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
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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
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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.
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