Third Yank Is Killed by Korean Reds
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, 1 •>. tmmttwn, It -««. Diitrfbution hg talr today, Ugh fat the lev o%> Fair Uurigst and tomorrow. BEDBANK Today Low tonight In the Ms. High to- morrow in Ac ft*. Thursday, 21,150 partly cloudy, warn, more hu- mid. See weather, page 2. DIAL 74L00IO VOL. 86, NO. 23 Uiuti tul*- Mondw through Friday. s«cond CUia Poaun _____ *™ " R*<1 8aI111 •"* ** A4<Uti«—U MaUIni ottlcu. RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1963 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Third Yank Is Killed by Korean Reds BULLETIN The UN Command demanded a meeting of the UN-North U.S. troops were making an Intensive search for yester- that ambushed the soldiers in their Jeep yesterday, they would SEOUL, Korea (AP)-U.S. Army patrols and South Korean Korean Armistice Commission Thursday to protest yesterday's day's attackers, "looking under every bush," Creel said, when have had to cross the Imjin River. Because of heavy rains, National Police hunted down and killed four North Korean ambush. The North Koreans were expected to delay the meet- a 20-year-old Korean boy, Choi Ki-Chul, spotted a group of the Imjin is running about a mile wide at Dragon Head bend. soldiers today six miles south of the demilitarized zone. ing a day or two. armed North Koreans. He notified police who called in U.S. RAIDERS OPEN FIRE An American soldier and a South Korean police officer also In Washington neither the Defense Department nor the troops. Ii was speculated yesterday that the North Koreans came State Department had any comment on the new incident. lost their lives in the grassy river bottomland south of the One of the North Koreans killed had a submachine gun. through the demilitarized zone by wading a stream under cover Imjin River near Dangdong-Iri. Today's fight broke out 15 miles north of Seoul and six of fog. They apparently hid in tall grass when they heard a miles south of yesterday's ambush in the demilitarized zone, Both of the slain North Koreans wore light green fatigues and long-billed caps similar to those worn by North Korean troops Jeep approaching a bridge on Zulu Road, within sight of the a no-man's land of little over two miles wide most of it over- SEOUL, Korea (AP) — Gunfire rattled on the 10-year-old in the field. border marker. Korean armistice front for the second straight day today, kill- grown with bushes and trees. The raiders opened [ire when the Jeep crossed over the It occurred where the Imjtn River curves northwest, south- The slain South Korean policeman was hit by grenade bridge. The driver was blasted out of the Jeep, shot through ing an American soldier, a South Korean policeman and two fragments. communist North Korean Army troops. west, and then south, giving the area the name of the Dragon the back by 14 bullets. The Jeep careened off a 10-foot em- Another North Korean soldier was wounded in the clash Head. If the North Korean raiders encountered today were those bankment into a ditch, barely missing a mine field. six miles south of the demilitarized zone dividing North and PFC. William L. Foster, 26, of Baltimore, Md., the survi- South Korea. vor, was found sprawled on the far side of the bridge. He The fighting was the farthest south of the buffer zone since was wounded in the chest, hip, abdomen and hand — all on Uie Korean armistice was signed July 27,1953. Tray for Peace,' GI Asked in Letter the right side. TWO AMERICANS KILLED Those killed were PFC. Charles T. Dessart 3d, IS, of Drex- el Hill, Pa., and Pvt. David A. Seiler, 24, of Theresa, Wis. Col. George Creel, spokesman for the UN Command, said THERESA, Wis. (AP)-Army American and two North Ko- Seiler. "I hope the crops and But Mrs. Seiler said, "You Their commander, Brig. Gen. Charles Pershing Brown of the North Koreans could be the same group that ambushed Pvt. David A. Seiler of There- rean army troops were killed the pigs do okay. I hope you can't blame those boys (Com- the 1st Cavalry Division, said he talked to Foster just before three American soldiers at dawn yesterday within sight of sa, who was killed in a Com- in a second outbreak of shoot- get some rain, we got plenty the wounded soldier went into an opera I ing room. "He wai the white ribbon marking the southern border of the demilitar- munist ambush in Korea yes- ing today. here." munists). They only do what ized zone. Two of the Americans were killed and the third they're told—just like our boys. calm and showed a lot of courage," Brown