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General delivery . . . A letter goes through the window. Henry W. Johnson has seen all of human emotions at his post.

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18 years. At one time the woman to have had a responsible position

One day a worker in the general delivery section noticed a newspaper story about an unidentified woman being found dead. The description fit the woman the employee knew at the! window, Contact was made with the sheriff of. Cobk County. A call was put on the air. and two sisters identified the woman. They had no idea what was happening to the “successful” member of the family. There are many tears at the window. Often there are cheers. Watching a few faces light up after a letter is placed in shaking hands makes

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you glad. Seeing a face, full of disappointment |®

to begin with, go away from the window almost crying, makes you feel sorry for the whole world. Too bad people have to be lonely and unhappy.

Job Well Done

By Robert C. Ruark

." NEW YORK, Oct, 19—About the first man of lofty stature to come down the public pike in pecent years, it seems to me, is Judge Harold Medina, who 1s, I hope, at this moment nursing & double martini and wiggling his toes, sans shoes. He's earned a rest, and a binge, if he wants One, because the public may put him back to work pretty soon. Judge Medina, as you probably know, is the Job-patienced gentleman who pulled his handlebar mustaches for the nine long months of the sedition trial, while 11 Communists and their . lawyers tried their level best to drive him nuts. The trial ended last week; the Communists were found guilty; Judge Medina sentenced five of the lawyers to jail terms for contempt of court. / There have been few longer and tougher trials, from the standpoint of the judge, in the history of jurisprudence. Judge Medina was forced to face all the weapons of organized communism— gonfusion, intimidation, racial slurs, a constant sttempt by the legal counsel to throw the court ‘Into an uproar, goad the judge to honest fury, and thereby force a mistrial. Judge Medina let the lawyers and the defendants romp off with literal murder—while thé trial was being heard. He did this simply because Ba sentence of contempt of court for any one of the counsel would have disrupted the proceedings and possibly gained & mistrial for the legal eagles. He endured insult and insolence such as few Judges have been called on to take. He coped with a concerted attempt to haze him into either foss of temper or actual physical breakdown.

Great Indignation

THE ACTIONS of the Messrs, Sacher, Isserman, Gladstein, Crockett and McCabe were clearly in contempt from start to finish—so much so that there was considerable indignation over Judge Medina’s forebearance in his handling of the men who attempted to knock him loose from his dignity and authority. Judge Medina dedicated himself to the trial. ft is not commonly known that he reviewed each day's proceedings, after hours, passionately pearching for any obscure legal pimples which might possibly provide the shrewd defenders with A claim for mistrial. This work often took

‘roughly that of a lone football player trying to

four, five hours of his own time—time he needed desperately to recoup his draining strength. Judge Medina became an anchorite. He gave up everything for the trial—all personal pleasures, all other business, all distractions. When he was not actively werking he sat and waited for energy to flow back into his tissues, for his task was

stand off a whole team for nine months. In his handling sof the insults apd diversions presented by the lawyers, he was fair to the point of seeming weakness—again, in an effort to hand the lads ull the rope sufficient for a hanging. Most people I've talked to were tickled to death that he finally hit the lawyers with the book, at the trial's end. At 61, Judge Medina is a vigorous, robust man. He is sufficiently wealthy—self-accrued wealth— to be above the economic demands on the small politician. He has devoted his life to the law, and is generally accorded to be a genius in his knowledge of it. I doubt if even the scum who booed his entrance to the courthouse, in organized daily rabble-rousing, would charge him with a lack of integrity, If there is a truly liberal man, in the matters of race, religion and politics, it is Harold Medina.

Big Impact

JUDGE MEDINA has hit the public here with an impact I have not seen since young Tom Dewey sent a flock of thugs to jail. Just over the weekend, his capture of the public imagination seems as complete as Joe DiMaggio’s. All around you hear Medina for governor, even Medina for president. Speaking only for me, I buy it all the way. We have een surrounded, since the war, by so many small, cheap people—bickerers and bargainers .and back-slappers and logrollers—that a man with the intelligence, poise and tough integrity of Judge Medina shines like a diamond on a pig's snout. I think Judge Medina will suddenly discover that he can be the people’s choice for anything he wishes. And while it'll cut into ,his earned relaxation, I hope he goes along with it. Never met the man in my life, but anything he runs ior, he's got a solid “aye” vote here.

