The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 26, 1954, Page 5

RED CHINA APOLOGIZES TO BRITAIN IN PLANE SHOOTING | By GENE KRAMER TOKYO — Communist China apologized to Britain today for shooting down a British airliner over the south China Sea Friday with an apparent loss of 10 lives, including three Americans. A Peiping radio broadcast heard here said Red patrol planes thought the transport was Chinese Nationalist. It expressed a willing- ness to consider paying damages. The apology — virtually unpre- cedented since the Red regime took over the Chinese mainland— was in a note to British Charge d’Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan from Chang Han-fun, Red Chinese vice minister for foreign affairs: The conciliatory note, a reply to a British protest, seemed to tie in with Peiping’s current line of propaganda aimed at getting a United Nations seat at the expense of the Nationalists, by wooing Britain and France and denounc- ing the United States. Later in the same broadcast, the Red radio told of recently shooting down a “U.S.-made Kuomintang (Nationalist) plane over Chekiang province.” “If the U.S. imperialists order the Chiang brigands to send any more planes in provocative action against us we will shoot them down as we have done before,” it added. Called Accidental Text of the note, broadcast by Peiping, said shooting down of the Cathay Pacific Airlines Skymaster over Hainan Island was “entirely accidental” and an “unfortunate incident.” “They shot us down with the in- tention of killing us,” Capt. Philip Brown, pilot of the airliner, told newsmen in Hong Kong. Monday, July 26, 1954 Key West In Days Gone By 2, July 26, 1994 Sunday afternoon 4 o'clock at | Bayview Park the reorganized Key West Municipal Band, under the direction of Gerry Curtis, director of parks and playgrounds, and all recreational activities, will give the first of a series of concerts. Miss Ruth Mettinger, director of the bureau of public health nurs- ing, was an arrival over the East Coast yesterday for a conference with local officials relative to the proposed clinic. A request has been made by of- ficers of the Salvation Army for a wheel chair for the purpose of rolling around one of Key West’s old residents, who is unable move about owing to severe illness. County Solicitor J. F. Busto start- ed his investigation of alleged election frauds in Monroe county this morning. It is evident from the attitude of the county solicitor that he intends to follow instruc- tions issued by the governor and prosecute his investigations vigorously and comprehensively as instructed by Governor Sholtz. ko *& ok July 26, 1944 Considerable attention is being attracted by the neat, well cared for appearance of the grounds sur- rounding the Monroe County Heal- th Department building at the cor- ner of Fleming and Thomas streets. The tropical storm reported by the Weather Bureau yesterday was at 10:30 o’clock this morning locat- ed approximately 100 miles south southwest of Port Au Prince, Hai- ti. This location of the storm is about 800 miles southeast of Key West. . There’s enough money in the city’s cash register to pay it out, but up to a late hour this after- noon the Key West Housing Au- thority had not received the $500 ordered returned to it so a truck can be purchased for the Recrea- tion Department. N. Y. Merchants To Learn Russian GLEN COVE, N. Y. 20 merchants plan to sign up this fall for a new Russian language course added to the adult educa- tion program. The Soviet Union maintains a large estate near here for its Unit- ed Nations personnel and for years Glen Cove stores have en- joyed a brisk business with them. [| “They’re good spenders and} seem to have plenty of dollars,” remarked one store keeper. “But | they don’t learn English and have to point at things they want. To sell we should sell in their lan- guage.” Subscribe To The Citizen siZE and STYLE NUMBER. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN to | Britain protested the shooting Saturday night and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles charged the airliner was “deliber- ately shot down.” Two American aircraft carriers, the Hornet and the Philippine Sea, were ordered to the scene to protect the contin- uing search for the nine missing persons. Eight survivors were res- cued. The Dulles protest plus the movement of the carriers into Chi- nese waters was regarded in Wash- ington as a show of strength to impress upon the Reds the gravity of the situation. The Peiping broadcast said the Red Chinese government “ex- presses its regret at this accidental and unfortunate incident of the British transport aircraft and has taken appropriate measures in dealing with it. Extends Condolences “It extends its sympathy, con- cern and condolences to the dead and injured in this incident and to their relatives. It is willing to give consideration to the payment of appropriate benefit and compen- sation for the loss of life and pro- perty damage involved.” The broadcast denounced Na- tionalist China and said Red fight- ers identified the British transport as “an aircraft of the Chiang Kai- shek gang.” “While carrying out patrol duty over Port Yulin of Hainan Island,” the broadcast said, the fighters spotted the airliner “and fighting took place.” government of the People’s Repub- lic of China undertook an investi- Myrtle The Turtle Flunks Swimming ROME, N. Y. ®@ — This turtle named Myrtle had a college educa- tion. But she flunked in swimming. Myrtle was among the chosen few who helped great scientists in California study the habits of land turtles. Then last April she came to Rome and became the pet of 12-year-old Billy Messenger. But Billy went to camp this gation through various channels,‘ Ibatross amphibious plane under | The rescuers set their plane state of shock. They appeared un-|rescue was one of the most out- which revealed that the transport | the very noses of the Reds. It flew | down in the protection of a small| able to comprehend what was hap-|standing in Air Force + history. | involved was actually a British-| from Clark Field, near Manila. The jisland about 2% miles from where | pening.’ The little girl is 6-year-old owned transport aircraft whose pilot, Capt. Jack I. Woodyard, said|the survivors were huddled on a| Valeria Parish of Iowa Park, Tex. sinking (was) by our patrol ai craft as an aircraft of ‘the Kuo-jall aboard the British plane. mintang (Chinese Nationalist) “Wanted No Survivors” people on the raft. gang on a mission to raid our mili-| “It seemed to me they were try-| “The survivors were dazed,” tary base at Port Yulin,” Peip-|ing to make darn sure there would | Woodyard said. “They ing’s note said. be no survivors,” he said in an _The rescue of survivors was car-| interview after he returned to ried out by a United States SA16 | Clark Field. |The Albatross tossed lines to the but that was all. They were in a ithe Reds seemed intent.on killing | small raft. Seas were running high.|Her mother, Mrs. Leonard L. Parish, suffered a broken collar bone. Radio operator Lawrence Rodri- just didn’t |guez, 20, of Carpinteria, Calif.,| say anything as thev were he!ned| said, “It was worth my whole ca- aboard. The little girl cried a bit | reer to pull that little girl out.” Officers at Clark Field said the While the Albatross was en route, | the plane received a message that! the Chinese Reds at Canton had warned military aircraft to stay | away from the scene. be! Woodyard kept right on going. He said, however, he didn’t know the Reds had said “any military | aircraft approaching the area would be shot down.” World's Largest Pest Control Ca, Call 2-3254 LIGHTING THE WAY TO THE “Upon receiving this report, the ; TENDER KRUST Full Size Loaf BREAD 12 summer. And some other children who didn’t know Myrtle apparent- ly thought she was thirsty and put her in water. Myrtle drowned. LOW-VALUE LOOT HOLLYWOOD #—Jeweler San- ford Krause has news for the gun- man who snatched a tray ¢f rings from Krause’s store, at gun point. What he got were zircons, not diamonds. Their value, said Krause, is $200. Sew ’n’ Go! (P— Some | 42. 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