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NUMBER 74
64TH YEAR
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1953
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Prelude
Organ
Page 554—Read 25th Sunday Selection
Traffic injuries in 1953
32
%
Texas Cotton Planters Echo Hammond
Claim Acreage Allotments Too Small
US Calls on UN to Junk
All Provisions of Russ
1951 Mode I 'Peace Plan'
Dry Cool Wave Stirring
Up Dust Sweeping Texas
Leased Wire Report
and Wirephoto Service
Interviews
Due to Start
With POWs
Prayer
Solo. ..
councilmen
work out a
counsel, quickly said, “No such
thing is contemplated.”
Pearson, who made a speech
Six Cooke County
Residents Inducted
Into Armed Service
Cooke county’s November Se-
lective Service quota of six men
left here early today for Dallas
reply.
Brownell’s
WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight clear to partly
cloudy, slightly colder; Wed-
nesday, fair and cool.
Full weather report on clas-
sified ad page.
. .Dr. Earl J. Patton
Mrs. Marcus Austin
.Rev. Elmer Barnes
..............No. 4
.....Rev. W. D. Craig
.....Mrs. Guy Rosson
. . . .Dr. K. T. Melugin
.............No. 491
Rev. V. B. Atterberry
Mrs. Guy Rosson, Organist
Call to Worship:
Scriptural:...................Rev. W. D. Craig
Choral:............................... Choir
Invocation (All Standing)........Rev. Presley Pound
Welcome......................Rev. H. Daniel Morgan
Hymn—“Come Thou Almighty King”........... No. 2
Scripture Reading (Responsively) . .Rev. Edwin Hancock
30s and 40s in the Central Plains
and Ohio Valley and in the 50s
generally in Texas and the Lower
Mississippi Valley. Readings were
in the 30s and 40s in the Appa-
lachians and ranged into the 50s
along some coastal sections.
Fish fights are a major sport in
Thailand.
local voters around the first of
the year or soon thereafter.
And we believe the city may
expect a better payment offer
for the local plant and distribu-
tion system after the Sherman
election is disposed of.
service.
Included were: Fred Strauss.
Jr., route 1; Frank Harold Dyer,
1311% East Broadway; Jerry
Dale Orsburn, route 3; Charles
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the reunification of Germany and
said the West had finally “re-
luctantly concluded that the So-
viet Union did not want to enter
into negotiations which might
have positive results.” Neverthe-
less, Lodge said, the West still
leaves the door pen.
As for propaganda, Lodge gave
example after example of what
he called Soviet moves in enter-
tainment, schooling and newspa-
pers to make the Russians hate
the American people.
memo yesterday
said Glasser was mentioned in
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mend to congress that the nation-
al quota be fixed at 21,500,000
acres before planting time next
year. He said he would ask for
two years, instead of one, to take
off the surplus.
Benson apparently agrees with
Poage, Hammond, Anderson and
Johnson. He has said he would
ask congress to authorize a “reas-
onable increase in the allotments
before planting time.”
Proposed Allotments
The proposed 1954 allotment
and the acreage in cultivation on
July 1 this year, respectively by
states included:
Alabama, 1,139,121 acres allot-
ted and 1,590,000 in cultivation
last July 1; Arizona 288,223 and
741,000; Arkansas 1, 562,684 and
1,885,000; California 697.806 and
1,403,400; Florida 33,122 and 65,-
000; Georgia 1,005,862 and 1,365,-
000.
Louisiana 634,906 and 920,000;
Mississippi 1,759,641 and 2,430,-
000; Missouri 391,396 and 515,000;
New Mexico 167,243 and 301,000.
North Carolina 528,638 and 770,-
000; Oklahoma 929,902 and 1,045,-
000; South Carolina 786,006 and
1,080,000; Tennessee 575,891 and
905,000; Texas 7,376,858 and 9,-
572 000 and Virginia 18,344 and
30,000.
