Week of July 22-31, 1953

South Korean President Syngman Rhee hurls

new threats at a Korean truce - but one is

expected to be signed this week. But Peiping Red

radio reports the all-but-signed truce is “in great

danger” after Rhee’s statement that South Korea

will act on its own if Red Chinese troops aren’t

withdrawn from Korea within six months after a

truce.

President Eisenhower sums up his first six

months in the White House by saying progress

has been made though not as much as he had

hoped. He said he still is hopeful a reasonable

armistice will be signed soon. Also from the President - American food will

remain available in West Berlin for the East Germans in spite of Soviet

resentment. The President said East Germans can come and get it as long as

they aren’t prevented from doing so. He said the $15 million worth of food was

offered for humanitarian purposes and it is difficult to understand objections to

feeding hungry people. Russia had demanded that the U.S. stop supplying free

food to hungry East Germans, charging that American charity was aimed at

stirring-up an anti-Communist revolt.

President Eisenhower said the riot-shaken

East German Communist regime is bankrupt

and renewed a demand for free all-German

elections as a step toward unifying the divided

country.

Reliable sources in Seoul and Washington say

they expect a Korean truce to be signed within

48 hours.

Nearly 5,000 Chinese Red infantrymen press savage attacks on the central and

western Korean fronts, apparently as a propaganda gesture in a dying war.

ending 37 months of war. Top commands warn their troops that a truce did not

necessarily mean a peace. The main ceremony was a cold, 10-minute formality

Week of July 22-31, 1953

in Panmunjom by Lt. Gen. William Harrison,

American presenting the United Nations command

and Gen Nam Il of North Korea, representing the

Chinese and Korean Reds.

The Korean Armistice Commission meets for the first time and has the tough job

of policing the truce. Some 1.7 million troops on the Korea battle front are a little

more relaxed.

Radar picks up large numbers of Communist planes winging into North Korea

from Manchuria. Under terms of the armistice, no additional weapons and

armament of any type are to be taken to North or South Korea during the truce

except as replacement for older armament.

President Eisenhower and entertainers appear on a

special TV and radio program for the Korea relief fund.

Appearing are Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jack Benny,

Reynolds, Jan Sterling and Keenan Wynn. These

entertainers have traveled to Korea to entertain troops

and are volunteering to help raise $5 million for

emergency relief to worn-torn Korea.

The Defense Department announces that the total

American battle casualties in the Korean War have risen

to 139,272. That includes 24,965 dead, 101,368 wounded, 2938 captured, 8475

missing and 1525 previously reported captured or missing since returned to

military control.

believe judges are unnecessary as fights. “One or the other is

usually looking at the back of one fighter. So he’s in no

position to see what the kid is doing for parts of a round. Yet

his vote may offset the decision of the other judge and/or

referee. Unless you elevate the judges like they do in

England, they’re no help,” said Dempsey.

An entire community of 122 polygamists, excommunicated Mormons in Short

Creek Arizona, is raided an hour before dawn by more than 100 state patrolmen

and deputy sheriffs under an insurrection proclamation by Arizona’s Gov. Howard

Pyle to clean up what he called a foul and ruthless conspiracy dedicated to white

slavery. Midnight roadblocks and monitored telephones cut off all outside

Week of July 22-31, 1953

communication with this communal farm village on

the Arizona-Utah border in the desolate strop area

north of the Grand Canyon.

Said to be dying fast - Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio is

reported in a coma and is dying from cancer of the

blood.

Passing - Robert S. Disney (91) - The uncle of Walt

and Roy who lent them the money to get their

motion-picture enterprise started.

Sports - Retired baseball great

Ty Cobb (66) says Brooklyn’s

one of the great catchers of all

time. “If he gets about six more

years on him, they got to put

him right up near the top. He’s

got to watch his weight and be

the All-Star catcher for the next few years. He’s

great now but you’ve got to go over a long period of

time to prove it to everybody.”

Color-TV -

The long fight is over as CBS says it will go along

with the proposed new compatible system from RCA

engineers. With this system, color telecasts can be

received on present black and white sets as well as

color on color sets. CBS says it will start sending out

some color programs to affiliated stations on an

experimental basis September 15 under standards

proposed by the FCC.

Week of July 22-31, 1953

Sunday Night

Week of July 22-31, 1953

At the movies -

The Bandwagon (In Technicolor) - Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant,

Nanette Fabray,

Dream Wife - Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon

The Stranger Wore A Gun (3-D) - Randolph Scott

(Howard Hughs’) Gentlemen

Prefer Blondes - Jane Russell,

Marilyn Monroe

Jerry Lewis

(In 3-D) (Howard Hughs’) Second

Change - Robert Mitchum, Linda

Darnell, Jack Palance

(In 3-D) Fort Ti - George

Montgomery, Joan Vohs

Young Bess - Jean Simmons,

Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr

Moulin rouge - Jose Ferrer

Titanic - Richard Widmark

(In 3-D) Arena - Gig Young, Jean Hagen