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ORIA GAZETTE 72nd Year: No. 221 Conference: U.S Denies Allied Troop Cut in Berlin Officials Trying To Get Adenauer's Support for Plan WASHINGTON (AP) United States today denied most emphatically that it had proposed any. reduction of Western troops in Berlin. "No such proposal on troops reductions has been made," State Department spokesman Lincoln While told a hurriedly convened, midmorning news conference. White referred specifically to a news dispatch from Bonn, written by Flora Lewis for the Washington Post.

"The Flora Lewis, piece in the press this morning is wholly inaccurate," White said. The Bonn dispatch said that the reduction was part of a new four- point plan on Berlin. It said that the United States has suggested cutting the present 12,500 troops in West Berlin to about 9,000. The story broke on the eve of new U.S.-Soviet talks in Washington on the Berlin crisis. Differences with West Germany over proposals to be made in the talks have narrowed the area of negotiations open to Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

U.S. officials here and in Bonn were reported striving to win full approval from West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to four major negotiating proposals circulated to allied governments by Rusk last week. Adenauer continued to oppose strenuously any offer of a concession to the Russians, which in his view would move toward recognition of the Communist East German government. Washington officials declined comment on a story published today by the Washington Post that the United States had proposed to its allies that Western troop strength in West Berlin be reduced if this would contribute to getting a settlement with the Soviet Union on Berlin. The Berlin garrison totals some 12,500 troops of which over half ere American.

The Post story, by Flora Lewis under a Bonn dateline, said the reported offer would bring this down to about 3,000 each from the three occupying powers. Such a reduction would call for withdrawal of a little more than 50 per cent of U.S. forces now in Berlin, withdrawal of a few hundred British troops and an increase in French garrison. The talks opening here today between Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin were scheduled for midafternoon. Rusk's previous round of discussions with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva ended three weeks ago.

The Rusk-Gromyko talks failed to break the long East-West deadlock over Berlin, but were followed by a sharp decline in East- West tensions. The Soviets stopped harassing Western aircraft in the corridors between Berlin and West Germany and joined in a new agreement to improve relations between the U.S. and Soviet military missions in West and East Germany. Gen. Lucius D.

Clay, back here last week to resign his position as President Kennedy's personal representative in- West Berlin, said the easing of tensions had improved the possibility of an East-West agreement. the Sixteenth Day of April, MCMLXH Twelve PRIEST WATCHES unidentified Roman Catholic priest watches three pickets from the doorway of the rectory at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in downtown New Orleans Sunday morning. The three women, from left, are Ms. Marie Huff, Mrs.

Loretta Anser and Mrs. Delphine Roberts, all of New Orleans. They were protesting the recent school-desegregation order by Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel. (AP 'ompanies Subpoenaed Assault on Steel Industry Is Still Rollin boost touched in the past parade of virtually identical increases by other firms. Atty.

Gen. Robert F. Kennedy had put the finger on U.S. Steel tions explored the Justice he said one was whether "one company, namely U.S. Steel, so dominates antitrust laws now stand, the WASHINGTON bill to strengthen the government's power to break up monopolistic corporations was.

on its way to the Senate today while Senate subpoenas were being sped to the dozen largest steel companies. The massive assault mounted by President Kennedy against steel's $6-a-ton increase was still rolling, though the price boost was rescinded Friday. The battle's aftermath found the stock market at a 1962 low, Kennedy's prestige at a new high, and the prospects for his whole bering an existing corporation are legislative program considered suddenly brighter. Pressing ahead with its announced antimonopoly investigation, the Senate Antitrust subcommittee headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver, wrote subpoenas for the 12 top companies to bring in figures on production by mid-May.

Sen. Albert Gore, prepared to introduce three bills today to sharpen the teeth of the antitrust laws. His bills would not have been much more difficult than those for preventing a merger which might tend to create a monopoly. Gore's proposals, as he ex- VllVf last week. In discussing the ques- plained them, would make the latter requirements applicable in cases where the government seeks to force a split-up of a corpora- iiajiicij the industry that it controls prices tion which already has acquired and should be broken up." monopolistic power.

As the Sherman and Clayton President's closest advisers New Orleans: Trio Ousted From Church In Louisiana Excommunication Order Result of Segregation Feud NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Roman Catholic archbishop of New Orleans today excommunicated three persons in a segregation feud, including Louisiana political boss, Leander H. Perez Sr. Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel also excommunicated Mrs. B.J. Gaillot Jr.

and a Citizens' Council official, Jackson G. Ricau of New Orleans. Mrs. Gaillot. "41, leader of a segregation group, Save Our Nation, picketed the archbishop's residence the day he'or- dered parochial schools to be desegregated.

Perez is a long-time political boss of St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes (counties). He has been a leading figure in the fight againsfc integration in Louisiana. Ricau is executive secretary of the pro-segregation i i s' of South Louisiana. Mrs.

