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New Jersey Gives
Eisenhower 150,000
Vote Margin .
By RELMAN MORIN
NEWARK. N.J., (JP)—A flo'od of
votes carried Gen. Eisenhower to
wards a 150,000 victory margin in
New Jersey Wednesday and es
tablished him as the. leading Re
publican {^residential candidate on
the Atlantic seaboard.
It was the second consecutive
time that he defeated Sen. Taft
in the East in an election where
both men’s names were on the
ballot.
Eisenhower, who carried all but
one of New Jersey’s 21 counties,
won a minimum of 31 of the
state’s Republican convention
delegates. The election put Eisen
hower’s total of delegates at 119.
Taft now has 206.
The Democratic election went
by default to Sen. Kefauver, the
only entrant.
Taft and his lieutenants took a
cheerful view of the results from
New Jersey.
“A moral victory,” “Terrific,”
and “Surprising,” his campaign
leaders in the state declared.
“Eisenhower has made a poor
showing,” asserted John D. M.
Hamilton, eastern seaboard chair
man for the Taft organization.
Strikes Continue In
Communication Field
(By the Associated Press)
The New Jersey telephone
strike was settled Tuesday, but
three others continued in the com
munication field.
An agreement providing a pay
hike of $4 a week and fringe
benefits was reached at Newark,
N. J., by the New Jersey Bell
Telephone Company and 10,000
striking operators.
The same union, the CIO Com
munication Workers of America,
ended strikes in Ohio Monday
and in Michigan last week.
Federal mediators in New York
sought to settle the strike of
16,000 members of the union
against the Western Electric Com- j
pany, the Bell System’s manufac
turing subsidiary.
No progress was reported Tues
day in efforts to get the CIO
United Steelworkers and the steel
industry to agree on a new work
contract.
It was learned in Washington
that the nation’s soft coal pro
ducers have signed an industry
pact which strengthens their po
sition for the 1952 wage battle
against John L. Lewis, head of
the United Mine Workers Union.
Lewis is not expected to make
his demands until the steel dis
pute is settled.
TUESDAY'S MAJOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL SCORES
National League
St. Louis 3—Pittsburgh 2
Chicago 6—Cincinnati 5
Brooklyn 3—Boston 2
American League
Boston 3—Washington 0
Cleveland 3—Chicago 2
St. Louis 3—Detroit 0
Britain Will Buy No
Canned Salmon From
B. C. This Year
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP)—Great
Britain will buy no’ canned sal
mon from British Columbia this
year, it was confirmed Tuesday
by a spokesman for the canneries
here.
In 1951 Britain bought $6,700,
000 worth of B.C. salmon, but be
cause of sterling difficulties the
contract will not be renewed.
Australia, New Zealand, and |
South Africa discontinued salmon
orders some time ago and other
foreign buyers decreased pur
chases.
“We may be able to sell more
to the United States,” the spokes
man said “but it is too early to
say. It is a matter of tariffs.”
The Fisheries Association of
B.C. plans to continue its cam
paign for domestic consumption.
Last year it spent $300,000 on an
advertising campaign.
“But a $6,000,000 contract could
scarcely be compensated for by
domestic consumption,” the
spokesman said.
76,000 Persons
Flee Homes In
8-State Flood
OMAHA, (#*) — A ghost city,
where only a few days ago 30,000
persons lived, Tuesday lay wait
ing for the worst the Missouri
River’s greatest flood could offer.
The vast, deserted area is
three - quarters of the city of
Council Bluffs, la.
Across the river in Omaha, an
other 5,000 persons had fled low
lying homes threatened by the
murky, swirling waters of the
Missouri which early Tuesday
were already higher than they
had ever been since the white
man settled here.
The maddened river had al
ready reduced to virtual ghost
towns several communities along
its rich valley. It had chased
thousands of families from their
homes.
But the Missouri wasn’t alone
in spreading misery.
The Mississippi, too, had swept
to record crests in Minnesota and
Wisconsin, while in other states
smaller streams tossed punches.
