Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1953 — Page 8

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Families Os Released Prisoners Overjoyed

By UNITED PRESS A lonely wife told tenderly how her husband had written her a bit of doggerel verse from behind the barbed wire of a Communist prison stockade. A California mother cried, “My son, my son.” Two other mothers wiped away theifj tears and got ready to bake giant birthday cakes. A grinning father shouted “Buckshot is back." And thousands of anxious families, a majority of them doomed to a final, tragic disappointment, went to bed and waited for tonight’s list as names. The families of 7(f American freed prisoners of war heard .the news their sons and husbands were safe, shed tears, offered thanksgiving and finally relaxed in open jubilation. Most of them —in something like a victory yell—promised “big celebrations.” I A few said they .were too overcome to speak, and tWen Babbled happily. ' . . . Mrs. Jeanne Coffee, 21,. of Lon£ Beach, Calif., whose released h.usjpe^ b MJK£ j Tonight & Thursday L MU ROBERTSMTmike FRANCIS I tom- HIUMKJUBUU a ' o—o Fri. & Sat.—2 Color First Runs! “IVORY HUNTER” A “Ambush at Tomahawk Gap” 1 , - O—O Sun.-—Two First Ruhs! “Girls in the Night” & “Reunion in Reno”

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band, Robert, has never seen their baby daughter, said she got a letter in Jutae. “It had a pqem in it." The J couplet read : “Cheer up my darling and don’t be blue,': “For it won’t be long ‘til I’m home with you.” : “Can you imagine *the guy” she said in a rush of tears and Words. "Even though he was in a prison camp, he could write a poem.” Mrs. Francisca Serna. who speaks little English, managed to cry, “My son, my son.”’ when told Cpl. Joe Serna, 24} eldest of her six children, was free. Mrs. P. Dein of plmwood Park, ill.} did not even know- her son, fvi. Peter G. Dein. I was alive until the* news of his release was broadcast Tuesday night} She told how shei wrote the Defepse department <jvfer and over, hoping to learn he wai no longer “missing in action,” But the answer was always the Same. “So I prayed, afid prayed and prayed," she said.,l , !\ But there was tragedy, too. in Tuesday night’s list. More than 10.000 men have been listed as “missing in action,”: and their families have stubbornly clung to the hopp that they werd prisoners. The Communists Have announced they have only a little more than 3,000 more prisoners to free; i 1 When the long list is complete, the hopes and anxious waiting of 7,000 families will be ended. A New York Gli had a grim surprise waiting for him. Pvt. Richard Montanaro, 22. New York, will return from a prison camp to learn that both hiß parents have difed during his imprisonment. ! “He had enough troubles of his owin,; a sister said. “He was a prisoner. We didn't; want to tell him.’! At Morrison, 111., Mrs. John R. Arians, prayed her son, Sfc. Robert I. Arians, can be home for his 26 th birthday Aug. 13. "Eyepybody will ble there,’ 'she said.; I “Buckshot is back." gloated H. VI Coffee. Kendall, Fla., when he learned his son. Marine Sgt. 'Robert J. Coffee had been repatriated. u r . Sgt. Edward Hewlett, Detroit, wrote.'his mother he was the only survivor of a unit destroyed by the Communists. NciW'he was free and “I’m just too excited to /speak? said ’his mother, Mrs. Mallie Hewlett. , When Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Evanston, 111., was told her brother. Sgt. Andrew <E. Franklin, had been repatriated she cried, "at last he s coming home.” the baby of the family,” she said. “We’ll have a big celebration when he returns.’ UNITED STATES From Page Puri “leiygthfy discussions." - Thej Russian reply was to notes from t'he United States, Britain and France on July 15 proposing a Conference of the Big Four foreign} ministers about the end of September on German reunification a fid Austrian independence. H* 1 ' ■' "i If you nave something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Urges Investment In South America Milton Eisenhower Reports On Mission WASHINGTON UP —Ur. Milton S. Eisenhower has appealed to private U. S. interests to invest heavily \ in South American industries to help combat Communism and build hemispheric solidarity. (Eisenhower, brother of the president and head of Pennylvania State College, said these industries other investors "opportunities" of possibly “huge proportions.” t The educator made the statements In a nationwide television report Tuesday nigh’ on his -e---cent 20,000-mile goodwill tour of | 10 South American republics. die made the trip as the special emissary ’of his brother. die planned to give the .president a detailed report .JatefA I I Eisenhower laid U. S. investments Would be a solid down payment <*n (hemispheric solidarity and a positive answer to the inroads Communist labor leaders are making in South America. The “monumental problems" now confronting South America, he said, could best bq solved by nrivate capital from the Vnited States and other American republics. But he said this country must not make the mistake of regarding South American problems on an “emergency" basis. “Rather,” Eisenhower said, "we must have the wisdom tci develop stable, abiding relationships which will be mutually helpful in meeting our common aspirations for peace and rfsiiig levels of well being.” TELL OF NEW < Continued FTom Page j One) After Davis gave the details, he was flown to an army hospital. Others told stories of Americans freezing to death, similar to the reports made by prisoners who were returned last April in “Operation Little Switch.” ’ i The first truck bumped down the rocky road from Kaesong ip to Panmunjom. It reached Panmunjom five minutes before “Big Switch" started. Following their identification, the prisoners removed their Chinese utility shirts and trousers and received tailored American fatigues. The first litter cases were taken into tents in the northern fend of the reception center. Huge cauldrons of .coffee were steaming at Freedom Village, when the first contingent arrived. Altars and candles had been set up for those who wanted to offer prayers for their deliverance from the enemy. I TEMPERATURES (Continued From Page One) , Evansville, center of a southwest area which has had less rain than the rest of Indiana this season, had showers totaling 1.18 inches. Measurements ranged down to .06 of an inch at Fort Wayne, where the highest temperature—--9o—was0 —was chalked up. i ' J ( t If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. R brings results.

