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THE TROY RECORD Dally Sunday Strict 1953--No. 142 totUy. To- poislbta TROY, N. MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1953. Entered Secotd CUss Matter Kt at Troy, N.

Under tho Act of March 3, Two Divisions Buckle, U.N. Line Rolled Back By Big Red Attack Cambodia Ruler Exiles Himself Saigon, Indo-China (AP)--King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia unexpectedly fled into self-imposed exile Thailand Saturday night a declared he would remain there until his Indo-Chinese kingdom's demands for complete independence from France are met. Upon reaching Bangkok yesterday morning he announced that though he wishes to continue Cambodia's friendship with France, negotiations, for independence had proceeded too slowly. He expressed confidence a complete agreement soon would be reached, permitting him to return to his capital of Phnom Penh. (In' Paris, the Ministry 7 of Associated States described the King's flight as "unexpected and unjustified." It that France and Cambodia had worked out a series of accords as a result of the express wishes of Norodom during his visit to Paris last March.

These accords were awaiting the King's scrutiny, the ministry said.) The kingdom of Cambodia, with a population of about million and an area of 67,600 miles, is the smallest of three associated states in Indo-China. The other two are Laos and Viet Nam. All three, tied to the French Union by treaties concluded in 1949, a been (Continued on Page Seventeen) CAMBODIA Colombia General Assumes Bogota, Colombia (AP)--About to be fired, Colombia's army chief Lt. Gen. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla made himself President Saturday night in a lightning bloodless coup.

He named a 13-man cabinet to rule under military control until "clean elections" can be held. The coup, in which not a shot was fired and which went off like clockwork, caused hardly a ripple in the ustial weekend calm that prevails in this capital high in the Andes. No extra troops or police were seen in the streets yesterday and at noon the radio was playing its usual Sabbath religious concert. Ousted President Laureano Gomez was placed under arrest in his home. Unofficial reports that could not be immediately be confirmed said he may be given a passport to leave the country.

Gomez, who gave up the presidency temporarily in 1951 because of ill health, returned unexpectedly to the presidential palace Saturday and asked acting President rloberto Urdaneta Arbelaez and War Minister Lucio Pabon Nunez issue a decree ordering Rojas Pinilla to retire. When Urdaneta and Pabon-Nunez-decliffed to take such a grave step, Gomez summar- (Continued on Page Seventeen) COLOMBIA Wiley Asserts U. S. Plans To Unify Korea Politically Atlantic City, N. J.

(AP)--Sen. Wiley said last night that the U. S. has "definitely not abandoned the hope of Korea unity" but is going to try to "'achieve that unity by political means now, rather than by military means." The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the present terms for. a truce in Korea are not perfect, but are the "best that could be worked out under the circumstances." Wiley warned South Korea to "carefully weight the dreadful possible consequence of a continued disagreement between us" on the truce.

South Korea's President, Syng- man Rhee, has bitterly opposed the truce as meaning a "death sentence" for his country. be united Wiley said in a talk at a Zionist labor convention. "We have definitely not abandoned the hope of Korea unity. We have simply indicated that we are going to try to achieve that unity by political means now, rather than by military means. "We know, too, that there are various flaws in the truce terms which have been announced.

"We know that the Communists eould sabotage those terras. "But the highest military officials of the United States government have contended that these truce terms are the best that could be worked out under the circumstances." Wiley warned the Chinese Communists not to turn to southeast Asia as an area for expansion. "We are still steadfastly for the territorial integrity of every land of Southeast Asia," he said. The Scoreboard NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 1, New York 0 (1) St.

Louis 9, New York 4 (2) Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 3 (1) Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 0 (2) Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 1 (1) Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 1 (2) Brooklyn 6, Chicago 3 (1) Brooklyn 6, Chicago 6 (2) (tie, 9 darkness). AMERICAN "LEAGUE New York 6, Cleveland 2 (1). New York 3, Cleveland 0 (2). Washington 6, Detroit 1. Philadelphia 4, St.

Louis 1 (1). Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 1 (2). Chicago 6, Boston 0 (1). Chicago 1, Boston 0 (2).

