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Administration Loses Hope for Passage of FEPC Bill This Year By th« Associated Press .The administration may change a Senate vote or two but it has no real hope of enacting a Fair Employment Practices Commis sion bill in this session of Con gress. A Truman lieutenant, who asked not to be quoted by name, gave this analysis of the situation yes terday in the light of statements by Majority Leader Lucas that another "desperate" effort will be made to get action on an anti job discrimination bill. Senator Lucas said he hopes to change a vote or two to reverse the recent Senate decision against breaking a Southern Democratic filibuster on the motion to take up the FEPC measure. Thirty two Senators were recorded against breaking the filibuster and one other was committed to side with them. Southern Bloc Ready for Test. Under the Senate’s rules, the Democratic leader would have to get 64 recorded "yes" votes to clamp on a debate gag. That would mean he would have to take at least one vote away from the other side even if all 96 Sen ators were on hand to answer to their names. Even if the administration suc-j ceeded in getting the bill before the Senate, the Truman lieuten ant said there would be virtually no chance of stopping a filibuster against the measure itself. He said four Senators willing to vote to bring the bill up would vote against ending debate on it once it was before the Senate. i * Senator Russell, Democrat, of Georgia, quarterback of the Dixie FEPC opponents, said his forces are ready for another test any time. _rws_ a_ii_ mil iTMJ J nilVOIlCl In the light of the signs that FEPC may be a dead duck, some Republicans were talking about the possibility of trying to bring up some other civil rights measure before the session ends. One Republican leader said the possibility of trying to get action on an anti-lynching bill had been discussed by the party’s Senate Policy Committee. He said, however, that he and others want to be certain before they make any such attempt that they will have almost solid back ing of Republican members for an attempt to break the Southern filibuster sure to get started against the move. Republicans polled 33 of their 42 votes for the FEPC debate gag which lost. Only 19 of the 54 Democrats voted for it. McCormick Says Admirers Of If. N. Are Red or Ignorant By th« Associated Brest CHICAGO. May 27.—Col. Rob ert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, said tonight that “any one who speaks up for the United Nations is obviously either a Communist or uninformed.” In his weekly network radio talk Col. McCormick called Alger Hiss the “dominating American member” at the San Francisco conference where U. N. was born. At this conference. Col. McCor mick said, "All American prin ciples were thrown overboard and Soviet ambitions formed the back ground of the United Nations.” He went on: “A recent decision of the Cali fornia Court of Appeals says the United Nations charter is the su preme law of the land. “While this is a decision of Cali fornia crackpots and will not be upheld by the Federal courts, it shows how near we are to losing our liberties. The United Nations has perfected a document to bring this about.” D. C. Girl Wins Scholarship Miss Anna Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virginius D. Johnston, 133 Randolph place N.W., nas been awarded an $850 scholarship to Barnard College, the college announced yesterday. -- Australia is using recent pic tures of Britain’s King and Queen on new' stamps. MafoYbur. Water Healer Automatic Here's Instant hot water to breeze right through your laundry, dishes and cleaning. Dial hot water as you dial your radio with the new completely automatic Rheem Gas Water Heater. Hi*h re-heatlne rate assures a plentiful supply for every house hold need. Patented Rheem-Procesa tank aa- | sures sparkling clean water, long life. Come In and see the automatic Rheem today. ' Liberal 10-Yr. Warranty LOW CONVENIENT MONTHLY TERMS IF DESIRED HARRY H. CONRAD CO., Inc. Plumbing fir Heating 1430 Irving St. CO. 0154 5 Teen-Agers Tell of Basing Crimes on Radio Thrillers •y the Associated Pres» LONG BEACH, Calif.. May 27. —Five high and grade school boys and girls arrested today—three on suspicion of murder, two on sus picion of robbery—said they are members of a club which planned crimes after studying magazine and radio crimes. Held in the brutaf hold-up slay ing of a liquor store owner May 12 are Thomas Charles Cook. 17: Muriel "Pickles" Downs. 17, and Peggy Byrnes. 15. Shirley Armitage. 16. and Larry Collins, 16. both eighth graders, are accused of robbing a Comp ton liquor store last night. Col lins was caught in the act and police said he implicated the others. Telia of Crime Club. Detective Capt. Lorin Q. Martin quoted Miss Armitage as saying: “Some of the school boys and girls'formed a crime club. They numbered their robberies A-l. etc., | and called themselves the Chero kee Raiders’ and other fancy names. They left calling cards for their victims. The cards had one or, another of the fancy names.” Collins said he and the others studied radio and magazine crimes, according to Capt. Martin. “We'd pick flaws so we could avoid them and remember the smart things so we could copy them, said Peggy Byrnes. Craved Excitement. Of the slaying of liquor store owner. Dominic Calarco, Pegg: added: "Tommy and I needed money to get married. And we craved the excitement." Capt. Martin said the teen-agers bragged openly of the shooting. He said Cook told him: “On the night of the Calarco thing we studied a floor plan of the place that Peggy and I had made. When I went in. Calarco had a $50 bill in his hand. I said give me $5 and 111 get cut of here. He kept com ing. I'm a good marksman. I put a bullet over his should** to stop him. He kept coming.” Mr. Calarco. 26. and the father of two children, died still clutch ing the $50. Burl Ives Gives Guitar To Paris Bistro Owner By th« Aisoc'o'ftd PARIS. May 27.—Burl Ives has given away to a Frenchman the guitar that twanged his folk music into his parade entertainment. The fat and fabulous folk singer save his guitar to Stefan Golman. who operates a Left Bank bistro and entertains his customers with French folk music. "I played his guitar and it was terrible." Burl said. "And he was so good I just thought he ought to have mine And besides. I've got two more at home." Indian Land Purchase Fulfills Old Promise TULSA — Recent Government purchase of 400.000 acres of land in 11 Oklahoma counties from the Choctaw end Chickashaw tribes fer S8 5 million fulfilled a promise made over half century ago. 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