SATURDAY. MAY 22. 1.754 Democrats : Want PhOninwßeidalpd WASHINGTON, ,May 21 (W) . --Democrats on the Senate sub- Committee investigating the McCarthy-Army •feud demanded in writing today that the public be let in 9n monitored telephone calls, with nothing "relevant or material" withheld. -. Acting Chairman Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) counted that the Senate Kills 18-Year-Old Vote Bill , • WASHINGTON, May 21 W)— President Dwight D. Eisenhower's proposed constitutional amend ment to lower the voting age to 18 was killed by the Senate to day. After sharp debate, in which Southern senators charged the amendment would be an invasion of states' rights, the measure lost on a 34-24 . vote. Short of .Majority While 34 senators supported the proposal, their number was far short of the two-thirds majority of those present and voting, which is required for approval of a con stitutional amendment. The Senate action appeared to bury the issue for this session of Congress, even though a similar measure is pending in the House. Ike Favors Change Eisenhower recommended the change in his State of the Union message to Congress last January. "For years our citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 have, in time of peril ; been summoned to fight for America," the President said at ,that time. "They should participate in the political process that • produces this fateful summons." In all states except Georgia, where 18-yeas-olds may vote, the legal age is 21. 34 Against It Twenty-seven Republicans and seven Norther. Democrats voted for the amendment. Twenty-four. Democrats lined up against it, however. Most of them were Southerners. Signs of Southern bitterness against the Supreme Court for outlawing school segregation crop ped up in connection with today's Senate decision. 2 Plead Guilty For Burglaries GREENSBURG, Pa., May 21 (JP) —Two men today pleaded guilty to a series of burglaries in West moreland County and drew prison terms ranging from three to eight years. Judge John M. O'Connell sent enced James Galmoff of Renton, from four to eight years in West ern State Penitentiary, and gave Harold L. - Willingham, of Ne w lengsinton, three to six, years. State - Policemar Jack W. Bert charged the pair with stealing cigarettes in Monessen; breaking in a machine shop in Hemfield Twp., entering and breaking into a parking lot and stealing batter ies and cigarettes from a service station in New Kensington. $1 Million Dornage Seen In Pre-Dawn Blaze ASBURY PARK, N.J., May 21 (JP)—Wind-fanned flames swept a 30-unit apartment house, restaur ant, and bathing pavilion, in a predawn blaze today •w h i c'h caused 'damage close to one mil lion dollars in nearby . Loch Ar bour. Fire departments of North Jer sey, shore communities mobilized 30 pieces of apparatus to fight the flames, which drove - 75 persons in nightclothes into the cold rain. There were no casualties. NAME CARDS For Graduation COMMERCIAL PRINTING 352 E. Collegta Ave. three Democrats were contradict ing themselves in this solid front stand and making it "much more likely" the 'calls won't go into the public record at all. Mundt and the other three Re publicans on the subcommittee put their own position in writing, too. That is to let the attorneys in the disput—foi the subcommit tee, for Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) and for the Army—look over transcripts of calls relating to the row. Mundt said their attitude is one of first things first.' Where that issue will wind up was as much a question as what the role of McCarthy and his aides will be after hearings re open Monday. The senator again rapped a secrecy order President Eisenhow er has injected into the contro versy. McCarthy said it amounted to "taking the Fifth Amendment" —t h e const , tutional guarantee that no witness may be compelled to testify against himself. There were signs McCarthy might try, to prevent the sub committee from subpoenaing two of his key aides, - Roy M. Cohn and Francis P Carr, if they and McCarthy decide against tesify ing. Eisenhower has said he won't relax or rescind his secrecy order and the senator said this will pre vent his getting the truth about who initiated attempts to "smear" him and his lieutenants. 3432 Soldiers Arrive Home on Transport - SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (R) —The transport Gen. John Pope arrived today from the Orient with 3432 military men. The big transport carried 1719 Army men and 1713 veterans of the Ist Ma rine Division in Korea, including 91 Navy medical officers and hos pital corpsmen. EX - Captain Accused of Murders . FRANKFURT, Germany, May 21 (W)—Triple murder charges in a 1946 ax-and-arson slaying of three ,U.S. Army officers were filed today against a former Army captain who has lived almost eight rears in obscurity as an Ohio boilermaker. James M. Leech, the accused man, told newsmen at Lima, Ohio, that they had given him the first word of the charges. Leech, 44, married and the • father of a 9- year -old boy, • added: "I'm not running away from trouble. I've had plenty of notice if I wanted to leave town." Deputy U.S. Dist. Atty. William Canfield filed three charges of murder, three of intentional man slaughter and one of arson against The is National Bank of State College Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Reserve System , . rHE-DAILY COLLEGIAN.STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Committee Approves SS Hikes WASHINGTON, May 21 (IF)— The House Ways'and - Means Corn mittee late today approved Presi dent Dwight .1? Eisenhower's pro posals for increases in social se curity payments• to millions of retired workers and their depend ents or survivors. For some six million persons already on the• rolls, the increases would range from a minimum of $5 to a maximum of $13.50 month ly, starting two months after the bill is enactea, And for millions more retiring in the future Monthly ,payments could be raised as much as $23.50 above the present law for a single retired worker—more for families. Reed Announces Decision Chairman Daniel A. Reed .