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Newspaper Page TextWeather Price 10 Cents Subscribers FORECAST: Cloudy intj warm er Hith orralonal Hjht nin to day and (nnijht. I'artla) rlcir inc and a iw tcaUtrtd ahowrr Monday. Mich todav . Low tutiisht 32.il, Hith Monday 45- IliKhrkt Yesterday "T Low fit Yesterday m Prectp. To S P m. Yesterday ... None Medford Tribune To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In MM ford, phone 772-6M1; Ah land call at 416 Bridge ft., or I phone 482.3002; Yreka, phone 642-2403. before 8:4 p.m. daily and 10:30 a in. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive shortly alter you call please notitv office, thui eliminating special measenger service. United Press International Full Leaned Wire Ur.Hed 1'reu International Full Leaded Wire 40 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1962 Four Sections No. 242 Troops Take Katanga Capital; Tshombe Demands Cease -Fire 57th Year UN h i 1! r . :': If -lifajltelaW. Strife AittainAi RECEIVES BATTLE FLAG President Kennedy re ceives the battle flag of the 2506 Assault Brigade during Kennedy Tells Rally of Invaders U.S. Will Support Efforts to Free Cuba Miami -IUP1I- President Ken nedy vowed before a wildly cheering rally of Cuban in vaders Saturday that the Unit ed States will stand behind efforts to free their homeland. Kennedy's spanish-spcaking wife, Jacqueline, added the women's touch to the dramatic proceedings by calling the in French Airliner With 24 Aboard Crashes on Peak Ajaccio. Corsica - (UPP - A I4 and other dictators "may French airliner carrying 2,4 destroy the exercise of liberty persons, including men s and!b"t 'llev callno' eliminate the women's basketball teams en determination to be free, route to a Riviera tournament. I He said that by helping to crashed into a fog-shrouded j liberate members of the bri Corsican mountain peak Sal- gade from Cuban prisons this urday and burst into flames, week "the United States has There was no word of sur- vivors. A spokesman for the small "Air Nautique" airline, which operated the four - engine plane, said the 21 passengers included 12 men, eight wom en and a three-year-old child, all Corsicans. Three crewmen also were of French national ity. A French Navy search plane which spotted the wreckage reported flames were spouting high from the wreckage. The airliner ap peared to have crashed near the summit of 7.773 - foot Mount Renoso, about 25 miles northeast of Ajaccio, capital of this rugged French Medi terranean island. The plane, a piston-engine "7 " "-"' Boeing 307 was on flight I by a spmt of "understand . n..(i. rnrsio-sl mg ",at saw a free and northeast coast, across this , French island to Ajaccio in the southwest ,laa exicnaea an nivuauou iu An airline spokesman said the Pakistani chief negotiator most of the passengers were; to comc to Ncw Dclhl ncxt members of the Bastia basket-1 month to continue the talks ball club. They included two with a "view to finding an full squads a men's and a 1 equitable and honorable solu women s team on their I tion" of the 15-ycar-old Kash way to play two games in rc-mir controversy and other is g i o n a 1 championships at I sues between the two coun Nice. 'tries. HEWS(f)BRIEFS rftMS FROM OUN0 0l0" NEGOTIATORS RECESS STRIKE TALKS Ncw York - IPI - Negotiator laic Saturday night receised talkt amid indication! thai lettlcmcnt might be near in the week-old maritime strike againit ship pers from Maine to Texas. HOFFA FACES TRIAL IN DISTRICT COURT Nashville. Tenn. - 'I IT - International Teemiters President James R. Holla and local Teamsters official are named as defendants in a $250,000 suit brought by a former Teamsters official in U.S. District Court. SOVIET AIRLINER CLAIMS RECORD Moscow - 1P1 - A Soviet TU-114 prop jet airliner landed at Moscow airport Saturday alter non-stop flight from Havana, Cuba, claiming a new world record lor long-distance airline flying. SLAVS TO KEEP INDEPENDENT POLICY Vienna - IPt - Yugoslav President Tito told So viet Nikita Khrushchev in their recent talks that Yugo slavia intends to stick to its independent foreign policy, the official news agency Tanjug reported Irom Bel grade Saturday night. -i8' -. tm 1 ! i .a 1MB vaders "the bravest men in the world." Amid cries of "viva," Ken nedy told some 50,000 Cuban refugees and other spectators in the Orange Bowl stadium he is confident that all over Cuba there are men who hold their faith in freedom and "are determined to restore that freedom so that the Cu ban people may once more govern themselves." The President spoke after reviewing some 1.200 khaki clad survivors of Brigade 2506, which unsuccessfully in vaded Cuba in 1961. He said their effort, though a failure, was