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Newspaper Page TextU. cf C. !ibry CONGO rail! LIP; LATER P Green Youth Killed At- Reunion f Uv .... - .-.""fajl isAX. TIE. k. -JW. ray- -.' S A LITTLE HAPPIER TIME than those distant days of the 1940'f is being observed by these veterans at a reunion of Roseburg's old National Guard Saturday. They include Glenn Gilmore of Glendale, James Moran of Grants Pass, Wally Robertson of Cottage Grove, Glenn Jackson of Port Orford, ond Bob Irving of Salem. (News-Review Staff Photo) Nixon Starts 9,Q00-Mil9 Vote Appeal BALTIMORE, Jld. (AP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon offi cially kicked off his presidential campaign today by promising to carry the "peace issue to me voters in all the 50 states. "The overriding issue." the GOP nominee told a cheering crowd at Baltimore's Friendship Airport, "is keeping the peace without surrender and extending freedom throughout the world." Nixon's plane took off at 11:12 a.m. F.DT. Nixon, with President Eisenhow er and other top Republicans, joined in launching a 9.000-mile, first-lap campaign carrying him to Indianapolis, Dallas and San Francisco, spoke inside a hall of the airport because of the heavy rains from the fringes of Hurri cane Donna. President Eisenhower said that to his mind the hurricane "is a good omen." He recalled a rain storm at Abilene, Kan., where he launched his own campaign in 1952. "You have a record," he told the Republican rally, "for launch ing champions." Sen. Thruston B. Morton, R-Ky., the GOP national chairman, as serted it was the first time he had "launched a campaign in the middle of a hurricane." He ap plauded the hardy crowd, who, like Eisenhower, drove through the heavy rains to attend the meeting. Airport police estimated the enthusiastic, sign-waving turn out at in excess of 700, wilh one policeman estimating 1,500. Eisenhower dedicated Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, his vice pres idential running mate, to fight for disarmament and world peace. .Morton told the applauding crowd that in Nixon, "you are go ing to have the tested leadership the country needs and the world wants." Nixon, while he closed his speech with emphasis on foreign affairs and peace, was in good campaign form, promising at one point, to make kittens borne by his daughter Patricia's cat avail able to other children. Nixon earlier pledged his best efforts to keep the religious issue out of the presidential race. Election Ballot Ready The November general election ballot was completed on Friday, according to Douglas County Clerk Charles Doerner. It is now ready for the printer. New England States Gird By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane Donna, ripping its way north, struck today at metro politan New York. The southern Connecticut coast was ordered evacuated. The Weather Bureau in Boston warned that it may bei the most damaging storm ever to hit New England. Thousands were evacuated from Long Island's south shore. The Weather Bureau said the storm was moving at 35 miles an hour on a course which would take it off the tip of Long Island 100 miles east of New York City sometime this afternoon. N. Y. Feels Effect N'ew York City itself wa get- The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Morning cloudiness otherwise fair tonight end Tuesday. Not much temperature change. I Highest temp, last 24 hours 17 Lowest temp, lest 24 hours .55 Highest temp, any Sept. C55) 102 Lewest temp, any Sept ('54) ... 32 Precip. lest 24 hours 0 Prtcip. from Sept. 1 45 Excess from Sept, 1 J4 Sunset tonight, i:2 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5:50 a.m. I Roseburg Guard Holds Reunion The 14(h annual reunion of mem bers of the old Koseburg National Guard in Roseburg, who went to Dame in world War II, was held on Saturday night in the Armory. About 30 members attended, in cluding Col. Robert L. Irving from Salem, the old company command er, ana oiners irom fcugene, Grants Pass, Port Orford, and other areas. They were in Co. B, 116d Inf., 41st uivision, wnicn lougnt its way through the Pacific Theater of Operations. The committee selected in Into charge of arrangements for next year includes Jim Medford, Don While and Elmer Hill. They meet on the second Saturday in Septem ber for a general get-together and thrash-over of the days of military (ouncilmen Prefer Jane To Meetings EUGENE (AP) With an op portunity to attend a banquet fea turing Hollywood's Jane Mans field as a guest, councilmen of Eugene and Springfield have de cided city business can wait for another day. The councils of both cities an nounced they are postponing regu lar scheduled Monday night meet ings until Tuesday night. Monday night they'll attend a banquet celebrating the arrival of natural gas service to the Eugene Springfield area. Miss Mansfield, along with her husband, Mickey Hargilay, is