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CONNIES READY TO SEND 150
AMERICAN SOLDIERS HONE
Plans For Permanent Peace
Expected From Present Talks
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON UR Plans to
make a permanent peace for war
wrecked Korea and perhaps nego
tiate with the Communists on other
critical Far Eastern issues are be
ginning to shape up here as truce
prospects brighten.
One idea receiving official con
sideration, it was understood to
day, is that any long-term peace
arrangements should provide for a
north-south dividing line.
Under provisions already worked
out, an armistice would become
effective along this present line.
However, some authorities here
believe this would not make a
workable division of the country
over a long period.
The battle line is generally al
ready north of Parallel 38, which
divided North and South Korea be
fore the Red attack. The Commu
nists presumably would object to
any northward shift.
The belief is that the South Ko
rean government would accept a,
border at the Korean waist since
this would give it control over ap
proximately 85 per cent of the
country. Such an arrangement
would reduce the North Korean
position to a minimum, just short
of extinction. It would, however,
leave a buffer zone between South
Korea and major Red Chinese
and Soviet interests in Manchuria
and Siberia. Hence there is some
feeling that the Red governments
of China and Russia—if not North
Korea—might be willing to move
the permanent peace line north.
No one here has any idea what
kind of compensation they might
bargain for.
This and a host of other ques
tions are becoming of considerable
importance bec&use of the Soviet'
peace offensive and the steps taken
by the Reds toward agreeing on
an acceptable truce in Korea.
Among the provisions of an ar
mistice worked out prior to the
deadlock over prisoner of war re
patriation was one stating that
the military negotiators should rec
ommend to the countries con
cerned a ‘‘political conference” to
settle "the questions of the with
drawal of all foreign forces from
Korea, the peaceful settlement of
the Korean question, etc.”
President Eisenhower said in a
talk yesterday that American
troops would have to remain in the
region of Korea for a long time.
This could include Japan, how
ever, and would not necessarily
mean indefinite manning of a
truce line.
Negotiation on withdrawal of
United Nations and Chinese forces
from Korea will unquestionably be
Wednesday, April t, 1953
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one of the problems of the political
conference.
What authorities here are uncer
tain about is the implication of
that "etc.” Under this heading the
Reds may seek to bring up a se
ries of issues with which they
would hope to confuse and divide
the Allies. And the Eisenhower ad
ministration, hoping to get peace
throughout the Far East rather
than in Korea alone, may feel it
has no alternative other than to
broaden the conference.
A conference restricted to Korea,
for example, could cot be expected
to embrace efforts by the U. S.
and its allies to end the war in
Indochina and get the Reds to call
off their guerrillas in Malaya.
On the other hand, a conference
widened to include such matters
would also be open to questions
the Communists presumably would
like to raise, among them the
status of Red China.
Airline Pilot Is
College Student
EAST ORANGE, N. J. WMBurt
B. Budlong, a junior at Upsala
College here is an airline pilot—a
flight captain for Allegheny Air
lines.
Budlong is 32. He spent time with
both the Navy and Army Air serv
ices during World W r ar 11, and then
put in a year flying in Alaska and
three years for Trans-World Air
lines.
He joined Allegheny in 1949 and
entered Upsala in June, 1951. He’s
studying business administration
and hopes to be graduated in Jhne,
1954.
The most important thing to him
is maintaining his status as an
honor atudent. That way, he gets
twice as many class cuts per se
mester as less industrious, non
honor students.
So far, he has had no trougle ini
keeping within the allowed number
of class cuts, although he averages
about three flights a week for the
Newark block of Allegheny’s
routes.
Budlong says he hopes to go on
to law school because he knows
that airline flying—like base v all
playing—puts something of a prem
ium on youth, and be can’t expect
it to go on forever.
Although human breath usually
is germ-free, the act of coughing, j
sneezing, speaking or even whis
pering can spray germs for a con- >
siderable distance.
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
- By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea UR —The Com
munists today said they are ready
to send home 600 disabled prison
ers of war—a figure that includes
only 150 Americans and other U. N.
soldiers. The chief Allied negotiator
asked for a recouat. and added:
“I have hopes we will get more.”
Rear Adm. John C. Daniel told
the Communists their figure was
"incredibly small,” and asked
"that you have these figures re
viewed.” He said later, however,
that “I have no reason to believe
at the present time that they are
not acting in good faith.”
The U. N. Command offered to
return 5,800 sick ind wounded Com
munists—s,loo North Koreans and
700 Chinese. This is 7 per cent of
the 83,000 pro-Communist prisoners
and 4 per cent of all prisoners
held by the Allies. The Communist
figure of 600 is 5 per cent of the
12,000 to 13,000 U. N. and Korean
prisoners the Reds have said they
hold. Both sides named lower
level staff officers to work out
administrative details of the ex
change. The U. N. Command ap-.
pointed Col. Williard B. Carlock of
Galveston, Tex.; Air Force Col.
