Heavy Fighting
Creates Panic in
Katanga City
Elisabethville. Katanga -lUPD-Heavy
firing broke out
here today between Katanga
gendarmej and United Nations
Much of Nation
Slated To Have
White Christmas
By United Press International
The Northeast and tne Mia
west - as far south as Texas
and New Mexico - should
have a white Christmas. The
northern plains and the Ohio
valley felt the pinch of
Christmas eve cold snap.
Four to five inches of fresh
. snow were on the ground at
Flovdada. Tex., and some
SDllled over Into New Mexico.
One inch fell at Lubbock and
Midland, Tex., In six hours,
Another snowfall left an
inch in Wyoming and small
amounts in Nevada.
In New York, seven inches
of snow fell in a nine-hour
neriod at Boonville, and a 45-
mile an hour wind whipped
the anow and cut visibility to
almost zero. Boonville had
27 inches of snow on the
ground.
Snow Over Great Lakes
Up to 12 Inches were ex
nected to fall around Water
town and Pulaski, N.Y. Snow
flurries were expected across
the Great Lakes into the East
ern Ohio valley.
The temperature dropped
to IS below at Drummond
Mont., early today. It was 7
below at Mlnneapolis-St. Paul,
Minn., and 3 below at Chi
cago. The temperature was
only 17 at Louisville, Ky., 18
at St. Louis, Mo., and 20 at
Kansas City, Kan.
A three-day fog In Califor
nia clogged transportation and
stranded thousands of travel
ers. A nun was killed imd
about 50 persons were injured
Saturday when 200 cars piled
up in the dense fog on the
Santa Ana freeway.
The fog fina'ly lifted dur
ing the week end and airlines
relied on extra planes and ac
celerated schedules Sunday to
clear up the remainder of the
passenger jam.
Stocks Narrowly
Mixed at Opening
New York - IUPD Stocks
were narrowly mixed In quiet
pre-hollday trading early to
day. Profit-taking in many is
sues reflected the fact that
today is the last day on which
profits taken for delivery
within five days, can be re
corded in 1062 transactions
for tax purposes.
IBM tacked on close to 9
in an Irregularly higher elec
tronics section. Oils were gen
erally firm with General
American up more than a
point. Steels, autos, and chem
IcrIs were narrowly mixed.
Some metals, foods, and to
baccos softened but a few
drugs moved slightly higher.
Ethiopian troops. The Katanga
forces shot down a UN heli
copter and took all nine per
sons aboard prisoner.
The fight, In which heavy
machine guns and lighter
weapons were used, lasted
about half an hour and
touched off wholesale panic
among the capital's African
population.
Katanga President Moise
Tshombe told a news confer
ence there were no known
casualties on the Katanga side.
United Nations officials had
no Immediate casualty report
to make on the clash that
broke out near the giant
Union Miniere mining instal
lation.
During the exchange, the Ka
tangese shot at a UN helicop
ter, forcing it to land, and the
three Swedes and six Indians
aboard were taken prisoner
Katange officials said one of
the passengers suffered a
slight leg wound.
Fled to 'Communis'
At one point the firing
seemed to cover a half-mile
stretch at the plant. African
residents of Elisabethville fled
the city for their ramshackle
"communes" In the suburbs,
abandoning bundles, bicycles
and food in their flight.
Tshombe claimed the
Ethiopian troops advanced in
to a slag heap guarded by
Katangcse at the mining plant
and opened fire. He claimed
his gendarmes only fired into
the air while awaiting further
instructions.
Katanga officials said sev
eral rifle bullets ripped holes
in the fuselage of the UN
helicopter.
Indian Gurkha troops of
the UN force remained on the
alert facing Katangcse in the
area where the helicopter
landed.
MEN IN BLUE
Fort Madison, Iowa - tDPD
- Some children in Lee coun
ty may think that Santa Claus
wears a blue suit. Handicap
ped and crippled children re
ceived toys and clothing from
Iowa Slate Penitentiary pri
soners, who bought them with
their prison wages. The gifts
were signed simply, "Men In
blue."
Seafarers Win
Bargaining Rights
San Francisco - (liPIl - The
Seafarers International Union
Saturday said it had won
bargaining rights for seamen
working on Military Sea
Transport Service vessels in
the Pacific.
The SIU had waged a six-
months-long battle with the
National Maritime Union for
the right to represent the
1,800 sailors on the MSTS
ships. The sailors had pre
viously been unrepresented by
a union.
SIU Executive Vice Presi
dent Morris Welsbergcr said
his organization had received
a telegram of certification
from the MSTS Pacific Area
commandant, designating the
Military Sea Transport Union
as a fully credited union. The
SIU is affiliated with the
MSTU.
Welsbergcr said certifica
tion was the first step toward
formal recognition as sole
bargaining agent.
