14 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, Dec. 16, 1949
Eyewitness Leaves Dying City;
Can Shanghai Be Revived?
(Editor's Note: Fred Hampson, chief of the Associated
Press staff in China, is on his way out of Red China. He
sailed Dec. 9 from Shanghai and this is the full dispatch
which he wrote on that day as he said goodbye to a Shanghai
whose Red rulers forbade him to send news after last Oct. 6.
It was relayed through Japan. Hampton is en route to Hong
Kong by way of Japan).
By FRED HAMPSON
Aboard the Sir John Franklin in the Whangpoo River, Dec. 9
(Delayed) W) Four years ago last September I saw Shanghai
for the first time from a U. S. army bomber as it circled to land
at Shanghai's Kiangwan airfield.
Today, with very mixed emotions, I said goodbye to Shanghai
from the deck of this dioci-
ade runner, whose port super
structure was punctured with
shell fragments by a blackading
Nationalist warship.
Between those two dates I
don't suppose any city on earth
possibly excepting Berlin
has seen such tremendous up
heavals. In that interlude Shang
hai became the communists'
biggest single conquest
One is tempted to say that we
left a dying city. It is certainly
In bad shape and getting worse.
But I have seen it mauled and
looted and maladministered too
many times to write it off light
ly as a dying city. It is amaz
lngly resilient.
It may even survive Chinese,
commulsm. But the trends have
got to change.
If things continue the way
they are going now, it will be
come a Chinese village housed
In the dead husk of a metro
polls.
Shanghai was the product of
Imperialism, of foreign control,
of that strange encroachment
called extra-territorlality. When
imperialism's day was done it
became a legacy the Chinese
never were quite able to man
age.
To western eyes, it began go
lng to pieces from the moment
the Chinese moved In right after
the war In 1945 and took it
over.
During the last six months
under the communists, it has
changed character again.
Today It is crowded with com
missars, big and little, who are
devoted to an Ideal that doesn't
seem to fit Shanghai and who
are, In the main, high-minded
and honest and incredibly in
efficient. Without attempting to go in
to details on the question
whether communism can suc
ceed in a city like Shanghai, it
till seems to me Shanghai
represented a high water mark
of modernity in China.
Shanghai is now being sacri
ficed. This product of the west,
which helped pull China out of
Its ancient feudalism and demon- I
slraled what western methods
could do, has been vilified by
the communists because of 11 s
imperlist background and be
cause It depends on "imperialist
trade."
There seems to be no dispo
sition by the new authorities to
examine and .ascertain just what
services the greatest of the
treaty ports performed for
China. But only to look at the
evils attendant on its growth.
The saddest phase of this fare
well to Shanghai was wrapped
up in a small group of Chinese
who saw us to the ship with
their brave bouquets of flowers
for the departing foreigners de
spite the glowering disapproval
of communist guards.
This group of Chinese seemed
to me to represent the beginning
of "a solid middle class in China
which could have grown and
brought greatness to China.
They were the product of Shang
hai. They had absorbed the best
of the west and mixed it com
patibly with their oriental
natures.
They had modest but good
homes. Their children were In
school. They had learned pro
fessions and trades. They could
earn enough at them to main
tain themselves with pride and
decency. And they had done it
on their own no kin ties with
the rich, no political connection,
no special privilege except their
own abilities.
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Trapped MicKey honoway,
2-years-old shows how he was
making a face at his sister,
Shirley, when he got his head
caught in a banister. Birm
ingham, Ala. firemen releas
ed him with the judicious use
of a crowbar. He told photog
raphers he wasn't scared, but
kept his head a respectable dis
tance from the banister. (AP
wirephoto)
and Pan and Chen. For the last
four years they worked for the
Asociated Press in Shanghai
Now they are out of work. The
gates of their professions and
trades are closed unless they can
somehow get into the party
machine and wear grotesque
cotton uniforms, send their kids
to the "correct" schools and
live on a few dollars a month
and a regimented rice allowance.
At present they are living on
severance pay which can last
only a few months at best
I guess they are the despised
bourgeois who must be crushed
down to become part of that
vague horde the proletariat
above which one is not supposed
to want to rise.
These are to be destroyed.
A millenium has arrived.
Its record so far in Shanghai
city normally of 6,000,000
Inhnhifnnfc ie 1 OHO nnn nnnm.
They were Koo and Tsang ployed.
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ourt Hears Star Spangled .
Banner Made in Brewery
Annapolis, Md., Dec. 16 Wj Was the Star Spangled Banner
made in a brewery?
Maryland's court of appeals heard this version of history Wed
nesday in a dispute over the Star Spangled Banner Flag House in
Baltimore.
It was there that Mary Pick
ersgill made the flag that flew
over Fort McHenry in 1813 and
inspired Francis Scott Key's na
tional anthem, historians gener
ally believe.
She completed the huge ban
ner in the roomier confines of a
nearby brewery, argued lawyers
for one side in a lawsuit.
This was denied by the Star
Spangled Banner Flag House as
sociation, which said the flag
was completed in a warehouse.
The state's highest court heard
arguments in a condemnation
suit by which the city of Balti
more seeks to take over a three-
story red-brick rooming house
next door to the flag house, now
operated by the association as a
public shrine.
The property would be con
verted into office space for the
flag association as part of a plan
to create a memorial square as
"an inspiration" to patriotism.
"Into dates and history will
be instilled a soul," said city so
licitor Thomas N. Biddison.
Attorneys for Annie Flacco-
mio, owner, of the rooming
house, said the city has no right
to take over the property.
Attorneys Hyman Ginsberg
and Louis R. Milio cast doubt on
the history of the flag house it
self by stating it was "supposed
ly" the house where Mary
Pickersgill made the flag which
"is reputed" to have inspired
Key.
They quoted a Maryland
guidebook as stating that the
flag was finished in a brewery.
"It could, of course be argued
that the brewery in which the
flag was finally completed is en
titled to as much glory as the so
called flag house," they said.
Biddison quoted a flag asso
elation statement that the flag
was so large "that it became ne
cessary to obtain permission to
spread the materials out on the
large floor of a neighboring
warehouse for cutting and sew
ing." Ginsberg and Milio gave the
size of the banner as 42 by 30
feet. Biddison said it was 29 by
36 feet. All agreed it had 15
stripes and 15 stars.
At any rate, the owner's at
torneys argued, the house next
door, "all hands admit, had
nothing to do with the Star
Spangled Banner."
"One does not cease to be pa
troitic in every sense of that
word, nor does he stop loving
his country or the flag of that
country," by objecting to the
loss of the rooming house, they
said.
The court took the case under
advisement.
Saint Paul to
Present Pageant
The annual Christmas pageant
of the Saint Paul's Episcopal
Sunday school will be present
ed Sunday at 5 p. m. The pag
eant, under the leadership of
Miss Jean Quickcnden, will be
held in the church. A cordial in
vitation is' extended to parents
and friends. Following the pag
eant the Christmas party with a
Santa Claus and tree will be
presented in the parish house.
Polk Club Leaders
Called to Dallas
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in the county court house in Dal
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Vested Choir Appears
Silverton The second in the
series of Evening Choral pro
grams at the First Christian
church is to be given Sunday,
December 18, beginning at 8
o'clock, by the vested choir of '
30 voices directed by Mrs.
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pre-Christmas observance at the
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