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So Serving The Greater Mattoon Area Since 1856 Year No. 298 Charter Fidel Castro Whips Cuba Into Frenzy By RICHARD VALERIANI HAVANA (P) Troops were on the move everywhere today In this Caribbean island once a favorite winter playground as Fidel Castro kept his nation in a frenzy to fight, off the invasion he claims is coming from the United States. The United States Castro's latest invasion ridicutermed, lous, and a majority of the U.N. Security Council said after two days of debate Cubans had not proved the charge. But the Cuban regime put the most intensive military display it could muster.

A wave of searchers of Roman Catholic organizations and the arrest of at least nine Catholic students or teachers was reported, but it was not immediately clear whether a widespread movement against the church or its affiliates was under way. Antiaircraft and antitank guns studded Malecon, Havana's picturesque seafront that in pre-Cas-1 tro days was a favorite promenade for tourists at this of year--mostly Americans. Artillery emplacements sprouted throughout the rest of Havana and its suburbs. The capital resounded to the movement of grim-faced civilian soldiers. Militia men and women patrolled rooftops with machineguns at the ready.

Hundreds of blue uniformed teen-agers, members of the revolutionary youth organization, carried burp guns and bazookas into the elegant Nacional overlooking the Mexico. Hotel, The military activity cast shadow across the "Day of Three Kings" -the traditional gift -giving day in Latin America which ends the Christmas holiday season. Castro has charged that the Eisenhower administration is preparing to invade by Jan. 18, two days before it leaves office. If U.

S. troops do not invade, Castro presumably will crow that his militant preparedness scared them off, and he will claim a victory over the hated northern neighbor. Political other prisoners were evacuated from Principe Prison atop a hill commanding a sweeping view of Havana. There were unconfirmed reports the ancient fortress was being converted to temporary "invasion headquarters." Fatal Shotgun Blast Climaxes: Decatur Party DECATUR, Ill. (P) A fatal shotgun blast was the aftermath to a noisy, early-morning party today.

Killed by the shot, fired in a downtown parking lot, was Harold Nelson, 25, Decatur. Police Chief James May said a 29-year-old bartender, Robert Sunderland, admitted the shooting and gave this account: Sunderland, returning about 2 a.m. from the tavern where he worked, stopped at the apartment next door and asked Nelson and several others to quiet down. Shortly afterward, several of the merrymakers kicked in Sunderland's door. Sunderland picked up a shotgun and hit Nelson with it, ordering them out of the apartment.

They went to the adjacent parking lot and were getting into a car when Sunderland came downstairs, still armed, to call police from an outdoor phone booth in the lot. Nelson and another man came at him. Sunderland fired one shot, hitting Nelson in the chest. May said he is holding five others for questioning. Sunderland has not been charged.

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Moore DAILY Member Audit Bureau of Circulations MATTOON, Cuban Anti-Aircraft Batteries Await 'Enemy' four -barrelled anti-aircraft gun, manned by civilian militiamen, goes up along Havana's JOURNAL ILLINOIS, FRIDAY background is the once-luxurious Habana Riviera Hotel, seafront drive to repel what Fidel Castro has said is an "imminent" invasion from the U. In the 18 Perish in Hotel Blaze U. N. Rejects Cuban Charge Against U.S. By WILLIAM N.

OATIS UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP) The U. N. Security Council Thursday night discarded Cuba's latest charge that she is facing imminent invasion from the United States. A majority of members of the 11-nation body made clear in debate they did not believe there was any evidence to back up charge made last Saturday by the Fidel Castro government that an invasion was coming within hours.

The council: ended its debate without a vote--a victory two for the United States, which termed the charge ridiculous and asked that it not be dignified by formal action. A resolution by Chile and Ecuador- calling on the United States and Cuba to settle their differences by peaceful meanswas not pressed to a vote. Of the 11 council members, only the Soviet Union supported the Cuban charge. Ceylon and the United -Arab Republic did not commit themselves. The rest of the council Britain, Chile, Nationalist China, Ecuador, France, Liberia and Turkey agreed with the United States that the charge had not been proved.

