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Curbs Program
Bv BARNEY LIVINGSTONE
WASHINGTON, July 12—(AP)
House Democratic leaders today
nlaved for thme and the hope an
2roused public opinion would help
them rescue the administration’s
nrice and wage control program
from threatened total defeat.
They admitted it was a long
<hot gamble. . Congressional mail
—apitol Hill’'s barometer of grass
coots feeling—has failed to date
{0 reflect any groundswell of pop
19v support for continued con
with a legislative slow-down
slready in evidence, Democratic
leader McCormack of Massachu
ctts announced publicly late yes
terday that House debate on con
tro's would econtinue into next
week.
leaders have been saying pri
vatelv that—with an anti-controls
coalition in the saddle—it may be
another full week yet before they
are readv to risk a final conclusive
vote. The Senate has voted an
eight-month extension of econom
ic controls which is far short of
vhat Mr.. Truman asked.
Sectional Squabble
For almost all of yesterday’s
session, the House engaged in a
sectional squabble over granting
the President authority to disperse
new government - financed war
plants for security purposes. Ad
ministration leaders made only
half-hearted attempts to curb the
oratory.
After nearly four hours of de
bate, the House voted 134 to 79
to kill the dispersal plan.
FEastern Seaboard members of
both parties, fearful of losing
their Industry to the South and
West, voted solidly against it. Me-
Cormack was among them.
The House raised no objection
to two other provisions offered as
part of the administration bill.
One would give the government
limited power to condemn proper
tv needed for defense purposes.
The other provides a revolving
fund of $2,100,000,000 for long
term eontracting for metals and
other commoditfes needed in the
defense effort. The present law
set aside $1,600,000,000 for this
purpose.
Farm State Proposal A
With committee amendments
out of the way, the farm state
group is due to bring up today or
tomorrow its proposal to kill the
10 per cent beef price rollback and
ban future price rollbacks on all
farm commodities.
A drive is also primed to en
large the no-price-rollback plan
to include all goods, industrial as
well as farm.
On Capitol Hill and elsewhere,
the administration continued to
sound alarms about the future if
Congress curbs the controls pro
gram,
Price Director Michael V. Di-
Salle told a news conference yes
terday that auto prices will be
mimd if price rollbacks are bar
req,
And, hinting that meat price
control already is tottering, he said
livestock marketing is up since
luesday’s House vote against
government - fixed slaughtering
quotas, “but so is the price.”
AUGUSTA, GA., July 12—(AP)
—A_ special Richmond county
grand jury was ecalled today to in
vestigate the fatal shooting of
John B, Kennedy, ex-political
boss of the Cracker party.
_ Meanwhile, Mrs. Margie Kenne
dy, charged with murder in her
husband’s death, was transferred
from the University Hospital yes
terday to the county jail.
Kennedy was shot June 30 and
died last Saturday, punctured by
{I)T rounds from a light target pis
_ The jury will be convened at
3:30 p. m.
Unreconstructed
Rebel Now 106
FITZGERALD, Ga., July 12—
(AP)—An unreconstructed Rebel,
William Jurden Bush of the late
Confederate Army, has had enough
of the cald war and “I'd march no
Russia tomorrow.”
Bush, general of the Confederate
Army (what’s left of it), celebrat
ed his 106th birthday Tuesday with
N interview in which he declared
'€ was not worried a whit about
fading away” like an old soldier:
_ He said he wasn’t worried about
dying either.
.. His thumbnail opinign on poli
icst “Be a good demotrat.”
_ As for the newfangled airplane,
Bush said wistfully, “I wish some
vody’d invite me on a long trip so
L could ride in one.” sk
_ As for the old fashioned girl,
e commented, “I love ’em.”
While he says he is havinga lot
of fun just being alive and an ex-
Confederate, Bush said he didn't
Wwant to live too tong, just “as long
& Moses, ‘who lived to be 120
years dfl:"l’"‘.""‘~ CPET RARR R o
. SERVING ATHENS A’A\«.\ig&;)RTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY. Rt
Associated Press Service
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Home Rule Wins Here, 8 To 1,
In Citywide Voting W ednesday
In a citywide referendum Wednesday, voters approved Home
Rule for Athens by a margin of slightly ‘more than 8 to 1, the vote
being 250 for the proposal ahd 31 against. ;
As had been expected, the vote was light, since there had been
little or no opposition expressed to the city adopting the provis
ions of the Home Rule Bill.
