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T : U P. Photographer! Tells of Capture by Background Costa Rican Rebels ? .,. ' ' EDITOR'S NOTE: Jha Abaey, veteran Uaited Press Bhetofrapb er aad picture ftvreaa manager la Mexic dtj, wa eaptared by reb el forces ia the figatiaz la Casta Rica Saturday. Ia the' foOowiaz dispatch, he tells of his narrow escape from death . aad ef ' his meeting .with Teadora Picado, 27, the West Point-trained -rebel cam raaaoer. Abaey's dispatch was filed from Managua. Nicaragua, where he arrived Wednesday alghU By JOHN ABNET. Uaited Press Staff Carrespaadeat MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UP) You can taste fear-when you are waiting for oncoming destruction. It is dry and it makes your throat swell no matter how often you swallow. -"We felt that fear Saturday after- Leader 1 1 S as MANAGUA, Nicarzoa Teodero Pkado Jr. (above), is leader of force of 1,000 revolutionaries ia Costa Rica. He is son of a former Costa Rican president (AP Wirephoto) Small Loss in Grand ra Ope Said Success' By TERESA REESE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO (UP) An attractive brunette who has scored tremen- gous financial success oy operat ing only $14,000 in the red leaves for New York and Europe in the grand manner Thursday. Carol Fox, president of the Lyr ic Theater, has created a small sensation in the music world in bringing opera in the grand man ner to Chicago, after an absence -of "years and only losing a few thousand in the process. Grand opera in the past fre- ouentlv has incurred annual deft cits in excess of one million dol lars here. c Miss Fox, in her late 20's, de cided in 1951 that Chicago de served better than a few touring . opera companies each season. She thought the nation's second largest cihr should have hiptimft onera A uieiong uucagoan, miss fox studied singing in New York did Europe, but never sang profes sionally, i- She approached Larence Kelly, a youthful real estate man and longtime friend of hers, about the idea. She and Kelly talked it over with Nicolo Resigno. Thirty of Miss Fox' friends were lined up to - solicit i funds and the Lyric - fTl L 1 1 - iiicaier was uuru. itcuy oceanic secretary-treasurer and Resigno conductor. v The Lyric Theater's first full season, 12 performances of eight operas, saw the dazzling success of soprano Maria Menegchini Cal- las debut in her native America plus the appearance of numerous other-world famous opera stars. WhOe the successful infant sea son was still in progress. Miss Fox and her collaborators were planning for a longer season next year 34 performances of 11 op eras. . She and Kelly leave for New ' York Friday for a four-month tour of Europe to Sign singers for next season. So far they've announced only the signing of tenor Jussi Bjoer- ling of Metropolitan Opera fame. But they indicate that most this season's stars will be back. That would include Mme. Mene gchini Callas, tenors Giuseppe di Stefano and Leopold Simoneau, and baritones Tito Gobbi and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni. noon while waiting with a poorly trained : government patrol for a rebel tank to come ia sight along the Inter-American highway; that bisects the ttosta Rican: jungles. It began at 2 p.m. when a gov ernment patrol, of II men armed with rifles and submachineguns set out from Santa Rosa with me and. three other correspondents, Georee . Skaddinz bf Life. Phil Payne of Time and Paul Sance of NBC-TV. Looked Deadly We moved about three miles from the government's advance outpost. 'then set up an ambush near a . big clearing where there were scattered trees and high grass. The patrol leader waved to us and we fell. flat, waiting. We heard what we thought was a tank coming toward us. - I dropped behind a bushy clump 20 yards from the road and watched them coming. It was a half track loaded with green-uniformed soldiers wearing U. hel mets. They had a deadly look about them. ! It was then I felt the fear. As the truck moved even with us, three men of our badly trained and badly placed patrol began fir ing Into the rebels who poured over the sides of the half track and scrambled to positions along the road. The fight was on. From the direction of the rebel Firing we knew they had dispersed with efficiency and were working on us from both sides. Heavy ex plosions from grenades shook the ground; while the chatter of ma chine guns and rifles a few yards away deafened us. ' " " Ballets Cat 'Grass : The rebel fire began cutting the top of ; the grass and knocking twigs from my bush and I snaked another 25 xeet to the rear. It kept up for a solid hour the high-pitched chatter of 'the sub machineguns, the sounds of mor tars, the deep coughing of rifles and the slower hammering of J30 calibre machineguns.' "At the end mortar ; shells were ; falling with Jolts as the rebels methodically covered the whole area. Suddenly it stopped. I looked at my watch and it was an hour since it began. It was now 3:45. I began to feel movements in the high grass, the quick running steps as the rebels came stopping now and then to listen, i I rolled on my back, held my cameras and waited. A submach- inegun and helmit with tufts of camouflage grass on it appeared all at once and then a rebel. He was a businesslike kid who waited hawklike while I told him I was a correspondent Takea Captive He marched me hands up to the road where they took my papers and cameras and put me with the rest of the correspondents lying face up in a ditch, our hands over our head. i, ; v i While other rebels combed the area for more prisoners our guards kept machineguns on us. Across the road they collected their own casualties. They had two dead and four wounded. We pleaded for our cameras to get pictures but to no avail .