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POUNDOD 1651
No. 26
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 22, 1955
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vities cclebrrtin; toe Burmese ISew Year, Chou En-Lai, premier of Communist China presents an
unusual smiling face. His unidentified aide at left in top photo shows results of throwing of water,
symbolic of the Burmese New Year when evil spirits are washed awav and one is "cooled" against
trying times. Below, Chou washes the 'evil spirits' from a girl. Festivities took place in Rangoon
as Chau was enroute to Asian -African conference at Bandung. (AP Wirephoto via Radio from
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CHou Ep-Lai Emerges as No. 1
Dele
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By CHARLES M. McCANN I
United Press Staff Correspondent
The biggest development in the 1
Asia-Africa conference af Bandung
13 the emergence of Chou En-Lai
as the No. 1 delegate.
Ever since the 29- nation meet
ing opened Monday, it has center
ed around Chou, the premier and
foreign minister of. Communist
China.
Other world figures like Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of In
dia, the chief sponsor of the con
ference, have been shoved into the
background.
Whether Chou can do the United
bowl, as he participated in festi
Afro-Asian Parley
States and its allies any real harm
at the meeting is highly doubtful.
U. S. Has Frieads
He cannot put over any anti
American resolutions. It has been
agreed that no resolution can be
passed axcept by unanimous vote,
and the United States has some
good friends among the delega
tions.. Cho i also can block any attempt
to put the conference on record
as condemning . Communism, of
course.
Chou can make some friends
among the "neutralist" elements
by emphasizing, as he did in his
opening speech Tuesday, his coun
try's desire to "co-exist" with
non-Communist countries. Provid
ed, of course, that those countries
do not support the Western allies
in their determination to defend
themselves against Communist ag
gression. The theme of Chou's speech was
that Asia would get along all right
if it were not for American inter
ference. Chou already has won one dip
lomatic victory in his private ne
gotiations outside the formal con
ference sessions.
That was his agreement with
Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo of In
donesia by which the estimated
three million Chinese in Indonesia
may choose either Red Chinese or
Indonesian citizenship. Under the
agreement, these Chinese will not
be able to choose Chinese Nation
alist citizenship.
Trade Negotiations
Chou also is conducting private
trade negotiations with Japanese
chief delegate Tatsunosuke Taka
sakL Chou may well go back to Pei
ping with the basis for a big trade
agreement with Japan.
There need be no surprise that
Chou has made himself the star
of the Bandung meeting.
The 56-year-old delegate of the
so-called "People's Republic" is
one of the smartest diplomatists
in the. world. Communist or non
Communist. He is suave, well-built
and handsome. His photographs
usually show him smiling. He
makes a good impression, when
he wants to, even on those who
oppose him.
But at the same time he is one
of the most ruthless of Commu
nists.. When uiou taiKs of co-ex
istence," he 'means co-existence
until the Communists can take
over by guile or brute force.
Like so many first-ranking Red
leaders Chou is not a proletarian.
He is of patrician Mandarin
descent. But he has been rev
olutionary since his youth, and he
is a charter member of the Chi
nese Communist Party.
Sweet Home
Boy Taken;
Father Sought
SWEET HOME UFi A search
is being conducted for a man and
his 7-year-old son. Police Chief
I Chief Roy Clover announced
Thursday.
He said a warrant charging child
stealing and non-support has been
issued for Henry Stockett, whose
last job was as a custodian at
Stanford University in Palo Alto,
Calif., A court .gave Stockett's
wife custody of the boy when she
and Stockett were divorced ZM
years ago.
The son, Frank Paul Stockett,
was picked up Monday at the
grade school here by a man an
swering the father's description.
Neither has been seen here since.
The boy had been living with his
mother..
Clover said Palo Alto authorities,
alerted by telephone, have not
found the two. ,
O&C Lands
Hearing Due
In Portland
PORTLAND W A special
meeting will be held here next
Tuesday to discuss proposed
changes in right-of-way regulations
to gain access to timber on Oregon
and California revested lands.
