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Guatemala Asks U. N. to Act;
Rebels Capture Two Seaports
As Anti-Red Revolt Widens
invaders Hold
Third of Nation,
Honduras Says
BULLETIN
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(/P). —Guatemala asked today
for an emergency week-end
session of the U. N. Security
Council to consider “aggres
sion” against her territory,
her representative to the U. N.
said.
By th* Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras,
June 19.—Two strategic Guat
emalan seaports were reported
in the hands of invading anti
communist "Liberation Army”
forces today.
Local informants of the Lib
eration Army identified the two
ports as Puerto Barrios on the
Carribean and San Jose on the
Pacific.
The army, under command of
former Guatemalan Army Lt.
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas, said
two important inland rail cen
ters also may be in control of
the invaders.
These towns were identified
as Zacapa, which lies near the
Honduras border between Puerto
Barrio and Guatemala City, and
the smaller town of Retalhuleu,
in the southwest corner of the
country near the Mexican bor
der.
No Setbacks As Yet.
The informants said, however,
that if the Guatemalan Army
has sent reinforcements into
San Jose and Puerto Barrios the
invaders may have been pushed
back from initial gains But,
they added, no setbacks thus
far have been reported.
< NBC correspondent Mac Ban
ned reported in a Tegucigalpa
broadcast heard in New York
this morning that the invaders
then held about a third of
Guatemala. He said two planes
had machine-gunned the Presi
dential Palace in the capital.)
The invasion was the culmina
tion of a long-standing effort to
unseat, the Communist -backed
government of President Jaccbo
Arbenz Guzman.
In Personal Command.
There are reports here that
Col. Castillo has been in Guate
mala since the invasion began
to lead his Liberation Army per
sonally. But his movements have
State Department
Keeping President
Advised on Uprising
Sy the Associated Pres*
President Eisenhower today
received a State Department
report on the anti-Commu
nist uprising in Guatemala.
James C. Hagerty, White
House press secretary, told
newsmen Gen. Eisenhower is
much interested in the situ
ation in Guatemala and is
being kept abreast of de
velopments by the State
Department.
been kept secret and ms head
quarters twice has postponed
without explanation a promised
statement by the 40-year-old re
sistance leader.
The latest report of fighting
Inside Guatemala was at Que
zaltenango, a good-sized city
about 80 miles due west of
Guatemala City.
A Guatemalan delegate to the
United Nations announced in
New York his government had
protested to the Securtty Council
against the “criminal invasion
of my country.” The delegate,
Eduardo Castillo Arriola, said the
protest had been sent to Henry
(Continued on Page A-3, Col. 1.)
Guatemala Arrests
Baltimore Reporter
By th# Associated Press
BALTIMORE. June 19.—Staff
Correspondent Patrick Skene
Catling of the Baltimore Sun re
ported from Guatemala today
that he and another American
newspaperman had been ar
rested and held for a short time
by “Communist-prodded notice ”
Mr. Catling, in a front-page
dispatch, identified the other
newsman as Tom Gerber of the
Boston Traveler.
He said: “We had been taking
pictures at the scheduled scene
of a loyalty demonstration for
President Jacob Arbenz —a dem
onstration which, of course,
was called off because of the
news that the country was at
war.
“Before long we were spotted
by Victor Gutierrez, Guatemala’s
No. 1 Communist. Although not
officially connected with either
the government or the police, the
sallow-faced, shabbily dressec.
Gutierrez ordered a spic-and
span police sergeant to put us
under aiTest.”
Mr. Catling said he and Mr.
Gerber were taken to 'police
headquarters where their film
was confiscated and they were
questioned for 25 minutes.
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Defense Parley at Quantico
Awaits Eisenhower's Visit
Radford Says Planners Don't Know Answers
To Big Questions About 'Next War'
By Elton C. Fay
Associated Press Staff Writer
QUANTICO, Va., June 19.
Admiral Arthur Radford, chair
; man of the joint chiefs of staff,
! said today America’s military
planners cannot be certain when
“the next war” might come—or
if it does, whether it would be
short and “violently destructive”
or a “long drawn-out affair.”
