TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, June 3, 1955
Fliers Released From China Prison Enjoying Happy Reunion With Families
Honolulu (U.R) Four Amer
ican airmen just released from
Chinese Communist prison
camps rushed into the arms of
their families today in an emo
tion packed reunion that ended
more than two years' separation.
A gleaming silver-white Air
Force Constellation carrying
nine relatives of the fliers land
ed at Hickam Field at 9:51 a.m.
(PST).
The airmen, who arrived here
from Hong Kong yesterday, were
waiting excitedly at the field
when their breathlessly happy
families stepped off the special
chartered plane.
The long awaited reunion al
most took place earlier than ex
pected because the Constellation
picked up tailwinds after
leaving Travis Air Force Base,
Calif., and was flying as much
as an hour and 15 minutes ahead
of schedule.
But when the big "happiness
plane" got into the Honolulu
area it was directed to circle
overhead so military officials
would have time to rush the
fliers to Hickam.
But when the Constellation
taxied down the runway nine
minutes ahead of schedule the
airmen, excited as small boys
vith new bicycles, were ready
and waiting for their loved ones.
Each flier carried "two Vanda
orchid leis to present to mem
bers of his family.
"If they did a cardigraph of
my heart now they would sure
get a reaction," Capt. Harold E.
Fischer of Swea City, la., said.
The fliers, dressed in new sun
tan uniforms, stood in the center
of a crowd of military and press
representatives as the plane
came in. Four blue Air Force
sedans also were waiting to take
the fliers and their families to a
half hour private reunion in an
Army barracks.
The Air Force flew the nine
relatives to Hawaii for a five
day reunion with the freed air
men. The trip cost the relatives
nothing.
The fliers are:
Jet ace Capt. Harold E. Fisch
er, 30, Swea City, la., shot down
April 7, 1953; Lt. Col. Edwin I.
Heller, 36, Wynnewood, Pa.,
downed Jan. 23, 1953; 1st Lt.
Lyle W. Cameron, Lincoln,
Neb., shot down Oct. 26, 1953;
and 1st Lt. Roland W. Parks,
24, Omaha, Neb., shot down
Sept. 4, 1952.
The Chinese Communists or
dered them released Tuesday af
ter finding them guilty of flying
over China during the Korean
war. They arrived here Wed
nesday after a flight from Hong
Kong.
At a press conference Wed
nesday night Heller and Fischer
side-stepped questions about fly
ing over Communist territory
and signing confessions.
Heller was asked whether he
had been shot down over North
Korea or in Manchuria.
"I think we had better let
that question slide for a while,"
he said.
Fischer, a double ace of the
Korean war, was asked if he
signed a "confession" to the
crimes of which the Reds ac
cused him.
He replied with a prompt
"no" when asked if he were
forced to sign a confession after
his trial. But when the report
er asked if he signed a confes
sion before the trial, he hesi
tated and said:
"I think. I will wait and see
my lawyer" before answering
that question."
Asked about "brainwashing,"
Fischer admitted the four were
subjected to intensive "study
periods." He said the Chinese
called it "brain-changing."
Asked if the Reds tried to
change the airmen's thinking to
pro-Communist, Fischer re
plied: "No doubt you are acquainted
with the types of treatment at
tempted in North Korea. Well,
the - same treatment was tried
with us."
All four said their treatment
at the hands of the Chinese
Communists was "good."
Railway Trainmen Vote
On Possible Union Merger
Cleveland (U.R) Directors
of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen voted today to begin
negotiations on a possible merger
ger with the proposed amalga
mated AFL and CIO.
It was the first such move by
any of the operating railroad
brotherhoods.
Children Under 15
Lead in Rabies Deaths
Chicago (U.R) Children un
der 15 accounted for more than
half the total deaths caused by
rabies from 1943 to 1951, ac
cording to the American Veter
inary Medical Association.
Twenty per cent of the total
death; were in the five to nine
year age group, 19 per cent in
the 10 to 12-year group. Thirteen
per cent of the deaths were in
children under five.
Extensive dog vaccination is
believed responsible for a steady
decline in rabies deaths.
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