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a MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, July 29, 1958 ft iSi -rvyfc It d 7 VTS r " rim,- 1 J Washington . Skeptical About Ch Editor's note: Kingsbury Smith, vice president and associate gen eral manager of United Press In ternational, assesses the prospects of hi;h level agreement on Mideast problems in the following dis patch. It Is based on conversations with diplomats at the United Na tions and with experts on Middle Eastern affairs. By KINGSBURY SMITH United Press International New York OD What CAPTURED BY REBELS This exclusive photo shows oras oi two U. S. Marines who were captured in Beirut, Lebanon, this week. Here, he is being pushed along a Street in the Basta quarter of Beirut, as residents of the area look on. The two Marines were released a few hours later. 7 western powers reaching an agreement with Russia at a summit meeting on the Mid east? That was a leading question in the chancelleries of the world today. - Washington remained skep tical. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were known to be highly doubtful that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Krushchev was ready to come . to any reasonable settlement with the west over the Middle East. They feared the Red ruler limber Appraiser Ends Testimony Salem !UPD Testimony of Wallace Eubanks, timber ap praisal supervisor of the State Tax Commission, was conclud ed here Monday as fact-find ing hearings being conducted Q Attorney Defends My Khan's Status Rent (UPI) Moslem Prince Aly Khan cannot be sued in District Court because he has diplomatic immunity, his attorney argued Monday Two Reno attorneys filed motions seeking to force Chan to pay fees amounting to about $21,000 as a result of a. legal battle between the prince and movie star Rita Hayworth over visitation rights regarding their daugh ter, Princess Yasmin. The red- haired screen siren and the princess subsequently visited Khan in Paris in 1956. Khan and Miss Hayworth were divorced in District Court in 1953. The prince made a formal appearance in court a year later, at which time a property settlement waQ approved. The fees were sought by New York attorney Bartley Crum and Wrlliam Forman of Reno. , However, attorney Kenneth Dillon of Reno argued Dis trict Court was without jur isdiction because the prince is a Pakistanian ambassador ex traordinary and the Moslem nation's permanent represen tative in the United Nations. District Judge A. J. Maes tretti took Dillon's argument under study. He said he would rule in a few days. Lightning Kills Five Californians United Press International More thunderstorms were predicted for central Califor nia Tuesday following an out burst of violent electrical storms that killed five persons and injured two others. The victims were killed on Monday when a lightning bolt struck a tree where they were picking peaches. The storm touched off at least a dozen fires in the Sierra Nevada foothills as it rolled up the San Joaquin Valley. Thuadershowers also hit the East, with the heaviest 'rain duriijg the night occur ring in the Southeast. At Cleveland, Ohio, police Rescued four teen-age boys who were swept into a storm sewer during a heavy rain Monday and were carried nearly Jour miles down the sewer tunnel. The youths es caped with minor cuts and bruises. A light but steady drizzle accommodated tradition at Waynesburg, Pa., Tuesday. It washe 73rd time in the last 82 years that rain fell in the town on July 29. Man Tells Truth, Gets Two-Year Term Jackson, Miss. (UPD Al though it cost him a two-year prison sentence, Paul Ed wards showed no regret for having told the truth. 0 Edwards was before Judge Leon Hendrick Monday for sentencing on charges of for gery and writing bad checks. He had no local record and was eligible for probation. But the judge inquired whether the defendant had been in any previous trouble. Tm not going to lie, your honor," Edwards replied, and revealed that he was under probation on similar charges in another city. The judge said he had no choice. He imposed an active sentence, by the commission concerning variations in timber taxation entered the fourth week. The hearings, open to the public, are held in the Capitol building here. In his fifth day of testimony Eubanks completed a detailed account of how he and his staff cruised and evaluated timber and timberland in Coos, Benton, Lane and Doug las counties. Eubanks again declared that lack of detailed informa tion from timber operators as to logging costs has proven a handicap in the valuation process. He. said that in Lane coun ty, for instance, seven of the major timber operators pro vided mass cost figures but declined to break then down for his purposes. As a result, he said, the information was virtually useless. would use such a meeting as a propaganda sounding board to harangue the U.S. and Brit ain for military intervention in the Lebanon and Jordan, and to make Russia appear as the champion of Arab na tionalism. Some Western European diplomats at the United Na tions, however, told this cor respondent they thought there was, a slight chance Khrush chev might be willing to come to terms acceptable to the West on a formula for neutralizing the Middle East, or at least part of it, in the cold war. A Lesser Evil These diplomats felt there would certainly be disadvan tages for the West in any neu tralization plan for that vital ly important oil-rich and strategic area, but they fore saw the possibility that the western governments might Quotes From the News United Press International Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Eugene Murphy, whose wife gave birth to their third set of twins in 27 months, describing the cumulative effect on his nerves: ' "Occasionally I want io sit down and shoot somebody." Bismarck, N. D.: Police Magistrate I. M. Oseth, imposing a stiff fine of 30 and lecturing himself for driving through a red light: "I felt I couldn't let