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Adolf Eichmann
Sentenced to Hang
JERUSALEM Lft — Adolf Eich
mann, Nazi Germany’s expediter
of Jews to the gas chambers, was
sentenced today to hang in Israel
for “a crime of unparalleled enor
mity.”
Moshe Landau, president of the
special three-man Israeli court
which tried and convicted the
former Gestapo colonel, intoned:
“This court sentences Adolf Eich
mann to death for crimes against
the Jewish people, crimes against
humanity and war crimes.”
Bchiman, now 55 and balding,
stood stiffly erect for 15 minutes
while the tribunal first gave its
reasons and then condemned him
to the gallows. Six hundred per
sons packing the courtroom were
deathly silent throughout the brief
session, then filed out with hard
ly a sound.
Still the “block of ice” Jewish
survivors of the Nazi program
called him, Eichmann never even
gulped visibly. He quieted the
facial nervous twitch evident
during the trial, and his hands
hung loose and unclenched by his
side.
Eichmann, who had scornfully
refused to plead for mercy before
the sentence was pronounced, was
told he has 10 days to file no
tice of appeal with the court and
an additional five days to draft
his reasons.
Chief defense counsel Dr.
Robert Serve tius from West Ger
many was advised if he felt the
time given him was too short,
=4- he assM ask the president of the
Supreme Court or his deputy for
an extension.
Dr. Servatius, already at work
on Eichmann's appeal, told the
court: "Thank you for the guid
ance and I shall think it over.”
Eichmann is the first Nazi to
be tried in this state which holds
itself as the protectin’ of all Jews
in the world.
Israeli legal authorities say he
may toe the last one brought to
judgment here. They reason the
case has served to chronicle what
happened to the Jews during Hit
ler’s Third Reich, how the plot to
exterminate the race came into
being, and how 6 million Jews
died.
Santa Claus Mounts
Xmas Tree Atop Seattle
World’s Fair Space Needle
SEATTLE Of) — A steeplejack
fastened an eight-foot Christmas
tree atop the torch of the Seattle
World’s Pair < space needle yes
terday, 600 feet above the city’s
streets. ' *
Bob Kessler, M-year-old Seat
tle man who spends much of his
time washing windows of some
of the city’s tallest buildings,
dressed in a Santa suit to do the
Job. He wore the usual hard hat
of the construction worker, but
it had a top-knot of cotton, and
$ strip of the same stuff ran
around the brim.
"It's the first time I’ve ever
played Santa Claus, and I don’t
think I’m the type,” he said.
U. N. REFUSES TO
SEAT RED CHINA
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP) —
The UjN. General Assembly cli
maxed a historic China debate to
day toy refusing to give National
ist China’s seat to the Chinese
Communists.
The vote on the Soviet pro
posal was 36 in favor, 48 against
with 20 abstaining.
The decision represented a sub
stantial victory for the United
States as the China issue received
its first showdown test since the
Communists took over the China
mainland 12 years ago.
The issue now goes over until
next year when the Russians are
expected to renew their demands.
The Assembly had virtually
slammed" the door on Red China
earlier in the afternoon when it
decided 61-34 that a two-thirds
majority was needed to seat the
Peiping regime.
The vote on the two - thirds
proposal indicated the relative
strength of the two sides and
thus foreshadowed the defeat of
a Soviet proposal calling for the
immediate seating of Communist
China.
U.N. Forces
Battle Way Into
Elisabethville
ELISABETHVILLE, K a tanga,
The Congo W — Indian TJ.N. de
tachments struck from the north
into Elisabethville today and bat
tled their way to Katanga defense
positions only four blocks from
the heart of the secessionist capi
tal.
Machine gun and rifle fire;
crackled along the skirmish lines.
Mortars duelled in the heaviest.
ground engagement of the lil-day
old war.
The Indian attack set it off even
as American diplomats, acting on
President Kennedy’s orders, took
a peace-making role evidently
[envisaging a meeting of Katanga
President Moise Tshom.be and
Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula,
for a general settlement of the
Katanga question.
