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Act of March 3. 1879 TROY, N. Y. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 195S Dally Kxcept Sunday FINAL EDITION PRICE SIX CENTS French Rout Berber Rebels In Riff Peron Blames Ouster On Double-Cross By His Own Generals Exiled Chief Of Argentina Raps Enemies Editors Note: In the following interview with United Press, former President Juan D. Peron gives his version of the Argentine revolution and the events leading to his exile.

He described it as the "first and only" such statement he will make. ATHENS, GREECE--Field Marthai Alexander Papagos, above, prime minister of Greece and hero of World War II, died last night, plunging the country i a new political crisis. (United Press Tclcphoto) Young Bicyclist Neatly Beheaded Oakland, Calif. (AP)--Vernus Fortner 12, lost control of his bicycle coasting down a steep hill and plunged into a barbed wire fence last night. His head was almost severed from his body.

Two companions, i Ilertzig and Bobbie Baker, told authorities they had walked down the hill. When Vernus failed to show up soon they went back and found him dead in a pool of blood. By GERMAN CHAVES Asuncion, Paraguay (UP) -Ousted former President Jijan D. Peron today described himself as a man without wealth, double- crossed and forced into exile by his own generals. He said he still is the "constitutional president" of Argentina.

He never resigned his office, he said. He said he could have con- Greece Faces New Crisis As Premier Dies Athens, Greece (AP)--Greece faced the possibility of a serious political crisis today following the death of Premier Alexander Papagos, the national hero; Field Marshal papagos, 71-year- old victor over the Italians in World War II and the Communists in 1949, died last night of heart exhaustion following a lung hemorrhage The marshal had been confined to his home since January with gastric troubles resulting from World War II imprisonment in a Nazi camp. A report a month ago said he was improving and soon would be able to leadership of the government. His condition began to deteriorate Monday night and he began losing blood Tuesday morning. "Blood transfusions and hemo- (tatics proved of no avail, and the marshal died at 11:35 p.m.

having kept full consciousness until the last moment," a medical bulletin said. Party In Trouble. Members of the premier's con- lervative Greek Rally Party planned to meet after his funeral Friday in an effort to rewcld party unity and settle on cessor. The party, a coalition of various political groups, had come near to dissolution in the months since the premier's illness robbed it of much of unifying influence. Only yesterday had nominated Foreign Minister Stcphan Stephanopoulos to be provisional premier during his illness but this automatically ceased with the premier's death.

Because a general election would mean the end of the party, political observers expected its diverse elements to subordinate their individual ambitions in an effort to agree on a new premier. officials in Washington were distressed to hear of Papa- gos, death, dealt with highly and found him very friendly to the United States. The Americans also feared the effects on the country if a struggle for power developed. Hero Of War. Papagos was chief of the army general staff when Mussolini threw his forces into Greece Oct.

28, 1940. Dictator John Metaxas him commander of all forces and his troops tinued to resist the revolution and that "the chances of success were absolute." But he said it would have meant "prolonging the struggle, killing many people and destroying that which it cost us so much to build." He did not rule out the possibility that "some day it would occur to me" to return to Argentine politics but said that for now he intended to remain quietly in Paraguay. The former dictator spoke in answer to a written series of questions put to him in his Paraguayan exile by the United Press and then continued his conversation for another 45 minutes. The declaration he was making, he said, would be his "first and only one" because "it is not my purpose to blow my own horn." Peron appeared to be in good health and excellent humor. Blames "Parasites." The interview was conducted at the home of Peron's host, Ricardo Gayol, an Argentine with 25 years residence in Paraguay.

Peron charged that the rcvolu lion leading to his exile "repre sents the struggle of the para sitic class against the producing class. Pact Provides Pay Boost For Rail Workers Chicago (AP)--An agreement providing for pay raises was reached today by the nation's major railroads and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. The agreement covers an estimated 175,000 workers and 130 Class 1 railroads. It was announced by Leverctt Edwards, chairman of the National Mediation Board. He has been meeting for three weeks with representatives of the rail lines and the largest union of operating railroad workers.

The settlement may set a pattern for other operating unions. The carriers agreed to an increase of cents an hour, retroactive to Oct. 1, for the big majority of the workers. The number affected was estimated at 173,000. The union is made up of train crewmen who work, outside the iOcomotivc--including brakcmen, switchmen, conductors, dining car stewards and baggagemen.

