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Prime Minister Critical After Assassin's Shot
COLOMBO. Ceylon — (UPI) — Prime Minister Solomon W. R. D. Bandaranalaike, 60, was gravely wounded in an assassination attempt today when one of two visitors wearing the saffron robes of a Buddhist priest shot him point blank with a .45 caliber automatic.
The shooting took place early this morning on the verandah of the prime minister's bungalow in Colombo. The slight, bespectacled premier had stepped out on the verandah to welcome his early morning visitors when the gunman shot him in the abdomen.
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Bandaranaike, a contemporary of Sir Anthony Eden when he studied at Oxford, suffered a ruptured liver and spleen. He was rushed to the general hospital where three surgeons began an operation they hoped would save his life.
The premier was shot as he scrambled to his feet after prostrating himself before the two "monks." The man who shot him was shot by police. The other was captured. A bystander who threw himself between the premier and the two assailants was gravely wounded when the triggerman fired four more shots.
Shot on Verandah
Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetileke proclaimed a state of emergency, virtual martial law, throughout Ceylon and called up the army, navy and air force reserves to aid police and the regular armed forces in preserving order.
Friday, Sept. 25. 1959
Bandaranakaike, though gravely wounded, remained conscious and issued a formal statement in which he pleaded for calm throughout the country and for mercy for the "foolish man" who had shot him. Moments afterward doctors said his condition was "Very low."
Immediate cause of the shooting was not known. Ceylon has been torn by religious, racial, economic and labor strife for months and there have been riots and strikes which paralyzed the nation's economy and left thousands unemployed.
Police announced at one point the hero who threw himself between Bandaranalaike and the assailants was Labor Minister M. P. De Zoysa but they issued a correction later and said De Zoysa was not hurt.
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE Ohio —(UPI) Two young boys described to police and the FBI today the "snitch" method for systematically robbing a bank.
Boys Rob Bank 'Snitch' Method
It netted the boys, 12 and 13. a total of $500 in $5 bills from the Washington Savings Bank in recent months.
Their modus operandi: reaching through the teller's cage and snitching bills while his back was turned. The boys said they took only $5 bills. They said they avoided $1 bills because enough of them would have looked too bulky as they walked out of the bank.
They snitched a few $5 bills, they said, each time they came to the bank to deposit money for their parents.
Bank officials first noticed the shortage Aug. 1. When the boys suddenly bought a motocycle, their parents and police became suspicious.
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BORDEAUX, France — (UPI)
An American-made French airliner exploded, crashed and burned near here last night, killing at least 53 of the 65 persons aboard and injuring the 12 survivors. So far as known, there were no Americans among the casualties.
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NATCHEZ, Miss., — (UPI)— Mississippi residents are wondering where motor vehicle officials will put the numbers on the 1960 auto license tags.
The state said yesterday it would let the world know that the last two Miss Americas are Mississippi girls by printing on the new license plates: "Mississippi, Home of Miss Americas, Home of Beautiful Women."
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Surgeons sacrificed the life of a Siamese twin girl last night in a valiant but unsuccessful effort to save the life of her sister.
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The other girl, who was given the heart and liver both shared, died four hours after an operation which separated them.
MOSCOW —(UPI)— The U.S. State Department has refused "without explanation" to grant a visa to physicist Dmitri V. Skobeltsyn, chairman of the International Lenin Peace Prize Committee, Tass reported yesterday.
The Agency said Skobeltsyn was to visit the United States this month to present a Lenin peace prize awarded this April to Dr, William Dubois.
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AMSTERDAM, Holland — (UPI)—The 19,600-ton Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman rammed and sank a Belgian fishing vessel off the northwest German coast today. No survivors were found.
The 71-ton fishing boat Frans Elza carried a crew of five, according to sources at its home port of Ostend, Belgium.
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MIAMI — (UPI) — Hurricane Gracie, the first tropical storm with the possibility of being photographed by a camera - carrying rocket, meandered through the Atlantic early today well off the Florida east coast.
Scientists at Cape Canaveral readied a Nike-cajun missile for a 10 a.m. (CST) launching in an effort to put Gracie on film.
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MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Communist newspaper Pravda, in a long commentary on this weekend's Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks, said today the West eventually must choose between nuclear war and "peaceful coexistence."
The newspaper said Russia's brand of socialism and capitalism now exist side by side whether the capitalists like it or not.
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KALIMPNG, Indo-Tibetan Frontier — (UPI) — Rebellious Khampa tribesmen have resumed their door-die struggle against the Chinese Communists in Tibet and bloody battles are raging in the western part of Tibet, reports received here said today.
Reports received here and in the border town of Darjeeling said Chinese repression was reaching a new peak but that anti-communist rebels were fighting back with renewed ferocity.
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