Representatives of western
growers call the formula obsolete
because it is based on plantings
back to 1947. Cotton states dele-
gates attempted to reach agree-
ment last week in Fort Worth on
a compromise formula but nego-
tiations accomplished but little.
Hammond said the acreage alot-
ed Texas would be protested by
Texas farmers when they vote
Dec. 15 on the control program.
Cotton Belt Drop
Cotton producers feel the cut is
too drastic, he said, adding that
the slash would bring economic
ills to all business in the cotton
belt as well as to the farmers.
Cotton farmers, Hammond con-
tinued, feel obligated to hold
production in line with needs if
they expect to get 90 per cent
price support.
Both Hammond and Rep. W. R.
Poage of Waco said that to bring
the national surplus into line in
one year requires too drastic a
cut.
Sen. Anderson (D-NM) has ex-
pressed similar views.
Will Ask Boost
Hammond, whose voice is loud
in farm state political circles due
to the large membership of his
Farm Bureau Federation, said
Monday night he would recom-
Scripture Reading.............
Hymn—"O Worship the King”. .
Offertory Service:
Dedicatory Prayer. ......
Offertory...............
Message......................
Hymn—“America the Beautiful”
Benediction...................
Traffic injuries same date, 1952. . 9
64 Deathless Days
IN COOKE COUNTY
(Outside Gainesville)
Traffic deaths to date in 1953.. 5
Traffic deaths same date, 1952. . 8
Traffic injuries to date in 1953. .68
Traffic injuries same date, 1952. .55
Thanksgiving Day
Full Holiday in
This City Thursday
Thursday is Thanksgiving day
and a full observance of the holi-
day is scheduled in Gainesville.
The city schools will close Wed-
nesday afternoon for the Thanks-
giving holidays and classes will
be resumed next Monday morn-
ing. Many teachers will attend
the State Teachers association
convention in Dallas during the
weekend.
Stores belonging to the Retail
Merchants association will be
closed all day Thursday as will
the banks, post office, federal
offices, city hall and court house
offices and many other establish-
ments..
Only service institutions will be
open for business Thursday.
The Daily Register will issue
the Thursday edition during the
forenoon to permit employes a
half holiday.
The union Thanksgiving church
services will be held Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m. in Whaley Memorial
Methodist church.
for induction into
By The Associated Press
Cotton planters all over Texas
Tuesday echoed the words of
Walter Hammond, president of
the Texas Farm Bureau Federa-
tion, who says cotton acreage al-
lotments announced for the state
are too small..
Secretary of Agriculture Ben-
son, as required by law, assigned
the various cotton-producing
states their acreage allotments
Monday under a rigid production
control program for 1954.
Texas was allotted 7,376,858
acres, a slash of more than two
million acres from this year’s
crop and a drop of 22 per cent.
Such a slash could mean an in-
come cut of a similar amount for
many growers.
Texas cut, percentagewise, was
not the nation’s largest, although
Texas annually raises the most
cotton, Arizona took a 61 per cent
slash California growers suffered
a 52 per cent cut, and Georgia
21 per cnt.
Old Formula Used
The cuts are made by law un-
der a formula based on past
crops. That is why Benson’s acre-
age knives fell heaviest on West-
ern growers, where big-scale ir-
rigated crops have become impor-
tant only in the last few years.
Partial Payment
ST. I,GUIS, Mo. (U.P.)—The
St. Louis Institute of Music ex-
perienced the law of diminish-
ing returns when a conscience-
stricken thief returned loot
taken in two burglaries of the
firm. John P. Blake, president,
said he was happy to receive
$112 in the mail from the thief,
but it was still $59 short of the
stolen amount.
The Connecticut lakes region
in northern New Hampshire was
independent from 1832 to 1835,
spurning allegiance to either the
United States or Canada until
the New Hampshire militia
forced inhabitants to acknowl-
edge state sovereignty.
