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Newspaper Page Text5 I '2--(Sec. 1 Statesman, Satan, Orew Suni Juno 2!, 1353 (MiciaDs Say Cfedls Jairaft Trance, Clhee Poses SmnnniliDDainig BlocCi t By SAM SUMMERLTN lif VtUNSAN at The U. N. Cora tnjnd Sunday pondered Communist demands for a crackdown on South Kdrean President Syngman Rhee's government, and also a Bed hint that a Korean armistice agreement was possible without the Southern republic's signature. ; yvithout closing the door 00 an armistice. Communist leaders in a tense plenary session of truce ne gotiators Saturday at Panmunjom bitterly assailed Rhee's arbitrary action freeing z,000 anu-nea war prisoners this week. -The feeds demanded recapture of the prisoners. They accused the AJlies of conniving with South Ko rea in the escapes - and bluntly aflced "is the United Nations Com mand able to control the South Ko rean government and Army?" The Commurists said "we are awaiting the reply of your side," and asked and got an indefinite recess. Bhee Responsible Gen. Mark Clark called the. re lease "completely unauthorized" and said "The entire responsibility rests squarely upon President Rhee and the government of Ko rea." The U. N. commander in a state ment from his Tokyo headquarters saia the action "has been a deep anc personal disappointment to me and my entire command. "It has given rise to wholly un founded suspicions of collusion on the part of the ROK government and the U.N.C. to circumvent or abrogate the prisoner of war agree ment at Panmunjom." The pact provided for the event ual freeing of the prisoners if through several administrative steps they continued to refuse re patriation. ' Violation of Authority "There has been no collusion nor has the U.N.C. in any way been a part to this completely unau thorized action," Clark said. He called it a "direct violation of the authority vested" in him. Clark said the Allied command had been aware that certain South Korean government elements ad vocated freeing the captives. "The personal assurance of Pres ident Rhee. however, rere con sidered sufficient guarantee that no such action would be taken without prior consultation with me." Clark explained. He said he had considered re pli8nb South Korean guards at Allied stockades but decided against doing so because they had been trustworthy and had per formed their duties commendably. Furthermore. Clark said, replacing the South Korean guards would have constituted a serious drain on . our front line forces." ; The Peiping Radio x x x fifth graf. The Peiping Radio, quoting a Red correspondent at North Ko rean trace 1 headquarters atJCae song, said "observers" there felt that u. N. commander Gen. Mark W. Clark's "answer to these cru cial questions will decide further progress of the talks." : The Communist high command letter asked whether the U. N. can control the South Koreans then: "If no. does the armistice in Ko riea include the Syagman Rhee clique?" Ask Assurance : It asked that, if South Korea is not included, "what assurance is there for the implementation of the armistice agreement on the part of South Korea?" : Lt - Col. Milton Herr, an : official U. N. spokesman, said the Reds seemed to be offering the U. N. a separate truce without South Ko rea signing. ; The U. N. Command was in the middle of a nutcracker situation. On one side were Red demands that the U. N. take full responsibil ity for the prisoner breakout. ' On the other side was a Repub lic of Korea (ROK) demand that the remaining 9,000 North Korean anti-Reds still in the prisoner com pounds be freed immediately. An other 600 broke out Saturday night Allied to Reds General Clark was forced by circumstances to be allied with Communist criticisms of the Rhee government'i action. Clark in a crisply worded letter to Rhee told the ROK president that the prisoner release was a "clear violation of my authority" and the U. N. commander said he could "not at this time estimate the ultimate consequences" of the South Korean leader's "precipitous and shocking" act A Service Vital to Your Good Health We are your doctor's ; .good "right hand in protecting your health. We fill his prescription promptly and accurate ly using only the finest 'pharmaceuticals obtain able. : . i - J SCIIAEFER'S! DRUG STmi ,m " " i 199-1955 " I ; Open Daily 7:39 A.M.