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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1950
NO. 249
Severe Cold Wave
Blankets Region
In Wake Of Storm '
1 1 Persons Dead, Four
Missing In Wasteland
Portland, Ore., Jan. 14 (U.R)
A severe cold wave, dipping oc
j casionally below zero, blanketed
the Pacific northwest today in
the wake of a furious blizzard
that virtually isolated cities and
left at least 11 persons dead and
4 more missing in a snowy waste
land. One of the worst storms in half
a century gave way to a blast of
cold air that sent the mercury
plunging to sub-zero marks in
some sections of Washington, Ida
ho and Oregon and turned deep
snow drifts into treacherous
banks of ice.
Oregon, Washington, British
Columbia, northern California
and western Nevada were hit by
the full impact of snowstorms
whipped by gales ranging from
50 to 70 miles per hour.
Children Frozen
Donnie Stumpf, 8, and his sis
ter, Irene, 9, Odessa, Wash., were
frozen to death when they tried
to walk home from their stalled
car. Mrs. Charlotte Warner, 20,
Titusville, Pa.; her son, Ronald,
2, and her daughter, Marcella, 1,
were drowned when their car
skidded off the Pacific highway
near Kalama, Wash., into a road
side pond.
William F. Hayes, 45, crane
operator, was electrocuted when
he attempted to loosen a frozen
trolley wheel at Kelso, Wash.
Lyle B. Wheeler, 41, Spokane
truck driver, was struck and
killed by a passing car as he
stood by his snow-stalled car
near Hartline, Wash.
Merle L. Martin, Corvallis,
Ore., collapsed and died of a
heart attack as he tried 'o put
chains on his light truck. Tyler
H. Thompson, Tooele county,
Utah, was killed when he was
blown into the path of a passen
ger train near Warner Junction.
Din Of Cold
Miss A. M Alexander, 86-year-old
recluse, died of cold and
malnutrition in her fuelless home
at North Vancouver, B. C.
A baby died at birth at Chilli
wack, B. C, today, after the
mother, Mrs. Berryl Penner, was
carried on a stretcher through
the blizzard after a taxicab was
stalled en route to a hospital.
Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Re
no, Spokane and other western
cities virtually were isolated
from the outside world. Snow
clogged roads halted almost all
cross-country motor travel. Main
highways through Oregon,
Washington, northern California
and Idaho were severed. Bus
schedules were thrown out of
gear or cancelled. The few
trains still running were de
layed hours.
"Whole gale" winds ranging
up to 70 miles an hour whipped
against the Pacific coastline from
British Columbia south to Fort
Bragg, CaL
Manufacturing Jobs
In California Off
San Francisco, Jan. 14 (U.R)
Manufacturing employment in
California fell off by about 6,000
between November and Decem
ber, but rose in the Los Angeles
and San Francisco areas, it was
announced today.
The statewide decline in em
ployment reflected seasonal
losses in canning and lumber and
decreases in apparel and most
heavy goods industries, the state
department of industrial rela
tions said.
Director Paul Scharrenberg
said factory employment during
the same period in the Los An
geles industrial area rose by
more than 3,000; and by more
than 2,000 the San Francisco bay
industrial area.
Discussing unemployment in
surance activities, Paul Bryant,
director of the state's depart
ment of employment said the
number of Bay area workers re
ceiving unemployment insur
ance benefits was 32 per cent
greater than in December 1948.
FLUE FIRE
Firemen reported a flue fire
about 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the
M. S. Cobb residence, 715 King
street.
Demos Feel Fight To Halt
House Action On FEP Won
Washington, Jan. 14 (U.R)
Conservative democrats believed
tonight that they have won their
fight to block house action on a
fair employment practices bill,
the most controversial of Presi
dent Truman's civil rights pro
posals. The conservative democrats
and their republican allies feel
also that they have maneuvered
themselves into a position to gain
voting control of the house. If
they are successful in their man
euver, they can kill for this ses
sion of congress what remains
of Mr. Truman's already-sagging
"fair deal" program.
Leaders in the southern demo
cratic revolt against the admin
istration program are Reps. E. E.
