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The Weather
Mut. Min. Precip.
S.m ' 75 , 44
Portland 71 53
San Francisco ..W ' S5 :
Chicago 91 ; 79
New York M 72 trace
Willamette River J .3 feet
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary " field. Salem) :
Mostly ;ir. today, tonight and
Tuesday, except lor, some morning
cloudiness. Not much change in tem
perature. High today near 78. low
near 46. Temperature at 12:03 a. m.
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103 YEAR
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Th Ortcjtm Stcrtssmaxu Seism. Orscjon, Monday, July 20, 1953
PRICE 5c ,
No. 112
Armistiee
Supe
Op
Nego
ttattoni
li
s
With Reds
Enmij'TraPs'
Girls Stage Preview of YWC A Camp
For the first time in five years, the YWCA will sponsor a camp for girls at Camp Silver Creek.
Planning for the outing got nnder way Thursday when a group of seven girls met to map out a
tentative schedule of activities. Patting in their bid for outdoor sports, the three girls shown
above came to the gathering equipped with bows and arrows and a tennis racket. They are from
left Carol Stolk, 2245 Englewood St; Susan Crier, 671 Kingwpod Dr., and Roberta DeWeese, 2005
Byram Ave. Camp will be from Aug. 16 to 22. (Statesman Photo)
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The announcement at Panmun
jom by the Communist Command
that it is ready to proceed with
arrangements for an armistice
belied the predictions of those
who asserted the Reds wanted no
truce. A careful analysis of the
facts indicated otherwise, but
skepticism persisted even in high
quarters. I John M. Hightower re
ported for the Associated Press
as late as Saturday that "top offi
cials" in Washington entertained
"grave concern" that the Com
munists were indulging in "stall
ing" tactics. That night at the
conference tent, however, the
Communists agreed to start prep
arations for the signing of the
truce.
They did this in the face of
stubborn resistance of the Repub
lic of Korea to the truce terms
and its expression of determina
tion to fight alone for Korean uni
fication if necessary. They did
this too in spite of the release
of 27,000 prisoners of war by
Korea about whose fate the Reds
had long disputed.
The chain of events showed
that Red China, which has pretty
much run the show since its in-j
tervention in late 1950, wants to.
close off its involvement in
Korea. It was China which asked
that the truce talks be resumed,
last April, after the death of
Stalin. It was China which made
the big, retreat on its previous
(Continued on editorial Page 4.)J
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SCOUTS HEAR NIXON
JAMBOREE CITY. Calif. UP.
A day of outdoor worship and re
laxation at the third National Boy
Scout Jamboree was climaxed Sun
day nisht by a massed convoca
tion under the stars at which Vice
President Richard Nixon express
id hope that boys of every nation
ill some day gather in a great
and peaceful world jamboree.
Animal Crackers
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Boys Back
Of Week
Two Salem boys who spent
the Cascades met their parents
day noon with tales of frozenilakes, a trip across a glacier and fog
so thick that only a compass ould serve as their guide.
Richard Richardson, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Richardson,
920 Tamarack St., and Chestdr (Sam) Cushing, 17, son of Mr. and
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Many Quizzed
In Search for
Knife Wielder
The knife wielding slayer! of
31-year-old John Melton, Eskimo
logger from Valsetz, was still at
large early this morning as Saem
police pressed their search or
the unknown killer.
Numerous persons were quizz
ed by police all day Sunday infan
effort to crack the case, but as
yet no definite leads have been
uncovered, officers said.
Melton was stabbed in the
stomach during a street fipBt
early Saturday morning in he
200 block of North Commercial
Street near Bligh Billards tavern.
A man accused by police ; of
holding Melton while the. slayer
stabbed him is being held onan
open 'charge. j
Police said District Attorney
Kenneth Brown is expected 1 to
bring a formal charge against he
man today.
Held on a vagrancy charge! in
connection with the case is Jess
Coleman. 64, of WickenbUrg,
Ariz., who, said witnesses.
was
punched in the nose by Mel
on
gh
after a .brief argument in Bl!
