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Ike Calls For Meeting On Nuclear Ban Check President Makes Bid In letter To Soviet Boss WASHINGTON i Eisenhower called on Russia Saturday to start sci- i i talks nl Geneva in Ihrec weeks on ways of policing a. a weapons Icsi ban. The State Department Instantly backed up the President's proposal by naming three top flight U.S. scientist lo meet with a Russian team and probably representatives also frcm Britain, France and Japan. Tlte Red Chinese might sit in on the Soviet side.

Eisenhower's op a 1 was made lo Sonet Premier Khrushchev in a letter delivered in Moscow by the U.S. Embassy Saturday morning and then released by the White House. Radically differing from many other Eisenhower- Khrushchev letters, this one was free of accusation and criticism. Eisenhower seemed to try. hard to make his proposal agreeable -to Khrushchev.

He said the talks could begin in three weeks, produce a progress report in 30 days and a final report within 60 days. Khrushchev in a letter May 9, agreeing lo such talks, had warned against stalling. Saying the experts frcm "our side" will be chosen on the basis of special competence, Eisenhower added: "We assume that the experts on the side the Soviet Union would be similarly chosen on the basis special competence, so as to assure that we get scientific, not political conclusions." Tlie three experts announced by the State Department to represent the United Stales are: Dr. Ernest 0. Lawrence, a Nobel prize winner and director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory.

Lawrence in the past has associated himself with Dr. Edward Teller and AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss in iavor of continuing atomic and Hydrogen weapons tests. Dr. James' Brown Fisk, executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and since 1952 a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Dr.

Robert F. Bacher, chairman of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at California Institute of. Technology and member of Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee. The appointment of Lawrence could mean that the President and his science chief, Dr. James R.

Killian were deliberately eluding on the group a 'scientist skepticism about banning atomic tests and making the ban effective has already been publicly established said in November, 1956, an unfortunate misconception lo believe that methods of delecting nuclear tests were infallible. In June 1957 a re Teller Slrauss and Dr. Mark M. Alills or Ihe University of peared at a conference ai the White House after advising Eisenhower to continue testing in the interest developing cleaner, smaller, and more varied U.S. nuclear weapons.

Lawrence then said the thought tests should be continued. Tne new Eisenhower letter to Khrushchev does not commit the United States to suspend tests nor would it commit the Soviet Un ion. What Eisenhower has called for is a round of practical discus sions on the use of detection equipment so that in any future talks about test suspension Soviet American, and other governments will have available about the same king of information on what forcement steps would be needed Eisenhower's message specific ally mentioned inclusion of French and British experts. The messag had been cleared with Britain and France as well as wit'n othe NATO allies before it was sent Officials then passed the word that Japanese have had great ex pericnce in earth shock measure ments and in studying radioactiv ity in the air and a Japanese ex pert'might well be among thosi our Yugoslav President Marks 66th Birthday BELGRADE, Yugoslavia i.fl President Tito celebrates his 6St! birthday today and it is not like ly Uie Kremlin will be whippin up any fancy cakes. As a matter of fact, there w-a.

Communist-bloc summit meet ing on all week in Moscov in probability deciding wha "should be done about Tito's in sistence on independence from th Kremlin. Tito gave no indication he wa worried about what went on Moscow. Smiling and in high spi its he received many delegatior of well-wishers. Hundreds of birth day messages poured in. Friendly Enemies--For Now Republican National Chairnuui can Heritage Foundation's "Don't Pass BucV.

Buck" campaign, The slogan aimed at Influencing citizens to contribute fo the political can- Meade Alcorn pins bulUm lapel of Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler In Washing- Ion at a preview of the Amcrl- dldale or parties of their choice. In McDowell School Fire Arson Charges Set Against 3 Youths WELCH Ml--A 13-year-old hoy taken into custody a i he and two other youths set the fire vlnch destroyed a small rural school, State Fire Marhal Carl K. Weiiner reported. Officers expected to lake, the ther two, ages 17 and 20, into uslody Saturday night.

