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JFK Gives TV
Report on First
2 Years In Office
WASHINGTON UP* — President
Kennedy told the nation tonight he
thinks “it is going to he some time
before it is possible for us to come
to any real understanding” with
Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
In an unprecedented television
radio accounting of his steward
ship during 23 months in the
White House, Kennedy said he does
not believe that Khrushchev’s re
cent utterances s h o w “that he
realizes how dangerous a world
we live in.”
The one-hour filmed broadcast,
in which Kennedy faced three net
work newsmen, ranged across a
broad section of problems with
which the President has dealt since
hi« inantninratinn nn .Tan PH Ittfil
At the very outset. Kerned''
said that he has found “the prob
lems are more difficult than I had
imagined they were.”
What’s more, he added, solution
of many world problems does not
lie with the United States alone. He
mentioned, in this connection, the
persistent troubles in the Congo
and the current Western efforts
to erase the more long-standing
friction between Pakistan and
India.
Discussing relations with the
Soviet Union, the President saic
there is no real reason why twe
rich countries with energeti<
people, separated by many thou
sands of miles, “should not be abl(
to live in peace.”
But he said the real stumbling
block to peace “is the Soviet desin
to expand their power and influ
ence”—something which he notec
the Communist Chinese now show
“in the most militant form.”
The broadcast represented the
distillation of 90 minutes of con
versation filmed yesterday in the
President’s office. The major net
works edited the filmed recording
and, the White House said, had
an entirely free hand.
Communists Convicted of
Failing to Register as
Agents of Soviet Union
WASHINGTON UP> — The Com
munist party was convicted today
of failing to register as an agent
of the Soviet Union and fined
$120,000.
U. S. District. Judge Alexander
Holzoff imposed the maximum
penalty immediately after a jury
of eight women and four men re
turned a verdict of guilty follow
ing 35 minutes of deliberation.
Attorneys for the party said they
would file an appeal.
The jury found the Communist
party guilty on all 12 counts of
the indictment.
Eleven counts charged the party
with failing to register under the
Subversive Activities Control Act
on each of 11 days from Nov. 20
to Nov. 30, 19G1.
The 12th count charged the
party with failing to file a regis
tration statement listing informa
tion about its leaders, members,
and finances.
The defense had contended that
the party failed to supply the in
formation because to do so might
incriminate its leaders and its
members. The 5th Amendcment
protected the party against doing
this, the defense argued.
But Judge Holzoff said only a
living person, not an organization,
can invoke the protection of the
5th Amendment.
| Three Teen-Age Boys
I Hcrpower Matron, Escape
! !'ro*n Ketchikan Jail
I KETCHIKAN W — Three teen
| age boys escaped from the state
| detention home here today after
i overpowering the matron but were
captured a few minutes later by
state troopers and city police.
They were Daniel Born. 14, of
Fairbanks; Timothy Burden, of
Wasilla, and Larry Brown, 17, of
Nome.
! Their names were released by
' Dennis Lund, probation ofifcer,
; and Judge Richard Lauber, magis
i trate, who also sits as juvenile
judge.
Mrs. Dale Miller, a matron, was
overpowered by one of the boys
who took her keys after taking a
shower and freeing the other two.
Mrs. Miller received a bruise
under one eye.
Lund said that Born was one of
two youths who escaped briefly
! last week from custody in Juneau.
! The trio was being held here
| awaiting assignment to custodial
| institutions outside.
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I
i Charles Laughton
Dead of Cancer
By JAMES BACON
HOLLYWOOD UP — A giant of
the movies, Charles Laughton, who
rambled through memorable films
like a rambunctious elephant, is
dead of cancer at 63.
Laughton died Saturday night a1
his home of cancer of the spine, i
'■ few weeks after spending a four
month hospital stay.
• When the British-born actor lef
' Cedars of Lebanon on Nov. 30, i
friend confided:
“Charles knows he is going tc
die and, blustery as ever, says
he’s going to died in his own bed.”
With him when he died were
actress Elsa Lancaster, his one and
only wife, and his younger brother
Frank retired from tho familv
hotel business.
Mrs. Laughton, who married the
actor in 1929 and became an Am
erican citizen with him in 1950,
took the death very hard, Laugh
ton’s brother said.
“She has been with him every
day through it all—for almost a
year,” said the brother.
High spots of a career that made
Laughton the movies’ top charac
ter for 30 years:
The sadistic Captain Bligh of the
original “Mutiny on the Bounty”;
the lecherous Henry VIII — the
1933 best actor Academy Award
performance—or the lovable Eng
lish butler reciting the Gettysburg
Address in a frontier saloon for
“Ruggles of Red Gap.”
