SUB POLI fr om F lori lea in ~T- ?.-Q a n . l<' r a n - . . The ur n ri s e i n ~ r 1 m r· a -- it s n o r Kefa V n · tor us .. el l of eo r ia. r i r co e s o e nn s. ee (£_~turns The7 t £ II are to early to iv e any xa~xt r a l su e t i n that Kefauver 111 bea t Russell ut in Florida. But 1 they do e em to be si nifica at indi c ati o n - - that the en essee a n 1s runnin a a zin ly s tron in a St a t8 h ere, it w s t ou t, Russell wou ld s c or clean swe e p. Only thirty-six r ec tncts are in, and they ive Kefauver t a t sli t 1 a d -- four thousand for hundred and t irt - ( three- aine - to four-t ousan';< t ■•zAhund r ed- and-fifty-eight. In Ohio, no surprise at all. In a hue turnout oft e electorate, Senator Taft i s 1lin~ up such lon-s1ded majorities a ainst Harold Stassen that he se ms cer ta in of winning a ll or n arly all of the fifty-six Ohio del ates to the e u b lican a ti o nal Convention. LI ea e 1 ter l ori d a fi ur howin Ke uver till runnin neck and neck with Hus el l . ¥or the Geor ia enator, ni eteen-thou s and- ix-hun d red-and- seventy-six. For the ennes eean -- nineteen -th usand- one-hundred-and-f rty-seven. This repr e sents only ne- hundred-and-t enty-five electi n istrictJ, but the picture is unmistakea le. Kefauver making a surprising 0 how of strength in the southern ' t te of Florida againsll 0 enator rtuseell -- put up as the pride of Dixieland. Democratic figure The latest/from Ohio shows Kefauver winning o~t easily there againd. Bulkley, an Ohio favorite son. hich promises to give Kefauver the Ohio delegation to the Democratic convention. Piling up delegates for the Tennessee benator, who ha been picking 'em up here and the re. n the Re ublican side, the latest figures show Senator Taft nowing ~tassen under, like D oner Pass was snowed un er this winter. .. - - -- - . - - . • a.n .. . - -·- . - ... - .. ,._ ... - ve a· ~ C. ..... a. er. ty ained sasl&Sa ■ a .. . ea e.1,1ee Ii& :i.ay I:i·r ... - .. - -wt. i eh r: - ...... - , C. a. ·- le en.. .. ., • _ree ""'I" ...... - r. G&e e.eC! ._ a. 5 • • ,..,_.;:; ..,. _ - ..... - ...... . .::. ., • - - - - .... .. I .> • s-- ... . ... - .:I l~- ~se t.:an ... s .., ~ . . ....... s the · - s e Vi Y 't.. .: e .en \ - ~ . - : .1 .. :.e r e r . _, .... • ~I ,:l s • ,._ . e !9!' t ... • e t t r !1 he t .. :n 1 t Q,,,f t-o!'tt ~ ----- ua. :er n. . .,._ , 1 - # . : l , . . !l s - .. ~- J okson beli e v s the heavy m oney J&aa penalties, under civil suits, wold ake br1 ery too expen 1ve. Mc<;RANERY f o on re s i on 1 om . n i ttee oda y, Ju e J c. e s ~ c r e ry dmitt d t at , 1 f e ad b een Attorn e e e ral, e · ould a > a vi se d Pre 1dent ru an t o envoke t Ta · t-} a rtl e act 1n t teel strike. Instead of -- seizin t h industry. The I committee is con i erin · ·cGranery's apoo1ntme nt as Attorn ey Gener a l, and pr ssed t e qu stion. TheJud e t nt to 6.ec l re himseif 1n d1sa r . ement with th President, but finally conceded -- he thins that a Taft-Hartley injunction would have been better than the se1~ure of steel. OIL The govern m ent issues a c all to the unions 1n th e n a tionwide oil strike -- askin them to send ninety thousand strikers back to their lobs. The Wage itabilization Board makes the ap eal by telegraph -- reminding union leaders of the orisia that threatens to cause an oil tie-up. At the same time, the Boa.rd summons both co m panies and unions to a meeting next Tuesday for an emergency attem,i to work out a. settlement. The la.test -- the Defense Department 1n Washington states that, because of the strike, the Armed Forces are cutting down their consumption of 011 w1th1n the United States. The Navy, for example, has ordered the use of aviation gasoline to be reduced by at least one-third ~MBLING In a court decision, the Federal Gambling T ax is held to be -- unconstituti o nal, wftieh lecision -we:e- handed cown today by a United St a tes District Judge at Philadelphia. T h e ruling is against the Fifty Dollar stamp, which gamblers are re uired to purchase -- while, at the same time, giving information about their own gambling activities, na m ing persons /\ employed by them. Judge George A. Welsh finds that this violates constitutional guaaanteea against ..,,<A ..... ~ self-1nor1m1nation N~ in states where gambling~i-etl-14 ltegal. By purchasing the gambling