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US-RED CHINESE
TALKS PREDICTED
hithir go days
New Delhi, India U.R)
Direct United States-Communist
China talks on Formosa within
the next 60 days were predicted
Saturday by high Indian govern
ment sources as a result of the
11-days visit of India's V. K.
Krishna Menon to Peiping.
Talks Useful
India's chief delegate to the
United Nations left Peiping Sat-
.Western Highway
Shipping Almost
Halted by Strike
Los Angeles (U.PJ Frank
Brtwiitr, president of the
Western Conference of Team-'
alert (AFL). Saturday night
warned union members in 11
western slates that the current
strike and shutdown in major
long-haul trucking firms might
last 60 to 90 days.
Los Angeles (U.R) The AFL
Teamsters' strike against three
major long-haul firms brought
western highway shipping almost
to a standstill Saturday as union
and employers remained stale
mated in a wage dispute.
Negotiations were not re
sumed, but employers said their
committees "are still open for
discussion."
One Firm Operating -
Employers said latest reports
Indicated "almost 100 per cent
of the western long-haul truck
ing industry has now ceased op
eration." Only one major com
pany, Pacific Freight Lines, con
tinued to operate, it was re
ported. -
First skirmish, in the strike,
which began midnight. Wednes
day, was won by the union. Two
subsidiaries of Pacific Motor
Trucking, one of the three struck,
reached an agreement with em
ployers to meet union demands
for an immediate 10-cent raise
and eight-cent hikes for each of
next two years. The subsidiaries
haul new automobiles.
Hold to Contention
The California Trucking As
sociation and its associates held
to their contention that the strike
against three companies was a
strike against all.
"The solid industry position
today remains unchanged," a
spokesman said. "We are struck
as a whole."
Portland, Ore. (U.R) Clyde
C. Crosby, international repre
sentative for the Teamsters union
here, said Saturday the union
has no plans for extending its
picket lines.
He said It had planned to
strike only three firms in the
coast-wide strike of long-haul
truckers and leave other firms
free to serve the public.
Wendell Wyatt New
State GOP Leader
Portland (U.R) Astoria At
torney Wendell Wyatt Saturday
was unanimously elected chair
man of the Republican State
Central committee at an organi
zation meeting here.
Wyatt succeeds Ed Boehnke,
Foigene, whose resignation of
two weeks ago became effective
yesterday.
The new chairman is a mem
ber of the law firm on Norblad,
Wyatt and MacDonald and a for
mer Marine. Following his elec
tion, he told the group there has
been a tendency in the party "for
us to criticize each other and to
do battle within our own camp."
Henry Deugner, Portland at
torney, was also elected at the
meeting to succeed Lawrence
Neault of Baker as treasurer.
Gov. Paul Patterson said the
unanimous election of both men
showed that the party was head
ing in the direction of "unani
ity." The governor predicted
"we can win in 1956 with un
animity."
Adequate Reserves
Declared Essential
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R)
Army Secretary Robert T. Stev
ens said Saturday that an ade
quate military reserve program
like that contained in the admin
istration's plan now pending be
fore Congress "is essential to
our security.
urday after reporting that his
Formosan peace talks with Com
munist Chinese Premier Chou
En Lai were "very useful and
we can look forward with hope.
Menon sent the "gist" of his
talks with Chou, Chinese Com
munist Chief Mao Tse-Tung and
other Red officials to Premier
Jawaharlal Nehru before he left
the Red Chinese capital.
Refuse Comment
Official Indian sources refus
ed comment on Menon's report
But, a highly reliable source said
that India and Communist China
planned to seek a solution to
the Formosa strait problem and
Far Eastern tension within the
next two months.
On the basis of the report of
Menon, who is Nehru's personal
trouble-shooter, the source pre
dicted U.S.-Chinese talks scon.
Peiping radio broadcasts Sat
urday said that Menon had met
Chou a total of 30 hours on five
days during his Peiping visit.
