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ASSOCIATEJ FR E5 S. WORLD. PRESS. DAILY NEWS FOREIGN SERVICE VOL CLXII NO. 91 1CX DAILY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1955 20 SUNDAY HOME 1 'I END OF A BOY'S ADVENTURE Senate Votes Berlin Red Hundreds Die In Philippine Quake Horror City Shotgun Patrols to Fight Crime Blockade Protested I For Arming Of Germany Overwhelming OK Given Treaties in -Cold War Move BERLIN, April 1.

(W -f- The Western Allies charged (today that the Soviet-imposed ecor nomic blockade of West Berlin Police Chief Vernon Orders Three Squads For All Night Duty Police Chief Wyman W. Ver was "politically inspired" and demanded that the "exorbitant" andabriormal" road tax on Ground Shakes, Splits for Nearly 8 Hours; Damage Great MANILA April 1. Violent earthquakes rocked the southern Philippines today, causing possibly hundreds of deaths and untold damage. The Philippine "News Service WASHINGTON, April trucks entering the cit be lifted immediately. non today announcedvthe formation of three police shotgun squads to rove Oakland's streets The Western demand was at night and combat the recent contained in seperate but identically-worded notes from the high commissioners of the United Britain and after-dark wave of beatings, robberies and other violent dead or reported "hundreds" The Senate i today approved the German rearmament treaties by ah overwhelming vote.

The roll 'call tally was 76-2, with Senators Langer N.D.) and MalOne (R Nev.) voting against. I The historic Senate action, deliberately delayed until France and Germany had approved the treaties, culminates a five-year U.S. effort' to array Germany's potential rnilitary power on the side of the West in the cold war missing in the Tugaya District crimes. France to Soviet High Commissioner G. M.

Pushkin in Bonn. i In another major step in his They asked that the Soviets alone of Lanao Province. Earlier PNS said there were 164 con- firmed deaths in four districts of that province. For nearly take steps to have the commu nists abolish the taxes on the vital truck traf fic which sup eight hours the earth trembled i plies the free world outpost against Russia. NATO ENTRY AND ARMY deep in the Soviet zone, since it "cannot be" justified purely on reorganization of the department, Vernon said the squads, each made up of two inspectors and one uniformed patrolman, will be on duty every night in unmarked autos, ready to go into action in any section of the city.

Each officer wffll be armed with a shotgun as well as his service revolver. I DIRECT SUPERVISION All of the squads, the police and shook. The ground open. Sand and hot water were -i reported issuing from cracks in the ground. Some houses toppled into Lake Lanao.

economic grounds." The twin pacts, which Secre jf' 'H -h '1 iN Iv1 1 1 Vol vS VI fi -tHwiAV-i taryof State Dulles said will COMMUNICATIONS OUT give West Germany unity an lr- SLOWDOWN INVOKED To rub it in; the communists invoked their old slowdown tactics before the blockade began Communications were dis- i reyersible reality, gives sovereignty to the Republic of West Germany! bring lier the rupted in most sections, but re at midnight. They held up great ports filtering out of the stricken island of Mindanao in- North Atlantic Treaty Organiza chief said, will be under the tion and provide for a brand dicated widespread lines of truck at both ends of the 110-mile lifeline until the deadline passed and they could direct supervision of the night captain of the patrol division. new German army, The Philippine National Red JLast Germany is occupied Dy begin collecting their tribute. the Soviet Union. Heretofore, he explained, the Inspectors on night assignment Cross said the provincial secretary of Lanao province reported from Dansalan, the capital, that The West protested vigorously Only lone vote was taken in the Senate on the two pacts.

have been on duty in the inspectors bureau, going out to investigate after a crime had been 100 persons were dead or miss- ing in two districts bordering Sen. George Ga.) asked that to the Soviets and vowed coun-termeasures but for the moment at least they had no choice but to ante up to keep the trucks rolling. It was estimated the taxes would run to $10,000,000 that vote be officially recorded Lake Lanao. reported. They, were responsible as covering each treaty sepa -Those persons presumably, only to the inspector in charge rately.

were included in an earlier re- Trlbane phots by Bill Crek "This plan was worked out George, chairman of the with Capt. of Inspectors An Mr. and Mrs. George Schaffer, grief stricken, leave quarry where their son, Gary, drowned. oreign Kelations committee, a year.

ASK ALLIES' AID thony J. Bolger," Vernon said told the Senate in a brief de port by the Philippine News Service that 164 were confirmed dead in four districts of Lanao province. PNS insisted that its figure was correct, We think it will make for The West German Parliament bate on the agreements that Increased efficiency within the they would "improve the 600 Rotarians Divers Find Boy's Body department and better police pleaded for Allied intervention in the "cold blockade." The West considered cutting off East Ger SAME FIGURES chances" both for unification of Germany and for talks between Westerh'and Russian leaders on Senate Asked to Ban Isle Defense protection for Oakland's citizens QUICKER ACTION The Manila Times reported' many's imports via the Western In Oakland Quarry 'Lake7 the; same figures. frk A basis that might produce zones. Open Meet Here something "constructive." inr news service quoiea Angelo Cruz, public relations; "We think these heavily-armed shotgun squads will serve as a deterrent to criminals.