-S P.M. i Sunday t A.M..4 P, M. : d "IIS N. Commercial Army Issues World ten Casualty Total WASHINGTON UB The Army, after a three-year check of the records of each man. has issued a new and final account of its World War II battle casualties a total of 936,259 Army and Air Force per sonnel. ; Deaths totaled 234.874. Altogether, about 10,420.000 served in the Army and Army Air Corps, and thus casualties were about 9 per cent of the total. The Navy has reported 100,393 casualties. : including 36,950 battle deaths, and the .Marines 88,718 cas ualties, of whom 19,733 died. This makes a total of 1.125,369 casualties, 291,557 deaths for the three services. ! The new Army figure was about 12,000 less than the casualties esti mated in 1946, 'but the number of deaths was a little over 5,000 more, than the original count Sgt. Waters Succumbs to Heart Attack MSgt Howard F. Waters, 48, of Salem, died unexpectedly, Fri day at McChord Air Force Base, Tacoma, Wash. He was believed to have suffered a heart; attack. Death came a few minutes after he1 was "found unconscious on the floor - of his room. A veteran of 25 years in the service. Waters was born Nov. 12, 1907 at Champlain, N. Y., but lived most of his life in Salem, graduating from Salem High School about 1926. He is the son of the late F. L. and Lizzie Waters of Salem. Surviving are a sister, Eliza beth H. Waters, Albuquerque, N. M.; and three brothers, Stan ley D. Waters and Dr. Kenneth H. Waters, both of Salem, and Roderick F. ; Waters, Lakeview. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in Clough Barrick chapel with interment at Bekrest Memorial Park. A mil itary service ; will be held with personnel from McChord AFB assisting. : Farmer Takes Own Life With Rifle Bullet Statesman News ferric INDEPENDENCE John W. Rumsey, . 60-year-old fanner of Independence Route 1, was found dead from a bullet wound in his head on his farm Saturday morn ing. Polk County Coroner J. Paul B oilman said the wound was self inflicted. Bollman said the death weapon was a .25-.35 rifle. Rumsey was found about 10 a.m. in an aban doned building on his farm. The coroner said Rumsey had been despondent lately. - Rumsey, a resident here for the past seven years, was born Oct 11, 1892 in Pennsylvania. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Veva M. Rumsey of Indepen dence. Funeral services will be an nounced later by Clough-Barrick Co., Salem. ACTRESS TO WED PITTSBURGH UP) - Film ac tress Gloria de Haven and Mar tin S. KimmeL New York realtor, said Saturday night they plan to be married Sunday morning at a private ceremony. ACTOR OPERATED UPON SANTA MONICA, Calif. Actor Rock Hudson underwent an emergency appendectomy at St John's Hospital Saturday. He was reported in good condition afterward. . ! ; (li -FT V -9. Serving ' Saleea and Vicinity at Funeral Directors for 24 Yfan . Convenient location, & Commercial street;: bus line; . direct rotn to e , meterits no cross traffic New modern building seating up to . 800.. Service within your means. WASHINGTON U) U. S. offi cials decided Saturday that the Reds seriously want ; a truce in Korea. But they; were deeply con cerned about ' how to meet Red demands for a guarantee that South Korea will observe the terms. : Another move in the so far de feated efforts to get South Korean President Syngman "Rhee's coop eration will be made shortly. A special emissary of the ad ministration is being - sent to try to impress upon - Rhee tile grave dangers for South Korea which President Eisenhower and Secre tary of State Dulles see in his course of conduct This special mission will be State Walter S. Robertson, the State Department's Far East chief. He will' go to - Korea, probably leaving Sunday afternoon or Mon day, at the invitation of Rhee but by the expressed decision of the President and Dulles to try to break the crisis in relations be tween the South Korean and Uni ted Nations allies. Failed U Break Contact Belief that the Reds really want a truce grew out of the attitude they took in the most recent meet ing of true negotiators at Pan munjom. They failed to break off contact or reopen vital parts of the terms already agreed. Some such action by them had been feared as a result of Rhee's release earlier in the week of thou sands of North