The bill was passed by the last State General Assembly and
was supported by Clarke county’s two members of the House of
Representatives, Chappelle Matthews and Grady Pittard, jr., and
by State Senator Robert G. Stephens.
Yesterday marked the second time Athens had voted favorably
for Home Rule, the first election being invalidated because the
bill was ruled unconstitutional.
The Third Ward rolled up the largest margin of victory for
Home Rule, the vote being 119 for and 2 against, or 59 to 1.
Next largest margin was in the Fifth Ward, where the vote was
33 to 4, or slightly more than 8 to 1.
The Second Ward followed with 56 votes for and 8 against, or
7% 1,
In the First Ward the vote was 16 for and 4 against, or 4 to 1.
Clnsest vote came in the Fourth Ward, where 26 voted for Home
Rule and 13 aaginst, or 2 to 1.
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School Superintendents
Hear Doris Lockerman
TOPEKA, Kas., July 12—(AP),
High waters swirled over Kansas
today in the state’s most disas
trous flood, leaving at least five
fersons dead and thousands home
ess.
Five, ami possibly eight persons,
were missing.
Swollen rivers surged far be
yond their banks into scores of
communities.
The waters swept many areas
in eastern and central Kafsas that
have been flooded and reflooded
dqring the Ist two months of heavy
rains.
The Army eng.neers office at
Kansas City estimated damages at
$25,000,000 from the present and
recent floods along the Kansas and
its tributaries.
Trains were stranded. Motorists
were marooned. The National
Guard, the Air Force, Marines,
Coast Guard and Red Cross all
joined volunteers in aiding eva
cuees and patroling dikes.
Boats were flown to some flood
ed areas and dropped by para
chute.
The majority of 10,000 residents
of North Topeka, across the river
from this state capital, evacuated
the area.
Breaks in dikes sent flood wa
ters of the Kansas river pouring
into North Topeka early today.
‘ Water stood knee-high in the busi
‘ness district and deeper in some
areas close to the river.
~ The river—the state’s greatest—
is expected to reach its highest
level in history of 33 feet at
Topeka tonight.
Flooding already has inundated
large sections of many towns. Ot
tawa, Council Grove, Manhattan,
Marion, Strong City and Florence
are among the hardest hit.
In addition to damages suffered
by towns, farmers have lost miil
jons of dollars in crops and the use
of rich bottomland for the re
mainder of the growing season.
The wet weather has bogged down
the wheat harvest.
| FOR HUNTER FIELD
WASHINGTON, July 12—(AP)
—The House Armed Services Com-~
‘mittee today tentatively approved
construction programs estimated
to cost $225,000,000 at Air Force
bases in the United States.
The bases and estimated expen
ditures include:
Hunter Air Force Base, Savan
nah, Ga., $24,451,000.
JET PLANT EXPLOSION
7 Killed One Injured
INDIANAPOLIS, July 12—(AP)
At least seven men were pelieved
killed and another was injured
seriously in an explosion and fire
today in the Huge General Motors
Allison Plant where jet engines
are being made for the Air Force.
Major Harold E. Wilber, Air
Force public information officer,
said:
“There are probably seven dead.
Possibly one more was also killed.”
Major Wilber made the an
nouncement after an inspection of
the tangled debris.
Two mangled bodies were
prought out abouf three hours
after tive blast. :
Maj. Wilber said it may take
hours to recover some of the other
bodies, buried beneath tons. of
concrete.
Maj. Wilber said the names of
the dead would be relefa’sed a:fi
uhemumlogthe milies
peen notified. All ‘were c h
Georgia school superintendents
in conference at the University of
Georgia found out this morning
what the public expects of the‘
Minimum Foundation Program for
education.
Mrs. Doris Lockerman, public
relations director for Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation, told them in
one word. “Everything.”
“The public will expect miracles
as usual,” she said.
But the former associate editor
of the Atlanta Constitution didn’t
stop there. She went on to name
specific things the public will ex
pect and has a right to demand.
Apologizing for a pat on the
back that actually shoves teachers
into mere work, Mrs. Lockerman
said that the teaching profession
has done a “devoted job” but that
more and more and more is go
ing to be demanded of them.
