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U.OF 05E.UBRART KEf SPAPSR S5CTI0I COIP. Envoy Gets Big Welcome; Cuba Fires New Charges HAVANA (AP)-U.S. Ambassa dor Philip Bonsai got a cheering welcome back from 500 Cubans Sunday but ran into a new bar rage of anti-American blasts from two top Castro government officials. Arriving with a smile, the Chiang Given Rousing Vote For 3rd Term TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek was reelected without opposition today in a third six-year term as presi dent of Nationalist China. Flags of the republic blossomed In Taipei. Firecracker barrages were set off throughout the coun try. The National Assembly, sitting as the nation's electoral college, gave the 73-year-old leader a rous ing 1,481 votes out of 1,504 ballots cast. The remaining 28 ballots were blank an anti-Chiang ex pression and were declared in valid. This amounted to 98.14 per cent of the ballots. Chiang won 88 per cent of the vote when he was first elected at Nanking in 1948 and 95 per cent in Taipei in 1954. As an unopposed candidate, he needed only 789 votes for election, As soon a this number was reached, announcement of the re election was broadcast over the nation's radios. The National Assembly will meet again Tuesday to elect Vice President Chen Cheng, 62, to his second term. He also is unop posed. The president and his running mate will be inaugurated on May 20. The Nationalist constitution pro hibits a third term for the presi dent and vice president, but ir order to keep Chiang in office the prohibition was suspended un til the national regime recaptures the Communist-held mainland. Chiang has been top man in China since the death in 1925 of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the republic of China. In the event of Chiang's death or incapacity, Chen will auto matically succeed to the prcsi dency for the remainder of the unexpired term. He would also be come leader of the Kuomintang, the ruling party, of which he has been deputy leader since 1957. Flying Saucer Info Debated WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force was accused of giving mis leading information about a mys terious round flying object re ported sighted Sept. 24, 1959, at Redmond, Ore. This was alleged Saturday by the National Investigations Com mittee on Aerial Phenomena, private committee dedicated to further investigation of unidenti fied flying objects. The committee released a letter from the Air Force saying the air technical center carried the inci dent on its records as "insuffi cicnt information" with the opin ion it probably was a balloon. Marine Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (ret.), the committee director, said the Federal Aviation Agency logs disproved this. He said, "The Air Force was fully aware that its own and the FAA evidence proved this was some unknown machine under intelligent con trol." The committee, he said, has written Air Force Secretary Dud ley Sharp, asking for an invest! gation of "this release of mislead ing information." "We believe that the public Interest is best served by honest official statements disclosing the full details in all UFO cases investigated by the U.S. Air Force and that concealing the facts will only arouse public suspicion and possibly harm," he said. The Air Force has taken the position that most flying saucer reports can be explained as nat ural phenomena, although it is not able to explain a few. It says there is no evidence to confirm that they are interplanetary space ships. Leftists Defeated COLOMBO. Ceylon AP For mer Prime Minister Dudley Sena nayake today told Gov. Gen. Sir Oliver Goonetillcke he is ready to form a new government for Cey lon. The British-educated Senanay- ake's conservative United Nation al party won only 50 seats in the 151 lower house in Saturday's par Limentary elections, but it was the biggest winner. The leftists took a beating in the lection. American envoy made no mention of finding the official atmosphere as hostile as when he left Havana in a protest two months ago. "I am glad to be here," Bonsai told, an airport crowd that in cluded some foreign diplomats. Prime Minister' Fidel Castro's gov ernment did not send an official representative, but this was not unusual. Bonsai said he would "do every thing possible" to improve Cuban American relations, now at a dan gerously low ebb. Only a few hours before the am bassador's plane landed, Cuba's economic czar, extreme leftist Ernesto Guevara, told a radio au dience the nation faces "eco nomic war" with the United States. Guevara hailed the trade agree ment Fidel Castro signed recent ly with the Soviet Union as the best trade pact Cuba has ever made. Guevara insisted