Vaughan Acted 1
“Honestly To Best
„ Of Ability”
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WASHINGTIN, </P»—Maj. Gen.
Harry H. Vaughan acknowledged
yesterday that he collected cam
paign money in 1946 from some of j
the business men he helped in
_ dealings with the government.
He said he got $2,000 or $3,000
from race track owner William
Helis, who sought Vaughan’s aid
in 1948 in getting a permit for
scarce building materials for the
Tanforan <Calif.) race track.
And, Vaughan said, he “prob
ably” got $2,000 from John Mara
gon, Washington man-about-town
and one time employee of a Chi
cago perfume company.
Flatly and repeatedly, he denied
that there was anything improper
in anything he did for any busi
ness man—or that he ever receiv
ed any fee, gift or favor in return
for his aid.
Senator McCarthy <R.-Wis.> said
at one point he felt that Vaughan
did not personally profit financial
ly” from his assistance to persons
who have figured in the inquiry.
But he demanded that Vaughan
produce for the committee the
names of all persons from whom
he received money for campaign
purposes, the exact amounts and
the disposition of the money.
Vaughan had testified that he
though Maragon and Helis contri
butions had gone to the Mussouri
Democratic campaign.
He was still being questioned
about this when chairman Hoey
•D.-N. C.i ordered a recess until
9 a.m. today. Vaughan will return
to the witness chair then.
The White House army aide told
Senate invesigators that the things
f he did were done without the
knowledge of President Truman.
He did not mention them to the
President, he said, because “I did
not think it was necessary.”
Vaughan came in for rugged
questioning from members of the 1
Senate sub-committee looking in- |
to the question of whether there
has been improper influence in
letting government contracts.
Much of it revolved about his
relations with Maragon, who stood
on his constitutional rights and re
fused to tell the committee that |
Maragon banked $119,000 during a
five-year period in which he had l
said his income was about $30,000.
Vaughan acknowledged he had
been helpful to Maragon from time
to time, but he swore he had never ’
authorized Maragon to “represent, 1
or speak for me or the White 1
House.”
Under a fire of questions from J
McCarthy. Vaughan denied specif
ically that he ever told the state I
department that President Truman
was “personally interested” in a ,
trip Maragon proposed to make to |
Europe in 1945 for a perfume com
pany—the same company which
gave Vaughan seven home freez
ers for himself and friends that
year.
Vaughan read the committee a
prepared statement which contain
ed among other things, his explan
ation for accepting the freeze box
es from officials of the Albert J.
Verley Perfume company. They
were simply gifts from old friends,
he said, and had no connection
with any assistance he may have
given those friends.
The witness said he had nothing
to conceal in his record; “I have
discharged my duties honestly and
to the best of my ability.”
DOG AIDS
ARCHEOLOGISTS
ROME. (/P)—A howling dog led
a digger to an archeological find
in Sardinia. Health department
workers oiling mosquito-breeding
pools near Su Anbarakhinue were
attracted by the bog, Cagliari, dis
patches say. They dug where the
animal scratched.
In a short time, they broke
through to a cavern containing
containing eight skulls and other
human bones. The dispatch said
the bones apparently dated from
prehistoric times..
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Watchmaker
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Management of Alma Fitch
Breakfasts - Lunches - Dinners
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Court Upholds
Hawaii’s Operation
< >f Doeks
HONOLULU, </P) — The Terri
tory of Hawaii yesterday planned
to resist picketing of its dock op
erations by striking CIO long
shoremen. Both government steve
doring and picketing against it
were upheld by a federal court.
U. S. district judges J. Frank
McLaughlin and Delbert E. Metz
ger announced the double-bitted
decision Monday. They said the
Territorial government could con
tinue in the stevedoring business
which it began after seizing the is
lands’ strike-bound docks under
an emergency lawr passed by the
Hawaiian legislature Aug. 6.
The judges also ruled the inter
national longshoremen’s and ware
housemen’s union could keep on
picketing the government-oper
ated docks. The union’s 2.000
stevedores struck 123 days ago to
raise their S140 hourly pay by 32
cents.
