Clark Fails In
Prosecution
WASHINGTON, i/P>—Chairman
J. Parnell Thomas iD.-N. J.>, of the
House committee on un-American
activities said today he is taking
straight to President Truman his
fight for prosecution of Commun
ists. Thomas told reporters three
letters to attorney General- Clark
failed to provide results.
Rep. Kunkelp <R.-Pa.>, raised a
question whether impeachment of
the attorney general might not
have a “salutary effect.” Rep.
Frederick C. Smith <R.-Ohio>, said
that is “the only proceeding we
have to compel the attorney gener
al to do his duty.”
Those remarks were made dur
ing a debate which led to almost
unanimous House approval of con
tempt action against two men iden
tified as top Communists. They are
Eugene Dennis, Communist party
secretary, and Leon Josephson,
who was described as head of a
ring that forged American pass
ports for Russian secret agents.
Rep. Marcantonio, who voted
against the contempt actions, said
they sprang from “hysterical per
secution.”
Philadelphia Gets
GOP Convention
KANSAS CITY, (/P)—The 1948
Republican nominating convention
will be held the week of June 20
in Philadelphia, the city where the
party nominated its first standard
bearer in 1856.
Choice of Philadelphia as hosti
to its fifth GOP convention came
late Monday as the Republican na-1
tional committee overwhelmingly
disregarded the recommendation
of its site sub-committee which
had given the nod to Chicago.
Says United States
Repudiates U. N.
WASHINGTON. I — Senator
Havvkes <R.-N. J.> contended yes
terday that President Truman’s
Greek-Turkish aid proposal has
“repudiated the membership re
sponsibilities of the United States
in the United Nations.”
As the Senate drove toward final
action on the $400,000,000 assist
ance bill, Hawkes said “it seems
incredible to me that the United
States, having spent so much time
in helping to organize the United
Nations, should now choose to play
a lone hand in the international
arena.” * I
In an address prepared for floor
delivery, the New Jersey Senator
proposed first that the United Na
tions membership be polled on
whether they approve of the course
we are going to take before we em
bark on it.”
He urged that an attempt then1
be made to reorganize the U. N.
“in such a way that one nation,
with the power of veto and an in- j
satiable desire for expansion, is,
not allowed to block the peace of
the world.”
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Shake-Up In
British Cabinet
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LONDON, (#*) — Ernest Bevin, l
long under fire from within his!
own Labor party, survived a Brit-1
ish cabinet shakeup last night and
today seemed still firmly entrench- ,
ed in the ministry of foreign af-!
fairs.
Prime Minister Attlee changed
his ministers for India and Ger- j
many, minister of pensions, post
master general and lord privy seal [
and added a minister without port.-j
folio, enlarging the cabinet from
20 to 21 members.
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Flashes of Life
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. oP>—
The federal bureau of investigation
has so many diapers on hand its
storage capacity can’t accommo
date them.
U. S. attorney Frank J. Hennes
sey took the problem to federal
judge Michael J. Roche. The judge
set June 7 as the final date for
owners to establish their rights to
the articles. If unclaimed. they
will be sold.
In addition to the diapers the
FBI has a wide variety of cosmet
ics and women’s garments. Hen
nessey said most of the items had
been stolen from interstate com
merce shipments.
DES MOINES, la. I/P) — State
representative Harold Nelson has
his own scheme for speeding up
adjournment of the Iowa legisla-j
ture.
The Sioux City Republican has a
cigar box filled with earth on hjs
desk in the House chamber J
Sprouts of corn, wheat and oats are
visible.
"When the corn gets a couple of
inches high,” Nelson said, “the
farmer members will become rest
less and will want to go home.”
ON THE RIGHT TRACK
WESTBURY, N. Y. (/P)—A little
brick station on a spur track which
the Long Island railroad aban
doned is the answer to the housing
problem of one veteran, Charles
Wilson, 26.
He and his wife, Catherine, 24,
were ready today to receive guests
in the former station now a snug
bungalow after months of work by
Wilson and his in-laws. The 27-by
17-foot building has three rooms
and bath.
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HOUSING NEEDS TRIPLE
CHICAGO (TP)—Robert Abrams’1
efforts to find a home became
three times more intense today.
Since his return from overseas
service Abrams and his wife have
been living with their families.
Yesterday Mrs. Abrams gave
birth to triplets two boys and a
girl, and Abrams said he hopes to
bring them to their own home—if
he can find one.
