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0 OF OREGON LIBRARY EUGESE, ORE. COUP In The- Day's flews By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs: Secretary of Stale Dulles is in London, where he is conferring witn members of the Baghdad Pact specifically Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. The purpose of the Baghdad Pact is to provide ludumocK to Keep Kussia from getting into the Middle East. Con sult your map for details. Dulles is reported to have told inese nations the U.S. would be wmine to join Russia in Dutlimr an embargo on arms to the Middle nasi excepting, of course. Tur key, Iran and Pakistan whnso inh k to provide the roadblock to stop Is Dulles wasting words? I suppose so. But at a conference, especially diplomatic conference, one has to talk. One purpose of diplomacy Is to keep everybody talking until the immediate danger of SHOOT ING passes. More foreign affairs stuff: Diplomats in Washington say (his morning that the latest Soviet blasts against the U.S. do not nec essarily mean a rejection of Pres ident Eisenhower's newest condi tions for a summit talk. (Soviet newspapers, which say only what they are TOLD to say, have been shouting that the U.S. is "procras tinating" in an effort to head off the summit meeting.) What the diplomats mean is that Russia's job is to blast us ver bally at every turn of the road. As long as she blasts us with words, instead of with bombs, there isn't too much to worry about. Her VERBAL blasts are apt to mean that everything is normal. Here's something more inter esting: ' These Washington diplomats also EXPRESS HOPES THAT U.S. TROOPS MAY BE WITHDRAWN BEFORE OR DURING THE PRO POSED MID-EAST TALKS. I'm sure we private citizens can II join in that hope. Maybe we had to send the troops In the first place. Maybe the situ ation was so menacing that we had to send the troops to keep shooting from starting RIGHT THEN. Things like that fall into the category of restricted information Intelligence services can't always tell everything they know. But private, unofficial, everyday Amer icans are pretty certain in their own minds that the quicker we can get our troops out of the Middle East the better it will be. Why'' -: .... Let's put it this way: Suppose Egypt or Turkey, or Iran, or Britain, or France, ANY foreign country had sent troops to LITTLE ROCK. We'd have been MAD. We'd have been mad all the way through. We'd have had reason to be mad. Sending troops into a foreign coun try is ticklish business. Army Levies Draft Call WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Army will draft 11.000 men in September, 1.000 more than in each of the previous three months, the Defense Department an nounced today. A Pentagon spokesman said the slight increase was within normal limits and had nothing to do with the Middle East crisis. He pointed out there has been no increase in authorized man power ceilings for the armed forces. The September call, like those for previous months, is the number considered necessary to meet Army needs "after allowan ces have been made for enlist ments and rcenlistments," he said. The September call will bring to 2,363.430 the total number of men drafted since the Korean War started eight years ago. Only the Army uses draftees. Cal Primary Shows Demo Trend By JAMF.S C. ANDERSON United Press International SACRAMENTO (UPD-Final re pulls of the June primary elec tion in races for 80 seats in the slate assembly showed a distinct Democratic trend. An analysis of the returns as certified by Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan indicated Re publicans are in grave danger of losing control of the lower house of the legislature for the first time tince 1941. Here is the picture at a glance: Partv breakdown at present time: Republicans 43, Democrats 87. High point of GOP margin in last 17 years: Republicans 53. Democrats 27 on March 1, 1953. Incumbents reelected in June primary: Republicans 2, Demo crats 14. Districts in which one candidate holds commanding lead: Repub licans 26. Democrats 26. Districts in which incumbents trailed in primary: Republicans 4. Democrats 0. Districts in which incumbents are retiring and primary results Indicate a shift to other party: Republicans 4. Democrats 0. Districts in which incumbents tiflve a primary total vote lead of less than l.ooo votes: Republicans S, Democrats 0 At the very least, the primaryl'Sthi. In the seat being vacated by Price Five Cents 12 Pages EISENHOWER f KHRUSHCHEV cvjy. I QUESTION OF A U.N. MEETING of the, top four world leaders still was unanswered today. President Eisenhower had called for a big power meeting under the auspices of the U.N. Security Council. Russia's Khrushchev, however, indicated that he may call for a meeting in Geneva outside the United Nations as requested by French Premier Charles de Gaulle. Shown here are the four heads of state against the U.N. Security Council backdrop where they may eventually meet to discuss the Middle East situa-tion. Russians May Repeat Call For Geneva Meet By WILLIAM C. SEXTON United Press International LONDON UPI Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev may seize upon Gen. Charles de Gaulle's reluctance toward a sum mit