VOTING AGE L.T.-WILLYS. NAY 21, 1954, PRIDAY. Th nst1tut1onal am ndment lowerin th voting a e - was efeate · 1n the enate thi afternoon. Presi ent - - E senho r ha proposed it - a c han g i n the Constitution, whereb itizen could start votin g at eighteen.Ebe Senate voted in favor - by a majority. au;not the two-thirds majority n eded for a constitutional amendment. 'nie measure had the solid backing of the Republicans, but was opposed by the southem Democrats. voting age was in violation of states rights. '!be southerners - all the keener about states nan rights follow! the Supreme Court decision, outlawing racial segregation i n schools. So the voting-age-amendment failed to get a two-thirds majority. 'lbe vote - thirty-four to twenty-four. Je1ghteen year olds wlll have to wait untll theY.4~ "' twenty-one to vote. SOCIAL SECURITY A congres on 1 committee today vot d - an increase of , ocial security benefits. A hike - amountin to from five t o t w enty-thre -and-a-half do llar s month. This to be finan c ed by an increase of social security taxes. F.mployees to pay as much as twelve dollars more a year. '1'lese changes in Social Security were prominent among recomnendations made by President Eisenhower. ~an w u t Th e me r . n ~ man n ubl. c l o - o r the m n1 r tel h o n r ll . Th , n t re phon e alls we r hea line d in the earl e r part or th hearin. The revelation - that the telephone t al k s between nator M earthy and Army Secretary Stevens had been taken own by a stenographer in Steven~• offi e. The su gestion - that these shpuld be ma e public. \-lhich raised the question - what about other telephone calls, pertinent in the dispute, which may have been 1aon1tored? The •an uestion was put over ror further iscus ion, an now - the democratic demand. Senators McClellan, Ja kson, and Symington in 1sting that all per1ntent monitore phone calls be made public . .s..c.. To ay, McCarthy stated that, because of those .,,. telev1se hearings, the Republican party 1, in his word, " co mm tting sl " an painful s uicide. §m!!IL Ho•'s this for a headline? Schine ia -- a Colonel. Yes, that same G. David Schine, a Hu■ Der One figure in the Ar117-Uccarth7 feud. He's been in the news•• Pri••t• Schine. But now -- Colonel Schine. The answer ie -- Ientucty. The records ahow that in April of laat year, the Acting Governor of Ia t•ctr ■ad• the lcCarthy-Coaalttee atatt •• ■ber -- a Ientaot, Colonel. Coloael.:~ Which••• a lot easier than gettin1 out of IP 4at7 as an Ar111 G.I. ENEVA th G n v C n f e ren to y - n r ment for 1 n it m111tary proble m o f an a rm is tice, ~ hile political u e ti o ns . ~ema i ne d n abeyance. '1h h ound like 1on by th th co nce J,. i ~ p e a e talks on Indo China. The C mmun1sts had insisted that a cease fire must be consi ered along with a final politi c al settlement. 'nle Frenc~, on the contrary, wanted to confine the negotiations to the immediate matter of a truce. So the la Reds have given in on that point. But they still insist on including the states of Cambodia and Laos, along with Viet Nam. The French want -eu to exclude Cambodia and Laos - because there, been little A fighting in those areas. To ay's proceedings were held 1n secret, but the main point s of information g o t out. Some JU progress toward an Indo China truce - although it remains to be seen whether t really means anything. INDOCHINESE WAR From the war, the news 1s that the Red cweep on !noi was at a standstill today. A Following -- all-out assaults by the French Air Force. Squadrons of war planes - lashing at Red columns on the road. Great stretches or highway - littered with smouldering wreckage. Pour eneay divisions, which captured Dien Bien Phu - halted bJ the ia storm or aerial bombs, rockets and fiery napalm. SPAIN The S ani h overnment makes a formal reply to Pr m Mini t e r C hur hil l - wh o , in the Huse of Commons yet rday, denied that Britain ha ever offere Gibraltar to Spain in return for Spanish neutr a lity in Wo l i or Two. In Madttd, today, the foretgn office declares that the ndon u g vernment offere a deal, if Spain oul remain neutral. "To deal with the return of Gibraltar after the war," in the words or the Spanish foreign office. Not only that - but also to grant concessions to Sp&\n and North Africa an - recognize Spain as a g reat Me iterranean power. S U EZ A new o pr o m i e in th e S u e z ana 1 s u t e h as b e e n draf t e - b y O r e t Br tain a n t h e Uni t ed S tate s . or d fr o m as hin t o n s ay ~ th n w c h e me would be for Egypt to eng a e British an d Ameri c an helper s 1n operating the c anal. B riti s h troo p s to be a d mitt ed - under certain c o n d ition s - for the d efen s e of Sue z . The compromise, we hear, has not been pr,sented formally to the govemment at Cairo."