Progress-Index, The (Newspaper) - August 9, 1953, Petersburg, Virginia THE WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight tomorrow The Sun Sets today Rises tomorrow Other Weather Data on Page 2 VOL 36 Freed Britons In Good its But ROKs Are Emaciated PETERSBURG VIRGINIA SUNDAY AUGUST 9 1953 ALLOW FOR STOPS In the crush of modern traffic were often tempted to drive too close to the car in front of us Always keep your never know when ahead is going to slow stop or turn without warning 112 Yanks Among Those Exchanged On Fifth South Koreans Are Litter Cases PANMUNJOM Sunday Aug 9 Wl The Communists shuttled of captives back hometo the Allied side to day The Americans and Britons among them were in sound condition and good but a staggering number of the South Koreans were emaciated litter cases The fifth day of the big post armistice prisoner of war ex change began promptly at 9 am 7 pm EST Saturday in the hot and dusty roadside center of Pan where the truce was ne The exchange today was to bring back 112 Americans 21 Britons 13 Turks 2 Australians 1 Canadian 1 Filipino and 250 South Koreans In the first group were 100 South Korean litter down from the Communist north land in 11 Molotov ambulances Tender hands lifted the South AP PHOTOGRAPHER NOEL IS AMONG THOSE FREED PANMUNJOM Sunday Aug 9 Press Frank Noel was returned to freedom by the Communists today Noel who was captured 32 months ago in the Marine with from the Changjin Reser voir was returned to Jom in the 11 a m group of United Nations prisoners Koreans from the ambulances and carried them inside the Allied re ception and hospital tents The first South Korean litter pa tient wore a clumsy cast on his right leg The second looked like a skeleton His right leg was no big ger than a womans wrist Others had lost their hands or parts or all of their feet Appar ently they were victims of frost bite An Allied attendant handed one South Korean a cigarette It drop ped from onto the gravel driveway The South Koreans were dazed barely able to raise their heads Few smiled American Marines grim and unsmiling too as they carried the litters into the reception cen ter The Chinese drivers looked on stoically For the first time since the ex change began there were no Chi nese photographers on hand to re cord the scene It was not the kind that made good propaganda Allied personnel rushed the South Koreans to helicopters for a swift ride to where expert hospital care awaited them As the Allied repatriates moved south Communist prisoners were going north through the Red re ception center The latter group in cluded 473 North Korean women 1 Chinese wives and camp followers And there were 23 Korean chil dren under the age of S Some were born In prison camp As the women and children passed through the American zone in a double convoy of ambulances they shouted Mansei 10000 waved Commu nist flags Many of the children were crying The machinery of prisoner ex change was functioning smoothly but there were background of coming dispute In Washington the State Depart Continued On Page 2 FLOW OF SUPPLIES TO KOREA STARTS WASHINGTON Aug S first ship carrying new American supplies to remake Korea into a show window of the free world already has left San Francisco Three others are dus to sail Tuesday with cargoes of cotton barley and rice The four vessels will be the van guard of hundreds which will carry food raw materials and equipment In the drive to relive and reconstruct South Korea In wake of the truce In announcing the the Old Stassen said today they alK symbolic of the determination of free men to be as vigorous in peace as they are valiant in war In defense of freedom Red Chinese Army Is Big League Now POPULATION OF U S TO REACH 160 MILLIONS TOMORROW MORNING WASHINGTON Aug 8 population of the United States will reach the 160 million mark about am Monday according i Census Bureau reckoning That would represent a jump of nearly 9 million since the officia census was taken a little over three years ago The TJ S 151132000 The Census Bureau concedes that the time it figures the popula tion will arrive at 160 million only an it sists that approximation is a close one The steady increase has been A bitterly Army foi inthe first time since spears went out of fashion has graduated into the big league That army took ticked off on a bulky a training course on the machine In the lobby of the during the truce talks merce merce Department director preside Monday where census The new Chinese Red Army has Robert W Burgess will completely altered the balance of at a special ceremony power in the world against us Our European allies are now faced with This machine records a net gain of It shows a birth c and our Asiatic allies are now every 8 seconds v CW W II a death every 21 seconds and also army takes account of immigration fie departures from the ures and country Trusteeship Of Okinawa Denied United States Closes Door On Control Of islands By UN WASHINGTON Aug 8 United States today closed the door Nations trus over the American base of Okinawa or other Islands In the strategic Ryukyu and Bonin chains south of Japan The action marking a shift in United States policy was taken by of State Dulles in a statement at Tokyo announcing the return to Japan of one group of islands in the Ryukyu Dulles statement was released si in Washington The and Bonins were taken from Japan as far as ad ministrative control goes by Ar ticle 3 of the Japanese Peace Treaty