The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1953, Page 7

~ PRESIDENT RHEE CALLS FOR ‘SHOWDOWN WITH COMMUNISTS’ ADMINISTRATION BEGINS FINAL |EFFORT TODAY TO EXTEND EPT Will Insist On Unification Of Korea By Guns Or By Treaty By SAM SUMMERLIN SEOUL (®—President Syngman Rhee today demanded a “show- down wit hthe Communists now” as he neared a showdown with his biggest ally, the Urited States. Speaking from the Capitol and echoed by the cheers of half a million South Koreans, Rhee again | demanded unification of North and South Korea by treaty or by guns | , and refused any truce without it. As Rhee spoke, the U.S. State | Department's Far East chief, Wal- j ter §S. Robertson, te leave Tokyo for Korea hours, bearing a personal, urgent message from President Eisenhow- er and Secretary of State Dulles. prepared The assistant secretary of state | is expected to meet Rhee Saturday. The message presumably is in- tended to bring the balky, 78-year- old President into line with a truce that was all but signed be- fore he stymied it--at least tem- porarily—by arbitrarily releasing 27,000 anti-Red Korean prisone: Since then, armistice hopes hung suspended between fear: what Rhee will do next and how | the Reds will react Rhee’s speech came on the third anniversary of the Korean War— a day that only a week ago was | expected by many to be Korean armistice day. prisoners, his «unbending demand ; for agreed unification, and his un- willingness to accept the truce; agreement pushed an armistice somewhere into the future. Rhee spoke defiantly from the battle-scarred Capitol building in his aging, scratchy voice. “Our hopes are almost gone,” he said, referring to his own terms for truce. “There must be a showdown with | the Communists now, “If we win it, as we surely will, Korea will be unified. “If not, we will fight on to crush the enemy until every one | of us dies.” He said South Korea should be | given the freedom ti “fight on, if} by ourselves . . . to de own fate by our own hand: Although Rhee’s speech showed | no hint of a change in his policy, both Rhee and Robertson earlier expressed hope their crucial face- to-face meeting could find a way to an armistice in this war-rav- aged country, Robertson told news “Tam still hopeful that 1 will be able to remove all misunderstandings and differences that stand in the way of peace.” And Rhee himself said Robert- | son’s visit may open ‘new chan- aels” for a solution. The armistice talks themeslves temained suspended until the Al- ies answer a violent Red protest wer Rhee’s release of the 27,000 ?0Ws. There was no indication vhen the next meeting would be | ralled. Meanwhile, Gen. J. N. commander, said in Tokyo | he Allies have achieved their wowed purpose by stopping Red Mark Clark, within de our | i ball team last night. Bardwell, | Chicken And Chicks Coach Davis is in the | FREE CHICKEN for both themselves and their favorite “chicks” was the order of the day as Benny Fernandez of Benny’s Cafeteria honored Key West High School's state championship base- On the left, and leading the group, is Dick Salgado. followed by Mrs. Paul Davis. | the team and their dates are getting to their spots in the line-up.—Finch, Citizen Staff. However, Rhee’s release of the | Next comes Teresa clean-up position. The rest of | aggression and pushing the Com- ;munists back across the 38th Par- allel, the jumpoff point of three | years ago. In an anniversary message to the U. N, Command, Clark said the ultimate goal remains: “An honorable armistice, follow- jed by the peacetul unification of Korea.” Rhee has said the Allies agreed to unify Korea and drive out the Reds, but top Allied statesmen dis- jagree, holding to Clark’s state- ment | In Seoul, Gen, Maxwell D. Tay- lor, U. S. Eighth Army command- er, said in an anniversary mes- sage that American and other | U. N. soldiers have ‘no thought of separating from the Republic of | Korea forces.”” | ‘Rhee has written Clark that he | would yank his 16 divisions from U. N. Command rather than agree | to a truce on present terms, but he said he would advise Clark before doing so. | Rhee’s determination to fight on alone was pointed up strongly in | the letter to Clark and in his for- mation of a “‘war cabinet” in case the UNC signs an armistice over ‘South Korea's protest. | U.S, Ambassador Ellis“ 0. Briggs declined an invitation to the | Seoul rally. He was said to have {informed the government he could not be present at a rally demand- | ing unification by force rather than peaceful means Rhee told the rally, “Presently | We are winning the war (but) we will have to face death” if the | present armistice is signed. Rhee drew wild cheers and ap- | | plause when he reiterated his terms for approving a truce: 1.. The Chinese Communist forces and the U. N. pull out of | Korea at the same time, 2. A political conference to nego: tiate full peace for Korea be lim- ited to three months. If no settle- ; ment is reached by that deadtine. | then the war would start again. 