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5) Ml in IfQ i - '. J- r - 4 tu 1 ' ; 1 1 HAPPY RETURNEES Cuban repatriates in Florida today. Other prisoners are shown exult in foreground as they spot familiar coming down the plane ramp in the back faces in the crowd on hand to greet them as ground. (UPI) they arrived at Homestead Air Force Base Castro May Free 23 Imprisoned U. S. Citizens Miami -ILTli- An American Red Cross official said Sun day that 23 United Slates citi zens now imprisoned in Cuba may soon be released if Fidel Castro is "in a good mood." Cuba's return of invasion prisoners in exchange for food and medical supplies may have set the right "psy chological atmosphere" for bringing the jailed Americans home, according to Raymond S. Eaton, vice president for international relations for the Red Cross. Donovan Seeking Release It was reported that James V. Donovan, New York attor ney who negotiated the Cu ban prisoner swap, is attempt ing to obtain the release of the U. S. captives. Eaton said the 23 men and women have been held on a "variety of charges." Reports from the Swiss embassy in Havana have said some of them arc in "poor shape." He said the Red Cross "has been unable to form a basis for negotiations with the Cu ban Red Cross for the Cuban government" on the releases, despite year-long efforts. SAILOR KILLED Gorman. Calif. - IIW - Mi chael R. Williams. 22-year-old sailor from Gladstone, Ore., was killed Sunday when a car in which he was riding swerved off California route 138 in the mountains east of here and overturned. ITEMS FROM UEWSfbBRIEFS BUS CRASH IN MEXICO KILLS U Mexico City-lPI-Two inlerurban busei collided c mountain highway near Queretaro today. At least 11 persons were killed and 20 injured. j CUBAN SETTLEMENT HOPES DWINDLE i United Nations. N. Y.-'iri'-Hopei of fettling the Cuban, crisis by Chmtmai dwindled other round of talks Deiween u. B. ana soviet negonaiors. .. . . SENATOR BYRD IN HOSPITAL Baltimore Md.-tH-Sen. Harry F. Byrd spent Christmas Eve in Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital. A spokesman said the Virginia Democrat dition." FOOD POISON HOSPITALIZES MANY Andalusia, Ala.-ICI-Seven persons were lilted in critl-i cal condition with food poisoning Sunday resulting from Christmas party at textile plant. Officials said 16S persons! were stricken. -.1 n A Safest Christmas Period on Record Seen on Highways By United Press International With the quiet of Christmas Eve at hand, Americans were on the way to. celebrating their safest Christmas holiday period on record. The National Safety Coun cil had estimated between 650 and 750 persons would die in traffic accidents during the 102-hour holiday period from Portland Victims Receive Gilts Portland - IUP1I - The Air Force played Santa Claus Sun day to residents of several homes in east Portland that had been wrecked by a crash ing jet fighter. Top Air Craft brass deliv ered presents to 17 children whose Christmas may have been ruined by the crash of the Air National Guard fight er Friday night. No one was hurt in the crash. The pilot and co-pilot parachuted when the plane had a flame-out. The gifts were presented by officers including Brig. Gen. Gordon Doolittle, chief of staff of the Oregon Air Na tional Guard, and Col. Don ald H. Lynch, Portland Air Force Base commander. Each gift was selected aft ;Cr the officers had conferred I with parents of the children. AROUND THI OlOII today witn tne tenure oi an-; was in "quite satisfactory con- 1 . i 1 1 I 'VS. 6 pan. Friday until midnight Tuesday. "If the present trend holds," said Howard Pyle, president of the safety coun cil, the total would be as low as 550. This would be the saf est Christmas holiday on rec ord," based on miles driven and cars oh the road. The council has been keep ing records for 26 years. At 9:30 a.m. (PST) United Press International had count ed 334 traffic deaths since the holiday period started at 6 p.m. local time Friday. The holiday traffic death breakdown: Traffic 334; fires 51: planes 8; miscellaneous 40; total 154. California led the nation with 30 traffic deaths. Illinois had 29 fatalities. Other states' traffic toll in cluded Texas 24, New York 14, Georgia and Florida 13 each and Indiana 12. Huss Files Report On Campaign Costs Salem - OT - Walter Huss, director of Portland's Free dom Center, filed a statement of campaign expenses with the secretary of state today, and civil action brought in Marion County Circuit Court was dropped. Huss filed the statement late Friday with Marion County District Attorney Hat tie Kremen. She asked the case be dropped, and turned the information over to State Elections Director Jack Thompson. Huss did not appear in court. Huss' statement said 250 copies of the pamphlet "Edith Green Supports Mothers for Peace March ' were printed at a cost of six-cents each. He said 142 were distributed, and listed campaign expenses of S8.52. Unti fllin- thc jisl of cam. pajgn cxpenses, Hus had in- , sjs(cd tne pamphiet were ed lucational rather than politi- , i PROTEST PLANNED Buffalo, N Y. - UTt - A handlul of American students, angered at U.S. and Canadian government moves that have killed their plans to spend Christmas as guests in Cuba, planned today to protest to .Canadian officials Kegional Edition MEDF0RD 16 Pages Strang Tie mi East Coast Union Turns Down Kennedy's Appeal For 90-Day Truce Military Cargo Will Be Handled New York - (DPD - A strike by 75,000 longshoremen tied up ports from Maine to Texas today. They were joined by the 50,000 seamen of the Na tional Maritime Union who said they would not cross any picket lines. Leaders of the Internation al Longshoremen's Associa tion, confident of an early victory, turned down Presi dent Kennedy's 11th hour ap peal for a 90-day truce and ordered their members to halt work along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. William Perry, assistant to NMU President Joseph Cur ran, announced today that NMU members would not cross the ILA picket lines. NMU members make up the crews of ships but do not include officers necessarily. Perry said those crewmem bers on board ships still at sea will work at their duties until their vessels make port. Cooling Period Expires The dockworkers helped shippers load and unload cargoes In the feverish last hours of port activity, then walked off the piers at thc appointed hour of 2 p.m. (PST). An 80-day "cooling off" period ordered under the Taft-Hartley Act expired at that time. In answer to Kennedy's warning that the strike would "choke the economy and cut the nation's lifelines with the rest of the world," the ILA replied it would be "fruit less" to delay a walkout for three months of talks. The un ion promised to continue han dling all military cargo. The main issue in trie dead-locked dispute was over the size of work gangs. The New York Shipping associa tion wants the gangs reduced from 20 to 17. The ILA cleams such a reduction would re sult in 5,000 longshoremen losing their jobs. Predicts Short Strike Thomas W. (Teddy) Gleason, vice president of the ILA, pre dicted the strike would be short. "They're very weak, we'll lick 'em fast," he declared. Similar views were express ed by ILA officials in other cities. In New Orleans, ILA Local 1418 President Alfred Chit tenden estimated the strike will last only 8 to 10 days because "the country can't take it" any longer. A Virginia dock foreman said a settlemen will come "after thc holidays when ev erybody will be more suitable to concentrate. Traffic Signals Are On Flashing Amber Traffic signals in front of Jackson, Roosevelt and Hoo ver schools were put on flashing amber operation to day, according to Vernon Thorpe, Mcdford public works director. The signals will be return ed to normal operation, Thorpe said, when the young sters return to school on Jan. 2. WEATHER FORECAST: Clnr tklrt ton. phi and TutNdiy. Cold night time trmpcriturri. Low tnnlcht IS lo 20. Hlh Tuetdiy 40 to 45. Tmp. Hlfheit Vtitrdty 20 Low m Thli Morning 29 Preclp. to 10 a-m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunwt todav 4:43 p.m. ftnnrtip tomorrow 7:Ja.m. Moonrlif tomorrow .... (:11a.m. Nw Moon Dec. 21 PROMINENT STARS Square of Ptfiiut, In thf writ - :42 p m. Alpheratr. highest and brightest of the four itari of the aqnare, Ib In the comUIUtlon, Andromeda. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962 i , V 114 SILENT KNIGHT Not a creature is stirring at Pier 82 South on the Delaware river at Philadelphia after mem- bers of the Inter national Association of Longshoremen British Experts To Be Sent Here On Missile Deal London (UPI) Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan, un der one of the heaviest at tacks of his career, will send a team of experts to Washing ton early next year to settle details of his missile deal with President Kennedy, it was disclosed today. Authoritative sources said financial and technical ex perts will work out the details "on a joint Anglo-American basis." Macmillan, meanwhile, took advantage of the Christmas holiday to draft plans to fight back against the raging tide of criticism threatening to swamp his future because of thc Anglo-American Polaris deal. Month's Grace The Prime Minister had a month's grace before facing a political showdown with representatives of all parties including many of his own Conservatives when Par liament reconvenes Jan. 22 after its Christmas recess. Thc influential Times of London represented President Kennedy as having been "less than honest" with Britain In