Admiral Radford was scheduled
to lay this and other military
planning problems on the line
before the Nation’s defense lead
ers in a secret session of the de
fense leaders’ annual conference
here.
In excerpts from his prepared
remarks that were made public
Adftiiral Radford made clear he
believes the uncertainties of the
world situation put this country j
in a position “where we have to !
Statler Hotels Sale
To Zeckendorf Firm
Nears Completion
Stockholders' Approval
Awaited in SBO Million
Webb & Knapp Deal.
Directors of Hotels Statler,
Inc., have decided to sell the
chain of eight hotels and two of
fice buildings—including the 840-
room hotel in Washington—to
the New York firm of Webb &
Knapp for about SBO million.
Arthur S. Douglas, president of
the Statler corporation and
brother of the Supreme Court
Justice, said the plan still must
be ratified by about 3,000 stock
holders.
Webb & Knapp, headed by real
estate magnate William Zecken
dorf, has agreed to buy the
Statler stock for SSO a share or
to buy the assets at a lump figure
that would equal that price.
$1 Million Posted.
Mr. Douglas told The Star by
telephone today there are about
1.6 million shares of stock out
standing. At SSO a share, that
would total SBO million. He said
Mr. Zeckendorf posted $1 mil
lion to show good faith.
Mr. Douglas said about 40 per
cent of the stock is held by 10
persons. He said the question of
the sale would be put before the
stockholders “within the next 60
days:”
The stock was quoted on the
over-the-counter market yester
day at about $43.50 a share. The
price has gone up recently after
indications that other interests
also were seeking Statler con
trol.
Has Southwest Plan.
Mr. Zeckendorf, who began a
meteoric climb to real estate
prominence after arranging the
sale of the United Nations site in
New York, is proposing a SSOO
million plan for the redevelop
ment of Southwest Washington’s
waterfront area.
He told reporters his firm Is
making arrangements with in
surance companies and invest
ment bankers to finance the
Statler transaction.
He and Mr. Douglas said it
was contemplated that a new
company will be organized by
Webb & Knapp to acquire and
operate the Statler properties
under the Statler name. Pres
ent officers and management
personnel would be retained, it
was understood.
The Hotel Statler in Washing
ton was opened January 18, 1943,
(Spe STATLER, Page A-3.)
Embassy Dairy Calls Off
Sale so Producers’Group
Embassy Dairy, the Wash
ington area’s largest independ
ently supplied dairy, will not be
sold to the Maryland and Vir
ginia Milk Producers’ Associa
tion. it was announced today,
j James J. Ward, dairy presi
dent, said that since the an
nouncement of negotiations for
j the sale were first made pn
May 26 there have been many
requests from farmers, custo
mers and employes to continue
the present operation without
change.
Most of the Washington area 1
dairy firms obtain their supplies ’
from farmers who are members
of the producers’ association.
Mr. Ward’s statement said:
“After due consideration I feel
I have an obligation to the in
dependent producers who have
stood by me all these years, the
customers who have built this
business and our loyal employes
who would best be served by the
continuation of the business as
it is now operated.”
©foe fEfoenitm
place greater reliance on combat
ready forces in being.” He also
said atomic power by itself is not
enough.
The closed meeting of 100 top
members of the Defense Depart
ment, armed forces and other
high Government officials got
under way in advance of a visit
today by 1 President Eisenhower
to this sprawling Marine base.
Donald A. Quarlefc, Assistant
Defense Secretary for Research,
told the leaders this morning
that in the 11 months since the
last such conference there had
been four outstanding develop- i
ments with “significant impact” ;
on the American versus Soviet
positions.
He listed these as: (1) Det- j
onation of a Russian hydrogen
! device last August 12; (2)
! (See QUANTICO, Page A-2.)
Prowler Stabs Man
Rushing so Mother's
Aid; Suspect Seized
Victim Is Slashed
5 Times in Battle
In Southeast Home
A man was stabbed five times
early today when he ran to aid
his mother who had been awak
ened by a prowler in their south
east home.
