FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953 ROK Prisoners Reveal Inferior Red Treatment .FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea,' Friday, April 24 (2?)—The latest T . .l.S:cchanged sick and wounded—Only recently swept up in battle — . told Thursday of bettei• Red treatment but from the lips of South Kprean prisoners tumbled the same old story of wholesale brutality and neglect. • • A South Korean sergeant said more than 1000 of 2000 prisoners died in his camp high in North Korea during January and .Feb ruary of 1951 of typhoid or bru tality. BOdies piled up in a nearby valley and were left unburied for a long period. - The sergeant did not give the nationality of the Allies, but pre sumably most were South Ko reans. "It was more than said the sergeant. ,He said his captors also killed "a lot of Allied BULLETIN PANMUNJOM Friday, April 24 (2P)—The Comniunists today asked, a delay in the scheduled resumption of the full armistice talks until 2 p.m. Sunday. The talks had 'been scheduled to start •tomorrow. prisoners" in the• preceding De cember. This would bring to more than 2500 the number of AIHO. pris oners-killed or dead of neglect and disease, as reported by pris oners in the first four days of the exchange. Official Allied estimates, as re ported to the United Nations, have put the American figure alone at about 8000 killed from the start of the war until the fall of 1951. Sgt. Kim Ya Sung, captured by North Koreans, showed his hands from which all fingers were'miss ing, and said doctors cut them off with a saw and a knife with out an anesthetic. He related that doctors used as an excuse that circulation, had stopped in his fingers. Kim said he was the only pris oner tortured in this , camp—he had tried to escape—and that the Communists forced him to drink water in g r eat amounts 'and poured hot pepper in his nose and mouth. • Some of the returned South Koreans confirmed reports that many of their .comrades were forced into the North Korean ar my. The United Nations Com mand. has put the total figure at 5000. 98 U.S. Prisoners Back As-Another 19 Return PANMUNJOM, Friday, April 24 Nineteen more American sick and wounded crossed the line from Communist captivity to free dom here today, swelling the number of liberated U.S. troops to 98 early in the fifth day of the historic Korean prisoner of war exchange. Twenty-one more Americans were scheduled to be released. by the Reds in second group later in the morning. 300 1 VIARNER4tm t asaite 808 HOPE MARILYN MAXWELL MICKEY ROONEY • "OFF LIMITS" ROCK HUDSON BARBARA HALE "SEMINOLE" A,2 GREAT MUSIC! "TONIGHT WE SING" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Ike Deplores Red Atrocities WASHINGTON, April 23 (!P)— President Eisenhower said today reported atrocities in Korea weigh heavily on one's hear t. Something obviously has been wrong, he said, with communist treatment of war prisoners. The Chief Executive said he was ready to do anything or con fer anywhere to bring peace: In an evident effort to avoid any move that might jeopardize the -exchange of additional pris oners, Eisenhower told a news conference he is not prepared at the moment to express any sweeping conclusions. The President also said he can't Say what the chances are for a prompt truce in Korea—that he is just waiting. :,:! . :"i: ' ; ' . :`,.;.'.'§•`','':"- .1 ,t,<::::,:: ....1.:',.:,::-'.:4.:.:-.: , A i l kf' % t' t , %. § , s. .< UN to Study Germ Charge UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 23 (EP)—The UN Assem bly recessed indefinitely today with a hope and a prayer for an early Korean armistice. ,It also called overwhelmingly for an impartial investigation of Red germ warfare charges and 'unanimously urged joint ac tion to get 12,000 Chinese guer rillas out of Burma: Sir Gladwyn Jebb, British chief delegate and acting As sembly president, pounded the final gavel at 11:57 a.m. with this declaration: "Let us all hope it will not be long before we meet again to discuss , the organization of peace following the conclusion of an armistice in Korea." Delegates are hopeful that an armistice will be achieved in a few weeks. When it comes, or when a majority of delegates decides any Korean develop ment warrants a meeting, the Assembly will be called back. Reds Fire on Aid Ships SEOUL, Friday,, April 24 (/1 3 )— Three American - destroyers and a cruiser came under heavy Com munist shore fire at Wonsan Thursday while trying to remove wounded from an Allied-held is !and, the Navy reported today. The Allies hold several small islands at the entrance of the big Eastern Korean harbor. ~;~«:;=` ~ ; ~,s;. ~:..:.;< and LUCKIES TASTE BETTER! Cleaner, Fresher, Ask yourself this question: Why do I smoke? You know, yourself, you smoke for enjoyment. And you get enjoyment only from the taste of a cigarette. . • Luckies taste better—cleaner, fresher, smoother! Why? Luckies are made better to taste better. And, what's more, Luckies are made of fine tobacco. L.S./M.F.T.—Lucky Strike Means Fine 'Tobacco. 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As the ministers of the 14 At lantic Pact nations assembled for their three-day council sessions, their opening day saw these major • evelopments: 1. French For ei g n Minister eorges Bidault asserted Germany must be unified by free elections and then allowed to make her own alliances. 2. American officials signed con tracts for $550 million worth of European planes' to fortify the Western world's air umbrella here. 3. The foreign, defense and fi nance ministers agreed the Soviet Union has given them no ieason to slacken Europe's defense build up, despite the current Kremlin peace offensive. July Draft 4111 HARRISBURG, April 23 (W)— Selective Service headquarters to day e s t a b lished Pennsylvania's draft quota for the month of June at 2244, a substantial reduction from recent months. • tar- Vr n popular; p reasons a hae I alwa, - 7 u ad v es of L Shirley Smoother! Progress Dulles Senate Rejects Tideland Delay WASHINGTON, April 23 (Al— The Senate rejected today a move by opponents of the offshore oil lands bill to lay aside the meas ure for the time being and take up legislation to extend econom ic controls. The vote against the proposal, offered by Sen. Anderson (D.-N.- M.) was 61 to 21. It meant that de bate on the offshore lands ques tion, now in its 16th day, would go on—with night sessions of the Senate already in force and all night sessions under considera tion next week. Today's vote also demonstrated the strength of Senate support for the measure, which would estab lish the ownership by coastal states of the oil-bearing submerg ed lands off their shores. The vote came after Sen. Taft of Ohio, the Republican leader, issailed Anderson's motion as "a fraud on its face." help putout the daily news With paper, pen an d ' e A n d when I'm done, I always run For Lucky's 'finer taste! Richard C. 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