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Vf.ii-iAY, APHIL 26, 19S1
Anti-Castro Invader Gives Eyewitness
Account of Military Operations in Cuba
Editor's note! ni rintuni.nn.
from a merchant ship in the Gulf
of Mexico, a survivor of last
week's anti-Castro landing today
gave the first oyewitness account
of the military operations. He and
four other rebel fighters had suc
ceded in escaping the beachhead
aboard a raft and a passing ship
picked them up Monday. United
Press International established
radio contact with the ship this
morning and obtained the follow
ing account of the invasion. The
story (dictated In Spanish and
translated into English) is told by
a 3fi-year-old Cuban who served
as Fidel Castro's former Judge
advocate during the Sierra Mae
stra battle against Batista. He
turned against Castro a month
after Castro assumed power in Ha
vana and early this year Joined
the clandestine anti-Castro army.
By MANUEL PENABAZ
As Told to UPI
Copyright 1961 by UPI
' 1 am one of the lucky few
who got out of Cuba after last
week's disastrous invasion. I
was there three days. It was(
the MIG jet fighters, the So
viet tanks and the mortars
which defeated us.
The Cochinos Bay landing
will be in Cuba history what
Dunkirk, was to the British.
Except that we had nobody to
get us off the beach.
About 1,500 men took part
in the invasion. Apparently
only a handful managed to get
away alive. There were 350
men in pur group. We hit the
beach from a Liberty ship at
3 a.m. April 17.
Four companions and my
self evidently are the only
survivors - not captured or
dead - of our 350 who went
in.
. After three days of fighting
we decided to try to get out.
By some kind of miracle we
stumbled on a rubber life raft
on the beach.
Suddenly we were discover-
Riddle Plant Part
Of Major New Field
In Marketing Nickel
Riddle, Ore. The Hanna
Mining company has entered
a major new field, the com
mercial production and mark
eting of nickel, it was an
nounced today.
The company has completed
acquisition of a smelter that
processes ore from the Riddle
mine, the nation's only large
nickel deposit, and has begun
marketing high grade "f erro
nickel for use in the produc
tion of stainless and other
alloy steels. , '
Through a subsidiary, The
Hanna Nickel Smelting com
pany, Hanna Mining has op
erated a plant here since it
was opened in 1955. To(date
it has produced more than
100 pounds of nickel, all of
which has been for the ac
count of the government to
help build the defense ma
terials inventory of the stra
tegic material. f
High Quality Nickel
W. A. Marting, president,
said that the company's ex
perience has shown it can pro
duce a nickel of dependable
high quality at a competitive
price. He said the company
has sales agreements with
major alloy steel producers in
the country;
"We are confident that the
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demand for alloy steels in this
country j will ; continue to
grow, he declared, "and that
ourj nickel business will' bene
fit accordingly."
Hanna Mining for many
years has been a supplier of
raw . material to the steel in
dustry. It is one of the world's
large independent producers
of iron ore, with holdings in
Minnesota, Michigan and Mis
souri. It has. a substantial in
terest in Iron Ore Company
of Canada, which can produce
more than 12 million tons of
ore annually from the Quebec
Labrador fields, -and is cur
rently investigating a large
commercial development of
extremely high grade Bra
zilian iron ore.
Interest In Vessels
It also has interests in ore
vessels in the Great Lakes
trade, in the St. Lawrence
Seaway and on saltwater. With
Dutch associates, it recently
built a large, fast ore unload
ing and storage dock in Rot
terdam to serve the steel in
dustry of western Europe.
The company will distribute
the nickel to steel companies
and foundries across the coun
try from warehouse stocks in
Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh
and Riddle. The distribution
system is set up to provide
prompt service on less-than-carload
lots. -..
The nickel smelter installed
here was the first to use the
Ugine process to produce
nickel. The process, develop
ed in . France for refining
chrome and adapted by Hanna
Mining for nickel smelting, in
volves the use of electric fur
naces, with impurities remov
ed from the molten metal in
a series of ladles.
Aerial Tramway Used
Crude ore, containing about
1.5 per cent nickel, comes
from the deposit here held
for many years by Hanna Min
ing. It is moved to the plant
over a 1-mile aerial tramway.