Weiiner aid that all three would be harged with arson in the fire vhich destroyed a two room 5ig Auto Makers jrant Non-Union ay Increases DETROIT The automotive iig three Saturday announced pay ncreases for 173,000 salaried em- iloyes and non-union hourly paid vorkers. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors have contracts with the United Auto Workers which pro- cost of living allowances and an improvement factor pay in- to UAW members. The traditionally make the benefits to employes not represented by a union. Ford granted 45,000 workers quarterly cost of living ncrease and 2W- per cent im Jrovement factor pay boost, ef- 'ective June 1. A Ford statement explaining the mprovement factor increase said those covered by the announcement will receive the per cent ir $10.50 a month, whichever is Under the cost of living dis- triaution, eligible salaried workers get a quarterly adjustment for each .5 upward change the cost of living index.

The May 22 index will provide a $10.40 to a total of $128.40 for the June-August quarter. General Motors said the pay increases would apply to 10,000 nonunion hourly paid workers anc 91,000 salaried workers. The raises are effective May 29 and June 1, respectively. Chrysler announced al the same time its 24,000 salaried employes not represented by unions will receive increases effective June 2. There was no mention of em- ploye-members of the United Auto Workers Union in the pay increase announcement.

Nicholas County Youth Drowns SUMMERSVILLE (RNS) A swim in a farm pond cost the life of a young Nicholas County man Saturday. Gary Lee Ncff, 19, was pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. Satur day when his body was finallj recovered four and a half hours after the young Pool resident had gone swimming with two cousins Vinton and Virgil Moses, in a large farm pond on the Clarl Ramsey farm near Mt. Xebo. State Police D.

V. Lil! said Kcff had evidently sufferei a cramp while swimming and hi: companions were unsuccess ful in attempts to get him ou of the pond. A hour searcl for (he body was made before volunteers from Summcrsviile aix area towns finally recovers the body. He was the son of Mrs. Bessi' Moses, Pool.

The body is at the Waters Fu twra! Chapel, Summcrsville. tieral arrangements are incom plete. Pleasure Hams Into Lock; 21 Hurt PITTSBURGH The excursion steamer Avalon. carrying sbout 1.100 Ohioans on a pleasure cruise, rammed into a loci on Ohio River Saturday. At least 21 persons were hurt.

Police said no one was killed. Those hurt apparently suffered minor injuries. Tiic ship's bow was punctured above the water line, but the vessel brought the injured to a Pittsburgh dock under its o.vn power. The accident occurred at the Emsworlh Dam about six miles west of Pittsburgh. Officers said the pleasure boat was carrying members of Ihe Mid- western Historical Railway Musi urn Assn.

of Cleveland, Ohio. The had come to Pittsburgh on a cial (rain and boarded the for a leisurely cruise of the river: Lockmaster Elmer Graber sai the Avalon was moving throng the dock when its starboard bo crashed into the lower aid it was possible- somcor misled a signal, declaring that signal had been given to revers the but a the bo continued its forward progre until the crash. Scores of the passengers we: hurled to the decks of the boa They tumbled over deck chai; but there was no panic, ural school at Paynesville, near ie Virginia state line last Tues- ay night. The arrest culminated an inves- gation conducted by Asst. Stale ire Marshals Ezra Zirkle and C.

Cobb, State Trooper D. L. "oye and Deputy Sheriff Buck 'right. The Paynesville fire was tie costly of five school blazes hich have caused an estimated iss of close to half a million dol- ars in McDowell County i ear. Earier fires destroyed Welch umor High School and Berwind unior School, and caused eavy damage al Baldwin Grade chool at Squire and Superior laitland Grade School.

Weimer said earlier that the Su- erior Maitland -and Baldwin res definitely were cases of ar. and arson also was suspec- ed at Welch and Berwind. Weimer reported Saturday that ve men picked up for question- earlier this week in connec- with the series of fires roved not to been impli- ated and have been released Authorities at first thought ihe aynesville fire was accidental wssibly the result of electrica 'iring trouble which the janitor ad reported. Weimer said youth in cus ody told officers one of the other wo involved was angry ai eacher at Paynesville. Supreme Court Rulings Blasted WASHINGTON W-Lashing ou Supreme Court decisions in the ast two years, the Senate Inter Security subcommittee "The of all these ecisions has comfort foi ommunists and criminate." The subcommittee also said the esult has been "frustration fo aw enforcement officials, seriou nterference with congress' self nforming function, and destruc ion of all efforts of the America eople to protect 1 through their state governments.

