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Allies Explore
Alternatives In
Event Falks Fail
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
and ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
United States -and allies in Korea
have begun exploring the ques
tion of what should be done in
the event truce talks collapse.
It was emphasized that every
thing possible still will be done
to help reach a satisfactory truce,
and no unnecessary risks will be
taken that might complicate nego
tiations. Hope of success is not
dead.
But reports that btate Depart
ment officials, military leaders
and Allied representatives have
begun a serious consideration of
what action may be taken if peace
talks fail, represents recognition
in inner councils here that pros
pects of an agreement are slack
ening somewhat.
If a truce should be arranged,
there is the problem of enforcing
it.
One proposed plan — punitive
measures against communist
China herself in case of violations
—has touched off a new debate
in high strategy circles over the
old question of capability of air
power.
The Air Force and Navy are
standing together this time,
against a school of Army thought
which discounts the feasibility of
punishing Red China with air-sea
attacks, it was learned Monday.
Although the Air Force-Navy
idea appears to have been ac
cepted at top policy levels, with
formal proposals going out from
the U.S. government to the other
allies in the Korean war, behind
the-scenes opposition persists.
Senate Leader Hopes
Alaska Statehood Bill
To Get Action Next Week
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Senate
majority leader McFarland said
after a conference with President
Truman today he hopes the Sen
ate can take up the Alaskan state
hood bill the later part of this
week “or the first of next week.”
McFarland gave this informa
tion to the President at the lat
ter’s regular Monday meeting with
his legislative leaders. He said
that the Hawaiian statehood bill
would follow disposition of the
Alaskan measure.
Flying Congressman
Arrives Home From
World Goodwill Tour
SPRINGFIELD, 111., UP) — A
flying congressmen who thought
to stir up a “grass roots move
ment for peace” returned Sunday
to his state capital after a 33,233
mile solo flight around the world.
Rep. Mack Jr., (D-Ill) told Gov
ernor Adlai Stevenson and a
cheering throng of 10,000 which
greeting him at the nirport, that
his trip “was a success in every
country that I visited.”
But he didn’t get behind the
Iron Curtain. Russia and her
satellite's refused to give him
clearance for inclusion in the
global goodwill tour that began
here last Oct. 7.
U.S. Photographer
Sends Shots From
Red China Prison
By Robert Eunson
TOKYO, (/P)— Frank “Pappy”
Noel is taking pictures for the
world’s newspapers again.
The 52-year-old Associated Press
photographer who disappeared
behind behind the bamboo cur
tain after his capture by the Chi
nese Reds on Nov. 29, 1950, Sat
urday sent out a few photos taken
inside a communist prison.
Pappy took the pictures with
a regular news camera which was
sent to him bag, flashgun and all
by another AP photographer, Bob
Schutz of New Jersey.
Schutz gave his own camera to
a Chinese news correspondent on
Jan. 2, 1952. That began a fanci
ful chain of camera passing which
finally got the equipment all the
way to Pyokdong, communist
prison camp No. 2.
The Reds developed the pic
tures and made prints for their
own censorship. The photos that
survived were censored in Tokyo
again by American censors. All
passed.
The American soldiers snapped
by “Pappy” appeared to be well
clothed in padded Chinese uni
forms. They were mostly smiling
and looked well fed.
Mother Charged With
Murder of Daughter, 3
PORTLAND, Ore., ^—Detec
tives said Monday they had found
no motive for the slaying of
Sherrie Ellen Kader, three. Her
mother, Mrs. Jada Z. Kader, 21,
was charged Saturday with the
child’s murder.
The little girl’s bruised body
was found in a water-filled sump
Saturday. Police were led there
by Mrs. Kader.
Police said Mrs. Kader told con
flicting stories about how the
child died. At first she said
Sherrie was killed by her sister,
Vickie, four, while they were
playing.
Later she accused her Chinese
stepfather, Eugene Sing, 46. He
was held as a material witness
but denied the accusation.
