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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1949)
I Th "Mesman, Palem. Oregon. Sunday. Apr1 10. 149 f j00rll?al Second Chinese Reds Offer 'Gemency' In Return for Quick Surrender NANKING, April 9 -4JP)- The communists tonight offered the reeling Chinese government "clemency" in return for Quick surrender. Red armies put pressure on the invitation by smashing with new Intensity at the government's slender bridgeheads along 650 miles of the Yangtze river. Nationalist leaders confronted the alternatives of throwing them- selves on the communists' mercy VFW Leader Asks Vets Find Civic Interests A By Themis G. Wrtfht . Staff Writer. Th Statesman Veterans were charged to take a greater interest In civic and po litical affairs by Lyall T: Beggs, national commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at an address in the VFW hall Saturday night More than 300 members of dis trict posts and auxiliaries heard the Madison, Wis., lawyer in his Baiem speech. Your greatest re ponsiDimy locany is to your ioiu and daughters. Beggs said Attend school meetings, find out what teachers salaries are. take n active interest in what your children are learning, Beggs commanded. The tall veteran of World War I action in France was introduced by Gov. Douglas McKay.. Accom panying Beggs here were Ben Burns. Astoria, department rom- mnder Tor the VFW. Vere Mc Orty. Condon, senior department ice commander, Johnny Walker Jones. Portland, national reha bilitation chairman, and Hal Barnes. Portland, department cnairman ror distinguished guest. The group was met at Chemawa by city police who escorted them i) the Senator hotel where Beggs was guest of honor at a dinner. Start at Pest Level , Beggs reaffirmed the organiza tion support of universal mili tary training, and reminded that the quest of such legislation was smarted at the pot level and not from the ton. He made it clear that the VFW was not in sup port of the defeated Rankin pen sion bill. Ka aid a bill now In committee calling for a pension or $72 a month for needy veterans would receive the organizations upDort. The VFW head warned that the I4-man soviet politburo was ac tively engaged in undermining the -American way of life," and -ingested that some legislation is B eary to "take citizenship way from those persons who say t"y would not support the Unit-e-l States in a war against the and put them on a boat for Russia." Tars Tribute Be?jrs paid tribute to the "boys r '98" who had the foresight to start the VFW organization to look after the interests and wel- ute or tij'abied veterans and widows and orphans of those who oito. in your golden jubilee yer we pay tribute to them and the e-tera.ns of World Wars I and II " be said. ' Following his address. Beggs acted as installation officer for ceremonies for seven district 20 pots. New officers were install ed in Slem posts 661 and 6102 't- Angel. Silverton. Stayton) Hill City ccd Woodburn. Beggs will leave Salem for Eu gene today where he will visit briefly befcre leaving on an in spection our of hospital installa tion in Washington state. or trying to block a major military drive into south China. The deadline for a decision al ready has been set by the reds as next Tuesday, Aprfl 12. Tha clemency offer was contain ed in a message from Mao Tze Tung, communist chairman, to Li Tsung-Jen, acting; president. It was broadcast by the Peiping radio in reply to Li's statement of Thursday that he: was willing to be "burned in oil or dismembered" if that would bring peace to suf fering China. Mao repeated his frequent de mand that the government speed ily accept the eight red "terms" proclaimed last January 14. These eight points amount to uncondi tional surrender of the govern ment. Tha first and thorniest of them calls for punishment of the scores of nationalist leaders whom the reds have called "war criminals." Piano Crushes Boy in School OREGON CITY, April -fyf) Nine-year-cld Thomas Svegel was killed today in an attempt to re trieve his nickel from under a school piano. The boy ar.d a companion, Ed ward Miller, 8. dropped a nickel under an unright piano as they were about to drop It in a coke machine. Wrestling to pull the piano away, they tipped It so it crashed over on Thomas. The child's fore arm had pressed , across his throat, strsrgling him. The accident happened in St John s Cathclic school this afternoon. Restriction on Use of State Cars Asked General tightening up the existing regulations, involving operation of state-owned and state-ODerated automobiles, was demanded in a report approved by the legislative joint ways and means committee Saturday. A subgroup of! the committee said they found that many state owned cars apparently are being operated without distinguishing marking, are keptat the home of state employes nights, and are used for non-official purposes. It was recommended' that all state- owned cars bear a state insignia and that the painting of these cars a unnorm color re investi gated. Limitation SaM Further recommendation was made that purchases of automo biles for state activities be re stricted, so far as possible, to the lower-priced vehicles. ; The committee reported out with a "do pass" recommendation a bill proposing a $400,000 appro priation for construction of a new state printing plant at East State street and the Airport road. Mon ey for construction would be bor rowed from soma state account and be repaid on a rental basis. Another bill receiving a favor able report creates a: revolving fund of $1. 