In the 12th and final installmen 3f its annual, report, the euhcom miltee called for legislation to un lo the effects of some of th ourt's rulings in subversive ca-s cs and to curb its review powers Such a measure recently wa approved by the subcommittee' arent body, the Senate Judiciar Committee, by a 10-5 vote an now, is on the Senate calendar. Cardinal Takes Turn For Worse Samuel Cardina Stritch took a sudden turn for th worse Saturday and was give viaticum the Roman Cathol: Church's sacrament of Holy Com munion for the dying. Dr. Filippo Rocchi. one of th Cardinal's three Italian doctoi said it was very unlikely the prc ate could live through 'the nigh The 70-year-old archbishop Tnicago and proprefcct of the Va can's Congregation for Propag; lion of the Faith suffered hea: damage and was placed under a oxygen tent.

Prayers for the ing were recited for him. He ha Seen given extreme unction, t'r last rites of the church, on Monda when he suffered a paralvzin stroke. He also had been given the la rites alter amputation of his rig arm--on April 23 just alter 1 arrived to take up his new duli at the Vatican. He had appean be making satisfactory recovc from that operation. Prunlylown Official's Dismissal Confirmed PRUNTYTOWX 1.51 The missal of W.

J. Ben as i sistant superintendent t'nc Virginia Industrial School tor Bo wax confirmed Saturday by Supe intendent William Rollins said that to ttstc no has been chosen to succeed Bus a Democrat who has assislantship- for years. Rollins said that he could explain why the dismissal iordered. BECKLEY BOST-HERSLD Halei VOL 78-NO. 280 4 Sections COMBINED SUNDAY EDITION BRCKLEY.

WEST I I I A A 60 Pages ienalors Predict Middle-Of-Road abor Reform Bill WASHINGTON tin Predic- ins (hat a middle-of-the road la- reform bill will emerge from Senate Labor Committee were ade Saturday by Sens. John F. ennedy ID-Mass) and Irving M. es (R-NY). Kennedy told newsmen the com- ittee's product may be one sides will not lie--some will ink it's too (strong, some too eak." Nevertheless, he said that a bill oiding extremes is the only kind lich stands a chance of be- ming law.

Ives concurred with Kennedy's ew. He said the committee's bill robably will go further than leaders want but not so far as senhower has recommended. The New Yorker, senior Repub- 'an on the labor subcommittee, 'scribed Kennedy and himself as "earl of center force" on the mmittee. He said they were in bslantial agreement on the sub ct. Kennedy said he would work on draft bill over the weekend and mfer with Ives Mondav.

He said subcommittee would meet on Wednesday and explained he iped that group could complete work on a bill Thursday. That would give the full com- ittee 10 days in June to get the easure to the floor. It has a me 10 deadline to accomplish is. Indications from both senators ere that the committee bill woulc elude provisions on union demo- racy including some election ifeguards, on financial reporting i unions, on trusteeships over cals, on conflicts of interest in- olving union officers, on climina- on of the non-Communist affi- avit for union officials, and on epealing the Taft-HarUey law see- on which makes it impossible for rikers to vote in a bargaining eclion. (im Gives Auto Back To Trujillo HOLLYWOOD Ifl Kim Novak ays she has given that 58,500 lorfu car back to Lt.

Gen. Rafae rujillo Jr. The blonde movie star went to fancy filmtown party in a taxi "I brought my mother, my sis er and her husband," she fold a eporter. "I only have my little orvette now and 1 couldn't ge hem all in it, so I called a Kim previously said she would eturn the expensive car when th ews first broke that the hand ome son of the Dominican Re ublic's strong man had a wifi nd six children back home. I as since been announced he the of getting a Mexi an divorce.

Trujillo, now a at tin Command and Genera School at Ft. Leavenworth professed his love for Kirr a television audience before Pflimlin Acts To Smash Corsican Insurrection "You will surely achieve the oal for which you have been siriv- ng for so long," he told the postal mployes. Byrd said he himelf voted (or iie salary increase legislation last ear, but he voted against the pos- News Agencies Are Combined NEW YORK HV-Two' of the ion's largest news agencies. Unil Press Associations and the In ernational News Service. Satur day announced a consolidation t.

orm a new service called Unitet Press International. A joint statement said the con solidation agreement was signe on 16 but that a public an nouncement was delayed to pe: mil formation of plans for th )hy6ical changeover. The merger brought to an en more than 50 years of threc-wa competition in the news field tvveen The Associated Press, olc est of the three, and the UP an INS. Frank H. Bartholomew, and general manage who was named president of tr new organization, issued a siat ment saying in partr "Economics was an importai factor in the creation of the gre new news neiwork.

