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Senator got is of the delegates, with
one for Eisenhower and two un-
known.
Harold E. Stassen was pushed
further into the background in the
Republican race by finishing third in
both Wisconsin and Nebraska. He
won the primaries in both States
four years ago and was the 'front.'
runner until Gov. Dewey stopped
him in Oregon. In Nebraska his
name was on the ballot, but he ran
behind the write-in votes for both
Taft and Eisenhower.
Maryland Write-in Issue
Maryland voters may find out this
week whether they will have an OPP
portunity to stage a write-in cam
paign for their Republican favorites.
A Maryland judge ruled Wednesday
that write-ins would be legal, but
Deputy State Attorney General J.
Edgar Harvey appealed to the Mary
land Court of Appeals, which will
hear the issue at Annapolis Tuesday.
The lower court ruling was a VIC
tory for Eisenhower supporters, who
are anxious to give Marylanders an
opportunity to express themselves.
State officials argued that the intro
duction OF write-ins into the primary
would create a variety of complica-
tiOnS.
No Republican candidates for
President entered the Maryland
primary. and Senator Kefauver is
the only Democrat who filed. DEM
ocrats will have a choice between
Senator Kefauver and voting for an
uninstructed delegation. In Mary
land the voters do not elect directly
the delegates to the national con-
ventions. They vote for delegates
to a State convention, where the
delegates who will 60 to Chicago will
be named.
In Wisconsin Senator Taft got "a
convention delegates, and Gov. War;
rem OF California got the remaining
6. In Nebraska the Ohio Senator
figured he would have IA or Is out
OF IL. He also picked up four more
delegates during the week in Ten
neSSee, giving MIN ~ out OF that
States 20. One more remains to be
chosen later.
The managers Of the Eisenhower
campaign minimized the effect of
Senator Taft's Wisconsin victory.
They pointed out that the generals
name was not entered. and that his
support was divided between Warren
and Stassen states. They made the
most Of the fact that the combined
vote for Warren and Stassen ex-
ceeded Senator Taft's vote by about
$4,000. Senator Taft polled BIS, 1000.
The fact remains. however, that on
the same day Senator Taft outdrew
Gen. Eisenhower in the write-in con-
test in Nebraska. and checked the
defeatist atmosphere which had be-
gun to envelop his supporters fol-
lowing the New Hampshire and
Minnesota primaries.
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No Immediate Worry

Are any Of the current or recent
epidemicS of influenza believed to
have been artificially introduced? Our
national health authorities reply with
an emphatic mo-" They get their
quota Of scare" notices from panicky
citizens, but nothing family resem-
bling the real thing has been noted
to date. The "f1u epidemic" this year
has not been unusual up to now, they
say. In fact, this years incidence
rate is lower than usual.
There is another reason no one
should be losing any sleep worrying
about a sneak biological warfare at
tack: The United States defense es-
Enlistment has a stock of "b.w."
weapons of its own believed to be
second to none in their awful poten-
tial. Existence of this stockpile is
Sam has made sure that word got
around. This stockpile is deliberate
threat Of retaliation, calculated to
make any aggressor think before
starting anything.
News Of recent increases in the
manufacture Of meteorological weap-
ons came out in Pentagon testimony
before a Congressional Committee
last week.
No one, except possibly the most
gullible among the propaganda fed
millions behind the Iron Curtain,
fears that the United States would
start biological warfare. But it is
comforting to know that the Kremlin
Is on notice that any biological attack
1t might make would be met with
certain retaliation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-06
By J. A. O'Leory

where Gen. Eisenhower is rated the
favorite. Senator Taft tried to with
draw his name from New Jersey after
Republican Gov. DriScoll came out
for the General. But a court ruled it
was too late to get the Senator's
name off the ballot.
That will be the first primary
since New Hampshire in which the
voters will find the names of the two
leading Republican contenders on the
ballot. Senator Taft indicated a few
days ago he will stick by his decision
not to take an active part in the New
Jersey campaign.
