Evening Express from Portland, Maine • 1

PORTLAND EVENING EXPRESS 'U 1 tast Edition 44 Pages PORTLAND MAINE THURSDAY jtlLY 9 1953 Dally Advertiser Established 1875 st1 negotiators re By Adenauer At I Reece Nominated' Court Recorder eared Spanking Hildreth Decision Awaited To Clear TV Picture Here 1 Robert Reece Reece is married to the for cifically about Germany will for nomination still must i Karean War Chinese Communists of Entered As Second Cis Matter At The Post entice At Portland day al House struct! enforced in at! least chusetts cities 22 30 31 32 9 23 22 24 Senate ester top level "White at Which in repdrtedly were pre the RusslansrOn the vital topic of reunification the meeting was held adminlst 1 Anouncement that the truce ta Unification Plan Offered IVE oreign Aid ull Scale Truce Talks Being Resumed sXenSajs Despite Stubborn Holdout By Rhee senators sought today time for more dis with South Korean ht Syngman Rhee bypro at Red China be made Walter Manler may yet go to the National Boy Scout Jam boree the lad forced to return home at the last minute when it was discovered he had been ex posed to scarlet fever A Portlander whose Boy Scout son is on his way to California to the jamboree came forward today with an offer to see that Walter is flown out If Walter come' down with scarlet fever by the end of a five day incubation period Saturday he may yet join his buddies 3 with his grandpar ents at reeport now an out standing candidate lor the title of most miserable boy YANKED TRAIN Walter was yanked off a spe Channel 13 is the Community Broadcasting Services in which Hildreth also has an interest A partner with him in ithe latter enterprise is Murray Carpenter Bangor I Carpenter said today he had no intention of withdrawing the petition for Channel 13 Hildreth could not be reached in 1 Washington for comment Mt Washington TV is a com pany composed of the owners of ten radio stations) scattered through Maine and New Hamp shire The company with its stu (Continued on Page 28 2nd Col) 23 30 42 43 41 43 22 2 22 29 22 35 40 32 BOSTON SHOE STORE cleanceSALE STARTS TODAY SEE ADV ON PAGE 6 It wan a harsh reversal Reed who only a few weeks ago apparently had almost all the 15 committee Republicans and many of the ten democrats on his side i As Reed and his supporters kept the extension bill bottled up for weeks its passage seemed almost hopeless to some GOP leaders' and there was specula tion the Administration was headed for a major defeat The big break came last week when Representative 1 Richard Simpson (R Pa) and other key committee Republicans who previously had opposed the tax lined up with the Admin istration They wanted to avoid a bit terly contested procedure under which the Administration at tempted to bypass the Ways and Means Committee (Continued on Page 28 1st Col) Yanks Smash 3 Red Attacks In Bitter ighting On Ridges Seoul American Infan chronology of a tragic 23 minute notes were getting his views before ley resigned St Louis or I the first time in four years the office of the St Louis Zoo is without a talking Myna bird I Joe the talking bird talked himself out of the job I A jet black jabber Joe just keep his big mouth shut i have become a tra dition in my said Mrs William Conway zoo secretary with this one around no body could hear himself Joe was brought to the office to correct speech fault He mumbled It take long for Joe to Improve his speech He screamed hello and goodbye to visitors' He picked upian imi tation of a telephone ring that confused the office workers when he started scream ing right back at said Mrs Conway knew he had to back in the bird house i Portland and vicinity: Clear and cool tonight lowest tem perature near 55 degrees air and mild tomorrow highest temperature near 85 Gentle northwesterly winds becoming 'moderate tomorrow Lowest temperature here last night and highest yesterday! Airport 60 84 a Intown 62 86 The' low pressure system that brought showers to" parts of Maine yesterday afternoon and OPENINGS AVAILABLE it I JA UNIVERSAL LAUNDRY MM omen and Girls Week ends parti time steady work dr summer employment Gen Mark Clark tried again to i support of a truce They apparently failed REJECTS OERS A highly placed South Korean source said Rhee still is holding out despite offers of a mili tary security pact economic aid and equipping and training of four more divisions for the 16 division South Korean Army i The source told Associated Press Correspondent Bill Shinn that Rhee still is insisting that his country have from America