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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1953)
Taken Americans To Manchuria, PW Returnees Repbrt . By JIM BECKER. - FREEDOM VILLAGE. Korea UN Returning U. S. soldiers fold Sun day of 14 Americans forced to go to Manchuria, of b more death marches and of the ceaseless lash of Red propaganda in prison camps. On the whole, however, the Amer icans and ; other nan-Koreans re turned oa the fifth day of the pris oner exchange Sunday were In high spirits and good health. It was a sharp! contrast to the weary lines of returning South Ko reans, . many wasted by disease, who were dealt with harshly by their Communist captors. j In the group of Americans was sne civilian. Associated Press pho tographer Frank Noel, who was captured in December of 1950 in northeast Korea. j - Lots of Propaganda i Noel said Communist propaganda was "jammed down oar throats day after day" and prisoners hid to attend lectures because "there was a man there with a cocked gun." He tried three times to es cape, j - : 1 There have been repeated ret ports that some American prison ers had been- taken to Red China's Manchuria, and Cpl. Solomon Thomas of Macy, Neb., touched on this. 1 Advanced Training 1 He said 14 Americans carne through his camp at Pyoktong near the Manchurian border and said they were being sent to Manchuria for "advanced training. j They didn't know what would happen to them. They didn't want to go. We didn't , see them again, " Thomas said he also knew of twoJ prisoners who were staying behind of their own choice and one j o them told Mm "just the other dy that I am going to Czechoslovakia to live." I On Death March -i Pvt. James G. Dob son of Alcoa, Tenn., said he was on a death march from Wonju, in South Ko rea, to Qringsong . near the Man churian border in which 50 of 1,000 Allied prisoners died. , We were almost starved and the cold was awful," be said. VI kept telling myself I wanted to get back." Pvt. Rothwell B. Floyd of Chicago, who was on that same march in February of 1951, said he saw his Chinese captors push a buddy off a cliff because he was too sick to go on. He saw others beaten , to death. PFC. Fred L. Simpson of Phil adelphia estimated that 2,000 men were on the march and only 100 were alive today. He said the rest were beaten to death or died of malnutrition. , Pvt. James Williams of Savan na gh, Ga., reported a U.S. prisoner who escaped from a Pyoktong camp was beaten to death with knotted ropes, heavy belts and clubs. He said other prisoners were beaten but this was the only one he knew who was beaten fatally. Salem Obituaries BURREIX Mrs. Louise Jane Burrell. In thU city Aug. 1. Late resident of 396 Columbia St. Survived by children Cordon Burrell, Salem. Mrs. Amy Alden, Seattle, Wash.. Mrs. Pearl Shepiiard. Spokane. Wash.. Mrs. Dor othy franz. Fort Lee. Va.. Mrs. Mar guerite Hunt. Lake Grove. Services Monday. Aug. 10 at: v p.m. in W. T. Rigdon Co. Chapel with concluding services-t Mt. Crest Abbey. CUNNINGHAM Mary E. Cunningham, in this city Aug. 7 at the age of 84. Late rein dent of 1369 Center St. Survived by niece, Mrs. Florence; Nelson. Aurora. Ill . nephews, Alfred G. McGuire. Salem, D. A. McGuire. Portland, Ray Thompson. Los Angeles. Calif.. Will Breece. Aurora. Til. Services Mon day. Aug. IS at 10 JO aim. in W. T. Bigdon Chapel. j. DAHL. I Miss Olive M. Dahl. In this city Aug. 4 at the age of 65. Late resi dent of S25 N. MA St. Survived by sister. Mrs Roy Chisholm, Fort ' Worth. Tex.; three brothers, John DahL Hot Springs. S.D.. Siegard Dahl, Mobridge. S-D, and Aliert Dahl. Malta. Mont. Member of Ptii Beta Kappa Fraternity, also Delta Gamma Sorority. Services Monday. Aug. 10 at 10:30 -m. in HoweU-Bdwarts Chapel with the Rev. Brooks Moor officiating. 3 s GRAY ' I Mrs. Nora C. Gray, late resident of 107S Glen Creek Dr., at a kxl convalescent home Aug. S. Survived by daughter. Mrs. Elmer R. Worth, Salem- sons,- Floyd A. Gray, Salem, Howard A. Gray. Tacoma. Wash.; nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; also several nieces and nephews. Services Tuesday, Aug. 11 at 1 JO p.m. in Clough-Barriek Chapel with interment at Belcrest Memorial Park. i LYON I Jonn Charles Lyon, in this city Aug. 7. Late resident of Estacada Route 1. Box 107. Survived by chil dren, Mrs. Lola B. Reimers, Estacadin. Mrs Gertrude Sganzini. SebastOpel,' cult ; one grandson. Deibert BeB tnaa. Chicago, 111. Services Monday. Aug. 10 at 130 p.m. In W. T. Rig don Chapel with interment at Bel crest Memorial Park. The Rev. George G. Roseberry will official. WILKES I Claire Northrup Wilkes, at the res idence 593 Hansen Ave., Aug. 7. Sur