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wi 12 mid. 74 7 ro. 0 1 m. 73 8 P.m. 79 2 70 5 State GIs Return To Freedom Reds Claim Right To Withhold POWs PANMUNJOM UP) The Allies and the Communists traded prisoners for the ninth time Wednesday night (Thursday Korean time) but Red China's Peiping Radio sounded an ominous warning.

The Reds claimed the right under the Geneva Convention to hold back all American and other United Nations captives awaiting trial, or already serving sentences. Seventy-five Americans, looking reasonably healthy, were returned to freedom. Among them were five from Michigan. They were: HUSSMAN, Cpl. Joseph of Detroit.

HAMILTON, Cpl. William of Flint. DE SMET, Pfc. Albert of Holly. PATTERSON, Pfc.

Thomas of Grand Rapids. PETERSEN, Cpl. Richard Ishpeming, Second Division. The Peiping broadcast, heard In Tokyo, was the first Communist reaction to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' warning Tuesday that the UN Command would not return Chinese and North Korean captives convicted of crimes "until we know the attitude of the Communists toward ours." THE BROADCAST accused Dulles of "blackmail" and asserted: Prisoners of war against whom criminal proceedings for an indictable offense are pending or who have already been convicted should be dealt with In accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Convention." Replying to Dulles' contention that withholding of prisoners would violate the armistice agreement, Peiping said throughout the provisions of the armistice agreement there is not a single point which approximates the American claim. On the contrary this claim Is in contravention of the Geneva Convention." Peiping claimed the Geneva Convention provides that prisoners "against whom criminal proceedings for an Indictable offense are pending may be detained until the end of such proceedings, and, If necessary, until the completion of the punishment.

The same shall apply to prisoners of iVar already convicted for an indictable offense." (In Washington, State Department officials pointed out that while the Geneva Convention has certain complicated provisions regarding the retention of prisoners of war, the armistice agreement signed with the Communists overrides them. (The officials also noted that neither the United States nor the Korean and Chinese Communists are signatories of the convention, but had agreed to abide by it.) Fear More Dead in Ruins Score Hurt as Blast, Blaze Hit Livonia Hydra-Malic Unit BY JIM RANSOM, JACK STROHM, ARTHUR W. O'SHEA, COLLINS GEORGE and MILLER HOLLINGSWORTH Free Press Staff Writers A $40,000,000 fire destroyed the General Motors Detroit Transmission plant at 28400 Plymouth, Livonia, Wednesday, snuffing out two lives and injuring a score of persons, two seriously. It was feared that the death toll would rise when firemen could enter the huge building where the blaze was still raging early Thursday. The fire broke out at 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday. The conflagration, one of the worst in Detroit-area his- Casualty list and other stories on Page 12 tory, reduced the huge modern building to a pile of twisted wreckage. '4k Dead were: LT. WILLIAM G. DEGNER, 43, of 7837 Balfour, Allen Park.

DAN STALEY, of 27474 Hanover, Dearborn Township. Both were found suffocated in the wing of the building used by the Ternstedt Division of General Motors to produce vital defense equipment. Degner was acting chief of plant protection for the Ternstedt wing. His body was found in a washroom. Staley's body was found in the production area.

GENERAL MOTORS OFFICIALS, fearful that more dead might be found, set up an emergency phone for families whose relatives worked at the plant and were still missing. Searching crews will not be able to enter all parts of the plant until mid-morning Thursday. The phone Is TEmple 1-9400. It Is for emergency usa only for inquiries about workers at the plant who have not returned home. Sherrod E.

Skinner, GM vice president of the Accessory Group, flew back from Buffalo to survey the situation. Early Thursday firemen were still playing streams of water into the building as scores of police kept thousands of spectators four blocks from the scene. Firefighting operations were in charge of Chief Calvin Roberts of the Livonia Fire Department. Michigan Bell restored telephone service to the area shortly before midnight. Meanwhile, it had set up mobile phones inside the plant property to accommodate emergency calls.

METRO FINAL Boone Hits 4tK Grand-Slam Homer Tigers Win. Page 23 added. Gordon said he considers the latter possibility unlikely because much of the special machinery required was destroyed. He told E. A.

Kaegi, plant mr.nager, that resumption of production would get under way quickly in any case. The Detroit Transmits ryi plant had 1,500.000 square feet of floor space in contrast with the 600,000 at the Riopelle plant, Gordon said. The Ternstedt side of the plant was working on defense contracts that ran into "several millions of dollars," Gordon said. These contracts were for eon- isaid. Pages Vol.

