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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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