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40th Div comdr Maj Gen Hudelson on return to US from Korea doubts UN forces can defeat Communists despite superiority in equipment; stresses lack of manpower; Sec Pace repts Hudelson views contrary to those of highest mil leaders; Hudelson says Pace has access to more data; Van Fleet views recalled
Dummy orgn Fayroc Realty & Construction Corp seeks Greenburgh and Mt Pleasant rezoning for $12 million exec unit on Westchester estate; title to estate is held by Empire City Racing Assn
GB lifts radio station blockade after USSR lifts barriers to enclaves; previous Allied protest on enclaves cited; rd patrols still barred
Boatner conf with Compound 76 leader Col Lee Hak Koo outside compound; orders him to assemble POWs in groups of 150; asks peaceful move; Lee illus; disobeys orders; US paratroops using tanks and flame throwers smash into Compound 76; quell last-ditch resistance; map; 30 POWs killed, 85 wounded; 1 Amer killed, 13 wounded; Communists plunge spears into POWs seeking to obey Allied orders; intelligence officers find map in empty compound indicating POWs may have planned mass escape and seizure of island; Lee and 2 women leaders unhurt; seized; Compound 78 obeys orders to get ready to march; Compound 77 sends word it will obey orders
sudden wind and rain squall cause widespread damage after temperature hits 85.2; 3 dead; LI hardest hit; illus
1952Kage Baker, American author (died 2010)[†]
Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]