it had no political implications. Guevara asserted that American dollars are not really important to Cuba. He said their only value is for purchases abroad and Cuba can do that with sugar. Cuba s trade pact wilji the Soviet Union calls for Soviet purchase f five million tons of sugar in the next five years. One fifth of it, about 75 million dollars worth, will be paid in cash, the rest in goods. Another blast charging the United States with economic ag gression came trom President Os valdo Dorticos. The Cuban people will die in revolutionary trenches" rather than submit through hunger to U.S. economic aggression, the president told a crowd of 17,000 at a rally to raise funds for arms and planes. The crowd of 17,000 chipped in 250,000 pesos $250,000 at the of ficial rate in Cuba but a lot less on the world money market and thunderously cheered Dorticos assertion that Cuba would buy arms and planes "from whatever country makes and sells them.' There have been unconfirmed reports here that Cuba already has received M1G17S from Com munist Czechoslovakia. Dorticos also denounced the In ter-American Press Assn., whose directors in a report Sunday said that the Cuban press, with two exceptions, is "so intimidated it cannot be considered a free press." The Cuban president charged the IAPA was an "instrument of monopolistic and privileged in terests" of the United States. Bonsai's return to Cuba op posed by some U.S. congressmen came generally as a surprise to the American colony in Havana Some Americans here claimed it would be interpreted as weakness on the part of the U.S. govern ment. MacArthur Okay After Surgery NEW YORK (UPI) General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was resting comfortably today, in "excellent condition" recuperating from Saturday's operation for re moval of his prostate gland. Lenox Hill Hospital said the 80- year-old general s condition was so good 24 hours alter surgery that no new medical bulletin would be issued until later today. MacArthur entered the hospital Jan. 29, three days after his birthday, suffering from a urolog- ical infection due to a blockage of the urinary tract. The blockage was blamed on an enlarged pros tate, and surgery was decided up on more than a month ago. Satur day's operation was not an emer gency. Woman Tells Of Horrors Of Near Brush With Deafh COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP)-i Her eye blackened, her body bruised and her voice hardly a whisper, Mrs. "Loyal Burns, 29, sat up in her hospital bed here Sunday and told of a 13-hour brush with death. The 5-foot brunette mother of six spent 13 hours trapped over night, Thursday, inside her over turned and nearly water-filled car clinging to safety belt rings on the floor to hold her head up to four inches of air space. Her convertible had hurtled from old U. S. Highway 99, hit a large maple tree and flipped over into the icy waters of Elk Creek. 125 feet below the road level. The creek water, swollen by Coast Range snow melt, swirled into the car. Mrs. Burns said all through the night she thought she heard cars and trucks passing on the winding road above, although the roaring water nearly drowned out the sound. She said she thought of diving down to find a way out under the car, but feared she would surely drown if she did. She made an unsuccessful attempt to kick out a window. What, a reporter asked, gave her tile will to cling to the rings: iwSfoBH 1 1 - ! Price Five Cents 14 Pages Herter Says Castro Ideas Follow Reds WASHINGTON (UPI) Secre tary of State Christian A. Herter says Premier Fidel Castro's Cu ban regime appears to follow a Communist pattern in some of its actions. Herter also said Communist sympathizers hold high govern ment positions but added that "I don't think anyone could say af firmatively that Cuba is Commu nist at the present time." He made the statements in a recorded interview with Sen. Lev crett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) The program was recorded before the State Department announced Fri day that U.S. Ambassador Philip Bonsai would return to Cuba. Bonsai went back to Havana Sunday in a new effort to im prove U.S. -Cuban relations. He was recalled Jan. 22 in protest against attacks on him and this country by Cuban officials. Herter said Castro's attitude to ward the United States has been "very difficult for us to take be cause v,e have been subject to in-nut-.idocs and accusations which really required us, as you know, to withdraw our ambassador from Cuba." The secretary declared that the United States was very sympa thetic to the aims of the Castro revolution. He said this ''-country never has objected to Castro's land reform law, but does insist that