The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 27, 1953, Page 10

NEW KOREAN ARMISTICE TALKS TODAY ARE DEADLOCKED AGAIN; REDS, FAULT Americans Threaten To Call Off Talks By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN PANMUNJOM, Korea, April 27 (#—The new Korean armistice talks deadlocked again today as the U. N. Command flatly rejected @ Red prisoner exchange proposal which it said offers only return to Communist rule or “endless captivity” for Reds who refuse to go home. In their second meeting since Oct. 8, both Allied and Communist delegates stood pat on their own plans for settling the exchange problem and bringing a truce in a. Another session was scheduled for 11 a. m. ‘tomorrow. The truce talks were broken off Oct. 8 by the U. N. Command when it refused to force any prisoner to go home against his will. The Reds demanded all prisoners back, including some 50,000 Chinese and North Koreans who have said they ‘won’t go home. Although the Allies threatened to call off the talks again unless the Reds show willingness to nego- tiate constructively, Lt. Gen. Wil- liam K. Harrison, senior Allied , said it’s “far too early” Meanwhile, the Panmunjom gate to freedom for sick and wounded Allied prisoners stood closed by the Reds. The Communists said Sunday’s shipment of 84 disabled Allied prisoners ended their delivery. In seven days they turned back 684— 149 Americans, 470 South Korean men and one woman, and 64 dis- abled prisoners from other na- tions. They had promised 605. However, a U. N. spokesman said “considerably more” sick and wounded Reds would be returned than the 5,800 originally pledged, but he did not give any figure. The transfer of Communists continued at its 500-a-day rate. In Tokyo, a U. N. spokesman said the first Americans released would be flown to the U. S. “this week for sure and probably within the next couple of days.” He did not give a specific date or number. At Monday's 52-minute armistice meeting, each side suggested that the other take another careful look at its proposal. Harrison told newsmen, “In this short time we have no real basis for assuming the Communists will not negotiate in good faith.” A reporter had asked him if the UNC was considering a new sus- sion. “1 think it is far too early to come to any definite conclusion on a matter of that Kind,” Harrison said. He added that no one can reasonably expect negotiations, where two sides are far apart, to give any clear indications at the start. Harrison opened the meeting by telling North Korean Gen. Nam Il that a six-point proposal by Nam Sunday was “unreasonable and | obstructive.” He later said bluntly that the proposal was “unacceptable” and tha}, the Communists “have pro- posed nothing which we can con- sider as either @ reasonable or | constructive basis for an armistice agreement.” Nam devoted his remarks to a restatement of the Communist pro- | posal. It calls for: 1. Within two months after an) armistice, repatriating those pris-| ners who want to go home. | 2. Within another month, send- ing to a neutral state, to be chosen Government Says Body Of Slain Police Chief Found|2""™ By MARC PURDUE TEHRAN, Iran (®—Iran’s gov- ernment today blamed a group of retired Army officers and govern- ment opponents for the murder of National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Mahmood Afshartus, found stran- gled in a roadside grave yesterday. A communique issued by Col. Hosseingholi Ashrafi, military gov- ernor of Tehran, said the names of the alleged slayers and those who plotted the crime would be disclosed later. The communique said investiga- tion and confessions of those re- sponsible had led to the discovery in a neutral state to be paid by their homelands. To this plan, Harrison said: “Tt is a proposal for their (the prisoners) indefinite retention. Many of these men have been held in custody unnecessarily for nearly two years as a result of the un- willingness of your side to recog- nize their attitude. . . . These captured personnel have the right to be released from custody. as soon after an armistice as is prac- ticable.” Harrison continued: “Does your proposal drag on the captivity of the captured personnel endlessly or until that day, when exhausted and discouraged, they are forced to accept the fact that there is no alternative to endless captivity?” A the outset Harrison berated ; Nam for the Communist refusal to accept the Allied plan to make Switzerland the neutral state which would take custody of balk- ing prisoners while still keeping them in Korea. “You implied,” Harrison said, “that we nominated Switzerland in order that it would represent our side alone rather than to serve in the role of a true neutral. Your argument . . . is groundless,’*’ Jot Afshartus’ body six days after his mysterious disappearance in the heart of Tehran. The body was found several miles northeast of the capital in a grave. A rope was around his neck, his hands and feet were bound and his mouth was stuffed with handkerchiefs. Medical examiners said he had died at least four days earlier, probably by strangulation April 20. Afshartus, a relative of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, was said to have made a number of enemies because of his part in recent polit- ical arrests and as secretary of a commission which named Army officers for retirement in a recent shakeup. A police communique said he “died a martyr’s death in the performance of his duties.” The military governor named only one of those allegedly respon- sible for Afshartus’ murder. He was Hossein Khatibi, to whose home, it was charged, Afshartus was invited just before he dropped from sight. ‘The invitation was accepted, the communique indicated, because Afshartus' thought he was medi- ating between the Mossadegh re- gime and a Parliament member recently at odds with the Premier. The communique said the plot- ters bound Afshartus, took him by Smile At Name KREMLIN, Okla. #—Tourists pass daily through this city and smirk at its name. But residents here refused to get red-faced. They explain Kremlin is a breed of saddle horse, as well as a place in Russia. They add not only was the town named after a horse, but it was named by the daughter of a “capitalist” railroad executive who admired that particular kind of horse back in 1894, Wanna fight? Not Concerned TULSA, Okla. @—The bartender of a small beer tavern slept serenely through a $272 burglary, police reported. The burglar, ignoring the bar- keep who snoozed in a nearby booth, lifted $207 from the till and $65 in cigarettes. car to a cave in the Toloe Moun- tains northeast of Tehran, tortured ihim by jabbing him in the chest with a knife and finally strangled him with a rope and handker- chiefs. 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