Gaillot said: "His excel- lency has no right to make that official without notifying me first. His accusations are false. And the Vatican will have to intervene." Mrs. Gaillot earlier had sought an audience with the. archbishop and said she would appeal directly to Uie Vatican.

The prelate closed the door on any possible audience with her with a statement Sunday night contending ha was convinced she intended to use the interview to gain further widespread publicity. The 85-year-old prelate said lie considers the matter of an interview closed. Mrs. Gaillot asked for the audi- Good Evening: Times have changed. Parents used io call a youngster with white hair "tow-headed." Now they are called plaiinum blondes.

Today's Forecast cloudiness and windy this afternoon and tonight with scattered thundershowers likely east and extreme south central portion tonight; warmer this afternoon and east tonight; Tuesday generally fair; cooler west and central portion; low tonight 30s northwest to the 40s southeast; high Tuesday generally in the 60s. Ttf Weather From FAA: p. 61 degrees High Sunday 52 degrees Low last night 32 degrees Humidity Barometer 30.10 falling Wind SSE'18 Secret Army, Oran Police Battle Again million He said the 1958 rate increase was largely offset by higher salaries, increased railroad rates and modernization requirements. To tflP Mart The slmaster general said 10 ine Freezing IviarK. rates second class mail-magazines and cov Says There Is No Alternative to Postal-Rate Boost WASHINGTON is no practical alternative to raising postal rates.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day told Congress today. In a report to the House and the Senate, Day said enactment of a pending bill to increase rates by S691 million a year would-be sound and urgently needed step today in Oran, where under- toward an equitable solution of a ram- post office financial problems. round terrorists a cam The post office expects an $856 paign or growing boldness million deficit for the fiscal year nnVire- ramo ending June 30. Without the rate mea co seize a uuce boosts.

Day said, the deficit next an its armored cars. fiscal year would hit about $886 First reports said, a policeman was killed and 10 other persons Nationalists Warn French To Act Sternly ALGEIRS and the Secret Army Organization (OAS) battled Mercury Drops Twice The freezing degrees- was recorded in Emporia Sunday and again this morning. Vegetation, apparently adjusted to the chilly April weather, showed no damage. Spring flowers continue to bloom and some early garden plants are above ground. Sunday maximum at the FAA station was 52 degrees.

Local cattle are being moved from feed lots-to the-slow-starting pastures, where some supplementing continues. Cattlemen are anxious for a turn to real spring weather, so livestock can be put on native grasses, to end for good the most expensive feeding winter in many years, according to the State Crop and Livestock Report. er only 23 per cent of costs and the proposed 553.4 million a year increase would bring this up to 40 per cent. The third-class rates, applying mostly to advertising now cover 66 per cent of costs and the $161.9 million increase would raise this to 90 per cent, Day said. The proposed one-cent increase to bring the first-class rate to five cents, raising $437.8 million, would were wounded.

In Algiers, secret army commandos fired on Moslems in the Bab el Oued quarter, killing one and wounding two. It was in an Algiers suburb that a Moslem mob lynched two Euror peans Sunday in the first act of retaliation against the secret army since the March 19 cease- fire ending the long Algerian nationalist rebellion. The Algerian Nationalist regime from- its base in Tunis warned the French Sunday to take stronger measures against the secret army, which is trying to wreck bring revenues for this service 2o per cent above the cost of providing the added service. Day said. He this wo'ild be consistent with the postal policy law, 'which requires that first-class rates cover allocated expenses plus an additional amount for the value of preferential handling.

said, he wants no reprisals and nr two sen aftpr recciv- legal requirements for dismem- opes to preserve the good will encc tw Weeks ag after Politics: Basic Problems Evaded Rockefeller Makes the Charge in Detroit Talk and cooperation of business generally. Still, the administration was following through with the measures it set in motion to quash the steel price boost. The Justice Department was pressing ahead with the federal grand jury investigation in New York which Atty. Gen. Kennedy ordered last Wednesday.

A multimillion-dollar order for high-grade steel that normally would have been divided between Lukens Steel Co. of Coatesville, DETROIT (AP) Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, con- and U.S. Steel apparently given an 'outside chance of pas- sidered contender for the Republi- will go wholly to Lukens.

U.S. sage a week ago. Now they must can nomination for president in be regarded seriously, especially 1964. charged today that the Ken- nedy administration had failed to since Democratic legislators can be expected to capitalize on the so-called monopoly issue in this campaign year. The Gore measures would: 1.

Give the president power under the Taft-Hartley law to ob- attack the nation's basic economic problems with sufficient vigor or understanding. "Good sentiments are not enough if action is weak or ambiguous," the governor said in a tain an 80-day injunction against speech before the Economic Club a general price increase in a of Detroit, basic commodity. The procedure On the domestic scene, Rocke- would be parallel to the cooling- sai( basic probl off period provided for "national emergency" strikes. 2. Create a national consumers advisory board.