proof that Cas- India, Pakistan End Initial Talks Rawalpindi, Pakistan -WPP-Pakistan and India Saturday ended the first round of nego tiations on the thorny Kash mir dispute in a "spirit of cordiality" and agreed to meet again in New Delhi beginning Jan. 16. Both sides expressed satisfaction with the talks so far. Leaders of both delegations. Z. A. Bhutto of Pakistan and S. S. Singh of India, issued a joint communique declaring that the talks which opened 1l .TI Kor. . frank exchange of views.;1 The communique said Singh J1 X j&irt&t.iMtrtMiffi ceremonies honoring the returned invasion prisoners in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla., Saturday. (UPI) been given the opportunity to demonstrate once again that all men who fight for liberty are our brothers and shall be until Cuba and all other sub jugated countries are free." Kennedy hailed the efforts of negotiator James B. Dono van, the Cuban families com mittee, and others who took part in saving the Cuban in vaders "from Castro's dun geons.11 The stadium was a scene of bedlam through much of the one hour and 20-minute ceremony. The Cuban exiles at times shouted "gtierra,11 the Spanish word for war, and at one point rocked the stands with a resounding roar of "guerra, liberlad." Medford Man Hurt In One-Car Crash Keith Walter Tender, 31, of 323 Orange St., Medford was taken to Rogue Valley hospital Saturday afternoon after he was injured in a one car accident near Central Point. Tentler was westbound on Hanley rd. at 4:15 p.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve to the left, went through a fence and struck a built-up driveway approach, stale po lice said. Officers reported that Tent ler suffered a concussion, pos sible skull fracture and se vere lacerations about the forehead. In an earlier accident, cars driven by Jean Adams Mow cry, 43, Gold Hill, and Elea nor Adelaide Shaw, 56, of 508 Benton st.. collided at 1:45 p.m. on Interstate 5 near the Tolo overpass. No one was injured. Vatican Newspaper Notes Peace Drive Vatican Cily - 1PP - Tie Vatican Cily newspaper Ob servatore Romano said in an editorial Saturday that a "widespread and forceful de sire'1 for peace marked the end of 1062. The editorial noled with sat isfaction that Pope John XXIIl's recent appeals lor ; peace in the world had met I with "universal and signifi icant approval" that had been j reflected in the statements of 1 "responsible heads of slalc." Observatorc Romano said a I nuclear war would be a "inon ; strosity and moral absurdity." j "If peace has been saved so ; far. even in critical situations, it is thanks above all to the knowledge of the ternbleness of the risks and the reciprocal . extreme price (of war)", the 1 editorial said- PLANE MISSING Naples. Italy - IN- A U. S. Navy plane wilh a crew of three from the aircraft carrier USS Korrestal is missing and I probably cra.-hed somewhere oil the coast of Sardinia, spokesman for the Sixth fleet said Saturday night. l r "V T k-" t fit ' Welcoming the brigade vet erans to the Uniled States and urging them to be seated on the turf where they were lined in front of him from one end of the stadium to the oth er Kennedy offered them "my nation's respect for your courage and for your cause." Gigantic Cheers After Kennedy spoke, his Spanish-speaking wife. Jac queline whose arrival with the President touched off gi gantic cheers said: "It is an honor for me to be among a group of the brav est men in the world. "I am proud that my son (John Jr.) too, has met your officers. He is still too young to know what has happened here, but I will take care to tell him the history of your bravery. "It is my hope that he will some day bo a man at least half as brave as have been the members of the 2506 bri gade." Shooting Suspect Captured by Police Springfield, Ore. - !UPP - A man accused of kidnaping three persons and of wound ing a policeman in a shooting fray at Junction City was taken into custody here Sat urday. Police said Edward Dean Riley, 22, was arrested as he drove a stolen car through the city. Riley was the object of an intensive manhunt. The manhunt started Friday night when off-duty police man James Cornell attempted to arrest Riley at Cottage Grove on a petiy larceny war- ; rant. Police said Riley took j Cornell's gun and drove the I officer and two other persons j lo a .spot near Creswell. I Then, police said, Riley pro 1 ceoded to Junction City where Officer Dale Kolln tried to halt him early Sat urday. Kolln was knocked to Ihc ground by a bullet which creased his forehead. Police said Riley drove Kolln's car lo Springfield where a woman with Riley was captured. Officers comb ed a 30-block area in a house to house hunt for Riley. Poet