EVERYWHERE Cloudy, Cool Today; (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) CENTS THE WEATHER THE SPRINGFIELD UNION 2. Rain Tomorrow 89, NO. 69 OF POLICY Says U.
S. Geared to Prevent War, but Not Peace 'At Any Price' Washington, March 23 Truman today issued an explanation of his foreign policy and said it is geared to prevent World War III but "not peace at any price." Russia's Four. Way Threat The unprecedented document, prepared by the State Department on the President's suggestion, says grimly Russia's threat to peace is military, political, economic and psychological and. "may Truman go on himself for many declared years." in the foreword that the pamphlet "shows how we are turning back the threat of communism." He added: "We are not just sitting waiting to put out Ares when trouble starts in some far-away place. We are actively at work, every day with our neighbors and our friends around the world not only to overcome any threats to world peace but also to strengthen freedom and justice 50 that, in the the danger to peace will be lessture, "Tyranny" Forced Defense Action.
The document itself states that the "aggressive tyranny" of Russia and her satellites" forced the free world to unite in common defense. It adds: "We do not want to look for world security by fighting another Continued On Page MUST AVERT STEEL STRIKE, WILSON SAYS Defense Mobilizer Flies to Florida to Confer With President Key West, March 23 (INS) -Defense Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson said tonight that means must be found to avert nation-wide steel strike. WIll Confer With President The defense chief flew here for urgent conferences with President Truman seeking a formula for settling the steel wage dispute. Wilson said on arrival: "Ways will be found to prevent a strike, of course." Wilson said he was bringing "series of submit to the President looking toward settlement of the steel: controversy.
He would not discuss his "plans and policies" pending his conferences with the President. Wilson said he does. not know how steel dispute can be settled but he has various proposals to discuss with the President. The defense mobilizer declared that Continued On Page 8 59 WORLD -WIDE NEWS NOTES Turkey Ready for Reds Washington, March 23 (AP) Maj. Gen.
William H. Arnold said. today that "modern Turkey does fear Soviet Russia." "The Turks," Arnold said, "have fought for freedom many times in the past--and it the chips are down they are ready to fight again." Arnold is chief of the joint American military mission to Turkey. He said Turkey, with 400,000 men under arms, is stronger militarily than most other North Atlantic Treaty Organization, his countries. praise And of the was individual soldiers.
Seek Missing Plane Halifax, N. March 23 (AP)Seventeen planes crisscrossed the Maritime Provinces today in search of a. Maritime Central Airways Dakota with five persons aboard which disappeared yesterday on a flight from St. John, N. to Goose Bay, Labrador: Budget Test Today Vienna, March 23.
(AP) Czechoslovakia's Parliament meets tomorrow to Continued On Page 6 Today's Chuckle Gay Blade: "Who was that blonde saw with Wednesday?" Second G. "That was the brunette you saw me with Tuesday." THAT'LL BE THE DAY! UNIFORMS "Next window for smoking jackets, bathrobes and slippers!" Entered second-class matter at Post Springfeld. Under the act of March 8. 1879 Office SPRINGFIELD, MONDAY Cold Adds to Misery Caused By Tornadoes; 220 Now Dead These pictures give a graphic view of the devastating effect of the southern states over the week end, claiming the lives of at least 220 persons, and resulting in millions of dollars in damage. In the top photo is shown an district of Judsonia, where 100 lost their liyes more than 700 were has been estimated in excess of $2,000,000.
in 10. Arkansas counties, leaving bottom, sitting amid the wrecked furniture in their home in Judsonia are fiveher grandfather, L. Buice, Sr. Springfield Flyers Win Eastern Pee Wee Crown Mike Kober's Goal in Third Overtime Period Brings 3-2 Victory Over New Haven Team By GARRY BROWN they defeated the highly-rated New New Haven, March 23-A blistering breakaway goal by Mike at 4.27 of the third 'overtime period goal that won't be forgotten in a hurry- -vaulted the Springfield Flyers into the Eastern Pee' Wee Hockey championship here today. as Stymied Projects Get Green Light From FSA Chief Washington, March 23 (P) Federal Security Administrator Oscar R.
