Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1959, Tokyo, Japan Weather forecast continued fair and hazy. High 49, 2�. Ally weather service thesis european edition ripes army Navy air Force unofficial publication of hit . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East late sports Pitburg Gyrn Iriny Sas the Ramst itt rams won the Safe Germany District Basket Ball championship Here Satur Day night by beating the fools Ingr Taco neers 90-85. George Linn scored 33 Points for ram Stein. Velum 17, number 300 4 rants Dally 10 cents sunday City bracing for flood Crest. West t e r r e haute ind. Up the w a Bash River pounded toward its rest at this Indiana City sat urday while flood fighter kept anxious watch Over a sandbagged Gap in a levee. The raging Stream Tore through the levee Friday night loosening tons of flood Waters Over the area before National guardsmen and Volunteer plugged the Hole. Sandbagging Crews worked about30 minutes in driving rain to fill the Gap and contain the Rains which posed further danger later stopped and authorities said the situation had ease slightly. Sub freezing weather also was expected to give West Terre haute a City of 3,000 near the Illinois Bor Der an assist in checking the meandering Stream. The Fate of the town Hung on the strength of a five Block stretch of sandbagged levee. Nearby Resi cont on Page s3, col. V Castro named prime minister Havana a Fidel Castro Cuba s revolutionary chief has been named prime minister. It was his first move into Politi Cal office and it came at a. Time when there was wide speculation that he was on the Way to becom ing president. Up to now the bearded 32-year-old Leader has served the provisional government As commander in chief of the armed forces. Disappointment As prime minister to take effect monday followed the mass resignation of the cuban cab inet. Provisional president Manue Urrutia immediately announced his Choice of Castro for the Premier ship. The jo6 normally Means head of government under the president who is chief of state. Eligible for top Castro replaces prime minister Jose Miro Cardona. Foreign observers in the Cuba capital regarded the move As the first hint of Castro s eventual As sumption of the presidency. Constitutional changes towering the age requirement from 35 to 30 made Castro eligible for the Job. Interior minister Luis Orlando Rodrigues said he was certain the Cabinet ministers who resigned would be sworn in again when Castro takes Over. Miro Cardona reportedly had been complaining privately about Castro s activities. It was reported the prime minister Felt that Cas Tro because of the frequent major policy statements he issued should have Cabinet rank Dulles suffering from cancer maybe Sam Xyxtlilxochi to Phoenix Ariz. A there Sone thing the new orderly at the county Hospital in Phoenix can count on his coworkers will Hanga nickname on him. An Aztec Indian from Bradford pa., his name is Arles x. Xyxtlilxochi to. Sunday february 15, 1959 arriving at Walter Reed Hospital in washing ton Secretary of state John Foster Dulles to greeted by Hospital chief maj Gen Leonard , who later operated on Dulles. A specialists foresee control of illness for several years Washington a Secretary of state John Foster Dulles has a Type of cancer which is highly malignant doctors said but one which can be several years. Controlled for in Many such cases the patient can return to full or limited occur physicians gave this appraisal in interpreting the medi Cal bulletin issued by the surgeons who., operated on Dulles for hernia Friday. The physicians said the medical bulletin indicates that the can Cerous tissue represents a spread from the original Colon cancer for which Dulles underwent an opera Tion in 1956. The present diagnosis in Dulles Case is that he has an adenocarcinoma. This is a glandular cancer wont on Page 2fy, col 5 Start of ministers talks in Paris left Uncertain Washington. A Secretary of state John Foster Dulles illness with cancer has made Uncertain the prospects for a Western for eign ministers meeting at Paris i mid March to prepare for possible negotiations with Russia on Ger Many. Officials said it seemed apparent that Dulles would not be Able to attend such a meeting. It is even Uncertain now whether he will be Able to participate in the 10th an by John m. Hightower revealing statement Montpelier it. Up gov Robert t. Stafford was asked at a news conference about a Bill which would outlaw nudist colonies in Vermont. Replied the governor i Haven t uncovered ail the facts Schwartz says House probes still holding Back evidence Washington a the ousted staff chief of the House subcommittee which touched off last year s Adams Goldfine inquiry contends the subcommittee i sitting on further evidence of wrongdoing in Washington. The accusation was promptly denied. The charge comes from Ber Nard Schwartz who was fired a year ago As chief counsel of the special subcommittee created to investigate Federal regulatory agencies. Schwartz makes discharge in a newly published Book the professor and the rep. Oren Harris dark the subcommittee chairman and a chief target in Schwartz wide cont on Page 8b col. U Niv Ersary session of the North at lactic treaty organization Here nearly april. State department press officer Lincoln White said the doctors expect that Dulles will have to re main in Walter Reed Hospital for several weeks. Whether this will delay a pos sible foreign ministers meeting with the soviet Union is still to be determined. The Prospect has been that foreign ministers meeting would be held in Geneva or Vienna inmate april or May. Should Dulles condition resist treatment and make it necessary for him to remain inactive the circumstances on the diplomatic front could Force president Eisen Hower s hand As to whether Dulles should continue As Secretary of state. Or. Eisenhower has made i Clear that he urgently Hopes and prays that Dulles will be Able to resume his duties. The president s statement Satur Day carefully avoided any Sugges Tion of any other outcome from cont. On Page by cot. Amarshall continues to gain it. Bragg . A Gen George c. Marshall re who suffered a stroke at his nearby South Ern Pines Home Jan. 15, continues in satisfactory condition at to Mack army Hospital Here. Will extend leave while being treated Washington a Secretary of state John Fos Ter Dulles has cancer an will continue on leave from his Post while undergoing radiation therapy. President Eisenhower after visiting Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital said saturday he had expressed the thoughts and prayers of All of us that the results of his operation Washington a the White House press office was asked if an official statement announcing a leave of absence for Secretary of state John Fos Ter Dulles meant there would Bono appointment now of a new Secretary of state. The reply was that is and the further course of treat ment will be successful. In order to allow time for this purpose the Secretary continues on leave of the announcement came shortly after or. Eisenhower had spent 37 minutes at Dulles bedside. Small implant a medical report issued after Ward said that when Dulles was operated on for hernia Friday Small nodular implant was re moved from the hernia Sac and proved upon examination to be a adenocarcinoma a Small cancer. The medical announcement also said the fluid removed at the time the hernia Sac was repaired was found under the Microscope to contain free cancer no further. Surgery is contemplated the announcement said. In the immediate future radiation therapy will be the cancer described As adenocarcinoma was the same kind of cancer for which Dulles was oper ated on when a cancerous portion of his lower intestine was removed nov. 3, 1956. The president disclosed that during his visit he and Dulles had talked Over the Secretary s condition with the doctors. While i was with him his Doc tors discussed with us their re finding of the existence of Malig Nancy not fully determined As to extent but certain to require cont. On Page 2fy, col. 8 crash survivor sues for $250,000 new York up one of the eight survivors of an american airlines crash that killed 65 per sons has filed suit in Federal court for $250,000 damages against the plaintiff Herbert Forman 36, a chemical Engineer from Plain Field n.j., charged the airline with negligence in instructing the Pilot on instrumentation of the new prop Jet Electra that crashed int Flushing Bay feb. 3. The suit said Forman suffered serious and disabling injuries. He is still being treated in Muhlen Berg Hospital at Plainfield
