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.....: democrats Try to Form Ranks As Ike Wins Jersey Election ANOTHER hectic week on the political calendar has bustled by the boards. A primary election In New Jersey, a state which takes its politics seriously every day of every year, and Gov. Adlai Steven Bon's withdrawal from the list of Democratic presidential possibilities provided highlights. Earlier this month, the Illinois governor said he had no ambitions nationally and repeated he was a candidate for "governor of Illinois and that is all." Talk of Stevenson as a strong presi dential possibility grew into wide speculation after he visited President Truman recently. There followed per sistent reports that, the President urged Stevenson to become a candi date. New Jersey. Implications Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's smash ing New Jersey primary victory ap pears to have convinced some of his backers he won't have to campaign vigorously for the GOP presidential nomination. They argue that campaigning such as Sen. Robert A. Taft has done across the land would only involve Eisenhower in detailed domestic is sues which he otherwise could treat with broad brush strokes. Primary tests in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Oregon and in several state conventions will shed more light on this theory before Eisen hower's return. New York Meeting A Thursday night dinner party in New York officially marked the annu al get-together of the New York State Democratic Committee. It turned into a Democratic beauty contest, however. On the guest roster were such politically significant names as W. Averell Harriman, boss of the Gov ernment's foreign aid program; Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee; Sen. Robert S. Kerr, of Oklahoma; Vice til h " , X&J " ."- ) " vs,'!", 'W .aJf t .mm i . . - THE GENERAL WAVES TO ADMIRERS Another hectic week bustles by the boards . . President Alben W. Barkley; Sen. Brien McMahon, of Connecticut, and Gov. Stevenson. Stevenson, drummed by some Dem ocrats as a prominent presidential possibility since last fall, had rejected the pleas of party leaders that he be a candidate the day before. Harriman Availability Harriman has made it plain he is willing to become a candidate for the Democratic nomination. He said last week he would "con sider it an honor" if the delegation from his home state of New York were to back him as a "favorite son" at the national convention. When asked if he was willing to ac cept political support for the Demo cratic presidential nomination Harri man replied: "Well, I want to say that I am in complete agreement with Paul Fitz patrick. New York Democratic state chairman. He said the other day, the New York state delegation to the na tional convention and I am a mem ber of that delegation will be called upon to play an important part in choosing a candidate to preserve the gains of the New Deal under Franklin Dispute In Steel RUMBLINGS on Capitol Hill this week indicated Govern ment seizure of the Steel .mills may become a top political cam paign issue. The Senate Banking Committee thought witnesses should be called to show whether President Truman was right when he said steel plants made "outrageous" demands for high er prices to finance wage boosts. Inquiry Suggested Two members of the Banking Com mittee, Sen. Capehart (R-Ind) and Moody (D-Mich), called for an inves tigation of the entire steel wage dis pute. Moody said such a study might show whether the Government's ex cess profits tax, designed to drain off higher - than - peacetime profits, was high enough. A group of Senate Republicans, ac cusing the President of illegal seizure of the steel mills, called for an inves tigation of his action. Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn), looking askance at the Republicans' move, said he would ask his subcom mittee on labor-management problems to consider whether new legislation NATION: Midwestern Disaster 5 - . Jr - mZ. y J T y t 1 t - m m (in r-.b f I i,, i t a. " y ' " : NEBRASKA FAMILY PRAYS AS MISSOURI RIVER THREATENS HOME Surrender had come days earlier ... r- li 3 .1 TT .' I . . 3 Harry Truman, both Tin the national f. neefded to deal major industrial npHE Missouri River went on the most ravaging flood rampage in fields. "I want to add that I think this is the moment when the Democrats throughout the nation should put aside all interests and considerations other than national interests in obtaining a candidate best suited to carry for wards these programs.' Harriman is known to be highly re garded by the President. KOREA: POW Issue Key to Future THE current draft of the Ko rean armistice document runs about 26 typewritten pages and contains some 63 numbered para graphs, not counting alphabetic break down ofmany items. Much of the optimism exhibited re cently both in Washington and Pan munjom, apparently stemmed from the fact that there were only some nine paragraphs in the armistice wait ing to be agreed on. Three of the nine dealt with ex change of prisoners. A fourth dealt with a.rfields, another with naming neutral observers, the sixth with rec ommendations to governments con cerned and the seventh, eighth and ninth with "miscellaneous." Prisoner Obstacle Talks on the major obstacle pris oner exenanse were suspended two weeks ago after ten secret meetings. After that it was generally believed that giounds for agreement had been worked out, but