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By FRANK JENKINS
As these words are written, ad
journment of congress so that Its
members may go home and start
campaigning appears to be only a
matter of hours. Democratic Sen
ate Leader Lyndon Johnson of
Texas has Just touched the cam'
paign off with the statement that
the Democratic party will light the
November election battle on the
main Issues of the Republican ad
ministration's tax, farm, labor.
power and business policies. These
policies will be attacked by the
Democrats.
Within a few days. President Ei
senhower will make a speech in
which he will defend the policies
of his party and the record of his
administration.
The campaign will then be on,
It Is noteworthy, I think, that In
listing the Issues of this quite im
portant campaign Senator Johnson
omitted foreign policy. 1 hope he
did so Intentionally. Our country
faces a grave and serious foreign
situation. Many mistakes have
been made. Neither party can
charge the other Justly with s mo
nopoly ol the mistakes. The respon
sibility for them will have to be
shared.
The possibilities of the future are
so serious that we shall need the
best brains we have if we are to
' meet and resolve the problems that
are piling up. So far as foreign
policy is concerned, we mustn t say
in the future that Republican
brains are good and Democratic
brains are bad or vice versa. If
we are to survive, we must use
the best brains we have, regard
less of political labels, in our hand
ling of our foreign affairs.
We must learn the all-important
technique of WORKINO TOGETH-
ER in matters of foreign policy.
no matter how sharply we may
divide on domestic issues.
Domestic issues are another ket
tle of fish. There will be plenty
of differences there. There will be
sharp cleavage lines between con
trasting philosophies of government
and economics.
The Democrats will be for going
back to the philosophies of the New
Deal Big Government, big spend
ing, rising public debt, rising in
flation. They will be strongly for
public power. In its upper echelons,
the political campaign in Oregon
already revolves around Hell's can
yonwhich is in IDAHO. The Dem
ocrats will favor more government
in business, rather than less.
The Republicans, backing the
middle-of-the-road philosophy of
President Eisenhower, will favor
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more . manageable :sise,-. -bringing
more government back into the
states, the counties and the cities,
curtailed spending, an ultimately
balanced budget, putting a stop to
the long rise of Inflation, etc. They
will be for public power only in
those cases where the projects are
so big that only the federal govern
ment can handle them. They will
favor giving private power a place
in the economic picture. In gen
eral, they will be for less govern
ment in business, rather than more.
All this, I think, is good, not bad.
It is as it should be in a two
party political system. A sharp
cleavage in domestic Issues, such
as the campaign that is now begin
ning will have, will give people
something to BELIEVE IN when
they go to the polls.
That will be good for all of us.
Up in Washington the state de
partment of civil defense is plan
ning a practice test that will be
called Operation Floodout. The
problem will be how to meet the
emergency that would be created
if an enemy should knock ,out
Grand Coulee dam.
Destruction of the 550-foot high
dam by an H-bomb would unleash
a torrent of RADIOLOGICALLY
POISONED WATER to go roaring
down the Columbia, crippling traf
fic and power production and forc
ing evacuation of an estimated 74,
000 persons.
Defense officials say such a flood
would be worse than any ever seen
in the Columbia Basin. Even as
far downstream as Portland, they
estimate, the water would be
THREE STORIES DEEP around
the Multnomah hotel.
Pretty scary?
Gives you the shivers?
Wait a minute. Before going out
and Jumping in the lake and end
ing it all, remember the predictions
of a few years ago of the comets
that were going to sideswipe the
earth. Their poison gas tails were
going to swish around and envelope
the globe and KILL EVERY LIV
ING THING.
Well, it DIDlt'T HAPPEN I
Ike Leaves
For Vacation
WASHINGTON Wl President
Eisenhower left Washington by air
at 9:25 a.m., EDT, for a work-and-play
stay in Colorado, where
he'll plan a speaking campaign to
help fellow Republicans win firm
er control of the next Congress.