Billards. ' j
Melton then left the tavern nd
was followed out by two men. One
held him while the other stab'
him, police said.
Moscow's Purge of East German
Officials Claims Two More Victims
By DON DOANE
BERLIN LP Moscow's purge
of East German Communism
claimed two new victims Sunday.
A Kremlin - directed reorganiza
tion of the entire East German
i government was reported unper
way as i the Russians used tanks
and terror against the menaces of
a new revolt 1 .
Adalbert Hengst, a secretary? of
East Germany's ruling Socialist
Unity (Communist) Party was .ex
pelled for "supporting the provo
cateurs" of the June 17 uprising,
the . official party newspaper, Ne
ues Deutschland, announced. . f
Bernd Weinberger, minister ffor
construction of transport vehicles
and machines, was "sharply cen
sured" at the same meeting of ftne
party Politburo which ousted Hen
gst, the; paper said. He appeared
on his way out of office. , f ;
An even bigger purge the
government shakeup which
been expected since the June riots!
was forecast for next week. 1
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With Tales
in Cascades
the past week walking the rim of
at Marion Forks on schedule Sun
Mrs. Chester S. Cushing Jr., 467
N 18th St, started walking from
Breitenbush Lake a week ago
Sunday with 40 to 50 pound
packs. They travelled between 50
to 60 miles across some of the
ruggedest parts of the Cascades,
following the Skyline Trail.
Fog reduced the visibility to
zero Monday and all day Tues
day, the boys reported. They fol
lowed a compass .heading during
the day. Their , route took them
across the glacier on the west
side of Mt Jefferson. They were
roped together during the cross
ing for two hours. To top off the
tough -lay Tuesday they were
soaked to the skirt by a driving
rainstorm.
The boys spent two nights at
Lake Pamelia, which, like many
of the lakes atop the Cascades,
was still partially covered by ice.
They caught their limit of fish,
which was the main item on their
menu during most of the trip.
They also carried tried fruit, de
hydrated soups and food.
After seven days in the open
amid the grandeur' of Oregon
mountain scenery, the two youths
descended (he Pamelia Lake trail
Sunday to the Santiam Highway
and civilization.
Their parents reported them to
be in good physical conditon and
enthusiastic about the trip. -
PERON, MILTON AT GAME
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina UH
Milton Eisenhower went to a soc
cer game with President Juan D.
Peron Sunday as the friendly at
mosphere which has ; marked his
Argentine tour continued.
the politburo was reliably report
ed scheduled to meet Monday or
the nsxt day to receive its orders
from Moscow for the government
reshuffle.
Either Soviet High Commissioner
Vladimir Semyenov or his deputy
and political adviser. Pavel Yudin.
'will attend the meeting to deliver
the Kremlin s orders in person," in
formed West Berlin sources said.
Interior Minister Willi Stoph was''
regarded as almost certain to beiteurs." Weinberger was charged
among those getting the political! with "surrendering to the hostile
ax. j riot inciters. No details were giv-
, Even President Wilhelm Pieck ,
may be replaced, according to the
West Berlin newspaper, Telegraf.
It said Gen. Vincenz Mueller,
chief of staff of the East German
armed forces, has been suggested
by Cabinet members as successor
to aged and ailing Pieck, who has
been under medical treatment in
. Russia since April.
The charges against Hengst and
Wineberger disclosed that the June
Jap Flood
Deaths
At ! 6,000
TOKYO Another terrible
flood the ; worst in modern Jap
anese history left more than 6,000
persons dead or missing Monday
and engulfed entire villages, some
200 miles southwest of Tokyo.
Sudden cloudbursts and heavy
continuing! rains unleashed three
mountain streams, washing houses
toward the Pacific some almost
before (the sleeping inhabitants
could flee, .
Flash floods burst dikes before
warnings could be sounded. The
downpour starting Friday, contin
ued over the weekend.
