10¢ San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, July 30, 1960
Second-ciass postage at San Juan. Puerte
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avy
pati Bice
Sinks
N. Korea Patrol Boat Destroyer Escort
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Shells Red Vessel Inside Truce Line SEOUL, South Korea (Saturday) The South Korean Navy reported
(AP)-one of
its destroyer escorts today shelled and sank a Communist North Korean patrol ship in a running gun battle. The Korean
announcement waters.
Three North
said the action
Korean
occurred
in South
survivors were picked up off
the east coast of Korea four miles from Kojin and 12 miles south of the truce zone dividing North and South Korea, the Navy announcement said. Four South Korean navy men were reported wounded. The action lasted five minutes and was carried out at 5,000-yard range, the Navy added. The
engagement
7:35
a.
m.
It clear
was how
began
local not the
at*
time.
immediately action came
about. First reports 4 Es2
RALPH AND HIS PARENTS . «a
Marine
Gives
bedside
vigil
By
GUNTER
Ralph
HETT
Michael
Ornes,
3,
spent his birthday yester@ay in a hospital bed fighting for his life.
He
had
Navy
rine
with
type
as
blood ‘a
the
who
help
of
located
the
the
a
same
Ralph’s
rare
and
to Presbyterian
S. Ma-
blood
rushed
the
Hospital for
transfusion. Ralph has leukemia.
ed the hospital Tuesday ‘a first transfusion
U.
young
He
enter-
and
after
Thursday,
auth-
Mr.
(®—A
big,
wet
attained
sterm
sea off Charleston, S.C.“ Foregasters at the Miami eather
Bureau
said
an
“eye”
was detected in the storm about ‘40 miles south of Myrtle Beach, S. C. Top winds were at 55 miles per hgur.
estimated
Brenda was moving northeastward and forecasters said the
sterm, this season’s second, was expected te move offshore along the coast and pass east of Cape
Hatteras,
about
and
Mrs.
‘Ornes,
Edgar
minutes.
reports
of ' disease.”
Plant Soon
from
the scene.
(See
PLANT,
Page
21)
midnight
last.
a
HAROLD'S. LIDIN’
during. the squa- | * At that assembly, several pro-
Ny buoyant Luis’A. Ferre, Statehood
Republican
for governor, from
the
Party
candidate
returned
yesterday
GOP
national
conven-
tion with the report that land Republitan bigwigs “turned
thumbs-down
on
mainhave Munoz
Marin.” The GOP chiefs, now recognize the
Puerto
Rico
as
Ferre Said, governor of
a “Democrat
in
disguise, who uses every economic weapon to help” that patty.
The with
identification
of
the»Democratic
Munoz
Party _
Thumb-—Down
GOP
Gets
Munoz
storm
born in the Gulf of Mexico yesear
within
the
sank
Ferre Reports On Convention
Brenda Is Born MIAMI
vessel
American Motors Corp., producer of the Rambler automobile, is planning to establish a plant in Puerto Rice to manufacture household orities were hard put to find 1468 Edinburgo St., Caparra were aboard the North Korrefrigerators. more B-minus type blood. Heights, have been at his bedrean vessel, The local plant, which is The, Navy ‘yesterday located side constantly. Ornes, a former i. Ninety minutes after the expected to be in operation Marine Cpl. Roger T. Beede, 21,} marine, is with the U. S. Customs engagement, three North in about six months, will be of Liverpool, N.Y., stationed at/| Service. torpedo boats ap- organized by Kelvinator Inthe Marine barracks of the San Perm: condition, in the words Korean Juan Naval Station. f one of his doctors, is ‘‘very peared in the area on what ternational Corp., a whollyThe emergency transfusion help- on the South Korean navy de- owned subsidiary of Amered Ralph to keep fighting valiantly “If people could see my boy,” scribed as a retaliatory mis- ican Motors. Kelvinator, which has produwhile his five brothers and sisters Ornes said, ‘“‘maybee théy would sion. waited- at home. Ralph’s parents,|go all out to fight this horrible There were no subsequent ced refrigerators and home
Little Ralph Fights For Life Little
Korean
It was the first reported sinking of a Communist Korean navy craft by South Korea since the 1953 armistice ending the Korean war. It was not immediately known how many men besides the three survivors
s
Blox
indicated
North
Kelvinator Plans P.R.
was
clearly bble
and the rre
te
pro-Commonwealth
pro-Statehood Los Angeles claimed.
Democrats convention,
in Fe-
minent Populars, doubling as proCommonwealth Democrats, promised to boost the Democratic
campaign
in
the
Puerto
Rican
Police gained
‘report
that
entrance
to
the the
repair shop of firm, and, using
of the company’s open a door
the the
construction tools of one
workmen,
leading
broke
into the office.
After cartipg the safe away, opened it and-left it aban-
thieves they
machine
«See
THIEVES,
Page
of
New
York
Ferre said that on tion trip he visited Rican areas in both
and
Chicago,
and
City.
his conventhe Puerto New York
found
them
both solidly statehood in sentiment. ' The success of the local delegation in getting a pro-Puerto
Safecrackers Get $18,000 Thieves carted away a 300-pound safe containing $18,000 in cash and an undisclosed amount of checks from Empresas Rexach in Hato Rey -early yesterday morning.
districts
21)
Rican GOP
statehood platform
credited
by
plank at
Ferre
into
Chicago
to
his
the was
associ-
ates especially, committeeman Gabriel de la Haba and to the
backing (See
of high-placed FERRE,
Page
members 21)