U.A.R. Delegate Omar Loutfi, the council president for January, ended the debate with a brief statement expressing the hope "that nothing will be done which could in any way aggravate" the tension between the United States and Cuba. It was the third U.N. defeat for Castro's regime in its efforts to pin aggression charges on the United States. In a final statement Cuban Foreign Minister Paul Roa insisted that the threat of invasion "still hangs over Cuba despite the U.S.

denial." He declared that if American forces invade his country, "they will not meet a Cuba who is alone." Hold Last Rites For Mrs. Lydia Holsapple Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 p.m. today at the Schilling funeral home for Mrs. Lydia May (Beals) Holsapple, 81, of 812 S. 16th.

Rev. Leo B. Venatta and Rev. I John Kauffman officiated, and burial was in the Janesville cemetery. Rev.

and Mrs. Kauffman sang "Whispering Hope" and "Good and Good Morning," accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Florence J. Myers. Pallbearers were Wayne Lowery, Don Williams, Dale Williams, Johnny Dale Williams, Arnold French and Harold Brady.

Mrs. Holsapple died at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Hospitall. Reports Car Damaged Mike Rhoades, 3005 Walnut, ported to police Thursday that the left front headlight on his car was damaged by a hit and run driver. Rhoades said the occurred between 1 and 9:30 a.m.

Thursday while the car was parkled in the 600 block of Edgar. Ben Franklin Store in Good Neighbor Shopping Center will close each Sunday at 5:30 p. m. beginning Jan. a.

Open 9. a. m. to 9 p. m.

Monday through Saturday as usual, Recommended Reading: Editorial on Mental Health Page 4 AD 5-5656 Price 7 Cents EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1961 Member Associated Press All Phones Carpenter Rules Out House Meeting Unless Democrats Let Him Preside Inauguration Of Governor Set, But SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (P) The whole affair may not come off Monday, but a detailed program! for Otto Kerner's inauguration as, Illinois' 33rd governor WAS announced today. The raging battle between Republicans and Democrats over the House speakership threatens to throw a monkeywrench into the elaborate plans. The House and Senate may not get together in joint session tol canvass the election results a necessary step before state officials can be inducted. Nevertheless, Kerner and his family intend to arrive in Springfield Sunday and wait it out at the St.

Nicholas Hotel. Thousands of visitors from all parts of the state also are coming, not only for the swearing in ceremony set for 12:30 p. m. but for the festive inaugural ball in the evening. State Democratic officials say they will hold the ball, regardless of whether the inauguration takes place.

The Legislature will return for a regular meeting only a few hours before Kerner and four other newly-elected state officers are supposed to raise their right hands and repeat the oath spoken by Chief Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the state Supreme Court. The House, under the disputed, speakership of Democrat Paul Powell, is slated to meet at 9 a. m. Republicans are expected to boycott the session.

The peaceful Senate will meet at 10 a. m. Three other Democrats and one Republican are slated to take their oaths with Kerner. They are Samuel H. Shapiro of Kankakee, lieutenant governor- Michael J.

Howlett of Chicago, auditor-elect; William G. Clark, attorney general-elect, and Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier, the lone Republican. Carpentier is a central figure in the House speakership battle. Boeing Produces New Model of B52 WICHITA, Kan.

(P A new model of the B52 bomber with more power and more punch is ready for the Air Force. The first B52H rolled out of the Boeing Airplane Co. plant here Thursday. Perched beneath its wings were two test models of the Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile. Both the range and the thrust of the B52H will exceed that of its predecessors, B52G.

Eight jet engines provide 1,000 pounds of thrust, an increase of about 4,000, pounds. Without giving any details, the Air Force said the B52H will have 10,000 miles more range. The Skybolt missile can fly 000 miles after leaving the bomber. This is twice as far as the Hound Dog missiles mounted aboard the B52G. The Skybolt is scheduled to be ready for combat use in 1964.

GOP Tries to Round Up Ailing State Legislators By STAN KOVEN CHICAGO (P) A handful of ailing, disgruntled or bellious Republicans are under close surveillance by GOP leaders intent on asserting majority will in the Illinois House. The sick list claims four members. Two others show signs of ignoring the will of the GOP caucus, which nominated Rep. William E. Pollack of Chicago for the speakership.

Republicans hold 89 seats in the new assembly, Democrats 88. But the GOP, unable to muster full strength at the opening session Wednesday, bolted the House. And after they departed, the Democrats voted 0 to give Paul Powell of Vienna the speakership. Powell's claim to election was contested in a court suit filed Thursday by Republican leaders. In the meantime, party leaders have set up visiting committees to attend the bedsides of three Republican members in Chicago.

Their hope is to persuade the bedridden to attend a full session of the House Monday in Springfield. They are Reps. Peter J. Miller, Walter C. McAvoy and August J.