The victim, in fair condition
at Casualty Hospital, is Arundel
Robinson, 44, of 508 Tenth street
S.E. He had stab wounds in the
chest just under the heart, in j
the face, the top of his head |
and back.
Police quickly picked up a
suspect and planned to place
him in a lineup today.
Parallels Preinkert Case.
The case parallels the un
solved knife slaying of Miss
Alma Preinkert, 58-year-old reg
istrar of the University of Mary
land, who was murdered in her
home, 1436 Chapin street N.W.,
the morning of February 28. The
killer also slashed at Miss Prein
kert’s sister as he fled.
Police say the suspect held in
the Robinson knifing early to
day, however, does not answer
the description of the Preinkert
slayer.
Pair Clash on Stairs.
Homicide detectives said Mrs.
Angeline Robinson, 73, was
awakened about 2:40 a.m. and
saw a colored man standing in
the doorway of her second floor
bedroom. She screamed several
times and the son, asleep down
stairs, leaped up and started up
thg stairs when he met the man
coming down. They grappled
and the man fled after the slash
ing attack.
He had entered the house by
lifting a front porch screen and
opening a window. .In the
Preinkert case, the slayer used a
stolen stepladder to climb 8 feet
to a window.
Radioactive Beaches
TOKYO. June 19 UP).— I The
welfare ministry today ordered
all local governments to test 1
seawater at public bathing
beaches for possible radioactiv
ity from American hydrogen
bomb tests in the Pacific.
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Cabinet Aides
Named by New
French Premier
Mendes-France Picks
2 MRP Members; *
He'll Be Foreign Chief
By the Associated Press
PARIS, June 19.—Premier
Pierre Mendes -Fi ance today
named his new cabinet—the
20th since France’s liberation 10
years ago—of 16 ministers and
13 secretaries of state. He kept
the foreign ministry for himself.
Two members of the cabinet
were from the Popular Republi
can Movement (MRP), which
had ordered its members to ab
stain from the voting when Mr.
Mendes-France was confirmed.
The MRP also decided not to
participate in the government
and to take disciplinary action
against members who defied the
order.
The two MRP members named
today were Robert Buron, min
ister of overseas territories, and
Andre Monteil, secretary of state
for the navy. Mr. Buron and Mr.
Monteil voted for Mr. Mendes-
France in spite of the party call
for abstentions.
Faure Finance Chief.
Mr. Mendes-France named
Edgar Faure minister of finance,
a job he held in the Laniel gov
ernment. Gen. Pierre Koenig, a
follower of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, was appointed minister
of defense; Francois Mitterand,
who resigned from the Laniel
cabinet because of differences of
policy on French Union affairs,
was named minister of the in
terior. He is a member of the
Democratic and Socialistic Union
of the Resistance (UDSR).
Other Cabinet Ministers.
Other cabinet ministers in
cluded :
Justice—Emile Hugues, Rad
ical Socialist.
National Education—Senator
Jean Berthoin, Radical Socialist.
Public Works—Jacques Cha
ban-Delmas, Social Republican.
Industry and Commerce
Maurice Bourges - Manoury,
Radical Socialist.
Agriculture Senator Roger
Houdet, Independent Republi
can.
Labor—Eugene Claudius-Pet
it, USDR.
Reconstruction—Maurice Le
maire, Social Republican.
Veterans —Emmanuel Temple,
Independent Republican.
Public Health Louis-Paul
(See PARIS, Page A-3.)
French Foil Rebels'
Ambush Near Hanoi’
By tha Associated Pratt
HANOI, Indo-China, »June 19.
—A thousand Viet Minh guer
rillas were pounded by French
planes, artillery and tank guns
in an abortive ambush along the
Hanoi-Haiphong supply lifeline,
the French High Command re
ported today.
A French Army spokesman
said French losses were light.
He said 35 Viet Minh were killed
and 20 taken prisoner in the run
ning battle. (
French planes and artillery
plastered the Viet Minh as they
tried to flee the ambush site and
“their losses were heavy,” the
Army spokesman said.
