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SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1948 136 Pajres 6 Sections 12 CENTS IxWEZg1? finnan nnnfo) annnn HFU PASSES Hon HWBBS. fflBS SESS11, CHAPMAN LE ADS IN KENTUCKY SENATE PRIMARY HOUSING IRON CURTAIN Newport Numbers Office Raided; BROWN CLOSE. Woman Kidnaped $19,000 Seized, "King" Is Held wins Large vote By Red Agents? is Being closed Is Provided, Too, Saved, They Say Minus public Building, In Turbulent Close. Of Democratic Labor Faction In Louisville. In Secrecy Of Loyalty Records, Is Charge.

Ferguson Urges Senate Little Is Left That Truman Asked Curbs Voted On Credit, Bank Funds. Washington, Aug. 7 (AP) Congress wrote its own ticket today anti-inflation and housing leg HELD AGAINST WILL At Retreat For White Russians, Consul Tells Reporters islation, thtn slammed the door on -the extra session called by President Truman. The Senate adjourned at 8:39 m. (Eastern Standard Time); the House at 7:31 p.

m. They had met July 26 and had been in session 11 working days. The adjournment was until December 31, with a provision that the session may be resumed earlier call of the Republican leaders. In the Senate, there was an angry argument before the adjournment was voted. 39 to 29.

Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska, acting Republican leader, and Millard Tyding, Maryland, acting Democratic leader, were the principals. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican, Michigan, the presiding officer, warned Against disorder which he likened to "a riot." Tyding tried unsuccessfully to get the floor for Democrats who Valley Cottage, N.Y., Aug. 7 (AP) A 52-year-old Russian woman schoolteacher tonight became the center of a Russian tug of war that ranged from here to the Soviet Consulate In New York and which was felt in Washington. The woman, identified as Kosenkina Oksana Stepa-novna, was driven away today from Reed Farm operated here by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of Count Lev Tolstoy, the Russian novelist, as a White Russian retreat In New York.

Jacob Lomakin, Soviet Consul General, said the woman had been "rescued" from the farm after White Russians forcibly took her there to keep her from returning to the Soviet Union. The woman, a chemistry teacher at a school operated by the Soviet Government for Its UN delegates, sat besldi Lomakin and an aide in the Consulate as they told her story to reporters. She occasionally answered questions Coal Mine Areas Slow To Report Cooper Winning Easily In GOP Ballot. BY DICK KIRKPATRICK. Capturing Louisville by a surprising 5,089 vote margin and Northern Kentucky (Fifth District) by 0,636, John Y.

Brown, Lexington, was giving administration-backed Congressman Virgil Chapman, Paris, a close race for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senate on the basis of incomplete returns late last night. Brown led in the early tabulation, but Chapman took the lead after ,1,000 of the state's 4,057 precincts reported, and with 2,081 precincts, the vote was Chapman Brown, 49,057. Chapman's margin of 11,105 was in danger since the Seventh District, where Brown's heaviest vote is expected in the eastern coal mining area, was slowest of the nine districts to report With only 58 of the 877 precincts of the Seventh District reporting, Brown was leading there 2,048 to 367 for Chapman.

CHAPMAN IS CONFIDENT. Chapman's Louisville headquarters reported Chapman had a lead of 14,462 over Brown, but the tabulation at that time included most of the rural areas where Chapman was expected to win, and nothing from the Seventh, Eighth, or Ninth Districts. "There isn't anything to be concerned about," a Chapman spokesman said. However, pre-election forecasts at Chapman headquarters were that Chapman would win both the Third and the Fifth District, which Brown captured. Enquirer (Cochran) Albert L.

(White Smitty) Schmidt, center, alleged numbers racket king of Cincinnati, is shown with Patrolman Upshire White, left, and Morris Weintraub, City Solocitor, as they checked the $19,000 in pay-off money found yesterday afternoon in Schmidt's office at 325 Central Newport. Five Newport patrolmen put on a surprise raid on a Greater Cincinnati numbers racket clearing housu in Newport yesterday afternoon and confiscated more than $19,000 in cash and arrested Albert Lv (White Smitty) Schmidt, reputed numbers 'racket" kini, and 11 other persons. The raid was made at 325 Centra Ave. and caught the operators completely off guard as they had all their paraphernalia In operation and were busy checking the day's receipts and tabulating the policy numbers when police walked In. besides Schmidt, the others ar rested were Dan Black, 45, 739 Carlisle Buford Gully, 50, 1032 W.

