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, A Circulated Daily L. O.Sfo 90 Per Cent ! Local Residents Heese The Battalion Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Volume 53 terican. It OK sorters Stream ik To Freedom REESE Af- s—Spl.)^r 194: cs 0. Srait' Vi Hard D, ) range, i s 1SAF Bas. Engine) at EieutenaC f Stai'k S» nge, and ', efore he e; He enter, ■ust, 195(1, Hlington | Ho'l^UNJOM — (iP) — Smiling but undemonstrative s, where an< ^ South Korean war prisoners came back from r.'iry phas, t imprisonent Thursday, passing within a few feet ourse. At g North Korean soldiers returning voluntarily to ly the Nor he f'aous :!3rd day of Operation Big Switch involved a total nd next Dierican, 250 South Korean and 2,400 North Korean ul complete. rceive the irst two big deliveries of Americans were Army, oice pilot,Marine enlisted men and'did not include the officers The lii ; oeing sent back from recently ir the Manchurian bor- orce Base, lorothyP, U. |S. prisoners said Irs. R. P, the Reds were freeing ort Wortr deans who had been ecial chai’ges and pre- LUBB0G ul d be withheld from ;iine with' ur| hl their sentences i will ma: ite( h i hubboe S. Officei’s exchanged —saidlthey had seen at ;ong about 10 men who ntenced to jail and “no ’ onltrumped-up char- ng is where the Com- jmble prisoners for ex- PUBLISIIED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1953' Price Five Cents liiiil VishInsky Says United Stales Acting Like M 4 w - \ :v ■ Members Gather Leadership Lab ESf> % v. said the Reds an- had “commuted the Te also estimated there Kaesong 400 men from 'er 2, high up in North 5 camp for officers and barred to Allied Red onl their visit north prisoners have said subjected to barbai-ous Ind much concern had Allied prisoners held The^Reds recently re plied officers, 391 of ^ans, [were held there, dopments and a Peip- |ement that the Corn- increasing the num bers they will exchange [lay somewhat the an- ?dne§day over the fate toners. radio announcement j-s captm-ed in the final [war |were being added Ion lists. The number jjen, but some already ick. loners returned in the of Operation Big [the Reds, on the eve stice, sentenced many Imen to two and three- terms .on. such-charges igainst peace. 'Thursday were hand- nists over the 150 nd 250 South Koreans for! 2,400 North Ko- Phursday’s swap, the returned 2,278 of the ms they say they hold, lercent: The UN will over about 50,000 of ted prisoners—68 per A (ions Command spokes- conriment on the re- mnist plans to return ;y had jailed. SONERS, Page 4) Blackberry e Bon* -y Leading ter States lore mot icries E Bor. an ever Lei v miwv-efhe leading blackberry e industry is centered (fries E Boi un ty. 'rest after«ry is based upon the rnpoundehsty due to its vigor- aturiiy. growth habit, good and high yields. How- /, Bondp* ■rest for U 5 a . . ,„sent in the ie original*,. ssert quality is poor type of current he cause of this ster- own, but it has been Bon Areale yields consider- t die n* ipoundedsef ^ nee( j f or cross i n g , varieties of superior t moresan^y ag |^ e g a ] Ness londs—thr« J combine the upright whereyod ; of the Lawton with quality of other select- NGS B^ sses were rnade which varieties which were ling, large, high qual- or the fresh market, quick freezing. Con- iation in growth habit ses indicates a strong at with further selec- ikcrossing to Lawton, ig the upright growth the Lawton as well as quality of such varie- [ Ness can be develop- Legett Hall To Stay Open During Break Since the renovation of Bizzell will not be completed by the end of the 2nd Summer Tei - m, it will be necessary to keep Legett Hall open between the Summer Term and the Fall Term instead of Biz zell, Harry Boyer, chief of hous ing says. Students who wish to remain on the campus between terms may register for Legett for this period by paying room rent of $4.30 at the Fiscal Office and presenting the receipt at the Housing Office in Goodwin Hall. This includes students now living in Legett. This registration must be completed by 5 p.m. Friday, August 28th. 