About 2,000 members received flat monthly for stewards and $21 for yardmasters. Eight Shot In Indiana Strike Riot New Castle, Ind. (AP)--Eight persons were shot today in a pitched battle involving an estimated 5,000 sympathy demonstrators outside the little strike- plagued Perfect Circle Corp. foundry. Police received an i report a one person had been killed.

Three of the victims who were wounded by bullets, one seriously, were nonstrikers inside the plant. i demonstrators wounded as city police fired from inside the plant. The interior of a house near the plant used by police as headquarters was broken into and all furnishings destroyed. Rocks and bottles broke al! windows in the guard house at the plant's a i gate. Gov.

George N. Craig's office ordered 150 state police troopers into the area immediately. They were to join city police before An additional 13'i cents an hour was given members w.hose work will be reduced to 40 hours on Dec. 1. These men are yard brakemcn.

Members in yard service who already are on the 40-hour week Americans who had him regarded him "The oligarchy contributed were granted a their money, the clerics their ser- addition to mons, a section of the armed ce nts increase, forces, dominated by the am- bition of certain chiefs, con tributed the arms of the republic," he said. As for the chances of expect the worst May God grant that I'm wrong." He said that "despite the wealth attributed to me by my occasional detractors," he did not have the money to go to Europe and "play the tourist." Calls Peron "Coward." (In Buenos Aires, Peron's former vice president, Rear Adm. Alberto Teisaire, described the ousted dictator as cowardly, dis loyal, hypocritical and immoral. Teisaire said he was moved to make his statement because of 'Peron's conduct as a ruler, his disloyalty towards those who believed in him, and his cowardly and shameful desertion in the face of the adversary, abandoning the government and his collaborators." (Teisaire said he used the word "collaborators" because Peron "never harbored sentiments of cents raise basic The Brotherhood, an independent union, agreed to accept 4 cents of the raise in lieu of a health welfare plan to be financed entirely by the rail lines. The union also agreed to a moratorium until June 30 of next year on requests involving payments for fringe services.

The Brotherhood announced in June it would seek a raise of S2.50 a day for its members. Before the new agreement wage rates ranged from $13.45 a day for passenger brakcmen to $19.07 for yardmasters. Wage differences now are in mediation between the railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemcn. moving into the troubled area. Horace executive secretary, said "We're hopeful and confident the disturbance can quelled and order restored without calling out the National Guard." Thousands Storm Foundry In the absence of Gov.

Craig, who is in Miami for an American Legion committee conference prior to the opening of the national convention there Oct. 10, Lt. Gov. Harold Handlcy would have to cill out the guard if it is needed. Handley has said he would not call them out without first con suiting with the governor.

Thousands of demonstrators, apparently coming from as far away as Kentucky and Tennessee, stormed onto the foundry park- ng lot, some shouting, "let's go lome and get our guns. We'll he the dirty Part of the crowd pulled back after appeals for dispersal were made from an automobile rooftop Capt. Robert Dillon of the Indiana state police and E. J. Kucela of Indianapolis, assistant regional director of the striking CIO United Auto Workers.

However, some of the demonstrators stayed near the foundry, throwing stones, bottles Snd bricks. A STADIUM--Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, right, is shown congratulating Dodger Manager Walt Alston in the Brooklyn dressing room after the Dodgers won the final game of the World Series and their first series championship yesterday. (United Press Telephoto) Woman Wounded. friendship for anybody." He said that since 1952 Peron practically had ceased to govern, spending most of his time with high school girls, labor unionists and actresses, or in sporting activities. (The Argentine provisional named Greek scored repeated victories over the Italians until Nazi panzer divisions from Yugoslavia and Bulgaria invaded in the spring of 1941.

Eight years later Papagos took command of the three-year-old war against the Communist guerrillas in the northern mountains of "Greece. Given dictatorial powers and large-scale U.S. aid, he won the war in six months. Subsequently he formed his Rally Party in an effort to end the governmental instability resulting from Greece's multiparty system. In the 1951 elections the marshal's faction won the biggest group of seats in parliament bul not a majority.

