Basement
problems the prince added.
By making .the statement, the
king took a stand against his own
pro-western government, headed
by Premier Boun Oum.
W. Averell Harriman, roving
U.S. ambassador, told reporters
Boun Oum's government still
favors the 14• nation conference
plan after a cease-fire.
Harriman declared the United
States is doing everything possi- 1
ble to promote the cease-fire be
tween government and pro-Com
munist rebel forces and pledged
anew the support of the United
States for the government of Boun
Oum.
He said any delay in a cease
fire is squarely up to Soviet
Premier Khrushchev and he
"must bear responsibility for
it."
Earlier, Sihanouk also spoke to
reporters and told them the Lao
tian king opposed the 14-nation
parley, Sihanouk originally had
proposed it and the Communists
then insisted it must be a condi
tion for a cease-fire.
Sihanouk said the king stressed
that the factions in Laos now
fighting their civil war must be
allowed to reach their own solu
tions without illegal'foreign influ
ence.
The Cambodian leader said he
disagreed with the Laotian mon
arch but would withdraw his
sponsorship of the parley.
U.S. Man Tells
Of Polish Camp
JERUSALEM, Israel (IP) A
witness from Fort Lee, N.J., Dr.
Leon Weliczker Wells, testified
yesterday in the , trial of Adolf
Eichmann that there were five
main-traveled roads to death for
the Jews in the Polish camp
where he was held.
Prisoners had their skulls
crushed, died from freezing, stran
gulation, disease and were killed
by guards in "shooting compe
-1 titions," he said.
Wells was born in Poland and
was there when the Nazis at
tacked the Soviet Union in 1941.
He was 16 at the time. He ar
rived in Jerusalem Sunday night
to testify.
Wells was the fifth witness to
come before the court yesterday
and describe Gestapo atrocities in
Poland.
Earlier, two telegrams signed
by Eichmann ordering the execu
tion of specific groups of Jews
were put in evidence in an effort
to link him directly with wartime
exterminations.
Prison Camp Survivor
Witnesses Nazi Horrors
JERUSALEM (/?) A survivor
of a Nazi extermination camp tes
tified Friday she saw Jews
soaked in kerosene and -set afire
as they prayed, small children
shot down because they wept and
women tied in packs and forced
to march for miles in sub-zero
temperatures.
Engineering Library
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Lee Captures
Pulitzer Prize
For Top Book
NEW YORK (?P) Harper
Lee's novel "To Kill a Mock
ing Bird" yesterday won the
1961 Pulitzer prize for fiction.
The award for drama went to
"All the Way Home" by Tad
Mosel.
In the journalism field, the Pul
itzer gold medal for meritorious
public service went to the Ama
rillo, Tex., Globe-Times, for ex
posing a breakdown in local law
enforcement with resultant re
forms and official shakeups.
Lynn Heinzerling of The Asso
ciated .Press won the Pulitzer
award for international reporting
for his coverage of the early
stages of the Congo crisis "under
extraordinarily difficult condi
tions." He also was cited for "his
keen analysis of events in other
parts of Africa."
The prize for national report
ing went to Edward R. Cony of
the Wall Street Journal for his
analysis of timber dealings which
drew attention to questions of
business ethics.
The awards in journalism carry
a $l,OOO prize and those in arts
and letters $5OO each.
The trustees of Columbia Uni
versity announced that the prizes
were based on recommendations
of an advisory board composed
mainly of newspaper executives.
The awards were set up at Col
umbia by the late newspaper pub
lisher Joseph Pulitzer.
The music award went to "Sym
phony Number 7," by Walter Pis
ton.
Sloan Installed
As Pa. Treasurer
HARRISBURG (W)—Mrs. Grace
McAlmont Sloan of Clarion prom
ised to keep a firm grip on the
commonwealth pocketbook yes
terday as she was installed as
state treasurer.
A longtime champion of wom
en's rights and Democratic party
policy, Mrs. Sloan vowed to "See
that all state tax monies are
properly accounted for, prudent
ly invested, and paid out in ac
cordance with the law—in the
interest of all taxpayers."
Mrs. Sloan is only the second
woman to be installed in a state
,wide elective office. The other is
Miss Genevieve Blatt, elected sec
, retary of internal affairs in 1954
and re-elected to the post in 1958.
Mrs. Sloan succeeds Republican
Robert F. Kent in the treasurer
post.
House Plans Wage Bill
WASHINGTON (JP) Senate-
House conferees yesterday agreed
on a bill which would raise the
minimum wage from $1 to $1.25
an hour by 1963 and bring an ad
ditional 3,624,000 workers under
the wage-hour act.
Ikeda to Break Tradition
TOKYO VP) Prime Minister
Hayato Ikeda will break tradi
tion by taking his wife along on
his U.S. trip next month.
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Castro Cites Future
In May Day Speech
KEY WEST, Fla. (RP)—Hun
dreds of thousands of Cubans
paraded through Havana yes
terday in a gigantic May Day
buildup for Fidel Castro's ex
pected major pronouncement
on the future of his "socialist"
regime.
Cuban television commentators
said 3 million of Cuba's 6 1 / 2 mil
lion people were packed into Ha
vana's Civic Plaza.
Militiamen and civilians of all
ages streamed all day before Cas
tro, who stood smoking cigars and
scanning the crowd through field
glasses from a reviewing stand.
The square was a sea of men,
women and children carrying
flags, banners and placards.
Dozens of floats and banners
praised Castro's revolution or
denounced "Yankee imperial
ism."
Castro was flanked by President
Osvaldo Dorticos, military lead
ers, members of the Council of
Ministers and foreign diplomats
including the Soviet ambassador.
One thing missing from the
Moscow-style demonstration was
a display of military equipment.
Only soldiers with rifles and one
MISS DIANA RICHARDS of Alpha Phi
finally ...
after several months of observing and experimenting,
we are now ready to inaugurate the use of
NATURAL COLOR
in our portraits
this is mad . . .
but as an added incentive for you to discover the
breath taking beauty of a portrait in natural color
es compared to painted photographs, the prices
IN THE BEGINNING will be identical to those in
black and white. For example: three five by seven
inch portraits can be had for as little as thirteen
dollars and fifty cents.
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mobile antiaircraft' gun were ob
served on the telecast picked up
in this Florida city 90 miles from
Havana.
Explaining the absence 'of
weapons, an announcement said
that while the celebration was
in progress, the: military would
remain on the alert throughout
Cuba against an invasion which
Castro's propagandists said
might take place.
Workers and peasants were
brought Into Havana - for what TV
announcers proclaimed the first
May Day celebration anywhere in
the Americas "with ..th( working
class in power."
Although it was not televised,
it was announced that an effigy
of U.S. President John F. Ken
nedy has been burne publicly
on the square.
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