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Uaivurrtby . Crcruj Homes Lit Up Trophies will be awarded to Roseburg winner of the annual Christmas home lighting contest, sponsored by Jaycees and Pacific Power & Light Co. See page 2. Established 1873 ' Library Republicans Balk Angry Republicans prevent vote on foreign aid bill. Solont stay in session. See page 2. 12 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1963 301-63 10c Per Copy South Reels Under Heavy Snow, Cold By United Press International Some of the worst winter weather of the century pum meled parts of the Southland to day with paralyzing snows up 10 14 incnes deep and a hard freeze which knifed deep into Texas. Roads were closed around some major cities and metro politan traffic was crawling or not moving at all in parts of Dixie on the second day of win ter. Heavy snow warnings were out from eastern Tennessee and Kentucky northeastward over Pennsylvania, West Virginia, southern Ohio and Indiana. Snow amounts in these areas were expected to total more than 4 inches. State police in Louisiana cau tioned motorists to stay off State roads for at least two days unless driving was ab solutely necessary. Racing at the New Orleans Fair Grounds was cancelled because of a frozen running strip. Snow ended in Arkansas this morning, but not before it ac cumulated from 8 to 12 inches across the state, making it the heaviest Arkansas snowfall in three years. Many highways and bridges were closed as traf fic came to a standstill. Fourteen inches of snow fell at Memphis, Tenn., probably the most to fall on the city since 1872. It was colder in Dal las, Tex., than it was in An chorage, Alaska, and a reading of 11 was the lowest for this day since Dallas started keep ing records in 1898. onow ieii as lar south in Texas as Waco, and statewide freezing temperatures threat- ened crops in the low Rio Grande. Traffic in Jackson, Miss., and Atlanta, Ga was at a virtual standstill today . be cause of snow turning to ice. Air and bus service through "out Tennessee one of the harder hit states was sharply curtailed. Many roads were vir tually impassable. All major1 roads out of Memphis and the Memphis - Arkansas bridge across the Mississippi River were closed Sunday night. Heavy snow warnings were posted for most of the Easier!; eight states Ohio, North Caro lina, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Virginias, Maryland, Pennsyl vania, Indiana,. New England; and Delaware. Hard freeze warnings were posted from southern Texas to Florida. Driving was hazardous throughout the South. Wiley Lamaster, St. Louis, Mo., escaped injury when his single - engine Cessna 150' crashed south of Hohenwald, Tenn., Sunday night during the snow storm. A number of weekend traffic deaths in Alabama and Missis sippi was blamed on slippery roads. Six persons suffocated in St. Petersburg, Fla., in two sep parate fires four elderly per sons when a faulty flue sent deadly fumes into a home and a couple died in a fire in their home. TV"- ffSagjtf ..1, v : 1 J "' t V h . J CREWMEN OF THE TANKER "Pleiades" are shown ,on the deck of the ship offer it arrived at Escanaba, Mich., Saturday loaded with tons of accumulated ice from its trip from East Chicago, Ind. Crewmen had to use steam lines to free valves and other deck controls before it could discharge the cargo of furnace oil. It was the final 1963 trip for the Pleiades to this upper peninsula city. (UPI Telephoto) Candlelight Rites End Month Of Mourning For Late JFK 1 As WASHINGTON (UPI) "...Let us here on this Christmas night determine that John Kennedy did not live or die in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, ana mat we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward all men." "HIGH ENTHUSIASM" 1 WASHINGTON (UPI) The National Draft Goldwatcr Com mittoo says there is "high en thtisiasm all across the conn try" for Sen. Barry Goldwatcr to be the Republican president nominee in 1964. 