;..; ".' .(il.rf vn'- ...- .! .t g--Tho Statesman. Salem. Oregon; -Monday.- October 22. '1930 Survivors of Of Slaughter By Den Whitehead . (First part of story on page 1) SUNCHON, North. Korea. Oct. Zl-iAVFrom the hps of survivors today came the story of the mas sacre "of 68 American prisoners of war in a North Korean field. The 63 men, along with 21 sur vivors, were taken from a train, carrying them to Manchuria and slaughtered with an hour-long torrent or DUieis. IlDon rushina" to the scene with Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen, the first American to greet us was Pfc Jaldor John of Milwaukee. -,. I gave him a cigarette and ask ;d him what had happened. "Thpv shot us alL" he easned. "They took us off the train. They said we were .going to eat chow in a Korean house. Then they set us down and began shooting.' John hung his head and sob bed, "I played dead and I heard them shooting all around.n Then he pointed to a gully a few -4&feet away. "They are in there." . Bodies f 17 Men We walked into the dim shad ows of the little ravine into of horror. The thin bodies . , r n nil4 -n 4K rrrrt lTt On top of the pile as though i trying to claw his way to freedom lay the body of a big negro boy. i For a moment in the shadows it seemed no one was alive. Then i saw a vouth looking un at me. He was propped against the bask among tne aeaa, weax ana paie. Wi vm were trvin to smile. He was CpL Dale Blake of Hutchia- on, Mirm- - ' - ', , He said. "Oh God, so glad you mf " Tears coursed down his cheeks. "I didnl think anybody would ever find us." Twk-or nv him a cizarette and told him to sit quietly and everything would be all right. Tells Same Story Then a weak voice came from the bank above us. Through Ike weeds crawled Pvt. Ray Hanchey of Wallace. N. C, he had a leg wound but was not seriously nurt. He told the same story as the than- The had been taken out of the train about 6 p. xn. Friday to- supper ana were snot. We made them as comfortable - possible and started out to look lor ether survivors. Across. 'the field I saw other bodies. They were lying in the corn field. The wind rustled the dry stalks about them. There were 15 dead in this group. From their postures, they had been sitting in the cornfield in circle waiting with their ' bowls for their food when the Reds opened fire. Blood still was wet on their clothinfr. Their - bodies had the same starved appearance a the others. OtkM Saiilttl Just tnen General Allen yelled . from a ridge top that be had found some other survivors. Tucker and I started toward the ridge, when out of the bushes came Private John Martin, of Ferndale, Mich, Melnn Rookstool of Nyssa, Ore, and Eugene Jones of Herrin, M. " Martin and BookstoU were . helping Jones, who was the weak est. They- stumbled across the rjlowed - field. Like scarecrows. - their clothing buns; to their thin fxames. : .. . . -. -Jones saw us and cried: Took: Americans!' They're "Americans!" Then he fell to the ground. On the ridgetop, General Allen aat with six other surviving CPs. The general's eyes were wet. -Great Day" "It is a great day, boys," he kept repeating. "I just wish we could have been here soon enough to save the others." These six were Privates John ' Toney of Kirksvile, Mo.; Max F. Reid of Winnsboro, Tex.; Roy O. Sutterfield of Cameron. Wa. Va.: James Yeager of Grand Junction, Colo.; and Pics. Raymond Rindels of Shell Rock, Iowa; and William .,- Henninger of St PauL Minn. Rindels was - wounded in the side but will live. He had crawled on hands and knees in the valley below to hide after the Reds had left him and his buddies for dead. The six were found by Allen and by two American advisers to the South Korean Sixth division Maj. Harry Fleming, Racine, lumbus, Ohio. Grrea Candr T ' ' - Fleming brought South Korean troops to carry the wounded to 3S3BE5!to SOME FEUOWS, WHO THINK THE VJOOD OWES EM A LOT Of COMPLY MINTS HAVE tfA HARD ' T1M1 COLLECTING EMI You wCl collect' compliments on the way your car performs after we tune your motor and adjust tout brakes. How are your lights? Let us adjust them to give you mailrmim visibili ty without the other fallow. We'll check your wind shield wiper too. Drive in or phone X-,7253 fa&frte pick up service. , : . , , 121S 8. 