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Thousands of Anti-Red Chinese Shun Formosa-and the Feeling Is Mutual Manila -fl!PII- Tens nf thou. sands of Chinese are opposed to communism, but are un willing to live with the Chi nese Nationalists on Formosa. In turn, Formosa is not eager to welcome them. These Chinese without country could find their tra ditional ways of life practiced daily in Formosa. But few of them want to move, and even fewer could expect to be ad mitted to Nationalist China, one of the- great paradoxes of the Cold War struggle in Asia. Many Chinese living in the Philippines, Indonesia and across the Indochina Peninsu la to Malaya and Burma do not want to live under Presi dent Chiang Kai-shek's admin instration in Formosa for many reasons. It is far easier for an Amer ican to enter the Nationalist Chinese island than it is for a Chinese. They have good businesses and see little opoprtunity for j Medford TRIBUNEis SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 19(il PAGES 1 to 8 V '.-"Ac- V ' 'fj prosperity on Formosa with j rigid and austere economic j conditions. j Some Chinese stl!! view the Kuomintang administra t i o n as a corrupt and dying clique little better than Mao Tse tung's Communists. Some have lived outside i China for generations and, despite local cultural differ-j ences, feel more attached to i their land of adoption than to China. iscourago Refugees The Nationalists, although they call Formosa the island of Chinese freedom, discour-f age Chinese refugees from , seeking haven there. ! Late last year, s ever a ! thousand Chinese were de-; ported from Indonesia to For mosa - the largest single ! group of Chinese to settle in Formosa since the 1949 cvacii-! ation of the Kuomintang forces from the China main land. Formosa accepted the Chi nese from Indonesia reluctant- i ly and only because their onlv other destination would have been Communist China. The Nationalist government j contends that Formosa is' too I small and too crowded to ac cept any more large groups of I refugees from Communist China. The argument lias some merit. American and Chinese I economic officials agree that Formosa at its present rale of population growth will be forced to stop exporting food within a few years in order to feed itself. But a bigger block against I Chinese entry into Formosa is the strict anti - Communist security system. The Nationalists arc highly tuned to the possibility of Communist infiltration and espionage against their big military forces. ' The few Chinese allowed to settle in Formosa arc screened for their past political activi ties. In most cases, they must produce personal guarantors from the upper ranks of the Nationalist government or the military forces. The 10-year-old dispute be tween the Philippines and the Nationalist government dra matizes tlie Chinese problem. Expired Papers The Manila government contends that some 2,700 Chi nese are living in the Philip pines illegally with expired papers. The Philippines wants to deport them to Formosa, but the Nationalists want them to remain where they are. Most of the Chinese at issue came to the Philippines at the nine of the 194!) Communist i victory on the China Main-! land. In most cases, they selected J the Philippines rather than! Formosa because they had TWIN CONFUSION - Kathleen Showalter, kindergarten teacher ai a Grand Rapids, Mich., school, sees double nearly every where she looks. She has three sets of iden tical twins in her class. She puts tags on them to tell who's who. This situation is familiar to her as she has an identical twin sister. The boys are, from left, Philip and Alan Kaufman. Larry and Gary Ritzke, and Irving and Mark Rotenberg. (UPI Telephoto) French Clerk Awarded U.S. Distinguished Service Award Paris (UPn - At U.S. consu lates in France they still speak of the "quiet non American" who shortened his life to defend the nationals and interests of a country not his own. What they say fills out the scanty information released by the State Department in Washington early in Decem ber when it gave its highest award - posthumously - to Frenchman Henry Crooks. Crooks was a clerk. He spent 32 years amid the filing cabinets of American consu lates in Amsterdam, Brussels and Lyons as one of Uncle Sam's unsung "local help" abroad. But to the Americans who worked with him in Lyons during and after World War II he was a man to remem ber. "The quiet and undramatic way in which he went on do ing his duly, as he conceived it, to a country he never saw, no matter how hard the going got, made him one of the most extraordinary men I've ever, known." The tribute