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Serving The Lenten Feature" Starts; Wednesday Greater Mat toon Area Since 1,856, 106th Yar No. 21 Charter Member Audit Bureau of Circulations MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1961 Member Associated Press All Phones AD 5-5656 Price 7 Cents y. ii. 'm. ii ii Lincoln's Inauguration West European Nations Officials in Katang a Deny Lumumba Postpone Political Union; Dead-Report etaway Car Found It Kennedys Leave Capital For Weekend in Virginia i I 1 1 fc' hi rrr A Vv- V.

I Mil, liftl By BARRY SCHWEID I WASHINGTON President Kennedy leaves Washington this afternoon to spend the weekend In a large French-style estate in the snow-covered Virginia coun tryside. This weekend of relaxation at Glen Ora, the new presidential retreat, will be the first away from the White House for Kennedy since taking office Jan. 20. At the estate, situated on an unpaved rural lane in Loudoun County's hunt country, Kennedy will join his wife and Caroline, their 3-year-old daughter, who flew to Glen Ora from Washington Friday in a Marine Corps hell copter. Kennedy also will use a hell copter to reach Glen Ora, which France Tries To Soothe Soviet Anger By ULYS YATES PARIS France hoped to day, its formal expression of re grets would calm Soviet tempers over a French jet fighter that fired tracer shots across the nose of a plane carrying Soviet Pres ident Leonid Brezhnev.

France's charge d'affaires in Moscow, Jean de la Grandville, visited the Soviet Foreign Mmls try Friday night to deliver an apology apparently ordered by President Charles de Gaulle him' self for the interception off Al geria's Mediterranean coast Thurs day. Ih Moscow today, there was no outward Indication Soviet official' dom t'ould 'make a great affair Almost 100 years ago, i March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated president in front' of the unfinished Capitol in Washington, D. top photo. In the lower photo at left Lincoln is shown as he appeared in Jan Heavy Rains in Of "irKidenf despite ataosTuW'A'on Sunday, Gov. Otto Ker- Northwest flood By JOSEPH E.

DYNAN PARIS OB Western i rope's tlx Common Market nations today put oft until an-, other "little summit" meeting In May any concrete propoaali for (King their economic al lianco -a political framework. West German Chancellor Kon- rad Adenauer left the. current, meeting His depar ture caught French officials by surprise. But Adenauer was In good humor on his return to Bonn and told reporters am very happy over what Jim been achieved in Paris." Foreign Minister Helnrkh von Brentano accompanied him, In a communique that bore signs of delicate diplomatic surgery, the government chiefs agreed to set up a commission In Paris to pre pare proposals for a May 19 ses slon In Bonn. The communique opened the door to other powers particular ly Britain in any future Com' mon Market developments, re portedly at the insistence of Dutch Premier Jan de Quay.

It avoided any suggestion that final decisions or goals had been set up. The communique offered little comfort for French President Charles de Gaulle's idea of a Eu ropean confederation or Aden auer's even stronger idea of deep er integration. It appeared the government leaders were able to agree only on some initial cautious steps to ward the European unity they all espouse in principle. The six governments are desir ous of seeking, In the spirit of good will and i friendship." the communique said, "all agreement susceptible of maintaining and developing exchanges with other European countries, In particular with Great Britain, as well, as with the other countries of the world. They will strive in the same spirit to find a solution to the problems which result from the existence of.

two economic groupings in Europe." Britain heads an economic group called the Seven, 2 Executives Start 30-Day Jail Terms NORRISTOWN, Pa. Two Westinghouse Electric Corp. ex today for prisoners' blue denim as they began the second day of a 30 day sentence for violating antitrust laws in the giant elea trical power conspiracy. John H. Chiles Jr, 57, Sharon, and Charles I.

Mauntel, 60, Drexel Hill, chose unexpect edly to "begin their jail terms Fit day. The two men, accompanied by their lawyers, surrendered to the U. S. marshal in Philadelphia. They were sMent and unsmiling.

U. 8. Dlst. Judge J. Cullen Ganey, who had sentenced the two with five other high-salaried executives Monday for illegally fixing prices and rigging8 bids to1 stifle competition, granted the re truest for the early jail start.

