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rl New Phone AV 8-8O0D GUIDE TO FEATURES Classified Deaths 10, 16 Radio-TV. 9 Dr 8Society ...13 Churches 7 Sports. Comics FinVcl .6. 12Star Gazer.13 Cross-Word 8 Obituaries 16 Theaters ..21 Culbertson. 8 Port 12 ram 8 BOUNCING BACK SATURDAY Fair and warmer.

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Vol. cxxxui NO. 137 24 PAGES SEVEN CENTS fl 1958 Bv GIOBK NEWSPAPER CO. BOSTOX, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1958 if N' Ji ill 4 fir I I I II I 1 jf I I i rail Vmj LL1 Yl liziU ULi uLzii 3 Si Mi iff icial mi 'Aide Taken in 6raokciown: Pf mm SEiuffles alianet i nn ames louen yocn To Maintain Order Voted Dictatorial Powers; Cancels All Troop Leaves PARIS, May 17 (Saturday) (AP) Premier Pierre Pflimlin's sorely beset French government fought back overnight and today with extraordinary powers to beat down subversion and De Gaullist threats on the home front. Two French air force generals were among those reported arrested under a hard new French police regime.

(The United Press said a third general was under house arrest, Gen Henri Lorillot, chief of the French ground army.) The big North Airican territory of Algeria was still held firmly by French military men and colonials opposed to the Paris government. The Paris government apparently is leaving that problem to be coped with in turn when order can be restored in continental France. 'fc' I J' I J1 iKi ariiumoLiJtiLniuuLjjijoij ri i -r--T i GIVEN AUTOCRATIC AUTHORITY French Premiere Pierre Pflimlin, 51, facing nation's gravest postwar crisis. FRENCH SOLDIERS MINGLED WITH RIOTERS of insurrectionist junta row in control of Algeria. in Oran, Algeria, when city Electric Rate Hiked Trains May 31 Highland Branch End Pflimlin told the French Senate early today that a revolutionary situation has developed in Algiers and his government forces "will fight on two fronts" if necessary.

He gave no details. In the reported arrest of the air force generals the grave French crisis touched the North Atlantic Alliance directly for the first time. One officer is on the staff of the American supreme commander in Europe, Gen Lau-ris Norstad; the other is his deputy in the French Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pflimlin's government, now in its fourth harassed day, was given resounding National Assembly approval yesterday on his appeal for emergency powers to cope with chaos. Brootyinc and Newton Appeals'--On Service Turned Down hy ICC By WILLIAM J.

LEWIS Operation of the Highland once the railroad ends For 475,000 Users Riling Gives Edison Average Home Increase 2 Pet. The state Department of Boston Edison Co. last night Public Utilities authorized the to jncrease its rates by cpnt at a CQst oj 2,288,000 to i the 475 000 customers in Kate inCreaSeS Greater Boston. The raise which, it is re- A comparison of the new ported will average an addi- and old Edison residential tional 16 cents per month for rates; Edison's 415,000 residential KWH New Old Monthly customers, is scheduled to go Increase into effect June 1. 50 $3.77 28c 709 5.13 4 86 27c LIGHT RATES 150 6.68 6.51 17c 200 8.23 8.16 7c Page Five ji 11 20)000 in Algerian Rally Branch of the Boston Albany Railroad will cease on May 31, an official of the road announced last night as the full Interstate Commerce Commission In Washington turned down appeals of Brookline and Newton officials that the abandonment petition be reconsidered.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will purchase the Highland Line and convert it to a rapid, transit extension Rebel Groups Combine; To Name Cabinet Today its service. Discontinuance of the Highland Branch is scheduled to come within 24 hours of the time all passenger service is due to end on the Old Colony Division of the New Haven Railroad. The termination date for the end of this South Shore and Cape Cod run is June 1. HIGHLAND LINE Page Five notice that he will try to have the bill reshaped on the House floor to conform more closely with the recommendations he sent Congress two months ago. He did this in a letter commending the committee's product "by and large." DEFENSE Page Two Israel Role in Democracy Told 200 Christian Leaders New Defense Bill Almost Satisfies Ike By CHARLES Israel is in a better position than the United States to export democracy to the rest of the world, an expert on Middle East affairs declared here yesterday.

Rev. Karl Baehr, executive director of the American L. WHIPPLE Christian Palestine Committee of New York, was one of three speakers at a Trinity Church luncheon seminar on the "Middle East: Crossroads of World Tensions." SEMINAR Page Three WASHINGTON, May 16 (AP) The House Armed Services Committee today approved a defense reorganization bill giving President Eisenhower most of the military command streamlining he asked, but less than he wanted in administrative control. Mr. Eisenhower served (U.P.

Tpleohoto) was taken over by supporters State Moves To Audit Books Of Old Colony By S. J. MICCICHE The New Haven Railroad's loss figures on its Old Colony Division win be challenged Dy xne siaie in an attempt xo stave off the abandonment of South Shore rail commuter service June 1, Atty. Gen. George Fingold said last night.

Fingold said he would demand an audit of the New Haven's allocation of losses the prime factor in the discontinuance edict next Friday at a hearing on the railroad's injunction etition in New Haven Federal District Court. Gov. Furcolo has called an emergency meeting for 4 p.m. today at his office in an attempt to seek a solution of the problem raised by imminent abandonment. OLD COLONY Page Five Textile Unions'.

