Average Daily Net Press Run The Weather For the Week Ended Forecast of C. S. Weather Baresa March II, 1B6I ' Fair to partly cloudy toBlfht, 13,317 Low S2,to SS. Variable clondlneM TuesdaV, few brief showers likely. Member of the Andlt Hl|(h aroiinil SO. Bnreno of Olrcnlation Manchester— A City o f Village Charm VOL. L X X X , NO. 167 (FOURTEEN PAGES) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1961 .(Classified Advertlslna on Page It) PRICE FIVE CENTS Invasion Forces Land in Cuba 1. 1 Castro Reports Attacks Supported by Planes^ Warships Prosecution Opens Case State News Claims Mercenaries Eichmann Denies 15 Roundup Organized in U. S. Israeli Indictments Blaze Levels. Mexico City, April 17 (/P)—The Mexico City ag%ncy of the Cuban Revolutionary Council said today anti-Castro rebels By REUIIAN MORIN dau said the details of the judges' Large Store have taken the Isle of Pines and freed 10,000 political pri.son- Jerusalem, April 17 (/P)— reuoning would bo embodied in ers, who joined the rebellion. The agency said its informa* their final decision at the end of Adolf Eichmann grated out the trial. In N orw alk tion came in radio broadcasts from the I.sle of Pines. the words “not guilty” 15 Then Landau ordered Elchmun times in court today, denying to stand up and remove the head­ Norwalk, April 17 (/P)— A Moscow, April 17 (/P)—The government newspaper Izvestia all counts in Israel’s monu­ phones over which he listens to the tonight a.s.serted the Communist world stands behind Cuba’s translation into German of the spectacular early - morning mental indictment naming Hebrew language of the court. fire of undetermined origin Castro government. It made no mention of last summer’s him as the master destroyer Point by point, through the 15 destroyed a large department declaration by Premier Khrushchev that the Soviet Union of Jews in Europe during sections of the indictment.,Landau store on Route 7 here today. would back up Castro with rockets if necessary. repeated. "Do you plead guilty or World War II. One fireman was treated at Izvestia’s strongest tones were to be'found in its head­ The prosecviUon. opening Its not guilty?” lines, which said: “ Cuba is not alone,” and ‘.‘all of progressive Fifteen times Eichmann replied. Norwalk Hospital for smoke cu e. userted that Eichmann beat mankind is with her.” a Jewish child to death with his inhalation and released. oWn hands for stealing peaches. (Continued on Page Nine) In fighting the flames, firemen "This," cried Israeli Attorney' had to duck exploding bullets that By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS general Gideon Hausner, "is the went oft in the store’s firearms Invaders landed in Cuba by sea and air today, launching trial of the destroyer." department. the long awaited battle to topple Fidel Castro. The former Gestapo officer Priest Explains Firemen said Caldor's Depart­ Prime Minister Castro told his people by radio the sea stared back at Hausner, unblink­ ment Store was engulfed in flames ing. when they reached the one-story and airborne onslaught was backed by planes and warships Spectators in the courtroom wept, ^Ethics of War’ cinder - block, metal and frame and was launched by mercenaries organized by the Unitecl swallowed hard as though physi­ building shortly after 2 a.m. 'The States. His regime severed all communications to the United cally 111, Or looked at each other in Baltimore, April 17 (fl^—A sol­ fire raged for two hours before it was brought under control but States. shocked disbelief as Hausner, for dier ma.v kill in the time of war, "Already our troops are ad­ nearly six hours, piled horror on firemen remained at the scene near but for him to kill in the spirit vancing against the enemy, sure horror in his opening statement. the Norwalk-Wilton town lines for of their victory,” the bearded re­ Invader Bases more than four hours as sporadic Once, Hausner's voice faltered, and of hatred "is not the proper Chris­ volutionary asserted in ah appeal he said: "Tlfe court will forgive me tian attitude,"" a Roman Catholic flames flared in several sections of the building. for Cubans to maintain order and if I shorten this chapter. I doubt priest said lu t night. discipline. In Guatemala, whether I have words to describe Fire Chief Charles Volk said the Castro declared the invaders these terlble deeds." Still, at the 'The Very Rev. I^rancis J ., Con­ fire was discovered by a Norwalk end of today’s court session, he nell, C.S.R., a former dean of struck in southern Las Villas Pro­ radio patrol car at 2:10 a.m. vince and fighting had broken out U.S., Roa Savs said It would take him another half Catholic University in W uhing- Shortly after the first alarm was day to conclude his statement. ton, D.C., said Catholics may not at all points