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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Subzero cold clutched the
area with autumn still on the
calendar until 3:15 a.m., Saturr
day. The mercury, dived to 27
below lero at Wanakena, N.Y,
the northern Adirondacka,
nd Boonville, N.Y., had a -28
reading. New York City awoke
to a shivering 10 above. -'
A snowstorm trailed a thick
carpet from Kansas; to Virginia,
with a 9-inch fall deepening in
the Shenandoah Valley west of .
Staunton, Va. Depths, ranged
from, two Inches upward from
the plains to the Appalachians.
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
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