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'4 A Regiter-Guard Eugene, Ore. Pri , Jan. 21, 1955 - ee , i- if i iti f i '"''- ri "in i i ir 7t TARGET AREA FOR CHINESE REDS Chinese junks and small boats crowd the harbor of Tashato, a village in the Upper Tachen Island group. More than 200 Chi nese Communist planes struck the Nationalist-held Tachens last Wednesday in a likely prelude to invasion. The air strike, heaviest of the Chinese civil war, followed Invasion and apparent occupation of nearby Yikiangshan, in the same off-shore group about 200 miles north of Formosa. Gen.Ridgway To Keep Post WASHINGTON Ml , The Army announced Thursday Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway will be re tained a chief of staff beyond hit normal retirement dale, March 31. In making the announcement, Secretary of the Army Stevens said he was acting under a law tfuthorfnng the retention in ser vice of up to five generals be yond the age of 60 who have had 35 years of service. Itidgway was appointed chief of staff on Aug. IS, 1953, for a, two-year term. Stevens' action will permit him to serve his full two years as the Army s top officer. Without it, Itidgway would have been subject to mandatory retirement upon reaching the age of 60 at the end of March. The Army announcement con tained no reference to possible extension of Itidgway's tour as chief of staff. ftirlcwav fc rinnrtfH to havr been unhappy over the adminis tration's decision to cut back on the Armv while increasing the Air Force., Gen. Collins Seeks Approval Of Aid Programs for Viet Nam Soviets Constructing A-Plant, Says POW BERLIN W An American sol dier who spent six years in So viet captivity, said Friday the Russians are believed to be build ing an atom-splitting plant at Vorkuta, the notorious Artie slave labor camp just went of the Ural Mountains. Pvt. William Verdlne, 2S Starks, La., said he heard . ol this Pravda Raps Industrial 'Delinquents' MOSCOW (AV-Pravda announc ed Friday the Soviet Union fulfill ed its 1954 Industrial production plan 103 per cent but said that three sections of the Soviet ccon ony failed to meet their quotas. ' The Communist Party newspa per, devoting much of its issue to statistical report of the nation's progress last year, listed the three delinquents as: forestry, 93 per cent of quota; fisheries, 02 per. cent; and meat and milk prod ucts, 97 per cent. The paper added that a number of individual factories, mines and oil fields failed to meet their tar gets because they did not work with the "necessary rhythm." '. Pravda said these branches "produced a major part of their goods at the end of one month and permitted lowering produc tion beginning the next month." ' "This led to enormous losses in working lime and equipment," me paper reported. Those leading the 1954 list were: Tractor and agricultural machin ery, 105 per cent; consumer goods 105; means of communication, 105; health, 108; coal and fuel, lue; industrial cooperatives, 106. Pravda said 47 million of Rus. la's 220 million Inhabitants hold jobs. This did not include those employed on collective farms, es timated at about 50 million per. ions. during his 30-month stay at the camp. Verdlne, released here by the Russians Thursday and placed in an Army hospital for a medical checkup, is under military arrest pending Investigation into why he failed to return to his unit at Coburg in February, 1D40. His statements were reported by a U. S. spokesman who said "he seems a little hazy about how many prisons he has been in." verdlne said he recollected being in six Soviet prisons in East Ger many, two in Moscow, two repat riation camps and Vorkuta. At Vorkuta he hauled lumber. mined coal and cut timber. Major construction projects at the camp, ne said, involved building a rail road and a power plant to "split atoms." Verdine ate a steak dinner Thursday night and described it as the "best meal I've had in six- years." He said his meals at Vor kuta consisted of "lot of boiled cabbage, herring, black bread, Donen oais ana Barley." : verdlne said ha had not heai-H of any Americans who may be in Soviet prison camps. Baby Inherits Drug Craving VANCOUVER, B.C. ttf-A baby Casual Bing 'On the Job' In Hospital HOLLYWOOD (Ifl Bine Cms- by, as nonchalant as when he sings in the movies, read his mail, dictated letters and con ducted his business from his hos pital bed Friday. The crooner, rccuneratinc quickly from his two-hour kidney stone operation Wcdensday, is taking the experience casually. "He called the office and asked for the mail," reported brother Larry Crosby. "Then he dictated