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Four Americans .
Held As Hostages
By Bolivia Miners
Exchange For Other
Prisoners Sought
LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI)
Three U. S. Government offi
cials and an American Peace
Corps volunteer have been
seized by Leftist workers in the
tin mining town of Catavi as
hostages for three Communist
labor leaders arrested by the
government, it was disclosed
Saturday.
The men were seized Friday
night along with Bolivian mine
technicians at the Siglo Veinte
mine near Catavi and about 150
miles south of La Paz in the
western Bolivian mountains.
Men Identified
; (In Washington, the State De
partment identified the kid
naped men as Thomas M. Mar
tin of 3070 Decatur Ave., New
York, N. Y.; Michael A. Krist
ula, 826 First Ave., Cadillac,
Mich.; Bernard R if kin, and
Robert Fcrgerstrom, whose ad
dresses were not given.
' (Martin and Kristula are offi
cers of the U. S. Information
Service. Rifkin is a labor ad
viser with the agency for in
ternational development and
Fergerstrom is a Peace Corps
volunteer serving in Bolivia.)
(State Department Press Of
ficer Richard I. Phillips said
U. S. Ambassador Doug Hen
derson in La Paz' had spoken
with Martin by radio and Mar?
tin reported he and the other
captured Americans were safe
and being well treated.)
On Routine Mission
The Americans were in the
Catavi area on a routine mis
sion as technical advisers when
they were seized along with
about a dozen Bolivian officials.
It was believed they were being
held at the miners' radio station
in Siglo Veinte.
The miners met Saturday
morning and issued a demand
that the Bolivian government
release labor leaders Federico
Escobar, lrinco Pimentel and
a man identified only as Zaral.
The three were arrested Fri
day in Catavi and Siglo Veinte
on criminal charges but the
nature of the accusation was
not immediately disclosed.
The miners also voted to
launch a general strike and
send emissaries throughout the
country calling on other unions
to join them. They demanded
that Leftist Juan Lechin, the
nation's vice president and
leader of the National Tin
Union, travel to Catavi to talk
with them.
No. 224
Thompson Found
Guilty 01 Murder
STILLWATER, Minn. (UPI
Tilmer Eugene Thompson, a
courtroom ace convicted of
buying his wife's murder in
hopes of a $1 million payoff,
pntered Stillwater State Peni
tentiary Saturday as convict No.
21893.
Scarcely 17 hours after a
jury convicted him Friday night
of first degree murder, the
little criminal attorney was
brought the 30 miles from
Minneapolis under heavy guard
and passed through the arched,
brown door of the 50-year-old
Stillwater prison.
The sentence of the court was
"life at hard labor." Actually,
Warden Ralph Tahash said,
the prison will "try to give
him a job in keeping with his
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Former JFK
Leads In Loui
Ambass
siana
Vote
OFFICIALLY MOVE IN - President and Mrs. Lyndon B.
Johnson and their teen-age daughter, Lucy Baines, pose for
news photographers st the North Portico as' they officially
moved into the While House Saturday. The Johnson's other
daughter, Lynda Bird, is attending college in Texas. (UPI)
LBJ Announces
Steps To Reduce
Defense Spending
WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres
ident Johnson announced Satur
day a scries of defense manpow
er cuts and a study of possible
consolidation or elimination of
installations. The action is aim
ed at whittling defense spend
ing by about $1.5 billion in the
coming year.
He and Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara described
the moves as the starting phase
of an economy drive designed
to save at least $4 billion a
year by mid-1906.
Confer At Length
Johnson said he and McNa
mara discussed the moves all
morning at the White House and
then conferred at length by tele
phone during the afternoon.
Besides the cutbacks in civil
ian and non-combat defense per
sonnel, Johnson asked McNa
mara for recommendations to
"eliminate those installations
which he thought could be elim
inated" in the overseas military
aid program.
Review All Installations
Johnson also told an im
promptu news conference in his
White House office the govern
ment was "making a review of
all of our installations in t h e
United States to determine
"what can be consolidated" in
a further economy move. He
said no conclusions had been
reached.
TIGHT SECURITY SET
NEW YORK (UPI) - The
tightest security precautions in
New York's history will be tak
en today when President John
son makes a two-hour visit to
Mi v.
I Ui- Ts
Johnson Plans To Address
United Nations on Dec. 17
AT TEMPORARY QUARTERS Head held high, Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy and daughter Caroline arrive Dy wmte House limousine
at the home of W. Avercll Harriman, Undersecretary of State.
The former First Lady and her children moved out of the White
House Friday and will live temporarily in the house loaned to
them by Harriman. (UPI)
education and ability. A labor- attend the funeral 01 lormer
ing job would defeat our pur- Governor ana u. a. senator nei-
pose.