Ewing said today that about 500 schools and hospital projects which have been held up for of materials may resume construction shortly. Ewing said these projects--most of them schools- will reconstruction permits and allocations of critical materials for the third and fourth quarters of the year. Officials receiving permits and allocations may begin clearing sites and excavating immediately, and placing orders for controlled materials, he said. The Defense action Production followed conferences Administration with officials who assured the Federal Security Agency of higher allocations for school and hospital construction during the second half of 1952, he said. Haven All-Stars 3-2 in a blazing battle before 1000 fang at the Arena.
These youngsters really put on a been witnessed in these parts seashow. No better Pee Wee contest has son. Both teams skated a and kept skatContinued On Page 12 Tornadoes in South Second Worst in Washington, March 23 (INS)-The Red Cross today listed Friday's southern tornadoes, with 213 killed and 1107 injured, as the second worst in the organization's disaster relief history. Records which go back to 1881 show that it was topped only by the twister in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925, which killed 719 and injured more than 3000. Other major tornadoes: Texas-Oklahoma storms of April and May, 1947, which killed 165 and seriously injured 1017.
Southern tornadoes of 1942 which killed: -134 and injured 1035 in six states. The Northern Ohio of June 28, 1924, which killed 78 and Injured 1000. The St. Louis tornado, Sept. 29, 1927, which killed 76 and injured 1500.
Red Cross History Mrs. Truman Dodges Query, Says White House Is Cheery Washington, March 23 (INS)- Mrs. Bess Truman said today that the restored White House will: be a much "brighter" place to live but she declined to say whether she would like to spend four' more years in It. The first lady personally showed women reporters through the famIly living quarters of the mansion after they had inspected its mous public rooms. Mrs.
Truman was asked, "Would you like to spend four more years at the White House?" She instantly replied, with determination: MORNING, MARCH 24, 1952 1000 SEARCHERS PRESS HUNT FOR 3 CHILDREN LOST IN WIS. FOREST Three Youths, One Shot, Are Held in Holdup of Waldorf Manager Here Douglas L. Rae, 17, and' William O'Connell, 21, Charged With Assault and Robbery; Aldo Grassette, 19, in Wesson Hospital With Wound in Arm Inflicted by Pursuing Detective The vicious Saturday assault robbery of a restaurant manager and his companion here was solved to police satisfaction yesterday with the of two men and the technical arrest of a third, who is at Wesson Memorial Hospital with a superficial gunshot wound in his right arm. Ball Set at $5000 Charged with assault and robbery and held at Police Headquarters in lieu of $5000 bail are Douglas La Rae, 17, of 3 Edgewood Gardens and William O'Connell, 21, of Chapel St. They, will be arraigned In District Court this morning.
Under police guard at the hospital is Aldo Grassette, 19, of 26 Tyler, St. Pursued up Chestnut St. St. by Detective William Martin, Grassette failed to halt after three shots had been fired over his head. PatrolContinued On Page 6 Reports of Waste May Close 'Bluejay' Project Senate Committee May Order Probe of Alleged Inef-! ficiency at Super-Secret Air Base in Greenland that "millions of dollars have Washington, March 23 (P) Reports wasted on a super-secret air base in as near the North and on an air route to Soviet Russia--are under study by Senate investigators.
May Order Hearings: Public hearings may be ordered this week by Chairman Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) for the Senate armed UMT IS URGED BY HILTON, VFW NATIONAL HEAD More Than 250 From Western Mass. at Turners Falls Gathering Turners Falls, March 23-More than 250 representatives of Western Massachusetts VFW Posts and Auxiliaries gathered at Daly Solomon Post headquarters today to honor their national leaders, the first to ever visit Franklin County units. ur Guests of TFW, Auxiliary Comdr. Frank. C.
