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Show njfWjEARSON Following MacArthur's Trail T T IS considered more than significant that a crack reporter for the Cincinnati Times-Star, owned by the Taft family, has left for Australia to cover the route which General Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur took on his northward advance from Australia to the ThePrcporter js Douglass M. Allen Jr., who left for Australia early in January and is scheduled to hit Korea ard J.apan around April 15, working hit way north through the ' Philippines and the battle-scarred Pacific Islands. Inside word is that Allen will do a little quiet probing of certain Incidents surrounding MacArthur's campaign, which, during the war, were shrouded by, censorship. One of these is the famous mansion which MacArthur had the Seabees build for him on a hill overlooking HoUandia, New Guinea, f MacArthur aroused navy resentment at times, even bitterness ) Juring hi" northward advance to the Philippines. And if he decides to ! come a presidential candidate, obviously it would not hurt his rival candidates, including Senator Taft, to have certain hitherto censored j information told to the American public during the crucial days just before the Republican convention in Philadelphia. |