Chinese Reds Free
Two Yank Airmen
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Pearl Harbor before they will be
perimtted to talk for publication.
The two received a rousing wel
come from U. S. sailors. The de
stroyer had picked them up at sea.
They wore ill fitting uniforms
the Chinese communists had given
them. Both appeared in good
health but were to undergo physi
cal checkups.
Lt. Cmdr. Merle McBain, who
talked to them at Hong Kong, re
ported: Both were told by the
Chinese communists that a revolu
tion was imminent in the United
States and “you would have been
released soon anyway.”
Their captors, who took them on
Oct. 19, 1948, told the fliers that
the United States had made no ef
fort to obtain their release.
Smith and Bender were held in
various North China villages by
the Reds after their capture on a
flight over North China from
Tsingtao. Their plane was forced
down near Tsingtao, a U. S. naval
base in 1948.
The communists announced last
Monday the two had been released
after ‘‘confessing to spying” on
communist troop movements.
McBain said the two were re
leased May 3. They boarded the
British steamer Hunnan at Tsing-f
tao Wednesday.
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Formosa—the only island left to
the Nationalists—if he cannot beat
back the communist tide that pre
viously swallowed all of mainland
China.
In view of the Nationalist re
treat from the Chushan islands,
their cause hit a new low.
But Gen. Chow Shih-Jou, chief
of staff of the Nationalist army,
attempted in a Central News
Agency statement, to excuse this
defeat—and such it must be con
sidered—by saying the National
ists hoped to smash “the scheme
of the Soviet imperialists and the
Chinese communists in starting a
joint offensive and meeting the
Reds’ overall strategy.”
The Chushan abandon m e n t
could have onyl a shocking impli
cation to the rest of Asia—a part
of which will meet shortly in Ba
guio, the Philippines, to discuss
economic blocks to the commun
ist advance.
Left to Chiang Kai-Shek and his
dwindling forces is only Formosa
with its 7,454,886 population.
What hope they might have to
forestall total defeat rests with
the Nationalist forces on 4he big
island—forces that have a record
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decided to go all out.
He said the city had been given
five days in which to set up a
provisional service.
Earlier it was reported that pos
sible supplemental service from
the Northern Commercial Com
pany, the Alaska Railroad and
Ladd Air Force Base would total
2250 kilowatts—250 less than nor
mal requirements.
Angerman said the striking
workmen would not return to
their jobs until assured of a union
shop clause. He listed a seniority
clause and grievance clause as
other items which “must be met
before the strike ends.”
Some 240 workers are involved
in the dispute.
Meanwhile another 60 electric
al workers at military and civic
construction projects also left
their jobs Monday in support of
demands for a wage increase of
12V£ cents an hour and pay for
travel time.
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Moore, 3. She died in a Juneau
hospital, less than an hour after
her brother Gene accidentally
fired the loaded rifle.
The children’s mother is Mrs.
Betty La Moore, whose husband
was hanged April 14 for his part
in the slyaing of a Juneau grocer.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Legisla
tion permitting the Alaska Legis
lature to fix fees of election offi
cials in General Elections in the
Territory was approved by the
House yesterday and sent to the
President.
In the past the Legislature has
paid primary elections officials
$15 a day while the federal gov
ernment paid general election of
ficials $5 a day.
The House also approved and
sent to the White House a bill
permitting the Interior Depar
ment to transfer to the Alaska Na
tive Brotherhood a building at
Juneau.
WASHINGTON, (TP) —Congress
would authorize $7,252,000 for
the fiscal year ending June 30,
1951, for highways in Tongass Na
tional Gorest, Alaska, under a bill
introduced today by Hep. Whit
tington (D.-Wiss.)
The highways would serve the
present and potential traffic inci
dent to the development of timber
and other resources of Southeast
ern Alaska.
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. (/P)—
Some 500,000 pounds of halibut
changed hands yesterday at the
Prince Rupert fish exchange,
dealers reported.
Of the amount, 353,000 pounds
was brought in by American
boats the remainder by British
Columbia craft.
Prince Rupert, 500 miles north
of Vancouver, is the largest hali
but port on the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Arch Hall, information rep
renestative of the Wage and Hour
and Public Contracts Division of
the Department of Labor, and L.
E. Evans, Territorial representa
tive, plan to be in Nome on May
21st, and will remain approxi
mately two days to inform em
ployers and employees in the See
the Federal Fair Labor Standards
ond Division of the changes in
Act as they apply to the mining
industry and other industries in
this area.
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