U.S. owners be compensated for property taken from them. Herter also commented that he thought Cuba "got the short end' of its recent economic pact with the Soviet Union but he did not explain why. On other matters, he: W a r n e d against expecting dramatic results from the Big Four summit conference begin ning May 16 at Paris. Predicted a united Western front oh Germany and other is sues at the conference. Reiterated that the United Stales would not agree to any dis armament proposals which fail to provide for effective control jr hi- spection to guard against cheat ing. Police Study Camera Clue ' STARVED ROCK STATE PARK. 111. (UPI) - The killer of three socially prominent Chica go women may have been photo graphed by one of his victims moments before he struck, police said today. Police based their hopes for a lead to the psychopathic killer on one of four color pictures taken by Mrs. Lillian Oetting just be fore she and two other society matrons were bludgeoned to death in Starved Rock State Park a week ago today. The last picture taken by Mrs. Oetting shows a tree in the back ground with a strange shape which might be that of a man hiding behind the trunk, police said. Authorities rushed the film to a Chicago film laboratory where it was to be enlarged as much as possible to see if it actually showed a man trying to conceal himself. She replied: "I have six children. That's reason enough. And I have a husband that's about the best reason." Jeanne Burns said she felt God was with 'her through the long, cold night. "He (God) has been real good to me that's all 1 can say." She said she didn't remember going off the road, she was hysterical when pulled from the wrecked automobile. State Patrolman George Scheer came down once and was unable to get the door open, so he went to town for help. Mrs. Burns didn't remember that. Scheer had her husband with him when he discovered the car, but sent him home to stay with the six kids, who had been alone. Both be lieved Mrs. Burns undoubtedly was dead. The second time Scheer waded out into the waist-deep water and pried open the door he heard a faint cry of help and an arm reached out. "It's the darndest shock I've ever had in my life. Just like a ghost jumping out at you. Mrs. Burns had suffered shock and exposure but no broken bones. She took a few steps Satur day, the first since the Friday morning rescue. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, I 1 J-t '-'-'.'": .771 L'fci rJ T3 A BRONZE PLAQUE was unveiled at the dedication ceremonies at the Klamath Falls Ter minal building Sunday afternoon before a large crowd. Here, Mayor Lawrence Slater re moves the covering from the plaque, officially dedicating the modernistic facility. In his dedication speech Mayor Slater pointed out the importance of the airport to the entire area, listing the airport as covering more than 900 acres and valued at many millions of dollars. Out-of-city speakers on the program included Charles Drew, FAA district en gineer; Tom Croson, vice president of West Coast Airlines and Earl Snyder, state di rector of aeronautics. Col. Jack Williams, Kingsley Field commander; officials of the Ore gon Pilots Association, Bill Graham, president of the Klamath County Chamber of Com merce, and others also spoka on the dedication program. Nazi Prison Survivors Hold Reunion NEW YORK (AP)-On the sur face, the gathering Sunday night in a Bronx hotel looked like any other reunion clusters of men in a .smoke-clouded room shouting happy greetings, slapping one an other on the back, and drinking toasts. Inside their sleeves, each of the men wore the mark of their bond a number tattooed in blue on the left forearm. .The numbers were burned there more than 15 years ago when the men were prisoners at Auschwitz- Buna in Poland, one of the most horrible Nazi concentration camps. "They didn't know our names, recalled Leon Kcrstein, who now owns a butcher shop in Brooklyn. They called us by numbers." Kerstein's mother, father, six brothers and two sisters were ex terminated in Nazi concentration camps. The gathering was the first and probably the last reunion of the former prisoners. Some of them carried photos showing young cadaverously thin men with shav en heads in blue and white striped uniforms. The pictures were of themselves as slave la borers in 1945. Most of the men were in their 30s and 40s. Many had entered the concentration camp as teen agers. Those who survived had to be young, said Ernest w. Michael chairman of the dinner. "If you were old, you didn't stand a chance." Revolt Fails In Bolivia LA PAZ," Bolivia (AP) - Bo- livia's capital was back to normal today and the government of President Hcrnan Siles Zuazo in complete control after