122a Ei, neae t-tltl the main road. He brought three boxes of Russian-made chocolate candy to give to the starved Ame ricans. From the stories of all the es caped prisoners we pieced to gether this account of the death march and its hideous end. The prisoners had been captur ed late in July and early in Au gust on the southern Korean bat- tlef ront. They were taken to eoui. Three days after the U. S. marines landed at Irchon on September 15. the Reds began marching tne prisoners north to the Red capi tal city of Pyongyang. On this long march, many Ame ricans died. When they were too weak to keep up, they were shot or clubbed to death. The Ameri cans buried their own dead along the way. Told to Move Finally they ' reached Pyong yang. When that city was threat ened the prisoners were ordered moved. About 150 were put on one train and another 150 on a second train headed north toward the Manchurian border. The. men we found had been on the sec ond train. Whereabouts of the first trainload is unknown. The second train of boxcars reached the Sunchon tunnel Fri day morning and all day it sat in the tunnel, hiding from Ameri can planes. . At dusk Friday the Red guards told the men they were being taken outside for their evening meaL . They were led into the fieldst seated, and shot From these stories, we sus pected there was a third group of victims which we had not yet found. After a search ' we found the mass grave in' a gully. ' The thinly covered mound was about 50 feet long and 10 feet wide. We dug into the soft loam and there were the bodies of 30 odd men. South Korean troops are searching through the mountains for other bodies or for prisoners who might have escaped the mas sacre. The survivors were taken from Sunchon to Pyongyang and flown to Japan. ed 3-Car Wreck douth of Salem Passing without maurti rnnm was blamed Sunday for a three- car accident six miles south of Salem in which three men ware injured slightly and one car was -a . . m m oemousnea. State nolice said George O. Tiow 31. Portland. n1riri e-nfttv in Jefferson justice court to passing wiin lnsunicient clearance, tie was fined $10. HflV fitWlrria1 A.A Tn-t1.na caped with lacerations when his car rolled over a 15-foot bank as a result of the accident Ha dismissed from a Salem hospital Police said Stockdale was forced off highway 89-E to avoid a head- on collision with Dow. His car axaddea wnen it struck the soft shoulder and crashed into a car bearing four Salem hunter be fore it plunged over the bank. Driver of tne Salem car, was list ed as Ray Cherry. 25. at 15 Franklin st ' He was, treated for race lacerations. Front end of his car was damaged extensively. W. L. SL Clair. 2148 N. 34th ct Incurred a skinned leg. The other passengers reported no Injuries. a imra car was dented slightly when it collided with the others. Police said the driver was Richard D. McQueen, Sweet Home. Foreign Policy ect The Political, economic and nhfl osophic ' aspects of U.S. foreign DOlicr were discussed at a Wil lamette university forum last night oy proiessors in those respective neias. SDeakers were Mark TTatflpM Willard S. Smith and Dd. Edward Kollman. Hatfield outlined what both major, political parties pro posed as safeguards against an other situation such as Korea. Smith proposed lessening trade barriers and unifying economic re lations, ana Kouman called for spiritual and moral awakening. SHIPS COLLIDE TV FOO NEW YORK, Oct. 22-ff-The B.7g7-ton Danish ninnMiuMm liner Erria was severely damaged in a collision- with the freighter Pelican State In a heavy fog three miles south of Ambrose lightship un. Kai) toaay. 3 Men Injur Forum Sub j "YES MAN HAS MOVED BUT NOT TOO FAX 105 South High Street Cm K. Allen ' SAME PH0N2 "FOR A LOAN" 2-2464 Same Staff Anxious to Srv You It Is with a. great deal of plea sura that we welcome our customers In our new ground floor location. Wo hope you win find our now offices comfortable, convenient, one! to your Eking. L REMEMBER We Still Jrf tompunrf) tnAt uut to Mr ro ittSl FINANCE CO. 103 South High Strtot LZCZNSZ f t 1 1 Of French Win In Indochina Br Seynonr Topping SAIGON, Indochina, Oct 22-(JP) United States Minister Donald R. Heath, at his first meeting today with Chief of State. Bao Dai, ex pressed confidence in