Hilton of Reading, and President Ethlen Griffith of Wilmington, arrived here at 3 p. m. During the afternoon a tea was' conducted for auxiliary members and a meeting of the post took Tonight both auxiliaries and the post members gathered at the hall for a formal banquet with Sebastian J. Ruggeri of Greenfield as toastmaster. The invocation was by Rev.
Joseph Szczepaniak, Comdr. Hilton outlined the need for an adequate national defense program and called for support of Universal Military Training. He noted resolutions to support: such measures were voted at the national convention. He also called upon veterans to join some veterans' organization. He said some 70 per cent of all veterans have taken advantage of the GI Bill who are still not supporting veterans' Continued On Page McMahon Report Clears Operations Of New Haven RR Washington, March 23 (P)-Sen.
McMahon (D-Conn.) today turned over to the Justice Department the findings of. a Senate subcommittee studying affairs of the York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The Senate commerce subcommittee on New England power and transportation held a hearing last July 2 into what McMahon were reports of "unorthodox management" of the railroad. McMahon is chairman, Sens. Brewster (R-Me.) and Tobey (R- N.
are other members of the subcommittee. no evidence which would tend to indicate a lowering of the road's safety standards," be reported. McMahon said his group also examined certain financial operations "which affected not only New Haven but other railroads, thee understand that the New Haven Railroad, the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Boston and Providence Railroad have been under scrutiny by the anti -trust division of the Department of Justice and that the department is now studying the results of its investigations to determine what action, if any, should be taken." McMahon said he was sending the records of his committee'3 findings for whatever value might be to the Justice Department. He said the Senate group would withhold any fur. ther action on the New Haven case until informed of the Justice Department's plans.
ASKS RE-ELECTION SEN. HENRY CABOT LODGE LODGE CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION TO SENATE POST Pledges Efforts for Peace And Tax Fraud Cleanup; Third Term Ending 18 PAGES services subcommittee on preparedness' Johnson's criticism of. "waste, inefficiency and downright graft" on an airbase project in North Africa brought a drastic Pentagon order for reforms on Friday. Secretary of the Army Pace directed the chief of Army engineers to Continued On Page Fire Extinguisher Factory in Japan Destroyed by Blaze Tokyo, March 23 (AP) A fire extinguisher. factory caught fire today.
Much of It was destroyed. But police aren't blaming the efficiency of the plant's They're working on the theory that the fire extinguishers were tampered with by Communist factory hands, DELAY ASKED IN BUILDING OF NATICK CENTER Solons Say Proposed Army Facility Is Prime Example of Waste Washington, March 23 (INS) -Seventy-three members of Congress today called for delay in constructing a Quartermaster research center at Natick, and labeled it a "prime example a of elaborately contrived military waste." April 19 from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New Ten senators and 69 representatives Jersey and Pennsylvania, charged that the Army secured an initial 10 million, 750 thousand, dollar appropriation "on the facts assurances which we now have reason to question strongly." Ground-breaking for the center is scheduled for April 19. The bipartisan group said investigation of the "full scope" of the project should be undertaken. They charged that "hidden lion dollars. costs" will bring the total to 24, milIn a letter to Defense Secretary Lovett, the legislators noted that the Army plans to "abandon adequate scientific facilities" in Philadelphia, Chicago and Jeffersonville, and move 1100 scentists to Natick.
They charged that Natick is unsuitable" and lacks adequate housing, and said the project was rejected by two successive congresses. BURNS ARE FATAL Beverly, March: 23. (P) -Miss May A. Griffin, 74, burned to death today in the kitchen of her home after her clothes caught fire while cooking. Denouncing "thieving tax.
collectors and influence peddlers," and urging the channeling of defense contracts' to areas in Massachusetts," Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, today announced his candidacy for re-election to the United States Senate from this state. Seeks Durable He promises no let up in his efforts to' develop American "air supremacy which he says is so "tragically lacking today" and declared he will give unstinted effort to building a durable peace. He also promises effective steps to clean up the State Department. Expressing confidence that he has kept the pledges which the made In 1946, Sen.
