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Churchill Arrives
For Conferences
With Truman
NEW YORK, (/P)—Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill arrived
in the United States Saturday for
conferences with President Tru
man and asserted “the prospects
for world peace are solid in 1952.”
He grinned when reporters
asked him whether the Soviet
threat to peace had increased or
decreased in recent months.
He landed at the Brooklyn
Army Port of Embarkation from
the Coast Guard Cutter Navesink.
He had stepped across a short
gangplank from the liner Queen
Mary to the cutter at the New
York Harbor Narrows.
After his five-minute interview
and a brief drive to Floyd Ben
nett Field, Churchill boarded the
President’s plane, the Independ
ence, for his flight to Washington.
Ruddy - faced from his harbor
voyage in the cutter and smoking
a cigar, as usual, Churchill
greeted reporters with a cheery
“Good morning to you all.”
He said the purpose of his 11th
visit to the United States was “not
to get settlements or sign agree
ments.”
He wanted, he said, to “estab
lish that close and intimate un
derstanding between heads of
governments on both sides of the
ocean so that we may deal with
the events of the future with a
knowledge of the other’s point of
view.”
Churchill was asked, in the
glare of newsreel and television
lights, whether he saw any ad
vantage in President Truman and
Premier Stalin sitting down to a
conference together.
“It all depends on the setting
and the events leading up to it,”
the prime minister replied.
“No Progress” Again
At Panmunjom
MUNSAN, Korea, {IF) — The
United Nations’ chief truce nego
tiator said today there are grow
ing indications that the commun
ists do not want a stable armis
tice in Korea.
The report from Panmunjom
was the now familiar “no pro
gress.”
If the Communists “are acting
in good faith and sincerely want
peace, there can be no reason for
them to construct military air
fields during the period of an ar
mistice,” said Vice Adm. C. Turn
er Joy. He flew to Tokyo for con
ferences with Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway, Supreme Allied com
mander.
The Reds reiterated their insist
ence on the right to construct and
repair airfields during a brief
Monday meeting of the subcom
mittee on truce supervision.
The session ended abruptly
after Chinese Maj. Gen. Hseih
Fang accused the Allies of “in
tentionally delaying the negotia
tions” and trying to wreck the
truce talks by insisting on pro
hibiting construction of, military
air bases.
Brig. Gen. Wm. P. Nuchols said
communist negotiators at Pan
munjom appeared disinterested
and lackdaisical, as though they
were waiting for new instructions.
New Law Would
Make Felony Bribe
;Taking or Offering
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — A drive
for tough new laws to crack down
on influence peddlers and their
paying clients gathered force on
Capitol Hill Monday.
Sen. Monroney (D-Okla), say
ing “you can’t take a bribe unless
a crook pays it,” announced he is
broadening his anti - corruption
bill to provide mandatory prison
terms for both givers and takers
of bribes.
He announced a last minute re
vision of his many-toothed bill
to strip courts of power to grant
clemency to bribe takers and giv
ers, except in cases where a
guilty person turns state’s evi
dence under grant of immunity.
The new provision calls for fel
| onv punishment, including a mini
mum of one year in prison for
i taking or soliciting a bribe while
on a government payroll or offer
ing or paying one to a federal
worker.
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Retail Business Expected
To Look Up This Spring
NEW YORK, (iP)—Better retail
business is in prospect for this
spring but most merchants will
have to work harder to get it,
delegates to the 41st annual con
vention of the National Retail Dry
Goods Association were told to
day.
In view of less favorable profit
prospects, many merchants are
planning an “all-out war” on ex
penses this year, the Association
said. Economies such as curtailed
delivery service are being ser
iously considered it added.
OPS Rolls Back Price
Of Anti-Freeze In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P»—The gov
ernment Saturday announced a
rollback of five to ten cents a
gallon in the price of anti-freeze
in Alaska.
The Office of Price Stabiliza
tion said Alaska uses about
100,000 gallons of anti-freeze,
valued at $360,000 annually.
The ceilings range from $1.55 a
gallon for the lowest cost type
in the Panhandle cities, to $4.90
for the highest cost type in the
Fairbanks area.
Anchorage Republicans
To Submit Statehood
Resolution to Convention
ANCHORAGE—Anchorage Re
publicans today announced adop
tion of a statehood resolution for
submission to the San Francisco
Republican convention which
they hoped to have included in
the national party platform. “We
favor and strongly urge statehood
for Alaska under a statehood bill
providing for Alaskan control of
Alaska’s resources,” the resolu
tion said.
President Paul Robison of the
Anchorage Republican club said
he believed most Republicans and
many Alaskans were dissatisfied
with the present statehood bill
and believed all Republicans
would join forces to urge a new
bill on the basis of the resolu
tion.
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32nd Congress
Re-con venes
Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, </P)—The 82nd
Congress starts its election year
session tomorrow with politics
likely to weigh heavily in all
major actions.
The next six months are ex
pected to bring forth decisions,
one way or the other, on such
major matters as universal mili
tary training, foreign military and
economic aid, economic controls
at home, and defense spending.
Leaders are hopeful the session
can wind up in time for the July
political conventions so members
can go home afterward for the
fall campaigns.
All House seats will be at stake
in the November voting. So will
32 Senate seats, as well as the
presidency and vice-presidency.
President Truman will blue
print his legislative program in
h i s stute-of-the-union message
Wednesday.
The President is expected to re
new his request for civil rights
legislation, compulsory health in
surance, and tougher wage, price
and rent controls.
He may ask for more taxes.
