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Newspaper Page Textl.r. of 0. Library i'ui- one , Qra "-on to lfS II 1 if II M I1?HU HHVIIf- II 01 liiVC V U '11 H U Baudouin, Wife Return To Help Cope With Riots FK Confers BRUSSELS, Belgium AP King Baudouin. returned with Queen Fabiola Thursday from their Spanish honeymoon to help cope with riotous demonstrations against the government's auster ity program. The royal couple's special plane landed a few hours alter a Brus sels march of 15,000 demonstra tors erupted into some of the worst acts of violence in Die nation's 10-day-old strikes. The demonstra tors surged through the city smashing windows and overturn ing automobiles. With his Spanish-born bride of two weeks beside him, the young king flew here from Seville. Ha was unsmiling and grim as he walked into the well-guarded mili tary section of Brussels Interna tional Airport. The . queen also looked worried. They went immediately to their Brussels residence. The 30-year-old sovereign who came to the throns in 1951 after his controversial lather, King Leo pold 111, was forced to abdicate had good reasons for anxiety. For more than four hours today the demonstrators tied up the heart of the capital. They smashed dozens of shop windows, wrecked a bus and set a mail truck afire. There was no loss of life. Police squads refused to be drawn into any head-on clash with the marchers. The strikers were demonstrating against the government austerity program, designed to help' Bel gium balance its budget, sagging from losses incurred by giving the Congo its independence last June. Ollicials of the Socialist-led Gen eral Workers Federation had crit icized the king for remaining in Spain during the crisis. Near the heart of the capital, demonstrators stoned a movie theater advertising newsrcels of the sovereign's wedding on Dec. 15. The demonstrators stayed clear of Brussel's neutral zone, where police riot squads were ready to break up any effort to enter. The Brussels Palace, Parliament build ings, government offices and min istries are located in the zone. As the demonstrations entered their 10th day, Pierre Harmel, minister of public tdmintstration, disclosed that from 2,000 to 2,400 Belgian soldiers have been re called from North Atlantic Treaty Organization units in West Germany. Nixon Turns Down Role In Ike Show WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon has turned down an invitation to par ticipate in a "Tribute to a Patriot" TV show praising President Ei senhower. Nixon's press secretary, Herbert G. Klein, said Wednesday night there were two reasons Nixon de clined the invitation: "The key time when they want ed him to tape a part of the pro gram came when he had to be out of town. "In addition he has adopted a policy not to go on television for a while. This is not permanent, but he thinks that in deference to Sir. Kennedy he should not for the time being do anything pub licly in the way of television ap pearances, news conferences or the 'like. He has turned down other shows beside this one." Klein added, "As for anything between himself and the President of course he has saluted the President many times in the past and will do so many times in the ' ltiture. It isn't necessary that he do it on any one particular TV show." The NBC program will portray Eisenhower's career from boy hood to the presidency. It is sched uled for Jan. 10. Contract Awarded SALEM (AP) The Oregon Highway Commission today awarded a SI .303.7:16 contract for grading and paving 3.5S miles of tin Columbia River Highway just cast of Cascade Locks. The contract went to Vernie tail of Gresham. who submitted the lowest of 12 bids. The soldiers joined riot police in guarding government buildings. Stale police reserves also were called into the capital. Harmel said the. over-all situa tion showed improvement except in the big port of Antwerp, where the strike was spreading. The port area has been immobilized. Leo Collard, Socialist party president, said the strike will con tinue "until our goal is reached." He claimed it was spreading in both the north and south. The demonstration in Brussels started with a mass meeting of about 10,000 "strikers and sym pathizers in front of Socialist party headquarters. The turnout was far short of the 50,000 the party had predicted. As brick bats, stones and nuts and bolts were hurled at buses, streetcars and some stores which refused to close in sympathy with the strikers, the number of demon strators swelled to about 15.000. During the demonstration, a delegation of strikers handed in a petition at Premier Gaston Eys kens' office repeating demands for withdrawal of proposed legislation boosting taxes and cutting pen sions and social services. The government says only austerity can offset revenue . losses from granting independence to the rich Congo. Established 1873 20 Paget ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1960 302-60 PRICtSc1 - , - . . ' Red Cross Speaker ELDON CALEY, chairman of the Roseburg chapter of the American Red Cross, will speak on the problems of .the small Red Cross chapter at the sub-regional meeting of the organization to be held -in Eugene Jan. 5. Caley is a for mer Douglas County Circuit Judge. He will speak as a typical small chapter chair man at the session designed for professional and other ex tremely active Red Cross workers. Wife Of Hospital Escapee Missing PORTLAND (AP) ' Mrs. Charles Hcdrick, whose husband escaped from Ihe state hospitaT at jalem last Monday, also has vanished. Police said she left her baby with a note asking neighbors to "please take care of my baby if I should die." She left her Portland ,home a few hours before her 25-year-old husband and another inmate, Ver non Wesley Street, 41, escaped. The men pried loose a screen, wrapped themselves in a blanket and plunged through a plate glass window on the ground floor of the hospital. Witnesses said (hey were picked up by a car driven by a woman. "Hcdrick was sent to the hospital for observation after police said he had admitted sexual assaults on several Portland women. Sirs. Hcdrick left the two-month-old boy with Mrs. Cloice Purcell, a neighbor. Juvenile au thorities took charge of the infant. Ben-Gurion May Resign srael Post Millions Of Japanese Trek Home For New Year's Fete JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion has hinted he might resign in an effort to force still another in vestigation into the mysterious ouster, of former Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon, informed sources said today. Lavon was forced out of the gov ernment of former Prime Minister Moshe Sharett in 1955 and blamed for a "security mishap." Military censorship has prevented a fur ther description of the incident, but it is believed Lavon was ac cused of ordering an attack that some diplomats said caused Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to get. arms from the So viet Union. Lavon Cleared The Cabinet approved a report by an investigating committee of ministers Sunday clearing Lavon and finding that a high army of ficer, whose name has not been disclosed, probably forged docu ment to pin the blame on the for mer defense minister. The investigating committee. appointed by Ben-Gurion last Sep tember, represented all parties in the government. Political sources said Ben-Gurion refused to join in approval of the committee report and hint ed that he may resign, at least temporarily. At any rate he cus tomarily takes a midwinter vaca tion. Seeks Probe ' The informants said it was un derstood Een-Gurlon made the threat in an effort to force leaders of hisown Social Democratic par ty, the Manai. to Insist on a roll scale legal investigation into the whole affair. This would necessi tate cross-examination of Lavon under oath. Earlier reports said Foreign Minister Golda Meir, displeased with Ben-Gurion's position, also had threatened to resign but was dissuaded by Finance Minister Levi Eshkol. An earlier investigating commit tee in 1954. consisting ol Supreme Court Justice Itzhak Olshan and former army chief of staff Maj. Gen. Yacov Dori. was unabio to determine the truth about the Lavon affair. Evidence False Earlier this year a military in vestigating committee reported that false evidence apparently had been introduced at the 1954 hearing. Lavon, slill a leading member of Ben-Gurion's Mapai party and now secretary-general of Histan drut, the Israeli federation of La bor, has been demanding vindica tion for five years. Burned Out JfjvKj J TJ FIRE THAT SPARKED SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS in feeburg hit the home of Roseburg city police officer Darrell O'Dell five days before Gistmas. Almost before the firemen had the flames under control, local residents had Jirted fund drives which netted the O'Dells more than $400 cash, better than $100 in lerchandise certificates and huge' bundles of clothing and bedding. O'Dell is shown re holding a merchandise certifi cate given by Roseburg City Councilmen as he ond hswife Louella look over, bundles of clothing ond bedding given family after tragic fire. Jiey now live in a rented house while "deciding what to do with their damaged fiomei'News-Review Photo) Big Detroit Presbytery Favors Church Merger DETROIT (AP) The Detroit presbytery, with 110 United Pres bvtcrian churches, voted 216 to 4 Wednesday night in favor of a proposed merger of Presbyterian. Methodist, United Church of Christ and Episcopal churches. The Detroit presbytery is one of the five largest of the country's 400 presbyteries. Merger was approved in a reso lution in the form of an "over- lure" to Ihe general assembly of 'rebel Congo Soldiers Contact Balubas LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP) A column of rebel troops from -Stanleyville was reported to day to have entered northern Ka tanga and made contact there with Baluba tribesmen fighting