Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1952 — Page 15

WEDNESDAY, APR. 23, 1952 ___ “ At Year of U. S. Pleas for Bill Oatis Gets Only Contemptuous Replies

(Editorial, Page 22) By ALBERT M. COLEGROVE we are not—describing this past August:

Howard Staff Writer i IN year to him in terms of his case, . ARE NON Ape Fie Back we could do it this briefly: cern about: Mr, Oatis. He is prob-

say he was so skinny that some ‘Many words. Much anger 2DIY_ working i the vegetable day a strong wind would whisk Some action. No results. (very busy.” him away, On our side, the latest of the) They were partly wrong. He was whisked away, appeared to be shaped from cob-'on his arrival here eight months But it took the talon grip of Webs rather than forged from ago: = the Red police, the stone and steel. “From the judicial point of iron of a Czech prison to do Said President Truman last View, the Oats case is closed.” what nothing élse had done— February: Everything is being (Mr. Prochazka may have been keep William N, Oatis away done that can be done , . . too mild. He since has been sum-

from his dogged pursuit 4 !moned back to Prague; the graperH BENG: P of thE A week before that, a State; says we shall hear no more

truth. Department spokesman ventured: | f Mr, Prochazka.) It was just a year ago tonight.| «I think we are making prog- . : The place: The entrance to a|ress.” Those are the replies of Red

in the city of Prague Czechoslovakia to our pleas, our

capital of Red Czechoslovakia. The time: Shortly before midnight on Apr. 23, 1951.

Department assured everyone lomatic notes. that “not a day has gone by .,."” Nation of 12 Million ete.

A black sedan approached the| pp ang several months ago,| T1OSe are the replies of a na- gpg py the hundreds, people who Committee of the ton of 12 milllon—a population grits to Congressmen once in a decade-—some on embossed sta- | lined , tablet

garage. .: the Social Its driver and sole occupant United Nations Economic and Just & couple million larger than

was Willam Oatis, a bookish-|8ocial Council declared it wasn’t that of California. ; appearing man of 37, wearing right to persecute newspaper cor- Mr. Oatis was tried for espio-shell-rimmed glasses. - |respondents who were only do- | nage in Prague on July 4, 1951. The sedan was owned by the ing their duty. He had flo American lawyer, Associated Press. Mr. Oatis, chife| From the other side of the Iron| ‘The trial was in the state court of the AP’s Czechoslovakian Bu-/ Curtain the words have been con-|[F00m attached to Pankra Prison. reau, was putting it away for|temptuous. Mo Czechs permitted two the night. Listen to A. P. Pavlov sound- American Embassy Exactly what followed is not Ing off in the United Nations: They were given seats 100 feet known on this side of the slavery | “If you (the U. 8.) stick your away from Mr, Oatis. That is as line. {paws into our country, we will close as any free man has been

. hack them off ...” {to him in a year. " The Czechoslovak government] : | He confessed espionage at the returned the car to the Associated! Listen io Premier Zdpotocky, ; ? .

Press 30 days later. | Assembly ‘last November: , {what the Communists call Mr. ‘Oatis remains in prison. “Nobody can force us with plonage. Americans call it reportIf he is keeping a calendar ipreats of blackmail to surrender|ing the news. He got 10 years.

gram to William Oatis — which!ference in San Francisco last

“There is no need to feel conAnd I'am 3

Listen to Vladimir Prochazka, many words were hopeful, but | Czech Ambassador to the U, 8,

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Bill Oatis

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VA Officials Have Lush Layout at Ft. Snelling

By JAMES DANIEL Soripps-Howard Stat! Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—|

{Warren today gave Congress report an inch-and-a-half thick

erans Administration office at Ft. Snelling, Minn.

(World War II. Its attractions

slate officers’ quarters, officials, The post has 2200 acres, with miles of paths and roads, huge lawns, shooting ranges and other features, Just the upkeep on it

Thousands of his Jellow Ames. costs the VA $13 to $15 a year

And a month earlier, the State protests, our carefully drawn dip- ually and in groups, that our gov- * lernment take strong action: Lawuniversity

per square foot of office space actually used, Mr. Warren estimated. He sald equivalent office space

students, veterans, Congressmen | 14 be rented commercially in

(tionary, some on paper.

“Some action,” we sald.

nearby St. Paul-Minneapolis for $2 or $3 a year per square foot.

$1500 for Carpet

Mr. Warren cited expence vouchers for decorating and fur-

The government has virtually nighing private quarters for the cut off all trade with Czechoslo-| regional office's chief, Ernest R.

vakia.

And it has forbidden the state-| Observers. qwned Czech Airline from flying, . Allied-occupled Germany Chiropractor Fined

over and Austria, Anything else?

President Truman sald on Feb. |

[28 he ‘couldn't

might not work. Back

tell specifically E. Miche ‘thundering to the Czech National trial. That is, he confessed 1t0/ what was being done because then =

es-'the world would know, and it

home in Indiana,

|Benke, and four of his aids.

For Practicing Medicine

WABASH, Apr. 23 (UP)—Fred 1s, 3 Columbia City chiropractor, was fined $350 and sentenced to three months on the

they state penal farm late yesterday

wherever he is, tonight he willithis right of ours.” (He referred | Maybe, said the Magistrate, he wondered in 1942 how on earth on & charge of criminal contempt mark the 365th day that thet, the right to arrest “spies” and would get five years off for good frail Bill Oatis passed his physical ©f a court injunction against his

United States, his homeland, has “foreign criminals.” behavior. failed to wrench him from his| Listen to Dr. Gertrude SekaniCommunist captors.

If we were permitted a tele-' the Japanese Peace Treaty con-job today.

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Among the items were more|their own expense, says the res The Warren report went inte

than $1500 for broadloom carpet- port. ing bought from W, & J. Sloane| Mr.

The highest rent for any of the Carl Gray.

Ft. Snelling is an old cavalry vA officials was the $74 a month| Mr, Warren said Mr. Benke is other {post which the VA picked up after Mr Benke paid for his big house. known to be a friend of Mr. Gray. Meyers was promoted four steps recently was re-|jup the linclude several dozen brick-and- work compelled them to live on/moved as head of the Ft. Snell- unusually quick time. t which the post didn’t do as well. They ing office and put in charge of, were taken over as homes for VAihad to draw lots for space in old the VA office in Denver. VA offi- knowledge of Mr. Myers’ rela. they clals here sald the transfer was tionship to Mr. Benke “inevitably

Lesser VA employees whose! Mr, Benke

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! | Warren states that Mr. yr " (Comptroller General Lindsay Co. in Washington, D. C.; $351 for Benke had considerable discre- Mr. Benke by Rep, Roy Wier (D,

a household vacuum cleaners; six|tjon granted him as a deputy to| 1.0") In the House last year.

($196 refrigerators and six $188/the head of the Veterans Adminranges, more than $2700 paid to istration

‘lon how goveynment funds areithe Jamestown Table Co. of New original appointment came from nephew, Paul Meyers, had a rapid

Mr, Warren sald it was true, that Mr. Benke's

being spent at the five-state Vet-|York, and almost §1000 for vene- Gen, Omar Bradley. He was re-irise in the Ft. Snelling office, {tained by the present VA head, Brought in from a fairly lows

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