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COi? U OF 0RE50N LIBRARY EUGENE, ORE. la The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS What of De Gaulle? Well, as this is written, about mid-morning on Monday, he's two up and one to go. When he agreed to accept the premiership and tackle the job of pulling France ou' of the crisis it faces, he laid down these three condi tions the national assembly (cor responding roughly to our c o n gress must meet: 1. He must be allowed to run France for six months without parliamentary interference. 2. A bill must be passed to ex tend the government's emergency powers in Algeria, where a revolu tion backed by the army is threat ened. 3. A bill must be passed provid ing that changes in the French constitution shall be made by the people rather than by the assem bly. At this hour, the first two con ditions have been met, with minor changes that apparently will be accepted by De Gaulle. The third (enabling changes in the constitu tion to be made by the people) is before the assembly for consid eration. A spokesman for the general has just issued a statement asserting that "not until after ALL THREE nave uccn euupicu uy ucti iiaiiiciu will De Gaulle complete his cabi net and define the functions of the ministers and secretaries of ttate he has named." We'll see what we'll see. When the New York Stock Ex change opened this morning after the three-day holiday, the finan cial wires lell us, a "sprinkling of good economic news and an EAS ING OF POLITICAL TENSIONS ABROAD" combined to send the market to a new high for the year. All major groups participated in the upswing, which was a continu ation of Thursday's sharp advance. Why quote the stock market? It's a reflection of how people feel. When people are optimistic, they buy, sending prices up. When they are pessimistic, they sell, lending prices down. And In these days MILLIONS of common, ordinary people buy and sell securities on the nation's stock exchanges. Explosion Kills 2, Hurts 40 MOUNT PULASKI, 111. UPI) A tank car explosion that killed two men and injured 40 others has turned Mount Pulaski into a near "ghost town." Every window in town was bro ken as shock waves reverberated from the blast late Sunday. Winds fanned the flames which swept to 10 other freight cars and left the Illinois Central Railroad switch ing' yards a scene of destruction. Civil Defense authorities said at least 1,000 residents were forced to spend the night elsewhere, most of them in nearby Lincoln, In the wake of the explosion that made most homes unliveable. Authorities said that as near as could be determined the railroad tank car was carrying a volatile solvent which was touched off during a switching operation. Killed were railroad crewmen Robert Glover and Jack Griffin, both of Mattoon. III. As a column of residents moved away Sunday night, one looked back at thp near-deserted village and said "this place looks like a ghost town now." PUfiLIC HEARING The public hearing on the pro posed 1958-i9 budget for the Klam ath Falls Elementary School Dis trict will be tonight, June 2, at 7 o'clock in the cafeteria of the new south wing at the Klamath Union High School.' PRETTY NORMA STRUBLE, Dorm, California, is the sec ond girl to enter the contest for Senior Queen of the Ba sin Celebration Rodeo. The ash blonde, green-eyed, Butte Valley High School junior it shown her giving entry infor mation to Key Bellinger, secretery of the Basin Celebration Council, at Herman's Mens Store, official signup spot, 826 Main Street. Eldest of five children of Mr. end Mrs. Del Struble, Norma is a 4-H'er who hat had riding at her hobby for about three years. Her hort it Beauty, a chest nut mere. The Strublei have lived in Dorrit for seven yeert, and the Dorrit Riders era Norma't tpontort. Norma, 16, measures 5 feet 4 inches, and weight 130 pounds. Other girls, 14 to 18, withing to enter the contest, mutt file by June 15. Price Five Cents 14 Pages Uneasy Truce As UAW Men Back On Job DETROIT (API In an air of uneasy truce nearly 500,000 auto workers went to their jobs Mon day without protection of a union contract. There were no reports of Inci dents halfway through the first shift of no-contract work at the 275 General Motors, Chrysler and Ford planU throughout the coun try. . , For GM and Chrysler it was the first time since 1937 that workers across the nation have turned out cars without a union contract. At Ford plants it was the first time since 1941. The United Auto Workers Un ion's contracts with Ford and Chrysler expired Sunday midnight without a new settlement. The UAW's contract with GM died Thursday midnight without a new agreement. Despite the announced inten tions of both the companies and the union to continue normal op erations wknout a contract, there was doubt about the future. Walter P. Reuther, president of the UAW, came out of last-ditch negotiations with stern orders to UAW members not to strike or provoke any incidents that could give the