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COUP U OP ORi30! LIB3ARI EU3SHE, ORE. French Premier Refuses To Step Down PARIS (AP) Premier Pierre Pflimlin refused to step down Tuesday so that Gen. Charles de Gaulle could form a government. Pflimlin reached his derision after a Cabinet meeting and two eonierences with President Rene Coty. A minister who attended the GEN. De GAULLE meeting said Pflimlin would make a statement to the National As sembly in presenting a govern ment motion which would pose a question of confidence. If confidence is voted, Pflimlin will stay in his job. If the vote Work Benefits Fight Looms WASHINGTON (AP)-A bipar tisan Senate group planned a tight today to broaden legislation to extend unemployment benefits. But supporters of an emergency bill said they have the votes to pass it without change. A final vote on the anti-recession measure was possible today, but there was some sentiment i debate began to wait until tomor row for a vote. The emergency bill, already passed by the House, follows closely Eisenhower administration recommendations in this field. A drive io strengthen the bill was announced " by a group of Northern Democrats led by Sen- elors John F; Kennedy (D-Mass) and Paul H. Douglas (D-IU). They were joined by some Republicans from industrial states. Douglas and Kennedy prepared amendments that would ' both broaden the temporary features of the bill and write in higher per manent standards for jobless pay ments. Such payments now vary in duration and amount under itate laws. The group favoring a stronger bill contended the House-passed measure would provide no help for many jobless workers who have exhausted unemployment payments. Provisional , Leaders Resign CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) The 13-member Cabinet of Vene zuela's provisional government re signed last night, but the ruling junta is expected to reappoint A more than half the ministers. Government officials said the resignation was a routine proce dure to permit the recently re shuffled junta to decide on any changes. The junta is considering enlarg ing the Cabinet to include repre sentatives of political parties as ministers without portfolio. Vene zuela's major parties have criti cized junta chief Adm. Wolfgang Larrazabal for not permitting wider political participation in the government. i . VJ I k , t ' H mm r j ... "' - . V-.;'T? i? r ' , j , nvT L j THESE BUSINESSMEN are busy making notes and listing figures during the Monday evening bid-bond opening by directors of the South Suburban Sanitation District. Left to right are Clifford L. Wolf, First National Bank; Lawrence S. Black. Foster and Mar shall; Maurice D. Gunderson, engineer for the diitriet; arid Frank L. Calite of the John Nuveen Company. For complete details e the accompanying story. Fred Lewis Photo t goes against him, he will resign and De Gaulle presumably will be called in by the president. De Gaulle had moved Tuesday to form a new government, and for a tune there were reports that Pflimlin and Coty were helping him lay the foundations for a take over under the established rules. At one point a high source at the presidential palace said Pflim lin's resignation could be expected Tuesday night. This informant reported that De Gaulle and Pflimlin agreed Mon day night on formation of a new government' to be headed by De Gaulle but including some of the Pflimlin cabinet's ministers. But another source said Tues day's announcement by De Gaulle, stating his readiness to take over, caught Pflimlin by surprise, sub sequently the premier conferred with Coty, and their position evi dently hardened. As things looked at nightfall, De Gaulle could not win a vote in the Assembly. Apart from the Communists, the Socialists were solidly against him. So were perhaps 40 per cent of Pflimiin's party the Popular Republicans (MRP) and some radical and center groups. The De Gaulle-Pflimlin meeting took place at the country estate of Defense Minister Pierre de Chevigne near La Celle-S a i n t Cloud, a few miles west of Paris. The two men quietly talked over the. grave political situation France is facing as result of the virtual breakaway of the French generals in Algeria and the mount ing clamor for the World War II hero to take over. De Gaulle announced earlier-in the day he was moving to take over the government. He urged the nation to remain calm. De Gaulle promised quick con tact with his supporters in Alger- who precipitated Frances gravest postwar crisis by seizing control of that vast North Afri can territory in defiance of Paris. But De Gaulle s arch foes, the Communists, lashed out with a general strike that idled coal fields and factories. Fans subur ban train service was halted. Socialists called for a day of na tional protest. Non-Communist unions ignored the strike call. Transportation in side Paris was about normal. Sub were running and only 40 of the ways were running and only 40 of the city s 1,700 buses quit. The National Assembly was in recess after a morning of debate on Pflimlin s plan for strengthen ing the executive when the news of De Uaulle s