ultimate vic tory for the French-sponsored Vietnam over the communist-led Vietminh forces. Heath presented his credentials to the ex-emperor at a ceremony in the palace at Dalat The cere mony had been delayed by the five-months absence of Bao Dai in Southern France. Heath presented his credentials to King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia when he arrived in Indochina last July. The American minister told Bao Dai "the eyes of the free world are fixed on Vietnam" in its strug gle against the troops of Soviet- trained Ho Chi Minn. Heath said the communist foe is "strongly backed by foreign arms and money," and added: "With confidence I look forward to a coming day when a free and pacified Vietnam may resume' its place as a great economic and political power in the busy area of the world which is southeast Asia." Vietnam is composed of the As sociated States of Vietnam (Great er Annam), Laos and Cambodia. Heath told the Vietnam chief of state the United States had under taken a program of military and economic aid which would help to activate new units of the Vietnam ese national army and assist "in the fight to eradicate misery and disease," which, he said,. was in creasing every day in the Chinese border area where French forces have abandoned six outpost In the past month. Te Confer With Bae Dal The American minister, with his senior aides, will confer with Bao Dai, Premier Van Huu and other top Vietnamese officials at the heavily-guarded palace which Bao Dai makes his home and head quarters. The relations between the Viet namese government ana tne French have reached crisis, with the Vietnamese demanding con cessions toward fuller national in dependence. Meanwhile, a French military spokesman said the withdrawal of the garrison at the frontier head quarters of Langson, the latest post to be evacuated, was " proceeding without serious fighting. The French are taking up new positions along the Red river delta, before the cities of Hanoi and Hai phong, in open terrain, where they can bring into play planes, tanks and other .heavy weapons. . Statement Issued Continuation of the heavy cen sorship imposed on military news was approved today by France's top civil chiefs for - Indochina, French cabinet minister for Indo Chinese affairs Jean Letourneau, who told newsmen: - - "The censorship is Intended only for military matters, but honestly speaking I must say military mat ters are integrated with political.' Letourneau said he could gove no assurance that the censorship will be limited only to military news, and added: "You Americans have to Teahze that we are fighting a war." 4 Charged with Driving While Intoxicated -Four Salem men were charged with driving while intoxicated here Sunday to run the week-end total of such arrests .to eight in the Salem area. City police said Joseph M. Dev- ers, jr., 1390 Olive st, was arrest' ed about 8 pjn. while driving on South Commercial street. Devers posted $250 bail. Others listed by city police as charged with driving while in toxicated earlier Sunday were Albert LeRoy King, 1275 East ave and Orville A. Jansenius, 605 S. 22nd st They were held last night in lieu of $250 bail each. State police said William V. Moraski, 2559 Portland rd., was charged with driving while intox icated following his arrest north of the Salem city limits about 3 pjn. He was held at the county jail here last night on $350 bail. Four similar arrests here were reported In yesterday's Statesman Authorities believed the total was a near record in the Salem area for two days. Salem munici pal court records show that six cases of driving while intoxicated were processed In that court last month. It Like to Say "Yt" ; Phono 24464' 8 - 123, 2X-US . v.. , 1 ? 