This pact formally ending World War II in the Pacific was signed at San Francisco in Sep tember 1951 The treaty committed Japan U Continued On Pnge 2 Dulles On Way To Washington Secretary Leaves Tokyo After Strategic Moves TOKYO Sunday Aug 9 UrV U S Secretary of State John Fos er Dulles leaves today for Wash ington two strategic noves to strengthen the free worlds position in the Far East In South Korea yesterday he tn with President Syngman Rhee a mutual security pact It plages U S troops will fight again in Korea If violate the armistice and strike south The agreement also provides that both countries will walk out of the Ko rean political conference after 90 days if the Communists do not get down to brass tacks In discussions on a Korean truce In Tokyo last night Dulles re the United States desire to the Amami Oshima roup of islands near Okinawa ma or U S base in the Pacific The slands were taken from Japan aft to er World War II Observers viewed the move as an attemPt to embarrass Russia 1 nto signing a peace treaty The 22000 inhabitants of Ama mi Oshima have clamored for re urn to Japanese jurisdiction On Page 2 YoYo War Replaced By Tedious Truce By FRED NEA Staff Correspondent ON THE KOREAN TRUCE FRONT Aug a NEA The tedious truce has replaced the yo yo war Since May 1951 when Doug las MacArthur said the Kdrean conflict has reached a stalemate up and down a string of hills like Old and Heart break Ridge gaining only obitu ary notices Now a mountain climbing jour ney along the show you an army doing nothing In a military manner A of GIs keep on chopsticks wearing towels around their necks like scarves to sop up sweat Blonde Pfc John Thatcher 19 binoculars on the neutral zone looking for any enemy which might be advancing under the flag of doublecross In a nearby moun phone Instead of With reach for his his carbine He will ropot On Page Communist Force Alters Balance Of Power In During Lull In Truce Talks EDITORS NOTE This dispatch by Sparks Is based on eyewitness ram purlsons he made as a frontline cor respondent in Korea In 1950 1951 By FRED SPARKS NEA Staff Correspondent EIGHTH ARMY TERS Korea Aug 8 haps this is the most important fact of our century Chinese man Russian army ed with a man Chinese This frightful fact is obvious as we carefully comb the combat rec ords during this time of the truce Tagging the Airborne Reg during our last major push of this saw good evidence that the Chinese were falling apart like a balding mans pigtail They had little artillery no transport but peasants backs and hardly one antiaircraft gun to worry our planes which picked at them like mosquitoes at a sick cow Thousands crawled in whimper ing for mercy dizzy as drunks from shell shock hungry enough to fire at and eat the skinny Ko rean crows Then came the truce talks and two years of yo yo war General Mao received vast shipments of fresh killing instruments and in from Russia His Chop sticks practiced and perfected mod ern murderous methods young men Every general and GI here believe they graduated with honors In the fall of 1950 I was a fox hole guest of the 7th Marine Regi ment sweeping the last drippings of the North Korean Army into the Yalu an iron bar on the were hit one night by a mass of Chinese They circled around blowing horns and beating gongs In the morning Leathernecks curiously examined captured Chinese as our Continued On 25 QUEEN DISPOSES OF VALUED AT LONDON Aug 8 late Queen Mary descendant and fore bear of British monarchs left an estate of 406407 pounds considerably less than had been expected The net value after taxes was given upon probation of her will today was 379864 pounds Queen Mary grandmother of reigning Queen Elizabeth II died last March 24 at 85 Unofficial es of her holdings at the time ranged as high as seven million pounds Only the wills of a reigning mon arch are exempt from taxes Names of the beneficiaries Queen Marys will were not dis closed While wills of the royal family are admitted to probate In the usual way they are kept se cret unless their disclosure Is au by the president of the Probate Court As a rule details are never made public Queen Mary was the great MU granddaughter of King George III Queen Victoria was her godmother and King Edward VII Victorias son her She was the rtf King George V the mother of abdicated King Edward VIII now the Duke of Windsor and of the late King George VI KATHARINE HEPBURN IN HARTFORD HOSPITAL HARTFORD Conn Aug 8 Actress Katharine Hepburn is patient at Hartford Hospital it disclosed today by her surgeon urologist father Dr Thomas N Hepburn Dr Hepburn declined to discuss reports that his daugh ter had undergone surgery Thurs day saying I never give out any notices about any patient of mine Hospital authorities referred inquiries to Dr Hepburn ETHIOPIAN FIGHTS AGAINST COMMUNISTS HANOI Indochina Aug 8 was all We has seen action in Syria Libya Tunisia In Franco in World War and has been fighting here i hree years US Reds Press Hunt Expects Return Of All Prisoners Communist China North Korea Believed Holding UpTo 3000 More Ameri cans Than They Admit WASHINGTON Aug S United notice today that it expects Red China and North Korea to give up every pris oner of war now in their hands Gen Mark Clark supreme Al lied commander in the Far East has said he thinks the Reds have 2000 or 3000 more Americans than they agreed to return under the truce terms and thousands upon thousands more South Korans There have also been