18 Are Safe, Fifteen Die In Icy Sea PORT AUD BASQUES, Nfld. (UPI) Eighteen seamen from the storm - swamped French freighter Douala were rescued from two lifeboats Sunday after surviving 30 hours adrift in the icy Atlantic. Eleven other., stamen died after the Douala flooded and sank Saturday when high winds and waves up to 75 feet caved in its hatches. Tht survivors, suffering from frostbit.' and exposure, were hospitalized 5 at this tiny Newfoundland fishing village and three in the French-owned island of St. Pierre to the south. In all, 23 men were picked up from the lifeboats but four died from the effects of the cruel ordeal at sea. The'Dou ala's captain, Michal Labbe, 40 died aboard a Canadian rescue ship. The Canadian coast guard ship Sir Humphrey Gilbert picked up 16 men, including Labbe, from one of the two boats. The Gilbert took the 15 who lived to a tiny, one-doctor hospital here. The French freighter Lan glade found three men alive in the second lifeboat and took them to St. Pierre. One was re ported in critical condition. The two lifeboats were spot ted about 10 miles apart by search planes from the Royal Canadian Air Force which di rected the surface ships to the rescue. With these words, spoken from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at dusk Sunday, President Johnson ended the nation's month of mourning for President Kennedy. Flags all over the nation fly at full staff today for the first time since Kennedy was shot down in Dallas Nov. 22. The black banners that darkened the door of the White House are gone. Thousands of candles, lighted in memory of the late Chief Executive, flickered in the win ter wind as Johnson evoked memories of Kennedy and of the matryred Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address Lights Candle Standing bare-headed in the cold, Johnson lighted a candle from fire carried from the eter nal flame that burns over the slain President's grave across the Potomac In Arlington Na tional Cemetery. The flame was carried from tile late President's grave across the river to the memori al where Johnson and a crowd of about 15,000 persons waited in freezing temperatures. Johnson cupped his hand around the tiny flame and gazed at it intently, his deeply lined face somber. Twice i a whipping wind extinguished the flame until Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, co-chairman of the Inter-Religious Commit tee on Race Relations which s p o n so re d the ceremony, shielded it with a sheet of pa per. Talk Was Brief The President handed his candle to an aide as thousands of other lights began to dot the twilight before the huge memorial. Johnson's talk was brief and rang with the phrases sounded at Gettysburg 100 years and one month ago. 'We have been bent in sor row but not in purpose," he said. "We buried Abraham Lin coln and John Kennedy, but we did not bury their dreams or visions." "Thirty days and a few hours ago, John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, died a martyr's death. The world will not forget what be did here. He will live on in our hearts which will be his shrine," the President said. Churchgoers See Drama Of Horror r i A JOYOUS tXil the joy of Christmas reach into every heart, , as with scripture, song and prayer, we recall the wonder of His birth. MUST" AT I OVAL BANK OTTAWA (UPI) - Parishion crs bowed their heads in prayer near the end of the noon Mass at the little church of Christ the King on the quiet last Sunday beiore Christmas. Then a loud knock on the door behind the altar heralded the beginning of a drama of horror that was to end with four persons fatally shot in the par ish rectory a few yards away. Canadian Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Lionel Chevrier, a member of the Roman Catholic parish, was among the 350 worshipers who saw and heard the events un fold. Two women and a man were shot to death Sunday in an abortive robbery of the rectory in the heart of this Canadian capital city. Then one of two brothers, the suspected gunmen killed himself in panic as police closed in. The other brother ! surrendered and was charged with murder. Victims of the shooting were Miss Alberto Guindon, 45, the rectory housekeeper; Miss Do ralise Bcchard, who lived with a sister in an apartment in the rectory building, and Paul Mor cier, a parishioner. Roger Hi nclte, 21, shot himself in the head with an automatic pistol when police with machine Runs closed in. Ilia brother Reginald. 