When But the actions had no irnme MILITARISM CONTROL diate effects. The blockade be officer for the fourth military The Northern California Dis- By JACK BELL 5-Hoiiii Search Pushed All Night The Georgia Democrat noted gan promptly at the stroke of area 1 embracing Mindanao. He April 1. UPi genuine concern" among some midnight cm the seventh nni trict.of Rotary International -49 Rotary clubs which have sent said 15 persons were missing. Playmate Tells How His Pal Died By RALPH CRAIB Seven-year-old Terry Parkin -Senator Morse Ore.) versary of the start of the great persons lest these agreements The news agency dispatch in-, i some 600 delegates opened its asked today that Congress go land blockade of 1948 and the The body of a seven-year -old should open the way for a re 1955 Conference today at the dicated many persons were victims of landslides.

boy who drowned yesterday in communist press hint at new surgence of German militarism. a crime is committed, we think the formation of these squads will enable us to get officers on the scene quicker in some eases even while the crime still is being committed. 'The "immediate reason for the formation of the is, of course, the sluggings, beatings. Claremont Hotel. on record as opposing use of American military 'forces for defense of Quemoy and the He told the Senate: measures.

The first heavy shock hit the the old Bilger Quarry at the end of McAdam Street off Broadway The Rotary Club of Oakland, son lived, alone in a terrible and nightmarish world, where 'In my judgment, there are Leather-jacketed communist area a corn-growing region at third to be organized in the Matsus. jvas recovered this morning after practicable, workable safeguards 2:15 a.m. Then a series of after-: country, will play host to the Morse offered a resolution gainst such an eventuality border guards went into action long before midnight. The rush of trucks to beat the deadline the most intensive 15-hour oper ation of its kind in Oakland his delegates and their wives, and 1 1 re .1 shocks jarred Mindanao and the other southern and central Phil in the limitations which West mis eiieci jn me miast 01 Edward H. Pitcher, past presi tory.

flurry of Senate debate which Germany has accepted with re there were no people, for half an hour yesterday. He ran desperately in search of some adult to help his school pal, Gary Schaffer, after Gary fell in a quarry lake. Terry ran through old St. ran into maddening delays, with the guards poring over identifi robberies and other violent crimes which have occurred recently during the night hours. We intend to hit and hit hard stemmed in part from President pect to its own rearmament, The victim of the tragedy, was ippine islands of Cebu, Negros, a a Bohol and Leyte.

Pictures on Pqeje s19 Eisenhower's White House con and in the nature of the cooper Gary Schaffer, oldest of four cation papers and inspecting ference yesterday with Senate ative effort which will be put children of Mr. and Mrs. George trucks till the traffic slowed to meeting is of particular signifi at this sort of thing.1 leaders. forth under NATO." Schaffer, of 4379 Piedmont FOOT-WIDE FISSURES A Philippine News Service four vehicles an hour. cance because 1955 marks No Various senators who attended In the past, Oakland has never had more than one "flying Ave.

I Even "more important," TRUCK JAM-UP tary's golden anniversary. dispatch from Uigan reported the White House session said no Mary's Cemetery, ran wildly down city streets and found only one other living person, a Gary was on an exploring ex From one club Chicago 50 Two hundred trucks piled up decision had been reached as to squad" in operation, and there has been hone at all for some earth fissures measuring as wide as a foot in some places. pedition with two companions years ago, the service group has whether U. S. forces would be girl classmate.

George said, "is the control which stems from the of the German people to build a democracy that will truly reflect the popular will." yesterday when he slipped from grown into a worldwide organi time. The tremors caused landslides. at the Berlin checkpoint of Dreilindenl Another piled up at Helmstedt at the other end of "I told her, Help, Gary's a rope into the deep, dark water, erhployed in defense in event the Chinese communists attempt zation of 8,400 Rotary Clubs, drownded in the and she with a membership of more uneven with ledges and filled to wrest the offshore islands just went on putting on her the 110-miIe-long lifeline. Horns blared and drivers cursed but than 400,000 business and pro U.S. Files Tax Liens Against Pattens from the Chinese Nationalists with old trees and debris.

FIRST GRIM MISSION skates," the little blond boy fessional men in-89 countries. the communist guards plodded Senator McCarthy Wis.) said. "I hunted some more for Big LA. Liquor Highlights of the conference, From the time one of the play through their work without began the debate by saying omebody to help and then I which lasts through Sunday, in mates gave the alarm until 6 a.m. looking up.