Damage Slight in
Three Minor City
Traffic Accidents
Three traffic accidents with
property damage estimated at
$260 have been reported in the
city during the past 24 hours,
however, no injuries were sus-
tained by occupants of the ve-
hicles involved.
Automobiles driven by Mrs.
Marie Stiles, 46, Refinery road;
and Mrs. Marie Wade, 41, of
route 1, Gainesville, collided at
11:25 a.m. Monday at the inter-
section of Elm and Red River
streets.
Damage to the Stiles car was
estimated at $75 and damage to
the other vehicle at $30.
William Alford Johnson, 74, of
route 1, was charged with failure
to grant right of way following a
two-car collision at' 5:25 p.m.
Monday at the intersection of
Denton and Elm streets. The
other car was driven by Carl
Kaden, 56, of 805 South Rusk
street. Damage to Kaden’s car
was estimated at $80. The other
vehicle was not damaged.
Approximately $75 damage
was reported to a car driven by
Mrs. Pauline Jetton Phegley, 27,
of Fort Worth, after she collided
with the rear of a truck at 8:45
a.m. Tuesday.
The truck was driven by Hen-
derson H. Hyden, 39, of 1432
Moss street. The mishap occur-
red in the 200 block of East Cali-
fornia street after Hyden stopped
for a traffic light.
Toll Story
CHICAGO (UP)—One of the
early toll roads in the Midwest
was built of planks in 1848 and
covered the 10 miles between
Chicago and Riverside, Ill. Ac-
cording to the American Public
Works association, the charge for
a horse and rider was 12% cents.
The road cost only $16,000. But
the builder may not have re-
gained their money because the
road wore out in 15 years.
By STANLEY JOHNSON
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 24
(TP)—The United States called on
the United Nations today to junk
each and every part of Russia’s
1953-model “peace plan.”
Chief U. S. Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., told the 60-na-
tion political committee: “The
resolutions now on the books
deal adequately with the subject.
The only thing we still require is
for the Soviet Union to quit dis-
regarding them.”
The Kremlin, through its Chief
Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky,
has asked the U. N. to ban the
atomic and hydrogen bombs un-
conditionally ; cut the armed
forces of the big powers by a flat
one-third; forbid foreign bases in
other countries; and condemn
Western anti-Communist propa-
ganda as warmongering.
These demands have been de-
feated, in one form or another,
over and over in the assembly
and its committees. The Soviets
have revived them each succeed-
ing year.
Instead, the U. N. has adopted
Western proposals for interna-
tional control of nuclear weapons
under stringent safeguards as
the culmination of a disarma-
ment program which would in-
clude cuts in the armed forces of
the big powers The assembly has
refused to get into the bases
question and has condemned war-
mongering propaganda impartial-
ly without regard to its origin.
Lodge said Russian charges
that the United States was re-
sponsible for present world ten-
sion were “obviously written by
professional Communist axe-
grinders” and reminded him of
the old proverb that the devil
can quote scripture.
“It is well to look at the record
regarding this subject,” Lodge
declared.
He then detailed efforts of the
United States and its Allies to
NEW JET FIGHTER LEAVES CARRIER—The Skyray, the navy's newest jet interceptor, leaves
the deck of the USS Coral Sea during evaluation tests in the Atlantic. The plane is pow-
ered by a Westinghouse J-40 engine with afterburner. It set a new world record of 753.4
miles an hour in California tests. The plane, launched by catapult, seems to barely get its
tail clear of the deck as it flies over the carrier bow. (U.S. Novy Photo via AP Wirephoto)
Ducks often fly at more than
reach agreement with Russia on 40 miles an hour.
Adequate Defense
OS Aim, Senator
Symington Says
SHERMAN, Nov. 24“(A)_ Sen.
Symington (D-Mo) told a Demo-
cratic party rally last night that
adequate defense without bank-
ruptcy is the chief concern of the
American people.
Symington, introduced by Rep.
Rayburn (D-Tex) as a man who
would be “up for office higher
than U. S. senator” in the years
to come, spoke to more than
1,000.
