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Evening star., 1950-10-20
BY the Associofed Press

MOSCOW, Oct. 2O.-Pravda
heaped scorn today on Harold E.
Stassen, calling him silly, crude,
ridiculous and several other things
for requesting a conference with
Prime Minister Stain on world
peace.
One of the Communist Party
newspapers top commentators
Vuri Viktorov, signed the article
the first comment on the October
2 letter by the former Republican
Governor of Minnesota to Stair
urging face to-face peace talks.
The Pravda article amounted l.
categorical rejection of the Stas-
sen proposals. The writer made
it plain that the Soviet govern
.ment does not consider Mr.. Stas-
sens letter worth a formal an
swer from the Kremlin.
The official newspaper Of the
Evening star., 1950-10-20
80 South Koreans
Reported Set Afire
With Gasoline
BY Bill Shinn
Assoeiotsd Press War Correspondent

SEOUL. Oct. 20.-Eighty Ko-
rean political prisoners-both men
and women-were set af1re with
burning gasoline by retreating
Communists at Koksan, so air
miles southeast of Pyongyang, the
commander of the South Korean
Army disclosed today.
Maj. Gen. Chung II KWon told
this correspondent he had never
seen such an "unspeakable atroc-
ity." He visited Koksan yesterday
during a frontline inspection of
the Republican I'd Army Corps.
No one could see the horrible
sight of bodies burned with gas
without shedding tears" Gen.
Chung said.
"Atrocity is not an unusual
thing as far as the Communists
are concerned" the Korean gen.
eral said. 'but burning living
people with gas is more than sin
and crime"
He said the Korean Reds jailed
the men and women in a ware
house near the Koksan police sta
ton and set it af1re with gasoline
The families of the victims were
crying with "agonized faces and
hurting hearts," Gen. Chung
added.
Maj. James H. Houseman
American military adviser to the
South Korean Army commander
in chief, confirmed the atrecity
He said grimly:
ITO the Communists, life means
nothing"
Evening star., 1950-10-20
FondahI Says Delays
In Staff CIearances
Hinder Civil Defense
States Prospective Aides
Refuse to Woit Until
FBI Makes investigations
By Miriom. Ottenberq

Inspector John E. Fondahl said
today civil defense here is being
definitely hampered' by the law
requiring a Federal Bureau of In
vestigation investigation before
even a messenger can be hired
for the civil defense staff.
The acting civil defense director
made the statement as he moved
into new quarters in the National
Guard Armory with a staff of
two-one of whom is on loan from
the Police Department.
Inspector Fondahl said that
when the Commissioners ask
Congress for a new civil defense
law after the recess, he will urge
deletion of the clause which bans
employment of technical, cleri-
cal. stenographic and other per-
sonnel" until the F'BI has cleared
them.
Cites Clerical Shortage.
lie complained that with the
present shortage here of clerks
and stenographers, he is unable
to persuade prospective employees
to wait month or more until the
FBI has made its investigation.
Inspector Fondahl made it clear
he was not criticizing the FBI
Continued on Page A-3, Col. g.
Evening star., 1950-10-20

gram there is not the word peace,
nor the word international CO.
operation In the program of
Harold Stassen there is arms race
and further intensive preparation
for war. The hurriedly put on
mask of the peacemaker cannot
hide the real face of Harold
Stassen."
Mr.. Stassen, said Pravda, "in
is letter demands no more, no
SIS than a change by the Soviet
Union of it's policy.
"It is not difficult to see that
Stassen is not only crude but also
ridiculous in advancing this wild
demand which excludes all posi-
bility of serious view of any de-
gree of document worked out by
the president of Pennsylvania
University in cooperation with
veteran warmongers Eisenhower
and Dulles" ..siAfsst.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Fairfax Official Dies
In Crash, Second Hurt

A Fairfax County deputy COM
missioner of revenue was killed
and another deputy was injured
critically today in a two-car COL
lision on Route l 3 miles north of
Richmond.
James Buckley, 81, deputy in
the land division, died on the way
to the Medical College of Virginia
Hospital. Walter Buckley, %, who
is the chief deputy to County
Commissioner of Revenue John
Ferguson, is in critical condition
in the hospital.
The men, who were not related,
were on their way to Richmond
to attend the annual commission
ers of revenue convention. The
accident occurred about 10 am,
Virginia State police reported. No
details of the. collision were avail
able.
James Buckley leaves his wife
and a 9-month-old daughter. He
lived at Clifton, in Fairfax Coun-
ty, and was a son of the late D.
w. Buckley, who for many years
was member of the Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors.
James Buckley had been en-
ployed by the county since 1947,
and became a deputy commits
sioner of revenue in July, 1948.
Walter Buckley, his wife and
their 18-month-old daughter are
residents of the town of Fairfax.
He has been chief deputy revenue
commissioner for about four years.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Walter Reed Pays SIS Per Pint
For Blood 1t Could Get Free
Red Cross Says 1t Could Meet Needs;
500 Pints Month Cost Hospital $l2, 500

