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. Page 2A . EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Monday, Jan. 14, 1963 . Military Coup Togo Leader r Assassinated LOME, Togo UTtA struggle for leadership of this tiny West . African country appeared to be developing Monday in the wake of a sergeants' revolt and the assassination of President Sylvanus Olympio. ,. Two men emerged as possible heads of a new government -former Premier Nicolas Gmnitsky, 49, and Idrissou Antoine Meatchi, 27, a former opposition leader in the Togo Assembly. A military revoltuionary committee that engineered the Sun day coup reportedly appealed to Grunitsky, a brother-in-law of the slain president 10 return U.N. to Press For Surrender Of Kolwezi ." ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga UT The United Nations pre pared Monday to send a special emissary to Kolwezi to demand . that President Moise Tshombe "surrender his stronghold or face U.N. attack. ' Diplomatic Informants said they believed the Katanga pres ident was rallying his followers for a last-ditch stand to try to hold what remained of his seces sionist domain. - The emissary was to warn Tshombe that if he did not peacefully surrended Kolwezi center of Katanga's mining industry the United Nations would fly In a Gurka battalion to take it by force. To Be Warned . Tshombe also was to get no tice that if his followers carried out threats to blow up the min ing installations and electric power dam in the area, he might be sent to Leopoldvllle for trial by the central Congo government as a war criminal and saboteur. Last reports said a U.N. ground force had advanced from Jadotville to within 90 miles of Kolwezi. - Sources at U.N. headquar ters in New York reported that Indian U.N. troops have taken over Shinkolobwe, once Katan ga's biggest military base, IS miles southwest of Jadotville unci about 00 miles southeast of JColwczi. ; Tho baso, which once accom modated z.uuu to 3,ouu men, was reported almost deserted. -Tho sources said "enormous 'quantities of arms and ammu nition" were found. ' ;.' -Ball Service Restored -: Rail service was reported ro "stored between Elisabcthvllle nd Mokambo near tho border jof Northern Rhodesia, and trains began moving over it Sunday with badly needed food supplies from Rhodesia to the Katanga capital. Tho United Nations occupied Mokambo Thursday after Tsh ombe drove ahead of advancing U.N. troops calling on his tat tered forces not to resist. The United Nations went on Satur day to Sakania on the Rhodcsian border. ; Tshombe slipped back into Kolwezi Saturday night after a one-day visit to Northern Rho desia. Some sources believed ho had returned to try to dissuade diehard members of his Cabi net from dynamiting tho city. Others felt that Tshombo was convinced a unified Congo would doom any political future he might have and was deter mined to make a final stand. A.W.Lafferty Leaves Oregon : PORTLAND ftlTI) A. W. Laf ferty, former U. S. Representa tive from Oregon and Portland attorney, has returned to his na tive Missouri. : Tho 87-year-old Lntferty, fa mous for filing tho first settler suit in tho Oregon and Califor nia Land Grant cases, has be come a resident of Middleton, Mo., in the congressional dis trict where ho was born. : lie practiced law In Middleton from 1896 until he moved to Oregon in 1905. Lafferty represented Orceon In the U. S. House of Represen tatives from 1911-1915. several years ago he won a federal court suit which resulted In distributing some $7 million Of Impounded 0 and C funds to 18 counties. from exile in neighboring Daho mey to form a government. Rumors spread that Meatchi was already back in Lome from exile in Ghana, which also bor ders Togo. He had been accused by the Olympio government of aiding exiled political conspira tors. Meatchi, a French -educated Moslem and former civil serv ant, had been arrested in 1960 for conspiracy. He went to Ghana after his release in mid 1961. Only Casualty Gunned down on the street outside the U. S. Embassy early Sunday, Olympio apparently was tho only casualty of the fast- paced revolt. Gunfire was heard in the streets around 2 a.m. Tho 60-year-old president's bul let-riddled body was lound out side the unlocked embassy gate at dawn. Tho body was taken into the embassy. Later Olympio's fam ily removed it. Most of the other members of his government were arrested. They were reported unharmed and held at a military camp out side Lome. Olympio visited the United States on an aid-seeking mission last March and President Ken nedy praised him as "an excep tional figure on the world scene." The London-educated Olympio was the only African head of state with a command of both English and French, and he also knew some German. His languago skills earned him an influential position in African councils. 