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Gem-rally lair ivilh no Important temperature Wednesday. (Detailed report ua ESTABLISHED 1846 VOL. 115--NO. 886 TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1961 18 PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS WHERE THREE DIED The bodies of two sailors and a girl were extricated from the wreckage of this 1961 car after it flipped over on Miantanomi Avenue in Middletown early this morning. (Middletown Police Photo) Sailor, 2 Friends Killed In His New Car When It Skids, Hits Auto In Middletown A 25-year-old sailor a a minutes to extricate the trio from wanted a brand new car.

He pur- the Reese car. Police said the chased it on Saturday and less than 72 hours later it turned out to be the instntment of death for himself and two companions. Dead on arrival at the Naval Hospital following a 2-car collis- sion on Miantonomi Avenue, Middletown, at this morning were Boilertender 1. C. Bobby F.

Reese of the USS Norris and of 106 Second and his two passengers, Fireman 3. C. Gary Jones, 20, also of'the Norris, and Mrs. Barbara Serdula, 22, of Boston, and the Beach Hotel in Middletown. The car in which they -were riding went out of control and collided with one driven by George Rodriques, 41, of Jepson Lane, Middletown.

Rodriques was taken to Newport Hospital and admitted with chest and rib injuries. His condition was described as satisfactory by hospital authorities. Middletown police, describing ihe accident as one of the worst in the town's history, said that Heese's car came down the steep hill on Miantanomi and failed to negotiate the curve near Green End Avenue. They said the driver apparently lost control and the car started to skid sideways. It crossed the center of the highway doers were so badly smashed that they could not be opened and tools had to be used to pry one of them open.

Vierra said no life was evident in any of them when they were taken from the car. However, he said that they were not officially dead until Iheir arrival at the Naval Hospital. Officials there said autopsies will be held this afternoon. Mrs. Reese said at her home this morning that her husband always wanted a new car.

"It was his big ambition and he bought it on Saturday," she said. She and her husband and their son, James, 9, had been living in Newport since August, 1959. She said his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd A.

Reese of Akron, Colo. visited with them over' Christmas and went to Providence to visit another son, Thomas Reese of the USS Perle and his wife for the New Year. The parents were planning to return to Colorado today. Mr. Reese was a native of Colorado and his wife, Mary, is a native of Little Rock, Ark, He was a veteran of 10 years of Navy service.

He also leaves seven sisters. Mr. Jones was a native of Florida. His mother lives in Lake Worth. Mi's.

Serdula's next of kin was given as her grandmother, Mrs. Eva Morin of Boston. Police said the woman had a child, who lives with the grandmother. The accident gave Middletown fContinued on Page 4) Government Troops Recapture Key City In Northeastern Laos VIENTIANE, a CAP) ern government were holding out recaptured the key northeastern and into the west bound lane, it Xiengkhouang from pro- it co nun i re bels Monday night. Information Minister Bouavan Norasing said the city was retaken 6y a battalion of paratroopers that jumped miles east of Xiengkhouang.

Norasing's announcement was the government's first admission that tlie rebels had taken Xiengh- houang. The minister said Tuesday troops loyal to his pro-West- Prince Boun Oum's government at Ban Ban, 30 miles northeast of announced today that its forces I Xiengkhouang, and that as far as where it collided with the car op- crated by Rodriques. Chief Francis J. Vierra, who rushed to tlie scene with Deputy Chief Donald Homan and Patrolmen Clyde Allen and James Santas, said tlie impact flipped the Reese car over and it landed on its roof. It lliddlotmvn fire department's rescue sn.uad nearly 15 Castro Orders U.

S. Embassy Staff In Havana Reduced To 11 Members HAVANA (AP) U. S. Cuban relations grew more frayed today with a drastic order from Prime Minister Fidel Castro for a slash of the U.S. Embassy staff here to 11 by Wednesday night.

In a wrathful prelude to the U.N. Security Council meeting Wednesday, when Cuba will air now charges Ihat tiie United plans to invade Cuba, Castro declared the U.S. Embassy was filled with spies directing counter-revolutionaries. He said the U.S. staff would bo reduced to the same number that Cuba maintains in its embassy in Washington.

Although the prime minister said ho was not brooking with the United Slnios. he invited llio entire staff lo leave Cuba. "We are not breaking witli Ihoin," lip shouted. "If they want lo go, lot them go." Thousands of Castro's followers massed in Civic Plaza roared their approval with shouts of "Cuba si, Yankees no" and with demands that the United States give up its naval base at Guan- tnnamo in eastern Cuba. At the big glass-walled U.S.

