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Brings Messages Ceatlaaed Prase Pan Om. Oual told questioners that th last Ihinf remembered Her hi wounding a comrade aaying: "Wa are goinf to take you bark to the He wat vaiuely eontctoua of being then ol Chtneae aoldier finding him. He neat became conscious briefly In hospital when he thought he waa tit Japan bands. Only more than 1 month! after hi capture 'did Dugal realize that he wa piiaoner. Nat Many Kick.

iaivma iuvwi vatsEt to ohviouily well uld Vanner. -He doetn'i look a though be wa op-. era ted an but he aays the Communist did an X-ray. the last four month ha ha been out of hospital since he Is able to walk- around a bit Dugal spoke only French when he enlisted but learned English while In captivity and Vanner said he "speaks It -He is left-handed and be cause- the wound affected hi left side he 1 still learning to writ and do other things with hi right hand. "But he aat to eat hi dinner of (teak, potatoes and beans, with peaches and Ice cream for dessert, getting everything down the medical officer continued.

Allard stayed Bear Dagal threagh meat of the alamt lit hears the freed prisoner waa at Maaaaa. watchlag the task of praeeslslag hlaa aad eoaveralag with hlaa. "Whee I epeka I bias la Preach yea aaeald have see hia face last III said JUlarsL "Aad whea I laid hlaa I waa aa aid Vaa Do ha early Useed Par th helicopter trip Dagal wa etewad la a C.S. nay alacptag hag for warmth. Inaid tho tent where the processing took place Dugal asked permission to keep hi prisoner clothing.

Allard said: "I am trying to arrange it. If I succeed. I will look after (ending hi kit myself." Allard expressed til gratitude to Bogert, aaying it wa "a wonderful gesture" of Bogert to allow him to come: Allard assumed command of the brigade only Wedneaday and technically. Brig. Bogert should have accompanied Major-General M.

R. A. West, commander of the Common wealth Division, to witnes the. first exchange of prisoner. Allard quoted Dugal as Ing the, only French-language reading material In tb prison camp "was the Paris Commu-.

niat newspaper. L'Humanlte, and Communist propaganda literature. Loctarea aa CeaSsaealaa. Dugal aaid there were lrc ture on communism the only other distraction apart from organised sport In- which wa unable to participator tWrrench soldiers who were captured last Oct The Van Do Lance-Cor- poratold Allard that the pruu first heard of the poasi- itie of repatriation ru- Just a month ago. Subse quent Improvements In the food they were given seemed to confirm the report.

When Dugal handed Allard hi list of other Canadian In Communist hands, the Brigadier summoned a typist to copy Dugal' Information for speedy forwarding to Ottawa, (The only previous list showing a Canadian POW was the one the Red handed to the VS. in November, US1. It named Gnr. Orval Jenkins of Hamilton, a a POW.) Names of the non-Canadian" which Dugal carried were turned over to American and authorities respectively, Allard also took atepa to ensure that.Dugal's mother In Quebec City would be notified officially as soon ia possible Medical officers said Indications were that Dugal. would remain In the Commonwealth Hospital at Kure only long enough to 1 1 up' hi strength to travel home for an operation.

Dugal wa taken from Freedom Village by helicopter at 1 10 p.m. en route to the medical- evacuation hospital, where a fellow-Quebecer, Annette Labdc, of the Canadian Red was waiting to him. DOWN IS FOREST OR IN SEA? Thl la" the fwtn-en-' gfned Ven hi Aircraft missing since Saturday on light between Gander. and Uplands Airport In Ottawa. Soma, plane were scarchin; today along the route followed by the I1 r- (r i fv- fff NORMAN SMITH, associate editor of The Ottawa Journal, accompanied by hi wife, left Montreal Airport aboard a TCA North 29 Planes Caatlaaed Pro Pag Oa.

An RCAP parachute rescue team I Handing by at Harmon Field, Nfld. The plan wis on the last leg of 'ilight from Liberia, Africa, where It wa doing an wnere was doing an. result ol lignis in yxyuner, aur of IJberla- evening Non. of the Jt P.rUclpanU- w'ra reidenU of quar mile under eon- Jr wlth frvl- cording to the Government a the result of flghti In Aylmer aenai 000 tractto U-8. part of it technical aid pro gram for underdeveloped eoun- Uri le.