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower left Washington National
Airport aboard his plane, the Col
umbine, for the 6 Vhour flight to
Denver. - j
As the President left the capi
tal, he was obviously pleased with
the way his legislative program
fared in the Congress session that!
was adjourned Friday Bight.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, ISM
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Federal
Pay
Raise May
Be Vetoed
WASHINGTON m Roughly a
million- and a half government
workers crossed their fingers Sat
urday, anxious for word from Pres
idem Eisenhower on a lust-minute
act of Congress to raise their pay
The president's congressional
leaders Sen. Knowland (R-Callf)
and Rep. Halleck (R-Ind). de
scribed the chief executive as op
posed to the measure which calls
for an average 5 per cent salary
Increase, but no accompanying
postal rate boost urged by the ad
ministration. And a White House official who
wouldn't be identified publicly com
mented; "It looks like we'll have
to veto it, doesn't it?"
A veto would stick, because Con
gress has adjourned.
Knowland's strong prediction of
a veto didn't keep the Senate from
passing the Dili by a roucau vote
or 69-4.
STATEMENT
Nor did Kalleck's statement that
the President hasn't changed his
position -prevent the House from
whisking it through by voice vote
in less than a minute,
The President's position has been
that any bill increasing pay should
be accompanied by a hike in postal
rates to help defray the estimated
380 million dollar cost.
The Senate- specifically refused
to tack a 340-mtllion-dollar postal
rate boost onto the bill. Knowland's
amendment to do that lost by a
vote of 56-16.
- The postal rate increase wasn't
even suggested in the House Fri
day. The House turned down a
similar proposal Just a month ago.
The raises are due to become ef
fective the first full pay period aft
er the bill becomes law it It
does.
Beneficiaries would be 600,000
postal workers, plus about a mil
lion civil service and congressional
employes.
Postal employes would each get
a minimum annual raise of 2O0
and a maximum of $400. The others
would gat not less than 170, nor
more, than $440..,
JOB SURVEY '
The bill provides for a Post Office
Department Job survey, with Con
gress retaining the right to veto
any reclassification program oth
erwise, the program would go into
effect without further congressional
action.
Knowland, who had breakfasted
with the President shortly before
the Senate voted, said that in his
opinion a bill without "compensa
ting revenue will not become law."
Others senators said they doubt
ed that.
House members said they doubt
ed It, too, despite Kalleck's asser
tion that the President hadn't
changed his position. The general
feeling in the House was that the
President would think twice before
vetoing a pay raise bill so close
to the congressional elections In
which government employes, their
friends and relatives will cast a lot
of votes.
EXPULSION
LOS ANGELES (ft Delegates to
the Military Order of the Purple
Heart national convention are on
record as favoring the expulsion of
Soviet Russia from the United Na
tions and the denial of Red China
to membership. The convention
adopted such resolutions yesterday.
Weyerhaeuser, Unions To
Discuss Wage
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Contract negotiations were to re
sume Saturday between the Weyer
haeuser Timber Co. and the two
unions which have closed its plants
the past 10 weeks.
The firm has offered a 2i cent
hourly wage Increase to CIO Wood
workers and AFL Lumber and
Sawmill Workers.
Kenneth L. Davis, executive sec
retary of the AFL union, said he
had asked management represen- ;
tatlves to present officially the of-,
fer to the union's district councils
Saturday. . ,
A. F. Hartung. president of the j
CIO Woodworkers, said his union
and Weyerhaeuser representatives
were to reopen contract negotia
tions on the basis of the new offer
In a session scheduled for Satur
day afternoon In Portland.
If accepted, the Weyerhaeuser
offer would Increase the minimum
pay for workers to $1.90 an hour,
Davis said. That is T- cents
above the general basic wage paid.
In the industry before the two un
ions went on strike June 20 to back
up demands for a 12 ij-cent hourly
Increase.
Friday Davis and R. A. Ding
man, Weyerhaeuser's Industrial re
lations director, announced they
had reached a basis of settlement
for 2 Vi cents at the company's
Coos Bay, Ore., and Bnoqualmie.
Wash., branches and at its Long-
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity; Fair through Sunday.
High Sunday 80; low Saturday
ulght 42.
High yesterday L 73
Low last night.. . 38
Five Killed
In Columbia
River Mishap
PORTLAND W A current
sucked a 47-foot tugboat under the
Bonneville Dam spillway Friday
and live men lost their lives in
the accident, the worst in the
history of the Columbia River pro
ject. Another man, Harold A. Cole, 29,
Astoria, was rescued by Ivan Don
aldson, a fish biologist for the
Corps of Engineers, who happened
to be in a Doat nearby conducting
experiments.