concrete assurance that Korea will be peace fully or by force He added that the 15 day talks between Rhee and President spe cial truce envoy are deadlockec NOT AN ULTIMATUM An authoritative source said Clark handed Rhee an important letter dealing with South Ko objections to an arinistice But an official spokesman said emphatically that the letter was not an ultimatum to Rhee to accept present truce terms Informed quarters here specu lated that Allied liaison officers asked the Reds at Panmunjom Thursday when Polish anc Czech members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission can start work Clark in a June 29 letter to the Reds proposing that a truce be signed now suggested a meet ing to discuss when the neutral commission can start function ing Representatives from Switzer land Sweden India Poland and Czechoslovakia will supervise an armistice It was possible the Reds 'would call a truce meeting riday The liaison officers adjourned without setting a date for an other meeting The Command asked for Thursday's liaison session after the Reds said Wednesday they were ready to resume the full truce talks which were re cessed June 20 after Rhee or dered the release of some 27000 anti Red North Korean war prisoners Clark flew back to Tokyo late Thursday after his 22 minute conference with Rhee AS YESTERDAY Assistant secretary of state waiter Robertson President Eis truce emissary leaned rom his car as it sped froir hilltop mansion and tolc newsmen: as generals and statesmen have failed to budge In sistence that the agree to resume the war unless post armistice political conference Continued on Page 2 3rd Col Joe Talks Self Out Of Office Job rhyonnlrtirv fit counterattack by' handful of soldiers with flame thrqwers: 453 mi Counterattack launched 457 Infantry reaches to with in 150 feet of the inger's crest under heavy rifle and machine gun fire 501 Infantrymen stand up fire their flame throwers Land charge for the crestline behind sheets of roaring flame 504 Chinese' mortar and ar tillery shells crash down among the charging men They are scattered driven back Enemy fire lifts sudden ly and Reds come pouring down the slope in counterattack that forces Americans back About 1000 Chinese attacked the Roks on Arrowhead Ridge to the northwest where a non stop battle has been raging since Monday A staff officer said the Reds poured 21000 pounds of artillery and mortar shells bn the area in the 12 hours ended at 6 a Thursday including 2 000 believed' to be rockets The 8 Eighth Army said more than 1200 Reds were killed and wounded in terrific artillery duels and close quarter fight ing some of it hand to hand Continued on Page 2 2nd CoL 'Reece was graduated from Westbrook High School in 1943 served in the marines and was graauaiea iromsmiouc uni ver Iry XJtLW QvXlVQX XXI Xfi vnesiey resigned aner ne failed in his bid for the ijudge The Weather '(U Weather Boreas Official orecast) ward to the Tex rzaiR as Panhandle Maine coastal regions feltsome showers this morning and showers are still going on over Tennessee and in scattered sec tions of New Mexico and Color ado on the western end of the front' There wasn't rain Continued on Page 2 3rd CoL Lines A Asked about a proposal to transrer tne tJermuua meeting to London Salisbury replied: is a new Idea We shoulc welcome further talks at a high level" (Continued on Page 28 Sth Col cessed on 120 will get lind morrow (10 edt today) 1 The meeting presumably was Arranged during a 15 minute liaison session at panmunjom 1 today But the official spokesman refused to say more than that trymen crushed three bloody Communist assaults today but failed in a daring 1 counterattack with flame throwers bum the last Reds off' Porkchop HUI in Western Korea Tough South Korean troops braved rockets believed to be Russian type in smashing a fourth Red attack at Arrowhead Ridge five miles from Porkchop The Korean battlefront crack led with artillery barrages and hand to hand fighting as units for the first time In weeks caught the brunt of the Red charges The doughboys hammered back 3000 to 5000 Chinese who Wednesday night slammed into held positions at Outpost Berlin and East Berlin in the ar West Kim Sung Ridge in thp east and orkchop HiU Packed by ear splitting artil ery soldiers of the Sev nth Infantry Division by Thurs ay morning had the Reds from all but six bunkers on he northwest finger of Pork chop HilLi 23 MINUTE ATTACK Associated Press correspondent Robert Gibson dispatched from the front this short bitter MSA Chief Claims Advances