THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953
Reds Await Word on Stalin;
Ike Expresses Sympathy
USSR Delay
Report About Condition
MOSCOW, Thursday, March 4
sia’s millions still waited for new word early
today on the condition of their paralyzed
and speechless leader, Joseph Stalin.
There was speculation outside Russia that
Stalin already may have died and Soviet
leaders are delaying the an
nouncement
Stockholm reported Moscow
radio remained silent on Stalin’s
condition in its. 4 a.m., Moscow
time, newscast this morning?
The Council of Ministers cabi
net of the USSR and the Commu-
BULLETIN
LONDON, Thursday, March
5 (JP) Moscow radio broad
cast a medical bulletin early
today which said the condi
tion of Joseph Stalin "remains
serious."
The Bulletin added that ar
teriosclerosis has developed.
nist party’s Central Committee
announced that they were “guid
ing” the party and the country
and expressed confidence the 200
million Soviet people, “in these
difficult days,” would rally ro.und.
There has. not yet been any
indication here as to how leader
ship of the government or party
will be affected by the fact that
Stalin is incapacitated.
There has been no word from
the Kremlin about Stalin’s condi
tion since the first bulletin, which
covered the situation up to 2 a.m.
today. Further bulletins have been
promised; but there is no hint as
to when they will come.
There was a growing feeling in
the West that Stalin already has
succumbed and that announce
ment of his illness was a means
of preparing the minds of the
Russian people for news of his
death.
Radio stations repeated through
out the day the original bulletin
—which said the ( Prime Minister
and generalissimo was stricken
with a brain hemorrhage,. or
stroke, Sunday night in his apart
ment behind the 12-foot-thick
walls of the Kremlin,, Between
readings, the stations broadcast
slow and somber instrumental
and choral music.
The heads of major Soviet
churches—Jewish, Moslem, Budd
hist, Baptist and Russian Ortho
dox—called on their believers to
pray for Stalin’s recovery. The
head of the Russian Orthodox
church, Patriarch Alexei, held a
special service in Yelokovsky Ca
thedral in Moscow. As a youth,
Stalin studied to be a priest in
the Russian Orthodox church.
MeGranery Denounces
Secret Police Pacts
WASHINGTON,‘March 4 {/P)
Former At-ty. Gen. James P. Mc-
Granery .today denounced any
secret pact whereby the Justice
Department would keep hands
off cases ,of alleged New York
police brutality involving civil
rights. N '
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Pope Prays for Better
Future for Russians
(Continued from page one)
President Eisenhower expressed his sym
pathy to the Russian people and voiced the
'hope that God will watch over them “regard
less of the identity of government personal
ities.”
V. M. Molotov
May succeed Stalin
Taft Wants
'Cooling-off'
Of Debate
WASHINGTON, March 4 (A>)—
Senate Republican Leader Taft
of Ohio today called for a “cool
ing-off” period' in the bitter rift
over the wording of a resolution
denouncing Soviet Russia’s viola
tion of World War II agreements.
Democrats angrily blasted the
GOP-revised version of the reso
lution, originally .submitted by
President Eisenhower, as chal
lenging the validity of pacts ne
gotiated by the Roosevelt-Truman
administration. As the White
House proposed' the wording it
would only denounce Soviet per
version of the agreements to en
slave free peoples.
With a wide-open break appear
ing almost inevitable Taft told
newsmen there will be no attempt
to get Senate action on the con
troversial resolution this week.
“We’ll try to let everybody cool
down,” the Ohio senator said.
Hot Dunking Averted
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 4
(A?) —A broken thermostat allowed
the water in the First Baptist
church baptistry to get up near
the boiling point just before a
baptism.
The Rev. Douglas Rae’s wife
said • she scurried around the
neighborhood for ice cubes to
dumpMnto the baptismal font and
the ceremony went on.
In the-Vatican, Pope Pius XII prayed for
a better future “for the oppress
ed Russian people” and • for the
conversion of Stalin, who once,
long ago, was a student. for the
priesthood in the Russian Ortho
dox church. The leaders of' that
church ordered prayers today for
Stalin in Russia.
Foreign Office experts and phy
sicians in Western Europe specu
lated that Stalin already is dead
and that announcement of his ill
ness was designed mainly to pre
pare the minds of the Russian peo
ple for the news of his death.
Stalin Paralyzed
In a sense, this was a technical
ity. Someone beside Stalin is run
ning the Soviet Union today and
has been since Sunday, when
Stalin was stricken.
In their own words, the Rus
sians told that Stalin was render
ed speechless by the brain hem
orrhage, the same kind which
killed Franklin D. Roosevelt eight
years ago, and that his right arm
and leg were paralyzed. Stalin’s
left hand was withered and use
less.
The Moscow radio’s announce
ment said pointedly: “The serious
illness of Comrade Stalin will
lead to his prolonged absence
from government and party lead
ership.”
. Beria .Is Possibility
Who is the new boss? Maybe
it is George M. Malenkov, secre
tary of the Soviet Communist
party and a man who reputedly
harbors a deep hatred for the
West.
It could be L. P. Beria, boss of
the secret police and of Russia’s
atomic development project; He is
a friend of Malenkov.