Police : in mountainous Waka-
jama Kre lecture saia tney naa
collected 600 bodies ana expectea;
to recover 500 more.
More thin 5,000 persons were on
the official missing list, and 1,300
were injured. Twenty-five dead
were counted in neighboring prov
inces. Second Disaster
" The new disaster struck South
ern Honshu Island only three
weeks after a catastrophic flood
on the southern Island of Kyushu
rolled up record casualty and
damage i tolls: some 700 dead,
more than 1,000 hurt and one mil
lion homeless.
Residents of Kyushu were not
spared by the new downpour.
Eleven persons were reported
dead and six missing as water
rose again in debris-filled cities.
But hardest hit in the new dis
aster were the three narrow coast
al valleys of Wakayama Kishi,
Arita and Hikada where rivers
became bucking, murderous tor
rents. Size of Rhode Island
U. S. Army helicopters and
planes crisscrossed the area, about
the size of Rhode Island, spotting
survivors for Japanese Coast
Guard boats. ,
The rivers in Wakayama Pre
fecture rose so fast and violently
they burst' dikes a few hours after
the heavy rains began Friday. The
government weather bureau said
it was unable to sound a flood
alarm in time.
Many of the victims were asleep
when the waters swept in. Some
scrambled onto rooftops and wait
ed for help as their houses drifted
toward the seas.
Many villages were isolated,
with food stocks washed away.
Filbert Spray
Delay Ordered
Filbert spraying should be held
off for the present, Don Rasmus
sen, Marion County agent said
Sunday, as he reported that a
story stating that first spray or
dust for filbert moth control
should be applied at once, had
inadvertently been sent out too
early. A story to the effect that
spraying or dusting should be
done at once was quoted from Dr.
S. C. Chang, entomologist at Ore
gon State College in Sunday's
paper.
"This story should not have
left our office when it did and
growers should hold their spray
ing for a few days until a notice
of moths being out is released,"
Rasmussen stated.
Time for spraying and dusting
for various diseases and pests are
sent out from the county agents'
offices as a service to the farm
ers, and since this practice has
been followed, disease and pest
free growth has greatly increased
here in the valley.
YES, IT'S OT THERE
HELL, Norway, CP The ther
mometer at the railway station in
Hell read $2.4 degrees Sunday.
Rebellion reached high into the
upper brackets of the party hier
archy, j :
Hengst and Wineberger were sent
to help put down the riots in Ros
tock, big Baltic port where ; the
Communists had not previously ad
mitted any trouble.
But instead of quelling the riot
ers, Hengst was accused by the
Politburo of "surrendering to and
concretely supporting the provoca
en.
A multitude of stern new actions
showed that the "new course" of
moderation and appeasement an
nounced i last month has ' already
been shelved at least temporarily
in favor of ruthless force. ,
"Purge first and reform after
ward, was the essence of a sign
nificant editorial on Sunday s front
page of the party mouthpiece, L
NeueS Deutschland. I
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SCITUATE, Mass-Ex Secretary
of Labor Maurice Tobin died
of a heart attack at his home
here Sunday.
Death Claims
Ex-Secretary
Of Labor Tobin
SCITUATE, Mass. CP) Maurice
J. Tobin, 52 secretary of labor in
the Truman cabinet from 1948 until
the Republicans took over early
this year, died unexpectedly Sun
day of a heart attack at Ms sum
mer home here.
The verdict was given by medi
cal examiner Herbert Blanchard
wht. said he was told by the family
that Tobin felt fine' when he arose
and was stricken shortly after 8
a.m. Ht had played golf Saturday
at the Scituate Country Club.
In Independence, Mo., former
President Truman said he was
"shocked."
"He was a fine man," said Tru
man. "He was a great mayor of
Boston, a great governor of Mas
sachusetts and he made one of the
best Secretaries of Labor the coun
try ever had. I'm shocked. The
country is losing a very great man
and I hate to see this happen. His
lanuiy nas an my sympauiy.
