7, 1960 THE MICHIGAN DAIIY
Kiennedy Says
Document
Proves
U.S. Prestige Sli
LEMUS FLEES:
Swift Revolt Ousts
El Salvador Leader
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador'
W)-A six-man .junta seized pow-
er from President Jose Maria Le-
mus yesterday in a swift bloodless
Coup.
Lemus fled to neighboring Gua-
temala, en route to Miami, Fla.
The capital and hinterlands of
this smallest nation in the Amer-
icas were reported calm last night.
Revolt leaders claimed complete
control of the country.
Issue Communique,
A communique issued by the'
junta declared Lemus was over-
thrown because "he governed out-
side the law, trampled on the
constitution and the rights of citi-
zens, committed illegal acts and
Livingcosts
At New Peak
WASHINGTON () - The na-
tion's living costs edged up to a
new peak in September and cloth-
ing prices broke a 40-year record.
The government's consumer
price index rose to 126.8 per cent
of the 1947-49 cost level. This
means it takes more than $1.26 to
buy what $1 would bring a dozen
years ago.
The Labor Department said liv-
ing costs have risen only one-fifth
as fast under President Dwight D.
Eisenhower's Administration as
they did under former President
Harry S. Truman's years in the
White House.
created a climate of general dis-
content."
The junta said elections will be
held in 1962 and declared they
will be absolutely free. It prom-
ised it will follow the provisions
of the constitution and the coun-
try's laws and guarantee the
rights of citizens.
The lightning takeover came
after weeks of student demon-
strations against social and eco-
nomic inequalities. Lemus had re-
taliated with a police crackdown.
Quick Revolt
The revolt was launched short-
ly after midnight and was over
quickly. Members of the 1st ar-
tillery regiment in the capital fired
a half dozen rounds at the presi-
dential palace at 2 a.m.
Leaders of the coup, accom-
panied by soldiers, then entered
the residence, seized Lemus and
put him in a car with a military
escort. He was driven to the Gua-
temala border, crossing the fron-
tier about 5 a.m.
Lemus, a lieutenant colonel in
the army, went to Guatemala ac-
companied by his chief aide, Maj.
Adolfo Rubio Melhado, secretary
to the presidency.
Frees Prisoners
In one of its first acts, the rul-
ing junta announced that all po-
litical prisoners would be freed.
A first group of 55--students,
workers and professional men--
was released from prison yester-
day.
The.Salvador University faculty
accused police of brutality and
closed down the school for a time.
I T*THE FOLK ARTS FESTIVAL*
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Government
Hides Report
From View
Hagerty Calls Paper
Secret, Low Level
WASHINGTON M-The Eisen-
hower Administration yesterday
sealed from public 'view a report
which Democratic presidential
candidate John F. Kennedy says
supports his contention that Unit-
ed States prestige overseas has
slipped.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told inquiring
newsmen the document is classi-
fied secret. He described it as
"an internal, low level staff pa-
per" like many others Hagerty
said are prepared from time to
time within the United States In-
formation Agency. It is under-
stood to involve field reports from
USIA employes.
Withhold Paper
The decision to withhold this
paper was made by Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter and
USIA Director George Allen, Hag-
erty said. He stressed this was
done "under policies approved by
the President pertaining to in-
ternal working papers of the
executive branch of the govern-
ment."
At the same time, the White
House spokesman underscored
that President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower disagrees sharply with Sen.
Kennedy's position that United
States prestige has ebbed.
Presses Charges
Several hours earlier, Kennedy
pressed his offensive with a charge
that the Administration is "afraid
to tell the people the truth.
"It is far more dangerous to
hide the truth about our position
abroad-and hide it for political
purposes.
Kennedy argued the prestige re-
port is being kept from the public
to protect his Republican oppo-
nent, Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon, who has insisted United
States standing in the world is at
an all-time high.
Again, the Democratic candi-
date demanded that Nixon make
the report available. Nixon has
said he has no objection.