meeting in New York to re turn to his original proposal for a five-power conference in Gene va, diplomatic sources said today. The sources pointed to Sunday's charges m the official Soviet press of American "procrastination" on the projected summit talks and suggested that De Gaulle's posi tion gave the Soviets the oppor tunity to bounce back with fur ther maneuvers. It was generally believed in Western circles that the argu ments set forth in the Soviet press foreshadowed Khrushchev's ex pected reply to Eisenhower's let ter of July 25 in which the Presi dent proposed that a meeting on the Middle East crisis be set up by the United Nations Security Council In New York. Diplomatic sources in Washing ton expressed doubt the Soviet press charges meant that Khrush chev would reject Eisenhower's latest conditions for a summit meeting. They recalled similar Russian attacks were made on early proposals for top-level talks shortly after the current Middle East trouble began. But Western observers in Lon don and Moscow believed the So viet premier might now pounce on De Gaulle's proposal in his letter to Khrushchev Saturday that the VIOLATORS GO TO SCHOOL BAMBERG, Germany (UPD American soldiers who violate traffic regulations here will be in for an education. Officials said any G.I. arrested for a traffic cio lation will have to attend a spe cial school class after duty for four days for a course in road safety. results would indicate the Demo crats safely can count on winning 40 seats in November. They appear to have an excel lent chance of picking up four more seats currently held by Re publicans, which would give them a 44-36 edge in the crucial 1959 general session of the legislature. In seven other districts, the pri mary results are so close that a strong swing to the Democratic lower house party split of 51-29. Coupled with trends indicated in June results ior the senate, the Democrats appear likely to have jood working majorities in both houses in the 1959 session. Republican Assemblymen in the most trouble are Francis Lindsay ifith district), William W. Hansen. '33rd, Herbert R. Klocksiem M4thi and Don Anderson 4Sth. Lindsay trails his Democratic challenger by 5.044 votes nut of 51,402 cast; Hansen is 4.081 he, hind on a total vote of 33.6R9; Klocksiem trails hy 4.978 votes out of 40.000 cast and Anderson is 2.925 votes behind in a district where the second-best Democratic got 7.1.V) votes. District now held by three Re publican incumbents may shift to the Democrats on the basis of pri mary trends. Tnese would in clude seats held by Speaker Luth er H. Lincoln 1 15th, Donald D. Doyle 110th) and Roy J. Neilsen KLAMATH .. -ci meeting be held in Geneva and be limited to Russia, France, Brit ain, the United States and India. De Gaulle's reply to Khrushchev accentuated his split with Britain and the United States and further complicated the picture. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Secretary of State John roster Dulles agreed in Lon don Sunday that the top-level con ference on the Middle East should be held in the Security Council in New York. Bay Truckers Still Striking OAKLAND (UPD A strike of East Bay truck drivers appeared likely to go on indefinite ly today alter union members re jected a contract offered by the California' Trucking Association. At a mass meeting in Oakland Auditorium Sunday, pickup and delivery truck drivers of Team sters Local 70 rejected the com pany offer by a vote of 2,074 to 47. The employers offered a $1.60 daily wage increase. Union spokesmen indicated the men would not accept a contract which grants lower wages than those won by San Francisco Teamsters. East Bay Truckers now receive from J2.27 to $2.62 an hour. San Francisco teamsters, who are now negotiating a new contract, earn from 10 to 20 cents an hour more. Before Sunday's vote was taken, a union official announced that the Teamsters International had voted strike sanction to Local 70 That means strikers will begin collecting about $35 a week in strike benefits. Republican Caspar W. Weinberger, a Democratic candidate has a 1,653 vote edge over the Republican nominee although all Republican candidates in the primary drew 5.521 more voles than Democratic candidates. Republican incumbents face touch-and-go situations in the 54lh where Assemblyman John L. E. Collier leads his Democratic foe by 787 v otes out of 39.107 cast and in the 80th where Assemblyman lack Schrade leads by 693 votes out of 37.693 cast in June. Probably the most fortunate candidate in the Assembly pri mary election was veteran Dem ocrat Vine Thomas of San Pedro. Thomas easily won his own party nomination and edged Republican Tom Brewer for the GOP nomin ation by four votes, thus winning a new two-year term. WATCH THAT BOTTLE PERRY, England (UPI i -The managing director of one of Brit ain's largest mineral water firms told housewives loday they "might as well" give their children bottl ed beer than homemade ginger oeer. Bill Sturgess said laboratory tests showed that a sample of fermented home-brewed ginger neer contained more than 7 per cent alcohol, compared with t$e to 4 per cent alcohol found in bottled beer. ' ' " ' "p" FALLS. OREGON, MONDAY, JULY MACMILLAN MDE GAULLE Explorer