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COi 21 Die in Fkn'das Shtei Blaze "If kill yiiflt !E!tE !;!'' iff v ft. 1.1 f f I if III' - If" " 5',T 21 DIE IN BLAZE This general view shows ihe exterior of the Roosevelt Hotel in Jacksonville, Fla., where a Sunday blaze has claimed at least 21 lives. A rescue heli copter can be seen picking up survivors from the roof after a fire swept the football-fan-packed hotel. Many others were injured by smoke inhalation. UPI Telephoto I into rtVriOi '" FRED HEARD Fred Heard Files Name For Clerk Fred Heard, a 23-yoar-old first-year instructor at Klamath Union High School, declared his candidacy for tin? office of coun ty clerk at the courthouse early today. He became the second Re publican candidate to compete for the elective post in the May primaries since Mildred M. Bin ney. deputy county treasurer, filed her declaration of candi dacy last Friday. Charles DeLap, incumbent for the past 20 years, who has served in the county clerk's of fice since 1008, has indicated he will not run for reelection. ' In a statement released to the press early today. Heard faid, "Local government is the grass roots of our democracy a n d freedom, and I feel that local poicrnment, particularly the of fice of county clerk, should be strong, vigorous, and articulate. "It is you and I and all of us that make it live, and the life of government by the peo ple begins at the ircal level. Tlie ofticc of count v clerk is tlie foundation, the btrlwark f the people's government. 'it must be vigorous and it must be ohwe to you, the peo ple, and I will give my solid support to keep it that way," the statement concluded. Heard will also announce his candidacy during a reception ooen to tlie public during the hours of B o'clock to. in.3n to night, at 111 South Eleventh 6treet. The candidate was born in Prineville and at the age of 3 moved to this city with his par ent. Mr. and Mrs. DarrcU Heard. The elder Heard has been an mplme "f Southern l'ai-i;r Railroad suue mil. cung Hoard graduated from Klamath I'nion High Srhnol in 1933 and obtained his B S. de gree in secondary education from Southern Oregcn College (Continued on Page 4) i 1 ft! - LBJ Calls Conference On Military Spending .JOHNSON. Tex. (UPI) Pres ident Johnson, after two days of intensive personal diplomacy Willi West German Chancellor Ludwig Krhard, today called budget conferences with the military high command and his fiscal experts. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and tlie Joint Chiefs of Staff were to begin talks with the President at the LBJ Ranch late in the morning, stay through lunch then resume dis cussion of the big defense budg et for fiscal 1965. The White House said the Joint Chiefs would hold a 4 p.m., EST, news conference at press headquarters in Austin. Shortly after Erhard depart ed for Bonn early Sunday night Budget Director Kermit Gordon, and Walter Heller, chairman of the President's Council of Eco nomic Advisers, arrived at the ranch for dinner and evening discussions with the Chief Ex ecutive. They were expected to see him again today. The White House said the Gordon-Heller mission to the ranch was threefold to discuss the new budget, the President's State of the Union message and annual economic report which will go to Congress late next month. Erhard and Johnson discussed prickly East-West relations, and possible avenues to peace. The meeting was cordial and ended with a pledge for a new de gree of cooperation and consul tation between Germany and the United States. The chancellor was barraged with Texas hospitality. He ate the traditional barbecue of the Ex -Nazi FRANKFURT. Germany i UPI i A former guard at tlie Auschwitz Nazi death camp shouted his innocence today be fore a court trying him and 21 other defendants on charges of mass murder. Oswald Kaduk. 57. accused of breaking prisoners' necks with a mountain-climbing pick, said he would havr remained in Communist East Germany if he had known he would face trial on the charges in the West He appeared on the witness stand as West Germany's big gest war crimes trial resumed following ID-day Chri.