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2-A Monday. IVc. 30. 1963 The Shreveport Times MANHATTAN COLLEGE Basketball Team Rescued From Florida Hotel Fire JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UP A dozen players of.

the Manhattan College basketball team were rescued by firemen Sunday in the Hotel Roosevelt fire. Coach Ken Norton of the Jaspers and his wife, an -assistant coach and the team chaplain also fled from the smoke-filled hotel. None of the players were in right. The boys were all anxious to get to Mass," Norton said. It had been reported that the Manhattan team was at early Mass and not in the hotel when the fire began.

But Norton said the team was asleep in the hotel "when the smoke started pouring through the building. Richard Peek, 6-foot-ll center jured and Norton said the entire for the Florida Gators, fled from the hotel clad only in a bath towel and was seen wandering around the street outside. He had wrapped his feet in towels. "We didn't wait to put on our shoes. When that smoke started pouring in, we just got out of there as fast as we could," Peek said.

Norm Sloan, coach of the Florida team, reported that all of his players escaped safely from the hotel. Two other basketball teams that participated in the Gator Bowl, Florida State and the Air Force Academy, stayed at other hotels. The two football teams, that participated in the Gator Bowl Saturday, North Carolina and the Air Force Academy, also stayed elsewhere. il info V- Vets to Receive Payments Early Veterans holding World War II National Service Life Insurance policies and those holding World War I USGLI policies will receive their 1964 regular insurance dividends in advance of their policy anniversary dates. Harold M.

Coburn, Caddo Parish Veterans' Service officer, said the administration will begin paying dividends in advance next month to all veterans who paid the monthly premium for November or later. The payments team went to a 10 a.m. Mass, less than two hours after fleeing from the hotel. Firemen assisted the players out of fourth floor windows. Nor-ton and his wife climbed dawn a ladder from their fifth floor room.

Manhattan, a Catholic school located in Bronxville, N. was in Jacksonville to participate in the 13th annual Gator Bowl basketball tournament. The Jaspers lost both of their games in the tournament which Florida won. The Florida team also was stay-ing at the Roosevelt and members of the team also escaped. "My wile is still pretty shook up but we are all okay and sometime in February, Coburn said.

Payment will be automatic and veterans should not write to the Veterans Administration during the next two months about their are expected to be completed next month, but there may be some veterans who will not re dividends. Any eligible veteran who has not received his dividend by March should then make an inquiry to the VA office. everything appears to be all! ceive their dividend checks until A HELICOPTER hovers over the burning Roosevelt Hotel in Jacksonville, yesterday aiding in rescue of persons trapped by a fire which has claimed the lives of 21 persons. (AP Wirephoto) Beat The Tax EL DORADO AN Several Models Left Must Go in 2 DAYS Donna Axum's Parents 4Thankf uP for Rescue All Dependable MAYTAGS vtf ww-z mm I 'fm Savings to you now help us physician who examined his daughter and was told that X-rays showed no permanent smoke damage to her lungs. By Sunday afternoon they had talked to their famous daughter and were convinced that she had suffered no adverse effects from smoke.

Times News Service EL DORADO, Ark. Thankful that their daughter was safe and unharmed but grieved that there was a heavy loss of life in the Jacksonville, hotel fire, was the reaction here Sunday of the H. B. Axums, parents of Donna Axum, the 1964 Miss America. Donna's father, an El Dorado banker, said he talked by telephone Sunday afternoon with a avoid high taxes Jan.

1. If you're thinking of a new washer or dryer soon, don't fail to see "We are truly thankful that our caught fire yesterday, killing 21 persons. Sixty-six persons were injured, 20 requiring hospitalization. (AP Wirephoto) FIREMEN PUT UP ladders in an effort to rescue guests that were trapped when the Roosevelt Hotel in Jacksonville, us for the Maytag of your New Clash choice. Start the new year enjoying the dependability of MAY 'A INTEREST OF PEOPLE9 TAG known 8 Need for Oswald Defense At Warren Hearing Cited the world I WHILE ovcr for0 THEY satisfied Eu "V'VN' users- the statement of the governors of the American Bar Association that it would have been ex daughter.

