U.S. G.I. Stymies
Germ Propaganda
By Eating “Bug”
NEW YORK, W — The New
York Times says one American
prisoner ended Communist germ
warfare propaganda at a North
Korean prison camp by eating a
supposedly germ-infested bug.
A dispatch from Inchon, Korea,
by Greg MacGregor said the in
cident was witnessed and the
story told by Sgt. Edward Hew
lett, 24, of Detroit. Hewlett has
just been released after three
years as a prisoner of war.
The Communists displayed pic
tures purporting to show North
Koreans in open fields picking up
bugs they said were infested with
germs by “American imperial
ists.”
Many of the Americans, includ
ing Hewlett, scoffed loudly. One
day an instructor brought “evi
dence" to the class—a small glass
container, in which there was a
bug the instructor said “is an in
sect bearing deadly germs to kill
the people of North Korea and
the Chinese volunteer army who
came to protect them.”
He offered the bug for inspec
tion.
Finally one American prisoner
calmly picked the bug out and
popped it into his mouth.
The Communists in the room
were goggle - eyed. One dashed
out the door as their class roared.
Seven minutes later, a group of
grim - faced Chinese officers re
turned and ordered all the other
prisoners moved several paces
away from the bug eater.
“He will die soon but infect you
all first,” the interpreter warned.
“He must be taken to the hos
pital immediately.”
“From week to week,” said Sgt.
Hewlett, reports were issued that
the insect eater was near death’s
door. But within two months, he
was released from “death’s door”
looking amazingly well.
Red Influences
In Labor Unions
To Be Investigated
WASHINGTON, UP)—Flans for
a sweeping investigation of Com
munist influences in labor unions
were laid down Thursday by Sen.
John Marshall Butler (R-Md),
head of a special task force of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
“Our unions must be free of the
slightest taint of Communism,”
Butler said in an interview.
“We can’t save this country if
we can’t keep Communists out of
unions, especially out of positions
of authority.”
Butler and Sen. Welger (R-Ida)
and McCarran (D - Nev) were
named by the Internal Security
subcommittee, a panel of the Ju
diciary Committee, to run the in
vestigation, with Butler as chair
man.
The hearings, scheduled for the
fall, will be held in Washington.
Called to give their views, Butler
said, will be top CIO and AFL
officials, including AFL President
George Meany and CIO President
Walter Reuther.
Butler said he will also call
officers of unions kicked out of
the CIO in 1949 and 1950 for
alleged Communist-domination.
He said he will pay special at
tention to testimony from “rank
and file union members who have
had the .opportunity to observe
what goes on in Communist-dom
inated unions.”
LONDON, (tfl—Ships picked up
Thursday the bodies of two more
American airmen form the giant
U.S. Air Force RB-36 bomber that
crashed in flamed into the Atlantic
Wednesday.
Five bodies have been recov
ered thus far. Four men were
rescued alive. Fourteen others of
the 23-man crew are still missing
and hope dimmed that they could
have survived.
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at Third and Division
LEWIS I. HUDGINS, pastor
Sunday
10:00 a.m. — Sunday School
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6:30 p.m. — N. Y. P. S. Young People’s
Meeting.
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Tuesday
7:30 p.m. — Cottage Prayer Service
Wednesday
7:30 p.m.—Midweek Prayer Meeting.
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REEVES C. HAVENS, JR., minister
MISS ESTHER McCOY
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY CENTER
Sunday
9:45 - Sunday School classes for all ages
11:00—Worship service. Sermon by the
pastor. “Workers Together With God.”
3:30—Hospital service
7—Gospel Hour of singspiration, special
music and message.
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with song, topic and games.
Wednesday
8 p.m.—Official Board Meeting.
Thursday
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COVENANT CHURCH
Front St. and West B
REV. PAUL B. F. CARLSON and
REV. ROALD AMUNDSEN, pastors
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Monday
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Tuesday
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7:30 p.m.—Prayer Service at Church
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Third Avenue West
REV. A. DOYLE SMITH and
REV. C. LEWIS WELKER, pastors
Sunday
10:00 to 11:45—Combined Sunday School
and Morning Worship
7:45 p.m, — Evening Service
Tuesday
7 p.m. — Cottage Prayer Service
Thursday
7:45 p.m. — Bible Study
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VERN RIMLING, pastor
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study.
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Fear of Reprisals Against
U.S. Prisoners Stops Probe
Of Communist Atrocities
WASHINGTON, 10) —Chairman
Short said today the House Armed
Services Committee has decided
against making any immediate in
vestigation of reported Commun
ist atrocities against American
prisoners in the Korean war.
It might bring reprisals on Am
ericans still in Red hands, Short
said in an interview.
He made the statement as de
mands were voiced by some other
members of Congress for investi
gation of atrocity stories brought
back by the latest Americans to
come home from Red prison
camps this week.
| Senator Assails Non-Skeds
For Poor Safety Record
WASHINGTON, UP — Sen. Ed
win €. Johnson (D-Colo) has as
sailed a report by the Senate
Small Business Committee on the
problem^ of ncrn - scheduled air
lines. He said the non-skeds “kill
ed over seven times as many pas
sengers per passenger mile as did
our certificated carriers.”
The Small Business Committee
last week issued a report criti
cal of the Civil Aeronautics Board
treatment of non-scheduled air
lines.
Johnson’s comment came in a
letter Thursday to Sen. Cooper
(R-Ky) chairman of a special sub
committee about to study com
petition and other matters con
nected with commercial aviation.
The Colorado senator said in
part:
“I fail to find any apologies of
fered by the champions of the
non-skeds for their relatively poor
safety record or for the shameful
failure of the CAA ... to enforce
adequate safety standards. During
the five years, 1948-52, the non
skeds killed over seven times as
many passengers per passenger
mile as did our certificated dom
estic and international carriers
combined—the non-skeds’ fatal
ity rate was 7.9 per 100 million
passenger -miles.”
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Boy Plays With
Firecracker, Gets
Riddled With Glass
ANCHORAGE, UP—An 11-year
old boy who pooled his money
with a playmate to buy firecrack
ers was riddled with fragments
late Wednesday from a glass jar
into which they had stuffed the
explosives.
The youngster, Curtis Benge,
underwent surgery later in the
day for removal of the glass splin
ters.
Curtis and Gary Dahl, 8, lit a
fuse that touched off the fire
crackers they had poked into the
jar.
A neighbor, Mrs. Della Palmer,
heard the explosion, screams and
saw Gary trying to carry Curtis
into his home from the yard .
where they had been playing. She
alerted territorial police, who es
corted Gary’s father, Donald Dahl,
in a race with the injured boy to
a hospital.
The Benge boy was hit in the
face, neck and body. His play
mate escaped unhurt. Both live in
suburban Spenard.
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In another Spenard accident the
same afternoon, Jimmy Linder
moof, 15, was shot in the left leg
with a small caliber bullet. He
was walking single file between
two friends when the gun carried
by the rear boy accidentally dis
charged.
They hid been practicing shoot
ing into a swamp. Young Linder
moofs condition was reported by
hospital attendants as not serious.
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