Ibert H. Lehman.
HS0)BRIEFS
RIM! FROM AROUND TH1 OlOM
SOVIET UNION REAFFIRMS POLICIES
MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet First Deputy Premier Anaslas
Mllnvan reaffirmed Saturday that the Soviet Union Is drdicaled
In a search for general disarmament and continuance of peace
ful coexistence with differing political systems.
tl KILLED IN AUTO-TRAIN CRASH
MIDLAND CITY. Ala. (UPI) A freight train with its whistle
screaming ploughed into an old-model station wagon at an un
guarded crossing Saturday killing 11 of the 12 persons In the
vehicle. All of the victims were related.
Conductors Reach
Agreement With
Pullman Company
WASHINGTON (UPI) The , gan in 1959 when the Order of
Conductors' Union and the Pull-1 Railway Conductors and Brake-
man Company reached agree- men (ORCB) demanded shorter
ment in a contract dispute bat- nours, more pay, jod security
urday that removed the threat of
a crippling railroad strike start
ing next Wednesday.
Labor Secretary W. Willard
Wirtz announced the settlement
following intensive mediation ef
forts by one of his top aides,
Assistant Labor Secretary
James J. Reynolds.
Saturday's agreement ended
a long-standing dispule that be-
Red Proposal
To Open Berlin
Wall Is Rejected
BERLIN (UPI) Communist
conditions unacceptable to the
West Saturday dasned nopes oi
West Berliners getting through
the Communist wall into East
Berlin for Christmas visits with
relatives and friends.
West Berlin Mayor Willy
Brandt rejected the terms at
tached to East Germany's of
fer to permit passage to the
Communist sector for the first
time since the anti-refugee wall
was erected Aug. 13, 1961.
Political Ends
Brandt said in a television
speech the Reds were trying
to use the issue of Christmas
passes for political ends that
could pose a threat to the city.
He said the West Berlin govern
ment could not allow that.
The East Germans reacted
sharply, accusing the West Ber
lin government of "torpedoing"
Ihc Communist plan for a holi
day relaxation of tension.
Hopes Erased
The opposing positions thus
erased the hopes tor holiday
WASHINGTON (UPD-Presi-dent
Johnson announced Satur
day he will address the UN Gen
eral Assembly in New York Dec.
17. He is expected to assure the
world of continued American
unity under his administration.
His announcement of this plan
to "establish an acquaintance"
with the United Nations dele
gates came in a surprise, infor
mal coffee klatsch new con
ference in his White House of
fice. The President also disclosed
to reporters:
McNamara to Saigon
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara will visit Saigon next
week as Mr. Johnson's personal
emissary to "be sure we are
getting maximum efficiency" in
South Viet Nam's U. S.-support-ed
war against Communist Vict
Cong guerrillas.
Johnson plans to see Mexi
can President Adolfo Lopez Ma
tcos and Canadian Prime Minis
ter Lester Pearson in Washing
ton, probably early next year.
A possible visit by French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle has not
been decided.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va.,
chairman of the lax-writing Sen
ate Finance Committee, has
agreed to make the proposed
$11.1 billion tax cut retroactive
to Jan. 1, 1964, as has Senate
OOP leader Everett M. Dirksen,
111. But Congress may not pass
the bill (or several weeks or
months after that date.
Johnson. has no present
plans to accept invitations to
visit foreign countries. -
He believes his administra
tion has made "very good prog.
ress In showing the continuity
in our transition" after the as
sassination of President Kenne
dy-
He has not decided on tne
format of news conferences aft
er the period of national mourn
ing ends 'Dec. 22, but "f want
Morrison Has
Big Lead In Race
For Governorship
Will Face Runoff
With Conservative
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) De
lesseps Morrison, an ambassa
dor in the Kennedy administra
tion, raced far ahead of nine
other candidates in the Louisi
ana Democratic gubernatorial
primary election Saturday night
and seemed certain of a spot
in a January runoff.
In second place was former
Gov, Robert Kennon, a conserv
ative who had campaigned on
an anti-Kennedy platfnrm until
the President was assassinated
Nov. 22. '
All candidates were pro-segregationists.
Has Big Lead
With 949 of 2,219 precincts re
porting, Morrison, former am
bassador to the Organization of
American States and nnelimo
New Orleans mayor, had 141,
fill votes to 59,887 for Kennon.