IV Orbiting Amid Deadly Rays WASHINGTON (UPI) - Explor er IV whirled around the world today with its important radio n- nals "coming in wonderfully" and sending; back valuable information on deadly radiation. The largest U.S. satellite was scneduied to pass over Russia again today. It shot across Soviet skies Sunday marking the first ap pearance of an American earth moon over that country. The Naval Research Laboratory said the satellite's course today also will take it over Mints in China; New Zealand, French Gui ana, England, Australia, Mongol ia, France, Yemen. Japan and Uruguay. A spokesman at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. Ala., said officials were delighted with the performance of Explor er IV. It whirled about the earth every 110 minutes and carried what are believed to be the most delicate instruments ever devised for radi ation detection. The 38.4.1-pound hullet-shaped satellite may have a life expectancy of about five years, officials said. The deadly radiation band the satellite is gathering data on cotild i stall human space travel for years unless its problems are solved. This country has given the In ternational Committee of the In ternational Geophysical Year a description of the instruments in the satellite as well as the fre quencies on which its radio trans mitters are broadcasting. This should enable Russian sci-i enlists as well as scientists from other nations to interpret the data being sent back just the same as American scientists are doing. The Army fired the baby moon into orbit in a northeasterly direc tion with a Jupiter C rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday. In space, it joined the Army's Explorer I, the Navy's Vanguard I, and Russia's Sputnik III in an elliptical course around the globe. The satellite's orbit ranged from 162.9 miles above the earth at its nearest point to 1,373 3 miles at its most distant point. It was trav eling at speeds ranging from 14, 000 to 18,000 miles an hour. Explorer IV was more than sev en pounds heavier than the Army Explorer I and more than 30 pounds heavier than the Navy's liny but higher-flying Vanguard I. But it was small compared with Russia's 2.919-pound Sputnik III. Window Fall Hangs Girl GRANTS PASS (AP)-An ll'i year - old girl. Marnette Hnrton. accidentally hanged herself Satur day afternoon while trying in crawl through a bedroom window at her home, Coroner Virgil Hull said Monday. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Mar tin F. Hortnn. had left her at home while they went to shop. She accidentally locked herself out of the house, and climbed on a saw horse to enter through the win dow. The window fell, pinning her neck across the sill. In her strug gles the kicked the sawhorte out from under her feet. 28, 1958 Weal her FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity i Fair through Tuesday with chance of lightning in Can rades Monday night and slightly pooler Tuesday. Low Monday night 55-62. High Tuesday 88-95. High yesterday 90 l.ow last night 61 Precip. last 24 hours (I Since Oct. 1 19.47 Same period last year 15.18 Normal for period 12.62 Fire Danger Today MODERATE Fires will start from lighted match and spread in light fuels until extinguished. FIVE-DAY FORECAST By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eastern Oregon Temperatures averaging above normal. Maxi mums generally in 90s. Little or no precipitation. Northern California No rain; temperatures near normal; nor mal minimum-maximum Sacra mento 58-92, Red Bluff 66-99, Eu reka 53-611, Santa Rosa 48-82, Blue Canyon 60-79. OTHER FORECASTS San Francisco Ray Area Part ly cloudy through Tuesday with morning high fog; low tonight 55 60; westerly winds lighter than usual. Northern California Partly cloudy with a few thunderstorms in central area and mostly fair northern area through Tuesday; not quite so hot in Central Val ley; night and morning fog on coast; coastal winds variable 8- 18 m.p.h. Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Fair and slightly cooler through Tues day. Sierra Nevada Partly cloudy through Tuesday with a few limn derstorms motly south of U.S. 40; little change in temperature. Lr. Gen. Claire Chennault. Death Claims Flying Tiger NEW ORLEANS (UPD Family and friends of Lt. Gen. Claire L. Chennault paid their last respecls today to the famed "Flying Tiger" prior to his burial in Washington's Arlington National Cemetery. Chennault, 67, died Sunday of lung cancer at Ochsner Clinic, His second wife, Anna, was at his side. The weatherbeaten. nldtime air man had been reported improving from the bilateral ailment and only Sunday morning was re moved frrtm the critical list. But death came suddenly later in the day. The body will lie in stale until funeral services at 3 p.m. e.d.t., then will be flown to Washington by the 14th Air Force, which absorbed the Flying Tigers during World War II. It will lie in slate in the capital Tuesday night until another service at 10 a.m., e.d.t., Wednesday and burial at Arling ton. Chennault gained his greatest fame in China, where before and during World War II his Ameri can volunteer group Flying Tigers wrote one of the most brilliant chapters in aviation his tory at 20-to-l odds against