4 'ASSAULT SWIMMER An vnderwater fighter In a new branch of the French army places the glass In his headrear before going beneath the Lou River in maneuvers at Gals. Red Premier Fled Prior to 'Fight' Speech By Barbara Brines Oct. 23 -(ff)-North Koreans said today that North Korean Com munist Premier Kim II Sung and his government fled this captured Red capital the day before a fight-to-the-finish broadcast was made in the premier's name. Rim Duek Chung, newly ap pointed acting mayor of Pyong yang, said Premier Kim and his top officials left the city Oct. 10. The next day the Pyongyang radio broadcast Kim's order to all North Koreans to "fight until the final day of victory." This was in terpreted as the Red Korean gov ernment's answer to General Mac Arthur's two broadcast demands that they surrender. Rim said the final exodus of Russian military and civilian of ficials from Pyongyang was made October 9 and 10. Other parties of Russians left July 1 and August 16. Rim, a schoolteacher, said he did not know how many Russians had been stationed in Pyongyang. But he said their influence was great and their presence was indi cated by everything from Russian signs to a stock of Russian per fume in a downtown department store. (dark Says U.S. 'Dug Deep' to in Korea PITTSBURGH, Oct 22-Gen. Mark Clark, chief of the army field forces, tonight said the Unit ed States "scraped the bottom of the barrel" to carry on the war in Korea. The hero of the allied fight in Italy during World War II told the Variety club of Pittsburgh the u. s. "told the world we had ten divisions before the outbreak of war in Korea." But those divisions were two thirds of full strenghth and under equipped, Clark said. "We left only a mobilization base in this country," the general declared. ' - .General Clark said every Am erican soldier will be trained as an infantryman, adding: "We learned in Korea because of the enemy's infiltration tactics that every man must do his own fighting." The ground army's boss said four national guard divisions re cently federalized will be at com bat strength in seven months. Clark decried the "over-optimistic reports" of new weapons which he said were circulated prior to the Korean fighting. He declared: "We fought the Korean war with weapons of World War II. " We do have new weapons in the making but it will be seven or eight months or two or three years before they will be produced in quantity." INCOMPARABLE PIT Barbecued Boot Ham-Pork-Spareribs And Chicken OAK BARBECUE PIT TODATS LUNCHEON SPECIAL Pit Barbecued Slulfed Peppers Complete Luncheon 75c "Took For The -Rod Brick Oren Oak Batbscne Pii 11 A. M. to 10:30 P.M. DaUr Ex. Sundays (Across) from Elslnore) 159 S. High EATMOBE! SPEND LESSI Fight Rejection 01 Russ 'Peace 7 By Wei Gallagher FRANKFURT. Germanv. Oct 23-4P-Outright rejection of the Knvtt. hlrw'a latMt "rwN hirl" and a race between East and West to rearm divided Germany ap peared certain 'tonight. - JLaboring in nearby Prague un der the cold eve of Soviet Dmnrv Premier V. M. Molotov; Soviet satellit foreign ministers approved last night . a 2.000-word tirade against the West and a four-point Soviet proposal for a German set tlement. No one here British. French. American or German saw any hope of negotiations growing out Of the Soviet bloc's nlan. nor anv. thing new in the charges of the w a west is rearming uermany. The Soviet - directed 'Prague show was viewed more as nrona- ganda than diplomacy and design ed to acnieve these effects: (1) Frighten the West, partic ularly WObbW Fmnro tntn Mint ing Germany 'from Western Eur ope s aexense on the grounds it might "provoke" the Russians. yi) serve as a cover for Russia's own program for rearming East Germany, which certainly, raises the fears of th Rrman.hiHn Czechs and Poles ' despite being unaer Moscow's thumb. (3) Another shot in the Russian propaganda camnaisn setting un the communist bloc as guardians oi tne peace and the only, ones who want Germany united. While looked UDon as a rtrona. ganda maneuver, the emphasis the communists piacea on the move to incorporate -Germans into the western defenses was considered significant The Prague meeting took place within a few days after a sharp Soviet note to France. Britain and the United States" protesting against the New York big three decisions on Germany. , There was no douht her that Western Europe's rearmament and more particularly uerman partici patlon therein has shaken the Kremlin more than any western move since tne end of the war. Trio Found After 12 Hours Lost in Cave HARLANSBURG, Pa, Oct. 23 WVTwo boys and a man compan ion were found early today 12 hours after they disappeared , in a huge recently discovered cave near urn wesxern Pennsylvania ' town. The three were reported by po lice and