*EDNE§DAY, MARCH 12, 1952
Taft Leads
Early Unofficial Returns Show
Eisenhower Running Second
. Early 'skeleton returns from New Hampshire's first-in
the-nation "popularity test" election last (Tuesday) night
gave Senator Robert A. Taft an edge over Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
An unofficial check of 32 out of the state's 297 precincts
found Taft with 1171 votes, Eisenhower 1032, Harold E. Stas-
Pa. Democrats
Favor Truman
' PHILADELPHIA, March 11--
(R)—Pennsylvania's delegation to
the Democratic National Conven
tion will wear the Truman label.
A majority of the men• and
women who will 'represent the
state at Chicago next July dis
closed in an Associated Press poll
,that as of today they favor the
renomination of President Tru
man. They made it pretty plain
that should Mr. Truman choose
not to run they will be ready to
support the candidate he endorses.
The Democratic State Committee
has urged Mr. Truman to seek
reelection.
The attitutde evident among
the Democrats is in considerable
contrast to the views expressed
in similar Associated Press polls
among Pennsylvania delegates to
the Republican National Conven
tion.
The GOP leadership in the state,
and many convention delegates,
are plugging for an unpledged
delegation without advance com
mitment to support any candidate.
Among the Democrats, the AP
poll contacted 79 out of the 99
pOssible members of the conven
tion delegation; 48 said flatly that
they favor Mr. 'Truman. Twenty
one othOrs said they have not
decided whom they would sup
port.
WASHINGTON, March- 11—(JP)
-The House today voted auth
ority for a special committee to
go abroad - to further an investi
gation of the Katyn Forest mas
sacre of thousands of Polish offi
cers in World War 11.
UN 'Fed Up' with Reds;
Red Base Demolished
MUNSAN, Korea, Wednesday,
March 12—(P)—Allied truce dele
gates, fed up with Communist
stalling, today faced their tough
est test of patience to keep the
deadlocked talks alive.
Today's sessions at Panmunjom
were
were set, as usual, for 11
(9 EST, Tuesday).
Exasperated by the Reds' ver
bal gymnastics, U.S. Rear Adm.
R. E. Libby told the Communists
during Tuesday's meetings:
"We are getting fed up with
your attempts to make things ap
pear as facts that are not facts."
Calls Reds Liars
Even Gen. MattheW B. Ridg
way was,irked to the point of
calling. th Communist negotia
tors liars, but in carefully-chosen
phrases. The Allied supreme com
mander, briefly. visiting Munsan'
from Tokyo, said , future of - the
truce talks was unpredictable.
The talks remained firmly knot
ted on two of several major is
sues. —Allied insistence on volun
tary repatriation of prisoners and
Red deMands that Russia be
included as a "neutral" armistice
inspector.
Thee staff officers meeting on
armistice supervision 'lasted only
six minutes for a total of 13 min
utes in three days. The discussion
on prisoner exchange lasted •45
minutes.
No Challenge
The Communists did not chat=
lenge' an Allied demand of Mon
day that the - Reds stick 'to the
basic issues • and retain f r o in
propaganda• tirades: Allied dele
gates- had said they would not
listen further to such "tripe."
Although the tone of• the Chi
nese and North Korean delegates
was milder in Tuesday's sessions,
they again • accused -the United
Nations command of delaying the
talks and .raising what they
Wined "trilling' odds and ends. '
DAILY, COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
sen 161, and Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur 61 write-ins. The early re
turns were from small towns scat
tered throughout the state.
On the Democratic side, with 22
precincts in, Senator Estes Ke
fauver had 139 votes and Presi
dent Truman 87.
Earlier in the afternoon, the
score in the first five villages re
porting gave Eisenhower 24, Taft
17, Stassen 4.
In the same areas, Kefauver
led Truman 4 to 1.
Senate to Investigate
While all eyes turned on the
New Hampshire primary, other
developments included:
Capitol sHill—A Senate inves
tigation of the New Hampshire
primary even -before the results
are in was announced by chair
man Gillette (D-Iowa) of th e
Senate elections subcommittee.
Gillette said an investigator has
been sent to the scene to check
on reports that "scurrilous or
`smear' literature" has been cir
culated in the granite state cam
paign.
Ike's Return Requested
Eisenhower—Senator McMahon
(D-Conn.) took capitol hill by
surprise with a formal request
that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
be called home from Europe this
month to testify on the $7,900,-
000,000 foreign aid bill.
Senator H. Alexander Smith
(R-N.J.) protested such a move
would put Eisenhower "on the
spot" and would' be "politically
embarrassing" to the general.
Senate hearings on ,the big aid
bill - start Thursday.
Poll A statewide Associated
Press poll of members of Penn
sylvania's delegation to• the demL
ocratic no mi nating convention
showed they would vote on the
first ballot: Truman 48, Gov'. Ad
lai Stevenson of Illinois 7. Ke
fauver 2.
SEOUL, Wednesday, ' March 12
—(A))— Allied planes dealt a
knockout blow Tuesday to a great
Red base only 30 miles from the
truce town of Panmunjom, leav
ing a sea of flames that "looked
like hell itself."
Swarms of Communist MIG jets
flashed southward from Manchur
ian bases 160 miles north of Sin
mak, trying to protect the vast
store of supplies for the western
front.
They were met by an aerial
screen of 26 U.S. Sabre jets which
knocked down two MIGs, prob
ably destroyed .a third, damaged
four, and sent the remainder reel
ing back north. . .
