The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-24

It is to pay a salary to draft deferred Robert Stripping, clerk of the old Dies Committee, during a period when he was supposed to have been in the Army and at a time when the Dies CommIStee had ceased to exist.
 This climaxes a long series of draft deferments for the young man who did so much flag-WaV- ing on Capitol Hill about un- American activities.
 For some time, Stripling was deferred by his Alexandria, Va, Draft Board as an essential worker. Then last August the Draft Board decided he w,s not so essential after al crd put him in IA. In October, how ever, he was deferred again, Others around him, such as the 36-year old nephew of General Macarthur, also living in Alex andria together with the BE- year old City Manager of Alexandria, were drafted. But 31-year old Stripling was deferred.
 Finally on Dec. II, he was slated to repo'. to the Army at ' a. m., but once again he was given more time. This time. the Virginia Draft Board refused to defer hin. but General HerShey's Selectlve SerVice in Washington went over it's head, and the request of wire pulling Congressmen, and gave Stripling until January 4.
 Came Jan. 4, and the young Dies Committee flag-Waver got his fourth deferment. This time Congressman May of Kentucky went over the head of the local Draft Board and got him deferred until January 20. But this time, the Dies Committe had ceased :o exist, having expired Jan. 3. So Congressman Rankin has int;C- duced a resolution to pay Strip ling for thhe time in January that he was hanging around Wash ington with the Dies Committee non-existeut and when his Draft Board wanted him in the Army. GOULD'S FRENCH
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 French and U. s. officials are greatly interested in the state ment of Mrs. Frank Jay Gould that she paid 5,O00,OO0 francs to the Nazis to save her husband from being taken off to Germany.
 What puzzles them are some transactions which make 1t ap- pear that the Gould family was being well-treated by the Nazis. In fact, during part of the war, the Nazis, instead of exacting payments from Gould, actually paid him rent on his villa.
 This was in September, 194S. The amount received was 1,5OO,- 900 francs. 0t was ten months later, in July 1944, just as the Allies were sweeping toward Paris, that Mrs. Gould deposited 5,OOO,OOO francs in a German controlled bank in Monte Carlo, alIegedIy to save her husband.)
 The 1943 German payment to Gould was deposited by the Ger man Commissioner in the Cha teauneuf- Sur Cher branch of the Chase National Bank for requis- ting Gould's villa in Vlchy. La- ter. the German commissioner even paid Gould an additional 195, 300 francs to compensate for expense connected with requis- lting the villa.
 Mrs. GOuld's deposit of B. 100000 francs ten months later was in the Banque J. E. Charles ct Cie., of MOnacO-the eight square mile, neutral principality famous for its Monte Carlo gambling casino.
 The date of her deposit, July 21 1914, in itself is interesting For the Charles Bank was actual ly established on this same date It had not been In existence be- fore. Furthermore, Mrs. Gould became a stockholder. U. s. and French officials also consider other dates significant. June 6 who want to hold to their owl selfish purpose oppose the demand of the gospel to the point of fur