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A "minor tremor" rock Hew Tremor Shakes Yugoslav City During Tito's Inspection NW Lumber Strike May Spread Alter Union Board Meet Portland - (UPD - The pos sibility of more men being idled In the current North west lumber dispute loomed high Saturday as members of the International Wood ' workers of America made plans for their regional ad visory board meeting here to- day. Dick Gillman, public rela tions official for the organiza tion, has announced board members will decide which firms will be struck next. Some 27,000 workers have already been laid off since the union - management dispute over expired contracts broke out last month. The strike is now in its 52nd day. The latest development in the dispute occurred Friday when operations of Pope and Talbot, Inc., were struck in Oregon and Washington by the IWA and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers union.' The union action followed a break in negotiations with the Timber Operators coun cil, of which Pope and Talbot is a member. Talks with the group ended Thursday with union officials demanding a wage increase of 33 V4 cents over a three - year period and management offering a 26 cent hourly increase. FREEMAN FLIES Moscow - (UPD - Secretary of Agriculture Orville Free man flew Saturday from Kiev to Minsk, Moscow radio re ported. Freeman spent three days in Kiev visiting collec tive and stale farms and ex perimental and scientific re search establishments, the ra dio said. NEWS(BftlEFS niMI FROM JUT AII0UND TOI 0l0M PAIR ESCAPES EAST BERLIN Berlin - UPP - A hol-rodding South American ipad under Communist barriers in a low tlung car lo fret hit East Berlin girl friend in tht second such escape of the year. West Berlin police disclosed Saturday. RED PREMIER PUSHES PEACE OFFENSIVE stcow - aPt - Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, armed with fresh backing from his East European allies, Saturday pushed hit "peace offensive" toward the West in the wake of the partial nuclear test ban agreement. ITALIAN REDS REJECT CHINESE STAND Rome - H'-W - Italian Communists Saturday harshly rejected the Chinese (land in the Sino-Soviel ideological split as "abiurb and condemnable . . . dogmatic and ex tremistic." UAR AIRLINER REPORTED MISSING Bombay - ilPP - A United Arab Airlines comet jet liner with 60 persons aboard win reported mining Sat urday when it failed to arrive as scheduled tt Bombay's Santa Cruf Airport from Bangkok. U.S. Scorns Charge of In Ransom Washington - (UPD - The United States Saturday re jected as "completely without foundation" Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's charge that he was swindled out oi $iu million worth of supplies in the ransom deal for the Bay of Pigs prisoners. The State Department said Canadian and U.S. banks, which issued a letter of credit guaranteeing delivery of $53 million in medical supplies and other goods, reported some time ago that the Amer ican Red Cross had fully met that commitment. "Castro should check his facts more carefully," the de partment said in a statement which was read to newsmen by Press Officer Richard I. Phillips. State CD Agency To Request Funds Salem - (UPD - The Oregon Civil Defense Agency will ask the Slate Emergency Board for $46,110 next Friday. At Its meeting last week the agency's advisory coun cil decided to seek enough money to hire three more employees. Addirii the three employ ees could make the state eli gible for federal matching funds which would mean an additional six persons on the state staff. The recent legislature slash ed the Civil Defense staff from 18 to three and the fed eral government refused to provide any matching funds for employees. ed the center of the city Saturday as President Josip Broz Tito began an inspection tour. (UPI) Castro Swindle Exchange It said that July 3, when the Red Cross announced com pletion of delivery, "the Cu ban Red Cross thanked the American Red Cross for the fine way it had completed its miss-ion. , ' ' That statement was made, according to officials, by the head of the Cuban Red Cross, Gilberto , Cervantes, at a meeting of American Red Cross representatives work ing in Cuba. Not Official The ransom deal, under which 1,113 prisoners of the ill-fated April 1961 invasion attempt were released and brought to the United Slates, was approved by the U. S. government but it was not an official undertaking. It was carried out by the Red Cross working with the coop eration and assistance of a number of American officials, including Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and U. S. business leaders. Castro, in a fire-eating speech Friday on the tenth anniversary of the beginning of his revolutionary move ment, asserted that the U. S. government had prevented the Red Cross and attorney James B. Donovan of New York, who negotiated the prisoner release, "from ful filling the agreement with us 100 per cent." Rocky Urges New Foreign Aid Plan Monte Rio, Calif. - l'PD -New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller Saturday urged the gradual replacement of the U.S. foreign aid program with more American private enterprise abroad. Rockefeller said the exten sion of private capital around the world could serve as a substitute for the official for eign aid program. He made the remark in an informal talk to members and guests of the Bohemian club annual encampment. The two week long en campment, which concludes today, is reserved for men only and features