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LVn, Of the Daily Ite Price five Cent on 2few Statu Delivered hv Carrier SSo Week WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1 5, 1 953 TWENTY.TWO PAGES fTfii J9 Challenges Rrassofflffiffia nnnn Fresh Red Troops Open New Attack After Lull i "--( Germany Power Meeting; Observe Truce. Driveon Korean East-Central Front Follows Biggest Communist Offensive In More Than Two Years. supply trucks headed toward the li-r FUGTTIV'E PRISONERS SEE THE BIRDIE Three prisoners of the seven who escaped Monday from Concord reformatory, pose reluctantly for picture following their capture last night in Revere. Two of thg seven who beat two guards unconscious to get away, were captured within an hour. The arrest of the three last night left two still at large.

Left to right are: Metropolitan Police Officer James A. Lightizer holding Robert Reynolds, Detective Sgt William P. Crowe holding John Kaminski with help of Officer Sherwood Cosgrove, and Joseph Barboza, held by Officer Omer A. Michaud. (AP Photo.) Negotiators' nShowdown On Uniting Call for Four Warn Asians to WASHINGTON IB United States Pritain- and Jsnri rosfd an im mediate challenge to Russia today .1 to join in a four-power foreign ministers meeting aimed at re uniting East and West Germany.

SesaJon In-Fall The call for a session next autumn on Germany, and on com' pleting Austrian independence treaty, was agreed upon by Amer- ican, British and French foreign ministers in a five-day conference which ended with issuance of communique last night. Notes from all three Western governments were prepared for disoatch to Moscow within 24 hours. The foreign ministers also issued a warning to the Reds in Asia that, il they break an armistice with a new attack on South Korea, the United States, Britain and France will again go to Jvar. The proposal on Germany repre sents initiative by the West to put squarely up to the Kremlin in the face of its internal Beria purga and in the light of anti-Communist unrest in Fast Germany a challenge to do something definite about, one of the world's worst sources of tension. East Europe Secretary of State Dulles, Acting British Foreign Secretary Lord sans Dury ana rencn oreign Georges Bidault also called for restoration of "true liberty" to the Soviet satellite peoples of East ermEurope and announced that ii those countries achieve-freedom the door to unity with the community now being created in Western Eu rope is -open to them.

On Far Eastern problems, the three ministers announced that economic, embargoes against Communist China would be continued indefinitely "after an armistice and that the policy of barring Red China from the United Nations would continue pending further consultation. Britain and France joined with the United States in to work for. peaceful unification of Korea. i The- Jhree warned Red China against using prospective peace in Korea for new aggressions elsewhere in AsiaT Indochina. They said also ihey had considered measures for winning the wax against communism in Indochina If Russia accepts the bid for a oreien ministers meeting on Ger many.and if this" meeting results in steps toward German unity, U.

S. officials said.it could lead tL a Bie Four conference at th Eisenhower-Malenkov level. Pending the proposed, autumn session, however, there reportedly is clan for a conference with the Kremlin at the top level. Informants reported that the for eign ministers had removed jmanyj of theproblems which, would have come. up.

at the postponed session MinisterlChurchill and French Pre mier Laniel at Bermuda. The understanding therefore was that though this meeting could still be held, there is no longer an urgent need and no plans were worked out fo-br4nging it about; Salisbury left Washington las night to sail for home from New York today. Bidault' is expected to fly home Abandon Search For Afr liner Crash Victims HONOLULU IR The Hawaiian Sea Frontier has called off the air- sea search for victims of the Trans- ocean Air Lines passenger plane crash Saturday 330 miles' east of Wake Island in which J8 persons perished. Fourteen mutilated bodies were recovered from shark-infested wat- p. m.

yesterday. The Navy said the Standard Oil tanker Lombardi sighted twb more bodies but was unable to recover them.1'-', The Navy transport Barrett, radioed that the plane crash apparently was caused by an explosion. The Barrett added thatlhere no possibility of finding survivors alive." Cambridge to Enforce Its 9.30 Curfew Law CA MRR Hy. V. Mas.