the reasons given for drop ping the Skybolt missile pro gram end replacing it with Polaris. It also said the Presi dent was dismayed and sur prised by the critical press reaction here. 1 Russian Transport Plane Intercepted Miami -flJPfl- The U. S. Air Force has confirmed it Inter cepted a high-flying Russian transport plane over the At lantic about 50 miles east of West Palm Beach. Sleek F102 fighters scram bled from Homestead Air Force Base and "routinely" Intercepted the TU1I4 Rus sian plane late Saturday, the North American Air Defense Command said Sunday. Thc plane was on Its way to Havana, according to Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Gent, com mander of thc 32nd Norad Region. He labeled the interception "just routine" and said the Red plane was allowed to con tinue on its way. Longstioresnei 0 1;. rK .... iHistrial Declared In Hoffa Hearing; Probe Ordered Nashville, Tenn. - (UPD - Fed eral Judge William E. Miller declared a mistrial Sunday in the conspiracy trial of Team ster President James Hoffa and ordered a grand jury in vestigation of "shameful" at tempts to bribe Jurors. The mistrial was declared after the jury had deliber ated 17 hours and reported they were "hopelessly dead locked." It was only after the final deadlock report that Miller disclosed that three efforts had been made to tamper with jurors during the nine- week trial. He called thc attempts 'shameful" and ordered a grand jury Investigation. The investigation was ex pected to get under way ear ly In January with presenta tion of evidence. The fiery little Teamsters boss said he was "naturally disappointed" at no acquittal and strode from the court room followed by his huge entourage of lawyers, secre taries and bodyguards. Flys To Detroit They flew to Detroit in two private planes. Hoffa remains under bond In thc case, charged with con spiracy to receive payoffs for insuring labor peace for a nationwide automobile trans port firm. The mistrial climaxed an involved, nine-week trial en livened by one armed attack on Hoffa and two mysterious secret sessions. It was disclosed Sunday that one of thc secret sessions was called to hear reports from the Justice Department on jury tampering. The other was to hear a request for a mistrial from Holla's attorneys on grounds that FBI agents visited homes of relatives and friends of the Jurors. Hoffa's lawyers charged that FBI agents told them there was a $3,000 reward for Information on anyone who had contacted the Jury. Miller denied thc motion. Thc Justice Lioilii.tui charged that union associates close to the Teamsters boss Tribune y if 4 1 - W f i i ignored President Kennedy's appeal for a 00-day truce to protect "the national interest" and walked off iheir.joba. (UPI) offered a $10,000 bribe to a prospective Juror, offered a "promotion" to the highway patrolman. husband of another juror and approached a Ne gro juror with a still undis closed offer. The bribe alltegedly was offered to James C. Tlppins, a Nashville insurance man, before the Jury was selected. Tlppins was on the venire, but was not selected. Government attorneys also said thc husband of Mrs. James Paschal held a clande stine meeting with Ewlng King, president of Teamsters Local 327. Woman Arrested in City for Vagrancy A Venice, Calif., woman, dressed in men's clothing, was arrested by Medford city police on a charge of vagran cy early Sunday after she was found hitch-hiking on North Pacific highway. Police said the woman, Barbara Joan Pushman, 26, is being questioned regarding some 130 pills and nearly 200 capsules found in her suit case which officers believe to be drugs. The woman admits to a number of prior arrests on a variety of charges In cities in Washington and Califor nia. She is being held in city Jail. Christian Pilgrims Flocking Into Bethlehem for Annual Observance Bethlehem, Jordan-flJPD - Thousands of Christmas pilgrims flocked to Bethlehem to day. They included black robed priests, Crhis tian Arabs wearing the traditional burnoose and Americans and Europeans in smartly cut suits and dresses. More than 2,300 Israeli Christians took advantage of thc blennlcl break in the dis pute with the Arabs and passed through thc Mandlcbaum Gate In the wall dividing Jerusalem for thc pilgrimage to this birth place of Jesus Christ. At a signal from frontier guards on the fortified Jordanian-Israeli border, Israeli and Arab Christians boarded special buses for a ride through the famous gate and fol 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 237 - - BBS I Airlift of Ransom Goods to Castro Said Completed Havana-fUPD-The airlift to Cuba of the goods being ex changed for the Cuban Inva sion prisoners has been com pleted, a Pan American World Airways spokesman said to day. He said the