Evening star., 1953-09-04

seemed to be heading to success
Koreans would see me.
1.-The South Koreans that day
had certainly been indoctrinated
to search out Americans"
Discovered His Rank.
The general described the Ko-
reans as youths of about II or
18 "who seemed to be happy and
excited because they had been
given guns by the North Ko-
reanS."
He said the Reds discovered
! he was a general at Chongiu a
/ few days after his capture. They
took him to Chongju in a truck
with about 20 Korean soldiers.
He arrived there late at night
''as our planes were bombing the
town.
"They put me in a 20-man cell
all to myself"
The Reds called a news con-
ference for him with the 'Ko-
rean press
The general said he saw
many of the same people there
l had seen when I was military
governor of South Korea"
He was shuttled around to a
number of Korean cities and
villages during his captivity.
Last June 16, Gen. Dean was
returned to the Pyongyang area.
He reached Kaesong August 5.
Had Good Quarters at KaesOng.
"There I lived a plutocrat,"
he said. "I had the same quar-
ters the 7th Division had as an
outpost when I commanded the
7th (during the occupation). 1t
was a beautiful place.
There was a waterfall and
they had a Chinese cook for me-"
he said.
Gen. Dean said the Reds fed
him tea, meat. bread and butter
all I wanted" The Reds also
insisted that he drink vodka be-
fore dinner each day.
Gen. Dean said it was not un-
til his Korean press conference"
at Kaesong that he knew the
news of his capture had been
suppressed for more than a year.
IT thought the news of my
capture was we'll known" he
said. He said he was not ques-
toned by the Reds after October
2, 1850.
1t was not until January Is,
1852, that he got anything to
read and then most of it was
Communist literature"
I'm pretty well read on Com
muniSm." he said wryly.
Gen. Dean said he was in the
custody of Koreans the entire
time. His guards were three to
nine Koreans, each equivalent
to an American master sergeant.
Guards Were Friendly.
"The only English they could
speak was what they learned
from me-" he said.
Il was addressed for three
years as you"
Gen. Dean initiated the way
the Koreans yelled you" at him
"a short sharp bark. They
didn't mean anything by it. They
were very friendly. They were
really a nice bunch of boys"
The general said he was
turned over to the custody of
a Korean officer early in Janu-
ary, 1852.
Conditions improved for Gen.
Dean in July, 1852.
He said that he got canned
meat from the Reds and "butter
when they had it, which was
seldom"
"They desired me to be well
fed, but I would split it with
the guards because couldn't see
eating better than they did"
AS a result, Gen. Dean said,
the Reds actually thought he
was eating better than he did.
But it wasn't their fault Il
was giving food to the guards on
my own" he said.
Fortunate About Letters.
On August 5 the Reds gave
him a tailor-made suit and shirt.
He got a Red Cross package yes
terday. 1t included razor
which had wanted terribly for
three years."
The general said he had been
very fortunate about getting
letters"-64 from his daughter.
35 from his mother. Is from his
wife and 9 from his son.
Gen. Dean said he refused to
broadcast even a message that he
was alive on the Communist ra-
dio because 81 didn't want to
open the door" for propaganda
broadcaStS.
i am counting the hours until
I return home," he said.