Tobin's rise from
a poor news-,
boy to Secretary of Labor was by
way of minor offices in Boston to
become one of the city's youngest
mayors and governor at the age of
43.
Since leaving the cabinet post
Tobin had been a director of Gray
son Robinson Co., New York City.
The firm operates a chain of wo
men's clothing and accessory shops.
Tobin's first political office was as
state representative from his Rox
bury hometown section in 1927.
(Additional Details on Page 5)
Lady Bullfighter ,
Tossed, Gored,
But Kills Bull
TIJUANA, Mex. LP Texas'
lady bullfighter, Patricia McCor-
mic, 23, was tossed and gored,
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causing a wound in the calf of her night and charged with making a
leg. in the Tijuana ring Sunday, j disturbance at the Clarence Gra-
She insisted on continuing the vette bean yard on the Marion
fight and dispatched the 750-pound ! Stayton Road.
La Punta ranch bull with four James H. Palmer, 20. was
sword thrusts. chafed with threatening assault
Miss McCormick was taken to a and battery, and the mother,
hospital for treatment of the eight- Mrs. Ethel Palmer, 46, and a 16
inch gash in her leg. year-old son were charged with
Her trainer, Del Heirro, said she
would be out of action for 15 days
Miss McCormick started fighting
two years ago. This was her first
test, officials said, against really
big bulls in a major ring.
Eisenhower Back
From Mountains
WASHINGTON UP - President
Eisenhower returned to the White
House Sunday night from a week-
end stay at Camp David in the,
Catoctin Mountains at Tburmont,
Md
The President arrived at 7:20
p. m. from the mountain lodge,
where he kept abreast of the latest
Korean truce developments but
made no public comment on them.
Western International
At Salem 2-3, Spokane 4-1
At Lewtston 4-0, Edmonton 1-7
At Wenatchee 4-3. Vancouver 3-2
At Yakima O-l. Calgary S-3
At Tri-City a. Victoria
Coast League
At Portland S-O. Saa rranciaeo 5-1
At Si XT, 4-T scrVmto s-9
At Oakland S-4, San Dieft 3-
American League
At Chicago S-O. New York ft-3
At Cleveland 0-5. Boston 2-7
At St. Louis 5-4. Wachinjrton 4-13
At Detroit U-A. Philadelphia S-l
(2nd.' darkness
National eaene
At Brooklyn 1-7. Cincinnati 4-4
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U.S. Marine Outposts
SEOUL (AVMore than 2,000 Chinese swarmed through! a cur
tain of steel early Monday and engulfed two U. S. Marine outposts
on the Korean Western Front I j I
In their- last hurried message, it he Leathernecks on the twin
outposts Berlin and East Berlin called in their own artillery fire
on tcp of them.
The Reds numbering more
than two battalions struck be
hind intense artillery and mortar
fire.
Near Trace Site
The outposts are northeast of the
truce conference site of Panmun
jom, where Allied and Communist
staff officers worked Monday
presumably on the final details pre
liminary to the signing of an armi
stice. To the east, an ominous buildup
of Chinese continued on the Cen
tral Front.
Leave Reserve
On the Western Front the Chi
nese assault was the first since
the Reds hit the Kumsong sector
of the Central Front last week. In
reporting the action, the U. S. 8th
Army disclosed also that the Ma
rines had been back at the front
since July 8 after being in reserve.
The Marines were shelled sav
agely at 10 p. m. Sunday night.
By 10:30 p. m. more than 5,000
rounds had hit one outpost and
two beefed-up Chinese battalions
began the assault.
Call for Artillery
At 11:23 p. m., the , Leathernecks
called for Allied artillery fire
which had been ringing the out
posts to zero in the outposts
themselves. It was their last mes
sage. The Reds were seen on the crest
of East Berlin at 12:25 a. m. Mon
day Berlin had fallen before mid
night. At 2:M a. m. the Reds were
observed carrying their dead and
wounded off both hills. It was not
known whether any Marines sur
vived. Berlin and East Berlin were the
scenes of a similar furious fight
nearly three weeks ago in which
the outposts were lost and then
recaptured.
