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Republ icons Democratic n ) Y . ''Vr , 1 y-f ' -'AY FACE OF THE NEW FOE Red Chinese troops wearing Man SECURITY COUNCIL Warren , Austin, U. S. delegate reads MacArthur report that INDOCHINA Bao Dai, Viet- DOUG AND JOE Gen. Douglas MacArthur encircles shoulder . churian winter uniforms, fill prison stockade at Hamhung in Chinese Communist troops are fighting in Korea. At Austin's left is Sir Gladwyn Jebb, nam chief of state, returns to of Joe DiMaggio when the baseball star stopped off in Tokyo North Korea. These prisoners were taken by U. S. Marines. ; British delegate. At right Is Ales Bebljr of Yugoslavia, November president of the council. Dalat after visit to .France, on an entertainment tour of armed force bases In Korea. Truman Keeps Shaky Control of DEMOCRATS will have a precarious control of the 82nd Congress .1.2.1. . i t - - i it. i a election last Tuesday. But the Administration majority of two in the Senate and a score in the House will disappear on many crucial tests of the foreign and domestic policies in President Truman's contro versial Fair DeaL The southern anti-Truman Demo crats will hold the balance of power in both the House and Senate. - The election returns are notable for the stunning defeats of such Adminis tration stalwarts as Scott Lucas of Illinois and Francis J. Myers of Penn sylvania, the Senate majority leader and whip, respectively, as well as Sen. Millard Tydings of Maryland, a Democratic veteran. Tait Victory Perhaps the most significant vic tory belongs to Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, conservative Republican leader and militant critic of the Administra tion's foreign and domestic policies. Taft, In the bitterest fight of his po litical career, swept decisively to a third Senate term. - Six years ago, Taft was re-elected to his second term in the Senate by a margin of only 18,000 votes. Now as the arch-critic of the Fair Deal and co-author of the controversial Taft-Hartley Labor Law, he was the target of a campaign by organized labor to eliminate him from public life. -, . ; Taft's margin over Joseph T. Fer guson was more than 400,000 votes. Sen. Scott Lucas, Democratic leader ) in the upper House, was defeated for I reelection by former Rep. " Everett Dirkseii. The Issues here were clean cut and on a national scale with the emphasis on the Fair Deal and the Administration's foreign policy in the Far East. :- - Tydings Upset - ' Sen. Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the Senate Armed. Services Com mittee and a potent vote getter pre viously, was defeated in Maryland by John. Marshall Butler, a Republican newcomer. Bearing on that campaign was the accusation that Tydings glossed over the charges of commu nist infiltration into the State Depart ment, made by Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin. V Sen. Brien McMahon, Administra tion bulwark and chairman of the important Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Commission, was reelected, successfully combatting the same charges which unseated Tydings. Among the governors, Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Earl Warren of California, the Republican standard bearers in . 1948, won impressively. Gov. Warren defeated James Roose velt, possessor of the magic political heritage of FJD.R, by a 2-1 ratio to Signs of the Times In Chicago, a cab driver spent Election Day giving free rides to voters. His taxi was draped with this sign: "Be American. Vote today."No matter how you vote, ride free to the polls." It's just my way of saying I'm proud and - thankful to be an American,' explained the driver, Milton Bronstein,' 28, a World War II veteran. - In Vienna,5 Austria, the Com munist newspaper Der Abend said the American Congressional elections were carried out in an atmosphere of "wildest war hys teria." It declared the two major parties tried to outdo each other in hate appeals to get votes for the one who howled loudest against Russia and communism. The governor of a Japanese . prefecture was amazed, however, by the "calm, cheerfulness' of American voters. "In Japan." he said, we have very serious faces when we vote." He was in a dele gation of Japanese officials tour ing America to study the work ings of democracy. . Upset Leaders ft Congress TAFT DEWEY sweep to an unprecedented third term as California governor. Gov. Dewey, who says he has had enough running 'for the Presidency, won by more than a half million votes. Dewey waged an aggressive campaign of the type his supporters ruefully say would have won for him two years ago against Mr. Truman. On the day before election. Gov. Dewey spent 18 hours before television cameras, answering any and all questions. Sen. Forrest C. O'Donnell of Mis souri was the only Republican incum bent to lose his Senate seat. He was defeated by Thomas C. Hennings, Jr, whose candidacy was opposed by President Truman in the Democratic primary. Duff Carries Slate In Pennsylvania, Gov. James H. Duff, a member of the liberal Repub lican bloc, won over Sen. Francis J. Myers, the Democratic whip in the upper House. Duff carried with him to victory the entire Republican slate of six state offices, including the gov ernorship. In a hot California race, Rep. Rich ard M Nixon, Republican, turned back Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, Demo crat, for the Senate seat vacated by Sheridan Downey, Democrat. Nixon, a member of the House un-American Activities Committee, generally cred ited with the exposure of Alger Hiss, campaigned on the issue of Adminis tration "coddling of communists." GOP 'Qualitative Victory Republicans gained what Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine, the Senate Re publican campaign chairman, calls a "qualitative rather than a quantita tive victory. From it emerged with prestige such Republican hopefuls for 1952 as Gov. Warren, Sen. Taft, Sen. Elect Duff and, the experts still insist, Gov. Dewey. The election, on the other hand, dealt severe blows to the stature of such Democratic Presidential possi bilities as defeated Gov. Chester Bowles of Connecticut, Sen. Tydings of Maryland and Sen. Lucas of Illinois. NECESSARY ii M ittwitfUMl yir itflln- Vait .WOtw, 1 (t f MAY I PUT '-r&SSa Vi I W HEAD W4JDE?