Redlands Daily Facts (Newspaper) - April 15, 1953, Redlands, California fa Vol Year No 64 REDLANDS CALIFORNIA THURSDAY APRIL 16 1953 Pages 5 CHALLENGE AT RUSS First Allied War Prisoners Reach Kaesong Stop Before Answer On Tofts On Way PANMUNJOM Korea UP Red trucks and ambulances today delivered the first of 605 Allied sick and wounded war prisoners to stop before the United Nations com- mand indicated it now may be willing lo resume full scale truce negotiations The U N notified the Reds it wants a meeting of liaison officers to deliver a letter from Lt Gen William K Harrison head of the United Nations truce The letter addressed to North Korean Gen Nam II presumably is the U N reply lo repeated Communist demands for a special conference to arrange resumption of the long stalemated armistice talks The Reds have been grumbling at delays in delivery of the U N answer Four Freedom Gen Mark Clark supreme Commander and other Allied of- have indicated they be willing lo consider tion of the truce negotiations only after the Reds hud made good on their promise to return sick and wounded Allied war prisoners With the first of the repatriated prisoners now only six miles and four days from freedom and other convoys of prisoners rolling down Korea's roads the N appeared ready to talk ness Twenty-four dust-covered trucks bearing the Allied sick and ed for Monday's prisoner ex- change jolted into the Red truce camp at Kaesong today The trucks were the first and part of the second of three dom convoys that left far North Korea near the Yalu river earlier this week with an as yet unknown number ol disabled Allied pns Mired in Mud Twelve trucks of the second con voy were delated at 17 mites northwest of when two trucks became mired in the mud The third convoy was last seen at nightfall near east of Pyongyang The North rean capital is about 90 miles from Kaesong This convoy had about one day's travel over to ed roads before reaching the Red camp The prisoners will remain at Kaesong six miles north of the Inice village of until Monday at least when the tous exchange of ailing prisoners gets under way With the Reds releasing 100 prisoners to the lies in exchange for 500 from the United Nations The exchange will go on every day for about 12 days At the endi of that time the Communists will have released 605 Allied prisoners Weather Southern California coastal intermediate Night and morning low clouds and fog with local early morning drizzle but afternoon sunshine tomorrow April 16 1953 Highest 72 Lowest 42 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY Highest 82 Lowest 45 Jimmy Cub says this is fine Little bit of a lot of things but mostly hine Few clouds wound but only there for tion James is sure James has noticed that he does not see ly EO many out of state licenses on cars in lands he has suspicion that a number of those refugees from snow and ice have gone back home Jimmy says he told that the wildflowers on the Mojave desert are something James ts pretty well satisfied to stay right here in Badlands and see the flower display we have in every yard almost Say you know that cheese you sold me Yes sir Well did you say it was imported or ALLIED PHOTO SPOTS POW sth Air Force photo shows convoy No I of Allied prisoners in Communist bands near Yongsong eight miles north of the Red c a pi of Pyongyang The trucks bearing sick and Mounded U N prisoners are headed toward the peace site near Panmunjom where the exchange begins next Monday Bomb Explosions HOUSE GROUP VOTES TO Ignite Rioting In Buenos Aires LET RENT CONTROLS DIE i WASHINGTON The House Banking committee voted o 10 to let most federal rent controls May 1 Democratic members called the vote a slap j t President Eisenhower i The administration had asked BUENOS AIRES Angry mobs surged through Buenos Aires today m a wave of death burning and rioting touched off by two bomb explosions at a giant Congress lo continue the ceilings cal rally Officials said at for another five months after the six were killed act expires April 30 The Unofficial reports said 150 was to give states more time sons were injured in set up their own rent curbs if when the blasts the wanted to VLza del Mayo President The approved by the House Juan Peron was would federal sing supporters late controls May 1 from of day the dwellings still under Fires set in retaliation by ceilings Peron rioters last mght and early today burned three headquarters buildings of opposition political and the iwank Aires Jockey Club At least three In fashionable eating places were wrecked Crash Animal Trainer Held i Police held for questioning a cir-1 HANOI Indo-China A eus animal trainer identified as chartered commercial airplane an American citizen whom a fev used 10 help ferry troops to the excited bystanders pointed out as threatened French garrison at the bomb thrower Officials save Nasan crashed on takeoff 27 Feared Dead thrower Officials gave his name as Esteban Jacyna of Herkimer N Y said lo be the elephant tamer of a circus nou louring Buenos Aires Authorities at said nd one named was listed in the village records or telephone book stoutly denied the gations In a statement released by police today he said he had just alighted from an underground train Plaza del Mayo station when he heard a strong explosion crashed kitting here persons Nasan today killing all 27 ti board French Army officials said the plane one of several dozen being employed to rush reinforcements and supplies to the fortress 117 miles west of Hanoi crashed when its port engine caught fire H was believed all passengers nrd crewmen aboard the plane were military personnel A headquarters