Convalescing From Heart Attack Boston -Wl'- Authorities at Peler Bent Brigham hospital said Saturday that 88-year-old poet Robert Frost "seems lo be convalescing in a promis ing fashion" from a heart at tack which followed major surgery. Frost, who entered the hos pital Dec. 3 for an operation to clear an obstruction in the urinary tract, suffered the heart seizure shortly after the Dec. 10 surgery, according lo Dr. F. Lloyd Mussclls, direc tor of Die hospital. Dr. Mussclls said Frost, a four-time Pulitzer pri.e-win-ner and personal friend of President Kennedy, enjoyed a good breakfast and seems to be convalescing in a prom ising fashion. Reds Claim Spy Teams Wiped Out On China Coast Tokyo -(UPP- The Chinese Communist defense ministry said Saturday that nine U. S.- Nationalist Chinese spy teams totaling 172 men were wiped out along the China coast in the past three months while trying to create a "guerrilla corridor" for invasion of the mainland. The defense ministry, in a communique broadcast by Pe king radio, said the teams landed along the coast of Kwangtung province opposite Formosa between Oct. 1 and Dec. 19. It said the operations were carried out under the code names "Hatwei" and Panehao." Panchao was the name of a Chinese warlord who lived hundreds of years ago and whose name has been used as a sign of victory. The mean ing of Haiwei was not known. Castro May Come To U.S. (or Talks On Yank Release Lake Placid, N. Y, - (UPD -Cuban Premier Fidel Castro "possibly" may come to New York to address the United Nations and open negotiations for release of 23 Americans now held in Cuban jails, at torney James B. Donovan said Saturday. Donovan, chief negotiator in the ransoming of 1,113 Bay of Pigs invaders, told a news conference at his vacation re treat here that chances for release of the Americans were "very favorable." "It is possible that Castro might come to New York to speak at the UN and quite possible that while he is there we will discuss the Ameri cans," Donovan said. He add ed, however, he did not know when Castro might make the trip. Carefully Screened Donovan said the $53 mil lion in drugs and other goods which Castro received for the invasion prisoners1 release "was carefully screened so that it will not strengthen the Cuban economy." He said the $2.9 million in cash which Castro received was obtained by the Cuban families committee "for re lease of 60 wounded prison ers." He said his role did not involve cash transactions. The Ncw York attorney said he was "surprised" that some relatives of the ran somed prisoners were being held up by the Castro govern ment in their efforts to leave Cuba. "Castro assured me that for each shipload of goods sent into Cuba that a thousand or so persons could comc out," Donovan said. He said the agreement covered "up to 3,- 500 persons. 1 Basketball Scores SATURDAY PREP SCORES Ashland 41 Forluna 36 Glide 44 St Mary s 23 SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES Far West Classic Tourney Oregon SI. 64. Iowa 57 California 78 Oregon 46 Seattle 75 Arizona 59 Idaho 64 Wash. State 63 Other Scores Stanford 63 Washington 62 Cincinnati 73 Ohio U. 43 Illinois 92 West Virginia 74 Lewis 4 Clark 77 Humboldt I St. 62 I West. Wash. 65 Willamette G2 Portland 50 V of Pacific 42 Pepperdinc 92 Loyola (Cal if.) 57 USF 84 Santa Clara 60 Loyola (III.) 93 Wyoming 82 Arizona St. 67 Canlsius 63 Red China said the landings were part of a "vast plan" worked out by American and Nationalist Chinese "espion age organizations." It said the teams were wiped out "lock, stock and barrel," and that Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek's dreams of invading the mainland "have vanished like a bubble." The detailed communique gave alleged dates and places of the landings and the num ber of men involved and their Chinese names. It said some were dropped from planes but that most landed from boats sent from Formosa. In Taipei the Nationalist Chinese government declined lo confirm or deny the claim that "U. S.