some orders to me, about hand ing out trophies for the Tcbble Beach golf tournament. "He has a tape recorder next In his bed so I imagine he'll send down a load of letters to us to day. Ho seems to be in a very good frame of mind." The crooner is scheduled to leave the hospital in 10 days and head for his Palm Springs home to recuperate. His sons, Gary and Lindsay, visitca mm Thursday, his mother girl, reported to have shown, and brothers Larry and Bob Visiting Offer (Continued from Page One) lifted and the passport amended when a traveler can show his proposed trip will not hurt U.S. interests. About three hours after the an nouncement by Peiping, the State Department Issued a state ment which did not make clear whether it will permit such visits. But it said it cannot en courage the trips, explaining Red China is an area where the pro tections of an American passport cannot be oifered. RECEIVE TELEGRAMS Some of the fliers' relatives received telegrams from Wash ington saying they could go to China if they wished. Tho tele grams were signed by Brig. Gen, R. J. Reeves, the U.S. Air Force casualty branch. Mis. Edwin Heller of Philadcl phia, wife of an imprisoned lieu tenant colonel, said Reeves had advised her that travel to China would be at her own risk, and she felt her husband would not want her to go. A Pennsylvania mother, Mrs Hurley Baumer, said she would not try to visit her son, a major, because she felt It would be no good. , FAMILIES HESITANT Two Alabama wives of officers were undecided. The Minnesota families of two other Air, Force men were hesitant about taking up the offer. But the parents of Capt. Har old Fischer Jr. said in Iowa they plan to go. Mrs. Fischer Sr. said she and her husband had sent letters earlier to Premier Chou seeking permission to go to China. While the U.S. personnel re ferred to in the announcement were not specified, the under standing here was that they in clude the 11 fliers convicted on spy charges; two civilians who were seized on spy charges; and four jet pilots whose cases the Chinese have announced as un der investigation. SAIGON, Viet Nam Wl Gen.1 J. Lawton Collins left for Wash ington Friday to seek approval of military and economie aid pro grams aimed at shoring up south Eisenhower Signs Narcotics Measure WASHINGTON tfl President Eisenhower has signed a bill tightening the narcotics enforce ment laws and plugging a loop hole inadvertently opened by the 1954 tax revision bill. The 1954 law struck from the statutes most of the penalties for tax violations in narcotics traf fic. These penalties had been used mainly to halt illegal drug traffic. The new law restores mandatory penalties for violating the tax sections. Train Plunge Kills 5 NAGANO, Japan v-Five per sons were killed and 28 injured Thursday when a two-coach pas senger train plunged 100 feet into the Tenryu River from a bridge near here, police reported. Viet Nam against encroachment from the Communist-dominated north. President Eisenhower's special envoy carried with him Viet Nam's compromise plan for re organizing and training its 217,000-man army as well as pro posals for organizing popular support for the government of Nationalist Premier Ngo Dins Diem. Diem asked the United States to take over full responsibility for organizing and training the armed forces under the over-all supervision of the French Far East commander, Gen. Paul Ely. Collins' primary objective is to get congressional and administra tion approval of the military and economic aid programs which require American financial back- ins. The United States is ex-' pected to give 200 million dollars in direct aid to the Vietnamese armed forces and another 100 million to carry nut refugee re lief reconstruction and various other projects to raise the stand ard of living. Another 100 million dollars is slated to be given to France to1 maintain its rapidly dwindling expeditionary corps here. I Prominent Poet Dies Suddenly WESTBROOK,. Maine Wt Rob art P. Tristram Coffin, 62, Pu litzer Prize-winning poet whose works depicted his native Maine's folklore, died unexpectedly Thursday. , , The poet was stricken is he was about to address a Portland College Club audience. . Coffin won a Pultizer Prize in 1935 for "Strange Holiness" and was composer of many other works, Including "yoke or Tnun der," and "Kennebec, the Cradle of Americans" first of a series of books sbcut American rivers. He was an English professor at Bowdoin College and traveled extensively as a lecturer. Ike in 'Good Shape Physician Reports : WASHINGTON IW President Eisenhower's doctor said