Lodge makes the following statement: "For the future I pledge: unstinted out which there can be no to high effort to build a durable peace, withtaxes, high living. costs and mounting casualty lists; effective steps to Continued On Page REDS CONSIDER ALLIED PROGRAM ON POW ISSUES UN Offers to Hold Prisoner Exchange Talks On SemiPrivate Basis Munsan, Korea, Monday, March 24 (AP)-The Allies put the prisoner-exchange sessions on a "semi-confidential" basis Sunday in hopes of breaking a major deadlock in the prolonged Korean armistice talks. Semi- Confidential Talks The Reds were asked to do the same for today's meetings at Panmunjom at 11 a (9 p. EST, Sunday). Communist staff officers said the new approach would be considered.
negotiators indicated Sunday that in such an atmosphere they can swap ideas without world opinion judging every statement. and possibly achieve a compromise, The basic conflict on the prisoner Continued On Page 8 Protestants Pledge $6,000,000 in an Hour To Aid War Victims New York, March 23. (INS) A total of six million dollars Was believed raised today throughout the nation in a one -hour appeal by Protestant churches for victims of war. The appeal, for overseas relief and reconstruction, was sponsored by the Department of Church World Service of the National Council of the Churches of Christ and wag aided by offerings given in 21 church denominations. MacArthur Attends Service In Church of His Baptism Littlo Rock, March 23 (INS) -Gen.
Douglas MacArthur today paid a sentimental and rev-: erential visit to his birthplace and the church where he was baptized 71 years ago, while the political world echoed with his momentous accusations. Inll After S'-rm Yesterday in Jackson, the general, a possible GOP candidato for the presidency, charged the Truman administration with fomenting communism In this country and committing America to a European war. Today's activities constituted a Children, 3 to 5 In Age, Strayed Away in Storm THREE CENTS Bloodhounds Used to Trail Trio in Snow; Darkness Calls Temporary Halt To Big Effort Lakewood, March 23 (AP)Nearly a thousand weary searcher temporarily halted their hunt for three missing children as darkness fell tonight over the snow-filled fastness of Nicolet National Forest. Chased Porcupine The children strayed away front their homes at the edge of the forest yesterday afternoon--perhaps to chase a porcupine as they had done says their anguished mother. Apparently they lost their way, in a storm which.
spread more than a foot of snow on the wooded wilderness In the last two days. Oconto County Sheriff Joseph Foral, called off the search tonight. He said it will be resumed at 7.30 tomorrow morning. Earlier a deputy had said thke men would hunt all night. The missing tots are Cathy Church, five years old, her sister Mary Ann, three, and their cousin, Steven Kennedy, also five.
Their homes are on Highway 4 32, four miles south of Lake. wood, in wild North-eastern Wisconsin. Bloodhounds led the searchers today to a bridge over narrow camp five creek, where a tassel, Identified by Mrs. Church as being from Mary Ann's cap, was found caught on the bridge railing. The dogs ran along one bank of the creek, which has some open water, but deputies could find no other clues.
A mailbox in front of the Church home was sent to Oconto to determine if spots on it were human blood. The stains on It gave rise to the theory a motorist might have struck the children and then put them in his car to conceal the accident. A county grader cleared the area: of snow but found nothing. Alarm Spread Fifty searchers roamed woods Saturday night after Mr. than Mra.
Arnold Church spread the alarm. Today the size of the posse was expanded with hundreds of volunteers and airplanes were used during the daylight hours. Feeding stations for the volunteer hunters have been ret up in the homes of the Churches and the George Phillipses. Arnold Church, father of two. of the missing children, is a woodsman.
