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SUNDAY, JULY 13; 1952

Washington Calling— Harriman Now Believed HST’s First Choice

By the Staff of The Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, July 12—Now for the Democrats. There's every indication here that Averell Harriman

will get the Truman nod.

Insiders say its significant that staunch administration Senators—Kilgore of West Virginia and Humphrey of Minnesota—prepared the way for Harriman as. he swung into their states. Wouldn't have done it without word from the White House, they're sure. Pennsylvania’s Democratit national committeeman was at the White House this week. So was John J. Kane, chairman of Allegheny County commisisoners and original Truman-for-Vice-President man in 1944. Soon after that a Pennsylvania Congressman, who had beensleaning’ strongly to Stevenson, began saying Harriman would be

better candidate.

This doesn’t mean Harriman’s sure of nomination, Doesn't mean Trunfan will formally announce support. He'll probably stick with decision to be mysterious—for the record—till his alternate, Thomas J. Gavin, casts

his vote. : Does mean no serious draftStevenson movement is likely. This is a switch. Until few days ago, the insiders whispered it was to be Stevenson despite his real reluctance to run, They're talking up Harriman on this basis:

Chicago Echoes He's expected to have wider labor support than Stevenson could get. And he’s sure to be strong in northern cities because of his stand on FEPC, New Deal and Fair Deal. Democrats figure that even if South revolts because of Harriman views on FEPC, loss will be offset by that Northern strength.

o ~ . AN HOUR after Ike had been nominated, Chairman Edward Feingersch of Pix, Inc., sneaked into tightly guarded Eisenhower hotel suite disguised as a waiter. He ahrried a tray with glasses, water and a tureen. Tureen had camera in it, instead of ice. : Once Feingersch was in, he popped off the tureen top, snapped a picture of Ike and party having champagne victory toast. Chagrined Chicago cops — Sgt. George Kush and Patrolman Pat ‘Daly-—grabbed hi took him off to jail.’ : When Feingersch’'s boss rushed to scene of the crime, police told him it shouldn't be too hard to get him out of his

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” # - IT TOOK 20 with sirens Dtareyele sen police stationed along the route, 1000 foot cops, and a 3star police officer, to get Ike and his 15-car entourage out to Convention Hall, Took them about 20 minutes, all told, for the trip ... Police homicide Sergeant James McMahon and eight aids were organized into an “anti-bottle squad” Friday. Idea was to keep hilarious delegates from throwing bottles out of hotel windows while celebrating. Within two minutes after reaching duty-post outside Blackstone Hotel, Sgt. McMahon was almost conked bya bottles that smashed three feet away, & - r - - Changes Ahead EISENHOWER victory in November—it it comes—will mean a shift of power and

prestige among Republican

Ike's prime mover in the Senate Is apt to be Sen. Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, the General's preconvention campaign manager, Chief lieutenants will be Sens. Frank Carlof Kansas and James Duff nsylvania. .

“I don't want him.

. - » SENS. Hickenlooper of Iowa and Morse of Oregon will be in the picture. And if. Sen. Richard Nixon is presiding— as Vice President—he'll probably be part of the strategy team, too. Eisenhower's major Conproblem is likely to Sen. Robt, A, Taft. Taft is proud of his Senate power; will not willingly give up his job as head of Republican Policy Committee, And his supporters in bitter preconvention campaign won't want him to give it up. Taft has said he’ll support the nominee, and platform was tailored to his specifications. Rut real test won't come till legislative battles begin, in a new Congress, If he wants to, he could give any President serious trouble,

Out of Control

PRICE CONTROLS will exist in name only for next 10 months, When smoke of bat- . tie cleared, enforcement division of OPS found it had beén given so little money by it will have to cut personnel by 50 per cent. Won't be agents left in the catch violators, or enough attorneys left to prosecute cases, it says. Meanwhile cost of living

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" graphs inch upward, are near

all-time high, show no sign of - leveling ‘off. . : Critical ‘ - REPORT highly critical of

Army Engineers is being writ‘ten by Sen. Lydon Johnson's

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two other bases Air Force

wants. Report says concrete parking apron on one completed field has failed already. At another, 2200 - foot taxiway shows signs of deterioration.

. Investigators say engineers

failed to see that specifications were followed.

Jumpy

‘TOP BRASS at Justice is jumpy. More resignations are likely. Like Solicitor Philip Perlman, other officials find It difficult to work with Attorney General McGranery. He's operating behind a private iron eurtain, that even the departmental grapevine can’t see behind, officials say.

