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PACE TWO PHONE 600O POTTSTQWN MERCURY. POTTSTQWN. FA. TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 23.

1953 Panicky Red Leaders Order Arrest Of 30.000 More in German Uprising June 22 OP--The whip of Red terror continued tonight lo lash rebellious East Germany. Thirty thousand former officers were added to a gigantic list for automatic Fearful of betrayal even by their Volkspohzei (peoples police) honor suard. panicky Communist leaders turned to Soviet tanks and machineguns to protect their homes in the Pankow district of East 'MUCH RATHER BE ON OUTSIDE; TRUMAN SAYS i The police guardsmen were I suddenly transferred to routine i duties elsewhere in the cast sector of this divided city, gripped by martial law. West Berlincrs, angered at the' bloody suppression of their countrymen in thc East, sacked two offices Ex-President Makes First Trip Back to Capital i of. the Socialist Unity (Communist) parly in thc British sector late to- iday.

The tore down red flags and i burned pictures of East German President Wilhelm Pieck and Premier Otto Grotcwohl in the street. All furnishings and records were WASHINGTON. 22 rfp Harry S. Truman confessed with a trace of humor today that he'di THE SOVIET zone news agency much rather be on thc outside of ADN quoted a few former mem- thc White House looking in "thanjbers of th'e German army whom it i i said had been exonerated in con- looking out." ncction with the revolt as saying condemned "with the utmost President a thc "former officers of this quip Hitler Wchrmacht who took a visit to Dcmo-jpart in the bandit disturbances, in- cratic workers to disorders, in committee a service of the people's quarters, Nearly all the former army men' he was sought never got beyond by the military ranks in thc Wehr- Truman there before tak-jroacht. Few who were seniors in i a a in 1 Me German forces have dared to front of television cameras.

stay in the Soviet zone, with the! FIREMEN" FIGHT pour water on wreckage of a warehouse building filled i crude rubber in Philadelphia cs- tcrtlay after a tractor-trailer truck struck the building and an --AP Photo explosion and fire, followed. Collapse of the building buried parked cars in the foreground. Vandenberg Attacks Wilson's Office Charging Restrictions on Air Force Vandenberg Looking at a copy of thc Washington Evening Star with a cartoon depicting his first visit to Washington since the Republicans took over on Jan. 20, Truman observed: "This cartoon shows me with a Key West shirt and a cap and a ncwsrcel camera standing outside the' gates of the White House, and it is labeled, 'tourist "I'd much rather be on the outside looking''in than on thc inside looking out." WHEN HE occupied it. Truman used to refer to the White House as a "prison." GENERAL CLARK TALKS TO RHEE Steps Taken Against Any UN ROK Clashes SEOUL, Tuesday, June 23 -of parachuting agents with arms cn.

Mark Clark confronted Svng- and radios into East Germany to Phila. Warehouse Collapses exception of those who attended Communist indoctrination schools at Moscow while war prisoners. Premier Grolewohls government, still in office "only by the gunpowcr of 300,000 Russian troops, made this desperate bid to regain civilian control: 1--Accused thc United States (Continued From Pace One) i until further notice. All off duty were summoned to their they would be in a real Defense emergency. FBI Agent J.

C. Mulroy said his office is investigating the fire i 1 0 i I Mi; i jStations by radio and any violation of government statutes" effecting destruction of Federal property. start the worker rebellion and keep it going into its sixth day. 2--Singled out ex-military officers as a class that allegedly furnished the "fascist and reactionary" brains of the ficicc uprising. The revolt swept in a matter of hours It was a day of fast movement j' a Wednesday from steel plants for the 69-year-old ex-President, on Polish frontier to uranium who told reporters that "everybodyj mines along the Czech border.

All 'major cities and industries, and hundreds of smaller centers, were caught up in the rebellion. seems happy to see me, and I've been most happy to see them." He said he has been recognized he has gone and he is happy to see a he is not forgotten. The ex-President wouldn't talk politics, other than to say' that the Republican party "always has and they always will represent the special interests." He a i the people must look to the Democrats for "their rescue." Innocent Plea Made By 'House of Horror' Owner, John Christie LONDON, June 22 Wt-- Owl-eyed John Christie, charged with the strangulation murder of his wife and three other women in his Netting Hill "house of horror." pleaded innocent today in Old Bailey court. Huge Hole Threatens Buildings in Berwick BERWICK, June 22 ttt-A hole. growing steadily by the hour, threatened a large bakery and a nearby home in central Berwick today.