ter Reed. He said, incidentally,
that supplies of whole blood and
plasma are ample overseas.
Col. Michael L. Sheppeck, WAL
ter Reed executive officer, said he
was notified of the policy only
when he called the Surgeon Cen
erals Office after queries from The
Star. At the Surgeon Generals
Office it was said that Walter Reed
had just been notified today.
The Defense Department said
adoption of the voluntary blood
procurement policy was an
nounced by Former Secretary of
Defense johnson on May s, 1850
1t was not until this week, how
ever, that the Army Surgeon Gen
erals Office began notifying Army
hospitals throughout the country
(roptipiled m paoe "A T0l q
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Provdo Calls Stossen Plea Ridiculous and SIIy'

party also made it clear that thu
Soviet view is that the Stasser
letter was couched purposely il
terms impossible for the Soviets tt
accept.
(Mr. Stassen, now president
OF the University of Pennsyl-
vania and a former aspirant for
the Republican presidential
domination, urged Stain in the
etter to make possible a face
oo-face meeting of Americans
and Russians in an effort to
stop the drift toward war" He
$50 urged Stain to change Rus
sa'S present policy and move
oward world peace and free
com for mankind.")
Viktorov wrote that Mr.. Stas-
sen understands the Stiffness OF
his demands" He said:
"Stassen. by his statement
showed that in reality in his pro-
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Russia Warns West
She Wont tolerate
Arming Of West Reich
Notes to U. S., Britoin
And France Reject
Police Army Charge
By the Associated Pres,

LONDON, Oct. 2O.-Russia, in
notes to the United States, Britain
and France, has warned that she
will not tolerate creation of
German army in Western Ger
many, the Moscow radio said
today.
The broadcast said the warning
was in identical notes to the three
Western powers rejecting as un-
founded their charges that the
East German peoples police is in
fact a military organization.
Claiming that the peoples
police in Eastern Germany was in
full accord with directives of the
Allied Control Council for all Ger
many, the Soviet note to the
United States declared:
"At the same time the Soviet
government draws the attention
of the Government of the United
States to the existence in the
Western zones of Germany of po-
lice formations which are in point
of fact army units.
Police Functions Questioned.
The arming of these forma-
tions, their organization struc-
ture, training of officers in special
schools and also the fact that they
undergo regular army training
and take part in military maneu-
vers together with the occupation
troops of the Western powers
leave no doubt that these forma-
tlons are in no way designed for
dlscharging usual police func-
tions."
The note said the three Western
foreign ministers meeting in New
York on September 19 granted
Western Germany the right to set
up mobile police units which are
in essence military units"
1t also alleged that the three
Western foreign ministers pro-
vlded for the participation of
Western Germany in the Joint
armed forces of Western Europe
However, sources at the New
York conference said they were
unable to agree on that step at
present because of French OBJ
jections.
Revival of Army Charged.
In other words" said the So
Wet note, "it is openly envisaged
to revive the German army, which
stands in utter contradiction to
the rulings of the Potsdam con-
ference on demilitarization of
Germany"
"The Soviet government states
it will not tolerate such measures
of the governments of the United
States, Britain and France aimed
at reviving the German regular
army in Western Germany" the
note concluded.
Russia charged that the West
ern powers, in recent notes to the
Kremlin, were trying to cover up
their own attempts to revive a
West German army by claiming
that the Soviet-sponsored East
German police force is a military
organization.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Survivors Reveal Red Brutality
To 283 American Coptives
Starved and Beoten
En- Route From Seoul
To Enemy Capital
By Tom Lambert
Associotsd Press War Correspondent