companies an excuse to shut down plants. UAW contracts with two small er car makers still are in effect. The contract with American Mo tors runs out June 15; with Stude-baker-Packard July 1. Arabs Ponder Complaint BENGASI, Libya (AP) Six harassed Aiab countries are con sidering Lebanon's com plaint against the United Arab Republic as a possible weapon to force President Nasser to tone down the U. A. R. propaganda campaign throughout the Arab world. But not all of them are sure they want to take on Nasser. This arose as Lebanon went be fore the Arab League yesterday to present' her charges that the U. A. , R. has been stirring up antigov'ernment riots -that have killed nearly 300 persons in the tiny nation. The league plans another closed meeting on the complaint tomor row. "Lebanon happens to be the most recent victim but we all know our turn may come," one delegate told a newsman. "We may as weil lay down tne law to the Egyptians now and demand they call off this kind of thing." Lebanon could force some kind of showdown by insisting on an open deba'e in the U. N. Security Council. Lebanese Delegate Beshir Awar told the league his government is asking the Council for a second postponement of de bate on the complaint, scheduled for tomorrow. Awar added that if the league comes up with a solution Lebanon may drop its complaint in the U.N. against the U. A. K. Informants said Awar presented evidence to show that insurgents in Lebanon got arms from the U. A. R. Nasser's representative denied the charge. Awar also was reported to have produced documents naming Syrian army officers fighting with the insurgents and outlining Syri an instructions to Lebanese ter rorists. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1938 GREAT NORTHERN EMPLOYES have signed pledge cards to donate blood for the Wednesday, June 4, operation of the Red Crots Bloodmobile which will be at the Mason . ic Temple, 418 Klamath Avenue from 1 1 a.m. to I p.m. and 4:30 to 8 p.m. The following day the bloodmobile truck will be at the Merrill Recreation Hall, 4 to 8 p.m. Bill Dewing, left, recruiting for Klamath Fall Lodge, A.F. & A.M. No 77 found the employes in the GN roundhouse responsive to signing pledges. All Masonic bodies are sponsoring the June visit of the bloodmobile. Others, left to right, are Earl Taber, Tom Eden, Bob Mal comb, Eddie Buchholz and Ronnie Bryan. Temp Drops In Michigan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Minimum temperatures in Wis consin and Michigan stayed just above the freezing point Sunday night and early Monday. The low at Pellston, Mich., was 35 de grees. It was 38 at Wausau, Wis. A line of squalls sloshed rains of one-half inch to two inches on the Atlantic coast from Maryland northward during the night. One of the heavier falls was 1.10 inches at Glenn Fails, N.Y., between mid night and morning. The nation had a variety of weather today after a weekend of rains and storms in many sec tions. It was cool in much of the Mid west and warm and humid in Southern and Eastern sections. Temperatures were near normal levels in most other areas. Unseasonable cold air from Can ada spread across the upper and mid Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region southward to the Ohio River. The cool air was expected to spread into the Ohio Valley, lowei Great Lakes region and New England. The warm and humid weather of the last several days continued in Texas and south of the Ohio River' and east of the Appala chians. Clashing of cold air with warm moist air from the Gulf of Mex ico triggered heavy rains in Ten nessee. As the cold air moved southward during the night, strong winds struck sections of Kentucky and western parts of Nashville, Tenn. Neariy 2 inches of rain doused Chattanooga, Tenn. Fire Razes Burns School BURNS (AP) The new half- million-dollar Burns-Hincs Union High School burned to the ground Sunday night. Firemen were ham pered in fighting the blaze because they had to string their hose from a single hydrant, nearly a mile from the furiously burning struc ture. Cause of the fire was not deter mined. The blaze broke out about 7:30 p.m. and within an hour the entire 17-classroom school with its cafe teria, gymnasium, library and offices was engulfed in flames. Volunteer firemen and most of the residents of Burns and Mines sped to the scene. The exterior plumbing for, the building had not yet been completed, however, and the nearest fire hydrant was far away. The delay in hooking up hose to the hydrant and low pressure- caused by pumping water such a distance resulted in the liremcn fighting a losing battle almost from the first. The school was completed ex cept for final interior painting and some nnisning worn, it was to have been dedicated and opened tnis tall. It was a sprawling one-stofy frame building with pumice block veneer halfway up the exterior walls. Principal Lee Baldwin said the district carried $500,000 insurance on the structure. There was no equipment inside Last week