statement arrivea, Lobbies buzzed with the news. . The Elysee source said De Gaul le's statement that he had already started forming a government was issued ahead of time in order to avoid grave incidents which might have broken out with the news of Pflimiin's resignation. De Gaulle, 67, has always in sisted he would only take power legally and that when the proper moment came he would speak to the right man. Apparently Pflim lin was that man. Pflimlin. who had rushed to see Coty immediately after De Gaul le issued his statement, was with the President again Tuesday aft ernoon. About 1.000 workers at the naval base ot Toulon marched from the arsenal and paraded the town shouting "Down with De Gaulle." They were finally broken up by armed riot police. France seemed stunned at the news De Gaulle was planning to take over. There was jubilation In Algiers. De Gaulle slipped into Paris Monday night and presumably set the takeover machinery in motion. He spent four hours in Paris, then returned to his home near Metz. The midnight ride was the World War 1 hero's first visit to Paris since he told a news con ference a week ago that he would wait at home for the Assembly to grant him power on his undefined terms. Possibly he came to town to pass the word of just what his terms are. t - w v 5. ' Price Five Ceatt 20 Pages Cardinal's Body Lies In State ROME (AP)-The body of Sam uel Cardinal Stritch lay in state today at the' Pontifical College where Americans study for the priesthood. i The 70-year-old Archbishop of Chicago died Monday at Rome's Sanatrix Clinic. He had been con fined there with circulatory ail ments since he arrived in Rome April 25 to assume the high post given him by Pope Pius XII. The cardinal's body will remain at the North American Pontifical College until tomorrow night. Then it will be taken to Rome's St. Ignatius Church. A funeral Mass will be celebrated there Thursday and the body will be flown home to Chicago for burial. The funeral mass will be cele brated by Bishop Martin John O'Connor of Scranton, Pa. the rector of the Pontifical College. All cardinals in Rome will pass before the body and each give his absolution. The last to do so will be Eugene Cardinal Tjsserant, French-born dean of the College of Cardinals, who will give abso lution in the name of the Pope. The prelate's remains were brought to the college early to day and embalmed in the pres ence of Dr. Ralph Bergen of Chi cago, his personal physician. The cardinal died before he had a chance to take up his duties as pro-prefect of the Vaticans Congregation for Propagation of the Faith. He was the only native American ever named to the Vat ican Curia, the church's highest administrative body. The prelate was stricken first with a blood clot in his right arm while en route to Italy to take up his Vatican post. Three days later the arm was amputated to eliminate danger of gangrene. tight days ago, while apparent ly recovering rapidly, he suffered severe stroke. He had lost ground steadily since then. His last act before death was to kiss a small crucifix he kept with him throughout the past week ot crisis. At the end the cardinal's bed side was surrounded by close as sociates and relatives including two nephews, the Rev. Morris Stritch of Memphis, Tenn., and Robert Emmett Stritch of Chi cago. ,. College Honor For Stripper PHOENIX (UPD Busty Bar bara J. Shanks, the "stripper" who wants to be a philosopher, has been chosen valedictorian for her Phoenix College graduation class. Brown - haired, blue - eyed Miss Shanks, whose 36-25-35 figure was good enougn to earn her as much as $350 a week as a dancer in Chicago and other eastern points, plans to really tell em some thing" in her June 4 speech. "I'm going to talk on 'the jew religious attitude,' " she said. "I will talk about student dissatisfac tion toward society. I will point out that they created society." The beauty, 32, came to Phoenix two years ago to fulfill her ambi tion of studying philosophy. And then leach it. "I've wanted to be a philosopher since I was 15," she said. "I used to work as a cafe waitress. And I got tired of looking at hungry people. So I decided to earn some money and get my degree." To prepare herself for her stud ies, Miss Shanks, whom classifies herself as a mystic of transcen dentialist bent, went into the des ert 12 miles north of Santa Fe, N.M., in 1953, living in an aban doned Indian cabin to be alone to meditate. ? r KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Bhg I III Ml 1 1 Ml mil FIRST ENTRY IN the contest for queen of the Basin Rodeo was Verona Dayley, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Dayley, Route 2, who It a sophomore at Bonanza High School, Verona, whose entry is sponsored by the Poe Valley Community Club, is shown giving signup information to Harry Glesin at Herman's Mens Store, official registra tion spot for the contest, which will be decided on June 22, when tryouts will be held at the fairgrounds. Poise, personality and riding ability decide the contest, and verona, who has been riding as long as she can remem ber," should be a strong contender on all three