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EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, May 13, 1962 Page A
Family
EDITORS NOTE: There t
once was an underground
railroad that smuggled refu
gee Negro slaves to the
North. Today, a new kind of
Negro migration has been
started and is bemo hotly
debated around the country.
The motioes, thoughts and
feelings of one New Orleans
Negro family which accepted
free one way tickets to some
where else are reflected in
the following dispatch.
By JACK V. FOX
Of the United Freii International
The Southern Pacific's "Sun
set Limited" pulled into Phoe
nix, Ariz., on schedule at 9:05
a.m., en route from New Or
leans to Los Angeles. It was
May 2.
Sprawled in the seats of Car
101, a chair coach without sleep
ing accommodations but air-conditioned,
were 20 Negroes. They
were one-way riders as guests
of the White Citizens' Council
bound for the glories of South
ern California. .
Solan's Relations
With De Qaulle
Always Fragile
By HARVEY HUDSON
or the Afioclaled r-resi
PARIS Raoul Salan, France's most decorated soldier, goes
on trial for his life Tuesday for treason against the De Gaulle
regime he helped to install.
"I am ready to die," Salan has said, "but" first I intend to
defend my honor."
In doing this, he is certain to bring into focus his always
fragile, often hostile, relations with Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
On May 15, 1958, for instance, Salan, the supreme military
and civilian commander in Algeria, stepped to a balcony
at the height of i revolt by European settlers. He closed his
short address to a crowd of about 5,000 with the ritual phrases
"Vive la France" and "Vive French Algeria." The crowd
massed on the square roared approval.
As the shouts faded away, Salan saluted and turned to
leave. Then, he half turned back to the microphone and
voiced a hasty postscript "Vive De Gaulle." The words seemed
to come with difficulty.
FOURTH REPUBLIC DOOMED
From that moment on, De Gaulle's political star became
a comet. The army was with him, or so his backers said. The
Fourth Republic was doomed and soon would be dead. Salan
had no love for the reeling Paris regime but he had no con
viction for De Gaulle either, particularly aince De Gaulle'i
political aims in Algeria then were unknown.
Salan had two principal aims: to keep the French flag
flying over Algeria, and to keep the army from splitting in
civil war.
There was no reward for Salan for his reluctant endorse
ment of De Gaulle. He was eased out of the Algerian command
by De Gaulle, given two honorary posts in Paris, then retired.
This was the signal for Salan to go into opposition to De
Gaulle.
Now, Salan's trial opens, four years and two insurrections
after he first gave De Gaulle his timid backing.
REGIME FIRM
Salan and three other generals briefly seized power in Al
giers in April 1961. But there was no repetition of May 1958.
DeGaulIe's regime in Paris was firm. Many army leaders hesi
tated to join a new revolt. The opposition of the Army's
draftees finally punctured the dream. The privates beat the
generals.
Salan and Edmond Jouhaud, former chief of staff of the
French air force, then went underground. They formed the
Secret Army, which had the backing of almost all European
settlers to fight Algerian independence. Their aim was the
same as it had been in May 1958 to keep Algeria under tight
French control.
Salan and Jouhaud were stripped of their generals' ranks
and sentenced to death in absentia. Jouhaud was captured,
retired, and resentenced to death. Then Salan was taken and
it is his turn to appear before the special high military court.
Prosecution and defense will be running on different rails
during the trial.
The prosecution is basing its case solely on the generals'
revolt and the activities of the Secret Army. Salan never has
denied his part in either.
PLOT HINTED
But Salan wants to talk about many other things, from
the time of his appointment as supreme commander in Algeria
on Nov. 18. 1956. to the moment of his arrest. He wants to
put emphasis on an unsuccessful attempt to kill him on Jan.
17, 1957, and the uprising that brought De Gaulle to power.
Salan told the examining magistrate the attempt on his
life "is linked to an important plot whose success depended
on my assassination." His attorneys have hinted leading
Gaullists were involved. Salan escaped the bazooka shell fired
into his office when he chanced to step into another room.
His aide was killed.
Witnesses in the Jouhaud trial testified De Gaulle was
fully aware of the plotting that preceded the 1958 revolt and
had given permission for pushing aside top military com
manders if necessary.
Since he apparently has no hope of saving his life. Salan
wants to rewrite the history books for a more favorable ac
count of his acts.
Bomarc Hits
EGL1N AIR FORCE BASE. !
p,, up Another successful per-:
formance of the Bomarc ground-!
to-air missile has ended a series
of tests begun three years ago. 1
The Bomarr-A intercepted a
supersonic F104 drone target
ahotit four miles above the Gulf
of Mexico Thursday. The inter
ception wa more than 150
miles from the launch site.