He had given the seven men a week to arrange their personal affairs. They earn up to $125,000 a year. Four other prominent electrical firm executives, three from Gen. Electric start their Jail terms-here on Monday, ThA seventh, John Marvin Cook of Milwaukee, vice president of got a week's postponement so, be can attend, his daughter's engagement party The three GE officials are Wil liam S. Ginn, 45, a vice president from Schenectady, heads 17,000" employes of Atheri ca's biggest electrical Lew is J.

Burger, Fort, Wayne, Ind. division manager, and George E. BurenS, Schenectady, vice presl ilent and divisional manager. The other ordered jailed is Ed' win, R. Jung, vice president of Clark" Controller Co.

of Cleveland. Ohio, Chinese Promise TOKYO Wl Communist Chi na has promised Congolese back ers of former Premier Patrice Lu mturiba It will do "its utmost" to help them defeat U. S. led! "ag gression and Interference," New China News Agency said today. It's Good Business To have art adequate estate plan; See your attorney and our trust officers CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK Just west of the subway 2-11 Moving Your Barber Shop to Shopping Find Girl, 14, Buried By Avalanche LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland ifi Swiss Alpinists dug from the snow today the body' of a little blonde girl, the last of nine Swiss school children who died with their teacher in an avalanche on Scalottss Mountain Her name was Dorete Pino, 14, She and the other youngsters climbed up a steep and danger, ous slope in the face of avalanche warnings and met with, disaster.

The slide killed six three boys and a loung male teacher. One boy and a girl were seriously Injured. Six uninjured survivors remained in deep shock today. A team of 60 rescuers soldiers, guides and volunteers worked all night on Scalottas mountain for the girl, given up for dead. Bodies of nine others have been recov ered.

The roar 'Of -the tumbling ice and snow apparently was unheard Friday in the valley" below the southern slope of the mountain. But others saw the huse avalanche from afar, and the biggest rescue operation here In a generation began within the hour. There were 27 teen-agers and three teachers on a skiing vacation from a high school In Olarus. The group started up the wooded face of Scarlottas in bril liant sunshine on' the last day of their two-week holiday. They were not on the regular ski trail.

HTho skiers were crossing a steep expanse, marked with danger signs and avoided by local guides, When the avalanche, swept down and engulfed them. Some were puUsd out alive. One boy flown down the valley by helicopter with a broken back died in front of a doctors home. Two boys were critically hurt. A woman teacher and several others were clear of the avalanche and unharmed but they suffered shock.

Police Capture Gunman Hiding In Dress Shop CHICAGO UH Customers Of the Goodtlme Fashion Center got more than they bargained for Fri day: a genuine cops-and-robbers duel, fought to a blazing finish. First came a gunman, who or dered Mrs. Esther Davis, clerk of the North Side dress shop, to keep ouiet while he headed for the' racks at the rear of the store. Then came two detectives searching for a gunman who had held up a finance company near by. Carefully, Mrs.

Davis motion ed toward the rear of the shop. At this point, the customers and the clerks dropped to the floor. "Don't come near me or 111 shoot," the fugitive cried from be hind the dress rack, "You'd better come out," shout ed Detective Sheldon Green. "We don't want to kill you." With that, the detective, fired Into the wall near the fugitive. The cowed gunman, who later identified himself as Robert Mo-ran, 33, of suburban Oak Park, tossed his 38 -caliber pistol Into the aisle and surrendered.

Green said Moran had 1552 in his pockets. Man Admits Killing Wife SAN DIEGO, Calif. CD Detectives say former Marine Edward Albrecht' has admitted he strangled his wife after an argument and then shipped he body to a fictitious address in Chicago. Albrecht, 24, was arraigned on a murder charge Friday and held without ball in county jail pend ing a hearing March 8. Inspector-Donald K.

Blucher said Albrecht told him he and his wife, Ann Marita, also 24, quarreled the morning of Dec. 20 and she struck him with a bottle. He then choked her and put the body in a trunk, where it was found last month in a Chicago freight office. Mrs. Albrecht, last seen Dec, 13- when she went to work, was reported missing Dec.

