10 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, January 27, 1950
Chrysler Workers Strike Thousands of workers stream
out of the Dodge main plant at Detroit, Mich., ts 89,000
automobile workers began a nation-wide strike against the
Chrysler corporation. The strike was called when negoti
ations between the C.I.O. United Auto Workers and Chry
sler stalled over pension and welfare benefits. (Acme Tele-photo)
2 Men Burned to
Death in Crash
Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 27 W)
Two men burned to death
and a third was burned critically
when their automobile crashed
into a gasoline tank truck dur
ing a mile-a-minute police chase
early today.
The dead were identified ten
tatively by police as Fred Lu-
ongo of Cambridge and Mark
Foster of Arlington.
The third man, reported in a
dying condition at Cambridge
City hospital, was identified asj
Henry Tivnan, 22, of Cambridge.
Police said Luongo and Foster
were trapped in the passenger
car when it burst into flame
after hitting the tank truck.
Tivnan was thrown out of the
machine a human torch. A
pedestrian rolled him along a
sidewalk to extinguish the
flames.
Two alarms were sounded
when the tank truck, carrying
1,500 gallons of gasoline, also
burst into flames, threatening
nearby property.
Police said they took up pur
suit of the car in the belief It
was stolen.
They reported it was travel
ing 60 miles an hour when it hit
the tank truck at a street inter
section. The truck driver jumped from
the vehicle uninjured.
CIO Attacks
Steel Companies
Washington. Jan. . (! A
CIO stcelworkers spokesman to
day said that steel companies
have used "misrepresentations
to justify last month's $4 a ton
general price increase.
The companies have contend
ed they had to Increase prices
because of increased costs and
that, if anything, the steel prices
should be higher than they are
are now.
Otis Brubaker, research direc
tor for the union claims that 1,
000,000 members, today called
these increases "unwarranted'
and "indefensible."
He told the senate-house eco
nomic committee, which is stu
dying the price increase, that
the steel industry has a "public
be damned" attitude. He said
the price rise was "far in excess
of any demonstrable cost in
creases."
As for the "misrepresenta
tions," Brubaker said that Jones
& Laughlin, the fourth largest
steel company in the country,
had reported its profits to the
committee yesterday at 1.6 per
cent.
According to Brubaker, that
was the amount J. & L. paid in
dividends to its shareholders. He
said the figure the rompnny
should have used was 8.9 per
cent, which he said was the prof
it that J. & L. got on its invest
ment.
McKellar Questions
Memorials in Alaska
Washington, Jan. 27 (U.R) Sen
Kenneth McKellar. D.. Tenn.
Thursday questioned the wisdom
of building memorials to Amcri-
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After Drifting
Ketchikan, Alaska, Jan. 27 (JPi
The return trip was quicker
Trapper John Kristovich ar
rived here yesterday via Ellis
Air Lines, apparently none the
worse for his 17-day sea and
land wanderings.
Kristovich left Tombstone
Bay, near the south end of Port
land canal, January 8 in a 38
foot troller. Engine trouble left
him drifting for nine days be
fore the vessel beached on Gra
ham island, 90 miles across Dix
on Entrance strait from the
Alaska Panhandle. With provi
sions and equipment from the
boat, he walked another eight
days before reaching Masset, B.
C, where he was picked up yes
terday. Spinach kept on ice experi
mentally for two days gained 22
per cent in weight.
Return From Honeymoon Cruise Billy Daniels. Negro
singer, and his bride, the former Martha Braun, of Lowell,
Mass., pose on deck of liner Italia at New York City at
end of their honeymoon cruise. The 21-year-old white bride
and Daniels, 34-year-old nightclub singer, were married in
Weehawken, N. J. She is a television and radio bit player.
(WWirephoto)
can dead in Alaska, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico where, he said, "No
one will ever see them."
McKellar, chairman of the
senate appropriations committee.
made the statement at a subcom
mittee hearing on an army civil
functions bill.
He asked Quartermaster Gen
eral Herman Feldman to supply
the subcommittee with more in
formation on three proposed
memorials which would cost
$875,000,
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Reds Will Release Two Airmen
If U. S. Makes 'Proper Request
By WAYNE RICHARDSON
Kobe, Japan, Jan. 27 VP) U. S. Consul General Carl O. Haw
thorne today voiced hope for the repcase of two marine airmen
held by the Chinese communists and predicted millions will
starve in red North China.
The veteran chief of the now closed American consulate at
Tsingtao came in from commu-'
nist China yesterday aboard the
shell - pocked freighter Flying
Arrow. The Isbrandtscn Line
ship went to Tsingtao after being
hit 30 to 40 times by a Nation
alist gunboat while trying to
enter the Yangtze river to
Shanghai.
His hopeful comment on the
two fliers captured by the Reds
in October, 1948, came after
Capt. David Jones of the Flying
Arrow described his negotiations
with Tsingtao Reds for their
release. The impriosned airmen
are Master Sgt. Charles C.
