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Miller
the wrecked house
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not made known at once.
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Oklahoma City, and the passengers
he muttered a curse:
It may be hot here today, but
consolation: It was far worse
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Denton Water
Barometer
about 20 out on stretchers. It's the (ta Wi
worst I’ve ever seen and I’ve Mich) <
Commissioners
Plan Sessions
On City Budget
City commissioners will meet at
7 p.m. today, Friday and Monday
to discuss Denton’s 1954 budget.
The open meeting, which will be
held in the council room at City
torture by Communists tryl
obtain military information
and plunged 25 feet into a ravine.
Two of the injured were from
Lubbock. They are Martina Olivet
Tate and Bobby K. Lee. Both were
taken to a hospital at Weatherford.
One American ambulance driver
said they had orders not to make
any moves against the rebellious
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The dead were unidentified five
hours after the collision three
miles were of here on Highway 66.
Marshal E. W. Lewis, one of
the first on the scene, said the
dead were seattered about and the
U. S. men told of torture in North
Korean stockades. They told of
to maJ
spring
viewed.
Miller said apparently the ve-
hicles both were traveling east
and locked together going down
a grade onto the bridge. They
came to rest in a creek bed which
had several inches of water.
Miller said -I don’t know how
many we carried up. We took
was driving
back.
Why had the
these sick and v
the disabled exc
atomic bomb target areas, Wynn
built a substantial concrete-and-
steel shelter—just in case.
“When we started talking about
building a bomb shelter, people
weren’t as bomb-conscious as they
are now, and they took our project
pretty lightly," recalls Mrs. Wynn.
“But lately we’ve had lots of in-
quiries from people who have de-
cided that it isn’t such a bad idea
after all.”
The spacious concrete structure
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ATOMIC PROTECTION—This storm cellar in the back yard of the J. B. Chandler
home I* effective against atomic blasts,. says the U. S Civil Defense Administration.
Freddie Stringer Jr., a guest of the Chandlers, is shown entering the cellar while
Paul Rex Leslie, Mrs. Chandler’s grandson, watches. (Record-Chronicle Staff Photo).
SO SAY GOVERNMENT EXPERTS
Freed POWs Relate Stories
Of Beatings, Death Marches
Hall, are scheduled until 10 p.m.
A routine business session
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"May God damn the Commu:
nists:" •
This aftermath of war
has raised galling questi
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dinghya, rafts or ana
Hneseueeboate -dropped
were further dimmed
PILOT POINT—A sign of the times? -
Watermelons have replaced steers in the big cattle trucks of •
Wayne Sitzes, stockman whose ranch is five miles northwest of
Pilot Point...
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Water pumped yesterday from
Denton wells-—3,835,000 gallons.
Water pumped Aug. 5, 1952—3,-
072,000 gallons.
166**9 highest daily figure—4,538,-
DENTON AND VICINITY: Clear
to partly cloudy and continued
warm today, tonight and Friday.
Possibility of a few scattered
thundershowers.
Denton County rainfall so far this
year: 11.21 inches; this month: do
inches. Sun rises Friday at 5:46;
sets at 7:24. Fishing Friday: godo.
TEMPERATURES
(Ekperimenf Statien Report)
trailer hung C
ment after the car and bus hurtled
F.
gpod shape
25 Turks all appeared healthy.
hunger and beatings and buddies
who died.
Many of the diehard Red pri-
oners sent north broke MM- a
frenzied demonstration a*/ they
left U. N. hands. They /howled,
screamed, ripped their clothing
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the more intense an dpersonal. A
new Army censorship rule allowa
a liberated prisoner to tell only of
atrocities he saw.
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at daily figure — 4,-
u, July 26. P
ceiling for 23 searching, aircraft to
about 1,000 feet
- One faint radio message from
the freighter Manchester Shipper
raised the possibility that more
men might have been found alive.
The skipper said be was bringing
in survivors. Previous messages
said the ship had only one survivor
and two bodies.
