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Report Red China
Mobilizing For
Invasion
i By the Associated Press)
Unconfirmed reports that Red
China is mobilizing for an inva
sion of southeast Asia came anew
today from Hong Kong and For
mosa Monday. And from Moscow
came -a charge that the United
States, France and Britain are
conspiring for “new war ven
tures” in the same area.
The official Red newspaper
Pravda repeated charges that the
American Seventh Fleet has been
carrying Chinese Nationalist sol
diers to Thailand, Burma and
Indochina near communist
China’s southern border.
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The iron curtain drawn tightly
around the Chinese mainland
since the Reds took over effecive
lv concealed preparations for a
* Red attack, if one is planned.
The Nationalist Chinese defense
ministry in Formosa said Red
troops are massed -at South China
bases awaiting the signal to move
southward.
French authorities' in Indochina
Monday said the Reds apparently
arc getting ready for a big push
on the isloated Boa Binh Basin,
40 miles southwest of Hanoi.
U.S. Carrier Planes!
Can Carry A-bomb
770 Miles and Back
WASHINGTON, (JP) — United
States Navy aircraft can take off
from a carrier any place in the
world, drop an atomic bomb 770
miles away and return, Vice Adm.
John H. Cassady said today.
Cassady said the Navy has 12
big carriers, 10 operating while
two undergo repairs. Three are
kept in Korean waters, he said,
and “if the world situation wors
ens we very definitely should
build up naval air power.”
Navy planes, with heavy jet
fighter escort, can deliver an
atomic bomb—or a 10,000-pound
bomb load—up to “770 miles out
and 770 miles back,” Cassady said,
adding:
“If you take a map of Europe
and subscribe 770 - mile circles
from possible carrier operating
areas, you can draw your own
conclusions as to naval-air cap
abilities.”
Statehood Committee
Seeks Services
Of Persuader
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska, said Friday the
Alaskan Statehood Committee is
* seeking the services of former
Rep. Hardin Peterson (D-Fla). His
job, Bartlett said, would be to
persuade senators that they should
vote for statehood for the terri
tory.
Bartlett credited Peterson with
getting the House to vote for
Alaskan statehood in 1951.
“I think Mr. Peterson is a won
derful person and I think he can
do us a world of good if he ac
cepts,” Bartlett told a reporter.
Peterson formerly headed the
House Public Lands Committee.
He retired from Congress a year
ago- ,
Gen. Clark Withdrawn,
At Own Request, As
Ambassador To Vatican
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman has withdrawn the nom
ination of Gen. Mark W. Clark as
U.S. ambassador to the Vatican
but will name someone else in
stead.
The White House unnouced last
night the action was taken at the
request of the general, obviously
upset by the religious controversy
that has raged over the issue of
a full-fledged envoy to the papal
state in Rome.
A terse 45-word White House
anouncement said Clark’s name
was being withdrawn at the gen
eral’s request, and added:
“The President plans to sub
mit another nomination at a later
time.”
Clark's appointment, announ
ced just a few hours before Con
gress adjourned last October,
drew fire from both Protestant
churches and Congress members.
Catholics generally approved.
9-Man Committee
To Police Federal
News Security
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WASHINGTON, (/P)— Decisions
on what information federal agen
cies may release for publication
are now in the hands of a new
nine-man committee headed by a
former Atomic Energy Commis
sion official.
Edward R. Trapnell was named
over the week-end to head the
group. A former newspaper man,
he is on leave as associated di
rector of information services of
the AEC.
The committee’s job is to aid
and police federal agencies in
carrying out President Truman’s
controversial order on news se
curity.
The committee was ordered to
see to it that no “non-security in
formation is withheld to cover up
mistakes.” Joseph Short, presi
dential press secretary, said one
purpose of the new set-up is to
see that “more, rather than less,
information of a non-security na
ture is given out.”
Floating Debris
Found of Freighter
Pennsylvania
SEATTLE, (JP)—Spurred by the
finding of debris and floating
cargo, air and sea searchers point
ed Saturday toward a smaller
area southeast of the spot where
the freighter Pennsylvania and its
45-man crew last were heard from
Wednesday.
The floating material, sighted
by both aircraft and surface ves
sels, was found in a region 24
to 34 miles south and southwest
of the last known position of the
disabled ship.
Moderating seas and warmer
weather were seen as major help
in the task of finding the crew
men who took to their lifeboats
Wednesday evening in 35. degree
temperatures and high seas
kicked up by 40 mile winds.
General Airways
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Transport Crashes
Oil Ml. Crillon
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A General
Airways transport plane reported
missing Saturday on a flight from
Portland, Ore., to Anchorage,
crashed on Mt. Crillon in the
Fairweather mountain range, the
Air Force announced Sunday.
Searchers said there was no
sign of life around the wreckage,
spotted at the 9,000-foot level of
the towering peak. The plane’s
right wing was torn off and the
cockpit smashed.
The pilot, Burton McGuire, 30,
and the co-pilot George A. Simp
son, 27, both of Portland, were the
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only known occupants of the
transport.
Air Force (1-47.
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Crew of 5, Missing
Since Saturday
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Search
planes scanned a wide area of the
rugged north interior country
Sunday in the hunt for a C-47
and its five crewmen, missing
since Saturday in 40 below zero
weather.
In his last radio report, the pilot
messaged he was completely lost.
But he said he believed he was
near Northway, Alaska, 250 miles
south of here.
Tenth Rescue Squadron offi
cials said, however, they put a
radio direction finder in use when
the pilot made his last call on a
distress frequency and it showed
his signals coming from an area
north of Fairbanks; probably in
the vicinity of the Circle Hot
Springs.