1(4 Million People Togo, a country of IV million people, is about the size of West Virginia. It was a French U.N. protectorate when it gained in dependence in 1960. Before World War 1 it was a German colony. The main opposition to Olym pio's government consisted of the Progress party and tho al lied Juvento movement, two groups accused of plotting against the regime with aid from Ghana. President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana has been the target of several bomb plots and his gov ernment had accused Togo of harboring Ghanaian conspira tors. The Dahomey government, concerned over the Olympio as sassination, sent its foreign and finance ministers to Accra to appeal to Nkrumah not to in terveno in Togo. Hands Off Policy Nkrumah reportedly promised tho ministerial misson that he would not interfere "in any wa; in tho Toco interior conflict, according to a statement issued in Cotonou, Dahomey s capital. In Washington, the White House issued a statement that tho United States government was profoundly shocked by news of tho assassination ... of one of Africa's most distinguished leaders." Tho British government ex pressed "great dismay" at the assassination of Olympio. It called him "singularly well equipped to help bridge the gap between the English and French speaking countries of West Africa. Vi VOLTA . . Ouofieltsi ivomy I ' A coast GHANA . I TOGOI I Kvmtl f erte J 1 I Nw" I cCjji acq jjiriT ' lrcgjy (Mr 0ulMe ' n I wmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmamnaamammammmmmm i Coup Staged SAVE ON JANUARY CLEARANCE VALUES mBSS 61 E. Broadway, Eugene 442 Main, Springfield 1st & Ash, Oakridge (AP Wlrepholo) Map locates the west African country of Togo where President Sylvanus Olympio was shot to death Sunday in an apparently successful coup d'etat. He was killed in the street outside the U.S. embassy building in Lome. From Radio Chain Hearing Sen. Dodd Denies Maurine 'Barred' WASHINGTON W Sen Mau rine B. Neuberger, D-Ore., said Sunday she was denied admit tance to a Senate subcommittee inquiry last Thursday into the Pacifica Foundation's radio chain. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D- Conn., denied she had been bar red, and Sen. Neuberger agreed that the word "barred" might be too strong. An aide said the issue was closed. Utility Requests Bond Issue Okay SALEM 11 Portland Gen eral Electric Co. has submitted an application to the stato Pub lic Utility Commissioners for approval of a $15 million bond refunding issue. Tho commissioner said PGEs application stipulates tho $15 million in first mortgage bonds, drawing 4 per cent interest would bo sold privately to insti tutional purchasers. Tho pro ceeds would bo used to redeem an equal amount of bonds is sued in 1957 at 5Vi per cent, the company said. Deep Freeze Grips Nation; Crops in Peril By ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter's icy blasts enveloped the major part of the nation Monday. No immediate break in tho severe cold weather was in dicated. The effects of the frigid weather and snow, which swept into the Rockies last weekend and snowballed across most of the country by the weekend, were widespread. Deaths blamed on the wintry weather exposure, fires and traffic accidents on ice and snow-covered highways passed the 40 mark. Property damage, including heavy loss by a rash of fires, mounted into the millions of dollars. Tho unseasonable cold in Southern Texas, Southern Cali fornia and Arizona threatened damago to citrus and vegetable crops. Farmers started their smudgo pots. Wide areas felt the sting of the frigid weather which incon venienced millions and brought misery to thousands. Stiff winds added to the discomfort The Weather Bureau in Chi cago said that only a few parts of tho nation wcro not hit by freezing or lower temperatures, Included were areas of the Caro lina southward through south eastern Georgia and most of Florida. Also abovo feezing, but not much higher than 32 degrees, were areas near the Pacific Coast from Oregon south ward through western Califor nia. Tho below-zero zone extended from the upper Great Lakes through the northern plains into tho northern Rockies. Tempera turcs plunged to nearly 60 be low in Montana over the week end. ' A howling snowstorm off Lake Erio battered sections of western New York. Tho wind blown snow pounded Erio Coun ty and to a lesser degrees, Ni agara and Orleans counties to the north. The storm dumped six inches of snow on Buffalo and up to a foot in rural areas. Airlift of Refugees Comes to End 89 Flown From Cuba to Florida MIAMI, Fla. to The aerial exodus of refugees from Fidel Castro's Cuba has halted, fol lowing an airlift of 89 Cubans and Cuban-Americans to Miami Sunday. At present there are no plans for resuming it. Red Cross officials announced there will be no more flights carrying ransom supplies to Cuba. Pan American World Airways, which suspended its twice-daily Miami - Havana flights at the onset of the Cu ban crisis last October, is not anxious to resume the unprofit able service. The Pan Am DC6B that made Sunday's refugee flight had tak en 15,000 pounds of medicines to Cuba as another installment on the $53-million ransom guar anteed Castro for release of the 1,113 Bay of Pigs invasion pris oners. The American Red Cross said Dodd said, "Nobody was bar red from the hearing. I can tell you that. There was no bar ring." Dodd is vice chairman of the Senate internal security sub committee that handled the in vestigation. He said the first he had heard of a newspaper story on the incident Involving Sen. Neuberger was when he was