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Tuesday Primary
Promises to be INip
And-Tuck Affair
tBy TB3 Associated Pkess)
With San. Taft gone, Eisenhow
er leaders arranged last-minute
rallies Monday night to sway as
many votes their way as possible
in Tuesday’s nip-and-tuck New
Hampshire presidential primary.
The Ohio Senator, after mak
ing the most intensive three-day
campaign any presidential candi
date ever conducted in N e w
Hampshire, headed for Texas.
In the nations first presidential
primary Tuesday, expected to
have at least a psychological in
fluence on later developments,
about 75,000 GOP voters may
turn out to choose 14 national
convention delegates. About 25,
000 Democrats are expected to,
name eight delegates.
In addition to Taft and Eisen
hower, Harold E. Stassen, is an
active GOP candidate in the pri
mary.
On the Democratic side are Sen.
Kefauver of Tennessee and Presi
dent Truman.
Kefauver Sunday labeled as
“really eyewash” a prediction by
New Hampshire Democratic Na
tional Committeeman Emmet J.
Kelley that Truman will “smoth
er” him and win all eight party
delegates.
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President Does Not Want
Complete Govt. Cleanup,
Taft Asserts in N. H.
CONCORD, N.H., (/P)— Senator
Taft of Ohio told a news confer
ence Saturday, prior to the start
of his third and final day’s tour
of New Hampshire campaigning
for tomorrow’s presidential pri
mary, that Mr. Truman does not
really want a complete cleanup
in government.
At Nashua, Taft told 450 per
sons that MacArthur has “con
sistently given me support during
this campaign.” He urged friends
of MacArthur to vote for Taft
delegates in Tuesday’s primary
instead of the slate which has
been entered under MscArthur’s
name.
Regarding his chances in New
Hampshire’s firs t-in-the-nation
balloting, the Ohioan said he was
“very optimistic about it” but that
it will be a close race.
He said it would be a reason
able expectation that he would
get four of the 14 GOP delegates
to be chosen.
Income Tax Collector
Finally Gets One Poor
Taxpayer’s Frayed Shirt
PHILADELPHIA, (/P) — Some
guy actually lost his shirt at the
tax collectors office.
A white, freshly - laundered
shirt with frayed cuffs was found
in a paper bag in the Philadelphia
office of the U.S. Internal Reve
nue Bureau when it closed for the
weekend.
Said Collector Francis R. Smith,
“Year after year I’ve been ac
cused of taking the taxpayer’s
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Thousands of Spectators
Watch Disabled Plane
Make Safe Landing
DAYTON, Ohio, (A5) — A four
hour drama in the skies ended
safely early today when a skillful
pilot belly-landed his Lockheed
Lodestar airplane with four per
sons aboard.
Pilot Carl R. Siemer, 31, of Cin
cinnati, brought the craft down on
the flare-lit grass of Dayton’s
Municipal airport at nearby Van
dalia while a crowd of several
thousand looked on.
They had been drawn to the
field by radio announcements tell
ing how the plane had a jammed
landing gear and was circling the
field trying to get the gear down.
At the same time the plane burn
ed up gasoline to lessen the dan
ger of fire in event of a crash
landing.
The five persons aboard were
shaken up but not injured
Ridgway Report
Shows Degree Of
Russian Neutrality
By ROBERT EUNON
TOKYO, (/P) — How neutral is
Russia in the Korean war?
A hitherto secret report in Gen.
Matthew B. Riclgwuy’s headquar
ters asserts:
“The main source of supply for
the present Chinese Communist
forces ... in Korea ... is from
Soviet furnished materiel.”
Although the United Nations
Command never has announced
the capture of a Russian soldier,
practically all of the equipment
now in use by the North Korean
army and the Chinese Communist
forces is Russian-made.
So too is the swift jet inter
ceptor plane, the MIG-15, which
patrols northwest Korea from
Manchurian bases.
Red staff officers drafting truce
supervision terms nominated
Russia as a neutral observer.
