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Supplies Reaching Quemoy Despite
Red Blockade, But Feeling Is That
Massive Effort Must Eventually Fail
By JAMES CAREY <
TAIPEI, Formosa, OP — Fresh
supplies poured to Quemoy’s de
fenders by air and sea amid
heavy Communist artillery fire
today.
The buildup came as the Chi
nese Nationalists announced an
other aerial victory that boosted
their claimed kills to 29 — with
out a Nationalist loss — since
the Aug. 23 flareup of the off
shore war.
Pilots reported one MIG 17 shot
down and another possibly dam
aged in a battle off Swatow be
tween four of their American
built Sabre jets and 16 of Red
China’s Soviet-supplied fighters.
The first Nationalist ship con
voy to cross Formosa Strait since
Monday sailed through a Red bar
rage and sent amphibious vehicles
racing to Quemoy’s beaches with
cargo to replenish garrison stocks.
Transport planes parachuted
high-priority supplies to the is
land overnight through skies pep
pered by bursting shells. It was
the third such operation in three
nighty.
Though the supplies are flowing
again, the big questions are how
much is getting through, and
how long the blockade punctur
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int» can be kept up.
These are vital questions be
cause American policy of contain
ing the Formosa Strait war seems
now to hinge on denying the Reds
the chance to starve out Quemoy.
Warships of the U. S. 7th Fleet
are escorting the convoys. De
stroyers made the run today with
the supply ships. JMewsmen
sighted two or three flying the
American flag. The warships
stayed well outside the three
mile limit.
Sources close to President
Chiang Kai-Shek let it be
known they feel even the present
massive supply effort eventually
will fail.
They contended the United
States must choose between a
firm declaration to defend the
islands, and thus perhaps per
suade the Reds to abandon the
blockade, or face the prospect of
an eventually enlarged war with
bombings by both side.
They suggested that both Que
moy and Matsu should be placed
under the wing of the present
U. S. - Nationalist defense treaty,
which now guarantees American
assistance against attack on For
mosa and the Pescadores only.
Bristol Bay Fisheries Require 15 To 20
Yrs. Recovery From Japanese Inroads
By FRANK W. VAILLE (
WASHINGTON, UO — Govern
ment fisheries experts said today
that pink salmon runs in Alaskan
waters next year are generally
expected to fall considerably be
low this year’s levels.
Donald L. McKernan, director
of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s
Commercial Fisheries Bureau,
said the agency feels the pink runs
of the past summer — with some
exceptions — were good.
Latest figures indicate the pack
will run about 1,600,000 cases.
McKernan said this would give
Alaska fishermen their best catch
since 1951.
The commercial fisheries«chief
said runs of Bristol Bay red sal
mon are expected to continue at*
a low level next year, finishing
out the low cycles. The runs are
expected to show improvement
in 1960 and 1961.
There was disappointment in
the agency when the Bristol Bay
run this year fell beneath pre
dicted levels, due in part to fish
ing pressure from the Japanese
whom McKernan said caught im
mature salmon from this year’s
run for two years in the North
Pacific before making further in
roads on the mature run this
season.
Efforts to bring about a settle
ment of the controversy surround
ing the Japanese fishing activity,
he said, are continuing through
the International North Pacific
Fisheries Commission.
McKernan said the average of
the Bristol Bay runs is expected
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to show improvement over the ■
next 10 years, because rebuilding
of the runs would require several
cycles, each of five or six years’
duration. ^JcKernan said it would
take some 15 to 20 years to re
habilitate low runs of the Bris
tol Bay fishery, assuming a solu
tion to the offshore controversy
with consequent easing of the
Japanese fishing pressures.
Typhoon Ida Worst
Ever To Hit Japan
TOKYO, UP) — Typhoon Ida
swept the Japanese coast late
today with raging 125-mile winds
and began veering away from a
rain-drenched and flooded Tokyo.