“Teaching is a profession,” she
said, “and professional people
don’t don’t work by the hour. Peo
ple who work with. human beings
spend all their time with their
work.” 3
The school now is returning to
its former status as a place of
family pleasure, she said. The
school must become a place where
children are taught to live, to
play, and to work with people in
stead of simply a place where
children learn to spell, read, and
work arithemetic.
“Where was it that we circum
scribed the program of the school
and said that we couldn’t teach
children about living?” she ask.
Parents have given the school a
position of respect and responsibi
lity, she pointed out. Teachers and
superintendents must have the ini
tiative to take it.
Earlier Mrs. Lockerman said
that teachers in the past had as
sumed that if they gave children
the truth that they would draw
the right conclusions.
«Children aren’t mature enough
to make their own conclusions,”
she said. “Their thoughts must be
directed. Schools should do heavy
programs on what things mean.”
Mrs. Lockerman spoke at the
opening session of the annual Sup
erintendents Planning Conference
at the University. The conference
will last through Friday.
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FOUR KILLED
BRIDGEPORT, N. J., July 12—
(AP)—A car, crushed between two
trailer trucks, burst into flames
last night burning to death a Na
val jet plane pilot, his wife and
two children, |
A fifth victim, 15-year-old June |
Mecßride of Hopkinton, Mass., died
today. |
The crash occured on the ap
proach to the Bridgeport slip of ‘
the Chester-(PA)-Bridgeport fer
ry. I
employes. Eight men were known
to have been working in the
building.
The major attributed the explo
sion, about 4 a. m., to gas vapor
but he couldn’t say what set off
the blast,
“There was positively no sabo
tage,” he said.
He added that a leak had been
reported in a gas line and its
source was being sought shortly
before the explosion.
Maj. Wilber said he could give
no estimate of the dama&e.
The outside walls of the small
building in which the explosion
occurred appeared to be intact,
but the interior was wrecked.
Two big tanks partially filled
with propane gas are located
about 50 feet from the building.
Officials said it was remarkable
they failed to explode and if they
had let go the damage would have
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ATH';»*‘: JA., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951.
Reconciliafion -
Peace With -
Japs Unveiled
BY EDWARD E. BOMAR
WASHINGTON, July 12.—(AP)
—The United States and Britain
as co-sponsors formally wunveiled
today a “peace of reconciliation”
with Japan they expect to be
signed by some 50 nations.
Ambassador John Foster Dulles,
in charge of negotiations for the
U. S., said it was still hoped Soviet
Russia would join in the settle
ment. But he gave notice the ‘
other nations otherwise will make
peace without Moscow,
The treaty, which Dulles term
ed “unique” in history, is due to
be signed at San Francisco the
week of September 3. It strips Ja
pan of its pre-World War Two
overseag holdings, but permits the
Japanese to rearm and in other
major respects restores the former
defeated empire ot the status of a
sovereign equal in the free world.
The signing is to be followed by
a U. S.-Japanese pact permitting
the U. S. to retain troops and mil
itary bases in and near Japan,
pending the future creation of a
system of collective security for
tke Pacific. A three-way security
pact among the U. S., Australia
and New Zealand and a separate
commercial treaty between this
country and Japan are parts of
‘the general settlement.
| Revised Draft
The revised draft is the product
of more than a year’s negotiation
with the other principal Pacific
allies in which Dulles took the
lead as the U. 8. representative.
He predicted it will be “generally
acceptable to the 50-odd nations at
war with Japan.”
“No one will be 100 percent sat
isfied but almost everyone should
be about 95 percent satisfied,” he
said in a statement.
Dulles listed as unique the di
rect negotiations by which the
terms were worked out without a
general peace conference, the re
storation of a free Japam without
any attempt to lngose permanent
restrictions, and the £:‘lflclple of
collective security un the Unit
ed Nations. By this arrangement,
he said, “there will be a combina
tion of U. S. and future Japanese
forces, and perhaps others, so
that it would be materially impos
sible for Japan to wage a war of
revenge.”
Dulles, Republican adviser to
Secretary of State Acheson, term
ed the widespread agreement on
terms “strikin% evidence of unity”
among the U. 8., Britain and
France.
Detailed Terms
Detailed treaty terms already
have been reported. The State
Department said the draft has
been distributed to the ‘“nations
principally concerned” and a final
revision will be made about July
20 on the basis of their comments.
But Dulles said there is no in
tention of reopening consideration
of major issues and that only
minor changes will be permitted.
The final step before the San
Francisco signing ceremony is dis
tribution among the countries
which merely broke relations or
had lesser roles in the Pacific
war.
