Communists Seizing Red River Delta
Without a Fight; End Seen Near
By LARRY ALLE <
SINGAPORE, MV—Much of the
Red River Delta, key prize in the
bitter Indochina War, was falling
into the hands o'f the Communist
led Vietminh Thursday without a
fight.
French Union forces were evac
uating swiftly from their hard-to
hold centers in the delta area. The
end to the savage eight-year-old
struggle appeared to be not far
off.
The French Union forces were
generally withdrawing to their
last lone lifeline—the railway and
highway linking the war capital
of Hanoi with the seaport of Hai
phong, 64 miles to the east.
An Indochina Dunkerque may
come soon at the end of this road
—“the most dangerous road in the
world.” Haiphong is France’s last
beachhead in northern Viet Nam.
It is from there that they will
have to make the attempt to evac
uate tens of thousands of troops,
whether as a result of a cease-fire
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or after fighting their way thru
from Hanoi.
The French Command Thursday
announced they were pulling out
of such important and heavily
populated centers as Phat Diem,
Thai Binh, Nam Dinh and Ninh
Binh, all within 55 to 75 miles
south and southeast of Hanoi.
That automatically meant an
area embracing thousands of vil
lages peopled by around four mil
lion Vietnamese was dropping in
to the hands of Vietminh Gen.
Vo Nguyen Giap.
It also meant that while these
millions were being abandoned to
Communism, the French soon
would be shakily controlling only
the lifeline between Hanoi and
Haiphong and a strip of territory
in northeastern Indochina, includ
ing the town of Moncay on the
Chinese border.
That too, however, may soon be
given up as the French concen
trate all their defensive power in
the do-or-die sector between
Hanoi and Haiphong.
Barring a cease-fire, the Viet
minh are expected quickly to hit
the lifeline with a massive human
sea attack that could crush the
French Union forces.
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ANSWERS TO INDEPENDENCE DAY QUIZ ON PAGE TWO
1. Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental
Congress.
2. John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston.
3. No, only by the Congress’ president and secretary. Great num
bers of delegates signed by Aug. 2, but one didn’t until 1781.
4. No. For 101 years it found shelter in 10 cities and 5 states. In
1894 the document, dimmed by light and too many rollings,' was
placed in the State Department library.
5. During the War of 1812 when the British raided Washington, the
Declaration was hidden in Leesburg, Va.
6. Since 1921 the original document has been on display in the
Library of Congress.
7. No. It was cast years before.
8. 18 days. >•
9. In Philadelphia, July 8, 1776, the Liberty Bell was rung to call
people together to announce the Declaration’s adoption. Bands played
and the people celebrated.
10. Early celebrations by fireworks and firing of guns and cannon
caused hundreds of deaths each year. In the early 1900s people began
pleading for a “safe and sane Fourth.” Many cities, some states,
passed laws forbidding the sale of fireworks.
j TIKIGHAGHT |
Wien Alaska Airlines flights
from Fairbanks to' Nome by way
of Kotzebue and back to Fair
banks are bringing many visitors
to this far northern land. While
in Nome, they enjoy the special
Q-Bus tour around town and the
surrounding area, and some take
the trip north from Nome on the
Curly-Q Railroad 14 miles out
into the tundra and hills.
Recent visitors to Nome on the
Wien flights were:
JUNE 25—
Artie L. Jones, Elizabeth Berry,
Marion Parr, Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Sellmeyer, all of Dallas, Tex.; Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Barker, San Marino,
Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Shields,
Hayward, Calif.; Mrs. Sara D.
Milliken, Nashville, Tenn.; May
Cassaday, Modesto, Calif.; Blanche
Custer, Oklahoma City, Okla.;
Mrs. Bess Robinson and Grace A.
Covell, both of Modesto, Calif;
Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Banks, Terre
Haute, Ind.
JUNE 26—
Stephanie Coe, Seattle; Mary
Harmeling, Covington, Ky.; Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Anderson, Ya
zoo City, Miss.; Robt. G. Thixton,
Matawau, N. J.; Nicolas Thul,
Plainfield, N.J.; Mrs. John McMa
hos, Albany, Calif.;
JUNE 27—
Roberta Greenman, Tecumseh,
Mich.; Marie C. Cuddy, Chicago;
Charles Bohnhardt, Lynwood,
Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ar
buckle, Iola, Kan.; Mr. and Mrs.