Costs of ering the world's newsfronts ha risen steadily with rapidly im proving means of xth news and pictures by lcas and electronic processes. SINGLE COPY 15o Addresses Convention Postal Goals Near, Rep. ByrrJ Believes Congressman Robert C. Ryrd, speaking to the 32nd nmial convention of the West Virginia Federation of 'ost Office Clerks and ils A i i a last nk'hl, iiuli- atcd he was i ihc President would not veto He package bill increased wages and increased lostal rates: Jeckley Man, 29, Takes Own Life Maurice Lowell Moore, 29, Beck I took his own life in (he bathroom of his home at 405 Vine Saturday between 9 and 10 a.m. According to Beckley police, a was received from C.

H. Linkus, Moore's father-in-law, at bout 10 a.m. reporting the suicide. Linkous, who lives at 1303 S. Kanawha told police he had ailed his son-in-law Saturday morning and went to the house vhen no one answered his phone call.

Police said the house was ocked when Linkous arrived. He ien' borrowed a step-ladder from neighbor and climbed into the lathroom window. It was then he iiscovered the body. According to police. Moore erted the end of a.20-gauge shotgun barrel in mouth and Julled the trigger.

No trace of a uicide note was found. No reason vas given for Moore taking his own life. Moore was employed at the ieckley Memorial Hospital as an X-Ray technician and had been here since the opening of the hos ita! in January, 1936. Before com ng to Beckley, he had been em- iloyed at St. Luke's Hospital -in Bluefield.

lal rate increase bill then. This car, the bill as amended in the Senate including the two in a "package deal" won unanimous favor in both the House and Senate last week and was on to "le White House. becomes effective August 1 if President Eisenhower signs it before the end of May. Briefly, the bill gives a seven and a half per cent increase for all postal workers and those in the first six levels would get an additional two and a halt per cent increase retroactive to the first of January. This latter provision is a temporary increase and would automatically, expire at the end of three years.

Individuals in level seven would receive an additional one and and a half per cent increase on the same basis. The postal rate increase, also in brief, is that the three cent stamp would be four the present six-cent air mail stamp would be seven cents; post cards from two to three cents. Second and third class mail also would be increased. Byrd'also discussed the growth of the Post Office Department, and the additional burdens put on the postal service other than delivering the mail. On the eve of the Civil the department was handling 8S million pieces of mail.

Last year, the department handled 59-billion pieces of mail, and Die other branches of service have grown portionately. Besides mail, the postal employes perform other services such as receiving and transmitting funds for volunteer charities; deer and grouse cen. sus; distribute income las forms; and register aliens. The congressman arrived short ly before the banquet at Ihe Beck 1Jr utriuie ni udnquei ai me neck Married to the former Joyce i' Hotel, headquarters of the rm Linkous of Beckley, he was convention. Today he is to speak he father of one son, Ira Step- Putnam County for the Gideo len, at home.

Society; on Monday at com mencement exercises in Charle His wife, employed at the Beckmen exercises in Charles Memorial Hospital, was in Town and Wednesday, he expect; Huntington Saturday attending a meeting of the West Virginia Society of Medical Technologists. An Army veteran, Moore had undergone a medical check-up in Huntington Wednesday. According to police, he had hepatitis, a disease of the liver. Moore was born Sept. 14, 1929 at Hall, W.Va., a son of Ira and Merle Martin Moore.

He was a member of the Moose Lodge, a veteran of the Korean War, and a member of the Memorial Baptist Church. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Charles T. Camp and Mrs Dana Norman, both of Hall Tne body is at the Rose and Sucscberry Funeral Home pending completion of arrangements. Charleston Levy Again Approved CHARLESTON Charleston's 25-year-old special levy was approved for another throe years Saturday in an election reflected little interest.

Only 2,270 persons fewer than 6 per cent the city's 42,056 registered voters cast ballots. One precinct didn't record a single vote, not even by the polling clerks. An unofficial Sally, however showed that there were 2,153 for the levy and only LIT against it. A 60-per cent majority was required for approval. Tne levy is designed to provide S336.790 annually for city govern' ment expenses and purchase equipment.

be back in Washington Alaska statehood bill and th Reciprocal Trade Agreement Ex tension will be before. Congress. Separate meetings are sched Cornell Suspends 4 For Provoking lliois uled to hear a report from Oscar L. Whitesell, Greensboro, N. a vice president of UIL National Federation Post Offitx Clerks; reports of committees; fi nancial report; and a report of th National Convention delegates.

