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Russia Throws Military Weight Onto Scales of China Civil War Hrrt U the ftrit etf three dtspatrhes bv Blake Geerhart. I'.P. bureau man ager In Shanghai, who hai Just made hlf way out from behind the "bamboo curtain". He brought with him the latelt newi from Red China, where he hai been a virtual prisoner since October. He writes from Manila where he arrived aboard the SS. Gen eral Gordon. By Blake) Gearhart United Praia Correspondent Manila, May 9 (U.R Russia has thrown the weight of her military might onto the scales of the Chinese civil war. She is supplying the Chinese communists with the latest type of fighter planes, and Russian military advisers are streaming into communist China. In the Poomtung area, across from Shanghai, Russian mechanics and engineers are helping the Chinese communists build land ing craft for an assault on the island of Formosa where Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his nationalist army have dug in for a last stand against the reds. Jt : Used In the last six weeks there has been an unfamiliar sound in the Shanghai skies. It is the roar of jet planes Russian jet planes. As many as 11 have appeared in a single flight. The presence of these Russian jet planes is one reason that the nationalists have not been able to make effective raids recently from their island bases against Shanghai's Lu:igh w& .-.irport. The last big raid was in March when nationalist pilots dropped 50 bombs on the airport The best estimate is that there are between 200 and 300 com munist fighter planes of various types defending Sha.ishai's air f ields. They are mostly the Japanese-Zero type of plane, manu factured by the Russians. There probably are about 25 jet p'enes available and the best guess is that they were sent to Shanghai from the Russian zone in east Germany. I cannot say with certainty how many Russian technicians and "advisers" have made their way into Shanghai, but the num ber is somewhere between 500 and 3,000. There are about 25, 000 in all China. They began moving into the city in small groups last fall and in the last few months the number has in creased. Secrecy Attempt Made Every attempt is made to keep ihcir presence secret from for eigners. Early this year some residents in trie wealthy section of Hungjao on the west side of Shanghai were ordered to leave their homes. Soon a bamboo fence was built around the dis trict and guards were posted at the gates. The next development was that Chinese employees of I big restaurant, which was about to close, suddenly were ordered to report to the bamboo compound to serve the Russians as cooks, Artists in Germany Paint Without Arms Deisenhoffen, Germany (U.R) Two crippled German artists have achieved success without the use of their hands. They paint by holding a brush in their mouths. They are Arnulf Erich Steg mann and Bruno Schmitz-Hoch-burg, partners in an art publish ing firm and well-known paint ers themselves. Stegmann, 38. was paralyzed when he was two years old. He never regained the use of his arms. As a boy he began sketch ing by holding a pencil in his mouth, leaning over a piece of oaper tacked flat on a board and moving his head back and forth. School Started at 14 At 14 he went to art school, led his class and soon found buy ers for his landscapes, still lifes and portraits. He worked from 10 to 14 hours daily in his studio. Before the war an exhibition of Stegmann's works in Nuern berg was acclaimed a success, al though the critics did not know his unusual method of painting. Schmitz-Hochburg. 47, lost his arms in an accident 30 years ago. He became interested in art and learned to paint with the brush held between his teeth or tied to his left foot. The two men employ several war cripples in their publishing firm. waiters and houseboys. One Chi nese employee received a year's pay in advance, but was required to agree that he would not at tempt to see any member of his family in that time. Chinese Pay Salaries The Chinese communists are paying the salaries and expenses of the Russian advisers and tech nicians. Everything I heard in dicated the salaries were large and the expense accounts liberal. Some of the technicians are Ger man prisoners, particularly at Kiangwan airfield, ten miles north of Shanghai. Recently two Germans entered a night club on Avenue Joffre. On their wrists was an ink stamp which read "USSR." Most of the Russians in Shang hai are concerned entirely with military affairs, but the problem of indoctrinating the Chinese with the Moscow type of com munism ha not been ncglcctfd One Russian appeared at a Chi nese school in the Poontung area and tried to make friends with the students. He was handi capped by the fact he did