-tmai ro-es. If 1 had known there wm i much injustice here. I would not have come," Kaduk shouted defiantly. "Honorable court I have al ready been sentenced and par doned. I stand here innooen'.," he reported. hills, wore a 10-gallon hat, and attended a Lutheran church Sunday with Johnson at the German American town of LFraleticksburg. .The Rev. Wil liam Durkop preached his ser mon in German. After Erhard left. Johnson re turned to domestic problems, met with advisers and readied himself for today's meeting with Ihe nation's military leaders. Foreign Aid Bill Okayed WASHINGTON IUPD - The Senate today approved the $.1 billion compromise foreign aid money bill, paving flic way for congressional adjournment In day. The vote came less tlian four hours after the Senate met and agreed to limit debate. Despite grumblings of some members about the need for meeting to day and a last stand attack on lle aid program by Sen. Wayne L. Morse, D-Ore., the Senate did not even use all of its allotted time on the bill. ' Senate leaders hoped lo clean up remaining routine business and wind up the longest con gressional session in 22 years by nightfall. The roll call approval of the money bill, a vote on which the prestige of Johnson administra tion was pinned, came after Democratic Leader Mike Mans field. Mont., won the agree ment to limit debate. Guard Shouts Innocence Kaduk. a heavy-set former butcher and hospital attendant, said a Soviet army court sen tenced him to death after World War It but then pardoned him. He said he was released from Ea.st Germany's Bautzen Prism in 19.V). He fled to West Berlin. Among the accusations against Kaduk is tlie chare. Ihat he selected 111 children for burning and made Russian pris oners stand naked in the snow until they died. Christmas trees and card board cherubs still flanked tlie I doors of the Frankfurt city hall, j where the defendants were be I ing tried in tlie council cham- her. the only cily facility big ' enough for tlie trial. The 22 men were charged with participating in the mur der of an estimated 2 5 to 4 mil lion persons mostly Jews dur ing World War II in the camp ai Auschwitz, Poland, now JACKSONVILLE. Ma. iUPI Authorities meet today in aa effort to determine the cause of a fire that killed 21 persons and injured 60 others in the 14 story Roosevelt Hotel, filled to capacity with Gator Bowl foot ball fans, including Miss Amer ica. ' I have a pretty good klea what the cause was," city fire Marshal E. C. McDermott said hours after deadly black smoke billowed thi'ouu'h the hotel but declined to make further com ment. A terrified woman leaped or fell to her death from the sev enth floor while scores of the hotel's 4i9 guests w ere craw ling to safety cn makeshift ropes of sheets and blankets. Others were rescued from the roof by helicopters and firemen raised ladders to the lower floors of the. 50-year-old build ing to bring others to safety. Authorities said that appar ently all of the victims except the woman who plummeted from the seventh floor were killed bv the choking smoke that curled up elevator shafts. stairwells, air ducts and even loose pipe fittings, making some exits impassable. Weatlior Klamath Falli, Tutelahe and Lakt view: Mostly cloudy through Tuesday with showers possible late Tuesday. Patchy H9. Lows tonight 15-30; hiqhs Tuesday 31-45. Southerly winds J-U High yesterday 31 Low this morning 3 High year ago ' Low year aqo 7 Precip. past 34 hours .00 Since January 1 10. 5 Same period last yar 14.94 md Khrushchev Sees 1964 As Year Of Improved Western Relations MOSCOW tUPl) Premier NikitajS. Khrushchev jsaid to day that 19M can be "a year of decisive change for the bet ter" in the cold war if the Unit ed States and the Soviet Union "are united in Ihe interest of peace." In an exclusive statement to United Press International an swering this correspondent's questions on the prospects for peace in MM, Khrushchev said he believes agreement can be reached on a number of steps toward relaxing international tensions, including reduction of armed forces and military spending on both sides. He quoted with approval the words of the late President Ken nedy that the two nations need a better weapon tlian the hy drogen bomb or missiles "and that this better weapon is peace ful cooperation." He said President Johnson's slated intention to carry on Kennedy's policies has been met with gratification in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev cited Soviet budg et cuts for military spending earlier this month and said: "It would be a good thing if other states look similar ac tion ... 