-Chiang Kai-shek agents" raided the mainland and a spokesman said "it is not our practice to disclose our military movements against the Chinese Commu nists." Mainland Raids A spokesman for the U. S. Taiwan defense command, Marvin L. Braman, categori cally denied Americans were involved in any mainland raids. Unconfirmed reports here said nationalist commando parties made a scries of hit-and-run raids on the south China coast during the past year, suffering only light cas ualties. Hong Kon dispatches quot ing "travelers from the main land" reported last week that one such raiding party blew up a people's commune. Holiday Death Toll Starts Sharp Rise United Press International The death toll began to rise sharply Saturday afternoon and the trend continued Into the night. But the hourly rate for the entire period was still below that which the Safety Council estimated. The death toll was running at the rate of about 2.5 an hour. At 12:30 a.m. (EST) this morning, United Press Inter national counted 71 fatalities since the 102 hour holiday pe riod began at 6 p.m. local time Friday. The Breakdown: Traffic 72; Fires 3; Planes 2; Miscellaneous 19; Total 06. Deputies Search For Missing Youngster Portland -0,'PP- A 6-year-old girl was missing here Satur day night aid Multnomah county sheriff's deputies said Ihey feared foul play. Little Muna Rae Minyard disappeared shortly before noon after going to a grocery store five blocks away from her home. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lane of Portland. JFK Said Winning Fight For Control of Powerful Washington - OJPH - Presi dent Kennedy appeared Satur day to be winning his fight against renewed conservative control of the powerful House Rules committee. Some liberals wondered, however, whether in attempt ing to nail down this victory. Democratic leaders may have further clouded prospects for early passage of Kennedy's controversial health care plan for the aged. The rules fight could be the President's most crucial test of the new 88th Congress. He has said that if he loses his New Frontier legislative pro gram is dead. But even if he wins his proposals still face a rough going-over. Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) predicted Saturday that Ken Bwitkvya -iW,s,V If ATA rss. NORTHERN RHODESIA miles ATTACK AIR BASE United tacked the Katangese main (upper left on map) during the NORTHERN . UJ . . Elisabethvillc, diplomatic sources reported. No details were immediately available on the air strike at the base which is 150 miles west of Elisabethvillc, capital of the seces sionist Katanga province. This newsmap locates Elisabeth villc, Kolwezi, and adjacent points. (UPI) Revolt In Santo Domingo Quelled; Over 30 Killed Santo Domingo -(UPP- Fed eral troops pursued some 400 guerrillas into mountains near the Haitian border Saturday, after five self-styled "messi- ahs" from a backcounlry re ligious cult led thousands of peasant zealots in a bloody uprising that claimed over 30 lives. Anti-guerrilla troops, many of them veterans of a 1959 action that smashed a Cuban ted invasion force in the same mountainous region, were be ing ferried by small plane into Palma Sola, about 80 miles from the Haitian border and 125 miles almost due west from this capital. Light artillery and armored vehicles were moving to the area, although the provisional council of stale had officially declared the rebellion quelled. Government officials here said it was unknown if leaders of the uprising had any politi cal connections, but there were indications they had re ceived some arms from across the Haitian border. Rumors raced through this politically tense capital that the revolt was inspired by cither the Communists or par tisans of the late dictators Ra fael Trujillo. A government spokesman said leaders of the rebellion were the five Rodriguez Vcn-" tura brothers, two of whom were killed. The other three were reported to be with the guerrillas. The spokesman said the five had founded a cult in the iso lated rural community of Pal ma Sola and may have had several thousand "adulators" or followers. Each brother claimed to be divine. Reports from the region said that the brothers had the power of life or death over converts, and frequently or dered wives and daughters of their disciples placed at the brothers1 disposition. WITHDRAW AGENT Salem - (UPI) - Southern Pa cific Co. and Railway Ex press have been authorized to withdraw their joint agent from Wheeler on the Oregon coaost. nedy will win the rules fight. Vinson, a southern moderate leader, earlier had forecast that much of the President's legislative program would be passed. The Rules committee con trols and sometimes can block the flow of legislation from other committees to the House floor. According lo present plans, House members will de cide on Jan. 9, opening day of the session, whether speaker John W. MrCormack or Rules chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Va.) is to be the commit tee's real boss. What looked like the prob able tlpoff lo a victory for McCormack and thus for Kennedy came Saturday In a letter to Smith from Rep. Phil Landrum (D-Ga ) saying Kin A N.RMOD. Nations planes Saturday at military air base in Kolwezi heavy ground fighting around MOISE TSHOMBE Flees Capital Judge Continues Stumbo Sentence Sentencing of Harry War ren Stumbo, 34, Wolf Creek, on charges of setting a forest fire has been continued until Wednesday. Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly is to study the case fur ther to determine if a county jail sentence should be given the Wolf Creek man. Stumbo appeared In court Friday. Stumbo had pleaded guilty earlier to the charges. They arose out of a series of forest fires set last July in Jackson and Josephine counties. Claude Waller Chase, 41, Central Point, earlier was placed on probation and his sentence on a charge of set ting fire to forest land has been suspended for five years. Leo V. Thompson, 39, Sa lem, one of the three men in dicted by the Jackson county grand jury, Is now serving a 20-month sentence in Oregon prison, KF Man Bound Over On Murder Charge Klamath Falls - (UPI) - Dis trict Cour Judge Robert Kerr has ordered Jerry Richard Haines of Klamath Falls bound over lo a county grand Jury on a murder charge. The grand jury is scheduled to meet here Jan. 3 and 4. a V lief .... ' 1 A'-Vt V . i-sws,, VNI I Against Conservatives House Rules Committee he could not support Smith's bid to reclaim control of the committee from House lead ers. Landrum was co-author of the 1959 Landrum -Griffin labor reform law widely de nounced by union eladcrs. He was among 62 southern Demo crats who two years ago voted with Smith and against then Speaker Sam Rnyburn on RBy burn's barely-successful move to enlarge the rules commit tee and end Its domination by a six-man conservative coal ition headed by Smith. Recently, Smith wrote Landrum along with other members to enlist support for his move to reverse that ac tion and to cut the commit tee's 15-man membership back to its original 12. Tshombe Warns Of Scorched Earth Policy Otherwise UN Forces Seize Katanga Bank Elisabethvillc. Katanga, The Congo -(UPP- United Nations troops captured all of Elisa bethville Saturday including President Molse Tshombe's bank. He replied with an ulti matum demanding an imme diate cease fire or risk de struction of the entire prov- Tshombe has fled the city but in a statement read on his behalf by a Katanga govern ment official he said unless the UN forces proclaimed a cease fire within 24 hours he would put into effect a scorch ed earth policy that "will raze Katanga to the ground." Firs! Target "I have asked all Katangese to resist by any means: Traps, poison spears and poison ar rows," his statement said. It said the Lusira bridge at Ja dotvillc, 70 miles from Elisa- bethville, would be the first target. The statement was issued after UN jet planes strafed the main Katanga air base at Kol wezi with rockets and ma chincguns. Other UN forces chased the fleeing Katangese army and its European mer cenaries into the bush; ' The troops' seized the Na tional Bank of Katanga In a move that gave the United Na tions control of Katanga's cur rency and could curtail the financing of President Motse Tshombe's secession from the central government of Leo poldville. The amount of funds seized was not announced. Ethiopian and Indian forces of the UN command captured Tshombe's presidential palace but he had fled the city, ap parently to the mining village of Kipushi, 18 miles south of the city. Indian and Irish troops were pushing along the highway after him. Calls on People Convoys of Irish UN troops rumbled through the deserted city streets towards Kipushi, reported to be Tshombe's emergency capital. There he was said to be directing mili tary operations and calling on his people to unite behind him. UN ground forces now hold all key points In Elisabeth ville, including the radio sta tion, the post office with Its radio and telegraph commu nications, the railway stations and Tshombe's palace. The city took on a wartime air. The Irish troops striking toward Kipushi were armed with machineguns and anti tank bazookas. Light Indian infantry already were march ing on Kipushi after knocking out a series of Katangese road blocks on theoutsklrts of Elisa bethvillc. AWARDED CONTRACT Salem - (UPD - The Oregon State Highway Department Friday awarded a $176,193 contract to Buswell Bros., Gold Beach for a grading project about one mile north of Galicc in Josephine coun ty. But Landrum advised Smith he could not support him this time. He said he could not see that the operation of the 15 man committee had been hurt ful. He urged Smith, further more, to abandon his fight. "I feel very strongly that the country, the congress and the Democratic party will benefit by such decision on your part," Landrum said In his letter. Liberal members were quick to note that Landrum, with powerful support from the Georgia delegation, has been angling for a coveted scat on the Ways & Means committee, where Kennedy faces two of his toughest leg islative battles - on a tax cut and medical care.