Special Significance
Western observers in New
Delhi and Tokyo pointed out
that it is unusual for so many
top Peiping officials to meet at
the same time with a foreign
envoy. Therefore they said the
Friday meeting was of special
significance.
Menon spoke to newsmen in
Peiping before leaving, the Com
munist radio reported. He said
he saw Chou, who offered at
the Bandung conference to ne
gotiate on Formosa directly with
the United States on May 12, 15,
18, 19 and 20.
The subjects the leaders dis
cussed were not revealed, Peip
ing radio said. But the Indian
government information service
in New Delhi said that Formosa
definitely was a topic of the dis
cussions. Sen. Morse Favors
Gore Road Program
Newport (U.R) Sen. Wayne
Morse of Oregon toured Lin
coln county Saturday afternoon
as part of his program of ac
quainting Oregon people with
current issues. He added frankly
that he was building some politi
cal fences, too.
The Democratic Senator held
a question and answer session
near Oceanlake and stopped at
Toledo and Waldport for dis
cussions.
In a radio interview at New
port, he expressed support of
more access roads between the
Willamette Valley and the coast.
He said he favored the Gore
program, which favors federal,
secondary and market roads to
be considered with federal funds
as opposed to the administration
program which more or less con
centrates on federal roads.
Morse laid a strong road pro
gram supported by federal funds
was needed as a moral obliga
tion" to the people for both eco
nomic development and defense.
'Lincoln Brigade'
Ruled Subversive
Washington (U.R) Dr.
Kathryn McHale, only woman
member of the Subversive Ac
tivities Control board, ruled Sat
urday that the "Veterans of the
Abraham Lincoln Brigade" is a
Communist-front organization.
If upheld by the full five-member
board, her initial decision
means that the group must reg
ister with the Attorney General.
Its officers must make an an
nual financial accounting to the
government, and members
would be barred from federal
employment, defense plant work
or from getting passports.
The Brigade was an organiza
tion of about 3,000 American
volunteers who fought on the
Loyalist side in the Spanish
Civil war in the late 1930 s. Dr.
McHale said . the Brigade itself
was Communist-run, and that its
veterans organization, which is
still active, is also a Red ven
ture. Grand Jury Indicts
Extortion Suspect
Portland (U.R) The Mult
nomah county grand jury Sat
urday indicted Glen H. Colgan,
27, on a charge of attempted ex
tortion. Colgan was arrested after an
abortive attempt to extort $10,
000 from Fred Meyer, Inc., by
threatening to explode a bomb
in one of the firm's Portland
tores.
' '
TEACHER OF YEAR VISITS IKE Miss Margaret Perry
(left), selected "Teacher of the Year," brought along two
of her pupils from Monmouth, Ore., when she visited
President Eisenhower in the White House. The two 9-year-old,
fourth grade students are Sue Moll and Dick Peterson
who were chosen by their classmates to make the trip.
Sue is holding a ball point pen and pencil set given to her
by the chief executive.
County Polio Vaccine
Clinics Start Monday
The program of Infantile pa
ralysis inoculations in Jackson
county will start as scheduled
tomorrow morning, according to
Dr. A. Erin Merkel.
Need for Delay Gone
With the announcement in
Portland Friday that Oregon has
been assured of supplies of Salk
anti-polio vaccine from Parke,
Davis & Co. for the second series
Experts Summoned
To Vaccine Safety
Standards Session
Washington (U.R) The Gov
ernment Saturday summoned top
polio experts and vaccine manu
facturers to a "safety standard"
conference here Monday at which
it will propose complete re-testing
of all unreleased vaccine sup
plies. The manufacturers were re
ported by one high industry
source to feel such a move is un
necessary and would force at
least a month's delay in the na
tion's lagging inoculation pro
gram. The Public Health Service an
nounced that representatives of
all six Salk vaccine producers,
top polio scientists, and officials
of the National Institutes of
Health will attend the confer
ence. To Review Findings
It said the group has been
called together specifically to
"review the findings" of a team
of government experts which has
been making a plant-by-plant in
spection of current vaccine
stocks.
