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0J Tribune, W.jiniJ.y, July 4, 1956 PLANE VICTIMS Eisenhower Grant Named Vice Mayor Philippines Note II.IKIM .1. f-jmiNi or iTr-i A 1 i wf'fii :1 (ftlm i i GRACE, PRINCE CELEBRATE HER HOMELAND'S BIRTHDAY MONTTCARLO. Monaco, July 4 if) Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco celebrated her homeland'i Independence Day on their first official public appearance since their wedding in April Monaco's other well known American resident, the Rev. Francis Tucker, shared the limelight. He is the Prince's Roman Catholic chaplain and reportedly played a large part in launching the romance.

Grace and her Prince attended a mass celebrated by Father Tucker in honor of the American holiday. Afterward she was presented with a bouquet tied with the red and white colors of Monaco and the American red, white and blue. Nixon Refused' Iron Curtain Trip Waits Report Air Chief to Describe Russia Visit; Wilson To Attend Meeting GETTYSBURG. Pa, July 4 IM President Eisenhower will confer here tomorrow with Gen. Nathan Twining, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, on the generals personal observations of Soviet air strength.

Twining spent eight, slays in Russia at the invitation of the Kremlin. He said in Germany, on the way back, it was the best opportunity yet to assay Soviet air power. He said the Soviet air force was "doing a very good job" and had fine equipment and a fine organization. He and other Air Force offi cers saw an air show at Moscow that permitted a look at supersonic, delta winged fighter and other new planes. Presidential Press Secretary James C.

Hagerty announced that Twining will fly from Washington tomorrow and drive directly to the Eisenhower farm to report to the commander-in-chief. He will be accompanied by Secretary of Defense Wilson Penta gon officials. Twining, arriving at Washington airport, told reporters that, although Russian leaders were most hospitable and let him "see a lot of things," he felt the trip "did not come up to the expectaUons of what he had hoped to see. Twining said the big Soviet air show on June 24 "accented defensive strength." He recalled that communist party boss Khrushchev had announced the Soviets planned to demonstrate their "peaceful strength." and that they would deliberately withhold their offensive equipment from public view. Far the President and Mrs.

Eisenhower, the Fourth of July holiday was a quiet one, enlivened mainly by anticipation of visit from two of their four grandchildren David, 8, and Barbara Anne, 7. The President's son and daughter in law, Maj. John Eisenhower and and the other two grandchildren. Susan, 5, and, Mary Jean, months, are expected to spend the weekend at the Eisenhower's country estate. By Twining AT VfirrpMM HAPPY MOTHER Mrs.

Richard Stacy writes to her eon. Pvt Richard Hagelberaor, after learning President Eisenhower had commuted his death aentence In the slaying of two Germans to 55 years imprisonment Ike Saves Son, Mother Rejoices By Council Six-Year Member Succeeds Youeil After 5 to 3 Vote Lester M. Grant, a city coun cilman six years, today is Oak land's new vice mayor. He was elected to the pot. to succeed Councilman Frank Youeil, by other council members last night Grant, 33.

an in vestment broker, won out for the post over Councilman Howard E. Rilea. by a vote of five to three. Rilea. who had been nomina ted by Councilman Peter Tripp, praised Grant's service after the balloting by ssying thst "Lester Grant has done a gtod job in this council.

I congratulate him." Grant had been nom inated by Youeil. YOCELL PRAISED Mayor Clifford E. Rishell, in turn, eulogized Youell's service on the council ana termea Youeil "a great citizen" of the city he has lived in since 1906. Grant will serve a one-year term as vice mayor. Rishell last night appointed Raymond H.