17, gave up when he crawled onto a third-story fire escape and found police guns bristling below. Machine Gun Halts Flight Of Refugee BERLIN (UPI) Commu nist guards politely welcomed West Berlin Christmas visitors through the wall today but ap parently used their subachine guns on an East German refu gee to halt his flight West West Berlin police reported hearing 10 bursts of subma chine gun fire and screams dur ing the fog-shrouded night at a point where the American sec tor touches East Germany. The incident marked the first border "blood incident" since the Communists four days ago temporarily opened the wall for yuletide East Berlin visits by West Berliners th e first such visits since the wall went up in August, 1961. . West Berlin police said they heard cries of "halt, halt mix ing with the staccato gun blasts and the screams. They waited in the fog for a refugee to reach the Western side of the death strip. No one appeared. It happened a few hours be fore West Berliners, after t long wait, began moving through the wall .crossing points. The East German guards smiled and said "welcome, welcome" and offered their arms to elder ly women making their way through the snowy walkways. About 1,300 other West Ber liners waited in cold and snow today for Christmas day passes to visit East Berlin. All through the night they stood in line in 16 degree weather outside pass-issuing of fices waiting for the East Ger man Communist officials to come. Between 35,000 and 40,000; West Berliners passed through into East Berlin in the first four days of the Communists crack in the wall which ends Jan. 5. Warehouse Blast Claims Fireman Gun Found On Witness For J. Ruby DALLAS (UPI) Police todav seized a snub-nosed 25 caliber automatic from the purse of a shapely red-haired stripper call ed to testify in behalf of her ex-boss, Jack Ruby, the self-ap pointed executioner of Lee Har vey Oswald. Stripper Karen Lynn Bennett, who performed for Ruby at his Carousel Club faced charges of carrying a concealed weapon. She was permitted to testify at the heavily guarded hearing be fore Criminal Dist. Court Judge Joe is. Brown. Dapper and well - groomed, Ruby was seeking release on bail pending trial Feb. 3. There was a loaded clip in the gun, but no shell in the chamber. ine 52-year-old Ruby was whisked to the court from his sixth floor cell three hours be fore the hearing as part of an elaborate security system to prevent anyone from dealing him the fate he dealt Oswald, All visitors to the courtroom were searched. Two matrons plucked the gun from Miss Bennett's purse at the main door to the court. As a prelude to the hearing photographers took pictures of Ruby as he smiled and joked. When the hearing started un der Dist. Criminal Judge Joe B. Brown, defense attorneys and District Attorney Henry Wade began arguments. Bob Jackson, photographer for the Dallas Times Herald who took a dramatic photo of Ruby shooting Oswald on the morning of Nov. 24, was called as a witness. I City police homicide Capt. Will Friti was called to testify about the. transfer- of- Oswald from city to county jail,, when Ruby had burst from a crowd of newsmen and shot him. A sawhorse and a dozen po lice blocked the corridor and courtroom. Even rcporte r s wearing special identification badges were searched. Photographers were cleared from the room before the hearing started, in accordance with Brown's ban on photo and television-radio coverage of the hearing. Six defense attorneys, includ ing the flamboyant Melvin Bel li, sought a writ of habeas cor pus to release Ruby pending a murder trial Feb. 3. They said he needed psychiatric treatment. Dist. Atty. Henry Wade said he would vigorously oppose bond on the ground that 'Ruby was charged with a capital punishment crime murder with malice. The pudgy, 52-ycar-old strip tease club owner is charged with the Nov. 24 slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected as sassin of President Kennedy. He dashed before national tele vision cameras and fired a sin gle shot Into the manacled man's body. Two psychiatrists, arriving with defense lawyers, visited Ruby's cell seven hours over the weekend. They were Dr. Walter Bromberg of New York and Dr. Manfred S. Guttmach er, co-author of the book "Psy chiatry and Law. Defense lawyers indicated they would plead innocent by reason of insanity. Bromberg and Gutlmachcr both said they would not attend today's hearing. The defense subpoenaed another psychiatrist who examined Ruby shortly ait cr the widely witnessed slaying. All hearings before Brown were open only to pencil and paper newsmen. An elaborate newsroom was improvised in a probate court adjoining Brown's chambers. Television, radio and photographers were banned from the hearing room. Are Feared Dead llasfts ESip Homier 900 Saved I of v. i -r rp"") , I " Y 0 ( Rl :-5Nl Wfl 411 AMERICAN SINGER Paul Robeson, 65, smiles os newsmen fire questions ot him upon his arrival at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Sunday. Robeson, who has been associated wifti Communism