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Show SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1951 TI1E JOURNAL TREAT FOR GIS IN TRUCE CITY... Six American GIs, part of the auxiliary personnel Inside the armistice city of Kaesong, Korea, for the truce talks between U.N. and Red officials, reach into a box of candy offered by a girl in a North Korean army uniform, playing host to the United Nations soldiers. The Communists called off the talks for a few days for what U.N. officials believe was a chance to communicate with Peiping and Moscow. Big issue raised between the negotiators at the time this was taken was the Communist demands that all foreign troops be removed from Korean soil. Page 3 TWINS COMMISSIONED . . . Jane (left) and Joan Van Scoy, first twins to be commissioned in womens medical specialist corps, pose before flag in New York City shortly after they were sworn into the army as second lieutenants. They will begin a physical therapy course at the Medical Field Service school, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, followed by clinical practice at a large army hospital. Womens medical specialist corps, established in 1947, is the armys youngest corps In operation today. 12-mo- STANDS AND WAITS . . . Gen. Matthew Ridgway, U.N. commander, stands alone on banks of the Imjin as the lead jeep of the U.N. truce caravan heads for the city of Kaesong and another conference with the Chinese and North Korean Reds. SQUALID HOME FOR G.I. . . . Angry senators revealed that service men with families are forced to live in such hideous hovels as a shack built of whiskey bottles and beer cans (above) and sleep with the lights on to keep their children from being bitten by rats. With no water supply, house above contains two shabby rooms divided by a counter and is rented to a corporal for $25 a month near Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky. MAY BECOME SPANISH KING . . . Rumors in Madrid say Don Juan (right), pretender to the Spanish throne, may renounce rights in of his son, Juan Carlos, 13, (left) if Franco will allow a boy crowned. General Franco set up a new government recently in a for better relations with the west and has promised to monarchy. Franco declares the monarch will have to be Spanish, at least 30 years old, and a Roman Catholic. v::x; ,v KAISER SON DIES . . . Prinee Friedrich Wilhelm, 69, son of late Kaiser Wilhelm and direct descendent of Hohenzollern family that once ruled Germany, died recently in Hechingen, Germany, following weeks of illness during which he was alone. x. x ft.v.v.v.y. favor to be move the male, ;X;.v::x:xX;'; v. y. Ex-Cro- REDS RIDE JEEPS . . . Outside peace conference building at Kaesong, an unidentified American soldier scrapes mud off bumper of an American-mad- e jeep to ascertain from what organization it was captured. Still bearing its U.S. army markings, the jeep and another like it have been used by Reds to transport their negotiators to and from vehithe Kaesong peace meetings. At the left are two Russian-mad- e cles which closely resemble the U.S. jeep. GOING, GOING, GONE Rex Layne, highly-toute- d heavy-weigh- t, DUMPING APPLES . . . Another truckload of Washington apples Is dumped on growing pile of fruit being left to rot by growers in order to keep prices up near Yakima. More than 2,000 carloads have been dumped by growers In the past two weeks. The farmers claim that they cannot market the fruit at more than 50 cents a box. So they prefer to dump the crop than to sell them at lower prices, bringing to mind the plowing under of the little pigs several years ago. down and out after hard right smash by undefeated Rocky Marciano |