The former Secretary for Air
in the Truman administration
took pokes at the Einsenhower
administration for its cut in pub-
lic power projects, its farm pol-
icy and its defense policy.
He asserted it was unfair to
blame the Democratic party for
increased costs in government in
the last 20 years and said the in-
crease was caused by two names,
Hitler and Stalin.
He characterized as a “livery
stable” type, the Eisenhower ad-
ministration’s defense policies.
“The policy of cutting power
projects is against this commis-
sion’s recommendations and is
against national security,” the
senator said.
Quoting figures on the drop in
farm prices in the last six
months, Symington said, “Let the
facts speak for themselves. The
farm situation is a fact, not a
theory.” He cited what he said
was a 47 per cent profit for Ar-
mour Packing company and Gen-
eral Motor’s net profit of 450 mil-
lion dollars and compared them
with the decline in farm prices.
here and try to
deal to submit to
Contract for construction of
the first unit and office of the
Gainesville plant of the Nation-
al Supply company on a 90-acre
tract north of the city limits
where U. S. highway 77 over-
pass spans the Santa Fe tracks,
was let last Friday to Brown
and Root, Inc., 4100 Clinton
drive, Houston.
The Register was advised that
the contract was let in a tele-
phone message from company
officials in Pittsburgh, Pa., this
morning.
The contractor is expected to
establish an office in Gaines-
ville immediately, at which time
prospective sub-contractors and
artisans will be interviewed and
arrangements made to start ac-
tual construction of the plant.
The foundation is scheduled to
be started right away, and the
steel work will begin in January
and is due to be completed in
March. The contract calls for the
first unit to be completed in Au-
gust.
Earle P. Gray, who will su-
pervise the construction of the
plant for the architects, arrived
in Gainesville recently and is
prepared to go to work when
Brown and Root start opera-
tions here.
UNION THANKSGIVING
SERVICE WEDNESDAY
The annual community Thanksgiving worship serv-
ice, sponsored by the Ministerial alliance of Gainesville,
will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Whaley Memorial
Methodist church. Rev. W. D. Craig is the host pastor,
and the public is invited.
The order of service is as follows:
By G. MILTON KELLY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (P)—
Senate investigators today pon-
dered FBI summaries of alleged
Soviet espionage while, in an
offshoot to the Harry Dexter
White case, Sen. McCarthy
(R-Wis) prepared a radio-TV
reply to former President Tru-
man’s blast at “McCarthyism.”
New fuel was added to the
case, already smoking with po-
litical c h a rg e s and counter-
charges, when:
1. A Canadian member of par-
liament charged in the house of
commons yesterday that “Mc-
Carthyites” in the United States
are trying to “blackmail” Can-
ada into releasing Igor Gouzen-
ko for questioning.
2. The senate internal secu-
rity subcommittee disclosed yes-
terday that the White House
sought and got FBI data on
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By The Associated Press
A dry cool front which stirred
up dust in West Texas moved rap-
idly across the state to the coast-
al Plains Tuesday.
The front, pushing in from the
west, moved through the Fort
Worth area around dawn, and
reached Bryan two hours later.
At one time Monday, visibility
fell to a quarter mile at Lubbock.
Blowing dust also was reported
around Junction, Wink and other
West Texas points.
Gainesville had a low of 42
degrees last night after the aft-
ernoon high of 68 degrees. To-
day at noon, the mercury regis-
tered 58 degrees with the sun
shining from a clear sky. Bar-
ometric pressure was rising.
Overnight minimums ranged
from 30 degrees at Dalhart in the
upper Panhandle, to 62 at Galves-
ton. Other minimums included
Amarillo 35, El Paso 40, San An-
tonio 45, Dallas 46, Fort Worth
and Abilene 47, Midland 48, Aus-
tin 51, Junction 53, Houston 54
and Waco and Beaumont 56.
