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Sen. John Kennedy Formally Enters Presidential Race WASHINGTON UD Sen. John F. Kennedy today formally stepped into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The 42-year-old Massachusetts senator said he intends to go into several presidential primaries, beginning with the one in New Hampshire March 8. Describing the presidency as the most powerful office in the Free World, Kennedy's statement said leadership at this time is vital in the life of the No Pact Seen Near Holiday Talks Fail To End Steel Strike WASHINGTON (UPI) The Eisenhower administration worked behind the scenes today trying to head off a resumption of the steel strike Jan. 26 but no progress was reported toward settling the seven month old dispute. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell held special conferences Friday U. S. General Backs Korean Clash Denial SEOUL, South Korea OP) The top U.S. commander in South Korea today backed up South Koreas denial that one of its warships attacked a Soviet survey vessel Dec. 28. "Information ' available to the U.N. command confirms the statement of the Republic of Korea government that no naval craft of the republic was involved, Gen. Carter B. Ma-gruder said in a statement issued by his U.N. headquarters. Magruders command oversees South Korean naval operations. The Soviets said Thursday a South Korean submarine chaser attacked the survey ship Ungo about 30 miles off the North Korean coast and 36 miles northeast of the South Korean border. Moscow said the warship made three runs on the Ungo and killed a helmsman and wounded four sailors with a direct hit on the bridge. In denying the eharge,Jhe South Korean government said its ships do not operate as far north as the area of the reported attack. Couple Honeymoons Along Parade Route PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) George Harmon, 21, and his new wife, Kathy, 19, spent their wedding night in a sleeping bag along the route of the Tournament of Roses parade. In the News Today Paragraphs About People, Places 3 Small Children Die in Trailer Fire WORLAND, Wyo. (UPI) Three young children burned to death Friday night when with union and management officials In the governments stepped-up effort to find a solution before the Steelworkers are free to walk out of the mills again. Mitchell conferred separately with Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and chief industry negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. Union attorney Arthur J. Goldberg sat in on the Mit-chell-McDonald session. Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan earlier this week suspended his ef-fords to bring the two sides together. Mitchell and Vice President Richard M. Nixon disclosed recently that they had been holding a series of meetings with both union and company officials as part of the administrations behind-the-scenes effort to find agreement. Nixon was expected to join in the conferences again after he returns from the West Coast, where he attended the New Years Day Rose Bowl football game. According to Nixon, President Eisenhower is being kept fully informed of develop-me!htSBut so far it appears there has been little to report. Chances are remote that the controversy will be set til'd before the Steelworkers vote Jan. 11-13 on the companys final contract offer. McDonald has predicted the 200,000 Steelworkers will vote overwhelmingly to reject It. The balloting is required by the Taft-IIartley law before an 80-day back-to-work order expires Jan. 26. The union will be free to resume its strike after the court order expires. The strike ran 116 days before the order sent the Steelworkers to their jobs. Tommy Took It Clubbers Thwarted TIIOMASVILLE, Ga. CD Members of the "Tommy-Took-It Club wont be taking any American people. But even Kennedys ardent supporters concede he hasn't in sight now' the 761 votes he would need to win the nomination at the July 11 convention in Los Angeles. Because of this the Massachusetts senator Is expected to make wide ranging forays into presidential primaries. He has been unable to lure any of his prospective opponents into his New England stronghold and apparently will run alone on the Democratic ticket in New Hampshires March 8 Democratic primary. Unless there are unforeseen developments he will take on Hum p h r e y in Wisconsins April 5 voting. The whole field of aspirants and some who claim they are not apparently will be entered in Oregons May 20 free-for-all, where a mans name can be enteied without his consent. Kennedy also may enter Ohios May 3 primary, despite the current opposition of Gov. Michael V. DiSalle, himself a Catholic, who wants Ohios favorite son designation. Sen. Frank Lausche (D-Ohio) also may seek favorite son status in the Ohio balloting. "For it is in the executive branch that the most crucial decisions of this century must be made in the next four years," Kennedy said. Arms Race Solution He said these decisions Involve how to end or alter the burdensome arms race, where Soviet gains already threaten our very existence." Other decisions, Kennedy said, will involve maintaining the freedom and order in newly emerging nations, rebuilding the stature of American science and education, and how to prevent the collapse of our farm economy and the decay of our cities. Also involved, Kennedy said, are decisions on how to achieve, without further infla-t i o n or unemployment, expanded economic growdh benefiting all Americans and how to give direction to our traditional moral purpose, awakening every American to the dangers and opportunities that confront us. Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic to bid seriously for his partys nomination since A1 Smith was defeated in 1928, said he will campaign on those issues in the drive for the nomination. Reflecting the political necessities of his position as a front-runner without sufficient votes now to win the nomination, Kennedy said he will submit his name in several primaries. But he delayed announcement of those he will enter, with the exception of the New Hampshire contest.