Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - October 26, 1962, Winona, Minnesota Considerable Continued Cool TOMORROW SUN RISES MOON OCT. 28 WINONA DAILY NEWS of OCTOBER 26, 1962 TEN CENTS PER COPY TWENTY PAGES Soviet Ship Allowed to Pass Blast at High Altitude By MALCOLM BARB m By MALCOLM BARR HONOLULU United States exploded a clear device at high altitude above Ihe Pacific early The flash briefly lit the ocean with a rain bow of green and blue for hundreds of A Thor which failed in three previous tries at the same carried the warhead to its firing estimated at 30 lo 40 The booster apparently formed perfectly during its con- trolled flight to The nuclear device packed a wallop of between a U. N. TRIANGLE Representatives of the three nations involved in current crisis over viet missile bases in Cuba and th U S. blockade of the island are shown during a session of the U. N. Security Dr. Mario Cuban and Soviet Foreign Minister A. Valerian listen as S. Ambassador Adlai addresses Ihe council during the stormy U.N. Sets Up Negotiations To Ease Crisis By TOM HOSE UNITED Acting U Thant met with representatives of United Stales today in- an fort to set up lo end the Cuban He scheduled meetings in day with viet and Cuban Two top-ranking members of the permanent U.S. delegation the United Nations Ambassadors F c i s Plimpton and Charles W. Yost met with Thant in the absence of Chief Delegate Adlai E. Stevenson who had rushed to Washington for The first meeting took place at a.m. EOT in the 3Sth floor office of the Thant arranged lo see Soviet uly Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin at p.m. and Cuban Mario gui at p.m. In Stevenson con- ferred wilh President Kennedy nnd attended a meeling of the 12- member committee oi Ihe National Security Council ai Khrushchev Seen Trying For Berlin Concessions million tons of It was the second most explosion of the 1962 actual detonation occurred near Johnston 750 southwest of The bias was clearly visible there but in Honolulu it was a Short-lived flash of A reddish glow arched across the clear sky when the shot wen off a few seconds past midnigh Hawaiian The color to then gray-blue Then Ihe glow The test was Ibe third lude success of the drawn-out op Dominic series which be gan April 25. The first was a Iher blast July 8 which ere ated a giant bell in outer space and lit up the Pacific with dazzling array of The sec ond was a last The fireball from shot was visible in some parts of Four tries have failed three with the warhead and one witti a thermonuclear pack Malfunctions in the Thor caused each failure and rockets and warheads had to be destroyed without nuclear Postponed two days by technical Thursday night's shot went off hours late but was still well within the five-hour span allowed for Ihe test. Four holds delayed the By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON Soviet Premier Khrushchev may have ordered construction of bases in Cuba as parl of a lin plot to put President Kennedy under a surprise threat of nuclear war in an attempt to force U. S. concessions on This possible strategic purpose for the sudden and unexplained installation of Soviet nuclear siles 90. miles from the United Slates is being given serious con- sideration in official quarters tt is one of the reasons why authorities are sticking grimly to their conviction that while the first phase of Cuban crisis has been on the naval blockade front a second and far more serious phase is yet to As lo the nature of the second phase there possibilities in One is that the White House Moscow Radio announced the Soviet Union's rocket troops have been ordered on a state of increased combat Krasnaya Ihe defense ministry unprecedented sive actions of U.S. ruling circles toward Ihe Cuban republic and other slates could not hut provoke retaliatory measures from the So viet Premier Khrushchev's tional acceptance of proposal was seen by Western in Moscow as preparation for him to appear before Ibe United said he also apparently had di- Soviet ships carrying arms to lurn hack from U.S. strategists believed the max of crisis was slill lo come wild Ihe issue up lo the Kremlin whether Ihe solution would be military or As Ihe peace focused on the United lions for and the blockade continued around Western Europe's newspapers greeted wilh relief the willingness of the United Stales and the viet Union to But many feared the crisis may smoulder announced he would hold separate wilh United the Soviet Union and beginning with U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson Indicated to newsmen he would insist on proof Soviet arms shipments lo Cuba will cease and Ihe Soviets will Ihe of missile bases in Cuba