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"confessions" to such acts were untrue.) ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH May s. 1952 7 A COMET LEAVES SOUTH AFRICA ON RETURN FLIGHT TO LONDON JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 5 (AP Britain's rec- ord-breaklng jet liner Comet left A- EXPERT TELEVISIOM SERVICE Chinese Reds Played Record for Them, Fire Britons Say. MOSCOW, May 5 (UP) Five British business- men said on their return from Peiping today Peiping Broadcasts Germ Bomb 'Confession' of Two U.S. Airmen Red China Radio.

Says Voices Were From Tape Recording Made by Captured American Officers. me new jn ouiuis airport at 9 a.m. (2 a.m. St. Louis time) to that the Chinese Reds played for them recorded "confessions" by OMest TV service department la St.

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4540 OPEN EVENINGS TWO IN YACHT SAIL FROM ENGLAND FOR U.S. WEST COAST PLYMOUTH, England, May 5 (UP)-1 A former American sailor and his British companion were embarked today on the first leg of a sea voyage from England to America's Pacific coast; in a 24-foot yacht, the Catania; Norman Fowler, of Huntingdon Park, and Edward Allcard, 35-year-old Briton headed to sea j'esterday. Fowler said they" planned to proceed first to the Madeira islands- and then across the Atlantic and through the Panama canal to the Pacific. day on its return flight to London. On its 6724-mile inaugural flight here Saturday, the British Overseas Airways Corp.

plane brought South Africa less than 24 hours from London to usher in the jet age of commercial air warfare) weapons by United Nations forces in Korea." Meanwhile, nine Nobel prize winners called on another Nobel scientist, Frederic Joliot-Curie, to withdraw his signature from a message supporting Red Chinese charges that U.N. forces are waging germ warfare in Korea. The nine, in a letter released by the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, asked Joliot-Curie to join -them "in demanding that the germ warfare charges be put to the acid test by investigation teams of the International Red Cross or any other recognized impartial body." Among the signers of the letter were Carl F. and Gerty Cori of Washington University, St, Louis; and Joseph Erlanger, professor emeritus at Washington University. Others were C.

J. Davisson, Philip S. Hench, H. j. Muller, William P.

Murphy, Harold C. Urey and George H. four American war prisoners to dropping germ bombs in Korea. The five Britons, who came to Moscow for the recent trade conference and went on to Peiping to discuss an expansion of British-Chinese trade, said they were convinced the Chinese allegations of germ warfare must be examined seriously. The British visitors said they 5 on Jan." 1, 1952, but there was nothing in the "confessions" to support this.

4 However, Enoch reported he had attended a briefing on that day and was told: "The germ bombs' are best dropped from a low altitude and a low air-sweep will be used." travel. 1 TOKYO, May 5 (UP) The Communist radio at Peiplns broadcast tonight what it said were the voices of two Americans who confessed they dropped germ bombs in North Korea. Peiping said the voices were from a tape recording made by First Lt. Kenneth L. Enocn, Youngstown, and First Lt.

John Quinn, whose home town MOTHER'S DAY was not given. also had been shown a bacteriological warfare exhibition in Peiping. Scientists Call on U.S. to Say It Will Join in Bar. WASHINGTON, May 5 (UP) It's Easy to Install STERLING SILVER More than 100 Patterns 5204 GRAVOIS HU.

3240 Two Floor 0f Beautiful Gifts ZONOLITE KEEP COOL YOURSELF The Federation of American Sci Here is Enoch's "report "On Jan. 1, 1952, the briefing officer of group operations (Enoch was with the Third Bomb Wing, a navigator on a B-26 light bomber) told us the order in the form of a casualt reminder, to pay close attention to dud bombs, thus giving us the term by which the lethal germ bombs would be known." "Flew B-26 Aircraft," "On the night of Jan. 6, 1952, I flew with Captain (Ennis), pilot, and Sgt. Casey, gunner. As usual, Phone Your Order CE.

7450 ATTENTION! If your exchange Webster, Kirlt-wood, Upton, Belleville, Atwater, Tulne-2, Tyler, W-wash, Express, Tri-City er Fairbanks ask Operator for Tall Free ENTERPRISE 9500 Earlier voice broadcasts from Peiping and Pyongyang men-' tioned the two fylers but monitors had no way of knowing the exact spelling of their names. They 'were identified variously as pilot Crane or Kennery, for Quinn, and Enook or Emack for Enocn, thf ntvigator. Peiping code, broadcasts gave the final spellings. "Enoch" said the Air Force In TILLMAN WOOD THUM INC. Original TILLMAN Qualify VENETIAN BLINDS 20NOUTE entists called today for an official statement that the United States is "willing and anxious" to conclude an international agreement forbidding biological warfare.

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to 10 P.M. The federation said such a statement is necessary "to combat the effects of recent Soviet charges of use of BW (biological EV. 1113 135 CLARA GR. 4115 WE HAVE NO BRANCHES OaaiB I a "highly secret" briefing, had we flew a B-26 type aircraft. We took off at 3 a.m.

and at 4 a.m. on Jan. 7. 1952, we dropped two Tuesday Store Hours: Downtown and Clayton, 9:30 A.M. to 5.30 P.M.

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He said officers referred to bombs filled with infected insects as Authenticity Questioned. An Allied spokesman in Tokyo said the United Nations could not accept the confessions as "authentic" because there was no proof that the Peiping radio had broadcast their real voices. The Peiping radio claimed both men said the Air Force officially opened its germ warfare campaign "Ijt ym w'eyejyrvwL j. 7 ff' lKs nvt, vri mui nrL a sun germ bombs at Hwang ju, North Korea, and returned to Kunsan at 5 a.m. "We reported to group intelligence.

We reported to the sergeant that we dropped two 'duds" at Hwangju. That was for secrecy." Enoch allegedly said four nights later his B-26 dropped four "duds" at Tunghwa, North Korea. "I (see) all the more clearly the lies and untruthful war propaganda of the Wall Street radio and press that picture Chinese as barbarian Enoch was quoted by Radio Peiping. An earlier broadcast said Enoch and Quinn were shot down Jan. 13 at Anju.

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