The bodies of two men were re
covered. They were Merle Tobias,
48, Portland, an engineer, photo
grapher and world traveler, and
George Graham, Kalama, Wash.,
a carpenter.
Still missing early Saturday were
Magner Larsen 66, Astoria; Leo
nard Boylan, Cathlamet, Wash.;
and Don Lewis, 20, Portland, son
of Frank Lewis, former resident
engineer at the dam. Young Lewis
was, a Junior at the University of
Oregon.
Coles said the six were on the
tug boat which was hauling a barge
below the dam in preparation for
some construction work. The barge
became caught in the current and
started drifting toward the water
fall over the spillway, uiiw v ieu
to cut the line to the barge but
the tug also was sucked under oy
the current.
Coles was thrown Into the water
and came to the surface about 400
feet, below the dam.
nmcfflnff operations for the mis
sing three were resumed Saturday
OUC no bodies naa Duen reuuveivu
by mid-morning. Engineers
planned to drop all the gates on
the main dam at noon to permit
a thorough search of the spillway.
'Big Mo' To Be
Mothballed
NORFOLK, Va. Ifl The battle
ship Missouri will leave Norfolk
Monday for Bremerton, Wash.,
where she will be placed in moth
balls. Norfolk, her home port, isn't go
ing to let her leave quietly.
The vice mayor, George R. Ab
bott, will be on the pier to bid
farewell.
Two bands will give the Mis
souri a rousing send-off. Two Ad
mirals will make speeches. A big
farewell sign will be erected on
the pier.
She will be taken on her last
voyage by a Virginian, Capt. R.T.
S. Keith, of Warrenton.
She will go by way of the Pan
ama Canal to Bremerton, with
several stops on the West Coast
to give the people a chance to see
her.
Contract
view plywood branch.
Weyerhaeuser for some lime has
been paying a five cents more
than other operators In the Pacific
Northwest Douglas fir belt.
Davis added that he hoped other
operators would offer 7' cents to
bring the basis minimum through
out the industry to $1.90.
There were these other develop
ments in the strike Friday:
Chet Irvin". secretary of the Pine
Industrial Relations Committee
was to make an announcement of
what his office called "important
developments" in the Southern
Oregon and Northern California
pine region Saturday. Irving was
iin Kcaaing, cant.
At Toledo, on the Oregon Coast.
AFL employes of the huge C. J.
Johnson Lumber Co. voted by a
2-1 margin to return to work Mon
day at the old wage rate. The com
pany has agreed to meet any waae
Increase won in industry-wide ne
gotiations, Halley Hall, president of
the local, reported.
AFL crews at the Lincoln, Wash.,
Lumber Co. were returning to their
Jobs and the firm announced that
full day and night production had
been resumed.
At Spokane a temporary order
restraining mass picketing at the
Exchange Lumber Co. was extend
ed to Sept. 13. The order limits
the number of pickets at the plant
to four.
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To . . oiven
WASHINGTON I The Senate
investigations subcommittee Satur
day set an Aug. 30 deadline for
its monibcrs to submit the ver
dict or verdicts on the McCarthy
Army hearings.
That is the same date on which
another Senate group investigat
ing ine activities oi Be.n. McCarthy
(R-Wls) plans to start its public
hearings.
Sen. Watkins (R-Utah). the
chairman of that special Investi
gating group, announced after a
closed door meeting with Mc
Carthy's lawyer that the hearings
will start on schedule so far as
he now knows.
The investigations subcommittee
which completed on June 17 its 3f
days of uproarious hearings on the
McCarthy-Army row, failed again
oaiuraay to reach agreement ot
what the evidence showed.
Sen, Mundt (R-SD), the chair
man, announced that bv unani
mous vote of the six members
present, the group has "set the
date of Aug. 30 at S p.m. for sub
mission of additional statements
of view point" by Individual mem
bers or groups of members. He
said the group at Saturday's
closed door meeting gave Its final
approval to a summary of the evi
dence and testimony taken in the
36-day hearings and added:
"We agreed unanimously on a
statement which will follow the
narrative summary of the evi
dence." Before Saturday's "showdown"
session of the investigations group
which McCarthy himself normally
heads, Mundt said failure to agree
on a verdict could mean a lapse
of weeks or months . before the
seven members could reconvene
for another effort.
