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VOL. LIV No. 31
U.S. Employs 2,625
In Publicity Work,
Hearings Reveal
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The gov
ernment lists 2,625 full-time em
ployes in public relations and
publicity activities, plus part
time workers equivalent to an
other 1,007 full-time press agents.
The figures were given the
House Appropriations Committee
by Budget Director Frederick J.
Lawton in hearings published
Tuesday on the Independent Offi
ces Appropriations Bill.
The “personal service costs” al
located to the publicity work were
$17,134,390..
The Air Force listed 741, the
Navy’ 642, and the Army 89. The
Economic Stabilization Agency
had 411. The Mutual Security Ag
ency had 209 and the Commerce
Department, including the Na
tional Production Authority, 128.
The National Gallery of Art fig
ured its publicity staff at 18/100
of one full-time employe.
FBI Seizes Ex-Convict
Suspected of Implication
In Million Dollar Robbery
MILWAUKEE, (7P) — Andrew
Robert Young, 46, an ex-convict,
was seized by FBI agents Tuesday
in connection with the theft of 1 Vz
million dollars from the home of
a Reno, Nev., millionaire 10 days
ago.
The agents seized Young after
tracing him, they said, through an
attractive, dark-haired mystery
woman who attempted to pass a
$1,000 bill at a Reno gambling
table.
Young denied taking part in the
Feb. 29 burglary or even being in
Reno at that time.
The FBI men who arrested him
said they found five $100 bills on
Young but none of the rest of the
cash, securities and jewelry taken
from the Reno millionaire’s home.
The $1,000 bill was identified
by cashiers by its serial number
as part of the loot taken in the
Redfield burglary. The mystery
woman was questioned in Reno
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by FBI men after she attempted
to break the bill after losing at
the Riverside Hotel Gambling
Casino.
Two Women Killed,
One Man Wounded In
Anchorage Cafe Shooting
ANCHORAGE. (/P)—Two worn
en were killed and a man critical
ly wounded in a cafe shooting
near here Tuesday. The husband
of one at the women was arrested
five hours later.
Miss Eva Read, 45, and Mrs.
O’Deal Daniels, about 45, were
killed in the unexplained tragedy.
Jose Blye, 35, was badly injured
with a bullet wound in his abdo
men.
The shooting occurred in a cafe
jointly owned by Miss Read and
Blye. Neighbors said Mrs. Dan
iels has been living at the cafe
after separating from her hus
band.
The cafe was in the Chester
Creek Hollow area, crutside the
Anchorage City limits.
The husband, Phil B. Daniels,
49, is being held without charge.
U.S. Tanks Made
For Hollywood,
Not Fighting
Asserts British Officer
On Return from Korea
LONDON, (iP)—A British army
officer says American tanks in.
Korea are “made for Hollywood,
not for fighting.”
Lt.-Col. Sir William Guy Low
ther, commander of the 8th Royal
Hussars Armored Regiment, de
clared one British Centurion tank
is worth two American Pattons.
He told 3,000 workers at the
Centurion plant in Leeds Tuesday
“In Korea we did not want the
Pattons, but the Americans
wanted the Centurions. They used
to say, ‘What wouldn’t we do with
a tank like that’?
“In one battle 52 Allied tanks—
half British and the rest Ameri
can — were damaged by Chinese
mines. All the British tanks got
away under their own power.
Every American machine had to
be towed back.”
“The whole world is awakening
to the fact that Britain can pro
duce the best tanks.”
An embarrassed official of the
Ministry of Supply, which ar
ranged the visit to the Leeds plant
said, “The visit was arranged so
that someone from Korea could
say ‘thank you’ personally to those
who made tanks. We did not
know Sir William would speak
out so strongly against our ally.”
Wien Pilot Rescues
Marooned Native
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — A daring
landing with a ski-equipped plane
on a drifting ice floe has freed
an Eskimo native from his frigid
and perilous plight.
The native, Andrew Green,
wandered onto the Bering Sea ice
and was marooned when it
cracked loose and began drifting.