- Egyptian sources are quoted as saying privately - they believe it could lead to a settlement. IAlt.GIIIAII loot.• ••'•• •••n hearin1 a lot abo•t a So•iet •••• lelaxin1 the •••tal rl1ora of Co••••l•• -- followiDI the death ~t Stalla. •••• ,1 •• So h•••' 1 another · ror the flrat tiae, • Pap•l l•aole la NlDI perait\ed -- to 1• tato la1t ~•••ur, tie 8o•l•t I•••• Tie ■•aoio, or Papal A■\aaaado•, 11 A•ob\labop Al•J■ lu ■•••ob, •• A•••loaa -- A•o1,11bop of rar10, lortb Datot•. TodaJ, P••■ l ■•loa ••• ll•e• fo• bla to 4r1Yo tbro•1b the Iroa C•rtala to the oltr of l•f•rt. Tb• ocoa1l•• for tbt1 11 •q••ll1 al1alfloaa\- tbo twol••-l••••edtb . . ••••••••1 of tbe •••ti of - tile Apoatl• to tie Ge•••••• 8•lat loalfaoe, ao\••111 aa la1llalmaa -- •• Aa1lo-Saxoa ■oat, wbo •••t l ■ to Qeraaa1, •• a ■ la•toaa•r• Qeraaa7 then -- lar1•l1 le ooa"rted people•••• ttaa4•••• aa4 •eoa■• -- one of the 1reate1t fl1•re1 of tbe earlr 1&1%..illUII - 2 FlnallJ, at the age of ••••nt1-tour, be toot the ai11lon1r1 trail a1ala -- aa4 wa1 ••r4ere4 ,, the he1thea1. lo•••• Co••••i•t la1t Qeraan1 per■ lt1 t•• ooaaeaoratloa of the twel••-•••4re4tb aaal•er1ar1 oft &poatl• to th• Ger••••• Pre1ldta1 •••r tbe oere■o■ te■ -• \be Papal l•aolo troa rar1e, lortb Dakota. GERMANY U.S. authorities in G rmany, brou g ht forward a sen ational a cc usat i on, today. Charing - that eight year s a o, Army Capt a n James Leech, of Lima, Ohio, killed three ... ~ brother officers,( an "axe and fire" mur~er. The victims - Major Everett Cofran, Qaptain Adrian W essler, and Lieutenant Stanley Rosewater. It happened at the German City of Passau - in a villa occupied by Major Cofran. They say that he was the one intended victim. The other two officers killed - 1Jnc1dentally. Because they happene~ to be there. The motive - professional Jealousy and personal animosity. ';l'he story in the indictment relates that MaJor. Cofran had recently taker1 the post of military govemor - which Capta~n Leech had expected to get. teech bad a ~ - German girl friend, with a Job Ill the U.S. occupation /'- ~ B t Passau. But Cofran had her !ll fired. The girl's rather was getting preferential treatment at the u\~ GERMANY CRIME - 2 hea uarter - iven rof table city contracts. Cofran put a top to that. All of which adde up - to a motive for mur d er. Accordin g to the official charge, Leech went to Cofran's villa - to kill htm. Unexpectedly, he found the two other officers, guests of Cofran. So, he killed them too. U81ng an axe and setting the place on fire - to hide the crtme. Today, a t ~ headquarters in Frankfort, the · statement was - tHat the investigation or the murders waa bungled in Nineteen Forty Six. The mystery dragging on until now. lt never should have been a mystery, say the U.S. authorities. Because there was clear evidence the crime was an "inside job". cOftlllitted by someone who had u■n access to Major Cofrtin's house. All who had access could be cleared. all except Captain Leech, with his grudge against Major Cofran. OBRJWIY CRIME - 3 At Lima, Ohio, today, the former captain said: "It's all news to me." Adding - that he, with a number or others, were investigated at the time. He was cleared, then 111 sent home. SOVIIT AGEMT There wa s a note of strangely poignant dl'8ffl&. - at a Senate hearin g today - the appearance or Nikolai Khokhlov, the former Soviet secret agent, who, in Ger111an7, went over to the West. He was heavily guarded - and spoke in Ruaaian through an interpreter. Appealing - to the Alller1can public to help save his wife and son, back 1n Russi . • lhokhlov said he thought - an aroused public opinion in the West might help. He told how the Red secret police ordered hla to arrange the aaeasslnation ot a Russian antl-COIIIWlist leader in West Berlin - Okalo,ich. But, instead, he went to Okolo~ich, told him or the death · plot, and asked him for hie aid in obtaining sanctuary in the West. But,, all the while, he was only too well aware - of his wife