GOOD EVE I N G EV E RYBODY: (1n the Korea truce talks, anger marks the negotiations on the question of prisoners. Our officers are embittered by the small number of UN captives reported by the Reds) While the Communists make wrathful ~barges that they were •duped• in the exchange of l ists. They say the UN representatives tricked them by handing over Chinese and Iorean names in English writing, without serial numbers, or the units to which the Red prisoners were attached. Late word from Tokyo. Genera l Ridgway's Headquarters has just finished studying the list, and a s p ecial statement will be issued early tomorrow. First comment from G.B.Q. is of •glaring discre p ancies.• This refers in articular to names given in he ast by eking radio and not now listed by the Communists. However, it is believed in Tokyo th a t pri s oner exchange negotiations may soon be resumed at Panmunjom. This, already, has roduced an Enoch Arden case in the : erson of Yrs. Agnes asser of Atlanta, Georgia. Her fimt husband, Sergeant Walter Dixon, was reported •killed in action• and she remarried. Now the name of Walter Dixon appears on the list of prisoners or war. At the Pentagon, the word is - ~hat they've sent this Enoch Arden case to Supreme Headquarters in Tokyo for investigation. In Washington, the Army discloses that the list shows twenty American risoners of war, who had been reported reviously as •killed in action.• The case of Gener a l Dean is a puzzler. The belief is that his name on the list of prisoners rl probably correct. " But there are odd angles. e Gener ~ as we've hewrd, is on t.-lie , / list without a seri ~ al nu ■ber / hou 7 h all t:he other !),riee have nuabere, exce~ / r ive. Red f wor~ is that General Dwan is being held at / \ / on ca~nu■b, , r / ~ ix, near ti;. Red c.a;ital of / f / / / • Pyon ang. bat caap t• believe)' / to be res•r•ed Ur ,, . i_? · o rtant p !aoners, 1Jlto get special treat ■ ent. B~ tbie ie ~ncertain ~ A ■erican officer ■ can't understand why the Reds didn't use the capture of eo t■,• i ■ portant a person for propaganda purposes - an A ■ erican General, prisoner-of-war. All through the truce talks, Coa ■ unist ~ newa ■ en ; ; ; they knew anything about Gene ral Dean. ,A They seemed to think he was dead. ft ~---ao\1 todlf.., ) ~ ..,..,,~t.c:M-"-rn"ai""""" ' l British Communis\Allen linnington, of the London Daily Worker, a a i ~ t General Dean ~ captured by the Reds toward the end of August, Nineteen Fifty. He diaappeared - late in July. om&=}-~ w!o tor••~ ----- ~ with • · atory told by a Red ~ ~ ~ M t 4 . . regarded as •unreliable•. ~ , t h a t General Dean escaped from the battlefield, and took to the hilla. lhere he wandered around tor a month - until hunger forced hi ■ to go to a village for food. There the Coa■unists •*•*• picked hia up. ) ( A!.l / part of a p.u,szle - tha.t sti 11 aurrouncla / ✓ - _ . / the Genu"al who disa eared in .,(c~ h e r o r that / , . h• / has been awarded the Congressio al ».dal ~r Honor. lQIIA- QHBISTMJ.s The Army announces that the soldier• in Iorea will have the biggeet Christmas dinner that troops at a warfront haTe ever had. Today, General Van Tleet iseue4 a 1pecial order to h11 lield Commander• - tellin1 them to be eure that e•ery G.I. gets a full aenu. Which aenu r1ad1 as follows - ehrlap cocktail, tomato Julee, celery, olive•, a huge portion of turkey, cranberry aauoe, corn, roll• and butter, ■ 1noe ple, pum~kin p1e, fruit, nut•~ a . ~ ~'1- ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ . Soun41 •*Stlx■az■ llte the Rlts-Waldorf - but there'• aore, 11111 ■ore Chrl•t■ae Cheer. ) Tbe Coanun11te are eendtn1 Yuletide preeeat1 te the Aaerloana - holiday glfte aero•• the fightlDI llne. Ohr11taa1 1tockln1a aade of oheeeeoloth, an4 filled with lattation 1Tory cigarette holder•, auelln handterch1et1, Chr11t••• card•, and paaphlete. ITerythtn1 1nclud1a1 the 011arette holder• and handkerohlets, le blasoned wlth Bed propaganda. Including appeal• uT,ing Aaerloan aoldler1 to 1urrender. Vhloh glvee the G. I.'