volunteer searchers -to be In "good physical condition. A radio report from the scene received at the New Castle state police barracks said the three were located . some distance from the entrance to the big cavern, sitting uown awaiting neip. , Hundreds of volunteer' nail joined the search after the three were reported missing. Two blood hounds were brought to the scene and huge searchlights were rush- ea 10 we cave entrance. Sheriff Frank T. Pnn n by New Castle identified them as Eddie McClelland, 15-year-old son vt a lunerai oirector, Ernest Mal inak. 26. a constnirtfnn employee, and Herbert Harkless. All three are . from Harlansburg. oneriu coen said tne families of the trio reported them missing shortly after dusk. .'. , e added that J. H. Hoover, of Harlansburgh, told them he saw them enter nn nf th iu en trances about 2 pjn. (EST) as he leit anomer entrance. The cave was discovered Just a few months ago by a construc tion crew on a highway project There are several entrances and no one knows how far the caves wind under the earth's surfaces. In recent weeks. Sheriff Coen said,' several parties of curious have Pone into tn rav t lnnlr at mlneralite formations. Hundreds of persons gathered at the scene as wnrH nf thm miin men spread throughout the com munity. Miners, firemen and volunteer police men were nressed into the search. The first men entering the cave J Forecast D1U FI3 STATE SdKlATQ.. ArbtrtMS for Stnator ComaV - - toy Scott, Chalrmaa . had liffennes" of: twine attached to their belts. They planned to retrace their steps by following the twine they left behind. - . Shortly before midnight (EST) the crowd at the scene was esti mated at nearly 1,000 and calls went out for additional police to control traffic. A main highway, U. S. route 19 between Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa, is nearby. U.S. Industrial (Story also on page 1) ' WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 -CSV Anxious to get a pattern of indus trial controls ready before the spending tide hits industry like a deluge. National Production Ad ministrator William H. Harrison reportedly has these actions in the works; in addition to copper and aluminum reguiauons announcea today: ' i 1. A ban on future construction of race tracks, bowling alleys, dance halls and other amusement places. ; This would, supplement credit controls over real estate in conserving defense materials. Leaders of the construction, in dustry sharolv criticized this pro posal when Harrison broached it to them last week. An NPA spok- ered by the present priiority sys- is convinced of the need for dras tic action. 2. A priority order covering oil drums and metal food containers. Neither petroleum nor food is cov ered by the presentp riority sys tem, but oil refineries and. some food producers have notified NPA they, cannot ml military orders without help in breaking the con tainers bottleneck. Early this week, it is predicted, NPA will authorize the armed forces to grant use of the priority to the food and oil concerns with which military orders are placed. 3. Allocation of steel for the building of about 3,000 freight cars in the first half of next year. The order, expected shortly after a meeting with the steel in dustry next Wednesday, would permit the immediate placing of steel orders for the program. Steel deliveries would start in January at a4 rate averaging 300, 000 tons monthly. This would per mit production of cars at a rate averaging over 10,000 a month and also provide material for maintenance and repair of exist ing rolling stock. 4. An order giving steel retail erscalled "warehouses" in the trade an assured supply of steel products for sale to small business concerns. This also is expected to be issued after the steel meeting. Church Group Backer of Curb On Liquor Ads Harold D. Wilson, Portland, for mer treasury department invest! gator, charged liquor interests with misrepresenting the facts about the state ballot proposal for banning promotively advertised liquor in a speech here Sunday night.. Wilson spoke at SL Mark Luth eran church under sponsorship of the Salem Ministerial association which is supporting the measure. Wilson declared the proposal would control sale of promotively advertised liquor