In the summer he is employed by the state on its reforestation program. In winter he cuts timber in the forest. Phillips is employed by A Green Bay, firm. He is away. except for week ends.
which ripped through midinjuring at least. 1100, aerial view of the business injured. Property loss hundreds homeless. "At the year -old Anne Buice and Twisters Believed to Be Over for Present Little Rock, March: 23 (AP) -A biting cold settled over the tornado-stricken areas of six Southern states tonight adding misery to toll of 220 dead and 1100 injured. Worst in 25 Years It was the worst.
week end of tornadic terror in a quarter of century. In Arkansas and the other storm struck areas along the Mississippi River the temperatures were expected to drop to 22 degrees in the north and 29 in the south. Thus the suffering of the homeless -there are an estimated 3000 in Arkansas alone was compounded. The downpours which accompanied the dread winds swelled streams dangerously and added to the property damage already estimated in the tens of millions. While the digging for more bodies continued, there were rising hopes that the wave of death had subsided.
Seems Played Out The American Red which compiled the list 4. of dead and inContinued On Page Timely Blytheville, Ark, March 23 (AP) Title of a motion picture hding shown In this tornado- -visited city. "Cyclone Fury." Washington, March 23. (INS) House tax probers and the subcommittee Investigating the Justice Department hold twin hearings this week in a continuing study of charges of influence in government tax cases. Meanwhile, a revolt among many officials against the detailed financial questionnaire sent to some 25,000 administrative employee's by government clean-up man Newbold Morris was reported underway.
One high official said that he will lose many of his key men in a crucial defense agency unless the complicated report form drawn up by Morris is withdrawn. Workers Don't Like Query Hockey Results EASTERN LEAGUR Now 4, Springfield 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 4, 2 Detroit 7, Montreal 2 Chicago 7, Now York AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Providenco 5, Cleveland Washington, March 23 (P) This is man-bites-dog item. The United States is shipping cherry trees to pan, Japan 1s commonly supposed to have almost as many cherry trees as people, but there are so few of them in the U. S. that million people coma to Washington every year just to see the cherry blossoms.
The Washington cherry trees, by the way, came here from Japan 46 years ago. Why, you ask, are we sending them back now? Are the Japaneso Indian givers? No. It seems the Japanese chopped: up a lot of their cherry trees for, wood during the war. The Weather FORECAST (By U. S.
cool Weather this Bureau)-Cloudy. and forenoon, partial clearing and little warmer during afternoon, highest in middle or with gentle northerly winds. Mostly cloudy with little temperature change tonight. Rain and cold tomorrow. TEMPERATURES -In the 24-hour period ending at midnight, March 23: highest, 42 degrees; lowest, 35 degrees; mean, 38.5 degrees.
Precipitation: .39. ALMANAC--Sun rises at 5.46, sets 6.08. Light all vehicle lamps at 6.38. News Index Amusem*nts Page Cartoons Page 11 City Pages 2, 3 Editorial Page Juvenile tiobby Club Page 9 Lait for Winchell Page 14 O1' Doc Brady Page Puzzle Page 11 Radio Programs 18 Social Page Sports Pages 12, 13, 18 Stray Bits l'ase Suburban Page 5 West Springfield Page 8 Woman's Page Page 9 1. Cuttings of Cherry Trees Japan Gave U.S.
Being Returned "That is a you will not get a yes or no out of me." Then she laughed and added, "It's a fair enough question, I'll admit." Her close friends have sald for months that the first lady would prefer to have President Truother House term. 4. decide, agalnst seeking anA reporter asked Mrs. Truman, "You could stand It (another term) it you had Sho sald: "Well, I've stood It for seven years." Continued On Page 6 lull after the storm. Refreshed after a night's sleep, and "fully recuperated" from the polka which he performed with a teenage social 'belle in Natchez the night before, Gen.
MacArthur and party flew Little Rock as his expedition to the South entered the home stretch. Ho went from the airport Immediately to granite-faced Christ Episcopal Church, a restored version of the wooden house of worship where he was christened on May 16, along with an older Continued On Page 6 4.