“With the exception of a small
amount of Japanese materiel left
over from the Japanese occupa
tion of Korea and Manchuria and
materiel captured from U. N.
forces in Korea the North Korean
army has been entirely equipped
and, or, re-equipped with Soviet
materiel,” the intelligence report
said.
Wallace Promoted to
Brig. General as
Kepner Staff Assistant
HEADQUARTERS, Alaskan
Command, March 8—Senate con
firmation of the promotion of Col
onel James H. Wallace, USAF, to
the rank of brigadier general was
announced recently. He is assis
tant chief of staff for plans and
operation on the staff of Lt. Gen.
W. E. Kepner, commander - in -
chief, Alaskan Command, with
headquarters at Elmendorf Air
Force Base, Alaska.
During World War II, General
Wallace initially commanded a
bomber group in England. He
later became director of opera
ions for the Eighth Bomber Com
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Reds Told U.N.
Will Not Bow To
“Intimidation”
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Allied
negotiators warned the Commun
ists Monday that threats and in
timidation will not force the U.N.
Command to accept Red terms for
a Korean armistice.
“You cannot dictate the terms
of an armistice and you cannot
hope to achieve any progress in
these meetings by resorting to
threats and unfounded accusa
tions,” said Rear Adm. R.E. Libby.
He said U.N. negotiators did not
propose to “sit and listen” any
further to unfounded charges and
repeated accusations that the Al
lied delegation was “telling lies.”
Libby’s sharp warning follow
ed two days of Communist at
tacks on Allied treatment of cap
tured Comunist soldiers.
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho, in an obscurely worded
warning, first declared the issue
might go “beyond the scope of the
Korean question.” Sunday he
warned that serious incidents are
“in the making.”
Army-Backed
Revolt Returns
Batista In Cuba
HAVANA, <(/P)—Fulgencio’ Bat
ista rode back to power Monday
in an army-backed revolt, three
months ahead of Cuba’s scheduled
presidential elections. President
Carlos Prio Socarras fled from his
palace, where two men were
killed.
. President Prio, accompanied by
two army officers and possibly
under arrest, left the presidential
palace after announcing that
Batista had seized control of
Camp Columbia, the army’s major
military base.
Batista told a reporter:
“I was obliged to make a revo
lution because I had news from
the most reliable sources that
President Prio, faced with defeat
of his candidate in the June 1
elections, was planning a phoney
revolution for April 15.”
The announced purpose behind
the revolt was to suppress cor
ruption and gangsterism, which
has been blamed for 30 killings
since President Prio took office in
1948. Last August a senator com
mitted suicide to “awaken Cuba
against corruption in govern
ment.”
North Sea Storms Take
Lives of 60 Seamen
LONDON, (/P)—Weekend gales
in the North Sea are believed to
have taken the lives of 60 seamen.
Only one survivor has been found
from three missing ships.
He was first mate Willi Sunky
man, of the 447-ton German traw
ler Thor, which capsized in heavy
seas and 70-mile-an-hour winds.
The 829-ton Finnish ship Adna
had radioed she was sinking and
her 18 crewmen were feared lost.
Lifeboats and a Coastal Com
mand plane reported a fruitless
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Gadget Speeds Up And
Better Verifies Deposits
Of Uranium Ore
NEW YORK, UP)—'The govern
ment has a new, faster and more
accurate means of detecting de
posits of uranium, the basic metal
used in the production of atomic
energy.
Mounted on motor vehicles, the
device is contained in a 2V£-foot
long cylinder, two inches in diam
eter. It is lowered into test drill
holes and then gradually brought
to the surface. It indicates on a
pen line recorder the presence of
Gamma rays, given off by ura
nium and radium.
Dr. Phillip L. Merritt, head of
the AEC exploration program,
said in a statement that the new
device compared with older
methods is 10 times more efficient,
two or three times more precise,
five time a fast, and more ver
satile.
Investigators Seek
Personnel Waste
In Armed Services
WASHINGTON, (£>)— Congres
sional investigators planned Sat
urday to turn from goods to peo
ple in a search for waste in the
military services.
