Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 27, 1953, Yuma, Arizona It the few down of Short Creek In a rebellion or the civil authority of the state or Arizona then it surely was a mild form of rebellion I am not saying that polyf amy should be condoned And I think it quite possible that teen-age girls may have been forced into poly- gamous marriages against their will Our society does not permit that and no reasonable person will ar- gue that the practice should be continued But to my notion the elaborate fanfare which went along with the action on Short Creek was not neo- essary More than a hundred officers descended noisily upon the little community only to find the awaiting them peaceably in the school yard Twenty-five carloads of press and radio people were on for what? To make was plenty of publicity apparently And a three-state radio hookup for a special broadcast by nor Pyle was evidently thought necessary Breaking up a minority religious group by police action is a delicate operation at best One of the strongest foundations of qur American way of life is the right to worship as we please There is no doubt in my mind that the residents of Short Creek were violating more than one of the laws of our society I agree that proper steps should have been taken to curb these practices But to turn the arrest of these quiet and misguided people into a Roman holiday complete with screaming sirens and a huge press gallery does not seem me to be consistent with the highest ot American traditions Mrs W L Crouse Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs Leona A Crouse 65 who died Saturday will be held Wednesday at 2 p m at the Johnson Mortuary Chapel it was announced today nt the tuary Interment will be held in Desert Lawn Memorial Park Born in Pennsylvania Sept 1887 she came to Yuma six years ago Surviving husband Walter Lee Crouse of 2025 Maple Avenue Yuma Sidney and Oscar Chamberlain both of Rochester N Y a daughter Mary E Yount of Pennsylvania and a sister Gertie Vincent of chester N Y The Weather Highest yesterday 108 Lowest 83 KOBE A SHOOTING EN WARY WORLD YUM A 175 YUMA ARIZONA MONDAY JULY 27 1953 TWO PART ARIZONA 175 POLYGAMISTS ARE RAIDED South Koreans Keep Firing Up To Final Moment Action Terminated Strip Country Raid Nets 36 Men 86 Wives SHORT CREEK UP state of Arizona de- termined to blot out my in this desert hamlet day began to decide the futures of 36 men their 86 wives and 263 children More than 100 state the lonely community isolated from most of the state by the Grand Canyon in a pre-dawn raid day and arrested most Of the town's adults Gov Howard Pyle said Short Creek was the scene of an insurrection and that all age girls had been forced into ral marriages before their 15th birthdays Await Arrest Some the men had six wives and almost all marriages were plural But few of wives in conversations with newsmen con polygamy The Short secretly warned the police were coming were waiting in the school yard singing America beneath a ing flag as the authorities Pyle said the raid planned for 26 months was necessary to tect the lives and futures of children he described as the duct and victims of the foulest today conspiracy you could imagine at 11 Average high this Average low this date 81 Forecast to Variable high cloudiness but most ly today through Tuesday Little change in temperature Ex- high 105 degrees Licensed to Wed Licensed to wed July by James B McLay clerk of the court were James J ens 33 West Palm Beach Fla and Dieter 45 of Yuma Leaders of Hie colony which calls itself the United Effort Plan called the raid persecution Colony leader LeRoy S Johnson sold it was the most cowardly act ever perpetrated in the United States Church Banned Polygamy The United Effort group claims to follow the original tenets of the Mormon church but officials of tiie recognized Latter Day Saints Church which repudiated polygamy 63 years ago said all Mormons in Short Creek had been Continued On Page 3 Col 6 TRUCE intently to a radio broadcast from Pan- in Kite soldiers wait for truce TRUCE exultant bis stovepipe bazooka to another soldier in a upon hearing trace news over portable radio feeling of soldiers was ant over end of fighting others pessimistic over conditions of peace Polygamists Held As Insurrectionists PHOENIX Pyle explained the long-planned polygamy sShort Creek by saying the fulfilling one of every deepest protect and defend the The whose carefully prepared talk was broadcast three state networks stressed the meticulous preparation that had preceded the actual raid called it a momentous police action a- gainst insurrection within ona's own borders Pyle referred to the 263 children of the Short Creek polygamists as the innocent chattels of a lawless commercial undertaking of wicked design and ruthlessly exercised wer He said that highly com- petent investigators have been un- able to find a single instance in the last decade of a girl child ing of 15 without having been forced into a shameful ery of marriage Greed Alleged The governor termed the poly- gamous movement the tive enterprise of five or six ly calculating men who direct all of the operations and reap all of the profits and are the evil heart of the insurrection itself The governor sata me raid had Continued On Page 3 Col HAPPY POWs Start Journey Toward Freedom PANMUNJOM Korea UP Communist prisoners of war t begin moving out of their camps today toward the demilitarized zone where they will be handed over to Red authorities A report from said some of the prisoners held oh Koje land off the south coast of Korea was the scene of bloody riots a year ago will be Uie first to be moved All prisoners on sides who accept repatriation must be ex- changed within two months in Operation Biff Switch This includes the 12.763 Allied war prisoners the Communists announced earlier they have in custody Among these are Maj Gen William F Dean and other Americans some of whom are expected to begin returning to freedom this week For some of the prisoners Big Switch will end a three-year ordeal of captivity in North ean prison camps where thousands died of malnutrition neglect and brutality in the war's first winter The United Nations command has promised to repatriate Communist ers Communist authorities said they would repatriate about 300 Allied prisoners per day indicating it would take 42 days to complete the operation But negotiators asked them to increase the speed of delivery and the Reds said they would take the request under consideration The Army announced plans to return American prisoners home by ship on a three week cruise from the port of Inchon giving them enough time to rest cat all they want and receive medical treatment Those more seriously ill wounded will be taken aboard either evacuation planes or pital most of them from Korea to the West Coast BUILDING PERMIT One building permit was iss today by W W McAlpin city building inspector David got the to remodel his dence at 1305 7th Avenue to cos SEOUL Korea uncertain and uneasy quiet of v i negotiated truce settled over the Korean battle The armistice ending the bitter efforts of the Communists to seize all Korea were signed at p.m Sunday in- the truce village of lom Shooting Stops Exactly 12 hours later Of- orders for a fire were broadcast to troops on both sides the battle lines The war was over after 37 months The Red artillery shell of the woy burst on the eastern front -10 utes earlier South Korean troops on the central front continued a rattle of small amis fire almost to the moment of the deadline Then of the cease fire settled over the moonlit lines But the end of the military phase of the long and costly United tions collective efforts to enri must be followed by a delicate political to stai within 90 days And this will in the end determine whether the truce will whether the cease fire can be extended into a uine peace for Korea Long Cosily War The truce and the wrote the end to a police which developed into one of the longest and most costly wars ill American history The war which began with a surprise Communist attack against the South Koreans on June 25 1050 ended three years and 32 days later The war had taken ican lives and had resulted Iff 101.368 wounded and more than 10.000 others captured or missing It had cost the United States around As the truce goes into effect one of the first newly created bodies to go into action will be the tary armistice charged with overseeing the and watching for violations It scheduled to meet Tuesday It isi composed of 10 members from each side Two Signing Ceremonies m Two ceremonies attended signing of the historic merits Three hours after the Allied Communist negotiators had signed the bulky documents in the Continued On Page 3 Col 5 V UNITED NATIONS firn chief the hwt HiRM arc unidentified United delegate ul In shown us he NEJA NORTH KOREA SIGNS Uen Nmn II North Korean after Gen Harrison are at his to the NEA