a talk ev ery day by a leader in the field of business, education, science, art or government. About 1,700 persons- heard Rockefellers talk. Members and guests who left the en campment last night said the New York governor also touched on the subjects of ra cial discrimination, the cur rent railroad dispute and the Venezuelan political situation. They said the 40-minute ad dress was non-controversial in nature, in accordance with the club's rules. V Thousands Feared Still Buried By First Earthquake Skopje, Yugoslavia - IUPD -A new tremor rocked earth quake - devastated Skopje Saturday as U.S. Air Force planes launched a massive mercy airlift and President Tito inspected the rubble of this once busy "model city" in which thousands of per sons were feared buried. Rescue center officials said that by nightfall about 1,000 bodies had been pulled from the rubble and "several thou sand" were known injured. The officials said the death toll would reach at least 2, 000 but there were fears that additional thousands may have been killed in the quake that destroyed about 80 per cent of the Macedonian cap ital that was to have been the showplace of Yugoslav Communism. An estimated 100,000 per sons were made homeless. Train Missing In Munich, Germany, Wesl German railway officials dis closed that the Crack Hellas express train loaded with hun dreds of vacationing foreign tourists was missing in the earthquake zone. They said the Athens - to - Dortmund train was due in Skopje's main station when the quake struck. The cries and shrieks of trapped persons were heard under debris of the heavily damaged railway station Sat urday and teams of rescuers struggled to reach the buried victims. Saturday's new shock was described as "minor." It fail ed to ruffle Tito, who never flinched as the earth wabbled under him as he toured the ruined main square that bears his name in this city of 200, oon. Yugoslav officials announc ed the U.S. Air Force had launched a major mercy air life to bring aid to the shat tered town. They said 27 U.S. Air Force transports were starting to arrive at Belgrade airport at 30-minute intervals, Sight Loss Suffered By Eclipse Watcher Terre Haute, Ind. - (UPD -Authorities said Saturday a man suffered partial loss of sight from watching the eclipse with the naked eye last Saturday. Dr. Don Connor Jr. examin ed the man. He said the vic tim suffered about 30 per cent loss of vision. The victim, who asked not lo be identified, looked at the eclipse for about 10 seconds. He said he heard the warn ings on radio and television and read them in the news papers, but "1 wanted to try it anyway." 1 Pentagon Ruling Draws Hot protest From Southerners Thurmond Levels Blackmail Charge Washington - (UPD - A new Pentagon policy of declaring communities off limits in case of serious racial discrimina tion drew angry protests Sat urday from some southerners. Sen. Strom Thurmond (D- S.C.) accused the administra tion of "economic blackmail in its rawest form." Mississip pi Gov. Ross Barnett said that 'if we don't just bow to them, then we're off limits." Some other southern offi cials did not seem disturbed. They predicted little use of the order because of recent progress in desegregating communities near military es tablishments. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, authorized mil itary base commanders Friday to place entire communities off limits to protect nearly a quarter of a million Negro servicemen and their depend ents from off-base discrimina tion. The criterion would be "re lentless discrimination," or "those places or communities which would continue to prac tice discrimination regardless of the situation," the Penta gon said. Base commanders could not use the off-limits device without permission of their service chiefs. Thurmond, a member of the Senate Armed Services com mittee, said the order would be detrimental to the local economy, individual service men and their families, and the entire defense program." The American people will not accept government black mail and coercion, Thurmond added. And military com manders will resent the order, he said, because their mission is the nation's defense "rather than creation of domestic tur- moil and strife by engaging themselves in sociological and political activities at the be hest of a power-mad adminis tration." Thurmond said South Caro lina mayors, for example, re ported "excellent" race rela tions and growing business de segregation In their commu nities near Camp LeJeune Marine base and Cherry Point Marine air station. Kennedy Speech on Treaty Is Praised Washington - IUPD - Senate Democratic leader Mike Mans field of Monlana led a round of general congressional praise Saturday for President Ken nedy's speech on the partial nuclear test ban treaty, term ing it a "gamble worth the effort." The President's talk was seen as the beginning of in tensive administration efforts to insure Senate ratification of the pact. Although it was warmly praised by many law makers in both parties, some still voiced doubts. Mansfield, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee which will act on the treaty, said the President's "very good" speech pointed out that the agreement "rep resents a breakthrough in the cold war and could, if prop erly observed by both sides, be the first break in the clouds in many years." He warned that "it would be wrong lo make loo much of this agreement." But, he said, "Even more, It would be wrong to make too little of it." Bridge