The hole appeared this afternoon! near the home of Hugh Vaughn, one of the owners of the Vaughn bakery. Within two hours the hole had reached a depth of about 3oi rotin" tiirTM feet and was nearly 40 feet across I UngCr Approximately i Vaughn's home dangled in space over the cavernous hole. The edge of the gaping pit was only 15 feet from the bakery itself. Employes of thc bakery contacted an unidentified geologist. He told them the hole has probably been created by a subterranean river eating a a the earth.

Only sand was visible in the hole. man Rhee yesterday for the first time since thc South Korean president upset an impending trucci and got Rhee's promise not to pull his without warning from the UN command. Clark and Rhce also agreed to take immediate steps to guard a a i a "shooting fray" between UN and South Korean sold i s. a emerged from the meeting with Rhee "more hopeful" despite the tension of the hour. "There is no doubt in my mind that I am, technically at least, the commander of the troops of the ROK (Republic of Korea)," Clark said after his hour and a quarter meeting at Rhee's green-roofed mansion.

Clark said he could sign a The bespectacled, 55-year-old truce without South Korean ap- rucking clerk, clad in a rumpled proval but "whether it is violated rclay. All reserve fire apparatus was placed on operating status. Meanwhile, Red workers and other Chil Defense volunteers were ordered to prepare to carry out a mass evacuation of residents in thc area of the fire. And first aid station-; were designated--just as secretary's office had blocked thc Air Force program of personnel recruitment and construction of vital air bases at a time when such deficiencies "became more critical than ever before in our history." The Air Force chief commented that if it had been thc deliberate intention of Wilson's office "to hamper and delay the Air Force program, they could scarcely have taken actions which would better have such a purpose." In his letter to Ferguson, Wilson struck back at Vandenberg, RUSSIANS EASE TRAVEL CURBS ON FOREIGNERS WASHINGTON. June 22' Wt-- Gen.

Hoyt Vandcnberg bitterly attacked Secretary of Defense Wilson's office today for imposing what he called restrictive directives on the Air Force. The colossal waste involved is! certainly obvious to everyone in the Air Force," the retiring chief! of staff air declared in a speech to the Washington Aero club. Meanwhile, Wils i tossed new, angry words into a debate over his proposed five billion dollar cut in Air Force funds. He wrote Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) a slashes should be considered. a without naming Wilson personally, said thc defense BEYOND THAT, Mulroy said he a crew of four and had positively no comment other, than to say there was "no pcr C-1 19 Flying Boxcar Missing Over Japan TOKYO, Tuesday, June 23 tn-- C-119 Flying Boxcar participating airlifting the 187th Regimental Combat team to Korea was missing who is leading the fight against the in Southern Japan lodav.

It carried! Administration's Proposed slash in Force funds for the fiscal jear ara Starting July.l. for a report that thc FBI con- jsidcred it probable sabotage. Clark lue suit, mumbled his plea and istencd impassively while his at- orney said: "The defense is insanity. Christine is being tried first for the slaying of his wife, Ethel, the past December. He has been charged i gar- bodies were found walled up in the dingy flat in i the Christies lived in West London.

The skeletons of two other women were dug up in the Christies' garden. FOUR YEARS ago Christie was the chief prosecution witness against Timothy Evans, 19, who was hanged for killing his wife and baby in the same house. Evans The Vaughn home and bakery protested his innocence and" his al- sit on a hill overlooking the Sus-Horncy blamed Christie for the quehanna river. deaths. or not is another thing." A HURRIED by plane jfrom Tokyo on his llth-hour mission He sought to overcome obstacles raised when Rhee's government violated the key agreement of an impending truce by freeing, more than 27,000 anti-Red Korean prisoners.