the Japanese. "Old Lcatherface," as he was known to the Chinese because of his rugged features, taught his American pilots his own brand of precision tactics that wilh surgi cal deitness removed 250 enemy planes from the sky from the Tigers first fight on Dec. 20, 1941, to July 4, 1942, when the Tigers were absorbed by the U.S. Air Force. During that time Chen nault't youthful fliers never numbering more than 87 suffered 19 casualties. PREMIER IN HOSPITAL CAPETOWN, South Africa 'UPD Premier J. G. Strijdnm underwent routine treatment for his heart ailment at a hospital to day. He has hern suffering from a heart condition for several years. Telephone TU 4-81 1 1 Allies Pledge Support For Baghdad Pact By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press International LONDON (UPD The United States and Britain reaffirmed their support for the "northern tier" Baghdad alliance today as a vital bulwark to keep Russia out of the strategic Middle East. U. S. Secretary of Stale John Foster Dulles was reported to have found pact members far calmer, in the light of Middle East events, than he had antici pated. He told the leaders the United States does not plan to join as a full member at present. The prime ministers of Britain. Turkey, Iran and Pakistan met at Lancaster House in the fifth coun cil session of the Baghdad Pact. Iraq, the fifth member, was not represented. Dulles sat in on the talks as an observer the United States is not a lull member although it is represented on the more im portant committees. Iraq has not pulled out of the alliance as yet. But the leaders of the new revolutionary regime are expected to do so shortly and both the United States and Brit ain have written her off as an ef fective member. The sessions will be secret after the brief public opening. The meeting, originally set for three days, was cut down because of the pressure of other interna tional business. Dulles planned to fly back to Washington tonight. Dulles conferred all day Sunday with the other leaders. He met for four hours with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Then he conferred separately with Iran's Prime Minister Manou- chehr Eghbal and Prime Minister Firoz Khan Noon of Pakistan. At 'working dinner" Sunday night he met again with all the minis ters and Turkish Premier Adnan Mendercs. Authoritative sources said Mac millan ' and Dulles assured the others that Britain and the United Slates agreed the Baghdad Pact should continue in existence, re gardless of the events in Iraq. Ike Requests Bigger Limit WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Eisenhower asked Congress Monday for an eight billion dol lar temporary increase in the na tional debt limit. It would raise the ceiling to 288 billion. Eisenhower also requested that the permanent statutory debt limit be raised 10 billion dollars to 285 billion. The President made his request in identical letters to Vice Presi-i dent Nixon, the Senate's presiding officer, and House Speaker Sam Rayburn ID-Texl. He said the Treasury Department and the Budget Bureau have advised him I hat contemplated revenues and spending for the current fiscal year make it necessary to request a debt ceiling increase. "Accordingly," Eisenhower said, "the administration is at this time asking the Congress to increase the regular statutory debt limit to 285 billion dollars and also to provide an additional temporary increase of Ihree billion dollars to run through Jure 30, I960." The present temporary ceiling of 280 billion dollars is authorized through next June. W A COOL SWIM at the municipal pool on Friday afternoon was a welcome break for a group of 34 teen-agers on a 10-week tour 01 the United States and Canada. The youngsters, between IS and 17 years of age, ere mostly from New York, Toronto end Florida, and they bicycle around the two countries except for approximately three weeks when they ride trains. Most of the time they sleep out under the stars, occasionally stopping at a motel. They borrow the money from their parents to make the trip, and then work for two or three summers to pay it beck to them. The nine shown on tha diving board ere waiting for1 the rest of the group and their ehapereni to coma from Crater Lake, Marine Tempers Flare But Death Accidental BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPI) A U.S. Marine killed Sunday was ac- cidenlally shot hy one of his own buddies while on an unauthorized visit to a small village, a Marine spokesman said today. It had been reported he was killed by a rebel sniper. The Marine, a private first clqss who was not identified, was killed by a single bullet through the head around noon Sunday. He was in front of his company posi tion south of the Beirut Interna tional Airport. His body was brought back from an olive grove by other Marines. The Marines were reported "fighting mad" when news circu lated that the shooting was done by rebel sniptrs in the hills. But Marine spokesmen warned at jumping at conclusions until an official investigation into the shooting had been completed. Today, a spokesman announced: "Four Marines left the airport ;rea on an unauthorized visit to a small village about half a mile from the airport perimeter Sun day. At