Miller, sales manager of Insurance Securities to a six-year term on the Oak land Park to suc ceed William Wood, whose two-year term expired Sunday. Miller' active in civic and service clubs, has been influential in development of Children's Fairyland through the Lake Merritt Breakfast Club. LAND SOUGHT Park Sunt William Penn Mott asked the council to con sider acpuisition of 10 parcels of land adjoining existing city parks. He said most are small segments and purchase is ad vocated to "round out" the park properties and prevent building of homes on the land. The parcels include two on Castle Drive to provide fire accesses into Joaquin' Miller Park, one at Skyline and Castle Drive, one known as the property on Mountain Blvd.

be low McCrea Park, and one at the end of Nevil St north of Brookdale Park. OTHER PARCELS Other parcels are one at Shep herd and Carson Streets near Leona Park, one adjacent to Sequoia Lodge on Mountain one on the west boundary EarkrJori realignment- of- Joaquin-Miller Road, a parcel of four lots on Palo Seco Court to expand Dimond Canyon holdings, one at the end of Dolores Ave. and one on the west end of Bene- vides Ave. for the Dimond Park extension, and one the hairpin turn on the old Mountain Blvd. at Sequoia Lodge.

The council will inspect the properties next Thursday after noon. In another action the council approved calling for bids on an estimated $14,100 worth of con duit construction on Mandaha Blvd. between Portal and Ash mount Ave. City Engineer John A. Morin said the conduits will reduce storm water flow in street gutters, cutting down the need for high curbs and drive way gutter-bridges.

Recreation Board Reelects Officers Lewis Galbraith yesterday was reelected chairman of the Oakland Recreation Commission for a second one-year term. Mrs. Ralph T. Fisher was re elected, vice chairman and Jay Ver Lee, Oakland recreation superintendent asreelected secretary. Other Commission members are Joshua Rose, Miss Mildred Johnson and O.

M. Anwyl. Store Employee Held as Bookie Daniel Morgan, 38, of CHULA VISTA, July 4 tfl- Mrs. Robert Stacy said "I almost passed out" when the Pentagon notified her that President Eisenhower yesterday commuted to 55 years imprisonment the death sentence given her son, Pvt. Richard A.

Hagelberger of Buffalo, N.Y., for his part in the slaying of two Germans near Diebach, Germany, four years ago. I'm so relieved, Mrs. Stasy told newsmen. "Now I can get good night's sleep." She thanked all persons who had written, letters in Hagel berger behalf. "People are Mrs.

Stacy said. I never gave up hope," she said. "I haven't slept much during the last few weeks. Now I'm just trying to settle down after the call from the Penta gon. "1 feel pretty good now." HAD $2,000,000 IN INSURANCE LOS ANGELES, July 4-4) About $2,000,000 worth ot flight insurance was held by psksengeri aboard the iU-fated TWA and United airliners which crashed into thw Grand Canyon, an insurance man reported yesterday.

W. R. May, president of Mercury International Com-' pany, agent for two principal airline insurance under-writers, made the estimate. Miy said that only about 25 per cent of the passengers on the two planes were insured, but many of them, were insured up to the maximum ot $125,000 $62,500 with each of two companies. Rival Shot In Ambush By Suitor SAN JOSE, July 4 A San Jose man was shot and critically wounded early today as a culmination of what investigators called a love triangle.

According to Santa Clara County Sheriffs officers, Robert McNeal, SO, of 4080 San Jose, has admitted shooting Aaron Peterson, 27, of 291 N. Third when Peterson and Jessie Vance, 37, of 1064 N. 10th prepared to drive-- way home, GUNMAN SURRENDERS McNeal, who surrendered vol untarily after the shooting, av sertedly told officers that he tried to shoot over his rival's head to "scare the girl." Peterson had chest and back wounds. The sheriff's office gives this version of the shooting: McNeal, who formerly dated Miss Vance, received a call from her last night She asked him a bring a phonograph to her home. When he arrived, he found Peterson there.