It was equipped with the latest emergency gear. Including a dinghy three modern transmitting and receiving set. Radio Calks. It 1 feared th aircraft may be badly damaged by its and It -transmitting aquipment ruined, a no radio message ha received by any of the aearchinn) aircraft. A large part of th flight lay over the Gulf of St.

Lawrence. and th plane may have crash and tne plan may nave eraan- unk ed -and mediately. rdllteiy. it wa last heard from ovr Buchans, Nnd, 11 mile from Gander Field, at. 10 1 Saturday.

It failed to check In by radio at Sept lie some 400; mile farther on .11 pith. next- A checkpoint on flight. Running In the search today were 10 RCAF Lancaster from Greenwood Air Station, and 11 USAF craft from Harmon Field, a well as six aircraft from Spartan Air Lines. One of th search planes, a two-seater P-1S, owned by Spartan Alr Services, crashed on landing from the first search sweep early Sunday, at Sept lies. Que.

The pilot, James Lago. and th navigator and Mr. Harrison. Mr. I uoraon.

oom 01 iniawa, escaped injury. Danish Luxury Ship Swept by hre Harwich, Apra lo- jn Danish luxury passenger ship Kronprin Fredertk rolled on it side today after being swept by fi; Flame still ibot from th forward upper deck and a fir official said JO l.J-lon ship, ven though half submerged, might go do burning for two or three day. At high tide only thrVe feet of th vessel was above water. Firemen had been, forced to earlier when the Mi at si run snip listen anarpiy. Colleagues Honor Allan O'Gorman Of Forestry Branch Allan O'Gorman, a valued member of the staff of ah Fed Following completion of a course in civil engineerlni at! Queen' University Mr.

O'Gor- man waa employed on railway 'construction and land surveying In Northern Ontario and West era Canada with tha CPR. He Joined the Forestry Branch In 1014 and spent a number of year In Western Canada on, forest land aurvy. In HIT he was transferred to Ottawa, which ha hi headquarter up th present tisna. Ha was WKIr'T 'w" "7T wnieik ma -wma an jtftm 1 an wa an expert on J- lfma 'Mit aitdltloa in hu othr r- du" WM responsible, tor Klnptoo. plane over he -Gulf of Stj Lawrence and the forest of stortlt-eastern Quebec.

Four men, three from the Qttawa-Hull area, were aboard. 'They wer on th. Ust leg of a flight from Liberia, Afrirr. CRASH KILLS THREE. CLEVELAND.

April 10 Three men lncludinc two Dres photograohen were killed yesterday when a light plane swooped down in a rural area and crashed Into- clump of BONUS FOB FARMERS. VIENNA. April 10. UP)H Communist Czechoslovakia of fered financial bonuses today to, farmer who Increase milk de- I I I 1 ll DL W. DOUGLAS fltER-CET.

who wa elected president of the Rotary Club of Ottawa today. He ba. been vice president ani takes the gavel from Dr. M. M.

MacOdrum on July Despite his heavy duties superintendent of the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Dr. Plercey ha been actlva In 'all movement for the well-being of the community. Helicopter Blade J- vis.iis.imi MUNSAN, Korea. Aprff 30.

(Reuters) Gen. CUrk. United Nations Commander In th Far East, narrowly escaped death today when a whirling helicopter blade missed hi head by about three Inches. Clark, six-foot-two, ducked quickly as a helicopter landing with the first batch of sick and wounded exchanged prisoner from Panmunjom tilted dangerously In a sudden gust of Wind. Aljon Weir Dies At 83 in Alexandria ALEXANDRIA.

April JO. '(Special) Alexandria and dis trict friend learned with regret on Saturday of H. wu 1M TT ana of a family of II cliildren MONDAY. APRIL 10. 195X il6 THE QTTAWA JOURNAL 100 Allied Prisoners Exchanged Dramatic Scenes At Freedom Village: Same Come Back Sailing, Weeping PANMUNJOM.

II MA Kttt ai. f- April hundred disabled Allied prisoner of war including LC'pl. Paul Dugal of Quebec City came back to freedom today In dramatic first exchange of Korean war captive. They came smtl-j Inf. some emotionless, aome weeping.

The trade for 500 glum Communist sick and wounded wa the first' clear break long-deadlocked truce talks. Beside Dugal, th blue-clai Allied prisoner Included 10 American. 11 Briton. SO South Korean, four Turk and one each from South Africa. Greece and the Philippine.

