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looked nothing like a financier, parents have the money." said
He wore a rumpled, light-his attorney, Louis Glasso.
colored raincoat scuffed black; ''We're going to try to make it."
waters, wrinkled blue trousers. When Belle left Pittsburgh
His gray-striped summer snnrt .Ink- i una f,. ni n iar.,im
coat was mussed His light blue federal investigators estimate? material
shirt was hnitnnorf ( Ka i. , . ...... ... course material
Scope, Sequence Lutherans Slate
Guide Finished
For Literature
Youth Programs
The retelling of the Christ
mas story iq word and song by
older youths of Faith Lutheran
shirt was buttoned at the neck.
He peered from behind horn
rimmed glasses and said he
was innocent.
After five and one half years,
Earl Belle was home.
Now 31 and balding. Belle re
turned to Pittsburgh Thursday
"to clear my name."
"I didn't do anything." Belle
maintained to inquiring report
ers, i was an employe and
was taken advantage of by
omer people."
Arrived Thursday
Belle, onetime wheelcr-and
dealer in high finance, a big
spender wno drove imported
cars ana wore $250 suits, ar
rived here shortly before 5 p.m.
in the custody of U.S. Marshal
James Berry. They had left
New York by car at 9 a.m.
Facing federal trial on 50
counts of stock fraud and con
spiracy, Belle was committed
to Allegheny County Jail when
he could not make $60,000 bond
Glendale-Azalea
Programs Listed
Glendale-Azalea churches will
celebrate Christmas with a v
riety of programs on Sunday
night and on Monday at 7 p.m.
Santa Claus will arrive by lire
truck at the Glendale town
Christmas tree on Pacific Ave
nue. A carol sing sponsored by
the Inter-Church Fellowship will
be held around the tree at 6
p.m. preceding Santa's arrival
Sunday at 7:30 p.m. the Glen
dale Presbyterian Church and
the Missionary Baptist Church
will present their Sunday School
programs, and the Southern
Baptists will present a program
and play. The Presbyterian pro
gram will feature also a choir
concert and a junior high play.
At 7 p.m. Sunday the Glen
dale Assembly of God Church
will hold its Sunday School pro
gram along with selections by
the choir and other features all
geared to the theme "Yester
day, Today and Tomorrow."
At 7:30 p.m. the Azalea Com
munity Church will present its
Sunday School program called
"The Gates of Christmas" and
the choir, will give the . cantata
"A Song Unending:". ' '
The public is invited to attend
the programs.
he took nearly $1 million with
him.
SEC Was Investigating
His hasty departure with his
second wife, Naomi, came as
the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) was looking
into dealings of the Cornucopia
Gold Mine Co., a firm Belle and
several associates purchased in
1957 and used as a springboard
to acquire other holdings.
Cornucopia, a Seattle, Wash.,
firm, had been idle since 1941
but remained on the board of
the American Stock Exchange.
The government charged that
Belle used Cornucopia's presti
gious position to fraudulently
gain control of other firms and
bilk several banks of approxi'
n.atcly $1 million.
Claimed Innocence
The SEC began its investiga
tion of the resurrected Cornu-
copia about six months before
Belle s Independence Day flight.
While in Rio, Belle steadfast
ly insisted he was innocent and
had no money. He lived in a
$2,000 a month apartment.
Brazil has no reciprocal ex
tradition treaty with the U.S.
covering stock frauds so Belle
was in no danger of being expelled.
But, Brazilian authorities said,
he passed $70,000 in worthless
checks. He reportedly was given
an option of remaining there
and facing the rubber check
charges or returning home to
stand trial on the fraud indict'
ments.
He flew to New York last
Saturday,
Says He Isn't Involved
When he arrived here, how
ever, Belle said he was not in
volved in any check-passing
scheme.
"In Brazil, they won't let you
leave even if you're a suspect,"
Belle said. He declared the only
reason he returned was to do
anything I can to clear my
name. - i
Belle was asked why he fled
Pittsburgh.
"I don't know," he replied.
"I must have been crazy.
He said his life in Rio was
difficult.
"I was unable to go into busi
ness for myself because I lacked
capital,", lie said. He said the
cloud of doubt over his honesty
also prevented him from gain
ing employment with a private
firm.
The Roseburg School District's
"Guide to Literature" for grades
1-12 in its continuing scope andjehurch will take place at the
sequence sluay is noy complete, church during the 9:45 a.m.
Assistant Supt. Harry J acoby Church School hour this Sunday.
reports the guide is designed tojThe service will be conducted
supplement the state guide andentirely by the members of the
to assist teachers in determining glasses of fifth graders and
above.
Among the participants will
be Norman Thorpe, liturgist;
Sharon Salmonson, organist;
Steve Bryan, Dick Champion,
Glenn Koppang and Robbie
Taylor, ushers: and Sharon Red
ing, who will deliver a brief
message on "What Christmas
Means to Me." Virginia Noel
Sharon LaBrensz, and Becky
Reding will sing a Christmas
hymn as a trio during the serv
ice.
