text: LAI kp' JU Id **. » SraJt# a?*<, A tanker, the Providence Getty, ploughs through the ice-choked Upper Chesapeake Bay, near Baltimore. Two Coast Guard icebreakers Soviet Airdrop to Laos Made Boldly by Day By RENE-GEORGE INAGAKI Associated Press Staff Writer VIEUANE, Laos. Dec. 24. Operating in broad daylight, a Soviet plane parachuted weapons, ammunition and food to pro-Communist Pathet Lao rebels today. The twin-engine plane turned then and vanished above cloud-capped mountains in the direction of Communist North Viet Nam. The parachutes fell in a lush green paddy field surrounding the Pathet Lao stronghold of Vang Vieng, 65 miles north of Vientiane. From above Vang Vieng, a tiny town in a valley surrounded by steep, rocky jungle-covered mountains, two single-engine biplanes could be seen landing at 15-minute intervals on a dirt strip along the highway leading to the Laotian royal capital. Luang Parbang. 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'■ Ax"' r { • <•'' K 3 ■• <■> HaKCL' i'' xnIMM *L>V • ‘ : i F f«\ UWLr ■• -A i Vti'--,-?- /'v'"- >'< T A*< • '* r<l *w ■ / ■■%'■. ‘ uSL I VVC*E*I the GIANT FOOD family wishes you and your family a ... 4Sfi§|gLjy f"' MB MERRY CHRISTNTAS and a *\ HAPPY NEW YEAR . >--*■ J I— >C LAX * IF * tMto-’- ’ /> i, - . w> | JMTTfI ♦ 'SS®. wl W7 jKST ’ WTWPWS •;' ■ . ', l. -. ' 3k/ fWs <N| jj'l (The writer of this dispotch, on OMign ment in Loot from his regulor post in the Tokyo Associoted Press Bu reau, woe one of o group of newt men aboard a chartered plane flown to observe airdrops to leftist rebels in Laos. I peared to ignore the newsmen’s plane. No ground fire was di rected against it. Russian-Style ’Chutes There was no identifying markings on the biplanes. However, Western military ex perts here said the parachutes dropped to the Pathet Lao were of typically Russian style. Up to eight Ilyushins are be lieved involved in the air drop, which has continued after pro- Communist forces under Capt. Kong Le were driven from Vientiane by the pro-Western troops under Ptemier Prince Boun Oum and Gen. Phoumi Nosavan. It is this airdrop activity that has prompted the United States to accuse the Soviet are endeavoring to keep the shipping lanes open during the frigid weather. The picture was taken near Turkey Point.—AP Wirephoto. Half a Tanker Heads to Port NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 24 (AP).—Five men bobbing in the Atlantic on half a tanker will find some of the trimmings missing on Christmas Day. The five are riding the stern section of the broken American tanker Pine Ridge as it’s being towed to port by two tugs. Any Christmas dinner will have to be of their own making from food in the tanker's gal- Union of fomenting civil war in Laos. The Russians said the United States was promoting strategy by supplying Boun Oum. Pictures of the Hyushins taken over Vang Vieng showed the cyrillic letters for USSR clearly marked on their wings. One plane was numbered 61796. No attempt was made to conceal the markings. 2 Columns Skirmish Meanwhile, two government columns skirmished with the Pathet Lao about 45 miles north of Vientiane on a road to Vang Vieng and Luang Prabang. Col. Kouprasith Abhay, who commands the government op eration, said Kong Le’s adjutant, Lt. Deuan, killed the chief of a 60-man north Vietnamese artillery detachment which landed in Vientiane aboard So v The planes early this month to handle howitzers before the fall of the capital to Phoumi's forces. Kouprasith said the dead of the officer, Capt. Tran Thu Due, had 10 years training in Moscow. The pro-western colonel said Deuan killed the Red officer shortly after the fall of Vienti ane because he had withdrawn his artillery and failed to give Kong Le's men sufficient support. The ship, situated in the stern section, "They’ll have to help themselves," said Alfred Kirchhoff of Staten Island, N. Y., skipper of the tug Curb, which is tow ing the hulk. "We’re not too worried about that" (Christmas). Mr. Kirchhoff, in a ship-to-shore telephone conversation, said the men have sufficient food to tide them over until they reach Newport News late tomorrow. He said the five have a generator going, which supplies heat and light. The tanker snapped in two Wednesday in mountainous seas 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N. C., the storied graveyard of ships. Seven