The Taft comeback in the Mid
west was only one of a series of de-
velopments that made the past week
one of the most eventful of the pre-
convention period. Two of the 9TH
erS were:
The campaign of Senator Kerr of
Oklahoma for the Democratic NOM
nation got of to a poor start in
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chosen later in the month in a State
convention. But in a State where
Taft sentiment is believed to be
strong. heavy write-in for Gen
Eisenhower would have considerable
effect throughout the country.
Where voting machines are used
in Illinois. there is a slot for write
ms, and Chicago voters are having
their attention called to it. Where
paper ballots are used, a write-in
is not so simple. In both methods.
however, the voter not only must
write the name correctly, but also
must draw square in front of it
and mark in an x.
Kefouver Unopposed
Senator Kefauver of Tennessee,
who kept himself out in front as the
fastest moving Democratic aspirant
by winning both Wisconsin and Ne
braska, is unopposed on his side of
the ballot in Illinois.
The following week, on April IS,
Will come the New Jersey primary,
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By ChorIes Cooke


the other candidates combined" said
Mr.. Stephenson.
Nebraska is the voice of the peo-
pie" said Mrs. Murray.
For the Dicky Birds
Taft has been in political Office for
80 years and never defeated" said
Mr.. Stephenson, handing your re-
porter a throWaWay on which was
printed: Taft has been in political
Office for 80 years and never de-
feated." (The throwaway said, fur
Their: And some little me-too dicky
birds chirped, Poor Taft. Good man,
but he can't win! Ye gods!~
Your reporter got up to go, as
nothing much was really happening
not even an itinerant passerby pop
ping IN and saying, Hes my mani"
THE real answer" said Mr.. Ste
phenson, Ito Taft's strength in Ne
braSka iS"-and he winked and low
cred his voice to a whisper-"better
organization"
Mrs. Murray was writing on q
slip of paper again:
Taft, 53,705.
like, APPS"
THE l o'clock report" she said,
with a happy catch in her voice.
What Office has Eisenhower ever
run for?" Mr.. Stephenson called after
your reporter, as he took his leave.
A few blocks away, at the EISEN-
HOVER FOR PRESIDENT CLUB, in
another ex-store at 808 Seventeenth
street, the front was really plastered
with luminous paint-rose-colore
here. but looking. despite the bright
April sunlight little faded.
A certain unity of theme underlay
the various window signs. a partial
tabulation of which follows:
DISTRICT CITIZENS, COME
I'M" EVERYBODY WELCOMED"
JOIN UP" ALL ARE VEL
GOMEZ" ENTER HERE"
Other displays consisted of news
paper clipping headlined, surprising
ly, "'Tide Has Begun to Turn Our
Way Says Eisenhower" Git turned
out to be likes NATO report), and a
small black-glass elephant with a
large II Like Ike" button fastened
squarely to it's posterior.
Even as your reporter was thought
fully examining these exhibits, a
handsome young Eisenhower lady,
wearing an interpretive expression
came up to the window and pasted
another exhibit against the inside of
the pane. It was a Christian Science
Monitor cartoon showing an elephant
labeled 1882" looking at an elephant
labeled "1948" The 1948 elephant
was inside a barrel labeled over
confidence"
Inside this headquarters, there was,
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Nebraska, where he ran $4,000 votes
behind Senator Kefauver in the pref
erence primary.
Winning these popularity contests
builds up candidates prestige ma
tionally, but Nebraska furnishes a
striking example of how the import
ance Of primaries can be exaggerated
when the delegates to the national
convention are not bound by the
preferential vote. And in most
States they are not bound.
In Nebraska, Senator Kerr lost the
preference vote, but five delegates
friendly to him were elected. Sena-
tor Kefauver, with his big margin in
popular vote. is credited with only
four delegates. One Nebraska dele
gate is for Senator Russell, and two
have no known preference Senator
Kerr is staying in the race, and
probably will be Oklahoma's favorite
son on the first ballot.
Senator Taft was more fortunate
in Nebraska. Along with his popular
margin of $4,000 votes, the Ohio
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distributed something more than 500
missionaries to Justice Department
officials, from Mr.. McGrath on down,
asking information on changes in
their net worth in the period they had
been working for the Government.