Midland reported blowing dust
at 5:30 a.m. with visibility one
mile. Gusts up to 28 miles were
reported.
Some readings included Dalhart
35, Amarillo 40, Junction 59, Wink
60, Lufkkin 56, Tyler, Browns-
ville 66, Dallas, 48, Beaumont 60,
El Paso 45 and Houston 57.
Flood dangers appeared in-
creasing in sections of the Pacific
Northwest as more rain fell from
northern California northward.
Two persons have drowned and
3,500 have been isolated by heavy
rains in Oregon and northern Cal-
ifornia. In Coos and Curry coun-
ties in southwest Oregon, every
major highway was blocked by
high water or slides.
Rain mixed with snow fell
across the northern Great Lakes
region while light rain hit east-
ern sections of the Central Plains,
Snow fell at higher elevations
across the northern and central
Rockies.
It was chilly over most of the
central part of the country. Tem-
peratures ranged from the high
20s along the Border states to the
Clark, now a Supreme court
justice, was then attorney gen-
eral. Clifford was counsel at the
time to T r u m a n. It was not
brought out why Clark wanted
the summary or what was in
it.”
McCarthy, meanwhile, declined
to discuss what tack he will
take in his speech from New
York city tonight, but an aide
said the senator plans to devote
at least part of his half-hour to
talking about Glasser.
The broadcast is scheduled at
11 p. m., EST.
McCarthy’s senate investiga-
tions subcommittee plans thrice-
weekly public hearings in New
York, starting today, on his
charges of security laxity at
the Army’s Ft. Monmouth,
N. J., radar laboratory.
McCarthy said last night he
will complain to the Federal
Communications commission if
any stations, which carried Tru-
man’s speech failed to carry his
Bailey Moore, route 3; William
Edward Parramore, 725 Beattie
street; and Norman Walton
Ward, 337 Fair avenue. All but
Strauss were volunteers.
The group was served coffee
and doughnuts by the VFW ..aux-
iliary through the courtesy of
Street pharmacy and billfolds
were presented to each of the
men by the VFW.
Gilbert G. Holman, chairman of
Local Draft Board No. 135, said
that the December quota for
Cooke county will be inducted on
Dec. 10 in order to avoid conflict
with the Christmas holiday sea-
son.
From Austin today, a Texas
draft call of 1,314 men for Janu-
ary was made by State Draft Di-
rector Paul Wakefield.
He said 4,000 Texas youths will
be sent for draft pre-induction
physical examinations in Janu-
ary, the largest number since
May.
Local boards should receive
quotas by Dec. 1. The call for
1,314 compares with a range of
1,250 to 1,800 since June. Local
quotas must be filled with men
20 or older if possible. If neces-
sary to reach its quota, a board
may send men under 20.
The big call for pre-induction
physicals is necessary because
the pool of examined and accept-
able men has decreased, and in-
duction calls are expected to rise
sometime during early 1954,
Wakefield said.
Quotas for pre-induction physi-
cals have run less than 2,000 a
month since July.
Wakefield said 75,435 Texans
have been inducted since the
Draft act of 1948 took effect. All
but about 1,450 have gone into
service since the Korean war be-
gan in 1950.
Texas has delivered 173,986
men for pre-induction physical
exams.
THE SHERMAN ELECTION
has delayed action on a propos-
al of Texas Power & Light com-
pany to buy the municipal light
plant and distribution system in
Gainesville for a cash consider-
ation and installation of a mer-
cury vapor downtown lighting
system.
The matter came up before
the city council in a called ex-
ecutive session, when the power
company made an offer and
then withdrew it when the city
council indicated the figure was
too low.
We have an idea that TP&L
was not desirous of making its
offer public at that time be-
cause of the pending election in
Sherman, and we believe that
as soon as the Sherman elec-
tion is over, TP&L officials will
Senate Probers PonderFonvarionai Allies Plan Move toWin
ionage Reports Sunp)y Plant
Robert Morris, subcommittee and relayed to Clifford on July “““EE-. ® M-E
- 25, 1946.