voters of the school district rejected a $'18,000 bond issue 150.000 of which was ear marked for buying furniture for the new school. Students of the two towns have been attending the old high school at Burns. School officials said they probably will be there again next tan. BROKEN HIP Charles Larson, 82, 18)12 Oregon Avenue, was taken by Peace Am bulance to Klamath Valley Hosnl tal Saturday, alter he broke his hip during a visit to the coast Larson's condition was reported as good Monday morning. ,.,.,. I V iL "T. y .j RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE Wednesday, . June 4. Masonic Temple, 418 Klamath Avenue. Hours, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4:30 to 8 p.m.. Thursday, June 5, Merrill Recreation Hall. Hours, 4 to 8 p.m. U.S. Replies To Red Note WASHINGTON (AP)-The State Department has notified Russia in response to a Soviet com plaintthat the U.S. Navy is keep ing close watch on shipping in the ocean approaches to the United States. Moscow had protested that U.S. aircraft had buzzed Soviet trawl ers in international waters near the . Grants Banks southeast of Nova Scotia. j, .. State Department press officer Lincoln White said the Soviet com plaint was made about mid-April and that it received a prompt answer. Privately, informants said that the behavior of the Soviet trawler fleet along sea and air routes be tween the U.S. East Coast and Europe is suspicious in some re spects. The Russian vessels were said to be in waters which are not normally heavily fished. They seem to have a large amount of electronic detection equipment sucn as radar. The number of ves sels is constant, one arriving as another departs. Asked about the nature of the U.S. reply to Moscow, White said that it followed the lines of this statement which he had just made to reporters on the situation: "The United Stales Navy con ducts routine surveillance of ship ping in the ocean approaches to the United States. 'Soviet trawlers have been sighted from time to time. In conducting the surveillance it is sometimes necessary to approach within visual identification range of ships being investigated." State Accepts Hearst Castle SAN SIMEON (UPD Joseph R. Knowland, chairman of the Cali fornia Park Commission, accept ed today the fabulous Hearst Cas tle for the state with pride and gratitude." "I do not feel that I overstate when I declare that this is the most valuable gift ever present ed to California." Knowland de clared in accepting the castle and its works of art. "Under present income tax laws there will be few individuals, if any, in the future, who could af ford to build such magnificent and striking buildings as constitute the Hearst holdings at ban Simeon. Knowland recalled how many important state monuments have been given to the state by the late William Randolph Hearst and his heirs. Several of California's 21 missions are among them. well as California's first theater at Monterey. "This famous castle ... is out standing among historical monu ments and continues the campaign started by Mr. Hearst in 1905 as a splendid contribution to Califor nia's romantic and picturesque history," Knowland said. "All of these historic shrines will remain for future generations to enjoy. William Hearst, representing the family and the Hearst corporation. conveyed the castle and its furnishings to the state. CLASH TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD - Na tionalist Chinese patrol boats clashed with Communist Chinese vessels near Matsu Island, north of Formosa, Sunday. The Nation alists said three of the Communist vessels disappeared from the ra dar screen and probably were sunk. Telephone TU 4-8111 Indonesia May Go Broke JAKARTV Indonesia (AP) - Prime Minister Djuanda warned Monday that the Indonesian gov ernment will go broke unless it quickly puts down the 3'i-month old revolt in the outer islands. Addressing a local trade fair opening. Djuanda said that if the revolt goes on much longer the government won't be able to fi nance the armed forces. He said President Sukarno's regime may have to shut down its diplomatic missions abroad and curtail al ready restricted inter-island traf fic. In his first public disclosure of the government's dire financial plight sine it launched its costly war against the rebels on Sumatra and Celebes, Djuanda warned: "In one year alone the govern ment lost 300 million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange and out of it 60 million is due to the Sumatran revolt." The Cenlral Sumatran revolt was put down Jast month and the government since has concen trated on the rebellious North Celebes. It is expected to launch full-scale invasion there in the near future. Mosk Assails Bob McCarthy SAN FRANCISCO 'UPD - The race for attorney general ap peared today to be the only major campaign to stir up any heat on the day before elections. Judge Stanley Mosk of Los An geles, Democratic candidate for the post, assailed his chief Demo cratic opponent, slate