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-L- 1: Serving The 1 Greater Mattccn Area Since 1856 Recommended Edi.orfcl cn Mental Health-Page 4 105th Year No, 298 -Charter Membr Audit Bureau of CircuUtiom Member Associated Press All Phones Cuban Antiaircraft Batteries Await ridel Castro Carpentier Rules Out House nless Democrats j. Jit -s a. fc 7 jL: GOP Tries to Round Up Ailing State Legislators Whips Cuba Br RICHARD VALERJANI HAVANA Wt Troops were en tho move everywhere today In this Caribbean Island once a avorit winter play pound aa Fidel Castro kept his nation In a frenzy to fifht, off the invasion he claims is coming from the United States. The United States termed Castro's latest invasion charge ridicu lous, and a majority of the UJf Security Council said after two days of debate the Cubans had not "'proved the change. But the Cuban regime put on the most intensive military display it could muster.

A wave of searchers of Roman Catholic organizations and the arrest of at least nine Catholic Into Frenzy 'A four-barrelled anti-aircraft gun, manned by civilian militia- men, goes up along Havana's 18 Perish in Hotel Blaze students or teachers was reported, but it was not immediately clear whether a widespread movement against the church or its affiliates was under way. Antiaircraft and antitank guns studded Malecon, Havana's picturesque seafront that in pre-Css-tro days was a favorite promenade for tourists at this time of year mostly Americans. Artillery emplacements sprouted throughout the rest of Havana and Its suburbs. The capital resounded to the movement of grim-faced civilian soldiers. Militia men and women patrolled rooftops with machine-guns at the ready.

Hundreds of blue uniformed teen-agers, members of the revolutionary youth organization, carried burp guns and bazookas into the elegant Hotel Nadonal overlooking the Oulf of Mexico. The military activity cast a shadow across the "Day of Three Kings" the traditional gift-giving day in Latin, America which ends the Christmas holiday season. Castro has charged that the Eisenhower administration is preparing to invade by 18, two days before it leaves office. If U. S.

troops do not Invade, Castro Inauguration Of Governor Set, But- SPRINGFIELD, 111. The whole affair may not come off Monday, but a detailed program for Otto Kemer's Inauguration as Illinois' 33rd governor was an nounced today. The raging battle between Re publicans and Democrats over the House speakership threatens to throw a monkeywrench Into the elaborate plans. The House and Senate may not get together in joint session to canvass the election results a necessary step before state off! cials can be Inducted. Nevertheless.

Kerner and his family intend to arrive in Spring field Sunday and wait it out at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Thousands of visitors from all parts of the state also are com ing, not only for thewearing In ceremony set for 12:30 p. m. but for the festive inaugural ball In the evening.

State Democratic officials say they will hold the ball, regardless of whether the inauguration takes place, The Legislature will return for a regular meeting only a few hours before Kerner and four other newly-elected state officers are supposed to raise their right hands and repeat the oath spoken by Chief Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the state Supreme Court, The House, under the disputed soeakershiD of Democrat Paul Powell, is slated to meet at 9 a. Republicans are expected to boy cott the session. The peaceful Senate will at 10 a. m.

meet Tiirea tber Democrats and one Republican are slated to take their oaths with Kerner. They are Samuel H. Shapiro of Kankakee, lieu tenant governor-elect; Michael Howlett of Chicago, auditor-elect; William G. Clark, attorney gener al-elect. and Secretary of State Charles F.

Carpentier, the lone Re publican. Carpentier is a central figure in the House speakership battle. Boeing Produces New Model of B52 WICHITA, Kan. WJ A new model of the B52 bomber with more power and more punch is ready for the Air Force. The first B52H rolled out of the Boeing Airplane Co.

plant here Thursday. Perched beneath Its wings were two test models of the Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile. Both the range and the thrust of the B52H will exceed that of its predecessors, B52G. Eight jet engines provide 1,000 pounds of thrust, an Increase of about 4,000 pounds. Without giving any de tails, the Air Force said the B52H will have 10,000 miles more range.