A sister ship, the Manchester
Pioneer, bound for Canada, report-
ed the three survivors it picked
up have been transferred to the
Canadian Pacific liner Empress of
Australia, enroute to Liverpool.
The ship is due Saturday.
The U. S. Air Force headquar
ters at South Ruislip said the
search is being pressed with the
392 Return On |
Second Draft,
Two Are Dead
PANMUNJOM « Commu
nists gave back 392 Allied wal
prisoners today.Two already are
Some of the South Koreans an-
grily tore off their clothing and
shouted at Red personnel, but they
did not attack them.-neSout
Korean spat at a nearby Commu-
nist officer.
A pain-wracked South Korean
summed up the ROK feelings as
tog-
"Thank God for that,” said
Elias Ramires, the soldier’s father.
Joe is the youngest of nine chil-
dren and the family's only boy.
In Corpus Christi, Mrs. Valentin
DeLeon aaid, "I hope all the moth-
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part of today's M retun
could hardly welk, Ot
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dead and others were gaunt and
haggard but many returned t
freedom laughing and shouting.
Seventy Americans came out of .
the Red prisoners. Forty-two at
them were sick or wounded. 21
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LONDON CP — Stormy seas
dimmed hopes today for 15 Amer-
ican airmen missing from the giant
U. S. Air Force P.B36 bomber
which crashed in flames in the
Atlantic yesterday.
Only eight of a 23-man crew have
been accounted for officially.
Four were picked up alive from
the rough water. Ships found four
bodies. The Swedish freighter Mon
lea Smith said it had picked up
a body in the crash area shortly
after noon today.
Wind increased in violence today
over a 200-mile expanse of heaving
sea, 300 to 500 miles west of Ire-
land as planes and ships searched
the area
The vessels reported by feeble
radio that the wind reached veloci-
ties of e knots, causing long swells
and 15-foot high waves.
Hope of finding more survivors
incidents do not happen again,"
The outbursts obviously were set
up for waiting Mod photographers
and newsmen.
Panmunjom today. Another died
shortly after.
Stili other ROK soldiers were
reported at the edge at death. They
losked.pittul.
The Communists said they would
send back too more Allied captives i ■
tomorrow in the third day of the
Korean War prisoner exchange.
Eighty-one will be Americana,
bringing the total for three days
to 221.
One South Korean died in a Com-
munist ambulance en route to
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Reported Better
Jack Blanka, who has been •
polio patient at City-County Hoe
pital in Fort Worth for 10 days, la
improving satisfactorily, Blanks to
the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Blanks, 212 Hann.
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FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea
on—Americans and South Koreans
freed by the Communists today
told of beatings, burnings, death
marches and starvation at the
ARAB, Ala. ( — A distraught
mother answered her children’s
invitation to join them in play yes-
terday by cutting their throats and
alashing herself wildly.
From a hospital bed Mrs. Pearl
Griffin told Coroner Aubrey Carr
she felt her nerves "let go" about
four months ago.
Carr said the 26-year-old mother
killed Rickey Griffin, 6, Ronnie.
- 4, and Rosalind, 3, while they were
alone in ter parents’ home in
Oleander, seven miles north of
here. Her father, RkT. Chaney,
said she had been suffering with
a nervous disorder.
Carr said the mother told him
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down the ravine. He said the super-
The extent of their injuries wag -structure had been ripped off and .
laid on the east side of the high- Reds, but said they were told to
POW SHEDS HIS CLOTHES—A communist prisoner
of war who has shed his issue of UN clothing except for
his undershirt and cap, is greeted by a Communist of-
ficial at Panmunjom as the initial exchange of POWs
gets under way. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo).
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Distraught Mother
Slashes Children
Um water wipoly, Comeerve dur-
Ine Texas" seriovs drovght.