Sen. Robert f. McCarthy. But McCarthy re plied with soft words. Mosk said McCarthys cam paign literature tried to claim that McCarthy is a supporter ol Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Democratic candidate for governor, and Rep. Clair Engle candidate for U.S. senator. This, Mosk said, was in strange contrast with his prev ious attacks on members of the California Democratic Council slate and on pre-primary endorse ments." Early in the campaign, McCarthy attacked what he called a "pack age deal" slate of Democratic nominees. Brown, Engle and Mosk arc on that slate. In January, McCarthy refused to allow the council convention to consider him for endorsement. "I have sent out no mailing of any kind, McCarthy said, and I have not endorsed Brown. En gle or anybody else. The only Democrat I am personally sup porting is 'Biz' Johnson." He was referring to stale Sen Harold T. Johnson, candidate lor Congress from the 2nd District Barn Damaged By Freak Fire After smouldering for nearly three day a freak fire -finally burst out early Monday morning in me Darn 01 u u. Axel, on Air way Avenue, and damaged a con sidcrablc amount of chopped hay before it was put out by the South Suburban bite Department. ine lire began Thursday, during a cnopping operation, when a string attached to a baled hay net got caught by a hot bearing and set lire to the net above. The net caught fire, and fell on the hay, but Axel thought he had stomped it out. It was only when he was mi'king Monday morning that the hay burst into flame. The barn was not damaged. EXPLOSIONS BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP) Bomb explosions ar.J sporadic rifle fire broke Beirut three-day calm Sunday night and early Monday. Mishaps Kill 10 In Oregon Over Holiday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Accidents claimed the lives of 10 persons in Oregon over the long Memorial Day holiday weekend. Six persons drowned and four were killed in traffic smashups. One automobile victim was pinned undei his car in a ceme tery. Another died at a cemetery entrance. Cloyce Everett Jolly, 53, drove to a hillsid? cemetery on the out skirts of Roseburg Saturday to put flowers on the grave of his wife. The brakes of his parked car did not hold and the vehicle plunged into the cenetery, knocking down several tomostones and then ran over Jolly, pinning him to the ground. Coroner L. L. Powers said Jolly lived for some time after the acci dent. Howrver, there were few visitors at the cemetery and the body was no found until Sunday. . Jesse Floyd Hayes, 61, of Gay lord, Ore., was killed Sunday when the car in which he was a pas senger ran off Highway 42 near the town of Camas Valley. Margaret Ward, 46, of Portland, was killed Saturday when she was thrown from her car as it skidded and hit an embankment near Portland. Sharon Marshall, 13. of Valsetz, died in a wreck at the entrance to a cemetery near Dallas Friday. Raymond M. Miller 34, of bu- gene, drowned tn a water-filled gravel pit Sunday. He had waded in to pull free from weeds a raft on which his son was playing. Miller became entangled in the weeds and went under. A passer by, Marion E. Leach, also of Eu gene, jumped in and cried to rescue him -but failed. Leach got the boy, 14-year-old James Miller, to shore. The three young sons of Mrs. Katherine Vowel) of The Dalles drowned Friday in a Columbia River slousn. They were Sterling, 12: Larry, 11;, and Rocky, 9. Their bodies were recovered Saturday. The othr two drownings also occurred Friday. Holdreich Arndt, 21, Portland, drowned in the surf while swimming near Gearhart on the coast, and James bmiln, 16, of Coos Bay, drowned in Coos Bay. Fifty Die In California SAN FRANCISCO (UPD Cali fornia listed 50 persons dead today as a result of accidental deaths during the three - day Memorial weekend, more than half of them in traffic. The traffic toll was 29. Drown ings were next with 13. Plane crashes took three lives and five persons died in other kinds of ac cidents. Southern California accounted for 18 traffic deaths and Northern and Central California accounted for 11. The Northern California victims included: Woodrow T. Moe, 16, Los Molin- drowned. Morris L. Dixon, 21, Sclma killed in an auto accident. Clyde Weatherford, 32, Cuper tino, killed in an auto accident near Santa Rosa. Russell A. Goodson, 42, Santa Rosa, killed in an auto accident. William Pearson, 58, Lafayette, killed in an auto accident. Mary Pliel, Glenbrooke, killed in an aulo accident near Nevada City Calif. Debra Borcius, 2, killed in an auto accident on the San Francis co Bay Bridge. Alphonse Urango, 31, San Jose killed in an auto accident at Mountain View. Robert J. Jahnle, 78, San Fran Cisco, died in a fire. Carl E. Orr, 16, Stockton, drowned. Candy Cannistraci, 6, Richmond killed in an auto accident near Napa. Larry B. Morris, 17, presum ably killed by a hit-run driver on Merced Falls Road. W. H. Hooker. Hay ward; Don aid E Carter, Hayward; and John F. Maulsby, Oakland, killed in plane crash near Bakcrsticld. Timothy Schneider, 5, Shatter, killed when he pedaled his bicycle into the path of an auto. Joseph M. Mcddcrs. 