Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 12-19-1966 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1966). Winona Daily News. 801. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/801 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Two Young Americans Go on Trial in Russia USmiGiUO, U.S.S.R. CAP) the two paid about $75 for rubles tors, its governor, the mayor of decided we would go back and sian. The official value of the . — Two, young Americans plead- worth $132 at the official rate. Salt Lake City and the elder make another deal. ruble is $l,l*i '\ ed guilty at the start of their trial in a Leningrad court today The indictment also accused Gilmour, a prominent lawyer in "We discussed this while We Returning to Leningrad after \ to violating Soviet currency reg. Wortham of taking a statue of a Salt Lake City. were changing our clothes. I driving to Moscow, Wortham 1 illations; first finish dressing bear from his hotel and trying Gilmour Sr. and Harlan G. was the to and Gilmour were put in one of \ to remove it from the country in Buel Ray Wortham of North Moen, the U.S. Embassy consu- so I decided to do it. Gilmour the largest rooms of a hotel \ Little Rock, Ark., also pleaded his suitcase. Iar officer sat in the front row. gave me about $20 in change." built before the guilty to stealing an , Revolution, : antique After the indictment had been Wortham said he went to- an statue of a bear from a Lenin- Wortham said when he and Wortham said he found the stat- \ translated into English, the Gilmour drove into Leningrad grad hotel. woman judge presiding, Nina I. agreed rendezvous with the two ue of a bear in a cabinet. Isakova, from Finland, they got lost look- Soviet youths. While waiting for The currency charge against asked the defendants ing for their hotel. They finally "I decided the bear would howr they pleaded. them, another tried to buy his Wortham and Craddock M. Gil- found some youths who spoke make a good souvenir of the : Wortham, his brow furrowed mour jr. of Salt Lake City, English and offered to show clothes, but one of the first two Soviet Union so I decided to Utah, carries a possible prison and a worn look on his face, them the hotel and also a gas came and Wortham changed! $40 ¦ ; said: "I plead guilty." take it with me," Wortham tea- sentence of three to eight years. station. and 30 Finnish marks with him. tified. Gilmour The maximum sentence on the , looked fresher as he "On the way to the gas sta- theft charge is three years. replied: "I plead guilty but only Returningto the hotel, "I ex- He said he put it in the suit- tion," Vyortham continued "they plained what had happened to case and took it to the car bo- Wortham, 25, and Gilmour, 24 in the amount of $20." , asked if we had any clothes for Gilmour and gave him his share fore Gilmour waked. were arrested Oct, 1 as they About 90 persons, mostly So- sale. We said no. Then they were driving to Finland. Gil- viet journalists and court offi- of the money," Wortham said. Driving toward the Finnish asked if we would change dol- border, Wortham continued, "'I rriour was released Dec. 1 on cials, were sitting in the ornate lars." This amounted to 30 rubles for bail of more than $11,000 but courtroom at the city court, a Gilmour's $20, compared "with started worrying a little about bail was denied Wortham. former palace. The trial was He said he was dubious but an official value of 18 rubles; having the statue." The trial is expected to last filmed by the Soviet news agen- agreed to change $5 and five and 45 rubles for Wortham's He decided to say if ques- three days. cy Novosti and also recorded on Finnish marks — $1.58 — into currency which was officially tioned "that I bought him from : a lady Moscow." . The indictment charged that tape. ' rubles t© buy gas. worth about 26 rubles. in Wortham illegally exchanged Gilmour's father, Craddock The Soviet youths offered to Wortham said that a third Customs officers found tie $35 and 35 Finnish marks for 75 M. Gilmour Sr., introduced 12 change more money later for time in Leningrad he changed bear in the trunk of the car and rubles while Gilmour had Wor. affidavits attesting to his son's them. In their hotel, Wortham money at a rate of two rubles asked about it. Wortham used tham change $30 for him for 45 good character. Among the