THE MICHIGAN DAILY . PAGE! THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE i I.i\/lii . i. F11V aI it African Police Round Up Apartheid Protest Group Bourghiba Visits PEACE CORPS: Candidates' Testing To Begin -U Seize Heads Of Strikes Proclaim Cease-Fire For Laotian Rebels Blame.Yesterday Morning Assault On Failure In Communications VIENTIANE (AP)-Pro-Communist Laotian rebels proclaimed a cease-fire effective at 8 a.m. yesterday, but a later attack by the rebels on a key town in the narrow southern waist of Laos failed to dim hopes here that all fighting soon would stop. The general tendency was to blame yesterday morning's assault, in battalion size, at Pha Lane on a failure in communications. West- ern military experts have predicted there would be some incidents and fighting even after a formal cease-fire. The cease-fire order to Pathet Lao forces and their rebel allies was broadcast over North Viet Nam's Radio Hanoi. Appeal to Boun Qum It was coupled with an appeal to the Wetern-backed Lao- tian government of Prince Boun Oum to negotiate an armistice WASHINGTON (P})-- The firstv written test for Peace Corps candi- dates will be given throughout the United States May 27, Officials an- nounced yesterday. "There will be no such mark as a passing score," the announce- ment said. "Different projects will require different abilities, and someone who scores low in one area may score so well in others that he becomes the ideal person to pick for the assignment." The May 27 test will be for World News Roundup By The Associated Press VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A huge Titan mis- sile thundered out of its underground lair yesterday in a successful first test of a "hardened" ICBM launch system. It was intentionally destroyed about 350 miles down the Pacific missile range after surviving two periods of severe stress. Its range is 5,000 miles and more. The test pioneered an armored underground launch system de- signed to enable the United States to strike back after atomic attack. * N N LEOPOLDVILLE-The bodies of 26 Ghanaian soldiers have been found in the river at Port Francqui, unconfirmed reports said yes- terday. The United Nations listed 38 Ghanaians missing after the UN garrison at the north Kasai town was overwhelmed by Congolese troops last week. * * *.* KEY WEST-A square-rigged student cruise ship sank in a furiotis Gulf of Mexico squall Tuesday, trapping and drowning six persons below deck, including a woman physician who was the skip- per's wife. News of the tragedy that befell the "floating classroom," a stately two-masted brigantine named the Albatross, came yesterday when the Dutch freighter Gran Rio picked up 13 survivors in life- boats. * * *. * LONDON--More than 5,000 firemen from all parts of Britain laid seige to the House of Commons yesterday, only to break ranks when a fire broke out nearby. It was the biggest demonstration of mass lobbying ever seen at the palace of Westminster. The fire fighters are demanding a gov- ernment inquiry into pay scales and lack of recruits. - - - - WASHINGTON-Richard S. Morse said yesterday he will submit his resignation as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Development to President John F. Kennedy, effective June 1. But Morse denied reports that he is quitting because of dissatis- faction with refusal by both the Eisenhower and Kennedy adminis- trations to order the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile into production. volunteers desiring assignment as elementary school teachers, teach- ers of English in non - English speaking areas, farm or animal husbandry workers, engineers, sur- veyors and geologists. Estimating that 7,500 will take the examination, a spokesman said it will mark the initial step in the selection of workers for the first Peace Corps project-a secondary roads survey in parts of Tangan- yika, Africa. The project will require 20 sur- veyors, four geologists and four civil engineers. Schedule Second A second test is scheduled June 5 for liberal arts and teachers' col- lege graduates wishing to teach English, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics in secondary schools overseas, A Peace Corps spokesman em- phasized, however, that the first test may be taken 'y anyone inter- ested in joining the corps at any time in the future. It is designed to set up a back- log of personnel for use in later projects in the program to make United States occupational and professional skills available to un- derdeveloped nations. 6,500 Applicants The Peace Corps said it had re- ceived about 25,000 letters of in- quiry about the program and 6,500 formal letters of application. Those with applications on file at head- quarters in Washington will be notified of the time and place of tests in their areas, it added. Questionnaires may still be filled out for those desiring to take the May 27 test. The corps, however, said preference will be given to those submitting their forms by next Monday. Spy Receives Prison Term LONDON ()-A British diplo- mat who was subjected to Commu- nist brainwashing attempts as a captive in Korea was sentenced yesterday to 42 years in prison for -spying for the Soviet Union. George Blake, 38 years old and the father of three children, was handed the stiffest prison sen- tence in modern British history after pleading guilty to espionage charges. Informants said the heavy sen- tence was meant to serve as a warning and deterrent to others. Blake is believed to have given the names of eight British agents to the Soviet counterespionage ap- paratus during a period of almost a decade. Even with time off for good be- havior Blake, formerly British vice consul in Seou, cannot expect to gain his freedom until he is 66. For reasons of national secur- ity, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller declined to reveal the precise nature of the information communicated to Moscow. NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH Cafe Promethean 508 E. William For May 31 Deemed 'Routine' Secretive Raids JOHANNESBURG () -- Police swept through cities and Negro shantytowns before dawn yester- day rounding up potential leaders of strikes threatened for later this month against white supremacy policies. The raids, cloaked in secrecy and described by police as just routine, brought sharp criticism from poli- tical opponents of South Africa's harsh racial segregation policies. Leaders of the nonwhite majority have called for strikes and demon- strations to coincide with the in- auguration of the Republic of South Africa May 31. They fear the segregation policies of Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd's government will be intensified when this troubled nation cuts loose from the