Ruf. In addition, Rep. John P. Manning of Rochelle is hospitalized in Rockford. But even if these four should recover in time for the session, a Chicagoan and a downstate are considered threats to a united Republican front.

Rep. Michael Zlatnik of Chicago told a reporter he does not intend to vote for Pollack. Differences with Pollack spawned in the primary and election campaigns will force him to vote "present" on a speakership roll call, he said. A "present" vote would be an assist to Powell. C.

L. McCormick, who hails from home town of Vienna, GOP caucus which Rowell's, nominated Pollack and therefore may not consider himself bound to the caucus choice. McCormick has refused to be pinned down on his personal choice for speaker. The three ailing Chicago members hold jobs with the Democratic controlled Chicago Sanitary District, a circumstance which promoted GOP leaders to they had been pressured into staying away from Springfield. Warren Sheeks, Greenup Resident, Dies at 46 Special to the Journal -Gazette GREENUP, Sheeks, 46, Greenup, died at 10:25 a.m.

Thursday at the Peters Shelter Care here where he had been a patient two months. He had been ill for some time. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hiles funeral home here with Rev. Lewis Russell of Lerna officiating.

Burial will be in Plainfield cemetery near Rose Hill. He was born May 24, 1914, in Milford, a son of Orvile and Maude Shelley Sheeks. He was a mechanic and a welder. Among survivors are his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs.

Orvile Sheeks, near Greenup; two sons, Jerry Warren Sheeks, Warsaw, and Terry Eugene Sheeks, with the U. S. Army in Germany, and a sister, Mrs. Edith Malone, near Hill. Osteopath': Injections Blamed for 14 Deaths TRENTON, N.

J. (P) The state, of New Jersey is investigating the deaths of 14 patients who died of after receiving injections from an osteopath. The attorney general's office, the State Board of Medical Examiners and the State Health Department all were involved in the investigation of Dr. Albert L. Weiner of Erlton, a Camden County community about five miles from Philadelphia.

The health department disclosed Thursday that it started its investigation Oct. 24, when several South- Jersey hospitals informed it of an unusual number of cases of serum hepatitis, an acute liver disease. It said it uncovered 44, cases in the next month, 14 of them fatal and all of them patients of Weiner. Weiner's wife told a reporter that her husband had been ill for several weeks and had a vacation. She did not say where SPRINGFIELD, III.

-Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier said today there will be no Illinois inauguration Monday unless Democrats agree to organize the House with himself as presiding officer. By HARRY JUPITER SAN FRANCISCO (P) At least 18 persons were killed today as fire swept through the Thomas Hotel in downtown San Francisco. It was the worst fire here in more than a decade and came on one of the coldest mornings in the city's. history.

The -story structure at 971 Mission St. had 160 cheap-priced rooms and all but 14 were occupied when the fire broke out about 5 a.m. Fire Chief William Murray said it started in a mattress in a firstfloor room and spread to the rear of the building and up the elevator shaft. The dead included at least one woman. "I'm afraid there'll be more," said Chief Murray.

"We've just barely got the fire controlled and we're still finding bodies." Some of the victims were trapped in their rooms by the flames; others were asphyxiated. Ironically, the chief said, the fire was seen earlier and thought to be extinguished. "The guy in 42 smelled smoke in 41," Murray said. "He found a mattress smouldering and poured water on it. Then he went back to bed." The man in room 41 was identified as Ray Gorman.

The man in room 42 was Ed Saylor. Both were taken to emergency hospitals, critically burned. Earl Blake, chief of the city's emergency hospitals, directed a steady flow of ambulances carrying dozens from the hotel. "There were two or three dozen seriously hurt," he said. The hotel housed many pensioners and others unable to work.

Many of the older residents were drunk, police said, They had just cashed pension checks and the halls of the burned out building smelled from ashes, smoke and alcohol. Some people jumped to safety. Others, including at least two in wheel chairs, were carried out by firemen. Ike's 1962 Budget Forecasts Surplus WASHINGTON (P) The budget President Eisenhower will send Congress before leaving office will be bigger than this year's and will forecast a surplus next fiscal year of at least $600 million. Authoritative sources, in giving details, said the increased amount in the federal 1962 budget will mostly cover defense outlays.

Eisenhower will send his annual budget measure to Congress on Jan. 16. President-elect John F. Kennedy will take office Jan. 20.

