European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                October 1950 the stars and stripes Page 1 87 yank pics saved hear in Chino 30 american freed As communist guards were binding their hands to execute said last night a North korean doctor told them two Days ago maj Gen William Dean was alive and in charge of a prison Camp in North the sick and hungry americans were liberated Date thursday by 25th div forces at they reached a Forward Clearing station last night with remarkable stories of unwitting fatal attacks by planes and Many close brushes with commander of the 21th has been missing since july the Day after be got out of Tea Job with remnants of his this latest Story thai he still lives and is a prisoner does not agree with one Given 1st Cav div officers thursday by three escaped South korean they said they overheard red guards planning to move Dean from a prison at Chingju to 70 Miles s sgt Elmer of said the North korean doctor in their prison told them he had treated and talked with Dean and that he was the prisoner commander of a Camp in red North there have been conflicting accounts whether Dean was other prisoners confirmed Mcgrady the prisoners said they themselves had not seen the unshaven Aad Clad in Lous Ridden the freed with a few told of general fair treatment by their captors but some abuse by South korean local police and almost All of the group had bleeding feet from Long nights of March ing Bare foot or in korean most of them were captured by the reds at Hado Tig july 27 when the 3d 231h 24th was Cut to some were from the 2cs inf taken when its lines were broken temporarily by the red offensive Only one officer and one negro Soldier were among those they said they believed the reds usually separated officers and negroes from other presumably to shoot though they did not they also said most South koreans who were captured were shot Down the 2d it Kenneth of Clover Hill it had been wounded in leg and lagged behind on the Many Long marches the reds forced the prisoners to three South korean Farmers saved my life by volunteering to carry me five Miles when i could walk no he the liberated men declared one of their buddies was shot by Ibe North koreans two Days after his fellow prisoners bad carried him for 28 Days because he had a crippling gangrene infection of the this was the Only atrocity they Mcgrady and Cpl Charles of both told of this they said they did not witness it but heard three pistol hols and were told by a korean police inspector that the Man had been killed by a they there were no planes in the yesterday the guards started tying the arms of All men who were not said m sgt Telesphor of we knew they were going to shoot put in Sec novel of they had tied the first ten men when a Piane came the reds ran our tanks came along a few minutes later before the guards could come Back and murder a few of the liberated men wanted to resume booed the task Force to take me said pvt Charles pass of but they said they could not do Tad one of the narrowest escapes from death while a he said air rockets exploded within 10 feet of him As he cowered behind a two other americans were wounded in that others said air raid on Handong july killed is prisoners and wounded 59 they said were forced to Bury their dead Cor grades 11 Days South korean women brought us food and tobacco at almost every said pvt Lewis of i saw one North korean guard tear off his badge and throw it on the floor in front of Bis officers when they refused to let him Bandage our said pvt Don of Oregon not All the stories were so pvt Donald of Al related that one guard made prisoners sit straight in an unnatural position for and beat them on the head with a pole when they All the prisoners were bitter in telling of some civilians who spat at and kicked them when they a that korean women and older people showed kindness that Yave them the strength to medical men of a Clearing company commanded by capt Boyd Hin of stayed up All night to care for the liberated every Man got a sponge Bath and warm Candy and clean when the medics ran out of they gave ii their own Beds to the freed food prices drop 1st Tamesin jejune 30 food prices dropped this week in wholesale markets for the first time since the Start of the korean the government reported the drop amounted to of 1 per cent during the week ending last tuesday and left wholesale food prices per cent higher than be fore the the drop was attributed largely to a seasonal de Cline in livestock and meat Bureau of labor statistics prices of nonfarm Corn Modi ties kept climbing in whole Sale by last tuesday they readied the highest level since world War per cent above the previous week and per sent higher than unemployment lowest in 21 months 30 the number of unemployed in the dropped in september to the lowest level in 21 the government by a strange quirk in Commerce department figures showed that employment also More than from augusts record this was due largely to a sea Sonal slowdown in farming and the return to school of thousands of Young summer these changes would not be shown on unemployment Safe sultans deadline sept 30 special Safe personnel reminded that today is the deadline on off duty Wear of summer in invites red China to debate Murphy shifts 400 cops in shakeup new 30 Yorks police department rocked under the biggest shakeup in its history yesterday less than an hour after Thomas Dewey threatened state intervention if City officials failed to put their fingers on the powerful figures both in and out of Public office involved in a multimillion Dollar gambling police commissioner Thomas in an unprecedented pub Lic announcement to 350 of the departments lop shifted every plainclothes policeman on gambling duty Back to they will be replaced by men neither besmirched nor the shift involved 400 men presently assigned to gambling including acting captains and lieu usefulness impaired Murphy told the police brass that investigation to Date of the police Bookie