THURSDAY, APRIL . 23, 1953
More Allied POWs
Promised Freedom
• PANMUNJOM, Thursday, April 23 (JP)—The Communists today promised to free more than the
605 Allied sick and wounded pledged originally for the historic first prisoner exchange of the Korean
War.
The good tidings .came amid thunderous reverberations as a big gun duel shook the hills around
the .PanmUnjom plain where the disabled captive exchange rolled into its fourth day. •
Fourteen Americans, five -Australians, six Colombians and 25 South Koreans were handed over
to the Allies at 9 a.m.,- 7 p.m.,
(EST) Wednesday. Fifty South
Korean disabled were to be re-.
leased later in the morning.
With today's 14, the Reds now
have returned 79 disabled Ameri
can prisoners of war.
To ..lnclude New Captives
Rear Adm. John C. Daniel said
the Reds at a brief liaison meet
ing today agreed to release more
disabled captives than • they had
pledged in the exchange agree
ment.
• PANMUNJOM, Thurs d a y,
April 23 (??)_-Allied and Com
munist liaison groups met at
this prisoner exchange neutral
zone today and quickly ad
journed.
The brevity of the meeting in
dicated that a communication
Was handed over by one of the
groups. There was no immedi
ate hint as to its nature.
Daniel, chief Allied liaison of
ficer, quoted Maj. Gen. Lee Sang
Cho as saying the additional re
patriates would include "those
captured recently at the front."
- Lee presumably was referring
to U.S. Marines and, Colombians
cap Lured within the last month in
the fierce battles around L Old
Baldy, Vegas, and Carson Hills
near Panmunjom on the Western
Front. His offer also presumably
included Australians captured in
the Little Gibraltar fighting last .
January.
UN Returns Move
All / three nationalities were
among the prisoners released to
day by the Reds.
Lee was quoted as saying, "the
number of personnel to be repat
riated by our side is more than
the estimated figure of which
your side had previously been
informed."
Senate Tables
Tide-Lands Vote
WASHINGTON, April 22 (IP)
Senate leaders today postponed
until next - week a test vote on
state-vs-federal ownership of off
shore submerged lands, but or
dered round-the-clock sessions to
speed up the final decision.
Majority. leader Taft (R-Ohio),
changing signals for the third time
in a day, announced a delay until
Monday in his plans to bring a
vote on the "main issue in the
controversy."
It would come on a motion to
table a substitute proposal by
Sen: Anderson (D-N.M.) to pro
vide for federal administration of
offshore oil leases, and another
by Sen. Hill (D-Ala.) to use rev
enues from the oil for aid to edu
cation.
Russia, Western Powers
Join Against Nationalists
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April
22 (iP}—Russia and the Western
powers joined without a dissent
ing vote in a resolution today de
ploring the presence of Nationalist
Chinese troops in Burma and call
,ing on all countries to aid in
settling the Burma-China dispute
peacefully.
The decision, in effect, gives the
green light to the United States
to' continue its behind-the-scenes
efforts to get the 12,000 Chinese
troops out of Burma.
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Seri. Styles Bridges
Heads Atrocity Probe
Senate Group
Probes Rumors
Op Prisoners
WASHINGTON (JP)— Adminis
tration leaders were called before
a Senate committee yesterday to
tell what they know about the
spreading reports of Communist
atrocities against U.S: prisoners of
war in Korea.
Chairman Bridges (B-N.H.) said
his appropriations committee will
make a full-scale investigation of
the reports.
"This nation." he said, "cannot
tolerate such carryings on. And
I trust we will not do so."
Bridges Reporfs
Undersecrellry of State Walter
Bedell Smith was the first wit
ness summoned to a closed-door
meeting of the committee this af
ternoon. Defense Department of
ficlals were to testify later.
In advance of the hearing, Brid
ges told newsmen:
"We want to get all the infor
mation they have about the Red
atrocities
all
U.S. and UN
prisoners, all the background we
can get on such treatment and
what they are doing about it now.
Cl&ms Truman Knew
"We have to find out the truth
about reports that the Reds are
releasing only a small part of the
sick and wounded. prisoners they
are holding and see what can be
done about getting more of our
people out of Korea, if this is to
mean anything."
On • the House side of the Capi
tol, Rep. Sheehan (R-Ill.) charged
that the Truman administration
knew about atrocities in Korea but
suppressed the information "be
cause they did not want these facts
to influence the election last No
vember."
Sheehan renewed a demand for
an investigation which he first
made last January. His resolu
tion for the inquiry has been bot
tled up in the House Rules Com
mittee. Military officials were re
ported to have advised House
leaders to go slow, on the ground
that an inquiry might lead te-fur
the atrocities.
