MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Wednesday, April 2, 1958
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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-
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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)
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