Bender of Cincinnati and Chief
Electrician William C. Smith of
Long Beach, Calif.
"When Britain has set up ef
fective relations" with Red Chi
na, Hawthorne told newsmen,
"I think we will get Bender and
Smith out."
Earlier, the Flying Arrow's
skipper told me In an exclusive
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(Editor's Note: Associated Press correspondent Wayne
Richardson, formerly of Phoenix, Ariz., and Hong Kong, was
aboard the American freighter Flying Arrow when the
vessel docked at Tsingtao, North China Red port, in Mid
January. The following is his observation of conditions and
life in the port after a four-day visit ashore.)
By WAYNE RICHARDSON
Aboard the Flying Arrow en route to Kobe, Japan, Jan. 26 W)
The U. S. navy's huge installations at Tsingtao, North China
port, have been taken over by the Chinese communists.
The installations and properties, valued at millions of dollars,
Include five large buildings
Chinese government. The com
munists do not recognize the
sale.
The properties include the
U.S. navy headquarters and port
facilities building, the Ameri
can consulate general's head
quarters, the downtown naval
officers' club, the navy barracks
and commissary, the admiral'Sj
Also taken over by the Reds
interview that a top Tsingtao
communist named Wong said the
fliers could be released "very
quickly" if the United States
would make a "proper" diplo
matic request.
(This could mean the Reds are
demanding formal U.S. recogni
tion of their Peiping regime in
return for the fliers' freedom.
The U.S. so far has shown no
indication of recognizing com
munist China. Britain has, but
Peiping has not accepted the
British offer. Hawthorne's hopes
apparently were based on the
premise that London and Peiping
will establish diplomatic rela
tions and the U.S. can act
through the British.)
Hawthorne painted a black
picture of Tsingtao and Shan
tung province under communist
rule. Food has become a press
ing problem for the big Chinese
population, he said, predicting:
"Millions are going to die of
starvation before the next har
vest in August."
He said he believes the peo
ple are dissatisfied with Red
rule but can do nothing about
it because of tight controls.
The once teeming port of
Tsingtao, former base for the
U.S. western Pacific fleet, isi
down to about 1,000 tons of
shipping daily, Hawthorne said.
The Reds have done nothing
with the fine harbor.
Heavy taxation, he continued,
is killing off private industry"
and other restrictions are making
business impossible. Strict mar
tial law still is in force.
Hawthorne said the Tsingtao
consulate was guarded continu
ously by Red soldiers armed
with rifles, bayonets and hand
grenades. He was threatened
with arrest several times.
Of his call on Communist
Official Wong, Captain Jones
said:
Wong, director of the Tsing
tao board for military control of
foreign affairs for civilians, con
tended the U.S. has not request
ed the fliers' release in a man
ner considered official by the
communists.
Wong maintained the only re
quest Red officials have was "s
hurriedly written letter prior to
the navy's evacuation of Tsing
tao." He said the letter did not
include arrangements for deliv
ery and acceptance of the fliers.
Jones said he saw Wong in
response to a state department
cable from Hawthorne. He said i
he was authorized to spend up
to $25,000 if the Reds wanted:
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purchased from the Nationalist
residence and the consul gen
eral's residence.
were the installations at the
marine airbase and the Chinese
navy training center.
There were tens of thousands
of refugees in Tsingtao from the
surrounding Shantung province
when the communists took the
city. American marine and
naval forces had just evacuated
their Asiatic base there.
...
One of the first acts of the
communists was to send all re
fugees home.
I was told that even white col
lar workers who had been in the
Nationalist government service
were ordered back to the farms
where they originated. A wave
of suicides followed this order.
Business in Tsingtao has been
on the downgrade since the war.
Even under the Nationalist it
did not regain any of its pre
war scale.
My brief survey revealed that
Tsingtao is doing its biggest bus
iness today in the export of
hairnets.
Before the war the port ex
ported large quantities of beef,
cotton goods, peanuts, salt and
eggs. London got much of its
frozen eggs supply from Tsing
tao. Japan received much of its
beef.
Now these industries are at
a standstill.
Tsingtao's import tonnage av
erages about 30,000 tons a
month. That is not enough for
a city of this size approximate
ly 750,000 persons.
I was told that business in
Tsinan, Shantung province capi
tal, also was bogged down.
The important Poshan coal
mines nearby are being operat
ed only to a limited extent by
the communists, I learned. The
fishing industry, which thrived
in Tsingtao waters, has not been
revived since the war.
Some of the province's eco
nomic ills are attributed to bad
crops brought on by droughts in
some places and floods in others
and to a lesser extent by con
scription of young men who
normally till the soil. The con
scription of the young men left
only old men and women to
work the farmlands.
After talking to many ashore.
I reached the conclusion the
life of the average resident of
Tsingtao was regimented even
down to recreation and thoughts
The city is composed of beau
tiful European style homes built
by the Germans before the first
world war. At different times
it has been the base of the Ger
mans British and American
Asiatic fleets.