WENT FOR GUN McNeal left went to his home, got a rifle and returned to the Vance home, where he waited deputies said. When Peterson and the girl came out to get into Peterson's car, McNeal fired, hitting Peterson in the back. He then walked to a nearby restaurant and called police, who turned him over to sheriffs officers. McNeal is being held in the Santa Clara County Jail on an open charge. TOOK-A-DIVE Suspect in Burglary Crashes Out ALAMEDA, July 4 A bur glary suspect was captured early today after he haw dived headfirst through a plate glass window when surprised inside downtown storei A warning shot fired by Po lice Sgt William Mills stopped Harold M.

Perry, 29, a machinist of 1016 Versailles St, as he fled after plunging through the glass. The suspect apparently was flushed by Patrolman David Henderson who was checking an open window at the rear of the dry goods store at 1343 Park St. Sergeant Mills, driving past the frorlt of the store, heard the tinkle of the broken glass, saw Perry running and called for him to halt firing his revolver once. Officers said Perry suffered only a slight cut on his finger. He was booked for investigation of burglary.

Operation to Part Siamesewinr: GROSSMONT (San Diego County) July 4 An operation to separate Siamese twin boys, born Monday to Mrs. La- formed in 30 days, the attend ing physician said today. Mrs. Hutchens is 33 years old and lives at the nearby town of Ell Cajon. Dr.

Leroy E. McDowell said the date of the operation depends on the, rapidity with which the twins gain weight Their weight at birth was esti mated at between 5tt and 6 pounds. Mrs. Hutchens, 33, and the twins are in "excellent' condition, the physician said. By peter Chlcage Dally WASHINGTON.

July 4Top Administration officials vetoed a trip behind the Iron Curtain which Vice President Nixon wanted to make sometime in My or early June, it is re- Nixon had in mind visiting the communist satellites of eastern Europe, including Poland, as a symbol of continued interest in the fate of the captive people of those countries. But the project failed to materialize, much to Nixon's chagrin. State Department officials opposed it, presumably because they felt it might be construed as legitimatizing the commu-nist regimes in that area. HELD PREMATURE They also are understood to have felt that a visit by the American Vice President was premature in the present state of East-West relations, open to misunderstandings among this country's allies. The State Department's negative view was shared by gov ernment intelligence agencies here.

Nixon believed that he would be able to mix with the man on the street in Czechoslovakia, Poland and other communist states as he has done on his other trips to the Far East and Central America. if such a trip could have been arranged, Nixon would have been walled away from the people by communist officials and security police wherever he went NEVER BEACHED IKE The Vice President's proposal never got beyond the State De partment which checked the ad visability of it with top intelligence officials before blocking it. It never reached the White House, as far as can be determined. was an effort made to ascertain whether Nixon 'could obtain visas irom the countries he wished to visit Nation Uses United States As Pattern CHICAGO, July 4 The Re public of the Philippines is celebrating its 10th anniversary today It is no accident that the Fill pino independence day is July 4. This young republic, the only American-style democracy in Asia, is patterned after the United, States in many ways.

Filipinos planned it that way. So did Americans who won a far eastern island empire in war and gave it back to its people. Today's ceremonies, climax ing a 5-day program, take place beside Manila Bay. Fifty-eight years ago Adm George Dewey sank the Span ish fleet at nearby Cavite, on the same bay. The islands fell into American hands through a war that started over Cubs', halfway around the world.

ANSWER IN 1941 The United States was launched on an Asian colonial adventure which most of its citizens did not want Its an swer, some years of un certainty ana tnen ot carerui planning, came in 1940 when the Republic of the Philippines was given complete independ ence after a period of partial self-rule. The republic has had the dif ficulties Of any backward so ciety emerging into modern statehood. It still faces many problems, predominantly econ omic but social and political as well The United States, which trained the Filipinos for independence, remains deeply irt-ve'ved in their affairs, including their defense. It is a responsibility which even the most insular American is likely to admit is peculiarly his. Yet the average American knows little about the Philippines.