500,000 from which towns under a population of 2500 could borrow, through issuance of bonds, for sewage disposal facili ties. Differential arced Approval also was given a 4ill providing a differential in sal aries between officials living n the state hospitals and those liv ing outside the hospitals. A meas ure authorizing the secretary of state to provide adequate fur nishings for legislative; lobbyists, including comfortable chairs, was approved Mithout a dissenting vote. It was estimated that another bill receiving committee approval would return to the state appltixi mately $3,000,000 a biennium through increased! taxes on beer and other alcoholic beverages. Exemption Saaghi : A report of a special committee that the blanket reduction of 5 per cent in the : operating and maintenance budgets of all state activities exempt the public wel fare commission and certain items contained in the 'budget of the state board of higher education received favorable consideration. It originally was': estimated that this 3 per cent reduction in state department budgets would save several million dollars. 3 The welfare budget, as now ap proved, aggregates 928.66S.049. Employment of a full-time at torney was added to the budget of the state agricultural department. At Speech Meet George Moorhead's speech, "Tombstone for Butch," won him second place in the annual district 7 competition of Toastmasters In ternational at Bend Saturday night. The Capitol club speaker com peted with representatives from Washington and Oregon. Morris L. Schmidt. Tillamook, took top honors in the conveition and the right to compete in the northwest regional meeting at Seattle in June. Gromyko Says West to Build Africa Bases LAKE SUCCESS, April 9-(JP-Russia's Andrei A. Gromyko ac cused the western powers today of developing Italy's former North African colonies as bases for ag gression against the Soviet Union. American and British spokesmen denied the charge. Gromyko told tha U.N. assemb ly's 58-nation political committee that Libia, on North Africa's Med iterranean coast, is "riddled with a network of Anglo-American air and naval bases." Tax Delinquent Notices Mailed Notice to about 300 Marion county farmers and business men who; arc delinquent in filing their personal property tax returns went out late last week from the county tax collector's department. "Warrants will be signed on those persons or businesses who do" not pay up soon," said Sheriff Denver Young, tax collector. Nov. 15, 1948, was the "due date." The tax is applicable to all personal property which is used to derive a profit. In general this mostly applies to businesses, farmers, apartment house own ers and others. Some of the taxes are due from several years ago. Voters Kill New School Tax Levy NEW PORT, April 9-()-Lin-coln county school district voters turned out in near-record numbers to reject a tax levy that would have enabled construction of eight new schools. 2 Men Chosen To Dig Rescue Tunnel to Girl (Story also on page one.) SAN MARINO. Calif., April 9-(JP)-A 43-year old miner and sand hog and a 26-year old auto mech anic were picked tonight to be the team that may reach the entrap ped little Kathy Fiscus. The veteran digger is stocky H. E. (Whitey) Blickensderfer. He'll probably do most of the heavy digging and drilling down at the 104 -foot level. The mechanic is slender Tommy Francis, a 120-pounder wjth nar row shoulders. Francis has been delegated to enter the 14-iftch well pipe holding the child prisoner. And the reason Francis is down in that hole? He himself has a three-year old daughter. Patricia. Francis, who spends his spare time as a volunteer forest fire fighter, said he joined the rescue squad last night after hearing a radio broadcast of Kathy's plight. "My wife Gertrude jus(t about went to pieces," Tommy said as he fastened on a miner's hat, with lamp. f 'Do you want me to go and get her out,' I asked." " 'I wish you would,' she says. So here I am." Blickensderfer, a more stolid type, said that Kath's pipe goes straight down 95 feet and curves. At Bend in Pipe "We think she's right there at that bend," said Blinkensderfer. Francis, who was one of many thin or small men who volunteer ed to go down tha well, attached to a rope, after Kathy, has done his share of digging up to now, too. "You build up a sweat the first time you lift an arm down there," the flyweight rescuer said. Blickensderfer joined up the first night, too. "He couldn't sit still listening to it," his wife, Frances, said. "So off he went and he wort't sleep until it's over." The Blickensder fers have two daughters, Bonnie, 18, and Barbara, 18. Blickensderfer has been in and out of mining work for 20 years, but this is his first big rescue mis sion, his wife says. It will be pick and shovel, shov el and pick for 10 feet to tunnel from the 30-wch rescue shaft to Kathy's well. 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