.. HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE 8/4 0333 8/4 1005 21 51 8/5 b~~ :Jke 8/5 1037 16 HOURGLASS 2227 33 VOL 4 NO 1491 KWAJALEIN, MARSHALL ISLANDS SATURDAY 3 AUGUST 1963 COMMANDER GORDINIER "TURNCOAT" TELLS OF LI FE ASSUMES COMMAND OF KWAJAlEIN IN RED CHINA CDR GORDINIER, WHO YESTERDAY REPLACED CAPT HOLMBERG AS HONG KONG, (UPI )--FORMER U.S ARMY CORPORAL LOWELL D. COMMANDING OfFICER, PACifiC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, SKINNER, OF AKRON, OHIO, WHO CHOSE COMMUNISM AFTER THE KWAJALEIN, MARSHALL ISLANDS, IS EMINENTLY WELL QUALifiED KOREAN WAR, SAID TODAY HE EXPECTS TO RETURN TO THE UNITED TO CONTINUE IN THE HIGH TRADITIONS OF LEADERSHIP SO NEC­ STATES "AS SOON AS POSSIBLE." ESSARY FOR AN IMPORTANT DEFENSE FACILITY. HIS PREVIOUS HIS FATHER CABLED HIM "WELCOME HOME" GREETINGS AND HIS RECORD ATTESTS TO HIS ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY MOTHER SAID SHE HOPED HE WOULD HURRY BACK, SETTLE DOWN LEADERSHIP AND GET A JOB. CDR GORDINIER IS A NATIVE OF DES MOINES, IOWA, AND SKINNER SAID HE HAD NO TROUBLE DURING HIS LONG STAY IN ENTERED THE NAVY IN MAY, 1942 AS A NAVAL AVIATION CADET. RED CHINA. HE EARNED HIS WINGS IN OCTOBER, 1943 AND LIKE CAPT "I AM AN AMERICAN AND THEY KNEW IT," HE SAID. "I WAS HOLMBERG, SERVED IN A DIVE BOMBING SQUADRON HIS SQUAD- NEVER BOTHERED." RON WAS BASED ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER, USS BUNKER HIS LAST JOB BEFORE LEAVING THE UNITED STATES IN 1950 ~ILL, AND FLEW IN THE fiRST CARRIER AIRCRAFT STRIKES WAS CUTTING GRASS AT A COUNTRY CLUB IN AKRON. OHIO. HE HAS AGAINST TOKYO AND THE JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS. LIVED IN CHINA SINCE 1953, AND TRAVELED MORE THAN 8,000 DURING THIS TIME, CDR GORDINIER PARTICIPATED IN THE MILES THROUGH THE MOST POPULOUS NATION ON EARTH DURING SUPPORT Of AMPHIBIOUS LANDINGS ON Iwo JIMA AND OKINAWA. THE LAST FOUR MONTHS FOR THIS AND OTHER MISSIONS, HE WAS AWARDED THE DISTIN­ "I DON'T THINK I LOST ANYTHING BY STAYING IN CHINA," GUISHED FLYING CROSS THREE TIMES, THE AIR MEDAL FOUR HE SAID "I GAINED A KNOWLEDGE OF THE COUNTRY, ITS CUS­ TIMES AND A PURPLE HEART. TOMS AND LANGUAGE " FOLLOWING THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, CDR GORDINIER SKINNER NOW SPEAKS FLUENT CHINESE, ALTHOUGH HE CANNOT BECAME A CIVILIAN AND RETURNED TO ACTIVE DUTY IN 1947 READ IT PERFECTLY HE IS MARRIED TO A CHINESE GIRL WHO fOR A TOUR ON SAIPAN. FOLLOWING,HIS TOUR ON SAIPAN, UN­ IS STILL IN CHINA DER MILITARY SPONSORSHIP, HE BECAME A STUDENT AT THE SKINNER SAID THAT OF 21 FORMER AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FOR TWO YEARS DECLINED TO BE REPATRIATED AFTER THE KOREAN WAR ONLY IN 1950, HE MADE THE TRANSITION TO HELICOPTERS AND SEVEN NOW REMAIN IN CHINA HE ADDED THAT TWO OF THESE OPERATED FROM THE ATTACK CARRIER, USS VALLEY FORGE, AND ARE EXPECTED TO LEAVE FOR AMERICA SHORTLY SKINNERS'S TWO BRITISH CARRIERS DURING THE KOREAN CONFLICT IN STATEMENT APPARENTLY WAS THE FIRST WORD RECEIVED BY 1957, CDR GORDINIER RETURNED TO SEA AS THE AIRCRAFT HAND­ AMERICAN OFFICIALS HERE THAT TWO AMERICANS, STILL BELIEVED LING OfFICER ON BOARD THE ANTI-SUBMARINE AIRCRA~T CARRIER, TO BE IN CHINA, ACTUALLY HAD LEFT THE COUNTRY SKINNER