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...days later, Peking radio needled the Indians for the first time since they came to Korea; they called upon them to "implement the armistice agreement." The Indians were finding the Communists "almost incredibly unreasonable," and an Indian general charged Pekin radio with at least seven "distortions of truth." General Thimayya, the commission's able chairman, was apparently convinced that the Communist refusal to see any more Chinese P.W.s showed that they meant to wreck the explanations altogether. His on-the-scene appreciation of Communist tactics meant nothing to New Delhi, where Nehru's government refuses to believe evil...
...GERSTACKER N. Pekin...
Illinois' Republican Representative H. H. Velde of Pekin, Ill. stepped up last week and introduced a bill calling for the wisdom of a Solomon, the patience of a Job, and the assurance of an H. H. Velde. It would require the Librarian of Congress to "mark all 'subversive' matter in the library [which contains nearly 9,000,000 volumes] and compile a list thereof for the guidance of other libraries in the United States...
Rock & Rye. In Pekin, 111., Tavern Owner Julius Barnes invited the jury to drinks on the house after it acquitted him of drunkenness, even though five cops swore that Barnes had taken one too many before he tried, with a hammer, chisel and ice tongs, to steal the old City Hall's 800-lb. cornerstone, which was rumored to contain a quart of 1884 whisky...
Grand Larceny. In Pekin, Ill., somebody filched a 300-lb. tombstone from the Abel Vault & Monument...