Scott To Resign As
GOP Chairman
WASHINGTON, (/P>—Hugh D.
Scott’s decision to quit as Repub
lican national chaij^nan yesterday
found A. T. “Bert” Howard, Ne
braska state chairman, gaming
strength as his likely successor.
Friends of Howard talked of a
compromise under which the Ne
braskan might be named chair
man, with former Senator John
Danaher of Connecticut chosen as
executive director of the commit
tee.
Scott, brought into the office by
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York at last year’s national con
vention, announced Monday night
he will hand his resignation to the
national committee at a meeting
here August 4.
He beat what some committee
members called a deadline yester
day lor his resignation, after
which a group headed by Harri
son E. Spangler of Iowa and Car
roll Reece of Tennessee, both for
mer chairman, had threatened to
force a meeting of the committee.
They previously had been report
ed as having set the deadline for
last Tuesday.
Scott’s decision to quit came
without any final settlement on
his successor, although Howard
appeared to be the candidate most
generally acceptable to those out
side the Spangler-Reece group.
Scott said in a statement that
while “considerable progress has
been made toward rebuilding a
united party” that “certain dis
sensions continue.”
“I shall not attempt to place the
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street at the time.
“Cooper yelled ‘I’m hit’.”
Cohen, who fronts as a Holly- I
wood haberdasher, has had many
brushes with the law and several
with sasassins’ bullets. A year ago
Harry “Hooky” Rothman, hood
lum associate of Cohen, was slain
in Cohen’s haberdashery.
Police grilled Cohen extensively
in the Bugsy SiegeL killing of two
years ago but nothing ever came
of it. Siegel was ambushed as he
sat in the luxurious mansion of in
ternational playgirl Virginia Hill.
The arrest and quick, secret re
lease of seven Cohen henchmen
last April in an assault case touch
ed off the current grand jury in
vestigation which has rocked the
Los Angeles police department.
The henchmen were arrested by
two rookie policemen soon after
thy were seen leaving the scene of
a beating of a radio shop owner.
Higher-ups in the police depart
ment are charged with ordering
their “hushed-up” release.
Pauline Smith of the Western
Electric Co., is visiting here from
her home in Chicago. 111., in the
interest of preparing a travelogue
on this part of Alaska for a pub
lication for her company.
responsibility,” he said. “To do so
would serve no useful purpose.
The composing of these differ
ences remains the party’s immedi
ate duty.”
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her spending in the U. S. by 25
per cent to help ease the currency
situation.
London had its worst race riot
in many years last night. The
light was between Nigerians and
white unemployed Londoners in
the turbulent East End section of
Deptford. Two Negroes and three
policemen were injured seriously
in the melee. Eight white men and
eight negroes were arrested.
The labor government announc
ed more troops would be placed
in the London waterfront areas to
handle cargoes. Another 2,000
troops were alerted and tomorrow
! 9,000 soldiers will be on the job.
i The work stoppage is in its 22nd
day. More than 15,000 dockmen
1 are idle. They refuse to work two
! strike-bound Canadian ships,
j The communist press in Prague
! said today that the Roman Catho
1 lie hierarchy has organized an il
i legal network of communications
1 to foster anti-government resist
ance. The communists charged
Archbishop Josef Beran and his
bishops with plotting to disrupt
the government.
Wednesday, July 20, 1949
Russia has sent a diplomatic
note to Italy protesting its signing
of the North Atlantic treaty. Rus
sia charged Italy violated the
terms of her peace treaty. The
British and Italian foreign offices
denied it.
Simultaneously Russia sent
protest notes to the United States,
Britain and France accusing these
powers of urging Italy to join the
Atlantic Pact in violation of peace
treaty terms.
Ratification of the pact is under
1 discussion in Italy's lower House
! of Parliament — the Chamber of
! Deputies. It is expected to pass
: both houses without difficulty.