I Jr -2
CANDIDATE E. H. Mann,
above, Saturday announced that
he is a candidate for the republi
can nomination in the primary
election for the state house of
representatives.
E. H. Mann Seeks
Nomination For
State Legislature
E. H. Mann, 61, proprietor of
the E. H. Mann company, build
ers of truck bodies here, Satur
day announced his candidacy for
the republican nomination for
the state house of representa
tives. Mann was a candidate in the
primary election in 1948, when
Ben Day, Gold Hill, and Frank
J. Van Dyke, Medford, were
nominated.
A native of South Dakota,
Mann was engaged in fruitgrow
ing in the Yakima valley, Wash
ington, for a number of years
before coming here about 20
years ago.
Two Children
Married and' residing at 47
Rose avenue, Mann is the father
of two children, Mrs. A. B. Jona
son, Bremerton, Wash., and R. E.
Mann, Medford, who is associat
ed in the truck body firm with
his father.
The candidate is a member of
a number of fraternal and civic
organizations, and has long been
active in public affairs. He is
a veteran of World War I, when
he served in the field artillery.
Mann is the first in Jackson
county to announce his candi
dacy for the house of represen
tatives. Day last week announc
ed that he will seek the Oregon
senate seat from this district.
Siam Gold Bullion
Sent To New York
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 14 (U.R)
A heavily-guarded transfer of
more than . $40,300,000 in gold
bullion bearing the Siamese gov
ernment seal has passed through
here by air from the Far East,
destined for safe keeping in the
federal reserve bank at New
York, it was revealed today.
The extremely hush - hush
transfer, said by New York
Trans-Ocean airlines to be un
der contract to the government
of Siam, so far has brought 48
tons of gold across the Pacific
on seven separate flights of four
engined DC-4s, manned by
armed crews of six men.
A curtain of secrecy was laid
over the entire operation and
airline officials in Oakland re
fused to confirm a report out of
Anchorage, Alaska, tnat an
eighth plane-load of the precious
metal, carried in steel ingot
boxes was due in Oakland Janu
ary 17. Another load would
bring the total to nearly $50 mil
lion. The transfer was insured
for $45 million.
Eugene Visions Great
Electricity Demand
Eugene, Ore., Jan. 14 U.R)
Utility officials tonight said they
expected the greatest peak de
mand in this area's history and
said the demands of electric
blankets might equal the normal
industrial load during the cur
rent cold wave.
Power supplies from various
points which feed this city's
municipally owned distribution
system were hooked into one
loop so power could be easily
diverted to overloaded sections.
Cox (D., Ga.), Howard W. Smith
(D Va.), and William M. Col
mer (D., Miss.).
They predicted that they will
have the votes to carry out their
intentions. While they declined
to reveal their strategy, it was
learned that they believe they
can head off a house vote on
FEPC by one of two methods:
1. Getting the house rules
changed to make it impossible
to consider the FEPC bill with
out their approval, or
2. Persuading Speaker Sam
Rayburn not to recognize Chair
man John Lesinski (D., Mich),
of the house labor committee on
January 23 when the FEPC bill
is tentatively scheduled for consideration.
One Of Two Trapped
Miners Said 'Okay
Mahanoy City, Pa., Jan. 1
(U.R) Rescue workers started
blasting with dynamite charges
through a wall of solid coal to
night after one of two entombed
miners reported through a tube
that he was "okay and believed
his brother also was alive.
The grimy rescuers, tired af-
ter 28 hours of constant digging
through rain-soaked earth, sank
a metal tube horizontally
through a caved-in gangway 60
feet underground and talked
with Joseph Burda, 30.
Joseph said he was "holding
up okay but that he was weak
and in need of nourishment,
State police sped immediately
to Mananoy city ana returned
with a supply of liquor, which
was sent to nim through the 25
foot tube together with some
milk
Joseph said he was sure that
his brother, Edward, 25, trapped
at a lower "chute" in the col
lapsed hard coal mine, was still
alive. Rescuers, however, doubt
ed that Edward had survived the
entombment.
