The Weather V4. WntlMT Barca* rcrctsci Uttk Warmer THE PONTIAC PRESS K bme Edition VBh.^ NO. 245 'kiritit PONTIAC, MICHIGAN. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1962 —80 PAGES IMTMNATIONAL STUDY STATEMENT - Officials of the forUlac Urban League are showing a statement of the league's goals to a visiting official at a luncheon at the Waldron Hotel yesterday. Gathered for the first Porttiac,, ob-servancd of Equal Opportunity Day ait (from left) Sam H. Jones, executive director; Charles R. Harris, president; Dr. Robert R. Turpin, cochairman of the league’s business and industrial comniiHee; and guest speaker Dr. Charles E. Scholl, of the industrial relations staff of Burrough's Corp. Say Indian Forces Holding Back Reds ‘Can’t Tell as Yet if Offer Genuine [ WASHINGTON Uf)—Secretary of State Dean .Husk said today it is too early yet to know just what value to put on an offer by Fidel Castro to give up the Soviet jet bombers now in Cuba. Rusk took that attitude after an early morning meeting at the White House with President Kennedy and other high officials. Castro was reported by Havana radio to have Witten Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant of his willing ness to have the bombers*-------------- From Our News Wires ing their positions against the NEW DELHI - Indian forces were reported today to have checked the Chinese Communist advances south of Bomdila and Walong at opposite ends of the' fighting front in the'North E Frontier Agency. WWW A Defense Ministry spokesman said the Indian troops were hold- Chinese pinchers movement as fighting continued in both the Bomdila and Walong sectors. The Indian troops were holding fast in their latest Defensive positions for the first tifne in nearly a week of advances by Chinese forces who attacked without regard to losses. The Indian defense stiffened as ★ ★ ★ Nehru Appeals lo U.S. for Helicopters, Planes WASHINGTON (.'PI — India’s Prime Minister Nehru has sent an urgent personal plea to President Kennedy fof helicopters and transport planes. The request was made in a letter delivered to the President, yesterday by India’s AmbassadorX B. K. ----:---------------^Nehru, a cousin of the It'll Be Warmer on Thanksgiving, but Cool Nightly 'prime minister. Indian defenses were crumbling at the time as Red Chinb% battalions advanced toward the populous plains of Assam. The ambassador said he gave the President a report on the mili- One of the things to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day is the weatherman's forecast. defehse needs in the border war. The United States has advised Americans not engaged in essen-„ , „ ■ ^ . ... , tial occupations to leave India's He tells us Thursday will be,northern Assam Valley at once, partly cloudy but mild with tern- Th^re are 220 U.S. citizens in peratures in the high 40s,^ear 50 tj,e region. \ Tonight and Wedne.sday will be partly cloudy with a low of 36. Tomorrow’s high will reach about 48. Morning southwesterly winds at 8 miles per hour will increase to 15 to 25 m.p.h. late this afternoon and tonight. Thirty-two was the lowest recording in downtown Pontiac preceding 8 a.m. The reading at 2 p.m. was 38. In Today's t Press Commie Split Poles feel Russ-Red^' China split unrepairable— PAGE 4. Air Safety Traffic controllers sound warning — PAGE S. i Mongoose Mr. Magoo lives on bor- : rowed time -4. pageii*. Area News 14 Astniogy Bridge 16 : Comics .... ...16 EdItorMs Markets . . 24 . Cbituaries 16 ' Sports 26-22 , Theaters .. 8 TV A Radio Programs 29 WIIsoB, Earl ........» Women’s Pages . . . Jl^J India also sent requests fir the U.S. State Department for rfiore arms and equipment to supifie-ment the $5-million worth already delivered. Engaged along a l,SM-mile frontier with Red China, India has a major problem in supply and equipment lor its troops. State Department press officer Lincoln White said the United States views seriously the large-scale Chinese attacks;’ ‘WAR MAY GROW’ The Red offensive will grow, according to a Peking radio report. It said Red China’s Premier Oiou En-lai sent letters last Thursday to heads of 24 African and Asian nations saying U.S. arms aid to India would enlarge the conflict. The radio report said Chon asked the iukican and Asian leaders to help promote - a peaceful settlement. U-S. officials here are Concerned that Pakistan may agree to a nonaggressioa pact with Red China. This would open the way for Chinese troops to go throu^ the Chumbri Valley 40 miles to (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru announced the appointment of a new army commander. READY FOR STAND’ Nehru told Parliament the battered Indian army is ready for desperate stand against Glinese Communist warriors rushing toward the rich plains of Assam. ^ * Nehru also declared the Chinese “have seat many suggestions ('for talks) but we are not going to accept any one of them. vWe shall continue the war until we win.” G^Joyanto Natch Chaudhuri, 54, comitmnder of the I n d troops thalKiaed Portuguese Goa last Decembqr in lightning conquest, was nath^ td succe^ Gen. P. N. Thapar. Nehru said ThaparViis relieved for health reasons and :)5sMing on long leave. Tfie Defense Ministry stal on the fighting said; “(Xir are now holding defensive sitions some miles further south of Bomdila.’’ * * * The defensive bastion of Bomdila was lost to a swift Chinese Communist advance yesterday. \ In the fightii.g about 250 miles fi) the east in the Walong sector ndqr the Burma border the Chi-nes¥ aboui^the same positions they occupKd yesterday, 12 to 14 miles sfiuth of Walong. The spokpman refused to divulge information about a division of Indian troops who were surrounded or cut off between Bomdila and the captqred Se La Pass. Although he did not say the division headquarters at Dirang north of Bomdila has been captured, the spokesman said it no longer was located at Dirang. He declined to reveal the new location. Jndians Arrest Chinese DARJEEUNG, India (41 - Ir dian authorities arrested 240 Chi-nationals in Darjeeling district today. About 130 were residing in Darjeeling town, which formerly was headquarters for trade between India and Tibet Castro Bows to Demands removed from Cuba, implying that he made his move because they are old and slow. Receipt of the message was confirmed at the United Nations in New York. Removal of the bombers has been a key issue in the stalled U.S.-Soviet negotiations on a Cuban settlement. Kennedy holds Soviet Premier Khrushchev responsible for withdrawing offensive weapons and puts the bombers in that'class along with the Soviet missiles which this country has been counting as ship^ hauled them away. TOO EARLY TO KNOW Rusk was asked about Havana developments at the airport as he board^ a plane on a speechmaking trip to New York. “It Is too early to know just what this means,’’ Rusk replied. U.S. authorities were scanning Castro’s remarks to see what con-ditioris might be included. Khrushchev has offered to withdraw the bombers in fhe past but attached conditions not acceptable to the Unit^ States. ★ In any case, U.S. authorities made clear, this country is hold-ig the Soviet Union responsible k removal' of the Bofnbers as welKas the missiles. Kenh^y is to hold an eagerly awaited^news conference at 6 p.m. EST toda^t which he is expected to give an up^to-date report. OVER ENTIR^^ORLD The news confer^ce, Kennedy' e.,CubanJi[oE crisis, is to be nation^y broadcast and televised. It al^will be broadcast throughout the N^orld by the Voice of America. \ ★ ★ * Without any explanation, Kennedy's meeting today with the executive committee of the National •Security Council was put off from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Whether that is the purpose or not, the shift would provide time for an evaluation, just before the news conference, of any Soviet follow-up to Castro’s move. Teamster Aide Faces Prison Officer in Hoffa Local One of 2 Convicted DETROIT (AP)-The secretary-treasurer of the home local of the Teamsters Union president, James R. Hoffa, and an Ohio trucking executive today face a possible 32 years in prison and fines of $500, 10 each. William Wolff Sr., 52, president of the Youngstown (Ohio) Cartage Co., and Holland McMaster, 49, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Union Local 299, were convicted on 32 counts of Taft-Hartley law violation by a U.S. District Court jury Monday. The jury took just two and a half hours, after a month-long trial, to find that McMaster received 32 checks totaling $8,823 from Youngstown Cartage in vio^ lation of Taft-Hartley prohibitions against a company giving money to an official of a union which represents the firm’s employes. Both McMaster and Wolff were continued at liberty under Top U.S., Russ Envoys to Talk Over Details U Thant Invites Big Power Diplomats to Working Luncheon UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, (if) — Cubqn Prime Minister Fidel Castro informed the United Nations today that he is prepared to give up some 30 &viet bombers now in Cuba. The offer was expected j to be discussed by Soviet and U.S. negotiators later in th6 day. Top-level representatives of the big powers were invited to a working luncheon by Acting Secretary General U ITiant and authoritative sources said it could be assumed the bomber issue would be the main subject. Those on the luncheon list on the U. S. side were Ambassadors Adlai E. Stevenson and Charles W. Yost and John J. McCloy, chairman of President Kennedy’s Cuban coordinating deferred, pending outcome of a presentence investigation ordered by Judge Thomas Thornton. Each of the 32 counts involved what the government said had been disguised as rental payments made on a “phantom tractor’’ by McMaster. The money went to Ram Transport Co. of Royal Oak. Wolff did not testify. McMaster denied th^ he had ^ny connection with Ram 'lYansport during the period from Dec. 8, 1956, to Jan. 7, 1959, when the checks were paid. He said his interest in the firm had been turned over to a wife, whom he. divorced in 1960 and who died in 1961. McMaster lives at 52030 Pontiac Trail in Wixom. U.S. 