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Insists Cabinet
Not Responsible
For Scandals
WASHINGTON, (^—President.
Truman insists that neither Sec
retary of Agriculture Brannan nor
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
can be blamed for scandals which
have hit their departments.
The President disputed charges
by Sen. Williams <R-Del) that
Snyder has not been aggressive
enough in clearing up the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau.
The President asked how much
more aggressive the Senator
would like Snyder to be. He said
those involved in the income tax
scandals have been named and re
moved from office.
What Williams would like, the
President said, is to have all the
Internal Revenue collectors fired
so Republicans could be put into
the jobs.
Mr. Truman told newsmen that
Brannan could not be blamed for
the multi-million dollar shortages
reported in government grain re
serves. ,,i\s
Churchill Has Raised
Hopes For Future Under
Queen Elizabeth II
LONDON, (^P)—Prime Minister
Churchill broadcast a pledge of
loyalty to Britain’s new queen last
night and praised as a model mon
arch the late George VI.
Most of his broadcast, heard
over much of the world was an
emotion-filled eulogy to the dead
ruler, his close friend, who he
said had walked fearlessly with
death. But the veteran statesman
whose career began in the reign
of Queen Victoria said in closing
that he felt a thrill “in evoking
once more the prayer and the an
them, ‘God Save the Queen’.”
Churchill linked the coming
reign with the greatness of the
first Elizabethan era of four cen
turies ago and said the sovereignty
of the new Queen Bess “will
command the loyalty of her native
land and of all other parts of the
British Commonwealth and em
pire.”
He said Elizabeth’s gifts have
“stirred the only part of our
Commonwealth she has yet been
able to visit,” and he raised hopes
for the future under a queen with
a reminder that “some of the.
greatest periods in our history
have unfolded under their scep
ter.”
C-124 “Globemaster,”
• Biggest Troop Carrier,
Crashes at McChord
McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE,
Wash., (/P)—A C-124 Globemaster,
the biggest operational troop car
rier used by the Air Force crashed
and burned here late last night,
but the 16 men aboard escaped.
The giant aircraft attached to
the 62nd Troop Carrier Wing was
enroute home from Hawaii with a
crew of 13 and 3 passengers. Air
base officials said the plane crash
ed short of a runway last night.
Only two crew members were
injured, receiving minor cuts and
bruises. Air base officials said a
ground fog may have contributed
to the accident.
Elizabeth Ascends
Throne of England
LONDON, (/P) — Young Eliza
beth II humbly promised today to
“always work as my father did”
for the happiness of her people
and was proclaimed queen of the
British realm, territories and Com
monwealth.
A triple fanfare of trumpets sig
nalled the accession of a new
queen to’ packed thousands in a
ceremony dating back to the days
of chivalry in front of historic
St. James’s Palace.
In a moving little speech to her
councillors at the accession cere
mony a few minutes before, the
25-year-old queen said:
“I pray that God wil help me
to’ discharge worthily this heavy
task that has been laid upon me
so early in my life.”
Thus began the reign of the
second “Good Queen Bess.”
Then she and her 30-year-old
husband, the Duke of Edinburgh
left Clarence House, their home,
for the 130-mile trip to Sandring
ham to visit for the first time the
bier of her father, who died early
Wednesday.
Negotiators To Hold
Full Dress Session At
Panmunjom Tomorrow
MUNSAN, Korea, (JP) — Allied
spokesmen said today the com
munists apparently plan to gear
delivery of war prisoners to the
Allied delivery rate. j
Last Monday Rear Adm. R. E.
Libby said the Allies would need
90 days because the U.N. has
116,000 prisoners. U.N. spokesmen
indicated the Allies subsequently
cut 30 days off their figure and
asked the Reds who have only
11,559 prisoners, to do the same.
Col. George W. Hickman told
newsmen, “They don’t want to
give all of their’s back until we
give them all of ours.”
Armistice negotiators will hold
a full dress session tomorrow to
hear the Allies’ answer to a com
munist proposal for a high level
conference to settle all Asian
questions related to peace in Ko
rea. The Red plan calls for a con
ference within three months after
an armistice is signed to consider
withdrawal of foreign troops from
Korea, peaceful settlement of the
Korean question and other ques
tions relating to the Korean prob
lem.