After talking with Joseph, the
rescue crews ran up against a
solid coal bed, which they be
lieved anywhere from 15 to 30
feet thick.
Cause Of Glider
Crackup Sought
Fort Benning, Ga., Jan. 14
(U.R) An investigation commit
tee sought without conclusive re
sults today the cause of a freak
ish glider crackup which killed
13 men and critically hurt four
others.
Maj. Richard O. Johnson, Law
son air force base' commander,
said the committee went into
action immediately but had no
finding to announce as yet.
First reports of the crash
which scattered wreckage over
700 feet of runway here yester
day indicated a strong gust of
wind may have tipped the glider
sideways as it soared in for a
landing.
The paratroopers killed were
identified as:
Pvt. Alfonso Romero. 18
Berkeley, Cal.; Pvt. Alvin F.
Rummell, 19. Creekside. Pa.;
Pvt. Gordon A. Smith, 23, Co
lumbus. Ga.: Pvt. Robert Snell
Jr., Nashville, Tenn.; Pvt. James
H. Stacey, 23, Helen s, Lee coun
ty, Ky.; Pvt. Rodney R. Tocppel,
18. Wisconsin Rapids. Wis.: Pvt.
Townsend E. Tomlinson, 19, Do
ver, Del.; Pvt. Norman H. Vi
ands, 18, Holly Oak, Del.; Pvt.
Richard L. Wedeikis, 18. Keno
sha. Wis.; Sgt. First Class Eugene
S. Jones, 25, Clay, W. Va.; Sgt.
Frank C. Rathberger, 23, Port
land, Ore.; Pvt. Charles M. Roth
rock Jr., 18, Delle Vernon, Pa.;
Second Lt. Robert D. Henley,
air force, the pilot, Columbia,
Mo. ...
The four survivors, all seri
ously injured, were listed as:
Pfc. Paul F. Romero, 19, Fres
no, Cal. (not related to Alfonso
Romero, who was killed); Pvt.
Victor E. Root, 18, Fort Wayne,
Ind.; Pvt. Robert.O. Shaffer, 19,
Sea Breeze. N. Y., and Pvt. Law
rence D. Stuehlmeyer, 18, Cen
tralia.' 111.
Restrictions Asked On
California Citrus
Alamo, Tex., Jan. 14 (U.R)
The president of Texas' biggest
shippers organization tonight
asked for restrictions on Califor
nia citrus coming to the Lone
Star state.
Charles Rogers, head of the
Texas citrus and vegetable grow
ers and shippers, said he felt cer
tain Texas Agriculture Commis
sioner J. E. McDonald would
"find ways and means to handle
the California situation."
California yesterday announced
Texas citrus going inside its
boundaries must either be fumi
gated with cyanide or treated
in oil emulsion. Rogers said the
order, effective Jan. 23, virtually
amounts to barring Texas oran
ges and grapefruit from Califor
nia.
A year ago California per
mitted the entry of Texas citrus
provided it was treated in oil or
with cyanide or methly bromide.
Texas shippers claimed cyanide
was too deadly and the oil bath
clogged their packing plant
brushes. They used the methyl
bromide fumigations.
New TidaTWaVe Wall
At Hilo Considered
Los Angeles, Jan. 14 (U.R)
Dr. Walter Munk, 36, associate
professor at the Scripps Insti
tute of Oceanography, La Jolla,
Cal., boarded a plane for Hilo,
Haaii, here today to advise U.
S. army engineers on the feas
ibility of constructing a new tidal
wave retaining wall in Hilo har
bor. The wall was badly damaged
In a tidal wave which struck
there with a great loss of life
in 1946.
Munk has been studying tidal
incidences in the Pacific for the
last four years. A thesis he pre
pared on the subject attracted
army attention and resulted in
the requested conference.
Dynamite was brought In and
half-stick charges were used to
blast away the coal, which was
then carried by a bucket brigade
to the surface.
The rescuers cleared away two
to three feet of the coal wall an
hour by the blasting and expect
ed to reach Joseph some time
before dawn.
Although few persons were at
the scene during the day, more
than 100 gathered after dark at
the mouth of the mine, illumin
ated by spotlights. Two doctors
and an ambulance were kept In
readiness.