Seventh John-Malloy, 28, 1218 W. Eighth Joe Wright, 30, 711 Carlisle Edith Thoma3, 33, 946 W. Seventh Mary Cunningham, 27, 927 Central Queenie Ivory, 41, 746 Seventh Florence Williams, 24, and Florene Williams, 24, both of 530 W. Fifth and Mary Swift, 21, 1027 Greenup all of Cincinnati, and Roger Jackson, 32, 933 Poplar Covington. All were charged with unlawful assembly.

Patrolmen Upshire White and Nicholas Gross, both in plain clothes, entered the building from an alley door and "presented the surprised operators with a search To Reclaim Its Rights In Spy Study. Washington, Aug. 7 (AP) Sen. Homer Ferguso, Republican, Michigan, raised a cry of "impeachment" tonight in a bitter attack on President Truman for refusal to let the lawmakers have "loyalty" files on government workers for use in Red spy inquiries. "Congress is rapidly being pushed into the intolerable position of having either to legislate through a blind spot or compel the President to answer for his conduct in impeachment proceedings," Ferguson said in a Senate speech.

That was only one of several references the Michigan Senator made to impeachment in the long address. And he set forth a long list of other accusations of censorship and secrecy in addition to the "loyalty" case. WHITE HOUSE SILENT. The White House had nothing to say in reply. Ferguson accused "New Dealers" of sharply speeding up a long-existing trend toward keeping secrets from the Congress and the people.

He said their airri was "To accomplish a peaceful revolution and they didn't want to answer any more questions than they had to." He commented caustically that, under the constitution, Congress has the final word it can "dispose of" a President if he "carries his powers of office to unconscionable extremes," but the Executive has no such power to get rid of Congress. He declared that, "unless we keep the President within bounds in his attempt to put an iron curtain between Congress and the public business," representative govern- ment would be transmuted into "a centralized executive dictatorship." An effort was made by Sen. Brien McMahon, Democrat, Con- i necticut, and other Democrats to reply to Ferguson's comments but a sudden motion to adjourn blocked i them. "DISGRACE," HE "I think the motion to adjourn was a disgrace," McMahon later told a newsman. "It cut off an opportunity to answer the speech of Senator Ferguson.

It was as highhanded s. procedure as I have ever, sten in the Senate of the United States. "I don't wonder that Ferguson; didn't want to be answered. It's typical of the way Congress has been operated." Ferguson's speech capped off a day in which there were these other developments in the Investigation of stories that Communist spy rings operated in the capital in war time and since then: (1.) The House Un-American Activities Committee revealed that Alexander Koral, of New York, otherwise unidentified, was the mystery witness supposed to help crack the real story of the spy net-work. The committee depended on him to lead to another mystery witness.

(2.) Rep. John E. Rankin, Democrat, Mississippi, a member of the committee, said he would demand a subpoena for Henry A. Wallace, former Secretary of Commerce, and an Invitation for Gen, Leslie R. Groves, former head of the Army's atom-bomb project, to testify when the committer goes Into the story of how Russia got some of the materials used In the A-bomb project.

sought to reply to a bitter criticism President Truman by Sen. Homer Ferguson, Republican, Michigan. "ANSWER CUT OFF." Sen. Brien McMahon, Democrat, Connecticut, complained bitterly that the adjournment, which Democrats opposed, cut off opportunity to answer Ferguson. He called it "high-handed" and a "disgrace." With a few minor exceptions, the lawmakers rewrote, blocked, or just plain ignored the far-ranging program Mr.