came from Con stance Harvey, a Foreign Service career official of 30 years experience, who is pres ently U.S. consul at Stras bourg, France. Valuable Information During 1941 and 1942, ac cording to the records given out in Washington. Crooks "performed a number of highly confidential tasks help ing to obtain valuable mili tary information for the United States government." Visiting Paris on govern ment business recently, the U. S. consul at Lyons, Walter Gates, was asked about those tasks by United Press Interna tional. "They were delicate and they were risky," said Gates, a Foreign Service veteran from El Paso, Tex. "And the really unusual tiling about them was that Crooks did not act on orders from American superiors. "He acted on his own initia tive, because he felt it to be his duty to the United States." Born in France of a French mother and British father (he later chose French national Ity), Henry Herbert Crooks was equally at home in French, English, German and Flemish. That, and being an unobtrusive French resident of Lyons outside of office hours, helped him in his self appointed task. "He was instrumental in passing on to the Allied com mands, including the Ameri can, useful information about the Germans," Gates said. "He also helped numerous people who hid out from the Nazis-resistance fighters, Al lied pilots who were downed over France, and just people in trouble." Those in trouble included manv Americans - refugees who'had fled into unoccupied France from many parts of Europe before the Germans stepped in, many of them without money or papers In proper order, or even proof of U. S. citizenship. "Crooks used his amazing knowledge of our consular regulations to help them," Gates said. "Just as before the war he helped Americans in Europe through the red tape of military pensions, so cial security and so on. "Henry just liked to help people." Eight months after the Ger mans took over Lyons, Crooks was arrested by the Gestapo and shipped to the Buehcn wald concentration camp. Shortens Life There, to quote the State Department, the Nazis "tried in vain to make mm reveal information which he had by reason of his service for the Uni,ted States government . . . it may be said that Mr. Crooks shortened his life through his loyally to the United States." "I would certainly say it," exclaimed Miss Harvey at Strasbourg. , "We Americans at the con sulate in Lyons were interned and repatriated when the Germans marched in," she said. "The Swiss took over representation of American interests. Henry stayed at his desk. "He just went on doing what he had been doing, help ing American pilots and so forth. Yet he wasn't an adven turous looking man at all. He was very gentle and utterly devoted to his wife and two children." His wife, a Belgian girl he married when he was 19, later said he never told her his job LEGAL DELAYS Philadelphia-Average lime for a court case (no jury) to get actual court action is now about 4.6 months, according to a survey conducted by the courts and state bar associations. TICKET PUNCHES Chicago - No two railway conductor s punches are exact ly alike in the desitrn of the perforation and each punch is registered in the name of the conductor who is currently using it. was anything more than of fice routine. Liberated by American troops, Crooks went back to the consulate as chief clerk. "He was a healthy chap be fore," said Gates, "but Buch enwald had done him in." Suffering from heart and lung ailments, Crooks would not avail himself of free mod-, ical treatment at U. S. gov ernment expense. "He'd say, 'Oh, it's noth ing.' He wouldn't take time off," Gales recalled. In September, 1959, Crooks died at the age of 56. Gates sent the "unheroic story of a heroic man" to Washington to gether with a recommenda tion for a Distinguished Serv ice Award. "It's the State Depart ment's highest honor," Gates said. "I haven't heard of any other of our foreign employees getting it." W f&3 ' V A V:' 5 : "t . Every steaming bowlful of Doxsee Clam Chowder is a treasure trove flgjv of tender clams. Rich clam broth and garden vegetables make Doxsee W ENGLAND StvU a chowder lover's dream. Just add milk for the best-tasting New England Clam Chowder ever. Try a delicious bowlful tonight! si stw wwwi" sis,.J W --sews K-iwwir-'iJ timhmmvgm CLAM CHOWDER C?"! Try Doxsee Minced Clams, too! Flavor-rich clams, minced and packed in their own W ' natural juice. Combine them with cream cheese and spices 6"$, , . ... KM or ,.v cananes. or make your favorite clam dishes. WE USE ONLY FASCY EASTERN CLAMS relatives in the Philippines. 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