His administration and Congress will make changes in the budget. Dizziness Strikes Hope During Golf Tournament LOS ANGELES (P) Bob Hope, in pro-amateur golf tournament and shooting one of the best games of 'his life, had just sunk a fine 14-foot putt when he started feeling faint. It wasn't the putt that did it. "I had walked up a couple of hills," the comedian said Thursday, "and I started to get just a little bit dizzy. I sat Hope, 56, denied a report that he had collapsed.

He said his doctor told him later there was nothing seriously wrong with him, but that he was suffering from fatigue. Referendum Under Way In Algeria By ANDREW BOROWIEC ALGIERS (P) The Algerfan countryside bristled with police roadblocks and troop trols today as voting began on President Charles de Gaulle's plan to give Algeria local selfgovernment now and a chance to vote for independence if the bloody rebellion ends. The voting started in apparent calm throughout the Algerian countryside, but in Algiers four bombs aimed at the power lines of Radio Algiers went off just before it was to carry De Gaulle's final appeal for support of his proposals. The bombs caused major damage, but did not stop relay of the speech. De Gaulle called once more for a massive "yes" vote so that negotiations with all factions on Algeria's future could be arranged "with the smallest delay possible." Speaking from Paris to the nearly 27 million voters of France, who on Sunday will decide the outcome of the referendum, he implied that if his plan is defeated, forces outside France would impose a solution in Algeria.

To vote "no" would be to recognize that the problem would not be resolved by France, he said. In Algeria, 3.9 million Moslems, 700,000 French colonists and 000 soldiers in the French army were eligible to vote. The voting is in the villages today, in the towns Saturday and in the big cities Sunday. France also votes Sunday. Associated Press David Mason toured several outlying districts in the tense area around Oran and reported all was orderly.

He said the initial turnout indicated little enthusiasm among the French settlers but a better response from the Moslems. Howard R. Ordel Windsor Dies Howard R. Ordel, 65, Windsor died at 5 a.m. today at Memorial Hospital following a long illness.

He had been in the hospital 12 days. Funeral services will be at 1 p. m. Sunday at the Lovins funeral home, Windsor, with Rev. William Stanley officiating.

Burial will be in Locust cemetery, Philo. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Saturday. Mr. Ordel was born Feb.

1, 1895, in Champaign County, a son of Sam and Lena Mattox Ordel. He had been in the business most of his life. He married Lulu Goddard of Windsor Sept. 22, 1917. She survives.

Besides his wife he leaves a stepdaughter, Mrs. John Myers, Windsor. Shoe Sale Shoe Sale Phipps' semi-annual clearance includes hundreds of pairs of women's shoes, $3,90 to children's $3.90 to men's shoes $6.90 to $9.90. Save up 1 to $5 a pair. See them! 1-6 Moose Moose Dance Saturday night, Jokers of Rhythm Orchestra.

1-7 Advisers Call For Possible Cut in Taxes By MARVIN ARROWSMITH NEW YORK (P Presidentelect John F. Kennedy has under study a call for temporary income tax cuts in the spring if the bustness slump takes a serious turn for the worse. The call was sounded Thursday night by a committee appointed by Kennedy to evaluate the state of the nation's economy. It recommended that the new administration act swiftly to put into effect a sheaf of emergency measures designed to achieve recovery without resort to tax reductions in these times of international crisis. The study group, in a report sprinkled with indirect criticism of the Eisenhower administration's handling of the business falloff, said these measures are urgently needed now.

And the committee, headed by economist Paul A. Samuelson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said there should be no blind adherence to a concept of a balanced budget in times of business recession. Kennedy, who recently expressed concern about what he termed lack of vigor in the omy, had no immediate on the report. It was made public after he had reviewed the document with Samuelson; Dr. Walter W.

Heller, University of Minnesota economist chosen to be chairman of the incoming president's Council of Economic Advisers; and James Tobin, Yale University economist, whose appointment to the council was announced by Kennedy Thursday night. the other member of the three man council, Kennedy named Kermit Gordon, the Ford Foundation's director of economic development and administration. Herter Briefs Senate Group WASHINGTON (P- Secretary of State Christian A. Herter today gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a confidential briefing on foreign trouble spots. Two subjects which came up were the civil war in Laos and the Cuban crisis.