• a lau1h. These •chrlat ■as pre ■ enta• are brought 1n by / ' JAIIA- QBRISTM,S -2- lorean pea1ant1, shanghaied and frightened. Al one point tbe G. I!a had thei~ loudest laugh when a Iorean. faraer told h11 story. Be •aid he wa1 grabbe4 by Red 10141er1, who too hta before a couple of Chinese off1oer1. TheJ to14 h1a that he h&d been 8 honorab1J aelecled.• Jhe •honor' wa1 Iba.I he would oarr1 a load of gift• aero•• the f1ghtla1 line lo lhe Aaerioan1. The lorean replied politely that \he 1 honor• wa1 too great for a 1i ■ple huable f&raer. Bui the Reda in111ted that he deaerTed 11. Be obieo\ed - \bat, 101n1 lo the A■erto&D battle po■ lllon, he •t•o4 a good ohuoe of beln1 1hot. TbeJ told hi ■ - •o, Aller1oan1 wouldn't ahoot bl ■, no\ on Chrla\aae. so, the nex\ \hing 1ou now, G. I.'a on _ du\7 •aw the unhappy lorean far ■er \o111n& up & hlll, wl\h a hu1e l&Ct of Ohriat ■&I preaente OD hie baot and W&ViDI aa enoraoue whlt• fl&& of truce. Tbey ~~ let him ln, 1 ~~ aaueed by h11 1\or1, ~ \hen turned bl• looee-and off he went, ■ ourrJl~a•~, ( A new nation will be born this Christ■ae !ve - the lingdom of Libya. Lon on announces th a t the former Italian Colony will be granted full sovereignty on December Twenty-fourth. ) Under the peace treaty with Italy, and by decision of the United Rations, that lorth African land, right next door to Egypt, has been prepared gradually for independence. In the past half dozen years, authority has b 9 en transferred, bit by bit, to Emir Sayed Mohammed !l SenuaaP. So now he beco ■ ea a full-fledged sovereign. Later on, the new monarchy will stage a royal cere ■ ony, the coronatio n of the !mir as - Iing of Libya. STEEL --- A late rep rt from Wa s hington - no progress in negotiations to avert a steel str i ke called for Rew Years Day. Federal mediator Cyrus Chin g says the Union stands pat dn its wage demand, an ~ the steel industry 1oes the saae in its contenti ~ n - that i t cannot grant the pay hike unless peraitted to boost the price of steel. W h ich the govern ■ ent aaya · it will not allow - price regulation to remain as is. Today, in Waehington, the •mystery witness• appeared before the Congressional Committee - and what a witness he turned out to be. He is Henry Gruenwald, ca le d the •Dutch■ an• who figures in that famous Teitelbau ■ story of an attempted half a million 1ollar shakedown. A whole series of na ■ es were mentioned, including those of top government officials connected with inco ■ e tax. Gruenwal d , the Dutch ■ an, appeared ■yeteri o usly in the teetiaony. Today Gruenwald was questioned - but the Dutch ■ an did not answer. lot that he refused on Constitutional grounds. Re didn't say anything, not a word. They asked him this and that, hut he remained silent as if stricken du ■b. A co ■mittee member says - he didn't even let out a grunt. It was ~xactly the same at a news conference when Gruenwald emerged, the reporters besieged him with questions. But the Dutch ■ an didn't utter a sound. One of the reporters asked hi ■ *• at least to say - •hello•. But, not a peep. Which certainly deepened the mystery ( we can make one surmise. In the testiaony about Gruenwald, repeated ■ ention was made of his deep gutteral voice, with a bea•y German accent - the Dutchaan. So maybe that was why he refused to ■ ay one word today, because e•en a syllable ■ ight have given bi ■ away, bis Ger■ an •~cent. Instead or saying •yea• \ he'd have growled •ja•.) .!IAil!I! Albany, New