Before he came to Hollywood,
Laughton had won critical acclaim
for his realistic portrayal of an
American gangster in a London
play.
His last movie role was that of
Sen. Scab Cooley, a southerner,
in “Advise and Consent.”
Little was known about Laugh
ton's private life. He loved art—
and had a collection of Renoirs,
Utrillos, Cezanncs and other
j French impressionists that f e w
ever saw.
THE WEATHER
Continued fair with little change
in temperature. Low tonight 9,
high tomorrow 0 to 5. In the last
24 hours: High of 8, low -11. Max.
wind 12 mph from the ME. Sun
rise 9:59 am., sunset 1:57 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High of
2, low of -21. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 34 in
1945, low of -29 in 1946.
Two Bank Robbers
Recaptured After
Ecape from Alcatraz
SAN FRANCISCO (/PI — T w o
bank robbers sawed their way out
of Alcatraz, the forbidding island
prison in San Francisco Ray, Sun
day night but were taken alive
after losing a battle with the icy
water.
One swam only about 100 yards
before quitting. The other made it
three miles with the help of home
made water wings and became the
first escaper known to reach the
mainland after breaking from the
maximum security institution.
John Paul Scott, 35, from Leutch
field, Ky., made it to shore but
the swim proved too much for him.
When spotted by two children on
a rocky shore he appeared to be
dead.
Doctors at the Army’s nearby
Letterman General Hospital where
Scott was taken, said his body
temperature was down to 94 de
grees. Waters in the bay average
54 degrees.
Bank robber-kidnaper Carl Dee
Parker, 31, of Canton, Ohio, quit
sooner because of the cold waters.
He made a dash of about 100 yards
to a pointed rock off Alcatraz’
western end.
Parker just sat waiting on what
is known as ‘Little Alaeatraz' as a
searching prison boat spotted him
Both men were returned to Al
catraz.
Warden Olin Blackwell said th(
two men worked in the prisoi
kitchen and “somehow cut thei
way through a window in the kit
chen basement.”
It was the second breakout fror
' Alcatraz this year. On June 1
John and Clarence Anglin an<
Frank Morris, three southern banl
robbers, broke out after long pre
paration. They were presumec
drowned.
Christmas Tree Lights
And Bomh Explosion
Mark Berlin Wall
BERLIN UP) — Twinkling lights
on Christmas trees and the roar
of a time bomb marked life along
the Berlin wall Sunday.
Mayor Willy Brandt pressed a
button lighting 400 trees placed
along the Communist barrier. The
Communists also put up some trees
on their side of the wall.
A bomb blasted a five - foot
square in the wall Sunday night
about three blocks from the U.S.
Army’s checkpoint Charlie. Five
minutes before the bomb went off,
three men walked into a West
Berlin police station, claimed they
had planted the device, and urged
police to clear the area. The police
did and nobody was hurt, but they
held the trio for questioning.
Two hours after the blast, East
German police placed two wooden
doors over the hole.
Santa to Return To
N.C. Store on Saturday
The N.C. Store played host to
Santa Claus last Saturday after
noon and gave out favors to 1,500
children during Santa's visit to the
store.
Santa arived in the traditional
Nome fashion via dog team and
was well received by the children
who waited in line without and
within the store.
As all did not get to talk to
Santa he is returning next Satur
day at 4 p.m. for another visit.
Frank Couch announced that the
N.C. Store would be open on Fri
day and Saturday evenings to ac
commodate the people who cannot
shop during the day.
Post Offi c Department
Completes Printing One
JSillioii Xmas Stamps
WASHINGTON '.¥■ -- The Post
Office Department has printed one
billion Christmas stamps and that',
all for this year, an official says,
"We could go another 250 mil
lion if it was physically possible
to get them distiibuted before
Christmas,” James Kelleher, spe
cial assistant to the Postmaster
General, told a reporter Sunday.
Printing of the special 4-eent
stamps with the green wreath and
red flame tipped candles stopped
Saturday.
Presses had been running seven
days a week, 24 hours a day lately
to fill the record-breaking demand.
“Fantastic demand,” Kelleher
called it.
Commercial Jet Pilot
Tells Of “Near-Miss” by
Four Air Force Fighters
DALLAS, Tex. 1#'—- A commer
cial pilot who reportedly shied a
jetliner off course over Arizona to
avoid possible contact with four
jet fighters took a few verbal
swipes today at military fliers.