spokesman said the plane had just lifted off he Gu Lam airfield across the Red river from the eastern outskirts of He said he was trying o get out of the subway uhen demonstrators when the sputtered hurling accusations at him Peon Blames Spies The president whose climaxed a week of cal Argentine political charged the bomb plot uas the work ut foreign agents and said the plotters should be hanged from trees The bombs exploded about 400 feet from balcony Shouting ers of Peron defied police and squads in a night long wave oC and then caught on fire The plane plowed into the dy banks of the river and into flame British Freighter Swept By Flames All Crewmen Saved arson Their first assault came against I LONG BEACH Calif explosion in the engine room as headquarters of the Socialist party The rioters hurled furniture the four-story offices of the touched off a fire that swept the paper La Vanguardia which serves British freighter Menestheus 70 es off the coast of Mexico today but all 80 crewmen were and priming equipment from the rescued injuries windows then set fires T R Walker of Liverpool cap- torches and burning rags which tain of the ship radioed turned he cellar into an inferno of the Blue Funnel Line Other demonstrators broke into that the American freighter the headquarters of the Radical and Democratic Conferva live like the Socialists have opposed Peron Both ings were set afire Then the exclusive Jockey Club jo Victory would attempt to tow the stricken vessel to either San Diego or Los Beach harbor If the tow is successful it would require at least two or three days Democrats said they count on Mr Eisenhower's influence In I efforts to change the on House floor If they fail and the Senate accepts the House measure rent controls will die at midnight two weeks from today in Chicago Philadelphia Cleveland and several other large cities Other congressional Senate Republican Leader Robert A Taft of Ohio led tn an attempt to limit ther discussion of the tidelands Sen Lister Hilt blocked the necessary unanimous consent Rep Bernard W Pat Kearney Y said he knows of a Veterans tion hospital which paid m a single year for con- Kearney heads a House Veterans subcommittee which will investigate hospitals Spy Gregory ver master former treasury cial refused to tell Senate whether he is active in a Communist espionage ring Ho asserted in a statement however that he is a loyal citizen and was nol a security risk as a federal employe Former ist spy Elizabeth Bentley had charged that Silver master headed a Soviet espionage ring in 1944 Prof Wendell H Furry of Harvard told a House Un-American Activities he has not been a Commu mst since March 1 1951 But he refused to say whether he was or one before that date Only 25 House members signed Rep Daniel A Reed's petition to force an ly vote on his income tax tion The to pry the out of the Rules com- 218 votes to become effective Sen Robert C Hendrickson H-N J said the Senate subcommittee investigating ammunition shortages should call former Defense Secretary George C Marshall to explain an order he issued which laid out the guideline that the Korean war should be over by June 1951 Red Sen Joseph R Carthy planned to notify the State Department today he has obtained new anti Red trade agreements from foreign ship owners Hospital The House erans committee took up the tion of free hospital treatment for veterans whose ailments are not due to military service Chairman Kdith Nourse Rogers R-Mass said she is drafting a to bar reported abuses of he program 16 Kilted As Blast Shatters Machine Factory CHICAGO An explosion shattered a four-story screw chine factory today and police said 16 persons most of them men were killed Twelve bodies had been taken lo the county morgue and men said four more were inside the building At least 32 persons were treated for injuries at five hospitals Many injured when they leaped from upper floors as flames shot swiftly through the red brick and concrete building In addition to the factory dead two babies died in an apartment building fire aggravated by the fact that a fire engine stationed across the street had gone to fight the factory blaze High winds fanned the flames and dense smoke hung like a pall over the confused scene Police said about employes were at work in the plant owned by the Haber Corp when the blast occurred Some leaped from windows of upper stories and were injured Kelly Tanko 47 company ident said the cause of the sion was unknown He said the plant used no explosives on fire Later demonstrators smashed windows and overturned tables at the famous El Aguila Tea Shop Others wrecked buildings haunt of the city's elite was set to reach port according to J W Zundell representative here of the Blue Funnel Line which owns the Menestheus We do not have any details of the Zundell said The ter reported only that it started after an explosion in the engine room He thinks the greatest age may have been confined to the engine room The Pacific Far East Line's BERLIN East freighter Navajo Victory man deputy premier Walter eLd to a distress call radioed by demanded a purge of shortly after mid- Soviet zone Ministry of meht and picked up the crewmen East German Demands Purge UN Group Passes Brazil Proposal UNITED NATIONS N Y UP The United Nations Political committee today approved a Brazilian resolution de- signed to keep the Korean truce negotiations at Panmunjom The vote was 60 to 0 The Brazilian resolution notes the agreement at Panmunjom to exchange sick and wounded expresses the ther negotiations there will bring an early armistice and provides that the general Assembly shall recess without further