Deep Secrecy

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — Down in the limestone bowels of the U. 8. Capitol, directly beneath the dome, is Room F-82. Its massive, fronbound door has a small ventilator in it and if the gentlemen will pardon me for saying so, §t looks like the entrance to a padded cell. Here’s where the important stuff is going on. Upstairs the Senate is meeting on what the clerks call routine business. The House also is marking time with speechifying. Everybody's waiting for pomething to explode in Room F-82, In deepest secrecy within are meeting the ponferees of the two legislative bodies, trying to make a deal on what kind of a farm-support bill Congress is to adopt. Upon the decision of the harried lawgivers in F-82 will depend whether the government rents another cave in-which to store another hundred million dozen eggs. And whether it buys a few more million pounds of butter, whether it stays in the potato business, #nd whether it has to buy much of next year's 8rain crop. * Until the gentlemen decide, or at least decide at they can't decide anything, Congress can’t quit and go home. So every hint that wafts through the ventilator is of the utmost importance

to somebody. :

Case of Sore Feet

~~ 1 DROPPED by F-82, to stand first on one foot And then the other on the dank stone floor, while the compromisers within did their stuff. Two dozen other reporters also got sore feet, waiting lor the word. The ventilator wasn't much help; all it produced was a mumble. : i After nearly four hours of this and countless igaret stubs under foot, the door opened. A Congressman stuck his head out and, literally, ran down the hall. Out came Sen. George D. Aiken; the Vermont Republican, whose farm bill was Rdopted at the last session of Congress and which

The Quiz Master

posed for the new postage stamp commemorating the GAR? ' "The drawing shows a Union soldier as he was

Indicates the Passage ot Sime from 1861 to 1949. What modern country had three kings in one ?

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will become law in January unless the boys can write another. “No progress,” he said. Behind him was Sen. Clinton D. Anderson of New Mexico, the ex-Secretary of Agriculture, who had written a farm bill of his own. He said nothing; he looked glum. yo» Finally came the white-haired Sen. Elmer Thomas (D..Okla.), the chairman of the Agriculture Committee. He flexed his thumbs in his belt and announced that the lawmakers had agreed on everything in the farm bill, except for three things. Like a dope, I's ted that this, certainly, was progress. “Hmpf,” said Sen. Thomas. “The three things on which we haven't agreed are the bill, itself The important part.” : Things were so bad inside F-82, the gentleman from Oklahoma continued, - that his cohorts couldn’t agree on anything. Three times, he said, he'd pleaded with ’em to agree to disagree. But they wouldn't even agree to that.

What's It Mean?

SOME OF the gentlemen, he continued, have ideas that might serve as a compromise. Then, said he, Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois, the Democratic leader who wants to go home, had offered an amendment along this line. “But nobody knows what it means,” Sen. Thomas said, “and we’ve got to study.it.” The House has passed a bill continuing farmsupport prices (including egg buying) about like they are now. The Senate has passed the Anderson bill, which would taper off on the price levels after one more year. The Aiken bill, which may yet become law by default, lets the Secretary of Agriculture decide just how high the supports should be. At this writing the gentlemen, having fortified themselves with food, are back in F-82. I don't envy ’em. Whatever they do, in the view of somebody, they're going to be wrong.

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Has Congress enacted any laws regarding the manner of displaying or saluting the flag? Noite Congress aur any of the states Jia.en. acted any laws regarding manner of displayIg or suluiing the fag. . pay

Ld How often does the Varying Hare or “Snowhot R Rabbit” change his coat?

Governor Schricker ington yesterday. Backed

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949

officially opened new State Road 37 between Martinsville and Bloomthe speakers’ platform and the Indiana University band, he swung

the gate clearing the road for traffic.

Workmen still are putting finishing touches to the gleaming highway which has

flattened southern Indiana hills into gradual rises.

Dedication of New Ind. 37 Marks End of One Eraq,

By VICTOR PETERSON, Times Staff Writer

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. coaster road linking Martinsville

Late yesterday Gov. Schricker swung wide the gate opening new State Rd. 37, a gleaming ribbon of concrete with gradual

hills and a few sweeping curves.

It was a great day for the citizens of the two cities and their

Chambers of Commerce made the most of it as co-sponsors. Businesswise the modern highway promises to bring a flow of trade. And Indiana University football fans will bless the 15% mile stretch which will speed traffic on game days. A motor caravan headed by Sov. Schricker and Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins journeyed from Indianapolis and picked up additional cars at Martinsville en route to the dedication site of Griffey Creek Bridge near Bloomington, ” " » / DR. WILLIAM LOWE BRYAN, IU president emeritus, recalled another great event on the same spot 75 years ago. Then there was opened the most modern covered bridge in Monroe County. “The people were proud of the

the state are today of this fine highway,” the aging educator said.

the road to Samuel A. Hadden, Highway Commission chairman, who presented it to the Governor. pave received,” Gov. Schricker ment on the part of the people of $3.5 million. “However, the state probably could get more revenue in gaso-

strengthened its football team,” he added jokingly. » - .

AT THE dedication dinner in the JU: Union building, University President Herman B Wells promised the day of better teams

d come. “Old and beautiful 37 is no more. It took years off our lives and rubber off our tires,” President Wells said. “Today we have a modern link with the north, an |educational life line to Indiana University. It is gratifying the job is done for 78 per cent of our student body lives north of Bloom _ ig Completion scraps one of the state’s most dangerous highways. Old 37 was a twisting series of 90 sharp clirves, steep hills and

accomplished by shedding no-passing markings. It was the

scene of numerous fats acci-

achievement just as the people of|1,629,728 cubic yards of ground, Morgan and Monroe Counties and|a third of it rock.

Formally Ray T. Bower, State|A third lane, for trucks crawling Highway Commission chief engi-{uPhill, has been added in five neer, recommended acceptance of|SPots to aid traffic flow.