The Skybolt missile can fly 000 miles after leaving the bomb er. This is twice as far as the Hound Dog missiles mounted aboard the B52G. The Skybolt Is scheduled to be ready for combat use in 1964. AD 5-5656 Pric 7 Cents Meeting rtk. Preside SPRINGFIELD, I1L (Secretary of State Charles F.

Carpentier said today then will be no Illinois inauguration Monday anless Democrats agree to organize the House with himself as presiding officer. Carpentier, a Republican, said he would reconvene the House "subject to being assured that the reconvening can be conducted in an orderly fashion." Carpentier said he was stand ing by hliTposltlon that Democrat Paul Powell was Illegally elected speaker Wednesday. The secretary said the validity of "every future action of the House is in question until the constitutional requirements are fol lowed." Powell has taken the position that he was properly elected because Carpentier walked out of the House organization meeting. Earlier, a GOP Senate leader proposed a solution similar to that announced by Carpentier. Sen.

George Drach of Spring field, taking the role of mediator in the House speakership dispute, told newsmen, "I'm trying to get something rolling." Powell said Carpentier had made no compromise offer to him. I havent been offered an olive branch," declared PowelL Carpentier was presiding officer Wednesday when he declared the House in recess and walked out of the chamber with Republican House members. Democrats went ahead on their own votes and elected Powell as speaker. Drach said any court would rule that the House was In recess when Powell was named speaker by Democrats, and his election was illegal. But Powell retorted: "How does Drach know how the courts will rule? He's no more a constitutional lawyer than I am." Drach said he thought the House should reconvene in full session Monday the day Gover nor-elect Otto Kerner Is scheduled to be inaugurated even If Re publicans lose the speakership.

The GOP has an 89-88. House majority but absent Republican members have made the majority Impotent. NYC Changes Time Of Train No. 312 The New York Central Railroad today announced a change in the schedule of its No. 312 passenger train, the Southwestern Limited.

The train will arrive in Mattoon at 10:45 am. and depart at 10:55 seven days a week. The new schedule went into effect today. Previously, the Southwestern Limited arrived at 12:35 pjn. and departed at 12:45 pm.

The change is part of a plan of the New York Central to provide different scheduling between St. Louis and New York. The Weather Mattoon Temperature p. m. 51 GREATER MATTOON AREA Fair and mild through Saturday.

Low tonight mid 20s. High' Saturday SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Fair and mild through Saturday. High 50-55 north to 60 in south. Low mid 30s Five Day Forecast Southern Illinois temperatures will average 6-12 degrees above normal. Normal high 40-45 ex treme south, 33-40 elsewhere.

Nor mal low 22-32 extreme south, 16-22 elswhere. Colder Monday night or Tuesday. Precipitation about .25 of an inch or less as rain Mob-' day and Tuesday. Yesterday's Temperatures High Low Mattoon 47 Albuquerque 46 Chicago 40 Cleveland 39 Denver 45 Detroit 39 33 20 33 31 18 30 30 28 48 38 30 61 47 32 38 34 36 Helena 44 Indianapolis 46 Los "Angeles 72 Louisville 49 Memphis 55 Miami 70 New Orleans 54 New York 35 Phoenix 70 St. Louis 54 San Francisco a 44 Seattle 52 Washington 40 44 28 Yesterday's Precipitation This Yr.

To Data TO Date Ave. ThisYr. Last Yr. 16-Yr. 0 .01 .01 .70 Mattoon Skies Sunrise .7:17 a jn.