Koran prisoners of war who, under the truce terms, were not supposed to get their freedom for many months. What the Reds did do in the brief conference, however, pre sented the United States with grave difficulties in framing a reply for the ' U. N. Command to make at the next session, which will be called when the U. N. is ready to reply. Ask Recapture . The Reds asked essentially for two things first, the recapture of the thousands of the released through South Korea with the blessings of Rhee's government; second, firm assurances that if a truce is finally signed the South Korean government and army about 16 divisions will abide by it Privately, responsible, officials considered the Red demands not unreasonable in the circumstance and short of what the Reds might have done if they wanted to wreck truce prospects. . Meeting the de mands was quite a different mat tr, however. While Gen. Mark Clark has said he would recapture the prisoners it is considered virtually impos sible here that he would get all of them. Moreover it is manifestly impossible at this time for Clark's U. N. Command to guarantee South Korea's behavior on any point Waldron Wins Race Feature Walt Waldron, whizz-oby from St Helens, won the Class A 35- lap main event feature of Satur day night s Hardtop racing pro gram at Hollywood Bowl before 1800 customers. Waldron squeezed in ahead of favored Clarence Smith, veteran Vancouver driver and third was Stan Dietz of Port land. The 20-lap Class B mainer was won by Bud Gru.l of Portland, with Dale Neliton, Portland, in second place and Emmett Vining of Portland, third. Waldron also had the fastest time of the evening as he hit 18:54.1 in the time trials. Clar ence Smith won the Class A tro phy dash and winner in Class B was Dale Neliton. Fred Connett of Portland won the first heat race, Gruol took the second, Dick Gaboury of aVn- couver won the third and Clar ence Smith was first in the fourth heat run. The card saw several spin-outs but no one was injured. Walt Puughaupt of Corvallis spun out in the Class A main and was hit broadside by Stan Dietz. The drivers escaped harm but the cars were damaged. MOTORIST ARRESTED A Salem motorist G. H. Trus seU. 548 S. 17th St. was ar rested by city police Saturday night on charges of reckless driving and violating restrictions of his operator's license. He was cited to court Vtrsil T. CmUtm VIRGIL T. GOLDEN Portland Pair WinBridge One hundred teams played Sat urday in the fifth annual) three day i Willamette Valley jBridge meet in the Salem Elks Lodge. It is the largest duplicate tourna ment ever held locally, j Fifty-two pairs competed in the opening session of the Open Pairs championship, while 48 played for Corvallis pairs trophies. 1 , Mrs. Elsie Pitti and I Mamie Hendry, both of Portland, won their second trophy yesterday by finishing high after capturing first in the Elks Club Pairs Fri day night Other Saturday winners 'includ ed Henry Walker, Redmond, and Mrs. R. L. Park, Mrs. 1 Arthur Binegar and Mrs. Robert .McKes son, Sam Ramp and Ray Kemp, all of Salem. High scores in the Elks Pairs also were turned in by Walter M. dine and Lin Miles, Mrs. A. G. Sender and Mrs. L G. Levelling, all of Albany, and Mrs. Elmer O. Berg and Mrs. Leona Taylor, both of Salem. j In the one-session mixed pairs title which opened the meet Fri day, Mrs. David Harkleroad, Port land life master, and Earl Mc- Kale, Seattle, Wash., were high. Marian Andrews and C iE. Hol- brook of Portland tied wijth John Donnelly and Betty Bryson, both 9f Seattle.vfor second, j Fourth were Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Van Vleet Portland, while Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis and Max Moore, Scio, and Mrs. Jose Mor itz, Corvallis, were next j Others awarded master points for high scores included! Mrs. C, Rhoades and Mrs. Dorothy Ram mey, both of Brownsville;;' and the following from Salem: Mrs. George Rein and Mrs. E. E. Bor ing, Mrs. Stanley Neuens and itirs. W. F. Lieske, Col Philip Allison and Oliver Huston, Mrs. Donald Duncan and Mrs. iF. Lutz, Mrs. Bert Osburn and Mrs. L. J. Ahsenmacher, Mrs. E. E. Roth and Mrs. M. D. Parker, Mrs. Charles Newson and Ellis jH. Jones, and Mrs. C. C Gabriel and Mrs. Myrtle Watson. Nepal Bestows Hero Welcome On Climbers KATMANDU, Nep'alUt