However, the . high industry
.source disclosed that the group
will be asked to consider pro
posed new federal safeguards in
tha-testing and production of the
Salk vaccine.
It also will be asked for an
opinion, he said, on the Public
Health Service's proposal that
unreleased vaccine supplies be
completely re-tested even though
it would throw a major new road
block into the vaccination pro
gram. He said some manufacturers
concede the move might have a
"good, public psychological ef
fect." But he said the manu
facturers don't think it would
add to the vaccine's safety if the
present tests are merely repeated.
EFDSeir Crosses Nation
Van Nuys, Calif. U.R) A
"Sunday" flier set a new un
official east-to-west national
speed record Saturday as he
streaked his flashy F-86 Sabre
Jet back-and-f orth across the na
tion in aviation's first dawn-to-dusk
transcontinentl round
trip flight.
Breaks Record
Air National Guard Lt. John
M. Conroy, 35, Van Nuys, who
builds Hollywood swimming
pools for a living, roared from
New York to Van Nuys in five
hours, 28 minutes and 32 sec
onds. He broke the official east-to-west
record of seven hours
and four seconds set in 1947 by
Paul ManU in a North American,
of shots, due seven weeks after
the first, the last need for delay
has gone, Dr. Merkel said.
He pointed out that up to now,
not a single case of polio has
resulted in any case of anti
polio vaccination when Parke
Davis vaccine was used.
The first injection is to be
made by Dr. W. W. P. Holt, who
has been practicing medicine in
Jackson county longer than any
physician now active. The event
will be at Oak Grove school at
about 8:45 a.m.
Dr. Merkel said supplies of the
vaccine how hand are ade
quate for the first series of shots
for all Jackson county first and
second graders. The schedule
published in The Mail Tribune
last week will be followed. De
tails of how the second series
of shots will be given after sum
mer vacation starts will be an
nounced soon, he added.
The inoculation program is
also getting under way tomor
row in most other Oregon coun
ties, except in one or two, in
cluding Klamath, where-it began
Friday.
Israeli-Egyptian
Border Feud Flares
Gaza, Egyptian-Israeli Front
ier (U.R) Israeli and Egyp
tian troops fought a two-hour
battle Saturday with mortar3,
artillery and machineguns near
Kisufim, the scene of two clash
es in the bloody Gaza strip earl
ier this week.
Egyptian and Israeli military
spokesmen gave different ac
counts of the battle, but both
reported it was a duel with mor
tars and heavy guns.
Thursday the Israeli's attack
ed and blew up Egyptian posi
tions in the Kisufim and Deir
El Balah area in what they an
nounced was retaliation for the
mining Tuesday of an Israeli
patrol car and the death of three
Israeli officers.
The Egyptian spokesman said
that Egyptian troops suffered no
casualties in the gun duel Sat
urday but that the Israelies were
believed to have suffered some
casualties.
New Orleans (U.R)-Sen. War
ren G. Magnuson, chairman of
the Senate Commerce committee,
proposed Saturday that the fed
eral government help state and
local governments modernize the
nation's ports.
F-51 Mustang propellor -driven
plane.
The fastest' cross - country
flight was made in March by
Air Force Lt. Robert R. Scott
who, by refueling in the air,
raced across the continent west-to-east
in three hours, 44 min
utes and 53 minutes in March in
a jet.
Only Minor Trouble
After swooshing his jet to a
landing at San Fernando Valley
airport, Conroy said he encoun
tered only "minor trouble" in his
history-making flight and felt in
"good, shape." His finish was
clocked by Bert Rhine, official
west coast timer for the Na
tional Aeronautical association.
Conroy, who roared to New
V
Diem Orders Arrest
Of Four Officers
On Treason Charge
Troops Massing for
Large Offensive
Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Pre
mier Ngo Dinh Diem Saturday
ordered the arrest of four senior
Army officers on charges of high
treason in a drive . against en
emies of his American-backed
regime.
