Chinese Reds Release
Last Two American
Priests From Prison
HONG KONG, UP) — Peiping j
radio announced the release Sat-j
urday of the last two American j
Catholic priests -imprisoned in
Communist China.
The Rev. Joseph P. McCormack
of the Maryknoll Seminary, Os
sining, N. Y., and the Rev. Cyril
P. Wagner of Pittsburgh, Pa., and \
Chicago, 111., were released at
Shanghai, a broadcast heard
here said.
They were freed “on the ex
piration of their prison terms,”
the broadcast said. The two
priests were arrested June 15,
1953, and sentenced to five years
in prison on Communist charges
of espionage.
There was no immediate indi
cation when—or even if—the
two priests might leave China.
Their release leaves four Amer
icans known to be still in Chinese
Communist jails on spying carges.
They are businessmen Robert
E. McCann of Altadena, Calif.,
and Hugh Francis Redmond of
Yonkers, N. Y., and John Thomas
Downey, a civilian employee of
the U. S. Army from New Brit
ain, Conn., and Richard George
Fecteau, also an Army employee,
from Lynn, Mass.
A third American Catholic
priest, Bishop James Edward
Walsh of Cumberland, Md., is
still in Shanghai. He had been
held under various forms of
house arrest and detention but
never been imprisoned as far as
is known.
Bishop Walsh long has been
reported free to leave China if
he wants to. In 1955 he told a
British newspaperwoman in
Shanghai, “My work, my post is
here ... I want to stay if I
can.”
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Industrial
Production
Rose In May
WASHINGTON, UP) — U. S.
industrial production took an up
swing last month for the first
time since June last year.
The Federal Reserve Board,
reporting this Friday, said the in
dex of output for the nation’s
factories, mines and mills rose
by one point from April to May.
This brought the index to 127
per cent of the 1947-49 average—
still 18 points below the level of
last August and 20 points under
the record high of December
1956.
The board’s report was another
indicator that May was the best
business month since the reces
sion began last fall.
Meanwhile Secretary of Labor
Mitchell confirmed that he and
Vice President Nixon waged a
losing fight within the admin
istration for proposing a tax
cut to Congress.
Quferied whether he still favors
tax reduction. Mitchell said he
does.
In another economic develop
ment, the Labor Department re
ported that unemployment among
workers insured for jobless bene
fits dropped druing the week end
ing May 31 by 65,300 to the low
est level since Jan. 4.
It was the seventh consecu
tive week the department has
reported a decline and brought
the total of insured unemploy
ment down to 2,827,600.
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Bellingham Fisherman
Drowns Near Petersburg
PETERSBURG, UP — The body
of Frank Renlie, Bellingham,
Wash., fisherman, was brought
here yesterday by a Coast Guard
boat.
Renlie, who was about 55, was
found Saturday dead in the
water beside his boat, the El
vana, about 35 miles south of
here.
James Ryan, Metlakatla fish
erman on the boat Theodora,
found Renlie’s 35-foot one-man
fishing vessel drifting in the
north end of Snow Passage. Ren
lies body was in the water not
far from his boat, a rope tan
gled around his legs.
An autopsy showed the man
had been dead for seven or
eight days. Officials said he had
apparently fallen in the -water
after tangling in a line.
Renlie’s wife lives in Belling
ham, Wash.
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