York reports - nineteen bolo• an all-time record for December Twenty~~- The cold wave and blizzard has hit the East, with bitter te■peraturea and heavy snow. ( uppe; I&; Tor~ State reports below-~ero figures¢ over t~a placer with ( / Al / llow taking the icy ., / ake. / / Its ~revioua ~•cord - seventeen ~•low. today b . ing ineteen botches Aqd ■ ore is coming. The middlewe1t reporting new bli1zarda, heading East. In Montana, twenty-a ven ~• ••11111•• below zero at Lewiston. Ten inche• of anow covering a whole aeries of states. ~~ One town taolat e d by J.1'rl~~f4..~ mountain• A of snow -- food flown in by plane. An airliner, flying from Chicago to lewark, Rew Jersey, with fifty persons aboard - got lost in the snowstorm today. Radio trouble, and the pilot couldn't tell north from South, !ast from lest, an 1 his fuel ~ a s running low. It had all the matings of an airline tragedy - but, suddenly, through a break in the clouds the pilot saw -- shoreline. Be bad strayed over Late Ontario. Did he look for a flying field? Be did not. The snow along that lake shorewas deep and soft. So he left his wheels up, and aade a belly landing - lite de s cending into a soft blanket. Everybody safe - ~~~e in Canada. / , In California today, an air search was on for a Swedish glider pilot, who has been missing since Tuesday. !rik Oevgaard came to this country hoping to s t an al,itude record for gliders - by riding the wsierra wave.• Those far famed mountains are noted for tremendous up-drafts of air, which can take a glider to great heights. The wind co ■ es blowing f ■ in from the Pacific, sweeps to the foot of the ■ ountain1, and up it goes, rushing over the top _ of the high Sierra. (Riding this, the Swedish glider pilot hoped ? to cli ■b to thirty-four thousand feet - breaking all z•f• records) So he toot off dn the ws1erra wave•, and vanished in the lofty distance. The fenr is that he LJIQQLI At & Pre1b1,er1an Church ln Waah1ng,on, theJlr• placing a document on 41aplaJ, an orlglnal 4raf• of ,he laanc1p&t1on Proolamatlon, ln Llnooln'a own haniwr1t1n1. Be attended the •ew York AYenue Church, and lhe Paator, Dr. Phlnea1 CurleJ, a4Ylaed hla ln prepar1n1 the 4oauenl \bat &aAouaoe4 the tree4o■ of \tie ala•••• ' •o now th~reaa11 7 ~raha■ Llneola aa a obvoh- ~ ' 1o•r-aad there'• one anecdote wltti u u1l• of lo•thera IJ■patblsere la Wa1h1a1toa. lov.a4• taalll&r, wllb all lb••• Confe4era•e fla11 arou4 aow&4&7•• The ator, 11 tba• Lincoln'• two bOJI, Wlllle and tad, preferred to 10 to another chuoh, tbe ~ovtb Pre1b1••rlaa. the •re1lden, &eked the■ wbJ, &B4 Yllll• repl1e4z •Dad', we ha•• ■ore tua at lbe romtb. We llk• to 1ee tbe •aeceaalon1•t•' 1•' up &ad aarob out, wbea • • Xlnlater pra1• tor \be 1ree14en• of the Ualle4 •••••••• Y••• 11 doe• 1004 ta■ lllar. A law1ui, was filed at Tulia, Otlahoaa, today, with & doa1no player cla1■ 1ng 4a.aa.gee - because of a jote. Well, ll&JlJ Of UI lite .JL domino• - an4 who doe•n•, ; ..... enjoy a good laugh! But JOU can fora your own oplntoa abou, the r1ght..-aad wrong ln the ca1e. ~ Enn11 v1111aa1 lite• a ho, 1a•• of 4oa1no1. - ' lo when he wae 1nT1te4 to play, he accepted wl111D&1J, and aa, down!- on the floor~ Saa• olt prac,1oal 3ote, .. and you'd ,h1nt 1, would be extinot bJ now. Bu, ,he doalbo player 1ays ,hat, as he aat down - Geor1• Wtlaoa yanked the chair ou\ fro• under hl ■• STerybodJ had a lau1h - exoep, ,he Tlott■• fbe joke waa \be funnier, beoauae Snn11 W1111&111 welgh1 '•• hundred and 11xty-f1Te pound• - whloh aade the d&■&ge the 1reater. Be landed with aa ear\h-ahat1n1 - bu■p. So now he ha• enterre4 ault tor ei1ht1-•e••• \houaan4 dollara, that auoh for pa.la, ■edlc&l t•••• and 1011 of earnln&•• Joi oount1n1 - the d&aage to the f l o o r , ~ ~