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Nine Airmen Leap to Safety as Bavis-Monthan B-47, Tanker Collide to U. S. WEATHER BUREAU Tucson and vicinity: Occasional clouds, high 100-105. Temperatures Yesterdav: HIGH LOW 67 Year Ago: HIGH An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the News Impartially VOL. 112 NO.

253 Enlcrtd Meend-eiiM matter. Pan Offica. Tucaon. Arizona. TUCSON, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1953 SECTION A THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS earn Polish Trace Agent Make Tension Mounts In Truce Camps Over Prisoners MUNSAN, Thursday, Sept.

10. (TP) A welter of protests from both the United Nations command and the Communists added tension and growing ill feeling today to the administration of the Korean armistice. The gravest complaint was an Allied demand Wednes Bolt Reds' Gunfire Kills Five on English Craft Shooting Takes Place Near Crown Colony Of Hong Kong HONG KONG, Thursday, Sept. 10. (TP) The British Royal Navy said today a Red China war vessel fired on a Hong Kong defense corps motor launch and there were To Both Aircraft Damaged, but Make Landing Bailed-Out Fliers Will Be Picked up Today Near Ghost Town Nine airmen parachuted to safety shortly after noon yesterday over the barren Arizona desert northwest ofAjo after two huge air force planes operating out of Davis-Monthan air base collided while refueling in flight The planes, a B-47 and a KC-97 refueling plane, were reported "extensively damaged." They limped successfully to Arizona bases.

A search squadron of 35 planes reported sighting the 'chutists at dusk last night in a remote area near Sundad, a ghost town. "All nine men are up and walking around," said Capt. Donald W. Reis, Luke AFB public information officer. "They appear to be in good shape." Returns to Base The B-47 with four aboard landed at Davis-Monthan.

It was commanded by Col. Herbert Bernhardt, of" the 3.r.0th. Bomb Fquadron, living at 2601 North Oracle road. The extent of damage to the plane was not released by base officials. Also In the plane were Capt.

Charles F. Stump, 2056 North Castro avenue; Maj. Richard Bos-worth and Capt. Ludovic S. Fil-gas, living on the base.

Airmen were ordered to bail out of the four-engined KC-97 by its instructor-pilot, Capt. F. F. Jenkenson, when two of the ship's anctuar i Granting Asylum Is American Tradition so, they said, because the Iron Curtain representatives in Korea presumably are hand-picked, hard-core Communists who would not be likely to embarrass the Hed cause. The incident was also of inestimable propaganda value to the United Nations as viewed by U.

S. officials here. Commenting on today's Incident, officials noted that a growing list of Iron Curtain officials have sought political asylum in the United States. A number of top officials of Soviet bloc embassies here have been given refuge. Diplomatic officials said the day for "prompt action from the Reds in explaining why 3,404 Allied prisoners including 944 Americans, were not returned in Operation Big Switch which ended Sunday.

"We now demand that 3rou return these people to us or account to us for each of these individuals," said Maj. Gen. Black6hear M. Bdyan, Allied senior member of the military armistice commission. "Here is the list.

We expect prompt action." Answer Delayed Korean Lt. Gen. Lee Sang Cho reserved the right to answer later. There were other irritations, at or near the surface: 1. The Communists seized on an incident involving the striking of a Swedish officer in the neutral nations inspection team by an angry U.

S. enlisted man at Taegu. The chief of the Swedish group on the supervisory commission, Maj. Gen. Sven Grafstrom, said he considered the incident closed, but the U.

S. Eighth army announced the enlisted man would be tried by a special court. The Reds called it a "shocking and infuriating incident" and lodged a protest. Identities of the men and details of the incident were not revealed. (Peiping radio, heard in San Francisco, said the American was Pfc.