EASTERN LEAGUE. ALBANY 4, Elmira 2. Binghamton 3, Schenectady 1. Wilkes-Barre 7, Williamsport 0 (1). Williamsport 3, Wilkes-Barre 0 (2).

Reading 1, Scranton 0. Won't Trust Reds, Says Tito Pazin, Yugoslavia (AP)--President Tito said yesterday this country would welcome resumption of normal diplomatic relations with the Russians, "but never again will we trust them 100 per cent." Almost five years after the Soviet-dominated Cominform ousted Yugoslavia from, its eastern European Communist alliance, Tito told a mass mee'ting which officials estimated was attended by 80,000 that the west need not fear the chance of this country's return to the Kremlin's camp. "We do not change as the wind blows," he cried. He disclosed that Russia had expressed a desire to swap ambassadors with this country. Yugoslavia and Russia have not had ambassadors since shortly after the break in 1948.

Their diplomatic relations have been carried on through charge d'affaires. The mass meeting was called to mark the 10th anniversary of the liberation of the Istrian Peninsula from the Axis occupiers of orld War II. Saranac Convention Saranac Ion (AP) The New York State Pharmaceutical Association opened its 75th annual convention here last night. Truce Workers Alerted For Jobs Munsan, Monday (AP)--A Koran armistice appeared so near today that officers assigned to vital EISENHOWER AT OYSTER BAY--President Eisenhower waves to throng from porch of Theodore Koosevelt's home at Oyster Bay which yesterday he dedicated as a national shrine. Flanking him, at left, is Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey of New York, and at right, former President Herbert Hoover. Conference In Hungary Opens Today Budapest, a (AP) -World communism prepared yesterday to open a peace conference in this Hungarian capital which may answer some of the questions about the Kremlin's international policy. For the first time since 1950 western correspondents were invited behind the, Iron Curtain to Budapest to report the meeting. This was regarded as an indication that the Xremlin attaches major importance "to the assembly of the World Peace Council which for years has acted as a sounding board For Moscow policies.

It opens a week of discussions today. It was believed here that the council meeting may give a clue to the demands the Soviet Union may make at any Big Four meeting fol- the Bermuda conference of the United States, France and Britain. The council often has given a forecast of Soviet aims, but so far there has been no indication in the local press what the council may recommend. In fact Budapest newspapers have not yet told the local population in what building the sessions are to be held. Correspondents of news agencies of three western powers began arriving in Budapest yesterday afternoon.

They found the Hungarian government laying out the best red carpet this Communist nation can offer. Three American correspondents crossed the Iron Curtain by automobile from Vienna at noon and were rushed through customs without inspection of their baggage and only a brief examination of their papers by saluting officials. They found Budapest gaily decorated with flags of 70 nations said to be sending representatives to the council meeting. These included the flags of America, England and I'rance. Curious crowds gathered around the American, correspondents as they checked in at Budapest's Palace Hotel.

At Gyor, Hungary's third largest city, children excitedly fingered the correspondents' yellow 1950 convertible as it stopped to allow an 1870 locomotive to pull a train load of freight into the big Wilhelm Pieck heavy machinery works. Warns Against "Book-Burners" Eisenhower Says 'Knoiv Communism To Fight It Hanover, N. (AP)--President Eisenhower declared yesterday that only by knowing communism can it be fought effectively, and he cautioned against joining "the book-burners" who would even bar knowledge of communism the libraries. Speaking at Dartmouth College commencement exercises, the President, appeared to be hitting at Sea: McCarthy who ha been assailing the State Department for using books by Communist authors in its propaganda drive against the Reds. Later at Oyster Bay, President Eisenhower dedicated the summer of President Theodore Roosevelt as a national shrine and called on Americans to emulate the old Rough Rider.

Build Monument. Those who do, Eisenhower said, "build a little monument to America." The President spoke briefly at the end of a flying, five-day speaking trip across the country that saw him visit five states. His purpose was to get out among the people to report on the progress of his administration. About 8,000 persons stood in front of Sagamore Hill; Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House, to hear Eisenhower open a weeklong series of ceremonies dedicating the new national shrine. The chief executive spoke from the veranda of the 69-year-old, 23- room mansion, located about 30 miles east of New York City on the north shore of Long Island.