The pilot, J. H. Mangham, a
senior captain of American Air
lines, spoke out from his home
near Fort Worth when askec
about a report that he swerved i
big 707 jetliner sharply after sight
. ing the jet fighters.
k Mangham accused the militar
c aircraft of performing “aerial at
. robatics,” adding:
“Any acrobatics on the civ
, airways is a violation of the la\
2 regardless of who does it. Onl
j when some little cub pilot does i
. will the FAA step in and do some
thing about it. The military boy
do as they please.”
As for the incident, itself, Mang
ham said it could be labelled £
“near - miss, but then that’s s
pretty loose term.
‘‘I saw them before they had a
chance to get close. If I hadn't,
it could have been real close.”
The incident ocurred as the air
liner, flying nonstop from Dallas
to Los Angeles, was 15 to 20 miles
outside Tucson, Ariz., spokesmen
said.
Mangham gave this account of
the incident:
“The jets were going to cross in
front of us to our left. Then they
pointed up—nearly straight up—
and we turned off to the north to
get as far out of their way as
possible. When they reached the
top of their climb, on what I be
lieve they call a tactical maneuver,
there is no way of knowing which
way they will go—they do pretty
much as they please.”
Mangham said he nosed the
liner down and lost perhaps 1,000
feet altitude.
He said the airliner moved be
yond range after turning off and
he did not see which direction the
fighters took at the peak of their
climb.
I “If they had turned back east
| they would have come ri “it at us.”
THREE TURKEYS WAITING
| TO BE CLAIMED AT MERC
Three turkeys are waiting to be
; claimed at the U.S. Merc in tin
Galvin Stores annual Christina.'
! turkey gift program.
Six daily drawing were made
until last Saturday and three of
the winners were Taylor Moto Sr.,
Washington Olanna, and Rev. Bob
; Leight.
j The turkey giveaway will con
tinue through Saturday of this
week.
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lan Sav,
91,k ;m*L of Cuban
IVoph* Arc* Now
Against Castro
NEW YORK T — A Turkish
newspaperman ju • back from 11 a -
■ ana ay : at least 90 : r cent of
♦he Cuban people "—and probably
more—are again. t the C 'mmunists
and against Castro, too,”
Goksin Siphahioglu, a free-lance
reporter from Istanbul, said in an
interview that there are resistance
organizations, but the organiza
tior.s car.not set together.
The newsman was in Cuba from
i mid-October until early December.
’ ! !•' :-a;a maans 101a mm:
The peasants, who were major
I supporters of Fidel Castro’s revo
! lotion, angrily but passively are
; resisting the Communists. The pea
| sants are angry because Castro
! collectivized the farm lands in
stead of distributing them among
I the peasants, as he promised.
Probably 9,000 peasants have
I been jailed for refusing to work
; in the fields. They refused be
j cause, even if paid, there was
j nothing to buy.
j The skimpy food ration list for
one person includes five eggs a
month, three-fourths of a pound
of meat a month, one banana a
Iweek, oranges only for the sick, a
pound of potatoes a week and six
pounds of rice per month.
One the virtually nonexistent
list are cheese, milk, bacon, many
kinds of vegetables, soap, wools
*/ i and linens. Medicines are in very
' ’ short supply.
^ I Sipahioglu said he was told the
I Russians have two major camps in
, Cuba, one near Holguin in Oriente
5 province, and one in central Cuba
near Siego de Avila. Cubans are
barred from the areas.
Castro rarely is seen in public.
He spends most of his time at
Havana University, arguing with
the students who have been among
the chief supporters of his regime.
He denounces Soviet Premier
Khrushchev violently.
Ballet Troop Returns to Russia
MOSCOW UP) — The Bolshoi
Ballet Company returned to Mos
cow on Sunday from a three
month tour of the United States
and Canada. Ballet master Leonid
Lavrosky reported in an interview
that the c o m p a n y had "over
whelmed even the prejudiced Am
ericans.”
MacMillan Enroute
For Bahamas Talk
\\ itli Kennedy
LONDON .?■ — Prime Minister
• Harold MacMillan left * •lay for
talks in the Bahamas with Presi
dent Kennedy. oxw'o--;n: eonfi
| di nee that “we will find a way
throurh our difficulties” over the
Skybi It missile.
I "At this moment after Cuba,”
MacMillan t >! 1 newsmen, "We
haw to try m make a re ssess
ment of tin- position be’-'-'vn East
anil West Cut the posh: n be turn
ed to our advantage'.' 1 there a
; chance of aino . ■. :hh some
of these questa :i> — t mi •• •• •
disarmament and other > . ,w rs1’”
He sai l the troubles in Asia,
particularly between Red China
and India, have raised a whole
new set of problems.
"Our chief purpose is to talk
over what has happened since our
last meeting,” MacMillan said.