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53 rd Year MEDFORD Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1958 Pages 1 to 10 Gen. EDe GauMe Flayed Major Me On Uniting France IFoSlowing War Editor'! not: This ii the second f two dispatches by a veteran re porter of French affairs providing m clnseap of Gen. Charles de Gaulle as he prepares for his election on Sundav as president of France with nnprecedent powers. By ARTHUR HIGBEE Paris -H7D Last May 29 the highest personage of the French republic, President Rene Coty, stood before a palpitating chamber - full of deputies and invoked the name of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. There was a historic inevitability about it. The mobs were loose in the streets of Algiers, restive in the streets of Paris. Police leaves had been cancelled; the Champs-Elysees was an armed camp. Rumors of para troopers dropping from the skies flew thickly. Choice for France For the National Assembly and for France the choice was between, on the one hand, revolution, anarchy or dicta torship possibly all three or the one man whose integri ty nobody questioned, how ever much they might ques tion his politics: De Gaulle. The assembly gratefully chose De Gaulle and the na tion ratified this choice months later, in De Gaulle's constitutional referendum of Sept. 28, 1957, by an 80 per cent vote for him. Yet 18 years earlier when De Gaulle broadcast his ap peal to a' prostrate France on June 18, 1940, few French men had ever heard of him. "This war is not over with the battle of France," De Gaulle said then. "This war is a world war." An anonymous but wide awake publicist later changed this to "France has lost a battle; she has not lost the war." Frenchmen Arise De Gaulle went, on, "every Frenchman who still bears arms has the absolute duty of continuing resistance. Sol diers of France, wherever you are, arise!" Frenchmen did arise, first by the dozens, later by the hundreds of thousands. It was slow going at first. De Gaulle not only had no official bless ing from Paris; within the month the Petain government had stripped him of his French citizenship and con demned him In absentia to death. But the same month Brit ish Prime Minister Winston Churchill recognize d.De Gaulle's free France. De Gaulle had his troubles. Having tried and failed to win other French administra tors and military command ers around the French em pire to his cause, he insisted on forming a full-fledged free French government. He won though, with his single - mindedness, his ob stinacy, and the fact that he was the only French leader of stature who at that moment wanted to fight on. InevitaDiy there were clashes with Churchill, who later made his famous re mark: "Of all the crosses I had to bear, the heaviest was the Cross of Lorraine." De Gaulle returned to lib erated French soil a week after D-day, 1944. On Aug. 25, he marched down the Champs-Elysees to delirious cheers and attended a Thanks giving Mass in Notre Dame Cathedral. German snipers were still about; shots crashed within the cathedral. Others ducked but De Gaulle stood erect. He was at the head of the provisional government. On Nov. 30, 1945, the con stituent assembly confirmed De Gaulle as premier by a unanimous 555-0 vote. But the honeymoon was nearly over. The following month the Communists were condemn- Accordion Students At Chin Up Party Students of the Muzzioli School of the Accordion will entertain at the Chin Up club Christmas party tonight, it has been" announced by George Distell, entertainment chairman. The program will feature Sharon Roberts, 1957 over-all winner In the Dis-.j abled American Veterans tal ent contest. Families of members and special guests will be honored at the meeting, club officers said. ing De Gaulle for his refusal to entrust them with the de cisive cabinet posts: Foreign Affairs, defense, interior. The Socialists opposed him over the size of the defense budget. Other parties were chafing at De Gaulle's impa tience with parliamentary procedure. De Gaulle was more than impatient. He admitted later that he had considered and rejected - a coup d'etat. In December he' told the shocked deputies, "This will undoubt edly be the last time I will speak in this chamber. There fore I want to tell you now: If you do not respect the nec essary conditions for respon sible and dignified govern ment, you are heading for a time when you will bitterly Missing Family Report Checked Portland-flJPD-Sheriff's offi cers checked out a report to day that the missing Ken Martin family of Portland may have plunged over a cliff at Crown Point overlooking the Columbia gorge. Martin, his