coming to Eugene to take part in the celebration. No one has explained to city officials why Miss Mansfield was chosen to herald the arrival of natural gas to Eugene but no one's complaining. To make the postponement of the council meetings legal, one or two councilmen from each city will go to their council chambers long enough Monday night to ad journ the meetings to the next night. Alcatraz Strike Enters 6th Day SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The strike at Alcatraz went into its sixth day today with prisoners still refusing to work. "A few are talking about com ing out of their cells," said War den Paul J. Madigan. ''but there apparently is a good deal of pres sure and fear." Involved were about 260 in mates, some of the nation's most hardened criminals. ting stiff fringe effects of the storm. Trees and utility wires were toppling on Long Island's south shore before noon. The New York weather bureau said the storm's center was 70 miles "straight east" of Atlantic City. N.J., shortly before noon. The storm pounded into the metropolitan area alter wreaking death and destruction on an er ratic path that took it across Puerto Kico, the Florida Keys, back across Florida and the east ern edge of North Carolina and Virginia. 134 Deed The storm had accounted for at least 134 deaths before striking in the metropolitan area, 120 of them in Caribbean Islands. Donna whipped winds of 115 miles an hour in North Carolina's coastal area, hitting Morehead City, Wilmington's beaches. New Bern and Washington, and then swim? to sea again in the Eliza beth City area. A number of communities were isolated. Small buildings were de molished and others unroofed. Fallen trees blocked highways. The storm buffeted the liamp ton Roads area of Virginia from midnight until after 8 a m., caus ing havoe similar to that in North Carolina. By Auto Thompson Boy, 8, Pinned Under Careening Car An eight-year-old boy of the Green Community was killed Sun day morning when he was pinned between the front wheel and fender of a careening automobile. Stephen Grant Thompson was killed about 11:30 a.m. when car, which State Police said was driven by John Raymond Potter, 17, Harts Cabins, Diamond Lake Blvd., Roseburg, came bouncing down on him and dragged him about 34 feet. Police reported that the Potter car ran partially over a culvert, hit an embankment, then bounced back onto the road, landing on top of the Thompson youth as he was walking along the road. A witness of the accident told the police, according to the offi cial report, that Potter had taken a curve at what was reported by them to be high speed and that he pulled sharply to the right to avoid striking an oncoming car. The quick turn to the right caused him to hit the culvert and lose control of the car, police said they were told. The fatal accident was the 24th of the year for Douglas County, and the third for the past week end. A Grants Pass man and a honeymooning sailor were killed near Canyonville Friday night. The accident occurred near the Green Community Church. The youth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil N. Thompson, Rte. 4, Box 258, Roseburg. Stephen Grant Thompson was born Nov. 5, 1952 at Roseburg and was a third grade student at the Green School. He attended St. Paul's Lutheran Church Sunday school. Besides the parents there are two sisters Theresa and Jill; ma ternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Meyer of Lookingglass; and the maternal great-grandfather Grant Pennington of Van Nuys, Calif. Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Long and Orr Mortuary Wednesday at It a.m. with the Rev. D. W. Hinrichs of St. Paul's Lutheran Church offi ciating. Concluding services and interment wilt follow in the Rose' burg Memorial Gardens. Albany Home Hit By Lightning Bolt By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lightning bolls crashed over widely separated parts of Oregon early today, setting a house afire at Albany. A violent hail storm lasting about five minutes also struck al Albany. The storm, which came shortly after midnight, hit in a line from Astoria through Salem to Baker in varying intensity. The house hit at Albany was vacant. It is owned by Emmett Alexander, Corvallis. The bolt struck the chimney and as it grounded it set the floor afire. Neighbors saw the flames and railed firemen. Fire Chief Don Ilayne estimated loss at S2,500. A bolt also hit and shattered a Cottonwood tree on the Ben Bart cher farm three miles east of Al bany. The storm came after Sundav's heat that saw temperatures reach 96 degrees at Medford, 95 at Grants Pass, 90 at Salem and 87 at fendleton. Pair Swims To Freedom TAIPEI. Formosa (AP) Three young men told newsmen totlov they used homemade diving kits to escape from Red Chinese terri tory to the Quemoy Islands. Thev said they reached Nationalist-held Tatan Islet