European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 4, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 senators asking halt in bombings Washington up  Sherman Cooper r-ky., Sticks and stones French Farmers pro testing against sinking prices and rising costs replace words with action As they Battle police in Quimper with barrel Staves and rocks. A French Farmers clash with police Quimper France a protesting Farmers of Brittany battled gendarmes to a blood standstill Here monday after sacking a police station and local gaullist party Headquarters and setting fire to the Gatehouse atthe prefecture the District administration Center. The rampaging Farmers armed with barrel Staves stones and bottles withstood repeated police attempts to Clear them out of the Center of the City. Volleys of tear Gas grenades failed to dislodge them. Many on Bot sides were seriously injured. By evening a Large group of determined Farmers and a detail of helmeted riot police faced each other in a standoff in front of the prefecture. This was the most serious incident in a nationwide farm ers protest against sagging Agri cultural prices and rising operating costs. An estimated 100,000farmers took part in the nation wide demonstrations 15,000 of them in Quimper. In Caen Norman peasants tried to storm the Calvados prefecture and succeeded i breaking several windows with stones before police tossing ear Gas grenades drove them Back. Police and Farmers were injured in the clash. A similar fight marred demonstrations in Pau in the South West of France. In be mans peasants occupied the train Sta Tion and stopped rail traffic fora half an hour before police reinforcements routed  Bordeaux farm groups Cut 17 Telephone poles interrupt ing communications in the Region. A farm Leader said disorganization disclaimed acts of sabotage but added if this Isth Only language the authorities understand we will be oblige to approve of  in the Southeast near Coligny some 1,500 poultry Farmers pelted police with eggs before being forced Back. Before they re turned to the town they broke several thousand eggs on the Highway. In other parts of the country milk or Brandy was dumped on the streets As a Signor discontent. Stripes is part of a Good breakfast have it delivered to your Home circulation office phone numbers Germany Berlin Civ 739368bromerhaven, Civ 45341, Mil 7664 Frankfurt Civ 06108-2047, Mil Offenbach 766kalserslautern, Civ 6117, Mil Vogel Weh 7050 Mannheim Civ 871402, Mil Rhelna 618 Munich. Civ 5165923, Mil 7356 Nuernberg Civ 776647. Mil 6513 Stuttgart Civ 854225, Mil 7230wiesbaden, Civ 420770, Mil 28595 Greece Athens Civ 085189italy leghorn Mil Camp Darby 1465 Spain Madrid Civ 2228290, ext Sou United kingdom London Civ Ruislip 32204, ext 127 subscribe now government housing Only House approves loan of ships to Greece Washington a Over Riding objections raised about helping the military Junta i Greece the House monday approved a Bill authorizing the loan of 17 naval vessels to eight nations including  now has one submarine and two destroyers on  two of the 17 would be new  321-42 vote sent the Mea sure to the  of the ships All sub marines destroyers or destroyer escorts now Are on loan to Brazil Chile the Federal Republic of Germany Greece Korea sex Premier placed under House arrest Athens up Panayoti Kanellopoulos the former greek Premier who unleashed two ver bal attacks against the govern ment last week was placed under House arrest late monday night. Two policemen were placed on guard outside his Home prevent ing anyone from leaving or enter ing without special permission. His Telephone line was  persons in his Home at the time the House arrest was put into effect had to ask per Mission to  was not known whether any formal charges had been Lodge against Kanellopulos who was Premier when the military seize Power in the april 21 coup d eat. Portugal and  would get one other de Stroyer under the proposal while the Republic of China also would receive one destroyer. The$15 million Cost to activate these two ships would be paid by the United states. The five year Loans Are subject to presidential discretion. Rep. Don Edwards d-Calif.,pointing to the one submarine and two destroyers for Greece said this amounts to military Aid to the totalitarian Junta in  suggested a House debate Over this country s relation with Greece. Rep. Donald m. Fraser d-minn., said the european com Mon Market has voted to Denya loan to Greece and asked Why should we stand alone Indefenso of a fascist regime led a chorus of Republican an democratic appeals in the Senate monday for an end . Bombing of North Vietnam. His speech signalling in part growing gop peace move ment As an alternative to president Johnson s policies was endorsed by democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and sen. J. William Fulbright d-ark., Aswell As Republican sen. Jacob k. Javits  said an unconditional end of bombing