some time during the vis it while climbing over a seven- foot wall, the revolver of one Marine banged against the wall and discharged a bullet which en tered the head of the man below him and killed him instantly." The men involved have request ed counsel and the investigation is continuing, the spokesman add ed. The Marine was the fourth cas ually suffered by American forces in Lebanon and the second to he killed by the bullets of a buddy. A Marine Corps, spokesman Sunday had cautioned against blaming rebels for the shooting. Rut he added that if it was proved the rebels were responsible the Marines "would certainly take the necessary patrolling action to see it did not happen again. American paratroopers prepared to move into security positions around the airport have been the targets of almost nightly rebel Heart Attack Claims Hayes SAN DIEGO (UPI) Veteran newsman Sam Hayes, 54. died of a heart attack today as he was preparing his first newscast of the day here for radio station KSDO. Hayes, the original Richfield re porter of western radio fame joined the San Diego station in recent months. He had been in the news business for SO years, both as a commentator and sports broadcaster. Hayes was noled for his fast- talking delivery. Balloonists Back To Earth After Stratosphere Jaunt MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) Two space explorers who set an endurance record in a balloon flight to the stratosphere said Sun day night their own concern was getting back to earth safely. Navy Cmdrs. Malcolm Ross and M. Lee Lewis (ret.) plummeted into a North Dakota pasture Sun day afternoon, bounced 2,000 feet into the air and then bumped along I he ground before coming to a stop. They carried 12,000 insects housed in bottles as part of an experiment on the effect of cos mic rays on reproduction. Lewis said they also carried a number of stowaway mosquitoes. 'They were happier with us than we were with them," he said. The balloonists told a news con ference alter their relurn here that failure of a switch to cut th 17-story high balloon Irom the gondola was responsible for the jarring descenl. Ross, 38, and Lewis, 45, began their historic flight Saturday and soared to an altitude of 82.000 KB YT"H',V tsv sniper fire. The sniping, while re garded merely as harassment, ad mittedly has been getting under the skin of some of the younger Leathernecks. There has been a growing feel ing among the Marines that they should he allowed to retaliate more effectively and not just sit around like "sitting ducks." U.S. authorities have leaned over back wards to avoid any semblance of an open clash between American forces and the Lebanese rebels. Defense Head Says Weapons More Deadly WASHINGTON (UPD Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy has informed Congress some nuclear weapons in the nation's stockpile have been altered in such a way as to increase radioactive fallout in- a local area. But he denied this was done deliberately to make the weapons "dirtier." in a letter to Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mc Elroy said some nuclear weapons had been given new fuses to per mit low - level bursts when needed to destroy an airfield with a giant crater, or to demolish other installations such as sub marine pens. He said low level explosions pick up dirt and make it radio active, thus increasing local dead ly fallout. But he said total fall out was not increased. Sen. Clinlon P. Anderson (D N. M.), member and former chairman of the Senate - House Atomic Energy Committee, en. gaged in a heated dispute earlier this year with Lewis L. Strauss, now retired as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, on this subject. Anderson contended the military had deliberately withdrawn atomic weapons from the stockpile to make them "dirtier." Strauss hotly denied this and so did the military. Anderson said today, "I am very glad they finally confirmed what I said. I have seen so many weapons already altered I was sure they would some day have, to say so." He said he was not objecting to such alteration, "It is the re sponslbility of the military to have all types of weapons for specific purposes," he said in an interview. "It bothered me that they kept talking about clean bombs as if that were the only thing they were interested in." feet before beginning their descent Sunday morning. The space riders were aloft record 34 hours and 39 minutes, breaking by mere than two hours the previous mark set last year by Lt. Col. Davis Simons of the Air Force. The experimental flight set two important firsts. It was the first trip into the stratosphere in a pressurized gondola. The interior of the aluminum gondola main tained sea level pressure through out the flight. In previous flights the balloonists used pressurized suits which limited their actions aloft. . The balloonists also had the dis tinction of producing the first live television "show" from the sub stratosphere. The gondola was equipped with a tiny TV camera which enabled viewers in the Minneapolis St. Paul area to see the interior of the gondola. Ross and Lewis said the pres surized cabin made the flight "very comfortable," although each slept only one hour during the trip. 1!