Mrs. Kader Sunday returned to
her story that Vickie killed Sher
rie, police said. They said she
told them she dumped the body
in the sump because she was
frightened.
The coroher reported the girl
had drowned.
Fannie Ward, The
Eternal Soubrette”
Dies At Age 83
NEW YORK, (TP) — Actress
Fannie Ward, who sought “eter
nal youth” and looked like a
flapper even in old age, died
Sunday at Lenox Hill hospital.
She admitted to being 79 years
old, but friends said she was in
her 80s. One said 83.
The “eternal soubrette” made a
glamorous career of seeking the
fountain of youth.
Her efforts to stay young—they
permitted her to play a 14-year
old girl when she was at least
40 — made her an international
celebrity for more than half a
century.
Yalta Agreement
Disastrous Mistake
Says U.N. Delegate
PARIS, (fP)—Nationalist China’s
chief United Nations delegate, T.
F. Tsiang, declared Saturday the
Yalta agreement was a “disas
trous mistake” and the late Presi
dent Roosevelt’s part in it is “hard
to explain or justify.”
The agreement brought Russia
into the war against Japan in ex
change for giving to Russia is
lands, ports and a dominant posi
tion in East Asia which she lost
in the 1904 war with Japan.
The agreement was made among
President Roosevelt, Soviet Pre
mier Joseph Stalin, and British
Prime Minister Winston Chur
chill. Chinese Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek was not present but
President Roosevelt successfully
undertook to win his agreement.
“Without the Yalta Agree
ment,” Tsiang said, “the whole
history of China and Korea in
the postwar period would have
been different and happier.”
The Chinese representative made
his declaration in a speech before
the 60-nation U.N. political com
mittee. He denounced Russia for
alleged violation of the Chinese
Russian treaty of friendship,
signed by Chiang’s government in
1945 as a result of the Yalta ag
reement.
Tsiang appealed to the U.N. for
“some measure of moral support
and judgment.
U.N. Artillery Stills Red
New Year Propaganda
SEOUL, Korea, (/P)—U.S. Sabre
jets exchanged firing passes to
day with 50 communist MIG-15
jets over North Korean but no
damage claims were made by the
Allied jets.
Overcast skies sharply curtailed
Allied air strikes.
Only light patrol contact was
reported on the frozen 145-mile
battlefront.
It was quiet like that on the
central front northeast of Kum
hwa Sunday night. Abruptly the
stillness was shattered by com
munist propaganda loudspeakers
blaring out in celebration of the
Chinese lunar new year—the year
of the dragon.
Allied artillery roared at the
loudspeakers — and it was quiet
again.
Planes from the U.S. carriers
Antietam and Essex struck at
communist rail lines on the east
coast. The Navy reported the
tracks cut in 165 places—a new
record for one day.
Army's Inspector General
Gets 127 More Officers
For Drive Against Fraud
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Army’s inspector general is get
ting 127 additional staff officers
next month to intensify a drive
against inefficiency, neglect or
fraud in contract management.
Secretary of the Army Page, in
announcing the new arrangement
Friday, said it will channel all
cases indicating “mismanagement
or fraud” through the inspector
general’s office here.
Hoover Advises Reconsideration Of
Foreign Policies In View of Strained
Economy and “Inertia” in Europe
NEW YORK, (&)—'“Dangerous*
overstraining’ of American econ
omy and continental Europe’s “in
ertia” in rearming, Herbert
Hoover says, make it advisable
that Congress reconsider U. S.
foreign policies.
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The former President, calling
*or a study of alternative actions,
proposed that American ground
forces eventually be withdrawn
from Europe while this country
concentrates on air and sea power.
He said an exception would be
made for those U.S. forces needed
to protect American air bases out
side Atlantic pact nations.
Recommendations in Sunday’s
nationwide television and radio
broadcast closely paralleled those
Mr. Hoover made in late 1950.