Truman presented with an "urgent" label. AIDS GREENHILLS BID. Washington, Aug. 7 (Special) The House, in passing and ending to the President today the Republican housing bill, also finally removed a legislative barrier in the way of Greenhills, Ohio, residents who seek to bid for the purchase of their village. A paragraph in the bill permits Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages up to 90 per cent of value in connection with forthcoming sale of the government's three Greenbelt towns Residents of Greenhills, who had advocated this legislation, said it was necessary if they Senate Fails To Take Action On 100 Truman Appointees; Tobin Nomination Blocked and they translated to the newspapermen.

But Countesa Tolstoy said Mrs. Stepanovna had come to Reed Farm because "she believed she was going to bo shot," and went back to New York with the Soviets today, saying, "If they shoot me, maybe it is the best way out." The Countess said Mrs. Stepanovna did not wish to return to the Soviet Union. MAY BE HOUSE WITNESS. Later, in Washington, Rep.

Karl E. Mundt, Republican, South Dakota, said the schoolteacher was going to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee, of which he Is Acting Chairman, all about Russian aggression. Mundt said she was being held in the New York Consulate against her will and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating to see if there was a kidnaping. However, Rep. F.

Edward Hebert, Democrat, Louisiana, a member of the committee, said in New York when told of Mundt's statement, "I never heard of the woman. I never knew she was wanted for questioning." The FBI had no comment in New York or Washington. Mundt said ths State Department had been asked whether in this country we can have what appears to be a branch of the NKVD (Soviet secret police) picking someone up at a. private American home, Incarcerate them in the Soviet Consulate, put them in seclusion and keep them under virtual house arrest. Lomakin said he would "see what can do" tor other Russians he Indicated he believed still were being detained at Reed Farm against their will.

He said he would try to see New York Police Commissioner 'Arthur Wallander Monday about the matter. MAY TALK TO FBI. Asked if Mrs. Stepanovna would be permitted to talk to the FBI, Lomakin said: "First of all, she must take a rest." He said he thought she might talk to the FBI later. He added that she still Intended to return to Russia.

At present, he added, she would remain at the Consulato or at the Soviet rest home at Glen Cove, N. Y. Earlier Soviet officials had said that the woman originally planned to sail July 31 In the vessel Pobeda, but the White Russian "kidnaping" had prevented her sailing. The strange and conflicting stories about Mrs. Stepanovna started at 1 p.

when local police said they received a call from Reed Farm, saying the woman had been forcibly taken away in a car by an unidentified man. About five minutes later, according to Clarkstown Police Lt. Ernest Wiebecke, a second call was received. The caller said a station wagon carrying a USSR diplomatic license plate had driven up to the farm. Three men In the car, the caller said, had demanded to see Mrs.

Stepanovna. The station wagon left the 200-acre estate after the men were informed that the schoolteacher had Just been taken away in a car. Later, police in Orangetown, N. said they had stopped the station wagon and found it registered la the name of Lomatkin. They released the car, police said, when all Its occupants showed diplomatic cards.

Shortly afterward, Clarkstown police said, Reed Farm officials said they no longer believed that the woman had been forcibly taken, and a police alarm for the "getaway car" was canceled. warrant signed by A. L. Eisenberg, 329 Tork Newport. Eisenberg charged that "White Smitty," Percy Williams and a man named "Doddy" operated a numbers game and policy game at that address.

1 Coincidental, Eisenberg himself, was arrested earlier In the day on a charge, police said, of operating as a marriage tout. He was charged with vagrancy and placed In jail. Schmidt admitted to officers that he operated the place, a three room ground floor office in an apparently "abandoned" building, police said. It is situated in a two-story concrete block building. Double doors and painted windows prevented a view from outside.

At first officers found only several hundred dollars in cash until they succeeded in breaking into a. small office in the center of the building. In this room they found a leather brief case with the initial A. L. Smith on it.

This contained the bulk of the $19,000. Some of the money was found in paper grocery sacks, leather cases and envelopes. More than $800 was in change. When asked why he kept so much money on hand, Schmidt said that he needed it to pay off the numbers winners and policy men on Saturday afternoon. The money was In packets ranging from $1 to $100 bills.

Police gave this account: Two types of numbers games were being conducted in the place. The room in which Schmidt worked was the usual racket clearing house for numbers based on bond-inghouse figures. In the other room, another game was being recorded and was based on the total parimutual figures from Suffolk Downs and Saratoga horse race tracks. Police found only $800 here. A regular radio speaker such as Is used in a handbook was being used to pick up the totals.

