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MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Wednesday, April 2, 1958 mm Troops Americans Ask U.S. Navy Unit For Protection Havana, Cuba tP Gov ernment troops are chasing two rebel bands through the mountains of Oriente Prov ince following a series of sharp clashes with troops of rebel leader Fidel Castro, the army announced today. Communications with San tiago de Cuba were disrupted and it appeared a general strike was going into effect there. The situation inside the the city was reported nearly normal but apparently traffic to and from the city had halt ed. 16 Rebeli Paid Killed An army communique re ported 1 6 rebels and one civil ian killed in at least four clashes along major highways in the Oriente sector as the rebels tried to make good their threat of blocking com munication? in the area. Reports from Santiago de Cuba said 45 American fam ilies there had asked the U.S. Navy to stand by off the coast as a protective measure and to remove them if Castro car ried out his threat of "total war" against President Ful- gencio Batista. Government sources denied reports the rebels had cap tured the port of Manzanillo, a city of 100,000 about 50 miles west of Santiago. Aid Requested Reports reaching the capi tal from Oriente Province said American families, employees of the U. S. government-owned Nicaro nickel plant on the north coast of the province, had sent a request for naval aid to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo. The base itself cancelled all leaves and took what authori ties described as 'emergency measures' in preparation for the expected start of an all-out war against the government by Castro's rebels. About 250 dependents of , Navy personnel were moved into the base from nearby Boqueron, Caimanera and Guatanamo City. fast has threatened to start his April "blood bath" campaign against Batista in that area. Exiraordinary Powers Batista, armed with extra ordinary powers granted him by the congress Monday night, was preparing the armed forces to met the rebel threat which provoked a" "state of notional pmereencv." The cabinet approved the -ranrrfinarv Dowers Tues day night and forwarded it nnhliration in the "offic- XV v-- iai pazette" which makes law. United States May Slate Nuclear Tests Washington (IP) The Unit ed States may scnenuie new series of nuclear tests next fall or in 1959 unless the Soviet Union agrees to mu-.,-! inrpption under an in- al test ban. adminis tration officails reported to day. Criticism of U.S. nuclear i pruoted following Moscow's unilateral cutoff of nuclear tests and disclosure by Secretary of State John VncTOl Dulles Tuesday that the President and the Nation al Security Council on uiarcn a nciHpred but rejected a move to halt the forthcoming American nuclear tests in xne Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), chairman of the Senate disarmament subcom mittee, called Dulles' disclo sure "nothing short of shock ing" and said it had been bet ter left unsaid. Northwestern Mining Grouo Sets Meeting Thp Northwestern Mining fminril. Inc.. will meet at 8 pjn. Thursday in the Jackson county courthouse auauonum. Les Child, state commissioner of geology and mineral inaus fnr Oreeon. will speak Thp council is a non-profit, non-political organization, its officers pointed out. Open 24 Hours Everv Day SELF SERVICE 516 W. Sixth St. LAUNDRY Large 50-Lb. Dryers Agitator Type Washers If 110 LOYJ Singapore IW Neutral sources said today in Jakarta the Indonesian government would shortly launch its final drive to crush the Sumatran rebel strongholds of Padang and Bukittinggi. At the same time the Indo nesian army announced it had Captured Cuban Rebels Carry Hunger Strike Into 2nd Week Brownsville, Tex. (IP) Thirty-five captured Cuban rebels carried a hunger strike into its second week today, joined in their starvation pro test by rebel groups in New York, Chicago and Miami. The men have vowed to starve "to the death if neces sary" to protest their impris onment following the scut tling of their heavily-armed expedition to support the forces of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro against the gov ernment of President Fulgen cio Batista. Shipments Protested They and the other hunger strikers are protesting also continued shipment of U.S. arms to the Batista govern ment. In Florida Tuesday, 22 Cas tro supporters were arrested after a demonstration at a railroad station where they believed a delegation of Ba tista emissaries was passing through on the way to Wash ington for more arms. Two Cuban nationals were arrest ed at Key West as they tried to smuggle arms to Castro's forces in an outboard motor boat. Arrests in Virginia At Winchester, Va., three men arrested in an allegedly stolen car with a cargo of knives, bayonets and a sawed off shotgun, said they were part