French-piloted American-sup
plied warplanes, meanwhile, con
tinued stepped up bombing of
Viet Minh bases inside the Delta
and poured tons of high explo
sives on rebel supply convoys
moving toward the Delta defense
perimeter. Twenty miles west of
Hanoi mobile French artillery
pounded three villages rebel
guerrillas are using as bases.
The high command said B-26
dive bombers cut highways ahead
of rebel supply columns on “in
vasion routes” 13 and 41 west of
the Delta perimeter. Warplanes
bombed one column of
trucks bringing supplies. Some
explosions and fires were re
ported.
Japanese Flattop, 20 Planes
Located on Harbor Bottom
By th* Associated Press
SYDNEY, -Australia, June 19.
—An Australian syndicate began
salvage operations on the bot
tom of Rabaul Harbor today and
reported a big prize at the very
outset—a Japanese aircraft car
rier with 20 planes intact on its 1
flight deck. The salvagers said I
it would be worth around $175,- i
000.
Capt. John Johnstone, head
of the diving team, said they I
v
Alabama Crime Foe Is Slain,
As He Predicted He Might Be
Newly Nominated
Attorney General
Killed in His Auto
By the Associated Press
PHENIX CITY, Ala., June 19.
—Crime-fighting Albert L. Pat
terson, Alabama’s newly nomi
nated attorney general, was shot
I to death in his parked car here
| last night just as he had pre
| dieted he might be.
| Weary, sleepless city, county
j and State officers were without
I any substantial lead hours after
Ithe shooting, even though they
i had worked ceaselessly through
the night.
The 59-year-old Mr. Patter
son, who was to take office Jan
-1 uary 17, was shot three times by j
an assassin who, officers said,
apparently stood alongside his
1951 model car and fired at
point-blank range.
- An official curtain of secrecy
surrounded an early morning
autopsy, but it was learned from
a reliable source that the Dem
ocratic nominee for attorney
general was shot in the mouth,
in the left chest and in the left
arm.
Fourth Shot Misses Him.
A fourth bullet which appar
ently missed him tore a hole
through the brim of his straw
hat and went through a car
window.
Officers at first thought Mr.
Patterson had been shot twice in
the mouth, but what they first
identified as a bullet found
lodged in his teeth later was ;
found to be a gold inlay which
had been battered by one of
the shots.
Officers found footprints in
the alley where Mr. Patterson’s
car was parked and ordered
plaster casts made. With day
break and sunshine, they also
began dusting the car for finger
prints.
An associate in the anti-vice
crusading Russell (County) Bet
terment Association blamed
what he called “the crime syndi
cate” for Mr. Patterson’s death.
And he vowed swift revenge. So
did Mr. Patterson’s former Army
major son, John, who was a
member of his father’s law firm.
Attorney for Association.
Mr. Patterson was attorney
for the Betterment Association,
which is dedicated to ridding
Phenix City of organized gam
bling and other inducements to
the soldier dollars just across the
Chattahoochee River at Fort
Benning, Ga.
The group had harassed the
lawless element here for several
years, but when the Federal
gambling stamps are issued in
Alabama each year, Phenix City
| citizens buy far more than the
rest of the State combined.
Howard Pennington, president
of the association, told report
ers he had heard Mr. Patterson
say only Tuesday night that
• they might try to get me.” j
“He said, ‘There’s nothing you :
can do to help me,’ ” Mr. Pen
nington recalled, “and the only
| thing he asked was that if they
t did get him, he didn’t want them
I found at least 70 sunken ships
in the harbor. Rabaul, on the
island of New Britain off New
Guinea, was a heavily bombed
Japanese stronghold in World
War D.
The syndicate has disposal
rights to all ships in Rabaul and
Bougainville Harbor, in the Solo
mons. It hopes to raise some of
, the ships and salvage others for
i scrap. The syndicate hopes to
find 200 ships in Rabaul Harbor
, alone. Most are Japanese.
K 1
Meggy
—AP Wirephoto.