Korea Gl Bill
Limit Extended
WASHINGTON M " President
Elsenhower Saturday signed into
law a bill extending by a year
the time within which a Korean
war veteran may start and com-
plete a course of training under
the GI bill of rights.
The legislation also extends to
July 25. 1960. the time within
which some disabled World War
II veterans may complete delayed
rehabilitation training under the
vocational rehabilitation act.
Under the old law. Korean vet
erans who were not disabled must
have started their GI bill train
ing by Aug. 20, 1954, or two years
after discharge, whichever was
later. And they were required to
nnisn tneir training within seven
years after discharge.
The new law extends these two
time limits to three years and
eight years, respectively, after dis
charge. Veterans with service-connected
disabilities are given an addition
al four years, from 9 to 13 years,
to complete vocational rehabilita
tion training delayed because of
Illness or other reasons.
SUICIDES
TOKYO Un - Suicides In Japan
have reached the all-time high of
54 a day, the Asahi Evening News
reported Saturday. Favorite
means of suicide In Japan in
clude jumping before speeding
trains and Jumping into live vol
canoes, the paper said.
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ON THEIR WAY to purchase new clothes for the coming school
season this morning, as the early morning photoqrapher
snapped them, were Sharon Snyder, Route I, Klamath Falls
end Marilyn Sharp, also of Routa I.
JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW COMMITTEES check final details at the Rotary Club luncheon
held at the Willard Hotel Friday. Everything is set for the biggest show sale of them ell. Front
(I to rl Loren Palmerton, Rotary Club president and Earl Kent, bull of the woods. Back row,
same order, Mike Balsiger, little push; Tommy Waiters, wee push and Frank Fleet, big push.
Air Mediation
Plan Given
WASHINGTON I The Nation
al Mediation Board proposed Sat
urday that striking American
Airlines pilots go back on their
runs Including westbound trans
continental flights which are the
basis of the dispute while non-
binding arbitration is carried out.
All American - Airlines flights
have been grounded in the dis
pute over objections by the AFL
Air Line Pilots Assn. to sched
uling crews for more than eight
hours. Westbound flights, bucking
prevailing winds, run over that
time, and the pilots want a crew
change ' stop.
Before the new proposal was
advanced, the pilots' union gave
the board two proposals o( its own
for settling the 22-day-old dispute.
It suggested eMii? off Uie oyer-elght-hotir
runs While the dispute
Is worked out under procedures of
the Railway Labor Act. Other
flights would be resumed under
the pilots' plan.
Testimony
Bill Signed
WASHINGTON lit! Witnesses
refusing to answer questions on
national security matters could be
exempted from federal prosecution
on self - Incriminating testimony
under legislation signed Friday by
President Elscnhower.
But such witnesses would face
contempt charges If they sllll de
clined to talk after receiving im
munity for testimony before con
gressional committees or in court.
The measure was one of three
signed by the President among a
batch passed bv Congress to help
the government combat subver
sives.
Another raises the penalty for
harboring fugitives wanted for fel
onies to a maximum of five years
in prison and a $5,000 fine. The
third provides similar punishment
ior Jumping bail on felony
charge, or one year and a $1,000
line for skipping out on a mis-
demeanor charge.
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LAWRENCE E. SLATER
- Photo by Ferebee Studios
Slater Files
For Council
Lawrence E. Slater, a resident
of Klamath Falls for 21 years,
became the fifth man to seek a
post on the city council.
Slater filed shortly after three
o'clock Friday as a , candidate
lrom Wnrd 5 represented now by
Frank Tarr. Tarr announced ear
lier that he will not run for re
election. The potential councilman has
been operating his own insurance
agency during that time. He will
be opposed by Bob M,est, automo
bile dealer.
Civic activities Include five
years as chairman of the airport
commission and two years on the
city budget committee. Slater
served as a major In the USAF
from 1942 to 1046. Lodge affilia
tions include membership in the
Elks, American Legion and Vet
erans of Foreign Wars.