that the United Na tions ide needed time to revise the list of prisoners it held. Earlier this week, the Communists said they were ready to get together and talk aoout prisoners aa:n. The Allies held off for awhile, shrouding the.r activities on the POW issue in secrecy Out-side the floppy tents at Pan munjnm the feeling persisted that agreement on a method of exchang ing prisoners held the possibility of resolving the remaining issues m such abrupt fashion as to bring a whirling finish to the talks whL'h have dragged out for more than nine months At one truce meeting this week a record for brevity was set. Delegates met only 15 seconds, including time for translation. The Peiping Radio, meanwhile, fired another propaganda broadside of charges that the United Nations had violated the Geneva Convention in a proposal for the voluntary re patriation and treatment of captives in prison stockades. Medicine New Hope in Polio Fight A vital new polio discovery will be tested on children this summer in hopes of preventing infantile paralysis. Dr. David Bodian, of Johns Hop kins University and Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann of Yale this week reported the discovery that the polio virus ap parently gets into the bloodstream be fore it enters nerves and destroys them. While the virus is still in the blood, it can be killed by giving anti bodies. This kind of prevention of polio has worked on monkeys and chimpanzees. Children threatened by an epidemic will be given the antibodies to hit the virus before it makes them sick. The antibodies will come from hu man blood. Most pP! have had polio, without knowing it. They made their' own antibodies to destroy the virus. One substance in the blood car ries the antibodies There now is a much brighter hope for a vaccine against polio. The vac cine would mean giving an actual shot of the virus, altered so that it doesn't cause sickness, but still stimulates the body's output of antibodies. The new discoveries show that the vaccine could be a very weak one because so few antibodies are needed and still work against polio. . .- V i ' disputes. Economic Issue Sen. Murray (D-Mont), moved ahead with plans to offer a bill spe cifically authorizing the President to seize any major industrial plant as a spur to stalemated industry-union talks. Meanwhile, two of the nation's most powerful business organizations, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufac turers, held a mass meeting in Wash ington of 170 industrial and business leaders from all over the country to study the President's seizure of the mills. The Government, while in posses sion of the steel plants, was in a posi tion to sign a contract on labor's terms. Government Negotiates After negotiations between steel owners and labor collapsed Tuesday, the Government prepared to go over the head of the seized steel industry and give a wage boost to Philip Murray's CIO steelworkers. The Government however shied away from giving Murray the con tested union shop arrangement a clause requiring all steel workers to belong to Murray's union. Secretary of Commerce Charles rjPHE annual six-month period of Sawyer, as operator of the steel mills, JL high hysteria known as the ma- J. history this week. In one Iowa city in the path of the raging river 45,000 people abandoned their homes and fled to higher ground. The record-breaking flood crest came only as insult atop injury. Surrender had come days earlier and inundation had been a creeping, progressive thing. Town after town along the maddened river was either prostrate or abandoned. Omaha and Council Bluffs, twin cities on opposite banks of the Missouri, whose com bined metropolitan area takes in 366, 000 persons, fought it out bolstering levees. Guards on Patrol Soldiers, police and civil guards patrolled areas evacuated by home owners. Not even the persons who lived there were permitted to enter. The flood area extended all the way from lower South Dakota, along the Iowa-Nebraska reaches and into Kan sas and Missouri. Other states and other rivers also figured in the grim midwest flood pic ture. The Mississippi hit a record high and kept climbing at St. Paul, Minn., and the Minnesota River, a tributary, continued to rise menacingly in Min nesota. The Red River Of The North was rampaging around Fargo, N. D., and, in Montana, the Milk River threat ened towns like Nashua, Havre, Chi nook, Harlen, Malta, Dodson and Wagner. Missouri Most Damaging It all added up to one of the worst combinations of Midwest floods in modern times. The Missouri took the lead in the damage. Army engineers reported acres of some of the richest farm land in Middle America under water along the Missouri and its tributaries. The drama was perhaps greatest at Omaha and Council Bluffs. Water in huge volume strained against dikes protecting the cities. Citizens there worked frantically to be ready for the crest, which, when it came, waa nearly five feet over the crest that levees and flood walls were designed to handle. Federal Aid , At least three Midwest governors,; C. Elmer Anderson of Minnesota, Siguard Anderson of South Dakota" and William S. Beardsley of Iowa ap pealed directly to President Truman I for help. The President allocated Fed- ' eral funds to aid sufferers in the dis-. astrous floods. The President also met with seven Midwestern governors during a flying visit to Omaha Wednesday to discuss measures for dealing with the flood emergency. The