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Probe Nluxclear Compiled from AP and UPI LONDON Police investigated demands for ransom and Scotland Yard called in nuclear scientists today in the search for a thin man and a bearded beatnik suspected ofstealing eight masterpieces worth $8.4 million in history's biggest art theft A ransom note demanding an undisclosed sum for return of the paintings including Rem-brandts and Rubens, was re ported to have arrived at Dul-wich College: Officials refused comment but said a message had been handed over to police. A similar demand for 100,000 pounds ($280,000) vas made Sat-urday night hy an anonymous telephone caller. Police were in-clined to consider the call a hoax. The daring heist under cover of darkness ranked as the second largest robbery the world has known. It was laced with opulent intrigue, including speculation a "screwy millionaire" with a secret collection may have financed it and that only two fences in Tangier and Mexico could dispose of the tec ted by an alarm system but no night watchman.

Police sources said Scotland Yard had called on nuclear scientists to examine the drill tip at the government's Atomic possibly too for microscopes to detect Detectives also sifted through thousands of names, including those of many Americans, in the gallery's goldembossed visitor's book, 2' sign the book. We think the thief or his accomplice -may have scribbled something down, per-'. haps to appear inconspicuous. So we are going to check out. every single name and address." Police rofficialsspecuiatetlhe thief may not be out for money.

"He could have had a political motive to draw attention to a i grievance," said Detective Supt. Charles Hewlett, who is in charge of the case. "It could have been greed or jealousy. I certainly don't think there's very? much in it for; him money-wise." The paintings were not in-1 suredreducing the prospect' of "ollectmgalargeansomfor-them. And they are so welK known that presumably they could not be sold to anyone ex- cept an unusually eccentric art -lover who would keep them en- tirely to himself.

irreplacable works. A two-inch tip of a broken drill bit was the only clue found after the "very professional, very clean and very tidy" robbery at the centuries-old. suburban Dulwich Art Gallery pro- Energy Authority research sta-tion at Aldermaston. They said scientists there think they can break down the drill's makeup by a process -1 known as neutron analysis and isolate minute mineral deposits "There is a strong possibility the thief, or someone working for visited the gallery in recent weeks to chart the layout," one detective said. "Nearly everyone who visits this little gallery is expected to X.

London irf Theft The Weather BAYAREA Fair tonight. Increasing cloudiness tomorrow. Continued mild. Low tonight 35 to 45. Gentle winds.

E) "ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA 7 94th YEAR, NO. 2 MONDAY, 1 0 Sharp Drop In Holiday Traffie Toll illiiifil Reagan Takes fit i Midnight Oath I -500ttnrJ Ceremony New Year's holiday traffic deaths in the; United were running weir behind last year's record pace today and in the Eastbay there have been no fatalities recorded. California, with 25 deaths, was still second in the nation, however, behind Texas with 30. Last year, 45 persons were killed on California road- DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH By ED SALZMAN Tribune Capital Bureau SACRAMENTO Republican Ronald Reagan was inaugurated' as California's 33rd governor early today and pledged that he will try to revolutionize state government by following the teachings of Jesus Christ.

In an unprecedented 0 t- midnight ceremony under the. Capitol dome, the handsome former actor began his first address as the state's chief executive by cracking a joke but ended it on a somber worldly note. 'After being installed by State Supreme Court Justice Marshall F. McComb, Reagan turned to his former Hollywoodolleape, United States Sen. George Mur-phy, and cracked: "George, here we are on the late, show againJ JANUARY 2, 1 967 The new ki)ls raised to 34 the number of MIGs credited to U.S.

pilots over North Vietnam, spokesmen said. LJl 1 it 1 CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNOR TAKES HIS OATH Ronald Reagan sworn iota office at Sacramento. (AP) i i I 7 MIGs Downed in Biggest Air Battle -sJ 4 if rtsW HAPPY FIRST LADY BRUSHES AWAY A TEAR Mrs. Reagan moved as husband takes oath. (AP) Reds Spurn British Peace Plan Compiled from AP and UPI LONDON Prime Minister Harold Wilson returned hurriedly from vacation today to find i a i 's holiday Vietnam ceasefire proposal, apparently already a dead issue.

As expected here, it was accepted by President Johnson and by South Vietnam. But Hanoi had ignored it completely, until a North Vietnamese broadcast monitored in Tokyo said today the British 'proposal for peace talks by the United States and the two Vietnams is no different from" previous U.S. proposals for unconditional peace talks. The broadcast appeared to be a rejection of the proposal. A Japanese language broadcast by Hanoi's official Vietnam News Agency quoted the North Vietnamese Army Quan Doi Nhan as saying British Foreign Secretary George Brown is a "messenger of the United States." FIRST REACTION "Brown's peace appeal was designed to appease the just denunciation of world opinion in the service to the.