(R.- N.Y.), announcing the closed-door committee decisions, hailed the action as providing "a more rea listic measure of protection for our older people." He said: it also, meant "greater. security for the wives and children of our na tion's workers." The committee elarlier had ap proved most of the administra tion's proposals to expand cover age and perthit workers to supple ment their social security pay ments with more earned income. Little opposition to the program was expected on the House floor. The measure will later go to the Senate. Minimum Raised $6OO The heart of the administra tion's progrdm, and the most con troversial point, would raise from $3600 to $4200 the maximum an nual wage on which social secu rity payments and taxes are based. A move by Rep. Curtis (R,-Mo.) to keep the present $3600 limit was beaten, ,14-10. Nine Republi cans and one Democrat vo r ted for this move in opposition to the ad ministration. Nine Democrats and five Republicans joined to heat it. Wholesale Prices Rite WASHINGTON. May 21 (P)— 'Wholesale prices as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics ad vanced three-tenths of• 1 per cent during the week ended May 18 to 111.3 per cent of the 1947-49 av erage. Leech The three Army officers were I slain in their beds at a luxurious villa in the lower Bavarian city cif Passau, Jan. 7, 1946. They were Maj. Everett S. Cofran of Wash ington,o D.C.; Capt. Adrian L. Wessler of New Rochelle, N.Y.• and Lt. Stanley M. Rosewater of Omaha, Neb. Prosecutor Canfield is from Hampden, Mass. He said Cofran was commander of Passau and Leech his, deputy in the U.S. Army of Occupation. The, prosecutor de clared that not long before the slayings Cofran had discharged a German girl secretary with whom Leech was .friendly. Canfield said Cofran canceled an order to pro vide the girl's father with funds Greenlease Heroes Convicted of Perjury KANSAS CITY, May 21 ((P)—A veteran police lieutenant and a rookie cop who eight months ago were the heroes of the sensational Greenlease kidnaping case, were sentenced today for lying• about what happened to a record $600,000 ransom. Louis Shoulders, 57, who resigned from the St. Louis police force when authorities questioned his handling of the case, was sen tenced to three years. He had been on the force 27 years. Elmer Dolan. 26, who was sus pended from the force on which both his parents and a brother serve, was 'given a tWo-year sen tence. U.S. District Judge Albert A. Ridge said he gave Shoulders the longer term because he was the dominant character in the strange case. Shoulders and Dolan were con victed at separate trials earlier this spring of perjury' in testimony given a federal grand jury that investigated the kidnaping. The kidnapers .Carl Austin Hall ,and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady—who were arrested by the two policemen in St. Louis last Oct. 6, have been executed for the mured of 6-year-old Bobby Green lease. But $303,720 of the ransom paid by Bobby's multimillionaire fath er, Robert, C. Greenlease, is still missing. And nothing in the court proceedings connected with the case has shed any light on what happened to it. Last Dec. 18, Hall insisted the amount was nearly the, full $600,000. He .had spent and- given away several thousand dollars. When• authorities counted the money turned in by Shoulders and Dolan it was less than $300,- 000. The two contended that was all the money they found. Warren Drum Qafartette To Present Program A drum quartette. from th e Warren, .Ohio, Veterans of For eign Wars Band, national junior champions for the past 17 years, will present a program at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab Auditorium. Included in the program will be several solos and special , Latin- American rhythm numbers. The program is sponsored by the De partment of Music. to start business anew, and this "ruined the old man financially." Canfield directed a request for Leech's extradition to U.S. High CoMmission authorities at Bonn. Officials there said it would re ceive careful study from U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant. Canield said Leech as a suspect in the slayings had undergone lie detector tests. He said an ax be longing to Leech's house had been dredged from the Danube River. Gillette Asks For Reform Of Comm itte WASHINGTON, May 21 (A ) )— Sen. Gillette (D-Iowa) told the Senate today it should act either to control or abolish "the so-called. McCarthy subcommittee." In a speech on the floor, Gil lette accused the Investigations subcommittee, headed by Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) of vio lating constitutional rights of cit: izens. Of the televised hearings into the McCarthy-Army row, Gillette said that proceeding "has brought a distinct loss of dignity to. our nation at home and abroad and will further debase the high qual ity of American world leader ship." Gillette added that he hopes those hearings "will be completed as speedily as possible but as com pletely. as possible." McCarthy was not on the floor when Gillette spoke. The lowa Democrat declared. "No senator llas any power as an individual, to make investiga tions of an official - nature or to subpoena witnesses and compel their testimony. "Na senator is a magistrate. No senator or group' of senators has power to conduct investigations such as are being conducted by this subcommittee group except under power delegated to them by the Senate rules for the perform ance of certain specified dele gated tasks." Bante Leads Field In ITU Elections INDIANAPOLIS, May 21 VII— With unofficial results over half complete, George Bante. of Chi cago led incumbent Woodruff Randolph in th e International Typographical Union election to day, but Randolph spokesmen said they would win by 2500 to 3000 votes at the end. ITU headquarters said returns from 210 locals gave Barite 21,495 and Randolph 20,798. CAGE THREE
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