agree meet at Ihe negotiating Wintry Weather Moves Into East By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Midwintry snow and cold poured double trouble on of the Northeast Snow reached a depth of 8 inches in near Ohio 6 inches in and 2 to 4 inches in some of Cleveland's U.S. 21, the main route between Cleveland and became blocked at a.m. wilh between and vehicles on Ibe Snow removal equipment was trapped in the Five jackknifed in a 25-mile-long traffic Several schools With winter almost two months away on the snow in Michigan measured 11 inches in 8, in Van Buren and Paw and 4 in Up to fi inches of snow in mountain sectors of Snow fell in many parts of New U was light in most but amounted to about inches in Mass. Light snow blended with wilh close to ing in northern New New York City had its first snowfall of Ihe eighth time on record lhat snow fell in October of the coldest outbreaks of polar air ever seen in Octo- that's Ihe way the Weather Bureau described il shattered many long standing temperature records east of the Mississippi The autumn freeze reached down lo middle of Gulf Coast Among new lows for dale were 19 above zero in and 111., 25 in 23 in and 33 at the Minima elsewhere Lone Rock and Park Falls Wis International Cincinnati 19 and 30. There was an indication of some relief from Ihe cold in Temperatures moderated in Plains states as Ihe cold air fanned hy southerly is intent on forcing with the West over Berlin and may go through with his main plan in spile of the dis- closure of Ihe Cuban missile The oilier is that the U.S. government is determined that Ihe missiles must be removed from Cuba and the bases demol The for a frantic diplomatic search peaceful way out of the centered at Ihe United is so far liltle more than a lull in the diplomatic storm which broke over Ihe world day A defense spokesman reports that Soviet missilemen and tary of whom are an estimated on the Caribbean are still ing at top speed to Ihe bases and get whatever missiles are available to them in The naval blockade force which President Kennedy set in motion Monday has proved an effective barrier lo the introduction of more missiles inlo the island but the U.S. has not evidently put a halt to Ihe Soviet activities already under way The question why the Soviet government sel out on such a radical new course in its cold war carrying a clear increase in danger of nuclear is a source of among experts and policy makers for it may give clues to future Soviet One point on which seem agreed is that Ihe of nuclear striking power into must tht Western represent a basic Soviet moved policy decision made much lier The indication is that the decision called for a swilch lo a much more sive with much grealer reliance on military power serve Moscow's expansionist poses in Ihe First Boarding Party From Destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy Men Pierce in FirU Boarding Party INTERCEPTED SHIP This was the SS Ben Miller when launched by Bethlehem Steel in 1943. Lloyd's Registry Ships says ship now is the freighter which the U S Navy boarded and inspected The ship was bound for The man for whom Ihe ship originally was named was a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun killed in a plane crash in 1942. WRANGLING AT HEARING Solon Demands Truth on Cuba WASHINGTON Several il Cuban is exactly registered criticism and countered charges of wrangling al briefings for congressmen ml governors on Ihe Cuban was something of a ral said Sen. Joseph S. after Thursday's in New Vork nut was in this meeling and in Fort Atlanta and The sessions conducted hy De- fense and Slate Department A note of controversy marked the tilth and meeting in San Francisco today even before it got off the Rep. Thomas M said he was ing up the session because will not expose myself lo more Stale Department I get I want the 1 not KALAMAZOO The area became an autumn winter wonderland as snow piling up to from 8 to 12 inches in on particularly on was snarled hy slippery streets anl hundreds wore making emergency Insinuation o. as the mercury dipped to 17 degrees in Ihe outlying MP 1 V II said in Ihe when I want and an gence I shall go to our DC. not our ment of New York's Republican Nelson A. possible candidate for presidency in a bipartisan note when he told the way President described it three I don't sec how the President could have pul il more But New Jersey's Democratic Hughes said there was a of at Ihe And Clark said it constantly interrupted hy cans making belligerent speeches and arguing wilh the A Republican Steven of New York reported that the briefing morning I think our whole in- setup needs a We know less We certainly don't have the A conflicting