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Spies and Cops

: WASHINGTON, Aug. Spies. Cops. Secret agents. Mysterious but buxom ladies in summer dresses. Lawyers. Congressmen, Heroes villains. Missing documen!

ts. Secret evidence. Russian police, Diplomats. Gents with holsters under their arm pits. 3 ;¥ have not, either, been seeing too many movies lately. I've just been wading around in the U. 8. capitol, which is hip-deep in alleged Communists, and counter plotters, The Senate’s investigating ‘em; so’s the House of“ Representatives, The stories that are piling of words in the official transeoripts are plain incredible, So far they don’t ovén make sense. .; Let's consider the case of a man with a Charlie 3 a head of hair that hasnt seen & comb lately, and an accent that made © fthelf apparent only when he became excited. Said his name was Nathan Silvermaster, His aliases he left for other witnesses to mention.

Got Ph.D. Degree in California » WELL SIR, this Silvermaster was born in Odessa, Russia, came to America from Shanghai, #ot himself a Ph. D. degree in California, and set shop as a federal economist, He Worked for tH Agrieultuze department here, the U. 8. Treasuty, Commerce Department and . . . during the war . , , for the Board of Economic Warfare. “The Civil Service Commission put investigators on his trail and they said he undoubtedly was a Communist agent and prebably a member of the the Russian secret police, an organization recently changed its name to a new get of

ominous e he Commission urged that he , bb toss 6 government payrall for the good of’the country. So did naval intelligence officers.

The man with the funny mustache, the goldand the Mmussy pompadour Currie,

went to a pal of one an assistant to t Roosevelt in the White House. Mr. took the problem to Secretary of

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Probing Probers

% WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—It gives you a funny fesling to be officially investigated as a “security risk”—to be checked up on by counter-intelligence agents who want to find out if you can be trusted to handle military secrets. It's a little like being undressed and given a complete and almost indecent physical examination in public. ron I: know, because I had the experience when I signed up with Maj. Gen. William J. (Wild Bil) director of the Office of Strategic Serv-

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in some of the hottest secret operations of the war, and all of us were sup-

to be checked and double-checked before .

being allowed to take part in this undercover work. % Former Communist agents are now making former OSS officials before conal committees here which, if true, would fndicate that the agency's security was appallbad. :

ingly { Maybe it was. All I know from personal experience is that I was subjected to inquiries that seemed at the time to go through every conceivable aspect of my previously private life and my political ideas—past, present and probable future «clear down to the roots of my hain and even of teeth. > ; ve know I was investigated by the field investigating unit of the Civil Service, by the FBI and by the security office of OSS itself. I may also have been checked on by military and naval in- . telligence and the State Department, for' all I know. Some of us in OSS were. + Then, you had to fill out page after page of questionnaires that seemed to probe into every of your life you could think of and some gphich maybe you couldn't. . Next, there were long oral interrogations by special investigators, These were based on the answers you had given in filling out the ques- ~ In the final stage of the investigations, special agents went out and checked up on everything ¥ou had said and on a lot of other things, too.

Are You Patriotic . . . and Loyal?

* THE THINGS that the investigators wanted te know about you seemed to fall under four main 8. # _. These were: : ; ONE: Were you a patriotic American? 2% TWO: - Were you loyal to the Constitution and of the republic? : There was a distinction between these two points. . For example, you might be. a patriotic American but still think the United States ought 4 have a Fascist or a Nazi form of government. you did think this, you might not be the best : ble security risk. 2 3 THREE: Did you know how to keep a secret? + FOUR: Were you able to keep a secret? ~ There's a difference between these two points,

too. You might know all about the art of keeping:

~ same women together for years.”

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in the world. a ! We are now in process of runming a global hock shop for the internationally verished

spirited game of squat-tag with a fellow you've just finished subduing with a ball bat. ;

Ed Sovola, author of Inside Indianapolis, is | on vacation, |

By Frederick C. Othman

i ently—that Silvermaster was a fine, solid citizen. | At least he stayed on the federal payroll. i And that was what worried the House Un-| American Committee. How comes one government department after another chose to ore | the Civil Service Commission’s decision that Silvermaster probably was a Soviet spy?

