The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 22, 1953, Page 3

GI Soldiers Reveal More Communist Atrocities Today By WILLIAM C. BARNARD and SAM SUMMERLIN TOKYO @#—A slow-talking ser- geant from Oklahoma s id tonight American soldiers were “‘punched with~ bayonets, clubbed with rifle butts and ‘left to die” by their Communist captors on a bitter 13- day march through North Korea in subzero cold. “I. saw men that looked like they couldn’t go any farther shoved over embankments and left to die,” said Sgt. Odie Lawley of Medicine | Park, Okla. “Lots of men just @ropped while they were w: The Communists shoved them off the road and left them to die.” Lawley’s story and those of other men under treatment in Army hos- pitals here added new horror to the accounts of brutal Red death marches which returning POWs said cost the lives of nearly 1,000 Allied soldiers. Another young American re- leased from Communist activity Monday at Panmunjom said Chi- nese Red guards hauled away to a labor camp, beat up and once bayoneted Americana prisoners who defied Red rule. But, said Cpl. Donald K. LeGay | prisoners | of Leominister, M who went along wi nist line “got a littie ment," “We called them the No. boys,” the Commu- better treat- PERSONAL LOANS ® Quick cash loans to pay medical expenses ® Repay in easy monthly payments | © Reaseiible interest . Fates Investigate This Low Cost Way To Borrow’ Money TOWN FINANCE COMPANY he added wryly at a news confer- ence at Tokyo Army hospital. He | said about “25 to 20 men” in his lcompany of 220: men got’ special | treatment. | Odie, who is suffcring from mal- | nutrition and other ailments, told |mewsmen, “So many men died of | sickness at the camps 1 was in that I don’t have any idea how many died, There was. so’many died I lost all track of it. “We had five or six men tried |to escape but they caught ‘em. | They never got very -far. They alking | brought ‘em back anc Kept ‘em in | |what we called ‘Turnip Dugout— away from the rest of us. They had to do extra duty—extra work. They wouldn’t allow us. to see ‘em.” south of Chosin Reservoir Nov. 30, | 1950. He is 45—but tonight looked far older—and very weary. months at Pyoktohg camp, «said, He did not recall what started it, | but said the prisoners occasionally “decided to refuse to work, wouldn’t eat or fal! out for roll | call.” That night, he said, doubled the guards on us.” The prisoners attended a motion pic- ture. As it ended, the captives | started to file out “The first three or four were | bayoneted”’ by Chinese guards, Le- \ Gay said. “They didn’t kill them— | just put them in the hospital.” He | said the rest of the prisoners ' stopped and reiusea until an English-speaking . guard jled the way. After such disturbances, LeGay ; said, the Chinese usually “picked j out an instigator.” He said these | men and others who ‘were against them (the Communists) all the | way” were sent to 2 labor camp. | “We didn’t see them again,” he | said. LeGay said ‘ta lot tried to es- jeape. But they didn’t get any- where. They were brought back. |The camp did not have barbed ‘wire around: it. « | “One American was taken away | to confinement for a month or so. When they brought him back to il he just about couldn’t make it. WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Children’s TOYS COME TO THE TROPICAL TRADER LeGay, 23, a prisoner for 29| “One time we had a little riot.” | “they | to go out! He was all bandaged up. They had} to have beat him the way he) looked.” | The stories told bere were an- other chapter in the series of; atrocity stories told earlier at) Freedom Village, where the pris- | oners were taken from Panmun-| jom. One American said that of 700 | men who ‘started."a forced march | north only 287 arrived at their destination. | BUSINESS | MIRROR By SAM DAWSON Lawley, formerly of the U. S. 7th} Division, was captured six miles | | NEW YORK-—The life of the | | business boom—how closely is it tied to the chances of a truce in Korea? Peace would have a quick psy- chological effect upon consumer | and business thinking. But many businessmen agree with Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey that other forces—both those sustaining the boom and} those dragging at its heels—eould | set the course of the economy in| the next few months whichever | way the Korean stalemate is re- | solved. | Many -business observers think | that course was already pretty well | ing peacefully. late this year, government spending, and in in- dustrial plant