13 -The Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Monday F.bruary 2, 1853
America Telling
iWest of Decision
'Fie' Chiang
Sr' john &f. mGirrowEa
WASHINGTON (JJ The JJnited
Rates was reportd Sunday to be
taforming friendly governments ' of
St decision by President Eisenhow
er to unleash Chinese, Nationalist
nrces on x ormosa ior acuon
gainst Chinese Communists on the
Authoritative officials said last
ek that barrinr a change of plans
the policy change would be an
nounced in Eisenhower's State of
the Union message which he will
deliver personally to a joint session
f the House and Senate Monday.
The move, mapped -primarily by
Elsenhower and Secretary of State
Dulles as a step toard seizing
fbe offensive in the global conflict
with Communism and putting new
pressures on the foe fighting in
Korea, Is designed to have the
fleet of opening .a new "front in
the Far East.
Jt is the kind of move, neverthe
less, which may have unpredict
able international repercussions
and it clearly invol 'es the interests
f America's allies and of other
friendly nations.
As responsible informants under
stand the move technically, what
the President had planned at
least up to a day or so ago was
to cancel out President Truman's
.policy of neutralization of Formo
sa. Two days after the Korean War
' broke out Truman ordered the Uni
ted States' Seventh Fleet into For
mosa waters, instructed to protect
that Nationalist held island against
attack and the same time to pre
vent nationalist attacks on the
' mainland.
The importance of the Eisen
hower administration s first big
strategic maneuver on the Commu
nist front lies in opening the way
for Chiang' Kai Shek's government
to take whatever action it can
against the Communists who drove
VISITOR HERE.
George Irving of Lethridge, Al
berta, Canada, was a visitor at the
home of his aunt, Mrs. Anna Bligh
the past week. A former resident
f Salem, he had not been here
since 1917. He also visited bis
cousins, Frank Bligh and Mrs.
Caspar Sweigert while here. . i
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.it" from the Chinese mainland in
December, . 1949. v . "
- Foreign, governments were not
consulted ahead of 'time on the
move, according to the best infor
mation available here. It directly
concerns" only the conduct of Amer
ican forces the Seventh Fleet and
the Chinese Nationalists.
But in the situation it would be
In line with diplomatic usage to
give friendly - nations notice the
change was coming.
There were -some expressions of
apprehension from western Euro
pean capitals as the result of news
reports of the new Eisenhower
Formosan policy. The main fear
seemed to be that the maneuver
might stir up fresh trouble in the
Far East. . . .
Some foreign diplomats of Allied
governments here, however, ex
pressed the opinion that the most
responsible leaders abroad would
radily accept Eisenhower's judge
ment.
They also pointed out that Eisen
hower was committed to take posi
tive -steps toward bringing new
pressures on Communist China in
order to get the war over with in
Korea, and they suggested that no
other move could have put such a
new face on the Far Eastern situa
tion with so little cost
Initially, authorities here believe.
tne move should have two results:
1. It should confront the-Chinese
Communists with a need quickly
to take new precautions to guard
tneir coastal areas which are di
rectly vulnerable from Formosa
and from some 30 islands which
the Chinese Nationalists hold near
er the coast.
The new defensive needs thus
imposed upon them may reduce
their ability to support the Com
munist wars in Korea and in Indo
China. 2. It will enable the Nationalists
to undertake commando type raids
and air attacks on points near the
coast and farther inland.
However, a large scale operation
presumably would require more
transport shipping and greater air
and naval support than the Nation
alists themselves could provide.
Such support could come only
from the United States. This coun
try, however, is not committed to
provide it by the simple removal
of the ban on Nationalist action.
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Last minute preparations and a "dry nm" en the U.S. Air Force Reserve survey occupied personnel
Saturday at the ORC Armory. Beginning Monday this scene will be repeated with area reservists
being questioned in a program to determine the air reserve potential of the United States. From left
to right are Capt. Roger G. Ritchey, MaJ. Wilmer McDowell, Capt. John F. Shaw, Li. Donovan F.