on Aug. 22 after 20 hours in the water from Communist-held Kulangsu Island, 6li miles away. For Donna The coastlines of Maryland, Del aware and New Jersey were next to feel the effects. Even before the storm reached the New England area. Arthur West, 70, collapsed and died while trying to secure his cabin cruiser at Lynn, Mass. Planes were evacuated from Mitchell Air Force Base on Long Island and from Bradley Air Force Base near Hartford, Conn. In New York City, winds up to 75 miles an hour and tides eight to ten feel above normal were ex- , pected. Police headquarters or I dered extra men to duly. I The Coast Guard used 15 ships ; to lake residents off Fire Island. a narrow strip of land King off the southern Long Island coast. Another 1.000 residents were still on the island, but in no immediate danuer. Donna, lashing out in the same fashion that carried her from the Caribbean to the Florida peninsula and then northward along the At lantic Coast, raced into the North Carolina mainland shortly before midnight Sunday night. By 5 a m. today the Weather Bureau placed its center about 60 miles east of Norfolk. Va. Winds gusts of up to 100 miles an hour were reported hv the Chesapeake lightship 17 miles off Capo Henry, Va. 14 Pogei ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Key Pl; wis SlWi EVIDENTLY LOSING his turbulent bid to rule the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, Communist favored premier (left), was first jailed, then released. Pres. Joseph Kasavubu (center) nam ed Moderate Joseph lleo (right) to replace Lumumba as premier, (P) Western Powers Hit Back At Communist Berlin Ban BERLIN (AP) The Western powers are hitting back at Com munist harassment of West Ger man travelers to East Berlin. Is suance of travel papers to East Germans wanting to go to West ern countries has been restricted. A spokesman said the whole question of giving travel facilities to East Germans is under review. Travel restrictions have been in effect since Friday, the dav after the new Communist restriction be came effective. Travel Restricted That was taken to mean that Airport Lease Hearing Slated The controversial Roseburg Mu nicipal Airport lease will come up for further discussion and possible negotiations at tonight's Roseburg city council meeting. Hie council meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Westside fire hall. Up for discussion is the lease be tween the City of Koseburg and Roseburg Skyways, Inc. The sky ways firm is headed by airport manager Dick Beverly. City Manager John Warburton recommended at the last council meeting that the lease be broken. He pointed out several items in which he said Beverly (Roseburg Skyways. Inc.) has failed to carry out terms of the lease. He said any one of these violations is grounds for breaking the lease. Beverly made a point-by-point answer to the city manager's contentions. Also up for discussion tonight will be recommendations by the city Planning Commission for zoning of the recentiy annexed East Rose burg area. Other items on the agenda will include public hearings on condem nations at 1608 SE Eddy St. and 6B3 NE Fulton St. and partial pay ments on the Susan St.' paving project and the West Slopes sani tary sewer. Courier Editor Receives Award Amos E. Voorhies, 91-year-old ed itor of the Grants Pass Courier, has been named for a national pub lic service award it is reported by the Oregon Historical Society. With a loan from C. C. Beek man, pioneer banker, Voorhies made his first press run in 1897. The award makes special mention of anniversary editions published in 1927. 1935 and 10. each ot which, the Society reports, found his newspaper plant "to be among the most modern and up-to-date small plants on the West coast." The dean of Pacific Northwest newspaper publishers, he was en tered on the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Roll of Honor, which bears his name, in 1938. Awards are made by the Associ ation for State and lxiral History. The second award in Oregon was made to the Portland Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Oregon Association of Broadcasters for (he series "The Long Trail" produced as a part of the Oregon Centennial celebra tion. Script was prepared in coopera tion with the Oregon Historical So ciety. RollieTruitt's Condition Critical PORTLAND (AP) Rollle Truitt, radio announcer for Port land Pacilic Coast league base ball games for 30 years, remain ed in critical condition from a heart attack todav. At Holladay Park Hospital he was reported to be resting com fortably but with his condition about unchanged. He suffered two attacks late last week. Hp was a resident of Douglas County and of Oakland in h. ear lier years. Figures In Congo only East Germans with very urgent reasons for travel are be ing helped on their way by West- era officials. East Germans wanting to travel through