vived by wife. Hazel Wilkes. Salem; daughters,. Mrs. Carolyn Parpia. Bom bay. India. Miss Kathleen Wilkes. SaJom: son, Stanley N. Wilkes. Sa lem; brothers, Francis M. Wilkes, Cathedral City. Calif.. Ward A. Wilkes, Berkeley. Calif.: sister. Miss Elinor Wilkes, Monmouth. Services Monday. Aug 10 at 1 p.m. in Virgil T. Golden Chapel with the Rev. Louis E. White officiating. In lieu of flowers, it has been suggested contributions be sent to the Knight Memorial Congregational Building Fund. r 1 Machinist Cuts Miniature Tools for Fun EAST ORANGE, N. J. (Bur nice Lucas spends his days work ing as a precision machinist -At night, to relax, he gets even more precise. His hobby is fashioning tiny, working scale models of the tools he works with, perfect to the last detail. So tiny and perfect are the models, his friends have sug gested that the little tools would make good charms for a brace let This gets a smile from Lucas. He explains that considering the time and artisanship that goes into each model, a set for a brace let would be worth more than diamonds. At least they would be to Lucas. His collection includes chisels, drills, pliers and more than a dozen other types of tools. Each actually works: Drills have mov able chucks and mitsr .wrenches are calibrated and adjustable; a blowtorch less than an inch high shoots oat a tiny alcohol flame; the blades of a pocketknife fold neatly into the handle. Most of the tool models are less than an inch long. Several are as small as three eighths of an inch. And Lucas takes no short cuts by working in soft material he uses hardened tool steel After the rough outline of the model is cut out of a block W steel, the finish ing is done by a series of incredi bly delicate filing operations. Lucas, who served as a cook in the Navy durinf World War II, moved' to East Orange with his wife six years ago. Saved After Plane Crash rr Y ' ' ' j, " 1' Tiv . ' r . .T f k V r :,. :...V . VaaMWHHlt Wll lirilMMMIi!!'! " ?H gap NEW YORK SSf t Roy D. Speer has welcome handshake for Capt W. H. Downing (right), skipper of the Manchester Skipper, which picked Speer from the North Atlantic after crash of 10 engine trans-Atlantic bomber Aug. 5. Speer, from Bennington, Okla., spent 10 hours in a single-nan dinghy before search plane dropped a life raft Three others of crew of 3 were saved. (AP Wirephoto via radio from London to The Statesman.) ALMOST IMPERVIOUS WASHINGTON (INS) There are as many as 750,000 tiny air cells in an ordinary bottle cork, says the National Geographic1 So ciety. In addition to its lightness and resilience, cork is almost im pervious to gases and liquids. Britain Leery Of Commercial TVs Future LONDON (INS) The British government has thrown in low gear its year-old plan to bring commercial television to the country. The go-slow signal was given as a violent storm of controversy broke over the avowed intentions of Sir Winston Churchill's cab inet to inject "some element of competition" in the television field now monopolized by the British Broadcasting Corporation. In a statement in Parliament Postmaster - General Earl dela Warr announced that the govern ment would publish this fall a White Paper outlining the con ditions urder which commercial TV would be allowed to operate in Britain. He added:" "The White Paper will enable the country to exercise a proper judgment in this essential matter before any final decision is tak en." Originally, the government was expected to give commercial tele vision the green light soon after the Coronation. Criticism of the government's plan to allow even limited pri vate operation of TV stations in Britain has come mainly from politicians, educators and relig ious leaders. Rocks Yield Ancient Bones LEWISTOWN, Mont VP) For six years Perry Martin of Stan ford told his friends of an old rock formation shaped like a gigantic spine. No one would pay attention to him. Finally, Martin convinced lis teners the formation along rail road tracks near Stanford was something to look at They started to dig at the spot pointed out by Martin and un earthed a major part of a dino saur. Its bones were petrified and resembled ordinary rocks. ' u. Si Production At Record High WASHINGTON IT .The nation produced goods and services at a record rate in the second quarter of this year, the Commerce Depart ment reported Sunday, but inven tories shot up to higher levels, too. j Overall personal income rose again during April, May and June (but farm income continued to de cline, and consumers put their in creased spending power into par chases, the; report said. - ' . But despite these purchasing pow er and spending Increases, the most