1 would call it a policy of mutual example in the curtailment of the arms race." Khrushchev listed these areas of possible agreement: Hie slowing down of the arms race and further allevia tion of international tensions. Cites Arms Reduction Reduction in Ihe armed known as Oswiecim. Most of the defendants ay peared nervous when today's session opened. Their hands fidgeted and some had visibly twitching muscles. Many gave excuses of their conduct and one did a little boasting. "I was responsible for pre venting escapes and while I held lhat job Auschwitz had the lowest escaie rate of all Ger man camps," said Wilhelm Boger, 56. the former Nazi Ges tapo (secret police I agent de scribed by the prosecution as the camp's crudest guard. Boger said he felt sorry for the inmates of AiiM-hwitz. how ever. Hnlicrt Mulka. WI. a former SS lEhle Guard i captain, told the court tliat when he became adjutant to commandant Rudolf Hoess in 1942, "I did not know it was an extermination camp " Hoess and two other former 1 The fire, which broke out at 7:45 am. EST. collapsed Ihe first floor but the (lames could not spread because the brick structure was fire-proofed. Aliss America, Donna Axum. was trapped in her 10th floor room for an hour before she managed to escape. Slie held a news conference in a hospital to announce she was unharmed JACKSONVU.l.K, Kin. (I'I'll A list of the dead in Ihe Koosrvelt Hotel fire: 1. R. A. Patrick. Macon. Ga. ' 2. Max Kahn Jr., 372.1 Cloud land Drive, Atlanta. 3. Mrs. Max Kahn Jr., same address, Atlanta. 4. Walter K. Duprce, KI5 North Avenue. Atlanta. ' S. William fi. Carpenter. Or lando. Fla. 6. Mrs. William C. Carpenter, Orlando, Fla. 7. James Romedy, assistant fire chief, Jacksonville. 8. John Hill Jr., 1213 Winhurn Drive. East Point, da. 9. W. H. MrLcmore, Vidalia, tia. : HI, Mrs. Bess Roherlson, (luil sden, Ala. Price Ten Cents 10 Pages vtf Planus ireg)ui forces and cuts in military ex penditures... : - , . .. The reduction "of armeJ forces stationed in oilier coun tries. A non-aggression pact be tween the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO! and the Communist Warsaw Treaty powers. The establishment of nuclear-free zones and agreement In prevent the spread of nu clear weapons. "An effort should be made to restrict the arms race, step by step, thereby fostering a favor able atmosphere for the radical solution of this issue through general and complete disarma ment" Khrushchev said. Addressing himself to the pen pic of the United Slates, he said: "In the coming year we want to see the development of rela tions of peaceful cooperation, good ncighbnrliness and friend ship between the people of Ihe United States and the Soviet Union. Friendship is Important "This is important for our countries. It is important for other nations, too." Arguing that the Soviet Union needs peace to advance its am bitious economic plans, Khrush chev said: "The American people, we ! believe, do not want war either. The Soviet people are gratified lo note that many people in Ihe U.S., including prominent fig ures, believe it necessary to seek ways to bring about mu Auschwitz commandants are dead. On trial now are their subordinates, tlie "little help ers" of Hitler. Had Knee Injury Karl Hoeckcr, 51, another Hoess adjutant, said he served at Auschwitz "only because a knee injury kept me from serv ice at the front " More than 250 witnesses from 15 nations have been called to testify at the trial, which is ex pected to last six to eight months. The three professional judges and six lay judges waived the reading of the full indictment, i which is four times as long as Die Rlhlr. The trial is Ihe larcesl ever .staged by West Germans. In 19 W, an international military tribunal tried 22 top Nazis at Nuernberg. It sentenced 12 to death, 7 to prison terms and acquitted 3. shortly after fleeing Ihe build ing clad in a fur coat over pa jamas. Bright orange Navy helicop ters, battling updrafts from the heat, hovered over the root and took off injured persons. Of tlie nO persons taken to hospitals, 1 were admitted. Screams pierced the air and a policeman with a megaphone . II. Jim Kwirk, Alachua, I'la. ' 12, Mrs. Fna Nivick, Alachua, Fla. 13. W. W. Ilildingrr, Buffalo. N.V. 14. J. V. Cohen. 