The eight five-man rescue
crews worked in three-hour
shifts. They had been at the mine
since 2 p. m. Friday.
Joe Becker, a crew leader, was
the one who made contact with
Joseph through the tube. He said
the entombed man's, conversa
tion was "muffled" and that he
was unable to make out every
thing he said.
Buses Sideswipe
On Icy Curve Of
Michigan Highway
Gaylord, Mich., Jan. 14 (U.R)
Two big buses, one carrying the
Michigan Tech college hockey
team, sideswiped on an icy
curve today, killing five persons
and injuring about 25.
Eleven passengers on the hock
ey bus and the Greyhound vehi
cle, bound from St. Ignace,
Mich., to Detroit, were hospital
ized. Sgt. Harold Moore of the
Michigan state police said at
least 14 others were given first
aid at the scene or treated in
doctors' offices.
The dead included a 21-month-old
baby, two members of the
hockey party en route home to
Houghton, Mich., after a victory
over Michigan State last night
at East Lansing, and two Grey
hound passengers.
Moore said the southbound
Greyhound was following a
snow plow and "apparently"
nudfied to the left to see wheth
er it was safe to pass. He said,
.however..-that a sla e police; in
vestigation was continuing.
Troopers said "about 20 pas
sengers were riding in eacn ve
hicle at the time of the crash,
which occurred five miles north
of here during a snowstorm.
Drivers of both buses Steve
Honner. 26. Bav City. Mich., and
Albert Colombe. 29, Houghton,
were among the injured.
Victims were strewn in snow
banks along the highway when
the force of the crash sheared
off sides of both buses, but neith
er overturned or caught fire. The
injured lay in sub-freezing tem
peratures while authorities used
make-shift ambulance facilities
to take them to hospitals in this
sparsely - settled winter sports
area.
The dead, identified by Coro
ner Glen Smith, were:
Richard L. Loutit, 20, Battle
Creek. Mich., and Robert Gitzen,
1, of the hockey team.
George Anderson, oi, fox,
Mich.
Waino Peterson, 43, Mohawk,
Mich.
Cvnthia. 21-month-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kamp
fe. Royal Oak, Mich.
Supplies Running Low
In Dunsmuir, Weed
The California highway patrol
last night reported that food
supplies and accommodations are
"running very low" at Dunsmuir,
Mt. Shasta and Weed and asked
Oregon state police to advise
southbound motorists not to pro
ceed past Yreka.
One-way traffic from Weed
south, however, had been estab
lished by convoy.
State police reported a hard
snowfall on the Siskiyou and
Greensprings mountain passes at
p. m. yesterday.
Highway 66 was blocked be
tween Pinehurst and Keno.
Chains were needed on both
highway 99 south and high
way 66.
The Hedwood nignway was
open to motorists but chains
were required and conditions
were bad. Travel over Sexton
mountain and Canyon Creek
passes on highway 99 nortn was
said extremely dangerous.
Police warned of snow and ice
on valley roads.
Rain, Snow Drench
Southern California
Los Angeles, Jan. 14 (U.R)
Scattered rain and mountain
snow pelted southern California
tonight as the U. S. weather bu
reau predicted a low tempera
ture in the mtd-zos in the early
morning hours.
A new storm moved into south
ern California and brought Inter
mittent showers all day. wettest
point recorded by the weather
bureau was San Pedro, with 1.05
inches for the day, with down
town Los Angeles getting ,04,
Riverside .07, San Bernardino
.08, San Diego a trace and Santa
Barbara .32. I
Miners Split On
Lewis' Suggestion
Of Return To Work
Some Reported Ready
For Return On Monday
Pittsburgh. Jan. 14 U.P-
The ranks of the United Mine
Workers were split today as
striKing son coat miners voted
on whether to follow John L
Lewis' "suggestion" that they re
turn to work Monday.
In the Uniontown district, hub
of the captive steel company
mine area, a union official said
he did not believe any of the
zu.uuu miners in that area will
work Monday.
