Eisenhower Leads Taft on Early Returns in New Jersey Primary; Kefauver, Unopposed, Shows Well

NEWARK. N.J., April 15--Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pulled steadily ahead of Senator Robert A. Taft with about one third of the vote counted tonight in New Jersey's primary test of GOP presidential race strength.

After a lead-switching start in early returns, the five-star General of the Armies climbed swiftly as tabulations from the Eastern industrial state's larger cities flowed in.

In the GOP popularity contest, the count from 1,938 of 3,840 precincts was as follows: Eisenhower, 145.518; Taft, 101.483; Stassen, 6.830.

In the Democratic popularity contest, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tonnessee ran up an impressive total over a scattering of write-in votes for President Truman, Gov. Adai Stevenson of Illinois, and others. In 1.212 of 3.840 precincts, Kefauver got 50,447 votes.

Reds Reaccused of Stalling

MUNSAN, Korea, April 16--The Allies scolded the Reds again today for trying to use the "phony issue" of Russian neutrality as a bargaining point in the dead-locked Korean armistice talks.

The statement released by the U.N. Command referred to two key issues blocking agreement on truce supervision: Communist insistence on Russia as one of six neutral nations to police a truce, and as Allied demand for a ban on military airfield construction during an armistice. The Reds have asked for a resumption of prisoner exchange talks, which were recessed April 4.

President Truman yesterday signed the Japanese Peace Treaty which will formally end the struggle that began on Dec. 7. 1941, at Pearl Harbor. The State Department announced the treaty will become effective April 28.

Mediation efforts to get a union-management settlement in the seized steel industry were dropped yesterday amid speculation that the government itself now will give the C.I.O. steelworkers a raise

West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the three Western High Commissioners will meet today to discuss the latest Soviet note to the Western powers on a possible peace treaty with a United Germany.

The stock market ran into a heavy selling squall yesterday that handed it a setback equal to the greatest of the year. Nearly a billion and a half dollars was erased from the quoted value of all listed securities.

President Truman will fly to an Omaha meeting of Midwest Governors today to draft plans for combatting one of the worst floods in American history. The White House set up the meeting as the rampaging Missouri and Mississippi rivers reached record breaking heights.