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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1953)
4(Sc 2 SlaUsacm. Scln Ortw Thanh, SoptlT, 1353 Commies Fail ToReplytoUS POW Demand By SAM SUMMERUN ' PANMUNJOM W The Com munist made no reply Wednesday to a U. N. Command demand for an accounting of 3,404 Allied pris oners, including more than 900 Americans, who are believed still held in Red captivity. ; "I will have to ask about it again." Maj. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan, Senior Allied delegate on tho inlnt military armistice com mission, told correspondents after Wednesday's meeting, the first in a week. He said the Reds probably bad not had time to check the list. ; rnmmunist broadcasts have called the list "faked" and hinted rejection of the demand for an ac-eountine. The commission announced Wed nesday that all salvage teams have been pulled out of the demuitar bed zone in Korea. A a th flux of war caDtives who have refused repatriation, contin ue into the neutral zone where Indian troops are guarding them, the first Chinese cnangea ms mina and was handed over to the Reds. Nine North Koreans who witched similarly were repatriat mA Tuesday. - Thtt Chinese said that "aeents from Formosa" had worked among Communists in Allied jw camps. They charged that scores of Chi nese captives were Killed last a eo ruarv and March because they would not renounce their home land and had objected to the tatoo ing of anti-Communist slogans on their persons. The accusations are similar to Rxt nrnnaffanda broadcasts. Bryan handed the Communists a list of Allied missing last Wednes day with, a declaration that he ex pected "prompt action." Former Labor Mediator Tells Of Red Links . WASHINGTON UB James Mc INamara, who quit last week as a $9,800 - a - year government labor mediator at Cincinnati, testified Tuesday he attended "10 to 20" Communist meetings during the late 1930's. A "subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee asked him if he were a Communist Party member. "Yes," he replied, "if one can belong to a church and not believe what it teaches, then I was a mem ber of the Communist Party." Asked if he felt he. was a Com munist at the time he attended the meetings, he said "ideological ly I did not I was organizing a labor union.. I was new to this bus iness of organizing and I accepted help wherever I could find it".. He said he did not believe he ever received a Communist Party membership card, but recalled paying party dues "once or twice." At the time 1937-39 he was an organizer for an AFL Hotel Employes Union, Local 80, in Washington, he said. In 1938, he continued, he was named inter national vice president of this un ion, with Communist help. That was several years before he entered the government media tion service in 1942, a job in which he helped settle labor disputes be tween unions and private industry. During his government career, he said, he was cleared three times by loyalty review boards. In each case, he said, he denied Commu nist affiliations, 1 Rhtatitott Sraddedl COSTUME JEWELRY bf WJ-y a P1a NkUmm ' If J? Yofaes $5.00 Expaasrva-laokinf tparklart In rfcodiam fiaisaaJ sattia wilful Wrth dratiy tuih. cocktail aad vaaiao; owmi r la tha Ccrpitol Shopping : Cantor 0 Jt..iVJ5w'J Legion Head's Uncles Won Highest Medal WILLIAMSON. W. Va. WU-E. Gaujot Bias, new West Virginia Denartment commander of the American Legion, is a nephew of the only brothers ever to win tne Congressional Medal of Honor. Antoine A. (Tony) Gaujot, an Army sergeant, won his during Ihe PhiliDDine insurrection, tie swam a river while under fire from a band of "insurrectors. sat two boats from the opposite bank and towed them back hold ing the ropes in his teeth so that pursuing Americans could cross the rivpF. Capt Julien E. Gaujot a caval rv trnon commander stationed in nouplas. 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