Men Not Ready
John Ozanich, president of the
Dig 2,uuu-man local at tne ho
bena mine of the H. C. Frick
Coal company, said the miners
teei tnat we should slay out
until we get a contract."
In UMW district five, around
Pittsburgh, International Repre
sentative Denis Harshall said all
miners are expected to report for
work Monday morning.
Harshall said he had assur
ances from eight locals that their
3,500 members voted to return to
work Monday.
Asked whether locals voting to
remain away from work Monday
were doing so in defiance of
Lewis. Harshall said:
"The United Mine Workers
would be better off without any
man who would refuse to return
to work Monday. All miners in
district 5 will report for work."
In northern West Virginia,
striking miners of the Pittsburgh
Consolidation Coal company split
on whether to return to work.
The 420 union miners em
ployed at the company's Osage
pit voted to continue the strike
they organized last Sunday be
cause oi the company s refusal
to meet the United Mine Work
ers contract demands.
Airplane Crash
Kills Chico Flier
Red Bluff, Cal.. Jan. 14 (U.R)
Donald Metzger, 45, owner of
the Berlinger Construction com
pany in Chico. Cal.. was killed
today when his Beechcraft Bo
nanza airplane crashed and
burned near Vina, Cal.
Deputy Coroner George Hoyt
said Metzger was practicing
landings. He gunned his plane
into the air, banked left, stalled
and crashed, Hoyt said. It was a
sunny, windless day, Holt said.
sportsbDlletins
Medford high bowed to
Grants Pass 48 to 43 here last
night in a see-saw Southern
Oregon conference basketball
encounter. The Cavemen
forged in front after trailing
38 to 36 at the third period
Intermission.
First quarter score was 13
to 13. Grants Pasi was ahead
27 to 23 at the half. Medford
chances faded in the final
ttania as Connie Holzgang and
Bob Shores went to the show
ers with five fouls apiece. Pat
Ford and Vernon Craft paced
the Cavemen scoring with 14
and 13, respectively and Jack
Morris put in IS and Shores 11
for Medford.
Grants Pass featured a two
platoon syiiem. The Tiger
Cubs in the prelim won their
13th in a row, dumping the
Grants Pass sophomores 34
to 11.
In church league games at
the Medford YMCA last night.
Foursquare beat St. Mark's
Episcopal 44 to 8, Si. Mary's
Catholic tripped First Chris
tian 21 to 8, Central Chris
tian downed First Methodist
18 to 9 and First Presbyterian
whipped St. Peter's Lutheran
23 to 10.
Monmoutrl, Ore.. Jan. 14
Southern Oregon college of
Ashland evened its basketball
series with Oregon College of
Education here tonight by
downing the Wolves 56 to 50.
Pullman, Wash.. Jan. 14
(U.R) The University of Wash
ton went back into the north
ern division basketball lead
tonight with a 52-37 victory
over Washington Stale Col
lege. Missoula. Mont.. Jan. 14
(U.R) The Montana State uni
versity Grizzlies outlasted the
Idaho State Bengals to take a
free scoring 81 to 74 victory
here tonight.
Honolulu. Jan. 14 (U.R)
An aggressive team of main
land All-Stars, led by Cali
fornia's Bob Celeri, closed the
curtain on the 1949-50 foot
ball season here today with a
crushing 63 to 21 victory over
an "All-Hawaii" squad.
Chico. CaI7jan7 14 (U.R)
Defending league champ Chico
State walloped Humboldt State
college 98 to 48 here tonight
and set a new school scoring
record.
Reno, Nev., Jan. 14 Port
land University squeezed out
a 69 to 86 basketball victory
over University of Nevada
here tonight to even their two
game series.
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MARCH OF DIMES' GIRL HERE Frances Mozingo, two
and a half, pictured above as she is today, has been chosen as the
theme girl of the Jackson county March of Dimes campaign of the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which opens here to
morrow. The flaxen-haired youngster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Eurl Mozingo, 3250 Pacific highway north, is the next-to-youngest
of eight children. She was taken ill last March, and was moved to
the Sacred Heart hospital in Eugene, where the disease paralyzed
-both arms and legs, and also affected some internal organs. She
was prougnt home, somewhat improved, on June 1, still unable to
walk. After intensive training and therapy, she took her first steps
on June 16. A musical child, she delighted in dancing to radio
music before she became sick, and still tries to do so but usually
falls down, and then refuses help getting back on her feet. Doctors
believe she is gradually improving. Her parents, who put all their
savings in a motel, were unable to stand the extraordinary expense
of the polio treatments which were all provided by the Jackson
county chapter of the national foundation. (Braiherd photo).