Millard Armstrong but gave Wash. Prison Inmates Stage Violent Melee Korean States Terms For Link With Japan WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. (JP) South Korean Foreign Minister Yung Tai Pyun said tonight one of the terms for better relations between Korea and Japan would be a more "clearcut" Japanese attitude on Communism. Pyun, in a transcribed interview on the ABC radio program "Crossfire," was asked AT MlCCintf 944 Yanks to Be Given Out Friday WASHINGTON, Sept.

9 (JP) The names of 944 Americans believed at one time to have been Korean war prisoners, but who have not been accounted for, will be made public beginning Friday. The defense department, making the announcement today, said the Communists have been asked to account for 610 army personnel, 312 airforce, 19 marines and three navy men. Their names will be made public 24 hours after the nearest relatives of each man have been notified that the individual is missing. The lifct was based on information from various sources including "reports such as -those from repatriated personnel. Communist radio broadcasts, news accounts and personal letters." i no hometown.

And the Swedish officer was Capt. Rune Larsson. Purporting to quote from the (Continued On Page 11-A, Col. 1) U.N. List Faked, Say Red Chinese SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

9. (JP) Red China's Peiping radio today labeled as a "faked list" the names of more than 3,000 unrepatriated Francisco, quoted a dispatch from Kaesong, North Korea, that.de- i--lartH "thio falrprl lief i aimed at diverting the attention' nf wnrlH nnhlin rmininn frnm (ho Peiping radio said U. S. Secretary of State Dulles told a news conference in Denver Sept. 7 that "I'm not awrare of any evidence they (the Communists) are with- holding any American prisoners." Tne broadcast added that "this shows that the American list is a sheer fabrication." Although the Allied list of 3,404 prisoners included soldiers from other UN countries in addition to 944 Americans, the Red broadcast referred to the names as "a list of 3,100 American POWs allegedly 'not returned by the Koreaii- Chinese side.

Allied soldiers for which the UN WALLA WALLA, Sept. command has demanded an ac-9. () Hundreds of Washington counting. state prison inmates smashed I The broadcast, heard in San furniture and broke windows In fnniKt in that followed a half-million-dollar Uie earner me aiiernOOn. Deputy Warden Al Remboldt fact that a large number of Kor-said the rioting started in the ean-Chinese POWs who desire re-mainline dining room when the patriation are still being forcibly first group of prisoners were fed detained by the Americans." Weird Break Takes Place In So.

Korea Anti-Communist Voices Fear of Returning to Red-Ruled Homeland By ROBERT R. Tl'CKMAX SEOUL, Thursday, Sept. 10. (P) A Polish member of a neutral team policing the Korean truce bolted to U. S.

sanctuary yesterday even, as a plane warmed up to take him back to Red North Korea. "It's my last chance," he blurted to a startled U. S. officer attached to the neutral nations inspection team. The Pole, Jan Hajdukiewicz, was given political asylum by Col.

Harold T. Babb, commander of the air base at Kangnung on the east coast, where the Pole made his break. He was the fourth Pole to make a dramatic escape from his Communist homeland in recent months. Hajdukiewicz, vowing he was an anti-Communist of long standing, was taken to a secret destination. It was reported he was somewhere in the Seoul area.

How He Did It As told by Babb and an army release, this was the sequence of events: Hajdukiewicz, a civilian interpreter with the Polish delegation on the neutral inspeefcifrHeam, had been stationed at Kangnung since Aug. 24. Kangnung is one cf five South Korean ports of entry through which troop and equipment replacements are allowed to enter under the armistice terms. Early Wednesday morning, the Polish group went out to the airfield to catch a plane for North Korea. The plane warmed up its engines.

It was 5:30 a.m. At that instant, Hajdukiewicz broke away from his countrymen snd approached Maj. Edward Moran, U. S. liaison officer for the inspection team.