Edward Woozler, director of the
Bureau of Land Management, will
confer with representatives of the
IS O&C counties and with spokes
men for opposite sides on the
proposal.
Opponents contend the present
regulations are better and that
the changes would reduce competi
tion. They include small operators,
CIO and AFL lumber: workers
unions and the Oregon State
Grange.
Proponents of the ; changes,
including most of the big timber
operators, say the BLM found the
old regulations unworkable.
The changes originally were
drafted by the BLM's state
advisory board. The BLM altered
them slightly and put them out
last February as an order.
Purpose of the regulations is to
open timber access roads under
rules that would compensate ttfose
who build them but not to impose
unreasonable fees or other barriers
to those who need them for move
ment of logs. . I
Reds Threaten
To Unite East
Europe Forces
VIENNA, Austria Ifl - Nikita
Khrushchev, Communist Party
boss of the Soviet Union, declared
in Warsaw Wednesday that East
ern Europe's military commands
may be united.
Radio Warsaw quoted Khrush
chev as saying a merger of mili
tary commands of Communist bloc
nations would be the East's count
er to "the revival of German militarism."
IN
Formosa Trusteeship
Plan Urged by Ceylon
By GENE SYMONDS
United Press Staff Correspondent
BANDUNG (UP Ceylon Thurs
day linked a proposal for a trustee
ship for Formosa with the strong
est attack against Comunism yet
before the 29-nation Afro-Asian
conference. The attack sent Red
China's scowling Chou En-lai strid
ing angrily from the" conference
chamber.
Chou wrangled face to face for
2 Exchanges
Dynamited in
Phone Strike
ATLANTA UP) Two tele
phone exchanges were dynamited
Wednesday in a new flareup of vio
lence in the 39-day-old strike of
Southern states.
Dynamite blasted holes in the
roofs of exchanges in Harriman,
Tenn., and Pascagoula, Miss., but
caused no injury or damage to
equipment.
The Southern Bell Telphone Co.
said it may be forced to close the
Pascagoula exchange unless ade
quate police protection can be
furnished. ,
The Harriman exchange was
dynamited while a "large crowd of
striking employes" were milling
about in front of the building, the
company said.
The dynamitings, in addition to
more cable cutting and picket line
disorders, occurred after Southern
Bell and the CIO Comunications
Workers of America prepared for
a settlement conference. Both sides
agreed to meet Saturday with a
committee of three Southern
governors. ,
However, there was no sign of
response either by CWA mebers
i or by trainmen striking against
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
to the request by governors of 12
states that they return to work
immediately. .
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10 minutes with Ceylonese Prem
ier Sir John Kotelawala at the end
of the Political Committee session.
Chou also demanded the right to
reply to Kotelawala's charges to
morrow. ;
Caught By Surprise
The Ceylonese Prime Minister's
attack on. the Chinese Communists
was his second of the day.
And he caught all the delegates
by surprise with his proposal for
a Formosa trusteeship which also
would include withdrawal of the
U.S. Seventh Fleet from Formosa
waters. .
.Matsu and . Quemoy islands
would be given to the Reds.
The trusteeship, under the Unit
ed Nations or the five Colombo
powers, Ceylon, India, Pakistan,
Burma and Indonesia, would abcl
ish the Nationalist Chinese govern
ment of Generalissimo Chiang K-'.
shek.
The trusteeship would remal
effect until Formosa could bee
independent after some kind c!
plebiscite.
2 Walk Away
At Washington
Reformatory
MONROE, Wash. UFi Two in
mates whose terms would both
have ended this year escaped by
walking away from a garden plot
at the State Reformatory Thurs
day, Supt. P. J. Squier reported.
They were Harvey Wayne Cul
ver, 23, Pendleton, Ore., and Wil
liam Leroy Gentry, 21, Ellensburg.
Each had privileges of semi-freedom
as trusties and were working
outside the reformatory walls.
Culver, sentenced originally from
Snohomish County for car theft,
would, have been freed on parole
in December, Squier said. Gentry,
in for first degree forgery from
Kittitas County, would have been
paroled Aug. 11.