Tribesman Tensing Bhotia, the native hero of the Himalayas, and Sir Edmond Hillary of New Zea land returned here Saturday in royal processional granduer from their conquest of Mount Ever est ' Flowers and ceremonial red powder were showered -on them and the red carpet was rolled out by the king and the I cheering people of this remote mountain kingdom capital. j The whole city concentrated mostly on Nepal's own hero, the Sherpa tribesman guide Tensing, called The Tiger of Tigers for his mountaineering prowess in a ca reer he is giving up now that he has topped 29,002-foot! Everest the world's high spot Hillary was his companion at the crest From Banepa, 20 miles away, Hillary, Tensing and British CoL John Hunt director of the first successful expedition to the top of the world were brought to Kat mandu in a three-mile-long pro-j cession. Roadsides were jammed with rapturous Nepalese. In an ornate four-horse coach garlanded with flowers rode Ten sing with his Indian wife and two daughters on one side and Hunt and Hillary on the other. Admiring crowds showered them with so many flowers and so much vermillion powder that when they reached the city out skirts, Mrs. Hunt waiting with the Nepalese premier,! told her husband: "I cud not recognize you at first- j The procession wended through the main streets to the, palace of King Tribhuvana. PETER LORRE DIVORCED LAS VEGAS. Nev. (A Actor Peter Lorre was divorced Saturday by Ingeborg Karen Lorre, former Viennese actress, on grounds they had been living apart more than three years. J Grace JB. Geldea CO. Meet Trophy 1 Police Seek;, ; Boy Escapees . .w, ... . t , t . : Two escapees from MacLaren School for. Boys in Woodburn were the object of a police hunt early this morning. f ; i The youths who left a work gang Saturday afternoon - were identified as La vera Francis Tro itt 13. and Jess Ward Potter. IK State and local police and sher iffs deputies were pressing the search in the Salem area. Bradley Says Russia Fears U.S. Strength By JACK BELL; i .Washington wv-Gen. Omar N. Bradley has told sena tors he believes Russia is "pull ing back" in the cold war be cause the Soviets fear increased 17. S. military strength and need time to consolidate their position at home. f : Bradley, retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testi fied recently - before the Senate Fore gin Relations Committee , on the administration's' foreign aid bill and his testimony was made public Saturday. . The question and answer ses sion turned at one point from the question of foreign aid to domestic defense funds and to the administration's decision to cut five billion dollars' off Air Force funds. Bradley called this decision a "stretchout" of the drive toward the goal of a 143 wing Air Force. ' Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala.) ob served that probably the great est victory the Russians could win "would be to get Us to re lax." : 143-Wing Goal v Bradley said the military high command would like to reach the 143-wing Air Force geal "as soon as . we can." Secretary of Defense Wilson has contended that the five billion dollar cut doesn't mean abandonment of the goaL But Bradley said the U. S. can't wait too long. ""The longer we put it off, the greater risk we are taking be cause certainly Russia is getting stronger in some ways, particu larly her atomic stockpile," Bradley testified. Racing Atom Bombs He said he hoped that "before that stockpile becomes too for midable, we would reach this strength in Air Power we think is necessary to combat a rea sonable stockpile of A-bombs on their part f ; Chairman Wiley R-Wis. asked if Bradley was implying that President Eisenhower and others who had decided on the cut in Air Force money requests were P-yD lul I II ( UJU ! f JtiS ; flftXtftt', well provo every word I smmI yov snoy win FQGG tlUPSOtJ JET a PERFORMANCE! Well take you oat and pot a Jet through its pace. Youll see why it's a new kind at car . before it baa need a teacup of gas. . E CONOMY! It Ukes only a teacup of gas to show you 'the almost unbelievable gas mileage, the Hudion Jit delivers. ' J A SCIENTIFIC, DRAMATIC TEST! U1U 1W4: scientific measuring equip ment. It shows you exact, low fuel consumption while the Jet kf in action. 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