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COMMITTEE under Rep. Karl E. Mundt, movie

(8..D.), called Silvermaster to face the spotlights (one of which burned a red area on the hack of your correspondent’s neck), but he wasn't much help, He wouldn't say yes and he wouldn't say no. Said anything he said might tend to te him. Rep. Mundt wondered if Miss Elizabeth Bentley, the reformed spy who charged that Silvermaster was one of her secret bosses, was in the room. She sat at the press table between two gumchewing cops in plain clothes (which included fancy neckties). Miss Bentley, who is not as thin as she might be, stood up in a tight black dress with apple blossonis scattered over it. Mr. Mundt asked if Silvermaster recognized her, The latter refused to answer. Said he might incriminate himself. All he would say was that he'd been the victim of a conspiracy, that Miss Bentley was a neurotic liar, and that he currently was in the house building business in New Jersey, Business, he indicated, would be better if Congress kindly would lay off. So I suppose Mr. Currie, himself an alleged! Communist sympathizer, will have to tell why he helped Silvermaster stay in the government, Patterson must do some exp’aining, too. The committeémen. hinted that ‘nerjury charges might be filed against Silvermaster. : They promised to investigate the disappearance of his offi employment record from the national arch . One of the committeemen (Rep. John Rankin, of Miss.) ‘=aid the Tustice Department ought to ship him back to Odessa. ; You pop-eyed slong about here? Me, too.

in to see me.

of what was coming. So I checked in at the appointed time, had a good sleep and early Saturday morning the assistant surgeon of the-head and neck service breezed

“I'd like to take a look at your thyroid and see what

| remains of that tumor,” he said.

you a bit.. I would only ha

and take a tiny snick for microscopic examination.

could do it right now.” At first I refused to undergo an exploratory operation, but aftér my bone doctor threw in his weight, I gave way. “All right, Doctor,” 1 said, “you saved my life and anything you recommend goes.” As I was only given a local anesthetic I was able to follow all the details of the operation which was a complete success. Ten days later when I came back te have the stitches out

mained of the hard malignant tumor except a little gray matter, soft like digested meat. I _ was all right. Today no one could tell that a four-inch incision was made in my neck. The scar is almost invisible and disappearing. ~ - . MY BIRTHDAY (falls on Dec. 11, and to celebrate it I asked a few friends to drop in for cocktails on the preceding Baturday. I'knew I should be on my feet a'dot and thought it would be easier for me to stand if my legs were the same length. So I went to a repair shop and had my right shoe built up. At first this felt grand and I began walking round a lot. > Buddenly there was a marked regression in the condition. of my leg. I could no longer raise it when lying in bed, and had pangs down my sciatic nerve. 8o, I hurried off to Memorial to show it to the bone doctor.

the doctor told me nothing re-

“It won't inconvenience ve to make a short incision I

He blamed the trouble on my changed stance. Pounding on my heel had put extra pressure on the new socket, irritated the nerves and played hob. in gen- _ eral. Would I please consult him before carrying out any bright ideas I might have in the future. \ On Dec. 30 he took another radiograph. He was not at all happy about it. The tumor in my pelvis showed signs of renewed activity. » ” IT WAS DEUIDED that I should return ta Memorial on Feb. 4 for further atomic

past year enormous strides had been made by the research department, and it was possible

e to administer greatly increased

doses of radio-iodine, After various tests that showed a pickup of 42 per cent on a two-and-a-half millicuric tracer dose, I was transferred to a private room with a large sign on the door, “Don't Disturb. Radioactive Patient!’ and given the largest dose ever administered to any human being: two hundred millicuries!

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dose I had had on Sept. 14, 19046. My hip and pelvis became as sore 56 hours later, as my throat had then been. The pain was excruciating. : After other radiographs been taken, I was allowed to go home again on Feb. 18. Although my hip and Pelvis re-

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Food for 5000 Prepared

se somal some tne or vou min be vine By Indianapolis, Outfit Atterbury Job Directed by Capt. Robt. Kerber;

Local Sergeant Is Company's Poet By JACK THOMPSON: Times Staff Writer

The most searching inquiries seemed to be made in connection with these two points. { Anybody who is heavily in debt is liable to be| a bad security risk, counter-intelligence agencies think. : There are two main reasons for this. !

CAMP ATTERBURY, Aug.

the shoulders of the 38th

For one thing, heavy indebtedness may be a Quartermaster Co. rests the responsibility for feeding the 5000 men

sign of a lack of judgment or will power. For another thing, it may make a man vulnerable to bribery and blackmail, hitherto personal finances. Anybody who leads an illicit, unorthodox or, otherwise irregular sex life is also apt to be eon-| sidered a bad security risk—just as he is considered a bad life isurance risk. This, too, may show bad judgment, weak will power or vulnerability to bribery and blackmail. So investigators went into this, also.

Well-Meant But Not Helpful

“HOW WELL do you know X?”“an agent once asked a man whose name had been given as reference by an applicant for a government job. “Extremely well,” the friend replied enthusiastically, “We've gotten drunk and chased the

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This well-meant testimony did nothing to help X get a job where he would be handling secrets. Security Investigators also asked your neigh-

and officers at the Indiana National Guard summer

here.