- 1 PROP n 7 ' ASIA: The MAO TSE-TUNG is a man of mystery to the west A little over a year ago, this peasant's son who became a gen eral led Chinese Communists t victory over Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. Since then he has been head of the Chinese People's Republic. Mao's actions as a statesman have puzzled the rest of the world. He went to Moscow where he was feted for several weeks a rare Kremlin tribute but he was reported to have displeased Stalin by making few promises. Diplomatic Recognition Mao demanded diplomatic recogni tion in his new Red Chinese Republic but Britain, the most important non Communist nation which complied, was rebuffed. Mao wanted admission of his dele gates to the United Nations in place of the Chinese Nationalists but at a time when India was leading support for this, Mao alienated Pandit Nehru by invading Tibet, j When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea last June 25, Mao kept his hands officially clear although Chinese Communist armies massed at the Manchurian border. Bombed by Mistake When United Nations forces were compressed into the Pusan beachhead, Mao withheld overt aid at a time when the defenders might have been pushed off the peninsula into the sea. During this time he was provoked by American pilots who mistakenly bombed points across the border in Manchuria. j " When the amphibious landing at Inchon started the rollback of North Korean invaders, Mao's government warned it would not stand idly by if aliens invaded North Korea. In the last fortnight, as U.N. forces mopped up North Korean resistance and pushed near the border, Chinese Communist divisions began crossing the boundary and aiding the spent North Koreans. They engineered strong counterattacks which hurled the allies back. Last week in a sur- Dates Tuesday, November 14 Annual meeting of Associated Press managing editors opens in Atlanta. j Thursday, November 16 Anniversary (17th), recogni tion of Soviet Russia by the UJS. Saturday, November IS Standard Time adopted by Congress in 1883. - Sunday, November 19 Children's Book Week starts. Anniversary (87th), Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. LET'S HOPE THE St. 41 Enigma of ; i-Vc'r xi - ?l ft ' r ?: I f " Ik I ii i i in fi'i'T in rJ-Xi 'imi fc Lkl r 1 - i ... ... MAO, MAN OF MYSTERY TO THE WEST A key tenet of Communist propaganda is to hammer out one theme again and again. These are Mao posters in a Peiping parade. In Moscow the portraits would all be of Premier Joseph Stalin and lenin; in Belgrade of Marshall Tito. prise maneuver, Chinese Red troops withdrew, possibly for regrouping. MaeArthur's Report In a report to the Security Council, Gen. MacArthur declared the North Korean army had been destroyed and the war virtually ended when alien Communist forces poured into Korea from across the Manchurian border. MacArthur said his units barely es caped a trap set by a new fresh army which could have destroyed them. The Korean campaign, which seemed on the verge of victory for ATOM: Arsenal New Weapons If Russia should invade western Europe, the United States apparently will be ready with specialized atomic weapons and new tactics designed to exploit their unusual capabilities. Some of this arsenal may already be In production. The rest is either in de velopment or in the research stage. Semi-Annual Report The curtain on this hush-hush topic was lifted slightly by the Defense De partment in a semi-annual report to the President by the Army, Navy and Air Force for the period ending last June. ARAB KNOWS HIS CAMEL CeWsoscft CsWsssVsessB Scsssc AtoDoTtse 1 CM'! id i 2 Communist the allies, has entered .a new phase. No longer is there talk of bringing American troops home by Thanks giving or Christmas. I There is a much more serious aspect of the new turn in events. Interven tion of Communist China in an all out effort could bring about war with the United Nations. This could be the prelude to World War m. j The attitude of Soviet Russia is be lieved to be the key. j In his address on the 33rd anniver sary of the Red Revolution, Soviet i of New Arms There are references in the report to the hydrogen bomb, radiological poison ' weapons, germ warfare and guided missiles. j The report takes on added signifi cance in the light of the effort of the North Atlantic Pact nations to set up a defense system able to cope with 175 Red Army divisions. Numerically, that is far more strength than the west ex pects to have ready by 1951 when the plan calls for about 40 divisions on the central front of Europe. It also may be recalled that several months ago Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the American Joint Chiefs' of Staff, remarked that the atom bomb can be a tactical as well as strategic weapon. That means used in support of ground troops. What Gen. Bradley envisioned may be this: If western Europe's defenders man natural barriers, like rivers and moun tain chains, an invader would be com pelled to funnel his attack through certain corridors. The invader troop concentrations could be the target for atomic attacks. Atomic Shells j The report cited a statement ast June by Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army chief