1t became apparent early last week
that the season of sunshine and
warmth was over. as far as the
Attorney General and his special
assistant were concerned. Mr.. Nc
Grath told House committee that
he had not answered the Morris
QUESTIONABLE and did not know
whether he would-or whether he
would require any underling to an
swer it. A committeeman quoted Mr..
Morris as saying he would ask for
the dismissal of anyone refusing to
fill out the form. Mr.. McGrath re-
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Senator Taft'S comeback in Wis
consin and Nebraska has set the stage
for race with Gen. Eisenhower that
may make this years Republican con-
ventlon the most exciting since 1910.
II the Ohio Senator had lost these
two Mid-western States it is doubtful
that he ever could have overtaken the
Eisenhower bandwagon that began to
roll in New Hampshire and Mime,
sofa.
The jubilation in Taft ranks was
dampened somewhat Friday, when
Gen. Eisenhower got the lions share
OF 1owa's rs delegates in State con-
vention. The general got IA. with the
possibility of picking up more;
while Taft got 9 and 2 remained
neutral. Earlier in the year Senator
Taft appeared to have the upper
hand in Iowa, and even as the State
convention met it was thought the
delegation would be split evenly.
The struggle between Taft and
Eisenhower in State conventions yes
terday in Michigan and Idaho also
was reminiscent Of the tug of war
which went on between the Ohio Sen
ator and New York'S MIR. Dewey in
1940.. The Taft-Eisenhower battle
may not reach the deadlock stage,
but it is still possibility. Michigan
has 46 delegate votes and Idaho IA.
The time for filing for the Cali
fornia June 3 primary ended at pm.
Friday, and the Democrats who for
merly were lined up for President
Truman took last-minute steps to
get back on the ballot with States
Attorney General Edmund G. Brown
as their favorite-son candidate.
Backers of Senator Kefauver, who
for while thought they would get
California's SO votes without q con-
test, were considering a legal test of
the laSt-minute switch by the oppos-
ing slate.
There are still too many primaries
and State conventions ahead to esti-
mate the number of delegates the
leading contenders will have in July.
but it is entirely possible now that
Senator Taft and Gen. Eisenhower
both will make good showing on thu
first ballot.
If that happens the decisive votes
will be those that go on the first bal
lot to the usual crop of favorite sons.
illinois Test
The spotlight turns next to the
Tuesday primary in Illinois. where
Senator Taft has only Harold E.
Stassen as an opponent on the printed
ballot, but where Eisenhower admir-
ers may write in the generals name.
A big write-in for Gen. Eisenhower
in Illinois this week could once again
throw a road-block in front of the
Taft chariot, although it would have
little effect on delegate strength.
The Illinois preference vote is not
binding on the so delegates to be
elected Tuesday nor on the 10 to be
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The news report quoted a letter
from Mr.. McGrath to Mr.. Morris,
tartly informing the latter that his
Federal employment was terminated
as of that day. A few minutes later.
a messenger delivered the letter it.
self. Mr.. Morris set his lips and went
out after that lunch he had been
thinking about.
That was about 12:45 pm. The
rest of the chronology is not so
definite. Sometime between then
and o'clock two telephone calls
were made. each involving President
Truman at one end of the line.
The man in neutrality-suspicious.
P. McGranery, Federal judge for the
Eastern Pennsylvania District-had
just left his Philadelphia courtroom
when his phone rang. It was the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-06
By WilIiom Hines

1t was Thursday noon on the
Eastern seaboard. In PHILADELPHIA.
judge doffed his robes of Office and
sat down to tune in the radio for
Queen Juliana's address to Congress.
In Washington, an ariStocratic New
York newcomer sat in his Office in
the old Post building thinking idly
about bite Of lunch. Three blocks
down Pennsylvania avenue, an old
Washington hand picked up q pen
and started to write the letter ~"
Scarcely 800 minutes later, the
Judge was no longer a judge, the
New York bluestocking was thinking
not of lunch but of packing, and the
old Washington hand was in the
market for ticket to Rhode Island.
