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freed Chinese POW On Formosa Tells Story
After Recent Release From Allied Captivity
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■Mr ia Korea. Then he picked
Wm Y ““ •* random and asked
■ to tell his story from the be-
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1 province in western China can
spread a smile across his slender,
handsome face in spite of all he
has seen of war and brutality.
I asked him his name.
?Lin* Yuan,” he said. -That’s
my real name and I have no fear
of reprisals against my family for
giving it. I’ll also give you their
exact address—2o Nan Cbu Men,
Chungking.
"I am not callous,” he went on.
“It’s only that my family are past
reprisals.”
His father had been a cloth
vendor by day and a tailor at
borne by night. Then late in 19tt
the Communists came to Chung
king.
Ling Yuan was out in the coun
try when the Communists came to
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They found his father’s meager
stock of cloth. He had hidden it
to avoid its certain confiscation.
The Communists took his father,
his mother and his sister, 12, away
to a ’‘people’s court.” Ling Yuan
spat out the phrase “people’s
court’”
Ling Yuan was a married man
of 14 at the time. His family was
old-fashioned and insisted on early
marriages. He and his young wife
were in the country with his wife’s
parents when the dread news
came: all three sentenced to death
and shot
Ling Yuan changed his name and
fled Szechwan province, but the
Communists caught him in the
draft and at 15 he found himself
in Manchuria, next door to Korea.
Late in 1950, when Red China
abruptly entered the Korean War,
Ling Yuan crossed the Yalu River
into North Korea as an ammunition;
carrier for the 188th Division of the i
16th Red Army. v
China’s armies swept down to
ward the 38th Parallel. Then, just
before his 16th birthday, came the
chance to desert.
His outfit was near Chorwon on
the Central Front the night he and
a friend found themselves cut off
from their company.
He said they smashed their
weapons and kept walking south
until they reached the motor pool
of the U.S. 24th Division. There
they surrendered.
From the front. Ling Yuan was
shuttled southward to the southeast
port of Pusan. Late in 1951, he was
transferred to the smouldering
prison island of Koje.
Inside the barbed wire com
pounds, he found the civil war
between Nationalists and Commu
nists still raged.
He did not talk about those days,
when the two factions fought for
control and Mood ran in the com
pounds.
But he said he was one of the
internal guards appointed by the
anti-Red prisoners themselves.
In April 1952, the Allies began
their screening to see who wanted
to go back to Red China in event
of an armistice. They asked Ling
Yuan if he wanted to go back.
“The very thought made my
blood curdle,” he said. “All I
could do was say over and over
again, ’Even if you kill me I will
not return to Communist China.’”
And so he was moved from Koje
to Cheju Island with other non-
Communist prisoners..
On Sept. 18, he arrived at the
South Camp in the neutral zone,
for the “come home” interviews
provided by the armistice terms.
But his compound was one of those
which refused to listen to Red
persuasion teams.
He said 20 to 30 per cent of
the Indian guards were pro-Com
munist and tried to talk the pris
oners into going home.
“They told us,” he said, “that
regardless of whether we were
questioned or not we would be sent
back to Communist China.”
After the period for explanations!
ended in December, Ling Yuan
said the Indians screened his com
pound but not a single Chinese
changed his mind.
On the tank landing ship bring
ing him to Formosa, he heard over
the ship’s public address system
Jan. 23 that all prisoners had re
verted to civilian status by order
of the U.N. Command.
“Then,” he added, “we docked
at Keelung (Formosan port) and
stepped on the soil of free China.”
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WASHINGTON The law has
not changed smee you paid your
last income tax. But the Revenue
Service has made some changes
in interpretation some of which
might save you money. Among the
more important are:
L Premiums for health insur
ance which does not pay tor medi
cal expenses cannot be deducted
from income. Some policies pay
for lost time from work but not
for doctors, hospitals and medi
cine. You still can deduct prem
iums on most health insurance as
medical expense.
2. Some health benefit payments
must be added to income. When
your employer pays you benefits
through a “plan of insurance,”;
j that is not income. But it is not
a “plan of insurance” if the em-l
ployer pays for it out of company!
reserves rather than doing it
through an insurance company. I
It used to be that benefit plans
First Benefit To War Veterans Was 328 Years Ago
It was in 1626 when the Pil
grims of the Plymouth Colony
recognized the basic principle of
benefits for men who fought for
their country’, according to a state
ment this week by Charles W. Ma
chin, Commander of the Key West
Post No. 3911, V. F.SSf. f as his or
ganization joined in a celebration
of National V. F. W. Week.
“The Pilgrim Colonists,” com
mander Machin asserted, “decreed
some 328 years ago that any sol
dier who was injued in the de
fense of the lives of his fellow citi
zens, would be maintained com
petently by the colony during his
life.”
He also stated that soon after
the signing of the Declaration of
Independence in 1776, one of the
initial acts of the First Congress
was the adoption of a federal pen
sion law. Since that time the
succeeding sessions of Congress;
have recognized a government ob
ligation to disabled veterans and
their dependents, he said.
“Few people realize,” the Corn-
All Try Out Lung
Before an individual can go to
work at one Southern California
hospital, he or she has to submit
to being locked into an iron lung.
The feeling is that every member
cf the staff caring for polio pa
tients should understand what it is
to be such a prisoner.
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became insurance if they met state
disability benefit requirements.
Has is no longer tbe case and if
you got benefits that do not come
undre an insurance plan, you must
pav income taxes on them.
3. Cost-of-living allowances for
U S employes in territories and
possessions of the United States
are no longer considered income.
If you are one of the 30,000 people
who get them, you do not even
have to report such money. And if
you are an old hand, you can
make tax claims for what you paid
on such allowances back to 1950
(Deadline for 1950 claims is March
15, 1954.) However, the ruling does
mi applv to ‘•territorial post dif
ferentials’’ where an employe gets
paid for difficult rather than
more costly living conditions.
4. Depreciation schedules for
businesses, once approved, will be
changed in the future only for 1
mander continued, “that the en
tire veteran benefit program to
day, costs a smaller percentage of
the national income than it did 50
years ago, yet the percentage of
veterans in our total population is.
Friday, January 29, 1954
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"clear and convincing reasons.’*
These include changes in the busi
ness, working a machine more or
fewer hours and similar circum
stances. Business men have, in the
past, protested that one revenue
agent would approve a schedule
and another agent might come
along and change it because he bad
different ideas.
5. Business men can pay excise
taxes quarterly instead of monthly
under a ruling by Commissioner
of Internal Revenue T. Coleman
Andrews.
4. Yow may deduct, among
medical expanses, payments ta
) psychologists authorized under
state law to practice psychology
j as a healing device.
But you can t put a value on
your blood when you give it to the
Red Cross or other agencies and
then deduct the amount as chanty.
This is not a donation of property.
(Next: Questions and Answers)
much greater.” He contends that
the program to help alleviate the
ravages of war for disabled veter
ans and dependents of deceased
veterans, will not jeopardize the
nation's economy.
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