expansion. The goal of a stable dollar, or one that will buy a little more, | means lower prices. Farm Prices | | spend more | School They think Washington policies | are geared to a gradual deflation | to a slowdown in| Weseny: febcaie 22, 1953 HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (®—Can a jazz nake the change.to a | classic: Pianist Geor; ge Shearing thinks | | so. He’s planning to give up a ers and} successful career in theat night clubs and have a fling at | the concert halls TODAYS | “It won't happen for year or so,” he said. “I would like to have six or seven concertos | under my fingertips before I start} in Each night after playing his quin' before hep au he studies classical composi He reads them in Braill et has been blind since he was a | few weeks old. I'd like to go into semiretire- ; ment,” he told me over lunch, have a nice home in Englewood, N. J., but I only see it about two months a ye I would like to ime there, going out on concert dates for four or five months of the ye: “I plan to do the kind of program I have been doing at the Eastman of Music at Rochester, N, Y., for the past two years. The school was kind enough to ‘Hotel Burned KANSAS CITY ?—Flames swept through the four-story Washington Hotel early today. 4 Francis Wornall, fire department | set before the Kremlin began talk- | director, said all 200 residents es- jcaped unharmed, ‘as far as we know.” Cause of the fire was not known. | industry, the surplus es of farm products, and shrinking export} markets are the danger signals} businessmen are watching. On the favorable side are the| iebae Key West CITIZEN. another | *1 33. I ing the war years. His’ piano play. have been on the downslope for | record employment totals, the rec- some time. Many consumer goods | ord high dollar value of the goods | prices have followed. And now the} and services being turned out in| basic metal prices are weakening | this country, the increased number —with the notable exception of | of persons with good incomes, and | steel. |the considerable nest egg of sav-| Secretary Humphrey told the an- | ings, pensions and various insur-| nual membership luncheon of the| ance schemes to cushion any fall. | Associated Press, “There is no} The slipback from the présent reason to fear peace.’ business peak, if it comes, should This is applauded by those who| be easy and not too long pro- argue that a business boom built| longed, the majority of observers | on armament face always carries | think. with it built-in weaknesses; They| And they applaud Humphrey's point out it is sustained by high | rebuttal of the Communist charge taxation and inflation and that it results in building up armaments | —necessary for defense—but noth- ing that the people can use. They argue that a let-up in de- fense spending would mean a shift- ing of production among industries, but in the long run a return to all- out peacetime production would be the best thing for the economy. The size of the growing public jthat peace would be a calamity | to the western free world. Insofar as the present boom is} false and built on inflation, peace | might squeeze some of the water | out of it, they admit. But those who lobk upoh pro- duction of peacetime goods as more important economiitatfy than the output of war goods think this country could do far" bétté# in a; Page 3 | invite us to appear with the sym- | phony orchestra, éven though we play a form of progtessive jazz. | “The orchestra plays ‘the ‘first half of the program, and. I -join - it in a concerto. Then the quintet and I take over for some fairly: solid pieces like ‘How High’ the Moon.’ I was surprised to find the | audiences highly appreciative.” English-born Shearing would be! returning to a love he left at: the: age of 16. “I stopped studying the ‘classics then to become a jazz musician,” | remarked the pianist, who is now} “I guess it- was a form of laziness.” It was also a form of making} |a living. He became a top musi- ! cian and arranger in En; ing led him to meet his, future! | wife. } “This sounds like a publicity | story, but it’s true—we met. in an air raid shelter,” he related. “A song plugger and I used to: play, | four-handed piano in the. base- ment of the YMCA during raids, My wife happened to come there too. I was very shy, so.I had someone else ask her for a date with me. Eight months later, we j were married.” They have an li- | year-old daughter, Wendy Ann. | Shearing visited the U. 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