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Tells of Capture by
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Costa
Rican
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' 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
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- 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.
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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. ! ;-
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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."
Amy VanderbQt, a New York
etiquette authority, asked former
President Truman the proper
means of address.
Mr. Truman fold her Wednesday
he "had been called everything.
ana be ttidn t care what term is
used, but he personally addressed
former President Herbert Hoover
as "Mr. President".
And Mr. Hoover's former secre
tary, Bernke Miller, said she quite
agreed, and that Mr. Hoover uses
the same term when speaking,
writing or otherwise addressing the
other only living former President.
Mr. Truman said his present of
fice staff also uses the term "Mr.
President"
"I don't care what people call
me. I ve been called everything.'
But the Democrat said. VI in
structed the White House staff al
ways to cal Mr. Hoover 'Mr. Pres
ident and I did myself at the
law Gridiron Dinner.
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