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CC. NO. 4 CCCC SAN FRANCISCO. MONDAY, JANUARY 4. 1954 52 PAGES DMI.Y 0c SUNDAY 20a THY a MANAGER 0 IE 1 ED No Blames Reds STATION KEARFORTAXG TJ 9 Loll rina apse KILLS HIMSELRS1 .50 HELP NOW! 11 i 1 tw i Mm frt mi liie -1 1 Ut FU 5 Reed Expects President to Put essions George Atkinson Found Shot Dead Near Tomales Bay Proposals in Message George C.

Atkinson, 42, general manager of radio To Free All Prisoners By ROSE McKEE WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. (INS) The top tax spokesman in Congress said today station KEAR, was found dead by his own hand on lonely road near Tomales MUNSAN, Jan. 4 (Mon Bay yesterday. Atkinson, who suffered a nerv he is "very sure" President Eisenhower supports revisions in the tax system that would mean cuts of about ous breakdown four months ago.

had been on sick leave from the San Mateo music station since day) (AP) United Nations Command today flatly declared that all anti-Communist prisoners will become civilians at midnight, January 22, and free to go where they choose. early in December. He had been missing from his apartment at 1911 Turk Street since last Tuesday. $1,500,000,000 a year. Chairman Daniel A.

Reed, Republican of New York, of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he expects the President to incorporate the revisions proposed by Treasury and Congressional staff experts, in his special tax message to Congress. Shot in Chest Atkinson died of a self-in flicted shot gun wound in the chest, according to Marin Coun ty Deputy Coroner Harold Keaton. Sheriff's deputies estimated A formal letter to Lt. Gen. K.

S. Thimayya, Indian chair, man of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, placed the blame for the breakdown of prisoner explanations squarely on the Reds. And the letter, from Gen. John E. Hull.

U. N. commander, rejected a NNRC majority re-port charging the U. N. C.

had tried to control anti-Red prisoners by "agents provocateur." Qualifies Stand he had been dead for at least In Agreement Reed; whose committee initi five days, when he was discov ates tax bills, told an inter THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS ered lying beside his British-made Triumph Mayflower sedan Mm mm on an abandoned road near In verness, in the Tomales Bay i State Park. There was evidence, deputies viewer: "I am very sure he (the President) is in agreement with proposals worked out by Congressional and Treasury experts." The experts figure the revi sions, in deductions for such said, that Atkinson had first attempted to kill himself by running a tube from the exhaust pipe of the car into the interior. Polio Knockout Drive Will Open Here Today kw 'if. ii "wt.Mt.i.iKn.iim.. i -f a i'V'S I i UO II ENDS Ml SPELL FOR NORTH STITF When this method apparently failed, Keaton surmised, Atkin items as child care, dependents, health and dividends would save taxpayers about $1,500,000,000 annually.

Reed said he did not son turned' a 12 gauge shotgun on himself. General Thimayya's first reaction appeared to be an agreement with General Hull on the release of prisoners. "It has always been the Indian position," he told newsmen, "thai the two sides must agree to any detention of the prisoners after January 22. If the two sides do not agree, we will, of course, have to devise some means of releasing them." However, ninety minutes later after an NNRC meeting Gen. The 1954 March of Dimes cam this magnificent opportunity, however, unless we raise the paign opens today shooting for know whether President Eisenhower would use this figure but he feels the President is in! HUII 1 Willi hm $75,000,000 and a knockout necessary monej Home-Made Wire Hook Lying beside the body were the gun and a home-made wire Last year, the San Francisco agreement with the principles punch this year against polio.

proposed. hook which apparently had been Although no quota has been TOi lTII lfi Cpl. Claude Batchelor embraces the Japa-neie wife he ayi wooed him back from Communism. She burst into tears as (he rushed into his arms in a Tokyo hospital. International News Photo.