The Red Cross estimated that j
an eight - state area where the
waters are raging, a total of
18,939 families and some 76,000
persons have had to* flee their
homes.
This figure covers the Dakotas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Kansas and Missorui.
Seventy-nine Year Old
Woman Asks Divorce
LAWRENCE, Mass., (/P)—Sev
enty-nine year old Mrs. Ellen E.
Mathisson wants a divorce—after
waiting 18 years for her husband
to go* back to her.
She told Probate Court Judge
John A Costello Monday she and
August W. Mathisson were mar
ried 55 years ago and that he left
her 18 years ago.
She said her husband had re
jected several attempts at recon
ciliation.
Judge Costello took the case
under advisement.
Biggest Airlift In
West Hemisphere
Is Now Going On
CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., (fP)
—Units of the 31st (Dixie) Divi
sion could have fought a battle
in southern Indiana Tuesday after
being in San Angelo, Tex., only
24 hours earlier.
About 2,000 troops o*f the divi
sions were flown to Camp Atter
bury Monday in the start of the
biggest airlift ever -attempted in
the Western Hemisphere.
They brought howitzers, trucks
and other equipment with them
in a steady stream of C-124 Globe
masters, C-119 Flying Boxcars
and C-46 Curtis Commando trans
ports.
Rain, fog and occasional icing
conditions failed to stop the 18th
Air Force operation. The big
planes quickly refueled and wept
back to Texas for another load.
About 9,000 troops will be
hoisted from Texas to Indiana in
the operation. Another 4,000
troops of the 31st are leaving
Camp Bowie, Tex., today by
motor convoy. It will take them
about a week to make the trip.
The troops arriving in the
murky weather of the first day’s
flights were sun-browned from
“Exercise Longhorn” maneuvers.
Although they probably could
have fought soon after landing,
they boarded buses instead and
were taken 12 miles to hot meals
and permanent barracks.
Gov. Stevenson Declines
Democratic Nomination
SPRINGFIELD, 111., i/P)—Gov.
Stevenson said Wednesday “I
could not accept” the Democratic
nomination for President.
Stevenson issued his statement
clarifying his political plans short
ly before his scheduled takeoff
for a flight to Omaha and a con
ference with President Truman on
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flood conditions.
“I have repeatedly said that I
was a candidate for Governor of
Illinois and had not other am
bition,” Stevenson said.
“I must now add that in view
of my prior commitment to run
for governor and my desire and
the desire of many who have
given me their help and confi
dence in our unfinished work in
Illinois, I could not accept the
nomination for any other office
this summer.”
Floods Cause Northwest
Airlines Reduce Schedules
SEATTLE, i U?) — Northwest
Airlines will reduce schedules 15
per cent because its major over
haul base at St. Paul, Minn., has
been invaded by floods, the air
line announced Tuesday.
George E. Hatch, western re
gion sales manager, said the DC-4
shuttle service between Seattle
and Spokane with stops at Wen
atchee and Yakima will be can
celled until April 26.
Stratocruiser passenger service
between Seattle and Anchorage
will be cancelled from Thursday
until April 26 and replaced with
a DC - 4. Only perishable air
freight will be accepted for
Alaska.
Eight-Jet Stratof or tress
Makes Maiden Flight To
Air Force Test Base
I ARSON AIR FORCE BASE,
Wash., </P) — Further extensive
tests, all of them cloaked in strict
military secrecy, are ahead for
America’s newest strategic air
weapon which has passed its first
flight test.
The weapon is the swept-wing,
eight-jet Boeing YB - 52 Strato
fortress. It made its maiden flight
Tuesday from Seattle to‘ Larson
Air Force here.
The plane was airborne nearly
three hours, flying about the
Puget Sound country for an un
disclosed distance before setting
down at its new test home.
It was the second YB-52 built,
the other being returned to the
factor^ for modification without
yet being flown.
