Hollywood Bed
Of Communist
Propaganda
LOS ANGELES, (A*)—A House
sub-committee on un-American
activities has concluded its inves
tigation of Communist influence
in Hollywood and chairman J.
Parnell Thomas (R.-N. J.), says
the following recommendations
will be made to the full commit
tee in Washington:
1— An all-inclusive public hear
ing be held starting June 16 cov
ering Hanns Eisler and others.
2— Launch a broader field in
vestigation of Communism in the
motion picture industry.
3— Follow this will a full dress
public hearing either in Washing
ton or Hollywood.
4— Public hearing beginning
June 26 in Washington to air dis
closures of Viktor Kravchenko
and others.
Eisler, Hollywood composer, is
a brother of Gerhardt Eisler,
charged by the group as “No 1
Soviet agent in the United States.”
Kravchenko, former Red Army
officer, renounced Communism
while a member of Soviet pur
chasing commission in Washing
ton in 1944. Both appeared before
the committee here.
Thomas declared the week-long
hearings produced “recorded tes
timony that the White House ex
erted its influence on certain peo
ple in Hollywood to have certain
pro-Russian motion pictures film
ed during the regime of the late
President Roosevelt.”
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Primaries Draw
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Many Candidates
OLYMPIA, Wash. {IP)—Nation
I al attention was focused Saturday
| on a special Democratic primary
: in Washington’s third Congres
sional district in which state at
torney general Smith Troy, who
labelled himself a “Truman Dem
ocrat,” and former Congressman
Charles Savage, whose supporters
said favored Henry Wallace’s for
eign policy views, sought their
party’s nomination.
Savage has refrained from di: -
! cussing Wallace in the campaign.
The Democratic fight oversha
! dowed interest in the Republican
I primary in which there are four
candidates for the June 7th spe
cial election to fill the vacancy in
! the House of Representatives
I caused by the recent death of Rep.
I Fred Norman. Republican.
I Troy, a World War II veteran,
has made speeches urging the
Democratic party to throw out
, Communist sympathizers. Savage,
who served one tei'm in Congi'ess
before being defeated by Norman
last year, said he was “for the loan
to Greece and Turkey if it is used
to feed hungry people but I don’t
i believe the money should be used
for political or military purposes.”
While the Democratic conserva
tive faction lent support to Troy.
Savage’s campaign was aided by
the Pi*ogressive Citizens of Amer
ica groups.
The four-way Republican race
is between Russell V. Mack. Ho
quiam publisher and former Re
publican Congressional nominee;
Herbert Siler, of Chehalis. a for
mer state senator; State Rep.
Thomas Hall, Wahkiakum dairy
farmer and Monroe Burnett,
Olympia real estate man.
Observers forecast a x'ather light
Murderer Gives
Eye To Two Men
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (/P)—'The
cornea of the right eye of a dead
murderer was divided Staturday
between two living men.
The left- eye was burned and
rendered useless for surgical
transplant, doctors discovered,
when the murderer Vollie Bill
Bates. 20, Mena, Ark., was elec
' "oeuted Friday at Tucker prison
farm for the slaying of a home
town taxicab driver.
.“We made two grafts of the
"oo > eve.” Dr. K. W. Cosgrove,
who with Dr. J. F. Henry per
formed the operations, said.
“It will be at least 10 days be
fore we know whether the opera
tions are successful,” he declared
after finishing the first transplant.
Michael F. Boucher, 73, retired
Hot Springs, Ark., bricklayer, was
first in the operating room for the
transplants.'He was followed by
Frank McCracken, 49, Fort Smith
piano tuner. Each had one eye
which transplants might help.
The operations were performed
under local anesthetics and the
patients talked with the surgeons
and Baptist hospital attendants,
Dr. Cosgrove said.
Before his execution. Bates
willed his eyes to someone who
“needed them badly.” They were
removed shortly after the execu
tion.
“Is there anything you fancy to
eat before the execution?” asked
the warden.
“Yes, mushrooms,” said the con
demned man. “I’ve always been
scared to try them in case I’d be
poisoned.”
vote—35,000 to 50,000 in the nine
county district.
Oklahoma Finally
Goes Down
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — The
battleship Oklahoma went down
for the last time Saturday.
The once mighty survivor of a
sinking in the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor plunged to the bot
ton early Saturday morning 540
miles out of Honolulu in an area
j of the Pacific approximately three
| miles deep.
Abandoned by the navy as a
fighting ship, the 33-year-old ves
I sel was under tow to an Oakland,
| Calif., drydock company for
; scrapping.
The coast guard announced
there were no crewmen aboard.
The Oklahoma, launched March
23, 1914, had been reported ear
lier as listing badly and Young
Brothers, Ltd., Honolulu agency
which handled her purchase for
I scrap, had ordered the tugs Her
I cules and Monarch, who had the;
ship under tow, to return to Pearl
Harbor rather than try to make
the mainland. She left for Hono
j lulu last Saturday.
| Little of the Oklahoma’s ior
i mer might remained for her last
; voyage.
j Her superstructure, including
her anti-aircraft batteries, her 10
14-inch guns and 16 5-inch guns,
were gone.
Much of her machinery, how
ever, including boilers, remained
intact.
Torpedoed from the air in the
Japanese air attack at Pearl Har
bor, the Oklahoma turned turtle
in shallow water. She was righted
and refloated in May, 1943, and
rebuilt.
The Moore Drydock Company
of Oakland had purchased the
Stocks Decline
To New Lows
NEW YORK, i/P)—Heavy sell
ing knocked down stocks a few
cents to more than $2 a share in
Saturday’s market. It was the
second day in a row that prices
were under heavy pressure.
At the close prices on the aver
age were at the lowest since Janu
ary, 1945, Total losses for the
week were the largest for any
similar period since September
last year.
Volume of 980,000 shares top
ped any short session for more
than a year.
Investor pessimism in the face
of business uncertainties and for
eign developments was rated by
brokers as the main reason for
the fresh setback.
Portland Teamster
Strike Settled
PORTLAND, Ore. i/P) — AFL
teamsters prepared Saturday to
remove pickets immediately fol
lowing signing of a contract that
would end a four-week long strike
that had tied up 66 drayage and
warehouse firms here.
It calls for a 10-cent hourly
wage increase, plus an additional
5 cents hourly for night work.
The strike had affected 1100
teamsters and held up delivery of
furniture, home appliances and
some magazines.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Oklahoma as .junk for $46,000 and
planned to begin reducing her to
scrap in June.
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