“This is the biggest gift I ever Of Foster Mother

aid, “and it represents an invest-|—Folice sent out an alarm today

line taxes if Indiana University|.

Start of Another

19—Gone. forever is the rollerand Bloomington.

dents, the most serious recently the Greyhound bus tragedy which claimed 16 lives.

8 “ 2 THE NEW HIGHWAY, however, already has been marred by death. Before formal opening a man was killed in a truck-car collision at the junction of the old and new roads south of Martinsville. But the broad, sweeping cement ribbon, surveyed first in 1942, promises relief for drivers who formerly fretted out the stretch. War delayed the project and the initial contract was not let until 1946.

job requiring nine prime contracts, five for the road proper, four for bridges. The cutting of the swath

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 19 (UP)

Young Mockabee quoted his fa-

ther as saying:

“Go ahead and shoot me, that

gun isn’t loaded anyway.”

The elder Mockabee suffered a

bullet wound in the groin.

Young Mockabee was allowed

to remain in his home in) the custody of a neighbor. )

Grocery Manager Gets Shrimp on the Head

ROCKFORD, Ill, Oct. 19 (UP)

— A tall man with a yen for shrimp was sought by police today. Jack Dermer, manager of a grocery, sald the man struck him Construction was a mammoth|on the head with two cans of the

Tis is the type of sweeping curve motorstgrow rave on State Road 37 in

place of the dangerous, sharp turns of the old highway.

Boy Shoots Father

To Halt Family Quarrel fiver Thrown Out

Eleven-year-old Lorenz Mockabee shot and seriously wounded his father, William, 48, after the latter struck his wife during a family quarrel, police said today.

Gleaming Concrete Ribbon Now Links Martinsville, Bloomington

The first vehicle to slip through the gate was piloted by.

liam Johnson, 73-year-old Bloomington for the event.

Car Makes Turn,

Two persons injured in traffic mishaps were treated at Methodist Hospital last night. Mrs. Mary Gheen, 57 E. Maple Rd.,, was injured when the car she was driving struck the parked car of David L. Palmer, 22 E. 22d St., in the 4600 block of N. Pennsylvania St.

The door of his car flew open night.

aid. RAIL GROUP TO" MEET

p. m. tomorrow in the Meridian

choice seafood and fled with eight Room of the Colonial Furniture others.

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through the scenic hills of southern Indiana meant excavating

The deepest cut to level a hill was 64 feet while the deepest fill to smooth a valley was 68 feet.

Youth Sought in Death

CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 19 (UP)

for an 18-year-old adopted boy believed to have killed his mother when she tried to prevent him from taking the family car. The youth, identified as James Nairy, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nairy, has been missing since "yesterday when the mother, a 54-year-old suburban housewife, was found in the yard of her home with four .22 caliber revolver shots in her back. Police Chief Henry L. Walton sail he was “certain” the son shot Mrs. Nairy when she tried to prevent him from taking the car. .

Indianapolis Post Will Meet Tonight The Indianapolis Post, American Legion, will meet tonight in Woodruff Place Center. Ladies of the Auxiliary have been invited to a bean supper at 6:30 p. m. Mrs. Clarence Martin and Wade Neal are in charge of arrangements.

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as Marion J. Dannettelle, 21, of using a 32-caliber pistol, obtained 1024 N. New Jersey St. turned|$2!5 from Galyan’s Super Market, off 23d St. into Adams St. last{1102 W. 16th St. after midnight

The driver was thrown from of 339 Beauty Ave, the car, which continued on into a brick wall at the home of|ployees in the food mart wits Raymond Woolf, 2305 Adams St./nessed the holdup. No customers Both werefi released after first/were in the store at the time.

Friendship Club of Retired Rail-|radio, road Employees will meet at 1:30/8uns, watches, bracelets and ear.

Holdup, Burglaries Net Thieves $300

Only the South Side was “ime mune” from stick-up men, burglars and footpads last night, More than , jewelry and household items were taken in other sections of town. A slender sweater-clad man,

from cashier Winifred Kitch, 29,

Only one of eightother em-

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hirschman, 4141 E. 62d St., discovered $26 and household items—including a silver tray, toaster and

rings—missing when they ree turned to their home last night. Police were also investigating the burglarizing of an apartment belonging to Misses Jill Westhead, 20, and Joyce Jones, 21, of 2003 N. Meridian St. The two women told police $45 belonging to Miss Jones and Miss Westhead’s $80 watch were gone when they returned to their apartment last night.

Trainmen, Auxiliary To Meet Saturday

The 17th annual state meeting of the Brotherhood of Railroad Sralumen and its auxiliary will e day in Hotel. ay the Claypont Gov. Schricker ‘and 11th District Congressman Andrew Jacobs will be principal speakers at the 6:30 p. m. banquet in the Riley Room. Mr. Jacobs’ speech will be broadcast from 8:30 to 9 p. m. Ray C. Gilbert, state representative for the Brotherhood, will - be general chairman of the convention. Other state officials and international union officers’ will speak at meetings during the day.