Nothing came out of the talks to suggest Rhee has backed down in his opposition to the truce. More meetings i Rhce over the crisis were scheduled. Special emissaries of the US State department are due to arrive Wednesday the hole first opened, In today's drama-packed court clothes which Mrs. Vaughn had session, Crown Prosecutor Sir hung on a line dropped out of sight. iLioncl Heald accused Christie of! Later, huge chunks of concrete strangling his plump wife, 54 from Secretary Dulles and bearing President Eisenhower's Clark was staying over an "extra day in Korea, but whether he would' see Rhce again not known.

from the basement walls and floors whom he had been married fo of thc Vaughn home began break- 23 years, and then stuffing her bod ing away. The chunks of concrete i under thc floorboards of their dra disappeared in thc sand at the flat. bottom of the pit. Student Plea for Dean's Reinstatement Unheeded OFFICIAL DIES ERIE, June 22 W) William Scouller, 84, tax collector for thc past 20 years for the nearby bor- jotigh of Northeast, died ycs'erday NEW WILMINGTON, June 22 tnj after a two-year illness. --A pica by about 100 students ofi Westminster college for ment of Dr.

William Vander Lugt' as dean apparently has gone unheeded. Dr. Will W. Orr, president of thc college, heard the student request read to him by 'phone over thc weekend but replied with a brief "no comment." Dr. Vander Lugt quit about 10 days ago after hcj was asked to take what he callec a "personal loyalty oath" to Dr.

Orr. Ke later asked to withdraw the resignation. Ph. 4330 Four-Poster Dispute Ends Very Abruptly HOUSTON, June 22 tf) --An elderly railroad conductor was shot and killed last night during an argument with his wife to whom they should leave an antique four-poster bed they died. Shot once through the heart was John Hurst Emmcrt, A charge of murder was filed against Mrs.

Felicie Annie Emmert, 65, co-owner of a private kindergarten. s. Emmert was released under $2500 bond. Emmert's body was found on the floor beside the four-poster bed. Mrs.

Emmert declined to make a written statement but told police and newsmen she and her husband had been arguing over leaving the bed to her sister. "It is 100 years old and came to me from my mother, who got it from her mother," Mrs. said. 11 Mahogany TIER TABLE Hand Rubbed Finish $3 .50 KAPPES WAY-SIDE STORE 4th at StaU Easy Terms PHILADELPHIA, June 22 MV- Fifteen employes of a firm which manufactures automobile jacks were helped to safety down ladders today as flames damaged their plant. The blaze in the three-story building occupied by Globe Fabricating Products.

broke out while most of thc available firemen in the central and northern sections of (he city" were busy battling a seven- alarm fire in a collapsed warehouse, 14 blocks a a There was no immediate estimate of damage and firemen said hey could not determine immediately the cause of the fire. The big transport took off from a Southern Japan air base at 1:39 a. m. carrying the paratroopers and several vehicles. Far East Air Force headquarters said it had not been reported and was presumed down at 11:20 a.

because it would have exhausted its fuel by that time. An air-giound search for the missing plane was begun in thc Kyushu Island area. Regarded as Significant Move on Part Of Reds MOSCOW, June 22 UV-The Soviet government tonight told foreign residents in Russia including Western diplomats they a travel more freely about the country. 9 even foreign diplomats have been limited in their movements, being permitted to i i only specified areas.) The relaxation of travel restrictions, regarded here as a significant was disclosed in a Soviet note delivered late tonight to all foreign diplomatic missions in s- Foreigners are still forbidden to travel in a i restricted areas. UNDER THE relaxed regulations, foreign diplomats and other foreign residents now may traVcl thc Crimean penninsula, except to the cities of Sevastopol, Kerch, and Fedosiya.

i apparently opens to travel in this area such towns as Yalta, where a famous wartime big three meeting was held. Most of the Black Sea shore of IT SHOULD be understood, Wil- the Soviet i is apparently son wrote, that Vandenbcrg's re- now open for travel under the new- quest for restoration of 000 of the cut "represents General Vandcnbcrg's personal opinion and regulations, including such resort centers as Sochi, Adlcr, and Gagry and excluding only thc three Cri- in no sense is an official budgetlmean cities mentioned and I I I i i i request. Ukarinian port of Nikolavesk. High Penn Ph. 4359 GIVE BLOOD SAVE LIVES Bloodmobile Will Be At Armory Monday.

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