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
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( .-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.
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CARD OP THANKS
To those who expresxed their
sympathy in so mnny beautiful and
practical ways during our recent be
reavement, we express our heartlelt
thank. May Oland.
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