Wong insisted, Jones said, that
"ransom does not enter into the
picture."
In Washington, the state de
partment said it had not au
thorized any ransom offer.
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Here's Story of Correspondent
Who Sailed on Flying Arrow
By RUSSELL BRINES
Kobe, Japan, Jan. 27 VP) The husky, jovial man leaning
down from the Flying Arrow's
who had just swung a big deal.
When Richardson, veteran
had completed a big deal all
seemed to imply.
At 51 an age which normally
doesn't court trouble he vol
untarily rode into Chinese na
tionalist shellfire at the mouth
of the Yangtze river, then pene
trated tight Chinese communist
scrutiny in Tsingtao.
His was the story of the Fly
ing Arrow an exclusive he had
for two weeks as the only news
man abroad.
Some highlights of the Rich
ardson story behind THE story:
A Russian taxi driver taught
him how to use his gray hair to
beat the communist curfew in
Tsingtao, A diligent Chinese
girl agent and her nearsighted
boy friend dogged him during
four days ashore in north China
A communist official gave him
chills by revealing he knew
Richardson was a newsman and
not the ship's purser as adver
tised. 'Hi!" shouted Richardson as
the Flying Arrow nudged into
dock this morning. His greet
ing sounded like he'd been away
for a week-end in the country.
"It was a lucky assignment,"
he added.
Richardson, due to return to
the United States on home leave
after four years as AP corre
spondent in Hong Kong, decided
to board the Flying Arrow when
he learned she was going to try
to run the nationalist blockade
of Shanghai.
First thing he did was to book
the only available passenger
cabin ahead of rival newsmen
who were hot after it. He
switched to the crew when the
ship was at sea.
When a nationalist gunboat
began pumping shells at the Fly
ing Arrow off the Yangtze
mouth, Richardson sat down in
the exposed radio shack and be
gan filing his story.
"I got 38 shells," Richardson
was saying. "How many did
you get?"
"Now look at the guy!" the
skipper exploded. "He's count
ing the shells."
Richardson kept writing his
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Associated Press correspondent.
right hut not the kind his girth
story, rolling it out ahead of the
radioman who was transmitting
it.
In Tsingtao, Richardson man
aged to get ashore by making
credentials" with a borrowed
rubber stamp and an old photo
graph. The picture was clipped
to an old amateur radio opera
tor s permit and stamped with
the seal of the Flying Arrow. It
served to identify him as a mem
ber of the crew.
Richardson thought he was
getting away with anonymity.
But the British consul forwarded
him a letter concerning William
C. Smith of Long Beach, Calif.,
one of the two American fliers
held by the Reds in the Tsingtao
area. It letter was relayed in
response to a cabled request
from Mrs. Smith, who suggested
the AP man could get news out.
Richardson learned the cable
identifying him had passed
through communist communica
tion channels.
One of the arrogant Red offi
cials asked Captain Jones:
"When did you make an Associ
ated Press correspondent a
member of your crew?"
Evidently Red officials had
been tapping Richardson's out
going messages and were per
fectly aware who he was.
B As he went around Tsingtao
searching for the first detailed
information on that city under
the communists, the Phoenix,
Ariz., newsman was trailed con
stantly.
A Chinese girl was on his
heels always. Following her
was a boy friend with thick eye
glasses. They didn't even bother
to hide the fact they were taking
notes on his actions.
Once in Tsingtao's largest
cafe, Richardson spotted U.S.
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weds, Maj. John Ernest Horton
and Drucie Snyder, were honeymoon-bound
today, somewhere
in Florida.
Horton, a White House mili
tary aide, and h i s bride, the
daughter of Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. John W. Sny
der, left here last night after a
glittering wedding reception.
Their exact destination was a
secret.
Their five o'clock wedding
was attended by more than a
thousand guests, including Pre
sident and Mrs. Truman. Also
present were Vice President
and Mrs. Barkley, whom the
Hortons succeeded as Washing
ton's No. 1 newlyweds.
More than 2000 guests jamm
ed the Chevy Chase Country
club for the wedding reception.
The reception line lasted two
hours.
American champagne bubbled
from a five-vent fountain. There
was a three-tier wedding cake
There was dancing to Samba
and Rhumba music.
Mr. Truman gave Drucie a
kiss. Mrs. Truman gasDed a lit
tle, and kissed Major Horton.
Margaret Truman, the presi
dent's daughter, was one of the
bridesmaids. She missed the
bride's bouquet. It was caught
by a friend who is already en
gaged. Consul General Carl O. Haw
thorne of San Francisco with a
party.
Quickly someone came up to
the newsman and whispered:
"Pretend you don't know them
(Hawthorne's party) or every
one will get into trouble."
The communists clamped on
no restrictions during daylight
visits ashore but enforced a
midnight curfew.
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