Behind The Iron Curtain i Washington i (AP) Mutual Security Director Harold Stas sen told senators today there are signs ithls foreign aid program is at the point of its most significant Appearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee with a plea for funds to continue the program Stassen said workers behind the Iron Curtain are now to stand up and risk death" at the hands of i their Russian bosses He referred to the recent disorders in East Ber in and other Red occupied areas i REDS ARE MILKING Stassen saidi the fact is being driven sharply home to peoples behind the Iron Curtain that while the Sj spends billions to build up Western Europe the Soviet Union i milking the of Soviet satellite na tions Stassen faced sharp question ing from members of the com i mittee which will recommend what amount of foreign aid money the Senate should vote for the year started July 1 Senator Robertson (D Va) told Stassen he has supported the foreign raid program since 1948 But he said with some emphasis: intend for it to be recounted but can be renewed without loss oe pr revenue to I The tax writing Ways and of Means Committee voted to 9 yesterday to recommend passage of the bill to the House It was a ciear cut if delayed triumph secrecy as to his identity Scouter said was very spe cific he wants no personal pub rfn5e fSEEtlV licity He knows' how his ty would tool It hd NY) to sidetrack delay or de Administration pro officials of Katahdin Council atposaI' Bangor If Walter comes the! incubation period de IJtere To ind veloping a case of scarlet fever I mt have plenty of time to fly 1X i nlt Evening to tne coast in tune for tne jam Notebook boree beginning Monday Rose Pbtated out I Classified nice thing about comics Rose added that this mux taros Word Puzzle never saw the youngster in his gavId ienc life He was touched becausel nath he knows how his own boy would! Editorial I inancial Rose later reported that the MrrvrnRnnnri offer had been Gladly accepted by Katahdin provided the boy gets medical clearance! Snf4 "wmd S'w0 bLS? GMr dent of Katahdin Council said the medical should be I cleared through regional Scout headquarters in Boston Rose Pekf (Rose took the case up withWomen Boston Armistice To Be Wor Out Starting Tonight Seoul (AP) Allied and Com: turn to Panmunjom in few hqurs to resume negotiations on final details at a Korean armistice which South Korea! has bitterly assailed and said it will not recognize The UJ Command said full scale truce talks re 'til let way at 11 a to uus morning is still centered over Labrador The cold front reaching south ward: from Can ada now extends I from Eastport to a ntucket inland Walter was yanked off a spe clal jamboree bound train irf Worcester Mass Tuesday by Scout officials They had discovered been the infirmary of a Scout camp IT East Eddington at the same Lme as another boy who later developed scarlet fever Walter sadly returned to Maine yesterday while his bud dies continued West to join 50 000 other Scouts for the big event at Santa Ana Calif July 13 23 This morning Clinton Rose executive pine Tree Councils had a telephone call from the gen erous Portlander said his hoy is attending the jamboree and that read Bonn Germany (AP) The West German government to day asked 1 the western Big 1 Three to demand Russian ae eeptance 'of a six point pro gram designed to lead to all fied Germany The "immediate drafted' by ChanceUor Konrad Adenauer demanded the restor atton of free travel between East and West Germany and the restoration of political lib in the Russian Zone The Bonn oreign Ministry handed the program to the British and rench higl commissioners with iden 1 1 a notes asking that the proposals be made the basis for discussion on Germany at the foreign min isters 'meeting opening riday in Washifrton WANTS MOSCOW OK The note asked also that the Big Three deliver the proposals to Moscow for consideration The Adenauer "immediate are: 1 Opening of all inter zonal crossing points between East and West Germany 2 Abolition of the no mans land with which the Commun ists have' sealed off East Ger many since last year 3 reedom of movement for all Germans throughout Ger many 4 reedom of press and as sembly 5 reedom to operate for all political parties particularly in 'the Russian Zone where! demo cratic parties are suppressed or made subservient to tne ruling Communists 6 Provisions of democratic law to protect the individual against arbitrary power and The way of the Washington parley at which Walt has with tempt tions SPOT thpik