FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1953
MIGs Shell British Bomb
Six Crewmen
Killed in Crash;
Tension Mounts
By the Associated Press
LUENEBURG, Germany,
March 12—Cannonfire of two
Soviet MIG jets felled a four
engine British bomber in
flames today in a swift, sus
tained-attack above the Elbe
River. Valley at the East-
West frontier of Germany.
Six of the bombers’ seven
crewmen were killed.
West German witnesses said the
two jets pursued the bomber from
the direction of the Soviet zone,
followed it over the British-zone
tojvn of Bleckade, on the Elbe’s
west bank, and continued blasting
it with 7-millimeter cannon -after
it burst into flames.
The main wreckage, in which
five airmen were believed
trapped, plummeted down on
the east bank just outside the
Soviet zone town of Boizen-.
burg.
The MIGs apparently strafed
the British airmen while they
were parachuting to earth,' Ger
man police reported.
This heightened tension gener
ated Tuesday in the destruction
of-a U.S. Thunder jet by two
Czechoslovak fighter pilots,
brothers-in-arms of the Russian
airmen, arid raised the spectre of
crisis in a Europe still pondering
implications of the rise of Georgi
M. Malenkov as Stalin’s successor
in the Kremlin.
The British charged today's
attack was deliberate. They
drafted. a stiff protest to So
viet Russia demanding repar
ations and punishment of "those
responsible for this outrage."
A Moscow radio broadcast heard
in London Friday charged the
British bomber was violating the
Soviet zone and said the British
plane fired first as the Soviet
planes tried to force the bomber
to land. It said a letter charging
violation of the air over the East
ern, zone has been sent to Sir
Ivone Kirkpatrick, British high
comiriissioner in Germany, by So
viet Gen. Vasili Chuikov.
Britain's Air Ministry said *
the fatal strike came in the
Hamburg-Berlin air corridor
less than two hours after two
Soviet fighters had made a
"threatening mock attack" on
another British bom b e r 100
miles away' near Kassel, well
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Eisenhower Victor
By 6,509,464 Votes
The official count for the
1952 presidential election was
released yesterday. The final
tally gave Dwight Eisenhow
er 33,824,451 votes, against 27,-
314.987 for Adlai E. Stevenson.
The clerk of the House of
Representatives announced the
totals, based on the official re
ports of all the 48 stales.
A record 61.551,978 votes
were cast for > presidential elec
tors who were pledged to Pres
ident. Stevenson,
or one or more of a - dozen
candidates.
Retail Goods
Price Controls
Are Abolished
■WASHINGTON, March 12 <7P)—
The government today abolished
all remaining price ceilings on
consumer goods.
The most spectacular result
may be an increase of as much
as 10 cents in the retail price of a
pound of coffee. The Office of
Price Stabilization predicted as
much, and New York coffee trad
ers concurred.
The price of beer may go up
slightly, although officials of the
Rheingold Breweries in New
York, a big Eastern distributor,
said they saw no reason to expect
a rise.
Today’s decontrol order, affect
ing goods that sell at the rate of
40 billion dollars a year, brought
to a temporary pause the six-week
price-thawing drive of the Eisen
hower administration.
Steel, machine tools,. alloying
metals, cans and sulphuric acid—-
mostly items which bulk large in
mobilization spending may re
main under ceilings until April 20.
On that date all controls go over
board with the expiration of price
wage control authority, and OPS
vanishes.
within the British zone. Both
bombers were on routine train
ing missions.
The air corridor to which the
British referred runs from Ham
burg, in the British zone, to Ber
lin, 100 miles deep in the Rus
sian zone. It is one of three such
aerial lanes, 20 miles wide, used
by Allied aircraft for eight years
under fourpower agreement.
Ske Seeks
'Aid' Seat
On Cabinet
WASHINGTON, March 12 (JP)
President Eisenhower today
sent to an apparently receptive
Congress a plan for a new, cab
inet-rank department of health,
education and welfare, designed
to improve “the well-being of mil
lions of our citizens.” The de
partment would be headed by
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby.
The Eisenhower administra
tion’s first government reorgani
zation proposal would shift the
ramified programs of the Federal
Security Agency, now directed by
Mrs. Hobby into the new depart
ment. These, programs range
from the vast social security set
up to federal aids to education. 1
The plan will go into effect
automatically in 60 days unless
vetoed earlier by either the Sen
ate or the House.
First reactions indicated there
would be no hitch. Leaders talk
ed- of passing affirmative resolu
tions approving the plan, in
which case it could go into effect
without waiting for the 60 days.
Chairman McCarthy (R-Wis.)
of the Senate committee on gov
ernment operations said he ap
proved of the plan “over-all” but
felt it did not go far enough.
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Committee Orders
Ammo Investigation
WASHINGTON, March 12 (/P) —The Senate Armed Services
Committee today ordered a full-fledged investigation into ammu
nition shortages in Korea and declared that complaints by Gen.
James A. Van Fleet have been “fully substantiated.”
Chairman Saltonstall (R-Mass.) said the inquiry by special
five-man subcommittee will at
tempt to pin down responsibility
for the shortages.
“We want to see if the shortages
resulted from too much butter
and not enough guns,” Saltonstall
said. But the Massachusetts sena
tor also made it clear that the in
vestigation will get down to per
sonalities, as well as economic
factors, and is designed to meet
a demand by Sen. Byrd (D-Va.)
that any offenders be punished.
The committee’s action topped
off a Congressional furor over
Van Fleet’s sworn testimony that
serious and at times critical short
ages of ammunition handicapped
American troops throughout his
22 months as commander of the
U.S. Eighth Army in Korea.
The four-star general, who re
tires March 31, testified that
shortages—notably artillery shells
—exist even now despite the fact
that he' submitted almost daily
reports on the subject to Wash
ington.
The committee’s order for an
investigation came in effect as a
rebuff to Gen. J. Lawton Collins,
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Army chief of staff, who testified
two days ago:
“There has never been a short
age of ammunition in Korea,
either to repel an attack that
actually developed or to conduct
our own operations.”
Unlike Collins, Secretary of De
fense Wilson and Army Secretary
Stevens both acknowledged there
have been some shortages, but
said steps have been taken to
remedy the situation.
Sen. W. Stuart Symington (D-
Mo.), who served as secretary.of
the Air Force during the Truman
administration, said in a Phila
delphia speech last night that the
Defense Department is “suffer
ing from inside competition and
the American people are suffering
because of it.” ,
Symington said if the American
people knew the “whole brutal
truth” about comparative U.S.
and Russia armed strength they
would demand “a wholesale re
organization of our Defense De
partment, so as to get more de
fense for less money.”