This &Ought the 'Sabres' diy
total to three kills—one MIG was
shot down in the morning—and
the two-day bag to 10 MIGs des
troyed. Allied losses, if any, will
be. announced in a weekly sum
mary.
While the air battle raged,
fighter-bombers were subjecting
the Sinmak base to an ordeal by
fire which the Air Force said
probably was the most intense
of the Korean War.
:Allied fliers spotted the Red
supply base when melting snow
exposed the camouflage. The base,
covering about four square miles,
was laid out near Sinmak on the
main rail line northwest of Pap-
Munjom.
The melting snow showed that
what appeared to be houses ac
tually were stacked boxes covered
with' Straw roofs.
The first Allied planes appeared
Over Sinmak in the morning.
They dumped the first of the 33,-
300 gallons of jellied gasoline that
were to fall on the base, starting
the first fingers of flame reaching
out for the supply stores.
' Communist antiaircraft gunners
then opened. up, exposing their
positions. Other flights thundered
in, knocking out the guns one by
one.
New Hampshire Vote
Voters Arrive
EMS
THREE RESIDENTS of the tiny mountain ski village of Water
ville Valley, N.H., arrive by Sno-Cat from the highway in pre
paration for elections March 11. Left to right are Mrs. Agnes C. L.
Donohugh, who lives- in New York City for part of winter and a
resident of this town for 40 years: David Austin, and Mrs. Ralph
H. Bean, librarian and wife of the town clerk who is operating the
Sno-Cat. Note the IKt poster on the vehicle. (AP Wirephoto)
CIO Steelworkers
Threaten to Strike
PITTSBURGH, March 11—(AP)
—The CIO United Steelworkers
spread the word through the
nation's steel mills today "Get
ready for a possible strike at the
stroke of midnight, Sunday,
March 23."
About 650,000 USW members
who work in basic steel produc
ing plants across the country will
stop work to back up contract
demands unless the government's
Wage Stabiliation Board (WBS)
advances a recommended settle
ment by then which is acceptable
to both union and the steel in
• Union chieftains are setting up
plans for a walkout by holding
mass meetings of workers in var
ious steel centers at which inter
national officers and district di
rectors outline procedure, in the
event of a strike.
The mass meetings on strike
plans don't mean a work stop
page is inevitable. It does mean
the union is serious about its
strike threat and is laying the
groundwork for a strike which
could be called off in a moment's
notice in the event of a satisfac
tory settlement.
Food Subsidies Cut
LONDON, March 11—(AP)—Brit
ain ordered a 38 per cent slash
today in food subsidies, thereby
raising the prices consumers must
pay for meat and bread. •
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Morris Says
Not Guilty"
WASHINGTON, March 11—(W)
—Newbold Morris faced a bat
tery of Senate investigators today
and briskly told them they would
find no "wrong-doing" in the part
he played in a profitable series
of surplus ship deals.
If some of the ships were used
later in trade with Red China, he
said, it was not his doing—he only
found out about it by reading the
papers.
President Truman's
,anti-cor
ruption chief dr e w a capacity
crowd when he appeared beford
a Senate subcommittee for the
first time in his extraordinary
role of the investigator under in
vestigation.
The senators are prim e d to
question Morris closely about his
business relations with Chinese
financed shipping interests which
ferried oil to Red China until just
before the Korean war, and for
some months thereafter carried
on a trade with the Communists
in other goods.
Attlee Censure Motion
Beaten Down by Beran
LONDON, March 11—(W)—Re
bellious Aneurin Bevan, aspirant
to the Labor Party leadership,
beat down a censure motion by
former Prime Minister Clement
Attlee 172-62 in a crucial powwow
of Laborite members of the House
of Commons today.
Batista
Takes Over
In Cuba '
MEM
HAVANA, Cuba, March 11—(?P)
—Fulgencio ' Batista proclaimed
himself undisputed, all-powerful
ruler of Cuba today.
The 51-year-old former Presi
dent suspended for the next 45
days all government processes ex
cept by his own decrees, a day
after his almost bloodless revolu
tion overturned the government
of President Carlos Prio Socarras.
Prio took refuge in the Mexican
embassy.
As the country returned to al
most normal police arrested Ro
berto Agramonte, a leading presi
dential candidate in the scheduled
June 1 election, which has been
suspended by Batista.
Agramonte, leader of the Ortho
dox Peoples Party, was seized at
his home with his teen-age son
Roberto Jr., and one aide, al
though friends said Batista forces
had told him he would be un
touched there.
The police said Agramonte had
violated
_new government rules
by receiving visitors.
The police held Agramonte for
three hours and then released
him.
In a statement afterward, Agra
monte said he "could not accept
suspension of constitutional guar
antees as dictated by a de facto
government which has usurped
power."
The political leader said his ar
rest followed his refusal to dis
perse a group of friends in his
home on police orders.
Batista's army following helped
him clean out the Prio govern
ment starting at dawn yesterday.
Two men were killed in a brief gun
battle at the presidential palace
were the. only reported casualties.
Batista followed a . day and
night of clamping down controls
throughout the country by pro
claiming hims elf formally in
charge of "all powers and func
tions" of both the executive and
legislative branches.
His decrees forbade any strikes
in the 45-day period; congress and
constitutional guarantees are also
suspended.
French Assembly
Approves New Cabinet
PARIS, March 11 —(JP)— The.
National Assembly today voted
its approval, 290-101; of Conserva
tive Premier Antoine Pinay's new
French cabinet, pledged to stand
against Communist aggression in
both Europe and Asia.
But two pdwerful groups ab.
stained.
The cabinet's support came
from middle and rightist deputies.
ties.
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