Eisenhower is adopting Federal liens are on file here today for $11,753 in unpaid taxes against Oakland just quit and went home." elude nomination, of a new dis Scandal Seen today 14 -men of the Sheriff's Re But once the tax becair.e ef deadly dangerous" attitude, in Terry didn't think about trict governor to succeed Dr serve Underwater Rescue Unit fective things changed. The refusing to say whether the Evangelist Bebe H. Patten and punching a doorbell on his way The news service said 10 per-, sons were hurt at Uigan and a waterfront office building there slid into the sea. From Ozamis City (Misamisf, a town of 35,262, an estimated one. million dollars in damage -was reported.

At least 2,000 were homeless there. "Everyone in this city and nearby towns thought the world, had ended and death had come," a Manila Times correspondent messaged from Ozamis. Pictures on Paae Paterson; addresses by Chesley United States will defend the border guards worked faster and He came home "hysterical," his her husband, Thomas Patten. dent of the Oakland club, is con in their first mission firemen, police and volunteers Worked unceasingly to recover the body; five-mile line of backsd-up By Governor mother, Mrs. Louise Parkinson ference chairman.

islands. McCarthy uninvited trucks at the Berlin terminus of 4140 Gilbert says. "He Dr. Adam Paterson, of San cleared within a few hours -SACRAMENTO, April 1. W) It finally was brought up from was crying and panicky and he The liens cover the years 1945-46 and 1946-47, when the Patten church was flourishing and before Patten, was sentenced to San for bilking McCarthy said the President Leandro, district governor, Traffic appeared normal by Govj Goodwin J.

Knight pre apparently told some mem wouldn tell me what happened He was too frightened to talk." dawn, with no noticeable dif dieted; today "sensational dis- pointed out that this years Continued Page Col. 4 bers of Congress that our re 70 feet of water near the shore by C. M. (Andy) Andrews, a professional I diver who was working with A. J.

(Scotty) Chisholm. ference in the number of closuresT of "flagrant, open, dis This may have been because church followers of $14,750. action would depend on 'the trucks. graceful violations" of state nature and strength' of a com Terry promised his mother only six flays ago that he'd never, liquor laws focused the Los munist attack." McCarthy was not among those invited to the Andrews, (who found the boy's never go to the old quarry prop Angeles area. Stassen Shies From Tilt- body after being down about a erty at the end of their street, I think undoubtedly the fur White House.

Morse's proposal would amend half hour, termed it "one of the saddest jobs we ever had." He ther work of the Liquor Department will disclose an extremely lax administration in the City just three blocks away. The Parkinsons are new on the block; they moved in less thja a month ago, but Mrs; Parkassoh In Senate Subpena Stays More Pictures, Page 2 and 3 So They Say Inside Today ARTHUR SILOF. whose truck Edwin Lester, general, di of Lo Angeles," Knight told press conference. the defend-Formosa resolution by stating that it "shall not be construed to authorize the President to employ any of the armed forces of the United States in military operations knew the quarry was dangerous had taken his turn after Chis Terry didn tell his mother WASHINGTON, April 1.UPI The eradication of B-girls has been idled by the Soviet Rector of the San Francisco holm came to the surface with son, chief of the Near East and Africa branch of FOA's Industrial Services section. Foreign aid chief -Harold E.

and other nefarious practices economic blockade. Tf West Ger Light Opera is back where he was going after' he came home from his classes at Piedmont Ave. School with his line hooked around" a tree. concerning the Matsu and there was a said. After hour and a half be from New York with a prom Stassen today backed away from a head-on clash with the Senate Investigations Subcommittee Throughout their struggle to Quemoy Actually since my administra Gary shortly after 2 o'clock yes hind closed doors.

Robert F. recover the! boy's body all the ise that Bay Area music pa Instead, Morse's resolution tion has taken over liquor con divers were hampered by the over rights of its staff to ques-J trons will see nothing bu states, this nation should co trol, it has disclosed flagrant, Kennedy, -subcommittee counsel, said Morrison had been "very perilous murky water where uon his employees. the best this coming season operate with the Nationalist open, disgraceful violations of terday afternoon. "He asked me if he could take his father's rope," Mrs. Parkinson said, "and I.

said that he could because the boys like to use it for pulling helpful, very cooperative. He has precipitous i ledges endangered Stassen's Foreign Operations For the story turn to Page 37 Chinese in an evacuation of the islands lying close to the China the law to the extent that I an ticipate sensational their footing and hidden branches fouled their lines. The mainland. THE NEWS METER "It is tip to the department to Administration sent threu employees the subcommittee's headquarters with announced ordersto "answer all questions" things into trees. water was so black they could Senators who attended the disclose the full details." the WHEELS OF PROGRESS The cope was to cause tragedy, not see their "hands before them.

session with the President yes many, fumed: "The Americans should have gotten tough a long time ago. But. there is still time to-do one thing cut off German exports to the East zone so they can see we mean business." SEN. ALEXANDER SMITH (R. NJ.) quoted President Eisenhower as saying that: "From his experience as a military man that the situation is not favorable for the Chinese reds Jto make an attack at this time and further that he does not think Russia will back them up." answered all my Kennedy told reporters that the FOA's sudden swifeh and Stassen's own expressed willingness to appear before' the subcommittee without a subpena would not resu't in withdrawal of a summons the group had' Governor said.