The President was flanked by former President Herbert Hoover, who introduced him, and by Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York. Three generations of the family of the nation's 26th President on Page Seventeen) EISENHOWER Russian Cruiser Attracts Attention As Review Nears Portsmouth, England (AP)--The Russian Cruiser Sverdlov, ship of many mysteries, was the center of intense interest yesterday as thousands assembled for today's Coronation naval review, Queen Elizabeth II will give the trim "pushbutton" vessel scrutiny when the young monarch sails up and down the lines of warships of 16 nations drawn up in an impressive formation. The British were obviously fascinated by the Russian ship, first Soviet war craft to appear in British waters since 1937, by her Russian Captain First Class Olumpey Rudakov, and by her 1,000 Russian sailors who brought her here last Wednesday. At first the Red sailors.

were shy and possibly a little suspicious, but have become friendlier and more communicative as they came ashore frequently in large and small groups. Most of them remained on their cruiser yesterday playing host to distinguished visitors, including the Russian Ambassador, Jacob Malik, and Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, whose support of communism has irritated many British churchmen, British naval officers were outspoken in admiration for the snappy manner in which Rudakov brought his ship to its appointed place in the reviewing line at Spithead, the body of water between. Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, Bonn, Germany (AP)--Chancellor Konrad Adenauer declared yesterday that if the Russians really mean to make peace in Germany they should release 300,000 German prisoners of war still held and agree to free, nationwide elections. This means opening the iron- curtained Russian zone to inspection.

"Anything less," Adenauer said in a speech to a Christian Democratic Party rally in Augsburg, "would be a false peace and a dangerous one for our nation. And I Rosenbergs' Children Make Appeal Washington (AP)--Thousands of placard-bearing trators marched'quietly outside the White House grounds yesterday as the two young sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg again asked President Eisenhower to save their parents from execution as atomic spies. With the Rosenbergs scheduled to- die Thursday night in Sing Sing's electric chair, their two slight, brown-eyed boys--Michael, 10, and Robert, six, came to the White House to personally deliver a letter written by Michael. Eisenhower was en route by plane from Lebanon, N. to Oyster Bay, at the time so he didn't see the boys nor witness the mass picketing.

The Rosenberg boys, accompanied by their grandmother, Mrs. Sophie Rosenberg, were permitted just inside the main White House gate. They went inside the house there and Michael handed the letter to Inspector H. W. Francis.

The envelope bore neat childish scrawl: President Eisenhower, The White House, Washington, D. The letter, which Michael said he wrote himself, said: "I wrote a letter that I hope you got. I am in Washington today with my brother Robby six years old and my grandmother. She took me to the White House and I am bringing this letter to you. Then we will go home.

I hope you got my letter that I sent because it is a letter about not letting anything happen to my mommy and daddjr. Very truly yours, Michael Rosenberg." Michael was asked by newsmen if he had anything to say and he replied sternly and slowly: "What I said is in th6 letter to the President. I do not desire to comment further." Both boys.were dressed warmly for the cool, cloudy weather that brought topcoats on most of the marchers. They wore twin blue caps with a white letter which Michael explained was for the 30,000 Foe Blast ROK, U. S.

Groups Seoul, Monday South Korean Fifth and Eighth divisions today buckled under a crushing attack by waves of thousands of Chinese who rolled back the Korean truce demarcation line as much as two miles in some places. Some 30,000 Communists were attacking along a 30-mile ector of the central and eastern fronts. It was the biggest Red attack in two years, since the spring truce jobs were alerted and allied were warned against mistaking a cease-fire for war's end. drive of 195 l. I a of the U.

S. Third Division battled with the Reds in the trenches of the Triangle Hills--on the south, Korean The U.N. field commander, Lt flank and lost some before stopping the Chinese Maxwell Taylor, issued an un-! assauit usual radio caution to his multi- nation army not to be swept 17 i the Earlier reports filtering- through -a tightened censorship said South Korean troops were reeling under the attacks. The session (9 p.m. with thoughts of going home andi KoreaRS ha threatened to ignore any truce and drive get caught off guard.