'A. ' ■ ypii ' m RECOMMENDED—John A Ham- ilton, 44 (above), a lawyer of Matador, Tex., was recommended by Heard L. Floore, incoming district attorney for the North ern District of Texas, to fill a vacancy which exists in the U.S. district attorney’s office. The recommendation was sent to At torney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Attorney General, for final action. Mr. Hamilton has been in legal partnership with his father in Matador. Prior to World War II he seiwed as dis trict attorney for the State 110th Judicial District frofn 1937 to 1943 when he entered the Navy. With all the expectancy of treas ure hunters about to open a chest full of gold and precious jewels, more than 100 members from 4-H clubs in Texas, officially commenc ed their annual leadership labora tory at College Station “Monday night. Keyed to explore themselves in a week- of studying human relations and development, the youths gath ered in the ballroom of the Me morial Student Center for the first session. J. D. Prewit, assistant di rector for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, presented them the “Extension” key to add to their collection of keys which might open the treasure chest, a symbol of the week’s activities. Ed Nelson, public relations di rector for the' United Gas Pipe Line Company, Shreveport, pre sented the sponsor’s key, and Del bert Taylor and Dorothy Foltyn, chairmen of the state 4-H council, presented the green key of the or ganization. Each lab member also received a key to wear during, the week. Wayne Stark of the Me- Dismissal of 68 Indictments Ended Support for Laughlin AUSTIN — (TP) — One of Starr County’s Old Party leaders, Joe C. Guerra of Roma, testified Wednes day his support of District Judge C. Woodrow Laughlin of Alice end ed when the judge dismissed 68 Starr County indictments. “They represented all the fraud in Starr County,” Guerra said. He was in the witness chair al most the entire day in the hear ing of complaints" aimed .».»t re moving the-judge from office. The only other witness was District Judge Arthur A. '^Geinjof i-BWwns- ville. Puffing interpiittently at a cig arette in a black and silver holder, Guerra testified on cross-examina tion he had contributed $750 to ward expenses of the proceedings against Laughlin. His party had supported the judge in the last election. “When did you fall out with Judge Laughlin?” Defense Counsel C. C. Small asked. “I wouldn’t say I fell out with him. I never was in—I couldn’t fall out.” “When dfd you start trying to remove him from office?” “I imagine his ruling on quash ing those indictments was pretty forceful. What we didn’t like was the way the thing was handled,” Guerra said. Laughlin dismissed the indict ments, 60 of them involving elec tion contests, on grounds the grand jury returned they had been im properly impaneled. Dismissal was on motion of Manuel Raymond of Laredo, a New Party leader. Guerra said he had discussed the indictments with Laughlin, includ ing two involving Starr County District Clerk Ernesto Trevino in connection with public funds. He quoted Laughlin as saying “He ought to make that up.” “I told him ‘He ought to be re moved from office,’ ” Guerra said. He testified Laughlin had been told by Former District Judge Sam Throwing Washers New Student Sport Washer throwing has become a favorite past time among students living in Law and Puryear Halls. The washer throwing holes are lo cated beneath shady oak trees on the north side of Law Hall. Games are usually in progress during most of the day, especially in the after noon and sometimes even at night. The entire game is closely pat terned after the familiar game of pitching horse shoes. Four play ers participate in the game and the object for each team is to throw their washers into or near the holes than the other team. Six washers are used, three for each team and the holes are loca ted about 20 to 25 feet.apart. Reams in December of Trevino throwing the county auditor out of the district clerk’s office, refusing to let him make an audit and tear ing up the notes he had started to make. Judge Klein testified to his du ties on the 79th district bench in impounding and releasing Duval County ballots last year, most de tails of which have been covered at length in previous testimony. Sen. William H. Shireman/Uor- pus Christi, counsel for Laughlin’s opposition, asked Judge Klein if he thought it ethical for-a judge personally involved in a case to mak(^ his own selection of a judge to try it. Supreme Court Master D. B. Wood of Georgetown, who is con ducting the hearing, sustained ob jection to the question but allowed Judge Klein to answer for pur poses of the court record. “I would not have done it,” Judge (See LAUGHLIN, Page 4) morial Student Center spoke to the group on the facilities of their meeting jdace. After the flag ceremony Tues day morning, the laboratory ses sion opened with Dr. Glenn Dil- dine, National 4-H Foundation, Washington, D. C. discussing the purpose of the laboratory. He used the statements prepared by each member about, “What I like about my best friend,” as the basis for his