USS TARAWA. SAID THAT JOHN DUNNE OF BALTIMORE HAD MARRIED A CZECH HE THEN MADE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION, THIS TIME GIRL AND DEPARTED FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA. THE OTHER IS HAROLD TO JET AIRCRAFT. WITH THIS TRAINING, HE SERVED IN PUERTO H. WEBB, OF FT. PIERCE, FLORIDA, WHO SKINNER REPORTED HAD RICO FOR TWO YEARS WITH A REGULUS GUIDED MISSILE SQUADRON. MARRIED A POLISH GIRL AND LEFT FOR POLAND PRIOR TO REPORTING TO KWAJALEIN, CDR GORDINIER SERVED SKINNER SAID THAT ALBERT C. BELHOMME, WHO WAS A U.S. AS THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER IN THE BUREAU Of NAVAL WEAPONS ARMY SERGEANT BUT CARRIED A BELGIAN PASSPORT, AND SCOTT REPRESENTATIVE'S OFFICE, AKRON, OHIO. L. RUSH OF MARIETTA, OHIO, WERE DUE TO LEAVE CHINA WITHIN CDR GORDINIER IS MARRIED TO THE fORMER SALLY HARVEY OF A fEW WEEKS BEL HOMME HAS A WIFE WITH A BELGIAN PASSPORT DES MOINES, IOWA, AND THEY ARE PARENTS OF THREE DAUGHTERS. AND CURRENTLY IS WORKING IN TSINAN AS AN ELECTRICIAN. RUSH IS WORKING AS A LATHE OPERATOR IN A TEXTILE FACTORY DR. WARD NEAR DEATH IN THE CENTRAL CHINA CITY OF WUHAN, AND HAS A CHINESE GIRLFRIEND MAY "TELL ALL" WIFE AND ONE CHILD, SKINNER SAID. LONDON (UPI )--SOCIETY OSTEOPATH DR STEPH~N WARD, WHO ALL 21 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR WERE DISHONORABLY TOOK DRUGS IN AN APPARENT SUICIDE ATTEMPT TO AVOID IM­ DISCHARGED FROM THE U.S ARMY IN 1954, AND THUS ARE NO PRISONMENT ON MORALS CHARGES, SURVIVED A CRITICAL NIGHT LONGER LIABLE TO AMERICAN MILITARY PROSECUTION. IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH AND TODAY ENTERED HIS THIRD DAY ASKED ABOUT THE LABEL "TURNCOAT" APPLIED TO THE GROUP IN A COMA SKINNER SAID "IT MIGHT WEAR OFF" DR MAYNE BUTCHER, SPOKESMAN fOR THE HOSPITAL WHERE ASKED WHY HE ELECTED TO STAY IN CHINA, SKINNER REPILED WARD LAY IN A GUARDED ROOM, TOLD NEWSMEN AT 1030, THAT STAYING BEHIND MEANT AN "OPPORTUNITY TO SEE A BIG "w EAR E NOT PRO V I 0 I NG YOU WIT H ABU L LET I NTH I S 1-10 RN I NG COUNTRY." BECAUSE ONCE MORE THE PATIENT'S CONDITION IS QUITE UN­ HE SAID THAT ALL HIS TRAVEL INSIDE CHINA WAS PAID FOR CHANGED--EXACTLY THE SAME AS LAST NIGHT AT 10 O'CLOCK." BY THE CHINESE RED CROSS. LAST NIGHT AT THAT TIME, DOCTORS WERE DESPAIRING FOR OFFICIALS AT THE AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL HERE SAID THE LIFE OF THE 50-YEAR-OLD PLAYBOY. THAT SKINNER'S APPLICATION FOR TRAVEL DOCUMeNTS WAS BEING "HE IS VERY CRITICALLY ILL," BUTCHER SAID "I WOULD SAY PROCESSED SMOOTHLY, AND BARRING UNFORESEEN COMPliCATIONS, THAT WE CAN CONCLUDE THAT ANXIETY INCREASES AS HE REMAINS HE WOULD BE ABLE TO LEAVE FOR TH~ UNITED STATES SHORTLY. IN HIS DEEP COMA." SKINNER SAID HE HAD THREE MAJOR MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT WARD HAS BEEN IN A COMA SINCE BEfORE 8 A M. WEDNESDAY CHINA WHEN HE DECLINED TO BE REPATRIATED, HE SAID THESE WHEN HE WAS FOUND "BLUE IN FACE" IN A GUEST ROOM BY A TURNED OUT TO BE FRIEND WITH WHOM HE WAS STAYING HE WAS RUSHED TO ST --"I THOUGHT LIVING CONDITIONS IN CHINA WOULD BE HIGHER STEPHEN'S HOSPITAL. --"I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE FREEDOM TO TRAVEL DR. STEPHEN WARD, STILL UNAWARE HE FACES A POSSIBLE 