He said a to i a i a border. possibility of an armistice has in- At U. S. Eighth Army headquarters, a grave faced staff offi- creased to the point that we must cer said: consider what a signing would mean to the Eighth Army," The U.N. base camp in Munsan buzzed with activity.

Soldiers and medics were told to start prisoner rehearsals. Officers who will serve on the military armistice commission were told to get! ready to take over their new jobs. Another Meeting. Peiping's Red Radio said liaison officers as well as staff officers were meeting today at Panmunjom "to work out the last administrative details prior to the signing of the armistice agreement." The first staff officer today was set for 11 a.m. Sunday E.S.T.) The staff officers are believed to be working on prisoner exchange and the mapping of a cease-fire line.

Peiping Radio said liaison officers would meet at 9:30 a.m. to work on. yarioui administrative matters. They 'met for 19 minutes then adjourned. President Syngman Rhee callec off, at least for the moment, the anti-truce demonstrations which had raged for five days in the streets of Korean cities.

Instead, 1,000 men and women from 160 churches prayed in a Seoul park lest the Allies "surrender to the Godless communist aggressors." Still Oppose Truce. Despite the temporary absence of demonstrations, there was no apparent weakening in Rhee's bitter opposition to a truce before unification. His government officials continued making loud statements that South Korea should fight on alone. Activities of the Allied Command suggested confidence that this opposition would not upset a truce. Peiping's Red Radio said Saturday that Rhee's opposition was a "farce" and "is a complete reflection of the views of certain bellicose American elements who dread a Korean armistice." Tornado, Flood Relief Granted Hanover, N.

H. (AP)--President Eisenhower yesterday allocated three quarters of a million dollars tornado and flood relief in stricken states. Presidential press aide Murray Snyder described the allocations as preliminary and listed them as, follows: Massachusetts, whose Worcester area was Tuesday, devasted by a tornado Michigan, where Flint and other communities were hit by tornadoes Monday, $125,000, and Iowa struck recently by both tornado and flood, JOOO. "The situation could best be described as fluid." The Red drive overshadowed the fighting last year for Old a 1 y. White Horse Mountain, Sniper Ridge and the U.

S. First Vlarine Division outposts on the vestern front. Tanks and artillery were playing a big part in the battle. American officers with the South Koreans said the ROKS had been breed back by the Chinese assault across about 10 to 15 miles of the front in the east-central sector that spans high hills and deep valleys. The major action was southeast of Kumsong and north of the winding Pukhan River, which describes a horseshoe curve in the area.

The Communists appeared to be driving toward the Pukhan but--at reports received up until noon---had not reached it. The assaults on the east-central front, were accompanied by bat- 1 talion i attacks elsewhere across the front. To Gain Prestige. The Reds appeared anxious to gain prestige in the waning days of the Korean War and were gunning For all the ground they could jjet before a cease fire is ordered. The great Hwachqh Reservoir -n Allied hands and 25 miles behind the ROK Eighth and Fifth divisions--blocked any great advance by the Communists in this sector.

The meandering Pukhan is at the back of the two hard-pressed divisions. The Chinese troops could curve either to the southeast or southwest if they wanted pay the price in casualties for further advances. The Eighth Army commander, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, flew the front to inspect the situa- (Continued on Page Seventeen) KOREA WAR Red Attacks May Prolong Korea War By ROBERT EUNSON (AP) powerful Communist attacks which have smashed the United Nations lines back as much as two miles in the last few hours may be aimed at prolonging the Korean war.

This is a gruesome thought, but competent military observers point out that if the Communists are capable of sending thousands of men to their deaths when an armistice is all but signed, then they are capable of doing anything, including wrecking a truce. Staff officers at Panmunjom supposedly are putting the finishing touches on a line of demarcation to divide the opposing forces when the armistice takes effect. In principle this line of demarcation is the "line of contact," or the point where patrols fire on each other and fall back. Line Moved Back. The line of contact a moved back considerably last night, according to front line reports.

