MACARTHUR ~eneral . a cArthur co out):;••• - ~ N -- ga1nst ene a l E1 enho ·· r. e re ddrea e mention the name of •1 1r ... j but the 1 pllca. as definite and strong s if e had. fu before.JtAj~int session oft e Michigan Le tonig~acArthur said the electi~n of a man aa President would be -- a national tra I 1 ary ., . shows• 'The history of the world~ declared General ' that Republics and Democracies have gPnerally losl their liberties by way of passing from civl an lo quasi-m111tary status. Bothlng,• he emDhaat e •1• tary more oond~e to arbltary rule than the 1 junta.~18 :;p0■1tion to a profeeS1ona1~';i;;;~ a.a Pres 1dent would apply of oour se, to Hae r himself. Aleo, equally to Eisenhower. - --- - fOLITIQS t State authorities at H re 1n California l••x•xtax,twat•x*■xx•st~ •1x1Dfx»•t:titaat:xcaa:t••t•.ax,u1xtaxt•• tsn ■ ix•••••• Ba c r · ment o 1 today, ga v e a urve y o f registrations for t he California p rim a ry to , e h eld on June Third. It's the h ig hes t pr1m ' ry re 61strat1on on record J -- and shows -- th e D e ocrats declining, the Republican• -- incre as 1n. The D emocrats lose mor e than sixty- - six thousand as compared with two years ago. The GOP ga1nin -- more than two hundred and forty-seven - . - 1P thousand. Which sounds impres s ive. But *••x• it still - leaves California with eight hlddred t h ousand ore emoorats than Republicans. Two years ago, the Democrats were &head in registration, n by more than one million one hundred thousand. I So what ohanc~ have the Republioana1 Well, the o d fact 1s that the State administration headed ) •• by Governor Earl, Warren is almost solidly Republican -- only one D emo c ratic State official having been elected, the last time the voters went to the poll I I fOLITICS - a ..tor over, four ars o, P!'e 1 Ca.l1forn1a by t e 811 h\ of e1 hte n thous nd -- alt t :n ore · ocra ts re 1R t r .. an R certainly pr · sents a puzzlln 1 Tody l o cal pa rs her noted t pre.ence of Fe •ral S Oscar lw1n,, • " who is tn town. here---- to help stop Kefauver. n c rr1ed 1 s tha.n million na. Which Angele• A lnistrator ya he la seeme to be '>I P OLIT ICS - 3 um er One wo rry of t he Cl ! o rni Dem o cr tic or 11 a n 1z· t 1 o n - - _ ; to l t, c e ek and o p IC tauve r J ~he T nnessean has a f 11 s lat e of dele ates en tered tor th~ Primary. In o pp osition to tne re~ u lar D emocratic slate headed by -- Presidential candidate Brown. But who 1s heT Well, hA's Edmund G. -- t h e local favorite son a.nd how that comes a.bout is ont 1 those things. The California Demoora.tio Organlzatlon had I ~~ a slate of delegates all fixed up, ready to el1del\-- baok1ng President Truman. But H.S.T. withdrew and that left the elate with --nobody. A political orphan -- deserted by 1te Great White rather. To make that the d1le-& excruciating, falate\ a \ ••~S. of delegates must ~ A Cal1forn1a law require• back some one -- ~qt 1ust Ulnstructed candidate/\ But whol Well, they ~esorted to a favorite aon, an old political trick and picked State Attorney General Brown. Becau e, he's the only De ocrat 1n the State Go v ernment. The only on e who scored a win in the last e l ection --- all the rest bein Republicans. But Attorney Brown would be the first to ad ic. - th at 'a not a nati na figure impressive e 01 ,. the voters. And in the offing is 1 if the Tennessean mi ht walk away f nd largest of the States. e . 1n San Francisco, I saw Governor Illinois, and had a brief chat wit him. He ••s keeping mu~ about volitics, but there ia plenty of talk that his visit to California had something to do witti the daager of Iefauver -- althou1 SteYeneon is not seeking the noaination./One eurai■ • is that the slate of organization delegates might awitcb from favorite son Bron to some better kn~•n naae, ao ■e national figure. KOREA ear t t the r ep d1at1on of t o e to cone es · 1ons •~ rison e rs \' s '6e:oe ord e rs fro aeh1n ton. T ha t - I e c r et ar y o ! t he I Army Frank P a c e ins ru ct ed eneral rk Cl rk to/\(: ...... ~~e_,..,fl~&&•' .etl e ft =k ~l a r-k 4eftouftei&8 the terms as blackmail, extorte d un d er enace to the 11fe of General Do · , terma exacted by duress and violence.) Th e refore, / invalid -- not binding at all. Secretary of the Army Pace ave an explanation at a secret session of the Armed For ea ' ommittee of the Senate -- where, according to the Wash1n6ton report, he stated that he had ordered General Clark to r~pud1ate the ter m s, as being aoth1ng more than a stunt of Com m unist pro n a ana. In Tokyo General Clark d enies that he gave the bawling-out reported J sterday, ,~a• ~e a<lmlal■\e••4 • •verbal repriman _ d . / 2 Cer.erala Dodd and C olson. He had them in his office for an hour ,,) talking over that extravaganza in w h ich General Dodd i,QREA - a was held a hosta e, by h is o wn : rise n r o! w r. N ve r t else, t1 ere's a r · uke -- with Clark stating L11- to · ay that G n r&l Colson had ae1er,ee his authority A ,.....