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Turncoat POWs Scorn
Air Force Torture School
I SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16 1
MY.—Three American turncoats, 1
who first embraced and then re- t
Sected the Chinese Reds, yes- i
4ersav ridiculed as “childish” s
Stitt Air Force's Nevada school
Beglnst brainwashing. <
KWiHiam A. Cowart. Lewis W. i
Btfegs and Otho G. Bell said in '
Hprate interviews the whole :
BR is unrealistic. They were
Rjjftured by the Reds in the Ko- i
(war, then chose to go to c
a rather than return to <
homeland after the armis- <
was signed. i
ley came out of China last
and now are in the Fort i
t stockade across San Fran- I
Bay awaiting court-martial i
harges they betrayed their '•
euuntry and their countrymen. 1
«g!«he men going through that
■fttada school know they’re not
King to be killed—they’re not
■Vtn going to lose their cigarette
fmtion,” said Bell. “How can j
Hu call that a real test? It’s :
Hist childish.
B “Anybody can stand up to
King interrogation if he knows
Bt doesn’t mean anything. But.
■t’s a lot different when you {
fdon’t know whether you're go-1
tag to be shot or not.
' “And what good does it do
to prepare a man for torture?
The Chinese don’t always tor
ture you. When I was captured j
I expected to get shot. Instead!
they shook my hand.
“The big thing is education.
A man with an education can
stand up to the Chinese or any-i
body else. But you got to know
what they’re talking about.”
Cowart called the school “the
silliest thing I’ve heard of since :
I came back. It s not going to
make anyone immune to their
tactics. A man had to know
what communism is. That's the
basic thing.
“Ask any soldier—even after
he goes through the school—
what communism is. He won’t
know. He’ll say he hates it—
but he doesn't know what it is.”
Griggs said the -Air Force
school was "ridiculous, complete
ly wrong.
“You'll never train a soldier
by torture.” he said.
“And all those Chinese tor
ture stories aren’t true either.
Hearing Urged
For T urncoats
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 16
UP). —President Eisenhower was
Urged yesterday to order a public
Civil hearing for the three ex
soldier “turncoats” who came
home disillusioned from Red
China last month.
Their attorneys declared such
a hearing would strike an effec
tive counter-blow at Communist
propaganda.” It would show,
they said, that military trials
are out of order for all Com-,
munlst - manufactured "turn
coats” and also would:
“Make known to the free world
that the 18 other American boys
who have chosen non-repatria
tion, scattered throughout Red
China, have expressed the desire
to our clients to return home and
their need for immediate aid and
assistance from our Govern
ment.”
The telegraph plea to remove
the returned trio from military
custody was dispatched by at-:
tomeys George T. Davis and:
Harold C. Brown. Their clients
are Otho Bell, 24, Hillsboro,
Miss.: L. W. Griggs, 22, Jackson
ville. Tex., and William C. Cow
art. 22, Dalton, Ga.
The three are in Army custody
here awaiting military trials for
alleged misconduct while pris
oners of war in Korea.
A formal plea for transfer of
tt- cases to civilian courts is
scheduled for arguments Sep
tember 22 before Judge Louis E.
Goodman.
A lot of guys came back from
POW camps and told some prel
ty terrible tales—just to cover
up for what they had done them
selves.
“The first real step is to teach
democracy and our Constitution
in the schools. Tell the students |
what the Communists actually
are.
“And the next step is to give
soldiers more than the six hours
of schooling about communism
that I had in the Army. The sol-!
diers have to learn what com-;
munism really is.”
All three men claimed it was
mental rather than physical mis
treatment that caused them to
renounce their homeland and
stay with the Reds.
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First Two Americans
Are Freed by Chinese
Ceattaed Frem First Page
can had passed military infor
mation to Ted Youde, Second
Secretary at the British Em
bassy in Peiping. Mr. Youde
now is on leave in Britain.)
Tells of Staying Behind
Mr. Rickett said he stayed be
hind when the Reds overran the
mainland, because “the political
situation was such that I felt I
could learn more about the Chi
nese.
“The Chinese government fully
represents the people and like
any o|her government does not
like United States agents.”
He said "new prisoners were
coming and going at all times.”
but he had no real contact with
any of them.
About 70 correspondents and
newsreel cameramen waited for,
the two at the village.
Later, at a news conference;
at the Gloucester Hotel, Mr.
Rickett commented:
“What I did mostly was col-j
lect information about demo
cratic elements in Peiping and]
to what extent they supported;
the Chinese Communists.”
His Hands Tremble
He said he gave this informa
tion to an American vice consul
whom he identified as John Per
rior who was in Peiping before
the Communists overran the
mainland.
The red- haired student
grasped bis trembling right hand
to steady it as he spoke. He said
at the time of his arrest the
Reds told him “in spite of the
money being spent by the
American Government for espio
nage work, American spies could
never collect any valuable in
formation.”
Father Rigney said before
reaching the Catholic Center he
was notified Sunday of his re
lease and had been riding trains
since Monday. The bearded,
moustachioed priest appeared
■very tired. One of the Catholic
Center priests who met nim said
Father Rigney has lost 80 pounds
in prison, but appeared mentally
all right.
On the same train with the
two Americans but unknown to
them was a 75-year-old German
woman missionary. Miss Maria
Wagner said she was being de-,
ported from China after working
'for a Presbyterian mission at Yih'
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She crossed the border today
after the two Americans arrived
and was taken to the Presby-;
terian mission home in Hong!