The younger children of the
church school, those through the
fourth grade, will present their
special program at 7 p.m. Sun
day. It will be in the form of
a Christmas pageant, with a
symbolic re-enuctment of the
Christmas story as recorded in
the New Testament. In addition
to this, . the members of the
Church School classes will pre
sent gifts which will be sent
to children at the Bcthphagc
Mission in Axtell, Neb., a home
for handicapped children main
tained by the Lutheran Church
in America.
All parents and friends, are
invited to both of these- pro-
grains, according to the pastor,
Allen lngebntscn.
It begins with the definition
and discussion of .the meaning
of the term "literature" and in
cludes program goals and char
acteristics of growth evidenced
in students in the 12 grades.
It closes with a bibliography for
elementary, junior and senior
high schools.
The consultant for the guide
was Dr. Arthur Kriesman, di
rector of general studies at
Southern Oregon College.
Meanwhile, another study de
signed to help set up a similar
guide for social studies is now
under way. So far, the scope
and sequence program has re
sulted in guides for mathemat
ics and science,' language arts,
composition, speaking and listen
ing, physical education and
health, and handbooks for prin
cipals and teachers.
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AIRLINES SERVICE for Roseburg may be offered by
American Air-Lease, o Portland-bosed firm, in Beech
craft Super 18 aircraft such as pictured here begin
ning Jan. 15. AAL representative James Fugate told
the 40 local officials who turned out for a special
VltiiiliVri
meeting Friday tiat should the firm feel Roseburg
needed and would support such a service, it would be
started in mid-January, offering two round-trips daily
to Portland, with a flight to Medford also looming
as a possibility! '
Faith Lutheran Sets
Traditional Service
The Christmas season at
Faith Lutheran Church will be
climaxed with a festive Christ
mas Eve candlelighting serv
ice. This traditional vesper
service will begin at 11 p.m
Dec. 24, concluding at the hour
of midnight. "This beautiful and
inspiring occasion will find the
congregation sharing in many
of the favorite Christmas hymns,
the proclamation of the Gospel
concerning the birth of the
Prince of.- Peace, and the sym
bolic spreading of the Light of
the World by way of a candle
lighting ceremony," Pastor Al
len Ingcbritsen reports.
In addition to a brief mes
sage by the pastor, there will
be a message in music given
by the church's senior choir.
The community, along with
members and friends of the
church, is invited.
West Berliners Swarm Through 'Christmas Crack'
BERLIN (UPD-West Berlin
ers by the thousands swarmed
through the "Christmas crack"
in the Communist wall today to
hold brief reunions with rela
FLOODS KILL ,13
RABAT, Morocco (UP1) -Seasonal
floods have' killed at
least 13 persons and isolated
about 20 villages in the North
Moroccan area where 50 per
sons drowned in fhr-' Ium -a.
it was reported today,
potatoes to their brothers and
sisters on the wrong side of the
barbed wire-and-concrete divi
der. . t
Some suspected tho Commu-
tives they have not seen furjnists opened the wall for poll
more than two years. Iticul reasons. .But politics paled
Lugging pillow cases nndlbeside the emotional explosionl
laundry bags full of food and
cigarettes, they began stream
ing past machine gun-armed
Communist guards as soon
of first reunions between moth
ers -and sons, grandfathers and
granddaughters.
The crossing!, which started
the barriers were lowered at 7!"i.masse Friday, will continue
a.m. (1 a.m., EST). They must for 18 days more,
be back bv midnight. 1 Friday night, at the midnight
West Berlin police predicted
20,000 persons would visit the
Eastern zone today under the
agreement by which West Ber
liners are making their first
trip across the anti-refugee wall
since it went up 28 months ago.
Many Carry Food
Many emptied their cupboards
deadline, reunited families
hugged almost savagely at the
moment of parting.
At the Oberbaumbridgo cross
ing point, one middle-aged wom
an laughed and, cried at the
same time while she kissed her
Western son goodbye. She -also
was clutching a very, practical
brought her as a gift.
Snow Covers City
The wall, like all of Berlin,
is blanketed with snow.
An estimated 6,000 persons
crossed it Friday, Many more
ASK APPROVAL
WASHINGTON (UP1) - The
Norfolk and Western and Nickel
Plate railroads asked the Inter
state Commerce Commission
Thursday to approve their
merger proposal as soon as
possible.
The railroads said that rejec
tion of the merger or delay in
ICC approval would block for
years an$ further realignment
of eastern railroads.
were expected on a Saturday
when most West Berliners are
not working.
Western newspapers reported
that 170,000 West Berliners al- ;
ready have received passes
from the platoon of deadpan
Communist functionaries who
dole them out. Tho city govern
ment asked the Communists to -
speed things up as huge lines
formed in the falling snow long
before daylight.
West Berlin police reported
that 19 persons were hospital
ized of a total of 1,101 who col
lapsed while waiting,
One died. She was Mrs. Fran
ziska Hoernig, 76. Her neigh
bors said her "last wish" had
been to sec her 73-ycar-old sis
ter in East Berlin.
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