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Divided Berlin Has
Different May Day
Demonstrations
Berlin - (CPO - Divided Ber
lin held rival May Day
demonstrations today.
Goose-stepping Communist
troops paraded in East Berlin
at a rally held to demand the
Western allies leave the city.
A mile away in West Ber
lin hundreds of thousands of
West Berliners gathered at
the Platz Der Republic to
show their determination to
remain free. They heard an
American pledge to stand by
them.
Contrast Shown
The two rallies showed the
contrast between East and
West Berlin. One was a peace
ful demonstration by people
who attended voluntarily. The
Communist rally was a mili
tary display which East Ger
mans were forced to attend.
The appearance of the well
disciplined Communist
soldiers was seen as a sign of
the danger West Berlin would
face if the Soviet plan is
adopted to make West Berlin
a so-called demilitarized "free
city."
Such a move would place
West Berlin at the mercy of
' these 110,000 troops, and th
i 300,000 Soviet troops in sur
rounding territory, Western
officials said.
Guns in Parade
Communist infantry, air
men and sailors marched for
30 minutes past a reviewing
stand holding Chinese
Communist Defense Minister
Peng Te-huai and East Ger
man Communist leader Walter
Ulbricht. Mobile anti-tank
guns, amphibious vehicles,
armed cars and mobile anti
aircraft guns were in the pa
rade.
A Communist announcer
said the ' anti-tank guns "will
protect our air space against
encroachments." The United
States and Russia are now
embroiled in a dispute over
high-level U.S. flights to Ber
lin. Said Flagrant Violation
Western officials denounc
ed the parade as a flagrant
violation of four-power laws
banning such military demon
strations in Berlin.
Walter Reuther, president
of the United Auto Workers
Union, told the people of West
Berlin the American people
stand firmly with them in de
fense of "our common free
dom."
Reuther, in a German lan
guage speech, said Berlin was
the testing ground for free
dom of all peoples being chal
lenged by Soviet tyranny.
LESSON FOR AMATEURS
Chatham, England (UPD - A
do-it-yourself tenant in a pub
lic housing project figured
he'd save quite a bit by sweep
ing his own chimney. It cost
him $14.60 - the wages of
four men required to retrieve
the brush he lost in the flue.
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Egg Producers
Caught in Worst
Plight Since 1937
Washington --(UPD- American
consumers are enjoying cheap
eggs. But egg producers are
caught in their worst depres
sion since the 1930s. .
Some poultrymen are so
desperate they have come to
Washington to demand gov
ernment action to boost egg
prices and save them from
bankruptcy.
Lowest Since 1937
A price report issued at
the Agriculture Department
Thursday gave these statis
tics: Farmers in mid-April
averaged 28.1 cents a dozen
for eggs. That's a drop of 10.4
cents, or 27 per cent, from
a year ago. Measured against
feed costs, egg prices were
the lowest on record for April
except in 1937.
What this means, in human
problems-was related by poul
try farmers to a House Agri
culture subcommittee Thurs
day at the start of a two-day
inquiry into depressed broil
er and egg prices. Almost 200
poultry farmers, mostly from
New Jersey, showed up to
testify and listen.
The farmers' proposals in
cluded (1) expanded govern
ment buying of eggs: (2) gov
ernment purchase and slaugh
ter of hens to reduce produc
tion; and (3) government pro
duction controls with a guar
anteed fair price.
Little Hope for Action
They got little hope for
drastic government action
from Hermon I. Miller, Agri
culture Department poultry
chief. Some farmers groaned
at his testimony and applaud
ed needling "questions asked
by Democrats.
, Miller said outlets for gov
ernment purchases of eggs
were limited. The government
already has bought 36 million
dozen in dried form since Oc
tober and is still buying.
Government purchase and
slaughter of 15 million hens
wouldn't even cut production
to last year's level, he said,
and what would the govfarn-
ment do with the poultry
meat?
DISDAINS ROCKING CHAIR
Montreal - (DTD - D. A. (Bud)
Raymond, 66, retired after 47
years with a telegraph com
pany and said he can hardly
wait to get back to the hobby
he abandoned several years
ago because he was too busy.
It's mountain climbing.
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IN PARIS Secretary of State Christian Herter waves
on his arrival in Paris to confer with President de Gaulle
in advance of the meeting with Russia at Geneva. Herter
said he is confident that the Western powers will go to
the May 11 Geneva conference with unity and firmness
of purpose. At right is U.S. Ambassador to France Amory
Houghton.
Pensions Major
Block in Talks
On Rubber Strike
Akron, Ohio -(DPD-v Pessi
mism was the prevailing note
today as negotiations contin
ued in efforts to solve con
tract disputes which idle 59,-
000 employees of .the B. F.
Goodrich, Firestone .Tire and
Rubber Co. and the U. S. Rub
ber Co.