Tenth Rescue Helicopter
To Evacuate Dead From
Wreck On Chena Dome
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — A Tenth
Rescue Squadron helicopter land
ed on Chena Dome Saturday and
radioed that all four men aboard
a wrecked transport plane were
dead.
The Trans-Ocean Air Lines
transport crashed 30 miles west
of here last Sunday night on a
flight from Point Barrow, but the
wreckage was not sighted until
two days ago.
The men aboard were pilot
Robert Warren erf Fairbanks, for
merly of Oil City, Penn.; co-pilot
Richard Erwin, Oakland, Calif.;
and Joe Weiler, Nyssa, Ore., and
Dick Cross, Fairbanks, fliers for
another air line who were pas
sengers.
The bodies will be evacuated by
helicopter, Capt. Joseph R. Coop
er, helicopter pilot, radioed an
escorting C-47 plane which was
flying overhead.
Boat Makes Wrong Turn,
Winds Up 45 Miles Away
RICHMOND, Calif., (£>) — It
can be pretty tough to make a
wrong turn on land, then run
out of gas. But on water, ugh!
C. D. Terwilliger and William
T. Foreman started by boat at 2
a.m. for Vallejo, 17 miles away
in San Pablo Bay.
At 8:30 last night, a worried
Mrs. Terwilliger inquired if the
Coast Guard had any word of
the men. It investigated and
learned: they’d just beached their
converted lifeboat at Stinson
Beach.
That’s 45 miles away on the
Pacific Oceon, and in the opposite
direction from Vallejo.
Terwilliger explained: He’d
made a wrong turn, gone out
through the Golden Gate. Run
out of gas.
Eisenhower Proclaims Himself A
Republican and V. ill Accept The
Nomination If It is Offered Him
By JACK BELL «
and MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed
himself a Republican today, and
made it clear he would accept
that party’s presidential nomina
tion if it is offered. But he said
he won’t actively seek it.
In a Paris statement, the 61
year-old general swept away
much of the fog of uncertainty
that has swirled far the last five
years about his place in the pic
ture of presidential possibilities.
His statement was prompted by
the week-end move from Senator
Lodge (R-Mass) who announced
(a) that Eisenhower’s name would
be entered in the March 11 New
Hampshire presidential primary,
and (b) that there would be a
“finish fight” to win the GOP
nomination far the general.
Eisenhower, who has been
talked as both a Democratic and
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a Republican presidential possi
bility, made these main points in
his statement:
1. He said Lodge was carrect in
calling him a Reublican.
2. He has no intention of asking
that he be relieved of his present
assignment as leader of the Eu
ropean defense forces.
3. He will not take part in pre
convention activities of those
seeking the nomination for him.
4. He recognizes the right of
others to engage in an attempt
“to place before me next July
(when the Republican convention
meets) a duty that would trans
cend my present responsibility.”
Eisenhower’s statement tremen
dously cheered Republicans who
have been working for his nomin
ation and have felt themselves
handicapped by the general’s long
silence.
Japan Agrees Not
To Fish Salmon,
Herring or Halibut
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Japan
has become one of the first na
tions—if not the first—to refrain
from exercising its legal right to
fisheries on the high seas, Milton
C. James, assistant director of
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice, said Saturday.
Japan made the concession at
the recently-completed interna
tional conference with the United
States and Canada, during which
fisheries of the North Pacific
were discussed.
James said Japan agreed to ab
stain from fishing for halibut,
herring err salmon in areas off the
coast of North America where
commercial fishing has been or
could be conducted. Under inter
national law, all nations have
equal rights to the fisheries on
the high seas.
James said, however, that in
the new agreement Japan recog
nizes that the fisheries specified
are carefully managed, at consid
erable expense to the United
States and Canada, and that entry
of another nation into the field
could wreck the conservation pro
gram.
“Japan, in agreeing to stipula
tions, has demonstrated her inter
est in international good will,”
James said.
The new agreement does not
prevent Japan from fishing in the
high seas for crab, albacore or
species other than those specific
ally excluded.
Poetry, Yet
Garmisch - Partenkirchen, Ger
many, (/P) — U.S. High Commis
sioner John J. McCloy was start
led to find this German police
warning sticker on his car here
last weekend:
“To a cow, traffic’s only a lark,
“But you must learn how to
properly park.”
Airlift Organized
To Fly Home 3,198
American POWs
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
TOKYO, (/P)—A giant airlift is
being organized to' speed home
the 3,198 American prisoners of
war held by the communists in
North Korean POW camps, if and
when they are released.
It is unofficially dubbed “op
eration homecoming.”
The men will be given medical
examinations then flowif immedi
ately to Japan for care and rest.
A man in good health on his
release, will be booked quickly
for flight home and within about
five days should be on his way.
“Every effort will be made for
the medical care and physical
welfare of our men,” said Col.
George Patrick Welch, official
spokesman for General Ridgway’s
headquarters. “Their speediest
possible movement back home
has been arranged for and will
be carried out.”
General headquarters plans to
call on the Air Force for trans
port for the operation.
The number of planes involved
and some details of the airlift
cannot be disclosed at this time.
The planes will fly at least two
routes from Japan to the United
States but the number to be sent
over each probably won’t be de
cided until the airlift is about to
go into operation. One route is
over the central Pacific to San
Francisco via Honolulu. The other
is the northern route to Seattle
via Alaska.
POW Letters Exchanged
PANMUNJOM, Korea, (/P) — A
batch of 159 letters from U.N.
prisoners of war was turned over
to United Nations postal officers
Monday by the communists.
The U.N. turned over 1,087 let
ters from the United States to be
delivered to men in the Red pri
son camps, plus eight letters from
U.N.-held communist prisoners to
their families in North Korea and
China.