Kong.
"I had hoped to live a life of
peace and quiet for my remain
ing years at Yih Sien, but sud
denly last week I was ordered to
leave China immediately,” she
said.
The Chinese communists
promised September 10 they
would release 10 American ci
vilians who had been jailed or
put under house arrest. Both
Mr. Rickett and Father Rigney
were in this group. Red China
said the 10 had been convicted
of crimes ranging from spread
ing reactionary propaganda to
spying.
None of Others Appear
! On September 6 Red China
had announced that 12 other
I Americans previously denied exit
'permits were free to leave China
;wheh they chose. No charges
I had been made against them. So
I far none in this group has left
the Communist mainlaind, but
Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Ricks
have booked steamship passage
leaving Shanghai for Yokohama
October 6. Mr. Ricks, a native
of Boscobel, Wis.. had been an
automobile dealer in China from
1930 until he was refused per
mission to leave in January,
1951. His wife was bom in:
Shanghai of British parents.
Another in the group of 12. >
Emma E. Barry, 13, is reported,
coming to Hong Kong aboard ai
British freighter due September
25. The little girl is an Ameri
can. Her mother, a stateless
White Russian, is believed to
beaccompanying her.
The United States also has:
been negotiating at Geneve for:
the release of 19 other Ameri
cans imprisoned by the Chinese.
A communique issued September
6 said machinery had been set
up so thsy could “expeditiously
exercise their right” to go home.
There was no specific announce- 1
ment on their release, however.
The Chinese Communists al- i
ready have freed 15 American
airmen they had held since the
Korean war.
Sure on Germ Warfare
During his news conference
one reporter asked Mr. Rickett,
“Art pan convinced we (Ike
United States) used bacteriolog
ical warfare?”
“I am convinced,” Mr. Rickett
; replied. "I know that Chin ear
i interrogation it very fair and I
am convinced the United States
used bacteria warfare, and the
United States has never denied
it. From the American military
point of view whatever weapons
:you need to win a war you use.”
He added that the Chinese
Communists had no bacteria
warfare.
Mr. Rickett's statement that
the United States has never
denied use of bacteriological
warfare is not correct. The
United States repeatedly denied
the charges and sought an air
ing in the United Nations, where
a majority of the powers agreed
there was no evidence to sub
stantiate the Communist ac
cusations.
Mr. Ricketts told reporters.
“Probably in the stories you
write tomorrow you will use 'the
term 'brainwashed' referring to
me.”
He gave vague answers when
asked if he had any criticism
of the Chinese Reds and finally
said, "That la the business of
the Chinese.”
Asked why he so freely oriti
cized American policy, he re
plied. “Because I am an Ameri
can and I have my very definite
opinion—if Dulles and McCarthy
disagree, they can jolly well dis
agree."
Mr. Rickett said. "1 am an
American and during the war I
fought with the American 6th
Marine Division. When I com
mitted my crimes, I thought I
was serving America. I realize
now I was helping create a
i war.”
I When he applied for a Pul
i bright scholarship in 1948, he
told the reporters, he had no
; intention of spying, but he added
that those who received the
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scholarship* to study In China;
were formerly in intelligence
service during World War H.
He said ht waa called In by
the United States naval Intel
ligence people in Seattle and,
”1 spoke to a Lieutenant White
. . . I was still a reserve efleer
and I had to apply for say re
lease in order to go to China.
This release was granted on the
condition that I report to Naval
intelligsnc* officers on arrive 1 in
China.”
Asked whether he was paid for
espionage work. Mr. Rickett said
that was a very difficult ques
tion to answer end made no re
ply.
He said he had predicted to
the Reds that “naval Intelligence
probably will jump down my
neck when I return. They told
me not to worry, that the Amer
ican people have changed and
now have lots of sympathy for
peace.”
He said, “I am still a reserve
officer in the Marines and I had
been afriad that I would get the
same reception as the American
turncoats. But I have changed
my mind. We have our Mc-
Carthy*, but there are lots of
people in the United States who
are honest like some of you
here. Some of you, for instance,
have beeen quite hostile, but
I am sure the American public
is fair. If McCarthy and his
crowd want to call me a Com
munist, they can jolly well do
so.”
Nearly half the reporters had
left the room before the news
conference ended.
Afterward. Mr. Rickett made
a telephone call to his wife, who
lives in Yonkers, N. Y., and to
his mother, Mrs. A. J. Rickett,
Seattle.
He is trying to book plane
passage for Monday.
Priest Scarred
By Red Shackles
HONG KONG, Sept. 16 <*>.—
Either Hamid W. Rigney of
Chicago, who lost M pounds
whils in Communist, captivity,
sat down tonight to a meal of
fleta and eggs. He expressed con
cern about Chinese prisoners, left
behind in his cell.
Roman Catholic priests who
dined with him said he still car
ries sears on his legs from the
•hackles which Reds used to
keep him chained to a wall. The
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H EUGENE C. GOTT, PrttUnt NA. 8-7128
Chinese, In announcing Sunday
that his 10-year-prison sentence
had been reduced, said ha
"showed fairly good behavior”
while Imprisoned.
“Father Rigney feels it .was
American public opinion which
pressured the Reds into releasing
him and other Americans when
they come,” aakl one priest.
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