"But I pre Two million cars were built apparently only minutes later At one time more than 300 put by the staff although only terday described in advance as it will happen." We climbed a cliff," the this year spectators watched as firemen for the purpose of a general last night an FOA spokesman had said they woula not show Knight said the disclosures and volunteer divers risked their briefing on the foreign situa Continued Page 2, Col. lives' in the recovery of the up. were to be the exclusive work of the new Department of Alco generally unwilling ordered served on the FOA chief. Stassen took a stand yesterday child's body. Lights were set up to quote Eisenhower directly, holic Beverage Control and were Two million cars to park and steer, Eight million wheels to roll and ramble And join the merry highway scramble.

JACK BURROUGHS and. the operation continued Custom frowns on it. that subcommittee staff investigators should not question his not connected with the investi NO WAR NOW throughout; the night PARENTS WATCH gation by Atty. Gen. Edmund employees unless he or one of However, several said they got Brown.

FOA's top lawyers was present. The parents of the little boy the impression that Eisenhower "We were told for a long The subcommittee insisted its "He's still being served," Kennedy said. Kennedy said the summons-known to lawyers as a subpena duces tecum will inform Stassen that "you are hereby commanded" to appear Wednesday and to bring with him all documents and records relating to a grain storage deal under study; maintained a vigil at the top. of 1 Does not expect any early r.ATEANO MARTINO, Italian time," Knight continued, ''by WHERE TO FIND IT the cliff for hours. Finally Mrs staff had the right to question FOA employees in private.

aggressive move by the red the board member in charge Chinese. ischalfer collapsed and was (William G. Bonelli) that he Leading the thiee witnesses 2 Does not believe Russia taken home. Schaffer, a City of foreign minister visiting in New York with Premier Mario Scelbs said at a social function: couldn't control it (the viola to the subcommittee offices this wants a war in the Far East Oakland maintenance employee. tions) because he didn't have morning was Howard P.

Morri now. returned to the scene. enough personnel. Senator George Ga.) 1 4 Vx Yi iTn With him was an uncle, Robert "We do and they re going to chairman of the Senate Foreign do said. Cooper, Fire Battalion.

Chief John Byrne, in charge of the Relations Committee, said that Pressed for details, Kmght was his impression. "I hear there are 500,000 cases of nervous breakdowns in the United States every year. Well, I can predict that if it continues this there will be an addition of two cases those of Scelba and myself." said he believed it was safe to say the charges involved "very operation, Police Sgt. Clifford Anderson and Patrolmen Martin Hunger and Arthur Samworth. I think the President feels that the Russians do not want lax administration in the con Bridge Scores 26 Classified 38 Comics 24, 25 Crossword Puzile 47 Editorial 58 Financial 50, 51 Gardens 27 Geraldine 23 Is That So 57 Lenten Goideposts E-13 Mary Margaret McBride 23 Music Reviews 23 Patri -E Radio and TV 26 Riesel It Society and Clubs, E-2 to 7-E Sjorts 52 Theaters 37 Uncle WiUy i 25 Vitals 47 Weather SI to Tceep the book' for a war the After hours of labor failed Chinese communists might the City of Oakland brought the CASH FOR CROSSWORDS ANSWER ON PAGE A New $660 Double Dividend li Puzzle in Tomorrow's TRIBUNE start, said.

expert Chisholm and duct of a dozen places. Knight said there "undoubtedly will be a light "put up by the owners of the establishments. "But We (D. SENATOR JACKSON Andrews, ionto the saene at mid But the questions still re main whether the Russians actu nignu a ran iioaiea wun oasi shall proceed regardless of op ally have the power to veto Guard inflaters was made as diving base. position, Jie added.

move by red China and whether, Yash.) said: "There is no question that the United States will produce "nuclear powered aircraft engine. The important question 1 is whether Russia will produce ne first." Gary 7. lost his Hi yesterday when he fell into Bilaex Quarry and drowBecL Knight said he knew of no similar situation in San Francisco. Los Angeles is the focal even though they might not want a war now, they actually would restrain the Chinese In his deep-sea diving outfit supplied with oxygen, Chisholm Continued Pag 2, CoL 3 the Governor said. 'communists in a point,".