stamp, and filling out the information, the gambler gives evidence aga1nei himself -- under the state law. Which 11 an unconstitutional requirement, says the judge. In P enneylvania, sixteen persons were charged with failin g to register under the gambling tax law. One of these oases was appealed in the local 1ederal court, and that case brings today's de~1sion ) Judge Welsh spe a ks of the high purpose of the law GA 13 LING - , p a ssed by C on r ss, and r a nds c om m rci al ized gambling a. a r a v o i a l v11. Butt l a w, e r ules , vi 1 t & t h e C onstitution. Tat tax 1 • -- which 1s s a id t o ve reduced gamblin to a min imum. e o rnment responds bys yin t e ca s e 11 be t a ken, atone, to t he Sur m Curt. KEN u~KY T ntv rsity of e nt~ck m&•■ xz•akm 1ves it r ply in t le b eketbal scandal, - - with s har n co un er att ck ainst Ju d e Saul Streit of ew ork. basket - .~ho, in senten 1 Kentucky)bal 1 players for b ribery, blast d the colle e for crocker and corruotion in at 1 ti s . The K ntuck come-ba c k is t at the Judge produced •a distorted and untrue picture•. The Jude 1s accused of cr1t1c1zing the Univer ity savagel3 while makin no reference to crime and ambl ng conditions in New Yor~, which corrupted the Kentucky basketball 0 layers. And the University !ires & cannonade at Iadison S-uare Garden, where Kentucky . won some of its greatest basketball p:xszt•••• triumohe. •No school,• says the declaration; was ever touched by scandals until its teams had played one or more games in a ison Squ r e Garden.• So that's h ow Kentucky U. storms to the lJ}eftr at ack. her is also -- ome confession. The A Univ rsity adm1ttin: •our record i n t 1s a!falr is not above criticism,•• and w e are firmly resolved - 2 to ke su ch reforms as wil ssu re - - t a t n e v r in sh all c n ai bes m 1rlh t he name o the Un i v rsity.• J:QREA ~ truce talks in Korea are in a state of denress1on -- deeper than ever. Today Eighth Army Commander Gen. Van Fleet stated: · •Apparently t e Reds don't want an armistice, and have not wanted an &rmiatice.• ( rt certainly would indicate & profeasion&l opinion -- the Communista have been using long drawn out armistice parlays as a means for calling a lull in the war.• ) It seems to be okeh with Gen. Van Jleet, who adds:- •The Eighth Army is ready for anything. We can either fight them or outait them.• I rrom the Reds, expressions are equally ~ peaeimiatio -- the Chinese Communist radio stated today that the*•~ truce talke are in the graTea, 0ri111 thus far. The deadlock is illustrated by the perfunctory character of the meeting; in the truce tent at Panmunjon. Where the negotiator• gathered for a fifteen minute session today -- exchanged KOREA f 2 .k ~ ' brief mean ingle ss re m arks, call d it of! until tomorrow. On the war front, Americ a n air power was concentrated in Sunchon Valley today -- where there is a vital five miles of enemy oommun1cat1one. Swarms of jet planes and ;ighter bombers assailed those five miles with every weapon known to the war in the air. Railroad tracks bombed out, lines ripped by heavy ) exploa ions in one hundred,._ e 1ghteen places. (supply buildings and gun =placements burnt out with blaz1n1 napalm. Traffic paraljzed in the Sunohon Valley -- cutting oommunioation■ that lead to the battlefront) ( Air' th1s~1r / le • f ,. 1 1 l op-position. ~ndrose ~tuar , enemy jets few baox / / as/fast ...as they / coul go. d t day -- Man urlan / WASP I n ew Yo r k sto r ie of t ~r r or a n d he r o sm a r e 1 ~ - t o l - - fo llo w in t h e entranc e int o a r b or or t h e ai rc r a ft ca r r i e r W ASP, tod a y. T h e g reat s h in of w a r h a s a hu g e ja ed hole ri ped in her bow at sea -- with re lt of t he c ol l ision JKt&~xsksxxk•• the D e stroyer H OBSON. One h un dr e d nd s eventy-six li ve s lost, sixty - one survivors -- r e ~ cued fro m t he sin k in g de tro y er. ( The WASP, herself, s o heavily dama g ed that, on her way to p ort, sh e h ad to navigate stern first -- to ke e heavy seas f ro m bat t ering her broken bow ) T h ere's t o b e a naval inquiry into the disaster, and m ost of the testimony is be in g held for the Court. But sailors today told newsmen h air-raising stories of what ha. pn ened when the · g iant aircraft carrier cut the de s troyer in two. Sa il o r oennich of Los An g ele s