myself get off any easier than the people who come before me." New York: An authoritative source predicting 'that Man ager Walter Alston's days as manager are numbered unless the baseball- Dodgers start winning in the next ten days: "That recent vole of confidence the Dodgers gave Alston was tantamount to handing him his hat." . Moscow: American Coach George Eastment, protesting the lumping together of total scores in men's and women's events in the current Soviet-U.S.A. track competition, as violating an agreement in writing frond the Russians not to do so: "Without that letter we wouldn't have left the United Stales." . ' consider it a lesser evil than allowing the Middle East to continue as a dangerous cock pit in the cold war. An effective neutralization plan that might be acceptable to the western powers, Rus sia, the Arabs and Israel would, in the opinion of some U. N. diplomats, have to in clude the following: 1. A limitation on the ship ment of arms to the Arab states and Israel, with an ef fective U. N. system of inspec tion and control; 2. Creation of a strong, per manent U.N. police force that would be subject to immedi ate call to seal off the borders of any Middle East nation threatened with aggression, including infiltration of arms and "volunteers"; 3. A pledge by all the great powers not to resort to military intervention in any Middle East state unless that state was declared by the U.N. to be the victim of aggression. 4. Replacement of Ameri can and British forces in Leb anon and Jordan by a strong U.N. police force for at least six months or a year; Oil for the West 5. A big powers' guaranty of the borders of Israel to re lieve the fears of both the Jews and the Arabs over the possibility of future aggres sion; ' 6. A guaranty by all the Arab states concerned that the flow of oil to the West will not be disrupted by gov ernmental action, and that any disputes concerning west ern access to the oil will be settled by international arbi tration; 7. Creation of a U.N. eco nomic development project for, all the Middle East na tions, to which the U. S. and Russia would be pledged to contribute equal funds; 8. A cessation of Arabic language "cold war" propa ganda broadcasts to the Mid- anges e East die East by government-sponsored agencies of the Commu nist world and the West. A spokesman for the Arab League told the writer a neu tralization plan that took the Middle East out of the cold war would be' welcomed by the Arabs. Such a plan, he thought, would facilitate Arab unity, but as long as the flow of oil to the West was guaranteed he did not see why the western powers should object. Longshoremen Approve Pact San Francisco (UPD West coast longshoremen have ap proved a new contract calling for a wage increase of 10 cents an hour and cutting the work shift from nine to eight hours. The agreement between the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime asso ciation is retroactive to June 16. The contract was negotia ted July 3. ' The ILWU said the voting among 18,000 longshoremen and clerks approved both ends of a split ballot. The shift reduction was separated from the rest of the contract, which included a 10-cent hour ly raise for longshoremen and 11 cents for clerks." Although the shift reduc tion was approved in the coast tally, San Francisco Local 10 opposed it by a 420-vote mar gin while favoring the rest of the agreement. In Seattle, """" the reduced hours were approved by a vote of 903 to 367 and m Portland by a vote of 555 to 401. Seattle dockworkers ap proved the rest of the con tract 891 to 361 and Portland dockworkers'by a vote of 595 to 364. ' Lightning Starts Several Fires in Eastern Oregon By United Press International Sun-seared Eastern Oregon was spotted with fires today after severe lightning storms lashed the regibn Monday night. Lightning combined with very high, gusty winds, and very little rain produced at least a dozen fires in the land and forested areas in the La Grande area and in Mal heur county. Scores of volunteers were pressed into service by the Chennaulf's Body Flown To Capital New Orleans (UPD The body of Lt. Gen. Claire Chen nault was to be flown to Washington today for burial with full military honors at Arlington National cemetery. It will be the last flight for the rugged air tactician who won major victories with his "Flying Tigers", against the Japanese in the air war over China, but lost his last battle with lung cancer in New Orleanse Sunday. . I Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, Chennault's pre-World War II commander, said in Taipeh, Formosa: "He came to our aid in our darkest hours when we were resisting single - handedly Japanese ag gression. "The exploits of the Flying Tigers will long be remember ed as the epitome of American heroism for which the Ameri can people should be justly proud." Bureau of Land Management to combat four range fires in Malheur county. State Forestry officials and Forest Service personnel were hard pressed to provide fire fighters for at least six lightning-kindled forest fires in the La Grande area. Thousand Acres Burned At least a thousand acres of range land was burned over Monday night south of Harper by one blaze. Three other firos burned valuable grass land in the Rome area of Mal heur county. Two forest fires were vis ible from La Grande as they burned on the slopes of Mt. Harris. Other fires were reported in the High Valley area, on federal forest land near Cove,' and two were reported in the Texas Bar area on the North fork of the John Day river. Winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour fanned the Mazes, offi cials reported. Smoke jumpers at Walla Walla, Wash., were alerted for possible action. Numerous lightning strikes were reported in the Wallowa Lakes region east of La Grande. ALLSTATE PAYS UPT0s25F0R TOWIHG and emergency road side labor costs stop in or call today. DOUGLAS H. HINESLY and JOHN J. 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