but would not prohibit liquor advertising. "The liquor traffic," he said, "is continually trying to confuse the issue while their real motive is fear-driven greed. POSTCARDS LOSE MONET ST. LOUIS, Oct. 22-(5VThe post office department lost $73,195,000 on the sale of penny postal cards lost year, Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson said today. ' New .Showing -Open :45 IB QU7 L Second Feature! TIL REACH FOR A STAR" With All Star Cast Controls Plan Taking Form Em A good, sound, conservative citizen, who will effectively serve as your SENATOR and effi ciently represent Polk and Benton Counties! trench beek Agreement on PARIS, ' Oct 22 Cabinet ministers still 'were at work to night in search of an agreement on the rearming of Germany that would satisfy everyone in premier Rene Pleven's middle-of-the-road coalition. ' " .' Four of them will be appointed to draft-a statement on the sub ject that Pleven will read to the national assembly Tuesday as a basis for the debate. Besides the premier himself, they are Defense Minister Jules Moch, Foreign Minister Robert Schuman : and Justice Minister Rene Mayer. , Moch and his socialist party are on record against the "principle' of German rearmament. The other three are known to take a position near that of the U. S which wants a West German army organized. - Meanwhile, the international socialist conference executive committee held a three hour meet ing here and' socialist leaders of France, Western Germany and Belgium lined up solidly against any plan to rearm Western Ger many. ', - K. vornnk of The Netherlands was the only socialist leader at tending the 'executive meeting to come out flatly in favor of Ger man rearmament. Socialist leaders of eight other West European na tions took no definite stand on the question. ' I Morgan Phillips, secretary gen eral of Britain's labor party, said at the Paris conference that lf we oppose German rearmament we must show -how we propose to hold the denfense line without German, troops.'' - He said the British labor party "as yet has taken no definite po sition on German rearmament and its views have not been finally settled." Landslide Toll Reaches 30 LIMA, Peru, Oct 22-(flVA spe cial correspondent for the Lima newspaper El Comer cio reported today that the death toll in the Santa river landslide high in the Andes had reached 30, with - 28 others Injured and at least 100 workers still unaccounted for. The victims were said to have been men, women and children.' The correspondent, who made a motor trip to the scene of the dis aster about 200 miles from lima, said the Los Cedros hydroelectric station was demolished by the roaring mass of rocks, mud and water loosed -Friday when , one side of the Pisocoha lagoon col lapsed. The railroad between Chimbote and Huallanca City was said to have suffered heavy dam age. .. ' J I fcj I I 1 1 aa AMterTI-FUUTCU)IC3 And! Wmm lMaMBBSal EH ISll'mtmu tan.ttaa turn ! S Big Hits! - "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" And - MI FICTCND ISMA GOES . WEST" GeniianAras IX Hi "EE)" Elephant As Democrat NEW BRITAIN. Conn Oct. 22- WVRepublican nartv officials smiled gleefully when FJihu Ele- pnant oi New Britain appeared In city hall yesterday to be made a voter. i . After taking the oath. Eleohant looked over at the GOP registrar. mere was a small statue of the republican symbol an elephant, on nis taoie. , ' ; Elephant - went over - the the democratic registrar, however, and became a registered democrat. FEDERAL EMPLOYES ELECT MEDFORD. Oct: rUOKJAn-rA V. Brown, Portland, was elected president of the Oregon State x eaerauon of Federal Employes at their ninth annual convention here yesterday. . . ", . CAMERAMAN DIES POUGHKEEPSIE. N.Y Oct. 22 -(aVFrank G. Kir by, IL one of America's first - motion picture cameramen and a one-time assoc iate of Thomas A. Edison, died to day. - Sea f s ef tatty's aaaer Sm year Mcaaly rra aemler Haw Showiagl Open at 1:45 P. M. Starts at 7:15 P. M. . Joel McCrea . Ellen Drew . -STABS IN MT CROW Tlveca Lindfars Kent Smith This Side ef the ' Law" jX rQ fjemy f it A Mat Dally from 1 P.M. Nowl It's DiSerenil Co-Featore! IliUWu Opens C:45 P. M. New! t Big Re-Issues! nZlfT.'nYr!r JJfVyt m Wt tdT. B Matmiia U -O? ran ! ' Maria Mantes 71