THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953
Reds Again Refuse
To Name Neutral
PANMUNJOM, Thursday, May 7 (?P)—The UN Command Tuesday explained its idea
of how a neutral nation should handle some 48,500 prisoners refusing to go back to Com
munist homelands but the Reds again refused to name their choice for the neutral guardian.
The Allies then warned that "We have stated our position as fully as we intend to"
until an understanding is reached
on the neutral nation.
The Reds also angrily rejected
a surprise Allied proposal to set
free all Korean prisoners imme
diately after an armistice.
There was no advance indica
tion the Reds would .yield to Al
lied prodding and name its choice
for a netural. Adamantly the Com
munist high command insisted
that the Allies first agree to move
all reluctant captives out of Ko
rea.
Korean Fighting
Stalled ; Jets
Hit. Red Supplies
• SEOUL, Thursday, May 6 (A')=
Allied and Communist armies
sparred through another day of
sit-down war Wednesday as ne
gotiators at Panmunjom debated
the issues - blocking an armistice.
High up in North Korea, the big
supply , area of Kanggye still
mouldered from an early morning
Thunderjet raid that destroyed at
least 17 buildings.
Swift Sabre jets hunted in vain
for the sixth straight day for Com
munist MIG jets as Thunder--
jets worked over 'the Kanggo area.
Bad weather cut down other Al
lied air strikes.
Opposing infantrymen nudged
into no man's land briefly, sel
dom and- cautiously. Infantrymen
traded a few shots then returned
to their own hilltop fortresses.
The patrolling consisted of re
connaissance and security groups
sent out to make sure the other
side still lay under wraps.
The lull on the battlefront co
incides with the exchange of pris
oners and the reopened truce
talks. There has been no intense
and extended fighting since the
Marine outpost , battles and the
Old Baldy loss late in March.
Foreign Aid
Total Unknown
WASHINGTON, May 6 (i1))
Congress members asked to auth
orize new billions in foreign aid
funds tried without success today
to-find out how much the admin
istration actually plans to spend
in the next year. -
Mutual Security Director . Har
old E. Stassen told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee the
figure would be well under the
$7,400,000,000 former President
Truman - had suggested. But he
said he could not give a firm,
figure now.
Secretary of the Treasury Hum
phrey testified yesterday the
spending would be above the $5,-
828,000,000 of new authorizations
which President Eisenhower asked
for the new year.
The extra money would come
out of funds appropriated in pre
vious years.
Stassen explained today that on
March 31 nearly 12 billion dollars
of previously appropriated foreign
aid funds were unspent , and more
than four billion unobligated. But
he carefully explained that the
four billion actually is earmarked
to meet military requirements
even though contracts have not
been completed.
Quake Rocks Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile, May 6' (Mr 7-
A severe earthquake rocked most
of Chile today, and unofficial re
ports said at lel:1st 19 persons were
killed in the Southern part of - the
country.
The quake struck at 1:23 p.m.
(12:23 p.m. EST).
The UN Command was equally
determined to have P a k i s t a n,
Switzerland, Sweden or another
acceptable neutral named first. It
opposed movement of the cap
tives from Korea.
Clarification Asked
North Korean Gen. Nam 11, head
of the Communist truce team, told
the Allies "For three days we
have repeatedly asked your side
to clarify your proposal naming
Pakistan as neutral. It is regret
table that your side has not given
due clarification."
To this Lt. Gen. William Har
rison,
senior Allied delegate re
sponded:
"We have stated our position as t
fully as we intend to until both
sides come to some understand
ing as to the identity of the neu
tral country."
The problem of what to do with
34,000 North Koreans and 14,500
Chinese who refuse to go home
is the major 'obstacle on the pris
oner exchange issue—key to a
Korean armistice. Both sides al
ready have agreed that thousands
of other prisoners. who want to
return home shall be repatriated
after an armistice is signed.
Harrison 'sought to get agree
ment Wednesday on the neutral
nation issue, but the Communists
I ignored his request.
Rhee Agrees
In Seoul, President Syngman
Rhee declared he would personal
ly lead a march to the Yalu Riv
er border of Manchuria if an
armistice was reached without
providing for unification of all
Korea.
Rhee was quoted as telling a
2500 man delegation of the Ko
rean Young Men's Association: "I
fully agree with you young men
who want to fight for our unifi
cation and I will march ahead of
you in case an armistice is agreed
short, of unification."
Group May
WASHINGTON, May 6 (,4 3 )
Secretary of the Interior McKay
predicted today that a propo,sed
foreign trade study commission
would "recommend major revi
sion in our tariff legislation."
But until the commission can
make its study and recommenda
tions, he told the House ways and
means committee, th e present
Reciprocal Trade Act due to ex
pire June 12 should be extended
for one year without major
change.
• He said he wouldn't dare sug
gest now what changes the corn
mission might find to be needed
McKay joined other Cabinet
members in opposing a bill by
Rep. Simpson (R=Pa.) which
would extend the act . but insert
a series of provisions designed to
increase protection of American
industries.
'Secretary of .Agriculture Ben
son also asked for a year's exten
sion of the present act, saying it
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MOSCOW, May 6 (FP)—A young
lady student at the Government
Movie Institute today publicly
charged Soviet script writers with
underestimating the power of
love.
"You can't replace the theme of
love with the theme of industrial
production," she told the movie
I;vri ters.
In a scathing article in Soviet
Art, M. Shmarova poked fun at
scripts that have heros and hero
ines saying this:
"If you fulfill the norm by 100
per cent, I shall love you."
"When you become a Stak
hanovite pace-setting worker, I
will become your wife—if you
don't become one, look for an
other."
The student at the all union
State Institute of Cinematogra
phy also said the theme of re
quited love has also dropped out
of Soviet film art since World
War 11.