the put us pn the spot by accepting the terms laid down in the let ter tOfthem from General Mark Clark ta which he indicated he would restrain the South Kore ans if Jhey did not accept the sSmith said think we mustexert every effort to bring Rhee around to our wajt of thinking and I would like tdjfseeiour Government of iciaHy ljraise the issue of bring ing me ficially iinto the armistice plc CpAL and COKE PRICES ADVANCE I JULY 15 Wt ww too to else row erter aow DIAL 3 8 171 WRIGHT CO The Weatherman Says: rXxT Mud Tomorrow yoL NO 224 Smith who heads a Senate oreign iRelations ar Eastern subcommittee said he thinks an armistice signed for the Com munists? by the Repub ic offJNorth) Korea and the' Chinese! Volunteers' pe entirely Senator Hickenlooper I (R lowa) a Relations Com mittee' Member said he agrees with Knowland and Smith that the Chinese Volunteers was a uction to cover Red Chi participation in the war Continued on 2nd CoL I 4 Seven Ycar Old Girl Goes AWOL Starts Big Hunt' Little Leona Patterson a gold en haired beauty all of seven years old caused plenty of ex citement along Washington Ave nue last night and early today Leona was missing from home and the whole neighborhood turned out to look for her Sixteen hours after her moth? er last saw her Leona was re turned home by a baby sitter who followed a hunch It turned out that Leona left home because she was afraid her mother Mrs Guida Patterson was going to give her a spank ing Shirley McCormick 14 of 147 Washington Avenue is the baby sitter who found the little THERE SHE WAS Shirley! remembered that family used to live at 160 Washington Avenue a "few blocks away from their present home at 108 Washington Ave nue It was simple Shirley went to 160 this morning and there was Leona with her friend Georgia Nickerson 10 just rising after a good sleep Shirley returned with Leona to her joyful mother and father Leroy a truck driver They had been up all night with police in a wide search of the area The girl last had been seen by her mother at 630 last night near her home Mrs Barbara Dobson 'of 119 Washington Ave nue also saw her then standing alone at the corner of ox Street and the avenue Leona and her brother Roy 5 had gone to a carnival at Bay side yesterday afternoon with jaby sitter Shirley Shirley brought them home at 230 and stayed with thpn until 530 Continued on Page 2 6th Col And when the time comes to Armand Le discuss reunification Adenauer wen to Harris added insist on free all Bullerwell German elections the core of our program They are In be confirmed by the executive 1 Continued on Page 2 4th CoL council Washington (AP) Adminis tration forces after leaping a aifrt Itowi xuuac tuiQ ivitaia auve purposes oniy ks would resume came a few hours after a top level tjl delegation headed by president syngman Rain Too Light To Ease Drought Scattered showers and thun i dershowers merely dampened awaamI 8 Im AA1fl today and made little change in Victory Or UlSenflOtVer critical drought conditions I i Intown Portland received tqe I 1SX ast Congressional Action The situation was about the Due On Excess Profits Tax reas as Hartford Conn and Pittsfield Mass did receive more than an inch of rain in the last tee hurdle prepared a fast track 5S5KJ1" 1 7 Congress today tor wT inlPresident proposal I I Bv Staff iPhntncrranhA WnbArtx I do it again Mama promises Xieona Patterson 7 as she plants a big something that would last for kiss on cheek of relieved mother Mrs Guida Patterson 108 i Washington Avenue soundnessTof who searched 16 hours for missing child Brother Roy is 5 He said thel per capita Television Situation tered witn a statement me uo does not have the largest per capita tax burden in the world He said the standard of living is three times as high as the rest of the average and saw no peril to the domestic econoriiv in continuing the for eign aid program VH television picture in Portland is as 1 Staen a Ppared clouded as a snowy screen statement wnicn pretty mucn re viewed what he told the oreign Its clearing up awaits the decision of ex GoV Horace Relations Committee several a Hildreth and associates on what to do about competing Secretary ofistate Dulles wsPor Channel 13 in Portland orf call for testimony to the Ap Yesterday the ederal Communications Commission thePdvl0nS uter in granted Mount Washington TV Inc headed by Hildreth a conditional permit for Channel 8 Meanwhile Senate House con CLEAR yAY ferees got together for the fifth time in an effort to reach agrfee conditions could clcar the way ment