The Philippines are an archi pelago stretching some 1,100 miles off the southeastern coast of Asia. The archipelago consists of more than 7,000 islands, Fewer than 900 are a square mile in extent and 4,800 do not even have names. The two largest islands, Luzon at the north and Min- donao at the. contain. 000 of the archipelagos total area of 115,600 square miles.

VARIED Though the mountainous sur face limits the amount of arable land, the Philippines have lush tropical climate that has given them some of the world's finest forests and supports wide variety of crops. The Philippines are one of theworld's leading gold producers and have major deposits of iron, copper, chromite, man ganese and other minerals. Spanish colonialism in the islands began tragically when Ferdinand. Magellan, famed Portuguese navigator sailing under Spain flag, visited the island of Cebu in 1521 after nearly two years of circumnavigating the globe. He was killed in an inter-island war after finding the dangerous passage from the south Atlantic to the Pacific that bears his name.

Eight years later Spain cas ually ceded this part of the! world in Portugal, which had disowned Magellan. It was 35 years before the Spaniards, returned to dispos sess the Portuguese and name the islands for King Philip IL With the aid of the religious or ders, the Spanish brought Christianity and some degree of Eu- The Filipinos today are the only predominantly Christian people Li the Far East although there are still pagan tribes and nearly 800,000 Mohammedans in the southern islands. Christian or moslem or pagan the Filipinos are nearly all of related Malay stock, with some admixture of European, Chinese and Indian blood. This common ancestry did not prevent the Filipinos from speaking eight different major tongues and innumerable dia lects. Language is one of the social problems plaguing the islands today.

Under the Americans, English was widely taught and still remains the speech of higher education, of politics and much business. The new republic has. desig nated tagalog, the language of the dominant stock on Luzon and in Manila, as the Official mother tongue. But it is the! speech of only some 3,730,000 of nearly 220,000,000 Filipinos, who speak scores of dialects. RussBid U.N.

Agency ROME. July7 4 HI Soviet Russia has invited the U.N. food and Agriculture. Organization nations to send representatives to study irrigation projects in the Soviet Union thjs summer, FAO officials here reported. A a Kremlin Prestige Under Heavy Fire By JOHN M.

HIGHTOWER lisagoi News Service had "abandoned" friendly na tions in Eastern Europe, mentioning Poland and Czechoslo vakia, among others, and pledged "repudiation" of "commitments' aiding in their com munist enslavement. orators rnaae -w good deal of political capital in cities such as New -York, Cleve land. Buffalo, Detroit and Chi cago in promising action look ing toward freedom of the cap tive people of Eastern Europe. Nixon, whose political in stincts are rated high among professional politicians, is understood to have been sharply mindful of tie political over a .1 (ones oi we prupuseu uiu. The Vice President now is en route to the Philippines and the Far East on a semi-ceremonial, semi-diplomatic mission for President Eisenhower.

C7flft. 1M4. CHf PT Nw No Progress In U.N. On Disarming UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., July 4 tfl U.N. diplomats agreed today the latest disarm ament declarations Russia and the western powers offered little ground for optimum.

Both sides laid formal pro posals before the U.N.'s 12 member disarmament commission as it resumed session yes terday. But the two resolutions mainly contained provisions previously rejected. Peruvian delegate Victor An- dres Belaunde. claiming to speak for the small countries, said he was not as pessimistic as some others. Some progress has been made in recent negotia tions.

he said, and efforts should be continued. Soviety Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Gromyko told the commission it had become clear that "certain states" had no serious intentions of promoting a solution of the dis armament problem. These countries, he said, had piled up so many pre-conditions that the negotiators had not been able to- make "a single step for ward." Gromyko emphatically re jected a proposed western dec laration of principles to serve as a guide for future arms talks. He was especially firm in rul ing out President Eisenhower's "open sky" plan for aerial inspection, one of the provisions: of the western proposal.