McGranery’s chief aim seems

to be to keep the lid clamped down. Permit no additional scandal. Where there's doubt about a case, it's sent to .a Grand Jury instead of being dropped. Waiting WESTERN EUROPE — like United States—is on dead center awaiting November -elections here. Ratification of European army, West German treaties— rushed through the American Senate—has been put on ice in ‘Europe. German Parliament sent treaties to seven committees, from which they won't emerge before October, at the

earliest. France won't even start action umit Germans aes =

cide. (Delay plays into hands of opponents of rearmament, who want new general elections before vote on ratification.) Western Europe heaved sigh of relief when Eisenhower was nominated; will be root-

ing for his election in Novem- °

ber. Germany's especially hot for him; hopes his election would mean better deal for them. They've never forgotten his statement when he took over NATO command, more than a year ago, that he was burying the hatchet; that he considered the German soldier's honor was never lost.

Day Dreaming

GERMANS found. Republican convention attacks on Roosevelt, Truman and Yalta and Potsdam agreements, music to their ears. Many— especially former Army men— consider Roosevelt sold out to Stalin at Yalta. And they feel that if Churchill's ‘plan to attack through Balkans had been followed, world wouldn't be in such a mess today. It’s typical of day dreaming, wishful thinking, and efforts to rewrite history in which - Germans induige. Note: There's an ominous note ,in High Commissioner McCloy’s last quarterly report on Germany. It warned that neo-Naz: movement, though unimportant, must be watched. In neoNazis got four per cent of the vote, though they campaigned only a week, and in a relatively prosperous area.

World Report—

Japanese Fear U. S.-Sponsored Unions

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Could Become Tool of Russ in Far East

May Day Riots Lifted the Veil

Compiled From the Wire Services Turmoil within the Japanese labor movement, combined with political strikes and growing unrest among workers, has aroused fear in Japan that the labor movement the United States promoted will become the unwitting tool of communism in Japan, Elenor Spalding, Times special correspondent in Tokyo, writes. The man with the most power to prevent it or to bri it about is Minoru Takano, pr. tary general of Sohyo, the General Council of Trade * Unions in Japan. He was one of the first men outside the government with whom the new U. 8. Ambassador, Robert Murphy, conferred, Mr. Takano, a left-wing Socialist, has established himself as top man in the labor movement since the ousting in April of Takeo Muto, pro-American and right wing, from the chairmanship of Sohyo. Mr. Takano's agreement. to hold a joint May Day rally with the Communists gave them their stage for the May Day riot in’ Tokyo. As a result of the riot, he now asserts that Sohyo never again will cooperate with the Communist Party in Japan.

” ” » MR. TAKANO himgelf is responsible for Sohyo’s offensive against rearmament, against U. 8. influence in Asia and for absolute neutrality. He opposes U. 8. security forces in Japan and favors trade with Communist China. The U. 8. is getting splattered with mud in a hot fight between Sohyo and the government of Premier Shigeru Yoshida because Mr. Takano and men like him identify Yoshida as the agent of American colonialism. Perhaps better than anyone else, Mr. Takano personifies the problem America faces in Japan. A far cry from men who have risen through the ranks. of democratic labor movements, he is one of the educated few with zeal to lead the down-trodden many of Asia.

At labor rallies he can be spotted by the quality and the whiteness of his shirt. A studious. little man of 51 in horn-rimmed glasses, he writes prolifically and speaks in the

ANTI-AMERICANISM feeling among some of Japan's new

labor leaders gives Jap Reds added inspiration to demonstrate

like this.

‘modulated tones of a college professor.

Born of good family, Mr.

‘Takano holds a university degree in chemical engineering and acquired his interest in the labor movement by doing social work. He joined the Machinist's Union and, under the old regime, went to jail more than once for his opposition to dictatership,

Something Wrong

During the early days of the occupation, he was hailed by those who sought a democratic labor movement for Japan as a fresh, aggressive leader to replace the Old Guard which had collaborated with the militarists and monopolists. By the middle of 1948, the young, democratic labor movement boasted 6.5 million members. Then something went wrong. Since then, the movement has lost more than a million members. Mr. Takano blames it on a change in U, 8. policy which he says has favored the monopolists at the

War Il Files on Baltic

2230 "BONN, Germany, July 12 (CDN)—=Some 300,000 persons have been deported from the Baltic countries of Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in two different actions by Soviet authorities, according to. estimates recently announced here. Through one of those sardonic twists with which modern happenings are so filled, figures for the first of these actions—which occurred in June, 1941—are precise. About 61,000 persons were involved.