It would not have binding power but, in a fact-finders' role, could muster public opinion against increases it deemed unjustified. 3. Broaden the antimerger laws, em is the downward trend in business profits and the lag in business capital investment due to inadequate incentives. "The drop in our average growth rate in the later postwar years," the governor said, "has Steel was crossed off after its price rise, and the Pentagon has made no move to change the decision. The investigation ordered by the House Antimonopoly subcommittee headed by Rep.

Emanuel Celler, was scheduled to open on May 2. But it appeared that Celler would let the Kefauver subcommittee do most of the ball-carrying. Kennedy's stunning victory over the steel giants may have handed him the key to victories in some looming congressional battles, Capitol sources said. His prestige with Democratic members has soared. Administration leaders reponsi- Veal II 1C vci iiui ociiu, vv been diret'tly related to the low ble for getting two major Ken- 3.

Broaden the antimerger laws, bl ness invcstment fa nedy bills-the farm program and so that the same legal yardstick nL" health care for the aged under new plant equipment." Although the national Democratic administration has proposed investment incentives in the form No companies were named but ignore! 22 posts. the bills were plainly pointed at preciation allowances, uocKeieuer U.S. Steel, the nation's biggest said, they are unsatisfactory and inadequate. could be'used to break up "existing large concentrations" as is now used to prevent certain proposed industrial mergers. No companies were named, but health care for the aged under Social of committees were jubilant.

Kennedy's standing with the voters, they reasoned, has reached heights ing the archbishop's letter of censure for her activities defying his order to desegregate parochial schools next fall. Mrs. Gaillot, who heads a New Orleans group titled "Save Our Nation, picketed the archbishop's residence the day the school desegregation order became public. "I will appeal directly to Rome," Mrs. Gaillot said when informed of the archbishop's statement.

"They're doing right by me." She said she will appeal to Pope John XXIII either by letter or telegram. Mrs. Gaillot contends her slancl for segregation is based on the Bible and said she would get on her knees and beg the archbishop's forgiveness if she could be shown from the B'ble that segregation is morally wrong and sinful. New French Cabinet Takes Office Today PARIS (AP) A new French Cabinet under Premier Georges Pompidou took office today with all the key ministers in Michel Debre's government retaining their jobs. No new parties were represented in Pompidou's Cabinet and the Gaullist Union for a New Republic remained dominant with 12 of the Former Clerk Ascends to Bench Byron R.

White Takes Oath As Supreme Court Justice JL WASHINGTON (AP) With President Kennedy watching in a packed Supreme Court chamber, Byron R. White was sworn in today as an associate justice. that a former law clerk of the tribunal has ascended to the court's bench. served as a law clerk in 1946-47 under the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson.

Among those watching the husky 44-year-old former deputy attorney general take the public oath were bis wife, and two children Charles, 8 and Nancy his brother Clayton White. Also present were Mrs. White's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stearns, and Atty.

Gen. and Mrs. Robert Kennedy. Before the public ceremony in the marbled chamber, White had taken in a private conference room the constitutional oath to "well and faithfully discharge" his duties as a justice. This oath was administered in the presence only of the other justices of the court.

The 10 o'clock ceremony the court was a few minutes late getting under way. The' President took his seat in the benches reserved for distinguished guests at 10:05 a.m. A minute later the eight justices filed in. White was the last to enter. Chief Justice Earl Warren and the new Justice White both spoke in firm, loud tones in their' parts of the brief induction ceremony which made White the 93rd man to serve on the court.

April 1 because of poor health. The court clerk, John F. Davis, administered the judicial oath. Kennedy's visit to the court room was the first by a president since President Dwight D. Eisenhower saw Warren take his seat on Oct.

5, 1953. Earlier, President Harry S. Truman came to the court to see Justice Harold H. Burton, an old Senate colleague, take his seat on Oct. 1, 1945.

Burton is now retired but he and retired justices Stanley F. Reed and Whlttaker were in the court today to see White sworn. Justice Felix Frankfurter, in George Washington University hospital, was advised by his doctor not to attend. He was reported, however, to be progressing well in recovery from an illness that struck him on April 5. Kennedy selected White when Whittakcr announced he was retiring on doclor's orders.

White had led the National Citizens Committee Movement for Kennedy in the I960 campaign and was appointed deputy attorney general at the start of the Ken- nccty administration. He practiced law before taking the government post. producer and the one whose announcement last Tuesday of a Against Sudden Heart By Alton Blakeslee Associated Press Science Writer Are PHILADELPHIA (AP) you tired, tuckered out? Would you like someone to foot your bill for several weeks in a beautiful vacation spot, away from the turmoil and stresses of daily life? In the Soviet Union, Germany, Austria and Switzerland many people get just that kind of break every year, Dr. Wilhelm Raab, an energetic Vermont physician, said today. There's a slight catch.