scores. First Queen Enters Rodeo The first candidacy in the Sen ior Queen contest for 1958 Basin Celebration Rodeo was announced today by Robert H. Beach, a mem ber of the celebration council s publicity committee. The entry is a slim, brown-eyed, 5 feet 2 brunette. Verona Dayley, who at 16 can't remember t h e lirst time she rode a horse. .. Verona signed up last week at Herman s Mens More, official reg istration center, with the blessings of the Poe Valley Community Club, which is sponsoring her candidacy. She and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dayley. Box 771K. Route 2, have lived in Poe Valley, for six years. Verona is a sopho more at Bonanza High School, where her brother, Gary, is a jun ior. Her sister, Joan, ran for queen in 1956. , . Veona, who weighs 110 pounds. will ride her sorrel mare, Blaze, in the tryouts at' which the queen will be chosen June 22. She has been training Blaze for the past three years. To be held at the fairgrounds the tryouts are being sponsored by the Klamath Saddle Club and the Jayceetes. Both a senior queen and a junior queen will be chosen. the latter among entrants aged 8 to 15. Only riding ability will be ccisidered in selecting the junior queen. The riding factor will count lor 60 per cent in selecting the senior queen, with poise and per sonality counting 40 per cent. Registration will continue at Herman's, 826 Main Street, until June IS. SOVIETS MAKE PROGRESS LONDON (UPD Radio Mos cow reported today that a party of American iron and steel ex perts now touring Russia visited a steel plant in Chelyabinsk Mon day. The broadcast quoted dele gation leader Edward Ryerson as saying the Soviet steel industry's progress is "tremendous if you take into account the short time in which it has been built up. Expert Says Plan Now For Centennial By JAMES PHILLIPS This community would be miss ing a good bet if it didn't plan to attract as many tourists as pos sible during next year's statewide centennial celebration, it was pointed out here yesterday. C. Howard Lane, a mcmner oi the governor's Centennial Commis sion, which met with local centen nial planners, said 52 per cent ot Oregon's tourists come from Cali fornia way. And many of them pass mrougn Klamath Falls. - That's whv this area should now begin to seriously plan for special events and attractions that will detain the travelers on their way to Portland in June, 1959. Startine on the 10th of that month, the Oregon Centennial Ex position and International 1 r a n c Fair begins a 100-day run to com memorate Oregon's 100th birthday as a state. The commission, holding an of ficial meeting with centennial plan ners of Klamath and Lake coun ties, invited the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce to submit colored movie film for inclusion in i TV f 1 1 m that will be made of Oregon tourist attractions, to stim TUESDAY, MAY 17, Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly fair through Wed nesday with chance of scattered thunderstorms. High 78-84; low 47- 54. High yesterday 79 Low lest night 47 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 ..... ....... 1S.3S Same period last year 14.89 Normal for period ., 11.34 Ceylon Hit By Rioting COLOMBO, Ceylon (AP) Gov. Gen. Sir Oliver Goonetilleke de clared a state of emergency to day to help the government sup press Sinhalese - Tamil riots wracking Ceylon for a week. The order suspended many civil liberties and established a state just short of martial law. Premier Solomon . Bandaranalke already had decreed a dusk-to-dawn cur few in Colombo, where rioting con tinued for the second day. Mobs of Sinhalese attacked members of the Tamil minority and -fought with police and troops in the capital yesterday. Today they beat up Tamils arriving at the city s railway stations. Army and navy units patrolled the city and its suburbs. Sinhalese mobs set more than 30 Tamil shops afire last night. Many were still burning. Several hundred persons were reported injured. At least 13 had been killed in weeklong commu nal riots in east and north Ceylon, which the Premier announced ear lier had been brought under con trol. The Tamils, who make up a quarter of Ceylon's eight million population, have been conducting a passive resistance campaign since Bandaranaike last month bowed to the Sinhalese majority and agreed to make their tongue the Indian Ocean island nation's I only official language. Basin Must ulate centennial attendance from throughout the nation. Lake County representatives said they are planning an exhibit ,for the exposition which will be built around the county s new uranium industry. A movable exhibit, it will show how uranium is processed. The display will Uc in with the Atomic Energy Commission's planned exhibit which will feature for the first time in the U.S. sev eral new atoms-for-peace projects Chamber of commerce Presi dent Charlie Bane said the reason this county hasn't yet fully acti vated plans for the centennial is that it didn't quite know the role it was to play and what was ex pected of it. He indicated yesterday s meeting cleared up several matters and that now work