United States and to deceive the world opinion," it said, The' newspaper "charged the British government is "shamefully trying to cover aggression of the United States." The Quan Doi Nhan Dan comment was the first Communist reaction to the British proposal. Most British commentators already were writing the proposal off as a lost effort. In messages to the United States, Norm and South Vietnam Friday, Brown called on all three "in the name of common humanity" to open immediate ceasfire talks. Brown suggested they be held in Hong Kong or any other suitable British Brown backed up his proposal with separate messages to United Nations Secretary General Thant and Soviet Foreign Minis-; ter Andrei Gromyko, his fellow co-chairman of the 1954 Geneva Far Eastern peace conference. WEEKEND AT DESK Wilson broke off "a short year-end vacation and returned to London ahead of schedule to-' day.

He consulted for 45 minutes with Brown, who spent most of the weekend at his foreign office desk, waiting for some hopeful sign from the Communists. None came. The Russians have so far made no official comment on the proposals. But the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia and Moscow Radio were both swift to condemn the initiative as "due to the growth of discontent of the British public in connection with the support London has rendered to American aggression in Viet Nam." Izvestia said that "Brown's demarche is clearly aimed at helping Washington which found itself under the attack of the world public." Moscow Radio said Brown's call equated "the aggressor, the United States, and its victim, North Viet Nam" and indicated the Russians did not expect the proposal to succeed. Annual List of Stock Prices -The Tribune's annual list price ranges on the New York and American Stock Exchanges, plus many other 1966 securities figures, will be found on Pages 61 and 62 of today's Issue.

De Gaulle's Bitter Blasts at S. Likely to Widen Rift A -moment later, the new governor turned to another figure on the platform, the Rev. Wilbur' W. Y. Choy, a Sacramento Methodist minister who will serve as chaplain of the Senate for the next year, 'DEEPLY GRATEFUL' "Reverend," Reagan said, "I am deeply grateful for your presence because you remind us and bring here the presence of someone else without whose presence I certainly wouldn't have the nerve to do what I am going to try to do." The new governor recalled a quotation attributed to Benja- min Franklin "if ever someone could take public office and bring the public office the teach ings and precepts of.

ttte Prince of Peace, he would revolutionize the world and men would be re Meet Miss Eastbay Of 1967 Miss Eastbay 1967 Is eight-pound, fduf-ounce Karen Ann Ratto of Dublin, who arrived "just 15 seconds after the New Year was born. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ratto, 11439 Rampart i. Karen was born at 12:00:15 a.m.-yesterday in St.

Rose Hospital at Hayward. First reaction of the mother: "I'm just happy." Mrs. Ratto, 30, conferred with her husband, 31, and selected Karen Ann as a name for no other reason then "we just wanted a nice name." Ratto is a cabinet maker in Mrs. Ratto is a first school teacher at Sequoia Elementary School in Hayward. First reported 1967 baby born in Oakland was a seven-pound, 44-ounce girl who arrived at 1:20 a.m.

in Peralta Hospital, the 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gin, 1768 28th Ave, --Other early 1967 arrivals in Eastbay hospitals: At 12:32 a.m., a son to Mr. and Mrs. William Evans, 3930 Via Estrella, Martinez, in Kaiser Hospital at Walnut Creek.

At 1:14 a.m., a son to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J. Finocchio, 3921 Almond Wood Court, Concord, in Concord Community Hospital. At 1:50 a.m., a son to Army Pvt.

E2 Mario and Mrs. Fissore in Oakland Naval Hospital. The father is now stationed in Germany. At 2:31 a.m., a daughter to Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Urban, Continued Page 9, Col. 1 WHERE TO FIND IT Astrology -47 Bridge 7 Classified Ads TT. "7 A. 48 Comics 16-A Crossword Puzzle .48 Editorial .......30 Financial Focus .31 Landers ..31 Martinez .31 Sports ....55 Theaters 63 TV and Radio .46 Vitals 54 World of Women .......33 I ways over the 78-hour week end which ends at midnight today. The volume of deaths nationally was well down from last, year when there were 564 traffic fatalities.

So far this weekend there are 379. HOMEWARD BOUND" National safety experts said the traffic pace could be ex pected to quicken today, however; as weekend, holiday-goers begin returning home. Bad weather across the country that restricted travel has been given much of the credit for keeping the death toll down. No fatalities have been recorded so far in Alameda, Contra C.o a or San Francsico Counties. Locally, the California Highway Patrol claimed some of the credit through its "Operation 500" program that has doubled the number of patrolmen along California highways; such as the Nimitz, which are notorious for their accident rates.