Sunset 4:35 p.m., Moonrlse 9:09 pm. Moonset 9:47 im, 'Enemy' background is the once-luxurious Habana Riviera Hotel. Referendum Under Yay In Algeria By ANDREW BOROWIEC ALGIERS VTI The Algerian countryside bristled with police roadblocks and troop patrols today as voting began on President Charles de Gaulle's plan to give Algeria local self-government now and a chance to vote for independence If the bloody rebellion ends. The voting started In apparent calm throughout the Algerian countryside, but in Algiers four bombs aimed at the power lines of Radio Algiers went off Just before It was to carry De Gaulle's final appeal for support of his proposals. The bombs caused major damage, but did not stop re- lay of the speech.

De Gaulle called once more for a massive "yes" vote so that ne gotiations with all factions on Al geria's future could be arranged "with the smallest delay pos' sible." Speaking from Paris to the nearly 27 million voters of France who on Sunday will decide the outcome of the referendum, he implied that if his plan is defeat' ed, forces outside France would impose a solution in Algeria. To vote "no" would be to recognize that the problem would not be re solved by France, he said. In Algeria, 3.9 million Moslems, 700,000 French colonists and 340, 000 soldiers in the French army were eligible to vote. The voting is in the villages today, in the towns Saturday and In the big cities Sunday. France also votes Sunday.

Associated Press correspondent David Mason toured several out' lying districts in the tense area around Or an and reported all was orderly. He said the initial turnout indicated little enthusiasm among the French settlers but a better response from the Mos lems. Howard R. Ordel Of Windsor Dies Howard R. Ordel, 65, Windsor died at 5 ajn.

today at Memorial Hospital following a long illness. He had been in the hospital 12 days. Funeral services will be at 1 m. Sunday at the Lovins funeral home, Windsor, with Rev. William Stanley officiating.

Burial will be in Locust cemetery, Philo. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Saturday. Mr. Ordel was born Feb.

1, 1896, in Champaign County, a son of Sam and Lena Mattox Ordel. He had been in the business most of his life. He married Lulu Goddard of Windsor Sept. 22, 1917. She sur vlves.

Besides his wife he leaves i stepdaughter, Mrs. John Myers, Windsor. Shoe Sale PhlDDs' semi-annual clearance includes of pairs of women's shoes, $350 to chil dren's 'shoes $350 to men's shoes $6.90 to $950. Save' up to $3 a pair. See them I 1-8 Dance Saturday night.

Jokers of Rhythm Orchestra. 1-7 Let Him Call For Possible Cut in Taxes By MARVIN ARROWSMITH NEW YORK (J) President' elect John F. Kennedy has under study a call for temporary income! tax cuts In the spring if the busi ness slump takes a serious turn for the worse. The call was sounded Thursday night by a committee appointed by Kennedy to evaluate the state of the nation's economy. It record mended that the new admlnlstxa' tlon act swiftly to put into effect a shear of emergency measures designed to achieve recovery with out resort to tax reductions in these times of international crisis The study group, In a report! sprinkled with Indirect criticism of the Eisenhower adminlstra tion's handling of the business fall- off, said these measures are ur gently needed And the committee, headed by economist Paul A.

8amueIson of Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, said there should be no blind adherence to a concept of a balanced budget in times business recession. of Kennedy, who recently ex pressed concern about what he termed lack of vigor In the eoon omy, had no immediate comment on the report. It was made public after he had reviewed the document with Sam- uelson; Dr. Walter W. Heller, Un iversity of Minnesota economist chosen to be chairman of the in coming president's Council of Economic Advisers- and James Tobin, Yale University economist, whose appointment to the council was announced by Kennedy Thurs day night.

As the other member of the three man council, Kennedy named Kermlt Gordon, the Ford Foundation's director of economic1 development and administration. Herter Briefs Senate Group WASHINGTON (tfl-Secretary of State Christian A. Herter today gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a confidential briefing on foreign trouble spots. two subjects wnich came up were the civil war in Laos and the Cuban crisis. A briefing of another sort will take place here later in the day when President-elect John F.Kennedy arrives from New York.