Specifically Russia said the Ital
ian action broke Italy’s peace
treaty signed in Paris in Febru
ary. 1947. This treaty, Russia said,
pledged Italy “to abstain from
i undertaking any actions directed
against states with which that
treaty was signed and consequent
ly not to join any alliances or
other groupings pursuing aggres
sive aims.”
An Italian foreign office spokes
man said the charge was “absurd
and ridiculous.”
The Chinese communist war
machine is rolling southward
again. Nationalist sources in Can
ton said communist troops in K.
angsi are spearheading in three
I directions toward Hunan, China's
rice bowl. The fate of South China
hangs on what happens in Hunan.
The communist press in Czecho
slovakia said today that the gov
ernment-sponsored Catholic Ac
tion movement has taken the place
of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
as spokesman for Czechoslovakia’s
8,000,000 Roman Catholics. Arch
! bishop Josef Beran and his bish
j ops are under police surveillance
and perhaps effectively silenced.
Britain’s Labor government re
buked the national dock labor
board for threatening to take
away important labor benefits if
London’s 15,000 dock workers do
not go back to work. The board
threatened to withdraw virtual
closed shop provisions and regu
lar pay and vacation guarantees.
The government urged the men to
return but said they would not
forfeit these benefits.
The government prepared to
place more troops on the piers t<
unload ships.
Girl Seoul News
I -
The CJirl Scouts closed camp
yesterday after a busy two weeks
at the scout camp at Dexter. Con
siderable excitement reigned the
last two days when it was discov
ered that red measles had broken
out and two of the girls, Wanda
Beltz and Madeline Mogg were
taken to the hospital.
Dr. F. Langsam, assisted by
Territorial Health Nurse Lois Mor
gan, inoculated all the girls at the
camp on Monday and discovered
that a senior Girl Scout, Kitty
Bjornstad, was also coming down
with measles.
The camp was made possible
this summer through the efforts
of the Girl Scout leader, Mrs. M.
Staudenmever, who was assisted
at camp by Mrs. John Peterson,
Mrs. John McCormick and Laura
McKenzie.
Girls who attended camp are:
Wanda Beltz, Kay Bjornstad,
Christine Blachford, Dianne Bou
cher, Mary Jeanne Boucher, Marie
Castel, Kay Coulthard, Geraldine
Fagerstrom, Lucy Ann Fager
! strom, Lois Ann Gifford, Carolyn
I Glavinovich, Helen Glavinovich,
Andrea, Dorothy and Maureen
Hudert, Star Hunt, Carolyn Hynd
man, Joan Longley, Donna and
Mary Louise Lyle, Alice and Don
I na Miller, Edith Morton, Jacque
line Rigg, Dianne Swanberg, Mad
eline Mogg, Thelma Ott, Karrin,
Shirley and Elizabeth Fricke.
! Chinese is spoken by some 400,
000,000 people if all the various
dialects are included.
Heart Attack Kill*
Frank Murphy, 59.
Of Supreme Court.
DETROIT, (/P)—Justice Frank
Murphy of the United States Su
preme Court died yesterday of a
heart attack. He was 59.
The jurist, appointed to the high
tribunal in 1940, had been ill in
Henry Ford Hospital for about a
week. His condition had not been
considered serious.
His Supreme Court career was
marked by numerous dissenting
opinions in the liberal tradition. A
religious man, he had a devout
faith in democracy and saw in
each decision another step in
bringing his creed into practice.
He began his public career as a
judge in Detroit. National prom
inence came when President
| Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed
i him governor-general of the Phil
ippines in 1933. He rose rap.dly.
He became the first Philippine
High Commissioner, Democratic
; governor of Michigan, United
States attorney general and final
1 ly Supreme Court Justice.
Throughout his brilliant career
Murphy remained a bachelor.
Death came at 7:45 a.m. His
! family had been reticent to speak
j of his illness, and the announce
! ment was totally unexpected.
Doctors said a coronary occlu
sion—a blocking off of blood to
I tne heart—caused death.
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