Total employment at the
plant and mine approximates
450.
Nickel and chrominum are
the two key alloying metals
used in stainless steel. Last
year approximately 85 million
pounds of nickel were used
in the United States for this
purpose. The plant at Riddle
produced more than 22 mil
lion pounds of nickel in 1960.
LAWFORDS EXPECTING
Hollywood - (UPI) - English
born actor Peter Lawford and
his wife, Pat, sister of Presi
dent Kennedy, expect their
fourth child in June. Their
other children are Christo
pher, 6, Sydney, 5, and Vic
toria Francis, 2.
ed and Castro's men opened
up with 50 -caliber machine
guns, but they missed us.
That was in the early morn
ing hours of Thursday. We
paddled out to sea and were
about 100 miles south of Cuba
when the freighter Louise
picked .us up last Monday -exactly
a week after the be
ginning of the invasion.
Shortly after we had land
ed Castro's forces let go with
everything they had - jets,
Russian tanks and mortars.
Aboard Six Ships
Our 1,500-man invading
force was aboard six ships. We
sailed from a friendly Latin
American country six days
before. The first bit of Cuba
we sighted was Cayo Guano
(Key Guano). About an hour
later we saw the lights of
Playa Largo (Long Beach),
our destination.
The first batch of men land
ed at 0300. The operation was
very slow and the men were
still landing at 0900, six hours
later. This apparently gave
Castro's men time to gather
their forces and move in re
inforcements. During the landing we were
subjected to all-out attack.
But we kept landing.
Ammunition Lost
They sank two of our ships.
They were the ones loaded
with ammunition for our
tanks and guns.
My group managed to at
tain its preViously determined
position. We held it as long as
we could shoot. We took two
prisoners. They were both
wounded and we took them to
our field hospital where our
own men were being treated.
We held our position for
three days, without eating and
with a minimum of water.
Here and there somebody had
half a canteen, or maybe just
a cupful.
Failure Obvious
After three days of fighting,
it was obvious ,that our in
vasion had failed. Our com
mander, San Roman, gave the
order to evacuate the areas.
They were words we never ex
pected to hear.
"Salvese quien Pueda!" he
shouted. (Every man for him
self). I shall never forget
them.
After hitting the beach and
PENNY CONTENT
Washington - A U.S. penny
coin must contain 95 per cent
copper plus a five per cent
mixture of tin and zinc.
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Laos Rebels Call
For Meeting in
Own Territory
Vientiane, Laos-IUPD-Former
Laotian Premier Souvanna
Phouma today demanded
formation of a provisional
government and called for a
meeting in Communist-controlled
territory to discuss de
tails of effecting a cease fire
in Laos. .
Souvanna, a self,-exiled neu
tralist leader who is recog
nized as legal premier by the
Communists, issued a state
ment in Hanoi, Communist
North Viet Nam, accepting the
cease fire agreement arranged
by Britain and the Soviet
Union.
The ex-premier said that to
bring about an effective peace
in Laos it was essential "to en
large the government and
transform it into a provisional
coalition government with the
participation of various par
ties." . ... . ;
Delegations Invited
Souvanna said he had in
vited the representatives of
the Communist Neo Lao Hak
sat party, political arm of the
Pathet Lao movement, and
the "Savannakhet group"-the
royal Loation government in
Laos - to send delegations to
Xieng Khouang in northern
Laos on Friday to discuss his
proposals.
The Vientiane government
did not respond immediately
to Souvanna's demands. But
first indications were they
would be difficult for the pro-
Western government of Pre'
mier Prince Boun Oum to ac
cept. Laotian Foreign Secretary
Chao Sopsaisan had told a
news conference Tuesday that
the royal government would
accept the cease fire bid de
spite fears of bad faith by the
Communists.
getting into position we man
aged to hold fast in my sector,
despite the fact that Castro
was hitting us with every
thing he had. We had five
fine tanks, but they were use
less after the ships carrying
the ammunition for them
were sunk.
: Those same ships carried
anti-tank mines we had hoped
to use against Castro's tanks.
