Evening star., 1953-12-25

Corden wrote his adopted"
mother, Mrs. Joseph Fontaine,
of plans to come home after the
Korean war, marry and settle
down.
But ex-POWs who knew him
in prison camp reported he had
been converted to Communism
and that the Reds had to move
him because of threats from fell
low prisoners.
Kin of many refuse to believe
the POWS are making free
choices.
Says Mrs. Howard L. Rush, of
Marietta, Ohio, of her son, Corpl.
Scott L. Rush, 81:
THE enemy by every evil
means has imposed its will upon
our boy. who is not remaining
with them through his own free
will and desire"
| Mrs. Malbert Griggs, of jack
sonville, Tex, won't believe that
the prisoner listed as Pfc. Lewis
Griggs, 81, of Neches, Tex, is
her son. 81 did not rear a Com
munist," she says.
Pvt. Richard r. Tenneson, 20,
Of Alden. Mimi, once was picked
up in Nebraska on a juvenile
delinquency charge in an auto
theft case and released to his
mother.
Parents Divorced.
Sheriff Lloyd Frank, of Buf-
falo County, Nebr., recalls that
young Tenneson had the notion
he shouldn't be punished for TAX
ing the car because he felt all
property belonged to everybody
and he had right to use 1t.
Pfc. Arlie Pate's former boss
says he can understand "how
someone might lead him into
thinking Communism is great"
Pfc. Pate, %, halls from Car
bondale. III. He is the son of q
southern Illinois hill country
farmer who has been unable to
work for IA years.
Said Jim Nieman parts de-
partment manager of an East
st. Louis, ILL.,, motor firm for
which Pfc. Pate drove a truck:
"He was little slow to get
the drift sometimes and we had
to write down each Of the stops
we wanted him to make. The
kid was easily led"
Louisiana Farm Boy.
Pfc. Aaron p. Watson, 81,
comes from Urania, q small
farming community in central
Louisiana. He is the oldest of
eight children.
His sister Mrs. Myrtle Rogers,
reports:
my brother doesn't even know
the meaning of Communism"
Pfc. Clarence Adams is "a, a
Negro. His father is dead. HIS
mother checks clothes in a
Memphis, Tenn, laundry for a
living. He got average grades in
high school, she reports, and
loved his home"
Pfc. William c. White, %, OF
Plummerville, Ark. Is also q
Negro. His folks own a farm
and he had a reputation around
home as a hard worker. He
needed but half a term to grad
uate when he quit high school
in Wichita Kans., to join the
Army.
Up in Fort Ann, N. Y, prayers
will be said this Christmas for
the return of Pfc. Morris Wills,
20. His mother died when he
was IL. and he lived with his
father, William, who is employed
by the county public works de-
partment.
Pfc. Wills was known as quiet
boy who never got into trouble.
Folks in Kermit, Tex. feel the
Communists got to Corpl. Claude
]. Bachelor, "a. before he was
old enough to realize what was
happening.
Lost Parents Early.
Sergt. Harold H. Webb's moth
er died when he was 8. shortly
after she and his father sepa-
rated. He is now %.
An aunt, Mrs. Evelyn Kip
| stine, of Fort Pierce, Fla, with
whom Sergt. Webb lived for two
years before enlisting in 1948.
said he was, fond Of fishing and
athletics like a normal Ameri-
can boy"
| Pfc. James Veneris' family lives
in Hawthorne and Gardena,
but he was born. went to school
and worked in Vandergrift, Pa,
| He liked to talk about politics