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Li brary Beavers Picked . OSU't Beaver, rated seventh in the nation, ere favored to win their eighth consecutive Far West Classic crown. For details sea Sports page. Space Park Lease Boeing firm activates lease on Boardman land. See page 2. Established 1873 28 'ages ROSEBURG. OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1963 303-63 10c Per Copy U. S., Britain In Appeal To Bring Tense Situation Under Control In Nicosia LB J Seeks Cuts East Berlin In Federal Jobs Guards Slay Teen-Ager JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) President Johnson bad break fast in bis ranch house kitchen before sun-up today and went deer hunting. With him was his old friend and political adviser, former Tennessee Gov. Buford Elling ton. Clad in khaki slacks, shirt and zippered jacket, with broad-brimmed Texas hat and boots, the President and Elling ton left the. LB J Ranch by heli copter, for the neighboring ranch of A. W. Moursund. They had their choice of hunting grounds on the Moursund ranch on three pieces of ranch land Johnson owns. Two business problems await ed his return. He was keeping in close touch with the State Department about the explosive situation in Cyprus and he had under constant study adminis tratlve moves to hold the 1965 budget to the lowest possible level. As part of this, Johnson on Wednesday ordered depart ment and agency heads to eliminate unnecessary federal jobs. 12 Children Die In Early Yuletide Fire CHARLESTON, S.C. (UP1)- Twelve sleeping, chudren never awoke Wednesday to receive the Santa Claus surprises ar ranged for them. A portable oil heater tipped over by their parents as they put gifts under the Christinas tree spewed flames throughout the wooden tenement where th,e children slept, killing them as thev lav in their beds. The children, ranging in age from 20 years to two months, were all brothers, sisters-and cousins. They were asleep in one room on the upper floor of the two-story structure in a slum section of this old city at the time of the nre-dawn fire. Fire department officials said the fire apparently started when cither Walter Johnson, 51 or his wife. MarV Lee, 47, at tempted to move the portable heater and it tipped over. Flaming liquid spread tliniiehout the structure. Bodies of the children were found in bed five on a studio couch, two on a single bed, three on a folding cot and two more on a pallet on the floor. An electric train stood on its track in the burned-out shell of the home and charred dolls and trucks were strewn among the debris. . Johnson was critically burned ,in the blaze. His wife was the only other person to escape She was not injured. The victims were: .Mildred Wilson, 20, Lelia Wilson. 19. Thomasina Wilson 17, Irene Wilson, 13, Benjamin Johnson. 12, Anctte Johnson 11. Ravmond Johnson, 10, Al thamedes Johnson, 6, Zoraid Johnson, 2 months, Jerome Wil son. 4, Jacquatta Wilson, months, and Anthony Wilson, months. Johnson expected to confer tonight or Friday at his LBJ ranch with John A. McConc, di rector of the Central Intelli gence Agency (CIA). Rusk, Bundy Out Secretary of State Dean Rusk and McGeorge Budy, special assistant to the President for national security affairs, were due sometime Friday to pre pare for the Saturday and Sun day talks here between the President and West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard A group of White House staff! members also was expected to arrive today from Washington to work on a series of messages Johnson will send to Congress next month. One of the more important of these messages will be the new budget. Action taken by the President Wednesday may have an important long-range effect on fiscal planning of the administration. The Chief Executive, in a memorandum rushed to depart ment and agency heads, called for an immediate halt in the growth of federal employment. This had the practical effect oil a job freeze. Similar Moves Expected The President announced his action personally to a group of reporters who called at his ranch Christmas afternoon. The President indicated privately to associates that there will be other similar economy moves between now and when Con gress reconvenes Jan. 7. His memorandum urged de partment and agency heads to set up new targets for function-! ing with fewer employes. Tippitt's Widow HUrt In Mishap PARIS. Tex. (UPI) Mrs J. D. Tippitt, whose husband was killed by President Ken ncdy's accused assassin, was in jured Wednesday . during i Christinas trip to visit her hus band's family. She received a small cut and a bruise on her head when the car she was driving collided with another car as she was turninc into a service station Police Sat. Steve Dockery said Mrs. Tinuitt required a stitch for her head wound, but that her three children were not hurt in the accident. The driver of the other car. 22-year-old Delbert Miller of Par s, was uninjureQ in me wreck. Mrs. Tippitt and her children were driving to Clarksville, lex to visit the Edgar Tippits, her slain husband's parents. Dockery said about $400 dam age was done to the Tippit car and that S50 damage was done to the Miller vehicle. He said Mrs. Tippitt's father - in - law drove from Clarksville and took the family to his home. Dockery said the accident was still un der investigation. Many Visit Grave WASHINGTON (UPI) - An estimated 15,000 persons visited the Brave of President John r. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery on Christmas uay. Christmas Eve Fire Hits Sutherlin Family's Home A Sutherlin familv now in The home destroyed-a large. Canada for the holidays is in two-story older structure-was i . i Kmmin,t it r. inrated on E. 6th Ave. on a iur a du iiuiiii.wi.i.b .... - . BERLIN (UPI) More than 50,000 West Berliners crossed the Communist wall into East Berlin lor uinsimas vishs 10 day, many of them angered and saddened by the killing Wednesday of an East German teen-ager who tried to flee to the West. The wall was opened for the visitors because they had Christinas passes issued by the Communists. Border guards waved them through politely and speedily on the second day of the holiday. But one of those guards Wednesday shot and fatally wounded 18-year-old Paul Schultz, who apparently tried tu take advantage of the mass border crossings to escape. A companion, also 18, made it to the West safely. "This has spoiled every thing," v a young West Berlin mother said as she crossed the wall today. "I will not be able to bear looking at the Commu nist guards as I pass through They are murderers." It could have been one ot my sons, an old iaay saia. They arc over there and want to get out, too." The Western Allies con demned the killing. "The inci dent speaks for itself," a U.S. ipokesman said. A Western dip lomat said the murder should erase the impression that the passes represent a humanitar ian move on the part of the Communists. It was the first known death since the Communist wall was opened to Christmas visits a week ago under an agreement providing West Berliners with one-day passes to see their fcasti Berlin relatives. The Commu nists made no provisions for East Germans to go to the West, because they would have no way of making them return. Waiter Disappointed So much for that agree ment. We never should have signed it," West Berlin waiter Hermann Guess said after learning of the youth's death. The Christmas Day shots have shocked us all," Deputy .Mayor Hcinrich Alberlz said. The narrow passage for hu manity which has been recent ly opened has grown narrower again," he added. In Moscow, Pravda, the bo-i vietr Communist Party news paper, praised the visiting agreement today but made no mention of the shooting. Says Start Made A good start has been made," it said. "People see a great deal can 'be achieved through negotiations." . Schultz, the 8tli escapee killed on the wall since the Communists built It in August, 1961, died Wednesday night in a West Berlin hospital as thous ands of West Berliners were streaming back from their first Christmas visits since 1960 in the East sector. Today, the Communist border guards smiled and chatted with West Berliners entering their territory. Wednesday, only a few hundred yards from one of the . five open crossing points, other guards machincgunncd Schultz as he climbed the wall with his companion. PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON gathered his family at the LBJ Ranch at Johnson City, Tex.; for Christmas Day and assembled them for this photograph. Seated in front are his youngest daughter, Lucy Baines, 16, Mrs. Johnson, President Johnson and daughter Lynda Bird, 19. Among more than a score of relatives is Johnson's only brother, Sam Houston Johnson, standing with cane behind Lucy. (UPI Telephoto) Holiday Road Mishaps Snuff Lives Of 226 Ex-Colonel Stands Trial For Attempt Against De Gaulle By United Press International Traffic accidents killed a to tal of 226 persons across the na tion during the 30-hour Christ mas holiday, final tabulations showed today. The toll was far below the record of 253 for a one-day Christmas holiday set in 19-16. But the National Safety Council said the death rate jumped 220' per cent from the normal dur ing the period irom 6 p.m Tuesday until Christmas mid nifiht. . The United Press Internalion al tabulatiori, adopted by the safety council as official fori this holiday, showed a total of 288 holiday fatalities from var ious causes. The breakdown: Traffic - 2261 Fires 35 Planes 7 Miscellaneous 20 Total 288 Fires ranked as a major cause of holiday tragedy. The victims included 16 children and teen-agers. California, with 33 fatalities, had the nation's worst record of automotive deaths over the hol iday. Texas followed with 16 and there were 14 in Kansas, u in Michigan, and 12 in both Florida and North Carolina. Eiaht slates escaped traffic deaths over the holiday. They were Alaska, Colorado, Dela ware. Hawaii. Idaho, Minneso ta, Now Hampshire and North Dakota. The Nntional Safely Council predicted that between 200 and 250 persons would die between 6 D.m. local time Christmas Eve and