PYONGYANG. Korea, Oct. 20.
Three nearly starved American
prisoners today told a ghastly tale
Of a death march" from Seoul
to Pyongyang by 283 United
States soldiers.
Many of their comrades, the
bearded trio said. were beaten and
murdered by their Communist
captors. The Reds shrugged their
shoulders and said a few more
atrocities against them did not
matter.
The few survivors. said the lib
Grated prisoners, boosted the
American POWs held in Pyong-
yang to 373. Most of the 373
were moved to the north to an
unknown fate as Pyongyang be-
gan to totter.
The three said they saw no
other Americans in Pyongyang
except those they marched with
from Seoul.
They said they were told in
Seoul that Maj. Gen. William F.
Dean, commander of the United
States oath Infantry Division, who
disappeared when Taejon fell last
July, was in Pyongyang.
But when they arrived here
they were told Gen. Dean had died
in Seoul. There was no conf1r-
nation of this report.
Swinging down Stain street
the Russian-named main street of
Pyongyang - the bearded and
long haired captives were found
by a group of correspondents as
the prisoners marched arm in
arm with three North Korean
students who had befriended
them. The Americans told of
buddies being beaten and mur-
dered" on a torture march from
Seoul.
Hiding Since Saturday.
The three American survivors
we're:
Air Force Capt. William Locke,
80. route 2. Enfield. N. c.. an F-51
pilot whose wife Ronda and g.
month-old daughter Karon were
at Yokoda air base in Japan when
he crashed in North Korean ter
ritory near Waegwan August IT.
Army 1t. Alexander Makarou-
mis-, q, of Lowell, Mass, of Com
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Week S Second Storm
Heads Toward Florida
From Gulf Of Mexico
Hurricane Warnings Fly
On West Coast From
Ft. Myers to Cedar Key
BY the Associoted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 2O.-Hurri-
cane warnings were hoisted along
the Florida West Coast at 1890
pm. today from Fort Myers to
Cedar Key. and storm warnings
flew elsewhere over the entire
Florida peninsula.
The second hurricane Of the
week was bearing down on Flor
ida, this one from the Gulf of
Mexico. 1t contained winds of
about 80 miles an hour with higher
gusts.
A violent hurricane swept from
the Atlantic over Miami late Tues
day and early Wednesday with
peak winds of 1875 miles an hour.
1t killed three persons. injured
about 100, inflicted damage of SIS
million to $40 million and left
about $50 persons homeless, mostly
lin the Miamf-Fort Lauderdale
areas. Two other persons died in
cleanup work after the storm.
The new storm was moving Is
miles an hour to the east-north-
east and was less than 800 miles
due west of Fort Myers this after
noon.
Direction Reversed.
The disturbance. first observed
four days ago as squalls. appeared
to be an offshoot of Tuesdays S
hurricane. For two days the
squalls appeared to be moving in
westerly direction, toward the
Texas coast. Then, early yester-
day, the new storm did an about
face toward Florida.
Florida's hurricane death toll
increased from three to five yes
terday when two men were killed
at Miami while repairing storm
damage. One man was killed
when he fell from an airport
hangar roof and another was
electrocuted trying to repair a
power line.
Schools in Dade (MiamD Coun-
ty reopened today after a three
day forced vacation for the coun-
tvs children.
Schools Damaged.
Many schools were damaged.
School Superintendent James T.
Wilson said maintenance crews
have worked around the clock to
repair damage-mostly to roofs
of the county's 80 buildings.
Boats marooned in Miami River
anchorages since Tuesday began
moving back down the river. Elec-
trio power which operates the
bridges has been restored to most
bridges.
A fleet of As trucks and three
cranes were working to clean up
debris in Miami. Primary concern
at this point IS removing trees
blocking streets. More than 200
loads Of debris-mostly foliage
was moved yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-10-20

pany I, 29th Regiment, captured
near Hadong July 81.
Army Sergt. Takeshi Kumdai
of Honolulu, headquarters COM
pany, 34th Regiment, oath Divi-
sion, captured July 20 when the
Reds took Taejon.
They had been hiding since
Saturday.
Had Hidden Under School.
The three were survivors of a
group of 283 American prisoners
of war marched here from Seoul
in late September and early Oc-
tober.
The three Americans had hid
den under a school and been fed
by the three students. They came
out today as the city fell to Amer
ican and South Korean troops.
The trio said the Red Koreans
Continued on Page "A, Col. A.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Z Hurt as Greyhound Bus
And Car Crash at Roanoke
By the Associated Pres.

