iwo M
aid Existing in Caribbean
By MATT KENNY
UPI Correspondent
There is a cold war on in
the Caribbean, too. There are
two main, and distinct, areas
of tension.
One centers about the Do
minican Republianc. Pitted
against that nation's strong
men, Generalissimo Rafael L.
Trujillo, are his bitter politic
al foes in Cuba and Venezula
and, to a lesser extent, Puerto
Rico, who hope to end his 29
year "era of Trujillo."
The other involves Haiti, an
overwhelmingly Negro nation
and neighbor of the Dominican
Republic on the island of His
paniola. Political opponents of Presi
dent Francois Duvalier, in
power only 16 month', are
working in Cuba, the United
States, and secretly inside Hai
ti itself to topple his govern
ment, which they call "dic
tatorial" a charge he denies.
The Dominican Republic
and Haiti themselves officially
have good relations, having
signed a non-intervention pact
outlawing meddling in each
other's affairs only last Dec.
22.
Invasions Feared
Both the Trujillo and Duv
alier governments fear inva
sion attempts and have warn
ed that their respective enem
ies are planning such a move.
This correspondent, during
a just completed tour of the
area, found theVconsensus par
ticularly concerned about the
Dominican situation. There is
apprehension in many quart
ers, including the Dominican
government, about a blow-up
between Trujillo and Fidel
Castro in Cuba and president
Romulo Betancourt in Vene
zuela. Duvalier recently charged
that Haitian exiles in Cuba are
plotting an armed attack with
at least the tacit approval of
the Cuban government. Exile
leaders deny this.
An invasion of Haiti by only
eight men, five of whom were
Americans, took place last
summer and almost succeeded
in over-throwing the govern
ment.
The opposition to Trujillo
In Cuba and Venezuela is in
tense. But responsible quart
ers point out that the Trujillo
regime is strong militarily.
Unlike Haiti, the nation is in
good economic condition.
These two factors make at
tempts at revolution difficult
at best.
Nevertheless, Dominican ex-1
lies have taken heart at the
explusion of the Batista and
Perez Jimenez dictatorships in
Cuba and Venezuela respec
tively. Enemies of Trujillo
Both Castro in Cuba and
Betancourt in Venezuela dis
like Trujillo. Castro calls the
67-year-old Dominican ruler
"The Shame of the Carib
bean." Betancourt is probably
Trujillo's oldest, diehard op
ponent. If there is an invasion at
tempt against Trujillo, it will
require considerable planning,
men, arms and money.- But
many observers believe it
could come before the end of
the year.
Much depends on internal
developments in Cuba and
Venezuela, whose new govern
ments face serious economic
and political problems of their
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Public collections of "inva
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progress in both Cuba and
Venezuela, but particularly
the latter country, the main
center for Dominican exiles.
Fulgencio Batista has been
in Ciudad Trujillo since he
fled Havana Jan. 1. Demands
for his return as a "refugee
from justice" go unanswered
by the Dominican foreign ministry.
California Home of
Nixon Played Part
In Democrat Choice
Washington OJPD Highly
placed Democrats said Mon
day the fact that Los Angeles
is Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's home territory was
an important factor in the se
lection of that city for the
1960 Democratic national con
vention. It was an unspoken argu
ment during the almost four
hours of debate which preced
ed a 71 to 35 national commit-
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Griffin Creek Grange met
Feb. 25. Preceding the meet
ing Gerald Latham, Robert
Boyer and Jack Eaton, repre
senting the Jackson county
planning commission, ex
plained the purpose of the
proposed subdivision ordi
nance and its functions. Ques
tions were asked by the audi
ence following the talks.
During the business meet
ing a motion was made to
submit approval of the pro
posed ordinance to the plan
ning commission board.
The Grange accepted the
offer from the Eagle Point
Grange for trees and plans
were made to plant them in
the yard around the grange
building.
Lecturer Mrs. Clyde Stur
gill and Home Economics
club chairman, Mrs. Roy Le
Vander, were escorted to the
master's desk to receive
awards for reports sent in
during the past year.
The agricultural committee
will be in charge of the March
12 meeting.
The Earl Crofts and Lewis
Clarks were in charge of re
freshments. Tranquilizers May
Aid Hive Sufferers
Chicago-(Science Service)
People who suffer from
chronic hives may find relief
by taking tranquilizers. Pa
tients suffering from hives
that resulted from emotional
conflicts and physical irri
tants were given hydroxyzine
hydrochloride by mouth.
Among 50 patients, the tran
quilizer relieved itching and
hives in 32. The medication
did not cause undue drowsi
ness or impair mental alert
ness, Dr. ben C. Eisenberg of
the University of Southern
California Medical School re
ported to the American Med
ical Association here.
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Tension
Trujillo, who still runs the
country although his brother
Hector is president is taking
no chances on being surprised.
Reliable informants believe
the Dominican army has been
increased to 18,000 and pos
sibly 20,000 by a reported call
up of some 6,000 reserves. A
special Marine Corps, model
ed after that of the United
States, has been developed.
The Air Force and Navy are
also guarding against attack.
tee vote late Friday to put the
convention in Los Angeles.
But some of the Democrats
made it clear later that they
liked the idea of nominating
their presidential candidate in
the home town of Nixon,
whom they regard as the prob
able GOP nominee.
Nixon's home state of Cali
fornia was the setting for a
spectacular Democratic vic
tory in the 1958 elections
Backers of the Los Angeles
recommendation said the con
vention should be taken west
to recognize growing Demo
cratic power in that region.
Reject Two Others
Supporters of Chicago and
Philadelphia fought down to
the final roll call. They con
tended that Los Angeles
would mean heavy travel ex
penses for too many delegates
and that the three-hour time
lag behind the East Coast
would cut down on the tele
vision audience.