Washington sources said the
United States is prepared to ac
cept the first two points, but will
balk at the third, which could in
clude such subjects as the future
of Formosa.
CONGRESS ASKED GIVE
INDIANS VOICE IN CHOICE
OF COMMISSIONER
WASHINGTON, </P)—Congress
was asked today to give the In
dians a voice in selection of the
Federal Indian Affairs Commis
sioner.
Senator Ecton (R-Mont) intro
duced a bill which would require
any nominee for the job to be ap
proved by a majority of the na
tion’s Indian tribes and bands.
The commissioner is appointed
by the President.
Possibilities For
Senate Action On
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Statehood Remote
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Alaska
Governor Ernest Gruening said
Thursdaj7 that full American citi
f
zenship is “the most precious pos
session in the world” and “we
want it.”
He spoke before the Women’s
National Democratic Club where
Mrs. Oscar Chapman, wife of the
Secretary of Interior, presided.
“We have strong convictions
that Alaskan statehood would
strengthen the union. We have a
naked eye view of Soviet Siberia.
The Asia headland is 54 miles ac
ross the Bering Straits.”
Gruening expressed the opinion
that “public opinion in the United
States is overwhelmingly in favor
of admission of Alaska and Ha
waii to statehood.”
Bills for both Alaskan and Ha
waiian statehood are pending in
Congress. The Senate has the
Alaskan bill before it for action,
but has passed over it for two
days to consider other matters.
Possibilities of a vote in the
Senate on statehood soon are re
mote. The Senate has agreed that
no controversial matters will be
acted upon while many Republi
can senators are out of Washing
ton for Lincoln Day speeches. The
“truce” period is expected to last
through all of next week.
Gruening reminded the Wom
en’s Democratic Club that the
Democratic Party platform in 1948
pledged statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii.
Jan Jabulka, executive director
of the Hawaii Statehood Commis
sion, spoke at the meeting. He said
500,000* Hawaiians are being
treated as unjustly as the Ameri
cans of the 13 original colonies.
He said 85 per cent of the people
of Hawaii are American citizens,
that they are suffering taxation
without representation.
Truman Discloses He Is
Not Fond of Franco Spain
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman is not very fond of
Franco Spain, he tcrld his news
conference yesterday.
The off-hand comment came in
response to a question about his
opinion of Gen. Eisenhower’s re
ported opposition to Spain enter
ing the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization.
President Truman said he didn’t
know anything about Gen. Eisen
hower’s statement because he had
not seen it.
But he added, he has never been
very fond of Spain.
Later, he qualified to mean that
he referred to the Franco regime,
not Spain itself.
Esienhower’s head quarters
quickly denied a labor leader’s
story that Eisenhower had told a
closed meeting at his headquar
ters that Spain would be kept out
of NATO as long as he is supreme
commander in West Europe.
It said the general had simply
pointed out that only member gov
ernments can decide cm the ad
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mission of Spain or any other new
member, and th$t SHAPE has no
thing to do with NATO member
ship.
Latest On The
Presidential Race
(By the Associated Press)
President Truman’s news con
ference comment that he’s going
to let the political river take its
course has been interpreted by
some of .his closest friends as an
indication he does not plan to run
again.
The President is said to believe
the Republicans will nominate
Senator Taft, and that the Demo
crats have a good chance to de
feat him in November.
His “political river” remark
Thursday was seen as a sign he
is giving other Democrats a
chance to show what they can do
—and he may throw his support
to the strongest, provided it isn’t
Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee. *
Senator Taft said in a radio ad
dress: “Eisenhower’s popularity
isn’t as widespread as some people
seem to think.”
Sen. Lodge, manager of Gen.
Eisenhower’s presidential cam
paign said in New York: “Public
sentiment favors Eisenhower over
whelmingly. If the sentiment can
be translated into delegates at the
convention Eisenhower will be
nominated on the first ballot.”