"It's my last chance," Moran quoted him as saying. Afraid to Return The Pole' declared he was afraid to go back to Communist soil because of his "long-standing opposition to Communism." Hajdukiewicz told Allied correspondents in the press billet at Seoul that there is no freedom of speech in Poland. "We cannot say anything we cannot discuss anything," he declared. Asked if an underground organization was operating against the Reds in Poland, he replied: "Of course." Fears for Kin Hajdukiewicz said he was "most afraid" for the safety of his mother and sister in Toland as a result of his action. At Panmunjom, the Polish delegate to the neutral nations supervisory commission asserted that Hajdukiewicz had been "kidnaped" by the American army and said a strong protest would be lodged.

It all happened so quickly that there was no disturbance. It appeared that other Communist members of the team did not even know what happened. Babb Kaid that it was "pretty obvious" the other Polish and Czech members of the team "wouldn't be happy" when they found out about it. Hajdukiewicz asked for asylum and was taken away from the field at once. While a civilian, he wore an olive drab Tolish uniform.

The army announcement said that he was placed in custody "for his own protection" In line "with traditional United States policy of protecting and assisting political refugees." Never a Red Hajdukiewicz told officers he never was a Communist party member and that he was an employe of the import-export agency of the Polish government when selected for the Korean assignment. At Kangnung. where he pondered a break for freedom, Hajdukiewicz served with a team of Polish, Czech, Swedish and Swiss representatives which checked? to see that military reinforcements were not brought into Korea in violation of the armistice. Only replacements are pern Uted. The Hajdukiewicz said "the Polish government is based on fear." He predicted re- (Continued On Page 11-A, CoL 1) some casualties.

The British admiralty in London said six men were killed. The incident occurred yesterday at the mouth of the Pearl River estuary but had been mostly covered up by a news blackout in this British crown colony. The admiralty also reported that five men were wounded. It was learned here that the de-stroj'er Concord picked up the survivors. Despite official secrecy, lt was learned that five sailors wounded in the attack were in the royal naval hospital on Hong Kong's famous Peak.

A special naval guard was posted to keep reporters away, but it was learned the sailors were suffering not only from bullet wounds but also from shrapnel. Launches such as the one attacked normally carry up to 14 or 15 men, including two or three officers and as many as four non-commissioned officers. With six killed and five wounded the others may have been una8-counted for. The navy refused to say whether the Concord brought them back. Still Afloat The launch itself identified by the admiralty in London as the 72-foot motor launch 1323 was believed to be still in the estuary.

A navy source said it would soon be brought back to Hong Kong. Relations are tense between this British crown colony and neighboring Red China. The news blackout apparently was aimed at avoiding an increase in this tension. "Naval and military hospitals refused to answer questions. In an unguarded moment, a naval officer told reporters the Ciiniinunists had fired on a de pn'sp 'fnrce launch Tnesdav after- "noon This gave rise to a report that there had been two snoot- ings, but later information indicated there was only one.

Out at Sea The destroyer Concord, which picked up survivors, was not at her berth in the naval anchorage. The destroyer St. Bride's Bay was also missing. The navy said both ships were "on maneuvers." Defense corps launches patrol fall the Hong Kong waters where the demarcation line between the crown colony and China is often in dispute. Seldom a month goes by without reports of one or more Chinese firings on a British launch.

The Pearl river estuary is across the bay from Victoria, the main island settlement of Hong Kong. After Rhodes had finished. Nicholas Dragon, Arizona's CIO representative, praised him for "having his feet on the ground." The youthful Republican from the first congressional district had these suggestions for possible revisions in the Taft-Hartley act: 1. Better enforcement, possibly by concurrent jurisdiction to hear complaints in state and federal courts, and by the National Labor Relations Board. 2.

Definition by Congress of the field to be covered by national legislation, instead of leaving the question of jurisdiction by the broad definition of interstate commerce. 3. Union permission to oust Communists. 4. Strengthening the provision of the present law which gives employers the right of free speech in talking to workers about union organization.

Representative Rhodes Is a member of the house labor committee. he opened the cover on the freezer. He found the boys inside, covered with blood. attempted artificial respiration but couldn't revive them. Dr.