Appearing on the scene a short time after the raid was Morris Weintraub, City Solicitor. Weintraub made certain that all the money was counted and put In a container to be taken to headquarters. "Thin won't he like the raid at the Glenn Rendezvous where about 95 per cent of the money Weintraub said. "If we get a conviction on this case, we will ask the judge to have all this money put In the police and firemen's pension fund." Found on Schmitt's desk was a fully loaded 38 caliber revolver. This will be checked by the ballia-.

tica department, the attorney said. The money was in so many denominations that it took police nearly one hour to count it all. It then was placed in a box and sealed with gummed paper. Weintraub and the arresting officers then signed their names on the paper to prevent it from being tampered with. Washington, Aug.

7 (AP) More than 100 nominations for Government posts, sent by President Truman to the special session of Congress, died tonight when the Senate failed to take action on them. The President can give the nominees recess appointments pending action at the next session of Congress. Among the nominations blocked were. Maurice J. Tobin, former Mayor of Boston, to be Secretary of Labor.

Elmer H. Wene of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas C. Blaisdell to he Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Warren R. Austin, John Foster Dulles, Mrs.

Eleanor Roosevelt and Philip C. Jessup, to represent the United States at the third UN General Assembly in Paris September 21. John H. Alsmiller, to be Collector of Customs at Louisville, succeeding the late Harry M. Brennan.

Tobin's nomination was sent up to the Senate late today. Wene's nomination also was sent up late this afternoon. He woiild succeed Charles Brannan, who became Secretary of Agriculture. Blaisdell's appointment went up from the White House this morning. He has been holding the post of Assistant Secretary of Commerce under a recess appointment.

Blaisdell has been in the limelight recently in connection with the Senate inquiry into alleged Communist activities within the Government, were to 'obtain sufficient financial backing to enter a bid. President Truman is expected to sign the bill. At FHA, a spokesman said that the agency now has adequate funds to proceed with such mortgage insurance as now authorized. The President's eight-point anti-Inflation program emerged cut down to these two: Revived curbs installment buying and higher reserve requirements for banks belonging to the Federal Reserve System. The Senate beat back by a 53 to 33 vote a Democratic attempt to revive rationing, price and wage control powers.

The Truman plan to bring back the excess profits tax wasn't even considered. The housing bill omitted the Federal subsidies for public housing and slum clearance that were features of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill endorsed by the President. The lawmakers approved a interest-free loan to the United Nations for construction of permanent headquarters in New York. LATE REPORT. Virgil Chapman was leading John T.

Brown by 15,639 votes, with 2,680 of the state's 4,067 precincts in, Associated Press dispatches reported. The vote: Chapman, Brown, 58,935, and Milton T. Whitworth, Elizabeth-town, 8,639. The tabulation showing Chapman leading by 14,462 votes, including all the First District except four counties; all the Second District except four counties; the Third District (complete) all but five counties of the Fourth District; all the Fifth District; and all but three counties of the Sixth District. In this count, Chapman was lead-in? by 1,000 votes in the First District.

However, Chapman was carrying Governor Clements's home district, the Second, by more than 2 to 1 over Brown, and in the Sixth District home for both Chapman and Brown, Chapman was leading his neighbor more than 3 to 1. WORKERS BACK BROWN. Scattered reports from the Eighth District showed Chapman winning in the rural areas and Brown in the industrial districts, but the likelihood was that Chapman would take the district by several thousand. Brent Spence, Fort Thomas, Democratic incumbent, was having little difficulty winning nomination as Fifth District Congressman. Spence beat his opponent; John I.

Thobe, Covington, by a vote of 7,506 ta 1,257 in Kenton County, and 4,761 to 563 in Campbell County. Thnhe has been a leader in the New Progressive Party. Brown carried Kenton County 7,182 to 1.489 over Chapman, and carried Campbell County 4,095 to 1,085. Three Louisville labor leaders who helped Brown to his surprise victory over Chapman In" the Third District declared: "Ths returns show the overwhelming strength of organized labor when it if united in the common purpose. The organization that has existed 50 years in Jefferson County was not able to deliver the vote in the face of organized labor's opposition." VICTORY IS SURPRISE.