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Accepts a One -Way
Twelve of the Negroes were
of the Denham family. First,
there was Peola (pronounced
pay-ola) Denham, 91, a big. easy
going man, 6 feet, l3 inches,
205 pounds. His white sports
shirt with black checks was too
small for his frame. He wore
tan dungarees, light blue stock
ings. His shoes were off.
His wife, Fannie, 34, is a
large woman about 5-8, proba
bly 200 pounds. She has a bland
expansive face usually wreathed
in a smile that shows a gold
capped tooth on the upper left
side. She wore a green-flowered
print dress with a yoke
at the breast, a set of four but
tons. Ten there is Billy, 17, and a
whole string of kids running
down to Charles, an infant of
nine months.
Denham tells with relish how
he and his wife saw an ad in a
Baton Rouge newspaper telling
of a free trip to California. She
wrote a letter to Singelmann.
"We got an answer real
quick," he said. "We got a tele
Drone Target
The Bomarc-A has been as
signed to bases in the northeast
area of the United States for
more than two years. It has a
ranee of more than 200 miles
and an altitude capacity of more
than 11 miles.
The advanced Bomarc B now
being tested has a ranee of
about twice that nf the Bomarc
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gram. Then this man came and
picked us up and drove us to
the railroad depot in New Or
leans. We got tickets and he
gave us $100. I thought he was
a real sweet man."
I The train pulls out into the
desert llatland of Arizona, mile
after mile of sage brush, an oc
casional Joshua tree, suddenly a
herd of white-faced cattle.
Also in Car 101 with the Den
hams is a woman with three
small children. They are fretful.
She yells at them, "Lay down
now, go to sleep, get down there
boy." She goes back to reading
a comic book, a cigarette dang
ling a gray sud dress with nar
row shoulder straps. Her hair is
hennaed and close-cropped. On
her upper left arm is a three
inch scar.
A reporter asks her name,
how she got money from the
citizens' council.
"I didn't get no money from
nobody," she says. "I got my
ticket from the ticket man. I
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This Time to North America
Britain's
By EDDY f.lLMORF.
or the AmocUtrd Preai
LONDON Prince Philip
one of the world's most articu
late traveling salesmen is off
on another selling tour.
What docs this tall, hand
some, witty, intelligent and, at
times, blunt husband of Queen
Elizabeth II have to sell?
The answer is Britain.
Officially, he is going to be
chairman of a Commonwealth
study conference convening in
Montreal Monday.
But he also will be selling
Britain A Britain that Philip
finds complacent in a competi
tive world.
500 Miles a Day
Just over a month ago, his
royal highness returned to
don after a 36.000 mile tour of
. South America where he aver-1
aged 500 miles a day, and just
us'
! about as many handshakes a
friendly greetings
j Sure of himself and a great
I public performer, he played a
j native drum in British Guiana,
i delivered opinions on abstract
! art in Chile and galloped gau-
cho style around Peru,
j Never celebrated for unqual
ified praise of royalty, the La
I borite Daily Mirror commented
to its 12 million readers:
"By his good humor, energy
and enthusiasm, he has been the
nest possible ambassador for
Britain."
Referring to his British-selling
activities in South Amenca,
I the weekly British news
maga -
zine. Topic, said:
If sheer charm and personal
magnetism can do the trick, the
Queen's husband has the sale in
the bag."
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don't want to be famous. I don't
want my name in no newspa
pers." Mother Denham is the busiest
person on the train and that in
cludes the engineer. She is al
ways toting one of her tykes to
the women's room. It is appar
ent she is nursing two of them.
Two of her older boys usually
stand guard outside the lavatory
during her long sessions inside.
Denham has about $50 left of
the $100 given him by the coun
cil. The family lives frugally.
The oldest boy, Billy, dashes
off the train when it stops and
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Former Gen. Raoul Salan, left, and his second in command of secret
army operations in Algeria, former air force chief of staff Edmond
Jouhaud, were France's top soldiers in this 1958 scene in Paris.
Salan goes on trial for his life Tuesday on charges of treason for
his underground battle against Algerian independence. Jouhaud has
been found guilty of the same charges.
Salesman
Never relaxing as a sort of
self-appointed scourge to the
British industry he believes in,
Philip told the grand council of
the Federation of British In
dustries a couple of days after
his South American jaunt:
"I am sorry to say this there
is no getting away from it at
the moment, we (the British)
I have a reputation for being
rather slow and old-fashioned.
Now he's on i 25-day tour
that will wind up In New York
June 7.