Embassy, Charge d'Affnircs Daniel Rraddock got his first word of the order to reduce tlie staff from 87 to It as he watched Gistro on television. Six months ago there were 120 on the staff. U.S. Ambassador Philip Bonsai was recalled last October and embassy wives and children were sent home last September. Cuba has not had an ambassador in Washington for nnnths.

A confidential circular handed ombasyy officials this morning indicated tin- United States will withdraw all but 11 officers and clerks. This total of 11 Americans presumably iloes nit inehide the U.S. consular staff at Santiago. Ouba maintains several cousul- in Cuban history in the plaza. For seven hours lie reviewed soldiers and militiamen showing off weapons from the Soviet bloc, including 51 heavy tanks.

IFwmm and 105mm artillery and six-barreled rocket launchers. At the tail of tlie parade was what was labeled as a reconstruction of parts of the U.S. rocket fired from Capo Canaveral last Nov. 30 and destroyed because of a malfunction. Tlie disnlay included a 30-foot dented section with U.S.

Air Force markings. At a reception in Moscow on the Cuban anniversary Soviet Premier Khrushchev picked up the Cuban charge that tiie United States was planning an invasion by Jan. IS to wipe out alleged Soviet rocket bases being constructed in Cuba. Holiday Toll Stands At 338 By TIIE ASSOCIATED PKESS Traffic Fires Miscellaneous Total he knew the key city had not fallen to the rebels who last week seized the strategic Plaine des Jarres, with its cross-country highway, and an airfield outside Xiengkhouang. A U.

S. Embassy spokesman in Bangkok said (lie United States has evacuated from Vientiane "all American personnel, whose activities were restricted" by the crisis. He added that personnel attached to the U.S. Information Service and other agencies are going back to Vientiane in what he described as a "two-way movement." The spokesman said most of the 200 Americans evacuated from Laos in the past two days were U.S. aid administrators whose activities were the fighting in central Laos.

Ambassadors of the eight nations forming tlie Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) met in Bangkok, capital of neighboring Thailand, with SEATO Secretary-General Pole Sarasin. The ambassadors, who included U. Alexis Johnson of tlie United Stales, took no action. Sarasin told newsmen SEATO lias circumstantial evidence of foreign Communist intervention in Ihe figliling but the Laotian government already had disclosed the evidence he cited--airdrops by Soviet planes to the and captives the government said were North Vietnamese Western observers in Vientiane maintained serious doubts about Laotian charges that as many as (.000 invaders from Red North Viet Nam have joined the pro- Communist Pathct Lao and leftist rebels in central Laos. Laos is not a member of SEATO.

Sarasin said the organization is pledged to help the jungle kingdom combat any Communist invasion, but tlie Laotian Eisenhower Gets Latest Laos Reports WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower today received additional intelligence reports on the situation in Laos from his top military, diplomatic and intelligence advisers Another high-level White House conference followed Eisenhower's action of Monday approving stepped-up military readiness in the Pacific. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates Deputy Secretary of Defense James Douglas, Central Intelligence Director Allen W. Dulles, and Gen.

Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, headed the group calling at the White House this morning. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said Laos was among several matters taken up at the conference Hagerty reiterated to newsmen today that he government regards tlie situation in Laos as grave In advance of today's meeting. Eisenhower was represented as convinced that fast and clear action is the best way to avoid any Communist commitment to ag- in Laos. But he was said to be hopeful of a solution short of military intervention by outside powers On Saturday, after word arrived here of what the Laotian government said was an invasion by seven battalions from neighboring Communist North Viet Nam.

Eisenhower met with his top diplomatic, military and intelligence advisers. That afternoon the United Slates issued a public warning tn North Viet Nam, Red China and other Communist powers not to intervene in behalf of the Rod Palhet Lao rebels. It also referred pointedly to the U.S. obligation in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization for defense of the area. On Sunday the United Stales called for a meeting in Bangkok of the council of SEATO, whose members include the United Slates.

Britain, France. Australia, New Zealand, (he Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. Monday the Pentagon announced--with White House hacking--orders to step up the readiness of U.S. forces in the Pacific, including fast-moving airlift capability, "in view of the present situation in Laos." government has help. not asked for The New Year's holiday traffic death toll stood at 338 today with straggling reports expected to boost the final figure even higher.