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Two-Week School For Excise Police UiP —State excise chief Charles (i. Miller today announced a two-week school for excise police will be held here beginning Aug. 10 to discuss more rigid enforcement of Indiana’s liquor laws. Governor Craig, alcoholic beverage commission chairman Joseph B. Kyle, and commissioners Dan M. Cravens, Leo J. and Rosco Mount will be among the speakers. Liberated Yanks Send Cables Home ;l 41 Are Flown To Little Golden Gate INCHON, Korea UP —The first group Os freed American POWs flown to “Little Golden Gate" on <the west coast of Korea from the receptiop point at Munsan were sending cables home within an hour today. | * By 8 p. m.. 41 liberated Americans had ai-rived nt Inchon, and an officer-said he believed that would be all for (he initial day of the prisoner exchange. *• ( Inside a former Japanese school house which -will be their home until they sail for the States, tLe ex-prisoners carefully selected prepared messages tci let their people know they had returned , There was no cheering'or shout ing when the Americans arrived. They walked quietly front the buses which brought them from the landing strip. They listened carefully to a briefing; explaining what they will do in Inchon' before their ship depi.rts: •Most of the prisoners elected as their first words home such message as “Your prayers, for me have been answered" and “Best wishes for oiur speedy reunion.”' , Newsmen were ’ allowed to watch the prisoners as they arrived and started their, return to norma! life. But security title? did not permit newsmen to speak to them. , i However. Sgt. Andrew. Franklin. 26. Evanston. 111., Communicated his feelings in silence, lie looked at me, shook his head, and grinned widely. He looked like the happiest mah in world. . ; 'Red Crass worker DorbthT Mokore, Chicago, aiiked Franklin. a Negro, if he wanted his picture taken free. He grinned again and answered, “No. ma’am. Not until 1 shave." I. > REJECT RED i Ho Ml tined From Page <»ne> ment and food for a Week. A geeond SB-29 did likewisfe, } The RB-36, powered byi four jets and six conventional piston engines. is the largest operational land-based plane in the world. It was on a routine flight from Travis Air . Base, Calif., to Lakenheath, Eng. The airmen bailed out seconds before the pl’ane plunged in flames i'nto the towering seas. Rescue headquarters said it was believed the sighted survivors were aboard one of (the plane’s life rafts. j Rescue planes circled a wide area, near where the wreckage was sighted on the chanfee survivors were scattered as they bailed out of the plane.

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