Here Today,

Gone Tomorrow

That's a light-hearted phrase in this country. But behind the Iron Curtain, it is a grim statement of everyday life. Mass deportations, such as those described in this article, are only one of the Communists’ weapons of terror. ; Leland Stowe, distinguished author and foreign correspondent, painstakingly has pieced together the story of .these weapons. He calls his book “Conquest by Terror.” : The Indianapolis Times has been fortunate in securing serialization rights to this®important book. The first chapter appears in The Times tomorrow,

Only about six weeks after the deportations occurred the Baltic countries were occupied by the Nazis. In the methodical fashion of the Germans, a

Mr. Cooke Tours the U. S. A.—

British-Born Ya

By WADE JONES

NEW YORK, July 12 (NEA) ~New England winters are so bad that if the United States had been settled from the Pacific Coast eastward, New England would still be undiscovered. Americans probably eat a wider variety of things than anybody anywhere, Englishmen can't get over Americans wearing belts when they could be wear suspenders, like Englishmen do. Such are typical musings on America by an extraordinary ex-Englishman named Alistair Cooke. Contemplating Mr, Cooke for

= the first time, he strikes you

as one of those gents who's so handsome he couldn't be very alert, y » . . HE'S TALL and slim, and at 43 his sleek brown hair is graying at the temples. He has fine light-colored eyes and one of those high-bridged Coldstream Guards noses. And he talks with an English accent. But he’s alert all right.

He is chief American corre-

| 2

: } Alistair Cooke "He has been called the best of the present-day foreign cor-

respondents. © And an American diplomat said he was one

" of the best ambassadors to

England this country ever had. ss » »

HIS FIRST BOOK was “A Generation on Trial,” the story of the Hiss case. The second, just out, is “One Man's America,” a spruced-up version of

- his better broadcasts gn Amer-

ot 10 Engand.

nk Give

Lift Veil on Red Terror _.

registration of the local popu.

lace was ordered. The Nazi files now have been made available to Baltic refugee organizations in Ger many. They show that 10,157 persons, including almost 3200 children and youths were ordered out of Estonia in a single night. For Latvia the figure was 15,600, and for Lithuania more than 38,000. Records captured by the Germans . also disclosed that the widespread deportation action had been planned carefully beforehand over a period of more than five months. Soviet control of the Baltics was established in June, 1940, by treaties of “mutual assistance” * which the Kremlin forced on the hapless countries after splitting up Poland with the Germans. The deportees included leading members of all anti-Soviet political parties, from Trotskyist Comimunists on the left to extreme nationalists on the right. But the list by no means ended there. It included police officials, property owners, and anyone with discernable foreign connections, even to stamp collectors and amateur students of the international language, Esperanto. Information about the second mass deportation is less accurate. It occurred in 1949 during the period of compulsory collectivization of the Baltic. farm lands. Refugee groups estimate the number of persons involved was four times as great as that in 1941,

expense of small business and workers. In 1950 and 1851, Mr. Takano led a successful drive to unite the non-Communist unions of Japan in a single, strong federation. He was elected secretary general of Sohyo in March, 1951, A year later his power seemed on the wane, mainly because of his opposition to the peace treaty. But since April, Takano has organized three more political strikes, all one-day protests against the policies of the Yoshida Government. Arguments that the labor movement is weakening itself by getting involved in politics instead of concentrating on the economic aims of the workers cut no ice with Mr, Takano. “The Yoshida Government is out to curb labor. We must win that fight first before we can obtain economic gains,” he declares, : Out to Curb Labor Sohyo boasts a membership of four million out of an estimated 5.3 million organized workers, making it the largest

organized pressure group in the

nation. But Takano insists the cards are stacked against labor at the polis. He claims Yoshida's Liberal Party has the moral support of the U. S.and the financial support of the Zaibatsu, the economic, royalists of Japan. : Mr. Takano concedes that

" the U. 8. does not want to curb

Japanese labor. He acknowledges that his major complaint against the Yoshida Government is that it would revise laws for which occupation authorities were responsible. But he argues that the cold war has caused the United

States to promote a revival of .

monopolies and militarism in Japan in the interest of production and defense.

Blow to Bevan

BEVANISM took a setback in Britain this week when miners’ union refused to talie a stand against rearmament, shortly after railway workers had done so. Miners are the key to this fall's Trade Union Congress, and Labor Party conference, where Attlee-Bevan battle may come. Without support of the miners-—-his own union—Bevan has little chance of making real trouble.

