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4 (Sec. 2) Statesman, Salem, Or.. Friday, June 11. 1954 Vietminh Units Force French To Leave Post Schooner Crew Rescued After Tense Struggle Against Seas i By LARRY ALLEN' HANOI. Indochina if Vietminh troops infiltrating the Red River Delta forced the French Thursday to abandon a post only 30 miles from Hanoi, overwhelmed a Viet namese strong point in the Phat Diem sector and attacked a string of other Vietnamese posts. The infiltrates, now numbering more than 100.000. are stepping up their assaults as the main rebel units tighten their lines threaten ing the delta's outer defenses on the west, north, and south. The French are pulling out of thinly-manned posts not considered essential for defending key towns and the rail-highway route over which American supplies move from the port of Haiphong to Hanoi BUw Up Pest A French High Command spokesman said French Union forces evacuated ard blew i- a little brick and mud post at Hai yen, four miles east of Hun? Yen and 30 miles southeast of Hanoi, after the garrison of about 160 had beaten off two big Vietminh at tacks. The rebels hit the post with everything in their armory heavy mortars, recoilless rifles, ba zookas, and machineguns. The French said the post, on the Boamboo Canal, was no longer an essential link in the defense net work of the Hung Yen sector. A Vietnamese detachment which had been sent to relieve Haiyen after a particularly heavy pound ing Tuesday night fought its way through encircling rebels and de livered much needed supplies and reinforcements. Heavy Ambush ; III 1-3 ; 1 1 WKS2f VA;r i V- " - vr fe? - 1 J HONOLULU Crew members of the dismasted schooner Idalia work to clear decks of wreckage as the doomed craft wallowed in rough seas 180 miles northeast of Hawaii. This picture (left) wk taken May 25th bv Janet Mosure of Santa Rosa, Calif one of the nine persons who were rescued Jy the Navy cargo transport L. Robert CTaig on June 4th. Set cocks on the Idalia were opened after the rescne, leaving the craft to sink. Left to right, are: Harold Clark of Reno, Nev., Steven Morales of Honolulu, and Owner Budd Carew of Aiusa, Calif., battling for sur- vival against the seas. Crew and passengers of the ill-fated schooner Idalia are shown aboard the Navy transport (right). They sailed from Honolulu May 9th bound for San. Pedro. Left to right (front), Capt. Floyd Nelson, skipper of the rescue ship; Clark; Carew; Mrs. Carew; Mrs. Clark; Morales. Honolulu; Janet Mosure, Santa Rosa, Calif. Background William Hitchcock. Kingston, Mass., and George Davis and Frank Akpn of Honolulu. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). Recap Shop To Celebrate Foul Play to I Firms Low in Unemployment s. greeting visitors, serving jp0 lf Plu and doughruts, and giving J The OK Rubber Welder shop at j tivities 1R2Q S 12th St.. operated by Jim j coffee But on the way back to Hung SidweU ana ras son, v-ari. an'uuuiu i u- RICHMOND. Va. VP) Henry- Yen, the detachment ran into a its inception, is observing its 15th ! ine un aiaweii s aaugmer, Sikkelee found tne compensa heavy ambush and divided forces. , anniversary this week. ; Berdine Fryer, will pin orchids tion Jow jn cnasing the foiks sus half continuing to Hung Yen and ; The shop first was on Church on the first 100 women who stop of foul play The poylce. the others returning to Haiyen. ; street, later at High and Ferry, in Friday. ; man started raising chickens on The French also landed naval and moved to its present location The wives of both partners will ; the side to augment his income. cran aiong me canai wiui irwPs , five years ago. 'assist wun tne anniversary ies which set up three beachheads. I ' Between 1,000 and 2.000 Vietminh promptly attacked these troops. However, the French relief force reached Haiyen and evacuated its men. They fought their way back i to Hung Yen through another am bush lasting several hours. French fighter planes straffed the rebels heavily. Both sides had "appreciable losses," the French said. Rebels stormed a post at Lach- . piot feported Wednesday that he tien near Phat Diem 75 miles ; lh overcast wer Port- southeast of Hanoi, and captured j . it from the heavily outnumbered ; land and continuing south, then Alaska Bush Pilot Beats NW Overcast PORTLAND UP When a Seattle Co-Workers Fete Miss Edith Libby In 10 years the chicken busin-' ness was doing so well he gave i up his policeman's job. Two years ago he decided turkeys would be even more profitable and today his 8,000 turkeys on hp hnof rnnstitutA on of the A 29-year veteran of state serv- Urgest flocks in Henrico County. ice. Miss jlciiui iiDDy, was guesi m of honor Thursday noon at the Sen-1 ator Hotel where some 70 of her ; GOLD CLEANUP co-workers gathered for luncheon, j HARRISBURG, Pa. LP A $250. She retired recently after hav- j 000 project to refurbish murals ing worked in the Secretary of inside the dome of Pennsylvania s T AiLuct impmnlnvmpilf un der experience rating for 1953 and 11954 went to utilities, bus lines, ! anks and trust companies, paper mills, primary metals and printing jand publishing firms, according to computations completed by the 'unemployment compensation com (mission Thursday. All of these groups had average ! -ates under 0.6 per cent last year. The highest proportion of taxes were paid by construction con cerns unable to get their rate be ow 2 per cent. LONELY HEART AT ZOO SAN FRANCISCO (Zoo belle is a very lonely giraffe. City Zoo Director Carey Bald win says lonesome male giraffes might drop her a line. Vietnamese militia defenders. Rifle Has Vivid History failed to check in again, the Ore goa state air search and rescue organization went to work. In 20 minutes the plane waa found nearly out of gas on the beach near Reedsport. The pilot, Clifford Hanson, said he was an experienced Alaskan bush pilot. With him were his wife and their small daughter, on a trip to California. After flying above the overcast State's office since 1925. She is now living on her ranch at Jefferson. Miss Libby had been in charge of notary public commissions and dis tribution of law code books. state capitol brought to light hun dreds of square feet of gold leaf trim accenting the pictures. The dust of nearly a half century had obscured them. RICHMOND, Va. UP Back in 1886 Michael Daly, a sergeant in the 69th Regiment, Irish Brigade, New York Volunteers, wrote the and being somewhat uncertain of mayor of Portsmouth, Va., that he his position, he ducked through a had picked up in the bloody battle j hole in the clouds and landed on of Seven Pines a beautifully carved ; the beach, he told R. B. Taylor rifle which had belonged to a brave j and Mike Gray, who took off from soldier in the 9th Virginia Confed- North Bend to look for him in re- erate regiment who was killed. But Private J. Tyler Jobson had not been killed, only seriously wounded. Daly returned hia rifle, which he kept until his death in 1927. His heirs have presented it to the Confederate Museum here. j sponse to the search organization's request. Taylor and Gray led the Hanson plane to the North Bend airport where it arrived with three gal lons of gas. After refueling, it took pff for San Francisco. FABULOUS "efo)fl ruviu BAY ON THE FOLLOWING PATTERNS OF NATIONALLY KNOWN BRANDS IN GLASSWARE AND DINNERWARE AS FOLLOWS HEISEY NARCISSUS PATTERN GLASSWARE it TIFFIN WOODSTOCK SURPLUS STOCK OF HEISEY GOBLETS AND SHERBETS IN TALL SIZES OF ORCHID PATTERN Vernon Hibiscus Dinnerware it Hallcraft Mulberry it Homer Laughlin Plaid iP!v n GEORGE E.X 3S H. COMMTKC1AI ST. SAUM. 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