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Ex-Communist CaptiveDischarged From ArmyUnder Subversive TagSAN FRANCISCO, June 29. (UP)—CpI. Paul F. Schnur, Jr., one of 22 former Communist captives brought home on a secret flight from Korea last month, has disclosed he re-ceived an undesirable discharge” from the Army under a regulation covering disloyal or subversive” individuals.Sixth Army headquarters here, upon learning of the+24^year-old San Francisco exsoldier's disclosure, today con-Menace CapitalKOREA''Cffiiiese BatterValley Defease7,40$ Trwx» PMKd Seoul GatowayUnite*Jpfes* Staff CorrespondTOiCY€% Tuesday, June 30.Seven thousand Chinese troops hammering* hard at the gateway to Seoul crushed South Koreahlfeun-ter-attcks Monday and wdnfull control of four outposts vital to the defense of Chorwon Valley/The two Red regiments sftatched the initiative from the South Korean 1st Division and tightened their grip on outposts Bak, Queen, Hannah and a fourth unnamed hill as the battle 35 miles north of Seoul swayed through its fourth day.Betake Lookout MountainThe South Koreans had better luck on the east-central front. They recaptured Lookout Mountain, just below Capitol Hill, after five hours of savage fighting.The air war flared uo after a lull, with weather clearing for the first time in three days, U. S. Sabrejets shot down six MiG's in swirling dogfights high over northwest Korea.Seoul, where the Americans and South Koreans were negotiating on armistice disagreements, had its first air alert in many days. The capital city was blacked out for an hour. No action was reported.Allied officials said the two-front Communist pressure on the South Koreans probably was aimed at helping bring President Syngman Rhee around to the United Nations way of thinking on the truce.The battle in the hills commanding the Chorwon Valley approach to Seoul had been building up since last week.We've chewed up two divisions so far, and we expect them to •‘brow in a third tonight/* a U. S. advisoryofficer with the South Koreans saidyesterday.-1e-firmed Schnur was discharged June 24 under provisions of Army regulation 615-370 by orders of the adjutant general of the Department of the Army.Army spokesman said Schnur’s discharge came under a section of the regulation which applied to individuals who have been determined by investigation to be disloyal or subversive, but in whose cases trial by court-martial has been decreed not feasible or warranted.Schnur, among the group of exprisoners Air Force spokesmen said included men who had shown sympathy for the Communist line, said I can't understand it all, and I can’t understand what I did to get such a discharge.All I can remember is making two records while I was a prisoner, one telling my family I was okay after my capture . . . that was around Christmas, 1950 ... and the other record was on the same order, made in April of 1951.of Left-Wing ferThe son of sc former San Francisco left-wing labor leader, Schnur was a prisoner of tbe'Nofc h Koreanyearn . x ■«Th military plane carrying him and the other ex-prisoners crossedtheJParific secretly and arrived at Travis Air Force Base May 1 toCambodians HoldCapital Officesdischarge Schnur and two other mem It then continued to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. * The flight caused nationwide comment and some controversy after *the Air Force said names of the men# aboard were being withheld because the Defense Department believed they were victims of Communist propaganda/*‘Mayb© Misguided’Brig, Gen. Richard H. Carmichael, commander of the 14th Air Division, said at the time the men on the plane may have been misguided during their period of imprisonment.The discharge given Schnur isnot a dishonorable discharge,Army authorities said, and does not deprive a man of any rights as a U. S. citizen or of any veN eran’s benefits.The youth would not talk to reporters or issue a statement upon arrival he re, other than to say he was completely exhausted and wanted to see his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Schnur.His father is a retired seeretary-treasurer of the CIO labor council here who now manages an apartment house for Vincent HalHnan,1952 Independent party presidential candidate. He was Chairman of the local save the Rosenbergs committee and a critic of the UN intervention in Korea.The elder Schnur advertised In the press in the winter of 1960 asking President Truman to urge an immediate cease-fire in Korea.We want no more of Korea, no future Korea, and no steps to war, the advertisement said.Young Schnur wrote home Christmas of 1950, praising conditions at the Communist prison camps and saying I know many people in the V. S. won't be eating as we will here over the holidays. He described some of his fellow prisoners as reactionary and sus-PNOM PENH, Indo-China, Juim I Picious ”
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Nevada State Journal
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