questioned about it Sunday. Dodd's subcommittee says it has been trying to determine whether Communists are at tempting to infiltrate Pacifica's three-station radio chain. An aide in the Neuberger of fice gave this version of what took place: "Sen. Neuberger went to the subcommittee room to talk to Dr. Peter Odegard, one of the Pacifica Foundation's directors and a personal friend." After talking to Odegard out side she asked if she could go in and hear him testify. She was told by a subcommittee staff member that the subcommittee was in executive session. Her aide said, "She took it (the remark) at face value and left." , Normally a member of Con gress is allowed to attend such closed hearings. Although there appears to be no hard, fast rule a non-member of a committee usually arranges attendance in advance. Pacifica operates Stations KPFA in Berkeley, Calif.; KPFK in Los Angeles and WBAI in New York City. The foundation says operations arc listener-supported by membership fees and broadcast all shades of opin ion on public affairs, including that of Communists on tho left and John Birch Society mem bers on the right. Odegard, a former president of Reed College in Portland, told the subcommittee the foun dation shares its dislike of com munism. The subcommittee held only a one-day hearing but has said it will call more witnesses at some future date. French Chief Turns Down Polaris Plan PARIS W President Charles de Gaulle said Monday France cannot join the British-American agreement made at Nassau establishing a multi-national Po laris missile force. De Gaulle, speaking to his first news conference since last May, responded to a question on whether France might accept President Kennedy's offer of Polaris missiles: "I do not believe that any one thinks that we can sub scribe to the accords of the Ba hamas." De Gaulle said the U.S. offer to France following the pre Christmas Nassau agreement had no current importance to France and added: "We will build and employ ourselves our own atomic force. Policy Reaffirmed "I have several times indica ted publicly French policy on defense and the armament which France feels necessary for her own defense. I repeat that France intends to have her own national defense." In Washington, the White House declined immediate com ment on De Gaulle's reiectinn of the multi-national Polaris missile force. De Gaulle conceded that In modern times no nation can conduct a world war on its own and went on: "The need to have allies goes without saying. But to have also the free disposition of one's self and to keep it is also a necessity for a great people." Lacks Submarines He declared it would not be useful for France to buy Po laris missiles from the United States since it does not have submarines to launch the mis siles or nuclear warheads to at tach to the missiles. He added, however, that if France some day does have the submarines and nuclear war heads "perhaps we will have our own missiles. De Gaulle said he was not refusing technical or strategic cooperation, but that he felt the French and British positions were different now on nuclear matters. Britain has accepted the Polaris offer. Civilian Dog Tags STOCKHOLM LP Swedish civilians are being dogtagged under the civil defense program. Papuans Fleeing HOLLANDIA, New Guinea Wl Official sources report 600 Papuans have fled since Jan. 1 by outboard motor boats and over dim jungle trails to Aus tralian New Guinea in fear of unemployment when Indonesia takes over here. The U.N. is in terim ruler. MM Replace Regular Reflecting Glass NON-GLARE GLASS on your FRAMED PICTURES Installed FREE During January Eugene Frame Co. IV 5 I Iurn Rl'h' " Bo,d ' Rl,"r Shopping Cinlrl M- UJ3U River Avenue Ph. Dl 4-4663 fcJUj A? at Famous BEACON ELECTRIC BLANKET Sl C88 ONLY 1U 1.00 a week Twin or Double Bed Size e Set the dial for desired warmth WASHABLE 100'. nylon binding 2 year replacement guarantee. CHOICE or COLORS 1203 Willamette Dl 5 0388 all future shipments of ransom supplies will be made by ocean freighter. The steamship Shir ley Lykes presently is being loaded at Baltimore with 6,500 tons of food, drugs and medical supplies for delivery in Havana. The Shirley Lykes will stop at Port Everglades, Fla., to load an additional 1,000 tons of sup plies. She is expected to reach Cuba no earlier than Jan. 18. A tearful, yet joyous scene unfolded at Miami International Airport when the 89 refugees arrived at 5:20 p.m. Sixty-eight of the group were Cubans pos sessing American citizenship. The other 21 were Cuban na tionals but either the husband or wife had U.S. citizenship or their children were born in this country. The U.S. Immigration Service refused to release names of ar rivals. The Cuban-Americans had lived in the United States prev iously and for one reason or another mostly homesickness had returned to their native Cuba. They said they were returning to America because of problems in Cuba, including food short ages, inability to get work, and disillusionment with the revo lution. . Jesus Azoy, a barber who left Tampa, Fia., and returned to Havana 18 months ago, said, "We were told it was good there under the revolution." 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