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IT EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Friday, Dec. 21, 1962 Page 3A 2nd Juror Replaced At Trial of Hoffa NASHVILLE, Tenn. Wl A second juror was replaced on the James Hoffa trial panel Fri day. The juror said, "An FBI agent told me somebody from Detroit or Louisville was try ing to contact me." However, Gratlin Fields, a 70-year-old retired railroad work- er, denied that he or any mem ber of his family had been con tacted by anybody during the nine weeks the Teamsters Union president has been on trial on conspiracy charges. Fields' replacement on the Jury followed a closed-door ses sion of the trial Thursday after U.S. Congo Role ExplainedbyAdlai UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UV Adlai E. Stevenson declared Friday that the sole objective of the U.S. military mission to the Congo is to strengthen the ef forts of Secretary-General U Thant to carry out his unifica tion plan. The U. S. chief delegate told Congolese Protest I U.S. Action - LEOPOLDVILLE ,the Congo ."Wl Lt. Gen. Louis W. Truman ;and a U.S. military mission ar rived here Friday amid a storm ;of opposition protests in the Leopoldville Parliament. Gen. Truman is here to assess the U.N. Congo Army's needs . for military equipment. But ex treme nationalist Congolese members of Parliament earlier ;in the day accused his mission ;of being the forerunner of an -attempt by the United States -to set up "once again a mill ' tary base in the Congo with the complicity of the United Na tions." " An opposition resolution pre sented in the lower house called on the president of the House ijto write a protest letter to U.N. r Secretary-General U Thant -against Gen. Truman's mission. The House also called unani : mously for release of ex-Deputy Premier Antoine Gizenga within 48 hours. Gizenga, who set up -a Communist-backed secession ist regime in Stanleyville last year, has been held since Feb ruary on the island of Bula ".Bemba in the Congo River. At Harry Ritchie for CHRISTMAS ,' f IA5Ss 1 1 ' Jf i Com In ond th mognificenl ringi wilt, your own yi. Tok j j V VjkliifVV ' ? I IvUMaM mJ-i-B J your pick of beoulitully llyleo engooemenl ono weaamg nngi , : ylfillWll : Ta I . I ' iCWwTKtr 1 I Ll.i. .m. bMuiv. You'll aatea thai FEATURE Diamond ;. i l JEttwl'A iUs nn. noon. No explanation was given in court. Fields was missing as the jury filed in to hear the windup of closing arguments in the lengthy case which was expected to be given to the jury later in the day. At his home, Fields said two FBI agents came to him follow ing the secret session and told him they had an order to dis miss him from the jury. "One of them told me that somebody was trying to contact me from Detroit or Louisville," Fields said. He said he was given no further information. a news conference he knew of no Soviet interference in the Congo and said there were no political implications in the Congo visit of the eight-man U. S. mission. "As to Soviet interference," he said, "as far as I know there isn't any whatever. I hope I am properly informed on that sub ject." Stevenson's remarks were made as Robert K. A. Gardner, the U. N. chief in the Congo, headed back there to push Thant's plans for unification. Gardner, a Ghanaian, followed an eight-man U. S. military mis sion headed by Lt Gen. Louis W. Truman. Truman's group left Andrews Air force Base in Maryland late Thursday for Leopoldville. Truman said he expected to spend five or six days in the Congo studying whether the United States could fill specific requests for military equipment for the U.N. Congo force. He said there were no plans for him to leave anybody in the Congo and no plans for a U.S. military training mission there. He declined to say what kind of military equipment the United Nations had asked of the United States but U.S. Deputy Delegate Charles W. Yost said he doubt ed that the United States would supply fighter planes. 'One informant reported the United Nations had asked for transport planes, helicopters, jeeps and temporary bridges. U.N. Undersecretary Ralph J. Bunche told newsmen Katanga had perhaps 40 planes but could do nothing with them "when we have planes in the air." He said the U.N. force has few fighter planes now but expects to have 16 in mid-January. They will be from Ethiopia, Italy, the Philip pines and Sweden. Mrs. W. M. Johnson of Dick son, mother of seven children and wife of a doctor, moved from the first alternate's seat into the chair vacated by Fields, one of two Negroes on the jury. Second Change This was the second change in two weeks in the U.S. Dis trict Court jury's makeup. After Mrs. James Paschal, a Woodbury housewife, was, re placed last week, she denied published reports that she or any member of her family had been approached by anyone about the trial. That change also followed an unusual secret session of the union leader's million-dollar conspiracy trial. At the start of the trial Oct. 22, four alternate jurors were seated with the regular jurors. One alternate is still left. A third alternate replaced an ill juror at the start of the trial. The latest secret conference was held to consider a motion government attorneys said they wanted taken up in the absence of press and spectators. Hoffa is charged with conspir ing to violate the Tart-Hartley Act by accepting concealed pay offs from Commercial Carriers, Inc., in return for labor peace. 