JPU-TfpSrtv or not, children under 16 better be off the streets by 9:30 mi be ginning tomorrow night or theyll get tagged as lawbreakers. Chief Patrick J. Ready announced his men have been ordered to enforce an old curfew law because of recent after-dark juvenile shenanigan it J. Of as of in ert East German Revolt Cost 587 Lives -j BERLIN WV-A Hamburg news paper said today that the June 17 East German revolt claimed 587 lives, including 141 executed by Soviet firing squads. The paper, pie- Welt, said 1,370 other persons were wounded during the uprising.

These far exceeding any previous estimates, have been con firmed by Gen. Wilhelm Zaisser, East German minister for state security, in an official report to Soviet authorities, Die Welt said. Thus far the East German gov ernment has said publicly thatonly 25 persons were killed and 278 wounded in the revolt West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told his Parliament 26 had been executed. Die Welt said Zaisser' made his report July 10. A West Berlin newspaper said yesterday a Zaisser has been away from his office, since July 9 and.

that ,485 of his secret police had been arrested. since the downfall of Russia's ex-police boss, Lavrenty P. Ii is widely speculated here that Zaisser may be in disgrace in.Mos-cow as a Beria follower McCarthy Says FBI Reports Truman Did ist WASHINGTON Sen. McCar thy (R-Wis) said today the FBI has assured him that former President Truman, did not withhold any information he received from Can ada about an atomic spy plot. In view of this, McCarthy said.

there would be no occasion for the Senate investigations subcom mittee he heads to call Truman for questioning. A little more than two -weeks ago, while Truman was on his first trip East since leaving the White House, McCarthy said there had been "constant that Ithe ex-President had not turned over to the FBI a list of some 150 Sov iet spy suspects received from Canadian authorities. McCarthy fired off a letter to Atty. Gen. Brown ell asking wheth er the Justice Department and the FBI ever got such a list from Truman.

He called this a first step toward deciding whether to ask the investigations subcommittee to call Truman as a witness. In New York at the time, Tru man told newsmen he had no com ment because "what I could tell you, you wouldn print- In answer to reporters' questions today, McCarthy said, "I've got ten assurances from the FBI that Truman djd not withhold any information which he got from Canadian source," including Mac kenzie King, in- regard to espion age." He declined comment when asked specifically if Truman had turned, over a list of names to the FBI. Marclano Signs To Fight LaStarza Sept. 24, New York 'NEW YORK Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano today signed to defend his title against Roland la Starza New York at the Polo Grounds, New York, on Sent. 24.

It will be Marciano's sec ond defense of the title he won from Jersey Joe Walcott last Sep tember. Contracts for the 15-r ound championship bout were signed at the offices of the New York State Athletic Commission. James D. Norris, president of the International Boxing Club which promote the bout, said the possibility of home and theater television would be explored. Marciano wUl receive per cent of the gate receipts and La Starza per cent.

The contract has a six-month return clause. Stevenson is in Paris Near End of World Tour PARIS (JV Adlai Stevenson an rived in Paris today and quipped that he would have come here sooner but was afraid French President Auriol would ask him to orm a government. Stevenson," who lost his bid to form a U. S. government in the 1952 presidential election, was re ferring to France's recent 37-day Cabinet crisis.

Winding up his world tour, Ste venson win stay in ranee until July 22. He leaves England July 28 for the United States. I Not Hold Sot .0 One of Berids Top Men Fired From His Job LONDON (3V- The chief of security forces in Lavtenty P. Beria's home Republic, Georgia, has been fired from his job. Moscow; radio announced the dismissal today.

It may be the start Qta systematic purge of Beria lieutenants, in key Soviet posts. The man fired in Georgia, D. G. Dekanozov, had taken his job only three months ago. The post is that of minister of state security.

Mos cow announced in April, when he was appointed, that his predeces sor as minister, of state security had been arrested. Dekanozov was a former deputy foreign" minister of the Soviet Union; and once was ambassador to Germany. He was made a mem ber of the Communist party's Cen tral Committee in 1941. Beria himself is awaiting trial as 'a traitor. He Was one of the bit three' of the Soviet govern ment until recently, Orders Drink-Drug Inquiry at Concord CONCORD, Mass.