W. V. Lewis, Kansas City, Mo.;
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Clester, Clay
ton, Mo.; John Sommer, Los An
geles, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
W. and Bob Craft, Kahulia Maui,
Hawaii, H. C. Hansen, Stockton,
Calif.
On June 28th, the plane was
held over due to mechanical
trouble and that night Sam Mogg
entertained the visitors at the
Mukluk Camera Club with a lec
ture, movies and slides of hunt
ing in the Bering Sea between
here and Diomede Island. The
following were the visitors who
stayed over June 28—
Vina Patterson, Portland, Ore.;
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gordon, Los
Angeles; J. J. Crowley, La Vale,
Md.; Mr. & Mrs. Broseman, Erie,
Pa.; Edith R. CrSnch, Erie, Pa.;
P. Garrette and N. Talley of
Bakersfield, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Kennedy, Lexington, Mass.;
Mrs. Robt. D. Jordan, New York
City; Mrs. Evelyn L. Spence, Chi
cago, 111.; G. H. Wallace, Weems,
Va.; A. Z. Pupil, Jackson Heights,
L.I., N.Y.
JUNE 29—
Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Gran
elli, Lodi, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs.
George Kelly, Minneapolis, Minn.;'
Mr. and Mrs. J. Edd McLaughlin,
Ralls, Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. Doane
Farr, Clinton, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs.
Max H. Green, San Bernardino,
Calif.; Selma Nuss, Sacramento,
Calif.; Pauline Ochsuer, Los An
geles; George and Edna Zien,
Sacramento, Calif.; Lillian H. Pol
ley, Lincoln, Neb.; Waueto B.
Richardson, Lincoln, Neb.; Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil C. Traver, Mar
tinsville, N.J.; Beatrice Wedde
combe, Evanston, 111.; Peggy
Hume, Tacoma, Wash.
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tones can be detected by the
human ear.
Invitation for Bids
SEALED BIDS in single copy subject to
the conditions contained herein will be
received until July 6, 1954 and then pub
licly opened, for furnishjng all labor and
materials and performing r.!l work for
the construction of an airplane landing
strip located near Wales, Alaska.
Plans, specifications and project docu
ments may be obtained from the Director
of Aeronautics, Alaska Aeronautics and
Communications Commission, Room 202,
Glover Bldg., Anchorage, Alaska.
Bids will be publicly opened in the
office of the Director of Aeronautics,
Glover Bldg., at 10:00 a.m. A.S.T. July 6,
1954.
Guarantee will be required with each
bid as follows: Five Percent (5 pet.)
bid bond.
Performance bond will be required for
an amount not less than 50 Percent of
the contract.
Payment bond will be required for an
amount not less than 50 Percent of the
contract.
The right is'reserved, as the interest of
the Territory of Alaska may require, to
reject any and all bids, to waive any
informality in bids received, and to ac
cept or reject any items of any bid,
unless such bid is qualified by specific
limitation.
Territory of Alaska
Department of Aviation
by: Herman Porter,
Director of Aeronautics
Pub. Jun. 14,16, 18, 23, 25, 30, Jul. 2, 1954.
Invitation for Bids
SEALED BIDS in single copy subject to
the conditions contained herein will be
received until July 6, 1954 and then pub
licly opened, for furnishing all labor and
materials and performing all work for
the stripping of an area for an airplane
landing strip located near Selawik, Al
aska.
Plans, specifications and project docu
ments may be obtained from the Director
of Aeronautics, Alaska Aeronautics and
Communications Commission, Room 202,
Glover Bldg., Anchorage, Alaska.
Bids will be publicly opened in the
office of the Director of Aeronautics,
Glover Bldg., at 10:00 a.m. A.S.T. July 6,
1954.
Guarantee will be required with each
bid as follows: Five Percent (5 pet.)
bid bond.
Performance bond will be required for
an amount not less than 50 Percent of
the contract.
Payment bond will be required for an
amount not less than 50 Percent of the
contract.
The right is reserved, as the interest of
the Territory of Alaska may require, to
reject any and all bids, to waive any
informality in bids received, and to ac
cept or reject any items of any bid,
unless such bid is qualified by specific
limitation.
Territory of Alaska
Department of Aviation
by: Herman Porter,
Director of Aeronautics
Pub. Jun. 14,16, 18, 23, 25, 30, Jul. 2, 1954.
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