'Peace Insurance' The government contends Commercial Carriers set up and operated Test Fleet Corp. for Hoffa's benefit as insurance against labor difficulties with the Teamsters Union. Half the stock in Test Fleet, formed in 1949, was listed in Mrs. Hoffa's maiden name. The government said this was a de vice to conceal the actual own ership. The prosecution says its evidence shows Hoffa got at least $51,000 in Test Fleet prof its. The two-count indictment car ries with it a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Society Sets Beak Count NEW YORK Wl It's strictly for the birds as 10,000 watchers begin their annual job this weekend of toting up our feath ered friend population in this country and Canada. The National Audubon So ciety reports the 63rd inventory will becompleted in more than 600 communities by Jan. 1. Each group of watchers must be accompanied by at least one ornithologist to aid in identifi cation. The designated watching areas are laid out in a circle 15 miles in diameter. Last year 661 areas were scanned and a total of 37,748, 849 birds of 526 species were recorded by 9,677 watchers. Fliers Safe Three Killed, In Truck Train Collision OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (UPDThe Seaboard Air Line's Silver Star Passenger train smashed into a truck at high speed at a cross ing Thursday night, killing two of the train's crewmen and the truck driver and injuring about 40 other persons. Twenty-two of the more seri ously injured were admitted to the small Okeechobee General Hospital, including the engineer School Loan Requested Bethel school district has ap plied for an interest-free fed eral loan to plan school addi tions needed by 1964 or 1965. Supt. Tom Powers told the school board at its regular meet ing Wednesday that he mailed an application for a $23,300 loan to the Community Facili ties Administration of the Hous ing and Home Finance Agency. The additions anticipated un der the application are three classrooms and an activity room at Fairfield elementary school, four classrooms at Mahlon ele mentary school, 12 classrooms at Shasta Junior High School, eight classrooms plus physical education space and an enlarg- ment of the heating plant at Willamette High School. A rough estimate of the total cost of this construction is $600,000. Powers said the ele mentary additions will be needed by the fall of 1964, and all of the additions by the fall of 1965. (AP Wlrephoto) Capt. James R. Alley, left, and Lt. John R. Loacker, both National Guard fliers from Portland, successfully bailed out Thursday night seconds before their jet fighter plane crashed in a suburban residential area. See Story Page One. 40 Injured of the train, E. D. Emerson. Emerson was burned but thrown clear when his two-section dicsel. locomotive jack knifed, overturned and caught fire as the train derailed about quarter of a mile beyond the crossing where it ploughed through the fully loaded tractor-trailer hauling oranges. Seaboard Air Line headquar ters at Richmond, Va., identi fied the dead crewmen as Wil liam Bell, Tampa, the fireman of the Silver Star and a veteran of more than 25 years with the line, and the baggagemaster, H. O, Slaughter. A funeral home in Fort Pierce, where the bodies of, the dead were taken, identified the truck driver as O. B. Jones, 38, Haines City, Fla., Jones, father of four, had been driving a load of or anges from Bowling Green, Fla., to Fort Pierce at the time, of the accident. The railroad said the Silver Star carried 160 passengers and 22 crewmen. The train, pulling 14 cars, left Miami bound for New York. The train hit the truck shattering the cab of the truck and scattering oranges and debris along the highway. Rights Suspended BRUNEI W Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin suspended the constitution of this British Borneo protectorate Friday as a result of the rebellion which broke out two weeks ago. He also dissolved the legislative as sembly in which the Rakyat party of rebel leader A. M. Az ahari held all 16 elected scats. The party has been outlawed. GIVING llt tnlirno to iliow dtlall Young Adult iT. Accounts Invited jfij Hopes Dim For Settling N.Y.Strike NEW YORK W "Not much progress" was made Friday in efforts to settle New York's 14 day newspaper strike. A federal mediator made the statement after a morning of separate sessions with both sides. He said earlier he would recommend an indefinite recess if Friday's meeting failed to pro duce a change in attitude by the two sides.