Third was Public Service Com
missioner John J. ' McKcithen
with 54,716. Fourth was Con
gressman Gillis Long, a member
I of the Long political dynasty,
with 50,341 and fifth was staunch
WASHINGTON (UPI) Gov- study the report. But further I segregationist Shelby Jackson
ernment sources said Saturday I details of the bizarre back- with -39,327. The other five can-
Sf . tTn ? i S,"S?Tn Uun ' awald wtor. to ft. omm were out ol. the running.
nedy and his accused killer, Lee 1,ov- .m"sr7 "l UB""n turnout approaching one mil-
to communicate with the Amer
ican people, maintain accessi
bility ... and a free flow of
information, limited only by se
curity." The President said he had not
yet decided whether to spend
Christmas at his ranch in Texas.
But he nlans to he there Dec.
28-29 for talks with West Ger
man Chancellor Ludwig Erhard.
The announcement date for this
meeting had been Dec. 27-28,
but it was understood from high
authority that the timing had
been revised by one day.
The administration is trying
to "reduce anything wo can"
budget-wise for the fiscal year
starting next July 1, but nothing
has been decided.
He will vote by absentee
ballot in a special congressional
election in Texas on Dec. 17,
the day of his UN address, to
fill the scat of Rep. Homer
Thornbcrry, D-Tex., who resign
ed to become a federal judge.
Mr. Johnson unexpectedly call
ed newsmen into his oval west
wing office just before noon to
"havn some coffee" and ask any
questions they wanted. Not since
Mr. Roosevelt was president 20
years ago has any chief execu
tive answered questions in this
way.
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said the Presi
dent may hold another such con
ference before the end of the
year.
FBI's Assassination
Report To Be Held
Up Another Week
Socialists Gel Say
In Italian Affairs
ROME (UPI) Pietro Nen-
ni's Socialists, once close allies
of the Communists, Saturday
night got a partial say in Ital
ian foreign policy, acicnse ana
internal security.
The 3- day - old Center - left
coalition cabinet of Premier
Aldo Mora in its first meeting
appointed Socialist undersecre
taries to the three key depart
ments, all of which are run by
ministers known as firm friends
Harvey Oswald, probably will
be kept under top secret wraps
tor at least another week.
Tne additional delay in mak
ing public any details' of the
FBI's findings was decided upon
to allow the Blue Ribbon Invos-
as continued to crop up. Uon voterg fnrccasl i,,.
, More Evidence IM-hour voting period.
The latest was a renort that 1 Negro Vote
further evidence has been found 1 Thirteen Negroes who regls-
linklng Oswald to the sniper at
tempt on the life of rightwing
rormer Maj. ucn. Krtwin A,
titration Commission headed by I Walker In Dallas last Aorll.
tinier Justice fart warren to The rhlmm Snn.TImM M
uie bi nas round a document
among Oswald s effects in which
the former Marine and one-time
defector to the Soviet Union
wrote of trying to kill Walker.
On the night of April 10,
cheer and a break in East-West j of the West,
relations produced by a prcma-1 The Christian Democratic prc
hire annnnnrpmpnl nn nassps i micr formed his coalition with
last night. About half the 2.5 ' the Socialists and with two
million West Berliners have rcl- i smaller parties on Wednesday
Basketball Scores
CHINESE CHARGE NAME-CALLING
LONDON (UPI) A Communist Chinese magaiine said Satur
day that Soviet Premier Nlkita Khrushchev once called Chinese
leader Mao Tse-lung "norn-out galosh" that should be dis
carded. KM AM. CROWD PAYS TRIBUTE AT PEARL HARBOR
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (UPI) A small crowd ol about
inn persons Saturday paid tribute In a brlrf ceremony to the
U. S. servicemen who died at Pearl Harbor 22 years ago.
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guarantees and rules changes.
The Labor Department did not
announce details of the settle
ment but it said that hours
would be reduced from 205 to
180 per month, effective Jan. 1.
The Conductors' Union had
threatened to strike the Pullman
Company in Chicago starting
Wednesday and gradually spread
the walkout over the lines using
Pullman cars.
Government officials said the
company's threat to close down
all its facilities and the refusal
of other rail workers to cross
conductors' picket lines might
have resulted in a nationwide
atives in the East.
West Berlin officials rejected
the Communist conditions on the
grounds they involve recogni
tion of the East German gov
ernment and undermine the le
gal position of West Berlin. The
city government wants the Reds
to issue the passes on the bor
der at the crossing points in the
wall.
after bitter horsetrading over
ministerial posts
HOPE GETS TREATMENT
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Bob
hope underwent his second
treatment for blood clot in his
left eye Saturday and his- phy
sician at Children's Hospital re
ported that the comedian was
resting quietly.
Sports Bulletins
I.inf Irlrl Ciillece junior var
sity, blaring wllli XI pnlnls In
the third riiartrr. drfralrd Hip
Medford High School l,Tkp
ball team 77-61 here last
night, tiiih Lamb pnnrrH In
n points for I lie Wildkillrns
and Gene Knrman 16. Bruce
Herlrand hail 13 (or Mid
lord. Quarter scores were
11-9 for Medford and 42-31)
and 61-53 for I. infield.