20, Killed in a collision on Highway 466 east of Bakcrslield. Curtis Powell, 15, Tulare drowned while swimming in a pond. Fire Destroys Kinney Home Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the home of Mrs. Emma Kinney, Olcne. on Oregon Slate Highway 66. shortly alter 4 p.m Saturday. The home, built about 54 years ago by Fred Clift for John D. Whitman, an orchardist contained a valuable library and numerous art objects. The alarm was turned Into the Suburban Fire Department at 4:10 p.m. by Mrs. Marion Barnes who lives across the highway alter smoke was seen coming out around the chimney during a ram storm Barnes went to the home believ ing that Mrs. Alan 'Donna I Ab- ncr, daughter 01 Mrs. Mnncy, mieht be in the house. Both Mrs. Kinney and Mrs. Ab ner were absent at the time. Two family cats, however, escaped the flames when Barnes openoa door. The five-room frame home was completely gutted and an furnish ings and other contents destroyed. The occupants saved only the clothes they wore. Only outside walls are left standing. The fire danarlmsnl nn fhft irniw nnlv m. ments after receiving the call, wasfecutive to nave full powers (more unable to save the home. .Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and after noon and evening thunderstorms In the Cascades Monday night and Tuesday. Low Monday night 40-45: high Tuesday 63-8. High yesterday 60 Law last night -. 41 I'recip. last U noun .... trace Since Oct. 1 15.49 Same period last year 14.96 Normal for period 11.53 Mount Hebron Accident Kills Woman A tragic accident on the north slope of Mount Hebron this morn ing brougn death to Mrs. Bea trice Pruei'., 42. of Searcy, Arkan sas, and seriously injured her son, inoert, 18. The victims were passengers in a car driven by their husband and father, Wilb.rt E. Pruett. 48, which was going north on Highway 97. headed from Wasco, California to Grants Pass. The accident oc curred near Juniper Lodge, when a large semi-truck with trailer, ap parently eol'ided with the Pruett car, which it was attempting to pass, and wont out of control, turn ing over on top of the Pruetts. The Pruetts' car was complete ly demolished, and observers found it difficult 10 understand how the senior Pru"it and his son Roland, 9, escaped with injuries slight enough ilia', they were not admit ted to Mamath Valley Hospital, Koiana s brother, Wayne, 5, was admitted with multiple lacerations. The driver, of the truck, as yet unidcntilied, was apparently not in jured. After the accident, the collapsed semi stretched from bank to bank across Hignway 97, blocking the highway to the point that Peace Ambulance personnel had to re move rocks from the roadside to make way for their stretchers. Pre liminary reports indicated that the highway would be closed to traffic in both directions for as long as six hours. First reports stated that Pruett is a migrant worker who is also a minister. " The body of Mrs. Pruett was tak 1 to the Upton Mortuary in Weed. U.S. Placed In Dilemma . UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (AP) Tunisia and France 4oth sought u. 0. suppon loaay lor cross com plaints to the U. N. Securitv Coun. cil. Each blamed the other for re cent clashes on Tunisian soil. The Unitd States faced a hard choice. If It backed Tunisia, it would oltend the new French gov ernment of Gen. Charles De, uaune, a NATO ally. If it backed France, it would offend Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's pro Western regime. If it abstained it would please neither side. Both complaints concerned a battle between Tunisian and French troops May 24 and 25 around Remaaa, southern Tunis ia, and a French air raid on that region May 25 from neighboring Algeria. lunisia charged "acts of ag gression committed against it by r rencn mrces siaiioned in lis ter ritory and in Algeria." SALUTE LONDON (AP) It's five vears this Monday since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. London celebrated with a show of flags and a 41-gun salute fired in Hyde r-arK by the Royal Horse Art 1- lcry. Scribe Asks End Or Start Editor's Note: General Charles de Gaulle's rise to power seemed so inexorable in the past week that the National Assembly vote making him premier was almost anticlimactic. But is De Gaulle the end of a crisis or the be ginning of yet a greater one? Thomas R. Curran, vice president and general European manager of United Press International, analyzes it in the following dis patch. By THOMAS R. CURRAN United Press International PARIS ;UPD The government ot Charles de Gaulle Is only a lew hours old but already French men look beyond and ask: "What next?" The general has welded him self a majority in the National Assembly. But that Is not his ma jor challenge. It Is a constitution that does not work. A war without solution An economy off the raiis. De Gaulle asked