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GI Soldiers Reveal More
Communist Atrocities Today
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
and SAM SUMMERLIN
TOKYO Wf—A slow-talking ser
geant from Oklahoma said 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 Law-ley of Medicine
Park, Okla. “Lois of men just
dropped while they were walking.
The Communists shoved them off
the road and left them to die.”
Lawley’s story and those of other
■sen 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
• labor camp, beat up and once
bayoneted American prisoners who
defied Red rule.
But, said Cpl. Donald K. LeGay
of Leominister, Mass., prisoners
who went along with the Commu
nist line “got a littie better treat
ment.”
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he added wryly at a news confer
ence at Tokyo Army hospital. He
said about “25 to 30 men” in his
company of 220 men got special
treatment.
Odie. who is suffering from mal
nutrition and other ailments, told
newsmen, “So many men died of
sickness at the camps L 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
brought 'em back and 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.”
Lawley, formerly of the U. S. 7th
Division, was captured six miles
south of Chosin Reservoir Nov. 30,
1950. He is 45—but tonight looked
far older—and very weary.
LeGay, 23. a prisoner for 29
months at Pyoktong camp, said,
“One time we had a little riot.”
He did not recall what started it,
but said the prisoners occasionally
“decided to refuse to work,
wouldn’t eat or fall out for roll
call.”
That night, he said, “they
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 reiuseu to go oiit
until an English-speaking guard
led the way. ,
After such disturbances, LeGay
said, the Chinese usually “picked
out an instigator.” He said these
men and others who “were against
them (the Communists) all the
way” were sent to z labor camp.
“We didn’t see them again,” he
said.
LeGay said “a lot tried to es
cape. 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.
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He was all bandaged up. They had
to have beat him the way he
looked.”
The stories told here 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.
TODAY’S
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MIRROR
By SAM DAWSON
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—could
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
set before the Kremlin began talk
ing peacefnlly.
They think Washington policies
are geared to a gradual deflation
late this year, to a slowdown in
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
have been on the downslope for
some time. Many consumer goods
prices have followed. And now the
basic metal prices are weakening
—with the notable exception of
steel.
Secretary Humphrey told the an
nual membership luncheon of the
Associated Press. “There is no
reason to fear peace.”
This is applauded by those who
argue that a business boom built
on armament race always carries
with it built-in weaknesses. They
point out it is sustained by high
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 he
the best thing for the economy.
The size of the growing public
and private debt, the high level of
business inventories, the greatly
expanded production capacity of
Wednesday, April 22, W3
HOLLYWOOD NOTES
By 808 THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD (At—Can a jazz
musician make the change. to a
classical artist?
Pianist George Shearing thinks
so. He's planning to give up a j
successful career in theaters and i
night clubs and have a fling at
the concert halls.
“It won’t happen for another I
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 with
his quintet before hep audiences,
he studies classical compositions. J
He reads them in Braille, since
he has been blind since he was a
few weeks old.
“I’d like to go into semiretire
, ment,” he told me over lunch. “I
i have a nice home in Englewood,
j N. J., but 1 only see it about two
j months a year. I would like to
] spend more time there, going out
i on concert dates for four or five
i months of the >ear.
j “I plan to do the kind of program ]
11 have been doing at the Eastman
■ School of Music at Rochester, I
jN. Y„ for the past two years.!
; The school was kind enough to ;
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KANSAS CITY tS*—Flames swept
through the four-story Washington
Hotel early today. ‘
Francis Womall, fire department
director, said all 200 residents es
caped unharmed, “as far as we
know.”
Cause of the fire was not known.
industry, the surpluses of farm
products, and shrinking export
markets are the danger signals
businessmen are watching.
On the favorable side are the
record employment totals, the rec
ord high dollar value of the goods
and services being turned out in
this country, the increased number
of persons with good incomes, and
the considerable nest egg of sav
ings, pensions and various insur
ance schemes to cushion any fall.
The slipback from the present
business peak, if it comes, should
be easy and not too long pro
longed, the majority of observers
think.
And they applaud Humphrey’s
rebuttal of Lhe Communist charge
that 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 look upon pro
duction of peacetime goods as
more important econornftrkTfj) than
the output of war goods think this
country could do far’ in a
peaceful world than in'one where
war threats bring inflation and
confusion.
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invite us to appear with the sym
phony orchestra, even though we
play a form of progressive 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
33. “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 England dur
ing the war years. His piano play
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
were married.” They have an 11-
year-old daughter, Wendy Ann.
Shearing visited the U. S, in
1946. then came here on the quota
in 1947. He has since taken out
his first citizenship papers. His
main adjustment to this country
was in meals. He continued eat
ing the big noonday meal of the
English, but also had a big evening
meal, as Americans do. His weight
rose to 195.
“I either had to diet or get a
semicircular piano,” he said. “So
I took off 50 pounds, largely by
self-denial.”
The recording star talks frankly
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