crushing police revolt. Sixteen persons were killed and 106 wounded in sharp fighting Sat urday between a police regiment led by Col. Ilermogenes Rios Led ezma and government forces. Ledezma fled and escaped cap ture. His second in command, Col Burgos Navia, was slain in the five-hour battle. The motive for the revolt was not clear. But President Siles said it was blood proof" of the government's charge two weeks ago that former President Enrique Hertzog was conspiring with former tin mag nate Carlos Victor A r a m a y o against the Socialist-inclined gov ernment. Red China, Nepal Sign Agreement TOKYO (AP) Communist China announced today it has signed a border agreement and economic aid program with the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. Peiping radio said Chinese Pre mier Chou En-lai and visiting Pre mier M. A. Koirala of Nepal signed the document. No details were disclosed. MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1960 BACHELORS: TAKE NOTE LONDON (UPI) Edward G. Carter, 39, was denied a divorce when he claimed his wife lapped his face In front of his stepmother, had a temper tan trum in the presence of his brothers, hid the tea and sugar from him and threw a plant pot at him during their first 12 months of marriage. "This It Just the ordinary wear and tear of married life," said the judge. Navy Seeking Collision Clue NORFOLK, ' Va: (AP) - 11c Navy today sought the reason for a baffling, clear-night collision In which a Swedish freighter rammed a destroyer escort and almost tore it in two. Two reservist crewmen of the USS Darby died and another was seriously injured when the prow of the SS Soya-Atlantic knifed into the naval vessel Saturday at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The weather was clear and the captain of the Darby reportedly was on the bridge at the time. Lawyers for the Soya-Atlantic, which had been outbound for Venezuela, said the merchant ship came at the Darby from the star board side, was showing her port light,' and that the Darby's task was "to keep out of the way." The Navy, however, detained the slightly damaged freighter un til it can complete an inquiry by a special board that began after the Darby was towed into dry- dock before dawn Sunday. Aboard the destroyer escort as she returned from a 16-day train ing cruise with 120-odd reservists were Rep. James E. Van Zandt IR-Pa), Assistant Navy Secretary Richard Jackson, and the com mander of naval reserves, Rear Adm. Robert T. S. Keith. The Soya-Atlantic, a 16-266-ton tanker and ore carrier, was emp ty except for 10,000 tons of wa ter ballast in her oil tanks. Those killed were enlisted men Charles Edward Crandall, 37, of Westminster, Md., and Thomas Edward Johnson, 50, of Annapo lis, Md., both navat reservists. James D. Trusty, 27, of Balti more, one of 36 Tegular Navy crewmen on the Darby, was hos pitalized with a possible fracture of the right knee. De Gaulle Denies Session Request PARIS (UPI) President Charles de Gaulle s refusal to summon Parliament into session on farm problems stirred up political storm among the Social ists today 48 hours before Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's arrival. Former Premier Guy Millet, So cialist party chief, summoned meeting of his party leadership for Tuesday. There were reports he might call an emergency na tional party convention. The conservative daily newspa per Figaro said De Gaulle's in creasing trend toward one man rule had "pushed the Socialist party. . .toward the Communists, In all political circles there was some indignation at De Gaulle Some rightwing politicians feared there was growing danger of a "popular front" which the Com munists have sought for so long. Telephone TU 4-81 1 1 Red Proposal On Testing Given Study GENEVA (AP) New Soviet proposals tor a partial ban on nu clear weapon tests came under close American and British study today. The two Western powers sought enlightenment on safety provisions which the Soviets main tain are contained in their plan. The Soviet government proposed Saturday that the three powers enter into a treaty banning all atomic and hydrogen weapon, tests except small underground bldsts This would be accompanied by moratorium on the excluded un derground tests while a joint sci entific study of this difficult prob lem was undertaken. Washington and London want to know exactly what the Soviet gov ernment has in mind to guard against a violation of the mora torium. The partial ban was first pro posed by President Eisenhower Feb. 11. Western sources said that if the Soviets actually favor safety provisions acceptable to the U.S. and British governments, the 17-month-old nuclear test ban con ference may be on the threshold