14 --"I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE A QUICK CHANCE TO GO TO SCHOOL" YEARS IN PRISON ON A VICE CONVICTION, LAY NEAR DEATH TO­ SKINNER SAID THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS TOLD HIM AND OTHER DAY WHILE A YOUNG SINGER VOWED SHE WOULD EXPOSE THE ONE­ PRISONERS OF WAR THAT THEY COULD GO TO WORK FIRST, AND TIME FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES WHO FAILED TO HELP DEFEND AFTERWARDS COULD STUDY THE SOCIETY OSTEOPATH. "S OME GOT TO STUDY," HE SAID "I WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO THE 22-YEAR-OLD SINGER, WHO HAS BEEN WARD'S CLOSEST DIDN'T" COMPANION IN RECENT WEEKS, TOLD THE DAILY EXPRESS "IF ASKED ABOUT THE FACTORY WHERE HE WORKED, SKINNER SAID HE DIES 1'M GOING TO MAKE SURE IT IS NOT IN VAIN HE IS THAT "FOR THE FIRST SIX OR EIGHT MONTHS AFTER MY ARRIVAL NOT GOING TO DIE TO LET A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE OFF SCOT THERE WAS A LANGUAGE BARRIER, OF COURSE, IN THE FACTORY." FREE A WHOLE CROWD OF THEM RI~HT NOW ARE PRAYING FOR "IT TOOK A WHILE TO MAKE CONTACT," HE ADDED. STEPHEN TO DIE SO THAT THEIR NAMES WON'T BE MENTIONED," HE SAID HE STUDIED CHINESE EVERY NIGHT "ON MY OWN," SHE SAID "IF HE DIES I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE THEIR NAMES ALTHOUGH HE NEVER TOOK FORMAL SCHOOL COURSES ARE MENTIONED," SHE CONTINUED. HE SAID HIS WIFE, GI HSIAO-FEI, WHO NOW IS 36, DID NOT A SPOKESMAN AT ST. STEPHEN'S HOSPITAL SAID EARLY THIS SPEAK ANY ENGLISH SHE WAS A TEACHER AND A SEVENTH DAY ~ORNING WARD WAS STILL ALIVE. HE DENIED PRESS REPORTS ADVENTIST WHEN HE MET HER, SKINNER SAID. ~ THlT THE PLAYBOY'S HEART HAD STOPPED BEATING TWICE SKINNER SAID HIS MARRIAGE WAS A CIVIL WEDDING, COMMON IN YESTERDAY. CHINA INSTEAD OF RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES. THE COUPLE WED ON THE DAILY HERALD AND THE DAILY SKETCH, WITHOUT NAMING MARCH 8, 1956 THEY HAVE NO CHILDREN A SOURCE, SAID THE REPORT WAS TRUE. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SKINNER SAID THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS HAD TOLD HIM HIS WIFE SAID THE REPORT COULD NOT BE CONFIRMED. COULD LEAVE CHINA IF THE AMERICANS APPROVED ENTRY INTO US! • .. PAGE 2 HOURGLASS , SATURDAY 3 AUGUST 1963 PUBLISHED AT THE DIRECTION CURFEW EXTENDED IN BORNEO SAILORS ABANDON SHtP­ KENNEDY WARNS OF DANGER OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER KUCHING, BORNEO, (UPI)-­ SAVED BY SUB FROM CHINA PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FA­ THE BRITISH ARMY ANNOUNCED SAN rRANCISCO, (UPI)--A WASH I NGTON, ( UP r )-- PRES­ CILITY ~AJALEIN, MARSHALL RETIRED NAVY V,CE ADMIRAL TODAY THAT IN VIEW OF THE IDEN~ KENNEDY PREDICTED TO­ ISLANDS, CONTRACT NOAS-4176c THREAT OF A POSSIBLE IN­ AND SIX CREWMEN, WHO ABAN­ DAY THAT A NUCLEAR-ARMED WITH THE TRANSPORT COMPANY VASION, THE CURFEW AMONG DONED A $250,000 LUXURY YACHT COMMUNIST CHINA IN THE 1970's OF TEXAS. THE BORDER AREAS OF SARA­ DURING A CRUISE FROM HAWAI I WOULD CONFRONT THE WORLD THE HOURGLASS IS PUBLISHED WAK'S FIRST AND SECOND TO CALIFORNIA, WERE PICKED WITH A DANGER GREATER THAN DAILY MONDAY THROUGH SATUR­ DIVISION HAS BEEN EXTENDED. UP BY A NAVY SUBMARINE SHORT­ ANY FACED SINCE THE END OF DAY.