The Catholic Premier acted as
his government troops massed
for a large-scale offensive against
rebel forces trying to clamp a
starvation blockade on the capi
tal of Saigon.
Want Bao Dai Fired
At the same time, the power
ful but unofficial "revolutionary
committee" backing Diem sent
a mesage to President Eisenhow
er and other heads of state reaf
firming its demands for the fir
ing of absentee Chief of State
Bao Dai.
The committee expressed
gratitude to Mr. Eisenhower for
U.S. aid and announced its sup
port for a South Viet Nam Re
public "to effectively combat
Communism in Southeast Asia."
Crackdown Growing
Diem ordered the new arrests
Saturday in a growing crack
down on followers of Bao Dai
and the rebel armed sects who
have plunged free Viet Nam
into sporadic civil strife.
One of those ordered seized
was Gen. Nguyen Van Vy, for
er Armed Forces Inspector Gen
eral, who tried and failed to
take over the army last May 1
on orders of Bao Dai. ".Diem put
Vy to flight and accused him of
trying to stage a coup.
The others were Gen. Le Van
Vien, Chief of the Rebel Binh
Xuyn sect which has regrouped
strongly in marshlands south
of the capital; Gen. Nguyen Van
Tranh, former Cao Dai sect
leader, and Col. Nguyen Tu Yen,
former commander of Bao Dai's
Imperial guard.
All four are at large.
Others Charged
In addition, the government
charged Binh Xuyen leader Lai
Van Sang,' former Surete Na
tional head, and Lai Huu Tai
with treason.
South Viet Nam troops mean
while massed for an offensive
against Hoa Hoa Rebel units in
the Southern Mekong basin, in
the face of a rebel threat to
blockade Saigon so tightly "not
a single grain of rice will get
through."
The government gathered
naval units and ground troops
in the Lung Xuyen and Can
Tho regions for a finish fight
against Dissident Hoa IVo
troops of the 31-year-old Gen Ba
Cut.
HST Gefs invitation
From Royal Rosarians
Portland-4U.R) Ex-President
Harry S. Truman has been in
vited to participate in the Rose
Festival celebration here and ac
cept a knighthood from the
Royal Rosarians, but extent of
his participation is not yet
known.
Truman is scheduled to appear
at a Democratic banquet here
Saturday night, June 11, follow
ing the giant floral parade.
Prime Minister Leland F. Hess
of the Rosarians recalled in his
letter of invitation, Truman's ac
ceptance of a similar offer in
1948 when he was president.
However, the Vanport flood dis
aster interrupted plans that year.
TwBce m
York and back in an Armed
Forces day "Operation Boomer
ang" demonstration promoting
the Air National Guard, flew
the 5,085-mile round trip in 11
hours, 26 minutes and 33 sec
onds. He 'had hoped to make the
flight in less than 11 hours.
When Conroy's jet rolled to a
stop on the San Fernando Valley
Airport runway, a cheering
crowd of aviation officials and
spectators swarmed about the
plane. '
His wife, Jeane, and his three
children, Barbara 4, John 3, and
Bill, 1, pushed to the front of
the crowd. As he stepped from
the sleek jet, Conroy's proud
and excited wife leaped up and
kissed him. He grinned and wav-
t owe popped fee
Air Force toeral
Tops AFD Program
At Medford Airport
Maj. Gen. William T- Hafley,
commanding officer of Sacra
mento Air Materiel area, Mc
Clelland Air Force base, Calif.,
will be principal speaker during
Armed Forces Day ceremonies
at municipal aiport today.
General Hefley will speak at
2:30 p.m. following a musical
program which starts at 2 p.m.
Others on Program
Also participating in the pro
gram will be Colonel William
H. Barlett, general chairman for
Armed Forces Day, Mayor Earl
Miller of Medford, Major Gen
eral Roy V. Rickard, Major Gen
eral J. H. Hicks and Commander
Rodney Keating.