of achieving a treaty. After introducing the Soviet pro posal, Soviet delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin told the Western dele gates his government would al low some on-site inspections to guard against the small under ground explosions. The Soviets said their plan also included acceptance of a Western proposal for joint East-West sci cntific studies of ways to detect the small underground blasts, which the West says give seismic readings that cannot be distin guished from those given by the numerous small earthquakes the earth experiences constantly. House Argues Law Change, Government Health Plan " WASHINGTON (API A party splitting battle, with organized labor taking an active hand, starts in the House this week over pro posals to add government-paid health care to social security cov erage. After a week of preliminary dis cussions, the House Ways and Means Committee gets down to cases Wednesday when it re ceives administration recommen dations for social security law re vision from Secretary of Welfare Arthur S. Flemming. There were weekend indications these may include some form of government payments for health care of older persons. Many influential Republicans as well as conservative Democrats in the House have opposed a plan advocated by Rep. Aime J. Forand (D-RI). This plan is backed by labor union forces headed by ' President Walter Reuther of the United Auto Work ers, an AFL-CIO vice president. Strong conservative opposition could be expected also to any administration-backed health plan, and the American Medical Assn. is actively fighting any such pro posal. On the other side are election. year political pressures for broad Africans Storm Station; Police Fire Into Crowd VEREEN1GING, South Africa (AP) Police opened fire on 12,. 000 African Negroes besieging a police slation today. Brig. C. J. Els of the Witwalcrsrand police said 30 Negroes were killed and at least 100 wounded. The police station was at Sharpeville, near Vcrecniging, 30 miles south of Johannesburg, where police called in jet fighters and armored cars in an effort lo disperse thousands demonstrating against South African pass laws. Els said that his figure of dead was conservative. Witnesses saw at least 11 ambu lances leaving the scene for hos pitals, but hospital authorities re fused information. About 25 police were besieged inside the police station by the Africans. When the Africans be gan to stone the station, the police opened fire. The rioting was part of the start of a Negro passive resistance campaign to lie up the nation's commerce and industry. Demonstrators in Johannesburg, Capetown and other cities inarched to police stations with out Ihcir passes and dared police to arrest them. Drastic measures were taken in Vereeniging after tear gas failed to break up the crowd, resulting the killing of one African leader and the wounding ot at least four others. The mob had tossed stones and injured several policemen. Then thousands of men and women, shouting the nationalist cry "Afrika," besieged Sharpe ville police station. Sharpeville is a native location where thousands of black Africans live. Jet aircraft screamed down in an attempt to frighten away the Africans. At Bophelong, which lies Weather Klamath Falls and vicinity Fair except for some high rleuds. Highs (8-73; low tonight 30-35. High Sunday 73 Low last night 29 Prccip. past 24 hours 0 Since Oct, 1 S.9S Same period last year 3.94 Northern California Fair except fog and local drizzle near the coast; cooler Tuesday. Five Day Forecasts: Eastern Oregon Above normal temperatures, cooling to near or below normal Wednesday, er Tburs day. Showery periods after Wednos. day. Total precipitation mora than normal, maximum temperatures mostly In 60s or 70s, cooling lo 50s afternoons. Northern California No precipi tation except rain likely In north portion latter half of week; tern pcratures near or above normal, Quake Rocks North Japan TOKYO (AP) - An earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean rocked northern Japan today and sent a small tidal wave into sev eral coastal cities, but no major damage was reported. The Central . Meteorological Agency said the epicenter was in the Pacific about 350 miles east of Tokyo. The quake was barely felt in the capital. "If the center of the quake had been on land," an official said, "it might have caused consider able damage." Seismic stations in Britain, the Soviet Union and Honolulu re ported registering an intense quake. ening social security benefits. rorand said today he will try to by-pass blouse leaders and the Ways and Means Committee if necessary to bring his government old age hospitalization bill directly to the floor. Forand gave