__ in makin t . o e pecu liar concessions. ( -~~1fa11lple, :r or ce p_rt soner s war t ~ re:fuse / go d eterm ✓ . ) (on Koje Island the new camp commandant, General Boatner announces a new stern regime . . Everyt ing according to the Geneva Convention for the treatment of prisoners of war. He will eafe•ee •~e rule~ ~ /}(,. - - fai•ly INt wl•~e•• ••¥,\fooling around, no ne1ot1at1o • with prisoners of war, no concessions to ■■ Red propa g anda.) General Boatner 1s descri b ed as a blunt, hard-boiled •spit-and-polish' soldier, strong :for diloipline. Today, when the new oomman er drove to the rison oamp in a jeep, four G I•s za failed to salute him. He stopped the jeep, got out, gave the !our 1 t ur . h en 1 t II a. V r } l f o ur sn y salutes. a.t the s . . t1 , t l er . •ax w s warnin in Con ress tod y - w a rn1n t o o s low •• i th not ions of an 1nvest1 at1on o f t e f a nt et1c e p isode. (••dr, Oongre8sma.n Mike Mansfield of Mont na roar d: •They don't need & Brigadier General 1n clar e of tha\ oam~. What the ou ht to have is -- a Marine Top Sergent.) Con ressman Vinson o! Georgia,Secretary of the Armad Services c~m ittee says -- •1ook out, and take it easy.• The Com unists have American captives in their prison camps. Th re mi ht b e -- retaliation. -TR CE --- ------ -- n t e truce t.alks, the ed rake a new a nd marve ous it news today. Th t the meric a ns hav e een u in , risoners of war for e:x eriments in tomic • a r-f re. The om uniE t negotiators, in a blast of r o pa a nd a , f a · 1 e d to ex ~ a i n th es e 1 a t e s t lime r i can horrors. . .. sumably we• va een p utting · risone rs into otomic ex losions to see how f st they'd burn up. OIL --- ln t he o i l tr · e, a w age a reement - - s igned by the Globe Refinin Com an in Illinois a nd t h e CI O Union. ettlemenl c a ling for a wage in c rease of fifteen cent s an hour . Which accords with a fifteen cent a n hour ceilin the Government has p laced on pay hikes in oil. There have been other local agreements, this one import nt because the Union is the biggest involved in the strike. In Washington, a high official of the government _ redicts that the nation-wide walkout will end -- within the next forty-eight hours. 1IDE LAN D S use of R e pr e sent a tives has passed the Tide Lan d s B ill -- wh ic h would ive to the States t&~ rich o il depo sits off their coa s ts. Wiliree •1111 11:yoc, Ukb!i et!en•ea .. The Truman Ad in1strat1on is opposed -- an d in Nineteen Forty- Six the President vetoed a similar Tide-Lands B111.) So that puts emphasis on the . . . size of th majority 1n t e House of Representatives today. The vote w a s lop-sided, two hundred a.nd forty-eight to eighty-nine. Which was twenty thre e m ore than the majority of two-thirds, which would be necessar y to over-ride another presidential veto. The B 111 now goes to the Sen a te, which 1a xp cted to give its own okay -- within a few ~aye. I I ROBBERY At L1tchf1eld Park Arizona, a hold-up of a Navy truck. To unman ,ere out for a forty- thousand dollar pay-roll rob b ery. But they sure ma de a m istake. Instead of holding up the a vy pay-roll 1 • they picked 0 u a mere mail truck. Forcing the driv e r to pull over a t a roadside - and then making & search. All they found was ma11 bags and demanded: •where's th a t stuff you got at the bankT• The driver said he hadn't been at the bank at all -- and)f1nally, the robbers acc ep ted that answer. At that very mo . ent, Lieutenant George Wade was at the Litchfield Park Bank, p icking up the pay- roll. 1QCKEY The domain of h or e -r ac in g her e at Los An g eles remained in the state of suspense today -- Johnny Lon d en st ill out for his t■ n%~ four thousandth victory. Yester day , the ea n of A m erican Jockeys needed two more winners -- but was able to score only one. All of which put the decision off until today, with Johnny entered again in seven races. Determined to ride everything possible - in quest of that elusive number, four thousand. Well, the suspense was drawn out 1n a way to make a short story writer envious. Ever since Monday, the Hollywood Turf Club Dir e ctor, Tom Sim one, h d a speech in his pocket, ready to spiel it off t■ and present it to Johnny with a silver trophy. For three days a huge blanket of roses was waiting - with the f1 ure four thoueal)d e blazoned, white roses on red. The days of warm w e ather wilted the flowers, and the blanket of oees ••• iocKEY - 2 was shedding pe tals, and looked rather frowsy. Too m uc su pe ns e -- f or the roses. But now the news from the track this afternoon. He mad e 1t! In the first race of the day -- no go. The second, and still Johnny couldn't win. But in t h e t 1rd race, with a leg up on Fleet Rider he sent the crowd into a bedlam of cheering, by coming in first, number four thousand. (OLLOW JOCKEY And - anot he r sports headline -- a no-hit b al l game in D etroit. Virgil Truc ks , veteran pitcher of the Ti rs. S e cond no hit, no run game in Detroit history. For a finishin ~o u c h it ,as a tie score of nothin to nothing. Bob Porterfield, _ itchin g for Washin g ton allo w ed o n ly four h its - a nd not a run until in the ninth Vic Wertz hit a homer -- winnin the no-hit game for Virgil Trucks. itlFE. From Pasadena, California, t h e story of a do m esti c battle -- an d it happened where no domestic ba ttle should ever take place. Nor should a husband ever throw such an object at his wife. The Pasadena e df1 Judge granted a divorce to Mrs. Bed& Xv1sler, after I \ she told how the matrimonial caz ■ quarrel broke out - in church -- and her husband thre a hymn book at her. · Well, w e 've heard of somebody throwing the boo k at somebody -- but not th.eh mn book.