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In subtle and sometimes not
so subtle ways he will drive
home his belief in British work
manship, reliability, quality and
ineenuity.
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Theft of Coins
Thousands of miscellaneous
coins valued at about $560 were
taken from a Eugene area dwell-;
ing Wednesday evening.
Lane County sheriff's deputies
diu rimdjr .wo ii-jrcii-ulu Ki. .
and a
16 year-old boy have ad -
mitted taking the coins. The
trio nas oecn remanaca to Lane i
County juvenile authorities.
Deputies reported that the j
coins were taken from the James !
Bank dwelling, 3450 Elmira
Road. Taken were $40 in nick-
iels. $270 in dimes. $60 in dot-1
! lars, $60 in half-dollars, $65 In !
Canadian quarters, and $66 in
pennies. Only about $90 had
beer, reeoved by Friday, officers !
reported.
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gets milk and sandwiches at
cheap cafes. A bologna and
cheese sandwich on the train
costs 60 cents from the vendor.
Denbam throws back his head
and laughs when he is asked if
he has thought about eating in
the dining car.
"I couldn't go near that
place," he says.
He is shown a menu from the
diner. The cheapest item is a
hot turkey sandwich, $1.65. He
shakes his head, gives up trying
to multiply that price by 12.
The train approaches Yuma
and Billy is waiting in the vesti
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off Again
15 years he has risen to inter
national renown.
Since his engagement to the
then Princess Elizabeth and his
marriage to her on Nov. 20,
1947, he has brought a new
lustre of realism to an ancient
monarchy. Brushing aside some
conventions, he has streamlined
many aspects of the throne.
Starchy debutante parties
have been abolished . . . infor
mal luncheons that include
actors, artists, dancers, writers
and businessmen take place
regularly at Buckingham Pal
ace. . ,
The heir to the throne, Prince
Charles, has gone off to a tough
boarding school , . , and his
royal highness insists on writ
ing his own speeches and
I checking over those of the
Queen.
Despite the hard work and
traveling he and the Queen do,
they seem to be more in love
I than ever before in their lives.
Close friends say the minor
squabbles and some of them
in public that punctuated the
early days of their marriage
have ended.
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supcrmost super salesman.
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bule to make another food run.
He is a slender boy, 6 feet, 3
inches and painfully polite. He
ran the 440 for the track team
at Capital Senior High in Baton
Rouge.
But he isn't about to make the
run at Yuma. The tracks are
elevated and it looks a good fur
long to the station. His dad, in
stocking feet, appears in the
vestibule and says, "Get going,
son."
"Dad, I ain't got time. I just
ain't got time," says Billy.
Someone drags out an old
cardboard box and passes
around soggy looking soda
crackers. California is just
across the Colorado River.
A television reporter is inter
viewing the Denhams aboard
the train. Brilliant lights are
focused on them for the camera.
The TV man asks the Den
hams if they felt their accept
ance of money from a white
supremacist organization was
embarrassing to the Negro race.
They agree it was embarassing.
Argentine Army Fights 'War
That Wasn't Too Easy to Find
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
0( the Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
When Prince Philip of Britain
was in Argentina late in March,
he may have touched a raw
military nerve.
It happened just before the
army packed President Arturo
Frondizi off to exile in the cur
rent, continuing crisis.
Philip was chatting with a
high-ranking Argentine general.
"General," he asked, "have you
ever been in war?" The general
shrugged apologetically, explain
ing Argentina has had no war
since the one with Paraguay
almost a century ago.
"Well," Philip is quoted as
saying wryly, "I hope you're
not going to start one now."
Found a War
Argentina's army has had lit
tle to do except for politicking
all those intervening years.
Today it has found a war to
fight. It considers itself at war
against internal enemies. It sees
those enemies as trying to re
duce Argentina to chaos and
then to pick up the pieces. The
trouble is, the army itself also
is saving its own internal war.
Much of the confusion swirl
ing about the murky maze of
Argentine politics stems from
the fact that the army Is like
no other army in the world.
When Argentines any "the
army," they mean the high com
mand and senior officers. It
seems less a military establish
ment than a select club of uni
formed referees whose self
imposed mission is to keep the
politicians from killing each
other.
Two Military Groups
A majority of army officers
claims to be supporters of con
stitutional government. But the
army forced newly installed
President Jose Maria Guido to
annul the March 18 election re
sults that brought Pcronista vic
tory, to suspend the constitu
tion and rule by decree. i
There are two military;
groups. Both arc anti-Communist.
Both oppose the return of
Juan D. Peron or Peronism. I
Both claim to yearn for a con-
stitutional atmosphere in gov
ernment.