After keeping aloof, Russia four
months ago started denouncing the
treaty plans initiated by the U. S.
Moscow insisted that the big pow
ers, including Communist China,
make the treaty terms. Moscow
said they should include continued
disarmament of Japan and return
of Formosa to Red China,
At a news conference, Dulles
said he hoped Russia will sign but
that so far the Soviets have not
indicated any zeal to do so. He
said that the other nations will
proceed in any event and noted
that Moscow has no veto.
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sergeants now on duty in Korea.
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in a newspaper they immedi
ately sent enough money to At
lanta so she could have roses
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NEGOTIATORS AT KAESONG—Led by Colonel Andrew J. Kinney (of Atlanta),
the United Nations peace negotiating team leaves the meeting building in Kaesong
after the first day’s conferences with Com munist delegates. Following the colonel is
the chief negotiator, Vice Admiral O. Turner Joy, and Major General L. C. Craigie.
At the right is a Communist guard, sporting a medal, a Russian “burg” gun and ten
nis shoes. Negotiations were reported broken off today on the issue of UN press
representation at the scene of the talks.— (NEA Telephoto.)
UN Assembly May Appoint Neutral
To Supervise Korean Peace Talks
Uniform Scal
For Pay, Work
- ATLANTA, July 12.—Uniform=-
ity of teacher workloads and pay
scales throughout the University
System to correct discrepancies
due to misinterpretations of previ
ous instructions has been ordered
by the Board of Regents.
This actton Wednesday followed
the complaint of Regent Sandy
Beaver, of Gainesville, that be
cause of the misinterpretation one
institution in the System had
spent $38,000 improperly.
The misunderstood order, Bea
ver szid, ruled teachers should be
paid a third of their annual com
pensation for carrying a full
work-load during summer ses
sions. The misunderstanding arose,
said Beaver, from various inter
pretations of what constituted a
full workload.
The Regents passed a resolution
by Beaver instructing all Univer
sity System officials to co-operate
with Chancellor Caldwell and Dr.
Merle Prunty, jr., in making pay
scales and workloads uniform,
Regentg accepted the offer of a
450-acre tract of land in Burke
county as the site of -the new
middle Southeast Georgia Agri
culture Experiment substation.
Near Waynesboro
Located near Waynesboro, the
farnr was donated by Burke Coun
ty Commissioners.
A lid was slapped down on es
tablishment of any more experi
ment substations “until the possi
bilities of the three present ones
are realized or until expanded re
search becomes necessary.”
Earlier, the Board ruled no pro
fessor would receive a pay boost
solely because he was leaving for
a higher-paid job.:
Regeants establish promotion,
(Continued On Page Four)
Red Resistance
U. S. ARMY HEADQUARTERS;
Korea, July 12—(AP) )—Attacking
United Nations forces ran into
stubborn Red resistance on the
east-central fighting front today.
An Eighth Army communique
said Allied troops attacked south
east of Kumsong against light re
sistance but soon became “heavily
engaged” with an undetermined
number of Reds. The Communists
used semi-automatic and automa
tic weapons and mortar fire. Kum
song is about ten miles east of the
Reds’ old “iron triangle” staging
area,
The action was contlinuing in
late afternoon.
To the east, Allies threw back
two light Red probing attacks.
Only light enemy contact was
reported by Eighth Army patrols
along the rest of the war front.
U. N: naval units kept up their
strategic bombing along hte east
coast yesterday. :
The American destroyvers Blue
and Evans and the destroyer es
cort Naifeh pounded targets at the
long-besieged transportation hub
of Wonsan.
The British Frigate Morcambe
Bay blasted Communist supply
routes around Songjin far up the
North Korean coast.
By FRANCES W. CARPENTER
UNITED NATION, N, Y., July
12 —(AP)— Appointment of a
widely-known neutral, possibly
from Sweden, as United Nations
representative -to supervise a
ceaase-fire in Xorea is being con
sidered by some top U. N. dele
gates and Secretary-General Try
gve Lie.
flr’:'hcre was no bhint that cease
rbut some fi‘em:u are mmm
ahead to the next gggflfle step.
| No individual is g mention=
ed at this time, it was said author
itatively, but the possibility of ask
ing a Swede to take this ticklish
job is being studied. Sweden has
recognized Comunist China and is
one of the few maintaining a rank
ing envoy there.