The actual count of death compared with a prcholidny estimate by the National Safety Council Nasser Acclaimed By Morocco Crowds Governor Notte Pledges Aid To Business In R.I. SPECIAL TO THE NEWS PROVIDENCE Gov. iota A. Notte was sworn in today and dedicated his administration to meeting genuine community needs with any new spending limited to only the most vital services which cannot be otherwise provided. The new governor took the oath of office in a crowded House chamber before a joint session the General Assembly with members of the judicia-y.

mayors, town council presidents, uesigna- ted new deiaitment heads and relatives and friends in attendance. The inauguration ceremony returned to its traditional location in the House chamber, restoring a precedent broken in 1959 by Republican Gov. Christopher Del Sesto when his inauguration was moved to the Veterans Memorial Auditorium across the street. The Senate and House met separately while the governor waited in his office. Secretary of State August P.

LaFrance, who was re-elected, swore in the new lieutenant governor, Edward P. Gallogly of Providence, in the Senate chamber and then administered the oath of office to the 44 senators in a body The Senate adopted rules for 1961-62 and then awaited an invitation to join the House in meanwhile, was its chamber. The called to nrder by Rep. William Champion Newport Democrat, who substituted for Rep. Edward K.

Oakley; Newport Democrat, because the latter is ill. Under a constitutional provision, the senior member from Newport has the honor of convening the House inauguration. The practice goes back to the time when Newport was one of two state capitals and the General Assembly met there. Oakley who represents the First District, bad been looking forward to the honor, but his doctor had him enter Newport Hospital yesterday for observation and tests. In his absence, the next senior member from Newport has the honor.

Representative Champion of the Second District and Rep. John C. Agnew. of the Third District were tied in seniority. It then went to Champion as being the older of the two.

Secretary of State La France administered the oath of office to all members of the House. Rep. Harry F. Curvin (D-Woonsocket) was reelecled speaker. The House invited the lieutenant governor and the senators to meet with In "grand committee.

'Tiie 1961 session of tha legislature got under way with both branches under Democratic control, marking the first time in many years that the executive and legislative branches are both dominated by the same party. Other general officers also were sworn in, including Gallogly, LaFrance, Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent and General Treasurer Raymond H.

Hawksley, al! Democrats. In his Inaugural address, Notte said some additional spending is inevitable because of built-in commitments in recent new programs for highways, hospitals, school aid, colleges and scholarships. But he said the time has come to" consolidate some of "spectacular gains" and "see to it that we make the fullest use of what we have." He said that his fiscal proposals would be made in detail later when he submits his budget, probably next month. Notte deveted a considerable portion of his address to the economy of the state, branding as a "colossal myth" any talk a "poor business climate." When all factors are considered, including lower than average wages, taxes that are "not unduly high" on business excellent productivity on the part of the labor force and a low percentage of time lost due to strikes, he said such talk is completely unfounded. The governor conceded, however, that unemployment has risen during the past year but said this is part of the national picture.

In anticipation of federal aid to distressed areas, reassurpnce of employment compensation and other forms of relief, lie said he would order the Rhode Island Development Council and the Department of Employment Security to make a detailed inventory of every factory to pinpoint problems and be in a position to profit by such programs. He also said he would re-establish a small business division in the development council to assist small industries to grow and diversify the state's economy. The new governor said he would call on outstanding members of the community for advice and assistance. He said he believes government should be brought closer to the people and. to that end, pledged his office door woui.J be open to legislators, regaroieES of party, to the public to "inquire uid sug- liberals Vs.

Conservatives As New Congress Convenes gest" and added he would hold regular press conferences and make radio and television reports direct to the people. Each department's informational program will be stepped up, he said, and public advisory groups will be created, with one such group in the executive department itself. Turning to specifics, called for improvement of the election laws to provide for one- day same place primaries for both political parties with representation at the polling places for unendorsed primary candidates and said the time has come to regulate the amount and manner of expenditures in both primary and election' campaigns. Ho also promised amendment of the constitution to lengthen the terms of general officers from two to four years, give broader home rule to cities and towns, co- dily the electoral laws, provide for fixing legislative compensation without resort to constitutional amendment and adoption of an amendment to permit holding unlimited constitutional conventions eVery 10 years. Declaring the- slate has been transformed in area and population into relatively few metropolitan communities, he urged that the regional approach evident in recently adopted regional school, water and sewage agreements among adjacent communities be expanded to include police and fire service, transportation, redevelopment, recreation and public works as a means of providing better services at appreciable savings.

This pooling, he (Continued on Page -1) R.I. Gets New Senator, Claiborne Pell Of Newport SPECIAL TO THE NEWS WASHINGTON Rhode Island formally acquired a new senator today as Claiborne Pell, Newport Democrat, took the oath with other newly-elected members in traditional ceremonies shortly after In the packed galleries, observing the opening of the 87th Con- new House member, Fernand St. Germain (D) Woonsockei, who also took the oath today in the mass swearing in of the newly elected House of Representatives. The Pells' home is only a short distance from the famed residence of President. )hn F.