reports from Korea that some American POWs have been sentenced to jail terms by the Reds in recent weeks for instigating against the peace Expressing grave concern about the situation the State Depart ment issued a statement saying of the prisoner exchange is being watched very closely and appropriate action will be taken just as soon as definite facts are established The statement was signed by acting Secretary of State Waiter Bedell Smith Taking a slap at Soviet Russia the statement declared It has long been believed on good the Soviet Un ion still holds an unknown number of World War II prisoners of dif ferent nationalities and it was with this in mind that we insisted on a clause in the armistice agree ment which provided that any United Nations personnel who are said not to desire repatriation must nevertheless be transferred to the custody of the repatriation commission where our officers will have access to them This would include any prisoners alleged to have been given jail sentences None are exempt From those already liberated U N officers have learned that there are some Americans who have decided not to return because they fear reprisals from fellow captives These men were de scribed as informers for the Reds State Department officials said the appropriate action men in Smiths statement means first of all a complaint that the armistice is being violated Pro for making such complaints is provided in the truce agree ment Smith emphasized that nothing would be done to jeopardize the safety of prisoners still in Commu nist hands The Reds promised to send back 3313 Americans among 12763 Al lied POWs There were 90 Ameri cans in the group returned yes and an additional 112 are expected to be liberated tomorrow Continued Cool Weather Seen Temperature Drops After Brief Thunderstorm Fair and continued cooler wea ther today and tomorrow is the forecast for the Petersburg area after a brief thunderstorm last night that sent the mercury down several degrees The rain was not sufficient here to make much dif ference in the seven weeks old drought but there were reports of rain throughout most of the state which may have helped crops Last nights rain which lasted from 8 to p m came after a day that saw the mercury go only to 94 degrees It was the second day that was marked by lower tem and forecasters said there would be no return to the severe heat of a few days ago until at least the middle of this week The cooler weather helped crops in this area to tha extent of halting of parching but a general rain for a day or more Is believed needed to assure the salvage of any consid erable portion of severely damaged crops At 2 am today the temperature here 67 High yesterday was 94 and the forecast Js a top of 85 today Many other sections of the coun try had lower readings yesterday Richmond reported 92 Philadel s phia 91 New York 82 Boston 72 Chicago 75 Cincinnati 79 Seattle 67 and Washington 80 The hottest spot on the list was Dallas which had 108 RAIN IX STATE V By The Associated Press Rain fell on many parts of a Virginia Saturday On 2 In East Germany For Fascists Thousands Of Unpaid Volunteers Sent To Fields As Bread Grains And Fodder Fall Short BERLIN Aug 8 Harvest failures and sinking industrial production tonight spurred the Communist East German govern ment in its secret hunt for Fascist undergrounds Red press reports indicated a grave deficit in bread grains and fodder as tens of thousands of un paid volunteers were sent into the country for emergency week end work Hampered by continual rain storms farmers were 75 per cent behind schedule in grain reaping in the once rich agricultural area of Mecklenburg the Soviet zone news agency ADN disclosed The East German Ministry of Agriculture reported much grain in other provinces was still in open fields after the m danger of spoilage In bad weather Peoples police detachments in some districts were diverted to help farmers in the crisis The East German Planning Commission supreme arbiter ol the economy announced the out of fats fish eggs sugar meat and milk had failed seriously to fill planned quotas in the second quarter of 1953 and hinted the sit was even worse now A host of confidential reports on East German industrial condi tions gathered by Allied officials showed every large national en from mining to mg lagging because of continued passive slowdowns The Red commission itself listed classes of industries where out put had been adversely affected but did not specify the reason Oldtime saboteur Ernest Wooi weber new boss of East Ger manys Red Gestapo was credited in Allied reports with drastically enlarging the spy system in stra industries Dispatches in Bast German pro newspapers almost daily disclose some new trial of al resistance leaders uncovered by agents in zonal plants The government has re stated that Fascist un are still active and must be rooted out Allied military sources dismissed new Berlin rumors today of large Soviet troop movements in East Germany as unfounded They said the Russians probably will hold some field exercises In the near future however Regular summer maneuvers disrupted by the June 17 revolt Sailor Killed In Auto Crash Car Strikes Bus On Route 460 In Prince George Jasper E of the Navy stationed at Norfolk was fatally injured shortly after 4 p m yesterday an automobile he was driving crashed into a bus on Route 460 just outside the city in Prince George County He was injured internally and