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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Mon., June 21, 1954
Indochina to Top
Ike-Winnie Talks
By JOHN M. H1GHTOWER
or The Associated Tress
WASHINGTON (M President Eisenhower probably
will urge British Prime Minister Churchill to cooperate in
setting up an international conference on anti-Communist
defenses in Southeast Asia against communism when the
two meet here next weekend.
Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden are due in Fri
day. Their talks with Eisenhower and Secretary of State
Dulles will be informal and, aides indicate, as secret as
possible.
The Indochina crisis is the No. 1 topic. Others include
.the organization ot a Jiuro
French Assault
Delta Position
HANOI, Indochina on Hun
dreds of French troops made an
amphibious assault on Vac Coc
Island in the Red River 15 miles
west of Hanoi and wiped out an
important Communist base lor
infiltrating the delta, the French
High Command announced Mon
day.
The assault began before dawn
Sunday and fierce fighting con
tinued Monday, authorities said.
French Union troops reported
tlaying 38 Reds and capturing 39.
Naval craft packed with infan
try landed on the island at 4 a.m.
and seized a number of villages
where Red troops were known to
be hiding. Tanks and artillery
joined the infantrymen.
The high command said the
troops moved cautiously toward
the villages without encountering
resistance.
At 5 p.m., the command said,
Hundreds of screaming Commu
nists rushed from underground
hideouts dug beneath innocent
looking bamboo huts and began
fighting the French units.
More Communists jumped into
sampans on the mainland and
paddled fast toward the island.
French gunfire sank several of
them.
The raid represented growing
French striking power derived
from regrouping trained French
Forces in the Red River Delta
Into mobile "counterpunch"
groups able to deliver devastat
ing blows against enemy concen
trations. East of Hanoi a train loaded
with American supplies was
blown up only seven miles from
the northern capital by rebel
mines.
Bomb Ban Urged
COVENTRY, England IM The
lord mayor of Coventry, John
Fennel, proposed Saturday that
his city, violently bombed in the
war, associate itself with Russia's
Stalingrad in a joint appeal to
outlaw the hydrogen bomb.
pean Delenso community
and atomic energy problems.
U. S. officials said that the
American government is still ur
gently interested in getting a
united front of Allied European
and Asian nations set up to halt
Communist expansion in the
Indochina area. They think a con
ference would be useful to that
end.
STAKES EXISTENCE
Until about two days ago au
thorities figured Britain would
most likely go along on some
move toward creation of a South-
cast Asian alliance. That estimate
was based on the official belief
that Britain had decided the Ge
neva conference would fail to
produce peace in Indochina.
But on Friday and Saturday,
France organized a new govern
ment which staked its existence
on getting an Indochina peace in
30 days. Then the Reds at Geneva
offered new concessions to keep
the talks going and agreed to mil
itary discussions on ending the
war in Laos and Cambodia as well
as in Viet Nam.
The Geneva developments re
portedly brought new hopes for
peace to British leaders although
Americans remained skeptical.
SMITH HOME
Eden and the U. S. chief dele
gate, Under Secretary of State
Walter Bedell Smith, flew home
Sunday to report. Both stopped
en route to see the new French
Premier, Pierre Mendes-France.
Smith is due to participate in
intensive consultations here.
Quite apart from the Southeast
Asian problem, the formation of
the Mendes-France government
provided no encouragement at all
here to bolster waning American
hopes for French approval of
EDC.
A year or so ago Churchill was
quite interested in the possibility
of taking West Germany directly
into the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization as a possible alter
native to EDC. At Bermuda last
December he dropped his ad
vocacy of that in favor of pressing
hard for EDC, which Eisenhower
was then insisting upon.
One Youth Dead
In Iowa Floods
BOBO ARRIVES IN RENO Barbara (Bobo) Rockefeller
smiles broadly as she talks with newsmen after her ar
rival in Reno, Nevada. After talking with reporters she
held a conference with her attorneys. She came to Reno
to work out final plans for a divorce from multi-millionaire
Winthrop Rockefeller. Reports say she will receive
nearly six million dollars.
DR. ELLIOTT, Optometrist
r,2 West 10th, Eugene
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Will Premonition,
Spur Investigation
CHICAGO Ml Authorities Mon
day intensified their investigation
of the mysterious death of the
20-year-old heir to a million dol
lars after being told the young
man revised his will recently to
make his fiancee principal bene
ficiary and had expressed doubt
he would live to come into his
own inheritance.
Montgomery Ward Thorne was
found dead in his studio apart
ment Saturday. Coroner Walter
E. McCarron said there were
four needle marks on his arms
but no evidence he was a user
of narcotics.
ANALYSIS ORDERED
The coroner ordered an analy
sis of vital organs.
He said he also has sent inves
tigators to Birmingham, Mich., to
interview the 25-ycar-old daughter
of a prominent Birmingham fam
ily. He said the girl, an art stu
dent, occupied an apartment ad
joining Thome's until Friday. Mc
Carron did not name her.
Jay Stough, who said he had
been young Thome's lawyer for
some time, told Detective Capt.
Harry Penzin that Thorne less
than 10 days ago changed his
will to make Miss Maureen Ra
gen, 18, chief beneficiary and
executor.
Penzin quoted Stough as saying
Thome, grandson of a former
president of Montgomery Ward &
Co., "was afraid ho would never
live to collect his inheritance. He
asked me to assure that there
would be a very thorough investi
gation ... if he died."
Stough said Thorne would have
begun receiving $1,000 a month
income from the estate of his
father, Gordon C. Thorne, after
this 21st birthday in October, The
father's will provided the income
would jump to $3,000 a month at
age 30 and the son would be
allotted the principal of his in
heritance estimated at a million
dollars at age 35, the lawyer
said.
Miss Ragcn, 1o whom young
Thorne s new will left half of his
estate, is the granddaughter of the
late James M. Ragcn, racing
news, service publisher who was
shot down by gang assassins in
1946.
COLLEGE FRESHMAN
The new will directs the rc
mainder of young Thome's estate
be divided among relatives, in
cluding one-eighth to his mother,
Mrs. Marion Thorne.
Mrs. Thorne, fourth wife of Gor
don C. Thorne, whom he married
in 1929 after she, a nurse, cared
for him through an illness, was
sole beneficiary under the son's
original will, Stough said. That
will, the lawyer said, was drawn
soon after the boy's 18th birthday.
Young .Thorne, a freshman at
Fordham University, and Miss
Ragcn had been planning to he
married in Dccer..ber, Stough
said.
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Raging waters claimed one life
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A flash flood in this capital
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WalthiU and Winnebago, Neb.,
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Des Moines Police boats
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