Cressey said the blood came from lung hemorrhages. The Sheppards live about a mile from the mission. The boys were pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. The 6-year-old was supposed to start school yesterday but had to stay home because hi3 mother had difficulty finding tis feirtb certificate, what the terms would be for Korea extending friendship to Japan. "Japan's position on Communism is not so clearcut, in our view." he replied, adding that Japan "has not yet outlawed Communism." He said there were many questions hanging between the two countries.

But, he said, if Japan wants "to fight CominiMsfi we do, we can get along'-' Suggestions Asked An interviewer noted that the United States also has not outlawed Communism, and asked Pyun if he would suggest this country is not fighting Communism hard enough. Pyun replied that it was a question of "practicalities," adding: "You have outlawed it, because you have passed such laws as have forced them to go underground." Pyun criticized theory of spending aid funds in such a way as "to ignore the industrial rehabilitation of Korea, enabling the purchase of everything ready-made from Japan. "I think that is not sound." he said, adding that if Korea cannot have the means to produce goods "I don't see how we can have the means to buy things from Japan." The result, he said, would be that "we will have to depend upon American dollar aid perpetually." India Scored Pyun repeated charges that India's role has been one of appeasement of Communism, and was asked what actions of India he considered appeasement. He replied that India's "appeasement is closely tied up with its neutral position." Asked his views about punishment of "war criminals" in North Korea, Pyun said "we believe that it is only just that we punish some of the Communist insurgents." But the punishment should be confined to top level North Korea Communists, he said, and "must be limited to a very small number." engines were knocked out and a wing damaged by the crash. The plane and crew have a home base in Smoky Hills AFB, Salina, Kan.

Safe Landing Jenkenson nursed the plane to a safe landing at Luke air force base and immediately took the controls of a Luke C-47 transport to lead an air search for the crewmen who were stranded in one the most desolate sections of Arizona between Ajo, Gila Bend and Yuma. Other planes and a. helicopter also took off while air force ground rescue parties, highway patrolmen and sheriff's deputies fanned out across the rugged terrain. The men were sighted shortly before darkness set in and food and water were dropped to them. Davis-Monthan officials said rescue would be continued at daybreak.

tgttfjf, Airnittfldntmcd The nine were identified as: Capt. W. H. Skaggs, pilot; Lt. J.

Mead, navigator, Tech. Sgt. P. Presnidio. Tech.

Sgt. R. B. Pennington, Staff Sgt. J.

B. Cook, and Airmen F. A. Adams, D. C.

Cameron, J. E. Kozel and G. Carroll. The collision was the third of Its nature in Southern Arizona, but it was unique in that it failed to claim a single human life 21 Davis-Monthan airmen were killed in the two preceding airborne disasters.

Thirteen died on Nov. 17, 1930, when a B-50 bomber and a B-29 tanker smashed together in the air and plunged into the desert near Sells. First Fatal Mishap This skyway crackup, which occurred during a practise refueling run, was chalked up as the first fatal accident in the history of air refueling. On July 18, 1953, eight D-M crewmen were carried to their deaths when two B-50 bombers collided 27,000 feet over the Central Arizona desert. Though neither were tanker-type planes, one craft was on an Instrument training flight at the time and was flying blind when lt ran into its sister-ship.

The blacked-out plane was able to return safely to Davis-Monthan. News Index Lubetkin goes on' trial in fraud case, IB. Cleveland editors fined for contempt, 2 A. Patrolman testifies In Morgan driving case, 12A. When quints were babies, 4A.

'Palettes and Players, 4B. One marine killed, one injured fleeing Cochise deputies, IB. Arizona regents will ask for $5,500,000, S-A. Comics 7B Pub. Rec.

