Show -- w— V 2A THE OGDEN (UTAH) this handsome new home office: building now under cnnnction in bcaunfvl Curon Village "SiaM of Vour confidence In ‘Y: ‘Raleigh North Ocrktenral-tn : ' French Lose South Viet Nam But Squabble Over Leaving Strike at By PRESTON GROVER SAIGON South Viet Nam (AP)— The French have lost SINGAPORE (AP) — Arrest of five Chinese union leaders launched a Communist-backegeneral strike in this Crown Colony Island today but the initial response in Britain’s commercial crossroads of the East was slow A government spokesman esti mated 17000 men failed to show up for work this morning The strike call went out yesterday to 70000 members of 36 unions The spokesman warned how ever that the stoppage could spread rapidly The first major result was a halt in the island’s 2000 buses whose 6000 drivers and conductors took their vehicles off the streets yesterday afternoon as soon as they heard of the arrest of their leaders Many Thousands Walk Many thousands walked or hitchhiked to work today Most shops were open Although there was no immediate violence the 4500 police were put on a standby basis to counter any recurrence of d riots last month in which United Press Correspondent Gene D Symonds and three other persons were killed Since it took office the Socialist Labor Front government has been plagued by a growing wave of labor unrest which the regime charges is Communist inspired and directed Most of the strikers have demanded higher wages and improved working conditions d Announcing the Celebration of- Occidental’s Fiftieth Year Occidental Life Insurance Company proudly announces the beginning of its fiftieth year of continuous service to policyholders and their families anniversary celeDuring this bration the Company will complete and 12-mon- th occupy its beautiful new home office build- ing The handsome structure will vividly reflect a of sound and successful growth half-centu- ry In these fifty years Occidental — in behalf of its policyholders-ha- s invested in America’s industrial and commercial future investments that have contri- - buted to the unprecedented rise in our nation’s standard of living More important however is the fact that with Occidental’s help thousands of been relieved parents and individuals have of financial worry and insecure futures It has been a source of great satisfaction to see Occidental insurance send children to school pay monthly checks to widows and retired parents send families on vacation and finance homes Through its local representatives Occi- dental extends to you its anniversary greetings and offers you its friendship and - strike-sparke- Atomic Victim Dies HIROSHIMA Japan (AP) Japanese doctors today reported the death of Makoto Mizuiri 42 a man they claimed to be the ninth person to succumb this year to injuries sustained in the Hiroshima atom bomb blast in 1945 SPECIALS! 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Bombed 2nd Time home-mad- e ed at the base themselves Nevertheless an enterprising French bishop in India rounded up forces sailed them over to Indochina and helped seat a troubled prince on the throne With this help the new He king unified' the country to civilization Western opened it The opening was temporary A later Vietnamese king turned on the Catholic priests slaughtered a score of th'em and chased others into the wilderness to die of disease and starvation The revulsion against the West and its ways lasted until the Western tide of imperialism opened Japan and China also In 1862 France forced the local prince to cede three southern provinces of Viet Nam By 1885 the French had gained control of all Viet Nam north and south the final act being a brief skirmish with the Chinese to make them give up ancient claims French Influence Thus begaii the years of French influence in Indochina which have so colored their present outlook: Indochina was one of the richest prizes any nation got in the big empire rush It poured its wealth into France and the French put skill enterprise and civilization into Indochina The current language of the intellectual classes here is French The French built railroads bridges highways and opened a vast network of canals which from the air look like white ribbons lying straight and clean through the jungle Frenchmen came here to live They closed the market to other nations and sold their own goods here at high prices It was real empiring Resistance All Along There was resistance all along but the French for long years could put it down The first rude shock came when the Japanese turned on the West beat them in the Philippines in Indonesia and in Singapore They had already crowded into Indochina 1953 And to the surprise of the ' French many of the Vietnamese sided with the Japanese against them The French return in 1945 was the beginning of a sad affair In vain the Vietnamese pleaded for freedom “within the French union” Many French deputies in Paris favored this But not the colonialists in Indochina nor the top level French administrator who came in after the war Colonialism Over The French did not seem to realize that the era of colonialism had about ended in the Far East Indonesia pulled loose from the Dutch India and Burma were released by Britain The Philippines by an earlier agreement received independence from America Still the French held on There were reasons and large ones France was fighting to keep place among the big powers after her defeat by Germany She needed the wealth of Indochina She wanted to preserve a foothold In Asia along with Britain and the United States The commercial angle still is important to France but the world power factor seems to influence her leaders most today She must save face and position In Europe the United States has paid out billions to help her in this struggle But here in recent months the policy has changed radically and some of the local executors of American policy give little heed to such matters ‘ One of the more bitter chapters was written at Geneva last year when the French beaten in the field despite American aid In effect signed away their rights in North Indochina They promised the South also the right to vote its freedom But it was not in the hearts of the French to let it go and therein lies much of the source of the current troubles t bomb explodof the big statue Saturday damaging the horse The statue was damaged by another bomb in 1947 Some folks think the rider looks a bit like II Duce X IN 11 BEAUTIFUL COLORS! Pointed With 7 Coats of Bakad Inaml— Finotf Quality at Competitive Prict SEE THESE AWNINGS de- cisively in South Viet Nam but the task of getting them out of power gracefully has been handled so ineptly on all sides that it has become a major international problem Many French here recognize that they have lost and sooner or later must turn over control fully to the Vietnamese The Vietnamese want the French out The Vietnamese nuts teak fermented fish cloth want to run their own country The Americans want the French and families The families huddle on the out Americans believe it will be anti-Coeasier to organize an decks while the boats carry them munist defense when the French and their big and little bundles are gone to some other place where maybe Those are simple statements it will be better but there the simplicity of the Up and down this river roam problem ends National ambitions landing craft troop transports and sensibilities and human am- destroyer tenders boats and bitions and sensibilities enter at mine layers They gun the this point to make the story both remnants of a battlerepresent lost because dramatic and dangerous could not turn and twist Civil war is still a bare possi- they their massive weight and strikbility in this country Perhaps power fast enough to meet more serious is that the French ing the swarms of smaller more agile and Americans have gone into enemies that finally beat them such a squabble over how to lead That to France in the happened the country to independence durwar and political struging the next 12 months that they gle she could not adjust herself are risking the very independence to fight they are trying to save came first to this counFrance Moreover their squabbling enwith the try light touch of selfdangers their relations in Europe less missionaries A few of them where the stake is as high as landed on the south coast of Viet here Cochin China That Nam called Here in this soft and misty was just after the' American revoland it all seems so unreal and war crowded another unnecessary The Saigon River lutionary epuntry out of flows past the window of the central America North room where this is written This Later a treaty was arranged besection of the river is a quarter tween of a mile wide and is deep enough ese TheFrance and the VietnamVietnamese were colonto handle big steamers Its shores ists themselves in those days and are lined with ships from the had a centuries-lonfinished just West but the river is crawling as well with smaller boats some sweep from the Tonkin Delta of North Viet Nam southward into hauling sand and wood to be un- Cochin China pushing ahead of loaded by walking conveyor-belt- s them the chams and the khmers of coolies others engaged in that Vietnamese ruled The South Viet strange and intricate- commerce Nam and settled it iq that involves rice bamboo cocoWas Having Civil War Viet Nam was having a civil war when the French treaty was arranged in 1787 but before the French got around to ratifying it were having a revolution they BOLZANO Italy (AP) — It’s beginning to look like someone objects to an aluminum horse and rider monument here which is supposed to represent “Italian genius at work” A ALUMINUM AWNINGS service NEW! 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