against the separatist regime of President Moise Tshombe. A United Nations report said the rebel force entered Katanga through Kivu province, and was approaching Kongolo, the 'center of a bitter guerrilla war between the Katanga Balubas and Tshom be's police. Kongolo is more than 400 miles south of Stanleyville, where for mer Deputy Premier Antoine Gi zenga has set up a Communist leaning regime which claims to be the Congo's only legal govern ment. Kivu province, located between Stanleyville and Katanga, came under Gizenga's control over Christmas, when rebel troops kid naped provincial President Jean Mirohu and three of his ministers. The prisoners were believed en roule to Stanleyville, but nothing has been heard of them since they left Bakuvu, Kivu's capital, under a heavy escort on Christmas Day. The rebel thrust into north Ka tanga suggested that Gizenga now controls Kivu firmly enough to permit freedom of movement to his men throughout the province,' whose inhabitants include more than 3,500 Europeans. Most of the Europeans in Kivu are Belgian tanners or mission aries. U.N. reports said they were being arrested and ill-treated by soldiers at will as the Ihe United Presbyterian Church j white persons were in Stanley which meets in Buffalo, N.Y., ville prior to U.N. intcrvcnlion next May. I earlier this month. Teamwbk Was Key To Floria B u rg la ry 11 Children, Mother Die In Home Fire NOYAN, Que. (AP) Mariorie Vosburgh, 4.1, and 11 of her 15 children burned to death today in one of the worst family tragedies in Quebec Province history. The mother died when she rushed back inlo the flaming small, wood house near this vil lage u5 miles south of Montreal. She had cscaued with lur luw. nana, Ahel, when - an explosion, believed to have been caused by a stove, rocked the home about .1 a.m. Flames spread quickly and the house had burned to the ground by the time iircmen ar rived. Mrs. Vosburgh died before reaching the children. Her body- was one oi ine urst tound by tire men searching the ruins. First reports said the father had managed to save one .child, but later it was established that the only children to survive were away Irom home at the lime. . Vosburuh suffered burns to his hands in efforts to save his family and was taken to the nearby home of a brother-in-law for treatment. The dead children were: Doris 19, Hay 17, Richard 15, Phyllis 13, Kalherin 10, Audrey 9, Beverlev 7, Hobert 4. Caroline 3, Leo 1, anil Dwayne 6 months. Gladys, 21, and Gertrude, 22, are married and live elsewhere. Irvin, 18. was at work, and Allan. 11, was visiting an aunt. PALM BKACTf. Kla. fAP) . Pivsident-fluci John Kennedy a.lrcl a i;:'y Treasury Department posaiM lJ.y. then started a niu-j.ing:ng tfiscuss.un. of ujiwiku (lomeMie uu sen. j, D-Ait. inter- Dm!,!- -114 William l-'ulbiight, TAMPA. Fla. (AP)-Jkey, combination, timetable andtam work formed the ingrediei for Florida's biggest burglary-meat $400,000 theft from the vt of an armored car service. Police and FBI agenlsvcre slill trying to fit the piM to gether today, more than SCours after thieves carted away U loot in 19 moneybags. The vault contained aiesli mated $1 million in casland checks. All of the sacks earn ing coins were left behind fnvestigators agreed tin Ihe theft could have been esiled only with knowledge or acUaid provided by an employe (for mer employe. Detective Inspector O. Cloy non said officers questionodxre than 20 persons and that iers would be called in. No sts have been made. "It was definitely an Me job," E. A. Rasdale, president of the firm, said. "They knew what they were doing and timed the whole thing just right. All of the loss, the firm's first inelt in Us 2J years of operation, was insured. Authorities pieced the burglary together like this: The intruders at least two and perhaps as many as four entered the company's one-story building a few minutes after midnight 'I uesday. They used a key to open the lront door. ' An alarm sounded at a burglar protective agency several blocks away when the door ooened (inn of the men followed Ihe-password piuccuure used ny employes when entering and leaving Ihe building at night. He. telephoned the agen cy and gave a name and code number. It took the operalor six minutes to determine that the name and number failed to match those on file with the agency. Police ar rived at the scene three minutes alter the operalor called them. During Ihe nine minutes which elapsed, tho intruders walked through an unlocked door to Ihe vault, opened it by dialing the combination, carried out the sacks and escaped. The act began and ended dur ing a 30-minule interval between the departure of one armored car from the building and scheduled arrival of another. Police found Ihe building desert ed and the vault locked when (hey arrived. Before fleeing, a burglar set the vault s time-lock so that Power Company l&rger. Loom County Feels Effect Of Freezing Weather Frost touched much of Dtes