Election of officers and instal lation of officers also is schedulec at this time, and the selection a location for the nest meeting The Auxiliary will hear an ad dress by Mrs. William Welson Columbus, 0., national vice pres ident. This unit also is expecle to elect and install officers a this tune. Ending the convention will be a luncheon at El Chico. About 80 persons had registered last Saturday afternoon for the meeting, which opened with a joint session in the dining room at 3 p.

m. Russell R. Feazell, Beckley, convention chairman, called the meeting to order. Beckley Mayor A. K.

Minler, welcomed the convention delegates to Beckley, and olhcr welcome addresses were made by the local postmaster, A. Fray Lilly, Mrs. Ann Underwood, president of the Auxiliary, and Robert H. Biggs, president. Local 1500.

Civil Aeronautics Administrator James T. I'yle uses a model plane in Washington lo explain pilot visibility to the Senate during ils.invesligalion of Ihe recent air Iragedics. Pjle said the CAA will have a new system of reserving air boulevards within 120 days. Congress Favors New U.J. Agency For Air Safety WASHINGTON ffi-The loss of 61 lives in military-civilian' air collisions this year appeared today lo have virtually assured prompt congressional action on new federal air safety agency.

"So far, there is no visible opposition," Sen. A. S. Monroney said of a bill drastically overhauling' present airway controls. "We have far more supporl than we thought we would have," Monroney added in an interview He is chairman of the Senate Aviation subcommittee.

Some 33 senators of both parties already are backing the Monronev bill to establish an independen! federal aviation agency with broad powers to enforce a nation wide and unified air traffic con trol. Two days of emergency Senatt hearings on the' military-civiliar crashes developed wide suppor from operators of commercial air lines, airline and key government officials. "About the only probable oppo- of Commerce Weeks and Under" secretary of Commerce Roths child," Monroney added. remier Orders Special Assembly Session Monday PARIS W) Premier Pi- MTC i i i early Sunday an emergency ses- iion of Hie a i a Asseni- jly for Monday morning to deal i armed pro-Dc a insurrection on tlte island of Corsica, A special Cabinet session pro- Claimed that a state of insurrec- existed at Ajaccio, capital of the French Mediterranean island where Napoleon Bonaparte was born. Following the pattern already in Algiers, a commif- of public safety was set up by the dissidents in Corsica.

For three hours Pflimtin's ministers studied reports frcm Ajaccio and other points in Corsica that self-appointed committees of public safety and an undetermined number of French paratroopers had seized government buildings at Ajaccio, Corte and Calvi. The committee's were reported calling for what they described as a government of national union led by Gen. Charles de Gaulle. In another of a series of harsh blows at'the beleaguered Pflimlin government, insurgent De GaullisLs set up a strongman triumvirate in Algeria. TCie leadens vowed to fight "unto death" to restore De Gaulle to power.

The blows fell as Pflimlin fought on in Paris for, new governmental power to cope with the mounting crisis. Pflimlin called for another emergency Cabinet -session Sunday afternoon.in of the parliamentary meeting. He also planned go to the people again early Sunday in an. extraordinary radio speech. The special Cabinet session Saturday night that labeled-the Corsica uprising'an insurrection could in effect commit the government to bring Ihe island back under control by force if necessary.

No such step has been taken to deal with the Algerian developments. The raid on the prefecture building in Ajaccio, capital of Corsica, was led by French Assemblyman Paul Pascal Arrighi, a right- winger known for his views. Several hundred persons, aided by French paratroopers, helped seize the building. Reports from Corsica said they imprisoned frc area governor. Paratroopers also seized and imprisoned a company of-French riot police that had arrived only Saturday to put down such dem- Administration, which operate the nationwide airways system, part of the ment.