The Congressional tax leader used to pull the trigger. fixed as San Francisco's share Atkinson's wife, Muriel, had of this staggering sum, cam Thimayya qualified that by say- ing, "We will have to decide how Chapter of the March of Dimes shouldered the heaviest burden in its history. 2IS Patients Aided Medical and hospital care, including braces, wheel chairs and other appliances, was pro paign officials expressed hope the city would contribute about this problem is to be solved. If reported her husband missing on December 29, and a report had gone out from the San Francisco Police Department to there is a wide difference we $500,000 to the cause. said the proposed changes will get prompt attention from his committee this month.

A leading Democrat on Reed's committee, Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, said he favors at least three of the proposals. Health Allowance ill have to discuss what to do." Ex-POW, Wife United; Plan Plea to Gl Reds authorities in the Bay to They explained that money is of the essence in eliminating watch for him. vided for 248 children and young His wife told police he had been highly nervous and de this crippling scourge from the face of America by providing greater quantities of gamma There is almost certain to be "a wide difference." The Communists are expected to take the strongest possible stand against freeing the prisoners until a political conference decides their fate. Red Objections pressed and that she expected he might try adults stricken with the disease.

This care cost the San Francisco Chapter $217,083 while an additional $166,309 was sent by Xo Ilrro. Officers A mild, first storm of winter swept northern California early yesterday, bringing farmers some relief from a prolonged dry spelL Occasional rain is predicted again today north of Salinas and Stockton and over the whole northern California area tomorrow. The rain tonight and early tomorrow is expected to be heavy at times in the extreme north and in the lower levels of both the Sierra and Siskiyou, Forecaster E. H. Quinn said.

In the higher mountain reaches there will be considerable snow. Winds in the Sierra will reach gale proportions late today. It will also approach gale velocity at times north of Point Reyes where southeast storm warnings were posted for southerly wind: up to forty-five miles an hour. In the Bay area, however, the forecast predicted moderate toj TOKYO, Jan. 4 (Monday).

(AP) Cpl. Claude Batchelor hurried yesterday into the eager Dingell said, for instance, that he long has approved liberalizing health allowances for income tax purposes. The experts Works Long Hours Steve Cisler, owner of KEAR, the chapter to the National Foundation for Infantile Paral are understood to propose per said Atkinson was hired as gen The NNRC today again dis- eral manager of the station in mitting tax reductions for medical expenses when they amount ysis to help pay for research education and epidemic aid. November, 1932, and had worked ten and twelve hours a day at Consequently, San Francisco (Continued on Page 25, Col. 4) cussed Red objections to the Indian head count last week which, ironically, turned up 135 prisoners who wanted to return to Communist control.

No further details of the meeting globulin and financing a new anti-polio vaccine. Huge Sum Spent "While $75,000,000 is a lot of money," explained N. Loyall McLaren, campaign chair-man, "it seems little when we realize that since 1938 the March of Dimes has spent over $174,000,000 on patient care alone." "It seems even less," McLaren continued, "if we consider that in one stroke we can render polio harmless for all time. We cannot realize the job of turning the all-musi spent a total of $383,393 last year in the fight against polio arms of his Japanese bride whose letters wooed him away from a pro-Red prison camp in Korea and urged her to write to the twenty-one Americans still there. "I think you can help me get some of my friends to come back," the Kermit, Texas soldier told Kyoko Araki after their first fervent reunion at a Say flalclielor TOKYO, Jan.

4 (INS) Top military authorities today termed "unfortunate" publicity they said might make a "hero" of Cpl. Claude Batchelor, the soldier who admitted he was one of the "number-one boys" of twenty-one other Americans who chose volupntary exile with the Communists in Korea. cal station into a paying propo while this vear, it hopes to sition. Last September, Cisler said, were divulged. Policeman Dies After Gun Battle EXAMINER BUREAU, SAC Atkinson began to run a fever General Hull's letter bitterly while at work, and was ordered rejected the NNRC majority re raise 50 per cent more for the gamma globulin and vaccine programs.

A pre-campaign opening was (Continued on Page 23, Col. 4J to take two weeks off for rest RAMENTO. Jan. 3 A North heavy rain with southerly winds between twenty and thirty-five and medical examination. He returned to work after Sacramento policeman died to Tokyo Army hospital where he port in which the Indians sided with the Communist Czechs and Poles in blaming the U.N.C.

for collapse of the prisoners ex miles an hour late today. Small three weeks, but appeared to be day of a bullet wound received in a gun battle with a thief he craft warnings were posted no better and late in Novem Bonelli Switches cornered in a warehouse last night. Patrolman Jack Rae, 47. is being given a checkup. "Write letters to my buddies just like those you wrote to me.