Neutral Tradition
The Swedes have a tradition of
neutrality. The feeling in the U. N.
is that a Swede would be accep
table to both sides.
Persons discussing the cease-fire
representative also mention that
an Indian might be considered.
The U. N. representative, they
continued, should be a civilian,
with powers to recruit as many
military men as needed from both
sides to supervise the cease-fire.
His sole job would be to make cer
tain that the terms of the Armistic
are being obeyed. As the job is be
ing discussed now, he would not
have powers of mediation nor
would he have anything to say
about the peace talk. He would
tour all of Korea to check on the
cease-fire and make reports to the
U. N., most likely to_the General
Assembly.
Likely Report Channel
Any report Any report on am
Any reptroaonasee cmmmbm m
Any report on a cease-fire like
ly will be made to the Security
Council through the Unified com
mand, which is the United States
government, The Security Council
dropped the Korean case from its
books last January so the General
Assembly could not act on an Am
erican-backed resolution tagging
Red China an aggressor in Korea.
The case would not have to be put
back on the council business sheet,
since the council already has asked
for reports and they have been
made regularly by the unified
command.
The feeling here is that the af~
fair will wind up in the General
Assembly, with the 60-nation poli- ‘
tical committee given the responsi
bility of talking over the next‘
move and hammering out a dccis-l
ion,
.
Pay Hike Asked
For US Workers
WASHINGTON, July 12—(AP)
President Truman today asked
Congress for a seven per cent pay
increase for government workers,
and a Senate committee approved
increases the members said yould
average 8.4 per cent.
The action by the Senate Post
Office and Civil Service Commit
tee came less than three hours
after Ms. Truman’s request, but
was not directly responsive to it.
The committee has been study
ing the question of a pay raise for
government workers for months.
About 2,000,000 government
workers would be affected—soo,~
000 in the postal service and 1,
500,000 classified civil service
workers,
The President proposed a seven
per cent “across the board” in
crease—meaning the same per
centage increase for all workers
irrespective of their present pay.
The Senate committee plan,
however, would not give all work
ers the same percéntage increases.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Indicted Reds
Back In Priso
NEW YORK, July 12—(AP)—
Fifteen indicted Communist lead
ers were back in jail today after
a federal judge cancelled thelr
1 $176,500 bail.
. Judge Sylvester J. Ryan dis
qualified the Civil Rights Congress,
which had posted $171,000 of the
bail, from further activity as
bondsman in any case in his court.
The judge placed the same ban
on Frederick Vanderbilt Field,
Leftist millionaire and secretary
and trustee of the Civil Rights
Congress bail fund. Field had per
lortxally posted bail for one defend
ant.
The 15 second string Red lead
ers lost their liberty after Judge
Ryan made his ruling late yester
day on the ground that the bail
fund is “irresponsible.” There had
been long argument on the gov
ernment’s motion for revocation
of bail.
Unless Judge Ryan’s ruling is
upset on appeal, the 15 will re
main in jail until they can obtain
bail from other sources.
Defense counsel said it was im
possible to get commercial bonds
men to go bail on the defendants
because of their *“‘political unorth
odoxy.” ‘
There also were these develop
ments slated for today: ‘
1. The U. S. Senate’s Internal |
Security Committee subpoenaed
Field to appear at a closed session
here. Among other things, the
committee planned to questlonl
Field about the bail the Civil
Rights Congress posted for four
missing top Communist leaders.
The committee, headed by Sen.
McCarran (D-Nev.), shifted the
site of the hearing from Washing
ton to New York. |
2. Two trustees of the bail fund |
—Mystery Writer Dashiell Ham
mett and W. Alphasus Hunton—
sought to get out of jail on bail.
A hearing on their pleas was
scheduled in the U. 8. Circuit
Court of Appeals.
3. Sen. McCarran, who also
heads the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, ordered a study to deter
mine whether new legislation is
needed to deal with Communist
bail jumping.
ATHENS AND VICINITY l
Partly cloudy and rather hot
today, tonight and Friday.
