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X Li '4 Wednesday, January J8.185S MEDFORD (OREGON). MAIL TEISUItS PIVS Maw oa BgIq'jq II ma Attack Hon in iHDDi, em 5 L i 3 Formosa Invasion Force Would Meet Stiff Resistance "-'-'Editor'! note: This nation' principal force to thwart a Chinese Communist invasion of Formosa is the U.S. 7th Fleet. How hit is this force? Bow , strong a punch does it pack? How does it stack up against the big naval fleets of World War II? These questions-are answered in the following dispatch from Washington by Charles Corddry, United Press writer on military affairs. -. , By CHARLES CORDDRY , .United Press Correspondent , : Washington (U.R) The United States 7th Fleet would spell, bloody suicide for a Red Chinese invasion force launched against Formosa, in the opinion of naval authorities. Operating in the Western Pa cific, with its major elements now massing near Formosa, the fleet probably numbers some 200 ships manned by an estimated 40,000 officers and men. " Spearheaded by five big air craft carriers, four of them al , ready in Formosan waters, it ; could hurl murderous fire into ; a Red force ferried toward Chiang Kai shek's island in wooden junks with torpedo boats and little frigates for protection. : The fleet's carriers can mount ' about. 500 Panther and Banshee jet fighters and Skyraider at tack bombers. Additional planes are available in land-based pa trol squadrons. ; Carrier Midway Due r Soon, the mighty 45,000-ton Midway will replace one of the ' 7th Fleet's 29,100-ton Essex class carriers. ' The Midway class, . of . which there are three ships,, is the largest afloat and came along - too late for World War IL The - Midway carries 14 five-inch guns ' compared with the Essex' 12 and ; can launch 130 planes to the ssX 100 Vice-Admiral Alfred M. Pride, 7th Fleet commander, has said he now has available for what- : ever mission President Eisen hower assigns, four carriers, six : cruisers and 50 destroyers with supporting ships. : In Familiar Haunts - . - Three of the carriers, Essex, ( Wasp and Yorktown, fought in j the major Pacific battles of - World War U and are" in famil t iar haunts in Formosan, waters t where they once fought the Jap- anese. - The Kearsage, also at Formosa, and the Princeton, ' elsewhere in the fleet at the mo : ment, were commissioned ! too late for World War U but - jfought in Korea. .. Pride says he has the stuff to ; ''meet ; any opposition" in"' the course of evacuating . Chiang's forces from the Tachen islands ; north of Formosa, should that ; be ordered. He is a soft-spoken flag officer, risen from the en t listed ranks, not given to blus " ter. , , Still Big Enough His fleet is s small by World War II standards. But it is big - for the tasks now seen as pos-. sibilmes. . - For example, to carry out an ; offensive rather than defensive action, the Navy assembled 261 : ships off Inchon, Korea, in Sept. ' 1950. Of those, 60 were destroy- ers or biggeri There were five carriers. In the. great Okinawa cam paign toward the end of -the Pa cific war, there were in the U.S. HURRY . Regardless of age or condition (electric, gas or wood) on IEsOaatlcB Not last year's close-out, but Range of Tomorrow! ' - Cooks Grills Bakos All at the same time - ..- .Balanced H eat BakeC in.. :&L D. D V- V 'Wren wiin Mrs-ncwsr 'Meat Oven and Built-in Griddle. Less Two Balanced Heat Orens with Bar-B-Kewer in oiw. i fauces 5 fioierksioiis VSsDli on doh (Mm MO omDmasBnes 'Washington (U.R Chances for American families to visit their jailed kin in Red China faded today as U.S.-Communist Chinese tension mounted over the future of Formosa. . Informed sources indicated the United States will not let any Americans travel to Communist China while there is danger of hostilities breaking out ' over Formosa. They said, however, that a final decision still must be made. The State Department has not said yet whether it will permit or bar relatives of 17 imprison ed Americans from : accepting Red China's offer to visit the' men in Communist jails. The de partment has said only that if cannot "encourage" such visits to a nation where it .is unable to guarantee protection of Americans. Extortion Attempt May Involve Kidnap Los Angeles (U.R) Dick Siz bette, 24, welterweight profes sional boxer from