last four car go planes to arrive In Havana would be used to fly prison ers back. With four aircraft available for their transport, the airlift of prisoners was expected to be cornpleted by late afternoon. Thc morning newspaper Rcvolucion meanwhile quot ed Premier Fidel Castro as telling relatives of the prison ers still In Cuba that the gov ernment had no objection to their leaving the island with their kinfold, but that they might have troube with U.S. Immigration authorities. Trying To Sail Reports were current in government circles that moth ers, sisters and wives who remained in Cuba to be near the prisoners were trying lo sail aboard thc African Pilot, the 10,000-ton freighter used to bring the first ransom car go into Havana. The air cargo was being stored In warehouses near the airport pending distribution. Antibiotics and other drugs needing refrigeration, how ever, were trucked Into Ha vana hospitals with those fa cllltlcs. Ports Castro Delays Departure To Check Ransom Relatives Wait At Auditorium Miami -(UPD- The mercy air lift bringing Cuban prisoners of war back to their loved ones entered the final phase today, ending a heart-stopping delay caused when Fidel Cas tro insisted on making sure personally that he had all the ransom goods. The bearded Cuban premier demanded every promised pound of the first payment on a $70 million ransom in drugs, medical supplies and foodstuffs before he permit ted continuation of the flights to freedom. The Red Cross said that the goods finally all had been delivered. After that, sterting at 6:25 a.m. (PST) the first plane car rying 109 captives imprisoned in the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion was permitted to take off. It was followed by a second plane carrying 108 former prisoners. Added to the 423 freed Sunday, this left only 471 prisoners still in Cuban hands. Clean Shaven Today's first plane, the fifth in the two-day freedom airlift twice Interrupted by long de lays, touched down at Home-' stead Air Force Base near Miami at 7:23 a.m. There, as before, the clean shaven but shagy haired and slightly underweight prison ers were processed, fed, given new khaki clothing and a $100 check and then sent by bus to meet their waiting relatives and friends. Relatives barred from the air base waited impatiently at Dinner Key auditorium 18 miles away to end a separa tion of more lhan 20 months. The second place of the day already was winging toward Homestead, the Red Cross an nounced, as the morning's trail blazer rolled up to its ramp bearing among its 109 passengers one stretcher case and one ailing prisoner who was, however, able to walk. Waiting Relatives At the Dinner. Key auditor ium, a skeletal and cavernous former clipper seaplane hang ar now used for various types of exhibitions, relatives had begun to straggle in at 6 a.m. The long wait of Sunday had taught them a lesson in patience, and by the time the first plane arrived at Home stead there were only 3,000 in the hall. They had, they knew, probably two hours to wait before the prisoners arrived by bus. Decorations, Lights Taken From Yards A number of Medford resi dents reported thefts of out door Christmas lights and decorations over the week end, according to city police. Tow strings of lights valued at $4 were stolen Saturday from a residence on Wood lawn dr., two reindeer from a South Oakdale ave. home, a Santa Claus from a yard on Old Military rd., and several lights from a residence on West 14th St., police said. Sunday, 24 bulbs valued at $4 were stolen from a resi dence on Fair Oaks dr., 14 bulbs valued at $2 from a Plum st. residence, and be tween 60 and 100 lights val ued at $15 from a home on Acorn Way, according to re ports. A Suiter st. resident report ed to police today that about 50 lights valued at $8 were stolen from his yard some time last night. ASKED TO RECONSIDER New York - (UPD - Tederal mediators have asked disput ants in the 17-day-old news paper strike to reconsider their positions over the Christmas holiday and start "moving together" toward a settlement when negotiations resume Wednesday. lowed thc path of the Magi to this little town. In Bethlehem, they joined thousands of other pilgrims some of them from as far away as the United States and Europe to celebrate the birth of their Lord 1,962 years ago. Bccidss the Israeli Christians, another S.OOO persons were due to arrive here to day. The old street! already were jammed with a mixture of modern Western automo biles and the familiar donkey carts. Thc Mandelbaum Gate is the only break In the wall which divides the Israeli and Jordanian sector of Jerusalem. The wall Is fortified by sandbags, barbed wire and pill boxes because of the 14-year-old dis pute between the Israelis and the Arabs. I