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steeplejack
shakedown
ALL-GIRL CREW Lee Quinn, kneeling,
turned seafarer, took his all-girl crew on
cruise aboard his yacht "Neophyte" off Sausalilo, Calif.
There's only one fly In the ointment the yacht sleeps five
and the're six applicants for Jobs, so which girl to leave
behind is Quinn's next big problem. They plan to sail for
the South Seas. From left, they are Giselle Mayer, 22,
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acting first mate; Susie Bird, 20, a dental laboratory tech
nician; Doris Lander, "over 21", a registered nurse; Jackie
Miller, 24, an airline stewardess; Cindy Ali, 28, an ac
countant, and Jeanne Browne, 32, a cocktail waitress. At
Honolulu they will pick up Quinn's wife, who will take
over the job of first mate. (UPI)
House Destroyed Near
Ashland in Fire
Fire destroyed a house on
Franklin rd. near Ashland
Sunday, the Jackson county
sheriff's office reported.
The house was apparently
vacant, a deputy said. How
ever, the owner, Gale S.
Brewer, 1S0O Ashland Mine
rd., said he had found some
wine bottles and cigarette
butts In the house earlier.
The house was outside the
Ashland city limits.
Pope John Sounds
Optimism Note
For New Year
Vatican Citv - OJPD - Pope
John XXIII sounded a note of
optimism for the New Year
Sunday by citing the rapid
easing of the Cuban crisis as a
sign of "confidence and cour
age of an anxious world."
The Pope, with the signs of
a recent illness still obvious in
his face, told assembled card
inals and prelates in a Christ
mas audience that "our hum
ble life, like the life of any
of us, is In the hands of God."
Later, in a second audience
for the diplomatic corps, the
81-ycar-old pontiff spoke of
man's scientific achievements,
and expressed hopes lor an
improvement in world affairs
after the overcoming of the
Cuban crisis.
Cauia lor Fear
"The past year, as you are
well aware, gave cause for
fear and trembling on Ihe
point," he snid.
"But is it not a heartening
sign for the year that Is com
ing that the danRcr was so
speedily dissipated, that wis
dom and prudence triumphed
so happily, renewing the con
fidence and courage ot an anx
ious world?"
The two audiences, which
together lasted an hour and
12 minutes, were the most
strenous part of the Pope's
Christmas activities, which
started Saturday night with a
broadcast message to the
world.
The Pope, suffering from
gastric trouble believed to be
a bleeding ulcer, looked some
what tired but happy as he
addressed the audiences.
Foreign Briefs
SOUTH KOREAN SAILORS KILLED IN CLASH
Seoul-JUPIi-The Defense Ministry announced today that
three South Korean tailors who killed in lht clash of a ROK
patrol boat and a Communist North Korean naval vessel in
the Yellow sea Sunday.
A ministry spokesman said three other South Korean
navy men were wounded. Casualties on the Communist side
were not kown.
CHINESE NATIONALS BLOW UP COMMUNE
Hong Kong-WI-The Hong Kong Times reported today
that about 90 Chinese Nationalist commandoes landed on the
China mainland Dec. 20 and successfully blew up a people's
commune.
Quoting arrivals from the mainland, the rightwing paper
said the commandoes landed in four or five boats on the
Kwaungtung province coast.
Mountain Home
Prisoner's Family
Share Dinner
TRAFFIC TAGS
Chicago - About two of
seven auto drivers in the U.S.
have been given police tags
for one or another kind of
traffic violations over recent
years.
HUNGARY BLAMES DROUGHT FOR FAILURES
Budapesl-UIPII-Communlst Hungary Sunday blamed agri
cultural failures on last summer's drought.
It gave no figures for agricultural production but said
output did not reach the planned figures. Industrial produc
tion, it said, increased by 8 per cent.
The rise in food prices ordered by the government re
sulted in a lower standard of living, it added.
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Medford,
Tribune
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962
Portland Warehouse
Damaged by Flames
Portland - lUril - A four
alurm fire razed the interior
of a big brick warehouse in
the city's near northeast side
Industrial area today, result
ing in injury to one fireman.
Fireman Al Beslnius was
taken to a hospital with
broken ribs and other in
juries. He fell from a ladder
onto the burning building
while carrying a hose.
The structure was occupied
by E. J. Bartells Co. and In
sulation and Wires, Inc.
A. D. Schinnerer, branch
manager for Bartclls. estimat
ed his company's loss at be
tween $50,000 and S7S.000 in
glass pipe covering and in
dustrial insulation supplies.
Cause of the fire was not de
termined immediately.
The first alarm came in at
6:13 a.m. Five alarms were
sounded, but the last was re
called almost immediately
when firemen decided they
could put out the flames with
the equipment on hand.
A city police officer, Don
ald J. Spady, was trapped in
side his patrol car for sev
eral minutes when a live
power wire fell across it. He
was removed safely.
