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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.
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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
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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.
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