Christmas midnigiu in the first 30-hour Christmas hob. dav since 1957. The Safely Council also said 11.000 to 13,000 would receive iniuries disabling beyond the dav of the accident. The num bers for a 30-hour non-noiiuay period at this time of year would be 85 deaths and 5,000 injuries. PARIS (UPI) Former Col, Antoinc Argoud, his face a tight lipped mask of defiance, sat stubbornly silent refusing to an swer his judges today when he appeared before the state secu rity court on charges of treason and plotting to overthrow Presi dent Charles de Gaulle. Argoud, 49, a former crack tank brigade commander, is al leged to have been chief of the terrorist Secret Army Organiza tion (OAS). ,Ui metropolitan FrancorThe OAS tried by ter rorism and violence to over throw De Gaulle and preveat Algeria from becoming Inde pendent. Accused, kindly stale your namo and dale of birth," asked court president Andre De Chez- el lea. His hands thrust into his grey overcoat pocket, Argoud said nothing. Accused, stand up, ordered De Chezellcs. Argoud scratched his head, looked around the court but did not budge. NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPD- Turkish Cypriot civilians at tacked Greek Cypriot civilians in Nicosia for four hours today, breaking a cease fire agreement. The situation remained tense as the British army took com mand of Greek and Turkish military forces stationed in Cyprus under terms of the agreement under which Cyprus won independence three years ago. The United States and Britain joined in appeals to bring the situation under control, and the British disclosed they were fly ing in troop reinforcements from their strategic reserve in England. A government statement said the Turkish civilians opened fire on the' Greeks this morn ing, using heavy weapons. But the government said the Greeks respected the truce reached at :30 Wednesday night and did not return the fire. There was no indication that the detachments of Greek and Turkish regular army units sta tioned on this island by treaty v.ero in any way Involved in this mornings shooting flare up. Unconfirmed reports said that since fighting began Saturday an estimated 200 persons have been killed or wounded. Offi cial figures report 17 killed and 50 wounded. (In London, the Cyprus Turk ish Association said it had re ceived reports from Turkey tluit 60 Turkish Cyprtols had been killed and that the Turkish fleet was "awaiting orders" atl ports on the south coast Iqbb1 inary hearings he maintained a stubborn silenco refusing to an swer any questions Originally, he had planned to refuse to attend the trial. But under Article 411 of the French penal code this would have barred his lawyers from repre senting him and they talked' him into coming. I I . . A . J Argoud already has been soil' Diihu C AllArnfaU tenced to death In his absenco Wf ""I suit of a Christmas Eve lire which completely destroyed their home. The vacationing family is that of Mr. and Mrs. Willis" E.- Whccland and their children, reportedly eight of them, who at latest reports had not been reached with word of the blaze The Weather AIRPORT RECORDS Cloudy with occasional rain today, tonight and Friday, lit tie temperature change. Hiohett temp. It 14 hours $1 Lewest temp, last 14 hours 3 Hioheit temp, any Dec. (51) Loweil temp, any De. (41) H Preeip. last 14 hours Normal Dee. preeip. 5.M Precip. from Dee. 1 1.11 Precis, from Seot, 1 10.$ Sunset tonight, 4:44 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:45 a.m. hill which cut off view of the house from neighbors living on lower levels nearby. The fire was first sighted about 6 p.m. bv a resident located on a simi lar rise on the other side of the city. The Sutherlin Volunteer Fire Department responaea 10 the fire call but the fire was re portedly too far advanced to be contained. According w airs. William Blakcley, correspond ent. the house burned to the ground. Investigation into the cause of the fire began Christ mas day and is continuing, Mrs. Blakeley said. Because of the somewhat se cluded location of the residence neighbors were unaware of the exact date the Wheeland fam ily left on the Chrstmas vaci lion and the date set for their return is likewise unknown. Ef forts to locate the family had not been successful up to mid morning today. Chou En-lai Ends Visit To Algeria ALGIERS (UPD Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai wound up his six-day visit tn Algeria today with a final round of Dolitical talks aimed at bringing closer ties between Pe king and the government of President Ahmed Ben Bella. Chou, apparently ignoring Arab quarrels which have split Morocco from Algeria and the U.A.R., planned to fly to Rabat Friday on the :icxt stop ot his African tour. The probable results of his visit here will be an increase in Sino-Algerian trade. Chou has visited Algerian industrial and agricultural complexes, includ ing the Berliet truck factory and a petroleum and chemical plant near Oran." Unconfirmed reports said a deal for Chinese purchase of Algerian wines and Algerian made trucks was being consid ered. Yule Day Mishaps Claim Two Lives By United Press International Two persons lost (heir lives in traffic accidents in Oregon on Christmas Day. Gilbert Toll, 50 Redmond, wa killed when his truck ripped through a guard rail on the North Santiam Highway and went into the Big Cliff Dam re servoir about 10 miles west o! Detroit Wednesday afternoon. The body of Toll, a rancher, was recovered from the cab o( the truck. Luther McGuire, 53, Madras, died when his car went off a curve on a private road at the Round Butte Dam near Madras early Wednesday. McGuire was thrown from the car. He was employed oy tnc Utah Construction Co., which is the prime contractor for the Round Butte hydroelectric pro) ect. 