in the past, is returning to the United States for the first time since 1958. (UPI Telephoto) Negro Singer Ends Self-imposed Exile NEW YORK (UPI)-Contro versial Negro singer Paul Rob cson, 65 ended his self-imposed five-year exile Sunday and flew back to the United States. The 6-fcot-three, former All America football player, asso ciated in the past with Commu nist front movements, arrived' at Kennedy Airport here look ing considerably thinner than when he left in 1058. He has been sutforlng from a cireula tory aliment and received med ical treatment in East. Berlin and London " ,i The 65-year-old' Robeson, re mained relatively quiet, prefer ring to let his wife do the talk ing. Questioned about reports that Robeson had become disillu sioned with communism, the singer's wife, Eslanda, told newsmen, "that's stupid. Of course he is not. He never was. He thinks its terrific." He's always thought that. way and he always will," Mrs, Robeson said. Robeson, who has been in re tirement since before his ill ness, appeared reluctant to talk. "I may have something to say later," he told newsmen. First of all. he has to get his health back," his wife said. He's just come out of a clinic." Robeson's only statement came in response to a query on whether lie, intended to join the civil rights movement in this country. "Yes," he said, "I've been a nart of it all my life." Neither llobcson nor nis wiic would reveal their future planR, Earlier in London Robeson's agent said the singer would re tire permanently and remain in the United States. Prisoner Isolation Causes Near-Riot SALEM (UPI) A ncnr-rlotl by five women prisoners' erupted at the State Penitentiary .Noy.y.lB when, condemned child1 slayer Jeannace June Freeman was placed in isolation after trying to drown out organ music from the prison chapel by blast ing her cell radio at top volume. Warden Clarence Gladden said as a result two tables were smashed, 76 windows were shat tered, bedding in several cells was filled with glass, a wash basin was torn from a cellblock wall, and mirrors, lotion bottles and other personal effects were smashed. , During the cleanup, prison au thoritics found a passionate three - page letter from Miss Freeman to another woman prisoner. The disturbance came to light after George F. Neavoll of Eu gene wrote Warden Gladden charging he had heard Miss Freeman had been placed in isolation "for an undetermined length of time." Neavoll, who last year person ally appealed to Gov. Mark Hat field to commute Miss Free man's death sentence, also called upon the warden to grant Miss Freeman an exercise pe riod. Wife Of N-R Editor Dies In Local Hospital Sunday HAMMOND, Ind. (UPI)-An explosion described as "some thing like an atomic bomb' roared through a huge burning warehouse storing anti-frccze early today. One fireman was killed and 19 persons were in jured. For a time it was feared sev eral firemen might have been caught in the flaming debris but all were accounted for. The firemen were pouring water on the Illiana Transit Warehouse when the predawn explosion blasted the building and collapsed a section of it. The explosion was heard for miles. WNTW HELPER 5AYi FROM UNCIE ART SHOPPING DAY TO CHRISTMAS Frances M. (Fran) Stanton wife of Charles V. Stanton, cdi tor of the News-Review, died early Sunday In a local hospi tal. Her death followed a long period of ill health which In volvcd a cerebral hemorrhage and a double fracture of the hip in recent months. A descendent of a pioneer Douglas County family, M r s. Stanton was a granddaughter of William Churchill who came to Oregon in 1 '51 and was one ol the early settlers In Coles Val ley. She was born April 10 1894, in Victoria, B.C., Canada, where her parents, Frank E. and Corinne C. Alley, both de ceased, were residing tempor arily. Fathir Abttractor She came with her parents to Roseburg when 2 years of age and was graduated from local schools. Her father was one of Itoscburg's first abstractors Her mother was city treasurer for a number of years and later was a deputy in the tax eollec tion department of the Sheriff's office. Mrs. Stanton was a life-long member of the Christian Church ami had devoted much of her time to volunteer work in service of the church. She was particularly active In re ligious work with young people, For a number of years she sponsored and managed a sum mer camp of religious educa tion fur girls at the Boy Scout Camp on Wolf Creek. In later years, she directed the Cradle Roll department of