The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1953, Page 3

Allies Threaten To Break Off Truce Talks Wit’: Reds Warn Commies That Concrete : Proposal Must Be Forthcoming By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN PANMUNJOM (®—U. N. negotia- tors: today threatened to break off the renewed Korean armistice - talks unless the Communists come up soon with’ a concrete proposal for prisouers—last big obstacle to a truce. Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison said the U. N. Command “‘does not intend to become involved in pro- tracted and useless arguments.” And he warned the Reds that they “should be well aware that we mean what we say.” Official sources in Washington, however, were said to see a glim- mer of hope that the Reds may be moving toward a truce despite today’s U. N. threat. ‘The session at Panmunjom was third since the negotiations revived Sunday in an effort decide what to do with prison- who refuse to go home. Allies asked the Reds to a neutral state which would custody of prisoners un- willing to return to Communist rule, but received nc definite an- swer. The Communists have in- dicated they might name Red-run Poland or Czechoslovakia, neither which would be acceptable to U, N. Commend. The Commu- rejected Switzerland. full five-member delegations for 39 minutes and will meet Wednesday at 11 a. m. were deadlocked on three main 1 neutral state to handle balky prisoners. 2. The length of time after an a necessary for disposal ers. a Whether prisoners will be to the neutral state or be in Korea while their fate is Korean Gen. Nam 1 nothing new in a lengthy statement Tuesday. “It was nothing in the world but rehash of what wes said before,” Beerrison told ‘newsmen. Nam once more called for de- bate on deciding the neutral state and he described, the six-point proposal he advanced at the open- session Sunday as reasonable. é proposal called for repa- triating within .two months after rmistice prisoners wanting to Within the following six months, representatives of Red China and North Korea would be permited to visit the prisoners in neutral custody and voy them “explanations” to quiet their “apprehensions” about returning home. The United Nations Command gain their proposal was Teasonable nor construc- “It was our hope that we might to agree on a reasonable pone oy ly deacon ne protect juman its prisoners of-war that caused us to consent to resume meetings of the delegations. It stil) remains our said the Allied com. assumed its nomination of as the neutral state be accepted immediately by Communists as a sincere effort the’ Allies to reach a satisfac. tory agreement. “You have cast doubt on your intentions by rejecting Switz- as the neutral.” he told m. Harrison said: “Your side Solent of negotiations of the full tions. As we have stated clearly we do not intend to become volved in protractea and useless | argaments. From your enee in previous negotiations with ws you should be well aware that/ we mean what we say. If you have! ‘anything constructive to say we will be ready to hear it.” Nam repeated the Communist that it was a universal principle tha! be | it all prisoners be seat | home. And be insisted that there were requested the re-/ experi: j Senators For Government {Ownership Of Tidelands Won't Allow Final Vote Air Force Fires First Silver Shots By C. YATES MCDANIEL WASHINGTON #—Thé Air Force has fired its first “silver bullets” in an effort to get what gunfire hasn’t bagged in Korea—a live Communist pilot with a fly- able MIG15 or other modern Soviet warplane. In offering rewards to Red pilots who land their planes on Allied airfields, the United Nations Com- mand has come up with a jet-age version of an accepted tactic in the gaudy era of Chinese warlords. The announced price scale for the first man and aircraft is $100,- 000 and for each subsequent pilot and plane, $50,000. Any rewards will be paid out of an Air Force contingent fund. Senators generally applauded the plan, although fear was ex- pressed that the psychological war- fare move might backfire. Chairman Saltonstall (R-Mass) of the Senate Armed Services Committee said in an interview he rega the offer as a bold stroke. “Any step, however unusual and unprecedented, that leads in the direction of a satisfactory solution of the war in Korea is worthwhile and should be tried,” he said. Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) said the offer furnishes ‘another example of taking the initiative in demon- strating tothe people behind the Tron Curtain that the Western nations are seeking only peace and to bring the war in Korea to an end without bloodshed.” But Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he won- ders if the psychological warfare move might boomerang if no Com- munist. pilot takes up the offer. “What happens thén? Do we lose face and is Communist morale boosted?” he asked. “I don’t want to be in the position of criticizing, but I hope the high command has thought this through and weighed all the risks.” Sen. Fulbright (D-Ark) said he regards the $100,000 price tag on the first delivered jet as “‘a good bargain just on a business basis.” He added that “these jets cost more than that.” No one here knows how the Rus- sians figure the cost of a MIG15, but its mearest U, S, counterpart, the F86, runs to about $230,000. And the cost of training an Amer- ican pilot is nearly $60,000. However, Sen. Maybank (D-SC) said he doesn’t believe the U. S. “can buy our way toward peace with dollars.” The origin of the term “silver bullets” is obscure. Some old leg- ends had it that persons with charmed lives were immune to lead bullets, but could be killed with silver ones. In China, the term took on a special meaning. It was applied to the idea of buying what you couldn't—or didn’t want to