You wouldn't simply sit around and lonf. You would be taught to exercise every day thereafter to overcome "loafer's heart" and help yourself avoid the future heart attack, he said. Raab, of the University of Vermont College of Medicine, is an exponent of exercise as one means to safeguard the human heart from the seemingly sudden heart attack. He himself exerciset rigorously In the Soviet Union and other European countries, millions of persons have had the benefits of "preventive reconditioning" to reduce their chances of heart attacks, Raab told opening sessions of a symposium on coronary heart disease sponsored by the Hahne- by major corporations last week, mann Medical College and Hos- The steel companies said they had "It is most unfortunate that, having articulated the proper objectives, the Kennedy administration could not present a plan which would be adequate to do the plan involving liberalized depreciation allowances or other effective methods which businessmen could enthusiastically support," Rockefeller said. The governor urged Congress to take the lead in developing effective legislation in that area.

In his text, Rockefeller made no reference to the rise in steel prices of about $6 a ton announced pital. acted to provide funds for plant Governments, industries and so- expansion and modernization. The oial health insurance organiza- price hike was rescinded under tions have paid for the programs, pressure from President Kennedy. Raab said, but nothing like this In the field of international is yet organized the United trade, the governor said he sup- States. Raab said these programs seem to have paid off for the "fatigued but not yet overly sick pre-pa- licnls" through less time lost from work and less incidence of fatal heart attacks.

He explained that many people ported President Kennedy's- request for broad new powers to negotiate trade and tariff agreements. Rockefeller flew into Detroit Sunday night and played dinner host to George Romncy. Rockefeller used his presence have "loafer's heart" from too lit- here to strengthen what had been tie physical activity. The heart only a casual acquaintance with doesn't develop reserve circulation or ability to stand up under Romney, former American Motor Corp. president, who is now the Republican party's most likely stress either from sudden physical demands or sudden excitement candidate for governor of th STOLEN Emporia youths were taken before County Judge William J.

Dick this afternoon, charged with a series of thefts or malicious damage to property. The equipment, tools and car accessories pictured here were recovered after several of investigating and interrogation by the city police and sheriff's officers. Above, Lieut. Merle Hayes surveys stolen equipment recovered in recent weeks. Some of the items shown above are to be introduced as evidence.

The equipment above includes a four-barrel carburetor (right) and two tachometers. A story is on page six. cease-fire and keep. Algeria Frenck It perhaps was significant that, since the warning the first action came in Oran, second largest city in Algiers and a secret army stronghold in western Algeria. The fighting started when a secret army unit tried to take over the police installation at Garnbetta, a suburb, and cap- the armored cars stationed there, authorities said.

Police put up stiff resistance, scattering the secret army agents. The firing raged from street to street, as the casualties mounted. The lynching of the two Europeans by Moslems occurred in the industrial suburb of Maison Carrer, nine miles of Algiers. Enraged youths stopped a car carrying three Europeans, dragged them out, beat them with rocks and sticks, and set the cat- afire; The third European, critically injured, was rescued. Elsewhere in Algeria white terrorists- killed four Moslems and wounded 28.

Secret army terrorist driving through Moslem suburbs have shot down Moslem civilians nearly every day since the cease-fire. At least 250 Moslems have perished in Algiers alone. The terrorists are trying to provoke the Moelems into reprisals on a civil war scale that will block Algeria's advance toward independence. Since the the Moslems have mostly heeded admonitions by nationalist leaders to stay calm despite violence against them. Impatient over the continuing secret army terrorism, the nationalist command issued a sharp warning from its Tunis headquarters for France to show more energy in breaking the right-wing European resistance to Algerian independence.

The secret army continued to operate virtually unchecked. Secret army commandos in paratroop uniforms seized Oran's central telephone exchange without opposition Sunday and chavd away the outnumbered guard detachment. The secret army men did not interfere with the exchange's operations and withdrew after five hours. Fifteen Moslems were wounded by a grenade explosion in a crowded market place in Bone. French authorities perturbed by the recent theft of 15 tons of explosives from trucks in France's Sahara oil fields tightened security precautions against secret army terrorists.

Ttf -Of Kansas Gas, Electric Seeks Rate Increase Gas Electric Co. said today it is asking the Corporation Commission for authority to increase its rates in view of increased costs. G.W. Evans, president of the power firm serving south central and southeast Kansas, said the increases would amount to 25 cents a month for city customers and 20 cents a month- for rural customers in the minimum bill block which all its residential and rural customers pay. The request was to be filed at midday with KCC in Topeka,.