Harold Stassen,vin a Baltimore
speech, attacked the Truman ad
ministration as “money wasting,
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tax stealing, hate peddling.”
Ellis Gibbs Amall,
Ex-Governor of Georgia,
Named Head Of O.P.S.
. WASHINGTON, </P) — Ellis
Gibbs Arnall, Georgia’s plump lit
tle ex-governor, today was headed
for a big new job as the nation’s
price boss — a job he labelled
“tough, unpopular and thankless.”
But someone has got to do it,
Amall said.
President Truman sent to the
Senate yesterday the nomination
of the 44-year-old southerner to
be director of the Office of Price
Stabilization.
Several senators predicted little
or no opposition to Arnall’s con
firmation for the $16,000-a-year
post. Arnall would succeed Mich
ael V. DiSalle who is quitting
Feb. 15 to seek the Democratic
nomination for the U.S. Senate in
Ohio.
Friends of Amall said they took
his acceptance of the OPS job to
mean that he is convinced, in his
own mind at least, that Truman
will seek re-eletion. They repre
sented him as being unwilling to
accept “an unpopular job” for a
short time.
In The Air Over Korea—
SEOUL, Korea, (^P)—American
Shooting Star jets today blasted
Haejo, a rail and highway junc
tion in western Korea, with bombs
and napalm.
Pilots reported more than 30
supply buildings were destroyed
or damaged, Fifth Air Force said.
Swept-wing U.S. Sabre jets fly
ing protective cover spotted 10
communist jets in MIG alley, but
the Red pilots refused to fight.
United Nations foot soldiers
welcomed warmer weather. Tem
peratures climbed to 32 degrees at
points which had subzero weather
for several days.
Air Force Chief
Warns Against Red
Fields In Korea
TOKYO, </P)—Lt. Gen. Otto P.
Weyland says if Allied air strikes
are halted the Reds could mount
a tremendous jet armada from
North Korean airfield within 30
days.
The Far East Air Forces com
mander said in an interview
Thursday the communists have 15
good airfields which could be put
into shape without much engineer- '
ing effort.
The Reds have insisted on the
right to rebuild airfield during
an armistice.
Weyland and his air force gen
erals opposed this — until Allied
negotiators offered to compromise
and let the Reds rebuild some air- .
fields for civilian use only.
But the general pointed out- that
commercial airfields could be con
verted to military bases simply by
supplying them with gas, oil and
bombs.
Then — 1 i the Reds broke the
truce — Allied Nations ground
forces in Korea would be faced
with a real threat from the air
for the first time.
Weyland said the Reds worked
frantically for a time to get jet
fields into operation.
However, repair work virtually
has stopped, Weyland said, “pre
sumably because they weren’t get
ting anywhere because of our
B-29s.” .
Chicago Ward ..Official
Ambushed Gangland Style
CHICAGO, (/P)—A Republican
ward official, described as a vig
orous foe of the so-called hood
lum element seeking domination
of some of the city’s wards, was
slain in gangland style Wednes
day night.
Seven shotgun blasts, apparent
ly fired by two gunmen from an
automobile, felled Charles Gross,
56, acting Republican committee
man of the 31st Ward.
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The ambush occurred in the
Humboldt Park district, as Gross
reached a darkened section of the
street in front of a church.
Political spokesmen speculated
openly that the slaying stemmed
from a steadily strengthening
hoodlum encroachment into the
war’s politics. They reported sim
ilar gangland invasion in several
of the city’s 50 wards.
Winnie Ruth Judd, Back
After Fifth Escape From
Arizona Insane Asylum
PHOENIX, Ariz., (/P) — Winnie
Ruth Judd, 48, notorious trunk
murderess of two decades ago, ap
parently was helped by persons
who were very young, possibly
teen-agers, in making her fifth es
cape from the state hospital here,
Dr. M. W. Conway said Friday.
Dr. Conway, director of the
Arizona Institute for the Insane,
stated in an interview that Mrs.
Judd, who returned to the hos
pital last night after six days of
freedom, wouldn’t tell who helped
her.
“But I surmised from what she
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said that they were not only
young, but there was more than
one of them.”