'Muggeridged' Representing the Soviet Union were Deputy Foreign Ministers Vasily V. Kuznetsov and Valerian A. Zorin and Ambassador Platon D. Morozov. * The offer by Castro was seen U. N. circles as clearing the way for Soviet withdrawal of the IL28 bombers and thus removing one of the major obstacles now holding up negotiations on the Cuban problem. * * * Bowing to United States demands, Castro said that “If the Soviet government considers it convenient, for the good development of negotiations and a solution of the crisis to withdraw such airplanes, the revolutionary government of Cuba will not block that decision.” Castro framed his offer in a message to acting Secretary General U Thant yesterday as President Kennedy arranged televised Washington could have a sharp bearinj^^ the caribhean situation. With 42 Russian missiles removed, withdrawal of the bombers might pave the way for a settlement of other issues. * w * Their continued presence in Cuba is the biggest unresolved issue between Washington and Havana. Getting a King? LONDON (AP) — Malcolm Muggeridge, one of the ; loudest critics of Britain’s royal family, said today that Americans without knowing it are acquiring a monarchy of their own. , . Writing in the Daily Herald, the leftist commentator and former editor of Punch said: “King Jack, Queen Jackie, Princess Caroline and the various royal dukes and duchesses are as en- | trenched in the social scene as their equivalents" in England.” His article was headlined “Muggeridge Rediscovers America — King Jack Starts a Dollar Monarchy.” ^ “Great families, comparable to our Salisburys, Derbys and Devonshires, are likewise emerging,” Muggeridge said. “A Lodge, A Morgenthau, a Taft, a Harriman or a Rockefeller starts off with a great initial advantage compared with a rough toiler in the political like Mr. Carmine DeSapio is the deposed New York political boss. “Americans would seem to be in the process of developing a new mystique of snobbishness,” Muggeridge said, ‘ based on privilege and inheritance rather than on personal achievement and acquired wealth.” To Hurry Council Vole on Detroit Fluoridation! DETROIT (UPI) — Some members of the common council' were expected to push for an early vote on the controversial issue of fluoridating Detroit’s Water system. The council held a public meeting yesterday, and some 350 proponents and*—----—----------- opponents of fluoridation aired their views. Cduncilwoman Mary V. Beck, who chaired the meeting, said she had studied the matter sufficiently and would press for a vote at today’s meeting. ★ * it However, other council members indicated a vote was at least two to three weeks away. Councilman William G. Rogell, who staunchly opposes fluoridation, was scheduled to resume an interrupted Florida vacation and his supporters were expected to stave off an Rogell interrupted the vacation to attend the public meeting but was expected to return to Florida today. _ w * Councilman Edward Connor .said that he felt thp meeting should be sometime after Dec. 3 when the council had had am- Ike Said Nixon Not Fit in'56 NEW YORK (AP)-After they had served four years together, Dwight D. Eisenhower did not rd*. gard Richard M. Nixon as “presidential timber,” the former president is quqt^ assaying in a magazine article by a onefime aide: In the current issue of Look, Emmet John Hughes, then a campaign assistant and speech writer (or Eisenhower, quoted him as saying of his vice president in 1956: “The fact is, of course, that I’ve watched Dick a long time and he just hasn’t Kennedy has classed them as! offensive weapons because theyi^ (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) pie time to discuss a system for grown. So 1 just haven’t hon-fitiancing the proposal, which in! eSdy been able to believe that its initial stage was expected to he is presidential timber.” • cost more than $1 million. , c- u ^ ^ ^ An aide of Ei.senhower, who ProponenU of Buoridation ar- ________________________________________W'^Khes wrote that his quoted ------------------------------------ conversation with Eisenhower took " . mm a - ’'“8ust 1956. On Aug. 22 ^ M a * f ■ I hi ri I Republican Nation- $JO~BllllOn JOX Cut Urged News Flashes ’ » Economic Outlook Brightens Eisenhower-Nixon team. WASHINGTON (AP)-Upturns in home construction, factory orders and personal income during October brightened the economic outlook today as a presidential advisory committee recommended a $10-billion tax cut early next year. ★ ★ ★ In separate reports, the Commerce Department announced Monday: Personal income rpse $2.1 billion last month to a record annual rate of $445.6 billion. Construction was started on 129,110 privately owned houses and apartment units, for a