Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 11-25-1964 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1964). Winona Daily News. 532. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/532 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. * Survivor Tells of Massacre at Stanleyville By JOHN SWAELENS who were forced to sit down in in rebel territory. paratroops, thank God, arrived on top and aald, 'Don't move.' leges. Yesterday when the reb- had not said on the radio yester- 1 the command to shoot. The colo- nel held back. BRUSSELS (AP) the street. Shivering refugees in light quickly. If they hadn't, we "Almost at once the para- els learned the paratroops had day that all whites should be - American " said. " 'If you don't give the order, medical missionary Paul Carl- "When-the rebels heard the tropical clothing shuffled about would all have been dead." troops appeared. The well- j arrived, they took us on the killed, Father de Lepper Greef , a Brussels | you'll get the first bullet,' the son was killed when Congolese | paras (paratroopers) were on looking for relatives and Rene Bragard of Brussels armed rebels started running i road toward the airport. Christian de coffee exporter, huddled under young rebels shouted," De rebels fired into a group of I the way, they opened fire into friends. Bed Cross workers said, "Ai paratroops dropped on away shouting, "The Ameri- "They made us sit in the gut- " a blanket as he told how he, Ms Greef said. "Finally the colonel white hostages, a Belgian refu- the group and Carlson was shot handed out heavy overcoats. Stanleyville, simba (rebel sol- cans. The Americans. (or ters and they started shooting at wife and their three children gave the order." gee arriving from Stanleyville down. Afterward as we went to Authorities provided cash diers) armed with rifles and Bragard said the rebels close range at the lot of us. Peo- those arriving without money. than had been confined to their liome Some of the refugees said said today. meet the Belgian troops I saw submachine guns pushed us out feared Americans more le died, people were injured, Valere Pairot from Liege said of the hotels and said they for a month. youths of about 10 years were his body in the street. He had were Belgians and thought the para- Elow many, I did not count . The refugee, remand Deprey, : been shot through the head." that when the paratroopers be- taking us to the airport. We troopers were American sol- "We stayed in the house when carrying rifles among the reb- was aboard a Belgian Airlines There was such a panic." ' Deprey said that during his , gan landing, rebels came for were a column of maybe 300 diers. "They believed also that the firing started," De Greef els. jetliner tljat arrived early today imprisonment by the rebels , he him and said, " 'We are going children , women and men. strafing planes (manned by Cu- Walter de Lepper , a Dutch said. "When the paratroopers Two elderly women, still in from the Congo with 163 hos- had come to know Carlson well. to the airport.' They put the "As we were marched on the ban refugee pilots) were Ameri- Catholic priest from Eindhoven, | came to take us to the airport, shock 24 hours after narrowly tages freed Tuesday when Bel- said rebel leader Christophe death, apparently "He was very cheerful and a men in front of the group, wom- road, rebels started readying can planes with American pi- i we saw about 20 bodies in the escaping gian paratroopers landed at great moral example," he said. en and children behind. their weapons. Some in our lots." Gbenye was responsible for the street." were unaware they were safe. A Stanleyville, the rebel capital . At the airport a foggy drizzle ' "As we reached the Hotel Vic- Sroup ran for protection toward "We were arrested four weeks death of the whites who were De Greef said a crowd of Red Cross worker kept telling "I was a prisoner in the Hotel (ell on thousands of waiting Bel- ; toria they told us to sit down. ouses. Rebels started firing at ago," reported Albert Van de shot down. whites had been rounded up in them, "You are in Brussels Victoria," Deprey said. "Carl- gians, relatives or friends ofj They started firing, aiming at random all around. I threw my Ven of Antwerp. "We were de- "There -would have been little the street and younger rebels here. This is Brussels, not Stan- son was in a group of about 150 persons who had been trapped ! women and children first. The wife on the ground and myself tained in local hotels and col- killing if rebel leader Gbenye demanded that their officer give leyville^ 200 Whites Still Missing in Congo