(FBI Investigates
Election Frauds
WASHINGTON, i7P> —Senator
Ferguson R.-Mich.) declared to
day that the current federal in
vestigation of alleged irregulari
ties in last summer’s Kansas City
Democratic primary is “locking
the barn door after the horse is
stolen.”
“Even the oats are gone,” he
observed in an obvious reference
to the recent theft of disputed bal
lots from the safe in the city elec
tion board’s office.
Ferguson is chairman of a Sen
ate judicial sub-committee which
is looking into the justice depart
ment’s action in the Kansas City
situation. He commented as the
sub-committee resumed hearings.
FBI agents made an inquiry
last fall and subsequently federal
officials announced no grounds
were found for federal prosecu
tion. Yesterday FBI Chief M. Ed
gar Hoover said that investigation
was a “preliminary one,” in which
only six persons were questioned.
' Since the justice department de
cision. a state grand jury has fol
lowed up evidence developed by
the Kansas City Star and indicted
78 persons. The now-stolen bal
lots were part of the evidence the
grand jury assayed.
The FBI announced Wednesday
that it had now received authori
zation from Attorney General
Tom Clark to make a “full inves
tigation.”
Ten Die As -
Freighter Sinks
• FORT WILLIAM, Ont. UP) —
Search was renewed yesterday in
the cold waters of Lake Superior
for ten missing bodies of victims
who perished when the Canadian
freighter Emperor sank early
Tuesday morning on jutting rocks
of Isle Royale.
Twelve crew members were be
lieved drowned. While 21 others
who managed to board lifeboats
o • scramble atop the rocks were
rescued by the Coast Guard cutter
Kimball.
Threatening weather forced a
delay in the grim hunt for vic
tims Tuesday afternoon after the
bodies of two women—Mrs. Jo
seph Tobachuk, 30, of Fort Wil
liam. and Mrs. Edna Schultz of
Owen Sound, Ont.—had been
taken from the water.
The Canada Steamship lines,
owner of the ill-fated ship that
was carrying iron ore to the lower
lakes, announced the Northern
Engineering company’s vessel,
Coastal Queen, had been commis
sioned to renew the search for an
other woman and nine men.
Although there was practically
no hope that any of the missing
crew could be alive after long ex
posure on the northern lake, the
Coastal Queen carried three small
power boats to scour the bleak
headlands of Isle Royale, a re
mote national park.
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Eskimo Ordained
As Minister
BARROW, Alaska, (/P) — The
first Eskimo to gain this honor in
Alaska, Roy Ahmaogak was or
dained into the ministry ol' the
Presbyterian church at a special
service Tuesday night by the Rev.
Harry Champlin of Fairbanks and
the Rev. Samuel Lee of Barrow.
Ahmaogak has just returned
from a year’s special study in the
States during which he translated
the gospel of Mark and the book
of Romans into the Barrow dia
lect of the Eskimo language, which
will be published by the American
Bible Society.
The Presbyterian church will
publish an Eskimo primer written
by its new minister.
The Rev. ’Ahmaogak, who will
serve as pastor of the Wainwright
mission, performed his first
church duty shortly after his or
dination by baptising Jonneth
Anne Lee the infant daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Lee, Amer
ican missionaries here.
Budget Slash
Called Failure
WASHINGTON. (/P) — House
Democrats cried “failure” today
ns the Republican drive to cut
$6,000,000,000 from President Tru
man’s $37,500,000,000 spending
estimate for 1948 passed the half
i way mark with about two-thirds
of the budget disposed of.
The Democrats based their as
sertions on a cut of less than eight
per cent in the war department
military budget which the House
passed yesterday after adding
$40,000,000 for new airplane pur-'
chases.
The $5,280,982,423 bill went to
the Senate $435,809,077 below
budget estimates but with the
plane fund added to the amout the
House appropriations committee
had recommended. The commit
tee accepted the boost after ac-1
knowledging that it had made a
$280,000,000 in its original report
to the House.
Truman Makes
Reply To Senator
Taft’s Remarks
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is now on friendly terms with Ar
gentina.
Domestic affairs:
1. Mr. Truman said the investi
gation of alleged vote frauds ir
Kansas City, Mo., should be car
ried through to it slogical conclu
sion. He said no one can condon"
vote frauds, adding this is th'
gravest crime in a democracy.
2. He said Charles R. Savage,
Democratic candidate for Con
gress in next Saturday’s special
election in the Third precinct of
Washington, was nominated by
the Democratic party and will
have the support of the Democrat
ic national committee.
3. The President refused to give
any advance tip on what his ac
tion will be on the tax and labor
bills.
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