U.S. Consul's Car
Destroyed by Bomb
CARACAS, Venezuela (fl
The official car of U.S. Consul
Donald Lewis was destroyed hy
a thrown gasoline bomb ln
Maracaiho Thursday.
The U.S. Embassy here said
it received word the car was
parked in front of Lewis' resi
dence when unknown persons
threw the bomb Into it.
Venezuelan authorities said
they suspected extreme leftists
were Involved.
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handy tarrying tats
holfipocing-lor
ruled index cordt,
equations
hondiomc type itylil
OlympK SMS ParUbli
also othar stylos
and
used machinal.
Both tried first to pronounce
the word, "supremacist," and
then gave up.
Dcnham's attitude about the
trip is being moulded for him.
Under repeated rehearsals of
questions, he finally says: "Yes,
I think it was embarrassing for
the Negro race to accept the
money and the tickets. I would
n't do it again."
"1 feel I was tricked," he says
after being given the cue. "Yes,
we were tricked."
Suddenly, Mrs. Denham whips
down the aisle again to the
women's room. She's got young
Charles in her arms, a diaper
pressed to his mouth. He looks
as if his stomach is upset and
he is about to vomit.
As Mrs. Denham makes the
trip, the mask of smiles falls
from her face and she bows her
head. Her eyes show a lot of
white. There is a sudden, stark
sadness mirrored in her norm
ally bland face.
On Wednesday, May 2, at 8:40
p.m. the Sunset Limited pulled
But the hard-line group stands
for a firm guiding hand on the
presidency, to restrict its free
dom of action. Strangely enough,
the leader of the hard liners,
Gen. Raul Poggi, himself once
was accused of having been
soft on Peronism. His group in
cludes some navy officers.
Keep Navy Out
The soft-line group is headed
by Gen. Enrique Rauch. It fears
too much military interference
and involvement with the civi
lian government, and indeed,
that Poggi and his followers
will take over, since growing
sentiment for military dictator
ship has been noted among
some officers in recent weeks.
There is conflict, too, between
army and navy. The stronger
army is likely to forget its own
squabbles long enough to keep
the navy out of power if thero
should be any real threat of a
naval officer coup.
There are things the military
Pilot to
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V BELFAST. Northern Ireland GB You don't have to
t: wait for March to find mad hares around here.
i They've got them all year round at Nutt'a Corner, Bel-
fast hill-fringed airport. It'i
and the fastest 150 of them
recorded 35 mph.
! Their favorite pasttime is
they land and take off. Thousands of passengers have seen 2
them. Pilots and air crews know them. They are king size
and tame. Airport staffs feed them when they come play- ,
Ing around the terminal building. j
"The airport wouldn't be the same without them," said j
John Sclway, airport commandant. "They are no danger or
nuisance. We have grown to accept them as part of the ur- t
roundings.
"But we have had many a pilot come into the control
lower after landing and ask If he had been seeing things." i
And the hares aren't so crazy there's no record of one I
being killed on the field. I
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into the Los Angeles railroad
depot. In Car 101, the Denham !
family and the four young Ne
gro men looked out upon a
scene of wild confusion.
There was such a jam of peo
ple shoving microphones at Den
ham as he left the train that ha
was speechless with disbelief.
Representatives of Negro
churches and the Urban League)
and NAACP were on hand.
Also the Travelers' Aid, which
took the Denhams to the Ross
lyn Hotel at Fifth and Main
Streets in a rather shoddy sec
tion of the city close to Skid
Row.
Mrs. Dorothy Dupole, Travel
ers' Aid director, explained:
"Well, it's integrated and it's
close to the Travelers' Aid of
fice. The management made a spe
cial rate of $2 a head.
The first thing Billy did was
to run out and bring back ham
burgers and milk for all.
is united about. It regards the '
deposed president, Frondizi, as
a Machiavellian schemer. It '.
points to his early Marxist back- -ground
and suspects him of ;
plotting for a Marxist state. The .
army accuses him of having
known that his actions regard- '
ing t lie March 18 elections, per-
mitting Pcronists to run and
thus paving the way for their
victory, was risking chaos for ;
the country. '.
If the army should finally im- :
pose military dictatorship, for
many officers it would be re- '
luctantly. But there are soma '
who would welcome military
dictatorship, and the possibility '
of a new explosion cannot ba
ruled out.
There is little reflection of
this, however, in the streets of
Buenos Aires. The visitor gets
the distinct impression that the
general public displays enor
mous apathy about the whole
thing that it couldn't car
less.
Tower:
Off the Hares'
(he air field with the mostest
at last count and top speed
running alongside planei as
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