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- I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, April J, 19SS 1 'mraefl IeseinnibD Conn-Gills Meadow larks are not lark but members of the blackbird family. D Streets Cod Batista's Cabinet Drafts Decrees To Avert Rebel Strike Havana (tp The Cuban cabinet met in emergency session most of the night and drafted a series of stiff de crees to avert a rebel-threatened general strike aimed at overthrowing the govern ment, It also moved to end a run on Cuban banks and pre vent a financial crisis. The cabinet session, from midnight until after 4 a.m., came as the Dominican Re public rushed five plane loads of arms and ammunition to Cuba to help in what govern ment sources called "its great est hour of peril." Emergency Request Dominican strongman Ra fael Trujillo acted on an "emergency request" from Bring HAWAII Into Your Home! THE UNUSUAL Tl LOGS 4" x 34" to 1 Vr". When plac ed in wafer develops into beau tiful exotic house plant. Truly a conversational piece. 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Widespread arrests were reported in Santiago, which has been virtually cut off from the rest of Cuba. No reasons were given. At least 19 rebels and their weapons were reported seized in Ha vana itself. The weapons shipment was intended to strengthen the government's hand against the swelling revolt in the province, where 30 to 50 per sons have been reported killed in two days. The arms would replace 1950 Garand rifles whose shipment from the Un ited States was blocked Mar. 14 by the State Department. Porter Assured In Washington Wednesday night, Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.), said the department had assured him that the Cu ban government will get no more U. S. arms until the situation in that country re turns to normal. Porter is an outspoken critic of the Batis ta regime. Censorship and communi cations difficulties made it difficult to determine the ex act situation in Oriente, but the best information avail able indicates that public transportation and most oth er activity are paralyzed. Fort William, Ont., was built in 1801 to be the head quarters for Canadian fur trading. mi lb. lb. lb. 2 ,, 29 heads t doz. 53c doz. 49c 2 5J CANS mm lb. 61 Civilians Joined By Soldiers To Battle River Carmel, Calif. (IP) Sev eral hundred soldiers and ci vilians battled furiously to day to hold the Carmel river within its sagging levees lest it flood 300 homes in the Mis sion Fields subdivision. The historic Carmel Mis sion overlooking the flooded area was in no danger. Half the subdivision al ready was up to a foot or two of water in some spots. Streets were like canals. There was no general evacu ation, but a few residents left their homes. Bridge in Danger The swirling river inundat ed the Carmel River Inn, a motel in the same area. Own ers feared some of the build ings would be swept into the ocean less than a mile distant. Fears were expressed for the Carmel bridge, a concrete structure on Highway 1. A 100-foot wooden bridge, one of three swept down stream by the torrent, ham mered against the Carmel bridge at right angles. Offi cials in charge of the flood control work feared the" wood en structure would turn parallel to the bridge and dam the river. Deputy sheriffs and coast guardsmen spent the night rescuing residents along the river in Carmel Valley. The coast guardsmen, from the Monterey life boat station, carried a skiff on a trailer. Hazardous Trips Just before daybreak, depu ties and coast guardsmen made two hazardous trips in a skiff to Odello Island a half mile north of the Coast High way in the middle of the river. They rescued Mrs. Licia Linder and her next door neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Rich and their four children. The they went to a group of four two-story apartment buildings isolated upstream from the Carmel river bridge. None of the occupants want ed to be rescued, but they said some had previously waded ashore waist deep. Los Angeles jdPt Land slides, fallen trees and power failures plagued Southern California today as a new storm struck with rain, snow and gusty winds. Two minor rock slides oc curred on the Pacific Coast Highway near Las Flores Canyon in the Malibu area, but the Highway Patrol di rected traffic around the de bris until it was cleared. There were other small slides in mountain canyons and the Pasadena Freeway was blocked briefly by a fallen tree. There were dozens of pow er failures throughout the Los Angeles area. At Lake Hughes, near New hall, the Weather Bureau re ported three inches of rain during the night. Grand Jury Returns Two Indictments Indictments were returned by the Jackson county grand jury Tuesday charging Gor don Smith, 106 Crater Lake ave., Medford, with second de gree burglary, and Lester Price, Butte Falls, with grand larceny. Smith was arrested by Med ford police on charges of bur glary early