5B Crossword 7B Radio-TV SB Editorial Topics 6A Ent'rment 4B Sports 2-3B Financial 6B Weather 11A Obituaries 5B Women 10-llA Recurring Tragedy United States gives asylum to refugees and others on a showing that the individual is honestly at odds with Communism or fears for his life if he returns to Communist rule. Each "is screened carefully to guard against possible Red spies, officials said, and protests by the countries from which they flee are handled on their individual merits. The asylum is given at first on a temporary basis, renewable at stated intervals provided the individual maintains good behavior. He may be given the opportunity at a later date to apply for U. S.

citizenship. fs YUNG TAI ri LX populace. They have been forced to do what the Communists wanted them to do." Saying that most North Koreans are "dead against Communism," Pyun added: "I don't tee the nfed of a long period of re-education." LOLA'S 'ADMIRER PAYS COMPLIMENT NEW YORK. Sept. 9.

(JP) Actress Lola Montez told police today her penthouse apartment was ansacked of worth of valuables by a burglar who left behind this note: "Lola Please forgive me for recking (sic) your apartment in the manner which I did. I did not know this was vour plase. I the huge debt run up by the ousted regime of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. "We are trying to do our best to establish a balance and hope in the next few months to be able to reduce the deficit," he said. Meanwhile, it was announced that Mossadegh is being held and secretly questioned by government investigators at the Sal-tanatabad arsenal in the desert four miles north of Tehran.

A government spokesman said that when the investigation, "which should be kept secret." has been completed the public "will be informed of the charges." Then, the spokesman said, Mossadegh will receive a public trial unless a military court decides otherwise, I 7 Hvc-mnoMdSSMdt WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (JP) Diplomatic officials said today political asylum granted a Polish member of the neutral nations truce inspection team in Korea, while unusual in its circumstances, is in line with traditional I. S. policy. The 28-year-old Polish official is Jan Hajdukiewicz, a civilian interpreter with a neutral nations inspection team.

The state department said It has received no official report on the incident, but diplomatic officials informally viewed it as a blow to Communist prestige in Korea and elsewhere in the Far Kast. This is especially Ike Promises Bonn Will Get Additional Aid Chancellor Adenauer Is Assured of Continued Backing by America BONN, Germany, Sept. 9. (P) President Eisenhower today pledged continued support to Chancellor Kon-rad Adenauer's policy for strengthening west Europe, unifying Germany and liberating the 18 million East Germans under Communist rule. In a congratulatory message on Adenauer's sweeping election victory, the President assured the chancellor of the U.

S. government's future co-operation "for the strengthening of a free Europe and the Atlantic community and for the ending of the present artificial division of Germany and the totalitarian (Soviet zone) regime imposed on 18 million of your countrymen." Dulles' Message Secretary of State Dulles, who voiced open support of Adenauer before the election Sunday, said in another message that the outcome would please all who saw the European problem constructively. "We can now work together with renewed energy with our British and French friends," Dulles said, "and perhaps it is no empty hope that the Soviet Union also will accept such an overwhelming decision and will do their part to allow the reunification of Germany." This backing came as Adenauer mapped plans for a diplomatic drive to get the groggy European army project on its feet again. His aim is to have the European Defense Community (EDC) pact ratified by all the six member (Continued On Page 11-A, Col. 5) Dulles Assures New Zealanders, Aussies of Aid WASHINGTON, Sept.

9 (JP) Secretary of State Dulles publicly renewed assurances to Australia and New Zealand today that the United States would go to their aid in the event any aggressor attacked them. Dulles reiterated this pledge as he opened a conference of the three nations on possible new steps to meet the Communist threat in the Pacific area. At the same time, diplomatic officials said, the foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand agreed to oppose either diplomatic recognition of Red China or seating the Chinese Communists in the United Nations until there is a Korean peace settlement. The United States has steadfastly opposed either step, but the position of Australia and New Zealand on the issue has been somewhat vague, despite the fact they are members of the British commonwealth. Britain already recognizes Red China and has supported moves to seat the Chinese Communists in the UN.

