37 Prisoners
After Tarty'
ON THE -WESTERN FRONT,
KOREA, Feb. 9 -iJPy- Thirty-seven
American, British and South Ko
rean soldiers returned to head
quarters of" an American division
early today after being released by
their North. Korean and Chinese
, aptors. --".-
They had been captured in ac
tions on this front during the past
two months. ;
(On the central front, four Am
ericans and one South Korean got
back to UJN. lines yesterday after
being released by the reds.)
' In today's , lot were 16 Ameri
cans, 15 South Koreans, and 6
British soldiers of the Royal Ulster
Rifles. They walked into division
headquarters at about 2 a.m. i
They appeared well-fed, well
dressed and healthy. All were
shaved and carried their own equ
ipment and clothing. One of the
Americans wore Chinese footgear
to replace the shoes he had lost.
The men said their captors gave
them a farewell party last night
ana men took tnem to wiuun
three miles of XSJi. lines and re
leased them about midnight.
. Newsmen were not permitted to
speak to themj but it was under
stood that they; were selected from
among hundreds of allied prison
ers after a mass interview and then
given a 21-day Indoctrination
course in communism.
It was understood they consider
ed the schooling Ma big joke."
The British prisoners had been
captured on the night of Jan. 2
Taft Attacks
Truman Troop
Authority Bid
By W. W. Hereher
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 fPy
Senator Taft of Ohio charged to
day that President Truman, by
claiming the rignt to send troops
to Europe without consulting con
gress, is making a "straight de
mand for a simple dictatorship."
Urging congress to lay down a
policy, the Ohio republican also
accused the administration of con
cealing from congress and the
people just how many troops -the
United States and other nations
are to furnish.
Taft said in the senate that this
country should supply no more
than one division for each nine
raised by its western European
allies to build a bulwark against
communist aggression.
Taft, chief of his party's policy
committee in the senate, asserted
arguments that Mr. Truman could
send the enlarged armed forces
anywhere without definite con
gressional approval are "a claim
of power which no president has
ever had in time of peace."
President Truman has consist
ently claimed full authority to de
ploy American armed forces
around the world, but he has al
ways stated that he intended to
consult congressional committees
before acting.
Taft said, that after the Brus
sels conference last December,
Secretary of State Acheson an
nounced that definite details had
been received here as to "the
structure of that (western Euro
pean) army; how it should be com
posed, of what troops, where the
troops should come from, how it
snouia De organized.
But neither congress lnor the
people who must supply the troops
and funds can find out these facts,
Taft said-
Hoover Slates
Radio Speech
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 -VP)- For
mer President Herbert Hoover
goes on the air tomorrow night for
his first foreign policy discussion
since . his now-famous "Gibraltar"
speech of six weeks ago.
He will be heard over the Mu
tual system at - pjn. (PST)) in
a 30-minute. address entitled "We
Should Revise Our Foreign poli
cies." . .
. Hoover aroused a storm of con
troversy pro and con in his last
sDeech when he said the nation
must "preserve for the world this
western hemisphere Gibraltar of
western civilization." ;
tTA fKan nrnnAcel tn Vsvlz-I I Via
Atlantic and Pacific oceans with
one frontier on Britain if she
wants to cooperate and the other
on Japan, Formosa and the Phil
ippines. Milk Prices
Up in Four
More Areas
By Tb Associated Press
Milk prices are slated to go up
0 four more Oregon communities.
' Starting today (Friday) milk
consumers in Pendleton and Uma
tilla county will pay 23 cents a
quart for milk a lt-cent in
crease. '.-.;
Monday Eugene housewives will
pay 22 Vi cents a quart - also a
1-ccnt boost
The Oregon milk marketing ad
ministration recently approved a
1V .cent boost for Portland, raising
milk to ZZV cents.
Tn each instance the price in
crease goes to the producers.
A Eugene housewife, Mrs. Char
les Ford, said the affiliated milk
committee was preparing to cir
culate initiative" petitions calling
for repeal of the milk control law.
.Similar action is being studied
by a committee in Portland.
Milk will sen for 23 cents'
quart at The Dalles and" Hood
Xu vet-. starting today. ,
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Favnders and Benefactors
day,
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Thursday morning. Above, the graduating seniors, the first mid
year graduates since the V-12 program ended in 1946, file ta their
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members of Willamette Bniversity's
visitors gathered la the anlversity gym
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Neiv Vigil
WHALLEY, B. C, Feb. 8 -(CP)-The
"Childrer of Light," who van
ished from the interior .British
Columbia town of Keremeos after
a two-week "end of the - world"
vigil, were located today in this
village 15 miles, east of Vancouver.
Sixteen members ' of the sect
have been living in three motel
cabins for the last week. Three or
four children are among the group.
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Whalley residents said the sect
keeps cIom to the cabins but oc-
casionallj members , chat with
passers-by or go out to shop. -.
The religious ceremonies the
cult performed for two weeks
starting Dec 23 in a Keremeos
farmhouse are continuing - here.
Residents, said' they have caught
glimpses of the children in white
robes. - -'
, Members of the secCld by 50-year-old
Mrs. Agnes Grace Carl
son, declined to talk with report
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- The original , vigil -' with 35
cultists was to -await the end
of the world,". When that didn't
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when the Keremeos school board
threatened to bring action against
adult members of the sect, for
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