Dean Rusk, who will succeed Herter, will help Kennedy formulate foreign policy moves the new administration may have to make soon after it takes over on Jan. 20. Rusk has been working with State Department officials the past several weeks and has been keeping In touch with Kennedy by telephone. On aspects of the Cuban situation, Herter is apt to get a sym pathetic ear from the Chairman J. William Fulbright, and most of the other members have already voiced approval of President Elsenhower's severance of diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Conduct Funeral Rites For Mrs. Nancy Milam Funeral services were conducted at 2 today at the Mitchell- Jerdan funeral home for Mrs. Nancy Ella Milam, of 2001 DeWltt. Dr. A.

Mont Massey officiated and burial was in Dodge Grove ceme tery. Mrs. Carroll Faris sang "Going Home" and "In the Garden" accompanied at the organ by Mrs, Cecil Barrow. Pallbearers were George Sen-rader, Charles Chism, John Brink- ley, William Lucler, John Asklns and Edward Littleton. Mrs.

Milam died at 9:25 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. Bookkeeping And tax service. Income tax re turns by appointment. Bob Clod elder.

Phone AD 4-9642. 1-6U By STAN KOVEN CHICAGO UPI A handful of ailing, disgruntled or rebellious Republicans are under close surveillance by GOP leaders intent on asserting majority will In the Illinois House. The sick list claims four mem bers. Two others show signs of ignoring the will of the GOP cau cus, which nominated Rep. Wll Ham E.

Pollack of Chicago for the speakership. Republicans hold 89 seats In the new assembly, Democrats 88. But the GOP, unable to muster full strength at the opening session Wednesday, bolted the House. And after they departed, the Demo crats voted 88 0 to give Paul Powell of Vienna the speakership Powell's claim to election was contested In a court suit filed Thursday by Republican leaders, In the meantime, party leaders have set up visiting committees to attend the bedsides of three Republican members In Chicago Their hope is to persuade the bed ridden to attend a full session of the House Monday In Springfield They are Reps. Peter J.

Miller, Walter C. McAvoy and August J. Ruf. In addition, Rep. John P.

Manning of Rochelle is hospital ized In Rockford. But even if these four should recover In time for the session a Chicagoan and a downstate are considered threats to a united Re publican front. Rep. Michael Zlatnlk of Chicago told a reporter he does not intend to vote for Pollack. Differences with Pollack spawned in the prl mary and election campaigns will force him to vote "present" on speakership roll call, he would be said.

A an as sist to Powell. C. L. McOormick. who halls from Powell's home town of Vienna, Ignored the GOP caucus which nominated Pollack and therefore may not consider himself bound to the caucus choice.

MoCormiok has refused to be pinned down on his personal choice for speaker. The three ailing Chicago members hold jobs with the Democratic controlled Chicago Sanitary District, a circumstance which promoted GOP leaders to suggest they had been pressured Into staying away from Springfield. Warren Sheets, Greenup Resident, Dies at 46 SdicIii to th Journil-Gtielt GREENUP, 111. Warren Sheeks, 46, Greenup, died at 10:25 a.m Thursday at the Peters Shelter Care here where he had been a patient two months. He had been ill for some time.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hiles funeraj home here with Rev. Lewis Russell of Lerna officiating. Burial will be in Plainfield cemetery near Rose' Hill. He was born May 24, 1914, In Mllford, a son of Orvile and Maude Shelley Sheeks.

He was a mechanic and a welder, Among survivors are his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Or vile Sheeks, near Greenup; two sons, Jerry Warren Sheeks, Warsaw, and Terry Eugene Sheeks, with the U. S. Army in Germany, and a sister, Mrs.

Edith Malone, near Rosf Hill, 14 Deaths he had gone, but added that he had no public comment to make. A day after the probe started, the health department ordered Weiner, 43, an osteopathic physl clan specializing in psychiatry, to stop giving injections to his pa tients. It said it took the step as an emergency disease control measure." A health department spokesman said Weiner apparently gave injections of various drugs to calm his patients and it is possible the apparatus he used may have Intro duced the hepatitis virus into their blood. The State Board of Medical Ex amlners "suspended Weiner's 11 cense Dec. 21 on a temporary basis mending outcome of its probe.