Reflects Ally Fears
There have been published and
broadcast reports that the USIA
survey reflects strong belief in10
friendly nations of Europe and
Asia that Russia is leading as a
military power an may pull
further ahead in the next 10
years.
While disclosing the decision to
keep the report under wraps Hag-
erty said he didn't want any mis-
understanding about Eisenhower's
position on the prestige question.a
The White House press secre-
tary directed attention to a speech
the President made in San Fran-
cisco last Thursday night - a
speech widely viewed as a jab at:
Kennedy.
Rocket Shot
Fails; Stages f
Stay Intact
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Cal. MP)-Discoverer XVI
shot aloft yesterday with a new
type second stage satellite vehicle,
but failed to orbit.
The Air Force said the rocket's
first and second stages failed to
separate and they plunged to-
gether into the Pacific.
The case is being investigated.
Because the two stages failed to
separate, the second stage did not
ignite and blast its way into the
desired polar orbit.
The model contained special in-
struments designed to prevent
wobbling that has caused failure
in past attempts at recovering Dis-
covered space capsules.
Next time, it may contain a
small monkey probing dangers
man will meet in space.
KENNEDY:
Candidate
Asks Show
Of Report
DETROIT () - Sen. John F.
Kennedy demanded again yes-
terday that Vice-President Rich-
ard M. Nixon release a secret gov-
ernment survey showing that 10
nations consider the United States
is behind the Soviet Union in
military strength. -
The Democratic presidential
candidate claimed the report has
been suppressed to protect Nix-
on's assertions that American
prestige is at an "all-time high."
Raps Suppression
He said, further, "the present
administration has consistently
followed a policy of suppressing
important public information."
The White House yesterday
balked at making public the re-
port. Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty read newsmen a
statement saying Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter and Di-
rector George Allen of the United
States Information Agency "have
determined that this paper will
not be made available outside the
executive branch."
Hagerty said Herter and Al-
len had acted under policies ap-
proved by President Dwight D.
Eisenhower. The report is under-
stood to be one from the agency's
employes in the field. Its exact na-
ture never has been officially dis-
closed.
No Objection
Nixon has said he has no ob-
jection to making the report pub-
lic but Hagerty said it is classi-
fied.
Kennedy carried his hard-driv-
ing campaign from Illinois to
Michigan yesterday.
He said his two days in central
Illinois and Chicago suburbs-
largely Republican territory in the
past-were heartening to him. "I
am greatly encouraged by the re-
sults here of the chances of car-
rying Illinois," Kennedy said.
Kennedy scheduled a heavy day
in Michigan where his chances of
winning the state's 20 electoral
college votes are considered high.
Nobel Prize
Won by Perse
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel
Prize for Literature was awarded
yesterday to Saint-John Perse a
French poet whose life has mixed
diplomacy and modern poetry.
The 18-member Swedish Acad-
emy of Letters picked Perse for
the $43,627 prize, from a fund
established by the inventor of
dynamite,dfor poetry which "in a
visionary fashion reflects the con-
ditions of our time."
Nixon Hits
Democrat
Maneuver
TOLEDO OP) - Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon said last night
he would be willing to attend a
summit meeting with Russian
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev
early next year if it would pro-
duce an enforceable agreement to
end atomic testing.
The Republican presidential
candidate said that, if elected, he
would move the next day to try to
break the two-year stalemate with
the Soviet Union over a nuclear
test ban agreement.
He said there is some reason
to believe Russia might be con-
ducting secret tests in violation of
the moratorium.
The Republican presidential
candidate told crowds across Ohio
during a long day of vote-hunting
by train that his opponents ap-
parently seized on the prestige
theme because "they are running
out of issues with nothing else to
talk about.
'Sorry Spectacle'
"It is a sad spectacle, a sorry
spectacle, one of the sorriest
spectacles in the history of Amer-
ican politics," Nixon told a
Springfield, 0., crowd, "when a
man tries to get elected Presi-
dent of the United States by run-
ning down the United States all
over the world."
