Chinese Within 33
Miles Of Dairen
(By TOM MASTERSON)
PEIPING, (/PI — Chinese gov
ernment armies, increasing the
the tempo and range of their civil
war, rushed vanguards to within
33 miles of Dairen today, encir
cled 100,000 fiercely fighting
Communists in Chefoo, and en
gaged their countrymen in half a
dozen other sectors.
The pro-government newspaper
Jih Pao said vanguards reached
Pulantien, only 33 miles north of
Dairen on the border between
Manchuria and Kwantung. Their
objective is to cut off the Lioatung
peninsula Communists from the
Manchurian mainland. The na
tionals had driven south down the
T.Iukden-Dairen railway, and will
establish a 30-mile safety zone
around the Russian-occupied open
port of Dairen.
There were these other develop
ments:
Nationals striking at Chefoo
and the Shantung peninsula to cut
off the Reds’ Yellow Sea route to
Manchuria approached the sub
urbs of Rehhsien, one of the four
largest ports on the northern coast,
and engaged Chinese Red forces
in two others.
The air force, using American
planes and bombs, was attempting
to halt Communist reinforcements
slipping to Shantung peninsula
from Manchuria in junks.
Government and Communist
U. S. Fleet In Chili
For Inauguration
VALPARAISO, Chile, (/P) —
Chileans welcomed a U. S. naval
flotilla, led by the battleship Wis
consin, in Valparaiso harbor to
day for the presidential inaugura
tion of Gabrie? Gonzalez Videla
Sunday. The ships exchanged sa
lutes with harbor forts. Chilean
naval planes flew overhead.
Street crowds cheered Adrrf.
Will'am D. Leahy, President Tru
man’s personal representative,
and tile other U. S. envoys to the
inauguration as the party drove
from the dockside to the station,
where they took a special train for
Santiago.
Crewmen of an Argentine flo
tilla which arrived here earlier
stood at attention as the American
ships entered the harbor.
Gonzalez Videla announced yes
terday his 11-man cabinet would
include three Communists.
Veterans Administration main
tains offices in Puerto Rico, the
Philippine Islands, Hawaiian Is
land and in Alaska to serve veter
ans in those areas.
troops engaged in an hour's clash
near the famous Marco Polo
bridge, five miles west of Peiping.
In northern Shensi province, the
Communists were credited with
capturing most of Culin’s outter
defenses and with having virtually
surrounded the city.
OPA Lifts Many
Price Controls
—
WASHINGTON, <>P)—-Price con
trols were lifted from nearly 100
more items today as OPA took on
the appearance of a skeleton left
over from Hallowe’en.
The new list included paper and
wood matches, milking machines
and other dairy equipment, some
lighting fixtures, a few lumber
items, and a long list of industrial
products.
As the price agency took up de
controlling itself along with the
national economy notice w a
served on approximately 10.000
OPA field workers—roughly one
third of the remaining staff—that
their jobs will fold up in 30 days.
Even more immediately. OPA
ordered its last local price boards,
1,630 of them, locked up for good
on Monday.
Today’s decontrol announce
ment said the latest list of articles
was freed “because their supply
is in approximate balance with
demand, or because they are un
important in business or living
costs.”
Farm dairy machinery freed
from controls included churns,
ice-refrigerated milk coolers, and
cream and milk separators.
Other machinery items released
included certain gasoline and die- i
sel engines and some pumps.
The lighting equipment on the
list included incandescent fixtures
for industrial and commercial use
except fluorescent fixtures.
Among lumber items decontrol
J. NEWMANS MOVE INTO
NEW HOME
Mr. and Mrs. J. Newman, are
moving into their now home on
the corner of First Avenue and C
Street today. They recently pur
chased the house from Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. Yenney.
CANTON, hi*) — Four persons
were reported today to have been
killed and seven wounded by a
band of 15 Chinese pirates who
boarded a conton-Fuchow passen
ger vessel, engaged in a gun fight
with the crew and made off with
a fortune in Chinese currency.
The pirates boarded the “San
Kam Shan” as passengers in Can
ton.
BAD START
WENDELL, Idaho, (/P) — Clyde
Peterson arose before dawn to go
deer hunting but found that the
front and back doors couldn’t be
budged.
Pranksters had wound a length
of chain around the house, effec
tively securing both doors and
sealing the windows.
After sympathetic neighbors
severed the chain with a cutting
torch, Peterson left on his hunting
trip. But he didn’t get his deer.
led were red wood lumber used
for cigar boxes, walnut lumber
and walnut gunstock blanks.
Metal products on the list were
fluid shipping containers and wire
reinforcing for use in concrete.
School and passenger bus bod
ies and parts also went on the free
list.
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