seasonally adjusted annual rate of l,4lfr,000, up 17 per cent from September and 4 per cent above October of last year. ★ ★ ★ Orders for durable goods climbed 3 per cent to a new high, exceeding the previous peak last January attributed in part to a heavy surge of steel orders. Durable goods sales in October held steady at $16.4 billion, matching manufacturers’ sales during August and September and equaling the peak of last spring. MOST FOR TAX CUT The President's 21-member Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Pidicy informed him Monday that a nujority favors a $10-billion tax cut early next year to strengthen the economy and expand production. In its report on fiscal policy, the committee outlined a double objective: To increase immediate demand for both consumption and investment, and, in (he long run, to step up the ratcrof expansion of the nathm’s productive capacity. “The United States can and must improve its recent record of economic progress,” the report said. ★ ★ ★ The committee, composed of business and labor executives and public representatives, met last Friday to draft its report. Its non voting alternate chairmen are the secretories of labor and commerce. The report was delivered to the White House by Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Edward Gudeman, filling in for Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges. Gudeman is acting secretary of commerce while Hodges is away on a trip. Wirtz said a distinct majority favored an early $10-billien tax cut, although some preferrecPapacing the reduction over two or three years. Two wanted to hold the cut to $4 or $5 billion during the next year. CLEVELAND I Pb-The Cleve-I land Indians today announced the sale of the club to a group including General Manager Gabe Paul and several iwomin-ent Clevelanders. . , BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (AP)^ A U.S. Immigration Service official said today Mexican authorities stopped a plot to dynamite the international bridge between this south Texas city and Matamoros, Mexico. Pope, Japanese Talk VATICAN CI-IT (AP) - P'o p John XXIII today received Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, a Buddhist, in a 30-minute private audience. feu •ad bondicRp^ o truck pick-up senrica Armr. FBdertl t-MOU Eisenhower’s words, as he opened the Republican campaign three weeks later, on .Sept. 12. belied the misgivings Hughes said ithe former president had ex- j, ,pres.sed ' i “There is ho man in the history ‘of America.” Eisenhower said then, "who has had such a careful preparation as has Vice President j Nixon for carrying out the duties of the president if that duty should lever fall upon him ” 'major ISSUE ^ ! The question of succession to the presidency was a major i;^sue jin the 1956 campaign. Eisenhower ■had been sidelined fpr months bj) la heart attack the year before, and was stricken in mid-1956 by an attack of ileitis.' Hughes wrote that Eisenbow-: er had encouraged the effort by j Harold E. Stassen, then his ad-j viser on disarmament, to get I (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) » TU'O THE PONTIAC PRESS. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, li(i2 . Pentagon Denies Charge Havana Claims Cuban Ship Bombed |KEY WEST, Fla. (fl - Havana aadio charged today a “Yankee pfcne” flew over a Cuban merchant ship on the high seas south-wpst of Bermuda yesterday aft. ernoon and dropp^ 11 bomba, some of which exploded 50 feet above the vessel. The radio said the ship, the Rio Damuji, reported J)y radio ^ that the bombing was preceded by 72 hours of “pirate checks” by U. S. planes and vessels. la WashlngtM, a spokesman for the Pentagon denied that any U. S. plane was involved in the alleged incident. German Cabinet Offers to Resign BONN TPr — j^ll members of er's own Christian Democratic the West Cicrriian cabinet offered their resignations today to enable Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to form a new government. .Controversial Defense' Minister Franz-Josef Strauss led the cabinet in offering its collective resignation. Earlier today the cabinet’s five Free Democratic jiarty iFDPi members turned in their resignations after Adenauer rebuffed their demands to fire Strauss. An announcement by Adenau- party (CDU) said the collective resignations offer was made to ajj‘AKrel^^rwcilr7^’''at Storms Rage in Northwest; Rain in East The Rio Damuji, carrying 55,-M) sacks of potatoes to Cuba, was undamaged, the radio said, and none of its 33 crew members was injured. It is expected to reach Havana some time this weekend, traveling at a speed of seven knots. The port from which it set out was not given. “Ihe dramatic news was made known by the receipt of several radiograms from Francisco Co-bas, captain of the Cuban boat which covered itself with glory,” I the broadcast said. There was no mention of return fire from the merchantman, liked in Lloyd’s shipping registry as a 2JISl-t