Collapses During Golf Play Mount Clemens. Mich. -A 140-foot wood and metal i bridge at the Hillcrest Coun try ciun, scene oi me wom en's Wolverine Open Golf tournament, collapsed Satur day plummeting 80 persons Into the Clinton river. Ecstimatcs of the injured ranged from 34 to 50 persons. The Macomb county sher iff's office said 34 had been injured while St. Joseph hos pital in Mount Clemens said it had treated 35 persons and Mount Clemens General hos pital said it had treated 15. At least eight persons were admitted to the hospitals. Play in the golf tournment Saturday was cancelled and all scores were erased. Tour nament director Richard Grif fin said the players had agreed to play 16 holes today and 16 holes Monday to complete the match for a total of 50 holes. Harriman Reports to Rusk on Test Ian Treatv lit I ill ttlieaeal IIBMaaBeMBaaaaaBeMBeaaaaaerau,.lb aLeaMeBKeaaaaaeBBeweaaaMBMav 1 JjSlti BaBBBBaaaMeBaBeMaaaaBBBaBBBBBBaM REPORTS ON TREATY - President Ken nedy is shown with W. Averill Harriman (left) and Secretary of State Dean Rusk as they met at the chief executive's vacation Communications Satellite Speeds To Final Orbit Cape Canaveral -IUPD -Amer ica's new Syncom-2 commu nications satellite sang anoth er chorus of "The Star-Span gled Banner" to earth Satur day and sped toward a final resting place in a unique hanging orbil. Jubilant scientists said they would begin "fine-tuning" the satellite's orbil this week end, to match the forward speed of Syncom-2 with earth a rota tion speed. When the corrections are finished, ,- probably late this week,' the 86-pound satellite will appear to hang virtually in one . spot in the sky - an ever-present target for radio, telephone, teletype and fac simile . communications be tween stations on earth. The success of Syncom-2 may herald a day when as few as three communications sat ellite's in similar hanging, or 24-hour, orbits could blanket the world with instantaneous radio and television commu nications. Scientists had to forego any television tests with the tiny Syncom-2. There was not enough, room aboard the moonlct for the necessary gear. But the experts were pleas ed with whal they were gel ling with radio and teletype tests. Early Saturday, the first series of experiments were completed with a laboratory ship, the USNS Kingsport at anchor in Lagos harbor, Ni geria, beamed a tape trans mission to Syncom-2. The tape carried voice re ports and music, including The Star-Spangled Banner.1 Syncom-2 caught the signals, amplified them and shot them back to the ship. Record Rain Floods Buildings in Tulsa Tulsa, Okla. - (UPD The hardest rain in Tulsa's record ed history flooded scores of homes and businesses Satur day and stranded hundreds of motorists, There were no deaths reported from Ihe vi olent weather. An even 8 inches of rain fell in four hours, breaking the previous record of 7.3 Inches in a 24-hour period set in 1943. The U.S. Weather Bureau said more heavy rains were in store for Tulsa al though skies cleared in late afternoon. Civil Defense Director John F. Wilson said 25 to 30 fami lies had been evacuated from their homes, mostly in West Tulsa. He said he had no way of knowing the total number of persons rescued from their homes by boats. County and city police and fire agencies called in off duty personnel to help In res cue operations. The police de partment asked all boat own ers to contact civil defense to help in evacuation of the flooded homes and businesses 6 house on Squaw Island near Hyannis Port, Mass., Saturday. Harriman reported to President Kennedy and Rusk on the nu clear test ban treaty. (UPI) Rail Union Urges Congress To Take Watchdog Role Washington -IUPD- A rail road union" leader Saturday urged Congress to assume a watchdog role in negotiations with the carriers to settle their four-year-old work rules dispute and prevent a threat ened nationwide strike. H. E. Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen and Enginemen, told a special Saturday sessioq, of the Senate Commerce com mittee that such action would give the negotiations a need ed "shot in the arm." After a similar presentation by officials of the Engineers' union Friday, Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirlz called the parties together for a two- hour bargaining session. Wirtz scheduled another session (for 3 p.m. edt) after Saturday' committee meeting and announced that such ses sions would be held In the future whenever Senate and House committees are not meeting. Gilbert opposed President Army Division To Be Flown To Europe Washington - IUPD - The De fense Department is planning to fly an entire army division - about 15,000 troops - to Germany later this year In a dramatic demonstration of its jet age ability to "get there first with the most." A major implication of the mass move is that It may point the way for America to reduce its permanent gar rison in Germany at some future time and rely on high speed air lifts for quick rein forcement in emergencies. Joint Chiefs of Staffs plan ners believe the massive air lift can be carried out in only three or four days, constitu ting a unique training exer cise for the army and ulr force. , The schedule would call for a jet transport depar ture every 30 to 40 minutes. Teenager Battles 800-Pound Jewfish For 35 Hours Before It Gets Away Cocoa Beach. Fla. -IUPD-There were an estimated 10,000 witnesses to the one that got away from 13-ycar-old fisherman Mike Doug las Friday night. After battling an 800 pound