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Evidence Upholds
General’s Figure
WASHINGTON (AP)—Gen. Mark Clark said today the
Reds may hold between 2,000 and 8,000 more American
prisoners than the 3,313 they have said they will exchange.
The Far East commander also told a news conference He
applied today for retirement from the Army, effective Oct.
81. He aaid he had made no plans as to what he will ao
when he doffs his uniform after 40 years Army service.
Clark said of the Korean prisoners:
The United Nations has evidence indicating the Com-
munists hold many more prisoners who should be returned.
greatest energy despite difficulties.
At least eight ships in the general
area, have been alerted and long
range planes from half a dozen an w «« ugs wumy, uut
fields in Britain are ready to drop Denton County residents have one
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CAR-BUS WRECK
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Aug. 6 last year.
On the corresponding day in
1152. the mercury sizzled up to 108
degrees at the Denton Agricultural
Experiment Station, as a torrid
heat wave held Denton County in
a tenacious grip.
High in downtown Denton was
112, the recording being made at
the Lone Star Gas Co. gauge in
the city.
Today's maximum is expected
to be near the upper 90s. esier-
day's high was 95, but the humid-
ity made it seem much warmer.
Minimum this morning .was 69,
coolest since July 17.
The Weather Bureau today called
far a few widely scattered thun-
dershowers, but no widespread
precipitation was in sight.
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He said he knew at “at least 69
officers who were so ill they should
have been returned” last April
during the exchange of disabled
prisoners. He Mid . the Reda told
him be was held back “because I
. DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 6, 1953
blockade on rail trace! to West
Berlin's free food stations was
cracking today under the pressure
of East Germany’s hungry millions.
Thousands of Soviet toners were
joining the throngs of East Ber-
liners lining up for food packages;
many reported they had/been able
to buy railroad tickets to Berlin
for the first time since Saturday,
when the East government damped
on its ban.
East Germany's government
made no announcement it was lift-
ing its ban, and in many places
tickets reportedly still were not on
sale. Relief officials, however, re-
ported that people from farther
reaches of the Soviet sone said
railway employes had sold them
tickets quietly at various stations.
The cracks in the blockade be-
came apparent last night after rail-
road workers in Brandenburg prov-
ince—which rings Berlin—slipped
through 40,044 of their hungry
countrymen.
Others got around the travel ban
by bicycling, hitchhiking with trail-
er trucks or coming by bus to
stations near Berlin and then on
foot Into the city. Railroadmen also
officer was hit in the mouth and
"fhr"t."nemfana protested
AIL Nofficensaid lateh
munists told him "they
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Lt Col. Thomas D. Harrison,
highest ranking American officer
yet returned in the two-day pris-
built in the spring of 1951. It is
equipped with benches around the
walls, and is dry and comfortable.
Two grandchildren have adopted it
for a playroom when it isn't being
used as storm protection—a ser-
vice to which it has been put three
or four times this summer.
Emmett Wynn, who lives on the
old Fort Worth Highway just out-
side of Denton, got a six-year jump
on the bomb-shelter project. In
1947, spurred by the thought of
Denton’s proximity to potential
By RAUL BLAKNIY
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
The old fashioned earth-covered
storm cellar isn't old fashioned any
more—it is the latest wrinkle in
protection against possible atomic
bomb attacks.
And anyone who joined the pota-
toes and onions stored in the
"fraid hole," as storm cellars are
often called, would probably come
through an atomic bomb attack in
good shape.
At least, the U.S. Civil Defense
Administration has decided that
storm cellars are superior to large-
capacity air raid shelters which
were planned early in the program
of national preparation.
These individual shelters, of
which Denton County has many
and the city at Denton several,
may Mt be so conducive to good
fellowship as the large, commun-
ity-type units, but their earth-cov-
ered roofs and buried sides give
protection from debris and flying
glass as well as from atomic radia-
tion, the CDA reports.