March Of Dimes Has
Greatest Demand In
History; Drive Opens
Is there anyone in the Rogue
valley who doesn't know what
the March of Dimes is?
Ask the parents of- Frances
Mozingo, whoso picture appears
on this page.
Ask the parents of 18-month-
old Shelley Cross, whose pic
ture was published in The Mail
Tribune last week.
Ask Mrs. Paul Lowery, mother
of three, now receiving treat
ment for polio in a Portland hos
pital.
The March of Dimes Is the
weapon with which the Nation
al Foundation for Infantile Par
alysis fights the crippler polio.
The annual appeal for lunds
for the March of Dimes begins
in Jackson county tomorrow
with Dick House as chairman.
There is no set quota for the
drive, but by putting a few facts
together lt us not duticult to see
what the requirements will be.
Expenses High
Last year the Jackson coun
ty chapter of the national foun
dation spent $10,240.94 in direct
assistance on 12 cases. In addi
tion, the chapter spent $2,000 in
assisting three hospital groups,
which are treating polio cases
from Jackson county without
making direct charges.
These groups include the Uni
versity of Oregon's Crippled
Children's clinic and the Doern
becher and Shrine hospitals.
House reported that to add to
the financial plight of the local
chapter, commitments made to
assist current cases exceed by
at least $3,000 the amount which
the chapter has on hand at pres-
t.
In Portland, Dr. E. T. Hcdlund,
state chairman of the Dimes
drive, reported that 1949 was the
third heaviest polio year in Ore
gon's history, afflicting some 325
residents, and leaving virtually
every chapter of the foundation
in the state with funds depleted.
Only Two Years Worse
The only two years which
were worse than 1949 as far as
polio incidence is concerned
were 1927 and 1943. Nationally,
the year was the worst in history,
with a final figure for the year
in the neighborhood of 50,000.
The eventual cost of treating
our 325 cases for the year just
passed will be about half a mil
lion dollars," Dr. Hcdlund pre
dicted. The national cost will be
between $60 million and $90
million.
The epidemic emergency fund
of the national foundation "has
been under heavy pressure all
year, and Is now reduced to al
most Its last cent," he revealed.
Twenty million dollars has been
paid to local chapters, in addi
tion to many millions of dollars
which the chapters spent from
their own treasuries.
Intensive Campaign
The drive which begins here
tomorrow will be the most in
tensive campaign against polio
in the 12-year history of the na
tional foundation, leaders said
Saturday. An unusually high
number of civic and social or
ganizations have united to car
ry the annual drive for funds
through its most crucial test, ac
cording to House.
Last year $40,000 vas raised
by the drive throughout the
state.
Leaders in the county drive
Include House and Vcrn Smith,
Ashland, chairman of the execu
tive committee whose members
include Harry Chipman, Med
ford, vice-chairman; Marie Ul
rich, Medford, treasurer; Arden
Pinkham, Central Point, secre
tary; Blanche Frisblc, Medford,
chapter nurse supervisor; Dr.
A. Erin Mcrkel, Medford, med
ical supervisor, and Mrs. Elwood
Hedberg, Medford, women's ac
tivities. State Of Siege In
Bolivia Proclaimed
La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 14 (U.R)
A stale of siege was proclaimed
today in Bolivia and police an
nounced they had arrested 14
persons in a move to forestall a
revolt by the Nazi-like national
revolutionary movement.
Bolivian Chief of Police Col.
Nestor Valdes said the uprising
plane apparently were headed by
retired army Gen. Bernardino
Bilbao Rioja, backed by mem
bers of the disbanded Radepa
Lodge of Nationalist Officers and
members of the NRM.