Kennedy. In fact, in recent years, when he was in Washington, the new Rhode Island senator has been known to engage gress, were some 40 relatives and, a game (ouch football with close friends, including the sen-' nc Kennedys in a Georgetown ator's father, Herbert Claiborne i schoolyard. Pell, a former New York congressman and United States diplomat, his mother, Mrs. Hugo W. Koehler; his wife and their four children.

With only 500 spectators allowed in the gallery, Pell's administrative assistant, Ray Nelson, said he managed to wangle 40 tickets from other senatoral offices. Each new senator is officially permitted only 10 seats for the ceremony. Rhode Island's senior senator, John 0.. Pastore. following historic custom, escorted his colleague to the well of the Senate for the swearing in.

Not present for the occasion was the state's elderly Theodore Francis whose retirement paved the way for Pell to seek the Ncwporters attending the Capitol Hill festivities included Chair- Green Misses U. S. Ceremony SPECIAL TO THE NEWS WASHINGTON Sen. Theodore Francis Green, the oldest man ever to serve in Congress, was not today when the new Congress was sworn in. He decided to return to Rhode Island to attend the inauguration of the new Democratic state government there.

He 'did, however, say he would return for. the inauguration of President Kennedy Jan. 20. Jivi iiiii icau vines nn-iuucvi man Joseph J. Nicholson of the) Green left the capital precisely Democratic City Committee, which noon Monday to take a plane as the first to endorse' Pell; for Rhode Island.

He said he left no tears and no regrets, WASHINGTON (AP)--The new Congress convened today already embroiled in a liberal vs. conser- president-elect. Johnson his' Senate seat shortly after tlie Pell Matthew J. Faerber, attorney, Newport County coordinator of the People for Pell campaign; Joseph J. Macioci, attorney, also active for Pell; and James J.

Reilly, Nicholson's brother-in-law. Franklin D. Roosevelt who resigned campaigned in Rhode Island for i. telling reporters he doubted the wisdom of election a man of his age, 93, to another six-year term. "I don't feel badly about leaving here," said Green.

"I feel it's time I did. Green was delighted to find among his last pieces of mail new Congress convened. vative struggle such as clearly Mansfield has been whip, or as- and Mrs. Roosevelt were among. special New Year's i those attending.

will be waged over much of President-elect John F. Kennedy's program. In both Senate and House, Democrats who call themselves liberals were bidding for a bigger voice in charting the legislative course to be followed in the next two years. House insurgents want to break up a coalition of conservative Democrats and Republicans on the Rules Committee which has sislant leader, under Johnson. To succeed Mansfield, the Senate Democrats tapped Hubert H.

Humphrey of Minnesota. Galleries in both Senate and House we're packed when gavels finally rapped to start the session. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, presiding in the Senate. 11 read several communications.

One was from President-elect Kennedy announcing his resignation from the Senate. In the House, clerk Ralph Rob- The suite of offices that Pell wiil inherit from Senator Green for a few weeks is one of the choicest in the old Senate Build- two former presidents. S. Truman and Herbert I from Harry Hoover. Green's secretarial staff saw him off and, as his car left the delay legislation not to their Ilk- For the moment, Rayburn.

tlie elderly Texan who has presided Pell likes Ihe history and Senate Building, a tradition of the old building an oenaie nuuuniy, i i i i ior his successor, would prefer not to be assigned Claiborne Poll of Newport, and his to the new Senate structure next aides to move in at temporarily. Pell does not the committee. Reports were circulated that Police, Strikers Clash In Belgium BRUSSELS. Belgium (AP)--Police and strikers clashed today in the streets of Brussels and in at least two other cities when demonstrators answered a Socialist-led union call for nationwide rallies. four Mississippi members of the House who failed to support the Democratic ticket last November may be disciplined.

Tlie four are Colmer, Jamie i Whitten, Arthur Winstead and John Bell Williams. One member of Congress who I declined to be quoted by name said that under present plans the four Mss'issippians are either to be removed from their committees or to have their committee seniority reduced. Ir party caucus. House Republicans apparently decided, to wait and tee what the Democrats An about Ihe Rules Committee before taking a stand oi their State policemen mounted a nles in the United Stales. The embassy said it will 1)0 necessary to reduce its services to the minimum.