the Rose burg First Christian Church, of which she was a member. She previously had organized a young married couple s group She married Stanton April 7, 1919. Survivors Listed Survivors include her husband who resides at 1627 NE Com mercial Ave.; a sister, Mrs Fred L. Perry of 1616 NE Beau mont; and a nephew, Donald A. Perry, junior high school superintendent at Fresno, Calif. and a niece, Mrs. Sidney C. Moon Jr. of Klamath Falls. Funeral services will be held at the Long and Shukle Mcmor ial Chapel Tuesday at 10 a.m with the Rev. James C. Smith of the First Christian Church officiating. Private cremation will follow at the Rcsthaven Memorial Park in Eugene. The family requests that those desiring to make memorials con sider the Little River Christian Camp or some favored charity devoted to religious or char acter building activities for young people. In Disaster Off Morocco GIBRALTAR (UPI)-Radio reports said rescue ships today picked up about 800 survivors after fire and explosions ripped through the Greek liner Lakonia cruising with 1,036 persons aboard in the Atlantic 500 miles off the Moroccan coast. About 100 persons were feared dead in the disaster. . Three of the passengers aboard were Americans, most of the rest were Britons. A broadcast by the coastal radio station at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands reported this afternoon that ap proximately 900 survivors had been rescued from the relative ly calm Atlantic waters and added that rescue operations were "practically at an end." The U.S. Air Force dispatched rescue planes from the Azores and Germany. An Air Force rescue spokesman at Ramstein, Germany, said one of the U.S. pilots reported sighting "about 100 bodies" in the water. He said the planes reported that all survivors appeared to have been picked up. "Our reports from the scene described the 100 or so bodies lifeless," the Air Force spokesman said. "They said the bodies were in life jackots." The Canary Islands broadcast said the last person to leave the Lakonia was the Greek- kipper of the luxury vessel, M. Zarbis. The ship was ablaze 500 miles off the coast of Mo rocco. - Many ot the survivors were believed injured or suffering from exposure after hours spent in a mercifully calm sea await ing rescue. There was no confirmation from the, BrltlBh,. admiralty or the ship's- owners of the Tene rife radio rescue report. The 20,314-ton luxury liner was carrying 651 passengers and 385. crew members on a Christmas holiday cruise1 from England to the Portuguese is land of Madeira when fire broke out shortly before mid night. The flames spread so quickly that all but a relative handful of those aboard abandoned ship uickly, either by lifeboat or leaping into the water with life jackets. Four small vessels, one of them an American freighter, were the first to reach the scene and plucked hundreds of survivors from the water. Early reports said the rescue ships probably would head for Casablanca, on the Moroccan Atlantic Coast. But the Argen tine shiD Salta. reported to have 300 survivors aboard, reported it was headed for Funchal, Ma deira, 16 hours sailing time away, and it was believed others might steam for the same port. The Funchal Radio said hospi tal beds and other accommoda tions were being prepared for the survivors at that port. Hundreds of those aboard the cruise ship were women and there were at least 32 children under 12 years old. Three Amer icans were among the pas sengers, most of whom were British. The disaster threatened to be the worst in a fire at sea since 1931 when the liner Morro .Castle burned off Asbury Park, N. J taking 125 lives. It also threatened to result in greater loss of life than the collision between the liner Andrea Doria and the liner Stockholm off Nantucket July, 25, 1956. That collision took 51 lives and caused the Andrea Doria to sink, The blaze started amidships and spread later when the ex plosions rocked the 33-year-old liner that had been refitted and reconditioned recently for use in the cruise trade. The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Variable cloudiness and pitch es of fog today through Tuesday with chance of rain Tuesday night. Little ehang In tmpr aturo. Highest ttmp. last 54 hours (0 Lowest ttmp. last 24 hours 40 Hlghoit ttmp. any Dte. (SI) 49 Lowttt ttmp. any Dtc. (42) 14 Prtclp. last 24 hours 0 Normal Dtc. prtclp. S.4f Prtclp. from Dtc. 1 .11 Prtclp. from Sept. 1 .. 10.70 Suratt tonight, 4:42 p.m. Sunrise tmorrow, 7:44 a.m.