Chance of thundershowers Fri
day afternoon. Saturday partly
cloudy with afternoon thunder
showers. Low tonight 70, High
tomorrow 94. Sun sets 7:46 and
rises tomorrow 5:31.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and rather hot today, tonight
and Friday with scattered thun
dershowers in extreme north
portions Friday afternoen,
TEMPERATURE
AR - s e GELEE
RRGE . s e i
BRI .. ask Pun hen shuntß
WAL ... i kT
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since July 1 .. .. .. 332
Excess since July 1 .. .... 112
Average July rainfall ~ .. 5.01
Total since January 1 .. ..24.87
Deficit since January 1 ... 3.81
HOME
EDITION
When Reds
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BY JIM BECKER
KUNSAN, Korea, July 12,
—(AP)—Korean cease-fire
negotiations were broken off
today on the issue of United
Nations press represem
at Kaesong, site of the
ferences.
There was no indication
when talks would be resum
ed.
Sessions scheduled for to
day were cancelled after
Communist guards refused
to let a truck load of 20
newspapermen pass a check
point with a U. N. convey.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U. N. delegate, said there would
be no more cease-fire talk wuntil
the Reds agreed that “my eomvoy,
bearing the personnel of my ¢hoos«
ing, including such press represen
tation as I consider necessary, will
be cleared to the conference site.””
Joy ordered the entire 17-ve
hile convoy to turn back from the
Red check point where the news
men were halted.
The U. N. commander, Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, said it was
“all or nothing.”
The five allied armistice negoti«
ators did not leave Munsan ‘Thurse
day for their scheduled sessions in
Red-occupied Kaesong, 12 miles
away.
They won’t return, Joy ane
nounced, until the Reds permit the
U. N. party, as selected.bdy U. N,
representatives, to proceed imtact.
Joy so informed North Korean
Gen. Nam 11, head of the Com
munist cease-fire delegation, in &
strongly worded dispatch sent to
Kaesong by helicopter.
Ridgway View
General Ridgway informed the
Communists Wednesday that the
“presence of a selected number of
newsmen at a conference of such
major importance is considered an
inherent right by members of the
United Nations.”
At that time he said flatly they
would be “an integral part of the
United Nations command delega~
tion to any énd all future wessions
beginning 12 July.”
Thursday morning thé Com
munists replied that they wheul
like to have press representatives
—-~but not yet. The convoy, inelud
ing newsmen, already was om its
way.
‘When armed Red guards insist
ed, politely but firmly, on eutting
the newsmen out of the eonvoy
all vehicles were ordered back and
talks were broken off.
The general impression here was
that the break was temporary.
The opinion among many mili
tary men and some correspomdesits
was that the whole situation was
the result of a Communist mis
understanding, although delegates
have been arguing over press rep
resentation since talks started
Tuesday.
Prevailing Feeling
There was a feeling that talks
might be resumed later im the
week,
Admiral Joy’s message to Gen
eral Nam made it cledr the U. N,
is ready to go on with the wease
fire talks, but insists on deciding
for itself who shall be in the Al
lied party.
His message, dispatched im
mediately after the convoy return
ed, read:
“Subject: Termination of recess
of conference.
“To: General Nam 11, North Ko
rean Army.
“1. At 0930 July 1951 (6:30 p. m.
EST Wednesday) my motor con
voy, proceeding along_thc Mun
san-Kaesong road, bearing person=
nell desired by me at the eonfer
ence site, wag refused passage to
pass your control post by your
armed guards.
«9 1 have ordered this convoy
to return to the United Nations
lines. -
«3. T am prepared to return with
my delegation and continue the
discussions which were recessed
yesterday upon notification from
you that my convoy, bearing the
personnel of my choosing, includ
ing such press representation as I
consider necessary, will be cleared
to the conference site.”
General Ridgway, Admiral Joy
and Lt. Gen. Sir Horace Robert
son, commander of British Com
monwealth troops in Korea, spent
three hours in conference after the
convoy was halted. Their meeting
ended 30 minutes after the hgli—
copter returned from delivering
Joy’'s message to General :fl
There was no explan of
. Robertson’s presence, ‘
At the time Lt. Gen. James A.
Van Fleet, whose powerful U. S.
®ighth Army holds lines running
20 and 30 miles into Red Korea,
was aboard the U. S. flagship El
dorado off the west coast. He
appeared surprised to learn that |
peace talks had been interrupted.
~ But Van Fleet declined ecom- |
ment. He said, “That’s their bus- i
iness.” - ~
Thursday’s developments |
brought to a head a request ori
ginally made by Admiral Joy
Tuesday that 20 Allied press rep
resentatives be allowed' in Kae- |
song but not in the confer ie
room itself, I
An Army announcement said
General Nam at first accepted this
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