The visa section was closed today to await instructions from Ihe Siato Dctvart- About 50,000 Cubans have visa applications on file. Castro spoke on the second anniversary of his revolution after singing Ihe bluest military show hielo accidents during the long i tremendous ovation from Moroc- Rep. Ciiaile? A. Halleck, R- re-elected House leader by her charge to clear a Biussels Republicans, said the caucus square of demonstrators who had ng-'tin named Rep. John W.

shouted insults at them. largely routine In addition They were part of a parade of picking HalK-tk, tlie caucus 000 "marchers in the capital's Byrnes of Wisconsin chairman of CASABLANCA. Morocco (AP)-ma in streets. Hie GOP Policy Committee, and President Gamal Abdel Nasser Twelve civilians were hurt in i Ret 1 Charles B. Hoeven of Iowa Chairman of the Republican Con- that 340 lives might be lost in vo- the United Arab Republic drew a I Antwerp holiday weekend.

Tlie count for the 78-hour holiday period ended at midnight Monday. At that time deaths in traffic accidents reported numbered 338. However, as in all major holiday traffic surveys, final figures are not reported for hours after the midnight line. The death rate cased during Ihe can crowds today as African leaders arrived for a summit conference on the Congo. Several hours aflor Nasser arrived aboard his private yacht the leaders of Guinea, Ghana and Mali lauded alward a Soviet-built airliner from Conakry, capital of nninr-'i.

The premier of the Algerian nationalist government in oxile, Fcr- iverp when police waded into dialrma iarade of 10,000 strikers who fercnc-e. a began smashing windows. The Belgian state radio tersely Ihat at Tournai slate po- A resolution presented by seven said Republicans calling for a repudiation of any coalition between Re- licemcn were overwhelmed. The publicans and Southern Democrats broadcast gave no details (if Ihe during Ihe congressional session as shunted to the Policy Corn- closing hours of the long New, hat Abbas, arrived aboard a Year weekend, apparently aver'- plane from Madrid. This coming what safely experts feared pletcd the makeup of Ihe con- would be a record for a three- fcrencc.

day celebration of the holiday. King Koharned as record toll WHS 37-1 traffic the conference, fatalities a year ngo. the dockside. trouble nt Tournai. Five thousand demonstrated at Liege smashed some store fronts.

Miners at tint industrial city of the Geimmi frontier threatened to flood the mines. The new agninst Premier Raskin Kyskens' austerity program were timed just ahead of the reopening of Parliament, the conference, greeted Nasser at I which will resume debate on the mitlce by a voice vote. As expected. Senate Republicans re-elected Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois as Iheir leader.

They G01 also re-elected Ihe senators who held posts in the last session. other party proposals. Senate Democrats named Mike vl Montana as their floor leador, succeeding Uyndon B. Johnson ot Texas, the vies newspaperman, the staff includes Paul Goulding of Providence, administrative aide; Ray Morisette whose father is mayor of House starts afresh on adopting! Central Falls; and Miss Leslie door. Green's office faces on Constitution Avenue and provides a good view of the Taft Memorial Tower.

Following the opening ceremonies today. Senator Pell held open hoase in his office for visiting Rhode Islanders and friends. Airs. Pell and staff members assisted in greeting the guests. In addition I special to Nelson, a former Rhode Island Library of Congress ior use wlien- least have an office assigned to him yet.

Two members of the Green staff, Marie Flanagan and Helen Dunphy, are staying on to work for Pell. Others will scalier to mostly at tlie new positions, Capitol. Green has provided a at the rules and electing officers. Senate Democrats put off one of their big issues. They will meet Wednesday to consider a motion by Sen.

Albert Gore, D- that vacancies in tlie Senate Democratic Policy and Steering committees be filled in fut- ever he is in Washington. Eighty cases of Green's papers have been transferred to the library for future study by historians. The only outside visitor at Jones of UV.nvick, plus the two i Green's office as he said good by secretaries from Senator Green's office. John L. Lewis and Vera Ferrari will maintair the Providence office.

Last evening, tlie Pells cnler- lained at their Georgetown home for some 50 persons, mostly fam- ure by election of the entire Sen-1 ily am', friends from out of town, ate Democratic membership, i Among those attending buffet stead of by tlie present method of were Senator Pastore, Rep' John appointment leader. E. Fogarty and Rhode Island's was Mrs. James W. Hardy, part-time Newport resident, whose late uncle, Herbert E.

Macauley, was once mayor of Newport. PROVIDENCE I A Sen. Theodore Francis Green, 93-year- old scion of an old and tradition- steeped Rhode Island family, took (Continued on Page 2) ov niiAR!) IV VIFNTIA.VE Rightwing troops man Rn armored cnr and patrol streets of Vientiane after driving leftist forces of Capt. Kong Le from Laos' administrative capital during December fighting..