General Hefley was graduat
ed from West Point in 1928. His
decorations include the Legion
of Merit, Bronze Star and the
Army Commendation ribbon.
During World War II he served
as deputy commander of the
Eighth Air Force service com
mand in England and since June,
1945, has been commander of
air materiel area at Sacramento.
The program in front of mun
icipal airport terminal will start
at 1:40 p.m. with an invocation
by Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb,
followed by an assembly of flags
by veterans organizations, and
girl and boy scouts.,
Music Slated" " '
Music will be furnished by
Medford High school band, and
the Sixth Army Bagpipe band
of the Presidio of San Francisco.
Activities for Armed Forces
day will start at 9:30 a.m. today
with a fly-over by several F-89
fighter interceptor planes from
Portland Air Force base. The
planes will not land.
At least seven aircraft will
be on display on airport taxi
ways, as will military equipment
from national guard units at
Medford and Ashland. Other or
ganizations which also will have
displays include Civil Air Pa
trol, Ground Observer Corps,
American Red Cross, Civil De
fense. U.S. Forest Service, and
Veterans organizations.
Tours of the control tower
will be conducted throughout the
afternoon.
Armed Forces movies and
training films will be shown in
two hangers and the CAP buil
ding.
Theme for Armed Forces Day
is "Power for Peace."
Thieves Get $90
From Local Firm
Thieves escaped with about
$90 in cash from the Y Oil com
pany, 1908 Table Rock rd., about
7:55- a.m. Saturday, according to
state police.
Roy Deutschman, an em
ployee, told police he was serving
gasoline to. an automobile and
was answering directions asked
by the driver while two other
men went inside the station.
Deutschman told police the men
drove off on Table Rock rd.
after paying for about $1.50
worth of gas.
Deutschman noticed the money
missing from the cash register
when he went into the building,
police said. The cash register
drawer was left open, police said.
(One Pay
ed to the crowd. ,
"It's been a long day," his
wife exclaimed.
Drinking a glass of orange
juice and posing for photogra
phers, Conroy said he felt "pret
ty good" in spite of the long,
exhausting flight.
. Conroy said despite the histor
ic flight he was going to attend
a National Guard dance with
his wife Saturday night in Los
Angeles.
"I planned to go all along,"
he said.
"I really felt bushed about
halfway back, but by the time
I got to Albuquerque I began
to feel better," he said. "I guess
I just suffered a little mid-afternoon
fatigue." j
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MAJ. GEN. HAFLEY
Speaker At Armed Forces Day
Nation Displays
Military Might on
Armed Forces Day
Washington (U.R) America
Saturday' displayed her armed
might a powerful array of
weapons which may keep the
nation at peace.
Some : 5,000,000 - ' Americans
trooped to air bases, army posts
and navy installations to look
wonderingly and reassuringly af
tne awesome armadas.
They heard, too, warnings
from high military officials that
in many cases this nation hold
a perilously slim margin of su-
periority over Russia in some
weapons.
The occasion was the third an
nual observance of Armed Forces
Day and its theme was the same
as in the two previous years-
Power for Peace."
Wilson Sett Keynote
Throughout the nation, mili
tary officials made speeches. The
observances got underway Fri
day night when Defense Secre
tary Charles E. Wilson set the
keynote. He said the nation's
"tremendous power" is being
built in an unremitting effort
to achieve world peace."
Naturallyy air power drew
most of the attention. Many of
the military speakers in what
seemed an effort to clarify the
confusion over Russian versus
American air power stressed
the air theme.
All contended that the United
States has superiority over the
Soviets but warned that Amer
ica can not stand still in develop
ment and planning for even bet
ter air power.
At San Angelo, Tex., Sen,
Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) urged
the government to start a "crash"
project to develop an inter-con
tinental missile in the quickest
possible time. Such a missile
with an atomic warhead, he said,
will be "the ultimate military
weapon, at least in our time."