and son whom he had left in Mosco w . Where they ~ould be held - as hostages. SOVll'l' AGENT - 2 Today he said he balked axa assassination - couldn't go through •1th INrder, because or the 1nnuence or his w1td. He described her as a deeply r.e11g1oua -=••~ ~ still adhering to the old ohr1st1an taith, 1n spite or - COlllftUniBM. So he was caught 1n a terP1ble d l l - . lllbeP • put h11 wife and son 1n pertl. Or - c01111lt a ertae alcll hia dNplJ religious wite would ha•e abhore4. A tearful decteton to make. QUATIIALA A late dispatch from Guatemala reports -- an attempt to blow up that cargo or al'IIUlent troa SoY1et controlled Poland. '1'be ■111tar, •ter1a1, tann ott uai all sh1p ••• loaded onto a train. Which was on its •r cross countrJ, When •nllas•n saboteur• tried to deatroJ it. The dispatch says there waa a pitched battle, 1n llhlcb one aoldlerf was killed, the saboteurs -- aklng their •J acl'08s the nearbJ border ot Honduras. The atteapt to blow up the al'IIUl8nt tra11i - having tailed. AIR PORCE Tonight, we have a tatement that the United State s Air Force can strike "an ioetant" at011ic ~low. Which neither bad weather nor Com unlst air defenses could top. So stated by Genera Curtis LeMay, one ot our top A1r Force otticera. PWB A big navy seaplane - forced down in the Pacific. 12 i k a 1 rwr a1Nlll ■ 71 C • A dispr Jh tonight states - lb•r •~•er-e picked up at a point rour h~ndred miles northeast fa of Honolulu. A search ""' · n,, ,, ~or four other members ot the crew • • KmNAP At Kan a s City, de te c tive L i eutenant Louis Shoul ers an d at rolm an Elmer D o lan- w e re s entence d to pri s on today. Convi c ted - or lying about the ran s om money in the Green1ea s e k1 . dnap case. They made them arrests ~ ~ Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. BoM1e Heady, the k1dnanp-llUl'derere. who were later executed. Hall u1ntained to the end that he had nearly six hundred thousand dollars of ransom - money in sultcuea, when ar:r~sted. But less than three hundred thousand dollara was recovered. l Accounts pa given bJ the two policemen were attacked as false. and they were put on trial. TodQ, Lieutenant Shoulders axa•xgiM was given a sentence of three years 1n prison. Patrolman Dolan - two years. 'ft\e n•••es• mystery of the missing ransom money - still a mystery. lere~ • t.11 \iiih if ' tbe exqutatt,1 •• ia .__ ,a., •~•••••• Crann7 Baaner -- did ■ate a aietate, aft•r all • . _ _!.all pla7er 1oin1 ho■e trom the 1aa• -- noticed that hi• automobile••• being followed bJ another car. It ai1M. aean robl»e17, cw tl4aappin1 -- or what-haYe-Jo•t So Baaner notified tile polloe, aai the oop1 arreated -- t~e 1ba4ow. Ibo, •~t•all.J, ••• eaploJed bJ the l»all clul» to watob tbe pla,era -- aac aee bow theJ were beb1Yln1 t~ea1el•••• •re B•t th• priYat• "8 told aaotber 1to•J• le ••l• - be•a l»een e••aed to ebado• aD Alr rorce officer, lD a diYorce caae. Bat be 1ot oD the tail of the wrong autoaobile. H• J••t •••• a al1tate. lhlch explanatioa drew a laqh. low, boweYer, the Philadelphia Baseball Club owner, Bob Carpenter, 117• -- th• prl••t• detecti•• bad BASDALL - 2 //J/" aade a aiatake. He ahould not ha•e been 1haclowln1 another ball pla,er. MaJbe a pitcher, or aD oatfiel!er -- but not aeooncl baaeaan Oran111 Baaner. lhiob co ~ ?l•t•• \be oontuaion in the coae4J. ,day, iD the I•• tor Berald-Tribu , led 8■ 1\b .. ., ... , -- wile••• break \be trai lag rul••· old ■•• tort Q aata, \be ■ l&htJ I raw had bia ••oil••-• a report froa be prl•att de\ o\lwe. ~•lle4 lqa la. •toa •••• 10 atop• on yoar •11 ho•• fro■ tb• ball aa14 aternlJ. •Int~• flra\ aalooa, JOU ba4 two b ••r•, aad at• tbr•• onio •• Ia • • second I loon, two •1•• wi tll b ••r cha••••, aoae s, and thr•• r7e, t• beers, aad an onion. two r1••• two onion,.• ANG EL GENEVIVE I hope HI Phillips, the brilliant columnist, ~on't min i f I quote a few lines rrom him, about the nurse over in Indo China Who wouldn't let the Reds send her back to he~~ people at Hanoi. "Genevieve (1 1 11 call you Ginny) You're my gal ror fifty.tour - - Showing no dark re~, i!t an, In the slaughterhouse ot war. One lone woman in a bell hole Bringing dying men so• cheer Smiling 1 til the one last bell toll; You're J1J woman otthe year1 HI Phillips has a special genius tor aQinl / ~ - things ot this kind, in verse • .A I think we sh<>':tld uke 11 1'2,-, . . . our poet laureate.