British Common- wealth. Issues Strike Call The strike call was first issued by a meeting of Negro leaders last month in Pietermaritzburg. They demanded Verwoerd call a consti tutional conference by May 31 to' give Negroes political rights. Ver- woerd ignored the demand. Thousands of armed police and plainclothesmen swarmed over the entire country and the man- dated territory of South West Af- rica controlled by Johannesburg. They raided homes of whites as well as those of suspected leaders of the nonwhite opposition. Raid Homes Most of the homes of whites raided were those of officials of the multiracial Liberal party, which advocates ending strict seg- regation policies and granting voting rights to nonwhites. Four policemen visited the home of Walter Hain, chairman of the Pretoria branch of the Liberal party. They searched for docu- ments of the All in Africa Con- ference, which had announced the strike plans after the Pietermar- itzburg meeting. Weather Again May Threaten Astronaut Try CAPE CANAVERAL (A) - Weather became a threatening factor again yesterday as the United States aimed for tomor- row for the second attempt to hurl Alan B. Shepard aloft as its first spaceman. Walter Williams, Project Mer- cury operations director, yesterday confirmed reports that the launch- ing-postponed Tuesday--cannot be attempted again before tomor- row. He said at the time that the weather outlook was good. But a weather forecast issued shortly before 1 p.m. (EST) said that there is a good chance of squall activity tomorrow in the down range recovery area near the Bahamas. The Redstone rocket is to loft Shepard 115 miles high be- fore dropping him into the recov- ery zone. "For the next few days," the Weather Bureau said, "widely scattered squalls are expected over Florida and the Caribbean and Bahama Island areas. -AP WirephotoE LEADERS MEET-President John F. Kennedy greets Tunisian chief of state Habib Bourghiba who is visiting in Washington this week. REBEL LEADER: Cubans Capture Artirne In Zapata Swamplands KEY WEST WP)-The leader of the crushed anti-Castro inva- sion, Capt. Manuel Artime, was captured yesterday after roving for two weeks in the mosquito-infested swampland of Cuba's Zapata Peninsula, Havana Radio announced. The broadcast said Artime surrendered without resistance near the village of San Blas in an area where Fidel Castro's soldiers followed by a peace confer- * ence. Last night it was disclosed that neutralist Prince Souvanna Phou- ma, recognized by the Communists as legal premier of Laos, called on all parties in the civil war to gath- er for political conference to dis- cuss a new coalition government tomorrow at Na Mon village, site' of the military truce talks. A New China news agency dis- patch said the call was broadcast by the Rebel Voice of Laos last night. To Discuss Coalition Souvanna said the discussions would concern "first of all the question of a coalition government and that of Laos' representation at the Geneva conference." Neither the fighting at, Pha Lane, 50 miles east of Savannak- het, nor a rebel attack last night on Hin Heup, 50 miles north of Vientiane, clouded hope that both sides in the long war were inching toward a halt in the conflict. An armistice could pave the way to a political solution to be weighed by 14 nations at a conference in Ge- neva. Pha Lane is on a highway that runs east into Viet Nam at a point below the north-south Viet Nam frontier. Government forces hold- ing the road have access to sup- plies from south Viet Nam. Link Ex-Naz, GhettoRevolt JERUSALEM (M)-The prosecu- tion yesterday introduced evi- dence in the trial of Adolf Eich- mann directly linking him to the tragic chain' of events that led to the doomed Warsaw Ghetto up- rising against the Nazis in 1943. Prosecutor Gideon Hausner held back his evidence until the end of a day of moving testimony from witnesses who took part in the desperate Jewish rebellion against numerically superior and better armed German troops in the con- quered Polish capital. Hausner introduced a copy of the minutes of a meeting Etch-' mann attended with Nazi foreign ministry officials in April, 1942. The minutes showed that Elch- mann asked foreign ministry rep- resentatives to consent "or to say there is no objection to extending all security police measures which may be necessary in the interest of preserving public order in the Warsaw Ghetto to all inmates." Agreement of the foreign min- istry was required, Hausner said, because Jews of foreign national- ity had been trapped in the Ghet- to. have been searching for the last survivors of the rebellion. Turns into 'Parrot' The radio announcer said the rebel leader turned into a "talka- tive parrot" as h'e told Cuban authorities all about the expedi- tion. He reportedly said his forces had been organized; directed and financed by the United States and that United States naval destroy- ers had escorted the landing force from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, to Cuba for the April 17 assault. The radio said Artime told his captors that if he had known the strength of Castro's revolution, he "would not only, not have come but would have tried to convince some of my companions to aban- don the idea." Won't Martyr Priests The Cuban radio also announc- ed that Castro told a group of foreign delegates to the May Day celebration that despite his decree that all foreign-born priests must leave the island, "we won't make any priest a martyr here." He charged that the church has engaged in counter-revolutionary activities inspired by Gen. Fran- cisco Franco of Spain and Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. In his speech to the foreign dele- gates last night, Castro attacked Catholic priests as imperialists who were "intolerable to the Cu- ban people." He added that, "we won't make any priest a martyr here. We won't cannonize anyone here." He also announced that five Spanish priests have been jailed for being implicated in "warlike activities." Bill Passes For Wages WASHINGTON (P-The Ad- ministration won a thumping vic- tory in the House yesterday when its minimum wage bill was ap- proved by a surprising 230-196 margin. Passage by the House completed congressional action on the con- troversial measure, to which Pres- ident John F. Kennedy had given top priority among his legislative proposals. The Senate approved it earlier 64-28. The bill boosts the existing $1 an hour minimum wage -to $1.25 over a 28-month period and brings 3.62 million retail and service in- dustry employes under the act's coverage for the first time. Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg applauded the action as a great advance in social legisla- tion. 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