Troops Restore Order, Rebel Leaders Flee LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo tages threatened with death. (AP) — Belgian paratroops and Several rebels and a Belgian Congolese soldiers searched to- paratroop sergeant was killed during the night in mop-up oper- day for some 200 whites still ations. Much of the skirmishing missing in the northern Congo. took place near the airport More than 900 refugees have where the foreigners awaited arrived here from the former evacuation to Leopoldville. rebel capital and another 500-600 Premier Moise Tshombe can- awaited evacuation at Stan- celed plans for a triumphant leyville Airport. Of the~63 Amer- entry into Stanleyville today. icans trapped in the rebel zone, "He may go tomorrow," an 34 and the bodies of two mur- aide said. dered missionaries had arrived Wounded evacuees were taken in Leopoldville. to hospitals in Leopoldville. The Scattered fighting continued rebels killed at least 30 foreign- in Stanleyville, which fell Tues- ers and wounded more than 50 day to Congolese troops and in murderous attacks as the white mercenaries after the paratroopers began landing. paratroops landed to rescue the ' "Other Europeans may be European and American hos- ( found dead in various parts of I the city," a ; U.S~ Embassy [ spokesman said. YOUNGSTERS FREED FROM CONGO REBELS , . '{ three other children from StanleyvillJe after being freed from , Rebel chief Christophe Dominique-BoQneholds a doll as she and her brother, James, the Congo rebels Tuesday. They were part of first planeload Gbenye and other leaders of the sit wrapped in blankets at the Brussels airport after flight ' of refugees on flight from Leopoldville. (AP Photofax via cable, Viet Troops Communist-backed "Congolese from The Congo. They were evacuated with their parents and from Brussels) People's Republic" have disap- peared. Rout Students The United States told Tshdmbe's central government 2 Planes, 4 that rebel leaders must be made to answer for the murder of two In Saigon Riot American missionaries, Dr. 120I! Projects Start SAIGON South Viet Nam Airmen Missing , dress , VICTIM OF TERROR . , . Unidentified little girl (AP ) — Vietnamese paratroops blood-stained and foot bandaged, arrives in Leopoldville, battled rioting students in Sai- The Congo. She was one of the many refugees flown from gon today and drove them into Over Thailand Stanleyville since rescue operation by Belgian and Congo- the city 's chief Buddhist pagoda Anti-Poverty Drive BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - lese forces against the Congo rebel forces. (AP Photofax with tear gas and fixed bayo- Two T28 planes and four U.S. JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) 41 Job Corps training centers training unemployed parents in via cable from Brussels) nets. airmen have been missing for About 15 or 20 troopers and — Money to launch a nationwide where idle youths, 16 to 21, will job skills, and providing social six days on a ferry flight from police were injured, two of them campaign againstjapverty will receive basic education and per- services for impoverished ar- northeast Thailand to South SHOW THEIR GRATITUDE seriously. A number of students soon be flowing to 32 states un- form conservation-type tasks. eas. Viet Nam, American military were beaten. der the administration's anti- Five cities with well-devel- sources sajd today. Premier Tran Van Huong's poverty program. A big recruiting job to get vol- oped plans for spending the unteers for the Job Corps will The sources said the two government cracked down as The first 120 projects to win money will get the largest rioting contin- be launched next week. Most of planes, each carrying two antigovernment approval were announced Tues- amounts : Detroit , $2.8 million; ued for the fourth straight day. the camps will be for boys, but pilots, were on a flight from Coup le Serves day by Sargent Shriver, the na- Los Angeles, $2.7 million; Wash- Udorn, a Thai-Laotian border The Buddhist hierarchy de- 's antipoverty chief. They'll a few will be set up for girls. tion ington , $1.4 million; Pittsburgh, town to Danang, in South Viet clared open political war on the get a total of $35 million out of Another $13 million will go to $1.2 million , and Atlanta, $1 mil- Nam. government and demanded im- of the $800 million approved by a dozen cities and six rural ar- lion. Their normal route would mediate release of demonstra- Congress for the first year of eas for community-run pro- Turkey Dinners tors arrested previously. have crossed the Laotian pan- Other projects for which funds IX- the program.