Atty. Gen. David D. Furman said his office is conducting an investigation to see if Weiner's license should be suspended permanently or if any criminal prosecution should be undertaken. seafront drive to repel what Ttdel Castro has said is an "imminent" Invasion from the U.

In the By HARRY JUPITER SAN FRANCISCO At least 18 persons were killed today as fire swept through the Thomas Hotel In downtown San Francisco. It was the worst fire here In more than a decade and came on one of the coldest mornings In the city's history. The four-story structure at 971 Mission St. had 160 cheap-priced rooms and all but 14 were oc cupied when the fire broke out1 about 5 am. Fire Chief William Murray said it started in a mattress in a first' floor room and spread to the rear of the building and up the eleva tor shaft.

The dead Included at least one woman. "I'm afraid there'll be said Chief Murray. "We've just barely got the fire controlled and we're still finding Some of the victims were trapped in their rooms by the flames; others were asphyxiated. Ironically, the chief said, the fire was seen earlier and thought to be extinguished. "The guy in 42 smelled smoke in 41," Murray said.

"He found a mattress smouldering and poured water on it. Then he went back to bed." The man in room 41 was Identified as Ray Gorman. The man in room 42 was Ed Baylor. Both were taken to emergency hos pitals, critically burned. Earl Blake, chief of the city's emergency hospitals, directed a steady flow of ambulances carry' ing dozens from the hotel.

"There were two or three dozen seriously hurt," he said. The hotel housed many pensioners and others unable to work. Many the older residents were drunk, police said, They had just 'cashed pension checks and the halls of the burned out build ing emelled from ashes, smoke and alcohol. Some -people jumped to safety. Others, Including at least two in wheel chairs, were carried out by firemen.

Ike's 1962 Budget Forecasts Surplus WASHINGTON W) The budget President Eisenhower wili send Congress before leaving office will be bigger than this year's and will forecast a surplus next fiscal year of at least $600 million. Authoritative sources, in giving details, said the increased amount in the federal 196S budget will mostly cover defense outlays. Eisenhower will send his annu al budget measure to Congress on Jan. 18. President-elect John F.

Kennedy will take office Jan 20. His administration and Con gress will make changes in the budget. Dizziness Strikes Hope During Golf Tournament LOS ANGELES W) Bob Hope, playing in a pro-amateur golf tournament and shooting one of the best games of his life, had just sunk a fine 14-foot putt when he started feeling faint. It wasn't the putt that did It. "I had walked up a couple of hills," the comedian said Thursday, "and I started to get just a little bit dizzy.

I sat down." Hope, 58, denied a report that he- had collapsed. Ha said his doctor told him later there was noth ing seriously wrong with him but U.N. Rejects Cuban Charge By WILLIAM N. OATIS UNITED NATIONS, N.T. () The U.

N. Security Council Thursday night discarded Cuba's latest charge that she Is facing Imminent Invasion from the United States. A majority of members of the 11-oation body made clear in de bate they did not believe there was any evidence to back up the charge made last Saturday by the Fidel Castro government that an invasion was coming within hours The council ended its two-day debate without a vote a victory for the United States, which termed he charge ridiculous and asked that It not be dignified by formal action. A resolution by Chile and Ecua dor merely calling on the United States and Cuba to settle their differences by peaceful means- was not pressed to a vote. Of the II council members, only the 8o viet Union supported the Cuban charge.