ALBERT L. PATTERSON.
to get by with it. And they
won't.” ,
Then only Thursday night,
just 24 hours before he was slain,
Mr. Patterson told a Phenix City
church group that “I have only
a 100-to-l chance of ever being
sworn in as attorney general.”
Plans Plea to Governor.
Mr. Pennington said he would
ask Gov. Gordon Persons to de
clare martial law in Phenix City
and that his organization would
demand a special grand lury and
a special prosecutor. The Bet
terment Association has been
deeply critical of Circuit Solici
tor Arch Ferrell, who normally
prosecutes on behalf of the State.
The -Governor ordered Maj.
Gen. Walter J. Hanna, Alabama
adjutant general, to Phenix City
immediately with full authority
j to take whatever steps he con
| sidered necessary. Uniformed
National Guard officers stood by.
Mr. Patterson’s death came
during two separate investiga
tions of voting in the recent
Democratic primary elections in
which Mr. Patterson won the at
torney general nomination over
Lee Porter of Gadsden by a mar
gin of only a few hundred votes.
As the Democratic nominee, Mr.
Patterson was assured of formal
! election in November in this
Democratic stronghold of the
| Deep South.
A special primary may be
called to select a new Demo
cratic candidate or the State
Democratic Executive Commit
tee could hand pick one.
A grand jury at Birmingham
has been inquiring into the June
1 runoff in which Mr. Porter’s
vote in Jefferson County was 600
greater when reported to the
State Democratic Executive
Committee than it was when
originally canvassed by the
county committee.
Another investigation, con
ducted by a State Democratic
subcommittee has been under
taken at Phenix City because of
charges by a defeated legisla
te SLAYING, Page A-3.)
Fort Meade Soldier Killed
In Glen Bumie Crash
A 22-year-old Fort Meade sol
dier was killed today when the
car in which he was a passenger
rammed into the back of a
parked truck near Glen Bumie,
Md.
Maryland State police identi
fied the victim as Corpl. Jack W.
Ostlund, of the 313th Signal Bat
talion at Fort Meade. Driver of
the car, Sergt. Herman L. Gei
sler, 23, of the same battalion,
was charged with manslaughter,
driving under the influence of
alcohol and reckless driving by
’Trooper Otis Long.
Trooper Long said Geisler’s
car, going west at 2:30 a.m., on
Alternate Route 301 near Maple
lane, Glen Bumie, hit a comer
of a parked truck.
Geisler suffered a cut over the
right eye and was not hospital
ized. Corpl. Ostlund’s home is in
Portland. Oreg., Fort Meade au
thorities said.
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McCarthy Committee
Facing Conflict on
9
Stall Housecleaning
Senator's 10-Day Rest
Delays Showdown;
Mundt Gpoup Split
BULLETIN
Senator Mundt today called
off a cocktail party he was to
give on Monday for the Sen
i ate Investigations subcommit
| tee, the principals and the
' press who were concerned with
the Army-McCarthy hearings.
He said the cancellation was
due to the death of Senator
Hunt, Democrat, of Wyoming.
By James Y. Newton
The two-neaded Senate In
vestigations subcommittee was
off in at least two directions to
day neither of which seemed to
be toward harmony and peace.
That version of the subcom
mittee under guidance of Acting
Chairman Mundt, which for 36
days aired the Army-McCarthy
dispute, was about to tackle the
unpleasant task of drafting a
report—or, more probably, re
ports, on the lengthy inquiry.
The other and regular sub
committee, of which' Senator
McCarthy is chairman, was
headed toward a showdown on a
bipartisan demand for a
‘housecleaning” of the commit
; tee staff, a demand resulting
, from developments in the tele
! vised hearing
The showdown, which is cer
; tain to bring Senator McCarthy
j into new and bitter conflicts
I with committee Democrats and
l at least one Republican, will
be delayed however.
Senator McCarthy’s office re
vealed he will be away for “a
week or 10 days.” He had said
earlier he would take only a
three-day vacation.
"Dishonest,” Says McCarthy.
