June 3, 1952

Irving Trust Co (NYC): teller C Lehanka foils robber

accidentally fired machine gun kills 1 POW, wounds 1, Compound 78; POWs refuse to yield body or wounded man for hospitalization; demonstrations resumed; Compound 76 stages mock funeral as Boatner looks on; Compound 602 re-erects flag pole knocked down by US tank-inf raid; Boatner comments; SK officer walking past Compound 60 goaded into firing at POWs; wounds 1; POWs bar med care by UN; Clark and Van Fleet visit Koje; hold firm UN policy may have taken 'fight' out of die-hard Communists; Clark says UN will use 'maximum' force if POWs continue to violate orders; sees uncontested control as soon as possible with minimum bloodshed; says Communists at Panmunjom direct outbreaks; says Communist flags will be taken down when UN is ready to follow through; Brit troops illus destroying illegal CP and dispensary in compound

J Reston repts Army circles hold MacArthur violates Army rules by pub statements on pol issues

many feel Truman still has power to invoke Taft-Hartley Law

12-15 point rise in basic rate seen as Tax Comm sets fiscal '53 final valuations and special franchises at over $19.4 billion; totals by counties listed; rept on appeals from tentative valuations; Pres Boyland comments; valuation cuts listed