Both sides had consolidated
their positions in the night. A Ka
tanga plane bombed the U.N.
held Elisabethville Airport in the
third such raid since the outset
of the shooting. The plane cut
its engines and glided in silently
to make the attack.
Trigger-Happy Bank
Robber Kills Guard Jg
NEW YC_ Two rob
bers, one described as a wild,
trigger-happy tommy gunner, in
vaded a Brooklyn bank today and
killed a guard, sprayed the walls
with bullets and fled with an un
determined amount of money.
They also exchange shots with
a foot patrolman who rac-d to
the scene, Salvatore Accardl. A
bullet from the robbers struck
the officer's shield and knocked
him through a glass door, causing
cuts on his leg and wrist.
Hospital attaches said later the
badge saved the officer's life by
deflecting the bullet.
It was reported unofficially the
bandits may have taken between
Bus Driver Charged
With Manslaughter
In Death of 20
School Children
GREELEY, Colo. UFl — A man
slaughter charge was filed today
against Duane Harms, 23, driver
of the school bus in which 20
children perished in a collision
with a high speed passenger train
yesterday.
The charge was filed by Karl
Ahiborn, assistant district attor
ney. Bond was set at $1,000 and
Harms was taken to county jail
for booking.
His father, Wilibur Harms of
Fleming, Colo., told reporters he
didn’t know how soon he might
be able to raise the bond.
Harms, a tall, slender, sandy
haired man, wore a small bandage
near one eye, souvenir of the
tragedy. He escaped with minor
injuries.
An official of the Colorado
Highway Safety Council said poor
visibility resulting from frosted
windows may have contributed
to the accident.
Thirteen children are in a hos
pital. Four others among the 37
children aboard were treated and
; released.
They were in a late model, 60
passenger bus sliced apart by the
Union Pacific’s 16-car passenger
train, City of Denver, at a rural
crossing near here.
The streamliner, ®0 minutes late
because of Christmas baggage de
lays enroute from Chicago to
Denver, was traveling 79 miles
an hour. Railroad officials said
that was normal speed.
I Herbert Sommers, 64, a Union
Pacific engineer for 22 years, said
the bus did not stop at the cross
ing, marked by wooden crossarms
and a road sign.
Harms, a school bus driver
since last September, said “I
think I did stop. Well, I'm quite
sure, because I usually do.”
Jerry Hembry, 16, a bus pas
senger, said “the bus stopped and
then started up again.”
Colorado law requires a school
bus driver to stop within 50 feet,
but not less than 10 feet from
the nearest rail, look and listen for
trains.
State patrolmen said the diesel
Locomotive struck the rear of the
bus near the dual wheels. Those
wheels and four rear seats were
dragged 455 feet down the rail
road. Hie main section of the bus
was hurled 192 feet.
Shotgun Backfires . . .
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. iFi — A
holdup man speeding away from
a supermarket robbery tossed a
shotgun out the car window yes
terday and as it struck the pave
ment it discharged and blew out
his own tire.
Pursuing police captured the
man and a companion.
The two had bad luck from the
start.
A customer in the store was
Betty Peters, wife of an Oakland
.police sergeant. She carefully
studied the man, looked over his
companion in a waiting car, took
down the car license and notUted
police. In nearby Oakland, 8ft.
George Rothacher saw the car
whiz by and gave chase.
Police said the loot was
found in the pocket of William
Brown, 1?, of Oakland. He and
his companion, Cedi Moore, Oak
land, were booked on robbery
charges.
Retired College Professor
Upbraids Officials Who
Regulate Salmon Industry
SAN FRANCISCO UFi — A re
tired college professor yesterday
upbraided officials who regulate
the salmon industry for making
regulations when “you don’t
know what you are talking about.”
And they applauded.
“What good is it to set a limit
to a commercial catch when you
don’t know what the catch should
be?” asked Dr. Wm. Thompson,
retired University of Washington
professor and one time director
of the Halibut and Salmon Com
missions.