In elections the next year the rally scored i 'smashing victory, filling 214 of the 300 seats for a four-year term. STORMS CAUSE 21 DEATHS New Delhi, India (AP)--Weeklong abnormal rains which soaked India's capital were responsible for at least 21 deaths in North India where storms collapsed a number of rural homes. government claims to have uncovered hidden treasure valued at upwards of $30,000,000 tucked away by Peron in the various lideaways where Peron and his friends conducted their revels.) Peron said that he had "devoted my life to my country and my people" and that he did "not repent for having desisted from a struggle which would have bloodied and destroyed the coun- Peron was asked to recount Pickets Jeer Red Visitors Boston (UP)--Ten Soviet housing experts who arrived here last night amid jeers of iron curtain refugees, today began a whirlwind tour of housing projects. "Today they are inspecting our houses; tomorrow they will kill our sons," read one sign waived by pickets as the Soviet delegation arrived by plane from Washington. "Go home Communists.

You are not welcome!" read another An official inside the plant said Ethel Roberts, 28, Greenboro, was shot in the hip by a- bullet that came in through a plant window. She was later taken through the demonstrating mob in an ambulance. Also taken to a hospital was a demonstrator, Paul Carper, who was shot in both legs. Another of the demonstrators wounded in the exchange of shots was Henry Gibson, shot in the right ankle and left thigh. Names of three others were not learned.

The Perfect Circle Foundry scene of frequent violence in the two-month-old strike, employs only 260 in this city of 18,271. The demonstration'was blame on Perfect Circle's firing of 35 workers Tuesday, largely because of a picket line disorder eigh days ago when 55 pickets were arrested on riot charges. The firings included top offi cials of the UAW local. The UAW is on strike also at Perfec Circle plants at Hagerstown an Richmond in Indiana. Dodger Fans Stage Noisy Victory Party Brooklyn, Where Else? (UP)-or 92 jiumb minutes after the Dodgers had won the world's hampionship in the far-off i long-suffering Dorough seemed in a sleep, Wha' loppen? Wha-a-a? And then, at 5:15 p.m.

yesterday, as the shadow of the great tern statue of Henry Ward Beecher lengthened athwart the greenery around Borough Hall, omething went b-o-o-i-n-g in thf rain of Brooklyn. And as the garbage-can-cover cymbals began whang-banging rom Coney Island to Browns 'ille, there dawned upon the citizenry that even if baseball and should live for a thousand years, this would be their finest hour. Lipstick from a victory party still adorned the baby face of winning pitcher Johnny Podres when the bell in the steeple of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush pealed mid night--and the start of this new day, when, after 55 years of wait ing, the Bums were champs. The illuminated clock in th? steeple, and a three-quarter moon riding high over the corner of Flatbush Ave. and Church looked down after midnight on a sight that made a police sergeant say: Ike Ground Denver (AP)--Mamie Eisenhower is beginning to relax a bit--probably one of the surest signs the President's recovery fight is going well.

But there is no question about it, the relaxation the First Lady is permitting herself is slight--like going to a movie last night close by her husband's room at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. The motion picture was shown in the hospital auditorium, which is on the eighth floor of the hospital, as the chief executive is. Mrs. Eisenhower has not left the hospital since arriving there a few hours after the President did on Sept. 24.

She has a room across the corridor from his. She visits him about three times a day for brief periods, and has spent most of the rest of the time in her own room. "Man, this thing is just getting rode motorcycles (Continued on Page 16) (Continued on Page 16) Prince Awakened By Cadet Reveille West Point year-old Prince Albert of Belgium was awakened from a bunk to the sharp bugle notes of reveille today, just like any other cadet at the U.S. Military Academy. The prince, on a two-day visit to the Point, spent the night in the cadet barracks and prepared to take part in' classes and regular routine of the academy.

Later in the day he will lunch with the West Point superintendent, Lt. Gen. B. M. Bryan, and high-ranking officers will brief him on sign.

The Russians, who were shepherded around some pickets and ignored those they did see, had a hectic schedule today. The day started with a breakfast by the Boston Rental Housing Assn. and the National Assn. of Home Builders, which is spon soring their month-long tour of American housing. The schedule also included visits to housing projects in Cambridge and North Shore communities, and a visit to Massachusetts Institute of Spokesman for the group was I.

