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Senate Vote Clears
McGranery As U.S.
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Attorney - General
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WASHINGTON, </P) — A lop
sided Senate vote cleared the way
for James P. McGranery to walk
* into the Justice Department Wed
nesday and take over as the boss.
By a 52 to 18 vote, the Senate
Tuesday night confirmed Presi
dent Truman’s nomination of the
56-year-old Philadelphia jurist to
succeed J. Howard McGrath as
Attorney General.
All the votes against the ap
pointment were cast by Republi
cans, but 14 other Republicans
joined 38 Democrats in voting for
confirmation.
McGranery, a former House
member, has been a federal judge
in the eastern district of Pennsyl
vania since 1946. During the war
he served as the No. 2 official in
the Justice Department, as assist
ant to the attorney general.
McGranery told the Senate Ju
diciary Committee he would ex
pose and prosecute corruption
wherever he found it. He also
pledged to fire any incompetent,
disloyal or dishonest Justice De
partment employes.
Sens. Ferguson (R-Mich> and
Watkins (R-Utah), who led the
fight against McGranery, said
they did not believe his perform
ance would match his promise.
Russian Charges of POW
Mistreatment Called
“Childish Distortions”
MUNSAN, (£>) — Communist
negotiators at the tightly dead
locked Korean armistice talks
Wednesday protested Allied hand
ling of Red riots at an Allied pri
soner of war hospital at Pusan.
North Korean Gen. Nam II de
manded an accounting of the in
cident in which one prisoner was
killed and 85 injured.
The Communists got little satis
faction from Vice Adm. C. Turner
Joy, senior Allied delegate. He
told the Reds:
“The only progressive move
your side can make is to inform
us when you are ready to consum
mate a cessation of hostilities in
Korea by accepting our proposal.”
The Reds are demanding the re
> turn of all their captured soldiers
in the event of an armistice. The
Allies say that more than half
169,000 Red prisoners refuse to
return to Red rule. The U.N. Com
mand refuses to force them to go
back.
Joy, who goes to Panmunjom
tomorrow for the last time, gave
Nam II a stern lecture. He accused
the Reds of “crass hypocrisy” and
“childish distortions” in negotia
tions o*n exchange of prisoners.
EISENHOWER GIVES OVER
SHAPE POST THIS MORNING
SHAPE, (IP) — Gen. Eisenhower
will give over his post as supreme
allied commander in Europe to
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway in a
brief ceremony at 11:30 a.m.,
SHAPE announced Wednesday.
Eisenhower’s fellow officers
will bid him farewell at a dinner
• May 29. The general*is to leave
Paris by plane for Washington
late in the afternoon of May 31.
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Army Secretary Predicts
Present Part Mobilization
May Last Indefinitely
WEST POINT, (;<P)—Army Sec
retary Frank Pace says “the cur
rent period of partial mobilization
may well last indefinitely.”
Pace adds that a peacetime
army such as the United States
knew in the 1930’s will never re
turn. v
“It seems doubtful that the
Army, within our generation, will
be less than ithree or fcnir times
its prewar size,” he told cadets
of the United States military
\ academy Tuesday night.
The Army secretary addressed
a dinner closing Tuesday’s jubilee
convocation, the last major event
in West Point’s observance of the
academy’s 150th anniversary.
President Truman participated
in the day-long activities but re
turned to Washington by train be
fore the final dinner.
In an afternoon speech, Truman
told the cadets he believed .the
free world was “well on the way”
to reserving its freedom.
France’s Highest Honor
Conferred on Eisenhower
In Farewell Tribute
PARIS, (iP) — France conferred
its highest honor — the Medaille
Militaire — on Gen. Eisenhower
Wednesday in a farewell tribute
within the shadow of Napoleon’s
tomb.
The last foreigner to receive
this mark of France’s highest es
teem was Prime Minister Winston
Churchill in 1946.
The Medaille Militaire is
awarded to commanding officers
only after they have received
every other high decoration. It
customarily is reserved for en
listed men and non-commissioned
officers and is rarely awarded.
With it goes a yearly allowance
of 750 francs, or about $2.
Premier Pinay kissed Eisen
hower on both cheeks after fixing
the decoration. In a speech he
lauded the American general for
his “splendid human and military
qualities,” during World War II.
