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into. action yesterday in the Statehouse let me tell you, it was quite an opening.’ kind of a record for legislation. That's the ay Xt ET into
didn’t look like it since there were no and file of voters would have been see how renovated place of business. . New: chairs were tested, drawers in the bleached desks were slammed and the rug scuffed for thickness of nap.
' Weighty Problems,
SORT OF saddened me, though, when one legislator asked (facetiously, I hope) of a neighbor If it would be all right if he carved his initials in his desk. Another called out: "Where are the wastepaper baskets?” !
Surely, was my thought, these men nad more Weighty problems than that. They did. : “Can we smoke in here?” No one knew. 4Where do I sit?” Questions, questions and more questions made the rounds,
. Dunn (D. Indianapolis) arrived to find a potted plant and three corsages on her
The first day .... Mabel A. Dunn (D. Indianapolis
finds flowers at the 86th General Session.
well the lawmakers liked their:
The 86th ses:
duggery. That's about all they lack now. Gets Pushed Around
SINCE THE was packed and the doorman kept pushing me out in the hall, I decided to go back to the House. Former Lt. Gov. Richard T. James was heard as ‘he ordered roll call be taken. Nothing burns me up more than to be pushed. . We're all taxpyaers, you know, bud,
In the hall I overheard an oldtimer mutter|
that “They changed this place all around and I'm agin’ it.” Reactionary.
I watched Robert H. Heller (D. Decatur) get|
duly elected Speaker of the House: And of all things, Mr. Heller had a written speech.in his pocket. This he whipped out and gave as if he knew all along he was going to be elecled. Mr, Heller had a little fun as he said, “We feel like interlopers in these highly adorned and modern rooms so patiently designed for others than us to supervise.” Yes, the Republicans laughed. : : Nominations for chief clerk were made. Dudley W. Gleason (R. Angola) nominated his man. In a stentorian voice and gestures to match, Rep. Gleason got the show on the road. The man he was nominating was known from the “ sand of Lake eigan to_the scenic shores of the mighty Ohio . “Could you tell me vial “Out this door and-to the right.” “The chair recognizes . . .’ Try to get over there sometime. The show's on, folks, and it's all free. Yes, free.
Flight From Fear
By | Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Jan. 7—The old man leaned back in bed and coughed. He was a handsome old man—sharp blue eyes under bush black brows, white hair, rosy skin. He was sick and he was old and he was running for his life. He was a former Norwegian diplomat—a lifelong career diplomat who later sérved as one of Quisling’s top foreign ministers. It was he who went to Germany after Hitler's death, to arrange for the capitulation of German troops: stationed in Norway. I saw him in Tangier, in Morocco, a short time ago. The old man had been taken from jail and placed in a clinic, after several days of incarceration in a bare cell. He has a twin brother here in America. He had come to Tangier from Norway in his cht, together with some officers, also under gsation of Nazi collaboration. On the day they intended to sail for South America, the Paris police flashed a message to the Tangier police and the old man was tossed into jail. The yacht got away. Aftér some days in jail, on obscure charges, he was legally removed to an English hospital, where I went to see him. He was a pleasant old man—kindly, almost pathetic. He was cultured; he had been rich. He spoke half a dozen languages with imperceptible accent.
Puzzled by Turn in Events
HIS voice was low and soft, even when he spoke of his hatred for Communists, his days as & consul in Russia, or his work under Quisling. He seemed puzzled that his government would want his life, now, for arranging a capitulation that possibly saved months of bloody. fighting against the German troops in Norway. “There is only one thing to do, now,” he said. *If I cannot get away, I will have to kill myself, I am too old to support a term of imprisonment, which is the best I can expect if I am sent back to Germany. It seems an odd finish to a life of working for one's government. Yes,” he
said, “I shall certainly have to kill myself.” He paused to light a cigar. It was an Uppman—a clear Havana. “To my cértain knowledge,” he said, “the Russians have exploded at least three atom bombs since the war ended. This is an excellent ci y One night his’ fellow fugitives came in to see him. One was a flier, the other a navy man. The old man cocked an eyebrow sardonically. “You see here,” he said bitterly, “three outstanding traitors.” - “Charmed, I'm sure,” the aviator said. “How do you do,” the other man said.
Two Days Later an Empty Bed
TWO mornings later, the old man’s bed was empty. A small boat had pulled into the shore, and when the moon dipped under the clouds, three figures stole aboard it. It was the same technique that got thousands of free Frenchmen and shot-down aviators out of neutral Tangier and the Spanish zone during the last war to end war. The little boat battled valiantly up the coast, making ,a knot an hour against strong winds. It rendezvoused with his yacht. The old man, weary and wet, went ashore to the safety of a Spanish hotel. I talked to him there, by telephone. He was sailing for South America within the hour. I wished him luck. It is a long, rough haul in a small boat, to South America, and this man was. old and sick and the war was a long time past. Things are not so clearly cut, now, since the Japs are no longer fanged monsters, but our co-operative little friends, and Germany is on the build again.