You can tell them how happy I am in the reunion with my wife. Some of them ber Cisler said he was forced to grant him an indefinite sick To Democrats father of four children, died at leave. planations. An Indian spokesman said the Reds have not yet replied to the report. Hull said the January 22 date is fixed "and does not depend south to Monterey.

Yesterday's storm, the first real rain and snowfall to pelt the State since December 7, cheered farm experts. They joined in the satisfaction of skiers and utility repairmen in that the storm brought ade Sacramento Hospital. Rae was shot in the head after! Atkinson was born in New York City, was graduated from LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3. Chairman William G.

Bonelli of he fired two shots from his re have wives. Maybe 'our ters will make them want to come back." Name Withheld the State Board of Equalization volver and one from a shotgun on the holding of any political One highly placed officer said he did not think a soldier who admitted he was a leader of the "progressives" or pro-Communist elements in prison camp in North Korea could be considered any sort of hero. The officer, whose opinion was fully supported by others questioned by International News Service, pointed out that Batchelor could have asked for repatriation during the exchange of prisoners last His killer escaped after firing today announced he has quit the El Greco Bought By U.S. Collector NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (AP) An El Greco depicting St.

Andrew has been bought by financier Stephen C. Clark and w'ill be exhibited in this country for the first time next week. Knoedler Galleries of New York disclosed today that the celebrated painting, which has hung for many years in the Alte Pinakothek Museum in Munich, will be among paintings four shots at a patrol car driven conterence. Hull blamed the breakdown of the explanations squarely on the quate moisture to most areas with little damage. by Percy Gassaway, assistant Brown University, and began his radio career as announcer for a number of up-State New York stations.

Ten years ago he was hired as an announcer by KQXR, New York City's famed music station, and later became its sales manager. Discovers Body Communists. He accused the chief of police. Republican Party and changed his designation to Democratic. The Spring primaries will be the first regular elections at Only in the extreme north, around Crescent City, were phone lines reported out of He told her the name of one American in particular but Kyoko, when she emerged with tear-stained face from the four-hour reunion, said he had cautioned her not to make it public.

Kyoko explained that her Soviets to Open which party labels will appear (Continued on Page 10, Col. S) on the ballots. Los Angeles 1 1,000 New Stores He was hired away from was nirea away LONDON. Jan. 3.

(AP) The in Clark's collection to be dis played starting January 10. The Queen Pays Visit To Geyser Area ROTORUA (New Zealand), Korea yesterday. As he came Reds of: A "Unreasonable and chang. ing demands for facilities. "Refusal to accept reason-able numbers of willing prisoners for explanations during the day- "Refusal of the Korean peoples army and Chinese peoples volunteers to utilize available explaining time unless the neutral nations repatriation commission and WQXR by Cisler on the strength of his ability to sell radio space on that sort of station.

The body was discovered by through the rear entrance of County is overwhelmingly Democratic by registration. Bo-nelli's statement did not say whether or not he will seek reelection to the equalization board in the Spring. He has been a registered Republican since 1916. painting, 26 by 44 inches, shows St. Andrew holding the cross Kremlin's drive to boost Soviet living standards will soon be running a year ahead of schedule, the official Soviet Tass news agency said today.

A Tass dis- rtoVi KpiarT5st hv Moscow the hospital, Kyoko appeared at tears were tears of joy and that her lanky husband had renounced Communism during their meeting. She told an Associated Press newsman: "I said to him, '1 hope you don't like the Communists. "And he said back to me, Jan. 3. (AP) Britain's Queen a side door.