view was ex- pressed after Chicago session by Henry S. The briefing for and governors from 14 central represented a class job of intelligence hy ican intelligence he ths jot under way Gov. A. of a We should have had a definitive plan on Cuba a year nnd wouldn't be having ble Highest In Four Years WASHINGTON cost of living climbed of one per cent in the largest increase in more than four The increase was due primarily to a jump in meat prices following a withholding action hy farmers in Midwestern areas who refused to meat animals to The Labor Department's con- sumer price index bad held steady during August at Ihe record level set in But the September index rose to 105.1 per cent of the 1357-59 Kwan commissioner of Bureau of Labor said major parl of the rise was due lo temporary or seasonal He the ing of livestock from market and seasonal increases in the prices of eggs and Clague said the meat situation lad changed by with wholesale prices dropping about August level and retail being reduced hy about half Ihe September Clague said it was loo early to ell whether the Cuban crisis will lave any effect upon Ihe cost of he there s no reason why it be- cause no shortages in he United he there is in almost all w Air Force Launches Missile AIR FORCE Calif. Air Force launched a big in- ballistic missile from rocket ami missile base U was termed a routine The Air Force announced plans launch as a spokesman want anyone in the area to sec it go up and it have anything lo do wilh Iho Cuban WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND cloudiness tonight nnd tonight 28-34, high 48. LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for Ihe 24 hours ending at 12 m. 18; 34; AIRPORT WEATHER Central Max. temp. 36 at min. 18 at 5 sky overclouded nl visibility 12 wind barometer 30.25 nnd falling percent Men From Two Destroyers Inspect Cargo BULLETIN WASHINGTON A Department spokesman said today action will If offensive military preparations in Cuba Press officer Lincoln declined to speculate on just what the United States might officials said discloses that tha work of building missile sires in Cuba is White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said may have statement later in the day en activity at missile in WASHINGTON A U.S. Navy party boarded a chartered Lebanese freighter and reported more than two hours later thai no offensive pons material was The was to sail on for Havana with cargo described as 12 paper and for Assistant Secretary of Defensa Sylvester laid a news con- ference Navy hart re- a message saying that ths boarding parly was returning to the destroyer Joseph p. Kennedy at a.m. The message reported that prohibited has been found on The menage said alf the ucla's papers were in order and the boarding party hart obtained a copy of cargo 12 trucks deck loaded the message loaded to No The slopping the was the second interception an- and the first reported hoarding by the Navy since it clamped a quarantine on nist arms shipments to Cuba Wednesday which Sylvester said was listed in Lloyd's Registry as ji World War II Liberty was given permission to proceed on a course for The vessel reportedly flies a Lebanese The boarding of closed went aboard the ucla at a.m. 180 miles northeast of Nassau in the Ba- Sylvester said that the destroyer John Pierce set out at 2 p.m Thursday to intercept Ihe by tracker The Pierce made about p.m. Thursday and was joined by the destroyer Joseph P Kennedy after The was named for Uie dent's a Navy flier killed In World War fl. During the rest of th. th. beaded on a south west course at 12 Sylvester The freighter informed the Pierce that she had a cargo of paper and truck parts by about two miles under orders to stop her and ward at first st said Ihe boarding parly was still aboard and the first message from the scene aboard at 6-50 a.m. Cooperation No Sylvester totri a news conference that boarding party re- turns after looking at the inspecting cargo and inter- personnel we cannot be sure of Ihe composition of tbo The is a built in 1943 with a length of W it beam of 57 feet and 27 fool Sylvester said sba sailed from in conquered Lai via on the Baltic under charter to the Soviet The parly was com- manded by Lt. Cmdr. G. of East and Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth C. ot Calif. Osborne ij executive officer of Ihe Pierce nnd Reynolds executive officer of The Pierce is skippered by of and the Kennedy by Cmdr. Nicholas M. Mikhalevsky of The first ship lo be intercepted was Soviet tanker Bucharest she was not boarded and was allowed to proceed for Cuba after the Navy had her hatch work from afar to determine she was a legitimate and on Page 1, Col. SI SOVIET SHIP