¥ The daily task of distributing rations to the h 80 I was asked searching questions about my Soldiers is carried out by seven officers and 54 enlisted

Indianapolis outfit, which is commanded by Capt. Robert G. Kerber, an employee at Linde Air Products Co. in civilian life. Tons of food shipped into Atterbury from Ft. Knox, Ky. is stored in a large warehouse and refrigeration building on the west side of the camp, several miles from the division area. Guardian over the food is 2nd Lt. John W. Martin, division supply . officer. Out of uniform he is"an overhead linesman for the Indianapolis Power & Night Co. Many of the men in the quartermaster company have been here since the middle of last

bors what kind of a family and social life you led. How were my wife and dren? . Did we give a lot of parties? a lot? i

I bringing up our chil- start until Sunday.

Did we go outitrol now.

week, though maneuvers didn't con-| The green personnel! has learned rapidly. And Capt.

But everything is under

What kind of parties? Is there a lot of drink- Earl V. Rosenbaum, administra-| ing? ‘Are the parties noisy? What kind of people tive officer, who is a fire insur-|

g0 to them? How late do they last?

ance underwriter in Indianapolis,

If you have always prized your personal pri- said time is being found for basic

vacy, it's hard to get used to having it gone over training and organized athletics. ;

with a fine-tooth comb and microscopes by!

The company is justly proud

strangers, even if the strangers are FBI or inves- of g§/ Orvie Beam tigators from your own agency's security office, haba writing poetry. Sgt. | I had the odd experience during the war of Beam fought with the 38th divi-|

helping countefdintelligence agents - investigate gon chemical

other people at the same time I was being investigated myself. : One day while I was in this country between overseas assignments and was stationed in New York, an agent spent the morning and afternoon asking our neighbors all:abouf me and my family and the kind of lives we were living, and then the same agent came around to our house in the evening to ask me to help him in his investigation of somebody else. “Mr. Deuel isn’t here,” my wife explained to the agent when he had told her what he wanted. “He's gone to Washington to have lunch with -Vice President Wallace.” This was perfectly true. It also seemed at the time to constitute evidence of political respect ability on my part. Or did it?

- = [he Quiz Master _%) What two brothers signed the Declaration of pendence? = 2 % Richard Henry Lee and Frances Lightfoot

Hee, of Virginia, were the only two brothers ho signed the Declaration of Independence.

222 Test Your Skill 77?

* presidency in 1901 and was nominated ‘and elected in 1904, and Calvin Coolidge, who suecceeded in 1928 and was nominated and elected in 1924.

Who was the last Confederate general to sur-

2 How many Presidents, who were elevated to the render in the Civil War?

Presidency by the death of a President, -Bominated b¥y. their parties? , “

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Once we entered zig-zag pass. Never could the pass be taken— Some had said who fought the Japs— But when we began advancing— For each one the notes were

ps. Up the mountain slowly, surely— Losing men but gaining ground, Every doughboy making certain That no Japs wére let around. Day by day we kept advancing— Saw their fortress crumble fast And in 14 days of fighting We had taken afl the pass. Westward, southward still fought them— Till we rid them from the land,

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{That is how we won the title—

“The Avengers of Bataan.” CARNIVAL—By DICK TURNER

Decrease Noted In Traffic Deaths

State Record Better This Year

Indians

first seven months of this year than In the same period of time

cent. In a report released today by Col: Robert Rossow, superintendent of Btate Police, 513 victims

“in incomplete returns.” There were 602 last year, up to that date. The decrease was greatest in the urban districts, where traffic deaths dropped from 191 last year to 148 this year, a 22.5 percentage drop.. Rural fatalities

During July, 1948 the provisional total was 81 Killed. There were 105 recorded deaths in July, 1947.

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ting poetry in 1947 and became the division's “poet laureate” during the war against the Japs in the Pacific. In the following poem, which he finished on Luzon in May, 1945, at’ the insistance of his co officer who relieved him from all other duties, he tells of how the 38th earned its World War II name,

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Avengers of Bataan The poem, “The Avengers of’ Bataan,” follows: : From the beach at San Narcisco' To the shores of Subic Bay We were cautions of the story That the Japs had run .away. As we 'moved toward inland’ cities Ever alert both night and day We watched for hidden' snipers Left behind to, cause delay.

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red in May, 1865, being the last armed | Their small numbers didn't last,

surrende forces of the Confederate States to do so.

| But the figure began to toughen.

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