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Aviation Inspector
.Held Hostage In
Brazilian Jungle
RIO DE JANIERO, <£*) — The
U.S. embassy said Monday it has
received assurance from the Bra
zilian government that all neces
sary steps are being taken to ef
fect the release of a U.S. civilian
aviation inspector and a Brazilian
air force major held captive by a
“wildcat” group of parachutists.
The embassy was informed that
the Brazilian air force was send
ing three planes to the Brazilian
jungle area where a search for
the wreckage of a Pan American
stmtocruiser had taken an entire
ly unlooked for turn of events.
In Miami, Fla., Gordon Bennett,
chief advisor for the Miami Inter
national District Offices of the
CAA, said 30 or more armed para
chutists were holding Scott A.
Magness, CAA aviation safety ad
visor from Miami, and Maj. Mir
anda Correa Of the Brazilan air
force.
He said they were being used as
hostages in an attempt to gain
transportation for the parachut
ists back to civilization from a
helicopter landing strip near the
spot where a Pan American World
Airways plane crashed April 29,
killing 50 persons, including 10
Americans.
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Filipino Raiders In Korea
Wear Armored Jackets
SEOUL, (JP) — Filipino raiders
in grenade-bayonet charges twice
drove Chinese Red defenders off
an embattled hill on the Korean
central front Monday.
It was the same hill west of
Chorwon where men of the 20th
Battalion Combat Team said they
killed or wounded every one of
40 Chinese at its top Sunday.
The tough Filipino raiders hit
the Reds again Monday morning.
The Chinese fled. The Filipinos
withdrew shortly under Red mor
tar fire.
Later in the day a second Fili
pino patrol caught the Chinese
napping. The patrol hurled gre
nades and charged with fixed
bayonets. The Chinese fled.
Ten Reds were killed in the two
assaults. The Filipinos were wear
ing regular issue U. S. armored
vests. None was killed, the U.S.
Eighth Army said
With Truce Negotiators—
MUNSAN, (JP)—The top United
Nations truce negotiator Monday
labelled an “out and out” lie a
Communist denial that the Reds
had agreed to Allied screening of
captured Reds.
Inside the Panmunjom confer
ence tent, Vice Adm. C. Turner
Joy, senior U.N. delegate, told the
Reds:
“Had the results been to your
liking you would have enthusi
astically welcomed the product of
the screening.”
A recent Allied quizzing of Red
prisoners of war showed that
nearly 100,000 North Koreans and
Chinese prisoners said they prefer
death to returning to Communism.
The issue of exchanging prison
ers blocks an armistice.
Truman’s Stand On
Civil Rights Makes
Southern Pot Boil
(By the Associated Press)
A no - compromise stand by
President Truman on Civil Rights
has put a new head of steam be
hind the free-for-all race for the
Democratic presidential nominu
tion.
And a weekend sweep of Ore
gon’s 18 delegates to the Repub
lican national convention by Gen.
Eisenhower narrowed the GOP
race between the general and Sen.
Taft.
This week’s delegate harvest
gets under way Tuesday in Mon
tana, where the Democrats and
the Republicans both hold state
conventions. During the week, 129
delegates are to be picked in six
states scattered throughout the
nation.
Eisenhower’s lead in Oregon’s
GOP primary — where Taft was
not on the ballot—and capture of
all 12 o‘f Vermont’s delegates, put
him within 38 convention votes of
Taft in the Associated Press tab
ulation. The AP tabulation now
gives Taft 375 and Eisenhower
337, out of 914 delegates so far
named. There will be 1,206 dele
gates to the GOP convention, with
604 needed to nominate.
President Truman set off a drive
for a vigorous civil rights plank
in the Democratic platform with
a Saturday night speech to the
Americans for Democratic Action.
Truman demanded enactment of
proposals he has submitted to
Congress for a Fair Employment
Practices Commission with en
forcement powers to prevent ra
cial job discrimination. This is the
issue that stirred up a Southern
Democratic revolt in the 1948
presidential race.