DECEMBER-MAY ROMANCE
CHICAGO, (/P)—At the marri
age license bureau Harry Paynter,
deputy clerk, asked Cornelius J.
Boldt, to give his birth date.
“June 14, 1873,” answered the
young girl with Boldt.
Then Paynter asked the girl, Hil
da Anderson, to show a birth cer
tificate because she did not appear
18 years old. She handed him a
certificate giving the birth date as
Oct. 5, 1928.
The marriage of the 73-year-old
I widower and the 18 year old girl
is set for Saturday,
BADGES COPPED
BALTIMORE, (/P)—'Two police
ment told their superiors that
someone had stolen the badges off
their uniform coats.
They explained the shields were
taken right in the station, too. It
happened when they left their
coats behind to go on wagon duty
they said.
SUSTAINED INTEREST
R^ATUR, 111. (/P)—Operas and
concerts are the spice of life for
"dv. n d Powers, 85. He has attend
ed performances of Aida and Car
men 35 times each, and has heard
35 concerts by Mary Garden. On
one t ip to New York he attended
4 9 operas, concerts and plays in 35
days, and another time attended 35
operas, concerts and plays in 21
days.
I Major Crimes
On Upgrade
The department of justice an
nounced that according to Director
J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation a total of
1,635 203 major crimes were com
mitted in the United States last
year, the highest annual total re
coided in the past decade. *
dir. Hoover said that a major
crime was committed in the nation
op the average of once every 18.7
seconds in 1946. During the aver
age day 36 persons were slain, 33
were raped and 135 others felon
iously assaulted. Every day also
brought reports of 172 robberies,
981 burglaries, 630 automobile
thefts and 2,580 miscellaneous lar
cenies.
Every 5.7 minutes during 1946
there was a crime of murder, man
slaughter, rape or assault to kill.
The total of 1,685,203 major crimes
for the entire year represents an
increase of 119,662 over 1945. The
foregoing estimates are based on
monthly reports received by the
FBI from more than 2.200 cities
representing a combined popula
tion in excess of 67,000,000.
A comparison of 1946 crime
with that of 1945 shows increases
of 23.3 per cent in murder and
non-negligent manslaughter, 15.7
per cent in robbery, 5.0 per cent in
rapes and 12.9 per cent in aggra
vated assault. Larceny increased
8.8 per cent and burglary 11.3 per
cent.
Mr. Hoover pointed out that the
estimated total of major crimes
does not include many miscellan
eous serious offenses, such as em
bezzlement, fraud, arson, receiving
stolen property and carrying con
cealed weapons. For this reason
the estimated totals are conserva
tive.
The only decline in major of
fenses was shown by the 4.8 per
cent decrease in the number of au
to thefts. Despite the 1946 decrease,
however, 26 cars were stolen each
hour throughout the year, the \na
pority of them being taken by per
sons 20 years of age and under.
Seattle Plans Full
Rotary Conference
Program
SEATTLE |Special*—With res
ervations pouring in rapidly from
the 45 Rotary Clubs in this area,
indications are that the 33rd An
nual conference of Rotary District
,101, to be held here May 4 to 7,
will be an outstanding event, ac
cording to George K. Comstock,
general chairman. Members and
wives of Seattle Rotary, the host
i club, have signed up for the meet
one hundred per cent, he said.
George E. Worster, preminent
business man of Los Angeles, has
been named official representative
of Rotary International and will
make the "keynote” address for
the conference, Comstock said. He
is a director of the Los Angeles
Downtown Business Men’s associa
tion and traffic association. He is
past president of the Rotary Club
of Los Angeles, past district gov
ernor of Rotary International, and
is now serving on the aims and ob
jects committee of Rotary Interna
tional.
Bud Harper, president of the
Nome Rotary club states that the
Nome club will be represented by
at least one mmber and possibly
more members will be in Seattle
at that time.
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Airplanes Collide ■
In Georgia
COLUMBUS, Ga. (A5)—A Delta
' Airlines plane collided with a re
converted army basic trainer in
landing here yesterday and at least
nine persons were believed dead in
the crash.
Attaches at Muscogee airport
said no bodies had been recovered
from either plane, both of which
were burning.
Delta Airlines said its plane was
a special flight carrying eight ex
I ecutives of the comparty on a sur
! vey flight. It listed the eight as “ap
: parently” dead. One man was re
1 ported in the other plane.
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