rel tes: •1 w a s in t h e f o urth after-com p artment w hi ch bro k e off an d dri f ted, f o llowin g t h e col l ision. Fuel oil, •• ..... i'ASP - 2 ~ v he 0°s on• loo d ed 1r fro runtured tan - - and ... , 1th in a fracti o n of a inut there , s onl &JI a s1x-inoh 1r ap ce overh ad. I hollered: '•here's t e hatch', and someone said: 'R1 t her'. Then, I found ml(Self in a bunch of uys, waitin our turn to et out. The compartment w s bob in in the water and sometimes our h ads erc:1 submer ed by the seas · and 011. Only one guy• relat e s the Bailor lost his nerve for a minute and started screamihg: 'Let me out of here'. We calmed him down and twenty-five men managed to get out of the e scape hatch before she ~ent down.• So there's a picture of terror and heroism. Sailors trap ed in the sinking comoartment of steel -- and th e only way to et out was to eep their heads and o thro gh the hatch one af t er another. Only one man panicked -- and then only for a minute. lLOODS In Utah - - two m ajor highways out by flood waters. continued warm weather melting ) the record-breaking snows in the mountains, the swollen rivers have lnun&ated large areas -- and, today, } Highway Thirty, the main route from northeastern Utah into southwestern Wyoming, was cut in several plaoea by the Weber River. ( which isolated the town of Morgan, and caused the declaration of a state of emergency in Davie County. ) Highway one eighty-nine was out in Provo - - - Canyon -- and the spring floods are threatening two main line railroads. The •run-otf' as they call it -- the water from the melting snows pouring down the mounta1na in a giant 1 run-off 1 • WJIALli: Out here in the neighborhood of the Golden Gate, there are plenty of reasons to salute a professor, who solved the perplexing problem of ~ the whale. It was a puzzle,~1t smelled to high heaven -- literally. ~•f~ae, whale, wble~ drlfte4 ~ t ✓beach Oa.kla.~ a. fr a. _i6n c e ~ used pe..01>le / , ~ro? U■ph ~ - ) , - to hot"d the1 noses. / / a¥ in wha The whale hit the •each and also the headlines, several days ago -- a. strange leviathan of the deep, which prom»tly attracted the interest of the scientists. They said it was one of the - rarest c~etaceans, called a meaoplodon. To the non-scientific, the mesoplodon was merely -- a me11. Steaming with a regular miasma -- under the warm spring sun. The Oakland police might have done something about it -- but the oops just held their noses. They WHALES -- 12 asked the Coast Guard to remove the whale, but the Coast Guard s a id it was up to the Army Engineers. The Army Engineers took one smell, and passed the buck to the City Engineer ~t Oakland -- who admitted that he didn't know what to do about carting away •-•-p a ton of oderiferous whale. So that was when the professor stepped forward Dr. Seth Benson, Curator of Mammals of the ~ California Museum of Vertebrate~ Geology. With a A couple of assistants, he waded out on to the mud flat, to remove the whale's head -- wanting to study the brain of the rare mesoplodon. But what about the huge remainder of the whale! That was the simple part of it -- he set it on fire. And today the professor said: •it burned we11.• What somebody might have thought of in the first place -- whale oil having been used to burn 1n lamps in the days of old. a/ / l 'L 1 §ANKER At Perth Amboy, New Jersey, there are expressions of respect -- for a bank vice president, exposed as embezzler to the tune of Four Hundred Fifty Thousand dollars. William Horley, a church leader, prominent in charities, who lived with hil family in a modest, inexpensive way. Today the secret comes out -- the embezzlement consists of unauthorized loans to small business proprietors, who needed financial aid. Be simply couldn't refuse to make loans~- although they were illegal. Today, after an investigation of the case, the County prosecutor said:· 1 It is fantastic. Mr. Borley has the unfortunate characteristic of being a generoua man. He was foolishly inclined to help a lot of people -- who, ordinarily couldn't get loans. So he personally loaned bank funds to them.• BAJXER 12 Today, when this embezzling banker was arraigned in court, he was accompanied and glven moral support, by the Rev. George Boyd, P✓astor of St. Peters Episcopal Church. Who represents the respect of the community.