U. S. Sending
Cliiang Big Cargo
Ships and Planes
By SPENCER MOOSA
TAIPEI, Formosa, (JPI — The
United States is sending the Chi
nese Nationalists Cl 19 flying
boxcars and big landing ships to
break the Red blockade of the
Quemoys, a U. S. military spokes
man said Tuesday.
One of the landing craft —
22,000-ton LSD (landing ship,
dock) — has already made the
run to the battered offshore is
land with U. S. 9-inch howitzers
under the supervision of U. S.
Marines.
The guns were turned over to
Nationalist crews for installation.
Up to now, the biggest guns used
by the Nationalists were 155mm.
The new landing ships en route
are capable of carrying eight
smaller vessels in water-filled j
holds. They can carry up to six
times as much cargo as the LSTs
(landing ship, tank) now used by
the Nationlists.
With their present collection of
equipment left over from World
War II, the Nationalists have
been able to get through to Que
moy the 350 tons of supplies
needed daily on the besieged off
shore islands. U. S. military offi
cials have been urging the Na
tionalists to step up supply efforts.
The Nationalist Air Force re
ported that Communist ground
' fire shot down one of its cargo
planes parachuting supplies to
Juemoy during the night. This was
1 the first cargo plane in 16 days
of dropping high-priority sup
plies to Big and Little' Quemoy. i
Lowest Water In Years
Yesterday the northeasterly
winds made the water extremely
low in Bering Sea and the rivers.
The caisson, a concrete barge an
chorage used for lightering
many years ago, was visible in
the low water. Several miners
tok advantage of the low water,
and one unconfirmed report
stated that one person had panned
half an ounce of gold.
The real harvest of the low
water was an abundance of razor
clams along the beach and in
big quantities at Safety.
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Theresa Okpealuk, Pauline
Curran, Mildred Keelick, Opal
Baldwin, Lorraine Kost, Eliza
beth Beals, Tony Cabinboy, Peter
Castel Jr., Sig Savok, Reuben
Herman, Roger Wallace.
Discharged — Paul Cornelius,
Michael Simon, Elizabeth Her
man, John Mulligan, Vera Gel
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Juneau yesterday for a meeting
of the Territorial Welfare Board.
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Alcatraz Escapee
Hunted on Island
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — A
tough young convict was sought
on fog-shrouded Alcatraz Island
Tuesday after he and a companion
bound a guard in a bold attempt
to escape the federal prison.
The companion was captured
within twq hours of the 3:15 p.m.
break.
Somewhere on the rugged is
lnd was Aaron Walter Burgett,
28, Missouri gunman serving 26
years for Post Office robbery and
assault. A 60-man prison posse
ranged over the San Francisco
Bay island during the night.
Burgett’s companion, Clyde M.
Johnson, 38, onetime Public En
emy No. 1, who shot it out with
the FBI in Indianapolis in 1949,
was captured along the rocky
shore — cowering, shivering and
up to his waist in the water.
The two were on trash-burning
I detail with guard Harold Miller
outside the prison walls. Sudden
ly they turned on him. One pro
duced a knife. They threatened
to kill him and then bound and
gagged him.
The break was discovered at
3:40 p.m. About 15 minutes later,
Miller was found squirming in
chick bushes, just below some
guards’ houses on the southeast
corner of Alcatraz.
Johnson was spotted through
the fog by a sharp-eyed Coast
Guard lookout on a patrol craft
circling the island. Johnson sur
rendered meekly to prison guards.
Eighteen have tried to flee the
government’s maximum security
prison since the Bureau of Prisons
took it over from the Army in
! 1934. Five were shot to death,
two vanished and were pre
[ sumed drowned, and the rest
were caught.
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Reds Complain of
Nationalists Using
U.S. Guided Shells
By NATE POLOWETZKY
TOKPO, (tf)—Red China claimed
Tuesday the Nationalist Chinese
were using U. S. sidewinder
guided missiles to shoot down its
fighting planes.
Peiping charged this was “a
premeditated step in the U. S.
plan of a war of aggression,” and
threatened “punitive blows on
Chiange Kai-Shek’s air force for
this criminal action.”
An article in the People’s Dai
ly, voice of the Communist re
gime, declared the use of the
guided missile “is a military pro
vocation of the utmost gravity.”
“This is the first time in the
annals of war thdoughout the
world that guided missiles have
been employed,” the article de
clared.
“U. S. imperialism has now con
fronted mankind with the danger
of guided missile and nuclear
warfare.”
The Sidewinder, a U. S. Navy
developed missile named for a
desert rattlesnake, finds and de
stroys a target by homing on a
source of heat — the jet engine
in the case of an airplane. It has
a warhead of conventional ex
plosivese and a speed greater than
sound. It can follow its target de
spite evasive turns and twists.
The weapon has been standard
equipment in the U. S. 7th Fleet
in Formosa Straits for two years.
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