The Vice-President said re-
peatedly that the Russians are
gleeful over the charges being
made by Sen. John F. Kennedy
and Adlai Stevenson.
T h e Communist newspaper
Pravda has run two columns of
quotations from speeches by Ken-
nedy and Stevenson in which the
Democratic leaders talked of low-
ered United States prestige in Af-
rica, Asia and Latin America
U.S. First
"It just isn't true," he declared.
"We're the world's strongest na-
tion. We're first in education.
We're first in science.
"And we're going to stay that
way unless they give us an infer-
iority complex by what they're
saying."
Nixon spoke to substantial
crowds on his final day of cam-
paigning in this pivotal state. His
aides said that at a number of
points the crowds exceeded Ken-
nedy's turnouts in the same area
last week, even though it was
raining part of the time yester-
day.
The Vice-President continually
referred to his encounters with
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush-
chev as proof of his experience in
foreign affairs. But he described
Kennedy as a man so Inexperi-
enced in this field "he says one
thing when he means something
else."
German Troops To Trai
At Two Bases inFrance
PARIS (R) - German troops
rolled into France again last attempted to obtain training and sternly ordered their men I
night, not as foes this time but storage facilities in Spain, but on their best behavior.
as allies who will train on French memories of the Nazi-Fascist ties MaJ. Gen. Ottomar Hanse
soil, during World War II caused such the Bundeswehr's 2nd Arm
Advance detachments of pan- a cry in Western Europe that Brigade said in an orderof
zer and parachute troop battalions Bonn dropped the idea. France day:
from the West German army later stepped- in as one of sev- "Yu bhvori Fac
headed for French bases at the Yer TOppers ofein such lrour behavior in France
old battle grounds of Sissone and fal ith largely decide whether arien
Mourmelon, flanking the cathe- facilities. with France and cooperation
dral town of Reims . A Paris-Bonn agreement was
France agreed to allow West signed Tuesday night. The Ger- that ally will grow and dE
Frmane aree to ralo est -man troops got the go-ahead sig- further.
German troops to train here be- nal within hours to forestall any French officials do not e:
cause the growing German army, criticism arising out of the aver- trouble. The two sites for
a keystone of the North Atlantic age Frenchman's bitter memories neuvers are vast military inst
alliance, is cramped on its home of German armies that attacked tions. Once insidethe/camps
grounds. France in 1870, 1914 and 1940. Germans may not have muct
Early this year West Germany Anticipating French resent- casion for contact with Fi
Court Denies
King Appeal
DECATUR, Ga. (A') - Martin
Luther King, Jr., Negro integra-
tion leader, was denied freedom
yesterday from a four-month pri-
son term imposed as an indirect
result of sit-in demonstrations in
nearby Atlanta.
The denial came in a court ses-
sion that was delayed temporarily
by anonymous telephone threats
to bomb the courtroom. More than
100 white and Negro spectators
were evacuated from the court
and the hearing was transferred
to another room as a precaution
against possible violence.
As an added safeguard, admis-
sion was limited to attorneys, ac-
credited news men and persons
approved by opposing counsel.
Judge Oscar Mitchell of De-
Kalb County criminal court ruled
that King must serve four months
of a 12-month suspended sentence
received last month on a charge
of driving without a Georgia
drivers' license.
Probation of part of the term
which King received on the traffic
charge was revoked because King
allegedly violated the state's new
anti-trespass law by taking part
in the demonstrations last week.
Mitchell set a hearing for today
on a bill of exceptions which de-
fense lawyers announced they will
file in a move to take the case to
a higher court.
The telephoned threats were
received shortly before King's at-
torneys went into court seeking
his release from what they termed
an illegal action last Tuesday in
revoking part of his suspended
traffic sentence.
Mitchell in his ruling said he
found no merit in their appeal
from the revocation.
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