'Questions Lawyers Dcfcnst attorneys," Del Chezelles continued, turning to ward Argoud's three lawyers, lo your knowledge is the ac cused here present Antoine Ar-coud?" Yes. answered chief de fense counsel Jean-Louis Tixicr Vignancour. What is his address?" the judge continued. Al the moment it is al ftiu nich." Tixicr - Vignancour's remark touched off a otir around court It marked the opening gambit in a defense battle to prove Ar goud allegedly was kidnaped it legally in the south German city and that the French court is in competent to try him. Ten months ago lo the day Argoud was found bound and gagged in a small truck near the Palais de Justice in the heart of Paris. He claimed subsequently he was kidnaped In a Munich ho tel by French Mcrct agents, bound and gagged and driven across the border into 'France in violation of international law and dumped outside the Palais de Justice here to be found by regular French police. Argoud was clapped into gloomy Frcsncs jail on the southern outskirts of Paris to await trial. Trhoughout prelim by, a military high tribunal on charges of plotting, against the. state. After the opening brush be tween Argoud and the judges, the court heard the clork read the charges in a high monotone. This took nearly an hour. - Among the charges were that ho took part in the April, 1961 'generals' revolt" in Algiers and that after he escaped In February, 1962, from Hie Ca nary Islands, where ho was ex iled by Spanish authorities he plotted against the state seen- ity as OAS boss for metropoli tan France. The defense announced It has cited some 30 witnesses, includ ing Premier Georges Pompidou, Interior Minister Roger Frcy and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murvillc. But all three sent letters saying they can not attend. Congress Sets Brief Session WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate and House, their Christ mas holiday marred by the for eign aid bill ticiip, will hold brief sessions Friday. But it's only for the record and no bus! ness will be transacted. The "pro forma ' meetings arc necessary lo conform Willi legal requirements. Only a very few members from each house are expected to be on hand. For all practical purposes, (he House has shut up shop for the year and members won't return until Jan. 7 when the second session of the 88th Con aress convenes. But the Senate plans lo meet Monday to take final action on the foreign aid money bill if a cniorum of 50 members can be rounded up. After passage of the aid measure, Congress will adjourn. lauds Prosecutor DALLAS (UPD A. defense attorney said today chief de fense counsel Meivin Belli of San Francisco found District Attorney Henry Wade and his staff "good, linrd-flghting law yers" during jbck Kuoys oan bond hearing Monday. Dallas attorney Tom Howard, who was among the first to come to the defense of the kill cr of Lee Harvey Oswald, said he had no criticisp. of Belli. Ho described the famed California trial specialist as "a fine law yer." The Dnllas Morning wows quoted Howard as saying Wade's handling of the bond hearing was "quite a shock" to Belli. The hearing ended with a recess until Jan. 10. Ruby was returned to jail. In an interview with news re porter Larry Dum, Howard was quoted as saying, "I think the big-city lawyer from out-oi-smic found out that Texas district at torneys can hold their own In a courtroom." Howard denied the statements in the interview. Ho said he did not criticize Belli "in any way." Wc are in complete agree ment on the way the case is being handled," Howard said Ho said he stated only Hint Mr. Belli said tho district at- trrncy and his staff were good, hard-fighting lawyers." Howard was retained byl Ruby a short time after Lee Harvey Oswald, accused presi dential assassin, was gunned down in the basement of city hall. Belli, a spectacular plaintiff s attorney from San Francisco was later named chief defense counsel. He headed a six-man team, but now tlio defense law yers have been reduced to four, Belli failed Monday to get Ruby released on bond for the holidays. than 100 miles from Cyprus.) When Cyprus was granted in dependence, Britain retained o big bases here as sovereign territory. Turkey also was al lowed to station 650 regular army soldiers here, and Greece t -r n-n r .i... forces is at full strength, but Britain, Turkey