123 No. N. Korea Purge Widening TOKYO (U.R) A widening purge of North Korea's Communist regime has removed 25 officials including former embassadors to Moscow and Peiping, a Red broadcast revealed Wednesday. The Communist Peiping radio indicated younger Reds were rising to power in the government of Premier Kim II Sung. The Chinese broadcast said Kwon Chik, former ambassador to Communist China, and Chu Nyong Ha, ambassador to Russia, were among the leaders purged from Communist Party membership.

Already the dismissal of Vice Premier Pak Hung Yong and Commerce Minister Chang Si Yu had been disclosed earlier in propaganda broadcasts. You'll Find: Amusements 22 Astrology Id Bridge 18 Camera 21 Editorials 8 Financial 28-29 Movies 20 Radio and Television 55 Sports 23-26 Weather Map 36 omen's Pages 15-20 1 I Jifii I If Smoke Billows Skyward to Hide Caved-In Roof; Sides of the Plant Were Bent Like Cardboard www GOV. WILLLIMS SURVEYED the scene shortly before Turn to Page 4, Column MAY IDLE 35.000. ELSEWHERE Reds Doomed in Satellites Marxism Backfires into Chaos Behind Iron Curtain GM Sees No Layoffs At Burned-Out Plant BY ARTHUR W. O'SHEA, and CURTIS HASELTINE Tee Prew Staff Writer.

No employe of the Detroit Transmission plant will lose a day's work because of the disastrous fire, John F. Gordon, General Motors vice president in charge of the body and assembly group, promised Wednesday night. However, an estimated 35,000 persons may be thrown out of 'mission production might be held work for an indefinite period in up slightly mora than a month, the Cadillac, Oldsmobile and 'At best, production might re-Pontiac plants, a top GM official sume within a few days, he The East-Germans now understand that their rulers are but contemptible Quislings who couldn't stay in power 24 hours without the protection of Soviet tanks. Above all, they have grasped this fundamental fact: The Reds cannot shoot down proletarians without destroying the basis of their own revolution. Every gunshot Turn to Page 12, Column 6 Early last March, after the death of Stalin, George Herald forecast uprisings In the Soviet satellite states.

Here is his report on developments behind the Iron Curtain since the June 17 revolt in East Germany. He has just completed a trip along the fringes of the Soviet Empire and tells his findings in a series of articles of which this is the first. BY GEORGE W. HERALD Free Ptcm Special Writer BERLIN It just iSn't possible for the Russians to get back to where they stood in Eastern Europe before June 17, Beds abandon four mystery move. Page 5.

air fields in E. Reich 1st Hurricane MIAMI (JP) The year's first hurricane formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida east coast Wednesday and began moving slowly northward in the direction of the Carolinas. Storm warnings were hoisted on the Atlantic Coast from Is Spotted Myrtle Beach, S. to Cape Hatteras, N. C.

The Miami Weather Bureau said winds would begin to increase on the Carolina coasts late Wednesday night and reach gale force on the North Carolina coast Thursday night. said SOME of the Detroit Transmission employes will be returned to the Riopelle plant to get production of Hydra-Matic transmissions under way there, Gordon said. Others will be put to work clearing up debris, salvaging machinery and rebuilding. Gordon, under whose direction the Detroit Transmission plant was built, said the plant will be rebuilt on the same site. An investigation will get under way Tnursday to determine the cause of the fire, Gordon said.

In transferring transmission production back to the Riopelle 1953. They have passed the point of no return in the satellite countries. The rest of the road for them goes in only one direction: OUT. That is the informed opinion of nearly all observers on the spot who have watched developments in this part of the world since the historic Berlin uprising. THE TRUE meaning of that revolt, they say, was lost to most Westerners and apparently to many Commies too in the cascade of later events.

This true meaning is that THE MYTH OF MOSCOW'S INVINCIBLE MIGHT HAS BEEN SHATTERED EVERYWHERE BEHIND THE CURTAIN. The satellite workers had realized long ago that a small clique of parasites was exploiting them under false pretenses. What they didn't know was that they could do something about it. Today they know. French Premier Defies Strikes.

Page 13. More Disastrous Greek Quakes. Page 27. Carpenters Quit AFL Page 12. THE FIRST American returned Wednesday was Pfc Clyde D.

Boothe, of Brownsville, Pa. A Communist truck carrying Americans and other Allied repatriates overturned on the road from Kaesong, injuring several men, but none seriously. The second group contrasted sharply with the first repatriates who sat solemnly Turn to Page 2, Column 1 plant where it was closed out'struction of aircraft compasses only last week-end, some pro-and special tank sights. This was duction will be lost, Gordon said, the only General Motors plant making these articles, Gordon AT WuKsT, ne said, trans- JNt 3wJJw. wV jfcfcw WkW.