ROANOKE, Va, Oct. 20.-At
least seven persons were injured
today in the head-on crash of a
Greyhound bus and an automobile
on Route 220 a few miles south of
here.
A check of local hospitals
showed three patients at Memo
rial and four at Lewis Gale. None
OF the seven was described as
serious. 1t was believed about Is
others were shaken up.
Lester Funkhouser, a dispatch
er at the Greyhound terminal
here, said the bus driver told him
a car heading south toward
Rocky Mount attempted to pass
another automobile and collided
head-on with the northbound bus.
The dispatcher said he did not
know how many persons were on
the bus, which was coming to
Roanoke from Danville.
Evening star., 1950-10-20

national organization in Washing
ton to make the race against Sem
ator Hickenlooper. He resigned
his Office as undersecretary and
ran in the primary against Nels
Kraschel. Otho Wearin and a
couple of other candidates. He
won. with Mr.. Kraschel running
second.
Mr.. Loveland, working hand in
glove with Secretary of Agricul-
ture Brannan in Washington. was
regarded as a 100 per cent Simon
pure upholder of the Brannan
farm plan, program or bill-call
it what you will.
SHES Away From Plan.
That, however, Is the plan
which has aroused the ire of the
powerful American Farm Bureau
Federation. and the farm bureau
in Iowa is particularly strong. So,
instead of flying a Brannan farm
plan banner, Mr.. Loveland has
SHE'D away from the Brannan
plan by name and contents
himself with speaking in support
OF major features Of the plan, es-
pecially the production payments
plan for perishables.
The Brannan farm program
from which the Brannan bill
eventually emerged-was given a
great birthday party in Des
Moines in June, 1949. The Bran
nan plan was hailed as the great
issue which would be forced by
the Democrats in the 1850 con-
gressional elections unless Con-
gress meanwhile should enact it
into law.
Amid great fanfare, the word
went out that Democratic candi-
dates for Congress would bear
aloft the Brannan banner. Now
even Mr.. Loveland never men,
tions the plan in his campaign
ing, and many other Democratic
candidates-like Senator Lucas Of
Illinois actively oppose the plan
Extolls Its Principles.
According to Democratic SUD.
porters of Mr.. Loveland, this
ht-about-face on the Brannar
plan is just another case of CIV
ing a dog a bad name. So Mr.
Loveland is going right along ex-
trolling principles of the Bran
nan bill, but never identifies
them with the Brannan plan.
This has given his Republican
opponent. Senator Hickenlooper,
an opportunity to charge that the
Democrats are seeking to drag the
American farmer into the Bran
nan plan through the back door.
He goes on to say to Iowa voters
that they can be sure that if Mr..
Loveland is elected to the Senate
Mr.. Loveland will certainly 90
(See LINCOLN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-10-20
|LoveIand Given
|Litt|eChancein
Iowa Election 4
Democrat bitches
Bronnun PIon in Fight
On HickenIooper
By Gould Lincoln
By Gould Lincoln
Stor Stof4 Coryesponden,

DES MONIES, Oct. 20.-Alberi
]. Loveland, former Undersecre-
tary of Agriculture and the Tru-
man administrations white hope
in the fight to hold on to the
farm vote Of the Midwest, has a
tough-and some say impossible
job on his hands to defeat Repub-
lican Senator Hickenlooper. I'm
less some unforeseen incident OF
issue arises to change the situa-
ton, the probabilities are for 9
Hickenlooper victory.
Mr.. Loveland was picked by the
administration and the Democratic
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Featured Reading
Inside Todoy's S Star

VIRGINIA HARvEsT-Theres been
doneins in the streets Of Chorlottes-
, vile, reports Stor Stoff Correspondent
George Kennedy. os he tells of the
rich apple horest in the Piedmont
country on Poee B-l.
MARYLAND PoLITIcs-RepubIico
ore hoping to capitalize on the split
in Dorchester County's Democratic
ronks. Stor Stoff Correspondent Alex
R. Preston predicts in todoy's report
from his tour with the Free Stots
eondidotes on Pose B-l.
RED THREAT IN GERMANY-Ths
West Reich chancellor feors time 10
running out for Strengthening the West
osoinst Soviet aggression. soys BIoir
Moody in the Iotest Of his series on
6ermon attitudes and tensions on poss
AIS.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Prisoners Reported
Transferred by Reds
To Northern Frontier
BY The Associofed Press

PYONGYANG, Oct. 90
American and South Korean
war prisoners were reported
today to have been trans
ferred by rail to the extreme
northwest corner of Red
Korea.
A South Korean civilian
said his brother worked on
the railway which took the
United Nations troops north
ward.
American forces, which
drove into Pyongyang yester-
day. had hoped to rescue
many Americans held by the
Reds.
The civilian informant said
the war prisoners were taken
to the towns of Aoji, Lain
and Ungi.
Evening star., 1950-10-20
.0nIy2Pupi|s Show Up
Al SIowe School After
Parents Call Strike
PTA Leeds Movement
In Protest Against
Port Time Glasses
By Colt Hendley, Jr.