OPA SUSPENDS CONTROLS
ON TEXTILE PRICES
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Of
fice of Price Stabilization said
Monday price controls are being
suspended on raw cotton and
practically all textiles, including
those made of wool, cotton and
synthetic fibers.
All of the products have been
selling far below ceiling and offi
cials predicted the suspension
would mean no change in the
retail prices for the fabrics.
45 BAPTIST MISSIONARIES \
DEDICATED FOR SERVICE
CHICAGO, (IP)—Forty-five new
missionaries to foreign and home
fields were dedicated Monday
night at the opening session of
the 45tfi annual American Baptist
Convention at the International
Amphitheater.
The missionaries are destined
for service in Burma, Assam, In-'
dia, Africa, Alaska, Mexico and
other mision fields.
The new missionaries include:
Three to Kodiak and one to
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Truman Approves
Military Pay Boost
WASHINGTON, W—President
Truman has signed the bill boost
ing pay and allowances in the
military services by nearly half
a billion dollars a year.
The White House announced
the signing. It came in time—Tru
man had until the end of this
month—for 'the raises to become
effective with this month’s pay
vcruchers.
Intended to help offset higher
living costs, they range from $3
monthly for privates and seamen
to $65 for two-star generals and
admirals.
They apply to approximately
3Vfe million active as well as re
tired personnel.
The pay raise bill would give
the average low-ranking enlisted
man a $3 monthly raise, or 4 per
cent of the present $75 pay.
Taft Wins Seven of Eight
GOP Delegates in Mont.
(By the Associated Press)
While some Taft and Eisen
hower supporters collided in their
quest for presidential nominating
votes, others locked in House de
bate Wednesday on the issue of
foreign aid spending
Forces of Sen. Taft won seven
of Montana's eight Republican
delegates at a convention in Hel
ena Tuesday night.
At Annapolis, Md., Gov. Theo
dore McKeldin said he wants the
state’s 24 delegates to be picked
at a Baltimore meeting Saturday
to be uninstructed and uncom
mitted. McKeldin, once widely
labeled an Eisenhower man, late
ly has been complimentary to
Taft. *
Washington’s GOP convention
at Spokane Saturday will wind
up one of the bitterest battles in
years for its 24 votes. Eisenhower
leaders claim at least 16, but Taft
backers predict an even - steven
split.
Eisenhower partisans expect to
get all 22 of Connecticut’s GOP
delegates to be chosen May 26-27.
Taft backers are frankly pessimis
tic of their chances.
Taft’s 7 to 1 delegate victory
over Eisenhower in Montana puts
him ahead of the general 384 to
339 in the > Associated Press tab
ulation of nationwide delegate
strength.
Seven Drown In Puget
Sound Yachting Tragedy
Bellingham, Wash., (jP)— The
wind-whipped wake of one of Pu
get Sound’s worst yachting trag
edies has revealed the bodies of
four of seven persons who were
aboard the 35-foot sailing sloop
Prelude when it vanished Sunday
evening.
An extensive search for the
other three person’s—now pre
sumed dead — and the wreckage
of the mysteriously missing boat
is continuing Wednesday.
The bodies of Mrs. Elen For
dyce, her son Kenneth, 12, Ed E.
Jukes and Mrs. Donald W. Card
were found Tuesday. Still missing
are Paul Fordyce, Donald Card
and Mrs. Jukes.
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Red Pilot Accuses U.S. of
Planning Ice Island Base
For Attack on Soviets
MOSCOW, (fl>) — The Soviet
aviator who Ip years agg landed
Russian scientists near the North
Pole said Wednesday the expedi
tion was for scientific purposes
but that recent U.S. Air Force
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activity in the polar region seeks
ito make it a base for attack on
the Soviet Union.
Writing in Red Star, the army
newspaper, Mihail Vodopyanov
said the Americans are carrying
out plans for use of the Arctic
for military purposes “alien to the
Soviet people.”