Informants said Australia and New Zealand would oppose admitting Red China at the UN assembly session opening in New York next week, unless the Communists agree to a satisfactory peace settlement of the Korean war at a meeting tentatively set to begin Oct. J.5 in Switzerland, Taft-Hartley Revision 1st Big Task--Rhodes after the fire which destroyed the prison metals plant. Inmates broke dishes and smashed chairs before the officers managed to quiet them down. They immediately were removed to their cells where the disorder continued. i Destruction Aplenty Windows were smashed on both sides of wing six, the largest cell block and one that houses he toughest men, officials said.

Lavatories were pulled from the walls and smashed on the floor. Beds were smashed and mat- tresses ripped. In wing two, where the inmate kitchen help is kept, similar disturbances were heard and inside officers signaled for help from the tower and wall men. One inmate was hospitalized for cuts about the face and hands, apparently received when he smashed a window with his fist. The disturbance reached Its peak about 8 p.m.

but officers said anything could happen during the night and probably would. Violent Response The officers doused the inmates with tear gas after the inmates refused to end their disorder. The response was a volley of curses and abuse. "We have the men all locked up and the most they can do is wreck the interior of the cell block," Remboldt said. Within minutes after the disturbance started, the prison was an armed camp.

Eighty guards, aided, by 30 state patrolmen, city police and deputy sheriffs pa-troled the walls with guns and gas weapons. Remboldt was unable to explain the outbreak. He said no demands had been made and the inmates had not asked to confer with officers. "Either the men are seeking publicity or they are duplicating the efforts of other prisons," Remboldt said. was sitting on the front porch of a new rural home the Shep-pards had built near this little north Idaho community.

The freezer wasn't connected. The tragedy brought to 13 the number of similar deaths recently across the country. Within a few days last mouth five children died at Marion, four at Richmond. Va and two at Haverhill, Mass. All suffocated in unused iceboxes.

Rev. John J. Brown, S. of the Desmet Catholic mission. PHOENIX, Sept.

9 (JP) Rep. John J. Rhodes, said today the principal task of Congress in the approaching session will be revision of the Taft-Hartley labor law. In a talk before the Hiram club, Rhodes said the new labor legislation probably will be known as the Smith-McConnell act because of labor's aversion to the present name. Rhodes took exception to Sen.

Barry M. Goldwater's recent statement that the White House would "deliver the working man lock, stock and barrel to the labor bosses." But he criticized the same recommendation that drew Gold-water's ire one that would give federal law supremacy over all state lawS. "The people of Arizona have voted three times for the right to work law," said Rhodes. "If they change their vote, I might reconsider my position. But, until they do, I cannot vote to nullify it." "As regards the masses," he am an admirer of yours.

Your stated, "well, they are just a very beautiful. Wants Cash on Barrelhead Iran Official Declares U.S. Dole Too Small 2 More Children Suffocate in Food Freezer TEHRAN, Iran, Sept. 9. (-TV-Iran's Finance Minister Ali AminI complained tonight that the 45-million dollar emergency aid granted his country by President Eisenhower is "by no means enough." In a communique he said Iran would need more shortly, after receiving a tide-over check for from American officials.

The 45 million, Amini declared, is "by no means enough to compensate for the unlimited destruction of Iran's economic and financial means." Amini also told reporters: "I assume we will receive all the 45 million dollars in cash." The communique said Iran would use the American grant to meet budget deficits but it will not be applied toward liquidating DESMET, Idaho, Sept. 9 (JP) Two small children climbed into a small food freezer on the front porch of their new home near here last night and were suffocated. The victims were Peter L. Sheppard, six, and his brother Robert Sheppard, four, sons of Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Sheppard. They were rushed to near by Tekoa. after the father found them but Dr. Vern Cres-sey pronounced them dead on I arrival. mill worker, and said he gave this account: Their mother saw them last about 3 p.m.

yesterday afternoon. At 6, Sheppard came home from work and was concerned that the boys didn't meet him on the road as usual. He asked his wife. She thought the two were up at the horse trough. But Sheppard noticed a toy boys had been playing with and started to look for them.

He checked the new house, still under construction about tet "As a last resort. jailed wtfe Sjfeepgard, a.