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VOL. LXIII, No. 104 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1953
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Eisenhower . . .
No Successor Named as Yet
SBy The Associated Press
LONDON-Joseph Stalin died last night behind the 12-foot-thick walls of Mos-
cow's Kremlin.
Stalin, whodominated a third of the world's peoples as Prime Minister and dictator
of the Soviet Union, succumbed at 9:50 p.m. (1:50 a.m. yesterday Ann Arbor time) four
days after suffering a brain hemorrhage stroke.
By The Associated Press The most powerful dictator in history had been in a coma since he was stricken Sun-
WASHINGTON-President Eis-
enhower last night instructed the day night, and his condition had been growing progressively worse. Yesterday his 10
Secretary of State to transmit the physicians said his heart was faltering.
"official condolences" of the Unit-
ed States government on the death The announcement of Stalin's death was broadcast from Moscow at 4:07 a.m. Mos,
MARSHAL STALIN REVIEWING RED ARMY PARADE
of Premier Stalin.
The President directed Dulles
to send this message to the
American Embassy in Moscow
for transmission to the govern-
ment of the U.S.S.R.:
"The government of the United
States tenders its official condo-
lences to the government of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lics on the death of Generalissimo
Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of:
the Soviet Union."
Vishinsky .. .
GLEN COVE, N.Y.-Soviet For-
eign Minister Andrei Vishinsky
said last night the death of Joseph
Stalin was a blow to all humanity.
Reached by telephone at his
country retreat on Long Island,
the Kremlin's diplomatic chief
said:
"With great sorrow I confirm
the death of Prime Minister
Stalin. It is a great blow to all
of the Soviet people and to all
humanity. The name of Stalin is
immortal."
Vishinsky, who was prosecutor
for Stalin at she purge trials of
the 30's which eliminated many of
Stalin's enemies, said there were
no changes in his plans to leave
for Moscow today.
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Eden . . .
WASHINGTON-Britain's For-
eign Secretary Anthony Eden yes-
terday held out a co-operative
hand to any new Russian regimel
desiring a real, enduring peace.
The British leader, in a speech
made here before the news of
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World News Roundup
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON-President Eisenhower told newsmen yesterday
that he would not interfere with any of Senator McCarthy's investi-
gations unless they threatened to disrupt the activities of the gov-
ernment.
Eisenhower would not say what these activities might be but
left observers with the feeling that he is becoming wary of McCarthy's
probes and would step in the minute the Wisconsin Senator became too
critical of the Administration.
WASHINGTON-Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft
Yesterday asked for a "cooling-off period" in the rift over the
wording of a resolution attacking Russia's violation of World War
II agreements.
The resolution, which was blasted by Democrats, was origi-
nally submitted by President Eisenhower. It challenged the validity
of pacts negotiated by Roosevelt and Truman during their presi-
dential tenure.
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CHAMPAIGN, II1.-The Big Ten's prolonged football schedule
deadlock was broken late yesterday when the University of Illinois
agreed to play Michigan State in both 1955 and 1956, giving the
Spartans the minimum conference schedule of six games both seasons.:
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the .country, but the announce-
ment was issued in the name of
the Communist party's Central
Committee, the. Council of Min-
isters and the Presidium of the
Supreme Council.
All these are' organs which
Stalin dominated. At present,
the machinery of control of the
sprawling Communist Empire is
believed to be technically in the
hands of Georgi Malenkov and
V. M. Molotov.
As if appealing for unity, the
official statement said:
"In these sorrowful days all the
peoples of our country are rally-
ing even closer in a great fra-.
ternal family under the tested
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for Stalin biography
leadership of the Communist par-
ty created and reared by Lenin
and Stalin."
"The Soviet people have
boundless faith in and are per-
meated with a deep love for
cow time today, more than six hours after his doctors had given .up their struggle.
The official announcement said:
"The heart of the comrade and inspired continuer of Lenin's will, the wise leader and
eacher of the Communist party and the Soviet people - Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin --
has stopped beating."
There was no immediate indication fro m Moscow who was taking over control of
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SEOUL-U. S. Air Force and Navy planes sowed flaming ruin in their Communist party for they
Northeast Korea yesterday climaxed by a redord-breaking 1,000-mile knowg hav the sctrvit of th-
.erning ta h urm aagv all the activity of the
Thunderiet raid only 50 miles from Siberia. party is service in the interests
At Wonsan, the "Mighty Mo" steamed boldly into harbor and of the people," the announee-