Protection Racket showed such widespread evidence of corruption that the usefulness of the departments gambling squads was this deplorable condition is aggravated by the fact that some commanding officers appear to be the prosecutor of Alger Hiss told his Murphy said his own investigation of the department showed thai some of the special plainclothes squads assigned to gambling duty were almost wholly he were to some extent television paces stocks As Market moves irregularly new sept 30 Stock Market churned around irregularly yesterday in less Active but selected issues continued to Chalk up Sharp Nickel plate again dominated the proceedings with a jump of Points on top of a similar Rise other rail shares were spotty with Atchison up and Union Pacific Down televisions were the pacesetters in the Industrial with motor Ola up Philco up and Admiral up Goodyear gained Points Chrysler was up general foods up and Sears Roebuck up fractional losses were sustained by Westinghouse and Bethlehem Standard of new Jer sey lost in the plot on Hitler told by Falkenhausen sept30 Neville former British prime had put up More hitter would have been overthrown by his generals in Gen Alexander Ernst von Falken Hausen claimed before a Brussels court martial the who is on trial for War crimes committed As military governor of Belgium during the German made the state ment while being interrogated on his anti Hitler activities by the court Achille at the time of the Munich con von Falkenhausen said he was a member of a resistance move ment led by count he said everything was ready for the overthrow of but the move ment failed because hitlers prestige soared with Bis victories at Munich nominated by gop 1 former Arthur Coo Lidge and Coolidge display Victory Aralles at Boston after learning be had won the Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts is a Cousin of the late president Calvin group charges bbl proved 30 British broadcasting was under fire today from a listeners association which charged the bbl with broadcasting russian attacks on Friendship and Brit ish in Guise of a commentary on the soviet the association had the support of an ultraconservative member of sir Waldron Smith who has demanded in the House of commons a purge of communists within the government chartered radio bbl position the bbl position was that the broadcasts actually were effective anticommunist they consisted mostly of Reading of vitriolic Moscow newspaper attacks on the West which were so transparently the bbl is sure its listeners could see through the listeners association is a Small but vocal group with a retired Navy As its Secretary and guiding it has made no charges against individuals within the bbl in has attacked the output of the National radio As main target their main target is a program called soviet it is the one in which extracts from russian newspapers and Broad casts Are repeated on the the association has compiled a Tran script of the program and Points to some passages As blatant and calculated russian one such program quoted an article in pravda written by soviet air Force marshal Vershinin who said while the soviet people waged a tense and bloody War against Hitler Ite Germany single handed for three the leaders of the Anglo american armed forces delayed their invasion of Formosa airing set As nationalists lose veto bid sept 30 the United nations Security coun beating Back a Las minute veto attempt by the chinese National yesterday decided to invite chinese communists for the debate on Formosa Britain sir Gladwyn president of the Security Council for waded through successive ballots on the question As nationalist chivas Yingfu insisted that his against the Resolution constituted a and he Vole against the presi dents ruling to the contrary constituted the or the Formosa question was raised by Russia at request of the piping and charged that president Truman order to the 7th Fleet to protect Formosa from in Vasion constituted against the chinese comm stat government the vote came As a Climax to 4 bitter Campaign by the soviet Union to obtain a hearing for the a similar to seat a piping delegation in the general has been conducted last action it Days ago when the general Assembly voted Down an India proposal that the chinese nationalists credentials be rejected in favor of Brazil voted seats on Security Council 30 the United nations general As Sembly elected the Netherlands and Brazil to the Security Council on the first ballot yesterday As Turkey and Lebanon battled it out for third vacant the Netherlands replaced nor and Brazil took Cubas seat the votes were 47 and 57 respect a two thirds or m was needed for 9 5 missing As destroyer hits mine off Korea sept 30 the destroyer Brush struck floating mine of the korean coast wednesday and nine of her Crew men were the Navy closed five others Are missing and m were the blast Tore a Large Hole in destroyers Side below water line and one of her fire rooms was flooded but she port in under her own steam after emergency a Navy spokesman said no in formation has been received on what Type 01 mine was struck or How it came to be in the he said it might have been japanese other warships rushed to stricken Vesse acid helped Rescue crewmen blown the mishap occurred while Brush was steaming through sea of off the City of Tao on the Northeast coast of to All the victims were enlisted save i bomb not certain 30 the government said yesterday it is not yet known whether the Hydrogen bomb will be the statement was with out in a report on efforts to achieve International control of atomic included in the state departments new Book let on foreign the atomic Energy commission disclosed More than three ago that the question of developing a workable bomb was still in but there had been no official Progress report president Truman ordered dec last january to attempt development of an which theoretically would be Many As destructive As an 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