Continual changes in front line positions could prolong the war indefinitely. On the other hand, the Communists may be staging this "stretch drive" offensive to gain better positions before the truce goes into effect. According to the terms of the armistice each side is supposed to pull back two kilometers (about a mile and a quarter) within 72 hours after an armistice is signed. Thus, if they really want Snipers Ridge, White Horse Mountain and Capitol Hill, outposts they are driving on today, the Reds will have to push a good mile and a half beyond them. Would Pull Back.

Gaming these outposts would force the Allies to fall back considerably farther also, when they must pull back to their armistice line positions. The thing that shocked the Western world the most, however, was that the Reds would (Continued on Page Seventeen) RED ATTACKS Cruiser Blast Endangers 23 Hull, Mass. (AP)--Twenty-three members of a pleasure fishing party were rescued yesterday after their 36-foot cabin cruiser caught fire and exploded "in a ball of flame" in Boston Harbor. The rescued were picked up by pleasure, Coast Guard and police craft after they plunged into the cold wind-swept waters, 300 yards off Peddock's Island. Four were treated by a physician for burns and shock.

Survivors said the fire apparently was touched off by gasoline in the bilge of the Boston owned craft, The Madeline, skippered by Alfred Foss of Boston. Her gas tank blew up in a ball of flame after the last survivor cleared the craft. will not buy a momentary agree-! Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, ment" This was Adenauers first comment on the dramatic Communist announcements from Berlin four days ago that they were reversing! their program of all-out communi-! zation and adopting a theme that' On Inside Pages Hunt Tells Of Everest Concruest Katmandu, Nepal (AP) Col. John Hunt, leader of the British expedition that conquered ML Everest May 29, arrived here Saturday night and reported his party had found no trace of -the two daring Britons who disappeared ing in good health and without injury. The two men who made the final assault and reached Everest's peak--New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Guide Tensing Bhuta--are expect- here todav or tomorrow.

1 dition said Tensing fought his way to the summit first and then helped Hillary up over the final hump of ice and rock. In describing the final assault Saturday night, Hunt said Hillary near the icy summit of the world's: In answer to questions, Hunt might pave the way power conference on for a four- the unification of this country, which has been divided for eight years. These Red promises hit like a political atom bomb in West Germany. It was suspected the moves were dictated by the Kremlin with the aim of torpedoing pro-western Chancellor Adenauer in this summer's elections and to sow enough confusion to prevent the rearming of West Germany in the projected European Army. Church Calendar Classified 23, Comics 22 Crossword 12 Editorials 12 Obituary 17 the People 12 Radio 22 Social 10, 11 Sports 18, 19, 20 Theaters 21 We, the People 12 Whirligig 12 Woman's Page 8 highest mountain in 1924.

Accompanied by two other mem- Page ers jjj successful 16-man expedition, Hunt chuckled with delight at seeing the bright electric lights of this Nepalese capital after weeks spent in numbing cold on the tortuous slopes of Everest, said no signs were found to solve the mystery of whether two British climbers, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, ever reached the top. Mallory and Irvine reached to within a few hundred feet of the summit in 1924, then disappeared --who also knighthood has been awarded a by the Queen--had been leading throughout the climb. Then Gregory broke in to say: "It is immaterial who reached the top first because both were roped together by a 50-foot long rope and victory goes to both." Hunt said Hillary and Tensing whose conquest earned him again. in the mists and never Were seen! had planted flags on the peak -the United Nations flag, the knighthood from Queen Elizabeth! A British expedition which failed British Union Jack, the Indian Tri II. in 1933 reported it had found'color and the Nepalese flag.

some of the Maliory-Irvine equip-; Victory over Everest, which has ment intact on the higher reaches, defeated 11 previous expeditions Hunt's team had hoped to find the since 1921, was celebrated by the Turning to his fellow adventurers--Thomas fred Gregory Bourdillon and Al- Hunt said: "Boys, how about seeing a motion pic- ice-encased bodies and supply and turc?" answer to the mystery. Hunt, 42, told newsmen all Earlier reports reaching here by members of his party are return-) native runners from Hunt's expe- climbers with toasts from ont brandy bottle, Gregory said. He added: "We did not have mort celebrate better.".