Saturday Night Scores
Oregon St. 91 Washington 60
OCE 85 OTI 71
Willamette 66 Portland St. 61 raj) tjeup.
wyom-ng iuu lexas iccnui
Colo. State 57 Arizona 45 rmftca-n
Southern Methodist 83 Okla-. K,LL1NG CO.M-bSS.fcl)
homa 72 I HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI) -
Rice 87 Louisiana Slate 72 A 46-ycar-old father of four, de
Arizona State 9.1 Wichita 87 j scribed as a youth leader in the
Colo. School of Mines 55 West-! 4-H, confessed Saturday night
minster Col. 54 j that he strangled a teen-aged
San Jose St. 74 Portland U. 61 girl nn a lover's lane shortly
Whiiwnrlh 86 U. of Idaho 6 I after she had left a Tolland
Gnnzaca W3 E. Mont. Col. 70 County 4-H club meeting, police I Illinois Valley 71 Del Norte 46
Pacific 112 Eastern Oregon 96 I said. 1 Rogue River S5 Crater JV 31
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C1IICO. Calif.-Chico Stale
downed Southern Oregon Col
lege ftfl-fil) in basketball here
last night. Chlco Ird 46-25 si
halftlnic. Jerry Shulis scored
26 points for SOC. Bill Tre
glown put in I!) for Chit-o.
Other I'rrp Scores
Phoenix 42 Glide 41
Policeman Admits
Seeing Ruby Enter
DALLAS (UPI) - A Dallas
policeman Salurday admitted
seeing Jack Ruby come into the
city hall basement several min
utes before he shot and killed
Lee Harvey Oswald, the Dallas
Times Herald said Saturday
night.
The Times Herald reported the
officer said, "Jack Ruby, Os
wald's assassin, came from the
north (Main Street) entrance
down the ramp. There wore
many police officers and press
representatives in the area.
"Ruby jumped out of the
crowd as Oswald passed Bnd
fired one shot point blank at
Oswald."
Dallas police officials declined
commenl on the report. An in
tensive investigation has been
undertaken to determine how
Ruby got into the building and
where he was immediately pri
or to the shooting.
tered in West Feliciana Parish
(County) last Oclober to break
a 62-year color bar, voted with
out incident. Of the 64 Louisi
ana Parishes, only Tensas had
no Negroes registered.
Morrison was the nre-eleclinn
frontrunner, accorriinn to nolit-
Ical experts and polls.
But were were so many can
didates for the Democratic cu-
rifle bullet was fired through ,"" T1 ' -
a window nf Walker's horn. ,S 8S Snd " election - that a
narrowly missing the former
general who is now an ardent
advocate, of conservative causes.
Sources have also confirmed
that the FBI has other evidence
linking Oswald to the Walker
episode. Oswald's Russian-born
wife has told the FBI that on
the night of the shooting, her
husband had told her that he
had tried to kill the general.
Comment Declined
The FBI has declined com
menl on the reports but it is
known that the federal agency
has asked Dallas police for full
particulars of the Walker case.
The purported document, ac
cording tn the Sun-Times, was
found when FBI agents search
ed both Oswald's family home
in Irving, Texas, and his lodg
ing house in Dallas immediate
ly after the Kennedy assassination.
runoff between the two top men
seemed inevitable.
To get a clear victory, n can
didate would havo In got.
many votes as all his opponents
combined, plus one. All guber
natorial candidates were seg
regationists, but Morrison and
Long subordinated the racial is
sue in their campaigns.
Jury Awards $6,150
In Prospect Case
A . Jackson Counly Circuit
Court jury Friday returned a
verdict of $6,150 for Ihe taking
of 3.7 acres and d.im.iRns lo
remaining properly of Marian
Nye Bean Bossier near Pro-i-pect.
Highest appraisal for tho
property made by appraisers
for Mrs. Bossier was $10,750.
The property was taken lor re
aligning Oregon 62.
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IIIMItON-Ct'TTING Medford city officials snd a group of down
town businessmen gathered Friday tn cut a ribbon and nper. the
new off-street parking lot at Sixth Street and Central Avenue,
sile nf Ihe old Federal Building. Shown here (I. to r.) are City
Manager Robert Duff, Otto Frohnmayer and Cliff Iivejoy, mem-
hers of the executive board of Park and Shop corporation; Frrd
Robinson, who will operate Ihe lot; Mayor James Dunlevy; Ex
ecutive Board Memher John Crawford (behind Dunlevy); City
Attorney William Mansfield; and John Molfat, executive board
member.
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