3510 Roswell ltd.. Atlanta. 15. Mrs. J. C, Cuhcn, same address, Atlanta. 16. Mrs. Marlon K. Curry, (reelisboro, N'.C. 17. Murray Sherman, Jack sonville, Fla. 18. Mrs. Murray Sherman. Jacksonville. Fla. The Sher mans were residents of the ho tel. 19. Paul Aran!, Pageland, S.C. 211. Ida C. Fish. III! Lexing ton Avenue, New York. 21. Sadie Cllrcn, 110 Lexing ton Avenue, New York. KLAMATH KALUS. OKKOON, tual understanding and achieve agrccmenlR,..' .peaceful scltlp ments, on disputed problems." Khrushchev endorsed the late President Kennedy's policy of peaceful cooperation and ex pressed satisfaction that Presi dent Johnson has declared his intention to continue that policy. Recalls Kennedy's Words "One recalls the words of President Kennedy, who died so tragically," the premier said, "that our countries need a bel ter weaKin than the hydrogen bomb, a weapon more perfect than ballistic missiles or nu clear submarines, and that this better weapon is peacellil cooperation." Greek, Turk Cypriots Approve Truce Offer NICOSIA, Cyprus il I'll British Commonwealth Rela tions Secretary Duncan Sandys announced today both Greek and Turkish Cypriots have ac cepted his proposal for a neu tral zone along the ceasefire line in Nicosia. Disengagement in the zone .started immedialely and offi cials hoped it would be com pleted by this evening. Sandys made the announce ment after presiding over a 13 hour meeting of a political liai son committee representing all sides to which he put his pro posals for halting bloodshed on the island. The meeting ended just before dawn. Tlie cease-fire line was sel up Saturday. Sandys' plan laid down tlie withdrawal of Greek and Turkish Cypriot fighters from their stronghokls along die line and the establishment of Ihe neutral zone by Utritish troops. Sandys look the proposal to President Markarios at his pal ace this morning for bis 'ap proval on behalf of the islands Greek Cypriots. British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Clark carried it to Vice President Fazil Kucbuk's residence at noon for his ap- proval on behalf of the Turkish CyprM communily. A half-hour ol sharp gunfiir in Nicosia Sunday broke into the tense (nice bul there were no reports of casualties. 'Last week's battles and snipings on the island were estimated to have killed 200 persons. Inlmmed sources saw! alien- stood in tlie street urging guests not to jump from the windows. Crawled Through Halls tiucsts crawled through the halls and hid in bathrooms, hut many of them suffocated in the murky smoke. "It was awful," said a sur vivor, "mie worst thing you could imagine. One man found a way out and didn't come back to tell anyone." 'Firemen rescued tlie Manhat tan College basketball team, here for the Gator Bowl bas ketball tournament, from the fourth floor windows. Tlie Uni versity of Florida basketball team, also housed in Hie Roo sevelt, escaped unharmed. -Mast of the dead were found above the seventh floor. The smoke was thickest in the up per rooms. Hundreds of dazed survivors vandered tlie streets around the hotel clad in night clothes and. in some cases, only towels. ' The Gator Bowl football teams North Carolina and tlie Air Force Academy were quartered in other hotels near by, as were other basketball teams here for the Gator Bowl basketball tournament. MONDAY, DKCKMItKR .10. 