Sunday morning. He is suspected of breaking into the Southern Oregon Dis tributors Inc., 710 South Grape st., some time Satur day night or Sunday morn ing. Police said 58 cases of beer and the company safe, which contained about $40 in small change, were taken. Price is charged with taking two electric generators from Reter Fruit company ware house recently. with SPRECKELS SUGAR start with these Funny-Bunny . fssZ CupCakeSi Francisco, Calif. WESTERNERS ARE SWEET ON SPRECKELS SUGAR Jet Age in Commercial Aviation Expected To Be Reality Late This Year or Early '59 New York (IP) A big step forward in man's race against time and distance the advent of the jet age in commercial aviation is slated to get underway in the United States late this year or early in 1959. The jet airliners will shrink world travel time by 40 per cent. They will be able to speed from New York to Paris in less than seven hours, from New York to Buenos Aires in 10 hours and 40 minutes, from Honolulu to Los Angeles in just under five hours. Few cities in the world will be more than 12 hours away from Americna airfields, ac cording to Pan American World Airways which ex pects to become the first United States airline to op erate American-built com- House Committee To Study Other Channel Awards Washington (IP) Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.), said to day House investigators are "seeking light" on several disputed television channel awards in an effort to deter mine whether to call a new series of public hearings. Harris, chairman of the subcommittee which has held marathon hearings on the Federal Communications com mission, declined to say whether there will be sessions on the award of Channel 5 in Boston which figured in testimony Wednesday. Not Singled Out "I wouldn't want to single out Pittsburgh, Boston or any other case," he told reporters. "But we are seeking light on any of these and any others we can get." He added "we are interest ed in any" TV case handled by the FCC involving more than one applicant"1 "that would help us toward our ob jective" of examining wheth er regulatory agencies are following the intent of Con gress. The subcommittee expect ed to complete its current hearings today with testimony by Mrs. Frieda Hennock Si mon, a former FCC member. No hearings are scheduled during the Easter -congressional recess. Ex-Chairman Approached Former FCC Chairman George C. McConnaughey testified Wednesday that two of the four applicants for Bos ton Channel 5 approached him at separate lunches here after an FCC examiner had made his report and while it was under consideration by the commissioners. The two were Robert Choate, publisher of The Bos ton Herald-Traveler which owned the firm that finally got the award last April, and Forrester Clarke. Rubirosa Pays Fine On Traffic Violations West Palm Beach, Fla. (IP) Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa paid a $25 fine Wednesday for speeding, making an im proper turn, using an improp er muffler on his Italian sports car and speeding on the way to the police station after he had been stopped. Rubirosa denied the charges. "I've been driving in this city for four months and this is the first time anyone said 1 did anything wrong," he said. Porcupines force their quills into the flesh of an at tacker by a slap of their tails and not by Robin Hood arch ery despite superstitions to the contrary. mercial jets. Pan American has 44 jet transports under order at a total cost of $275 million. These include six Boeing 707 121 stratoliners, ' 17 Boeing 707-321 intercontinental and 21 Douglas DC-8s. December Delivery Set First of the stratoliners is scheduled for delivery to Pan American in December. It could go into operation with in five or six weeks. The other jets are due to be de livered in the summer of 1959. The airline says it still faces a number of problems, including Civil Aeronau tical Administration certifica tion of the jets, longer run ways at airfields and training of flight crews. CAA certification tests are expected to start soon, Pan American officials told a re cent press seminar on the jets. Heat affects the runway problem. For example, a strat oliner on a 98-degree tem perature day would require more than 11,000 feet of run way to get off the ground. The longest runway at New York's Idlewild Airport is 9,320 feet. However, Pan American of ficials pointed out that if the runways are not lengthened and if authorities permit use of the field the jets could Fire Breaks Out In Luckenbach Ship Portland (IP) A stubborn fire broke out in the afterhold of the freighter Robert Luck enbach at the Luckenbach dock here Wednesday night. Firemen said the flames, brought under control after a couple of hours, were con fined to the afterhold. The flames broke out in a shipment of paper bags that had been loaded at Longview, Wash., and general cargo. 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