. We all wore camouflage
uniforms and carried Ml car
bines or machine guns.
Not in U.S. Territory
There is one point I would
like to emphasize.
We were never in U.S. ter
ritory prior to the invasion.
We left the friendly Latin
American country which was
our debarkation point about
10:30 p.m. one night six days
before the landing.
I'm glad I got out, of course.
But like all Cubans who hate
Castro and do not want to see
their homeland turned into a
Communist satellite. I am ter
ribly sad that we failed. It
was a lesson that we shall not
forget, however.
Committee Tackles
College Aid Bill
Washington-IUPD-The House
Education and Labor commit
tee today was expected to re
sume work on President Ken
nedy's college building and
scholarship bill, the less con
troversial of his two art
school aid program.
The committee met on the
$2.4 billion bill last week,
but made little headway.
The five-year p r o gr a m
would make $1.5 billion in
loans and grants to colleges
for building classrooms, li
braries and laboratories, and
$900 million for more than
I 215,000 four-year college sch
olarships. The other part of the pro
gram, a $2.3 billion proposal
to aid public grade and high
schools, made progress in an
education subcommittee Tues
day. The subcommittee ten
tatively approved a ban on
federal control of schools and
a "declaration of purpose"
embodying nearly all the prin
ciples of Kennedy's request.
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TOP PRODUCERS
Sacramento - C a 1 i fornia,
Oregon, Nevada and Idaho are
leaders among the states in
the production of mercury
SANTA GETS STUCK
Columbia, S. C. - lUPD-Five-year-old
David Bailey went
out into his back yard to
"play Santa Claus" Tuesday,
and an hour later his mother
had to call the police. The
police demolished an outdoor
fireplace and removed David
sooty but unhurt from the
chimney.
illaqe Green
Motel Held Up
Cottage Grove The Village
Green Motor Hotel here was
robbed of several hundred
dollars by a gunman early today.
Night auditor Warren Ed
wards said a man who appear
ed very nervous entered the
office about 12:20 a.m. and
handed him a printed note.
Edwards said the note stat
ed that other men were out
side and if he tried anything
"someone will get shot."
Edwards said the robber
carried what appeared to be
a .45 caliber automatic.
FARMING STATE
Des Moines - Iowa has a
larger proportion of area in
farmed land than any other
state.
Depressed Areas
Bill Faces Hurdle
Washington-IUPD - President
Kennedy's $394 million pro
gram for re-vitalizing econom
ically depressed communities
today faced its last, and prob
ably its toughest, congression
al hurdle.
Administration forces wore
confident the House would ap
prove the measure and 'send
it on to the White House by
mid-afternoon despite new op
position engendered by a dis
pute over its "back door fi
nancing."
But Chairman John W.
Byrnes of the GOP Policy
committee foresaw a "close
vote." The committee Tuesday
afternoon agreed to fight
House passage of the measure
in an effort to force elimina
tion of the disputed financing
provision.
The so-called "back door
financing" would permit fed
eral outlays of $300 million
without requiring the admin
istration to get the funds ap
propriated by Congress, as is
customary for such programs.
Search Fails To Find Missing Judge
Salem - HIPD - Aeronautics
Director Earl Snyder said
Tuesday an aerial search of
a mountain peak near Gates
in the Santiam canyon has
shown no sign of missing Lin
coln County Circuit Judge
Richard Anderson.
The judge disappeared on
a Lebanon to Newport flight
in a private plane March 19.
The new search was order
ed after a woman reported
seeing a burst of light and.,
cloud of smoke on the moun
tain peak near Gates the aft
ernoon Anderson vanished. .
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Pre-Sentence Report
Requested by Court
A pre-sentence report was
requested on Frederick Be
nard Beck, 20, of Rogue Riv
er, after he pleaded guilty in
Jackson county circuit court
yesterday to contributing to
the delinquency of a minor.
Darrell La Verne Fariss, 40,
of 2890 Crater Lake highway, i
Medford, appeared in district
court on charges of contrib
uting to the delinquency of a
girl. He waived right to an
attorney and preliminary
hearing and was bound over
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held in Jackson county jail
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