It is not hard to feel sorry for an old man :
who is defined a traitor for the sin of serving his government, right or wrong, when he is running for his life. Especially in view of our charitablé attitude toward people like the charming Ilse Koch.
Hey, Harold
By Frederick C. Othman
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, Jan, 7—For the information of Honest Harold Ickes, his heirs and successors, I can report that the Bluebeard Castle Hotel has no hot water today for the customers. It had mo hot water 15 years ago. It never has had any hot water. , The old curmudgeon may also be interested to know that its clothes closets are afterthoughts, Boy, it took a decade and a half for me to check this personally, but it was worth the effort. I feel much better, You may remember back in the early days of the New Deal when the government set up the Virgin Islands Co, to make rum in this Ten Story Book paradise. Ickes was the boss man. Part of his scheme to help the islands back on their feet was to build a tourist hotel around the ins of the castle that the pirate Bluebeard built in 1777. An elegant idea it was. The PWA (remember?) supplied the money, the engineers and,
the labor. The hotel finally was completed after some
expensive hocus-pocus about a disappearing foun-
dation wall and there I was in Washington, a reporter for the United Press covering the Interior Department. The underlings there who had been to the Virgin Islands kept talking about the spigots labeled hot that ran cold and about the impossibility of hanging up your coat in Uncle Sam's hotel.
‘And He Wrote a Little Piece
I WROTE a little piece for the papers, saying that it seemed the federal architects somehow fort that it takes a furnace to make water hot. ey didn’t install one, They did't even leave a place to put it Jater. And since they'd been used to designing offices for bureiucrats they never thought about building closets in the guest rooms.
signed by a federal judge. So they don’t mind
It was an amusing little item of no importance whatever. But when it hit print, Ickes & Co. had a hemorrhage, claimed the story wasn’t true, and charged that I-was trying to wreck their Virgin Islands program. = The years passed, but I kept worrying about the hot water at Bluebeard’s Castle and when I found myself in Puerto Rico on the inauguration of the Governor I suddenly realized that here was my chance to check on Honest Harold. I bought a seat on a little red and white flying machine, buzzed for 35 minutes across the blue and purple waters of the Spanish Main, lurched fo a halt on a hibiscus-lined airport here in the Virgins and soon was climbing the cobblestones on the hill to Bluebeard’s former home.
Guests Seem to Be Healthy
THIS is a beautiful spot, with a magnificent view -of water islets and ships from the seven seas, and the hot water, gentlemen, runs cold as
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Typical of rivers and streams which overflowed their banks in Southeastern Indiana Wednesday int was Blue River. Believe it or not, this is the site of the Blue River dam just i of of U.S. 31. Water covers. the dam, leaving visible the stone marker and sluice gate at lower ri
Jackie Taylor, 7; Sebert McAnelly, 8, and Arthur McAnelly, 5, are among the East Columbus evacuees in Donner Park Community House. Seeking refuge with them | is Skippy, the neighborhood dog.
Movies were shown last nig
to their homes yesterday.
ed Shelbyville cought § part of the ios of fast running water in Blue River. In the southeast section of the town, this park and road were inundated, The footbridge in the background shows where
the normal river bank is. Floodwaters were receding yesterday “under clear, cold skies.
“Give me life”. the defendant Columbian sculpture - if “he will in Lynchburg, Va.
usual. The 40 rooms, which cost $24 per day with, meals for two, have closets at long last. But these were whipped up later in the corners with] planks. I happened to run into Oscar Chapman, the! current Undersecretary of the Interior. He sald the hotel had been busy, and that the management hadn't dared to shut it down to install a water heater. It turns out that the Virgin Islands are a mecca for divorce seekers, Bix weeks here and they tan get a decree
taking cold baths while waiting. Or if they do, there isn’t much they can do about it. © Mostly, these ladies are blond and barebacked. They all look healthy, too, from the sun tan and the cold showers provided in the long ago by the forgetful engineers of Honest Harold.
The Quiz Master
29? Test Your Skill ???