remarks on human relation ships. “The trend today is towards un derstanding — understanding our selves and others,” he commented. “Why do we do the things we do ? What makes us think and act as we do ? What do we want or expect of others in our daily living ?” He asked these questions and interpreted the statements fi-om the lab members to mean that each individual wants understanding, approval, and acceptance. “We appreciate people who lis ten to our problems and under stand,” he said. “And we like to be accepted in our group or asso ciations,” he added as he prepared the members for the discussions, they would share in each day dur ing the week. The. human relations develop ment laboratory will continue through Friday of this week. Tues day evening will feature a 4-H cook-out and camp circle at Hensel Park. Master Race’ Some Say Speech Was A. Warning UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Aug. 26—(AP)—Russia’s An drei Vishinsky accused the United States and its allies Wed nesday of acting like a ‘master race” and trying to ram through an ultimatum to the Communists on the makeup of the Korean peace conference. He also maneuvered to force the U.N. assembly to make a decision on whether Russia would attend as an interested neighbor, which he insisted she is, or as a member of the Communist side tagged as a part of the Red aggressor team. Vishinsky unleased a bitter and angry speech in the 60-nation political committee of the assembly. Some dele gates saw it as a warning that the Korean peace conference, if it ever meets, is doomed to fail before it starts unless the conditions laid down by Red Chian’s Premier-Foreign Minister Chou En-lai in Peiping and the Soviet delegation here are accepted. A&M Prof, to Go To Annual Meet Dr. R. L. Skrabanek, assistant professor of the department of ag ricultural economics and sociology, will attend the annual meeting of the American Rural Sociological Society in Stillwater, Oklahoma fixun September 3, td' September 6. Cost of Living Index Shows Slight Increase WASHINGTON— (A 1 ) — The na tion’s living costs inched up about .2 of 1 per cent last month to set a record for the second straight month. Higher prices for food, rent, medical care, gasoline and motor oil were cited by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday as the chief factors in the cost of living increase. The bureau’s index has been climbing steadily for five months. Figures in the new government index gave about one million auto industry workers a hourly pay boost. Living costs reached a peak last November, from which they de clined during the winter and be gan rising again in the spring and early summer. The mid-June index figure was 114.5 per cent of the 1947-49 aver age. Wednesday’s index, reflecting mid-July prices and establishing another record, was 114.7. 6 Les Miserables,’ Russian Version For Ealing Christmas Gingerbread Mans Spent Eight Years In Prison BERLIN, July 17 (TP)—For one piece of Christmas gingerbread, eight years in prison. That’s the penalty Hans Hering paid. He was nine when it hap pened. Today, at 17, he’s back with his mother after half a life time of orphan’s homes, Soviet jails and uranium mines. In his pocket, every time he ven tures out, is a detailed map of Berlin. He knows if he ever again gets caught in the Russian sector, he’s in trouble. He’s had enough to last him, no matter how long he lives. The strapping, smiling Hering told his tale as a self-assured youngster who has weathered so many vicissitudes tomorrow holds no fears. It started Dec. 23, 1945, when he attended a Christmas party in Neukoelin, West; Berlin. The nine-year-old boy was given two gingerbread packages, one for a younger brother too ill to come to the party. On the way home, Hans ate both gingerbreads and started worrying about parental censure. He strolled around, finally went home and looked in the window, but lacked the courage to walk in and take certain punishment. “I went to East Berlin, not know ing anything else to do except walk around,” he said. When the police picked him up he gave them the phony name of Horst Klein. In German that’s like saying John Smith. Soviet police took him to Rheins- berg to an orphans’ home. He ran iMi K pH ■ Jr MM Wm. tH 31 H ill 11 kvs:; ■viv m M- % a:;:V. REGISTER FOR CONFERENCE — Three chief justices (left to right) J. C. Sherburne of Randolph, Vt.; Allyn L. Brown of Norwich, Conn.; and John E. iHickman of Austin, reg ister with Jane Parks, clerk, before attendinj the opening meeting of the National Con ference of Chief Justices in Boston, Mass.