K. Kozuilla, Soviet minister of city and urban construction. He said through an interpreter he hoped the visit would be "both constructive and pleasant." academy operations U.S. Rancher Coming Home With Eight Korean Orphans Seoul (AP) An American NEWSPAPERS REOPEN Istanbul, Turkey (AP)--Three Istanbul newspapers reopened today after a two-week closure ordered by the military command governing the city under martial law. All were suspended for publishing matter considered likely I to incite the population.

rancher leaves for home next week with eight American-Korean orphans he will adopt and four others for friends. The 12 range from a girl of 10 months to a sturdy little boy of 3 years. All are children of American servicemen and Korean mothers. Harry Holt, 50, of Crcswell, said he and his wife will take four boys and four girls into lis home as brothers and sisters to his own five daughters and one n. Holt said two others, a boy and a girl, will be adopted by Mr.

and Mrs. William Collier of Portland, Ore. A little girl will go to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hobbs, Corpus Chrisli, Tex.

Another little girl will join the family of, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franklin, Ann Arbor, Holt said. Accompanying Holt and the children will be Miss Kathleen Cowan of Belfast, Ireland, the nurse who cared for the 12 at the Presbyterian mission at Seoul while Holt was handling the necessary paperwork. Holt and his party will leave Tuesday for Tokyo and leave Tokyo the same day for Portland, Ore.

Holt told newsmen his wife and children are "very happy and most enthusiastic" about the mass adoption. He said the children "get all the love and care il is possible to give them." Holt came to Korea June 3 "for the sole purpose of adopting and taking home" orphans of mixed parentage. He said he decided to take the step after hearing of the plight of such babies and children in Korea from the Rev. Bob Pierce, a leader in World Vision, a Christian organization that in recent years has supported 4,000 war orphans in Korea. Some of the 12 children Holt found in orphanages.

The rest were brought to him by welfare workers. Most of the 12 are blond youngsters but their features are slightly Eurasian. Holt said he foresees no difficulties to normal upbringing of the simply don't believe good Americans will show any discrimination-against U.S. Presses Red China For Report On GIs Geneva, Switzerland (UP) -The United States today renewed demands on Communist China (or information on the fate of nearly 500 American servicemen missing in the Korean war. The talks between the ainbas sadors of the United States anc Communist China, which resultec in the release of a number Americans from Red China, went into the tenth week today.

The United States was standing fast on questions it wanU to dis cuss before considering Peiping's suggestions for a meeting be tween the foreign ministers. American Envoy U. Alexi: Johnson put the question of the nissing American servicemen a the top of the U.S. draft for an agenda at the last session Sept. 27 U.S.

records list 470 American ground troops and 11 Coas uardsmen as missing, for total of 481. The Coast Guards men were aboard a downed plane American authorities are reluc tant to consider them dead unti all avenues have been explore i.r, to their possible fate. They have not excluded the possibii ity that some might still be alivi and in Communist hands. Carefully-checked lists havi been prepared for submission the Chinese. It is this problem Johnson wants taken up at tin beginning of the "second inning 1 of the conference, after all civil ian prisoners are freed by th' Reds.

Ike Believed Weil On Road To Recovery Denver (UP)--President Eisenhower's doctors said today he spent an "excellent" night--only the third time that term has been used in his recovery--and that his condition continues to "progress satisfactorily without complications." The Chief Executive apparently is coming along well that his aides and doctors are plan- ing varied activities to keep im from becoming bored and retful in the latter stages of his ospital stay. In their 7 a.m. MST (10 a.m. EOT) bulletin, the President's hysicians said Mr. Eisenhower had an "excellent night" and slept soundly from 9:15 p.m.

to :45 a.m." The planning of activities for he President's later recupera- RAILWAYMAN KILLED Gouvcrneur (UP) Gcorg Hockey, 64, of Gouverneur, wa crushed to death between tw freight cars yesterday in the York Central Railroad yards here He was a car inspector for th railroad. ion applies to recreation as well to work. It is aimed not only at letting the Chief Executive wing gradually back into exercising the duties of his office but also giving as much diversion as ossible without undue strain. One. example of this is the movie equipment installed in a mall auditorium on the eighth Iqor of Fitzsimons Army Hospi tal, where his suite is.