-.' A 21-year-old lieutenant named Pacheco was leading the rebels. His men were grim and mad at the ambush and thought we were members of the Caribbean Legion in the forces of Costa Rican Presi dent Jose Figueres. They wanted to shoot us on the spot. But, their young lieutenant told them to tie our hands behind us and they marched us down the road to their lines. -1 - - i We waited until almost dark when I heard a voice say "Hello. John, I wondered if it was you. They told me some newsmen were captured. .1 - i The voice was that of a mend of mine from Mexico, an ' exile from Costa Rica named Manuel CabaDero. He talked to the officers and a few minutes later our hands were ordered untied. ; You're lucky as hell to be alive," Manuel told us. In the morning we met Capt Teodoro Picado, the 27-year-old West Pointer commanding the reb els, at his headquarters and Lt. Claudio Fonseca, the second in command. ' ! You boys are lucky," Picado said. "You were born again yester day afternoon in Costa Rica. V Vl- v - 7 -v '4' r v I vv-i . sf-' V L v Sr? f it ' ff V HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Sheree North, a shapely young actress who has plenty of Marilyn Monroe-type curves,- stands .beside the dressmaker's model for Marilyn's clothes as 20th, Century-Fox stadia officials ex plained why they were giving Miss North two starring roles intended for Miss Monroe. Ma rilyn has expressed dissatisfac tion with her proposed roles in -Pink Tights" and -How to Be Very, Very Popular," the studio said, and later declined to show up for work. (AP Wirephoto) Guards Seize Federal Con In Escape Try - McNEIL ISLAND PENITEN TIARY, Wash, (ft A knife-wielding inmate who said he planned to force the acting warden to help him escape was seized in the ad ministration building of this fed-, eral penitentiary Thursday. , He was David Leroy Lathman, 22, known as a troublesome pris oner. He has been serving time from Los Angeles for transporting a stolen automobile across state lines. - He was sent to McNeil in Aug. 1934, nearly a year after he had ininMi an unsuccessful mutinv at I the federal reformatory in El Reno, Okla., Richard D. Auerbach, special agent in charge of the Se attle office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said. . ; Auerbach said Lathman got out of his cell house Thursday by min- gling with other prisoners in a work gang. He, slipped away in the prison yard and proceeded to the administration building but was spotted by an omcer wno followed him. - Lathman started to run, dashing into the office of L. T. Gollaher, the acting warden, with a knife in his hand. Gollaher was out and guards seized Lathman before he could proceed farther. Lathman told officials , he planned to use the knife which he hadobtained from the prison kitch en, to force Gollaher's aid in an escape. He originally was sentenced In Los Angeles to three years but had three years added for his part in the El Reno mutiny of Sept 19o3. Federal officials said they were studying the possibility of adding another 5-year stretch by prose cuting him for violating the federal escape act in Thursday s attempt BREATH ADVICE GENEVA. N.Y.'fUPV You don't have to be "oiled" to have a lubricated breath. Optical re searchers (Shuron Co.) here say breathing on eyeglass lenses pro tects them during wiping. The moisture acts as a film to prevent scratches from dust and other ma Four Bodies Taken From Plane Crash SEASIDE The bodies of four persons who died in the crash of a plane nearly four years ago were recovered Thursday in a heavily timbered area near here. The victims were Archie Hopper, 52, warrenton; ms son, Lyle, 32: uuve Howaro. warrenton, and Archie Hopper's niece. Mrs. Jose phine Hayes, San RafaeL Calif. A party headed by George Mai berg, a sheriffs deputy, brought out the bodies. The party included Orvflle A. Hopper. Portland, a ! brother of Archie Hopper. 1 The bodies of two men were in the front and those of the two women in the rear compartment. Hopper took off Feb. 11, 1951 from Astoria on a flight for Cali fornia. ! ;- 5 t Ex-Presidents Still Called : Mr. President KANSAS CITY. Mo. (UP) Proper etiquette appears to call for addressing a former Presi dent of the United States properly as "Mr. President." 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