These in essence, would leave
European allies to concentrate on
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ground forces while the United
States and Britain built air and
sea striking power. The U. S. also
would provide its friends such
munitions as it could afford, but
it would forego a large ground
army so as not to risk endanger
ing the national economy.
The 77-year-old former Presi
dent was critical of United Na
tions policy in Korea and called
for revision of American relations
to the U.N. charter.
In an appraisal of domestic
conditions in the past year, Mr.
Hoover said the United States
suffers “from the blight of infla
tion and confiscatory taxes.”
He said the inflation-tax pres
sures are welcomed by some men
because “these forces drive to so
' cialize the income of our people.”
Republican Candidates Step lip
Tempo In Presidential Race
(By the Associated Press*
The Republican presidential
race stepped up in tempo today
with Sen. Taft making a whirl
wind speaking tour of Florida and
Gen. Eisenhower qualifying for
the New Hampshire primary.
Taft, his eye obviously on
Florida’s ten national convention
votes, planned three talks — at
Tampa, St. Augusta, and Orlando
—in one day.
Eisenhower qualified for the
New Hampshire March 11 pri
mary simply by not notifying of
ficials to withdraw his name.
However, entry of Eisenhower’s
name in the Minnesota primary,
believed to be a virtual certainty j
a week ago, may be blocked by
backers in Washington.
The general’s strategists are
%said to feel that delegates pledged
to Harold E. Stassen, Minnesota’s
“favorite son,” might switch to
Eisenhower later if the general
doesn’t oppose Stassen at this
time.
California’s Gov. Warren said
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he may enter the Wisconsin and
Oregon Republican primaries. He
said he plans to make a “more
active” campaign than he did four
years ago.
President Truman was still si
lent on his plans, and Sen. May
bank (D-SC) a key man in Con
gress on many administration
measures, said Monday he is
against another term for Mr. Tru
man.
Both Sen. Morse (R-Ore) and
Sen. Brewster (R-Me) agreed that
Mr. Truman would run again, and
both predicted the GOP candidate
would beat him, whoever it might
be. Morse favors Eisenhower and
Brewster is for Taft.
Vice President Barkley, at 74,
is making a powerful bid for a
place on the Democratic ticket.
Urged unanimously by the mid
western Democratic conference to
seek his present post again, the
veteran Kentuckian is believed by
some to have even higher ambi
tions. If true, this could cause
Democratic complications.
Churchill Satisfied With
Results of American Trip
SOUTHAMPTON, England, (/P)
—Prime Minister Churchill came
home Monday from his American
trip and said “I am sure it’s done
good.”
“It’s freshened up many friend
ships and made new ones,’ he told
about 100 newsmen gathered in
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the drawing room of the giant
liner Queen Mary.
“I don’t propose to deal with
any question of policy this morn
ing because I may be asked some
questions about it in the House
of Commons and I must not give
the answers away beforehand,”
the j5rime minister said.
Churchill said that he had
stayed in his cabin during the
whole trip trying to cure a cold.
TOKYO; The Far East Air
Forces Monday said a B-29 Super
fort disappeared last Tuesday
night while • on a mission over
North Korea. It listed 14 crew
men as missing in action.
Reds Charge Blackmail
In Prisoner Negotiations
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P)—A de
tailed working draft of a 14-point
U.N. plan for exchanging prison
ers of war in Korea was handed
Communist truce negotiators
Monday.
The Reds promised to study the
proposal.
The prisoner exchange plan in
| corporates all basic points o*f the
Allied proposal submitted Jan. 8,
including voluntary repatriation
which the Reds have said they
will never accept.
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby pre
sented North Korean Maj. Gen.
Lee Sang Cho a revised roster of
132,000 Communist prisoners of
war held by the U.N., listing
names in Chinese and North Ko
rean.
Lee thanked Libby for the data
but accused the Allies of attempt
ing blackmail because they held
more prisoner*; than the ReH^