on differing measures fo or passed by the two branches to nels allotted Portland 6 and 13 authorize the program the ap aa eU Channel 8 propriation would finance I condition that the CC Continued on Page 2 5th Col tied to its permit to MtWash I nvvy Tm irrae har te ASSVf VC stockholders set out of compe tition for Portland channels This could be done either by their abandoning their applica tions or by disposing of their interests in the corporations competing for those channels One of tne applicants for European Officials Arriving In or Big 3 Talks 1 New York (AP) Lord Salisbury acting British for eign secretary arrived today en route to Washington for a conference of the Western Big Three foreign ministers Salisbury told newsmen Britain regarded a Bermuda meeting of President Eisenhower Prime Minister Sir Win ston Churchill and the rench premier as finished but merely 1 I hope the three power meeting will' be held in due course when the prime minister 13 fit Salisbury said The Bermuda meeting was postponed after doctors ordered him to take a rest B1DAULT ON WAX I rench oreign Minister Georges Bidault is due here to day on his way to the Washing ton talks i Salisbury was accompanied by General Sir Brian Robertson and a staff of nine Robertson is a former British high commis sioner in Germany and I com mander in chief of the British Middle East land forces with headquarters in the strategic Suez Canal Zone i Salisbury is acting for An thony Eden who is convalescing after a gall bladder operation in a Boston hospital Salisbury and his party) went to Washington by Eastern Air A young at torney today was nominated for recorder of Westbrook Municipal Court to succeed Malcolm Ches Gov Burton Cross nested Bonn has no represents tion The the name of Robert Reece a however has proraised practising attorney here for the that any decisions' reached spe past year and a half Meece is marriea to me ror not become final until after raer Betty Byrne and the couple consultations with Adenauer has two children Robert A and Adenauer first presented hi Michelle They live on Pen si program during last for Wil Street eign policy debate in the Bonn Reece was graduated) from Parliament Westbrook High School in 1943 He indicated these things served in the marines and was shouldbe done before the Big graduated from Univer Three agree to negotiate with Ijaw School In 1949 4k 0i0nn ft ft At to extend the excess profits Republican Leader Halleck of rrr i iinuiana precuciea me nouse Let Go9 lr alter: would pass the blU tomorrow i I with an overwhelming vote from TT HR both Republicans and Demo Boy bcout as Chance lor ly Senate GOP leaders have said To Jamboree lf He Beats Bug pect little difficulty over the six mourns extension mrougn wee about Walter Manler in the 31 The tax expired June 30 newspapers nose i that he would like to responsible for flying him Calfomia after the period incubation is SWORN TO SECRECY The Portlander swore Rose LARGEST ATERNOON NEWSPAPER CBS in WCAN Portland WCUY and WGUY Bangor Red China Re II i Truce Partner fjh WasBington Two Re public to ga! cusslo: Presidi posing 4 party to any Korean truce Senators Knowland (R Calif) and Alexander Smith (R NJ) suggested that new efforts be made bring the Peiping re gime officially into any armis tice: signing United Nations ne gotiations to date have been conducted with the North Ko reans I Knowland who has support ed demandsforprompt unification of i Korea told the Senates yesterday that the Chi nese Communists while supply ing meh and guns to the North Koreans would not guarantee any trrfce that was signed wiB: acting Ki Republican leader late yt ifenaea a conference ions reodrte pared for Genl Mark Clark the ar East commander PONDER RED REPLY The Jmee ting was called to consldw the reply to Clark i that1 they are ready to negotiaate final details of an armistice Clark called on Rhee late last flight in Seoul Others 'who met with Presi dent Elsenhower besides Know and iwere Secretary of State Dulles' Undersecretary of State Walter jBedell Smith Secretary of Defense Wilson and GenJ Lawtons Collins Army chief of staff I Backing of Knowland Smith sald in? an interview he believes he raising of this' issue will give the UJfe more time to continue discussions with Rhee who thus 'ar has balkpd at accepting Al lied trace proposals Robertson as Eisen personal representative several conferences ce Korea in an at overcome his objec Bo Details I see i i ill IlfU ft I i 11181 I to I 1 gBisr i ftMEf NMH 'A i' 'Wilt: A 'sMfc I i I 4 Sol.