- . ' . . . "I've seen no results which merit continued meetings," mediator Stephen I. Schlossberg said at the end of Thursday's session. He accused both the striking AFL-CIO International Typo graphical Union Local 6 and the Publishers Assn. of New York, which represents the nine met ropolitan papers blacked out in the dispute, with failing to bar gain seriously. Earlier Recess Schlossberg noted both sides had expressed concern because the strike had deprived New Yorkers of the BVt million pa pers they normally buy each day. I suggest that the proper way to display this interest and concern is at the bargaining table, he said. Talks were recessed by fed eral mediators once before from Dec. 12 to 18. Faced with the prospect of another long recess, Local 6 President Bert ram A. Powers said: "I hope they are not giving up hope. We haven't," Amory H. Bradford, general manager of the struck New York Times and chief negotia tor for the publishers, said the publishers had tried without success to get the union to mod ify their proposals.. Strike Endorsed The Central Labor Council, made up of the city's AFL-CIO unions, endorsed the printers strike at a nighttime meeting and voted a mass demonstration in their behalf. Powers, appearing at the meeting, said the ITU struck only against four of the nine dailies and that the other five suspended publication volun tarily. He placed the blame-for the newspaper blackout on the publishers. Nearly 20,000 employes have been idled. Christmas, 5 " ;: ,. . . .3 CACTUS n n iK With lots of blooms. A 249 ONLY ... MftMtMtMlkMtllMlMlfcM Cm FOR I . BULB SALE Continues f Tulips, Hyacinths, Daffo dils, Crocus. Good Selec Hon still available. - w ' I PHILODENDRONS SUNSET GARDEN BOOKS Everything for garden 'C njtln. Larle selection books for home and garde If in doubt give a GIFT CERTIFICATE eGRAY'S Fog Grips California Winter Puts Icing Ori Eastern Areas Br ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter skidded across the na tion's eastern half ahead of time Friday with brittle cold, snow, and widespread " icing which made driving conditions miserable in many sections. ' Mona Awakes With Smile For Newsmen WASHINGTON (UPl The 456- year-old Mona Lisa suffered no ill effects on her trip from France to the National Gallery of art, experts said Friday. ' Leonardo da Vinci s master piece was removed from Its traveling case and showed to a group of newsmen at the gal lery. My inspection of it shows that it survived the crossing perfectly," said John Walker, director of the National Gallery. Jean Chateleine, French di rector of museums, reported, "there was no difficulty during the trip. Everything went well." The Mona Lisa, approximate ly 30 inches high and 20 inches wide, is painted on a single panel of Italian poplar wood. Because of this it is particularly sensitive to changes in humid ity. French critics of the decision to send the Mona Lisa to the United States had been worried that the trip might damage the painting. But there was no evidence of this Friday. Newsmen and pho tographers who were taken to the vault found the lady smiling mysteriously as ever. It is mounted on its golden oak frame from the Renaissance period. There is a red velvet background placed on a wood en board which is sitting be tween two steel poles in the vault. In the Louvre, the Mona Lisa rests between two marble col umns. The painting will remain in the vault until Jan. 8, when it will be shown to a glittering first night audience that will include President and Mrs. Ken nedy. The public will see the painting starting Jan. B." 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Sleet and freezing rain iced roads and highways across the central Mississippi .Valley and In. the Ohio Valley. .The slip pery coatings caused hundreds of accidents, some of them fatal. Only efforts of sanding crews kept traffic moving in such hilly cities as Cincinnati, Ohio, where a two-inch snow Thursday was followed by sleet and freezing rain, with more snow expected. Up to a foot of snow was re ported in some mountainous West Virginia sections, and chains were a must for hilly roads. "7 With snow continuing and heavy accumulations forecast for most of the Ohio Valley and Middle Atlantic states, schools closed in some Maryland and Virginia localities. '' The cold plunged much of New York state and virtually all of Maine below, the zero mark. Syracuse, N.Y., had -7 degrees and Albany -3. In Montpelicr and Newport, Vt., the low was -19. St. Johnsbury, Vt., had -17, Lebanon, N.H., -14, Greenville, Maine, -11. It was 3 above in Boston.' There was light snow In the Great Lakes region and in the Northern Plains. And in the far Northwest, rainy weather dampened coastal Washington. Honolulu, Hawaii, residents shivered Thursday in the lowest temperature on record. The mer cury fell to 54, one degree low er than the previous recora set in March; 1955, and' February, 1961. ' A 11000 foot layer of fog re turned to central California on Thursday night for the second night in a tow. Thousands ot holiday travelers were stranded at the San Francisco Airport and three traffic deaths were blamed on the fog, a tip.. Plant now perfect for gifts, 045 Yellow t. 5 173 Pink j ea. ' 395 I5 V ft" J95 ! ... Tree ... PEONIES 8 TSTUTNVC A ir RHODYS Well budded plants In gallon canst it s 9S ONLY P.M. as F H " i.mi.ni.n i f r : w ll,wyl'iZ JF7?K 4441 Main Street. Springfield r ; ft m-w i m w . i ' 737 West' 6th, Eugene .', I? It ... . ' DI 5-1569 ' . W 7-2301 ; ;-. Dt 3-1606 856 Willamert li
