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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
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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."
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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.
Quoting a top-ranking medical
authority on the hospital stall,
the newspaper said that while
such cases of Infant withdrawal
are rare, there have been re
ports recently of a few cases in
medical journals.
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It's Simple!
It's Easy!
Contest ends Jan. 31
The Davidson Baking Company is looking for
little girls who most resemble the famous
Miss Sunbeam shown on every loaf
of Davidson's Sunbeam Bread.
$36,000 in" prizes will be distributed
among 140 lucky children.
HERE'S HOW TO ENTER
1. Tmt tsett Sunbeam 8atety, nVough preliminary, sectional contests in Its Sunbean
territory, will select four little girls, who, in the opinion ol a panel ol judges, most
resemble Miss Sunbeim, as she appears on the Sunbeam Bread wrapper, regardless ol
color of hair. All (iris must be at least three years ol age, but not more than ten years
et ate on the day ol judging. They must live in the territory served by our bakery. No
member of the immediate lamily may be employed by Quality Bakers ol America
Cooperative, Iik, any ol its member bakers, or any other bread maker.
1 Each contestant may send only one photograph to your local Sunbeam Bakery. Print
contestant's name, address and date of birth on back of photo. 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
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Collier's Encyclopedia
Benrus Citation Charir
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