Tokyo’s meteorological board
said Ida, billed as one of the
worst storms ever to hit Japan,
was heading northeast off the
coast below the capital.
Unofficial reports said 43 were
killed in landslides and floods
across Japan. Thirty-three were
listed as missing, with 111 in
jured.
. Driving rains poured 12 inches
of water on Tokyo in 19 hours
Friday. Weathermen called it a
record.
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WELCOME HOME —
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UPi — Mr.
and Mrs. Shyrock stopped to pick
up a hitchhiker. It was their son,
Paul, on his way home on leave
from military duty in Korea. The
Shyrocks hadn’t known he was
coming.
U. S. Puts Weather
Probing Satellite
Into Orbit
By JACK KING
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., [ffl
— A weather probing Vanguard
satellite was blasted into space
today and preliminary instrumen
tation showed the rocket’s three
engines performed normally.
That meant the huge rocket
blazed some 300 miles high in
space, probably reaching a speed
of 18,000 miles per hour.
An official announcement said,
however, that it was not yet
known whether orbital height was
obtained. This should be deter
mined within about 2Vfe hours.
The 72-foot bullet shaped rock
et housed a 20-inch, 21V£-pound
satellite which, if orbited suc
| cessfully, could spot large storm
masses such as hurricanes and
| typhoons as they build up around
ithe earth.
This was the seventh try at
shooting a composite three-stage
Vanguard, with only one success
chalked up to date.
It was also the first time a
Vanguard had been fired suc
cessfully in two months. During
the interim, the slender missile
was checked out from top to
bottom and a few minor adjust
ments made in the first two
stages.
An attempted launching of this
same rocket was scrubbed last
week when an electrical break
down caused automatic engine
cutoff a split second before lift
up. The mighty Vanguard en
gines ignited then with a flash,
but shut down just as quickly
when the trouble developed.
The main mission of the “seeing
eye” moon was to measure the
movement and disposition of
cloud cover around the world to
aid meterologieal studies. Two
light sensitive photoelectric cells
were carried in the satellite to do
the job.
| Dulles Charges Soviet Union Has
Power To Stop Formosa Fighting.
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y., WV
— Secretary of State Dulles con
ferred with British Foreign Sec
retary Selwyn Lloyd today on the
Formosan crisis. It was their sec
ond meeting on the Far East in
24 hours.
There was no word on the na
ture. of the exchange.
Dulles saw Lloyd Thursday
night after declaring that the
United States will “make no re
treat in the face of force” on
Formosa.
Dulles charged that Red China
— aided by Soviet arms, supplies,
and moral support — is “threat
ening war against us in the For-,
mosa area.”
Dulles said the United States
welcomed Peiping’s willingness
to resume the U. S.-Red Chinese
talks and was prepared, “in ac
cord with our United Nations
Charter obligation, to settle the
dispute by peaceful means.”
“We believe that the Soviet
Union, if it wanted to see a peace
ful solution, could make that pos
[I
sible,” he said.
The secretary spoke amid indi
cations that the gloom into which
the Formosa crisis had plunged
Washington, was lifting slightly.
Spirits were bolstered by a Pen
tagon estimate that Nationalist
China is strong enough to hurl
back any Red Chinese invasion
attempt against Quemoy without
U. S. armed he^p.
There was a feeling in U. N.
circles that the Reds were easing
their pressure in Formosa — per
haps in the face of a solid West
ern front.
NOW SHE TELLS HIM
KANSAS CITY, Kan., UFi —
Mrs. Ida May Connell, 65, mother
of five children, was granted a
divorce from George Edward Con
nell, 70, in District Court.
She testified she no longer
loved her husband.
“When did you stop loving
him?” she was asked.
“Right aftef we were married,”
she replied.
The couple was married in 1911.
AVA STARTS NOME MEET TODAY
THE AVA WILL START their three-day meet here
at 1 o’clock this afternoon, at the U. S. Court Room.