Chairman Hebert (D-Ala) said
his House Armed Services Sub
committee will investigate the
161,517 employes of Washington’s
defense headquarters to see if
there is “waste in manpower.”
But first the group will probe
the activities of an estimatd 500
Pentagon public relations officials
—Hebert calls them “alibi artists”
—to determine if they are more
interested in “spreading propa
ganda than in giving informa
tion.” All this will begin in per
haps two weeks.
Before then, the subcommittee
will complete consideration of a
bill which would require the mili
tary services to streamline their
supply bookkeeping.
Hearings continue on a bill to
require consolidation of 15 service
catalogs into a single federal list
ing of items which are on hand or
might be purchased.
C-47 Crashes, Burns
At Offutt Air Force Base
OMAHA, (JP)— An Air Force
C-47 crashed and burned early
Monday at Offutt Air Force Base
near here, but all 12 men aboard
escaped unhurt.
The Air Force spokesman said
the men “just piled out” after
unfastening their safety belts.
The plane, on a routine, flight,
was completely destroyed.
It was the second plane crash
within two weeks at Offutt.
On Feb. 26, A B-50 bomber
crashed while landing, killing five
airmen and injuring 12 others.
Quake Shakes Juneau
JUNEAU, UP) —A dish-rattling
earthquake shook Juneau and
vicinity at 12:01 p.m. Sunday.
The quake lasted 10 to 15 sec
onds, rattled windows and dishes,
cracked some plaster and stopped
the pendulums of clocks at the
weather bureau nine miles out on
the highway.
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Captain Shields
Sails to Defend
Bering Sea Waters
SEATTLE, (/P)—Capt. John E.
Shields, who won renown in 1938
by his ultimatum for Japanese
ships to stay out of Alaska’s Ber
ing Sea waters, issued this un
official communique Saturday:
“The Nordic Maid loaded 360,
*
000 cans and sailed for the Bering
Sea with 27 men under Capt. Ed
ward Shields, to occupy and hold
the Bering Sea coast of Alaska
crab-fishing grounds against the
world.
“She is the only floating can
nery that will be in the Bering
Sea this summer under the Am
erican flag.”
Edward Shields is the old cap
tain’s son.
The veteran fishing boat oper
ator was happy over the an
nouncement from Tokyo that
Japanese ships would not be al
lowed to seek crab in the Bering
Sea this year.
But remembering the years
when Japan sent survey parties
to the Alaska coast in the guise
of fishermen, the captain said he
wondered whether another nation
might not now be interested in
prowling the same waters.
Death Benefits Paid To
17,061 Dependents of 8,895
Men Killed In Korean War
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Vet
erans Administration reported
Monday that as of Dec. 31, 1951,
it was paying death compensation
or pension benefits to 17,061 de
pendents of 8,895 deceased veter
ans of the Korean war.
The VA noted that as of Jan.
31, 1952, a total df 655,000 mili
tary personnel who saw service
since the Korean conflict started
on June 27, 1950, had been re
turned to civilian life.
It said 135 veterans who were
disabled in service since the Ko
rean war started were being re
habilitated as of Jan. 31, and VA
hospitalization was being provided
for another 1,862 veterans.
The War In Korea . . .
By GEORGE A McARTHUR
SEOUL, Korea, </P) — Seven
Communist jet fighters were
blasted out of the North Korean
skies Monday, the U.S. Fifth Air
Force reported. Three other MIGs
were damaged. It was the big
gest bag since Jan. 25 when the
Sabres shot down 10 MIGs.
\
Ground action flared at only
scattered points.
U.S. Eighth Army censors took
the blanket of security off twcf ,
more American divisions. The U.
S. 40th (California National
Guard) division is on the central
front south of Kumsong. The 25th
Division with an attached Turkish
brigade is dug in along the spiny
ridges northwest of the Punch
bowl on the Eastern front.
Overdose of Sleeping Pills
SANTA MONICA, Calif., (JP)—
Una Merkel, former screen act
ress, has returned home from
Santa Monica hospital, after re
cuperating from an overdose of
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