Another 100 return tomorrow 11 American. 11 British, three Turkr and SO South Korean, the Reds said today. In all. (OS Allied sick and wounded ara being traded for MOO Red. la Pair Health.

Those crossing today appeared to be in fair health and -well fed. Nona mentioned unusually harsh treatment In the North prison ramps, where soma had been ainea KM, the first year at the war. But one officer said treatment wa "un bellevably poor" before, the truce negotiation began, then picked up materially. Four came back en stretchers; other walked or hobbled oa crutches. It wa a folemn, dramatic seen a the aun burat through clouded skies In.

mld-moming. Sound of battle from a' nearby fight echoed over this indent Village Tried to WlaTaeat. Many aid the Red tried ta win them to communism, but there wa no outward indication of success. On prisoner said "they thoweri us photos" on germ warfare. Red charges which have bee vigorously denied by, the United Nation command and "Soma believed ''added gnnthcr.

Cpl. Kenyon Wagner of Detroit, a tuberculosi patient, said Allied soldiers were "exposed to Communist literature and study waa Aiked if any had turned Communist, Wagner replied: i "I could not aay." Wagner aaid he waa given "the whole works' In medical tiest-ment Including modern drugs. Bom prisoner (aid they had aeen Russians In North Korea. but Other, said they bad seenL none. "Wa saw plenty of sajd another.

-i Prom Psnmunjom, the prisoners were rushed by. helicopter and. ambulance to Munsan' "Freedom Village" for medical ear and Interviews. Then on, to hospital at Seoul. Some prisoners were expected to leave Tuesday for Japan on the next leg of trip pbaCB ta the United State.

Special Booklets Given EacM 30 Freed U.x Soldiers SEOUL Korea, April 20 (UP) Sach of the 10 Ameri can freed today in the prisoner of war exchange was given two booklets 'on his 'arrival at the I I pened Since They were part of a re-indoctrination Into the American way of life. "Welcome Back? tells the soldier what the army planned for them from th time they were exchanged at Panmunjom until th time they reach their homea in th United State. "What Ha Happened" gives them chronological list of world event since the start of th Korean War, and It has a special section for sports event. i ry frV V' Jr- I I 1 BMsasMaMiMMRMaassBaiMaSB, Star for a six week tour of Yugoslavia and Austria. He plan to write a scrie of article for The Journal.

iphata TCA I One in Hospital Five Others Arrested, After Aylmer Fight One man i la. hospital and five other ar under arrest n'r'Z'TZjr'TJin In Lochtel township. A0(1 IISI ISlflGI "'Vf'wa son of the Ul Janir. vi was a son oi me iaiv -a eir, who refused to re lee name, It th third Sunday In a row on which there hav been disturbances, and an aroused Mavor Therlen declared; Sunday drinking jn Aylmer bo tew waa directly responsible. He' was getting In touch with Gerard Desjardins.

provincial member Gatlncau, to tea what could ba don about putting an end to a situation that was getting out of hand. First- fight broke out in a hot! when the manacatnent meo uiey eon- ddered were causing a ouuuro- tncrlB tn4 eMuing fight table, and chair. flw through t.i.. men. r.

7 7, A. Hhe street, ana one msn wa -V', ub to OtUw Civic Hoplll communication mica, wawr ul'i cal Wtent which wer. InsUUed:" under hi direction At a gathering of tne sun of the Forestry Branch oa Wed' nesday evening. Dr. D.

A. Mac-dona Id. director of forestry, paid tribute to th valuable services rendered by Mr. O'Gorman over a long- period of years. Mr.

OXJorman was th recipient of wltable gift on thl occasion i presentation being msde by Mr. O'Gorman was presented with bouquet of rose, One Killed, 2 Hurt Near udnanoQue GANANOQUX. Ont, April 10. Cr One man wa killed and tw ethers wtr Injured In an automobll accident three miles least of her Sunday. Iva Hall, of Gananoque, died en rout to hospital.