NATO Leaders
To Meet to Boost
Defense Program
PARIS, April 22 (W)—The top
military and political leaders of
the North • Atlantic treaty nations
meet tomorrow to pump more
guns and planes into a defense
program they hope will get still
softer words out of Russia.
U.S. military leaders especially
were demanding a . beefed up
building orogram and, with some
reluctance, European nations ap
peared willing to go along.
Seek To Double Air Force
On the eve of the meeting of
the foreign and defense ministers
of the 14 countries, a general
agreement had been made by the
military advisors to propose:
1. 500 million dollars to double
Western European air strength in
the coming two years.
2. $890,000,000 to build airports,
pipelines, radar warning nets) na
val installations and a vast list
of other permanent structures.
At a news conference tonight,
NATO Secretary General Lord Is
may was asked whether NATO
defense preparations had been
slackened off because of the So
-71-t peace gestures:
"No," he barked.
U.S. Sets New Policy
Almost the first thing on the
program tomorrow will be a care
ful study, led off evidently by
Secretary .of State John Foster
Dulles, of what the Russian peace
gestures mean and what NATO
should do about them.
Besides the problem of Russia,
the NATO ministers were con
fronted with what was clearly a
new policy of the United States.
instead of the year-to-year as
sistance given heretofore, Ameri
can officials appeared ready to
promise to share in a long range
program.
McGrath Resigns
Over Budget Cuts
WASHINGTON, April 22 (W) The commissioner
Earl J. McGrath, resigned today saying he could not
defensible" budget cuts which "reduce the quality of
American children."
Instead of testifying before a
senate committee, as scheduled, to
defend the Office of Edttcation
budget—which he said he saw in
final form only yesterday Mc-
Grath marched to the White House
with a — letter of resignation and
protest. He (Di not see President
Eisenhower.
Then the angry educator per
sonally carried carbon copies to
press association„ and newspaper
offices and went home—out of a
$14,800 a year job.
The letter told Eisenhower that
'budget slashes already have "mar
kedly damaged the morale of a
highly competent professional
staff," and the proposed new bud
get will "further damage" the
federal program supporting 'edu
cation.
McGrath informed the Presi
dent he could "not in good con
science be a party to carrying out
such a policy," and wrote:
"I therefore submit my resigna
tion at this time in order not to
have to undergo the embarrass
ment of trying to defend before
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee at 11 a.m. today a budget
which I consider indefensible."
He sent conies of his letter to
Secretary of Welfare Hobby and
to Sen. Bridges (R-N.H.), chair
man of the appropriations commit
,tee.
McGrath thus set off the first
public flare-up in the newly cre
ated Department of Health, Wel
fare and Education, of which his
office is a part. Mrs. Hobby had
no comment; neither. for the pre
sent, did the White House.
The proposed budget for educa
tion in the fiscal year starting
next July was not made public:
McGrath gave reporters an exam
ple wh:ch he said was typical—a
four million dollar or 24 per cent,
slash in the $18,400,000 item which
former President Truman pro-.
posed for vocational education;
ROKs Raid Red Lines
SEOUL, Thursday, April 22 (FP)
—South Korean raiders slashed
into Chinese Communist trenches
near Panmunjom at daybreak to
day under cover of , tanks and a
thunderous two-hours artillery
barrage.
Overhead Allied planes bombed
and strafed the Red positions—
just one mile and a" half southwest
'of the Panmunjom neutral zone
a few hours. before the fourth
exchange of prisoners took place.,
PAGE THREE
State to Study
Temrorary
Sales Tax Nan
HARRISBURG, April 22 M
A move was started in the House
today to pass a sales tax on a
temporary basis until the people
can vote on a graduated income
tax.
Rep. Nolan F. Ziegler (R-Dau
phin) introduced a bill to clear
the way for enactment of a grad
ltated income levy by the 1957
General Assembly. Such a tax
would require an amendment to
Pennsylvania's Constitution a
mocedure that takes at least five
years.
"If we pass a sales tax at this
session I would want it to be on a•
temporary basis," Ziegler told a
newsman. "Then we could let the
people themselves say what kind
of tax they want." '
Rep. Albert W. Johnson, Repub
lican floor leader, said he hadn't
seen Ziegler's plan and had no
idea how the GOP caucus would
react to the proposal of making
the sales tax temporary.
Johnson is working on another
compromise to end the tax dead
lock—a 1 per cent sales tax with
four temporary levies dropped.
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