countries which are mem bers of the North Atlantic Treaty organization must get a passport known as a "temporary travel documenffrom the Allied travel office. This is because the West ern powers do not recognize the East German government and will not accept its passport. Armed with the temporary document the would-be traveler can apply to the countries concerned for a. visa Numbers Vary The number of applications varies considerably. Some days there are only a few, other limes there are dozens. There were aDout 20 todav. Any restriction could only be of a nuisance value because Com munist officials can travel bv other routes to countries ready to offer them hospitality. The idea of an official embargo on trade wilh East Germany is expeciea lo oe discussed by the Bonn laoinei at a special session, The ban would be intended to strike back at the Communists for Lightning Starts 13 Douglas Fires Thirteen fires were started Sat- urday evening in northern Doug las County from lightning strikes, according lo the Douglas Forest Protective Association. The largest of the blazes cover ed only an acre of old timberland. As of this morning all were under control. The Roseburg Rural Fire De partment had only one call over the weekend, that at 12:29 Sunday afternoon. The department was called to NW Kerr St. and Mead ow Lane where a vacant lot was on fire. No damage was reported. Fire officials said the blaze was started by two small boys playing wim maicnes. The Winston-Dillard Fira De partment also had one call over the weekend. The department an swered a call Sunday evening to a grass tire at the Warren Lengely residence at Glenheart St. in Win ston. No damage was reported. Nixon Schedules Lloyd Center Talk PORTLAND (APi Vice Presl. dent Nixon speaks Tuesday in Portland and neighboring Van couver. Wash., on a quick cam paign thrust into the Pacific North west. The ReDublican presidential can didate will arrive hers at 11:30 a.m. from San Francisco, accom panied by Oregon Gov. Mark Hat field. He will drive to Vancouver for a 12:15 p.m. talk from the courthouse steps, then return to Portland for a 2:30 D m talk at the Lloyd Center ice rink. At 3 p.m. his party will head for the airport from which Nixon will leave for Boise. This will be Nixon's first Oregon appearance since last, fall when he dedicated The Dalles Dam. He follows his Democratic op ponent, Son. John F. Kennedy, by a week. Kennedy spoke last 'Wed nesday in Eugene, Salem and Portland. Flegel Heads Porter Croup EUGENE (AP) Ai Flegel of Roseburg has been named to head the re-election campaign of Rep. Charles O. Porter, D-Ore. The appointment of Flegel, for mer Roseburg mayor and two term state representative now running for the slate Senate, was announced Sunday by Porter's of fice. "Porter has represented the district (4th) ably in his two tprms and I am happy to work work for hit reelection," Flegel said. 12, 1960 211-60 their blows at West Berlin. They hlVA hnri-Jll Weet f?AI-ltianl f.-n.n the eastern part of the city unless uiey gei special permits. Sunday they also arrested and threw out iwu neat ucrman newspaper re porters. Proposals to hit back at the Communist pocketbook com up whenever the Reds put the squeeze on this isolated city. But trade between East and West Ger many has tfl'OVVn KtPflHilv cmna 1952, despite the fact that the West vicimaii reuerai nepuuuc reiuses to recognize Moscow's German sat ellite. l.llflwitf V.i-hntvt afintf W m German chancellor, has come out against any legal pressure on West uerman ousmessmen to Halt trade HP. SHVS hp WBnla a vrtliml n ,. K..., cott. It seems unlikely he will get iiiurn nr in:u eiinpr Last year West Germany shipped a nOKlWHI rnitnfit ft alw.,,1 r .......... pwitii million worth of goods to the East Germans. Almul fifth t waa iron, and steel, vital lo the lommumsls' seven-year plan. vmy inree weeks ago a new agreement was siineW Thi mai.A. trade easier. Some quotas have Deen removed. Jfte East Germans can now ouv a rim aipei that u,anf if they can find the money to pay for it and the mills to sell it to uiem. In return fnp ifa ii-nn an.1 . i ChemiPtlMI mikinam, 1......1 , alu Kual and meat, West Germany imports urn ins uinmunisis Drown coal, kerosene, textile anH nth. i ' The West Germans usually ship niuie man iney receive, and thev get the difference in hard Western currency. JFK Won't Yield Says Former Chief . Y'"1 v"r; rormer PraGlrlan! Un o m . . . . ....,.. j.atty o. jruman said today he does not believe Sen. John V wanu,t., n .; "-cuj, ueuKicrauc nominee for president, "would yield to any pressures, any more than I did." He made the comment in re- nlv in B nn.li... .1. rw - hiiw on me religious issue that has been raised in the v-.upoigii. "1 don't think this young man WOtlM fin anulhinH !... .. .. -ujiuuift urn pruieci me ConstituUon of the United Slates," Truman told a news conference in reference