Directors who have arrived to attend the meeting
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Lana’s Daughter To
Remain In Custody
Of Her Grandmother
SANTA MONICA, Calif., GP> —
Cheryl Crane will remain in the
custody of her maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Mildred Turner, a
juvenile court has ruled.
The 14-year-old daughter of ac
tress Lana Turner has been in her
grandmother’s custody since last
April, when she killed her moth
er’s lover, Johnny Stompanato.
The girl’s probation officer told
the court yesterday that Cheryl
is making a satisfactory adjust
ment to her probation program.
The court continued further ac
tion until Dec. 11, pending a de
cision on an appeal by Cheryl’s
Ifather, restauranteur Stephen
Crane. He asked that the custody
order be set aside.
For Sale: Fisher
Home In Palm Springs
HOLLYWOOD, UPi — For Sale.
Three-bedroom home in Palm
Springs with elegantly furnished
guest house and swimming pool.
That’s the gist of an ad Debbie
Reynolds is running in a Holly
wood trade paper for the desert
resort hideaway where she and
Eddie Fisher and their children
spent many holidays. „
The couple’s three-year mar^.
riage collapsed under pressure of
reports that the singer was dat
ing Elizabeth Taylor.
Miss Reynolds’ attorney said
Thursday that the actress will
file for divorce after “a number
of financial matters are ironed
out”
►are as follows:
Chuck West, of Alaska Travel
Bureau; Bob Ellis, Ellis Airlines;
Everett Patton, Alaska Highway
Tours, and president of the Board;
O. F. Benecke, Alaska Coastal
Airlines; Jim Binkley, Alaska
Riverways; Frank Downey, White
Pass Railroad; Wm. Ferro, Skag
way Hotel; Ed Opecensky, man
ager of Fairbanks Chamber of
Commerce; Ray Peterson, North
ern Consolidated Airlines; LeRoy
Peterson, Alaska Airlines; Jerry
Garrety, Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Union; Howard Clifford,
PNA, and Tommy Martin of
Nome.
Also attending as representa- >
tives of member companies: Jim
Tribble, Western Airlines; Frank
Whaley, Wien Airlines. A. B.
Hayes, Northwest Airlines; A1
Polet, P.A.A.; Kay Kennedy, di
rector of AVA news; Tona Stone,
executive secretary, and Dutch
Derr, who heads the organization.
Expected to arrive are Paul
Neilson of the Westward Hotel,
and Brad Phillips of Alaska Trav
el Bureau.
Meetings start at 1 o’clock this
afternoon, and will continue at
9 a.m. tomorrow, with afternoon
and evening sessions continuing
through Sunday.
A no-host cocktail get-together
is planned at the Bering Sea
Club at 7:30 this evening. The
public is invited to all the meet
ings, and urged to come to the
cocktail j>arty tonight in the in
terest of tourism.
G. M. Accuses
Auto Workers Of
Jumping The Gun
DETROIT, UR — General Mo
tors Corp. today accused the
United Auto Workers Union of
staging what it said amounts to
| a general strike in advance of the
Tuesday morning deadlines set by
the union.
Vice President Louis Seaton,
head of the GM bargaining team,
told newsmen the company be
lieved the series of hit-and-run
walkouts which idled over 45,000
workers at 20 GM plants across
the country today, were condoned
by UAW leaders.
Walter Reuther, UAW presi
dent, replied that GM simply was
reaping the fruits of action in
canceling out contracts several
months ago, when they knew such
action would result in a large
amount of resentment among the
workers.
The union Thursday night
warned its members to avoid
picket line incidents. Two such
outbreaks were reported yester
day on the eve of Reuther’s per
sonal entry into the last-ditch
talks.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy with accompany
ing light rain or snow tomorrow.
Northwest winds, diminishing to
night. Low tonight 30-35, high to
morrow 35-40.
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