crewmen are missing. Including the tanker’s skipper, Capt. Clark Snyder, 44, of Havertown, Pa. Twenty-eight survivors were hoisted one by one from the stern section in a daring rescue operation Thursday by helicopter pilots from the air craft carrier Valley Forge. The survivors were transferred to the destroyer Conway, which rushed them to Norfolk yesterday. The survivors, paid by their company while en route on the destroyer, sped on their way home to be with families at Christmas. But not so Chief Engineer John Richart, 36, of Wilmington, Del. He stayed behind on the broken stern section when the others were airlifted to safety. Mr. Richart ’s action protected the salvage rights of the owners. Paco Tankers, Inc., and the Keystone Shipping Co. of Philadelphia. Four men from the tug Curb joined Mr. Richart in his lonely vigil yesterday. Mr. Kirchhoff said the tow was proceeding smoothly at 5 knots, with good weather and no wind, in calm seas. The Moran Towing Co. tug Lamberts Point has a tow line on the tail of the Pine Ridge to steady the swaying section. The Coast Guard cutter Cherokee is standing by. Viet Nam Reds Say U. S. May Stir Laos War TOKYO, Dec. 24 (AP).—A warning that international war may explode in Laos was sounded today by Communist North Viet Nam. 1 And Chinese Nationalist, Foreign Minister Shen Chang- huan said that if the civil conflict in Laos spreads the South-east Asia Treaty Organization could not afford to sit idly by. He spoke at a meeting of the mainland recovery planning board at Taipei, Formosa, which has the responsibility of laying the groundwork for restoring Nationalist rule over what is now Red China. Comminist North Viet Nam published a memorandum charging that the United States, South Viet Nam, Thailand and Nationalist China with aggression in Laos and creating “a new hotbed of war” in South east Asia. The memorandum was published in Hanoi, the North Viet Nam capital, and broadcast by Peiping radio. Hanoi said the "situation in Laos is extremely serious” and South Viet Nam "can never Ignore the acts of aggression committed by United States imperialism and its stooges against the kingdom of Laos." "Irrefutable evidence of direct participation” of the United States in Laos affairs was found, Hanoi said, in recent battles along the Nambadinh River and in Vientiane, the administrative capital. Giz enga Gets Khrushchev Aid MOSCOW, Sunday. 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He attacked West Germany's position in the trade negotiations. “The line followed by the government of the Federal Republic.” Communist papers quoted him as saying, “leads not only to complication of the relations between the East German Democratic Republic and the West German Federal Republic, but also to a dangerous complication in the relations among the four powers who are bound by special duties with regard to Germany.” The four powers are the United States, Soviet Russia, Britain and France. Mr. Gromyko seems to have been hinting that a collapse of the trade talks would make trouble for the small allied garrisons in West Berlin. Ambassador Dowling lives in Bonn, the capital of West Germany. Both Stores Closed Tomorrow 1220 H St. N.W. NA. 1-0091 Member Pork & Shop, Inc. 411 N. Y. Ave. N.E. LI. 7-4600 Free Parking on Our Lot Store Hours: Mon., Fri., Sat., 8:30; Sat., 1-1 THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D.C., December 25, 1950 Many. He came to Berlin December 16 during the East-West German trade talks here. The visit followed the failure of similar talks between West Germans and the Russians themselves, which foundered on the Berlin issue. At the time, United States spokesmen in Berlin told reporters that it was of no special interest. Dowling’s Arguments In Washington, however, it was reported that Mr. Dowling had told Mr. Pervukhin how undesirable it would be to have a new crisis over Berlin. From statements by Premier Khrushchev and other top Communists, it had been expected that the Communists intend to raise the Berlin question only in the spring. That would give President-elect Kennedy a chance to look around. Now, some experts believe, the Communists may be thinking that the chance to make trouble is too good to miss. The East-West negotiators meet again Wednesday. They say: "Why go places?" 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