lo some suggestions that Kennedy would be exposed to pressure from the Roman Cath- nltr rhnfnl, A ...i.:u l ...a VU lu which ne opiongs. Truman expressed himself as very happy that Sen. Kennedy .vo m icaiucm nicnara Al. Nixon, the Republican presidential -' "i "Kieemeni on the one way to lav aside this fthnn thins ffl... : . : ciiiuus jssuei for good. lie called a statement bv 100 Protestant, Jewish and Catholic religious leaders opposing any at tempts to make religious affilia tion the basis of voter's choice for president "the most common sense approach I've seen to this whols thing." Auto Accident Puts Woman In Hospital Mrs. Raymond Childress, 32, of 749 W. Harvard Ave. is in Doug las Community Hospital recover ing from injuries suffered when struck by a car on W. Harvard Ave. at W. Bellows St. Saturday. Her condition was reported today as satisfactory. According to the city police In vestigation, the car was being driv en by Adeline L. Robertson, and was registered to J. Jams Robert son of 1.57 W. Kildeer St. The driver reported she was driv ing east on Harvard, when the city bus stopped. She said she thought the bus was picking up a custom er, so started to pass, when sud denly she saw the other woman run across the street and Into the front fender of her car. When the far slopped, the wom an fell from the fender to a sitting position on the street and was tak n then by stretcher to the hospital. Army Detains Demand For Follows Lumumba's Release LKOPOI.DVir.LK. the Cuiijro (AP) Premier Patrice Lu mumba was taken into custody bv the armv late Mondar. but three hours later he was released. Arrested under a warrant late in (he afternoon, Lumum ba reappeared on downtown streets at 6:30 p.m. He penetrated the cordon around Leopoldville radio sta tion, now under United Nations control, and demanded that he be allowed to speak. Ghana soldiers said they had orders to fire if he tried to get into the station. President Joseph Kasavubu had named a new government to replace Lumumba's Communist-backed regime. Lumumba was taken to an army garrison and was fol lowed there soon afterward by his wife and two children. About 200 Congolese soldiers surrounded his residence overlooking the Congo River and the lanky, goateed Lu mumba surrendered without a struggle. Senate President Joseph lleo, a moderate, is Kasavubu' Faith Issue Hits Kennedy In Texas WITH KENNEDY (AP) De termined to answer any attacks aimed at his Catholic religion. Sen. John F. Kennedy air hopped across Texas today in a double-barrelled campaigning with his ticket mate, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. In an appearance before t h e Houston Ministerial Association to night the Democratic presidential nominee grapples with the relig ious issue one that some Demo cratic leaders believe is endanger ing his chances of winning Texas iniiHirtanl 24 electoral votes. How seriously tins may affect the outcome in a state that Presi dent Eisenhower carried in the last two elections was outlined by Johnson who told a reporter: "Re ligion is the only issue the Re publicans have in Texas. It s bad but we don t think it will pre vail. Johnson, the Senate Democratic leader, said recently statewide polls have shown Kennedy ahead of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, his Republican opponent. But Johnson said at least 12 per cent of the voters were listed as unde cided. Kennedy refused to let himself ?et fenced in with a suggestion rom Nixon that both candidates agree on a cut-off date after which neither would discuss the religious Issue. It was the view of the Demo eratic nominee's associates that Nixon, a Quaker, could well af ford to say he will not discuss religion, since he is not under fire on the score. But they said Kennedy could hardly say he will not answer at tacks made on him as a Catholic. They particularly fear scurrilous charges may be leveled . against him in the final hours before Uie voters go lo the polls on Nov. 8 Nixon told a national television audience NBC "Meet the Press" Sunday night he has no doubts whatever about Kennedy s loyally to the country or that he will put the Constitution above any other standard if he is elected president. The vice president said it would be "tragic for this election to be determined primarily or even sub slantially on religious grounds." Kennedy obviously agreed with this. Lookingglass Home Destroyed By Fire A fire which apparently started in the attic of the home of Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Slabaugh on the Klournoy Road west of Looking glass, completely destroyed the house and contents Saturday morn ing. The Slabaughs and their four children were away at the lima the fire started. Neighbors first noticed the fire when the roof was smoking but be fore anything could be done, the building was all ablaze, according to Hazel S. Marsh, News-Review correspondent. A deep freeze and washing ma chine installed on a porch were taken away, hut it was impossible to save anything inside the house. It is reported that the loss is par tially covered by insurance. Sla baugh bought the place from Jun ior Carlyle about a year ago. A vacant house nearby is being oc cupied by the family temporarily. The Douglas Fire Protective truck was rushed to the scene but ar rived too late to be of assistance. Sutherlin Boy Hurt In Hunting Mishap John William Williams. 