Douglas Kairns of Riverside, Calif,
and South Korean Col. Lee Soo
Yung. The Communists named
North Korean Col. Lee Pyong H
and Chinese Col. Wang Ching.
The staff officers went into ses
sion immediately after the liaison
groups adjourned tor the day.
Daniel asked the Communists for
a complete revised text of the
whole draft agreement on trans
fer of sick and wounded so the U.
N. Command could consider any
changes "in one package and ar
rive speedily to the items which
are controversial.” The Commu
nists have agreed to the main
points of Daniel’s plan, and said
they will submit their versions of
the rest.
The Allied protest on the Com
munist offer was the state
ment yet made in the three-day-old
conference. It was the first note
of discord in the otherwise smooth
negotiations which Tuesday result
ed in agreement in principle to
exchange disabled POWs.
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho told Daniel, "We have
offered the figures of sick and in
jured prisoners of war only efter
we have checked the matter in
detail. Accordingly, I cannot find
any reason why the figures are
incredibly small.”
Daniel told newsmen the figure
is "controversial.”
"It depends on what category
you put them in,” he said. “In
other words, how sick is a man?”
Of the 600 ailing prisoners the
Communists offered to return. 450
would be South Koreans. The rest
would be Americans, British,
French, or other U. N. soldiers.
U. N. sources sain possible rea
sons for the relatively few prison
ers the Reds will return include:
1. The Communists are not as
liberal in defining sick and wound
ed prisoners—a reason suggested
by Daniel.
2. The Reds may claim some of
the Allied troops they hold have
embraced communism and decline
repatriation.
3. A final, and more dismaying
explanation, may be found in the
! Reds’ policy of “liberating” cap-
S tured soldiers at the front. The
Communists have captured many
; more U. N. troops than they admit
Some Allied estimates place the
I total at 65,000.
More than a year ago, at Pan
‘ munjotn, the Reds explained the
j discrepancy by saying large nura
j bers of captured U. N. troops—
■ presumably South Koreans—were
1 released at the front.
Allied officers believe most of
; these men were drafted into the
i North Korean Army,
j Since any disabled captives would I
j hardly be drafted for war service. !
1 the If. N. might reasonably expect;
to find a higher proportion of sick
and injured in the Red camps than
; would be normal if the Reds had
, interned all their prisoners.
If the Reds actually captured
58,000 more Allied tiro pa than they
have ever accounted for. the
United Nations— applying the Reds’
j own proportion of 5 per cent— I
might expect to find about 2.580
more disabled Allied soldiers than j
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Is Promoted To
Staff Sergeant
Mr. and Mrs. Myrtland Cates,
1014 Varela St., received a long
distance call on Monday from their
son Cpl. Myrtland Cates, Jr., of
the U. S. Army advising them of
his promotion to Staff Sergeant on
Saturday, March 28.
Before being transferred to Fort
Hood, Texas, last July he was
graduaten from the Leadership
MYRTLAND CATES, JR.
School in Fort Jackson, S. C., as
an honor student and a leader In
the individual and specialized tue
of heavy weapons, instructing and
tactics.
At Fort Hood he was rated No.
1 in the class of Ranger Training,
which specialized in band to hand
combat, Judo, physical fitness and
demolition work with mines.
For the past nine months ha
has been assigned as chief clerk
typist to the Instructors’ office of
the non - commissioned officers
academy at Ford Hood.
Sgt. Cates is a graduate of Key
West High School, class of IMS.
Before entering the Army he at
tended Florida State University
for two add a half yeara.
At the completion of his Army
service in August, he plans on en
tering Miami University to resume
his law sthdies.
FENCE POST TORPEDO
Dwight, HI. (/P)—Francis Faa
rup, 21, a sailor, was "torpedo
ed” in his automobila recently
by a fence post
As he drove his car along a
highway near here he fell asleep
at the wheel. His car left the
road and struck a guard rail. A
post, torn loose by the impact,
was driven through the front end
of the car. The poet rammed
through the grill, over the mot
or, into the body and hit the
front seat, knocking it into the
rear.
The post narrowly missed
Faarup but he climbed out un
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First Lieutenant Birney A. Ad
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8 p.m. at the American Legion
Home on Stock Island. Lieutenant
Adams* talk is entitled "Korea
from a Foxhole.”
He served one year in Korea and
holda the following decorations:
Purple Heart (3 stars). Letter of
Commendation with Combat V, Sil
ver Star, Korean Campaign Ribbon
with 3 stars. Lieutenant Adams’
home is Seattle, Washington. He is
married and has four children. He
is also a veteran of World War II
‘holding xfany medals and ribbons
for his service during that time.
Also scheduled to speak is Billy
Roberts, the county and 10th dis
trict Oratorical Contest winner. He
will speak on the Constitution of
the United States.
Other items scheduled for this
meeting are:
Final nominations of Post Offic
ers.
Election of Delegates to 10th Dis
trict Constitutional Conference at
Coconut Grove.
A thirty minute TV film, "The
Show of Shows.”
All Legionnaires are urged to at
tend this meeting and participate in
the activities of the Post
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