Thurs- iw day the chief executive is in "good shape" after two years in the world's toughest job. But the physician said he is "concerned" because Eisenhow er has not been getting as much exercise as he should. , The President'i doctor Is a-retired Army general, Howard Sny der, who has been with Eisen hower since 1945. For a man 64 yeara old, he said, the President is "doing very well." SPARK and H. C. LITTLE OIL heaters; BARKER ELECTRIC 13th tV Lawrence OAK FLOORING ect 2!4"x2532" n C plied, Installed and Finished, HI Inn square foot SaCr . WOODS HARDWOOD 210 Beverly Street Phone 3-3152 symptoms of drug addiction at birth Jan. 2, was discharged from a hospital here Thursday. The Vancouver Sun, which re ported the case earlier in the day, aaid both the mother and father were known narcotics users. The baby showed painful with drawal symptoms immediately planned to drop in Friday night or Saturday. Red Envoy Leaves Bing's Son Dating Sinatra's Daughter MELBOURNE, Australia v- Crooncr Frank Sinatra says his 14-year-old daughter Nancy's fa vorite boy friend at the mo mentis Bing Crosby's youngest son Lindsay, "Lindsay's been paying her so much attention that Mr. Lrosby and I have looked at the possibili ty of a merger," Sinatra quipped at a press conference here Thurs day. The singer is now on tour in Australia. Questioned about the reported "romance," Sinatra said it start ed a couple of months ago. WASHINGTON (in-Soviet Am bassador Georgi N. Zarubin left for Moscow Thursday "for con sultations." There was no inriica- alter birth similar to those her!1'0" Aether h trip was of an mother said she suffered herself emergency narure or merely rou many times before, the newspa-!'""' per account said. 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Entries must be post marked not later than midnight January 31, 1955. 3. From the lour contestants so selected as most resembling Miss Sunbeam, i territorial inner and three runners-up will be selected by popular vole. Only official ballots obtained at your Sunbeam grocery will be valid. I. The winner of each territorial contest shall be eligible to compete with the winners el all other territorial contests in the fudging for the Grand Pnie Award. The territorial inner and the three runners-up Irom each Sunbeam territory shall receive prizes as described herein. 1 The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation wilt ludce the photographs of fltt territorial winners and will select Irom among them i Grand Priie winner who will be known at Miss Sunbeam 1955. From this group The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation will also judge and select 16 (sixteen) Second Priie winners and 18 (eighteen) Third Prize winners,. I. The photographer ol each of the top 17 winners as Judged by The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation will be awarded a Benrus watch. T. All entries become the property ol Quality Bakers ol America Cooperative, tne, and lis Sunbeam members to use as they see tit. No photograph will be returned. Only on prize lo a lamily. In each judging, the decision ol the udges is final. All winners will be notified by mail. Duplicate puzes will be awarded m the event ol ties. Contest subject to all lederal, stale and local laws. I. The parents of each territorial winner will be required to fill out. sign end have notarized an official application blank .that contestant Is eligible according lo contest rules, and that they will take the prize-winning trip on or before May 15, 1955, if it it woo, 'Quality &akan America Cooperative, Inc.. Traepnjrk 36,000 DL3 PRDZES! GRAND PRIZE Trip to EoTOfx for Miss Sunbeam 19S5 and her parents via luxurious Trans-World Airlines Constellation. 20 Volume Deluxe Edition of the famous Collier's Encyclopedia. A Perfection Electric Rang. An Ultimo Home Cleaner. A Morse Super-Dial Sewing Machine. A smart travel wardrobe for Miss Sunbeam's mother, designed by America's foremost knitwear designer Jane Irwill. A Benrus Citation Consort watch for Miss Sunbeam's father. A famous Betsy-Wetsy doll by Ideal. 16 SECOND PRIZES Perfection Ranges Collier's Encyclopedia! BetsT-Vrctsy Dolls I I. I 18 THIRD PRIZES Collier's Encyclopedia Benrus Citation Charir XTatchej Betsr.Wetsv Doll? 3S FIRST RUNNERS-UP PRIZES Benrus Citatioa Qurmiine Watches Morse Sewing Machines Betsy- Wetsjr Dolls O 0 70 SECOND RUNNERS-UP PRIZES Ultimo Home Cleaners Betsy-Wetsy DolU NO ENTRf BLANKS ARE NECESSARY - JUST SEND PHOTO TO: "Sonbwm Contest," p.o. Box 427 Eugenep Oregon , Plont Located at 990 W. lit St. . O S ' t 13th and Oak Ph. 5-3324