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Curiosity May
Kill Brothers
i MApT.irc it.lv i-Pnln nH
A it t-i, K-n,i---
for murder in absentia, got curi
ous ' about how the trial was
going. So they went to the court
room Saturday to see.
They were recognized after a
time and officials moved them
from the spectators' benches to
the prisoners' box to join another
brother, Santo. All three are
accused of committing a murder
last August r
Mother, Sons
Jailed After
Disturbance
MARION Three transient
workers a mother and her two
sons were arrested by Marion
Countv sheriff's deputies Sunday
swearing in a pumic piace.
All, were held Sunday night in
Marion County Jail, Salem; in
lieu of $100 bail each.
Gravette told deputies he fired
the family Sunday and they re
fused to leave his farm. He ac
cused the Palmers of threatening
to "tear the bean yard camp
apart."
NEPAL REBELS ROUTED
NEW DELHI, India UP The
Nepalese Embassy here announced
Sunday night that armed Nepalese
rebel- who threatened Dhangarhi,
commercial and administrate
center of southwest Nepal, have
been routed.
tALEM PRICIPITATION ,
Since 2Urt f Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year Last Year Normal
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Allies Agree
Rhee if ROC1
By SAM SUMMERLIN
MUNSAN. Korea OP Aged
Syngman Rhee and his young Re
public of Korea (ROK army will
have t fight all alone if his troops
start shooting in violation of the
Korean truce, excerpts from the.
official record of secret negotiai
tions at Panmunjom showed Mon
day, -i
The Allied command was quoted
as pledging not to fire a single
shot to support Rhee if the South
Koreans launch "aggressive ac
tion" after the armistice signing.
The Red armies can fight back
without fear of U. N. interference.
The Commonists cited this as
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SEASIDE Miss Portland, Pattl
FThroop, was chosen Sunday to
! represent Oregon at the Atlan
tic City beauty conteh. The
inw Miss Oregon is Ja 1951
Portland Rose Festival princess.
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Portland Lass
ins Title of
iss Oregon
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SEASIDE CP Patti Throop,
19-year-old brunet from Portland,
Sunday was chosen Miss; Oregon
for 1953.
She will represent Oregon in the
Mass America contest at 'Atlantic
City 1 in September.
Miss Throop, a 1951 Rose Festi
val princess from Cleveland High
School, is the daughter of Mr. and
M-s. Edwin O. Throop. Portland.
She is a student at Lewis and
Clark College where she was
homecoming princess this year.
She also was named "Model of the
Year" by the Oregon Camera
Club. i
iHarriet . Ruth Vahey, Portland,
wo ; entered the contest as Miss
Gearhart. was named mnnerup.
Third place went to Miss Milwau
ki, Diane Carman. Miss Carman
won the title "Miss Congeniality"
after being voted by other con
testants as the most co-operative
arid friendly. j
. The other two finalists were
Miss Columbia County, Donna Lee
Johnson, Clatskanie, and ! M i's s
Washington County, Varin Chris
tine Heinrich, Hillsboro. i
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102nd Birthday,
72nd Wedding
Anniversary Feted
FORTLAND OR Charles H.
Hams celebrated his 102nd birth
day anniversary here Sunday.
"This is even bigger than last
time. The next should be iquite a
gathering." he said. j
He and his wife. Viola. 97, also
wee observing their 72nd wedding
anniversary. They were married
June 4, 1871. They delayed the
anniversary observance so it could
be celebrated with the birthday.
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7 KILLED BY LIGHTNINp
: Kingston. Jamaica op 4 Light-
nlflg struck two houses doririg a
storm here Saturday, killing two
wdmen and two children. Five oth
er! persons were hospitalised.
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Not to Aid
Ends Truce
one of 10 pledges the Alliet com
mand made to the Reds in recent
days in an effort to set their; minds
atf ease over President Rhee's
bajkiness at observing a truce.