- away, but soon was picked up by Soviet soldiers. “They cut my hair off and put me in a Russian uniform,” he re calls. “I was marched away with about 600 other German children and about 2,500 head of cattle to ward East Prussia.” On the way, he spied refugees moving West, slipped out of his column and joined them. His stur dy legs carried him all the way to Saxony, more than 100 miles west- ward. He wound up in other or phans’ homes. In 1949, then only thirteen, young Hering became an appren tice in the Penig paper works in Rochlitz. He joined the Communist “Free German Youth” (FDJ) and worked his way up to group sec retary, culture and literature offi cial. Then, he said, somebody in the FDJ found him “presumptuous,” so he was shifted to the earth works at the Sosa Dam in the uranium fields. By fall, 1950, he had become a surveyor assistant. He again got a good spot in the local FDJ organization and was awarded the youth bronze and sil ver medals. In 1951, big and strong though only fifteen, he was selected to join the “peoples police,” and appointed deputy FDJ secretary for his police unit. “I just couldn’t stand military training anymore,” he said, “and so I pretended I had epilepsy, smashed some office furniture and beat a girl.” For this, he was sent to an asy lum at Bradenburg-Goeren but re leased as cured several weeks lat er. The police provided a further rest cure at a Baltic coast resort, and then asigned him to the Dres den headquarters, in the spare auto parts depot. (See RUSSIAN PRISON, Page 3) Vishinsky spoke up just as the committee chairman, Joao Carlos Muniz of Brazil, was calling for a vote on amend ments moved by the Russian dele gate in an attempt to get a verdict first on his proposal for a 15-na tion conference. The committee began debate Aug. 18, and 39 aAnq ■bo.ton ipnog snjd s^oquiaui spoken. Vishinsky said he did not know the debate had been closed. When he finished, Muniz observed that he would have to give the oppor tunity to others to answer Vishin sky. The committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and a final vote may come then. The issue then will go to the full assembly, peyhaps Friday. Red China wants a conference made up as Vishinsky suggested. He proposed 15 countries, nine of which were neutral or professedly neutral in the Korean war. The United States confidently expects to obtain passage Thurs day of a resolution limiting par ticipation in the conference to the U. N. members who sent troops to Korea, plus Red China, the North Koreans and the Russians if the Asian Reds want them, and waving his arms, said the ten dency of the “pro-Am eric an-group” was “not to talk to the other side.” He said there is no justification for a “take it or leave it attitude.” Not Vanquished He said Chou En-Lai had sup ported the Soviet proposal and this made clear that by “pushing through your proposal as an ulti matum to the other side, you are actually already wrecking the con ference . . . you are already rudely slamming the door.” “You are not dealing with van quished peonies,” he rushed on. “There has been no unconditional surrender. You did bot win. You did not break the iron will of North Korea. North Korea stands today where it stood in 1950. “And now you think with this scrap of paper (the 15-power res olution backed by the U. S. dele gate, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.) you can make these people accept any thing. Where are you, gentlemen? Are you standing on firm ground or are you flying in the clouds, or are you flying through the clouds on the wings of your idea that you are representatives of a master (See PEACE CONFERENCE, p. 4) Reports Give Hope Jobe Survives War The last report received by The Battalion concerning Lew Jobe, ’52, stated that he was believed to have been killed in Korea. How ever, P. L. Downs received ,a letter from Jobe’s father and from Lt. Dick Hatch, who was in Jobe’s Company, giving rise to the hope that he is still alive and a pris oner of the Chinese. Lt. Hatch said, “I didn’t see him when he was wounded but when I heard, I sent two men to guard him until we could get him back to the aid station.” Since his evacuation Lt. Hatch has contacted all the people who might have seen Jobe and “the last person to see him says he was alive.” His condition was such that he could not walk and since neither he nor the two men guarding him have been seen or heard from, the possibilities of his being captured alive are very good. “An infantry Officer who was with him, said that during the situation, Lew did a superior job and he really praised him,” Lt. Hatch said. .