CD An investi gation was ordered at Concord Re formatory today after one -of three recaptured escapees charged that liquor and drugs could be obtained by prisoners. Guar? Defended The investigation was ordered by Reformatory Superintendent Ed ward S. Grennan, but he defended his guards asr free of any com plicity. Thecapture of -three escaped prisoners in East Boston yesterday brought to, five the number of es-capfersf recaptured leaving two still at large. Inmate John R.

Kaminski, 29, of Boston charged after his arrest that the seven escapees had been drinking liquor and taking "goof balls" before the "spur-of-the-moment" break but of the reforma tory Monday night. "You can buy them at the prison anytime you have the money, Kaminski told police. He said he had obtained his liquor and slang 'term for a "comparatively mild "drug from a guard. "Goof Balls" 25 Cents fle said "goof balls" went for 25 cents apiece and liquor at $10 a fifth. Asked to comment about Kamin ski's charge regarding the guard, Grennan said: "If there is jubad one (guard), -is an extremely isolated case Most of the guards are faithful and dependable men." captured with Kaminski were Robert C.

Reynolds, 25. of Lynn, and Joseph Barboza, 21, of New Taken Monday night, shortly after the' biggest break in reformatory history were Francis. Bar ry, 31, of Boston, and Henry A. Eon. 28, of Salem.

Still at large today are Edward Bishop, 17, of Lawrence, and Alden McLeod, 28, of Boston. DisL Arty. George E. Thompson Middlesex County said he would enter into an investigation of the reformatory "if there lsany indication of outside influence, such the sale of liquor and ''goo! balls' to inmates." Ilerter Asks Report At the same time, Gov. Herter has asked for a written report on the mass break from state Correc tion Commissioner L.

Lurie. Inmates Kaminski, Reynolds and Barboza were recaptured at a busy MTA.bus stop in East Boston after three Metropolitan District Com mission policemen trailed them from Revere Beach. The trio had been spotted leav ing, a beach barroom and boarding the' bus. The three patrolmen en tered the bus with drawn guns when it stopped at the Orient Heights station and took off their quarry; The trio offered no resistance. Five of the escapees had reached Boston Monday jght after they stole anauto and took a gasoline station attendant as hostage.

The attendant, Lester Devlin, 35, -Boxboro, was beaten and stripped of-his clothing-- before Jie was thrown out of the stolen car Boston's South End. The prisoners also beat up Rob Piper, 26, of Acton, in the Concord gas statipn where they stole $150 and the car. Doctors said Piper is in danger of losing tbo sight of his right eye, Where Seven Escaped SEOUL, Thursday Vh Fresh vjunese communist troops sup ported by Janks and thunderous artillery opened a new drive "at dusk Wednesday south of Kumsong on the Korean "East-Central Front, ending brief lull in the biggest Red offensive in more than two years. Aimed at Road Net Frontline officers said 3,000 Reds hurled a savage two-prong regi mental assault and another 3,000 were believed ready to be thrown into the renewed aimed, at an Allied road net. Fighting was described by officers as heavy where the hit the line.

'-There was no immediate report of lighting along the rest of the 20 mile front between Kumhwa "and the Pukharf River which 80,000 Reds rolled back an undisclosed distance Monday, and Tuesday. A Chinese junior officer captured Wednesday revealed the initial Red assault had been long planned. Allied officers did not reveal the Bcaptured prisoner's of the size of the latest thrust. However Allied jOfficers thought the renewed action would grow during the; night. With part of one new division already fighting, Allied soldiers braced for more fresh Red troops.

1 Heavy Shelling. Initial, frontline "reports a i there was heavy Communist shelling along the front, Allied guns answered with heavy volleys, sending shells screaming into Red positions in: a steady roar. Twenty to 30 Communist tanks were believed in the immediate vicinity of; the new' fight below Kumsong. Chinese armored vehi cles have been observed in the 'areS'IorJsomastime, Allied officers disclosed- Oddlv. no Red tanks were-emplpyed in the first phasel of the big battle which opened Monday near midnight.