The Russians announced in 1937
that they had landed on an ice
floe 15 miles from the pole to es
tablish a weather station and
emergency landing strip for the
non-stop flight from Moscow to
the United States 'that they car
ried out in July of that year. Four
Soviet scientists remained on the
ice raft for eight months, drift
ing several hundred miles to a
point of Greenland before they
were taken off. .v
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Actor John Garfield
Dies of Heart Ailment
NEW YORK, (/P) — John Gar
field, 39, stage and screen actor,
was found dead of a heart ail
ment in his Gramercy Park apart
ment Wednesday.
Garfield was noted for his
“tough guy” roles.
He gained fame on the stage for
his portrayal of a boxer in the
Clifford Odets play, “Golden
Boy,” in 1937.
He subsequently played gang
ster roles in Hollywood films and
was starred in a number of Broad
way productions.
Garfield, born Julius Garfinkle
in Brooklyn, on March 4', 1913,
engaged in a number of juvenile
scrapes and became a.protege of
Angelo Patri, child psychologist
and writer. Patri was credited
with starting him on his theatrical
career.
Labor Peace Plan Studied
By Railroad Unions
WASHINGTON, (JP)—'Three big
railroad unions Tuesday studied a
labor peace plan the White House
hopes will end a three-year dis
pute on the nation’s railroads.
The engineers, firemen and con
ductors, with a combined mem
bership of more than 150,000,
were handed the contract propo
sal by Presidential Assistant John
R. Steelman Monday afternoon.
So were the railroads, and. they
accepted it quickly.
Soldier Accidently Shot
While Playing Softball
FAIRBANKS, WP)—A 22-year
old soldier was shot and killed as
he played softball on the Eielson
Air Force Base Sunday by a shot
from a pistol which accidentally
discharged in a qucmset hut some
60 feet away.
Capt. Lloyd Stort, base public
information officer, said Monday
a member of the 502nd Anti-Air
craft Battalion was cleaning his
.38-calibre pistol when it dis
charged. Capt. Stort said the bul
let went through the door and
struck the victim in the chest.
He died almost immediately.
Red Atrocities
In Prisoner Camps
Revealed in Quote
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WASHINGTON, (ff) — Senator
Bridges (R-NH) quoted Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway Wednesday as
saying fanatical Communists in
U.N. prisoner of war camps have
committed atrocities and conduc
ted a reign of terror against other
prisoners.
“The general confirmed that
bodies have been found in these
camps,” Bridges told reporters.
He said that in a closed door ses
sion with Senators, Ridgway also
said it was true that Communist
POWs flew Red flags and had
their own telephone lines inside
the camps.
Bridges said Ridgway expressed
confidence, however, that rebel
lious and defiant Communist pri
soners of war can be put under
control.
Other senators said Ridgway
told them the Communists have
built up their forces in Korea dur
ing truce talks, and that the gen
eral was not optimistic that a sat
isfactory cease-fire agreement can
be reached.
One Democratic senator said
Ridgway’s picture of Far Eastern
conditions was “the most depress
ing thing I have heard in months.”
ASNE Head Challenges
Accusation of Incomplete
Steel Strike Reporting
WASHINGTON, (tP) — The
president of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors has chal
lenged a statement by Sen. Morse
(R-Ore) that press, radio 3nd tele
vision did not fully report the
steel seizure dispute.
“News coverage by the Ameri
can press of all viewpoints on the
steel controversy has been thor
ough and complete,” ASNE head
Wright Bryan, editor of the At
lanta Journal, said in Atlanta
Tuesday night.
“Anyone who says otherwise
simply has not read the news
papers, or else refuses to believe
the evidence before his eyes.”
Morse, a supporter of President
Truman’s seizure of the steel mills
accused the press, radio and tele- .
vision of failing to meet their
public trust. Declaring that much
of the newspaper comment “seem
ed to follow remarkably” the con
tent of paid advertisements by the
steel companies, Morse told a
Senate Labor subcommittee news
coverage of the steel dispute was
“one of the saddest failures of
American journalism in my recol
lection.”
Bill Approved for Additional
District Judge for Alaska
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
House Judiciary Committee ap
proved a bill Monday which calls
for an additional district judge
for Alaska.
JAMES VON DER HEYDT
FILES NOTICE OF
INTENTION TO WED
SEATTLE, (£>)—Notice of in
tention to wed was filed here
Monday by James A. von der
Heydt, 22, Nome, and Verna E.
Johnson, 33, Bantoul, Illinois.