County Wednesday night an' morning. , The Roseburg station of Ifc'S Weather Bureau reported a l"r 27 degrees. Meanwhile. M rsJU on Haminersly, News-Hevic!"'' respondent at Tiller reporU'dw reading of 22 in her area. At Tiller, where the weatW3-5 been generally sunny but storm dropped almost a lhiof an inch of rain Mrwhiu Little temperature change flhe door couldn't be opened for pecten in the next day. ' '" PORTLAND (AP)-The merger of Pacific Power and Light Co. with California-Oregon Power Co appeared a virtual certainty today. "It looks as though (here are no legal or other obstacles to it." Albert S. Cummins, president of California-Oregon, said today at Medford. He declined further comment, saying only (hat Ihe two firms will issue a release Fri day. Pacific Power officials said at Portland that they could not com ment, but added that the release will come Friday. Merger proposals were disclosed several months ago, and at that time both firms said studies con cerning it were underway. Pacific power would be. the surviving company, a release said then. Pacific Power operates in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, and last year had gross revenues of about 03 mil lion. California - Oregon operates in Southern Oregon and Northern California and in 1959 had gross operating revenues of about $25 million. As news of the impending an nouncement came, California-Oregon . stock was being offered by sellers at S44.25 a share. It has jumped since merger talk be gan. Its low point earlier in the year was about $33. Pacific Pow er slock stood today at an asking price of $42.25 a share. TOKYO (AP) More than 25 million Japanese are streaming home for New Year's in Asia's happiest mass migration. Prosperity, time off and year end bonuses estimated at more than a billion dollars are enabling more wage earners than ever be fore to join their families for the holiday, as important to Japan as Christmas is to the West. The Japanese National Railways estimated 26.45 million would make the trek almost a third of Ihe population and 5 per cent over the 1959 record. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Fair tonight and Friday, except fog persisting in tame valleys to diy end Friday. Not much temp erature change. Highest temp, last 14 hours 42 Lowest temp, last 24 hours . 17 Highest temp, any Dec. ('58 ) .. Lowest temp, any Dec. ('55) . .. 23 Precip. last 24 hours 6 Precip. from Dec. I 2.18 Precip. from Sept. 1 12.74 Deficit from Sept. I .44 Sunset tonight, 4:45 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:45 a.m. The travelers wore smiles and new clothes, in contrast to less fortunate migrants Asia has seen. Awaiting them were hours of standing in trains followed by happy feasts ol pounded rice cakes (inoehi), spiced wine (loso) and red beans, and New Year's 2ve visits to hometown Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Then, jampacked trains back to the cities next week. Government ollices closed Wednesday night for a week. It will be a time of debt-paying, fam ily reunion, honoring of ancestors and praying for good times. Most businesses will close their books on 19HO Saturday and shut down tight for at least three days. Passengers for trains Friday were already lining up under big circus tents thrown up at Ihe ma jor stations of Tokyo and Osaka. Some had quilts anil mats for the overnight wail. A railway spokesman said many trains had 250 per cent more peo ple aboard than seals and "no body can even walk through the aisles." Some dining and sleep ing cars were replaced by high capacity chair cars. So far no mishaps were report el. hut officials were fearful. "The operating congestion is terrible," said the spokesman, t Construction Starts On Fir Gro? School , ' :V . .,. ., .:,; ,.. .... . : ?. ;. , . ,. ,. " .'.',-- ' ' ' : ' ....''. , t . -r D.O'MnlleyHome Damaged In Blaze A fire early this morning at Ihe D. J. O'Mallcy home, 428 W. Fair St.. caused about SIO.OOO damage. The Roseburg Fire Department spent over an hour attempting lo put out the blaze which apparently started from an electrical wall heater. The O'M alleys were not at home at the timu of Ihe lire. The estimate includes $1,5(10 in furni ture damage. It was not immedi ately known if the house was in sured. A $900 fire occurred at 7:48 Wed nesday evening at the home of Carl Stephens, J43 SK Temphn St. Again tlin ritv Fire Department fought the blaze. The fire stalled from a cracked flue just below the roof. The dam age was covered by insurance. The Roseburg Rural Fire De partment had one blaze Wednesday, lhat at Ihe Robert Barrett resi dence, 1570 NW Rachel Court. A SCHOOL BELLS will be ringing of this site by the stort of the 1961-62 school yeor. Showrt is the stort of construc tion of the Fir Grove Elementgry School, which will be locoted adjacent to the Roseburg U. S. Veterans Hospital on W. Harvard Ave. This is one of two elementary schools being constructed on the west Side of the city. The school will feature displays of wooc' products in practical use in o design by EugfafC',ec,s c Stafford ond Ken Morin. The buildiH5 ;')ein5 constructed by Vik Construction Co. of Eugi for $248,000. (News-Review Photo) fire in Ihe flue caused no damage. I and Dillon Kennedy chose Ttobert V. Iioosa. New ,0,-k- banker, to be under, secretary for monetary affairs. ' Secretary of the Treasury-des-anute Houghs Dillon, who will ba r"'-,,iVi, '",?' s"i'1 '" a foment tegaidmg the appointee: WW? Experience "His wide experience in finan a '"alters, both domestic and .ruational. w,ll l)e ln0!i(. hel 1 in .