31 by a relative in Norwalk, Calif. She was a secretary at the Naval Hos pital here. Albrecht was returned Thursday night from Jackson, Minn. He was arrested three weeks ago at the home of his mother and stepfather at Xakefleld; MIml Valentine Candy Give your Valentine Fannie May and Whitman candies from tha Arcade Drug Store. 2-1 By ADRIAN PORTER ELISABETH TILLE, the Congo 1 Katanga Province officials today flatly denied rumors they concocted a story that ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba escaped from jaD, so they could cover his death at the hands of bis political foes.

The denial came in a communique announcing that searchers for the missing Lumumba had found a car he and two political associates used to escape from a farmhouse prison at Mutshatsa, 220 miles west of Elisabeth ville, late Thursday night. Some Western obserjers In the Congo said they suspect Lumumba is dead or that his escape was engineered so he could be shot while trying to escape. The Katanga government, tak ing note of these rumors, said in a communique: "The Katanga government denies It organized the escape. It appears his (Lumumba's) escape was made pos sible by some fault or interven tion by his guards, and this will be subject to Inquiry." The communique, said the car, a black Ford sedan found about 20 miles north of Kasajl where Lumumba was Imprisoned, was Identified as the automobile he and his companions seized after overpowering their guards. Western observers fear that, dead or alive, Lumumba presents the Congo with Its greatest threat of all-out civil war.

His supporters control about one-third of the Congo, and In the past his -fiery oratory has been capable of whip- ping them to a frenzy. If Lumumba dead, observers said, his supporters in Oriental and Klvu provinces almost certainly would embark on a path of possibly against the white population. If he is alive, they said, he will be. able to assume active leadership of his followers and touch off an all-out major civil war. The Katanga government communique said "there was no sign that the occupants of car (found damaged on the road) had been hurt In tlw crash, and all traces of their movement after leaving the damaged car had.

been obliterated by rain and people passing the spot afterwards." This announcement came as demands mounted In the United Nations for an investigation of the reported escape. The Soviet Union and 10 other pro Lumumba U. N. members called on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to determine if Lumumba really did escape or if he Is dead. Kiwanis Program State's Attorney Ralph D.

Glenn will discuss the new proposed criminal code of laws for the State of Illinois at Wednesday's Kiwanis Club luncheon at U. S. Grant Motor Inn. Weather Mattoon Temperature 11 ajn. 33 GREATER MATTOON AREA Considerable cloudiness becoming partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon and tonight.

Fair and mild Sunday. High today 45-50. Low tonight 28-33. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Con siderable cloudiness this morning. becoming partly cloudy this aft ernoon and tonight.

Warmer, fair and mild Sunday. High today 45-55. Low tonight 28-37. Yesterday's Temperatures High Low Mattoon 37 29 29 11 30 17 36 20 -20 38 68 29 53 29 29 53 39 26 42 18 51 44 31 Albuquerque 62 Anchorage 22 Chicago 36 Cleveland 34 Denver 60 Detroit 37 Fairbanks 1 Helena 59 Honolulu 73 Indianapolis 38 Los Angeles 7fr' Louisville 48 Memphis 56 Miami 67 New Orleans 62 New York 42 Phoenix 76 St. Louis 37 San Francisco 60 Seattle 50 Washington 44 Yesterday's Precipitation This Yr.

ThlsYr. LastYr l2Tr To Date To Date Avg. 0 1.09 3.34 3.17 Mattoon Sales Sunrise 6-51 s.m. Sunset 5:19 pjn. Moonrise 3:24 Sin.

Moonset 1:23 pxn. Trustees Okay Chicago Campus Site CHICAGO LP A 103-acre tract southwest of Chicago's bust ness district appears to have the rod as the site of a new undergraduate 'campus for the University of Illinois. Seven of the university's nine trustees Friday" approved the ir regularly shaped tract that lies south of- the Congress Expsessway and includes famed Hull House. Final action is expected Wednes day in Urbana. Dr.

David D. Henry, president of the university, said the plan calls for purchase of the entire tract' from the Chicago Land Clearance Commission for $6. mil' Hon. About 43 acres have been acquired and partially cleared by the commission in a slum clear ance project. The' first phase of building con structlon will cost about $44 mil lion and Involve the initial 43 acres.