Seattle,: re ported an attempted extortion plot believed to involve the pos sible kidnaping of his cousin. . Sizbette told officers.' he re ceived a mystery telephone call demanding $1400 after his cousin, Mrs. Sylvia Lierman, 21, San Francisco, failed to arrive here on schedule for a visit. . The boxer said his cousin has been missing' since leaving San Francisco last Friday . Sizbette said a male called de manded the money from him on the telephone yesterday, but made no mention of Mrs. Lier man. "I know what you're looking for and when you come with $1400 at 9 o'clock at 1st and Main Sts. then you'll get what you're looking" for,"- the caller told Sizbette. . Sizbette came to Los Angeles for" a professional fight. He is a Polish immigrant and' a former Marine. FAMILY HABIT . New Haven, Conn. flJ.R) Ernest L. Ewell backed his auto mobile out of a driveway and into a plate glass window of a store. A few days before, . his wife had backed into the same building ' from the same drive way, breaking an ornamental marble slab. 5th Fleet 318 combatant ships and 1139 auxiliaries. Pride's fleet is the major force of the U. S. Pacific fleet, com manded af Pearl Harbor by Adm. Felix B. Stump, who doubles as commander of all U. S. armed forces in the Pacific area. Stump takes his orders from the Penta gon. Submarines Question Mark A question mark in any show down in the Formosa area would be Red submarines the hand ful Communist China may have and the 90 or more Russia may be operating in Far Eastern wa ters near her Vladivostok and Port Arthur bases. Naval sources said there has been no evidence up to now of Red submarine activity in the Formosa area. They said the 7th Fleet is prepared against the pos sibility of such action, however. WE HAVE A FirYiEflD- Mil the purchase of a NEW 1955 ELECTRIC RANGE Tho Barbecues Trade-In J 1A5 V I V Less Trade-in : Hal Krucgcr and RCA Vi:fer o TV o The United States does not have diplomatic relations with Communist China. Feel Danger Heightened " Some top officials apparently feel that it would be even more dangerous to approve the visits now because of the possibility of hostilities breaking out in the Formosa Straits. If the relatives were in Red China as such a time, they : might " be trapped there. " The '- State , Department ' had been hoping that none of the relatives would accept the Com munist invitation which is be lieved by experts to be nothing but a slick propaganda ' trap. However, kin of at least four of the prisoners have ' said they want to go. The State Department itself has word that three want to make the trip. It is considering replies to these three. Those who have expressed a definite desire to make the journey are Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fischer of Swea City, la., Mrs. Marjorie Llewellyn of Missoula, Mont., John and Irene Kiba or Akron ' and W. G. : Parks - of Omaha. Might Delay Freedom Some officials think it possible trips by the relatives actually might delay Communist China's release of the 17 prisoners. They reason that Red China could not release the Americans immedi ately after the ' visits because such a move would brand -the Statehood Measures To Miss Subcommittee Washington . (U.R) ? . The House Interior Committee,' in a move to speed up action on bills to grant Hawaii and Alaska statehood, ' has refused to send the measures to a subcommit tee. A motion to send the question to a subcommittee was made yesterday by Rep. John R. 'Pil lion (R-N.Y.), self-acknowledged leader of statehood ' opposition within the committee. He con tended addition of four senators if Alaska and Hawaii become states, would upset the balance of representation- in the Senate. His motion was defeated 15 to 7.- : ' Chairman Clair Engle . (D Calif .) ' called another ' hearing on statehood - for : Friday. - He said he will continue : almost daily sessions until the-committee acts. " . ' MONEY GROWS quickly when Invested here . . . where INSURED SAFETY and LIBERAL EARNINGS await . your savings. Open an account tomorrow a n d get these worthwhile . sayings from now. on. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS A LOAN ASS'N of Modford - '.' 7T North Holly , An InstitirlioV Dedicatee' To These Who Save FEW LEFT! 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