flood came from the rapid melt of snow on some 80,000 square miles : in the upper Missouri Valley. The snow had fallen on a virtual icecap beneath which the ground Was frozen. That caused a rapid run-off", but at the same time prevented a big land wash which contributes to heavy i river silting and results in massive cleanup jobs after floods pass. SEASONAL HYSTERIA BEGINS issued a statement after the negoti ations broke down saying he would "proceed promptly but not precipi tately" to negotiate the wage dispute directly with the union. The immediate implication was that the Government would grant the 12',2-cent-an-hour wage boost that the Wage Stabilization Board had recommended be made retroactive to Jan. 1. "LIMITED WAR" IN KOREA Men still died on patrol and in the air ... There were theories in Washington, meanwhile, that the Kremlin was willing to put steam behind Red negotiators in Korea to progress to ward a settlement in order to more effectively push its "peace" campaign in Europe. In the war, men still died on pa trol and in the air. U S. Sabrejets still hit Communist tansportation in strikes over North Korea and engaged Russian-made MIG-15's in frequent air battles. The Navy kept battering Com munist rail routes between Wonsan and Hungnam, North Korean coastal cities. The battleship U.S.S. Iowa moved right into Wonsan harbor on one occasion to shoot up Red heavy artillery replacements. Quotes President Harry S. Truman, in an address to ambassadors of the Latin American republics: "The 21 American republics have shown their determination to co operate in the effort to prevent aggression, to eliminate want, and to increase human liberty and happiness." Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chair man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: "The world has too many men 61 science, too few men of God." (Alt RiflhiJ Reserved, AP Xeiosfeaturej) jor league baseball season got under way this week with a revised cast and a slightly different theme. Gone are Joe DiMaggio, the Yan kees' great centerfielder; Don New combe, Brooklyn's 20-game winning pitcher, and Monte Irvin, the slugging outfielder who sparked the New York Giants to their Cinderella triumph in the National League last year. An other of the game's brightest stars, Ted Williams, of the Boston Red Sox, was slated to return to active duty with the U. S. Marines May 2. DiMaggio, a tired 37, has turned to television. Newcombe's stout right arm is carrying an Army rifle. Irvin is out for most of the season with an ankle break, suffered in spring training. To fill these gaps, and others, is a bumper crop of rookies who may swing the pendulum in the pennant races. The Cleveland Indians in the Ameri can League and the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National were tabbed as pre season favorites but pennant show down time is still a long way off. According to custom. President Tru man, an ambidextrous pitcher, threw out the first ball in the Boston-Washington opener in the nation's capital thus officially opening the 1952 season. Dates Monday, April 21 Anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Tuesday, April 22 Primary elections in Pennsyl vania and New York. Thursday, April 24 Selective Service exams for college students seeking draft de ferment. Friday, April 25 U. S. Chamber of Commerce convention opens in Washington. Gen. Alfred Gruenther to speak at opening session. -AND THEN TO THE SHOWER The nation's baseball fans thereupon prepared to set aside a big slice of time each day when they would forget the cares of the world and wrestle with the workaday problems of dia mond strategy. VINtOM nosier) ? j -g 7fH ; ! ROOM p M THE $7,900,000,000 PITCH CHEF'S SPECIAL COMING UP Jvtlin, Mimnmmmlh Star AS USUAL In Short Signed: by President Truman, the . Japanese Peace Treaty making peace with Japan effective April 28. ' , Reached: an informal agreement be- ; tween President Truman and Canada's i Secretary For External Affairs Lester :' B. Pearson, permitting the first Step I toward sole construction of the St ' Lawrence Seaway project by Canada. Staged: by Yugoslavs in Belgrade, protest demonstrations against Italy and the conference in London on th future administratiorf of Zone A of th y Free Territory of Trieste, now man- f aged by Britain and the U. S. Refused: by the United Nations Se curity Council, a motion calling foi j: consideration of an Asian-African complaint against France's treatmenl of Tunisia. Revealed: by the U. S. Government ' that the recently-discovered uranium f deposits in South Dakota arid Wyom- I ing "point to a whole new area that Ii favorable for uranium prospecting," Convened: in Bonn, a meeting a the Allied High Commissioners foi Germany and West German Chan cellor Konrad -Adenauer to put finish ing touches on a peace contract bind ing Germany to the West. f I Sidelights In Los Angeles, a 100-poUnd chim panzee escaped from the local zoo During a three-hour romp before; h was recaptured he: Bit a policeman'! i finger. Stole a woman golfer putter, Floored three men with roundhouse rights. Knocked dents in two automo biles. Climbed numerous trees. Got f punched in the nos by a pedestriai f he tried to annoy. J In London, an 84-year-old Scottish millionaire revealed kow for 30 yean he has worn suits with all outside 4 pockets sewn shut He claimed it was a matter of neatness, not economy ' I V I i 1 mmm r -mi. TVi.'i.i J U w 1 1 ' r