The Commerce Depart board, routes other functions, is an independen agency. .11. oammaj pm aown sucn aem- At present the Civil Aeronautics onstrations. The mainland police nrrnniQTraTmn mVitnK i i-wn-i. were surrounded and disarmed by the much larger number of paratroopers from the Civil Aeronautics Training Base in north central wnicn determines air Carsica.

and safety rules among The cabinet answered the un- rising from Corsica by declaring a state of insurrection, ordering Monroney would put them both civil servants not to obey the com- in the proposed new agency, mittees. and closing down all com- ivhicl! would be headed by a sin- munications between the main- administrator directly re.spon lancl a Corsica. Mail, plane and ship services were halted. The cabinet filed charges of conspiracy to undermine the internal security of the a against all members of the Ajaccio committee and signed a forma, remiest to parliament to remove Arrighi's parliamentary immunity. In Algeria an extreme righlwing sible to the president and Coi Hoblifzell Urges Women To Build Strong GOP BUCKHANNON Sen.

Job D. Jr. (R-WVal Salurda mguna an extreme nghlvvin" called upon women in West French Assemblyman who (o start now in building a I directed De Gaulle's political strong Republican to support President Eisenhower and Governor Underwood. "In ia6. women in West Virginia led an all-out effort to restore integrity and decency to RAIN ITHACA, N.Y.

versity Saturday Uni- saspcnded fou students accused of inciting riots which President Deane W. Ma- was spattered with eggs and Iiis house stoned. One was the fon of a Cornell profp.vr. The arc to bo reviewed Tuesday by the Men's J'J diciary Board, a student discip'i nary group tiiat will submit rec ommendations to the faculty's stu dent conduct committee. The sta dents could be expelled.

Frank C. Baldwin, dean of men, identified the four as; J. Kirk Sale, a senior, Ithaca. son of Prof. William Sa'e.

Richard Farina, a junior, Robert M. Perry, a jiinicc. of Bay Harbor, Fla. David W. Seidlcr, a junior, of Groat Neck.

I. The riots Friday. Tvp-irt- over student belief tha: lhr planned to ban iinoiiaper- oned parties in Ou-cainpus student apartments. They erupted again early Saturday when students threw a smoke.bomb and rocks at Mn- lott's home. (The demonstration followed a torchlight parade in which 2,000 students participated.

WEST VIRGINIA WEATHER Considcra cloudiness with shower and scattered thunder- today. High in and lower 60- west. HECKLF.V High Friday fi3J Low Friday night (V) 7 a.m. Saturday (V 10 a.m. Saturday 70 Noon Saturdr.y 70 fi p.m.

Saturday 67 Reekie? Skies THE SVN: Rises 5:03 a jets c.W p.m. TIIK MOOX: Sets Mimh.y at a.m. First quarter -n PROMINENT STAR: Regulus. near the moon. VISIBLE PLANETS: Jupiter.

ernment in our state." said in prepared remarks for a meeting of the Third District of the West Virginia Federation of Heoiiblican Women. "Now in you must continue your efforts to support this type government by working to give President Eisenhower a "Republican Congress and Governor Un- a Republican Legislature." he said. chinery, the parachute general who set off the revolt in Algeria, and an Algerian physician-assemblyman set up the three-man supreme junta. They swore to fight "unto death" for the return of "Do Gaulle to powc'. Announcement of the developments in Algeria came shortly after a lawmaker friend of Pflim- lin and wartime De Gaulle aide flew to Algiers on what he cal'ed a personal mission.

Pflimlin did not say he had dispatched the lawmaker, Assembly Deputy Jean-Louis Vigier, to Al- Radio Algiers insisted the Vigier trip was a personal mission, not an official one. French Forces Fire On Tunisian Troops due south. 9:38 p.m.; Saturn, low in southeast, 10:36 p.m.: Mars, rises 2:22 a.m.; Venus, low in cast 16 a.m. TUNIS. Tunisia .51 French forces in southern Tunisia opened Saturday i on Tunisian troops.

o. (icial Tunisian sources reported. President i Bojrguiba promptly called a session of his; Cabinet to deal with the itn.ijion. The i i a sources said French troops stationed at Roma- da attempted to break through barricades placed around French The informants said French i opened fire ar.d Tunisian troops shot back. There was no on casualties.

Reports reaching Tunis said the exchange was continuing. has demanded that France immediately withdraw all French troops etill in this former protectorate. French-Tunisian relations in the past have neared the breaking point over the troop withdrawal several months ago has Ions an increase tMision i and Tunisia. demands and other issues. France accused Tunisia of rcbois ii ncijh- i boring Algeria..