3. A mutual security pact be signed between South Korea and the U. S. insuring American aid if Korea is invaded again. The President said if his de- mands are accepted “we would not | object to a truce but will go along with our allies,” But there was an ominous note when he added: “However, no response has come so far and, if not officially so an- nounced, we consider these pro- posals no longer hold good and our hopes are almost gone.” Long-Time Bachelor ARCADIA, Calif. (@—Juan Mar- ron says he lived to be 100 be- cause he avoided matrimony. “Marriage is for women only,” he declared on his birthday yes- terday, ‘A man should have noth- ing to do with it.” ACTRESS ENGAGED HOLLYWOOD (#—Movie actress Coleen Gray, 30, has announced her engagement to Lt. Comdr. Wil- lian Clymer Bidlack, 43, efficiency | expert for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Violence In India NEW DELHI, India (®—New vio- lence was reported today in the | wake of the death in political cap- ‘tivity of Hindu extremist leader Syama Prasad Mockerjee. The new outbreaks were in Jam- ; mu, predominantly Hindu center of Southern Kashmir. Police had clashed with a crowd of Mooker- jJee’s supporters in Delhi, the eap- ital’s twin city, following announce- ment of the death Tuesday. Mookerjee, leading right-wing opponent of Prime Minister Jawa- 'harlal Nehru’s government, died in Kashmir, where he had been arrested five weeks ago for defying a ban on his entering the disputed state. The government attributed | his death to a heart attack follow- ing pleurisy. Reports from Kashmir said gov- ernment troops were patrolling Jammu and mobs still prowled the streets following a riot yesterday broken up by police tear gas. The reports said four persons were injured and eight arrested, Prisoners Eseape SEOUL (‘#—The United Nations Prisoner of War Command said today five anti-Communist Korean POWs escaped Tuesday night from the prison hospitai camp here, The name “bauxite” for alumin- um ore derives from the town of | Baux in southern France where one ‘of the first deposits was found. Thursday, June 25, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Long Lines DUCK AVENUE Page 7/ 'Benson Will Check Drought Tn Southwest DALLAS #—Agriculture Secr jtary Ezra Taft Benson heads ‘i | Texas tomorrow—into a rising ‘clamor for help by farmers and |ranchmen suffering the most pun- ishing drought in Southwest his- tory. Benson will attend the American {Cotton Congress in Lubbock. He has said he wants a first- hand look at drought conditions, Farmers and livestock men whose jlosses have pyramided into the millions promise he’ll get it. County drought committees are’ |to meet with Benson Saturday. He is to arrive in Lubbock tomorrow night. The Southwest’s soil conserva- tion chief, Louis Merrill, yester- day called the drought in Texas, | Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisi- jana “the longest and most severe nd widespread in history.” | Merrill said the drought is eclips- ‘ing the great dry spells of ' 1864, | 1909, 1917-18 and 1934-36. Crops are scorched. Deep cracks are spreading through seared and barren rangelands. Cattle are starving. Merrill said virtually the entire Texas lanscape “is browned and bleak. “Pastures are completely burned up all over the state and the North Texas corn crop is in danger of being completely destroyed.” L. J. Cappleman, state Farmers Home Administration director, says cotton “just didn’t come up’’ in the area west of Wichita Falls. He says the North Texas plains wheat crop is “virtually a com- plete failure.” Merrill added that “except for small areas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana are just as dry.” Heat records are broken almost daily. Water is rationed in several Texas cities. There has been no substantial rainfall in weeks—and none is in immediate prospect. The Weather Bureau says cool air from the arctic and North Pa- north than usual, This leaves the Southwest vulnerable to arid winds | off the Mexican desert, Your magic servant — electricity — is on the job night and day. Never com- cific is crossing the nation farther | ibe Bill Be Brought Straight To Floor For House Vote By CHARLES F. BARRETT WASHINGTON .