The funds have been pro. vided by a $195-mllUon bond is sue approved last November, Factors favorable to acceptance of the site, Henry said, included availability of the land almost immediately to allow relocation of the present two-year branch at Navy Pier by-fall 1964. Of major Importance also, he said, is accessibility to public transportation and the expressway system, and an opportunity to contribute to a major civic de velopment for Chicago. The city's cooperation was pledged by Mayor Richard J. Dal ey, who had been promoting an other site.

Daley had favored a campus south of the Loop on railroad property to be cleared by a ran terminal consolidation. But when the consolidation proposal lagged, 'land clearance tract The threat of further court ac tion apparently dissuaded the trustees from pressing further for development of a campus In a section of Garfield Park on the West Side. A tussle for the park site went to the Illinois Supreme Court where the university won a ml ing, but opponents threatened further litigation. Proposes New Code Department CHICAGO im Creation of a department to co-ordinate state children and youth services has been proposed by Gov. Otto Kerner.

Speaking Friday at the annual meeting of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, the governor said the new depart ment could integrate services for all children under 18, eliminating duplication. He noted that the Department of Public Welfare, Aid to Dependent Children, the Illinois Youth Commission and a variety of other agencies and courts "have some responsibility for dependent, 'neg lected or delinquent children." Kerner previously has called for creation of new departments for mental health and for public aid. I. This banner stretching above the entrance to the Mattoon High School gymnasium is a decorative addition new at the high school this year. The han-, I 1 i j.

in A V5 Green is 43 miles west of Washington The Kennedys' son, 11 -week-old John is remaining at the White House. Residents of Middleburg will be anxious to see what changes in their quiet lives will be wrought by the Kennedys' taking up resi dence among them. Gettysburg, the main weekend retreat of former President Dwight D. El sennower, already had been a tourist attraction because of Its Civil War battlefield. But Middle' burg has had a history of seclu slon until now.

A large press entourage always follows the president and there are only about 20 beds available at the Red Fox Tavern, the Colon ial Inn and some homes in Middleburg. Ceremonies Mark Birth Of Lincoln SPRINGFIELD, HI. Vfi Sev eral prominent government fig' ures plan to offer tributes this weekend at Southern Illinois points connected with the life of Abraham Lincoln. StatS Rep. G.

William Horsley, who has portrayed Lincoln for SOj years, plans to re-enact one of his famous sptecches.It wQl com memorate the famous president's farewell to Springfield, On Sunday, the anniversary of Lincoln's birth 152 years ago, the state Republican Central Commit' tee plans to visit his tomb In Oak Ridge Cemetery. Speakers scheduled include U. S. Sen. Everett TXVcan D-TH ner plans to join representatives of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Marine Corps League in paying respects at Lincoln's tomb Husband Tells Of Wife's Death PONTIAC, 111..

W) Richard Bright, a 22-year-old former Streator factory worker, has described at a pre-sentence hearing the events leading up to the fatal shooting of a youth he caught making love to his wife. Testifying before Judge R. Bur- Inell Phillips in Livingston County Circuit Court Friday, Bright said he had entered into his marriage unwillingly. He said tils wife had misrepresented herself as being pregnant before their marriage, then refused him a divorce. Bright previously pleaded guilty to assault with intent to murder his wife, Yvonne, -21, after surT prising her with Dean Jerde, 18, in the Brights' trailer Dec.

4. He had pleaded guilty to murdering Jerde. Bright told the court he could recall firing only two shots. He said Jerde fell, fatally wounded, inside the trailer, and his wife ran out the door, screaming, before she, too, fell, seriously wounded. Clark Sullivan, art instructox at the school.

In this picture taken Friday night, cheerleaders from Decatur take the floor to boost their team's efforts. precedented bitter reaction from the Soviet man-on-the-street The Soviet Communist party of ficial newspaper Pravda called the Interception "a regrettable incl When the news first reached Moscow, Soviet citizens displayed anger greater even than that shown during the American U2 spy plane incident or the landing of U. S. Marines Lebanon. The French Foreign Ministry said De la Grandville at his own request met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.