risk— winning by fighting. Not so many years ago entire Chinese armies changed hands for Tess than $100,000, and the “‘defeat- ed” general usually got a high- sounding title thrown in for face- saving good measure. The idea of tempting the Reds with money has been a high-level Air Force proposal for some time. Despite the hundreds of MIGs shot down by Allied airmen over Korea, not a single undamaged, airworthy Russian jet has been recovered there, The Red pilots fight and crash well on their side of the battlefront. A Polish aviator few a MIG to Denmark last month and was given asylum. His picture is used on o leaflets bearing the Air Force er, Wf you like to store cheese In a refrigerator container, make sure the container has a —en cover, sod ohe are, cial to itec| home.” | Nam insisted as he had on the | previous two days, that the Com- mounist proposal represented an} j obvious concession. ; Nam said balky prison- ra must be shipped to a neutral their “apprehensions | eliminated.” “We do not believe that in the of a peutral state and | proposals im their Nam concluded with the declara- tion that hope for an armistice in! Korea could be reached only inj the “spirit of consultation.” To this Harrison replied: “I have already stated that your | present form are unacceptable, Are you pre-/ pared to suggest the name of a/ | neutral state to take custody of) the prisoners of wart” By HARRISON B. HUMPHRIES WASHINGTON t#—Senate oppo- nents of state ownership of off- shore submerged lands faced a — grind, beginning to- y. ‘After 19 days—and quite a few nights—of Senate debate, the oppo- nents still refused to agree to a date for a final vote. Taft said this showed “a deter- mination to continue the filibus- ter.” Arrangements were made to keep a quorum of 49 senators pres- ent at all times. Cots were or- dered for senatorial catnaps in the cloakrooms. ‘The test of strength came on a Taft motion late yesterday to “lay on the table,” and thereby kill a federal conrol substitute by Sen. Anderson (D-NM) to which had been added the “oil for education” amendment of Sen. Hill (D-Ala). Thirty-eight Republicans and 18 Democrats voted to kill the An- derson-Hill proposal. Against them were 25 Democrats, 7 Republicans and 1 independent. ‘The combined Anderson-Hill sub- stitute would’ have retained off- Faint Hope Held That Peace Wanted By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (#—A faint, fresh glimmer of hope that the Commu- nists may actually be moving to- ward a truce in Korea has been found by officials here in the la- test Red proposals for dealing with prisoners of war. This feeling was not substantial- ly changed by the United Nations threat to suspend the talks once again unless the Communists pro- duce a constructive solution. In the latest Red proposals, pre- sented to the U. N. Command yes- terday, the Communists appeared for the first time to recognize of- ficially that some prisoners held by the U. N. may never be willing to go home to Red China or Korea. If this interpretation is correct, and if the Reds are willing to act on it, no matter how warily, in further negotiations, it may be a key to the future of the truce talks. In any event it was regarded here today as good reason for going on with the meetings despite wide dif- ferences. References to the existence or possible existence of POWs in U.N. shore lands under federal control, provided for a system of federal oil leases and dedicated federal revenues to national defense and a system of federal aid-to state school systems. Anderson made an 11th-hour appeal to the Senate not to “over- ride the Supreme Court.” Then, showing the stram of the long de- .bate in which he had been a lead- er, he was forced to leave the Sen- ate chamber for rest and medical attention. Taft, in his first speech of the debate, said the Supreme Court was wrong in declaring that the federal government had paramount rights in the lands beyond low- water mark om the coast. Congress, he suggested, has the right to reverse the court to cor- rect an “‘injustice,” especially after the ‘Supreme Court has re- versed the Supreme. Court.” Immediately after the first vote, Sen. Douglas (D-Ill) proposed the first of what he said would be “amendment after amendment” to try to “limit and reduce the pos- sible damage” of the state owner- ship bill. Taft said he understood Doug- las had 15. The first Douglas amendment, ending when the Senate quit for the night at 9:55 p. m., called for limiting state ownership to three miles offshore in 2il cases and for a system of federal administration in the lands of the continental shelf beyond the three-mile limit. The state-ownership bill would recognize “historic state boundar- ies,” including tne claims of Texas and Florida to borders 10% miles in the Gulf of Mexico, Nothing Wrong WASHINGTON w—The Recon- struction Finance Corporation has come through an investigation of recent operations with a clean slate. Chairman Capebart (R-Ind) of the Senate Banking Committee reported yesterday the group's inquiry into 58 loans made during | the past year had uncovered “no evidence of undue influence.” Capehart said the investigation followed publieations of a report that RFC Administrator Harry A. McDonald had overruled the agency's review board in ordering six loans granted. TV FOLLOWS SUIT WASHINGTON (#—Now it’s tele- vision’s turn to try out three- dimensional images. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday authorized American Broadcasting-Para- mount Theaters, Inc, to make | public tests. } As in the recently introduced 3D movies, the system to be test- ed at KECA-TV in Los Angeles requires special equipment and glasses to be worn by viewers. The tests will end May 15. SPECIAL Complete Electrical TUNE-UP $5.50 for 6 Cyl. $6.50 for 8 Cyl. (PLUS PARTS) SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CARBURETOR . GENERATOR SATTERIES . STARTER GENERAL TUNE-UP Murray Auto Electric V8 Simonton Street hands who will never voluntarily accept repatriation appear at least by implication in two sections of the Red proposals. In one it is suggested that after prisoners who initially refuse re- Patriation have been turned over to a neutral state all those “who request repatriation” shall be sent home within a period of six months. This implies that the Reds recognize some prisoners will not request repatriation. Again, the Red proposals say that if after the six months period “there are still prisoners of war in the custody of the neutral state,” their fate should be de- cided at a proposed political con- ference on the future of Korea. The essence of the POW dead- lock is that the U. N. Command forcibly sent home. According to State Department information, | about 38,000 prisoners taken from the North Korean and Chinese Red armies have declared that they would resist repatriation. Reds have been con’ all should be returned, U, S. officials found no’evidence of any acceptance by the Reds of the idea that some of ‘heir for- mer soldiers would not be to go home at all. That is what makes the present interpretation of the new proposals. potentially quite important, As to the specific provisions of this latest Red plan, official here, like the U. N. negotiators in Korea, consider these on the whole un- acceptable, especially in three re- spects: 1. The Reds would require nine months from the time an armistice became effective until the prison- ers placed in the hands of a neu- tral state were considered to be {finally divided between those who NEW YORK @#—You think it’s hard to find a good baby sitter to- 2 Well, here is the way the problem will probably size up by 1960: Joe McFarb and his wife, Mary Ann, decide to take a night off from parenthood and go out and see a movie. But who will stay home and watch little junior? Joe calls up the Happy Home Baby Sitting Agency, and the conversa- tion runs as follows: Joe—I would like a good baby sitter for tonight, and— Agency—For tonight? Are you kidding? We are booked up through the spring and summer. How about next fall? Joe—I don’t know what movie will be showing next fall. Mary Ann and I want to see the one that’s on tonight. Maybe you'll have a cancellation. Agency—We don’t like to do business on an emergency basis. Usually our sitters insist on hav- ing met our clients socially, to be sure they are proper people. They can’t afford to get mixed up with the wrong crowd. Joe—Look, I’m in a real spot. Can’t you help a fellow? Agency—It’s against the rules, were willing to go home and those who were not. The U. S. reaction is that this prolongs the period of captivity unreasonably. 3. The idea put forth by the Reds that the prisoners who are not that the prisoners who are not re- captured after the fighting ends should be sent to the neutral state instead of being placed in its cus- tody on the Korean islands where they now are. The objection here is based on the time and effort which would be required for transporting them. ° These differences may prove equally negotiable if the Reds really are prepared to accept and apply the principle of true volun- tary repatriation. If they are not, the differences i STAR * BRAND ct cussn COFFEE and CUBAN ——TRY A POUND TODAY-— STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS HAL BOYLE SAYS ! but—. I'l try to speed up the formalities, Joe (humbly)—Gee, thanks, what do I have to do? Agency—Well, you and your wife and son had better drop down to our office at once. Bring along a recent photo of your home. We will also need a letter of credit from your bank, and a character testimonial from your pastor. Joe (dazedly)—That all? Agency—No, we'll have to have a copy of your son’s latest school report card, an estimate of his personality by his teacher, and a certificate from a doctor stating he is free from contagious dis- eases. We also require written per- mission for us to consult your family psychiatrist privately to get his opinion on the status of any ourbon unresolved conflicts within your home. Joe (weakly)—Is that all? Agency—Well, of course, natural- ly you are prepared to pay our usual limosine costs for picking up your sitter and co-sitter and while on duty. It goes without say- ing that your television set must be in perfect condition. Joe—Wait a minute, You lost me. What is this business about a co- sitter? Agency—All baby sitters today insist on bringing a co-sitter along for company. You know, like zir- plane pilots do. Joe—How much is all this going to cost me? Agency—Our minimum fee is $75, but right now we aren’t taking on any more of these charity cases. Joe—Look, mister, all I want is some nice elderly lady who knows about kids and would like to pick up maybe $5 watching little junior for us while we take in a movie. Don’t you know of any baby sitters like that? Agency—I do. We had one like her, and made the mistake of sell- Tuesday, April 28, 1953 “LIVES UP TO ITS NAME” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN o 2 9. e Britain Won't Sign WASHINGTON (@—Britain has refused to sign the extended Inter- national Wheat Agreement and some experts think its days are numbered. The deadline passed at mid- night. Iceland was the last nation to sign for a three-year renewal, leaving Britain the only holdout of the 46 nations originally partici- pating. * A major consumer, Britain re- fused to agree to buy wheat at more than $2 a bushel. The agreed renewal price was $2.05. The agreement seeks to stabilize markets by setting prices and alloting quotas to producing coun- tries for export and consuming countries for import, The U. 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