Ike Is Soldier;
- Not Politician
MIAMA, Fla. (/P) — General
Dwight D. Eisenhower in an inter
view said today that the mention
of his name as a Presidential can
didate ‘‘is not good for the great
organization with which 1 am as
sociated.” Eisenhower, the army’s
chief of staff, made it plan that he
was thinking as a soldier of the
nation’s future security to prevent
the United States from falling vic
time to some possible future
. “super blitz.”
“From the beginning of the war,
when my name has been men
tioned in connection with a pos
sible future political career for
me, I have instantly refused to
consider such a contingency,”
said the general during an inter
view at an inspection of the army’s
Pratt General hospital in subur
ban Coral Gables.
“I have not changed my mind.”
^ “The army is definitely non
partisan and national in character,
and any talk that tends to cloud
the soundness of that feature is
not to the best interest of the
United States.”
Japanese Receives
Scholarship
EASTON, Pa. (fP)—A 22-year
old Japanese who was in training
in the kamikaze <suicide> corps at
the end of the war has been
awarded a scholarship to Lafayette
college because the parents of an
army private killed by a Jap on
Luzon believe good will is the only
way to prevent repetition of war.
Robert Y. Nishiyaha. 22, will
come to the United States to study
iis soon as the ban on Japanese
travel to this country is lifted. He
is the first Jap to receive a schol
arship to an American college
since Pearl Harbor. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. John
stone of Downingtown, Pa., set up
the scholarship with the $10,000
government insurance their son,
Pvt. Robert S. Johnston, carried.
Young Johnstone had requested
that in the event of his death the
scholarship be established to bring
about better understanding be
► tween Japanese and Americans.
The elder Johnstone said he
“established this fund because I
do not think we are going to have
peace in settling the war with hate
and hard terms. My wife and I
are trying to do our small share
by helping other people to keep
6 the peace. Only by good will can
we win out.”
Navy Seaplane
Feared Lost
WASHINGTON, I/P) — A PBM
Mariner seaplane with nine per
sons aboard is overdue on an ex
ploratory flight from the navy’s1
Antarctic expedition, the navy re-J
ported today.
The plane took off from the sea
plane tender U.S.S. Pine Island at
5:45 a.m. <EST> Dec. 30.
It was scheduled to return at
3:45 p.m. the same day, but had
sufficient fuel for 11 additional
hours of flight.
The last report from the plane
was received at 7:25 a.m. (EST) on
Dec. 30 at which time it was about
250 miles south of the Pine Island.
Previous reconnaissance flights
had reported open water in that1
^area and the navy expressed hope
the plane had made a safe landing.
Search and rescue operations have
been hampered by bad weather. ^
| Political Parties
Have Balances
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(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, (^)—Both the
Republican and Democratic na
j tional committees came through
I the 1946 election campaigns with
( cash in the bank. But their finan
j cial reports to Congress showed
today that:
The Democrats began the new
year with $589,806 less than they
started the old one.
The Republicans not only won
the election but boosted the size of
their bank account.
Regular reports of contributions
and expenses must be filed with
the House clerk by political or
ganizations.
George Kallion, treasurer, said
the Democrat* began 1946 with a
bank balance of $731,294, took in
$1,147,871, paid out $1,737,677 and
wound up on Dec. 31 with $141,
488.
Ray R. Dobson, assistant treas
urer of the Republican committee,
listed contributions of $1,097,404
and expenses as $817,728 for last
year, leaving the GOP $279,676 to
the good.
American To Be
Tried In Shanghai
SHANGHAI, (/P) — John Ira
Rogers, an American from Seattle,
today was ordered tried in Shang
hai district court on charges of
stabbing and seriously injuring
Ching Yu-Fang, 23, Chinese pedi
cab operator, New Year’s night.
Rogers, member of a crew of a
Chinese National Relief and Re
habilitation administration fishing
boat, was arrested at the scene by
Chinese police. He told them he
acted in self-defense after a num
ber of pedicab drivers threatened
him and two companions during
an argument over fares. Ching was
operated upon yesterday. Doctors
said he is not completely out of
danger.
MacKenzie King
To Become Citizen
OTTAWA, (^P)—Prime Minister
W. L. MacKenzie King, who was
born in Canada and has headed
the government longer than any
one else, will receive Canadian
citizenship papers tonight.
The Prime Minister, along with1
12,000,000 other Canadians, for
mally became a “Canadian citi
zen” on Jan. 1 as the new citizen
ship act went into effect. He re
mains with other Canadians a
“British subject.”
Tonight’s ceremony will launch
a national citizenship week during
which similar events will be held
throughout the Dominion, with
several provincial premiers also
receiving citizenship papers to
mark their new status.