of an army of 1,500 to 2,000 men being trained here to join the Castro forces. They gave their names as Forest Lipscomb, Patrick Patterson and Harry Voelker. Fourteen of the 35 men held in Brownsville since their ship was rammed by a Coast Guard cutter last 'lnurs- dav have been transferred from jail cells to Mercy Hos- nital beds and are being led intravenously. U. S. Marshal James W. McCarty said. Most Said U.S. Citizens Although the formal hun ger strike began only after their capture, doctors said the men actually hadn t eaten lor two days before that they Advanced 1st Aid Class Is Completed An advanced first aid course was completed yesterday, B. B. Bigham, first aid instruc tor for the Jackson county chapter, American Red Cross, has announced. Those who qualified include Pearle R. Tucker, Oral w Tucker, Thelma Trude, Mrs, Helen Thomas. Charlotte Un- ruh, Charles P. Chisum, Glen S. Bundv. Roy L. Thompson Garnet A. Stoltenburg, Gor don H. Wright, Jack i Nichols and Tim E. Halme. First aid classes are held in thp chanter house at 60 Haw thorne ave., Medford, and nersons are urged to register for the course. Navy Movie Shown at High Y Meeting Naw Chief Warren Boe showed a film and discusses advantages of joining the Maw at a meetine of the Med ford Rogue High Y recently. He was introduced by i-arry Anderson, vice president of the group. The group changed the meeting time from Saturday to Tuesday at 7:30 pjn. ACCUSATION LEVELED Gainesville, Fla. (IP John Arthur Strickland, 23, a sen ior honor student at the Uni versity of Florida, was on nmhation today because he interrupted a lecture by poet Robert Frost to accuse xne audience of being "dressed-up stuffed shirts." 20c per 8 lb. Washer Load Drying le Per Minute COIN OPERATED 516 W. Sixth St. Really Hot Water Supplies Available opened a "second front" in North Celebes, 1,500 miles to the east,, and captured two key towns on the border be tween North and Central Celebes. Rebel radio reports from Sumatra indicated the mili tary situation there was bor were too busy or too excited. Most of them are U.S. citi zens and residents of New York. The wife of their lead er, Ardaldp Barron of New York, said "most of them fought for this country in World War II or Korea. Now they thought they couldn't stay in this country and do nothing." - Mrs. Barron, who came to Brownsville after her hus band's arrest, said many of the men had good jobs in New York. They saved S20,-' 000, she said, to buy arms and ammunition in Mexico and and charter the 70-foot freighter in which they sailed. New York Hunger Strike In New York, 14 men and Bftfl TO dering on the desperate, with the rebels applying scorched earth tactics as they fell back on their major bases. The neutral sources in Ja karta predicted, "unless all our information is wrong the Sumatra rebels are going to get clobbered." four women members of the Orthodox Committee, headed by Barron, began a hunger strike at 7 p.m. Friday and were still on it today. Of 10 members of the rebel Revolu tionary Labor Directorate, only two remained on a simi lar hunger strike today. Two became ill Monday night and four more were forced to be gin eating again late Tuesday night. Another group of Cubans picketed the U.S. Court House at Chicago ,with signs protest ing the Brownsville capture. Nine more rebel sympathiz ers were conducting a . "sit down hunger strike" in the lobby of a Miami television station. People who take their milk seriously prefer... men The sources said President Sukarno would follow the capture of Bukittinggi and Padang with an announce ment of a dramatic new unity program which will incorpo rate many rebel demands and give more autonomy to the outer islands. The government announced the capture of the towns of Donggala and Palu in the Celebes but indicated all was not going smoothly in other fighting there. The army formally admit ted a setback at the town of Gorontalo, a seacoast town located on the southern coast of North Celebes, 150 lair miles from the rebel center of Menado. It said loyalist forces which secured the town Feb. 25 were driven back in acounter attack by rebel troops of su perior strength. It reported the loyalists putting up "arm ed resistance" outside the town. IT SHOULD HAPPEN HERE Brighton, England (IP) Audrey Tindall, 20, was hos pitalized Tuesday with heat stroke caused by the sun shin ing through the plate glass window of a furniture store. 'FINAL INVITATION A colorful invitation to tourists and industry to learn about the attractions of Oregon will be included behind this cover page of a 24-page gravure section of the New York Times Sunday April 6. Section is part of Gov. Holmes' campaign to encourage tourists to visit and industry to build in Oregon. (Courtesy New York Times) I f-SJI , We Wire EASTER FLOWERS All Over the World Flowers Gifts 26 SOUTH CENTRAL XA SP3"1733 m i i 1