He told the Pacific Marine Fish
eries Commission salmon are “so
poorly understood” because of
governmental and industry treat
ment of fisheries scientists.
Nobody knows the biology of
salmon, he said. “It’s your fault,”
Thompson told fisheries men and
regulatory officials from the four
West Coast States.
The professor said commissions
have been ordering their sci
entists to follow the same re
search ‘^program over and over
they set back in the 1880s.”
“You’ve got good men,” the
professor said. “You don’t have'
the answers because of the re
strictions you have placed on
them. Take your hands off him
and let him think.”
The occasion for Prof. Thomp
L son’s remarks was his report as
chairman of the "Evaluating Com
> mittee” of a salmon conference
. held in Juneau last February.
Thousands of
Puerto Ricans
Welcome Kennedy
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (ff> —
Massed thousands welcomed Pres
ident Kennedy today as he ar
rived for a stopover enroute to
Venezuela and Colombia.
Thousands had taken positions
early along the nine-mile motor
I Cade route from the airport to
La Fortaleza, the mansion of Gov.
Luis Munoz Marin where the
President and his wife will spend
the night.
Schools and government offices
were closed to boost the turnout
and the Stars and Stripes and the
one-starred Puerto Rican Com
monwealth flag together in the
warm breeze.
Thousands of “welcome Mr.
President” signs decorated the
city.
In a brief airport address the
President praised progress made
by Puerto Rico under Gov. Mun
oz as a “brilliant example of
what a progressive democracy can
do through intelligent programs
of economic development, self
help and social reform.”
Urging Puerto Ricans to make
every contribution to the success
of the Alliance for Progress—the
10-year, $29-billion program for
La tin-Am erica social and econo
tnich development — he declared,
‘this Is the great adventure of the
Americas in our time.”
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued fair and cold. Low
tonight -25, high tomorrow >10.
In the last 24 hours: High of -9,
low of >22. Max. wind 12 mph
from east northeast. Sunrise at
0:38 a.m., sunset, at 1:57 pm.
Temps, a year ago today: High of
82, low uf 26. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 37 in
1932, low of -30 in 1907.
Jonas Bros. Make
Bid for Processing
Plant in Alaska
SEATTLE UP) — A Seattle busi
nessman said today a plant with
peak employment of 400 persons
would be established in Anchor
age if his firm gets a contract
to process fur seal skins in Alas
ka.
Bert Kleinberger, president of
Jonas Bros, of Seattle, said his
company has submitted a firm
proposal for the business to In
terior Secretary Stewart Udall.
Gov. Wm. Egan, who is in Seat
tle, added the state is eager to>
have the processing plant moved
to Alaska “where it most logically
should be.”
An Interior Department official
at Washington reported Wednes
day the government would con
sider a proposal for Alaska pro
cessing of the Pribilof Island fur
seal skins.
The fur seal harvest in the
Pribilofs is a government mono
poly. For 40 years Fouke Fur Co.
of St. Louis, Mo., has processed
and sold the skins under nego
tiated contracts with the Interior
Department. This year Udall can
celled the contract because the
firm moved to South Carolina
’ without consulting with the De
i partment.
Egan said he hoped under a
i new contract to see better utiliza
tion of female fur seal skins,
which are not as high quality as
those of the male. Kleinberger
said this fits in with plans of
Jonas Bros, to use the female
skins to a considerable extent
in ski parkas.
“You hear talk about the 'sec
ret' processing of our fur seal
skins,” Kleinberger said. “There
are no secrets to it. We can fin
ish these furs as well as anyone
in the world.”
Handle With Care!
TEARS OF JOY in the eyes
of this refugee youngster in
Europe show how much the
CARE food package ho carries
was needed by hie family.
CARE Food Crusade parcels go
to I* countries whoso neediest
people wiU receive food-for
peaco paekagse delivered as
gifts from Americans who send
$1 par package to CARE Food
Crusade. Frederick ft Kelson.
Seattle 11. Wn.. or local outlets.