Jewfish for more than 35 hours, Mike lost the big fish about 11:35 p.m.. est, when the youth's fishing line snapped. Mike took his loss gra ciously. "I'll get him again someday," he said. Homemade Rig The youth had hooked the fish around 3 p.m., est, Thursday with a homemade rig and bream for bait. "I'm going to keep on fighting it until I land It -or collapse," he said. "I rest Leader Kennedy's proposal, under consideration by the commit tee, to turn the dispute over lo the Interstate Commerce commission (ICC). He said the plan amounted to compulsory arbitration, even If its sup porters might regard it "Just a little bit" of compul sory arbitration, Gilbert proposed Instead that bargaining sessions be tween railroad management and the five operating unions proceed under "congressional direction and observation." He said Congress might as sign a joint committee to tide herd on the sessions and make periodic reports on the atti tudes of the parties "and their conduct of good failh." Gilbert endorsed legisla tion, proposed by AFL-CIO President George Meany, to prevent a rail shutdown indef initely while a special con gressional committee keeps an eye on the bargaining. "Then Congress and the public will see who's bargain ing and who isn't, and we'll settle this dispute without a strike or further legislation," Gilbert said in an interview, He said the only solution would be found in collective bargaining. Earlier mediation efforts were not worthy of praise, he said, but recent bargaining sessions held by Wirtz have been fruitful. Elkton Man Killed In Two-Car Crash Eugene -IUPD- Fred Dickin son, 53, Elkton, was killed and three Massachustts resi dents were injured in a two car collision on Stale High way 58 near Odcll Lake southeast of here Friday morning. State police said Dickin son's car failed to make a curve on the highway and collided with a car driven by H. Alden Bunker, 27, Lenox Mass. Dickinson was alone In his car. when the Jewfish rests, but I wonder who is going to give out first." The manager of the Pat rick Air Force Base pier, where Mike latched onto the huge fish, said about 10,000 people had congre gated around the pier ts shout encouragement to the young angler. Several Divers After the battle had been going on about four hours, several divers went down to see what the boy had caught. Mike's father, Lt. Col. William K. Douglas, brought his son food and soft drinks during the long struggle. Douglas, former doctor JFK nvoy Describes Pact To Nation As 'Good Treaty' Khrushchev Letter Given to Kennedy Hyannis Port, Mass. -(UPIU Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman told the nation Saturday the nuclear test ban pact just initialed in Moscow "is a good treaty" that will not prevent the use of atomic weapons in event of war.. Harriman held a televised news conference after report ing personally to President Kennedy , and Secretary of State Dean Rusk on U. S.British-Russian talks that led to conclusion of the pact which would ban all except underground nuclear tests. During his 90-minute con ference with the President and Rusk, he delivered a per sonal message from Soviet Premier . Nikita Khrushchev described as "very friendly." Harriman said the treaty probably was a "very impor tant step" toward a possible thawing of the cold war. It carries out what wa have1 wanted to do for a good many years," he said. He add ed! that -the- treaty was "a first step of Importance in the attempts we have been making for a good many years to try and make a beginning of the control of nuclear weap ons." The V, S. negotiator also -ventured an opinion on why Khrushchev hc reversed pre vious Soviet opposition to such a partial treaty. "I think it is fairly clear that Mr, Khrushchev wanted to show the (Communist) Chi nese that his policy of co existence could present soma results," Harriman said. Harriman said the agree ment had caused "real rejoic ing" throughout Europe and among the Russian people. "The Russian people dread war and they are ready to see progress made - anything" a step closer to the peace they crave," he said. Rusk and Harriman later flew to Washington. On their arrival at Andrews Air Force base In nearby Maryland, Rusk said he hoped the treaty would be the first step toward other "cold war negotiations with Russia." nusk praised Harriman as a "cool negotiat or" and said he was pleased with the job Harriman had done in Moscow. Rusk plans to fly to Moscow next week with a bipartisan congressional delegation for formal signing of the treaty. Harriman is to appeat Mon day for closed-door question ing by the Senate Foreign Re lations committee, which will consider the treaty first in Senate debate on ratification. At Hyannis Port, Harriman refused to go into much de tail on other matters discussed by the negotiators. Nor did he give any new enlighten ment on his private conversa tion with Khrushchev Friday which presumably dealt with further steps that might ba taken to ease East-West ten sions. for the nation's first seven astronauts, said Mike had been relieved at the pole only long enough for "the necessities of life." Fish Rested Mike slept for about an hour Thursday night while the fish rested, and took several short naps Friday night. He made the fishing rig, a nine-foot pole with 63 pound test line, to catch sharks. "I sure didn't count on this," he said. By Thursday night, the crowd around the pier on U. S. Highway 1 got so large highway patrolmen had to be called In to keep traffic moving.