Although this Is his first step In
city politics, Slater expressed a
keen Interest in city affairs and
feels that his business and Air
Force background will prove help
ful in handling city business.
otner tilers for city positions to
date are: for councllmen, Jim
Barnes, Ward 3: Bob M e s t,
Ward 4: Ladd Hoyt, Ward 5: seek-
mg reelection as police Judge is
Frank Blackmer.
New Laws Make Way For
End Of Indian Supervision
WASHINGTON tfl For the
first time in history Congress has
moved to end, rather than extend,
federal control over the American
Indians.
Legal machinery was set In mo
tion to free about 10,000 reserva
tion Indians in five states during
the next two to seven years.
Bills passed by Congress during
the past session will end federal
supervision in two years over 60
western Oregon tribes, four Utah
Paiute bands and the Alnbama
and Coosevada Indians of Texas.
The Oregon Klainaths will get
freedom In four years, the Wis
consin Menominees in five years
and the northern Utes of the Uln-tah-Quray
reservation in seven
years.
Among other legislation enacted
are bills designed to:
Improve the government s health
and hospitalization facilities for
Indians of the nation by trans
ferring the health program from
the Interior Department to the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare: give the Indians the
right to own and sell property and
possess lire aftns and liquor; pro
vide more efficient law enforce
ment on reservations.
Sen. Watkins (R-Utah), chair
man of a subcommittee which
handled Indian legislation, told the
Senate the termination bills will
4-H Livestock
Show, Sale Set
The 19th annual FFA-4-H Club
Junior Livestock Show and Sale
is all set to go, according to re
ports of committees at the Frl
dny noon luncheon of the Rotary
Club
The three-day livestock show,
one of the outstanding events held
here and sponsored by the local
Rotary, Club starts Sunday and
will wind up with a beef barbe
cue and livestock sale Tuesday
night.
Anticipating 1700 persons to be
fed at the barbecue. O. K, Fuckett,
chairman ot the beet procuring
committee, has furnished two and
three quarters of beeves for the
feed. Gib Fleet and Jack Taylor
head the Chefs Committee, known
as Beef Barbecucrs of the Highest
Order.
The fend Is not open to the
public but Invitations are extended
to all exhibitors and their imme
diate families, stock buyers and
their wives, Rotarlans and their
wives, invited guests and long.
.time supporters of the project.
Chow time Is 4:30 p.m. and will
be followed by a parade of all
livestock to be sold In the sale pavi
lion. Sale time Is slated for 8:30.
Bob Rhodes will do the auctioneer
ing. Some Important Information
for the benefit of prospective buy
ers released by the committee
states that the Bratton Packing
Company, T. P. Packing Com
pany, Super Packing Company
(formerly Johnson Packing) and
the Merrill Meat Company will
pick up animals at the barn fol
lowing the sale; slaughter and de
liver to the buyer tor the following
prices: Beef - for hide and offal
at $7.50; Lambs - for hide and
offal at $2.65, and hogs for two
cents per pound dressed weight.
Minimum 13. Four cents will be
charged to cut and wrap any of
the above for locker or home
freezers. Purchasers must takr
carcass from plant within one
week due to shortage of storage
space.
Meat packers will also pay the
following prices for animals pur
chased If buyer wishes to sell,
provided buyer paid at least these
prices: Beef .22 cents per pound
live weight; Hogs .25 cents per
pound live weight: Lambs .17
cents per pound live weight. Pack-
I ers will not pay for any weight
above that paid for by the buyer,
The public Is Invited to attend
the three day show and sale.
"slart the ball rolling to get the
p-nvcrnment out of the Indian busi
ness. "This Is the beginning of a pro
gram which will set the pattern
lor other tribes," he said. "I feel
sure that the results will prove : Ing soon to re-examine any re
to Indians and non-Indians alike, mainlng differences,
that, with the encouragement His proposals involved 30 points.
placed in these bills, the Indian
people can show the Initiative and
Industry necessary for success in
society.
"Indians are not lazy, but thev
cannot all be forced to farm or
raise sheep and cattle. Given his
property and the right and obli
gations to manage It wisely, the
Indian will soon prove himself, as
has every other minority in this
melting pot of races."
Watkins said five additional
termination bills, which . failed to
win approval in the PRst session,
"must await another Congress for
final action." They affect the Bern
inoles, Turtle Mountains, Sac and
Fox of Kansas, Flatheads and In
dians of California,
Problems confronting these
tribes, Watkins said, "are not In
surmountable, but require, some
further time and atudy."