Korean de- bate until a truce agreement is reached or developments warrant a new discussion of the war here The way was cleared for the unanimous passage of the ian resolution which was drafted in consultation with the United States Britain France and several other western powers by Poland's unexpected withdrawal of the propaganda packed peace proposal Boilermaker Murders Seven Commits Suicide All Wen Members Of Own FamBy Fate of His Boy 10 Unknown LAWRENCE Mass An unemployed boilermaker with a persecution complex himself with whisky and hacked shot to death eight of his family before taking his own life as police closed in on him Peter J Akulonis 39 staged the day long carnage here and in neighboring Methuen yesterday finally ending his own life with a bullet in his head The fate of the old son Peler Jr was not known and police were searching for him today The father called for the boy at school in Methuen day apparently after he had slain the boy's mother and younger brother with a hatchet Family Victim The other five known victims of Akulonis were his 72 year old mother two brothers and two nephews The case was one of the worst mass killings since Howard Unruh a war veteran went berserk in N J on Sept 6 1949 and killed 13 of his bors with a German Luger pistol Unruh was committed to a mental hospital Police feared that Akulonis had Peter Jr after leaving the school and hidden his body though one in a bundle of stained notes found in the dead pockets I love Peter the best of all However police said the slayer might have referred to himself Some of the other cryptic notes read Thanks to the in 1 hope you damn all the rats Police said Akulonis had a police record of burglary and ness but had not been arrested in the past 20 years Had Complex Former at a rence Boiler factory said is had developed a persecution complex As reconstructed by police this was the sequence of events in Peter Akulonis day of He accompanied his brother Raymond to he job as a carpenter in Cambridge day morning then borrowed his automobile on the pretense be was going to look for work in Boston Theft he returned to Lawrence and called at the home of another brother Alphonse 32 He told he wanted a drink and went out and bought I ky and ginger ale During his brother's absence Peter killed his mother Mary 72 Alphonse's sons James 5 and Paul 2 Tells Them To End War If Peace Drive Sincere Also Demands Russia Lift Iron Curtain Join Disarmament Pact By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON Eisenhower challenged Russia's new leaders today to prove their will for peace by ending the Korean war lifting the Iron Curtain from satellite countries and joining a world disarmament pact that would outlaw atomic weapons He seized the diplomatic tive from he Communists in a major foreign policy speech listing specific deeds the can Cost Of Cold War Told By Eisenhower Stevenson Escapes Injury When Copter Forced Down lure today and said that enemy had taken to lifeboats when agents had been arrested in im- fire swePt through the Menestheus East German mines and factories Ulbricht who as Communist general is the No 1 Red of East Gerany blamed the flight shortage of automobile tires may of the East German farmes throughout the nation this the West on the Agriculture summer according to the the East German courts and dent of the National Association of other state organs Independent Tire Dealers Tire Shortage LOS ANGELES serious SINGAPORE Adlai i venson escaped injury today when a helicopter in which he was flying was forced down in the Malayan jungle The helicopter carrying the Democratic party leader two er Americans and a British Army officer was forced down 13 miles from the Federation Capital of Kuala Lumpur when an engine cut out It landed in a rice paddy in a jungle clearing There were no injuries and the helicopter suffered only minor damage Stevenson was unruffled by the accident He joked with the pilot Royal Navy Air Force Lt R a few minutes after landing Stevenson climbed out unhurt and smiting as nearby British ground force units and armored cars rushed to the area The helicopter belonged to Gen Gerald Templer Malayan High Commissioner Accompanying Stevenson on the flight were Barry Bingham dent of the Courier Journal and Louisville Times Co Walter son of the University of Chicago and Brig William Lambert com- manding the independent in- fantry brigade There was no immediate nation for the cause of the engine failure At the time Stevenson was re- turning from jungle maneuvers at which he witnessed troops of the 22nd special air services regiment parachuting into virgin jungle near Kuala Lumpur Ike Throws Strike To Open Season WASHINGTON ed a strike today President Eisenhower who warmed up throwing out the Democrats last November threw out the ceremonial first ball in the delayed opener between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators as some fans Re- publicans and Democrats cheered Without benefit of a windup the reluctant right-hander threw bis high bard one The coveted ball sailed straight into the waiting hands of Washington outfielder Ken Wood and Washington's bait season finally was under way For the benefit of the Mr Eisenhower threw a second ball which was missed by Washington coach Joe Haynes and rolled toward the umpires clustered near home plate Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 400 001 12 1 Washington 000 110 9 1 Sain Berra Sima Consuegra S Grasso St 000 1 1 000 2 1 Brecheen Moss Pierce Lollar Boston 050 19 0 Philadelphia 110 202 6 15 3 Brown Holcomb 6 and White Byrd Harrington Fricano 9 and Murray WASHINGTON UP What is the cost