Donna, and her chape-! rone are going to be allright. However, we regret very much the loss of life in the horrible fire." Miss Axum and her chaperone, Miss Lucille Preveti, were hospitalized for observation but were expected to be released i Monday morning. They plan to continue their schedule, departing for Miami and the Orange Bow festival. Miss America, however, has an added problem that of a ward-1 robe. Although the fire at the Roosevelt Hotel did not reach the 10th floor where the Miss America suite was located, all of Donna's clothes were damaged 1 by smoke.

Enough is being cleaned for the Miami trip but it is too early to tell what part of the wardrobe will have to be replaced, her mother said Sunday. The poise that has characterized Donna in all of her pub-He appearances stood her in, good stead during the fire. Bill Fielden, a representative of one of the sponsors of the Miss America Pageant, was the first to notify her parents of the fire, calling shortly after 9 a.m. E1 Dorado Time) Sunday. This is not the first brush; Donna has had with a tragedy.

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1st tremely difficult to find such a jury and that, conceivably, no lawful conviction for that reason could have been secured," the professor said. TWO TO TANGO Minow interjected that "we lawyers 'tend to blame the press, but really it takes two to tango. "It's the lawyers and the law- rnrr riLL With Any New a a up a Reported On Cyprus NICOSIA, Cyprus OJPD New armed clashes flared Sunday between Greek and Turkish Cypriots as a newly formed political liason committee met urgently to try to end bloodshed threatening to widen into a conflict between two NATO nations Greece and Turkey. A rapid exchange of shots echoed through Nicosia for at least 30 minutes Sunday and British Royal Air Force patrols, their jeep-like landrovers roaring through the capital's deserted streets, rushed toward the Turkish quarter to investigate. There were no reports of any casualties in the new fighting that followed a week of pitched battles and shootings between Greek and Turkish Cypriots on this Mediterranean -island nation.

Unconfirmed reports have put the over-all death toll at 2,000, with countless wounded. The firing was within earshot of the new committee of Greek, Turkish and British diplomats and military men meeting with British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys in the British high commissioner's enforcement people who gave MAT I All a. El NOT TO BE IDLE Maytag Dries the Clothes to Suit the Fabric "Halo of Heat" Low Temperature drying eliminates old fashioned yellowing and shrinkage. Why Settle for Less Than MAYTAG NEW YORK fUPD-Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of the late President Kennedy, should be defended before the Warren commission "in the interest of the people of the United States," a leading Texas criminal attorney declared Sunday. Percy Foreman of Houston, president of the National Association of Defense Attorneys, said, "there's no other way, in my opinion, that the evidence in this case can be properly evaluated." He participated in a television panel show with Prof.

Paul Freund of Harvard Law School; Leon Douglas, state prosectuina attorney before the Court of Criminal Appeals in Texas; and Newton N. Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC. Oswald was killed by Jack Rubv, Dallas nightclub owner, on Nov. 24, two days after he allegedly shot to death Kennedy and seriously wounded Texas Gov. John Connally in a motorcade in Dallas.

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Donna is the sister of Mrs. Robert C. Turnham of 2030 Lovers Lane, Shreveport. Ring" squadron and shot down 21 enemy planes and 5 balloons to become America's ace of aces. GREATEST ADVENTURE He won the Medal of Honor and numerous other decorations.

Rickenbacker had perhaps his greatest adventure in World War 1124 days on an open life raft and for a time there was little hope for his survival. Crash Injures 10 LOW, Utah (UPD-Ten persons were injured Sunday when a westbound transcontinental bus ran into the rear of a tank truck carrying 5,000 gallons of whiskey on ice-covered U.S. 40 near here. "I think somebody should, in the interest of the public, not in the interest of Lee Oswald, but in the interest of the people of the United States, defend Lee He was on a mission for the secretary of war when a bomber in which he was flying crashed into the Pacific. Despite a lack of food and water, he managed to keep the hopes of six companions alive until rescue came.

Rickenbacker was born in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 8, 1890, a first generation American whose parents had emigrated from Switzerland. When he was 12 years old, his of life." The 73-year-old adventurer turned executive resigned as chairman of the board, as a director and as general manager of the line. Rickenbacker, politically a conservative and an outspoken anti-Communist, said in a letter to the board; "I do not plan to be idle-not in the face of the current challenge to civilization. "I am going to expand my crusade to save the American way of life for future generations, as I want our children, our grandchildren, and those who follow them to enjoy the American opportunities, which have been mine for 73 years." Rickenbacker heads an anti-Communist organization known as the Committee for the Preservation of the Monroe Doctrine.