Mrs. J. B. Chandler, 519 Rose
St., has a concrete-and-steel storm
cellar in her back yard. However,
she says that it was built for pro-
tection against tornadoes and not
atomic blasts. “But I guess it
would come in handy, at that, if
an atom bomb ever fell around
here,” she agrees.
The Chandler storm cellar was
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as rain reduced visibility to about a house trailer collided on a bridge
to held back I
tod men from
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‘ashington. Sen. Potter (R-
■ demanded a senate juvesti-
Stockman Turns To Wat ermelon
av-
ome
fil-
Big
Mt
inuredovehe K were too shaken up to be inter-
a veterah cattleman, is proving there are other ways
qney. He planted several acres to watermelons last
today is in the midst at a watermelon bonanza.
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ig-
But Harrison seemed in good
condition as he talked after his
repatriation.
Pvt. Martin Guerrero's mother,
53-year-old cleaning and washer-
woman, accepted her son’s release
calmly. She said she “felt better
mw and was relieved."
A widow, she said she had re-
ceived about one letter a year
from her 21-year-old son since he
was imprisoned more than three
years ago.
Mrs. Isabel Ayala Ramirez was
praying at her family altar when
newsmen called to tell her that
CpI. Jo* E. Ramirez, 23, was on
his way home.
"Ym?” ah* said, "tonight? Oh,
oner exchange, arrived on crotches
with one leg missing, 1, -1 •
Communists starved him seven
He has brought a truckload of the melons to town Marly ovary
day since they became ripe. One truckload consists of over 400
melons, most of them the extra large type.
Sitzes is not out of the cattle business, but apparently he b
not anxious to sell any of the large herd on his 640-acre ranch at
present-day prises Right now he b tod busy trucking watermelons.
tailed in an
in April, the POWs told
told horror stories which I
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and eloquence to influence other • The accoun
Prosper Building
Home For Rural
Superintendent
Special to the Record-Chronicie
PROSPER — Construction of a
frame house for the use of the
Prosper Rural High School super-
intendent has been started.
Jim Mahard, chairman of the
board of trustees, said today that
work on the house should be fin
ished in approximately one month.
Superintendent Hamilton Still, who
was formerly head of the Rankin
schools, and his family will-occupy
the house.
Two teaching positions on the
faculty ere now vacant. The va-
canies were caused by the resigna-
tion last week of Mrs. Ray Grum-
ble*, fifth grade teacher, who will
be on the faculty of the Celina
school system, and Floyd Whit-
tington of Oklahoma City, who was
to be high school commercial
teacher. The two vacancies have
attracted, several applicants but
the board has not yet chosen the
teachers.
Party Cloudy, Werm
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she had repeatedly asked her fam-
ily to send her to a mental insti-
tution, and had told her husband
she was going to kill herself.
Sho said she had worried about
leaving the children to be "pushed
around.”
When the children called to her
to join them in play, she picked
up her father's razor, went up-
stain and killed them. Carr said
the mother related.
Hosea Griffin, 16 year-old brother
of the woman, said he mw blood
dripping from the yelling of the liv-
ing room when he returned to the
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The youth ran to th* upper floor
and found the bodies of the chil-
dren on the floor The mother lay
among them, still clutching the
razor. .
fruitless attempt sweepingly lurid as ordeals de:
information, be scribed by sick and wounded
e----PCWa treed test April, were al
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By THB ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nine more Tezas homes received
the glad tidings Wednesday night.
Their soldiers wepe back in
United Nations hands, back on
freedom’s side after months and
years as pisners of war.
"Oh, my God...Thank God...
Gracias Dios...It's God's will...
Thank God.”
The exclamations were jubilant
and the prayers at thanksgiving
were fervent. Of some 70 Ameri-
cans returned to UN control, 9
were from Tezas, making a total
of 19 Texans returned from Pris-
oner of war camps in the first
two days of "Operation Big
Switch."____. .______
"Oh, boy!” said Joe Hubbard of
San Antonio when told that his
son, Pvt. William Hubbard, waa
the 11th Texan returned to freedom
since the prisoner exchange start-
ed Tuesday.