Police closed off two lanes
of four-lane Interstate ave. for
about two hours.
Mountain Home, Idaho-flJPD
-A-1C Gerald M. Anderson
has little chance of getting
out of the Mountain Home
AFB stockade for Christmas,
but he has his family here
to share Christmas dinner
with him Tuesday.
The 24-year-old San Diego.
Calif., airman, freed by the
state of Idaho from a first
degree murder charge then
re-arrested by the Air Force,
charged again, and clapped
in the stockade, will share
his dinner with his mother
and father, sister and brother-in-law,
some nephews and
nieces and all the other in
mates of the base stockade
at a dining hall.
His guests arc Mr. and Mrs.
Martin M. Anderson, Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Braden, and
their children. All are from
San Bernardino, Calif.
Anderson's freedom from
more than eight months con
finement in connection with
the murders to which anoth
er man has confessed, still
waits the decision of the Air
Force.
Air Force reviewing offi
cers at March AFB, Calif.,
will decide in about a month
if a military hearing last
week at the base gave proof
another man did the slayings
or Anderson did them. If the
officers decide he did them,
Anderson will stand a general
courts martial.
He was turned over to civ
ilian authorities last April for
the death of Mrs. Nancy Joy
Johnson, 22, wife of A-1C
Alec Johnson. The state freed
Anderson when a Bcise man
confessed to killing Mrs.
Johnson and her two-year-old
son, Daniel, but several hours
after the state charges were
dropped, the Air Force
charged Anderson wi.h knif
ing to death both mother and
child.
Released From
Jail in Cuba Recalls
Long Hours of Waiting
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Editor's Notei Hollow-
cheeked Cuban lnrssica pris
oner, Edgardo Buttari Jr., 28-
year-oM son of a former Cu
ban secretary of labor, detail
ed for United Press Interna
tional what a day was like in
Fidel Cstlro t Maximum ie
curity prison on the Isle of
Pints where he spent more
than seven months with 213
other captured invaders. Here
is the story in his own words.
By EDGARDO BUTTARI
As Told To UPI
Miami-ftlPD-For more than
seven months, the day began
about 6:30 a.m. with a push,
a shove, a loud noise. Each
day was like another. And
always the glaring light the
sun in the daytime and the
electric bulbs when it was
dark outside.
About 300 of us-some were
political prisoners -were
crushed in a cell maybe large
enough to hold 50 beds.
For bedding we had the
floor. For covers, we had
whatever clothes we had on,
on tnat particular day.
After our rude awakening
by the guards, we wailed for
breakfast. Sometimes it came,
sometimes it didn't.
We had to warm it up when
it did come. Normally we'
were served coffee and bread,
sometimes coffee and plantain.
The rest of the morning we
just sat and waited to be mus
tered. Sometimes, for as long as
a month, we would be given
our breakfast at 11 a.m., our
lunch at 12:30 p.m. and our
supper at 2 p.m. Normally,
however, we would get our
lunch-usually cornmeal with
nothing to drink-at about 1
p.m.
After long hours of waiting
we would be permitted take
turns at the two shower baths
provided for us. Then we
would be served supper.
It was macaroni. Always
macaroni. For as long as I
can remember.
Man Bound Over fo
Grand Jury Today
Roy Ward Jr., 35, of B26
East Jackson St., was bound
over to the grand jury in dist
rict court this morning on
charges of obtaining property
by false pretenses.
He is charged with issuing
a check for $20 to the Phoenix
Pharmacy, Phoenix. He is
scheduled to be released this
afternoon after posting $1,500
bail.
It was terrible, just terrible.
Then the waiting began, al
ways with a warning we must
be very quiet.
Makes Chess Board
Once we managed to make
a chess board out of cigar
boxes and we played chess.
Very little bodily harm was
done to us shoves mostly
although on one occasion or
two we saw some of our com
panions in prison being beat
en up by guards.
The Communists don't try
to break you bT force. They
just bother you to death.
They give you something
one day and take it away from
you for the next two months.
We never received mail.
Somehow, though, we manag
ed to keep informed general
ly of what went on in the
outside world. We learned
with glee about the Cuban
blockade.
But nobody will ever, ever
believe things that happened
to us happened to humans.
We weren't just worms, as
Fidel Castro called us. We
had to be pigs to exist in that.
It's a wonder only one of us
died.
Filthy, Conditions
Enrique Borras, who was
41, died from a stomach pain
in July of 1961. It may have
looked like a natural death,
but he would have lived if
they had taken him to a hos
pital. Instead, they just let him
lie on the floor and get worse
until, he died. '
Conditions were filthy.
There was no soap, no toilet
paper, little water and every
body stunk.
Despite the hardships, I do
not remember that any of us
ever lost our faith we would
be rescued some day from
that horrible cell.
Now that we are here,
thank God, we would be will
ing to go back again to try to
liberate our country from that
oppressor.
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