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THE BEND BULLETIN Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, March 24. 1955 CARS BEAUTY ENHANCED Two toning and new panoramic body styling enhances the long, sleek look of the all-new 1955 Pontiac, to be displayed at the Spring opening show in Bend Friday night by Ward Motors. The Star Chief custom Catalina is pictured here. It is powered with Pontiac's new 180 h.p. Strato-Streak V-8 overhead valve engine. Tammany's Carmine DeSapio Could Become Kingmaker ai Democratic Convention in '56 by BRUCE BIOSSAT NEA Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (NEA) Carmine DeSapio. leader of New York's fabled Tammany Hall, has a name that rolls off the tongue like an opera star's. It might be well for the nation's citizenry to practice rolling it, for he may turn out to be a kingmaker at the next Demo cratic presidential convention in 195G. DeSapio today is the unchal lenged political boss of the na tion's largest city and largest state. He is New York's Demo cratic national committeeman. And, as the professional behind newcomer Gov. Averell Harrlman, he will go to the next convention with an impressive batch of 90- odd delegates in his pocket. His weight could be crucial. In climbing to this new emi nenee, DeSapio restored T a m many, the New York County (Manhattan) Democratic organiza tion, to a place of power with an apparent new look for the first time since fiery Fiorello La-, Guardia broke the machine in the early 1930's. His rise to broadening political power got its biggest assist last fall when Harriman, his personal choice for Democratic nominee, narrowly captured the New York governorship from Sen. Irving Ives, a potent Republican vote getter. He scored an earlier suc cess by backing Mayor Robert Wagner in 1953. The fruits of victory tasted es pecially sweet to DeSapio, for at the September slate party conven tion he had engineered the ditch ing of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Harriman's ambitous rival, rated by some a "sure thing" at the polls. Roosevelt ran instead for state attorney general, and tum bled to a 250,000-vote defeat. The man who has brought all this off is a 46-year-old native New Yorker of Italian parentage who is something of a new cut in pol iticians. He Is tall, solidly built, with black hair effectively streaked with gray, and glasses tinted because of a chronic eye ailment. His dress is faultlessly conservative. He could be a bank er or a bishop, wich his friends sometimes call him. He is no crude, old - fashioned wielder of power. In the modern manner, he seeks to lead by per suading and conciliating. Soft spoken and engagingly warm in personal contact, he has a strong platform voice and welcomes ap pearances on radio, television, and other forums. This is a man who lectures on politics at various colleges. He has a date this spring to invade the august precincts of Harvard Law School for a talk. That ought to set some sort of precedent. DeSapio, too, is a man who, though he came to power through the customary political in-fighting, spouts the good government theme, publicly promotes election reforms, and otherwise endeavors to confound those who remember Tammany as the symbol and sub stance of the crime-ridden ma chine, the corrupt organization which gained its greatest notoriety in the 19th Century heyday 01 bosses Tweed and Croker. DeSaplo'r detractors say this smooth, respectable front is a false facade, that he's just got a new gimmick, Uiat he's really no better than the old cigar-smoking hard hats who gave Tammany its evil sound. There is ambiguous evidence on the relations of DeSapio and some of his Tammany associates lo Frank Costello, long touted a crime czar in and beyond New York City. DeSapio insists Costello has no in fluence over his operations, but he acknowledges knowing him. The question seems to be, "how well?" His critics also say and some of his friends agree that DeSapio was lucky at many points along the way. In 1950, his first election test as leader, he backed the wrong horse against underdog Vincent impel- litteri, who took the mayoralty as an Independent. But "Impy proved a poor executive, and for three years DeSapio hung on as Tammany chief, while dodging sllnes and arrows. In 1953, he followed the lead of the late Bronx boss. Ed Flynn, in plumping for Wagner as mayoral ty nominee. When Flynn died be fore Wagner's election, DeSapio stood as the winner's chief spon sor, and his city power was con solidated. In 1954, Harriman squeaked through by a paper - thin 12,000 votes, and by that frail margin DeSapio was "in." But there's another side. De Sapio has given his whole adult life to politics. He's a professional in the fullest sense. He works a seven - day week and a 16-hour day at it. He may see 100 perple person ally every day, and talk to an other 75 on the telephone. He rises at 7:30 in the morning, and often visitors are crowding his out er hall by 8:30. Sometimes one is at his side as he shaves or gulps breakfast. He's seldom home for dinner. He may attend 15 or 20 luncheons, dinners and other func tions every week. This taxing schedule Isn t new for him. He toiled hard and sob erly as a boy for his parents' Manhattan trucking firm. He kept it up In law school until poor Catholic Letter Protests Action BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (UP) The Argentine Roman Cath olic hierarchy Tuesday cirrulaled a pastoral letter protesting that the government is discriminating against the church. 'The letter charged the govern ment of President Juan D. Peron has banned Catholic broadcasts, processions and meetings while permitting these activities for "dis sident cults." Public officials have been re moved from their posts "for reli gious reasons," the protest said. Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello and the bishops of Argentina signed the 4,000-word letter. It was distributed for reading in Catholic churches throughout the country next Sunday. The letter defended the "divine mission" of the church to teach religion and appealed again for the government to maintain the 1947 law providing for compulsory reli gious training in schools. The appeal was made to the government's "understanding and good will." Compulsory religious education, it said, is "recognized as a need even in countries which are alienated from the Catholic Church." See AUTO SHOW Friday, 6 to 9 p.m. Oregon Avenue' AND YOU'LL SEE WHY I 2. J!!"'inclive SM! I I w aiAy hicet 9 I' I r7itnatWcarde I Sales Are At An. . "" V x 3 '1 Pontic ? ?' Per. I I & se tt?n You'"VuickTv lnVe a"d Price I WATERMELON TIME MeCOOK, Neb. (UP) A culprit who stole four watermel ons from Emil Baum "about 20 to 30 years ago" finally has paid up. And at today's inflated prices, too. Baum received a letter from a man who told him he took the four melons "years ago when you lived on the farm north of town i-nclosed with the apology was payment of $4.00. took High and Low ... and You'll Co Pontlatt WARD MOTOR CO. 1008 3ond Street Phone 1595 health forced him out. Then pol itics became his life. By 1939 he had enough of a personal following to challenge his district leader. He beat him, but his opponent's lingering power pre vented DeSapio from being seated. Finally, in 1943, he made the Tammany grade. Three years lat er, out of some power maneuver ing he picked off a plum a $12, 000 city job. In 1949 a leadership shakeup gave him his chance, and he seized the organization's reins. Six years later, the crumbling Tammany shell DeSapio. inherited has become once more a challeng ing political force. , The man who rebuilt It plainly does not have much time for home life. His wife, Theresa, and his 17-year-old daughter, Geraldine, see little of him. Together they live in modest four-room apartment on Washington Square in Greenwich Village, heart of New York's ar tistic life. He hardly belongs in that set ting. Because of his eye trouble he reads little. In music he con fines himself to occasional popu lar singing, with Geraldine, an ac complished classical pianist, at the keyboard. Baseball, boxing and swimming are his keenest outside Interests. He doesn t own a car, though his new post as New York Secretary of State now puts one at his disposal. DeSapio hasn't had a vacation in five years and it's a good bet he won't take one between now and convention time In 1956. For his ambition Is still unsatisfied. He'd like, says a friend, to be Democratic National chairman, and maybe postmaster general. If that ever happens, nobody will have to ask what the tint Is in those special glasses he wears. They'll know. Reynaud Has Cure for 'Sick Man of Europe By EDWARD CORNISH l ulled hm Staff Correspondent PARIS (UP) If France is the 'sick man of Europe," as Pierre Mendes-France once described it, what are the chances for a "cure?" A doctor has come up with a cure, but t ranee has yet to de cide whether to take it. The doctor is Paul Reynaud, French Premier during the dark days of 1940. His cure is a consti tutional change that might lead to a more stable government in this country which has had a new Premier on the average of every six months since World War II. Hesitation, brought about by re peated government crises, is the most painful symptom of France's illness. France has been unable to make up her mind for four years about German rearmament. Hesitation cost the French a vic tory in Indochina. Hesitate And Suffer Reynaud says that because of hesitation there was no French minister of equal rank to sit down with Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden at the recent Seato Conference in Bangkok. And Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill has warned that If France does not occupy her "seat in international affairs some other nation will perhaps Germany. The medicine which Reynaud proposes to brighten the complex ion of France is a constitutional change calling for the dissolution of Parliament any time a govern ment is overthrown. Why would this help? A deputy will think twice about voting down a government if it means losing his own job as well, Reynaud points out. As it Is now, members of Par liament who are not ministers in the government have nothing to lose when they vote out a govern ment. There is always a chance they may become ministers In the next government. Plan Well Received Under Reynaud's reform the deputies would lose their own seats at the same time they overthrew the government. The people would settle the dispute at a new election. Quarrels between Parliament and the government would come to a head this way: If the assem bly votes against the government on a question oi commence, the Premier could ask for another vote within three days. If the hos tile vote is confirmed, the assem bly would be dissolved. Reynaud hopes to get some par liamentary action on his reform proposal by easter or at least by the end of the current parliamen tary session. He has 135 right-wing deputies on his side, along with most newspapers and, as far as can he judged, a good segment of the French people. IX)NG STORY DETROIT (UP)-Otto Langc re ceived permission to change his name after he testified he had been known as "Long" for 42 years. "You've been Long for so long you ought to be Long for a long, time to come." the judge said. "Request granted." 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