A briefing of another sort will take place here later in the day when President-elect John F. Kennedy arrives from New York. Dean Rusk, who will succeed Herter, will help Kennedy formulate foreign policy moves the new administration may have to make soon after it takes over on Jan. 20. Rusk has been working with State Department officials the past several weeks and has been keeping in touch with Kennedy by telephone.

On aspects of the Cuban situation, Herter is apt to get a sympathetic ear from the committee. Chairman J. William Fulbright, and most of the other members have already voiced approval of President Eisenhower's severance of diplomatic relations with Cuba. Conduct Funeral Rites For Mrs. Nancy Milam Funeral services were conducted at 2 today at the funeral home for Mrs.

Nancy Ella Milam, of 2001 DeWitt. Dr. A. Mont Massey officiated and burial was in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mrs.

Carroll Faris sang and "In the Garden" accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Cecil Barrow. Pallbearers were George Schrader, Charles Chism, John Brinkley, William Lucier, John Askins and Edward Littleton. Mrs. Milam died at 5:25 p.m.

Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. Bookkeeping And tax turns by (felder. Phone service. Income tax reappointment. Bob ClodAD 4-9642.

1-6tt Carpentier, a Republican, said he would reconvene the House "subject to being assured that the reconvening can be conducted in an orderly fashion." Carpentier said he was standing by his position that Democrat Paul Powell was illegally elected speaker Wednesday. The secretary said the validity of "every future action of the House is in question until the constitutional requirements are followed." Powell has taken the position that he was properly elected because Carpentler walked out of the House organization meeting. Earlier, a GOP Senate leader proposed a solution similar to that announced by Carpentier. Sen. George Drach of Springfield, taking the role of mediator in the House speakership dispute, told newsmen, "I'm trying to get something rolling." Powell said Carpentier had made no compromise offer to him.

"I haven't been offered an olive branch," declared Powell. Carpentier was presiding officer. Wednesday when he declared the House in recess and walked out of the chamber with Republican House members. Democrats went ahead on their own votes and elected Powell as speaker. Drach said any 'court would rule that the House was in recess when Powell was named speaker by Democrats, and his election was illegal.

But Powell retorted: "How does Drach know how the courts will rule? He's no more a constitutional lawyer than I am." Drach said he thought the House should reconvene in full session Monday--the day Governor -elect Otto Kerner is scheduled to be inaugurated even if Republicans lose the speakership. The GOP has an 89-88. House majority but absent Republican members have made the majority impotent. NYC Changes Time Of Train No. 312 The New York Central Railroad today announced a change in the schedule of its No.

312 passenger train, the Southwestern Limited. The train will arrive in Mattoon lat 10:45 a.m. and depart at 10:55 a.m., seven days a week. The new schedule went into effect today. Previously, the Southwestern Limlited arrived at 12:35 p.m.

and departed at 12:45 p.m. The change is part of a plan of the New York Central to provide different scheduling between St. Louis and New York. The Weather Mattoon Temperature 2 p. m.

51 GREATER MATTOON AREAFair and mild through Saturday. Low tonight mid 20s. High Saturday 50-55. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Fair and mild through Saturday. High 50-55 north to 60 in south.

Low mid 30s Five Day Forecast Southern Illinois temperatures will average 6-12 degrees above normal. Normal high 40-45 treme south, 33-40 elsewhere. Normal low 22-32 extreme south, 16- 22 elswhere. Colder Monday night or Tuesday. Precipitation about .25 of an inch or less as rain day and Tuesday.

Yesterday's Temperatures High Low he had gone, but added that he had no public comment to make. A day after the probe started, the health department ordered Weiner, 43, an osteopathic physician specializing in psychiatry, to stop giving injections to his patients. It said it took the step "as an emergency disease control: measure." A health department spokesman said Weiner apparently gave injections of various drugs to calm his patients and it is possible the apparatus he used may have introduced the hepatitis virus into their blood. The State Board of Medical Examiners suspended Weiner's 11- cense Dec. 21 on a temporary basis pending outcome of its probe.

Atty. Gen. David D. Furman said his office is conducting an investigation to see if Weiner's license should be suspended permanently or if any criminal prosecution should 1 be undertaken. Mattoon 47 33 46 20 Chicago 40 33 Cleveland 39 31 Denver 45 18 Detroit 39 30 Helena 44 30 Indianapolis 46 28 Los Angeles 72 48 Louisville 49 38 Memphis 55 30 Miami 70 61 New Orleans 54 47 New York 35 32 Phoenix 70 38 St.

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