Valdes said all was quiet in
the country. He credited speedy
police action for upsetting plans
for a revolt. Ten former military
men were arrested in Cochabam
ba province.
Russia Said Planning To
Use A-Bomb-Carrying Subs
London, Jan. 14 (U.R) The
British editor who correctly pre
dicted Russia's first atomic ex
plosion said today that the So
viets plan to use long-range
atom bomb-carrying submarines
as a terror weapon against the
west.
Kenneth De Courcy, editor of
the Intelligence Digest, said In
a telephoned statement that
bombs exploded by such vessels
could shower hostile coastlines
with a Bikini-style atomic rain,
"making any large city ... in
the vicinty unntiabitable for a
considerable period of time."
De Courcy said also that Rus
sia is seeking secret submarine
bases in Central America.
Chance Of Early
U. S. Recognition
Killed By Action
Acheson's Resignation
Asked By Republicans
Washington, Jan. 14 (U.R)
Chinese communists invaded
and took over the U. S. consu
late general at Peiping today
and the United States moved at
once to clear all our consular
officials and citizens out of red
China.
The seizure killed any chance
of early U. S. recognition of the
Chinese communist regime and
undoubtedly will add new fuel
to the blazing China policy now
raging with U. S. senate.
Orders Flashed
With the aDDroval of Presi
dent Truman, who had been
alerted in advance, the state de
partment flashed immediate or
ders to the four other consulates
in China to close down.
At the same time, it prepared
to bring home the 135 official
employees of the consulate and
to offer the same repatriation ar
rangements to some 3,000 pri
vate American citizens in communist-held
China.
State department officials
were plainly angered by the red
action, but tempers were pop
ping even more loudly In the
senate. Two republican critics of
the administration called for
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son's resignation. The democrats
praised his retaliatory action.
Both sides seemed to agree,
however, that the Chinese reds
had lost whatever chance they
might have had of obtaining
American diplomatic recognition."-
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Acheson Supported '
The demands for Acheson's
head came from GOP Senators
William F. Knowland ,Cal.) and
Styles Bridges (N.H.). Knowland
called for "a new and non-defeatist
team" in the state depart
ment. Bridges said "It is time to
change our officials" in charge
of China policy.
But Acheson was supported
vigorously by Chairman Tom
Connally (D., Tex.) of the senate
foreign relations committee.
Connally said the Chinese reds
would not get American diplo
matic recognition until they
make amends for the Peiping
Incident. Connally made that
statement without qualifications,
and he usually reflects adminis
tration views on foreign policy.
Southern Oregon
Men Rescued
Klamath Falls, Ore., Jan. 14
(U.R) Sheriff Jack Franey of
Klamath county today said six
men lost overnight in a snowy
wasteland of blizzard-strlckep
southern Oregon were rescued to
day. The six, Franey said, were lost
in separate pairs. All were
spotted by an air rescue plane
and were brought to safety by
volunteer skiers and a tractor.
The rescued, suffering from
some exposure but otherwise in
good shape were:
Lloyd Hard, 28, his brother,
Bob, 22; Sherman Waldrip, 28,
his brother, John, 21, of Merrill,
Ore.
The first lost pair found was
William Hammond, 50, and his
son, James.
All of the lost men managed to
build fires during the night and
were sighted in sunny weather
from the air.
GOP ELECTS
Los Angeles, Jan. 14 (U.R)
The republican state central com
mittee elected Philip Boyd, Riv
erside county rancher, as its
chairman today after Ed Shat
tuck resigned to campaign for
attorney general.
"There is already at least one
secret submarine refueling base
in Guatemalan waters," the ed
itor said.
"Very large funds have been
sent to Guatemala, where Rus
sian agents are working with the
assistance of certain Guatemalan
officials." he added. "Russia has
also established a powerful short
wave transmitter there which Is
sending direct Intelligence re
ports to Moscow."
De Courcy repeated his so far
unconfirmed report that a sec
ond atomic blast occurred re
cently in Russia, and indorsed
Soviet propaganda reports that
atomic energy may be used for
large-scale engineering projects
there.