where the invaders sounded, the entire front of the landed. Exile sources said inva­ United Nations, N. Y., April 17 Eichmann's plea of Innocence justifiably become pacifists or floor exploded with a roar send' marked the actual start of his conscientious objectors. sion beachheads also were planted (VP) — Cuba charged today that an ing a shower of sparks 50 feet in­ invasion of Cuba had been trial on charges of complicity in Father Connell w u speaking on southeast of Havana and in ex­ to the air. The fire then spread treme eastern and western Cuba. latinched from Florida and Guate­ the death of six million European the "Ethics of War," at the Holy backwards in the building, which Name Society’s 60th anniversary Df. Jose Mlro Cardona, the rebel mala with the backing of the Unit­ Jews during the war. It came af-' is a city block deep and half ed States. The United States re­ ter the 3-man court headed by Su­ convention in Baltimore. block wide. leader who broke with Castro over He said that war is not in- communist influence influence in plied with an immediate denial. preme Court Justice Moshe Lan­ Firemen were hampered by a Cuban Foreign Minister Raul dau overruled defense objections to \rtnsleally evil, according to Cath­ lack of water in combatting the Hot Time for Hot Rods Cuba, issued a statement saying olic doctrine, but for a nation to Roa told the U.N. Political Com­ the court’s competence to heawAhe blaae. There were no effjn^dramts A Town of Manchester fireman aims a stream of water at a blazing carriage house oh Hartford Rd., the battle had begun to rid (3uba mittee that the United States muZt cu e and to the Lsraeli law under in the vicinity but firemen pressed oppoilte Palm St., in which two hot rod cars and the frame of another were destroyed late this of Castro’s "despotic rule” and assume the full responsibility for which Eichmann is charged. Lan­ (Continued on Page Nine) two private hydrants at nearby morning. Richard Young. 27, of 13 Charlotte St., was alone in the 4-stall garage welding when the "Communism’s cruel oppression.” the dawn landings. manufacturing plants into service, building suddenly burst into flames. Young escaped without Injury. Firemen were able to bring One Cuban exile source in the Chief U. S. Delegate Adlai R. ’racy laid about 1,000 feet of hose the blaze under control quickly. However, the front, inside and roof were badly charred, and the United States said Miro Cardona Stevenson, asserted "these charges to a river. front doors were burned off. No estimate of loss was available. (Story on Page 7). (Photo by had left for Cuba but his public are totally false and I deny them Prank Bennett, owner of the Anthony Bayles). relations chief in New York denied categorically.” Kennedy for Fast Aid store, said he was unable to give this. "The United States has not com­ an immediate estimate of the fi­ Telephone and telegraph com­ mitted aggression against Cuba nancial loss adding, however, that munications with Chiba were cut it would be substantial. He said Castro’s Radio off early today, shortly after a (Continued ,on Page Seven) To Farmers, Consumers everything was n complete loss, Rusk Asserts U.S. Cuban array officer confirmed one the merchandise "Inventory auid landing on the south , coast. everything." Says In va d ers The Cuban government radio Wuhington, April 17 (Pi—Presl-^commbdity program to Congress was heard summoning all people’s dent Kennedy today uked Congress and producers. 56 to 61 militia wnits to report at once to to act promptly on his new agri­ Originally, it was planned to Moved Inland Will Not Intervene their stations. Bulletins Hartford. April 17 iJP\ — The cultural program, which he said submit such a program to a pro­ In his broadcast heard in Mi­ Culled from. AP Wires would help the farmer and protect ducer referendum before laying it State Motor Vehicle Department’s ami. Castro declared: daily record,, of automobile acci­ (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) the consumer . before Congress. The order was Washington. April 17 (/P) — Sec-«>Cuba is still under study. A num "Troops landing by sea and air Sending his administration’s reversed in the final draft to give dents as of last midnight and the Monitored radio broadcasts by retary of Stale Dean Rusk said to­ ber of weeks ago he had indicated are attacking various points of the farm proposals to Congress in the Congress a right to look over a totals on the same date last year: the Fidel Castro regime indicated day the United Statc.s will not in­ a decision was just around the national territory in the south of FINCH, CAROLE GET, UFB form of a bill, Kennedy declared program before it was submitted 1960 1961' today that invaders may have tervene in Cuba but it i.s no secret corner.