died en route to Petersburg General Hos pital The sailors home was in Louisiana but he was going to Baltimore with Clarence civilian whose home is in the Maryland city Goddard suffered minor injuries and was treated at the hospital Investigators said lost control of his ear which was headed toward Petersburg when he tried to get on the high way after running onto the shoul der of the The machine veered across the road and struck the side of the bus which was traveling east The sailors car was demolished death was the sec ond fatality in this section yes Harry Newton Houston of Chimney Corner Turnpike In Chesterfield County was killed when an ACL passenger train struck his bile at a road crossing Just south of The deaths brought to 505 the number of persons killed in high way accidents in Virginia so far this year TUMP TRUCK KINGWOOD W Va Aug 8 Arnold Edward Ratcliff old truck driver from Danville W Va was killed today when he On Page 2 Kinsey Is Tired Of Answering Questions For this whose report behavior made headlines five years ago and now Is stirring up new headlines with his report on fo valS sox NEA Staff Writer and and what his fellow By WARE JONES NEA Staff Correspondent BLOOMINGTON Ind Aug 8 Dr Alfred Charles Kin soys most notable features per haps are his hazel eyes which can turn from sun to a flash and his voice which ts unusually II warm and expressive Ho can turn on he charm And he can turn il He also looks tired at the mo ment but if you mention it to him he snaps The only thing Im tired of is a lot of damn fool questions This Is the man who got into the limelight by asking a lot of questions himself about sex And these days he Is up to ears in questions about his new book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female the details of which will be alied to the world on Aug 20 Five years ago he and his asso at the University of Indi anas Institute for Sex Research produced the now famous work Continued On Pnge 7 36 10 CENTS US Experts Doubt Russia Has Produced Malenkov Seen PARIS PARALYZED BY trains are running so Paris police close the main gates of a railroad station Two million public workers employees of railroads electric and gas companies nationalized mines and other govern ment agencies paralyzed the city with a strike Called by the antiCommunist Force Workers Force labor federation the strike was ordered to protest bud get measures of the new French cabinet NEA photo Railroads In France Crippled By Strike floundered through a continued Theres possibility that Russia strike in governmentowned public was at least tipped off to begin services which stranded hundreds thinking about a of American British and other hydrogen bomb as far back as foreign tourists Jn Paris and other World War II days when spots cans were working on an Many of the workers who walked but dreaming of a hydrogen weap H yesterday were back on the on jb today but the biggest headache The tipoff may have was in the railroads where Fuchs scien tions were still spasmodic Uncertainty was so great that sleeping car reservations were re fused and the railway ticket of fices frankly said they had no idea whether any given train would move French officials said it was cult to say many of yester days two million strikers were still out but that the figure was over 500000 So far Paris had no food short age although fruits and vegetables available at the central market were 700 tons below normal A mine strike almost completely closed the nations coal fields with the walkout reported 80 per cent effective Garbage collec tion was only spotty in Paris where many municipal workers still stayed off the job Funeral parlors opened however and burial processions were seen The nationwide postal telegraph and telephone strike con and the government an plans for using the Army to collect letters from jammed mail boxes This it may do Monday Practically no hotel or travel res to and from points out side Paris could be made today from the capital because of the telephone and telegraph strike PRESIDENT AND WIFE FLY TO DENVER FOR MONTHS VACATION DENVER Aug 8 plane President Eisenhower and Ills wife Mamie to Denver for a three or holiday set down late today at Lowry Air Force Base The foure n g i n e Constellation Columbine broke through an over cast sky to the cheers of an as crowd of Lowry Air Force personnel and their families Smiling Dwight D Eisenhower stepped from the plane wearing a hat and flanked uy his wife The President and his wife were then hustled Into a bright red con vertible Flanked by many Secret Service men the parade moved clown the runway and out a gate massed with cheering spectators The procession moved directly toward the house of Mrs Eisen howers mother Mrs John S The President is expected to spend the first few Aays of his Holiday winding up some official The business is mainly the signing of bills passed by the Congress No other details of the dents Colorado jaunt have boen announced s GERMAN MERCHANT NAVY GROWING 1840000 tons afloat Hundreds Of American RUSSIA TIPPED OFF Other Foreign Tourists Stranded In Paris PARIS Aug 8 today ABOUT BOMB DURING WAR BY KARL FUCHS WASHINGTON Aug S can and British atomic projects who confessed to feeding atomic information to the Russians He worked on the American project between 1843 and 1946 and working on the British when arrested in 1950 project The Soviet may have gotten even more specific information to heip them in the quest In the