Z. S. Buckmaster, president
of the United Rubber Work
ers Union, said that pensions
are the common major block
in the talks with Firestone in
Cleveland, Goodrich in Can
ton, Ohio, and U. S. Rubber
Co. in New York.
Pensions, insurance, work
ing conditions and supple
mental unemployment bene
fits are involved in the dis
cussions. Wages are a separate
issue to be discussed late this
summer.
"A long as they (the com
panies) act like, they have
been acting, I can't see any
settlement," said Buckmaster.
"All three have indicated they,
will settle on basically the
same contract we signed with
Goodyear. That is not accept
able to us."
Buckmaster explained that
the URW was rejecting settle
ment on the Goodyear pattern
because of variations in con
ditions involved with other
companies.
Company spokesmen report
ed that inventories of tires
and rubber gopds were still
holding up well.
Guilty Man's Kin
Found in Contempt
- Portland - (DPD -" An ex
Marine was found in contempt
of court Thursday for threat
ening witnesses after a Fed
eral Court jury last month re
turned a guilty bank robbery
verdict against his brother-in-law.
: Federal Judge GUs Solomon
set June 15 for sentencing
John Goss Jr., and continued
him on $100 bail.
George Juba, assistant U. S.
attorney, said witnesses heard
Goss approach three women
bank employees and make
threatening gestures after a
jury returned a verdict of
guilty against Albert Clement
for the holdup 0f the Hills
dale branch of the Multnomah
bank last December. The
women testified against Cle
ments. .
Deep Hole in Yard
Puzzles Couple
Alhambra, Calif .- (UPD -Mrs.
William Meyers found what
she thought was a small hole
in the backyard of the home
Thursday where she and her
husband and daughter Denise
have lived for five years.
She poked a stick into the
hole and the stick fell away.
She dropped stones into the
hole, but it didn't' seem as
though they ever hit bottom.
A police, crew finally drop
ped a fishing line with a sink
er attached down the.hole'. . .
10 feet, 50feet,75feet It final
ly hit bottom at 109 feet.
Mrs. Meyers and her hus
band say they don't have the
slightest idea of what the hole
was once used for but they
intend to lock up the yard
until they fill the hole up.
SPORTSMAN DIES
Mobile, Ala. - (UPD - Frank
Lewis Leatherbury, 57, noted
sportsman and shipping exe
cutive, died Wednesday.
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U.S. To Attempt
To Retrieve Mice
Sent Info Orbit
Vandenberg AFB, Calif. -(UPD-A
colony of black mice,
specially - bred to withstand
the rigors of space travel, will
arrive here within two weeks
for the first U.S. effort to
place animals into orbit in an
earth satellite and recover
them alive.
United Press International
learned that four of the sturdy
mice will be inside the Dis
coverer III satellite when it is
blasted into orbit'1 sometime
after the middle of the month
from this West Coast missile
base about 170 miles north of
Los Angeles. .
To Snag Capsule
The Air Force will attempt
to recover the animals alive
when they are ejected from
the satellite in a space cap
sule similar to the one ejected'
last month by Discovered n.
That capsule was never
found.
Attempts will be made to
snag the mice-containing cap
sule in midair over the Pa
cific Ocean somewhere' near
Hawaii by airplanes equipped
with large net-like , fixtures
trailing behind them.
The mice will ride back to
earth in a 35-pound capsule
about two by three feet in
dimension dangling from a
parachute, and are expected
to provide important informa
tion on hazards man will face
when he invades space..
Bred as Special Strain
The mice-a dozen or more
-will be flown here from Hol
loman Air Force Base, N.M.,
where they were bred as a
special strain.
They have been conditioned
to, withstand the tremendous
forces exerted by gravity dur
ing the high-speed launching
of a rocket and to quickly ad
just to new situations.
The U.S. previously blasted
into space four animals-three
mice and a monkey. All perished.
Roads Department
Finishes Grading
County roads department
crews 'have completed grad
ing Evans creek rd. near the
junction of Meadows rd., ac
cording to Paul Rynning,
county engineer. He reported
that grading was also com
pleted on the West Evans
creek rd. section near Maze
creek.
Some equipment has been
moved to Hiatt rd. in the
Howard-Prairie section, Rynn
ing said, but wet weather has
stopped any work in that area.
A small bridge ons Reese
Creek rd. over Hog creek in
the Eagle Point area had been
completed and work is under
way on a 63-foot wooden span
bridge over Yale creek off
Little Applegate, the engineer
explained. '
Postman's Good Deed
Turns Into Trtuble
Denver (UPD Warren A.
Adams, a postman, tried to do
a good turn Thursday.,
He picked up a baseball
that got away from two high
school boys playing catch. He
threw it. The boys ducked.
The ball smashed a plate glass
window in George, W.
Rucker's drug store.
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