Parents of pupils at Slowe Ele-
mentary School today refused to
send their children to classes as
a one-day protest against the es-
tablishment of part-time instruc-
ton there.
The Negro grade school, located
at Fourteenth and jackson streets
NE, has a capacity Of 180 anc
an enrolment of 244.
When school opened this morn
ing at 8 am, only two pupils
were there to begin their classes
One was sixth-grade student
and the other a kindergarten
pupil.
They left within an hour wher
parents came for them.
It was on Wednesday the Boare
OF Education voted to establish
one part-tim class there for first.
graders so that the diversified
classes could be reduced. The 4(
children affected were scheduled
to begin halliday classes on Mon
day.
Rooms to Be Ready Soon.
The Slswe Parent Teacher AS
sociation has been demanding
that the school board give irnme-
diate relief to the admittedly over
crowded school. 1t asked the
board to allow the Negro pupils
to go to the nearby Noyes Ele-
mentary School for white chill
dren.
Noyes, with an enrolment of
338. is % children under capacity
The school board rejected this
suggestion and also voted not to
transfer a white school in the
area to Negro pupils. pointing out
the overcrowding at Slowe would
be relieved in the near future.
Six additional rooms on the Sec
ond floor of Slowe are expected to
be completed by February l, the
school board pointed out.
Solution Called Unjust"
The Slowe PTA, at a special
meeting following the Board of
Education action, voted to keep
all children out of class today as
a protest against what it consid-
cred an unjust and unfair" So
luton to the problem.
The PTA said it is expected
that the children will be back in
classes on Monday unless the par
ents decide differently in the
meantime.
The group Is meeting again to-
night to discuss further action
A. Kiger Savoy, associate su-
perintendent in charge of colored
elementary schools, said Slowe
would remain open all day ready
for any and every child" who ar
rives for classes.
School Officials Wait.
Mr.. Savoy pointed out that un-
der the Districts compulsory
school law, a parent must keep a
child out of school unlawfully for
{See STOWE SCHOOL, Pg. A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Sees War Ending.


The paratroop operation. %
miles north of the captured Com
munist capital of Pyongyang, cut
the escape of diehard Red troops
still hanging around the north
rim Of the city.
After flying over the scene, Gen.
Macarthur said:
Il didn't see any opposition. 1t
looks like it was complete sur
prise. 1t looks like we closed the
trap. Closing the trap should be
the end of all organized resist
ance. The war is very definitely
coming to an end"
Gen. Macarthur did not am
plify his appraisal that the war
was coming to an end.
The parachute landings were in
two-battalion strength.
The number of 'chutists was not
reported. But with 100 planes
dropping IS men each the total
would approximate 4,200.
The airborne troopers floating
down 80 miles south of the Man
churian border, slammed shut
the Red escape gates north of
Pyongyang.
They sought, too, to rescue
American prisoners whisked ont
of liberated Seoul and to seize
the fugitive Red military head
quarters.
No Word on Prisoners.
But, up until late hour today,
there was no word whether the
American prisoners-some of them
forced to a death march from
Seoul-had been rescued.
Some prisoners liberated In
Pyongyang said many died.
They said these included Maj
Gen. William F. Dean, commander
of the United States oath Division
who disappeared in the battle for
Taejon in July, early in the United
Nations defense of the South
Korean republic. There was no
confirmation of the report about
Gen. Dean.
Less than "a hours after United
Nations troops seized the Red
heart Of North Korea-Pyongyang
the United States parachute
battlers were writing the final
pages of the United Nations his
toric first armed police action.
The aerial operation was virtu-
ally unopposed.
Seal Off Escape Routes.
The Americans sealed off the
highway and two railroad escape
routes.
Cruising over the area, Gen.
Macarthur puffed on his corn cob
pipe and told correspondents
Closing the trap should be the
end of all organized resistance"
It was the first parachute land
ing of the Korean war.
The parachute troopers were
moVing-by that time-toward the
Continued on Page A-4, Col. ~
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Bulletin
Chest at % Pct. of Goal

The Community Chest drive in
the Washington area climbed
past the million dollar mark to-
day to reach % per cent of its
S4,26O,000 goal. Four Wash
ington units reported $523,848
in new subscriptions, bringing
the grand total to S1,O03,441.