-iclvisin;; ;,,id carrving out he policies required to preserve: Ihe soundness of the dollar as a tirm foundation for a world seek m;' maximum freedom of irado ami investment.", : Kennedy Wednesday ' picked Ar-' chib.il (os, Harvard law profes sor and a campaign aide, for the j ", Jmlur general of the I led Slates - the government's duel trial lawyer. ' Fulbnghl. chairman of the Sen ale ioreign Relations Committee, .... .... ..ciSiii guest at Ken nedys home. This morning the senator and Ihe president-elect got down lo a global review of Ameri can foreign policy. Domestic Matters Pierre Salinger. Kennedy's press secretary, said the confer, enee would deal also wilh domes tie matters, but he provided no detail. Kennedy and Fulbright ar ranged to play a round of golf after their talks. There was a pos sibility they would hold a news conference late in the day. Kennedy headquarters said he Will fly lo New Yolk npvl Wrtn.,0, day afternoon. Salinger said he did not know how limir K,. ,,,,,! will remain there, but lhat he plans to return to Pnlm n,.,,.i, i. at least one more visit before his inauguration Jan. 20. Revision of Plans This is a- revisinn nf n-j,.iin plans. Salinger announced last weekend that Kennedy in the ear. y days of January would move, his base of operations' lo New York and slay there until shortly before inauguration. . V, , '. c'nisKicrai appointment of Fulbnylyf as- secretary of stale but earlier this month passed him oyer in faor of Dean Rusk head I uiu xiocKuieuer foundation, Fulbright Critical . . . . In-Washington Wednesday, Ful bright was critical of some of Ken nedy's plans for domestic legisla. j' ni"e me senator said Ihe new Congress convening next month should defer action on Kennedy's call for increasing (ho minimum wage now one dollar an hour to $1.25. An increase, Fulbright said, would put lagging American busi- ness at a disadvantage "In com peting with our allies." rulbright added that hn h plans to express his views lo tho president-elect on this matter un less Kennedy calls for them. iioosa, 42, who says he s an in dependent in politics, will be tho Treasury department's No. 3 of ficial as undersecretary for mon etary affairs. He now is vice presi dent of the Mew York Federal Ho serve Bank in charge of research. Dillon Consulted Kennedy chose iioosa after con sultation with the secretary of the Treasury-designate, Douglas Dil lon, who is undersecretary of slato in Ihe outgoing Eisenhower admin islration. Tho No. 2 command post in tho Treasury, another undersecretary, is yet to be filled. As in the case of Cox for solic itor general, Kennedy a Harvard graduate himself once more nick. ed a man with Harvard back- giound in selecting Roosa. Iioosa won his bachelor's degree in economics at the University of iMicmgan, and then served as u tutor and teaching fellow at Har vard University and as an instruc tor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology while earning a mas ter's and doctor of phi sophy de grees, Native of Michigan A native of Marquette. Mich., Roosa went to work for the New York Federal Reserve Bank in 1941. He has been with the bank ever since with the exception of three years in Ihe Army during World War II. He was attached lo the Office of Strategic Services and also served on the intelligence staff of Gen. Omar N, Bradley's nth Army Croup. At the bank, Roosa has been vice president in charge of re- ' search since in.iG. As undersecretary for monetary alfaiii, Iioosa will be directly re sponsible for manuring the $2111 lillijn national debt, subject of course lo tho approval of Kennedy Levity Fact Hant By L. F. Reizenstein Demonstrations Flare After Death Of Moslems ORAM, Algeria (AP) .Moslem nationalist demonstrations broke ,,! ,.,., In llr-.n l,l:,v I , ,1 In .1, i ., an exchange of shots Wednesday Awoireo ore tne recom mit in which two Moslems were mendotionj of tho cracker- L. ' 1 1 1 t t - ,u . barrel statesmen to the new Two hundred Moslems gathered i . . . . .. . . w in a suburb and tried to march administration: Bolster the on a section where both Moslems I notion's economy with in and Kuropeans live. Police and creased spending or slosh Foreign Legionnaires turned most . ,(, ,1. of them back without major inci-l'0"' 05 0 ,nof ,n h. Orrn Ident. Sonic 0 arresis were made, i'o' codoyeroui complaincrs.