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JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 26—Col. T. B. Birdsong, the boss of Mississippi's secret police force—of which we were speaking yesterday—is a genial old timer in the cop business and a seasoned keeper of the iron cage. He looks somewhat like an older, mellow Heinrich Himmler, but with a greater flange to his ears and a soft southern voice. Col. Birdsong was a former chief of police in ‘ Clarksdale, Miss. He was a colonel in the 155th infantry; commanding officer of the prisoner-of-war corral at Camp Shelby; a postwar spyseeker in Japan and Korea. Head of the State Highway Patrol in 1938; in charge of the National Guard's riot squad, and also head of the ax gang which

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which legalized Gov. Wright's private gestapo. It says that the Governor is empowered to hire on a temporary basis any investigators or addi tional personnel that he wishes. This is an addition to his power to reward any informer for advance information on threats of violence, terrory ism, or intimidation. *

The Colonel Won't Lose His Job

“WE SET this tip real nice,” Col. Birdsong s “I got my two key men—one of them FBI —and we were going to hire nothing but lawyers or certified public accountants. Like the FBI, I had a training center in mind, here; and we were going to add to the staff slowly, because I had

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