Moriskx, Capt. Ferle D. VanAnsdell Jr., Col Ashley Greene and Capt. Thomas E. Bra beck. CoL
Greene is directing the survey. (Statesman Photo.) . . -
Planes Use
Parachutes
SAN DIEGO, Calif. UP) Success
ful parachute recoveries of pilot
less jet planes traveling at speeds
up to 600 miles an hour was re
ported here Saturday.
Ryan Aeronautical Co. said the
radio-controlled planes, about half
the size of regular jet fighters.
were being lowered by this means
without damage to their delicate
electronic equipment.
The parachutes, also operated by
remote radio control, are released
as the jet fuel is exhausted.
ryan said all of the Q-2 pQotless
jets it developed for the U. S. Air
Force are now being recovered in
tact after each target run at the
Holloman Air development Center,
Alamogordo, N. M.
The announcement reported that
during tests of the parachute re
lease system, probably the heaviest
objects ever dropped at such high
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Reds Yearn for
Love Movies
BERLIN lV An East German
film director told Communists Sun
day that what Soviet Zone film
goers want is more love in their
movies.
"What they don't want," said Dr.
Kurt Maetzig, "are any more pic
tures about life in a village, and
above all. films about activist bri
gades. They want art with a love
interest."
The Socialist Unity (Communist)
paper, Neues Deutschland, which
asked for the director's opinion,
didn't care much for the answer.
we can not agree enureiy wun
our comrade' line of thought," the
paper said.
speed were lowered succssfuSy.
It said thy weighed up to ten
times as much as a jet fighter
pilot, who have been ejected suc
cessfully from cockpits for para
chute drops at equivalent high
speeds.
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Contract Set
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Cfl
Representatives of two big radio
networks and 2,000 union techni
cians agreed on a new wage con
tract Saturday night 12 minutes
before the deadline set for a strike.
George Maher, executive secre
tary of the ; CIO National Associa
tion of Broadcast Enginers and
technicians said the union had ob-
tained a ('substantial wage In-
cies were ironed out."
The union had threatened to
strike at midnight against the Na
tional and American Broadcasting
Companies.!
THE POWER OF A WOMAN
YONKEHS, N. Y. UP) A recent
ly completed 180-car parking lot
here has one section prominently
marked "Reserved for Ladiei." It
is close to the gate and has extra-
wide aisles.
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Russians Have
4,500 Planes
Based in Orient
TOKYO (fl Gen. O. P. Weyland
said Sunday night that the Rus
sians have 4,500 war planes based
In -the Far East "over and above
the strength-of the Communist air
forces in Manchuria and Red Chi
na." ' "
The disclosure by the command
ing general of the U. S. Far East
Air Forces was about five times
greater than previous authoritative
estimates of 700 to 1,000.
In addition, the Chinese Reds
have . about-. 2,500 combat planes,
almost exclusively supplied by Rus
sia.' : -
Weyland conceded . in an exclu
sive . interview . that American
planes in the Far East area are
"greatly outnumbered but said
they: could make an air intruder
"pay heavily" and could be speedi
ly reinforced.
; "If an all-out attack were
launched against Japan from a
combination of the bordering Com
munist nations while we are en
gaged in the current Korean opera
tions, the ; present strength of . the
Far East Air Forces could not ade
quately cope with the composite
air power which, could oppose us,"
he said.
"It should be pointed out, how
ever, that FEAF could be rein
forced very quickly from the Uni
ted States."
The Russians are known to have
hundreds of - swift MIG fighter
planes and a strong force of med
ium jet bombers, based so as to be
capable of round trip strikes
against any Japanese city.
Bases are in Siberia, the Sakhal
in Islands and the Kuriles, just
north of Japan proper.
Weyland said U. S. interceptor
planes "all of jet types, would
make an intruder pay heavily as he
moved in on Japanese targets. He
would not get a free ride.
"The- best way to blunt an air
attack,: of course, is to destroy the
operating source from which it
springs. Basic defense planning
therefore must call for immediate
counteroffensive action against hos
tile air bases with the most power
ful weapons available."