She uttered an in Joseph Scagliola, of 919 Sir Fran on which he was crucified for converting the wife of a Roman pro-consul in Greece. Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin cis Drake Boulevard, Kentfield, articulate cry as she saw him striding down the long corridor burgh paid an unannounced who was hunting for mushroomsi diQ said new stores wil visit this morning to Whakare- in the area (Continued on Page 2, Col 3) be opened across the Soviet Union in 1954. It added: 'The level of goods turn Marin County deputies reported that a woman who identified herself as Atkinson's wife warewa, safety valve of New Zealand's thermal region. Both showed intense interest in the two huge geysers 'You know I don't. I have studied Communism three years and I don't like it'." Bandit 'Waiting for Bus' Robs Bar of $700, Locks Up 4 over which was envisaged for 1953 will be reached this year." TODAY'S IMDEX The reunion brought Batchel Pohutu and "Prince of Wales (Continued on Page Col.

3) or and his wife together for the Feathers" which were not playing when they began their first time since he was captured customers upstairs and into the by the Communists in Novem visit but obliged toward the storeroom. A holdup man, who said he was just waiting for a bus, escaped with more than $700 Preview of Business In Examiner Tomorrow ber, 1950, three months after he end. married Kyoko and went to wat He removed $700 from a safe there, locked his victims in the with the First Cavalry Division. yesterday after locking an Oak storeroom, and fled. land tavern owner and three Touching Reunion Later in the day another armed robber bound an airline ticket aeent in Oakland and Kyoko was escorted to the customers in a storeroom.

Usine the bus and the 8 a. m. escaped with $350 in cash. Wayne Beardsley, 39, of 4001 Loueila Tarsons Page 29, Sec. I Mirror of Mind Tage 33, Sec.

II Newton Tage 30, Sec. I rrudence Tenny Page 36, Sec. II Radio Tage 30, Sec. I Ships Tape 52, Sec. II Sports 42-46, Sec.

II Television rage 30, Sec. I Vital Statistics 31, See. I Want Ads Tages 47-31. Sec II Wilson Tage SO, Sec. I Weather Tage 47, Sec.

II Women's Department rages 36-40, Sec. II Advertising News rage 41, Sec. II Bridge rage 30, Sec. I Herb Caen 33, Sec. II Comics Tage 27, Sec.

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II Financial 41, Sec. II Good Neighbor Tage 40, Sec. II Health Today Tage 34, Sec. II Horoscope 35, Sec, II Army hospital by 1-red Saito, Japanese member of the Asso ciated Press bureau in Tokyo. It was to Saito that she first rain as an excuse for ducking in and out of the bar at 338 East Eighteenth Street, the bandit Greenwood Street, told police Business Preview" to be published tomorrow in The Examiner.

Almost every phase of business, banking and industry will be covered in this complete section, which will be read and saved by imaginative loaders who are aware of the opportunities as well as the pitfalls in the year ahead. Don't miss the "1951 Annual Business Preview" in The Examiner tomorrow. Dutch Ship Back After Collision ROTTERDAM (Netherlands). Jan. 3.

(AP) The Dutch motorship Westerdam, 12,149 tons, which sailed yesterday for New York, returned today after a collision with an unidentified ship in a fog off Dover last night. She has three small holes in her bow. The Westerdam's ninety passengers remained aboard while the damage is being repaired. Many high level decisions affecting the Nation's economy and business and industry in the Bay area will be made during 1951. What decisions will be made and what will be their effect is on the minds of San Francisco business and industrial leaders.

Th Examiner's financial editor, Charles St. Teter, has spent many weeks in reseirch to prepare the "1954 Annual wont for help when she wanted was able to make sure that pvervthinEr was right for the he was on the telephone at the Sky Ticket Office, 1700 Franklin Street, when the bandit entered, brandishing a .38 caliber revolver. The bandit bound Beardsley. her Japanese letters to her husband translated into English and forwarded to the pro-Red camp near Panmunjom. Batchelor told Kyoko her letters "brought me home to you." He had been flown back from holdup.

Finally assured that all was well, the bandit locked the front door from the inside, produced a revolver, and ordered the proprietor, Ed Parslow, 50, of 861 Seventv-first Avenue, and three locked him in an upstairs room, and made off with the cash from the downstairs till. ID! laDp ami Sana JFFamcaseoSita'eg pen TBiiagIi rrm 1U.