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G. O. P. LEADERSHIP IS
THREATENED BY STRIFE
Washington—Talk of a shake
up in the Senate high command
mounted as Republican leaders
strove to quiet a G. O. P. “liberal
freshman” uprising which threat
ened to dampen the party’s hopes
of winning the presidency in
* been summoned to an unusual
conference tonight ostensibly to
draft policy on the politically hot
^ issue of extending nation-wide
" rent control, which expires June
30, and to hear a White House re
port on the Greek crisis from
Senate President Arthur H. Van
denberg (R.-Mich.).
Most of them are convinced,
however, that the real purpose is
to try to restore harmony and
put new pressure behind a fal
tering legislative program on
which some G. O. P. leaders hope
to ride into the White House.
SENATE APPROVES OF
OPA DEATH MEASURE
Washington—The Senate’s
June 30 “death sentence” for
OPA was accepted by a Senate
House committee which also lop
ped $3,000,000 off funds the Sen
ate approved for the agency’s op
erations until that date.
OPA offiffcials had declared
they could not stay in business
affectively with as little money
as the Senate voted. Senator
Bridges (R.-N.H.) commented to
reporters on the Senate-House
committee’s1 action:
“This means that OPA is out
on June 30 or even sooner unless
they drastically cut down.”
The House had denied APO
any funds and directed it to re
turn $9,000,000 given it previous
ly by Congress.
The Senate voted to restore the
$9,000,000 and add $7,991,815 of
new money with an express di
rective to end all functions June
30 of OPA, the Civilian Produc
tion Administration, the Office
of War Mobilization and Recon
struction, and the Office of Tem
porary Controls.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
PASSED AWAY SUNDAY
New Rochelle—Carrie Chap
man Catt, who led American
women to victory in their fight
for the right to vote, died in her
sleep of a heart ailment Sunday.
She was 88.
^Thg veteran ^women’s organ
a ‘'crusader,” went to bed Satur
day night after a day spent in
customary activities. She had
visited with a neighbor and had
discussed a collection of pictures
which she hoped to add to the
memorial to another woman suf
frage leader, Susan B. Anthony.
Active even m recent years in
the cause of women’s rights and
world peace, Mrs. Catt had her
greatest triumph ki 1920 when
the suffrage amendment was rat
ified. She had organized women
and addressed crowds in every
state before the goal was achiev
ed.
The happiest day of her life,
she said later, was the day she
returned from Tennessee, last
state in the union to ratify the
amendment.
RUSSIA PUTS CURB
ON U. S. NEWS AGAIN
Budapest—A high Hungarian
official declared that the Soviet
Commander in Chief in Budapest
had forbidden newspaper publi
cation of the American note pro
testing Russian interference in
Hungarian affairs. American
sources said the suppression
would be strongly challenged.
The official, whose name could
not be disclosed, informed a rep
resentative of the U. S. legation
that the manager of the official
Hungarian news agency had re
ceived “direct orders’’ from So
viet Lieutenant General V. P.
Sviridov “to suppress the note.”
. Sviridov, however, denied em
phatically to Colonel John H.
Scopes of the U. S. military mis
sion that Soviet authorities had
&&elfed the Suppression. Scopes
said that, before he could com
plete his sentence asking about
HOUSE BANK PAYING OFF IN PAKT ... The non-profit house of
represents tires bank recently re-opened for badness *185,563 in the
hole. The bank opened paying Me congressmen-clients 75 cents on
every dollar they hare on deposit. Thomas D’Alesandro (D., Md.).
left, cashier, John Oberhalser, right, are shown as Repreeentatire
D’Alesandro made first withdrawal. The shortage was discovered
when new cashier took over and the books were audited.
Marshall Predicts Harmony
On Arrival For Moscow Meet
Moscow—Secretary of State
George C. Marshall, arriving for
the Big Four conference on the
German and Austrian treaties,
predicted yesterday an Allied
agreement that will “greatly ad
vance the cause of peace in which
we are all so much interested.”
Last of the chief delegates to
arrive, Marshall landed on the
sunbathed Moscow Airport in his
shiny C-54 transport plane from
Berlin at 3:20 p. m. (7:20 a. m.
e.s.t).
As in the case of French For
eign Minister Georges Bidault
and British Foreign Secretary
the suppression, Sviridov inter
rupted to deny responsibility, and
added: “It was an action taken
by the Hungarian Government,"
Ernest Bevin, who preceded him,
the Russians did not stage the
usual welcome ceremony with an
honor guard and a band. And
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky substituted for Foreign
Minister Viacheslav Molotov as
official greeter.
Marshall’s arrival coincided
with a new attack in the authori
tative Russian Weekly New
Times on John Foster Dulles, Re
publican foreign affairs expert. It
called him "a representative of
American monopolistic circles.”
As he stepped from his plane
Marshall said:
“The mission on which I have
come is known the world over as
one of enormous importance and
consequence for all Mankind.
“There have been many diffi
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Brothers Given 20 Years In
Wilkes Poker Game Robbery
North Wilkesboro—Two broth
ers were sentenced in Wilkes Su
perior Court last week to 15 to 20
years in State prison at hard la
bor ,lor the armed robbery of a
poker game.
The four robbed poker players
each received a year on the roads
for gambling.
The jury found Carl Keaton of
Greensboro and Cola M. Keaton
of Kannapolis, guilty of taking
$11,000 from the players in a
high-stakes game and an addi
tional $17,000 from a safe owned
by Jim Foster, one of the play
ers, at the Foster home near here.
Attorneys for the Keatons filed
culties, such as mere are bound
to be in negotiations designed to
accomplish real peace.
“Undoubtedly there will be
difficulties, great difficulties,
here. But they will be met suc
cessfully, and I am confident that
by peaceful methods of negotia
tion we will reach an agreement
which will advance the cause of
peace in which we are all very
much interested.’’
notice of appeal to the State Su
preme Court. Appeal notice was
also given for the four men sen
tenced for gambling with the
complaint that their penalty was
excessive.
The gamesters, who pled
guilty, asked for leniency on the
grounds they had already lost a
total of $28,000. Judge H. Hoyle
Sink, presiding, gave them a year
and said the law allowed two
years each. The men sentenced
were Foster, Charlie Combs,
Dobe Powell, and Joe Holland.
Calvin M. “Bo” Spillman, of
Cooleemee, who was indicted
with the Keatons as the alleged
“inside man” in the robbery plot,
was not tried at the present term
of court. His case was continued
on a physician’s statement that
Spillman is now an invalid.
A bullet wound in his spine
since the date of the robbery was
said to have caused partial par
alysis. Spillman, according to
testimony, was playing in the
game when the robbery occurred.
The brothers were identified by
the poker players and onlookers
as the men who held up the game
with an automatic and a tommy
gun at the home of Foster last
July 6. The Keatons offered ali
bis purporting to show they were
both many miles from North
Wilkes boro on that night.
After listening to a lengthy ar
ray of witnesses, the jury tint
went out Thursday afternoon.
They were unable, to agree an a>
verdict and were ordered to re
port back yesterday, when they
continued deliberation until about
noon.
State Bureau of Investigation
agents, Wilkes Sheriff C. G. Poin
dexter, and State Highway Pa trot
Sergeant A. H. Clark were unoot
the officers who participated in
the lengthy investigation result
ing in indictment and conviction
of the Keatons.
There is comparatively little in
terest in beekeeping in North
Carolina counties where cash
crops yield little or no nectar.
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