of the cold President Eisenhower put it bluntly today n a major foreign policy This world m arms is not spending money alone It is spending the sweat of its laborers the genius of its the hopes of its children The cost of one modern heavy bomber is A modern brick school in more than 30 cities It Two electric power plants each serving a town of population It Two fine fully equipped hospitals It is some SO miles of concrete highway We pay for a single fighter plane a half million bushels of wheat We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than people the best way of lite to be found on the road the world has been taking This is nol a way of life at all in any true sense Under the cloud of threatening war it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron Reclamation Bureau Personnel To Be Cut 25 Pet WASHINGTON tary of Interior Douglas McKay was today to have issued an economy order that is likely to reduce personnel at all mation bureau field offices by at least 25 per cent The report came from Chairman A L Miller of the House Interior committee who said personnel at many of the offices will be cut 25 to 30 per cent in the very near future Miller issued a ment praising McKay for moving to eliminate alent the Truman tration Miller also said McKay is not in sympathy with the Budget action before the can administration took office in deleting from the fiscal 1954 get funds to start 18 reclamation projects Miller said the projects were chopped from former ident Truman's budget even though they appeared to be sible McKay declined to comment on any of Miller's statements Miller said McKay has sent ders to regional directors to cut down on staffs and consolidate many of the offices It seems quite likely that all of the area regional and project offices in the 17 Western states will have a reduction of at least 25 per cent in Miller said McKay and Clarence A Davis Interior Department solicitor have assured me that the order will eliminate the drones by keeping only those absolutely essary to Miller said Grunewald Tells China Plane Deal WASHINGTON W Grunewald testified today the nese Nationalist government paid him for buying the Chinese 100 fighter planet years ago Grunewald Washington puller now awaiting sentence for contempt of Congress told the House Ways and Means be bought the airplanes for the Chinese from the North ican Aviation Co of California Grunewald couldn't remember when be bought the airplanes for the Chinese But he said he made the purchase when the Chinese themselves found that they were unable to get any airplanes perform to demonstrate the cerity of their recent peace talk He said he death of Soviet Premier Josef Stalin has given his Kremlin successors a precious chance to turn the black tide of events sweeping the world ward atomic war but warned that we do not yet know whether they mean to do it Jutt Mr Eisenhower interrupted his golfing vacation at Augusta Ga and flew here to deliver the word address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors He planned to return to Augusta late this afternoon Diplomatic bailed the speech as a momentous ration of the new administration's readiness to negotiate a just cold war settlement with Russia The main points of the broad U S policy he sketched 1 This country is ready to enter into a world ment treaty providing for an out- right ban on atomic weapons limitations on the size of each nation's armed forces and a tical system of inspection under the United Nations to enforce the rules in 2 If disarmament can be achieved the United States will join other countries in setting up a fund for world aid and struction out of billions saved on military preparations 3 The first great step toward a general world settlement must be the conclusion of an honorable armistice in Korea This should be followed immediately by discussions leading to the holding of free elections in a ed Korea 4 A Korean truce would be a fraud unless the Communists call off their sions against Indo-China and laya The Soviet attitude on this question will show whether the Communists seek merely an ex- truce in Korea or uine peace in Asia Good Faith Program 5 Russia can demonstrate good in Europe by A freeing Communist satellite countries to choose their own forms of B releasing thousands of prisoners still held from World War H and C ing to an Austrian peace treaty without further delay 6 The United Slates is willing to work for a united Germany with a government based on free and secret elections But the man problem cannot be separated from the broader question of ing the Iron Curtain throughout Europe to open the way for free movement of persons of trade and of ideas Mr Eisenhower said the whole world will be waiting to hear sia's answer to these challenges and asked that whatever the answer be let it be plainly en Cautiously Hopeful The hunger for peace is too great the hour in history too late for any government to mock men's hopes with mere words and ises and be said The test of truth is simple There can be no persuasion but by deeds He was cautiously hopeful that Russia may now be ready for peaceful deeds A new leadership has assumed power in the Soviet Union Its links to the past however strong cannot bind it completely Its ture is in great part its own to make He appealed to the new Kremlin leaders to face the grim fact that there is no real hope for any tion unless the opposing powers halt their present atomic arms race of He said recent statements and gestures of Soviet leaders give some evidence that they may perils of continuing on the present road The least this country can do Continued on page 7 SPA