#—The Eisen- hower administration marshaled strength today for a last-chance maneuver to.try to stave off de- feat in a battle to extend the ex- cess profits tax. ‘The last’ resort, admittedly a | move,.was to urge the House Rules | Committee to bring a tax exten- sion bill directly to the House floor. | This would bypass completely the House Ways and Means Com- | mittee, the oldest ard one of the | proudest of congressional commit- tees, which traditionally must start | tion on the issue and bring the | Jextension to a House vote. But another influential Republi- can on the rules committee, who said he and three other committee Republicans wou'd oppose the of the traditional rights of legisla- | tive committees. Twc of the three jothers confirmed this stand. The committee has eight Repub- This source and others predicted that three or perhaps all of the Democrats would oppose the move to bypass the ways and means committee. It was clear, however, that House Speaker Joseph W. Martin (R-Mass) and Majority Leader Halleck (R-Ind) were pulling out all stops in the scrap for the Pres- ident’s proposal. They might be able to persuade some rules com- all tax bills through Congress. Ways and Means Chairman Dan- iel Reed (R-NY) and his support- | ers so far had emerged trium- phant in a running fight with the administration. Thcy had stopped | cold. a series of administration moves to get committee action on | the tax proposal. At best, the administration's chances seemed doubtful even ‘in the rules committee. And the move there seemed certain to stir a bat-| tle over procedure that would | rival in bitterness and tension the | conflict over the tax issue itself. The administration is making an all-out effort to extend for six more | months the tax on corporation prof- its legally defined es abnormal. Ei- senhower has insisted the govern- | ment must have an estimated 800 million dollars involved to help re- duce the federal deficit and to fight inflation. Reed and others have insisted | just as firmly that the tax is an | “immoral” burden on some firms; especially small and growing busi- nesses, and that more revenue would be raised by letting it die next Tuesday as scheduled. Chairman Leo Allen (R-Ill) of jthe rules committee confidently and almost unprecedented mittee members to change their minds. Acting Minority Leader McCor- | mack (D-Mass) said the bypas of the ways and means committee, : other committee, would shattering effect upon the orderly procedure of the House and | the rules of the House.’’ He pre- dicted Democrats would fight such | a move on the House floor. Administration leaders conceded that one tactic tried yesterday apparently is doomed to failure. That procedure called for a peti- tion by a majority of the 25-man ways and means committee to force a committee meeting and a vote on the issue. Administration leaders voiced confidence they could pass a measure if they could bring it | to a vote, but Reed has blocked | any committee action on the issue. A canvass of the committee, however, indicated that the admin istration could not win the needed 13 signatures for such a petition. Earlier, the administration had failed in a plan to have a com- mittee member make ‘a move tu bring up the excess profits tax issue at a meeting called for other Purposes, told reporters his group would pro- | {duce a victory for the administra- Reed, who. had balked at calling asked not to be’ quoted by name, | planned procedure as an invasion | licen members and four Demo- | | erat. have! a meeting specifically on the prof- its tax, stopped that plan simply by canceling all committee meet- ings of any kind, Paraplegic Is Mass. Fireman SHINGTON —Richard Fo- ley is a paraplegic veteran con fined to a wheelchair but he is also a member of the fire depart- ment of Needham, Mass. The Veterans Adm:nistration told his story today. Foley was hit m the spine by | shrapnel in combat in Europe dur- ing World War II. After two years in Army hospita!s, he was dis- charged in a wheelchair in 1948. He was paralyzed from the waist down for life He attended a business school, under the V. A.’s program for dis- abled veterans. He is now what is called a per- | manent houseman—handles corres- pondence, keeps records and per- forms innumerabie other duties. When there’s a fire, he stays on duty in the firehouse. Before Foley | went to work, an able-bodied fire- }man had to stay behind. Foley was born and reared in Stamford, Conn, /'TO FEDERAL COURT TAMPA (—A Tampa man who jwas freed of lottery charges in criminal court because of a faulty |Search warrant now faces federal | court on a charge of failing to buy \a gambling tax stamp. U. S. tax officials who arrested Johnny Ippolito said they would seek to use in federal court the j same evidence which was thrown out in criminal court. Ippolito, 50, | posted $500 bond Tuesday, Candidacy Announced NEW YORK (#—Republican Con- gressman Jacob K. 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