the Ways and Means oCommittee an April 1 ul timatum, saying: "I have served notice that I will file a discharge petition by April 1 if I don't get some favorable action on my bill One way or another, I'm going to get a vote this session. Signatures of a majority of the i;i nousc memocrs would Be nec essary to bring the issue directly to a floor vote without committee action. Forand's bill would provide up to 120 days a year of government- paid hospital and nursing home care for old-age social security pensioners. It would be financed by an additional 15 per cent social security payroll tax. The Ways and Means Commit tee is considering a number of other social security law revisions chief among them being repeal of the requirement that disabled workers must be 50 years old be fore they can qualify for disability benefits. This faces little or so opposition. nearby, police mad baton charges and used tear gas against demonstrators. Police described the situation as tense and sent armored cars to patrol African townships. Lunch Strike Boycotts Are Intensified By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The eighth week of Negro anti segregation demonstrations began in tiic South Iwiay with no sign of an immediate solution. Authorities appeared more than ever determined to maintain law and order. Negroes especially ihe younger ones showed grow ing impatience with the slowness of court action in furthering equality. Boycotting of stores operating segregated lunch counters was proposed by Negro groups In Sa vannah. Ga., and Lynchburg, Va. At Durham, N.C., the Rev. Douglas E. Moore announced lunch counter protest leaders will meet in Raleigh April 15-17. In Florida Gov. LcRoy Collins said he thought it was "unfair and morally wrong" for a department store owner not to allow Negroes lo patronize one part of the store while being permitted to trade in other sections. The governor delivered a state wide radio and television addrou Sunday to try to calm racial ten sions stemming from sitdowns in several Florida cities. Collins conceded the department store owner has a legal right ts single out one department "and say he docs not want or will not allow Negroes to patronize that one department. But I still don't think he can square that right with moral, simple justice." At Charlotte, N.C., Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel of the Na tional Assn. For Advancement of Colored People, said he believed people taking part in sitdown demonstrations cannot rightfully be convicted of trespassing. Ha conceded it is uncertain whether a store owner can be required by law to serve Negroes as well as white persons. Nation finds Spring Chilly By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Spring is off to a slow start in most of the eastern half of the nation. Although skies were clear in most areas, it was chilly as far south as northern sections of Flo rida on the first full day of tha new season, which started official ly at 9:43 a. m. Eastern Standard Time Sunday. With a heavy snow covering over wide areas in the Midwest, temperatures were below freezing in most of the north central region and edged near zero in some areas. The coldest air was cen tered around the upper Mississippi Valley, with a low of 6 above in Alexandria, Minn. The mercury dipped to 36 above i Tallahassee, Fla., and it was freezing in Atlanta and Louisville and smany other Southern cities. Miami's early morning low was in Ihe 50s. Light snow fell in Norfolk, Va. Snow flurries fell in the cold air from central Illinois southeast ward to the Appalachians, north eastward into New York and west ward into lower Michigan. Temperatures were near or , above seasonal levels in most of the western areas, with the warm est weather in interior sections of California and the desert regions of Arizona. Readings were iti the 60s and 70s after Sunday's high of 96 in Yuma, Ariz., and a record springtime mark of 89 in Fresno, Calif. Chou To Visit India April 19 9 NEW DELHI (AP) - Premier Cfiou En-lai of Communist China will arrive in New Delhi April 19 for talks with Prime Minister Nehru on the border dispute be tween India and Red China. Nehru told the lower house of Parliament Chou would remain in New Delhi until April 25. Nehru had suggested April 20 as a suit able date to begin the talks on tha 1,000 square miles of disputed territory in the Himalayas. Nehru has already said h doubts that the conference will produce any immediate solution of the border dispute. TO VISIT ISRAEL STUTTGART, Germany (UPD- Former West German President Theodore Heuss will make a three week visit to Israel early next month at the official invitation of tha Israeli government, It wai learned today.