AS far as immediate events were
concerned, the man with the pen
started it all. But there had been
a two-month buildup of tension, re-
sentiment and distrust that made
Thursdays events as inevitable as
the story-line in Greek tragedy.
enter MI. motifs
Last February, Newbold Morris.
the former head of New York's city
council, was brought here to head
the much-heralded investigation of
corruption in government. Mr.. Nor
rlS was represented at that time as
having been appointed by President
Truman, after the Chief Executive
had failed to interest Judge Thomas
Murphy in the job.
In the complex organization chart
OF the Executive branch, Mr.. Morris
fitted into a cubbyhole as special as
sistant to Attorney General j. How
ard McGrath, the moral health OF
whose Justice Department had come
into serious question in preceding
months. There were many snide re-
marks at first about how the Justice
Department was going to investigate
itself. but most observers adopted a
wait and see" attitude.
AS soon as MIR. Morris was in
office, President Truman published an
executive order directing agencies to
give him all the help they could with
in the law.
Mr.. Morris, meanwhile, was sub
jected to the attentions of Senate
group in connection with his part in
the shipment of petroleum products
to Communist China. His clash with
Senator's Nixon of California and Mt
Carthy of Wisconsin made headlines.
especially when he referred to dis
eased minds" and told the legislators
thai they weren't going to knock his
reputation off. His performance that
day was characterized by one WASH
lngton observer as a portrait of a
man digging his own grave"
Enter the Questionnoire
After a certain amount of fanfare,
Mr.. Morris got down to work. He
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piled that his special assistant had
made lot of announcements; that
he, himself, had not tried to keep
up with all of them.
The brew dubbed for several more
days, and as each day passed, some
new ingredient was added. There
were charges from the Hill that the
whole thing was a hoax and a white
wash: that the administration did
not want cleanup. There was an
encounter between President Tru-
man and Mr.. McGrath at the air.
port on Wednesday, an encounter
full of intense talk and fierce gestures.
Enter the Messenger
And then on Thursday, Cleanup
Man Morris learned from the news
ticker in his Office that he was fired.
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President, asking him to become At
torney General of the United States.
Enter the President
The President also talked to Attor-
ney General McGrath. In the course
of this call, Mr.. McGrath's resigna-
ton was offered and accepted.
Only the fact of the Morris dis
missal was known publicly when
Mr.. Truman called his regular
Thursday press conference to order.
The President had q number of
things to talk about. He had just
spoken to Mr.. McGrath, and had
accepted his resignation. He was
appointing Judge McGranery to sue
coed Mr.. McGrath. He didn't know
about the Morris firing until he saw
it on the ticker. It would be up to
Mr.. McGranery to decide what to
do with Mr.. MorriS-Mr. Morris was
the Attorney Generals man, not his.
No, the original story about the
Presidents appointing Mr.. Morris
was wrong; Mr.. McGrath had ap-
pointed him.
In Philadelphia, Judge McGran-
cry said he intended to 60 ahead
with the cleanup campaign, but
within the framework of the Justice
Department. He did not plan to re-
hire Mr.. Morris.
A clue of what might happen in
the cleanup already had come in
the McGrath letter to his special as
sistant. The second of two curt
paragraphs in the note directed him
to turn his files and records over to
the FBI.
Exeunt 0mnes
An answer to the question, did
he fall or was he pushed" came out
after the Presidents announcement.
Tearfully, Mr.. McGrath, who had
been closely identified with the adj
miniStration for years, said he was the
victim of the penalty that attaches
to the performance of duty. This
was not the language Of man whose
resignation had been his own idea.
The afternoons feveriSh work was
almost over. At a 6 pm. press con-
ference Mr.. Morris admitted that
it was the first time in his life he had
ever been fired, but claimed to be
happy about one thing: If we didn't
do anything else, we've gotten rid
of Howard McGrath." Then he went
out to feed pigeons in Lafayette
Park.
Howard McGrath, too, had part
ing shot to Are. In a telegram to his
successor, Judge McGranery, he Of
fered his heartfelt congratulations
and advised the judge to bring a pair
of asbestos pants along with him.