Congressional subcommit
tees heard 200 witnesses during 60
days of hearings on the Indian bills.
The transcript record is filled with
more than one million words.
US Attempts
Negotiation
Of Problems
BRUSSELS, Belgium UP) The
United States stepped Into the im
passe here over the European
army plan Saturday In a desper
ate effort to negotiate a settle
ment between the foreign minist
ers of France and five other West
European nations.
Special ambassador David ' K.
Bruce, the. United States' expert
cn European Integration problems,
flew in from Paris unannounced
Friday night.
He arrived on the scene as the
foreign ministers were locked In
a marathon eight-hour session try
ing to hammer out their differenc
es over France's proposed chang
es in the European Defense Com
munity treaty.
Bruce met for an hour Satur
day with West German Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer and then
went to see Belgian Foreign Min
ister Paul-Henri Spaak, chairman
of the aix-natlon conference.
A German spokesman said the
main purpose of Bruce's talk with
Adenauer was to bring about a
reconciliation between him and
French Premier Mendes-France
on EDO.
RATIFIED
West Germany, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg al
ready have ratified the European
Army Pact. France and Italy
have not.
Bargaining here the past two
days has failed to bridge the wide
gap between the army plan In Its
original form and France's new
proposed version.
Unwilling to admit defeat, the
foreign ministers assigned a com
mittee of defense, legal and econ
omic experts to meet again today
to try working out details of a
compromise proposed by Belgian
Foreign Minister P a u 1 Henri
Spaak.
The ministers planned to take
up the compromise plan in an aft
ernoon session, mis probably will
oe we iinai attempt at a settle
ment in the parley, which had
aeen scneauiea to end yesterday.
Spaak's formula calls for taking
up unsettled Issues after Franco
ana Italy nave ratified the treaty.
But French Premier Pierre Mendes-France
feels a pledge to re
open negotiations later la not
enough to help him get EDO ap.
proved by the balky French par
liament. ., , , .. .
"Only Spaak seemed eptlmlstlo
after the breakup of the long ses
sion this morning. He said, "We
went through all the questions
without reaching a deadlock" and
added he still had "some hope."
Mendes-France told reporters,
"Things are going badly."
BAD TIME
West German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer, emerging from the aes-
slon tired and drawn, said, "What
good can you expect at such a bad
time."
The French Parliament still has
not ratified the treaty, 27 months
after it was signed, and Mendes
France says Jt never will unless
his proposals are accepted.
He wants, among many other
things, to delay for eight years
the aupranatlonal features of EDO
whereby an international commis
sariat would make administrative
decisions on defense for all mem
ber nations.
It Is through this device that
the other nations would be given
controls over Germany to pre
vent a rebirth of nationalistic
militarism.
Envoys of the four nations which
have won legislative approval of
the unified army plan say they
can't accept anything that would
require their parliaments to con
sider it anew.
REVISIONS
The French revisions, which
would change EDO Into little more
than a alx-nation coalition, certain
ly would require new parliamen
tary action. On this issue there
seems to be little chance of com
promise. Italy is in the lineup against the
French revisions. Committees of
the Italian Parliament - already
have made their reports on EDC,
and ratification was expected this
fall.
Spaak said today his compro
mise plan embraced three steps:
1. A conference declaration ac
cepting certain French revisions.
2. A conference directive to the
Council ot Ministers, after EDC is
formed, to Implement other revi
sions proposed by France.
i. A new foreign ministers meet-
, the Belgian minister said, and a
"certain number" had been agreed
upon already. He declined to dis
close what they were.
Others were more gloomy. One
informant, for Instance, said not
one major French amendment had
been accepted.
Admiral Assumes
Naval Command
MANILA MWVice Adm. A. M.
Pride, commander of the U.S. 7th
Fleet which guards Formosa, to
day assumed command of Pacific
Fleet naval torces chiefly air
craft carriers operating in the
Philippine area and the South
China Sea.
In a brief ceremony aboard the
carrier Yorktown in Manila Bay,
Pride took over from Vice Adm.
W. K. Phillips, commander ot the
1st. Fleet. Phillips will return to
bis headquarters at Sao Diego.