Blinded B-26 Pilot
“Talked” Home
By Navigator
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U.S. 5TH AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (/P)—A B-26
bomber pilot, temporarily blinded
by an exploding anti-aircraft shell
was “talked in” to a safe landing
by his navigator, the 5th Air Force
said Monday.
Lt. John Grubbs, Brooksville,
Fla., was making a routine straf
ing run on a communist ware
house when the shell hit the
plane’s canopy. The pilot was
stunned and blinded as blood
streamed down his face.
“I’ve been hit,” he yelled into
the plane’s intercommunication
system. “I can’t see. It’s all
yours.”
Lt. Vincent Alessi of Roxbury,
Mass., couldn’t take over the con
trols because in a B-26 no one
but the pilot can reach them. So
he began giving Grubbs quiet in
structions for heading the plane
back toward the base.
For more than an hour the
pilot responded to the words of
Alessi coming over the intercom.
“Down a little ... a little to
the left . . . slower . . .” and
finally “we’re on the ground
Johnny, put on the brakes.”
Ike s Views On Basic
Issues Will Be Known
Before July Convention
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senator
Morse (R-Ore) said today he be
lieves Gen. Eisenhower’s basic
views on political issues will be
well known in advance of the
Republican presidential nominat
ing convention in July.
“I think Eisenhower won’t be
operating in a vacuum between
now and the convention,” Morse
told a reporter. “He will be mak
ing statements in broad terms on
affairs generally, and I assume he
will use language which will in
dicate his point of view.”
Morse, who is backing Eisen
hower for the GOP nomination,
declared supporters of rival Re
publican presidential candidates
were “talking nonsense” in any
assertions that the general can’t
make his position clear on the is
sues while still in uniform as
commander of the North Atlantic
defense forces.
“If the convention were held
next week,” More said, “I be
lieve Eisenhower would walk
away with the nomination.”
Capt. Carlsen
Receives Medal
From Denmark
LONDON, (>P) — Capt. Kurt
Carlsen, hero of the Flying En
terprise saga, received a decora
tion today from the king of his
native Denmark. Crowds of shop
pers and sightseeers outside
cheered so loudly the presentation
speech could barely be heard.
The stocky little Danish-born
hero from Woodbridge, N. J.,
spoke only one sentence when he
received the Order of Dannebrog
for sticking to his sinking ship
until she went down last Thurs
day in the stormy Atlantic.
“I don’t know how to express
my feelings, but please accept
from me just a simple seaman’s
‘thank you’,” Carlsen murmured
after Count Eduard Reventlow,
Danish ambassador v to London,
pinned the gold cross of the order,
one of Denmark’s highest, on the
skipper’s lapel.
Banks of film and television
cameras and batteries of news
%
cameras were trained on him as
he shook hands with the ambassa
dor.
Justice Douglas States
He Will Not Be Candidate
For Any Office In 1952
NEW YORK, (/P) — Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas
says he has informed President
Truman that he will not be a
candidate for president or vice
president in 1952.
Douglas, who eliminated him
self twice before os a possible
Democratic candidate, adds that
his current decision is a perman
ent one and does not apply for
this year alone.
In recent months, Douglas’
name has been mentioned fre
quently as a possible running
mote with President Truman or
as a possible presidential nominee
if Mr. Truman does not chose to
l seek re-election.
Truman’s Finance
Chart for *52 to Net
$15 Billion Deficit
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman’s financial chart for the
government next year adds up to
•about a 15 billion dollar deficit,
officials said Monday.
That would be two or three
times bigger than any red ink
operation since World War II. It
probably would swell the national
debt close to or above the present
legal limit of 275 billions.
Authorities familiar with the
figures but preferring not to be
quoted directly said this is the
picture President Truman will
present to the election-year Con
gress in his annual budget mes
sage.
1. Government spending in the
fiscal year beginning July 1 will
reach about 85 billion dollars, up
from an estimated 70 billions for
the current year and only 45 bil
lions last year.
2. Present tax laws will bring
in about 70 billions next fiscal
year, leaving an estimated deficit
of approximately 15 billions if
conditions remain unchanged.
3. Although the administration
for several years has insisted on
taxes high enough ter balance the
budget, Mr. Truman won’t de
mand excise or income tax boosts
to close the gap between outgo
and income.
4. Instead, the administration
will press for tighter tax enforce
ment and closing of alleged “loop
holes.”
Army "Gambled” and
Won When It Ordered
Production of New Tanks
FORT KNOX, N.Y., (/P)—Chief
of Staff Gen. J. Lawton Collins
said today the army was forced
to “gamble” when it ordered pro
duction of new tank designs be
fore service tests were made but
that initial “serious deficiencies”
have been overcome and the gam
ble won.
The chief of staff explained that
when the Korean war started
there were no light tanks in pro
duction; no medium tanks had
been produced since World War
II and heavy tanks were “still
only on paper.”
The general said that “despite
our troubles we are still a year
ahead of the time schedule we
would have been on had we
waited for complete test and de
velopment before going into pro
duction.”
Korean War News
By MILO FARNETI
SEOUL, Korea, (iP)—South Ko
rean infantry and Chinese Reds
clashed today in a series of bat
tles on Korea’s western front. In
the heaviest action, the South Ko
rean First Division battled four
hours in an unsuccessful attempt
to win back hill positions west of
Korangpo lost to the Reds Dec. 28.
U.S. Fifth Air FoTce said snow,
fog and haze held down fighter
and bomber strikes Monday.
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An Allied naval armada of 13
ships bombarded Red gun posi
tions and troops on snow covered
Amgak Peninsula, about 100 miles
north of oarallel 38