Wing skin for a late model jet
bomber, before shaping, is' as
thick as the hull of a destroyer,
reports the Aircraft Industries
Association. It is tapered down
with an accuracy of 2,000 of an
inch and, when finished, the
wings weigh 18 tons.
Kodiak Mercy Mission
Is Exciting For Navy Crew
KODIAK, Alaska, April 15—A
badly burned five-year-old girl
was flown to Kodiak Island today
from Perryville for medical treat
ment. The mercy mission proved
exciting for Navy crewmen in a
PBY patrol plane, being forced
to land after returning to base in
almost zero visibility requiring a
ground control approach landing.
Call for assistance was flashed
last night from Perryville on the
Alaskan Peninsula to Navy Com
mander Search and Rescue, Area
2, at Kodiak, explaining the con
dition of Vivian Cosbrook, who
was burned from her neck to her
ankles.
The scorched tot on arrival at
Kodiak was sped to the Griffin
Memorial Hospital by the Navy.
She received her burns after be
ing caught in a grass fire.
U.S. Dangerously
Short of Youngsters
Who Want To Fly
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Retired
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz says the na
tion is dangerously short of young
sters who want to fly.
The former chief of the U.S. Air
Force said demands by youths for
flying instruction are critically
below the level needed to sustain
a major air power. Writing in
“Ffying” magazine, he called this
“alarming.”
Spaatz blamed slackened inter
est on the loss of “a whole gen
eration of air-minded teen-agers
who, too young for service in
World War II, were rather abrupt
ly brushed off.”
“That situation can never be
quite corrected,” said Spaatz, now
chairman of the National Execu
tive Board of the Civil Air Pat
rol.
“These young people of World
War II have now outgrown the
golden age in making of an avi
ator—the ’teens.”
Spaatz said the inclination to
fly on the part of the “lost” gen
eration of too-young hopefuls, was
sacrificed to the wartime effort
to build a fighting air force Of
350,000 planes and 250,000 pilots.
The Korean Situation . . .
By GEORGE A. McARTHUR
SEOUL, {£>) — U. S. fighter
bombers Wednesday cut North
Korean rail lines in 52 places, the
Fifth Air Force announced.
The fighter-bombers roared to
the attack through heavy clouds
under a protective screen of F-86
Sabre jets.
A flurry of Red probing jabs
on the western front Tuesday
evening touched of an Allied ar
tillery barrage that lasted most of
the night. Sound of the big guns
could be heard in Seoul, more
than 40 miles south.
Naval and Marine warplanes
from American carriers pounded
both coasts of North Korea Tues
day.
American warships hit a var
iety of Red targets on the east.
Air Force Plans Experiments In
Dry Ice Seeding of Polar Cloud
Stratas, “Birthplace of Weather”
ANCHORAGE, </P) — An Air*
Force officer described Fletcher
Ice Island near the North Pole, as
a huge aircraft carrier, suitable
for bomber operations.
Col. Ridiard M. Gill, command
ing officer of the 2107th Air Wea
ther Group told of its potential
ities in a talk to the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce.
Six men now are on the four
by-nine mile mass of floating ice
for weather and other observa
tions. Gill said they are on an
assignment possibly six months,
or perhaps a year.
Gill disclosed for the first time
that the Air Force plans an ex
periment of dry ice-seeding of
the polar cloud strata. He spec
ulated on the possibility of such
action making a sharp change in
conditions in the polar region—
sometimes labeled “the birthplace j
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of weather.”
Fresh polar bear tracks have
been reported by the ice island
party as the first sign of any
wild life in the land of constant
sub-zero cold. He said the pres
ence of bear life would indicate
the presence also of seals in the
area.
“One strange thing discovered
on the island is dirt,” Col. Gill
said. The men found a layer of
it under the snow. Samples, are
being sent to Columbia University
he said, for analysis in the hope
of determining its origin.
Gill said the Air Force has been
swamped with requests from,
scientists and others to visit the
island.
island. “So we set up the follow
ing requirements. Anyone meet
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