How accurate is the giant eye of the Palomar telescope? This huge disk, of material like that used ‘tor glass baking dishes, through years of patient has been shaped into a paraboloid, perwithin two-millionths of an inch. ¢ *
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What was the average number of patents Issued weekly during 19477 An average of only 385 new patents a week were issued by the United States Patént Office during 1947, a néw low, so far as recent years are
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‘Is there a coast-to-coast television work? : There is no nation-wide network as yet. Ac-
created Special Intelligence Unit
to Judge George ¥. Treanor accept the role. said udge Georg He retired Sept, 1, 1946, after
at Pawtucket, R. kX : f nN. 2 n "give you life ingagement of movie singer “Pat 1 wl ore you | ‘on Jane Powell, 20, and insurance t how this charge, e judge sa ® man Geary Steffen, 25, was an-! 5 story 0 OW most 1 an give you is three nounced today by the actress’ {OUS years.” parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Burce To subject material he used| The prisoner shrugged his shoul- of North Hollywood, Cal e Capones of Chicago, Huey ders. Fokay.” gry “give me, Miss Powell met Mr. Steffen | | Long of Louisiana, the Penderthree years. Maybe I won't even When she took ice skating les- Bast machine ‘of Missouri, Waxey live that long.” sons from him three years ago | Gorden, New York beer baron; So Judge Treanor Imposed a While he was in the Sonja Henle Enoch L.' (Nocky) Johnson of three-year jail stentence on T4-
Then under the apt title the battle was
skating troupe. They have not| Atlantic City. A condensation
yet set a wedding date. {of the book In 16 installments year-old Patrick J. Murphy, who, . (will be published by The Indian-
had pleadedguilty to being an ” = idle pérson with no visible means Less majesty confronted King apolis Times beginning Sunday, of support. Winter today. fan, . 9. won Mrs. Josephine Kotch of Kens- | ‘Last Hope of People’
Di Rivers, portly Mexican ington, Conn., picked a bouquet of
muralist, sald today he has de-| pyucinth and narcissus plants cided not to play King Soldmon bloomed in the yard of Mrs. Flor-| in a forthcoming play “because ence A. Cowdrey of Suffield, Conn. | “Because the people of the I am only a painter” and sig-| Dandelions dotted the lawn of United States came shamefully Mrs. Gilbert Ashley at Wethers:|close to losing their freedom of gested Charles Laughton Sor the fleld, Conn. action to a lot .of underworld role. . "on {thugs and politicians, I would Mr. Rivera was to have shade} The wife of U. 8, Sen. Arthur G8T¢ suggest that this. book Is his theatrical debut next month | Vandenberg is a patient at the not merely 8 documented ‘cops
The purpose of the story ‘Is {summed up by writer William J. | Slocum, to whom Mr. Irey told it.
by Edgar Kline starring the au-/Cancer and Allied Diseases; it was 58 thor's Negro wife, Thelma Streat disclosed today. “The story is that Elmer Irey's 0 of Portland, Ore, as Solomon's, Mrs, Vandenberg was admitted | Intelligence Unit was literally the Shulumite wife. ” to the hospitalttwo days ago. A|{last hope of the American people The muralist said he will give hospital spokesman would not in our running ‘battle with the
cording to the FOC there should be coast-to-coast sion by 1952, Tie :
Mr. Laughton “one of his best comment on the nature of her|underworid. Tt was a battle, the, pieces” of his sulisetiont of pre-'iliness, ‘| ettszenry was losing the In-
‘FRIDAY, JANUARY 1949
Really Caco Of Water Over The Dam In Bluef River Flood Scene
Photos by:8 Bil Outer, ¥ Times Staff Photographer. ;
East Columbus yesterday. This street was evacuated Wednesday when Flat Rock Crask over flowed its banks. Fifty-six persons were forced to take shelter in Donner Park.
generation.
Crest of the Blue River floodfide was where these logs lie near a farm fence. This entire section in the outskirts of Shelbyville under water for a day. Residents say it was worst fl
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Mostly About People Series to Tell of Income Tax ‘Cops’
- Elmer Lincoln Irey was an $1800-a-year post office Inspector nal Revenue of the Treasury De in 1919 when he was chosen to head the newly-! partment,
of the Treasury Department. more than a quarter of a century |
of battling crime with an unusual weapon—the income tax laws. “The Tax Dodgers,”
" Mr, + Irey told the
telligence Unit unlimbered courage, cunning and the income {tax statutes to check an enemy
closer to defeat than has foreign foe. “The shameful story is that every big-shot thug and politician that Irey and his Men convicted had defeated one or more. other law-enforcement agencies which might more reasonably have been expected to
It the Intelligence Unit was unable entirely to restore law nad order to our land, it did succeed in restoring some respect for law in places where there had been only open contempt” Mr, Slocum asserts. Mr. Irey was born in Kansas City, Mo., In 1888 and was reared £hd educated in Washihgton:' He
in “The Bapg of Songs,” a play New York Memorial Hospital for R_Tovbery’ saga,” Mr. Slocum became a stenographer -in the
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‘within our borders that had US! Callan to Y machine to stop it. Mr, Callan part of the
check their looting and kiling.|™
Mr. Callan nad Mr, | Roper had a problem.. The combination of war profits ‘and profiteering plus the recently raised income tax rates had put {a strain-on the inherent honesty of certain taxpayers and certain tax collectors. ‘They suspected collusion. Mr, Roper told . Mr. det up some sort of a
galled Mr, Irey back from Lynch« PRs rintbaghossn. Fr, ri :
inally the Intelligence Unit was the Treasury Department's forces