He was lost 48 hours without
food when Jim Freericks, a bush
pilot who flies for Wien - Alaska
Airlines sighted him. Freericks
set his light four-place plane
down on the floe and returned
Green to his native village.
1952 NSLI Dividends
To Be Paid This Month
WASHINGTON, W—The Vet
erans Administration plans to
start mailing 1952 dividends on
National Service Life Insurance to
veterans and servicemen later this
month instead of this week.
Five million policyholders will
divide about 200 million dollars.
Individual dividends in most
cases will amount to $60. The VA
will send cash only to the policy
holder who requests it. Otherwise
the money can be left with the
VA to pay future premiums or to
draw interest.
House Committee Approves
Bill Providing Additional
Judgeship For Alaska
WASHINGTON, </P) — A House
Judiciary subcommittee has ap
proved a bill to create 23 new
federal judgeships, including one
additional district judgeship for
Alaska. The bill is subject to full
committee action before it can
go before the House.
U.S. Jets Turn Red
Camouflaged Base
Into Blazing Ruins
By Sam Summerlin
SEOUL, Korea, (>P)—American
jet pilots turned a huge camou
flaged Red supply base into blaz
ing ruins Tuesday in the most
intense attack of the Korean War
with flaming jellied gasoline.
Flames spread over a four
square mile area of the supply
depot.
“It looked like hell itself,” said
some o*f the pilots, who flew a
total of 250 sorties in waves.
Swarms of Red jets streaked
down from Manchuria to try to
protect the base near Sinmak (30
miles northwest of the truce vil
lage, Panmunjom).
U.S. Sabre Jet pilots shot do*wn
three Migs in air battles, prob
ably destroyed another and dam
aged five.
F-80 Shooting Stars attacked
the western supply depot, camou
flaged so it “looked like an inno
cent farming village.” Pilots said
they could see it was a fake. Then
they let loose.
Tenant Beats Coldhearted
Landlord with Recording
NEW YORK, {IP) — The cold
war between tenant Melvin A.
Carter and landlord Clarence Ca
dogan has been settled.
Carter won by attaching a ther
mostat in his fourth-floor Brook
lyn apartment to a record player
with a loudspeaker tuned down a
dumbwaiter shaft.
It was fixed so that every time
the heat dropped below 65 de
grees the following recording
blared down the shaft to Cado
gan’s apartment:
“Mr. Oadogan: Under section
225 of the sanitary code, a land
lord who does not provide 65 de
gree heat when the outside tem
perature falls below 65 degrees is
liable to a $500 fine or a year
in jail. The temperature in this
apartment is now below 65 de
grees.”
Tuesday Cadogan told Magis
trate Paul Balsam that the record
ing “is driving me crazy.”
The landlord promised to abide
by the Magistrate’s order that
there be heat.
Sabre Jets Down 15
MIGs In Three Days
SEOUL, Korea, (A5)—American
Sabre jet pilots shot down four
more Red jets Wednesday, for a
total of 15 destroyed in three
days. ^
The Wednesday morning air
battles streaked from Pyongyang,
the Red capital, to Sinuiju on the
Manchurian border.
Air battles overshadowed
ground action for the third suc
cessive day.
The U. S. Eighth Army reported
the only infantry action was in
mountains of the eastern front
when Reds fired rifles from long
range at the U.S. 25th Division
and the Turkish Brigade.
The Fifth Air Force reported it
had mounted 500 sorties by dusk,
leaving North Korean rail lines
twisted and broken in 94 new
Places. .
Eisenhower and Kefauver Score
Grand Slam Victories, Crushing
Taft and President Truman
MANCHESTER, N. H., (JP) *
Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Kefau-j
ver scored grand-slam victories in
the New Hampshire presidential
primary Wednesday, crushing Sen.
Taft and President Truman, and
capturing every delegate race.
The results of the election, stun
ning to both major parties, can
cause a complete re-drafting of
strategy for the presidential elec
tion in November.
This was the nation’s first pri
mary.
Eisenhower swamped Taft in
the preferential vote, the “popu
larity contest,” by some 46,000
votes to the senator’s 35,000. He
took 50 per cent of the total, and
led Taft by more than twice as
many ballots as his most sanguine
admirers had expected.
