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MUNSAN, SatUrday, April 10 (AP)—Allied and Red liaison teams
.met at Panmunjom today for what may be a momentous session.
On, the agenda were the expected signing of an agreement to ex
change disabled Korean War prisoners this month and perhaps the
setting of a date for resuming full-scale armistice negotiations,
Optimism here was based:
1. On the swift, ,smooth way
Red and United Nation liaison
officers arranged for the exchange,
starting by April 21, of 5800 sick
and wounded Beds for 6,00 Allies,
including 120 Americans.
2. On a new communication
PANMUNJOM, Saturday, Ap
ril' 11 (?P)—The Allies and Com
munists today signed an agree
ment for exchanging disabled
Korean War captives beginning
April 21.
• The agreement was signed by•
Rear Adm. John C. Daniel and
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Chb at 12:08 p.m. (1:08 p.m.
EST, Friday.)
from the Reds purporting to offer
a "concession" on how to handle
prisoners of war unwilling to be
sent home—the only major stum
bling block to a truce.
In Tokyo, Gen. Mark Clark,
UN commander, authorized his
liaison officers to sign the sick and
wounded agreement at Panmun
jom. But he withheld comment on
the latest Red bid for resumption
of the truce talks, which was
mainly a restatement of a pro•-
posal by Premier Chou En-lai on
March 30.
Clark told the Reds March 31
that if the sick and wounded
terms could be concluded he •was
prepared for his liaison officers
to discuss reopening the truce
talks as the second order of busi
ness.
Yesterday at Panmunjom the
Reds handed' over a letter they
classified as "v er y - important"
from their chief truce negotiator,
Gen. Nam 11, to the senior UN
truce delegate, Gem William K.
Harrison.
It reiterated Chou's offer made
to tackle the prisoner issue thus:
1. Send home immediately all
prisoners insisting on it.
2. Hand over the rest to a' "neu
tral state so as to assure a just
solution to the question of their
repatriation."
But Nam Il's letter backed 'up
Chou's assertion that the 50,000
Reds listed by the Allies as Un
willing to go horhe merely have
been "subjected to intimidation
and oppression" and would be
freed from apprehension when
confronted with "explanations."
GOP Selects
Hall Chairman
WASHINGTON, April 10 (W)—
The Republican National Commit
tee elected Leonard W. Hall ;of
New York as chairman today and
then heard a plea from President
Eisenhower to close ranks for the
congressional election battle in
1954.
Eisenhower told the GOP high
command there is no longer any
room in the party for "Eisenhower
Republicans or any other kind. of
Republicans." This brought a
cheer.
His administration is working
as a team, the President said, and.
although "there has been a whale
of a lot in the papers" about
differences among Republicans,
these reports are just about as ex
aggerated as the report of Mark
Twain's death was.
MO: 'ilpbbir Wins
Senate Approval
WASHINGTON, April 10 (W)—
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby was unan
imously approved by the Senate
today to be the first secretary of
health, education, and welfare.
The attractive, dark-haired for
mer newspaper publisher from
Houston, Tex:, will be• sworn in
tomorrow , in I?resident Eisenhow
er's office. ' •
Mrs. Hobby, 48, will head the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare. Under Eisenhower's
first government reorganization
plan, the ne w department re
places the. Federal Security Ad
ministration effective tomorrow.
Mrs. Hobby, a Democrat who sup
ported Eisenhower for president,
has been federal security admin
istrator. ,
Chesterman Bill
Action Scheduled
HARRISBURG, April 10 (R)—
When is an economy bill not an
economy bill?
That question faces the Sendte
again next week as four more
bills containing recommendations
of the Chesterman State Govern
ment Survey Committee come up
for final action.
Sen. Rowiand B. Mahariy, Re
publican floor leader maintains
that many of the Chesterman
measures rejected so far were not
economy bills at all.
And Sen. John H. Dent, Demo
cratic floor leader, K has voiced the
suspicion that a "ghastly joke"
has been played upon the public
in leading persons to believe large
economies could be made by the
Chesterman bills.
The State Government Survey
Committee, headed by Francis J.
Chesterman, Philadelphia, made
a ten-month study of common
wealth operations.
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Gross Blasts
Russian Peace
Proposal in UN
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April
10 (W)—American Delegate Ern
est A. Gross called 'on the free
world today to maintain its
strength and unity. He described
Moscow's recent gestures as "pol
itical weathermaking, unpredict
able in its nature."
' Gross urged the 60-nation Pol
itical Committee to give a swift
"no" to the demands of Russia's
Andrei Y. Vishinsky that the As
sembly accept the old-type Stalin
plan for peace, only slightly re
vised, as a way out of the world's
tensions. The plan is embodied in
a Polish resolution.
Siding with Gross,:Victor An
dres Belaunde of Peru, said the
proposal is "perfectly dead—not
only dead but rotten."
The committee adjourned until
Monday- but there is no chance
the Polish resolution will be ac
cepted. It may get only the Soviet
bloc's five votes. It was endorsed
and embroidered by Vishinsky
yesterday.
The time will come when the
Soviet government realizes the
necessity for modifying its tra
ditional "obstructive policies,"
Gross said.
The Polish resolution calls for
on immediate cessation of hostil
ities in Korea.
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Enough Ammunition
Reported in Korea
WASHINGTON, April 10 (iP)—lnvestigating senators heard from
the new Army secretary today that ammunition supplies. in Korea
now are "in good shape," but sharp words were leveled at former
Pentagon civilian chiefs and Army brass.
Referring to evidence of past
that if military leaders "conduct
munition shortage, the country
can have no confidence of se
curity."
Robert T. Stevens, secretary
since last February; told the Sen
ate subcommittee investigating
the ammunition situation that
while "it is clear in my mind
there have been serious short
ages" at the front lines in the
past he now thinks:
1. The situation "is currently
in good shape." •
2. The stockpile of reserve am
munition which was almost ex
hausted before new production
started is beginning to improve.
3. Three new plants now under
construction to produce large cali
ber, 155 millimeter shells, will
come into production six months
ahead of schedule.
Stevens made no effort to chal;
lenge previous testimony by Gen.
James A. Van Fleet, former Eighth
Army commander now retired,
that shortages existed during the
22 months he was in command
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Politico Purged
In Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, April 10 (VP)
—Col. Domingo Mercante, former
governor of Buenos Aires pro
vince and once heir apparent to
President Juan D. Per on was
purged by the Peronista party
today on rumors mongering.
The party machine clamped
down on Mercante and, seven for
mer members of Congress after
top Peronista labor leaders blunt
ly warned the President that wild
rumors against his administration
were knifing him in the back and ;
workers were growing restlesS in
the whirl of inflationary prices.
The purge ,followed by a day
the suicide of Juan Duarte, Per
on's brother - in-law,. who left a
letter saying he was being hound
ed by defamers.
The National Committee of the
party ordered Mercante read out
of the party along with seven
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