One of the few Bay Area fatalities came Sunday in Santa Rosa when a 12-year-old boy, Russell W. Hardwick, was killed when a car struck his bicycle. KILLED OUTRIGHT Hardwick was killed outright and a friend riding with him, Bruce C. Williams, 14, was injured. Driver of the car was identified as Fred J.

Lee, of Santa Rosa. He' was Jiot cited pending an investigation. David Thompson, 9, of Saratoga, was killed in Santa Rosa, N.M., when he was struck by a car as he stood beside his father's station wagon. His father was identified as Walter E. Thompson, 40.

Authorities said the car driven by Elizabeth Kiefer of Bir-mingham, slid on a slushy spot in the road and went out of control. The "youngster died Sunday in a hospital. U.H.IIIt'.'MJI.I THE UMBRELLA MAN 59 57 I 49 39 S.F. Downtown. Airport membering him for 1,000 yearsr" Reagan told the 500 officials, friends and newsmen in the Capitol rotunda as well as an' estimated one million Califor-nians watching on live television that th) one could be so pre sumptuous as to think he could follow thp nrprpntsr' nf SAIGON (AP) U.S.

jet pilots swept back' into North Vietnam's Red River valley today at the end of a two-day New Year's truce, and blasted seven Communist MtGs from the skies in the war's biggest aerial battle, U.SsjMk announced. The aerial fight erupted as other American planes attacked Communist surface-to-air (SAM) missile sites in the valley and still other U.S. war-planes resumed bombing attacks on the Communist North and demilitarized zone. No planes were reported downed in the battle with the MIGs. The U.S.

jets downed the Communist, while making fighter sweeps throughout the valley near Hanoi and Haiphong, spokesmen said. Details of the aerial battle were sketchy, but U.S. spokesmen said all seven MIGs were shot down by Air F4C Phantom jets. They said the MIGs were downed as F105 Thundercniefs" attacked the missile sites. Th Christ completely.

"I can tell vou this." he em-v" phasized, "I'll try very hard. I leashed and which "one cruelly prolongs on Vietnamese soil." Observers said the "one" was a definite reference to the United States. i Bohlen smilingly conversed with De Gaulle a few minutes later but declined to reveal what was said. He made no comment on De Gaulle's war statements. French sources said De Gaulle thanked Bohlen for a New Year's message from President Johnson, the contents of which remained unreleased.

De Gaulle told the diplomats France would he willing to help Continued Page 9, Col. 6 1 'M i. 1 from "the armed intervention of the United' States on the territory of Vietnam." He urged unilateral withdrawal of U.S. troops and called the war "detestable, because it leads a large nation to ravage a smaller one." De" Gaulle repeated the same charges and demands in.less biting terms yesterday when he re-ceived the Paris diplomatic corps at his Elysee Palace. Communist Chinese Ambassador Gen.

Huang Chen was among4ho.se present. Bohlen remained impassive as De Gaulle referred to the war as "the conflict that one has un- of Compiled from AP and UPI PARIS Ranking diplomats here today viewed President Charles de Gaulle's two bitter attacks U.S. Vietnam war policy in as many days as a clear sign the Paris-Washington split would widen in thcyear ahead. The French leader unleashed his most stinging war criticisms to date in a pair of New Year's addresses, one of which in the presence of U.S. Ambassador Charles E.

Bohlen. In a nationwide speech to the French people on New Year's BverDe-Gaulle-branded the war "unjust" and said it resulted Mir. think it is needed in today world." BIGGEST SIIAKEUP Installation of the 55-year-old Reagan brought to state government its biggest shakeup. since 1939. when the late Culbert Olson became the first Democrat- ic governor in the 20th Century.

It also marked the start of four days of hectic inaugural ac- tivity, including the start of the 1967 session of the Legislature at noon today. The inauguration ceremony went off with extreme precision. The gotfrnor and his party strode( into the rotunda at 12:01 a.m.,-and Reagan completed his address 20 mutes later ex-, actly according to plan. 2 DOZEN CAMERAS -event was recorded by two dozen TV cameras. Television so dominated the ceremony 'that a larger.

statueof Queen Isabella blocked the vision of many guests, who were forced to watch the proceedings on a TV monitor. First. Robert Finch; th? 41-year-old JLos Angeles attorney, Continued Page IS, Each its triumphs and tragedies, fulfillments and failures and 19-66 was no exception. In Oakland, the year may best be marked as the date of completion of the Oak-landlameda County Coliseum project, one of the nation's outstanding sports and exhibi-ViorTshowcases. For photographic review of other 1966 memorable events, see Page 23.

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