and Greece are bound bv treatv tn ffuarantee uie I'uusmuuun oi Cyprus. When Greek Orthodox Arch- shop Makarlos proposed cer tain changes in the constitu tion, the current outbreak of vl- lence followed. The Turkish priots, who are vastly out numbered by the .Greek Cyp- riots, felt their constitutional guarantees would be weakened the changes. D.I.I.U -r-l... r . I ,miii I ins .VH1IIIU Folbwing an emergency meeting Wednesday, it was agreed the British would take command of its own and the oek and Turkish regular for ces here. The British then decided to in 150 men of the Foresters infantry regiment from E n g land "as part of the general onlingoncy plan" and to guard installations on this is land. As the British acted and the new fighting erupted, U.S. Am bassador Fraser Wilkins deliv ered a personal message from President Johnson to Makarios. Us contents wore not disclosed. At the same time, British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Clark and Greek Ambassador MUtiades Dclivanis drove under armed military escort to the Turkish quarter of Nicosia tu discuss cease-fire terms with Turkish Ambassador Mazhar Ozkol. , Enforce Coase-FIre British armored cars were or dered. Into position - between1 Greek and Turkish Cypriot po sitions to enforce the cease-fire. (Ankara Radio charged that Greek Cypriots clashed with Turks In a suburb of Nicosia and that women and children were among those killed.) The island's Greek majority and Turkish minority are fight ing over proposed constitutional amendments ine juries say win endanger their standing. The clashes on the three-year- old island republic had these in ternational repercussions: In Paris, NATO officials said the NATO permanent coun cil met secretly yesterday to study the crisis. NATO sources said partly as a result of this session, the plan to place ureeK and Turkish forces on the lsiana under British command was de veloped. In London, the Foreign Of fice announced - the command agreement and urged that the combined forces be used to pre serve the truce. In the United States, Presi dent Johnson was keeping in close touch with Secretary oi State Dean Rusk over the crisis. Confront Each Other Wednesdav night. Greek and Turkish forces stationed on the island under the 1960 indepen d e n c e agreement confronted each other on the streets ol tne capital. There were no reports of firing between them, and a government spokesman denica a report that police wok ami Turkish Cypriots hostage. Cvorus' population is W) per cent Greek and 20 per cent Turkish. Britain is involved be cause the island's government, headed by Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios as presi dent, is a British Common wealth member. Britain also re tains bases here. Turkey, only about 50 mile from the island, sent two fight er planes over Nicosia Wednes day as a warning. Duncan Asks Hearing On VA Property Transfer U. S. Rep. Robert B. Duncan reports his legislation to trans fer certain properly from the Veterans Administration Hospi tal to the city of Uoseburg has moved another step forward Duncan said Rep. William L. Dawson, chairman of the House Government Operations Commit tee, has referred his bill (II. It. 5185) to the Government Activi ties Subcommittee. 'I have contacted the sub committee chairman, Congress man Jack Brooks, and asked that hearings be held at the earliest possible date," Duncan said in a news release from Washington D. C. "All federal agency reports are in on the transfer and the city of Roseburg has agreed to the terms suggested by the vet erans Administration. There is nothing left now to hold up speedy consideration of the hill." Duncan added. The bill would provide for gratuitous return of a portion of land originally donated by the city for construction of a VA hospital. Duncan noted that any legislation which included a gratuitous provision always received a certain amount of opposition, but he felt in this case it wouldn't affect passage of the bill. There are two principal seg ments of property involved in the transfer. One segment is lo cated generally along the north bank of the South Umpqua Iliv er between U. S. Highway 99 and Stewart Park. The other is located generally between the south bank of the South Imp qua from the Fir Grove School to the Veterans Cemetery, ex eluding the Army and Navy fa cllitics. City's Part Noted The city has agreed to creel a chain link fence along the property, to relocate portion of the golf ourse In the area, to provide the necessary materi als for the relocation or t n e hospital's greenhouse and horti culture clinic, and to furmsn wa ter for irrigating the veterans nnmnlarV. Duncan pointed out tnat tne companion bill (S.1203) sponsor ed by Sens. Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger fs currently before the Senate Government Operations Committee. "I am advised tnat action is expected on their bill early next session. I certainly hope my bill will be reported by the House committee quickly and that this transaction can be effected soon," he added.