IN GOOD HANDS He said Eastern Air Lines was father died. The boy left school and went to work, earning about $3.50 a week at odd jobs. A love of machinery led him later to jobs as an automobile mechanic Hotel Fire Death List JACKSONVILLE, UPD A list of the dead in the Roosevelt Hotel fire Sunday: 1. R. A.

Patrick, Macon, Ga. 2. Max Kahn Atlanta. 3. Mrs.

Max Kahn Atlanta. 4. Walter E. Dupree, Atlanta. 5.

William G. Carpenter, Orlando, Fla. 6. Mrs. William G.

Carpenter, Orlando, Fla. 7. James Romedy, assist, fire chief, Jacksonville. 8. John Hill East Point, Ga.

9. W. H. McLemore, Vidalia, Ga. 10.

Mrs. Bess Robertson, Gadsden, Ala. 11. Jim Swick, Alachua, Fla. 12.

Mrs. Rena Swick, Alachua, Fla. 13. W. W.

Hildinger, Buffalo, N. Y. 14. J. C.

Cohen, Atlanta. 15. Mrs. J. C.

Cohen. Atlanta. 1G. Mrs. Marion F.

Curry, Greensboro, N. C. 17. Murray Sherman, Jacksonville, Fla. 18.

Mrs. Murray Sherman, Jacksonville, Fla. (The Shermans were residents of the hotel.) 19. Paul Arant, Pageland, S. C.

20. Ida C. Fish, New York. 21. Sadie Citren, New York.

To Our Customers in the Shreveport-Bossier City Area: We have a new telephone number for our General Offices in Shreveport 425-1271 This change in telephone numbers was necessary so we could provide better service for you. It replaces our old number, which was 422-2141. and engineer. He was one of the nation's foremost racing drivers wnen ne was n. lie spent the remainder of his career, except for his wartime activities, in first the automobile and then the aviation industries.

He became president and general manager of Eastern in 1938 and board chairman in 1953. Oswald before this commission," Foreman said. Freund noted that "the counsel and his staff who have been; designated by the Warren com-; mission will have this very, much in mind." He said that "without the appointment of a so-called formal counsel for a I deceased defendant, I would surely assume that what Foreman has in mind will ac-: tually be done, and done very conscientiously." The court headed by Douglas in Texas, is that state's supreme court for criminal cases. Foreman also said he felt Oswald "couldn't possibly have received a fair trial" if he had lived because of the blanket press and television coverage of the assassination. It would have been impossible to impanel an unbiased jury, he asserted.

Douglas disagreed. UNUSUAL CASES He said the publicity itself would not necessarily prejudice a juror but suggested that in such unusual cases as the Oswald arrest "a set of ethics or ground rules or principles be agreed upon between the press, the broadcasting medium and the courts." Minow declared that "when you're dealing with a presi- dential assassination the balance must be struck very diiferently than in a normal crime. "Here, it seems to me. the media had a distinct obligation to report whatever they could find about this to the public." he said. "If not.

we could very easily had chaos and liots in this country." Freund said he thought it "was doubtful" an impartial jury could have been found to try Oswald. "I'm satisfied to subscribe to FOUNDATION OFFICIAL DIES MANILA (UPH A memorial service will be held Thursday for Paul Patrick Judge, Philippine representative of the Asia Foundation. He died Friday at the age of 52. Judge will be buried in San Francisco. He has been the foundation's representative here since 1959.

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Rickenbacker and I want to be able to spend more time with our children and our grandchildren and to begin to enjoy some of the leisure I have often looked forward to but for which I never felt I could afford the time." I Rickenbacker became a legen- dary figure to millions of Americans while he still was in the prime of life, through his exploits as an automobile racing driver and as a fighter pilot. He enlisted in World War 1 and became staff driver for Gen. I John J. Pershing. He won a transfer to combat duty with the famed 94th aero "Hat-in-the- FUNERAL SERVICES MRS.

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