Weyland did not stipulate what
such sreapons should be but the
U. , S. armory includes atomic
bombs and there are planes in the
Far East which can carry them.
Commenting on mysterious fly
ing objects sighted over Northern
Japan, Weyland said "our evalua
tions to date of reports on so-called
discs and other unidentified objects
leaves us unalarmed but not disinterested."
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Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES UP) Willie : the
wayward . whale finally found his
way out of Los Angeles harbor
Saturday and frankly no one was
sorry to see him go. .
For three days the 60-ton mons
ter has been a playful pest, scaring
the wits out of peaceable seafaring
men by surfacing with a grand
splash uncomfortably close to their
boats. - '-: "--v-- .
: The first day ,L Coast Guard, po
lice and private boats teamed up
and tried to herd Willie out through
the breakwater entrance, but Willie
Just flipped up his tail and dove.
Nobody was pushing him around.
All hands finally gave up the
chase in disgust. . -
Saturday afternoon some, seamen
reported Willie was seen outside
the breakwater and heading south
three days late for his rendezvous-
in the warm blue waters off
Mexico, where California gray
whales go to mate every winter.
For Jet Pilots
MADISON. Ns. (A Land, sea
and air units fanned out over South
ern Wisconsin , and Northern Illi
nois Saturday .. night in a search
for the pilots of two Air Force Jet
planes who bailed out of their craft
in bad weather.
The public information office at
Truax Air Field here said four F-88
Sabre jets - on a routine tactical
flight from the field had attempted
to land but their pilots were forced
to bail out. -Two
pilots who parachuted have
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Dulles Dismisses
Board of Inquiry
In Vincent Case
WASHINGTON (TP) Secretary
of State Dulles has dismissed a
special board set up by former
Secretary Acheson to make a new
study of loyalty charges against
John Carter Vincent,- veteran dip
lomat. Dulles plans to "take action on
the basis of recommendations al
ready before him.
This was announced Saturday
by the State Department with the
release of an exchange of letters
between Judge Learned Hand of
New .York, chairman of the Ache-
son-appointed group and Dulles,
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Kuliii Died in
Munichinl951
NEW YORK UFi The New York
Daily News, In a copyrighted dis
patch from, Munich, Germany, re
ported Saturday night the death
more - than a year ago of Fritz
Kuhn, former German-American
Bund leader and convicted major
nati. '', - -
i The News said Kuhn died of
heart attack Nov. 14, 1851, at the
age of 55. "
Although Kuhn had enjoyed great
power in the heyday of Adolf Hit
ler, his death was "unnoticed and
unmourned" in Munich, the News
said, adding: -
. "When he died hr was unknown.
broke and only his wife remained
with him.
i "He had sunk into such obscuri
ty that his' passing was not known
unta now. ,
The News ' Identified Otte. Grit
schneder, Kuhn's former lawyer.
as the source of its story. J
Associated Press on Kuhn Is dated
Feb. 22. 1949. At that time he was
freed by a German appellate court
in Munich which cut his 10-year
prison sentence to the two years
he already had served.
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Freighter on
Rocks South
Of San Diego
SAN DIEGO. Calif. ' IB J The
S. S. Fairhope, ,125-ton freighter.
is aground on rocks on San Benito
Islands, 270 miles south of San
Diego, and is taking water,' the
Coast-Guard reported here Satur
day night.,, i
The Coast Guard Cutter Morris
was dispatched to the scene and
was expected to arrive about mid-nii?ht-A
Coast Guard Diane circled
over the Fairhope late Saturday.
Lt. John J. Fehrenbacher, pilot
of the Coast Guard plane,' said oa
his return here, that the Fairhope
was about 30 to 40 yards off the
beach in a small cove on the larg
est of the three San Benito. Islands.
He said he noticed some of the
freighter's : crew on deck. ."They
were not making any attempt tm
get off the vessel," Fehrenbaches
said. "I believe they could abandon
the ship at any time, as lt Is close
enough to shore." i
He expressed the belief that with
the calm sea and the short distance
to the beach that the crew was hi
no "immediate danger." "getting
off the cango would be a no thai
thing." he added.
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