Other tanks have been moving into the East-Central see tpr from the Western Front, Many have been knocked out by Allied guns and planes, officers -said A combination of stubborn South Korean "Tsfstance, driving rain and a blistering curtain of Allied artillery fire had stalled the mas sive Red drive by 11 a. m. Tues day along the front. Red Buildups As sturdy ROK troops braced themselves against attack" in the approaching darkness. Allied lifcht planes-reported sighting numerous company and battalion-size1- build ups.

Some of "the sightings were made in the Kumsong River area, where the ROKs withdrew Tuesday to the south bank under orders from Gen. MaxweU D. Taylor, Earlier today, the Eighth Army commander flew to the front for the second- straight day and said the line had been stalled. 1 Several small attacks by Red companies (about 150 -men eac were reported late Wednesday 'aft ernoon east of Kumhwa in the em battled sector, but there was no major Communist activity before dark, Eighth Army- said. In the air, American "Sabre jets shot down twp MIGs, with Maj.

James Jabara bagging his 15th Russian-built jet to boost himself to within one of the au-time record of 16. sharpshooter, America's first jet ace, baggedjus 15th during; a late afternoon sweep deep in North Korea. Heavier than usual military cen sorship in Seoul and Tokyo covered news reports describing the depth of the Red penetration. N. censors operated under in structions to Taue-pencU news re ports of information considered of value to the Reds.

Heavy rain lashed troops, soft ened roads and sent flash floods down mountain ravines. By afternoon, however, the rains ended. The size of the gains were re stricted information, by order of the 8th Army. But while solid. they did not seem in themselves any real peril to the Allied posi- Red infiltration units 1 were re- tion, front line reports said, ported as much as four miles be hind the Allied main line.

Bomb and rocket-laden planes, their engines warmed up, marked time for a break in the clouds to roar northward toward the swarm ing Chinese. Force Alerted On the front. Allied forces were fully alerted for further Red as saults. Units were sorted out and redeployed over the bloodied sec tor east of Kumhwa to -the Pukhan River. Muddy, roads were clogged front.

Some exhausted soldiers sprawiea oui asieep on tne grouncu Others sat by the side of -the road, opening blisters and washing swollen feet in muddy water. Artillery fire fell off. American advisers with the ROKs, said the Chinese- were moving up their artillery and mortars in support of new positions. ROK soldiers continued search ing rfof infiltrators left over from the big Red push. Two Chinese infiltrating units were shot up just before" noon- Gen Taylor- was accompanied to the front by ROK Chief of Staff Gen.

Sun Yup Paik, Defense Minister Sohn Won and Brig.j Geh. George C. Rogers, chief of the Korean Military Advisory Group. i Rhee Praises Troops The South Korean" troops who oore tne oruni oi tne nea attacK. received a personal message from President Syngman Rhee.

He told his troops to stand firm and die if necessary to stop the Chinese invaders He praised them the' fight they 'have made and exhorted them to even greater efforts. During the day, rumors of a news blackout on me, Kumsong battle spread through part of the 8th ArmyvIt apparently was based on an Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast that used the word and the fact that the 8th Army briefing officer did not cover the Kumsong fighting in his regular morning press always a neavy Daiue, 1 1 censorship banned detailed ing of enemy penetrations and- Strength and other information. But correspondents agreed that they were, able to write and file within the normal restraints of military censorship. -A ffaberWanfs'AIIThe Evidence' on Foreign- Aid Before Deciding WASHINGTON (President Ei senhower gave a team "of top officials an-open chance today to try persuading key congressmen to" slash oreien aid but Ihey had much success Chairman Taber (R-NY) of the ilouse Ap propriations iCommittee failed i to. show it.

Taber," leaving- a White House breakfast session Eisenhower held formembers of his" committee. would say only that he Wants "all the evidence in front of me" be- should be. voted for foreign aid. Tne nour ana as minutes oreax- fast table get-together was only the day's first -in the White House effort. For luncheon the President invited 23 members of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

'or both- meetings "Eisenhower called in Mutual Security Director Stassen, Budget Director Dodge, Gen. Gruenther, new commander of, North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion forces," and Maj; Gen. Persons. White House I Taber was fasked w-hether Eisen hower had urged the group not to cut the $3,100,000,000 foreign aid program congress has already authorized. The Appropriations Committee is now holding hearings n-: wiieuier mat iuuv.ii jiiuiicj atiuoxijr I 1 .1 1 Tl should be made available.