wife, and their three daughters vanished Dec 7 after they went to get a Christmas tree. Evidence found at Crown Point indicated a car may have gone over the cliff there, Sheriff's deputies searched until dark Thursday. Deputies explained that many wrecked automobiles lie at the foot of the cliff and air searches failed to disclose any new wreckage. Medford Youth Lodged In Jail A 17 - year - old Medford youth was lodged in county jail Wednesday, awaiting ac tion by juvenile authorities on a burglary charge, Med ford police reported. The youth, - reportedly- on parole from MacLaren school, was arrested by city police in connection with breaking and entering the Coca-Cola Bot tling company, 600 North Grape st., last Thursday. f p"4 &jkter. miMer x , I I ' A feu " i . 100 PROOF, A great moment in Kentucky bourbon his tory is here ! 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But Frenchmen did not for get De Gaulle. And with the degeneration of democracy into a political game, they re membered his warning to the deputies: "You are heading for a time when you will bit terly regret the path you have chosen." On April 7, 1947, he cre ated his "rally of the French people." The party had a great ini tial success. But it was not enough to bring De Gaulle back to power. The party be gan to splinter. In May, 1953, after heavy losses in the mu nicipal elections, De Gaulle set his party at liberty and retired from politics, but not from other activity. His return to power was characteristically dramatic. The morning after May 13, 1958, Frenchmen awoke to find that settlers and soldiers in Algiers had carried out a bloodless mutiny to demon strate their fears of a French giveaway of Algeria. They were defying the authority of Paris and demanding the re turn of De Gaulle. The mutiny jumped to Cor sica and threatened to spread to France itself. On May 19 De Gaulle came to Paris and at a press con ference surrounded by the greatest security precautions that security - conscious Paris had ever seen, announced, "if the people want it, as in the preceding national crisis, I am ready to take the leader ship ..." Returns To Chamber On June 1, 1958, De Gaulle returned to the chamber he had so abruptly walked out of 12 years before. De Gaulle appealed to the Moslem rebels to lay down their arms and help build a better Algeria - an appeal that went unheeded, if not unheard. But hope was rediscovered in Algeria. " ' And order was restored in France, notably with the ref erendum of Sept. 28, 1958, which brought De Gaulle's long dreamed-of strong execu tive constitution and the fifth French republic -into effect. In the campaign for the Nov. 23 - 30 parliamentary elections, the chief issue among the candidates was who favored De Gaulle most. The Communists suffered their first postwar defeat. jjl' 'ys .pJ ! - fc "' V V Jl. gl "DON'T SHOOT" Philbert Stevens, 18, was trapped in a Los Angeles liquor store after he and his accomplice triggered a burglar alarm. Here he has just been com manded "Hands up!" by the photographer who shot this picture. . Springfield Woman To Miss Christmas at Home For Good Samaritan Role Springfield, Ore. -(UPD- A Springfield woman will miss Christmas at home for the first time in 53 years of mar ried life to help out an elderly lady from Boston who only a few days ago was a perfect stranger. Mrs. F. M. Clow was en route to Boston by train today with Louise L. Hilpert, 76, who came west to visit rela tives but found they had gone on a trip. They were due in Boston Saturday where they will be met by a niece of the Boston woman, Mrs. George A. Mc Laughlin of Edgewood, R.I. Mrs. Clow's husband, 70, is a retired railroad employee. When he arrived here by train from a trip to San Francisco recently the conductor called his attention to Mrs. Hilpert whom he said was ill. When no one met the woman, Clow talked to her and he and his wife took her to the address she had given. Neighbors said the woman's relatives had left on a trip and would be gone several weeks. The Clows took her into their home and called their doctor who recommended she be hospitalized. She was re leased from the hospital this week. They talked several times on the telephone to the niece in Rhode Island and the niece said she would be glad to care for Mrs. Hilpert but had no way to come and get her. Mrs. Clow then decided she would go with the woman to Boston. They left by train Tuesday and are scheduled to arrive in Boston at 10:30 a.m. Saturday where Mrs. McLoughlin will meet them. Clow, who remained be hind, said "we felt we were only doing what we should." 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