Robert Mill and trvin Sheet, both of Ganspcque. wer taken to hos pital after their car careened off the highway, and turned on It aide. r-' Gananoqu UvM eaile vast of ,.) air, oui no vum poUc broke up the fight and The aeeond fight took place chirf RkM1It OP lO It otbef frld, uld be mad lod.y. All per- invol- wm aooear In Recorder' night Court Aylmer, to- TWO ELECTROCUTED. LEBANON, April 10.

truck carrying youths Saturday skidded on wet road, crashed; Into a uttllty pole and plunged down an embankment Th youth! crawled from the wreckv appar ently unhurt Two- of them scrambled up tha embankment. and wer electrocuted by A hot wtr their truck had knocked down. Canada to Take 165,000 Refugees GENEVA, April If). Canada expecuu to settle ap proximately 1 61.000 European! immigrant in 141. Including aome of tho 'nao-refugee" from Eastern Germany, C.

E. 8. Smith. Canadian director of un migration, told tho Inter-Gov- ernmenUl Committee for Euro- peon Migration today, This aa about tee same num ber at migrant settled -in Canada In 111. Smith aaid Smith spoke after Sir Douglas Berry Copland of Australia re-1 ported that Australia had been forced to reduce it rat of Im mil ration from 171,000 In 111 to S0.0OO in 1931 because of "financial are studying the question! of the neo-refugee from Eastern Smith told the committee.

"There are admin istration difficulties which now re being Worked out to the satisfaction of the German and Canadian Government. "Wa ara finding It difficult to ZZFSVl consider them a they are German eltiien, but If the German Government girds them a refugees are only too glad to accept Smith aaid that Canada had It own migration. ot I si inrougnoui siropc wouia rely on 1CEM only for thet tranpartation of approximately "10,000 people who otherwise would not be arriving in Can At the same time said the Canadian Government had decided to participate In tCEM for at least another year. Sir Dougla laid Jt was Aus tralia' policy "to absorb the maximum number of Immi but that the limiting factor waa the nigh rat of economic development required to support larfe-aeal immigra tion. STRIKE OP 10 ENDS.

ST.1GNACE. April SO CP) A ctrik of 200 emen ooeratin Daaaenaer service eras the nve-mlle-wide the deith of Mackinac between Michigan's: Allan upper ana lower pentruuia ena-i lmA Tk. wK h.ri to hi Ut wife. Catherine d-J Fraaee ia native of Traser's Pule over payment for emer- v. u.

Rapid, of Kenyon). He wa. and la tha last member of hls'eaUed for military nee to family. Britain if the Sue Canal Zona "Uncle as he was bet-l tar know, to all hia frlenda. was it educated in Lochiel and district! schools.

As a young man hej went to Superior, where for om years he was on th police fore is a con-stabl. I He returned to his native Glengarry soma 40 year ago. iptnt. whU, homestead, later purchased a llveriea. the Csech Communist on ta Rude Pravn said In 1.

j.j I tenllon nd described th exurt. newspaper Rude Pravo aaid In It latest dispatch on th country's milk shortage. JEWELRY STOLEN. TORONTO. April 20.

(BUP) Stockbroker J. T. Cannon re ported to police last night that thieves broke Into his suburban Le aside home while he was out .000 in jewelry and fur coats. I 1- DEMAND CURFEW. APPLEDALE.

BC. April JO. Slocan Valley resident. angered by new outbreak oil Doukhobor violence, hav demanded establishment of a cur few law for radical Sons of ON MANOEUVRES. NICOSIA, Cyprus, April 10.

(Reuters) British Land and Air Force based on Cyprus and Malta and in the Sue Canal zone will take part in the biggest manoeuvre ever held on thl Mediterranean Island be ginning April 2, ll wu announced today. 7,1 nc Un1 ncr of tU IS year go. ibaee which may spread to all He ha since resided at the Arab home'bf Mr. R. M.

MacLeod on In opening the Arab-Palestin Bishop street north, where he Armutid Commission' Confer-died on Saturday. enre here Saturday night. Thirty' years ago he wa a Naguib warned th delegate member pf the Alexandria: from Syria; Lebanon, Jordan and police force a a constable for, Egypt to bo on guard. Seger and acted for many year: a special constable, In polities he wa a Coo servativc. He never married.

Surviving ar 11 niece and! nephew. stricken by two heart attack. wa a member of thelwa forced today to take leav League of the Sacred Hurt the; of his natlon-wld comeback Union of St Joseph, a charter- lour to go to New York by am. ed member of CMBA. No.