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Complete Unofficial
Returns of 4th Division
FAIRBANKS, May 15, </F) —
Complete unofficial returns for
the Fourth Division in the Alaska
primary election showed a strong
swing to the Democratic incum
bent in the nominations for the
delegate to congress race and a
strong Republican tide in the vote
for territorial legislators.
After the absentee ballots were
counted, the Republican total for
the territorial senate nominations
was eight to five over the Demo
cratic. For the congress seat nom
inations, Delegate Bartlett polled
about four votes to three for Rob
ert C. Reeve of Anchorage, Re
publican. Both were unopposed.
The votes, out of a total of 3571
cast, were:
Congress—Bartlett 2047; Reeve
1431.
Senate — (two nominated by
each party) Republicans: Sen.
John Butrovich 1934; Rep. Mike
Stepovich 1847; C. P. Coughlan
417; Democrats: Frank Barr, 1105;
J. A. Boulet 744; Frank Angerman
689. Republican total 4226; Demo
cratic 2538.
The five nominees of each party
for the division’s seats in the
lower house of the legislature are:
Republican: Miscovich 1661;
Coghill 1567; Hurley 1318; Wilbur
1315; Gardner 660.
Democrats: Greuel 1194’; Frank
lin 1164; Jones 1161; Taylor 1139;
Mrs. Dale 1137.
GOP Senators
Challenge Fitness
Of McGranery
WASHINGTON, UP)—Two Re
publican senators Monday chal
lenged the fitness of James P. Mc
Granery to be Attorney General.
They said his integrity, ability,
and veraci/ty are “most question
able.”
Sens. Ferguson of Michigan and
Watkins of Utah filed a minority
report disagreeing sharply with
the majority vote for confirmation
in the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee.
. The committee had voted 8 to
4 for confirmation of the U.S.
district judge from Philadelphia
: who was appointed six weeks ago
to replace J. Howard McGrath as
this nation’s chief law enforce
| ment officer. -
McGranery’s appointment was
announced April 3 by President
Truman in a day of fast-breaking
developments that saw McGrath
fire Newbold Morris as his cor
ruption hunter and find himself
out of the cabinet hours later.
Truman Demands
Congress Vote All
Asked for Defense
WASHINGTON, I7P>—President
Truman confronted Congress Sat
urday with a demand that it vote
every dollar the administration
has asked for defense, lest the
mobilization program falter and
the nation be plunged into World
War III*
“To win the cold war Congress
must give what we ask,” the Pres
ident told a National Armed For
ces Day dinner here Friday night.
He branded as “poppycock” the
argument that defense spending
will bring on national bankruptcy.
He said the only citizens who
have suffered in the defense ef
fort so far are the men fighting
in the Korean War and their fam
ilies.
“You must not do anything that
will cause those men to get shot
in the back,” Truman said.
Communist Closing Of
East-West Portal Gives
Berlin The Jitters
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FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P)—
A sudden Communist order Mon
day closed one of five border
crossing points for German pas
senger trains linking the Soviet
Zone with West Germany.
Without explanation, the East
German government cut off pas
senger traffic on the feeder line
between Gutenfurst in Soviet
occupied Thuringina, and Hof,
frontier communications center in
the American Zone state of Ba
varia.
West German officials said traf
fic was normal on the remaining
six interzonal rail crossings, four
of which can be used by passenger
trains.
But the Communist action jolt
ed blockade-jittery Berlin and'
sent cold chills through West Ger
many, where fear of Soviet ag
gression has increased sharply as
the Bonn government neared a
peace contract with the West.
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“What’s Wrong with the
Chamber?” — Give Your
Opinion Tomorrow Noon.
A special feature of Tuesday’s
noon luncheon meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce will be
an open discussion on “What’s
Wrong with the Chamber?” stated
Russell Arnett, recently appointed
program chairman. The topic is
intended to activate the atten
dance at these meetings which
are open to anyone wishing to
attend.'
Both members and non-mem
bers as well as visitors to the
community are urged to give their
opinions tomorrow noon.
