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UP News Briefs Marshall Backs Truman WASHINGTON, D. C, May 7.— Defense j Secretary George C. Marshall today pre- . sented facts and arguments designed to , show that President Truman did the right thing when he fired Gen. Douglas Mac- l Arthur. 800 Red Plans Dispatched TAIPEH, Formosa, May 7.— The English [ language daily, China News, reported today • in a Hong-Kong dispatch that 800 Russian- I I ■ made planes have been dispatched to the : Communist international air , force in I Manchuria. « Seeks Limited Farm Subsidies WASHINGTON, D. C, May 7.— Defense J Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson asked Con- . gress today to permit limited farm subsidies, particularly on meat, and for standby I authority to buy foreign farm products. U. S. Steel Outlook Good I HOBOKEN, N. J., May 7.— The American J steel industry now has the capacity to pro- J duce nearly as much steel as the rest of the world combined, Irving S. Olds, chairman ! of the United States Steel Corporation, said ! today. Olds noted that present steel ca- ] pacity is now about three times the esti- J mated steel production in 1950 of Russia and her satellites and still is growing. 1 t Allies in Unopposed Attack I TOKYO, Japan, May 7. — United Nations forces attacked at both ends of the 100-mile Korean front today and sent a tank ! patrol rumbling unopposed into strategic Chunchon at the center. i U. S. Acts on Arms Embargo i UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., May 7.— The i