Merger Remote, ConventionTold By WILFRID C. RODGERS Globe Staff Correspondent MIAMI BEACH, May 16 The Textile Workers Union of America agreed today to follow a course of "caution" in any future merger talks with its rival, the United Textile Workers Union. TEXTILE Page Twelve Westford Radar Tracks Sputnik 1047 Miles Away A 90-ton experimental radar telescope on a Westford hilltop probed through cloudy skies yesterday and tracked Sputnik III and its booster rocket as far as 1047 miles away. From a point out in the Atlantic, 863 miles away, to Newfoundland, 1047 miles away, and again, from a point west of Chicago to Canada, the radar's 84-foot reflector ALGIERS, May 16 (Reuters) Algeria's Public Safety Committees banded together today under the central direction of the Algiers Group and pressed for the return of Gen Charles de Gaulle as French premier. Leon Delbecque, a top member of the Algiers committee, announced the formation of an All-Algeria Public Safety Committee and sent a new telegram to French President de Gaulle be named.

Usually well informed sources said Gen Raoul Salan, given full military and civil powers by both the French government and the Algiers Committee, would announce formation of a military and civil cabinet tomorrow. Meanwhile, some 20,000 Moslems paraded through the The assembly vote was 461 to 114, the bigge majority ever given a postwar premier. The Council of the Republic (Senate) approved the emergency powers act early Saturday morning, 211 to 94. The parliamentary action gave Pflimlin the biggest police club any of the 25 postwar premiers has had. One of his first acts was to reshuffle his new cabinet and bring back a man regarded as one of France's toughest officials.

He is Jules Moch, veteran interior minister of other postwar cabinets, and nemesis of street mobs. FRANCE Page Three streets of Algeria tonight singing "La Marseillaise" France's national anthem and carrying placards proclaiming "Algeria is French de Gaulle to power." ALGERIA Page Three Mechanics BIdg. To Be Torn Down StartillSf DcC. 1 Commonwealth Armory would serve as interim accommodation for Boston's conventions and trade shows until a $12 million convention hall is erected, under a plan disclosed by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce last night. PRUDENTIAL Page Three sistance program" for Lebanon's armed forces.

(A department spokesman said the tanks will be in addition to what he called "police equipment" now on the way by air to Lebanon in response to an urgent request from President Camilla Cha-moun's government. LEBANON Page Two NOTICE TO CARPENTERS As of Monday, May 19, 1958 at 8 a.m. It will be a requirement of employment that your employer shall have a signed memorandum of agreement with the Carpenters' District Council of Newton ami vicinity for a wane of S3.F0 per hour. As per order of the Detesates of tne Carpenters' District Council of Newton and vicinity. John G.

Ross. Secy, of laid District Council. Senate Probe Opens Monday On Nixon Tour WASHINGTON, May 16 (AP) An inquiry into the rough treatment given Vice President Nixon on his Latin-American tour was taken over by the full Senate Foreign Relations Committee today and expanded to cover anti-American violence elsewhere. The committee decided to broaden the scope of the study to include the recent burning of U.S. Information Agency libraries in Lebanon.

Chairman Theodore Francis Green said the committee also would look into other recent incidents, but he didn't specify them. There has been anti-American rioting in Algeria and last week rifle fire spattered around the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Haiti. NIXON Page Two $400,000 Will Shows Widow i As Stock Genius BROCKTON, May 16 The will of a widowed shoe worker revealed today that she had amassed an estate of more than $400,000 by playing the stock market. Even the closest friends of Mrs.

Julius T. Cox, 49 Wilmington si, who died in January at 89, were surprised at the size of the estate. Her will was filed here today. WIDOW Page Twelve Baseball Results AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 6, Cleveland 3. Kansas City 5, Detroit 3.

New York 7, Washington 2. NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 6, San Francisco 5. Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 2. St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 0.

RED SOX TODAY Baltimore at Fenway Park, 2 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. TV Chan riel 5, 2 p.m. 1- T- OUT OF RESPECT TO OUR BELOVED OWNER FRANK D. ELBERY ELBERY MOTOR COMPANY, INC.

WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY, MAY 19, 1958 U.S. Flies Aid to Lebanon, Pledges Tanks, More Arms mi mmsm in mm i yy yM ym iym i'yy is A The Boston Globe NEW ADDRESS (AP Phcto) TIE IS A MUST Louise Dodge adjusts tie on Dave Gage at Wilton, N.H., high school in conformance with new high school board ruling requiring all students to be "neat and tidy" in appearance at all times. Morrissey Boulevard Boston 7, Mass. AVenue 8-8000 BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 16 (Reuters) The Lebanese government tonight vowed it will never resign and again blamed the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria for "terror and sedition" in the riot-torn country. (In Washington it was announced that the United States, was flying help to Lebanon's pro-Western regime i and would follow with tanks shortly.

(The tanks will be part of what the State Department termed a "modest military as TODAY AND SUN. TODAY -10 2:50 SUNDAY 1:30 1 5:30 Surgeons Put DacYon Patch For Classified Advertising Call AVenue. 2-1500 On Big Artery of Heart By FRANCES BURNS A patch may now be ap- out of 10 cases the operation plied to a ballooning area in is successful-the big artery leading from ARTERY the living hearLand in seven Page Ttcebjr 1 followed the Red booster and cone-shaped satellite. TRACKING Pagt Thret IE.

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