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British Businessmen To
Close Down $840 Million
Investments In China
(LONDON, <JP).— Britain told
Red China Monday remaining
British businessmen in China
have decided to close down or dis
pose of their 300 million pound
(840 million dollar) investment
and quit the country.
In a note delivered in Peiping,
Britain also asked the Chinese
Communist government to grant
visas for an estimated 120 Britons,
who would leave the country as
soon as their businesses are wound
up.
A Foreign Office spokesman
said Britain’s one-sided recogni
tion of the Peiping regime would
continue. Britain, largely at the
prodding of British business inter
ests in China, recognized the Com
munist government in January,
1950. British business has been
in a dominant position in China
for more than two centuries.
Newspaper reports said British
owners would try to sell their
property ter Chinese government
agencies, but there was little op
timism.
The note said the decision to
give up any further attempt to
continue in business in China was
made by the business firms.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy,
Chief U.N. Negotiator, To
Transfer To Annapolis
TOKYO, (JP) — Maj. Gen. Wil
liam K. Harrison was named tor
succeed Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy
on Friday as chief of the United
Nations Command Korean armis
tice delegation.
Harrison, 56, a lay evangelist,
has been a member of the Allied
truce team since January.
The appointment of a two-star
general, announced by Gen. Mark
W. Clark, came as a surprise. It
has been expected that an officer
of Joy’s three-star rank would be
named to deal with the Commun
ists at Panmunjom.
Harrison’s appointment as chief
delegate may be a snub to the
Communists. Their senior dele
gate, North Korean Gen. Nam II,
was listed with three-star rank of
lieutenant general when the talks
began. In recent months he has
been reported as a full general.
On the other hand, Harrison’s
appointment could mean he is in
line for promotion to lieutenant
general.
Adm. Joy will depart June 9
for his new assignment as super
intendent of the U. S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis.
Supreme Court
Recesses Without
Steel Mill Decision
WASHINGTON, </P)—The Su
preme Court recessed Monday un
til next Monday without handing
down a decision in the historic
steel seizure case. The tribunal
could announce a ruling before
its next opinion day but whether
it will do so is not known.
The nine justices have had the
case since arguments ended last
Tuesday on whether U.S. district
judge Davis A. Pine ruled cor
rectly in calling President Tru
man’s seizure of the steel mills
'‘illegal and without authority of
law.”
But a major question before the
court—whether the President has
the inherent constitutional powers
which the Justice Department
claimed for him—is so complex
that lawyers on both sides say a
decision Monday would have been
surprising.
However, legal authorities here
say that no matter how the court
rules, it is not likely to issue a
sweeping decision one way or the
other on the question of the chief
executive’s inherent powers.
These are powers not specifically
set forth in the Constitution or
the laws, and it was on -these
powers that Truman relied when
he took over the steel mills to
avert a strike.
Taft Amendment
To Constitution Would
Limit Federal Spending
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senators
Taft (R-Ohio) and Ferguson (R
Mich) estimated Saturday a con
stitutional amendment they pro
pose would hold federal spending
to about 55 billion dollars a year.
This would be some 30 billion
dollars less than President Tru
man’s budget requests for the
1953 fiscal year starting July 1.
Taft, a candidate for the Repub
lican presidential nomination, and
Ferguson introduced a resolution
proposing a constitutional amend
ment to curb the power of Con
gress to appropriate money and
to hike the public debt.
It would prohibit the. law
makers from authorizing expen
ditures in excess of 5 percent of
the estimated national income, ex
cept for military spending and
interest payments on the federal
debt.
Trojan Horse Still Works
UPPER HEYFORD, Eng., (£>)—
American and British troops were
playing war games, and the Yanks
took a bad beating Sunday,
thanks to a sort of Trojan fire
horse.
As planned, a British force of
150 paratroopers dropped near an
air base defended by hundreds of
heavily armed U.S. troops.
The British deployed around
the base while a 30-man detail
scurried to a secret rendezvous at
a farm house.
Donning firemen’s outfits and
borrowing a firetruck, the detail
raced unopposed through the
main gate of the airbase. Once
inside they captured the Ameri
cans’ headquarters building.