Taber, who has been places to cut; replied the President "didn't make that kind of a meaning there had been no specific request that the authoriza tion item be left intact. 1 "There are a lot" of technical things that have to be worked" out first." Taber added. -Asked whether he looked for his House Appropriations Committee to go along with the authorization bin, Taber replied: "I have no predictions.to make. I- like td aU the evidence in front of me before I make a Flames Level Mess Hall Where Fire Chiefs Met BRUNSWICK, Maine Fire ast night destroyed the enlisted men mess hall at Brunswick Naval Air Station where a few hours earlier 100 Maine fire chiefs had watched a fire-fighting demon stration by the base department. Capt- G.

O. Price, base command- er, estimated the loss at 5500,000. Firfmpn of th air station Plath -Ti ii anu xiixuisw its roniroueu ine nar ing outbreak in an hour. The blaze menaced a neighborinz -barrack and recreation Several" fire fighters were overcome by smoka. i ion Truce Talks truce is near.

The lawmakers said the President and his military advisers regard the big Communist attack as an attempt to straighten out a bulge in the battle line rather than an effort to block a truce. The Communist radio at the North Korean Capital of Pyongyang said last night that 90 per cent of the 27,000 anti-Communist North Korean war prisoners freed from Allied camps last month now are at Pohang, north of Pusan on the east coast. The Red radio attributed its inform arion to a special correspon dent at Panmunjom The broadcast said that since the prisoners how are concentrated in one place, the Allied claim that they have melted into the civilian population ana cannot be recap tured does not hold water. The-Reds have insisted on the recovery of these prisoners since the first big group fled from U. IsTdckades on orders of President Rhee June 18.

Allied spokesmen declined to comment on the Red broadcast. "Xo Progress" Communist Correspondent Alan vvinnington, who frequently reflects official Red views, said negotiators apparently "made no progress" at Wednesday's session. Winnington has stressed for days that the Communists are far from satisfied with Allied assurances that Rhee will abide by the terms of a truce. "There doesn't seem to be any change today, he commented. Robertson told newsmen at Mc Chord Field that there are no agreements' in any way would interfere with an immediate implementation of truce." The assistant secretary-of-state stressed that S.

aims and those of South Korea are the same unification of the -war-battered peninsula, and that he tried to impress that upon Rhee U.S.TakesXautious Look at Proposals To Defend Islands WASHINGTON IB The United States is taking a cautious' look at fresh proposals to help the Chinese Nationalists hold some little islands fringing the South China Coast. The islands have been ex cluded from the American protec tion afforded "Formosa since the outbreak of war in Korea. v. The Defense in re ply to questions, said today such suggestions had been received at the Pentagon, and authorized the statement: "Since Formosa is an important bastion in the free world's resist ance to Communist aggression, the U.S." government is constantly re viewing the strategic situation in the area posed by Communist forces- on the mainland and on certain of the offshore islands." The Pentagon declined to dis close the source of the proposals regarding the islands, from which Nationalist guerillas have been staging hit and run raids on Red shipping and against other islands held by the Communists. Presumably the 'proposals will be discussed with Maj.

Gen. William head of the U.S. military mission on Formosa, who arrived in Washington late yes terday, May xMake PANMUNJ03I tfV-An authorita tive source said tonight a show down is coming between Allied and Communist truce negotiators tomorrow in a secret session which will "make or break the talks." Breakdown Possible "There is a very distinct pos sibility of another breakdown in the talks," the source said. He added -that the veil of secrecy will bet lifted from the negotiations if there is a breakdown-. There were strong indications the showdown would come over Red demands for the recapture of noiv Communist Korean prisoners freed last month and.

ironclad guaran tees from the U. N. that South Ko rea would honor a truce. The source said tomorrow's ne gotiating session Vwill be the showdown. The meeting will make or break the The source, who could not be gave his estimate of the truce situation after the Chinese Communist radio claimed the U.