Gromyko for a half -hour and promised a full investigation. Reports received so far are in complete, the French said, but De la Grandville "expressed, here and now, in any case, the sincere regrets of the French govern ment." The French said they have de termlned, however, that the So vlet pilot strayed from his flight plan and veered southward into France's "zone of responsibility." GM Honors Ford FLINT, Mich. WV-Henry Ford has won recognition for advancing production techniques at General Motors Corp. Ford received 142.36 from GM Friday for a brake drum welding method he had suggested. He has worked at GM's Bulck foundry since 1943, uary, 1861.

At the right he is shown four days before his assassination in I865. Sunday, the nation will mark the I52nd anniversary of his birth. The photos above are taken from the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop collection in Chicago. wns 12 Jurors Named For Weger Trial OTTAWA. Ill jfl Selection of a jury for the murder trial or Chester (Rocky) Weger has been completed.

The Jurors are locked up for the weekend. The last four members of the panel, which includes seven wo men and five men, were picked Friday after two weeks of questioning more than 300 prospects. The jury will start Monday hearing evidence in the bludgeon killing of Mrs. Lillian Oetting, 50, one of three Chicago area matrons slain In Starved Rock State Park 11 months ago. Weger, 21, a former dishwasher! at the park lodge, is charged with murdering all three, but the charges are being tried separate' ly.

The other two women were Mrs. Frances Murphy, 47, and Mrs. Mildred Llndcrulst. 50. All three lived in Riverside, a Chicago suburb.

Selection of the jury was pro tracted because many LaSalle County residents said they had formed opinions in the case or they objected to capital punish ment. Others were excused be cause of poor health or for being emotionally unqualified to assess the evidence. The prosecution said Weger gave police a statement that he killed the three women on March 14, 1960, a few hours after they arrived at the lodge for a brief holiday. Their bodies were found two days later in snow-covered St. Louis Canyon.

State contends Weger told au thorities he killed the women to cover up an bungled attempt to rob themj Weger's attorney said the state' ment was obtained 'through threats of death in the electric chair Weger later repudiated the statement. Roses Are Red Violets are blue, we like cus tomers Just'ike you.i Valentine's uay. rep. is. cpme ana enjoy tree refresrunenteVwith from ti m.Ho 3 pjn.

THE NATIONAL BANK OF MATTOON Member D. C. 2-11 Open House Sunday afternoon from 1 p. to 5 p. m.

at 420 Oklahoma. Moore and Moore Builders, Inc. l-Otf Pacific Wave Banner Decorates Gym By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heavy rains pelted much of the Pacific Northwest for the third straight day flooding roads and touching off a number of earth slides. Western Oregon, the scene of two near-disastrous slides has been deluged by more than 4', inches in 36 hours. A huge section of a rain-soaked bluff crashed down on a motel in Troutdale, demolishing one of the units and injuring a mother and her two young children.

Earlier in the day a massive slide roared down the side of Co lumbia Gorge near Portland ripping up 800 feet of railrtad track and toppling two engines of a Un ion Pacific passenger train into backwaters of the Columbia River. One crewman was hurt but the 100 or more passengers in the nine cars escaped injury. Several towns were flooded, in cluding Turner in the Williamette Valley and Sutherlin and Drain in southwestern Oregon. The Wil liamette River, which flows through Portland, Is expected to crest Monday only a foot below flood stage. The rain, accompanied by high winds, was expected to continue through the day and spread east ward fnto the Rockies and west em Plains with snow over the higher' elevations.

Precipitation elsewhere was gen erally limited to scattered snow flurries from northern Minne sota and lower Michigan eastward to the Appalachians and up into northern Maine, Relatively mild temperatures continued over most of the country early today with the exception of near-zero readings in northern New England. Baldwin Named Envoy to Malaya WASHINGTON -UP) Charles Franklin Baldwin, a former for eign service officer, has been named ambassador to Malaya by President Kennedy. The White House has also an nounced that nine ambassadors have agreed to remain indefinite in, their present diplomatic posts, The nine who will stay at their posts are lq addition to a group of 19 whose continuance as ambassadors was announced earlier this week. They are: Charles R. Burrows, Honduras; Arthur.

L. Richards, Ethiopia; Borden Reams, Ivory Coastr Burke Portugal; Walter N. Walmsley, Tunisia; Fraser Wll kins, Cyprus; Tyler Thompson, Iceland; William C. Trlmble, Cambodia, and Elbert G. Math ews, Liberia.

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