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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 11, 1953
Mother Hopes to See Son in Korea Despite Edict of UN Commander
Tokyo —(U,P)— Mrs. Portia Howe said today she still hopes she will be allowed to see her war prisoner son who has remained with Communism, despite an Army ruling against her.
"I will wait and pray," the Alden, Minn., housewife said today after United Nations Commander Gen. John E. Hull denied her permission to go to Korea.
"I haven't given up hope," the grazing, 47-year-old mother said. "I believe it is a policy question to be settled in Washington."
Mrs. Howe met with Gen. Hull for about 30 minutes in his headquarters, and the general then issued a statement saying he could not allow her to go to Korea because of a Defense department policy.
"I can't ask what my next move will be." Mrs. Howe told newsmen
later at a press conference in her downtown hotel.
"I'm going to stay here for a few more days."
But she said she did not plan to remain until Dec. 23, deadline for explanations to the 22 unrepatriated American war prisoners who indicated through their self-appointed leaders in Pamunjom they might refuse to see U.S. explanation officers.
Asked if Gen. Hull's ruling disappointed her, Mrs. Howe said, "I expected a certain amount of opposition. There's been a certain amount of opposition all along."
But she added, "I still hope to see my son."
She would not disclose what type of help she expected from Washington but said she has been "promised the support of some people in the House of Representatives."
She said Minnesota Rep. August H. Andreasen has promised to help her see her son, 22-year-old PFC. Richard R. Tennesse.
Gen. Harrison had written her before she left the U.S. several American missionaries accompanied her to the Harrison house but the general and his wife were not home.
After meeting with Gen. Hull, Mrs. Howe went to the home of Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, who negotiated the Korean armistice and who is a lay church leader.
But Mrs. Howe said the missionaries prayed with her in the Harrison living room "for the soul of my son."
The missionaries, all friends of the Harrisons, included Fred Jarvis, international vice president of the Youth for Christ movement; Donald Nelson, Evangelical Alliance missionary, and Joe Gooden, independent Baptist missionary.
3 Lithuanian Nuns Slated To Testify in Baltic Probe
Chicago—(O.P.)—The House Baltic committee called three Lithuaniian nuns today to tell their first person stories of Russian terror during the seizure of their country, Latvia and Estonia.
Martin Predicts Ike Candidacy
Wellesley, Mass.—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower will be a candidate for a second term in the White House in 1958. House Speaker Joseph W. Martin predicted today.
Mr. Eisenhower is "certain" to be offered the Republican nomination "and I'm pretty sure he will take it," Rep. Martin said.
"Ive never seen a President yet who didn't want a second term in office."
The Massachusetts Republican leader also made these predictions to the United Press:
2. Congress in the next session will do away with the excess profits tax and cut taxes for individuals by 10 per cent.
1. The Republicans will gain "at least 20" congressional seats next year.
3. Reduce excise taxes on "luxury"
items and movies.
4. Cut defense spending
Rep. Martin said farmers could be assured the administration "is not going to sell them down the river." He said "we can not afford to let agriculture sink into a depression."
5. "Desperate efforts" to split President Eisenhower and Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) will not succeed.
On the issue of "McCarthyism" dividing GOP ranks, he said "the American people know the President and Joe McCarthy feel the same way about Communists the Democrats allowed to infiltrate the government" and both were trying to "drive them out."
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The committee heard stories of almost incredible brutality yesterday as displaced persons testified about the Communist rape of the Baltic states in 1941.
A Catholic priest, Cannon Petraitus, told of a death march in the Chervene forest in 1941 in which "no more than 100" of 6,000 political prisoners survived.
Former Lithuanian Army Col. Jauzis Tumas, who survived the massacre with Petraitus, confirmed the priest's testimony.
Petraitus, speaking dispassionately through a translator, told how Russian MKVD secret police shot down pregnant women, murdered a mother while her child clung to her bosom and then shot the child through the head.
He said the secret police allowed a Russian armored car to run over a road covered with prostrate prisoners. Many were crushed.
He said the death march began at Minsk in Russia on the night of June 24, 1941, two days after Germany opened war on the Soviet Union and lasted two days and two nights.
Periodically, he said, the MKVD men opened fire on the marchers with automatic weapons, mowing down many of them. After secret policemen were twice hit by their own gun, they in turn were forced to lie down in the road while they were sprayed with bullets, he testified.
The band covered 90 miles through the Chervene forest, he said.
Those who survived were ordered to their feet and marched on—until the Russians were ready for more killing, Petraitus said.
Janie Home Safe,
The $1,000 Intact
Jersey City, N.J. —(U.P.)—Birdwatchers with larceny at heart gave up today-Janie made it home.
Janie is an orange-eyed racing pigeon who flew here from Washington yesterday with a $1,000 bill taped to her leg.
"We were pretty sure she would make it," said her owner, William Indyke, "but if she'd been forced down somewhere along the way it would have been finders-keepers for that money."
Indyke, a furniture salesman and president of the New Jersey Concourse association, a pigeon-raising group, launched the bird from the 12th floor of the Statler hotel in Washington as a publicity stunt for the Parmacel Tape corporation.
Parmacel wanted to prove it had enough confidence in the adhesive qualities of its product to trust $1,000 to a bird.
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