Ceylon and the United Arab Republic did not commit themselves. The rest of the coun cil Britain, Chile, Nationalist China, Ecuador, France, Liberia and Turkey agreed with the United States that the charge had not been proved. U-AH. Delegate Omar Loutfl, the council president for January, ended the debate with a brief statement expressing the hope "that nothing will be done which could in any way aggravate" the tension between the United States and Cuba. It was the third U.N.

defeat for Castro's regime in its efforts to pin aggression charges on the United States. In a final statement Cuban Foreign Minister Paul Roa insisted that the threat of invasion "still hangs over Cuba despite the US denial." He declared that if Amer ican forces invade his country, "they will not meet a Cuba who is alone." Hold Last Rites For Mrs. Lydia Holsapple Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 pm. today at the Schilling funeral home for Mrs. Lydia May (Beals) Holsapple, 81, of 812 S.

16th. Rev. Leo B. Venatta and Rev. John Kauffman officiated, and burial was in the Janesvllle cemetery.

Rev. and Mrs. Kauffman sang "Whispering Hope" and "Good Night and Good Morning," accom panied at the organ by Mrs. Flo rence J. Myers.

Pallbearers were Wayne Lowery, Don Williams, Dale Williams, Johnny Dale Williams, Arnold French and Harold Brady. Mrs. Holsapple died at 7:20 p.m Tuesday at Memorial Hospitall. Reports Car Damaged Mike Rhoades. 3005 Walnut, reported to police Thursday that the left front headlight on his car was damaged by a hit and run driver.

Rhoades said the damage occurred between 1 and 9:30 am. Thursday while the car was parked In the 500 block of Edgar. Ben Franklin Store in Good Neighbor Shop ping Center will close each Sun- at 5:30 d. m. beginning Jan, 3.

Open 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Monday through Saturday as usual 1-7 Against presumably will crow that his militant preparedness scared them off, and he will claim a victory over the hated neighbor.

Political other prisoners were evacuated from Principe Prison atop a hill commanding a sweeping view of Havana. There were unconfirmed reports the ancient fortress was being converted to a temporary "invasion headquarters." Fatal Shotgun Blast Climaxes Decatur Party DECATUR. El. UPI A fatal shotgun blast was the aftermath to a noisy, 'early-morning party today. Killed by the shot, fired in a downtown parking lot, was Harold Nelson, 25, Decatur.

Police Chief James May said a 29-year-old bartender, Robert Sunderland, admitted the shooting and gave this account: Sunderland, returning about 2 am. from the tavern where he worked, stopped at the apartment next door and asked Nelson and several others to quiet down. Shortly afterward, several of the merrymakers kicked in Sunder land's door. Sunderland picked up a shotgun and hit Nelson with it, ordering them out of the apartment. They went to the adjacent parking lot and were getting into a car when Sunderland came downstairs, still tinned, to call police from an out door phone booth in the lot.

Nelson and another man came at him. Sunderland fired one shot. hitting Nelson In the chest. Mav said he is holding five others for questioning. Sunderland has not been charged.

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m. Sunday dinners 12 noon to 8 p. m. Cock-' tail Lounge open daily 4 p. m.

except Sundays. Try our delicious food. You are always welcome. 2-S Jumbo Pictures Your photo work printed in Jumbo size, book form, 24 hour service at the Arcade Drug Store. -3tf Open House Sunday afternoon from 1 p.

to 6 p. m. at 420 Oklahoma. Moore Osteopath's Injections Blamed for TRENTON, U. J.UPI The stale of New Jersey Is investigating the deaths of 14 patients who died of hepatitis after receiving Injections from an osteopath.

The attorney general's office, the State Board of Medical Examiners and. the State Health De partment all were involved In the investigation or Dr. Aioert lj. Weiner of Erlton, a Camden Coun ty community about five miles from Philadelphia. The health department disclosed Thursday that It started its in vestigation.

Oct. 24, when several South- Jersey hospitals informed it of an unusual number of cases of serum hepatitis, an acute liver dis ease. It said It uncovered 44 cases in the next 14 of them fatal and All of them patients of Weiner, Werner's wife told a reporter that her husband had been 111 for several weeks and had taken a vacation. She did not say where that he was suffering Iram ia Ucue. tad Moore Builders, Jno.

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