"How is he? He's not sick Is
he?” Hubbard shot the questions
thick and fast, and answered most
of them himself. "He said in the
letters he was feeling pretty good.
Getting plenty of food, such as it
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“Thousands upon thou-’
sands” of South Korean* still
are unaccounted for and there
‘may be between 2,000 and
3,000” more Americans in
enemy prison camps.
Clark, who will return to his
Tokyo headquarters in a few days,
said the Third Marine Division,,
now under way to the Far East,
will be stationed in Japan.
He said there are no plans now
"for anybody to come back from
Korea.”
He explained he meant there is
no current intention to move sny
large combat unit from Korea.
Reports earlier said dart would
head The Citadel, South Carolina’s
military college.
Clark said when the Communists
first offered to exchange something
over 3,000 American prisoners aft-
er a cease fire, be reported to
Washington the total waa dose to
estimates made earlier by his
command of th* number of Ameri-
cans who might have been cap-
tured.
He said liter information, ob-
tained from Americans returned
in the sick and wounded exchange
early in May and from other, ph
es ‘Light Up’
for their families and friends.
At the dose of distribution last
night nesrly 160,000 parcels had
been distributed, despite bad wea-
ther and the travel restrictions, to
lift the 10-day total to 1,600,000.
As further evidence that Commu-
nist police control was breaking
down, a record number of 51 men
deserted from the Easter "people's
police” army Md gendarmerie
yesterday and last night. This
topped the previous daily record
of 46 set in June.
Many deserters said they were
revolting against orders to enforce
the hunger blockade and persecute
East German hungry who had
come to Berlin to fetch the Amer-
ican parcels.
Perhaps due to this police sab-
otage, East zone reports said that
confiscation of food gifts appeared
to be easing. But the violent press
against the "Ami (American) beg-
gar parcels” continued unabated.
way. Its contents were strewn
about the area and a baby chair
and a tricycle came to rest in the
creek bed. n:
The bus driver, BID Pratt of
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Denton RECORD-CHROP
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be all right,” said Ray Harrison
of Amarillo, speaking of Lt. Col.
Thomas D. Hatrrison, his brother
from Clovis, N. M.
But all had not been well with
Harrison. He told a story of brutal
Clark Says Reds May Hold
3,000 More American PWs
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Denton Texas
prisoners."
Harrison, a 32-yearold fighter-
bomber pilot from Clevis, N. M.,
is th* second cousin. LL Gen,
Wiliam K Harrison, senior Allied_____,
------------true* negotiator. He is one at 79 Korean, was
days, then repeatedly smothered Americans freed today at Pan-
him with a wet towel and revived munjom. •
more Americans.
The Far Eastern commander
said Washington authorized him to
continue the armistice negotia-
tions, reserving the right to “pro-
test and pursue” the matter of ad-
ditional prisoners in the military
armistice commission which now
is supervising the truce.
“All we could have done was
to accuse the Reds (of holding
back on prisoners) without posi-
tive proof,” Clark said.—
Clark was asked whether the
United Nations could have won the
war in Korea. He replied:
"We could have won if we had
massed the means — additional
ground, sea and air—to do so. That
would have been the only means
to have obtained a military vic-
tory.”
Clark said he personally would
favor using “any and every weap-
on at the disposal of my country"
if the Reds broke the truce in
Korea.
HYDRO, Okla, un-Five pw was in the ear, which I
x.Fmngand-zcanyerewaucea
him. He said he was given no food
for seven days and all the time
made to watch other people eat.
On the eighth day, Harrison
said, the Korean National Police
put a towel on his face and poured
water on the towel.
"When that is done you cannot
breathe,” Harrison said.
"When I passed out they would
bring me back by jabbing me with
lighted cigarettes ”
Palin A 14 other Dread Diseases,
up to $15,000, 611 per year entire
family. JM Nichole Ina
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