The national committee re
jected the Philadelphia bid by
a vote of 68 to 37 and Chicago
by voice vote. It then approv
ed the site committee choice
of Los Angeles by a vote of
71 to 35.
The contest was another in
direct challenge to the leader
ship of party chairman Paul
M. Butler, who supported the
site committee. Only the
south voted against him last
Dec. 6 when the committee
adopted a resolution praising
his leadership and his militant
stand on civil rights.
Lawrence Opposes Site
Most of the South opposed
the Los Angeles selection on
Friday but on that vote they
were lined up with such pow
erful northern Democrats as
Gov. David L. Lawrence of
Pennsylvania, J. M. Arvey of
Illinois and Carmine DiSapio
of New York. None of these
three is counted among But
ler's admirers.
The Democrats will con
vene July 11 in Los Angele's
new convention hall and
sports arena which seats 16,
700 persons.
Los Angeles put up a cash
bid of $350,000 for the con
vention. But county extras,
such as free headquarters
space, the bid was estimated
to be worth more than $750,
000 to the Democrats.
The Republican National
Committee has not yet picked
the site for the GOP conven
tion but is expected to choose
between Chicago and Phila
delphia within a month or so.
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TESTIFYING at murder
trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Dun
can in Ventura, Calif., Luis
Moya says he and pal killed
Mrs. Olga Duncan in $6,000
"slay for pay" deal.
Chain Stores Oppose
Fair Price on Fags
Salem-flJPD-Representatives
of two grocery chains Mon
day called a proposed fair
trade law for cigarettes as
price fixing.
The House State and Fed
eral Affairs Committee held
a hearing on a measure which
would prohibit sale of cigar
ettes at "less than cost." Of
ficials of Safeway Stores and
Fred Meyer opposed the bill
which was supported by to
bacco distributors.
There were about 65,000
automobiles manufactured in
1908. By 1940 that . number
could be produced by U. S.
plants in five days or less.
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What Will H appen To Berlin
Lifelines on Ultimatum Date?
Berlin - (UPD - What will
happen on the lifelines to iso
lated West Berlin May 27
when the Soviet six-month ul
timatum expires?
' No one knows for sure, but
all responsible diplomats be
lieve something is going to
happen. And' that "some
thing" could start World War
III.
Will East German Commu
nists armed with new control
powers refuse to pass Western
allied military traffic? Will
they make demands the
Americans, British and
French will not accept? Will
they attempt to interfere with
commercial air traffic into the
city?
Diplomats here believe
these questions have brought
the world closer to war than
it has been since the beginning
of the 1948 Berlin blockade.
In other recent East-West
crises, the United States and
the Soviet Union did not clash
directly. True, the danger of
war existed in the Quemoy
and Lebanon crises.
One Crucial Difference
But there was one great
difference between those
trouble spots and Berlin. No
soviet troops were committed
at Quemoy or Lebanon.
In East Germany, 300,000
Soviet troops stand ready to
go into action if the Soviets
consider East Germany's bor
ders violated.
The Soviets and East Ger
mans have not spelled out in
detail what they have in store
for the West on May 27.
On that date, the six-month
deadline set by the Soviets
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for conversion of West Berlin
into what they call a free, de
militarized city expires.
The Soviet plan calls for
the withdrawal of Western al
lied troops from West Berlin
and transfer to East Germany
of authority over Western al
lide military traffic through
the Soviet zone to West Ber
lin. Western diplomats have
been able to piece together
from Eastern statments the
plan's rough outline.
They have reached these
conclusions:
The Soviets will not use
force to attempt to get the
U.S., British and French gar
risons out of West Berlin.
There will be no imme-
Bill on Inmate
Costs Returned
Salem -4UPD- A bill advocat
ing a new method for de
termining costs for inmates
in mental institutions was re
turned to the Joint Ways and
Means Committee Monday for
further study.
Rep. Clarence Barton (D
Coquille) said there were sev
eral other bills dealing with
similar subjects in Ways and
Means now and they all
should be coordinated.
Rep. Keith Skelton (D-Eu-gene),
co-chairman of Ways
and Means, said there was a
need for some uniform sys
tem for determining costs for
all inmates and patients in
state institutions.
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diate blockade of vital Ger
man supply traffic to the city.
Any interference with
traffic at the beginning will
be confined to Western allied
traffic. But as time goes by
the Communists will institute
blockade measures against
the German civilian supply
traffic that keeps West Ber
lin alive.
' It is thought that at the be
ginning at least the East Ger
mans might merely insist on
the right to check Western
allied travel documents as the
Soviets already do.
However, the Western allies
do not recognize East Ger
many and they have said they
will not allow East Germans
at border checkpoints to con
trol Western allied traffic in
any way.
Such a stand could put the
western powers in a position
where they might appear to
be blockading themselves.
"Show us your papers and
you can go through," East
German guards might say on
May 27.
Could Push Through
-,The Western allies then
could either show their pap
ers, or refuse to go through
on such a basis and push
through East German border
controls instead.
Some diplomats think it
will be difficult to explain to
the world why it would be
considered necessary to break
through barriers that would
be raised if only papers were
shown.
Nevertheless, the whole
Berlin problem appears to re
volve around just this point.
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Four boys at Medford High
school were the victims of
locker room thefts Friday,
according to a report receiv
ed by Medford police from
Fred Spiegelberg, school foot
ball coach.
Spiegelberg told police that
Robert M. Swan, Jr., 1705
South Pacific highway, lost
a billfold containing uniden
tified items; Albert W. Lin
dermann, 128 Tripp st., lost
a dollar bill: William Alfred
Foust, 610 Experiment Sta
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containing personal papers;
and John Charles Shaw, 919
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