It is ready use whenever his doctors fee hat their movie-loving patien can be moved, possibly by whee chair, into the auditorium. Boredom is something the doc tors have to fight in the case a man who has always led an ac ive life. As case in point wa Sunday night, when the Presi dent was reported to be "fa tigued." As it turns out, thi was plain boredom at being bed bound as much as anything else In a 10-minute session yester day with Sherman Adams, his to assistant, the Chief Executiv signed three recess appointments a letter accepting an ambassa dor's resignation, a letter author izing agricultural conservation ai for three flood and hurrican ravaged states, and a sixth rou tine document. The tone of the bulletins fo the last 43 hours indicated tha the Chief Executive is well bac on the recovery road after a slight slowdown from fatigu Sunday night. He will not, how ever, be out of what his doctor call the "woods" until Saturday Legion Troops Lift Siege On Two Outposts Taza.

Morocco Legion tank and infantry reliet columns ground their way from Taza into the Riff Valley of Death and routed fierce Berber tribesmen besieging two naming French outposts, officials disclosed today. Resident General i Georges Boyer de Latour took personal command of the French counter-offinsive and poured all his reserves into pursuit of outlaw bands. Legionnaires finally shattered the iron manacle that the savagt tribesmen had clamped on outposts of Boured and Tizi Ouzll four days ago. Their break-through saved tht survivors of the outnumbered garrison who had fought a no- retreat action while their battlt- ments burned around them. The two outposts about 40 milei from here were little more than smouldering ruins when the French troops reached them.

But the relief forces found defiant da- fenders still holding out in both places. Victory Announced. The Legion's relief cracked through briefly at Boured yesterday and hammered at edges of beleaguered Tizi Ouzll. But only after another day and night of fighting did an official spokesman here announce the final--and major--French victory. Newsmen gathering in Taza were barred from going up front today along the bloody valley road to see the pursuit beyond the recaptured outposcs.

But the Foreign were reported moving intao tht barren Riff mountains after retreating rebels. Against this backdrop of military action, Gen. De Latour personally assumed command of the forces in the field. He tunneled all spare troops into the French ackdpwn against the widespread prising of native warriors. Mountain Warfare.

The new Riff war raged through le same mud-brown mountains here Abd El Krim an uprising 'ainst France and Spain 30 years go. The Titzi Ouzli and Boured out- osts are five miles south of the panish Moroccan border, in an ea 40 miles north of Taza. Taza 153 miles east of the French oroc'can capital of Rabat The French sent 24 Vampire fighters into the mountains at awn to strafe the rebel lairs but was the same old story--the reels were hard to see in the ountains overgrown with scrub nd bright evergreens. It was the same kind of fight- ng that raged in the Tonkin Driver Killed In Thruway Crash Canastota (UP) A tracto; trailer loaded with fish crashe off the State Thruway near her today and crushed the-driver death in his cab. State Police said the driver wa Norman Lawrence Plant, 25, Worceter, Mass.

The accident curred one mile west of the Can stota interchange. Troopers sai the west-bound truck went off th north shoulder of the Thruwa and slid more than 300 feet in the west bank of Canastota Cree fountains of Indochina and Vures Mountains of nearby Aleria--an invisible enemy and iomb blasts that sent up geysers i rock but appeared to frighten inly the jackals. A young Spahi lieutenant bit- erly complained that "not more ban 50 rebels held up our col- (Continued on Page IS) Fourth Escaped Mental Hospital Inmate Captured Scranton, Pa. (AP) The fourth of six escaped inmates of the Fairview State Hospital for the criminal insane was recaptured today as police intensified their manhunt for the two still at large. Ernest Johnson, 42, Pittsburgh, was seized in the little town of Browndale, five miles south of the state hospital located at Way mart, near Scranton.

Those still at large were listed as Paul Cook, 34-year-old Beaver Falls, man convicted of slaying his father, mother and sister 16 years ago, and Richard Williams, 38, Johnstown, Pa. Seized within 10 hours after they gained their temporary freedom yesterday were Benjamin Porter, a convicted Philadelphia slayer; Frampton Lundy, 33, Rockville Center, N. and Alphonso Backus, 35, Philadelphia. The Index Classified Cohoes Comics Crossword Puzzle Death Notices Editorials Financial Obituary Pulse of the People Radio-Television Record Pattern Society Sports Theaters 25, 26, 27 IS, 16 24 13 12 20 20 12 24 11 18 21. 22, 23 It.