Or maybe it is V. M. Molotov,
deputy prime minister and for
mer foreign minister. Molotov, a
contemporary of Stalin, is one of
the handful of old time pre-rev
olutionary Bolsheviks still left m
important positions in Russia.
These three or some other
grouping in the Kremlin might
fprm a triumvirate to govern Rus
sia for a while to present a show
of unity to the rest of the world.
Mqre likely, however, the strug
gle for succession has already
been decided or is being settled
now.
Vincent to Retire
WASHINGTON, March 4 (/P)_
Secretary of State Dulles today
settled the controversial John
Carter Vincent loyalty case by
permitting the veteran career dip
lomat to retire.
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Krupp Sells Control
Of Steel Industries
BONN, Germany, March 4 (JP)—> The vast Krupp-industrial empire
which armed Germany for three wars was broken up today. Alfried
Krupp agreed to sell his family’s coal, steel' and iron holdings and
never return to these industries.
Krupp, who served 2% years
as a war criminal, will receive
$47% million for the properties
he sells. In return, the Allies will
give him sole control of the rest
of the family holdings, estimated
to | be worth $95 million.
'The holdings he retains will
still leave him one of Europe’s
greatest manufacturers of steel
products. They, include plants
making everything from pots and
pans, through pipes and plumb
ing,. -trucks and locomotives to
ocean-going tankers.
Once worth nearly a $ l /2 billion
the sprawling industrial empire
was confiscated by the Allies
when Krupp, now 44, was con
victed by a -U.S. war crimes tri
bunal in 1948 of using slave labor
and plundering occupied coun
tries. Sentenced to 12 years, he
was freed in 1951 by former U.S.
High Commissioner John J. Mc-
Cloy as an act of mercy.
The plan to sell off the coal,
steel and iron properties was
worked out directly with Krupp
by the United States, Britain and
France. The West German govern
ment declined to guarantee that
Krupp would not try to buy back
into these industries.
Today Krupp gave his personal
pledge in an agreement signed by
his two American attorneys, Jos
eph S. Robinson of New York and
Earl J. Carroll of San Francisco.
Krupp himself is vacationing in
Switzerland.
A statement issued by the man
agement of the Krupp main of
fice. in Essen said Krupp will
soon return as an active manager
of his remaining properties.
It added that nobody could ex
pect the firm to welcome the Al
lied order which it said would re
sult in '“serious damage” to the
German economy. “On the other
hand,” it said, “a state of un
certainty and paralysis is ended.”
The Krupp agreement is part
of the Allied program to break up
all big German steel and coal
companies into smaller, compet
ing concerns to eliminate “exces
sive ' concentrations of economic
power.”
ROKs Advance
After Day's Battle
SEOUL, Thursday, March 5 (/?)
—Tough South Korean infantry
men—supported by Allied planes
and artillery—regained a scarred
height on the Korean Central
Front Wednesday in a 23-hour
battle that left almost half of the
Chinese Communist attackers
dead or wounded.
The Republic of Korea soldiers
gave up the hill position south
east of Kumsong in the early
morning before the onslaught of
400 Reds. They stormed back in
late afternoon after fighter
bombers and heavy artillery un
leashed a day-long bombardment.
Allied planes concentrated Wed
nesday on close ground support
strikes along the front. Sabre jets
raged over North Korea but met
no MIQs.
PAGE THREE
Soviet War
ot Likely
-Van Fleet
WASHINGTON, March 4 (/P)—
Gen. James A. Van Fleet told
Congress today he does not be
lieve the Soviets are interested
now in a “shooting war” and said
only a military victory can end
the fighting in Korea.
The former Eighth Army com
mander also urged that the draft
be extended from 24 to 30 or 36
months “to better prepare our
boys to live” through combat, by
permitting them more and better
training.
With “a little more of what it
takes to fight,” he said, the
United States can gain a military
triumph in Korea without neces
sarily broadening the war.
Chairman Chiperfield (R-Ill.)
reported Van Fleet told the House
Foreign Affairs Committee behind
closed doors that “he felt that the
Soviets at the present were not
interested in engaging in a shoot
ing war.”
Chiperfield said in a statement
the. general expressed belief
American forces could “be with
drawn in large numbers from Ko
rea” only after a military victory
permitted the Americans to turn
over a shorter defense line to the
Koreans which they could hold
with American support.
Chiperfield said Van Fleet “was
emphatic in stating that the war
in Korea must end in nothing
short of victory. Anything short
of that would be a defeat. Peace
in the Orient would require the
unification of all, or almost all, of
Korea.”
Tax Bureau
Lashed Again
WASHINGTON, March 4 (JFj—
The Internal Revenue Bureau,
shaken by scandals since 1951,
was accused by a House Repub
lican leader today of “allowing
political considerations to out
weigh the public welfare.”
Rep. Kean (R-NJ) leveled the
criticism at high tax officials as
he concluded a two-week investi
gation of the ’ stormy career of
Donald S. Tydings as an alcohol
tax official.
Kean said it seems that Tyd
ings was “untouchable” in the
revenue bureau because he was a
cousin of former Sen. Millard E.
Tydings of Maryland.
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