Hibiya Park and cheered more than a score of speakers who denounced the United States for its retention of military bases on Okinawa. The orderly crowd broke up after five hours of speeches. There was no march past the U.S. embassy. Hundreds of police were posted Tin side streets in case a march started or the crowd got out of hand.

In Tokyo Bay, the big guns of the U.S. Navy cruiser Los Angeles roared a 21-gun salute to Independence Day. Naval vessels at Yokohama and Yoko- suka flew pennants and' flags in full dress review. Emperor Hirohito cabled In dependence Day congratulations to President Eisenhower. Dope Possession Costs Year in Ji Horace Jack Francis, 37,, ai3Vi 56th St, today began serving a one-year term in the county jail for possession of nar cotics.

Sentence was Imposed The Nixon project gains added pertinence in the light of last week's riots among workers in the Polish city of Poznan, an apparent rebellion against the immediate -plans to try-- to-visit: her son. She last saw her son in August 1955, at Ft Leavenworth, where he is held Hagelberger, 23, was con victed, along' with Pvt John Vigneault of killing two Ger man civilians, who had offered them a ride, and then stealing their car. Eisenhower commuted Vigne- suit's death sentence to 55 years imprisonment last December. While Vigneault actually fired the shots, the Army had xon- tended that Hagelberger was the "moving spirit' in the Tentative Billion Cut Off Aid Bill WASHINGTON, July 4-W- House Appropriations Subcommittee members said today they voted to cut President Eisen hower's request for $4,900,000, 000 in. foreign aid money bv well over billion dollars.

The members of the subcom mittee handling the foreign aid budget bill declined to be quoted by name in advance of official announcement crcpmmitteef ac1 tiori, expected later this week But they said their- group, headed by Representative Pass man (D decided to slash $200,000,000 more than the billion dollar cut in military funds rigors of communist rule. Had Nixon made the trip, the Poznan uprising would undoubtedly rebounded to his credit as well as to the advantage of the Republican party in those cities where large num ben of people of Czech, Polish and Hungarian descent live. PLATFORM RECALLED It may be recalled that the GOP platform of 1952 charged the Democratic administration Pvt RICHARD HAGELBERGER Death Sentence Lifted In essence, the central com mittee said the system had not failed; that Stalin fed upon un usual powers given him at i time when centralized govern ment was needed to protect the Soviet Union; and that the men around him did not act to curb him in part because of his great popularity and in part because they did not fully realize what was going On until after his death in 1953. Officials here regard these ex pianaiions as pnony, and say the central committee could not afford to tell the real truth. As Washington authorities understand the Situation the truth is simple.

In their view Stalin came- to complete personal power because the Soviet system lacks the checks and balances of divided authority which characterize the political structures of Western-countries. NO DEFENSIVE POWER Once he had achieved power ism for ousting him and the men around him the men who now rule were afraid to challenge his authority, even assuming that they wished to do so. In fart, there i ho objective evidence to indicate that they did not willingly support him dur ing the long years of his rule. Experts think it probable that many communist leaders and rank, and file members will accept the central committee explanation, If men of prominence -in the movement like Togliatti, eventually jef use to accept it, then the Moscow bosses will have to decide what step to take next whether to try. to purge such recalcitrants or to undertake to live with badly leadership in the world communist movement LENINISM RETURN One phrase in the central committee statement may prove to have a special significance in regard to a "Leninist core of leaders" within the central com mittee at some unspecified date, possibly prior to Stalin's death.

This suggests that some of the men who were around Stalin as advocates of a return to the teachings of V. I. Lenin, who ruled during the first years of the Soviet regime and who is now put forth as the father of collective leadership and. as WASHINGTON, July 4 Cffl i Moscow's top communist bosses apparently are trying Ao head off any more violent criticism among red leaders of their failure to overthrow Joseph Stalin or at least curb his excesses. How well they succeed may well determine the degree of success with which they "come through one of the biggest crises which has shaken the Moscow- directed communist mjwAqient during its 40-year history, Responding to far-reaching Jy party chiefs of "the anti-Stalin cam paign which Russian party boss Nikita Khrushchev started last February, the Soviet communist party's central committee sought to gag such attacks in a statement issued Monday.