But before leaving the Capital
the Senator gave more than a
hint of things to come by blast
; ing the demand for a “cleanup”
|of his subcommittee staff as
I “dishpnest, completely dangerous
; to the country.” -
I Senator McCarthy described
the demand as “a deliberate at
tack on the staff to immobilize”
its work. He added: “We’ve got
the most efficient, loyal, hard
working staff we could possibly
get."
j Senator McCarthy also re-
I vealed he plans to look into what
| he called “very serious charges”
of “claimed wrong-doing” on the
part of an unidentified Demo
i cratic Senator—not a member of
j his subcommittee.
“I’ve got no way of knowing
at this point whether there is
merit in the charges,’ the Wis
consin legislator said.
The three Democrats on the
subcommittee of seven said they
would “insist” there be no “in
vestigative hearings” until the
staff is overhauled.
They refused to say whether
they would boycott the subcom
mittee if they are outvoted by
| Senator McCarthy and the three
j other Republicans. But they
hinted at probable Republican
help in their move.
Senator Potter, Republican, of
(See HEARING, Page A-2.)
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Senator Hunt
Found Shot in
Office, Dies
Rifle Beside Him;
Had Left Several
Notes in Desk
BULLETIN
Senator Hunt, Democrat, of
Wyoming died at 12:32 p.m,
today of a bullet wound which,
Capitol police said, apparently
was self-inflicted.
Senator Lester C. Hunt. 61,
Democrat, of Wyoming who re
cently announced he would not
seek re-election, was found criti
cally wounded at his desk in the
Senate Office Building today.
A .22-caliber, single-shot rifle
lay at his side and police said
several notes were found on his
desk.
The shooting was discovered
by the Senator's administrative
assistant, Mike Manatos at
8:55 a.m.
Capt. William J. Broderick of
the Capitol police said the in
vestigation was being conducted
by Metropolitan police but he
added that “ in my opinion, un
official of course, the gunshot
was self-inflicted.”
Capt. Broderick said the notes
“did give the Senator's reasons
for taking the action he took.”
Clements Issues Statement.
Senator Clements. Democrat,
of Kentucky, a close friend of
Senator Hunt, issued a brief
statement to newsmen as spokes
man for Senator Hunt's office
staff. The statement described
the finding of the wounded leg
islator.
Asked about a possible mo
tive, Senator Clements replied:
“There are several things I could
tell you, but after all, Senator
Hunt is still alive.” Senator
Clements said he would give out
a further and complete state
ment “if anything happens.”
The Senator's wife told polict
her husband was a “very, very
sick man.” She sa'id he had
slept at home last night and left
this morning. \
Mrs. Hunt, so ill with shock
that police did not attempt to
question her further immedi
ately, was in a room near Sena» -
tor Hunt at Casualty Hospital.
At the hospital. Senator Hunt’*
condition was described as “crit
ical” with a wound in the right
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SENATOR LESTER C. HUNT.
temple. He was taken into the
operating room at 11 a.m. and
was still there at 12:30 p.m.
Got News From Reporter.
Apparently an effort was made
shortly after the wounded Sen
ator was found to conceal the
fact of the shooting. Capt. Brod
eric said when the Senator's
office called for an ambulance,
police were informed that Sen
ator Hunt had suffered a heart
attack. Capt. Broderick said a
newspaperman gave him his first
information about the shooting.
Newsmen calling the Senator’s
office later were told by a woman
employe that the Senator had
had a heart attack in his office.
Senator Hunt had already
been removed to the hospital be
(See HUNT, Pape A-3.)
Clerics Get Rail Rates
BOSTON. June 19 New
England railroads will let clergy
men travel for half fare begin
ning July 1. The only require
ment is that they apply for a
certificate showing they are
clergymen entitled to the half
rate. The plan was announced
yesterday by nine of the region’s
railroads. ,
Camp on a River
Run by Methodists
CHURCH CAMP OPERATION—
Planning a church camp tchedula and
keeping it going for the summer is
far from a simple affoir. A story on
the operation of a Maryland rivor
church camp is on page A-10.
ON MANEUVERS—The District Air
National Guard is on maneuvers at
Otis Air Force Base, Mass. For news
of the training period turn to pagt
A-29.
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