of staff, that it is possible to develop artillery to fire atomic weap ons and guided missiles with atomic warheads. j The report revealed the Navy al ready had one type of guided missile in limited production and that a ship would ; be converted to carry such missiles as antiaircraft armament. If guided missiles now are ready for use against such elusive targets as air craft, they presumably are ready for medium-range use against such rela tively j stationary , targets as ground forces.1 V . ; j UM. Council Debates Red China in Korea 3 V ' ' -' vi' MifiiiMMMMMBMMwwwwMWMiiMWMWwwiMMWtiMBiiMWiwiMiiiiti'Wii'MWtiili ilwfc tifin'iiYii'i titttfiiifniifriiiMMrtiri'rr-rr M I l si i China Deputy Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin praised the Chinese Communists as a "mighty people fighting for peace. If Russia proves no more openly involved with the action of Mao's Chinese Communist government than it was with the North Korean Com munists, however, it may turn out to be only another "incident." This incident conceivably could be resolved by the continuing military policy of clearing Korea, even though additional forces might have . to be sent to Gen MacArthur. Quotes Pastor Martin NiemoDer: The West German government has only one possibility for solving its security problem. Don't be come involved in war." President Truman, deeply af fected by the death of a Secret Service man slain by two Puerto Rico would-be assassins: "No one can even imagine how a man feels when somebody else dies for him. ; Dr. Caradine R. Hooton, exec utive secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance: "More government secrets have been leaked from Washington leaders through drink than were drained off by direct communistic chi canery." Trial Burma Surgeon In Rangoon before a special tribu nal, American Dr. Gordon S. Sea grave pleaded innocent to three charges of treason for allegedly aid ing rebel Karen tribesmen. The 53-year-old surgeon, who spent 25 years treating Burmese sick and in jured, wrote his experiences into a book entitled "Burma Surgeon. The tribunal after , a three-week hearing rejected high treason charges against Dr. Seagrave which would have him liable to the death penalty if convicted. Still pending against him are charges of abetting treason. by! giving comfort and showing sympathy; to the rebels. Maximum penalty for these is ban ishment for life; the minimum is 10 years' imprisonment. J- US. Faces Job Boom NATIONAL employment in Oo tober as reported by the Cen sus rureau soared to oi,704,uuu, the highest for any October in his tory. JDnly -1,940,000 Americans were jobless and hunting for work during that period. With such a tight manpower situa tion, Washington is beginning to show concern about the source for an extra 2.500.000 workers whirh VrnanHrn. defense industries are expected to re quire by next summer. Ne Reserve Pool Secretary of Commerce Charles Sn i1u1Ml that 4 V.. i.ji:.. pool of unemployed is rapidly ruling . out the jobless group as an important source of additional workers for de fense industries. ' In a speech at Sea Island, Ga be fore the Business Advisory Council of the Commerce Department, Secretary of Defense George C Marshall re vealed a defense production program of at least four years was more than half completed by the National Pro duction Authority. Gen. Marshall declined to give a dollar estimate of the program but unofficial reports in Washington indi cated that next year's military budget would be about 55 billion dollars. Gen. Marshall said defense orders would be placed evenly in an effort to j t : . .i . I m uiu jamming uic uuuipuwer ; iuit supply markets. Squeeze on Consumer Goods The Advisory Council, composed of leaders from top business organiza tions throughout the country; was . told curtailment in production of con sumer articles is inevitable to some degree. However, the government will control only vital :iw materials. This is a departure Irom the prac tice in World War II when the War T" j i: t i i i t riuuucuua ouara ouuiea manuxac ture of such products as refrigerators, radios, automobiles and vacuum clean ers. The council was told that once a manufacturer received his quota of raw materials he will be free to use them in any manner he wishes. Medicine Drive on Diabetes This is National Diabetes Week. Beginning Monday, free tests will be offered Americans from coast to coast in an effort to detect excess sugar in the blood or urine. At least 5,000,000 Americans are expected to take advantage of them. The free tests are sponsored by the American Diabetes Association, a non profit organization of 1,400 members, most of them doctors. Diabetes is ranked as the eighth most serious disease In the country. More than 1,000,000 Americans are be ing treated for the disease and it is estimated another 1,000,000 Americana have diabetes but don't know it. TVvtnr mv vnit mj tiaira Ainhett it you have some of the following, symptoms: thirst, hunger, frequent urination, getting tired easily, loss of weight, slow-healing infections. Diabetes results when your body isn't able to change, sugars and -starches into energy Or to store them for future use. It stems from a lack of insulin, a hormone from the pancreas gland. Methods of the free tests will vary over the land. In some districts they will be given in the offices of private physicians. Special testing centers will be set up in some areas. In some com munities mobile testing units will visit in many places people are urged to make their own simple urine testa.- i with inexpensive kits obtainable at ..drug stores. . With proper care, most people with diabetes, can "lead full and normal lives, the association declares. The im portant thjng is to discover it early.