said. terday, urged in his last letter Seiler, in the Army since last He continued, "We were train- seriously wounded. that his family "pray for Their countries train them to An Army spokesman said later Foster was taken oft the There were no reports of fighting elsewhere along the 151- December, wrote his last let- ing last week and on night seriously ill list and was Improving splendidly. peace." kill. You can't blame them." mile Korean front. ter on July 21, expressing deep duty this week," and concluded Doctors at an exacuation hospital near Klmpo Airfield re- A UN spokesman said the American killed today was a The 24-year-old Seiler and concern for his mother's health the letter, "Pray for peace and "David was a good boy," moved three machine gun bullets from his body but decided member of the 7th Division. His name was withheld pending another soldier were killed and and the condition of his fa- I'll see you next year" said his father. "He and his to leave the fourth. It was felt it would be better not to op- notification of next of kin. a third was wounded in a dawn ther's crops, dried out in a "Those damn commies. erate on Foster again and let him spend the rest of his life drought that gripped Wisconsin (three) brothers hoped to earn First reports said a second American soldier had been attack just south of a demili- "They're a bunoh of skunks," with a slug of lead about an inch long In his hack. earlier in the month. enough money to buy their own wounded but the UN command said it could not confirm this. tarized zone about 20 miles said his embittered father, "Andrew Jackson lived most of his life with a bullet In his The fighting today brought U.S. casualties in Korea in the from Seoul as they rode in a "I hope ma is okay and real Erich, a farmer near this south- farnj. He always preferred lung and became President of the United States," said Lt. Gen. past two days to three dead and at least one wounded. jeep to a guard post. Another fine after her operation," wrote eastern Wisconsin community. farm work to city work." E. L. Lewis, a doctor. No Bipartisan Treaty Display Seen WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate were. Rusk visited with the Illi- conference Monday that the White lations Committee, said In a sep- listen to all the evidence on both Republican leaders apparently nois Senator briefly Monday but House suggested but he rejected arate interview he could not ac- sides before coming to a conclu- have killed any chance for a bi- Dirksen said they did not discuss a conference of leaders of both cept an invitation to go to Mos- sion. partisan display at the formal the matter. parties before President Kenne- cow for the signing ceremony* ex- GOP Policy Committee mem signing of the limited nuclear test "I feel that I should not go even dy's Friday night television*radio pected to be held next week. bers arranged to discuss the trea ban treaty in Moscow. if I were invited because accept- speech on the treaty, which would Listen To Evidence ty but thre was no indication • Minority leader Everett M. ance would leave the Implication ban all except underground tests. "I think it would be highly im- that they would take a stand on it. Dirksen said he had not been in- that I approved of the treaty Sen. Burke B. Hickenlooper, R- proper for me to go in view of Dirksen said he had made no vited to accompany Secretary of without knowing fully the effects Iowa, chairman of the Senate the fact that I have not decided effort to poll Republican senators State Dean Rusk on the ceremoni- it will have," Dirksen said. GOP Policy Committee and sen- whether I will support or oppose and had no idea how they would al trip and would not go if he Dirksen told an informal news' ior Republican on the Foreign Re- this treaty," he said. "I intend to (See TREATY, Page 3) Question Future Of Conference GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - accord. He proposed instead a The 17-nation disarmament con- sweeping disarmament plan to do POINTS TO KOREAN AMBUSH SPOT—Col. George Creel, United Nations infor- ference resumes amid uncertain- away with all nuclear weapons ty over its future today to hea under international supervision. mation officerin South Korea, points to spot on map just south of the Korean demil- a report on the three-power The French president said he itarized xone where North Korean soldiers killed three U. S, loldieri and wounded agreement to ban nuclear tests a third in an ambush. (AP Wirephoto) above ground and under water. (See FUTURE, Page 3) U.