The ILWU had challenged the
law in federal court. It had asked
an order temporarily restraining
the government from operating the
docks. The two judges said their
ruling upholding Territorial dock
operations and the union’s right to
continue picketing would be effec
tive until them completed a hear
ing on the union’s application for
a permanent injunction.
It was the court’s action on pic
keting that brought an immediate
promise of resistance from J. Gar
ner Anthony, the Territory’s spe
cial deputy attorney general.
The judges ruled that pickets at
government piers would be regard
ed as ‘ monuments to free men” in
protest against the dock seizure
law. These pickets, the opinion
continued, would not constitute a
“picket line in connection with a
labor dispute."
Anthony said this ruling “is
vague and indefinite as to its pos
sible effects.” Judge McLaughlin
i declined to clarify this part >f the
opinion for a reporter Monday and
Anthony said he could give no au
thoritative statement on what the
court meant until the order en
forcing the judges’ decision is
drafted.
Bolivian Rebels
Shell La Paz
LA PAZ, Bolivia, i/P)—Two reb
el planes yesterday dropped mor
tar shells on the army airport and
a nearby military college.
The revolutionists used mortar
shells because they have no bombs,
a government spokesman said. The
shells did no damage, he added.
The planes, DC-3 transports,
flew over La Paz itself, but were
driven off by anti-aircraft fire.
Meanwhile the government be
gan a draft of all citizens in a figh*
of survival against the spreading
rightist revolution.
Reservists, 20 to 24. were called
to the colors in La Paz and orders
for mobilization have been issue 1
to all men If) to 50.
They will be called upon to fight
h" revolt against the middle-of
road government which broke I
i.ut in s ■ it'rred sections Saturday I
.nr! n w controls all Bolivia’s large
tie- except La Paz.
Two b. vs were talking over the
Imday School lesson.
“Do you believe all that busi
ness about the devil?" one asked.
"Heck, no," replied the other
jov, "it’s like that Santa Claus J
stuff . . . it’s just your old man!" ,
Unknown Bests
Bantam Champ
WASHINGTON, <*P) — An un
known youngster, .I;mmy Cooper,
is the boxing world’s newest lu
minary.
He scored a ten round decision
Monday night over world bantam
weight champion Manuel Ortiz in
. a non-title bout.
Cooper, a 21-year-old left-jab
! artist from Washington, easily out
pointed the 33-year-old titlist at
Griffith stadium.
Johnny Rogers, the champ’s
manager, said after the fight that
he is willing to have Ortiz sign for
! a title fight against Cooper after
a trip abroad. Ortiz is scheduled to
leave for Europe on Sept. 3 for a
six-week tour.
WICHITA, Kas. (TP)—'The start
ing field of 32 teams in the na
J tional semi-pro baseball tourna
i ment will be cut in half by the end
i of tonight’s play.
1 Fourteen teams already have
I been ousted since the double elim
ination tournament began Aug. 19.
i Two more teams will be eliminat
j ed tonight.
The Fort Wayne, Ind., General
Electrics, the defending champions
j edged past their first tough oppon
ent in last night’s play. They bea
Task Force
••Pleasure" Seizes
Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA. CP- — A gay
task force of gaudily-dressed
American Legionnaires began a 12
■ hour parade maneuver yesterday
’ to capture Philadelphia.
Drums rolled, bug’.es blared.
Strutting girls in pretty costumes
twirled batons. Martial tunes di
ed the air. So did coniett. and
ticket tape—and the cheering ap
plause of a million Ph ladelpnians
and visitors.
The Quaker City su ve lered
happily to the invasion—th Lc
bion’s 31st annual convention, par
ade.
U. S. military and naval tin
'led off the march directly nehin i
the Legion’s parade marsha's.
The massed colors o! t ic 48
States, the District oi Co tmbia,
Alaska. Guam, Puerto Hu .. the
Virgin Islands and the P nutria
Canal zone were carried by :. bat
talion of military policeme u
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the Weimar, Tex., Truckers, -i to 2.
i The Weimar roster induces ten
players from the highly regarded
i 1949 University ol Texa- te.nn.
In an 11-inning game Hummeis
town. Pa., eliminated the La sors
theld, CMif., Spurs, 2 to 1.
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