Simple Explanation
For 'Flying Saucers'
Los Angeles (U.R) J. W.
Hershberger, of Glendale, Sat
urday offered an explanation
of "silvery" saucer-like ob
jects reported seen in the skies
the other night by police, sher
iff's officers and townsfolk.
Hershberger, who used
pair of high-power binoculars
on the unidentified objects, re
ported they were pelicans.
Sports Bulletin
Seattle (U.R) The Seattle
Rainiers defeated Portland 7
5 here Saturday night in a
Pacific Coast League game
twice halted by rain to take a
3-2 edge in their current series
with the Beavers.
Modesto, Calif. (U.R)
Franklin (Bud) Held of the
San Francisco Olympic club
sea a new work mark in the
javelin here Saturday night
in the California relays with
a toss of 268 feet 2.89 inches.
Held had the old mark of 263
feet 10 inches..
Adenauer Attempts
To Block Soviets'
Neutralization Plan
Chancellor Meets
With Top Level Aides
Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer Satur
day mapped an all-out drive to
rearm west Germany quickly in
an apparent effort to nip a Soviet
campaign to neutralize Germany.
The Chancellor was reported
"deeply perturbed" about tho
Kremlin's neutralization plan,
which he believes would create
a "power vacuum" in the middle
of Europe.. -Meets
Defense Chief
Adenauer met for the second
straight day at his Black Forest
vacation retreat with Defense
Chief Theodor Blank and his two
top military planners, former
Gens. Adolph Heusinger and
Hans Speidel. ,
Informed sources said they de
cided to rush the first West Ger
man rearmament bills through
the Bonn Cabinet and submit
them to Parliament before tho
end of May.
Adenauer also met Saturday
with Heinrich von Brentano,
Christian Democratic Parliamen
tary floor leader who is slated
to become West Germany For
eign Minister shortly when 4he
Chancellor steps down from that
job.
The Chancellor's aides said the
talks would continue throughout
the week end in the forest re
treat at Buehler Hoehe.
To Map Plans
Next week, , Adenauer hag
scheduled a meeting with his am--bassadors
to Washington, London
and Paris. He summoned them
back to map plans to block tho
expected neutrality moves at tho
forthcoming Big Four talks with
the Soviets.
Officials said the rhanwliw
would instruct the diDlomats t
warn the three western powers
against toying with the idea of a
neutralized Germany as part of
-neutral belt" between the East
and West blocs.
Adenauer was renortd in
such neutralization would be an
open invitation to tho Soviets to
march in and take over as soon
as U.S. trOODS had been urith.
drawn.
U.S. Intelligence
Inquiry Completed
Washington (U.R) A sneclal
Hoover Commission task forea
headed by Gen. Mark W. Clark
nas completed an exhaustive in
vestigation of high-level United
States Intelligence ooerations
around the world, it was learned
Saturday.
The special inquiry board will .
make far-reaching recommenda
tions, most of them secret, to
improve the gathering, proces
sing and dissemination of vital
intelligence information of many
agencies, including the super
secret Central Intelligence
agency.
It is expected to criticize over
lapping of some activities and in
many cases to recommend closer
coordination.
There is evidence the Inquiry
is regarded by. those who shared
in it as anything but a "white
wash."
The task force expects to sub
mit two reports to the commis-.
sion headed by former President
Herbert C. Hoover.
Gl Home Loan Status
Said Cause of Concern
Washington (U.R) Congres
sional housing experts expressed
some concern Saturday at early
findings in their investigation of
GI homo loans. They promised
a full inquiry and corrective
legislation if necessary.
They said one worrisome as
pect is that nobody knows how
many of the 3,107,786 GI loans
now outstanding still are held by
the veterans in whoso behalf
they were made.
Lending interests have advised
them, however, that from 20 to
30 per cent of the outstanding
loans probably have been trans
ferred to new hands, in most
cases without the knowledge of
the Veterans Administration
which guaranteed them,
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