PAINESVILLE CITIZENS are
IX interested in an election be-
ing held in Sherman today be-
cause of the fact that it is very
much like an election expected
to be held in Gainesville in the
near future.
Sherman voters are deciding
at the polls today whether or
not the city administration
should sell to the Texas Power
& Light company for the sum
of $150,000 cash and other con-
siderations, the city of Sher-
man’s municipal street lighting
system and its electric distribu-
tion system serving the munici-
pal waterworks, sewerage plant,
city hall and other municipal
buildings.
The “other considerations” in-
clude the installation of 302
mercury vapor lights and 700
2,500 lumen series residential
lights within 18 months, provid-
ing materials are available.
A two-thirds majority by the
voters is needed to finally ap-
prove the sale, and city officials
of Sherman plan to use the
money received from the sale
of the system for the construc-
tion of a new water storage
tank in the northwest part of
the neighboring city, if the elec-
tion carries. The tank has been
termed a “must” on the city
improvement list.
There has been a minimum
of opposition to the movement
as judged by the lack of letters
from readers and adverse adver-
tising in the Sherman Democrat
which we see daily.
Harold E. Glasser, an alleged
Soviet spy, a month before
Glasser’s 1946 promotion in the
Treasury department.
The charge of blackmail came
from David Croll, a member of
the Liberal party, which domi-
nates the Canadian government.
He said President Eisenhower
should repudiate what he de-
scribed as attacks on Canadian
Foreign Minister Lester B.
Pearson.
Croll charged, as did the To-
ronto Star in an article yester-
day, that Pearson may be
named by the senate subcom-
mittee as one of several Cana-
dians accused of supplying in-
formation to Communists dur-
ing world war II.
in New York last night, de-
clined comment on the charge.
Pearson said he may reply to-
day or tomorrow to the sub-
committee’s second request—he
turned down the first—for per-
mission to question Gouzenko.
The onetime code clerk, who
bolted the Russian embassy at
Ottawa in 1945 and exposed a
Soviet spy ring in Canada, is
living in Canada under police
protection.
Gouzenko repeatedly has said
he may have some advice that
would help the senate investiga-
tion. But Pearson said Gouzen-
ko had no information that Can-
ada had not already given the
United States.
At the subcommittee’s re-
quest, Atty. Gen. Brownell sup-
plied it yesterday with a memo-
randum on who got FBI reports
and summaries naming Glasser.
Morris told newsmen a ques-
tion of security is involved. The
subcommittee counsel said no
more public hearings have been
scheduled and the next meeting
of the group, headed by Sen.
Jenner (R-Ind), will be Dec. 2.
“The problem now,” he said,
“is to find out what was in the
summaries.”
Brownell’s memo said that,
“pursuant to a request of the
attorney general by Mr. Clark
M. Clifford,” an FBI summary
containing secret information on
Glasser was given Tom C. Clark
FBI reports to Clark, Clifford
and eight other government of-
fials in advance of Glasser’s
promotion Aug. 22, 1946, as di-
rector of the Treasury’s Mone-
tary Research division.
Glasser left the government
in June 1946 and now lives in
Great Neck, N. Y. He refused,
during a congressional investi-
gation last spring to answer
more than 100 questions as to
whether he was a spy or en-
gaged in espionage.
Mother and Five
Children Die as
Fire Sweeps Home
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 24 (P)
— A mother and five children
burned to death today in a fire
which swept a four-family apart-
ment house.
Three other children escaped—
one suffering minor burns. Two
other families in the frame dwell-
ing also fled without injury. A
fourth family was not at home.
Detective Sgt. Stephen Harris
said the blaze broke out between
6:30 and 7 a.m. EST. All of Johns-
town’s available fire equipment
was dispatched to the scene.