for six months to settle these problems grave problems that have vexed France for years. Deputies will tell you they are not afraid of De Gaulle. "What worries us," they say, "is what happens if he fails." This Is tne mares-nest of trou ble that De Gaulle would cure in six months. Reform the constitution. De Gaulle feels the present system ot government is Impossibly weaK. ills government is the 27th since . ha uap nj flantlA wnnl IhA . Ion the American pattern), and he Cabinet Gives Vast Powers To De Gaulle PARIS (AP)-The French Na. tional Assembly voted 322 to 232 Monday to grant Gen. Charles da Gaulle sweeping powers to gov ern by decree for six months. The measure was sent Imme diately to the French Senate where De Gaulle supporters hoped to ram it through Monday and clear the way for the new pre mier s trip to Algeria to restore the government authority over the rebellious territory. The vote was almost identical with the vote of 329 to 224 by which the Assembly invested De Gaulle haroiy 24 hours earlier. In the final version of the mea sure, De Gaulle's supporters ac cepted amendments restricting the general's Dower to govern bv . decree in such fields as civil lib erties, labor legislation and social security. However, the bill incor porated almost everything the gen eral asked to enable him to gov ern tor six months while tne As sembly takes a paid vacation. the general maintained con stant contact with the Assembly through Cabinet members report ing to his downtown hotel head quarters. H was reported per- turbed by -committee bickering. The emerging legislation varies only slightly from the full pow ers the Assembly implied it would grant when it voted the general's investiture Sunday. Meanwhile De Gaulle s con. tacts with the Algerian insurgents took on something of a cloak and dagger aspects. Gen. Raoul Sal- an, French commander in Alge ria, announced that he had re ceived a telephone call from De Gaulle saying the general would arrive there Wednesday. De Gaulle's office confirmed the phone call, hut only after several hours. It was learned, too, that Leon Delbecque, a fiery political lead er in the Algerian junta, had coma to Paris for secret talks with De Gaulle. The Assembly vote on powers for De Gan'.ie was the second par liament victory for him tn this busy legislative day. Earlier the deputies voted 337-199 to continue the government s special emergen cy powers in Algeria. These pow ers have bren passed on from government to government tne past three years. The Assembly and the Senate outlined for themselves a back breaking schedule so that Da Gaulle can iand in Algeria Tues day or Wednesday to cope with his most immediate problem the insurgent army leaders and French colonists whose defiance of Premier Pierre Pflimlin s gov. eminent brought tne World War II hero out of the political wil derness. French, Russ Aides Confer MOSCOW (AP) French Am bassador Maurice Dejean visited Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Monday for a discussion of Summit Conference plans. ine meeting completed the cur rent cycle of talks which included earlier visits by Britain's Sir Patrick Reilly and Llewellyn Thompson of the United States. All three envoys have agreed not to disclose the details of their conversations with Gromyko. A Soviet spokesman said after De jean's meeting Monday that no details would be disclosed here. French sources said, however. that Dejean was still acting on instructions of the former French government and will continue to do so until he gets new ones from the De Gaulle government in stalled Sunday. If De Gaulle Of Crisis thinks the people should vote di rectly on the reform. End the war in Algeria. This may be the gravest challenge. Can even De GuUlIe stand firm when two runaway trains collide with him in the 'middle resurgent French colonialism on one side and Moslem determination for freedom on the other? Get France's economy back on the rails. The war in Alceria has been a fearful drain, costing some 650-million dollars to date, with the Algerian nationalist movement stronger than .ever. There aro other chronic ills high impous and' low exports among them. De Gaulle is said to know what he wants and to be inflexible in getting it. lie was the proud symbol ol? France when the country was en tirely overrun by Hitler's legions, lie feels he helped save France's' integrity in 1040 and he can do it again today. If ho succeeds, the Fourtn Re public, chastcr.d and puriued by me constitutional reiorm, can car ry on with greater stability and few governmental upheavals. And if he fails? The pessimists fear the Commit. nists will have a golden opportu nity to take over the controls with popular front government. Whatever comes next, the im mediate feeling in France today was one 01 renei. Many Frenchmen who normally might have been against Da Gaulle prayed for his success. They feared failure would men the horror of civil war and Um triumph of a communlft-dtantaat. ed popular front.