"But," she added, "it hasn't
disappeared from life, and it's a
matter of shame for artists that
this theme today finds no reflec
tion in our films."
Russians Release
7 U.S. Civilians
WASHINGTON, May 6 (JP)—
Russia has advised the United
States that seven American civil r
ians released from detention in
Korea will arrive in Moscow Mon
day.
The State Department, announc
ing this late today, said it was
trying to arrange for an Ameri
can plane to fly them to the Uni
ted States.
•The seven Americans were
seized at the outbreak of hostili
ties in Korea nearly three years
ago. They include five Methodist
missionaries and a Catholic Mary
knoll priest.
has "proved its advantages."
Farm exports in the last five
years, he said. have averaged $3 l / 2
billion each year.
•
But he nothd that large quan
tities of U.S. exports have been
financed by government loans or
gifts and said this must be re
placed with "some means of mak
ing the Trade sheet balance. Im
ports to match our exports is the
practical answer."
Quotas to limit imports of for
eign agricultural goods may be
needed because of this govern
ment's policy of supporting prices
of domestic farm products, Ben
son said, but this , should be done
und& the Agricultural Adjust
ment Act.
McKay said industries affected
by imports could get relief
through the Tariff Commission.
under present law, and hinted
that the commission might be
prodded to act favorably if it is
being unfair.
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500 Rescued, 4 Die
In Ship Collision
HARWICH, England, May 6 (JP)--Fast-woricing crewmen on
two American freighters rescued around 500 passengers and crew
men of a British ferry steamship whose bow was sliced off in a
pre-dawn north sea collision to-,
day.
An Englishwoman, trapped be
low for hours, died after being
pulled out, and there may have
been three other deaths.
The shattered after-part of the
ferry was towed into . port late
tonight with three passengers re
ported trapped in it and presumed
dead.
Unofficial reports said there
may be five dead in all but these
reports could not be confirmed
pending a search of the hulk.
Many of the rescued were
Americans. They were traveling
aboard the 4190-ton steamer Duke
of York, operated by the govern
ment-owned British Railways on
a 106-mile ferry run between The
Hook of Holland and Harwich.
Duke• Loses Bow
The 7807-ton U.S. government
freighter Haiti Victory collided
with the ferry in the misty dark.
The freighter, much less seriously
damaged than the ferry, stood by
to give aid and was one of the two
vessels which took the survivors
aboard.
The Duke of York lost all her
bow forward of the superstruc
ture housing in the crash; the
Haiti Victory, riding higher in
the water, escaped with a slash
in her bow.
Five survivors were injured.
No Americans were known to be
among; the casualties.
All others aboard the ferry
steamer, including dozens of
American servicemen and their
wives bound from Germany. for
leave in England, were picked up
in the dramatic sea rescue.
Those listed aboard the steamer
were 437 passengers and 72 crew
men.
40 Miles Off Harwich
The Duke of York's skipper
and a skeleton crew of 15 re
mained aboard the steamer's
floating remnant as it was being
towed toward Harwich by two
tugs.
The collision occurred about
4:45 a.m. in a morning mist about
40 miles off Harwich.
Survivors told of a desperate
scramble for safety, devoid of
panic. They said the only thing
approaching confusion was a rush
for the lifeboat stations and
shouts of "What happened?"
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made of aluminum and solid ma
hogany. The road is based on a
corduroy of mahogany logs, com
mon in the area, and is surfaced
with bauxite, the ore from which
aluminum is extracted.
relief had been given in only two
of 25 cases taken before the Tariff
Commission, he answered:
"If it's the commission not giv
ing an industry sympathetic con
sideration, I assume something
will be done about it. Appointive
power carries the power of dis
missal, doesn't it?"
Members of the commission are
appointed by the President.
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Flying Boxcars
Reach Indochina
With U.S. Aid
HANOI, Indochina, May 6 (AP)—
Six U.S. Flying Boxcars—the first
l of possibly two or three dozen un
der stepped-up American aid.—
flew into Hanoi today, loaded
troops and war cargoes, and im
mediately took off to reinforce
French and Laotian forces against
Vietminh invaders of Laos.
They roared away for Luang
Prabang, 275 miles southwest of
Hanoi, and the broad Plaine des
Jarres, giving a tremendous mo
rale boost to French and Laotian
defenders hopeful the Commu
nist-led Vietminh can be brought
to battle at these fortified posi
tions and defeated.
American crews flew the giant
0119 s, here from Japan via the
Philippines. They are capable of
carrying 64 parachute troopers or
a whopping cargo of weapons and
ammuntion.
French and Laotian patrols
probed in a wide arc around Lu
ang Prabang, the residence town
of Laotian King Sisavang Vong,
without making any contact with
Vietminh forces believed encamp
^cl in surrounding hills and moun
:ains,
This was the second day patrols
had failed to encounter enemy op
position. There was speculation
that Vietminh leaders are pulling
out some units and withdrawing
northward.
The French disclosed today that
Gen. Hoang Minh Tao, trained in
war by Communist Chinese, is di
recting the • Vietminh's southern
'division 'operations which have
sent advance elements from the
heart of Laos towards the Thai
land border.
McCarthy Asks
Book Exrianat:on
WASHINGTON, May 6 (R)
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) today of
fered. his old enemy, former Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson,_ a
chance to exp?.ain why 30,000 to
40,000 books by authors alleged
to be Cornmurxist or pro-Commun
ist were bought for U.S. informa
tion libraries overseas.
McCarthy also directed a former
FBI undercover worker in the
Communist Tanks to give his
Senate investigations subcommit
tee a list of all Communists he
knew to be employed in any news
medium—press, radio, movies or
• television —between 1947 and
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