As read by specialists here, its ever-all purpose was to say to the communist faithful in Russia, in the satellite countries and in noncommunist lands that the time has come to stop argu endjieionjwi spreading communism. TOUGH PROBLEM If such men as Palmiro Togli atti in Italy, Maurice Thorez in France and pther non-Russian communist officials refuse to accept this directive from Moscow. Togliatti's first reaction was to stick by his contention that the present Kremlin leaders were partly to blame for creating the Stalin myth, and that there should be more inde pendence for non-Russian com munis ts. The view here is that if men like Togliatti accept the Kremlin "explanation" and are silenced, they will face difficulties with their followers because the committee statement does not seem to answer adequately, the criticisms already raised. The end result could therefore be that some leaders would lose their official heads.

Whether this might mean the end for some ot the top bosses in Moscow is problematicaM TWO MAJOR QUESTIONS Moscow had been confronted with two major questions fol Sou nd and ury In Tokyo's Fourth 42alvexne Hutchens, may be per-. previously voted by the St, has been charged with three counts ofLbookmak- ing following his arrest in downtown department store. Morgan, a display man, was arrested yesterday afternoon as he dressed a dummy in the win dow of the store, Police said Morgan admitted taking bets from store 'em pioyees aunng we past six months. They said he was doing about a $10 a day business. Bail was set at $9,000.

CITY TO SHARE COST OF WORK ON M'KILLOP SLIDE TOKYO, July 4-4B-A five-hour anti-American rally and a 21-gun U.S. Navy salute (furnished the noise today for America's Fourth of July in Tokyo. More than 10,000 Japanese jammed into Tokyo's downtown THE COUNTRY PARSON "We often face God like a little boy faces his mother when he's a at the cookie lar we cant look T. jr Will Some cbmparauvely small cuts also were made in the economic aid sections of the bill, the Appropriations Subcommittee in formants reported. The congressmen acted in closed session this week.

Their decisions are subject to a vote by thTfull Appropriations Committee, which normally follows subcommittee recommendations, and later by the House and the Senate The Eisenhower program orig inally called for about three bit lion dollars in military aid and $1,900,000,000 in economic assist ance abroad for the bookkeep- ping year which started Sunday. Eisenhower and other Ad ministration leaders have main Uined that substantial foreign aid cuts would endanger Amer ica security. After the House voted to authorize a total of $3,800,000,000, Administration forces succeeded in helping get through the Senate bill to re store $700,000,000 of -the House cut But that weasure now in House-Senate conference merely sets terms and ceilings, and the actual funds must be provided in a separate bill com- "Contnittssv "pockets" that trap water which seeps underground and -contributes to the sliding condition. Morin said, however, that complete elimination of the condition "might cost $1,000,000." The council agreed to go ahead if some 30 families in the McKillop and Sheffield Road areas, and a few on East 29th St, agree to sign waivers releasing the city from lia- bility as a result of the pro- lowing Khrushchev's Februaryfmay be put forward eventually The Oakland City Council last night agreed to- pay a share of the cost of temporary remedy for the McKillop Roachslides. Approval "was voted by the council to share costs with East- Bay.

Municipal Utility-District up to a total of $5,000 to bulldoze out the hillside and create drainage ditches. City Engineer John Morin said he thinks the remedy will be effective, because trader! MoW speech in secret to the 20th party congress: (1) Had a failure of the Soviet system permitted the growth of Stalin reign of ter ror? And C2 Why did Khrush chev and Stalin's other lieu- bAawwhA rfioruiwA4um4Bdv -she- Appropriations by Su So haiiahoAaitol Quaarle. aWcfa cteaded sBailtiJdfleaataotii. ketwet I iStalin's etaejaote.