Kefauver took on the Demo
cratic machine on New Hamp
shire, apparently wrested away
thousands of labor union votes,
and emerged with a score of
roughly 20,000 against Truman’s
16,000. j
Eisenhower won all 14 Repub
lican delegates.
Kefauver won all 12 Democrat
ic delegates, who have eight con
vention votes.
In Frankfurt, Germany, Eisen
hower said, when told the returns,
“Any American who is honored
by so many other Americans con
sidering him fit for the presi
dency should be proud, or, by
golly, he is no American.”
Kefauver said, “I am entirely
elated over the results. I don’t
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i think this is a protest vote against
President Truman, because in
general I agree with Mr. Truman."
man.”
In Key West, Fla., where he is
vacationing, Truman declined to
discuss with newsmen the out
come of the New Hampshire vot
ing. Close associates said the re
sults would not affect his decision
on whether to seek re-election.
Improved Tone In Talks
On Korean Armistice
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Allied
truce negotiators Wednesday re
jected a new Red scheme to let
Russia examine American secret
weapons.
U.N. negotiators said the Com
munist plan “amounted to a forced
gathering of military intelligence”
by neutral inspection teams
supervising a Korean armistice.
Under the Red proposal these
teams would include Russia.
Allied negotiators also rejected
a prisoner exchange plan they
said the Communists seemed
“very anxious” to put it over.
Despite the dual rejection, U.N.
spokesmen noted an improved
tone in truce talks after recent
days of bitter exchanges.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols,
official U.N. Command spokes
man, said the Reds showed “they
recognized the fact that this is an
armistice in Korea” and apparent
ly abandoned an attempt to ban
Allied blockades of the China
coast
New Hampshire Upset
May Alter November Race
MANCHESTER, N. H., (/P) —
Gen. Eisenhower’s primary sweep
over Sen. Taft and President Tru
man’s upset defeat by Sen. Ke
fauver may alter the presidential
race sharply.
The outcome of the first 1952
GOP ballot test points to a bitter
fight between Eisenhower and
Taft forces at conventions in such
states as Iowa and Michigan, cli
maxed by another head-on meet
ing of the two in the April 15 New
Jersey primary.
It apparently destroys any
chance Taft may have had for a
quick nomination at the July Chi
cago convention, despite his lead
in the national delegate race.
Kefauver’s amazing sweep of
the preferential balloting and the
eight-vote Democratic convention
delegation could mean the propul
sion of Truman into the race for
another term.
Eisenhower’s more than 10,000
vote margin in the popularity test
with Taft, plus his collection of
the state’s 14-vote delegation, is
accepted in some quarters as an
indication that the general won’t
have to come home from Europe
to campaign.
To Taft the loss of all of New
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Hampshire’s delegates and his de
feat in the popularity contest was
a teeth-rattling blow at a time
when he believed his vigorous
campaigning was going to pan
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“Eyewash” Remark May
Have Cost President
Victory in New Hampshire
(By the Associated Press)
Sen. Richard B. Russell of Geo
rgia, himself a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent, said Wednesday, President
Truman’s reference to the New
Hampshire primary as “eyewash”
may well have cost him victory
in the vote battle with Senator
Kefauver.
Russell said: “Violent anti-Tru
manites will point to it as proof
of a complete lack of confidence
in the present administration. Sen.
Kefauver’s ardent admirers will
say that it is due to his personal
appeal and vote-getting abilities.”
Frank E. McKinney, chairman *
of the Democratic National Com
mittee lauded the heavy voter
turnout as indicative “of the basic
strength of the Democratic party”
and congratulated Kefauver and
Truman’s supporters for putting
on a “clean campaign in contrast
to the personal exchanges which
marked the Republican primary
contest.”
Sen. Duff (R-Pa), one* of the
most ardent Eisenhower support
ers, cried jubilantly:
“Eisenhower won a magnificent
victory in New Hampshire.
‘Only the- Old Guard and pro
fessional political manipulation
now stand between Eisenhower
and a complete victory for the
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