SOUTH KOREAN REVEALS:
Gen. Dean Hid Identity From
Reds When First Captured
By BILL SHINN
Pusan, Korea, Dec. 21 () The
communists were unaware they
had captured Maj. Gen. William
T. Dean for aome time after he
was taken prisoner, a South
Korean official who saw Dean
In a prison camp said today.
Lee Byung Ho, prosecutor for
the South Korean ministry of
Justice, was in the prison com
mand at Chonju when the for
mer commander of the U. S. 24th
division was questioned by his
captors.
Lee escaped and brought in
formation given him by Park
Whan Sang, a South Korean Im
pressed into service as an in
terpreter by the North Koreans.
At the time, his data about Dean
was not believed because of the
general opinion that Dean was
dead.
- The general's bullet-pierced
helmet liner ""n bound.
Lee's account:
Dean hid in the hills for more
than a month after he was cut off
from his troops following the fall
of Taejon.
On Aug. 25, 1830, he approach
ed a Korean farmer on the road
near Sedong to ask for food.
Dean's face was swollen and he
was tired and dirty.
As he was talking with the
farmer, two communist guards
happened by and took him pris
oner. But they did not recog
nize him.
Dean was taken to the Sang
Chun police station near Chinan
where security police questioned
him at length.
Lee said the general refused
to answer questions and told his
captors:
I am an American soldier
a professional soldier. All I need
to give you is my name and
rank."
The Reds thought they had an
important man, but they had no
idea he was a general, even
though he had a calling card in
his pocket.
The general was taken to the
prison commander's own home
and kept there until Sept. 3,
1950. Then he was moved to Tae
jon and later sent to Seoul and
on into North Korea.
Until Dean's name appeared
on the list of war prisoners re
leased by the Reds Tuesday,
most officials had believed him
dead.
This correspondent ran across
Lee's story in police records and
through friends and persuaded
him to tell it for the first time
for publication.
Lee said he was a political of
ficer in the Seoul area when war
broke and was picked up by the
communists as they swept south.
He concealed Ms identity by pos
ing as a teacher.
Lee escaped when allied troops
broke out of the Pusan perim
eter and swept northward late in
1950.
(AP Correspondent O. H. P.
King reported Wednesday that
Dean had eluded capture 33
days after he was reported miss
ing. King obtained his informa
tion from an unidentified South
Korean source. Thursday an ar
my war historian at Richmond
Va., quoted a Korean interpret
ter as saying Dean was "sick and
despondent" in a prison camp in
ine summer of 1850.)
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Tacoma, Dec. 21 () Doug
las fir plywood sales bounced
up last week to 50 per cent over
current production, the Douglas
fir Plywood association an
nounced here today.
O. Harry Schrader, Jr., man
aging director of the associa
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lion square feet. A week pre
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Milk Price Increase Asked
Portland, Dec. 21 (P) Med-
ford and Grants Pass milk pro
ducers want to raise milk prices,
and yesterday the board of agri
culture agreed to hold hearings
on the hearings. The board sug
gested that the producers work
with the state milk marketing
administration in assembling fig
ures on which to base their request.
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'Pinkish' Path of Statism
Seen in Blue Book Growth
By BEN MAXWELL
Scientists are not certain why
birds migrate in fall and spring,
although one theory is that
changes in the amount of day
light is the "trigger."
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Blue Book of 133 pages, publish
ed in 1911, and the current 1952
issue of 405 pages is an interval
of 40 years.
During those 40 years past,
Oregon's progress down the pink
path of statism has seen state
boards, commissions, institutions
and sponsored societies increase
from 78 to 120.
Today the board of examiners
in watchmaking and clockmak
lng, massage, cosmetic therapy
and the advisory council con
cerned with furniture and bed
ding receive a per diem allow
ance of $10 for the performance
of their duties.
Back in 1911 the trustees of
Soda Spring at Sodaville and the
board of commissioners for the
Port of Nehalem received noth
ing at all for their services.
When the three-man commis
sion for the licensing of sailors'
boarding houses were about their
duties, they received allowance
for expenses.
Oregon s first Blue Book was
something of a promotional bro
chure concerned with displaying
the states potentialities for ag
riculture and industry, hoping
tnereoy to increase the state pop
ulation.
A preface description declares
the aim of this publication, start
ed by Frank W. Benson, secre
tary of state who died April 14
1911, and completed by Ben W.
Olcott, appointed secretary by
Governor Oswald West, is to re
late "without exaggeration oi
color" facts and conditions which
account for Oregon's "marvelous
growth and development.
Illustrations toward this end
are a scene in Portland harbor
showing five full ships and barks,
members of the grain fleet for
1910. Another view shows a com
bine harvester drawn through an
eastern Oregon grain field by 27
horses.
Despite the trend toward eta
tism, so apparent in the current
publication, the 1951-53 Blue
Book is a most worthwhile quar
ry of information, statistical and
otherwise, pertaining to Oregon's
past and current affairs.
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Portland, Dec. 21 M"i Seven
Oregon towns will be bypassed
by the Pacific highway 99 re
location project which the state
highway commission approved
yesterday.
R. H. Baldock, chief engineer,
was given authority to award a
contract for the first section of
the new highway as soon as right
of way purchases are completed
The towns to be by-passed are
Creswell, Cottage Grove, Drain,
Yoncalla, Oakland, Sutherlin
and Gold Hill. Hearings on the
relocation plan were held in each
of the towns from Oct. 7 to 9.
Leonard and Slate, Portland,
was low bidder to build the first
part of the new road a 5.6 mile
section south of Cottage Grove.
The firm's bid was $1,530,464.
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Marion county Paint shop at
Salem, H. G. Carl, Salem, $63,
381. Awarded.
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Awarded.
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highway, grading and paving
miles; Carl W. Halverson
Portland, $229,594. Awarded.
Sentry Kills
ral in Test
Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec.
21 WP) A corporal sought to
test the efficiency of a sentry
at Oesterbio army barracks
early today. The sentry, a
champion marksman, killed the
corporal with a shot fired at 60
yards in the dark.
The army gave this report.
Cpl. H. Christian Jessen de
liberately attracted suspicion of
the sentry. The sentry chal
lenged Jessen, who tried to
escape by running away in a
zig-zag course among the trees.
The sentry, following regula
tions, challenged loudly twice,
fired a warning shot and when
the corporal continued to run
aimed to hit.
The sentry's name was not
disclosed. An army spokesman
said it was "extremely improb
able" that any charge would be
brought against him.
I Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, December 21, 1951 7
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the musicians of enough money
to make the trip.
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to finance the band's appearance
at the annual Shrine East-West
game.
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an invitation to the game through
arrangements made by Medford
Shriner E. C. (Jerry) Jerome. A
series of donations and benefit
programs raised the necessary
money for the trip.
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