1!K11 Khrushchev went on to say, "the slated intention of the new President of the l).S Lyndon Johnson, to continue in foreign affairs the policy of peaceful settlement of international prob lems, of improving relations with the Soviet Union and call ing a halt lo the cold war, has been met with gratification in this country. We too are in fa vor of this. "If Ihe efforLs of our two countries and of the other stales are united in the interest of eace, then the coming year of lHM can undoubtedly become a year of decisive change for the better in the entire internation al .situation." lion was focused on Nicosia as the "heart of the problem." The crisis centers on Presi dent Archbishop Markarios's plan to change the three-year-old const itut km. Tlie constitu tion, as it now stands, gives certain minority rights to Ihe island's Turks who make up only 2(1 icr cent of the popula tion here and these Turks lear any change will wie mil Ihese righls. 7P; m t v' IP 1 I tv k-f'f M-'ii k ' JW'5 t i ' V f f- fi ""A ' '"'jf 'J1 . I-" Y,, ' .'i'iiJ t ' -V v. ". RITES HELD FOR VICTIMS Coffins containing bodies of six Greek Cypriots killed in recent violence are carried into church in Nicosia, Cyprui, for funeral services. Heavy firing broke out in fhe Turkish sector of this city Sunday. Late reports indicate : both sides have agreed to a temporary truce. UPI TelephotoJ It . fe l ci AWAITING RESCUE This close-up view of ihe back of ihe Roosevelt Hotel in Jacksonville, Fid., shows bed sheets hanging from windows and guests sticking their heads out to escaoe smoke-fillod rooms. Death toll so far has hit 21, most of them ihe Gator Bowl game. Telephone TU 4-RIII No. TOlfi fte SALEM (UPI) Gov. comed New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller into Oregon's 19(34 presidential primary "as I do any aspirant for the Republican nomination. . . ." Rockefeller announced in New York Sunday Vir would enter the primary and that William E. Walsh of Coos Bay, president of the Oregon Board of Higher Education, would he his state campaign manager. Hatfield, who has been mentioned as a possible nominee for vice president oh "a Rockefeller ticket, earlier invited GOP pres idential candidates to en tor the Oregon primary. "I Kvolrome him ns I do any aspirant for the Republican nomination lo the presidency," he said. Rockefeller's announcement came as no surprise since he already had declared himself a candidate for the nomination. Under Oregon's unique primary law he would have been on tlie ballot anyway. .Strong Campaign Likely Hut his announcement does. In all probability, mean he will campaign extensively in Ihe si ale. in Coos Hay, Walsh said that in accepting the apX)inlmciit as state chairman of the Rockefel ler campaign, "I am joining a team of RcMihlicans who have n candidate for 'President who is not only eminently qualified for that high office, but one who can unite all Republicans for victory next November." Walsh indicate! Rockefeller planned to visit Oregon in early February. The announcement from Rock efeller headquarters said Walsh would resign his education po sition in January lo devote full lime lo Ihe Rockefeller cam paign. Walsh has been in Republican politics for many years. In 1!."2 he was a delegale In the COP national convention which nom L f " ITT" r football fans in town for UPI Telephoto VaUnr EXTENDED OUTLOOK Timpffriturtt continuing bova onil levtls with highs U-4S and lowt 31-30 next ftm diyi. Nut precipitation Indlcottd lot Tuttday or on Wednes day. Ww Mark. HatficM today wel inated IDwight J. Elsenhower. He said he probably would i nn for delegate to the ,1!M con vention, " Walsh served 12 years as a legislator and was president of the slate Senate in 1!M. 1 Walsh said iRockefeller has shown "ho is a middle of the road leader of national stature. He cannot only lead us to vic tory as Republicans, but he has the ability and understanding lo lead this country of ours to a fuller and happier destiny among the great nations of the world." Goldwafer Sets Date WASHINGTON lUPH Sen. Barry M. Goldwnter.' R -Ariz , today asked Arizona Republican leaders lo meet with him Jan. 3 in Phoenix "lo hear my de cision regarding l!M." The message apparently set the stage for Goldwoter's an nouncement as to whether or not he would actively seek the I'M GOP presidential nomina tion. He earlier had said hi? w-oiild make his decision in Jan uary. Goldwaler made the an. nouneemeiil in a telegram from Phoenix when' he is recupera ting from minor surgery on his right heel. f H 4 f i t V