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Y, JULY 8, 1943 Selected As Best All Round Kentucky Community Newspaper for 1947 IILL LE We Are Weather -vice Helping To KENTUCKY: Fair and ceiA' !Wale' Build Murray tonight low 52 to 80 Friday Phone 98 fair and pleasant. ft Each Day O.MINNEXIMI United Press YOUR PROGRESSIVE HOME NEWSPAPER )N IN ITS 74th YEAR Murray, Ky., Thursday Afternoon, July 9, 1953 MURRAY POPULATION - - - 8,000 Vol. XXIV; No. 162 his office )f FULL SCALE .TRUCE SESSION ON FRIDAY IS PRINCESS MARGARET LOSING HER REAL LOVE? rt Chinese- In Con: .4),Ntsts Bow To Demands 1Reds Ready To Sign Armistice :00 p. m. Difficulty And( ilerlin, Borders 1With Or Without Rhee Support BERLIN July 9 „44—Commun- restrictions on traffic between the By EARNEST HOBERECHT Rhees mansion- wtth Clark, Mur- ======= At Home ist East Germany, bowing to the! Western and Eastern sectors of United Press Staff Correspondent phy and W. S. Ambassador to By el' A leSSin demands of workers, today opened! this divided city. SEOUL, Korea July 9 Korea. Ellis 0. Briggs. Korea sour- East-West borders for the, By P1111. NEWSOM Berlin At midnight, the Communists re- United Nations truce negotiators ces said they served formal notice bloody Junej United Preas Foreign News Eidter first time since the opened the East-West city borders hold their first full-scale meeting on Rhee that the Allies np longer the re- and The Chinese suddenly are as in 17 revolt and announced .normal traffic was resumed. ivith the Reds since June19, Friday I could delay signing of the armis- • "overwhelming major- tereated as anyone else in getting lease of the Since June 17 special passes had '111th Lord Montagu, 1931. Lord aluuntbatten, rights ready to sign an immediate armis-: tice. U. S. Embassy offi,..lais- re- a truce M Korea. ity' of anti-Communists arrested been required to cross the Red- tice in Korea with or without! fused to confirm this. uprising. Accompanying this interest has during the constructed barriers. the support of President Syngman Clark then flew back to Tokyo, been a revealing switch iii Chinese But martial law, impoged by Sc-: The announcement that "the Rhee. and Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, propaganda which suddenly has viet military authorities when they overwhelming majority of persons Chief UN truce delegate drove However, there were Increasing, taken an almost sympathetic atti- moved 3000,000 tank-supported Red arrested in connection with the to Seoul from his camp at Munson, Eerlin to events of June hopes that Rhee would honor a tude toward the United States and army troops into East 17 have been "re- Herr said at Panmunjom that Com- leased" ceasefire. directed roost of its venom at crush the rebellion against came from the press office the "time for the next meeting hss with Ame- South Korea's President Syngman munist domination, was still in of Communist Premier Otto Grote- Rhee conferred twice not been determined," but he did Shoe. force. The Russians gave no indi- wohl rican representatives today—once not clarify.' whether he was re- lifted. Eisenhower's per- The Communist Peiping Radio action when it would be An estimated 50,000 workers were with President ferring to the liason officers met- actions were Assistant Secre- said on Monday that Rhee now The Red regime's reported rounded up by Red troops sonal expediter. ing on the fulisseale-session. appeasing hundreds of and S. Robertson, has "interrupted" the signing of aimed at police in supressing the up- tary of State Walter Indications are, that Rhee had workers ith Peter it aril, Earl of a truce for 17 days. t h ou sands of in the rising. Many were reported exe- Dudley's lion, In 1954S and *later with Gen. Mark Clark. been persuaded to go along with estimated Ambassador to It also said the American people troubled Soviet Zone. An cuted. Robertson, former the United Nations and attempt East workers and and U. will not fall into a "trap" set by 100,000 Berlin There was no way to determine Japan Robert Murphy S. to achieve his goal unification of 0. • Rhee:s "criminal regime." tens of thousands elsewhere in whether the Communists actually Ambassador to Korea, Ellis Korea, by peaceful means. te Communistaruled Germans Wed- Any sudden sympathy for the released most of the prisoners as Briggs. .He was believed tube st;ll insis- ill passive resis- surrounded both' United Steles by the Communists nesday joised