Harris identified the dead as:
Mrs. Evelyn Sullivan, 32, and
her children, Mattie Ruth, 9,
Wayne Howard, 5, Eugene, 3, Bev-
erly Ann, 18 months, and Bar-
bara, four weeks. .
James, 13, and Mary Evelyn,
escaped without injury. Robert,
7, suffered burns of the hands
and face. He was treated at
Johnstown hospital.
Andrew Sullivan, the father,
was told his house was afire
when he reported for work at a
nearby coke yard.
Cause of the blaze was not im-
mediately determined.
84 Deathless Days
IN GAINESVILLE
Keep the green light burning—
don't cause the red light to burn
for you.
Traffic deaths to date in 1953. . I
Traffic deaths same date, 1952. . 0
By JIM BECKER
PANMUNJOM, Nov. 24 (P)—
The Allies revealed today they
are making final preparations
for efforts to win back 22
Americans, 1 Briton and 328
South Koreans who have re-
fused to come home. N
The U. N. command disclosed
it has been sparring for two
weeks with the Korean war
prisoner repatriation commis-
sion over how many Allied in-
terviewers will be permitted to
talk with the prisoners.
The Allies have requested a
total of 15 —-5 Americans, 5
Britons and 5 South Koreans.
The commission has set a
limit of five.
Meanwhile, Allied and Red
negotiators meeting nearby on
arrangements for a Korean
peace conference discussed sites,
but got nowhere again.
The first official indication
that the UNC is about ready to
start interviewing the reluctant
Allied POWs came with the re-
lease of two letters to the repa-
triation commission and one
reply.
The Allies have little time left
—the 90-day interview period is
scheduled to end . Dec. 23.
There were unofficial indica-
tions that the UNC also is
working behind the scenes to
smooth out all preparations be-
fore the explanations begin —
presumably to avoid the hysteri-
cal scenes which greeted Com- ?
munist efforts to get their for-
mer soldiers to come back.
In a letter to the Neutral Na-
tions Repatriation commission
dated Nov. 16, the UNC asked
the commission to confirm its
belief the Allies would be al-
lowed to send five South Ko-
reans, five Americans and five
British explainers to the expla-
nation site simultaneously.
The U. N. based its case on
this reasoning:
1. The armistice agreement-
gives the “nation to which the
POWs belong” the right to send
explainers.
2. The rules say the number
of “such” explainers shall be
not less than five nor more
than seven per 1,000 POWs.
3. Prisoners belong to individ-
ual nations — the Republic of
Korea, the United States and
Great Britain — and not to the
United Nations as a military
command.
4. Only representatives of the
individual nations can be ex-
plainers.
In a letter dated Nov. 23,
the commission turned down
the U. N. request, but the Al-
lies renewed it today, explain-
ing their reasoning.
The commission said the UNC
is entitled to explainers at the
rate of not less than five nor
more than seven per 1,000
POWs, regardless of national-
ity.
The Communists today for-
mally demanded return of three
North Korean security guards
who sought refuge on the' U: N.
side last Thursday and are still
in U. N. custody.
The guards contend they were
former South Korean soldiers
who had been impressed into
the North Korean army after
they were captured.
The Reds say the Koreans
strayed into the neutral zone by
mistake.
At the preliminary peace con-
ference negotiations, the Allies
switched to the subject of
where to hold a conference,
temporarily dropping the
knotted question of who shall
attend.
U. S. special envov Arthur H.
Dean had one succinct sugges-
tion:
“Not, please, at Panmunjom.”
in what he called an “ode to
Panmunjom” the American dip-
lomat, who is accustomed to the
better things of life, spoke feel-
ingly of what he finds at Pan-
munjom:
A rough country of subzero
temperatures, outdoor toilets,
flickering lights and thoroughly
inadequate conference facilities.
He told Red delegates that
“Panmunjom is not worthy of
serious consideration. All you
do is jeer at the cities we have
proposed and persist in offering
us the mud flats of Panmun-
jom. I await your serious pro-
posal.”
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