fall of 1950 from an atomic beiem tist familiar with American and British projects who fled at that time behind the Iron Curtain He is Dr Bruno physicist The U S Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee once said that corvo along with Fuchs and other ng Soviet Premier Accuses U S Of Atomic Black mail Assails Atlantic Bloc As Danger To Peace WASHINGTON Aug 8 sia may mastered the secret of the hydrogen bomb as Premier Malenkov claimed today but Amer ican experts doubt that the Soviet Union actually has produced one of hose terrible weapons These U S officials who prob ably are as well informed on So viet atomic progress as anyone out side Russia expressed their doubts after studying speech to his Red parliament Diplomatic authorities who make it a practice to keep track of the twists and turns of Kremlin foreign policy also came up with this con that talk in eluding his boast was de tough contrasting sharp ly with the peaceful gestures with which Russia has been trying to impress the world the death of five After declaring that the United States have no monopoly in the production of the Malen kov accused this country of having practiced atomic blackmail He also assailed the Atlantic treaty system as the main danger to world peace and warned the West not to read Russian weakness Into the purge of Lavrenty Beria the former Soviet secret police chief and onetime close associate of Malenkov There was some speculation that Malenkov may be feeling more se cure internally and that with Be ria out of the way and the followup purge presumably going well he now considers himself in a position to take a stronger foreign policy line Against this authorities bal ance the fact that an armistice for whatever reasons has been achieved in the Korean War hydrogen bomb boast drew no reaction from the White House which President Eisenhower left today for a Colorado vacation It produced no air of crisis One school of thought Ir Wash ington was represented in a state ment by Lewis Strauss chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who said We have never assumed that it was beyond the capabilities of the Russians to produce such a weapon and that is reason why more than three years ago it was de to press forward with this development for ourselves Sen Edwin C Johnson a member Committee scoffed at claim I feel hes manufacturing prop to impress his satellite empire and particularly Commu nist China Johnson told reporters in Denver An atomic scientist Dr Ralph Lapp took a more serious view of the matter Saying it would not be too surprising if the Russians had tested a smallscale he added that if they actually have the bomb Eisenhower would be justified in recalling Congress to to a minimum the avoidable Another report to be exee exceed would be considered for this solve in order to Ret as far Continued On Page 2 of the on Atomic consider air defense of a totally unprecedented nature Talking to newsmen in kee Sen Wiley chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said claim might be intended to divert the attention of the free world from the moral spiritual and economic weaknesses behind the Iron Cur tain Another member of the Senate House committee Rep Price D agreed to some extent with Johnson Personally I think the state ment is typical Russian propagan WASHINGTON Aug 8 Sethi i the persons advanced the Sovie atomic energy program at leas IS months ahead of where it other wise might have been Week May Show Controls Need Developments Expected To Govern Farm Quotas e us coming week may show how far eventually attaining the H bomb I ftl will am firmly convinced that we con nave to go next year in applying to lead in research on this crop controls it has pledged to hold weapon A good deal of the reaction here On Monday the Agriculture thaT will release the first as Is ava lable ficia estimate of the size of this the Russians have not years cotton crop Should it a hydrogen bomb This ceed 32 million bales controls on dence on the record at least Is crop would appear two kinds 1 American scientists and i ctes who work with them know which the United With a industrial bushels than Russias had to does have Continued Oh 2 Hot Campaign For Vote In Canada TORONTO Aug 8 of the hottest election weatherwise In Canadian history is now being waged from the At to the Pacific coasts Never before has a general elec tion been held in Canada in mid summer and choice of August 10 as election date is one of the con Issues Tens of thousands of factory and t i or ana BONN Germany Aug 8 office workers and their families Weal merchant navy will be on their annual vacation b will be on their annual almost wiped out in World War when election day combes around IT w 11 grow to at least 2300000 The election date is expected to tons in the next few years large numbers of city Minister Hans C Secbohm workers of their vote for few are c r now lo come flom sida cottages io hot city that day and most big factories are closed during the early part of August Social security measures waste in government operations and de fense spending national housing lower taxes and more trade with the British Commonwealth are ma jor issues in the 1953 election Five parties are contending for the 265 seats in the Canadian House of Commons including the Communists a legal party in Can ada known as the sive Party The Liberal Party which has been In power for the past 18 years is expected to be returned to now Qm