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Logging Workers
Boycott Averted
VANCOUVER, B. C. I/P)—Possi
bility of a workers “boycott” of
Queen Charlotte logging opera
tions appeared to have been avert
ed today with announcement by
International Woodworkers Asso
ciation fCIO-CCL> officials that
loggers had accepted an offer for
fare allowances.
Nels Medsen, president of local
1-71, IWA, said the workers had
overwhelmingly approved to ac
cept the offer which grants a
Truman Will Give
Congress Message
Personally
! WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman completed plans today to
deliver his state of the union mes
| sage to Congress in person Mon
day at 1 p.m. <EST> if the two
Houses are organized by then.
Presidential secretary Charles
G. Ross told reporters the message
will require about 50 minutes
reading itme before a joint session
in the House of Representatives.
It will be broadcast by televi
, sion as well as by the major radio
networks.
The present schedule is for the
President to send Congress a sec
ond message based on a report
from his economic advisory coun
cil on January 8, and to follow this
on January 10 with a budget mes
sage for the fiscal year starting
Juyl 1.
Cordoba Becomes
Tapachula Mayor
MEXICO CITY, (>P)—Ernesto A.
Cordoba, opposition candidate foi
mayor in the Nov. 17 mayoralty
elections at Tapachula' on the
Guatemalan border, was “official
ly recognized” as mayor at 2 a.m.
today, a victory for his followers,
who were machine-gunned last
Tuesday by judicial and munici
pal police when they sought to
force their way into the municipal
palace.
The official death list today was
placed at 12 including men, wo
men and children and those in
jured at 22. However, Bernabe
Corzo, Tapachula lawyer, told the
Associated Press by radio tele
phone that between 20 and 30
other persons were less seriously
wounded and treated at their
homes. Some were trampled when
a crowd, protesting the “imposi
tion” of Mayor Luis Guizar, was
fired upon by judicial police and
the municipal palace guard.
Seek Huge Sum
In Damage Suits
<By The Associated Press'
The total of retroactive portal
to portal pay and damage suits on
file Tuesday climbed toward the
billion and a half dollar mark, ex
clusive of unspecified claims.
The total of specified amounts
sought by workers was $1,374 456,
000.
There was talk in Congressional
circles, however, that new legisla
tion imposing a “windfall tax'’
might give the federal treasury
virtually al lof any back pay
awards won by workers in the
courts.
In Chicago, wartime industrial
firms were advised by some tax
experts that they would be unable
to recover from the government,
through re-negotiation of closed
war contracts, any retoactive por
tal wages which couts may order
paid by the firms.
Patience is a great thing, but it
never helped a rooster lay an egg.
seven cent an hour differential, in
lieu of fares to the camps, retro
active to Jan. 1, 1946, and a nine
cent an hour differential for 1947.
Loggers had threatened to boy
cott the nine Queen Charlotte op
erators on grounds that working
conditions were more severe in
j the area due to climate and timber
size.
Would Give Vets
A Large Bonus
WASHINGTON, (>P)—A bill to
pay all World War II veterans a
bonus of $4 per day for home
service and $5 for every day over
seas was ready today for intro
duction by Rep. Page <D.-Ga.>.
Page also planned measures to
make terminal leave of enlisted
personnel payable in cash March
15 and to raise the salary limits
for veterans participating in the
government’s on-the-job training
program.
World War I veterans were
paid a bonus of SI daily for home
service and $1.25 for overseas
duty, but Pace declared that civil
ian wages were hifher during
World War II and that the costs of
living was up tremendously now.
As drafted the bill covers all
personnel. The World War I bonus
was paid only to those below the
grade of major.
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Nine Felons
Escape In N. Y.
NEW YORK, (IP) — The city’s
17,000 police were ordered today
to be ready to “shoot to kill” in
the manhunt for nine felons, one
a confessed killer and another a
former Alcatraz inmate, who
staged a daylight escape from an
cient Raymond Street jail in
Brooklyn. By the number of men
delivered, the break was the larg
est in the city’s history. But it was
astonishingly quiet and involved
no violence.
“Everything points to accom
plices on the outside” declared Al
bert O. Williams, newly appointed
commissioner of correction. War
den Thomas McDonnell attributed
the escape to an inadequate num
ber of guards and to the prison’s
deterioration.
“The jail,” he said, “is over 100
years old. Its bars are rotten, its
windows are rotten.”
Williams and Brooklyn district
attorney Miles F. McDonald said
that w'hile the nine prisoners were
returning from a prison medical
examination yesterday, one of the
men climbed up to the cell win
dow, and, using a hacksaw cut
through the bar and squeezed
through the opening.
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