The Communists broke the se
crecy of the Panmunjom negotia
tions to quote at length from the
official record and said they were
doing so to make sure "that the
DeODle of the world mar know the
assurances" offered by .thjS-Allies;
tojkeep Rhee in line. j j
!.! Col. Milton Herr, U. NJ Com
mand scakesman, confirmed that
Allied quotes in the Communist
statement were "excerpts from the
official secret record.
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By ROK
PANMUNJOM OP United Na
tions members of tho military ar
mistice commission Monday op
ened negotiations for the first time
wth the Reds on preparations for
supervising a truce.
The American officers flew un
expectedly from Munsan to join a
staff session between the Allies
and Communists. '
It represented another step In ac
celerated preparations for a truce
signing, in the wake of Sunday's
go-ahead from the Reds.
The armistice commission mem
bers went into session at 2:40 pan.
(9:40 p.mr., PST). . -
A U.N. Command spokesman told
newsmen that the military armis
tice commission members "are
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mistice stories , on pages
2 and 9.)
planning against the day that an
armistice is signed so there will
be a minimum of delay In getting
the commission Into operation."
Handle Violations
The truce document creates
this commission, composed of top
officers from both the U H. and
Red armies to oversee the armi
stice. This commission will handle
violations of the truce and control
the buffer zone which will separate
the Allied and Communist forces
across. Korea. i
!A group of United Nations Com
mand officers headed by CoL Poug
las M. Cairns met with the Reds
and recessed 20 minutes later. In
terpreters with the group then met
and sill were in session Monday
afternoon. I
Headed bv Colonel
j Another group of Allied staff of
i fleers headed by U.S. CoL James
c. Murray met for 42 minutes with
the Communists, recessed for IS
minutes anaVfhen reconvnrf at
ix a.m.' f .... .
I Officers (M Murray's group car
their work was devoted to deter
mining a cease-fire line between
the warring armies. The grdup re
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at 12:05 p.m. and recessed for the
day at 12:54 p.m. 75
The U.N. Command said rn fur
officers. There was no announce
ment concerning the day's work.
SUff Officers j
IThe U.N. Command called (cor
respondents' J attention to the if act
that the sessions were of staff offi
cer groups and not liaison officers,
as the U.N. .Command had previ
ously announced. M ' '.
j There was no announcement as
to just when the, historic truce
document wold be signed, but offi
cial indications were that it would
be soon. Because- of recent Red
battle gains, a cease-fire line must
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Glvea Assurances ,.
The Communist high command
agreed Sunday to proceed imme
diately with final preparations, aft
er asserting that the United (Na
tions Command had given assur
ances the South Korean Ar.my
would not wreck a truce.
IU.N. commander Gen. Mark'W.
Clark said in Tokyo that Sunday's
developments at Panmunjom were
"most encouraging" and 'hnnM
lead to an early signing.
'Many Traps
! But. in Seoul. South Korean Fnr.
elgn Minister Pyun Yung Tai view
ed the Communist statement with
misgivings. He said there were
"many trans' in the Rede' nr.
tion thar they would go ahead with
preparations lor signing.
in boutn Korea's first official re.
action to the Communist statement.
Pyun, said it contained "three ser
ious points" which bared "Com
munist intentions to take all South
Korea bv subversive' artivitie anH
by liquidating the Republic of Ko
rea army which we have built so
painstakingly and with so much ex
pense." -
Pyun, the most outspoken gov
ernment opponent to an armistice
on present terms, is considered
President Syngman Rhee's closest
adviser. He sat in on many v of
Rhee's secret conferences with
President Eisenhower's special en
voy, Walter S. Jtobertson. earlier
this month.
I But the Reds, apparently are get
ting ready in earnest for a truce
signing ceremony. About 200 Chi
nese and North Korean, workmen
resumed construction of the "ar
mistice signing" building at Pan
munjom Monday. ; ,
IThe work bad been suspended
with only the foundations laid aft
er Rhee ordered the release of 27,
000 anti-Communist North Korean
war prisoners in mid-June. .
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