101 bub nc for medical treatment of St Finnan' Cathedral and Th "King of Swing's-, devout Catholic brother-in-law; "Ian impresario The body ia at McMillan Henry Hammond, iald Steinberg Funeral Home, MalnlGoodmen condition wa "th street Alexndrla. Funeral Hsmmond reported that mass will be sung on Tuesday "everything wa under at St. Finnan's Cathedral at, 10; a.m. Burial will made th family plot in. Alex ander cemetery, Lorhrel.

A THREE OP A KIND TWICE OYER It pot what you think, but it's a record for Grace Hospital Just the same. Tw set of triplets horn an less than a month Its th nursery staff seeing double and then some. Here, nurse Evelyn Foy (left) end Elizabeth Mills tab the nil call on (left to right). Salvstor. Rosa and Aaatmta Arena: Cordon.

-Richard and Kenneth RadcluT. The Arena babies wer bora en April 11, the children pf Mr. sod Mrs. Ps-enil Arena, 4M Arlington vnui the Rad-cl'ft bny are th tons of Mr. nd Mr.

Stanley Radcllff. 40J Huron avenue. iiml rtott xsm Wined, Dined By Captors J- MOSCOW. April JO. Six British civilian nd' an Irish, priest told today how their north Korean captor wined and dined them for II day b-' for -handing them, gvrjo th -iBusslana, The seven internee, caught early In the Korean war.

arrived in Moscow today on tha trana- Siberian British Em bassy official met them at th elation and whisked them to the Embassy building for a rest before their scheduled return to Britain tomorrow. A pokesmn for the group told a press conference they had pent almost their entire internment In a North Korean farm- house. said they were told of their Impending release March 10 and driven to ryongyang, tna North Korean capital, in truck. There, he laid they were feted with dinners, wines end caviar. Thl "festive atmosphere" went on until April when tha North Koreans agreed to their reiesie Moscow's request, he aaid.

A special RAF transport plana ta due to By In her tomorrow to return th group to England. Fourtecn Fre ch -civilian also Interned by the North ream ar due her early next week. Th Britons who reached hero today Included Captain Vyvyan Holt. Britain minister the South Korean Government in 1050; Bishop Cecil Conner, Anglican bishop of Korea: Vice Consul George Blake; Norman Philip Owen. legation clerk; Herbert Arthur Lord.

Salvation Army commissioner; Philip Drane. correspondent "of tho London Observer, and Father Thorns Qulnlan, a nativ at -v Republic of Ireland. Naguib Warns Arabs 'To Be on Guards 1 I I 1 CAIRO, April Tha riaht-hand man Pr right nd man of Pr (Reuters) Pro mJer Mohamed Naguib learned Sunday. In speech to student st Alexandria Saturday, LL Col, Gamal Badel Nasser aaid Egypt stilt Insists on unconditional British evacuation of th 8ue Eon and had no Interest in negotiation: Israel. Meanwhile, in Cairo, Naguib I a Benny oOOdmOft rOrCCd To Give Up His Tour BOSTON.

April 10 UP1 Bandleader Benny Goodman, future of Goodman' li'tour was in doufa ouh(. tpletr Rodger Kendall Eplett, 'a, commercial traveller who lived in Ottawa for IS year, died In Civic Hospital on Saturday after a lengthy illness, -He was gl year old. Born on January 1, 1S71 at Aylmer, Que, Mr. Eplett was son of th late Mr. aad Mr.

Rodger Eplett. He waa educated at Aylmer and the Ottawa Collegia Institute. On December 1J. I SM he wa fmarried at Metcalfe, Ont, to Susan Morris who survive. Also surviving are five oaughters, Mis Mary Eplett Mrs.

J. Call, ghan. Mrs. George Moye. Mrs.

Harry Shlpmsm. all of Ottawa, Mr. William Stewart, Toronto, nine grandchildren and two. The arrvire will be held in the Veitrh-Draper Memorial Chapel at three p. m.

Tuesday with Archdeacon C. G. Hepburn offl interment will be in Pinecrest cemctary. iwrenc'sTfreed. TOKYO.

April 107 Th North Korean Pyongyang radio said yesterday 14 French citi- -sen. Interned i the start of th Korean war. have been released to a Soviet representative st Antung. Manchuria. The radio aaid the release of th French nationals Ifad been mad possible nhrough the good office of the Soviet LEAVES FOB THAILAND SINGAPORE.

Apra JO-oT) Adlal Stevenson left by air today for Bangkok. Thailand, after a three-week tour of Malaya..

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