not know much Chinese but he kept repeating: "Mao Tire-tung, S'ta lin, ding, ding hao." Translated it meant: "Mao Tze-tung, Stalin very, very good." English Pupils to Learn About U.S. From Comics Philadelphia iU.P.) Pupils at the Chai.aeley School at Thewall. England, will learn about Amer ica from 900 comic books select ed for them by American young sters of their own age. The books were gathered by the 11-yepr-old boys and girls in the sixth grade of the Oak Lane country day school of Temple University at the request of Howard Jones, an instructor at the English school. The children decided 'there's nothing wrong with sixth grade children reading comics because we are big enough and old enough to decide for ourselves what is good in comics and what is bad." However, the 11-year-old ad mitted certain comics might give the impression that America is full of bandits." Se they care fully selected the comics and are JSMmt -r-l!V - 3 I ( .-feme 7 elriihotoj TOP SPOT O"o A. Seyferth of Muskegon, Mich., was elected president ol the Chamber of Commerce ot the United States at its three-day annual meeting In Washington. Seyferth, a un ion organizer turned big busi nessman, is the first, man so closely linked with the union movement to be elected head of the nation's biggest business man's organization. sending along n long letter ex plaining the American point of view concerning the comic books. After all, (hey agreed, "Eng lish children might get a differ ent impression from certain comics than we do because they have less understanding of Am erican life." Lake Mead, formed by Hoover (Boulder) dam on the Colorado river, was named for Elwood Mead, chief of the United States reclamation service, when the dam was built. New Orleans avoids flooding by the Mississippi river only by an expensive levee and spillway system, and the world's largest concentration of drainage pumps. 1950 Dimes March Fund Apparently Up to 1949 Total Portland, May 9 Oregon's 1950 March of Dimes apparent ly raised as much money for the continuing battle against in fantile paralysis as did its 1949 predecessor. Preliminary totals for this year's campaign were released today by Dr. E. T. Hedlund, Portland, state March of Dimes chairman, and they indicated a 1950 campaign figure of approx imately S4 10,000, despite the bit terest weather that Oregon had experienced in many winters. Figures some final, some partial and some based on close estimate were made available to Dr. Hedlund by Joe F. Kievit, Portland, state representative of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. Kievit predict ed that when the last confirmed reports are in from all 36 Ore gon counties, "we might even do belter than last year's $410,000 effort ". Lane Up Most The 1950 campaign brought better results in some counties, poorer results in others, with Lane county showing the great est gain over 1949. Lane turned in about S6.000 more than it did the previous year, but it was Crook county that registered the largest per capita advance. Crooks final report is expected to show an increase of nearly S5.000 and its indicated total of about $7600 may give it laurels as the county with the highest per capita record in the stale. Other counties which improv ed on their 1949 totals included Douglas, up $4500: Jackson, up $5,000; Malheur up $2,500; and j Deschutes up $1,000. Both Kie i vit and Dr. Hedlund intimated , Tuesday, May I. 1930 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVZIf Portland Pastor to Address Methodists Dr. Laurence Nye, pastor of the First Methodist church at Portland, will address the Med ford Methodist Men's club on Monday, May 15, at the First Methodist church here. His subject will be "Priest hood of Christian Men." The meeting, set for 7:30 p.m., will be the last one of the sea son for the group. C. R. Adam son will have charge of the devo tions and community singing will be led by Dr. G. A. Dierdorff. There will also be special music. Members of Circle 1, Wom an's Society of Christian Serv ice, will serve pie and coffee. that certain Oregon chapters of the foundation might need help from the national level in spite of the generally good showing. They pointed out 28 cases had been reported in the state so far in 1950, or eight more than had been counled in the same period in 1949 Oregon's fourth worst polio year. Tulare lake, which gave its name to Tulare county, is now in Kings county. Cool Refreshing DAIRY QUEEN A dalicioui Ice Milk Product Only 10c st Dairy Quten Standi at W. Main and S. Central IFoOeier's ssfls f FOLGER'Sj COFMI Become of Folger't richer blend, we suggest you try using ' less per cup. Pueblo, Colo., has been termed the "Pittsburgh of the West." 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