striking figure in the depart ment's quarterly report on the ec onomy as a whole was a sharp rise in' unsold stocks on businessmen's shelves. Sharp Increase The increase in inventories was from an annual rate of $2,900,000, 000 in the first quarter to $8,800, 000,000 in the second i quarter. The inventory piled! up in the second quarter centered in the man ufacturing industry, particularly in durable goods. During the April June quarter, the department said, defense spending increased at . a rate of 2 billion dollars a year, maintaining its 14 Vt per cent share of national production in the face of the increased total output Pfctare Outlined Here is the picture of the econo my in the second quarter of this year as put together by the Office of Business Economics in the Com merce Department: 1. The gross national product, which is the total market value of all production of goods and ser vices, increased to an annual rate of approximately 372 Vi billion dol lars. Increase Shewn That was 10 Vi billion dollars more on an annual basis than in the first quarter, and 24 Vj billion more than the gross national pro duct for the full year 61 1952. The second quarter output was the highest ever recorded. 2. Personal income, the total of payments to individuals for pro ductive work and for such things as pensions, increased to an an nual rate of 284 Vi billion dollars. This was 3 billion more than the annual rate in the first quarter of the year and $14,700,000,000 over the 1952 rate. However, farm income, at $12, 300,000,000 in the second quarter, was about 1 billion dollars less than the first quarter rate and 2 Vi bil lion less than in 1952. 3. Personal consumption, spend ing by individuals, rose 3 billion dollars in the second quarter - to 230 VS billion. Most of this repres ented increased physical purchas es riot price rises. Unionists Plait Model Village In Florida PHIL AD E LPHIA (INS)-A mode village spreading over sev eral hundred acres in South Flor ida, is being planned for retired members of the Upholsterers' In ternational Union. The pioneer village, so called because it is the first village planned by a union for its retired members, will have more than three miles of - waterfront on which on which facilities for boat ing and fishing, will be concen trated. Cottages will be rented on a scale corresponding to the size of the retired member's pension. In the planning stage but rot yet definite are cottages for vacation ing members of the union which would be rented on a self-sustaining level If they want retired members will.be able to 'supplement their pensions by working for the dairy and poultry farms that are being planned. Other farm "features will be vegetable fields and groves of citrus and tropical fruits. The village is a pioneer ex perk ment designed to provide other than institutional "homes" for the retired, who often have no place to g and find living in reg ular communities difficult when their only source of income is a pension. Sal B. Hoffman, president of the union, announced that the vil lage for which the hand has al ready been bought at Jupiter, South Florida, is being planned by 'a commission' if Sociologists, retirement specialists and physi cians co-operating with the Gen eral Executive Board of the UIU and Walter Keyes, director of the Florida State Improvement Commission. The' Statesman," acuom, Ota Monday,-Aiicrust 0L1 3 TT "1 . i WOMEN MINERS reiiconters it l i i m v a '."a Die J. oo InTimberland EDMONTON, Alta, W The helicopter, with its ability to hang motionless in mid-air or land in m tiny space, is proving a valuable addition to northern bush plane fleets. - Manager Thomas P. Fox of Associated Airways Ltd., which has three 'copters based here, says development of their use in the northland has barely started. There now are five commercial helicopters in Alberta on geo logical topographical or timber surveys. , Fox says the helicopter will not replace conventional aircraft in the near future, but will make unnecessary many trips; by canoe or on foot. With . helicopters, geologists can reach areas previously in accessible. Fox recalls one engi neer who accomplished more with a helicopter and, crew in six weeks last year than three crews could have done in three years by ordinary methods. B R U S E L S (INS) "Spot right" monthly bulletin of th IqternaUonil Confederation of Free Tradcf Unions, reports I that 2,00 women work in Polish ens: mines. The figure, cited from the Polish mintr's union trade publi cation, "Tie Miner." i made nc apology, fot the employment ol women underground, "Spotlight noted. 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