13. of Sutherlin suffered an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in his right leg while hunting Sunday. According to investigating sher iff's deputies, young Williams was hunting along the Nonpareil Rd. carrying a .22 caliber rifle. His gun jammed, and in trying to pull the hammer back the gun discharg-1 ed. The bullet entered his leg lust above the knee, on the inside, and traveled down to just above the an kle, where it was removed by an attending physician at Douglas Community Hospital. His condition is eood. The boy is Ihe son of Kirby Ro Williams of Sutherlin. Ex-Premier; Radio Speech choice to run the country. Lumumba has been premier since the Belgians gave the Congo Us independence 10 weeks ago. Kasavubu. as president, nominal ly outranks him and has the right lo nominate a premier. But Lu mumba in the last two weeks had been trying to supersede Kasavu bu. Each declared Uie other fired at one stage. , While rival Congolese delega tions sped to New York to lav their conflicting views before the U.N. Security Council, the two chambers joined in attempt to discredit Lumumba's former for eign minister. Justin Bomboko. who represents Kasavubu. The Bomboko delegation "Is not recognized by the Parliament, has no legal status and cannot be re ceived by the Security Council or speak on behalf on the Congo." said a cable to the Security Coun cil approved by a majority of th Senate and House Bomboko headed to New York aboard a Belgian jet from Braz zaville, the capital of the old French Congo, across the Congo River from Leopoldville. A Lumumba delegation was pre vented by Brazzaville authorities from boarding a plane there, but took Off in a Czech nlans In.,. the closed Leopoldville airport by special permission of the U N. Command. The U.N". Command also lifted the order silencing Radio Leo poldville. which Lumumba tripH t 'seize with two truckloads of Con. Kuiese soiaiers. in a blow to his prestige and pride, the U N. force turned him away at gun point. This morning, however, Radio ifopoMvMe went back on the air. V.N. Ghana guards remained in place and U.N. officials set up a watch to prevent broadcast o any inflammatory statements to the Congo's 14 million people. lleo. the mnHprntA Sonni. dent named by Kasavubu a week ago lo form a new government, said he will soon submit a coali" tion Cabinet for Parliamoni'. proval. IlCO told a nPW onnrnn,. .4 Kasavubu s villa that he has con suited with' political leaders, members of Parliament and mini' sters throughout the Conen iM all expressed determinai inn in save the country." Among them, he said, are Katanga and Kasai secessionists who have accepted invitations lo confer with him in Leopoldville. . Lumumba is alsn invifpl 11m said. "We must preserve national unity." But Ilea annpnrAff I. k. . - ' I w Arm uil shaky ground. A maiorltv of Ih. m.mi.... . the Senate clearly opposed Kasa vubu's firing of Lnmiimhi i.j one of the ministers lleo himself named io nis disputed eavprn. ment, Alphonse Soncolo. IssiipH . statement saying he was never consulted and that his allegiance is to "Ihe legal government of th Congo." Across the Congo Rivep in Kn ' zaville, African officials of th former French Congo colony stopped two Lumumba fpWtp from transferring from a U.N. plane to a commercial airliner that was to take them to N York. They planned to Drespnt Lumumba's casa before th se curity Council. The officials were Thomas Han- za, the Congo's minister tn th. United Nations, and Jarn lm. bala, a left winger who has th title of secretary of ataUi for th. presidency. Both were returned to TjxirviM. ville while another delegation sent by President Joseph Kasavubu was flying to New York. Kasavu bu asked the United Nations in consider his delegation headed by foreign minister Justin Bomboko as representing "the legal govern ment" of the Congo. Toward the end of what one of the most trying days in i.uinuinua s career, Congolese army commander Gen. Victor l.undula led 80 soldiers to thn -eopoldville airport where he of fered them to the service of thn local U.N. commander, a Sudanesa colonel. The men, wearing helmets with camouflage nets, laid down their arms and received brooms instead to sweep the airport hangars. Levity Fact Rant By L F. Reizenstein This it th month of th full moon. Awaited it Russia's claim that it tent into the orbit the necessary cargo of vodka.