can be started to set up planning machinery. Efforts will be coordinated ihrough James Boyle and h i s Klamath and Lake County joint centennial planning group. To spark Oregon interest in the centennial, a specially equipped van is expected to traverse the slate, starting this summer, show- (Continued en page 4-A) Telephone TU 4-8111 No. o; Reds Call For 25-Year No-War Pact MOSCOW (AP) Announcing the Soviet Union will pull its troops out of Romania and reduce forces in Hungary, the Soviet bloc called on the NATO nations again today to loin in a 25-year non aggression pact. At the same time, Premier Khrushchev threatened to set up rocket bases in East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia if the United States and its allies arm West Germany with nuclear weap ons. These disclosures appeared in a communique summing up the meeting of the Soviet Union and her East European allies in Mos cow Saturday. The group met af ter a four-day economic confer ence of the members of the War saw Pact, the Communists coun ter to the North Atlantic Alliance. Soviet troops have been in Ro mania since they liberated the Balkan neighbor on the Black Sea from the Germans in World War II. The communique did not spe cify the number, but some sources estimate the total at 30,000 to 40,000. Their withdrawal would leave Soviet troops stationed in Poland and East Germany as well as in Hungary. The communique said the Soviet government will cut its Hungary garrison by one division this year. The Soviets said earlier this year they were pulling 17,000 soldiers out of Hungary. They did not spe cify how many would then rev main, but Western observers put the ligure as high was 100,000. The Warsaw Pact nations also announced their decision to reduce forces by 119,000 men in 1958 in addition to a 300,000-man cut an nounced earlier for Soviet forces. The new reductions are Romania 55.000 Bulgaria 23,000, Poland 20.000. Czechoslovakia 20,000 and Albania 1.000. The Soviets called on the West to make similar manpower reduc tions and said the Warsaw pow ers are ready to meet at once with NATO representatives on nonaggression pact. Shooting Ires Two Nations JERUSALEM (AP)-Israel and Jordan - each blamed the other today for the death of Canadian Iruce chief Lt. Col. George Flint, killed in a crossfire while trying to arrange a truce between bat tling units of the two nations. Flint's own chief of staff said it could not be determined which side fired the bullet that felled the head of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission on Mt. Scopus in Old Jerusalem yes terday. Four Israelis also were killed on the Jordan-surrounded Israeli enclave adjoining the Mount of Olives. The death of the 47-year-old vet eran of World War II and the Korean War brought expressions of sympathy from Jordan's King Hussein, U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and the Is raeli government. Flint had accompanied a Jordan patrol to investigate rifle fire on Mt. Scopus. Stepping out in front of the Jord.in patrol, he was hit as he sought to slop the fire ex change to permit removal of four wounded Israeli guards. Flint could not be rescued in the heavy crossfire that continued and bled to death before aid reached him. One Israeli officer and three soldiers also were killed in the exchange. It was the gravest Israeli-Jordan border incident in months. No Jordan casualties were reported. ,i,i. 1 imii" i r -tifrrrit OREGON STATE CENTENNIAL Commission members and aides are shown during yes terday morning's official meeting here with Klamath and Lake County centennial planners. Left to right are James Boyle, who heads up planning in Klamath and Lake counties; C. Howard Lane, eimmissioner, of Portland; Anthony Brandenthaler, commis sion chairman, of Baker; Floyd Maxwell, managing director of the Oregon Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair, which will be held beginning in Portland June 10, 1959; and standing, Jack Lively, commissioner, of Springfield; and Thomat Vaughn, commissioner, of Portland. Tunis To Ask Removal Of French Troops By MAX HARRELSON I UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Tunisia was expected to renew her request today for U.N. action to get French troops off her soil. Informed sources said Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim would fly here from Washington to arrange for a Security Council meeting on his governments charges that French troops in the former pro tectorate and planes from Algeria are attacking Tunisian forces. President Habib ' Bourguiba an nounced last night that he would call for U.N. action on "the ex tremely grave situation raised by French troops in Tunisia." Bourguiba also said he had asked for arms from the United States and Britain. In Washing- Rebels Down U.S. Airman JAKARTA (AP) The Indo nesian army said Tuesday night the pilot of a rebel Indonesian bomber shot down by government forces is an American. The Army identified him as Allan Law rence Pope of Miami, Fla. The Army said Pope was one of two airmen captured after their U.S. built B26 bomber was shot down in flames near Amboy May 