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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. Then they'll use a
carborundum grinder powered by
an electric hand drill te cut a
"window" in the child's prison.
The grinder is about as big and
as thick as a quarter and the
thickness of the well casing is 12
gauge of, 501,000 of an inch,
which is about as thick ar" a nickel.
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