would be preferable to a temporary pause because of the risk of even More intensified fighting and outside communist intervention if air raids were resumed. Security endangered Fulbright said . Security was much More endangered by present policy which he said threatens not Only a wider War but disruption of needed domes tic programs. Cooper was challenged by sen. Gale Mcgee d-wyo., one of Johnson s staunchest Backerson Vietnam and by sen. George Murphy r-Calif., who warned against a paper Tiger image that might result from an end to bombing. In Southeast Asia Mcge Esaid it s All up to us with the decline of japanese British an dutch influence. Wants Allied Aid in the House rep. Paul Findley a he suggested that Congress solve this dilemma by tying . Involvement to increased support by asian allies so responsibility can be shared for any cessation of american military Effort. The new round of Vietnam debate delayed Senate action on Johnson s Antipoverty authorization Bill and a key vote on efforts by sen. Joseph Clark d-pa., to tack on a $2.8 billion provision opposed by the Whitehouse to train and find jobs for negro slum  speeches coincided with publication of a report by pollster Louis Harris that Public support of the president Shandling of the War and of the War Effort itself both had Sun to the lowest Point in nearly a year and  Harris Survey in the Washington Post showed that Only 31 per cent approved Johnson s handling of the War i september an All time Low compared with 33 per cent in August and 46 per cent in  majority of the Public still supports the War itself Harris said but the 58 per cent figure for september was the lowest listed since May 1966, and was Down from a Peak of 77 percent last november. Brazil s Cocoa King Dies Salvador Brazil up Oscar Marinho Falcao one of the nation s richest men and know Nas the King of Cocoa died Sun Day at 76. Convicts Start picking crops in California Merced Calif. A Over the objections of organized la Bor California convicts were out in Orchards monday plucking figs to Avert what gov. Ronald Reagan said would be a disaster for  governor last week authorized the use of about 200prisoners from the minimum Security Deuel vocational institution at nearby Tracy to lend a hand in harvesting the Ripe Fig crop. Unless prison labor is made available immediately substantial loss will be suffered the governor  men Are being paid prevailing wages with part of the Money going into the state Treasury and the rest into a fun paid to the convicts upon re lease. Action protested Thomas Pitts Secretary treasurer of the California federation of labor Al Cio pro tested the action. He contended growers had t made full efforts to find Domestic labor. Growers denied it however saying there is a critical Short age of american workers in California now As the late Harvest of fruits and vegetables gets under Way. About 8,000 mexican Fiel hands Are in the state now help ing Harvest various crops in the Lush Central Valley. Prisoners screened the prisoners in Merce county will be available for three to five weeks and Are screened before being allowed outside the institution  governors have had the Power for years to allow us of the convicts in times of extreme labor shortage. The menace guarded by prison guards and maximum Security inmates Are not included in such outside work  men work during Daylight hours and return to the institution at night. State officials say other states notably in the South also use prison labor for harvesting crops and have Doneso for years. Philby marries sex wife of defector London a double agent Harold Philby has secretly married in Moscow the Amer ican born sex wife of another top British defector Donald Maclean it was reported Here tuesday. The daily Mirror said Philby,55, and the former mrs. Melinda Maclean 51, now live in a luxury apartment on the outskirts of the soviet capital after ending their previous marriages by divorce. The Mirror s Story was the latest development in a sudden flurry of newspaper reports de scribing Philby As having been Russia s most important agent inthe West with an espionage rec Ord going Back More than 30years. Philby a longtime intelligence official who fled to Moscow in 1963, is widely regarded As the third Man who tipped off Maclean and fellow diploma Guy Burgess that they were about to be exposed As spies in1951. Both escaped to the so Viet  died there but Mac lean now 54, still works in mos cow. He has been described As a Good Friend of Philby. According to the daily Mirror mrs. Maclean Inda Marling the former Mel of Chicago Lefther husband and three children last summer. She and Philby both won divorces the news paper said and she became Philby s fourth wife in great  Mirror said the Mac lean marriage split created considerable scandal in the society of former soviet , it added was granted a divorce because his third wife Eleanor refused to share his life in the soviet Union