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4 Old-Age Pensioners Burn
Recall Petition Against Langlie
Elma, Wash., Dec. 14 (U.R) Four old-age pensioners burned
a paper asking a recall election against Governor Arthur B. Lang
lie today, saying they didn't know what they were doing" when
they filed it.
The recall petition was filed last week by Robert Springer,
Purl Kocher, Tom Taylor and
Oscar Williams. All said they
did not read it.
Williams said he was asked to
circulate a petition by a mem
ber of the Washington State Pen
sion union. He said he under
stood the petition was merely
something about old age pen
sions and his friend said nothing
about the governor to him.
William said he took the pa
per to three of his friends at a
tavern. They also signed it. Then
they notarized it and mailed it
to the secretary of state's office.
When they discovered they
were getting Involved In a re
call movement, they rushed to
Olympla, Wash., yesterday and
recalled the recall.
"We want no part of It. We
didn't know what we were do
ing," they said.
In Seattle, meanwhile, the
Trade Union Jobs and Security
council said it would file formal
recall papers tomorrow with be
tween 200 and 300 persons ap
pearing at the state capitol.
The council said it would
charge the governor with fail
ure in the administration of
laws, particularly the state wel
fare act.
Amity Ends Drive
For Chest Funds
Amity P. E. Meeker, chair
man of the Community Chest
drive for Amity has announced
the drive completed, with the
collection of $500. William West,
Andy VanOtten and Walter
Moore of the Lions club were in
charge of soliciting.
Captains for the rural district
were Mesdames Rupert Christ-
ensen, J. B. Kosta, Eugene
Schroeder and Richard Fuller.
Within the city, the Amity Wom
an's club, the high school and
grade school took care of solicitation.
Chiang Gets Final Chance
In Impending Formosa Battle
Editor's Note: Seymour Topping of the Associated Press
China staff is on leave in the United States after covering
the China civil war for three years. He has just returned from
a trip during which he spoke to Washington officials and ex
perts elsewhere about the far east. Topping writes from first
hand knowledge gained on the war fronts and behind both
the communist and nationalist lines. He will retrn soon to
post at Hong Kong.
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
San Francisco, Dec. W) The impending battle for Formosa
will give Chiang Kai-Shek his final change to rally nationalist
resistance. Successful defense of the big island against communist
attack would encourage new American support of the national
ist cause.
Far East experts believe the
Nationalists have the material
means to hold for a long time
the key base off the South China
coast.
A very big "IF" centers
around Chiang's ability to in
spire the will to resist Red at
tack. He was not able to do
that during the last four years
of civil war fought on the mainland.
State department refusal to
endorse a program of further
help to the Nationalists is based
upon the contention that their
defeats are not due to material
shortages. The 'white paper pub
lished last summer was meant to
prove that. Inadequate leader
ship, both administrative and
inspirational, was cited as the
real lack.
The battle for Formosa will
offer Chiang Kai-Shek an ideal
opportunity to show there has
been a change.
If communist attacks are turn
ed back, the powerful Ameri
can advocates of further aid to
the Nationalists will be given
ammunition for an attack on the
current state department policy.
A minimum objective would be
release by President Truman of
the $73,000,000 earmarked by
congress for China aid.
There Is plenty of reason to
believe that successful defense
of Formosa would result in re
newal of a U.S. aid program.
Aside from congressional pres
sures, American policy makers
are worried about strategic For
mosa falling into communist
hands. But political considera
tions have forced them to shelve
plans for active intervention.
For the present, state depart
ment officials are stressing that
Chiang has everything he needs
for the immediate defense of
Formosa which is the new seat
for the refugee Nationalist government.
One hundred miles of open
sea separate Formosa from the
Red held coast. Chiang has
small navy and air force that
are unopposed to hit commu
nist amphibious attacks launch
ed on junks and other small ves
sels. When the winds are right,
junks can reach Formosa's long
coastline overnight.
Defense of Formosa will de
pend finally upon availability of
effective mobile forces that can
be rushed to points where Red
landings are made. For this job,
Chiang has over 100,000 combat
troops adequately armed and
equipped to defend the 13,890
square mile territory.
On the other side of the ledg
er, Chiang has. to worry about
B,UU0,000 hostile Formosans. Na
tionalist exploitation and mis
management of the rich island
nas made the population ex
tremely susceptible to Red in
filtration. Some 1,200,000 main
land Chinese on Formosa are
looked upon as carpetbaggers.
To get the Formosans on his
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side, Chiang will have to In
stitute political reforms and re
habilitate the island's economy.
Among his own troops and of
ficials, Chiang will have to wipe
out the cancerous corruption, in
efficiency and bickering which
spelled Nationalist defeat on the
mainland.
The Nationalists hope that
Formosa assaults can some day
be launched against the main
land. The assaults would be
made in coordination with guer
rilla operations behind the Red
lines and from a mountain base
in the far west province of
Sikang.
What hope the Nationalists
have of a comeback seems to
lie well into the future and is
tied in with what success the
communists experience.
If the Reds fail to solve the
basic economic problems of the
Chinese, the raw power for counter-revolution
will be generated
and an opportunity offered to
the Nationalists or someone else
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Mental Health
Research Need
Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R)
Sen. John J. Sparkman, (D
Ala.), said today testimony that
one child out of every 10 is des
tined for mental trouble is "Im
pressive evidence" of the need
for more research on child men
tal health.
He made the statement as
Rep. Robert F. Rich, (R., Pa.)
denounced the testimony as "ter
rorism" aimed at frightening
parents into supporting the ad
ministration's health insurance
program.
Rich demanded that acting
Federal Security Administrator
John L. Thurston furnish con
gress "the information on which
he based his alarming statement
yesterday before Sparkban's
joint economic subcommittee
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Thurston said the figures were
"estimates by some authorities."
He did not Identify them.
Rich also said everyone in
the federal government should
be given a mental examination
starting at the White House and
going right on down."
He said psychiatrists should
examine "every senator and ev
ery congressman and every fed
eral worker to find out if they
are of sound mind.
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Lynn, Mass., Dec. 14 VP) An
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last night as he sat helpless in
his specially constructed wheel
chair. Joseph Mangan, 58, told
police the gunman stuck a pis
tol in his back as he wheeled
along a city street and robbed
him of $24. Mangan propelled
his car, recently given him by
friends, to police headquarters to
report the robbery.
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