in a they said. Strict secrecy tent upon a definite time limit on 14 must have some explanation. tance campaign of sitdowns. slow- As they reopened the border. the meetings, but it was apperent that ' a post-armistice political confer- and strikes. Communists withdrew bringing the There are two guesses, both of downs from their the United States was ence's efforts to unify Korea and demonstrations were aimed government building Rhee whose' which may have some weight. The the 400-police- heaviest pressure on a mutual security pact %salt. the at forcing government Soldier guard posted releasing One is that, as with the Russian the Red to early Wednes- singled-'handed action in United tSates as his price for co- release fellow - workers arrested day. Pedestrian ,vehicle anti-Communist North Ko- "peace offensive" the Chinese are and ele- 27,000 operation. after the June 17 revolt and to lift vated railway traffic brought the: attempting to explot the already immediately rean war prisoners on Rhee's resistance against an ar- resumed across the line separating . substantial difference between Rhee Princess Margaret looks sad here. Perhaps present crisis. niistice on terms agreed to by the and the United the free and Communist sectors Clark said the UN would find UN and Communists brought open State, on truce she knew twee thee that they mist part. Theester with American William Wallace last mrsith. terms. Paving Contracts of Berlin. out whether the Communists really'', complaints from... American soldiers On the surface at least. the So- to sign the truce because on the Western Any lasting split conceivably Be Let Soon want Front where Chi- To viet Sector appeared intends to co could give the Reds the whole of normal. But -Reds -the United Nations nese troops wear carrying out members of the garrison Americans ne- g, I'd just as soon be Korea en their own terms. FRANKFORT. Ky. -- Contractors Russian- Annual Meet Of Dark Fired right ahead with the armistice suicide attpcks. uniformed police army patrolled . iitioned!" Another is that from now on a have been invited by the State Lock On Porkchop got iations." "The morale of the troops is, the border in place comment continuation of the Korean war Department of Highways to bid of the blue- • • - He refused to on his pretty low." 2nd Lt. Harvey D. uniformed ordinary Hill In Mud Meeting with Rhee and ciodged Jones of Longview, will be hardet on the ChineW than on four construction projects in Texas, a pla- nn the United Natiwns. The Ce'rnmuniee mmounceeneht.Association Held Yesterday question on whether he thought toon Moder mid., "But they are OrefefetCantileal Collide. Bids wttl By 'HEDRICK C. PAINTON The Chinese the elliapening of' the East-Meet • Rhee. who hue threatened to fight doing a good job. They beef like Reds have not been be opened, July 24 United Press staff (orreeporidesit sector borders was coupled with alone, would .obeY an armistice. crazy, and then' go out and do our store for able to make good on their pro- Projects planned are. 123 miles UP)-- a warning from East Berlin The twenty second annual meet- through July 17. SEOUL, Kw ea July 9 i announcement came shnrtly their jobs mises of a -workers" paradise. of bituminous surface on the May. Po- The the best they caNs"; lice President Waldemar Schmidt ing of the members of Western The directors passed a resolution Flame-throwing Arnaricans chaiefel "1 think Economic:ally. they are in an in- field-Clear Springs Road from Ky after liaison officers of both tides there's not a man -up that Western -saboteurs Dark Fired Tobacco Growers' As- praising the efforts of United tSates toward the' crest-- of Porkchop Hill here • creasingly bad way. 58 and Ky. 80. 8 miles east of and in the three-year old war held a who wouldn't shoot Rhee II agents" will be arrested immedia- sociation was held yesterday at Senators Earl C. Clements and today but Chinese cannon blocked meeting get this S WELK ! Despite the execution of thou- Mayfield to Clear Cprings, a dis- mysterious 15-minute at thing over," the young tely and "punished with Murray. headquarters for the As- John Sherman Cooper and Con- their advansa v...11 a "van of ex- sands of small landholders, the tance of 3_5 miles, the Folsom- the full Panmunjom. American tither,. said. soc iation gressman Noble J Gregory ploding steel." • a - Reds severity of the law" if they enter for The secret I5-minute conference Necklaces! Ear.