18 while attacking Indonesian gov ernment ships. The chief army spokesman, Lt Col. Pirngadie, said both captured airmen have been brought to Ja karta and were held at an undis closed place. He said Pope is 30 years old and has a wife and two children. He said documents found on him showed that Pope formerly was a U.S. Air Force lieutenant, and was now with the "Civil Air Trans port, with headquarters in Taipei, Formosa." CAT is the airline founded by Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault of Flying Tiger fame. He said Pope admitted having been paid $10,000 by Indonesian rebel leader Lt. Col. Ventie Su- mual. The other captured airman was identified as an Indonesian, Jan Harry Rantung. U.S. Embassy officials here said they knew nothing about Pope and had not been told of his capture. Mild Weather Over Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Generally mild weather pre vailed tnrougnout tne country to day except for a little cooling in the north Atlantic Coast states. Showers sprinkled widely scat tered sections, with major wot belts in the Midwest and Western areas. Showers and thundershow- ers were reported from the Rock ies into parts of the southern and central Plains. The most general and heaviest rainfall was In Iowa with hail in north central sec tions. THE BRIGHT SIDE The value of building permits Issued during April in Oregon was more than double the value Issued In April, 1957, according to figures released by the Uni versity of Oregon's Bureau of Business Research 124 reporting centers in Ore gon listed permits totalling $35,906,239 this April, which was 239.2 per cent higher lhan last April. Klamath Falls Issued permits in April totalling $353,750 as compared to $121,367 in March of this year, and $171,694 In April of 1957. New residential construction totalled $71,000 of this amount, non - residential construction $247,540 and additions, altera tions and repairs totalled $35,-210. ton. top State Department officials conferred with Slim and French Ambassador Herve Alphand and urged against any military moves that might set off new violence. Slim was expected to file a for mal complaint in the U.N. against France alter consultations with members of the 11-nation Secur ity Council. U.N. diplomats privately ex pressed doubts that debate would be of mucn help at a time when the French government was in the midst of a serious internal crisis which had virtually ruled out any possibility ot French-Tunisian ne gotiations. . Some even doubted whether the French government could get the 22,000 French troops to leave Tu nisia even if it wanted them out. The troops remained in the coun try under the 1956 treaty conced ing Tunisian independence. The French army in Algeria. whose leaders have rebelled against the Paris government, wants French troops next door as a deterrent to the rebellious Algerian Moslems who get supplies and arms in Tu nisia. Bourguiba first demanded with drawal of the French forces after planes from Algeria bombed a Tunisian village in February. He renewed it afler weekend fighting between French and 1 Tunisian forces in south Tunisia In which French planes from Algeria joined in. Solon Okays Tax Slash WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Sam' Rayburn (D-Tex) said Tuesday he is "in full ac cord" with President Eisenhower's recommendation against substan tial tax reductions this year. Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark), chairman of the tax-writing. House Ways and Means Committee, con curred in Rayburn's statement at a joint news conference. Mills said his committee will start consideration Wednesday ot a bill to continue corporate and ex cise tax rates at their present ' levels. , " These rates are scheduled under existing law to drop automatical ly on July 1, Eisenhower has asked Congress to continue them to prevent an estimated three-bu-lion-dollar drop in revenues. A number of members of Con gress have said they will seek a reduction in the excise tax on automobiles, whose sales have been lagging. A bill to extend the present corporation and excise rates is expected to reach the-House floor early in June. Rayburn said he has not been in favor of a general decrease in taxes at this time. He said both he and Mills were "in accord with the statement (from, the Presi ident) that there will be no furth er recommendations for tax re ductions this year." I have never thought that a tax reduction would be very po tent In stopping a recession," Ray burn said. He added he could not comment on whether the recession is tapering off. Republican congressional lead ers said meanwhile the adminis tration's stand against any anti recession tax cut is prompted by the uneasy international situation and the threat of inflation. Senate minority leader William F. Knowland of California gave newsmen that word after he and other GOP chiefs had held their weekly meeting with President Eisenhower. Eisenhower recommended Mon day against any general tax re duction at this time. In doing so he renewed his request for a one year extension of corporation and excise taxes at current levels.