BY Friday noon the Capital was
quiet enough again. Except for two
scalps swinging lazily in the spring.
time breeze, one never would have
known there had been a crisis in
Washington.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-11-21

Blonde Dorothy Jenkins of
AuIander, N. c., is the first North
Carolina beauty to enter the 1853
Maid of Cotton contest. An out
standing senior at Duke University,
the hazel-eyed contestant is FL
years old. She will compete with
girls from throughout the ESTATE
Cotton Belt for the honor of serv-
ing the U. s. cotton industry as its
1853 Maid Of Cotton on q glamOr-
Gus six-month international tour.
Dorothy, q talented vocalist, is
president of the Duke WOmen's
Glee Club and sOloist with the
Mems GIee Club. She was chosen
for the university beauty court. A
member Of Delta Delta Delta So
rOrity, Dorothy also is active in
HOOf n Horn dramatic society and
in the freshman advisory council.
Any girl born in q cotton state
who is between the ages of 1925,
has never been married, and is at
least feet 5 inches tall is eligible
to become Maid of Cotton. Judging
is on the basis of pOise, personality,
intelligence and background, as
well as appearance. Application
forms are available from National
Cotton Council, Box 18, Memphis,
Tenn. Contest deadline is midnight,
December l.
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days per month for the remainder
of the year.
Those cadets who participated in
the flights were juniors and SEN
iors, who will go into the Air
Force as second lieutenants upon
their graduation in 1868 or 1854.
1t is believed that giving the stu
dent flying experiences will in
tice some of them to apply for
fight training upon their entry in
to the Air Force. The students
were taken aloft four at a time,
and their instructors in the air
craft were the same instructors
whose faces are familiar in the
classroom on the college campus.
There were two flights per day
on Wednesday and Thursday, one
in the afternoon and one at night,
Each flight lasted approximately
four hours, giving each cadet about
one hour at the controls while the
other three cadets were working
navigational problems and observ-
ing weather from the passenger
compartment of the CAS-. Two in
structors went with each flight,
one to help the students in the
back and one for flight instruction,
During each cadets hour at the
wheel he learned to read the air
planes many instruments, about
which he had been briefed in the
classroom, and learned how to put
them into use in actual cross-coun-
try navigation.
Col. w. J. Jowdy, professor of
air science and tactics, said he
thinks State College is the only
school in this area at present which
is giving cadets an opportunity to
fly. The ROTC units at Duke Uni
versity and UNC are not doing
this at present, according to all
available information. "This is
probably because Duke and UNC
have less pilots on their teaching
staffs," Col. Jowdy said, but they
should be able to get an airplane
for AFROTC use on the same basis
as the unit at State.
Maj. John Farr, member of the
teaching staff, said that "later"
maybe we will be able to get a c.
At or T-6 for the boys"
When the proposition of flying
was brought up for the first time
two weeks ago, some of the stu
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-11-21
DUCK PERSONALS

MIR. and Mrs. w. F. Midget
attended the funeral of Mr.. Mid
gett's aunt, Mrs. N. w. Daily, in
Elizabeth City Thursday.
Mrs. J. D. Scarborough and
Mrs. w. F. Midget were in Eliz-
abeth City Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Spruill are
visiting their son, Joseph Spru-
i'll, and family of East Lake.
L. L. Whitson of Norfolk spent
a few days this week with his
parents, r. and Mrs. S. B. Whit
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Rogers and
children of Norfolk were week
end guests of Mrs. Rogers moth
er, Mrs. Maggie Twiford.
Leonard Hall of the U. S. Navy
returned home Thursday after a
months trip to the Caribbean
Sea. He visited his family before
reporting back to duty.
Mrs. Carrie Beals returned
home Thursday after visiting her
son Paul Beals, and family of
Portlock for few days. On her
way home she stopped over for
a brief visit with her sister, Mrs.
Claudia Sawyer of Moyock.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Whltson
of Church's Island and Rev.
Woody Barnes of Norfolk spent
Sunday with Mr.. Wilson's bro
Their, S. B. Whitson, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. N. Morse of
Church's Island were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. M.
Rogers.
Mrs. Hughes Tillett and daugh-
ter of Wanchese visited Mrs. Et-
ia Scarborough, Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. w. E. Rogers and her
granddaughter, Jackie, of Nor
view, Norfolk, visited Mrs. Rog-
ers' mother, Mrs. Eta Scarbor-
ough Sunday afternoon.