Brown's victory in Louisville was surprising because Chapman's campaign there had been led by the full Democratic organization assisted by It, Gov. Lawrence W. Wetherby. However, the Brown victory is less surprising in the light of the strong labor support given Brown In an industrial district Indications were that the total vote would run close to 225,000 votes a relatively light vote, though heavier than was expected. Chapman headquarters had predicted a vote of 150.000 to 175,000, although Brown headquarters predicted A year ago in the gubernatorial race the vote was more than 280,000, Mob Of 300 Besets Police Making Arrest In Columbus During Legion Convention INSIDE THE ENQUIRER: SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1948.

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Court News 25 Crossword IS Dogs 44 Editorials Fix It 20 Cincinnati and Vicinity: Fair and mild today and tonight. High, 83. STATE FORECASTS Ohio: Considerable cloudiness today. Kentucky: Considerable cloudiness today. With occasional rain likely west portion.

Indiana: Mostly cloudy today. Scattered showers southwest portion, little change in temperature. Cincinnati Weather Bureau Office Record for August 7, 1948: Temp. Hum. Free.

Horse Sense 24 Critical Week Is Faced In Moscow Meetings On Future Of Europe Washington, Aug. 7 (UP)-Developments In Moscow next week probably will determine whether the three major western powers and Russia can reach an understanding on European problems, informed sources said tonight. The importance of the negotiations in Moscow was underscored by the unusual Saturday appearance of George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, at the State Department. With his closest advisers, the Secretary studied the latest reports on last night's meeting between the three western envoys and V.

M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister. It was believed that Walter BedeU Smith, V. S. Ambassador, along with British and French diplomats in Moscow, would confer with Molotov again tomorrow.

Even more meetings next week are believed possible. The negotiations, it was reported, were aimed at the possible convening of a Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference next month, presumably In Paris, i Journey's End 39 Lalt 31 were being annoyed by fun-making Legionnaires. Murphy identified the motorist as John McNeil, 21, of Columbua. McNeil was charged with driving while intoxicated. The Captain said he did not believe McNeil was a Legion member.

Patrolman Harmon Nance touched off the demonstrations when he arrested McNeil at the corner of Gay and High Sts. A large crowd assembled, Nance said. Nance telephoned for a patrol wagon and advised headquarters of the crowd's attitude. Six police cruisers and several foot officers were sent to the scene, along with the patrol wagon. After McNeil was placed in the wagon, the trouble started.

"Let's get the door open and get him out of there," someone in the crowd shouted. In the resulting confusion, two other men were arrested and hustled off to the station along with McNeil. Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 7 (AP) A crowd of about 300 attempted to prevent the arrest of a motorist tonight in the heart of downtown Columbus, scene of the American Legion's annual state convention. Dozens of officers, detailed to the scene by police headquarters, hustled the motorist and two of the demonstrators to jail.

A short time later approximately 50 men swarmed Into headquarters. They jammed the first-floor corridor and the stairway leading to the second floor. Police arrested one of the demonstrators and the crowd then filed out, shouting threats to return later with reinforcements. Capt. William Murphy, in charge at headquarters, quickly assigned 15 additional policemen to the downtown area.

Officers walked in pairs, carrying night sticks. Murphy also said the police switchboards were "jammed" with complaints from persons that they Arrangements Auto News Camp News Engagements Food News Luke McLuke 6 Markets 38 Menrert 26 64 82 75 53 7:30 m. m. Mirror of City 2 Pearson Portraits Raders' Views 6 Rod and Gun 35 Sports 33-37 Stamp News 44 Glendale Notes 4 Marriages 7 Maslowskl Suzanne It Travel Talk 10-11 Women's News 8 0, Say, You Can See Thousands stood In line patiently yesterday awaiting their turn to view the historical documents on the Freedom Train, berthed on a siding of the Pennsylvania and Norfolk ti Western railroads near Gilbert Avenue. Storlps describing the visit of the famous train may be found on Page 38.

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