sig- said, he and Gilmoiir "discussed per dollar when approached on the lady - in - Moscow story rubles. In effect this meant that ners were Utah's two U.S. sena- the rate among ourselves and the street by a different Rus- "which was a lie," he said. Buel Wortham, left, and Craddock M. Gilmour, right, in Leningrad Court Partly Cloudy, TeL 3321 Little Change For Christmas tn Temperature In M^moriam TWENTY PAGES US Asks U Thant to Try ire ForUNITED NATIONS, N.Y. whichVietnam, as w have repeatedly Cease-f ft (AP)—The United States today said, the Geneva agreements of asked y.N. Secretary-General 1954 and 1962 would be a satis- U Thant to take whatever steps factory basis." were necessary to arrange a Ruby Denies cease-fire in[ Vietnam. He concluded as follows : The request was handed to the "We turn to you, therefore, secretary-general by U.S. Am- with the hope and the request bassador Arthur J. Goldberg that you will take whatever Conspiracy in during a 20-miaute private steps you consider necessary to meeting. bring about the necessary dis- Goldberg pledged full U.S. cussions which could lead to such a cease-fire. Oswald Killing cooperation in any cease-fire ef- (Editor's Note: Gravely forts. "I can assure you that the gov- ernment of the United States ill 0} co-nicer, Jack Ruby lies The U.S. request was con- in a guarded room in Park- tained in a letter which stres- will cooperate fully with you in getting such discussions started land Hospital , where both sed the desire of President John- President John F. Kennedy son for an end of the Vietnam promptly and in bringing them to a[ successfulcompletion-" and Lee Harvey Oswald conflict, and the U.S. hope that died be/ore hirn. Herewith the secretary-general might be A U.N. spokesman said Thant it an exclusive picture oj able to take a useful intiative. "will have this document under Ruby's thoughts in his lasi Goldberg gald a cease - fire close study." In response: to a days, in whatmay be his could be the first order of busi- question as to whether the sec- last statement for history.) retary-general was not already ness at a peace conference "or By BERNARD GAVZEIt could be the subject of prelimin- seeking a cease-fire, the spokes- ary discussions." man replied: "Yes. He has been DALLAS, Tex. <AP) - Jack "I herewith reaffirm our com- trying to get a cease-fire and to Ruby in his dying days still in- mitment to that proposal," Gold- bring about a solution on the sists there was no conspiracy basis of his three - point pro- involved in his killing of Lee EXPLOSION ENGULFS AUTOS ... truck and five autos tangled on a busy In- berg declared noting that both died BREZHNEV HONORED ... Presidium Chairman Nik- Pope Paul VI and Thant had posal." Harvey Oswald, named by the Policeman with bowed head skirts firemen's dianapolis street. Five persons in the olai V. Pqdgoray, left, pins the Order of Lenin and a Gold appealed for a cessation of the This included an imiriediate Warren Commission as the as- battle with fire that erupted when a. tanker holocaust. (AP Photofax) cessation of the bombing of sassin of President John F. Star Medal on Chairman Leonid Brezhnev today in the Krem- hostilities. Kennedy. lin in' Moscow on his 60th birthday anniversary. Brezhnev "Our objective remains the North Vietnam, a gradual de- escalation of military actions by Ruby, fully aware he is dying received praise and honors given no Soviet leader since the end of all the fighting, of all the hostilities and of all violence in both sides and participation of of cancer, wants to take any fall of Nikita Khrushchev 28 months ago. (AP Wirephoto Vietnam — and an honorable all parties, including the Viet scientific test to prove for histo- by cable from Moscow ) ry there was no conspiracy. Truck, Two Gars and lasting settlement here, for Cong, in peace negotiations. Fuel "Jack has told me a dozen times or more he prays t«o be given a final lie detector test so High Praise, 4 Dead in Crossing Crash people will be convinced that Crash/Burn; Four Dead there was no plan on his part, or conspiracy of any kind, to» kill INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP> - ?asoline into storm sewers and spewed from sewer vents over a Oswald," said Ruby's brother, At least four persons were killed orced evacuation of a two-mile wide area. Earl, a Detroit businessman.