N. Command negotiators "walked out" of Wednesday's truce meeting. Reds Charge Walkout But Peiping radio made it eleai there would be another meeting at the customary hour of 11" a. tomorrow. The Peiping radio said: "The other side unilaterally declared a recess and walked out of the meetings." N.

Command spokesman said "No comment. We never comment on Communist propa ganda broadcasts." I The negotiators rnet for 21 min utes" Wednesday and the Allied delegation announced afterward that another session would be held at 11 a- m. tomorrow. Allied officers here, were openly pessimistic over chances of an early armistice, but elsewhere there was continued optimism that negotiators would agree soon. Iran's Parliament Virtually Collapsed As 27 Deputies Quit TEHRAN, Iran, Iran's Par liament was closed down in virtual collapse today following the resig nation pi 27 deputies supporting Premier Mohammed Their walkout left the aged Pre mier to govern Without any legis lative-interference.

With "the resignations, the Maj lis, Iran's last remaining legislative tiouse, was unable to muster a rquorum'(69) of its 79 members. Mossadegh dissolved the Senate last October. The Premier has announced he will hold a referendum on his pol Icies and will resign if the pub lic's vote does not back him up, He has not issued any, plans for holding the referendum, however. I he parliamentary crisis came after months of wrangling over un precedented powers granted Mos sadegh last summer 'permitting him to govern by decree. Parliament has been paralyzed since February when the opposi tion, led by Ayatullah Seyed Abol-ghassem 'Kashani, fiery Moslem religious leader, began boycotting session after session.

Only, nine of the last 40 scheduled meetings have been held because of the lack of a quorum. On July 1, Kashani was replaced as speaker by Dr. Abdullah Moazemi, a Mossadegh partisan. in to i a up a of or Break' Tougher Position Allied officers in direct contact with the negotiations said the Reds have taken a tougher position and are insisting that the U. N.

Com mand provide concrete guarantees that South Korea will observe an armistice. A South Korean Defense Minis try 'Official said some of the released prisoners are in the Pohang area. Bu he denied emphatically that 90 per cent of the 27,000 are there. i- A source close to the South Ko rean national police said most ot the escaped prisoners enlisted in the ROK army are camped around Pohang, He said "more than one- third" of the escaped prisoners volunteered to join the Army. South Korean Defense Minister Sohn Won has ruled that none of the volunteers can be accepted- and has ordered the discharge of escaped prisoners already enlisted.

These same officers, who refused to be quoted by name, said the big Communist attack on The East- Central Front indicates the Reds do not plan to sign a truce soon. On the other hand President Eisenhower's special truce emissary said as heJanded in the United Mates last night that the agree ment he reached with President Syngman Rhee "should assure the signing of an armistice if the Communists are sincere in their-desire for peace." "We could sign a truce tomorrow good I aim with the commu nists," said Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson on his ar rival at McChord Field. Wash. Robertson is on his way to Wash ington, D. to report personally Eisenhower; on his more than two weeks of conferences, aimed at winning Rhee over to a Ike Called Optimistic Eisenhower "himself -was-pictured by U.

S. congressional leaders, in Washington as believing a Korean Thousands of Hungry East Berliners Buy AfRelief Market' BERLIN (JV Thousands of hun gry East Berliners scorned Soviet promises today and came to West Berlin's "relief market" for food they cannot buy in bare-shelved Communist stores behind the Iron Curtain. It was the second day of a prac tical food relief program which has brought howls of rage from Com munist propagandists. The food distributed was not much in relation to the 18 million people living on short rations in Soviet East Germany, but. it was severe blow to Communist pride.

Right on the sector in full view of both East and West, "capitalistic" West Berlin was dol ing out food to the people Moscow claimed it could feed without West ern' interference- when turned down a 15 million dollar American food The way East Berliners snapped the Western food at less than fifth the normal price proved the emptiness of Moscow's claims and of East Berlin's grocery stores. More than quarts of milk and 11 tons of potatoes were dis tributed before noon today. Yes terday's output was 1,820 quarts milk, 2,200 pounds of cherries and 11,200 oranges..