Red China -

THE CHINESE are preparing an “International Economic Conference” on the model of the recent Moscow conference, which is to be held in Peking during the late autumn, This conference will be aimed at Southeast Asia-and- the Far East. Businessmen and ecoromic experts will be invited. During the April conference in Moscow the Chinese delega-

s With Some Hot Tips

For instance, describing Florida—~the richness of her winter playgrounds as contrasted with the extgeme poverty of many of her Negroes, Indians, and native whites and their fight to improve their lot through organized labor: “You will come away from (Florida) with a memory of

_an old crone, around her neck

the diamond necklace of Miami Beach, and for the rest a

woman part Indian, part Negro, part Spanish, mostly Southern mountaineer; who

grows oranges and smells of turpentine; who practices voodoo and smokes cigars; who counts cheap beads with her hands and keeps a union card in her pocket.” x = ¥ SINCE SETTING out to learn all about us, Mr, Cooke has sped about the country with the zest and purpose of a brush salesman. As a result he knows about 3.1416 times as much about America as does the average American. omtoryMes, ETAOINU Apple soup in Wisconsin? Mr. Cooke ate it way back when. The California climate? “No such thing,” says Mr. Cooke. “There are 16 different California climates.” Should a man wear a white dinner coat in San Franeisco? “No,” says

Mr. Cooks. “I did it once and,

- United States citizen for

the elevator man called me ‘Doctor.’ But there still are a few bafflers he hasn't solved. One is that he can “find no peasants in America.” Also, he “can’t identify a farmer on sight.”

~ ” » . MR. COOKE becomes ‘more serious, talks more intently, and smokes his cigarettes faster when he gets on the subject of America’s position in world affairs. “If the United States is to be an effective world leader, it won't completely define its world policy for some time to come,” he says. “This country is like a card player who is being dealt his hand one card at a time. It won't know how to play its hand until it has all the cards.” a Meantime, he believes we have a good bit to learn about getting along with peoples of other countries. “This country will have to learn, probably by many failures, that it can’t get respect from other nations

. without giving them respect

even to the extent of respecting them for their differences from us, pe “I don't want to seem harsh about America, just realistic,” Mr. Cooke says. Then ‘he smiles. “Because after all who am I to talk. I've been a ths last 11 years” —

Leader Backs Trade With Reds

tion was especially active and made numerous contacts

- which have not been followed by any concrete results up to 3

the present.

Red Germany

EASTERN GERMAN ship. yards apparently have completed the major portions of their repair and recondition. ing work for the Soviet Navy and Merchant fleet. Ie The keel was laid recently in Warnemuende for the first ocean-going freighter of the East German Merchant Navy, a 9500-ton vessel,

‘Thailand

BRITISH and Danish monopolis of the barge traffic from the China Sea up river to Bangkok will lose their stranglehold when the partly United States financed river dredging is completed.

Soviet

SOVIET diplomats in western capitals in conversations with their opposite numbers have suddenly adopted a pessimistic and even threatening note. Paris reports say, “we are back in 1939, but it is still time to avoid 1940” is the general theme. ’ The Moscow-spread rumors of Stalin's iliness and his replacement by Molotov is part of the campaign. The Russians know well that for the western world Molotov represents the war party.

Japan JAPANESE police were alerted against possible Communist violence building up to Red observance of the 13th anniversary of Japan's Communist Party July 15. Police said they had information that Japan's underground “Politburo” planned at least 14 Red rallies, 11 of them in Osaka and Kyoto. They said the Red leaders had instructed their youth action corps to bring riot weapons — Molotov cocktails, acid. bombs, bamboo spears and clubs—to the meetings. In Tokyo, aluminum and wooden shields, portable fire extinguishers and protective covering against acid bombs were distributed to police." Headquarters here warned : citizens to stay away from riot areas.

Czechoslovakia- - ‘

A COURT IN OSTRAVIA, Czechoslovakia, sentenced two high Communist officials to death on ¢ of sabotage ang causing ee mine disasters that killed 40 miners, the Prague Radio said. Two others were given sentences of life imprisonment and five terms ranging from three. to 25 years. All were members of the Communist Party. Production lags in Czechoslovakia continue to Plague the Communist authorities. They're "now blaming it on too many workers’ celebrations.

Romania

TWO PILOTS who escaped from Romania last week said they were certain deposed Foreign Minister Ana Pauker was in jail awaiting trial, Radio Belgrade said. The refugee airmen who flew here from their Communist homeland said there were also rumors of the arrest of ‘National Bank Director Aurel Vizzoli and Assistant Minister Luca Vassie,

Hungary SOVIET EXPERTS are reported to have discovered

cheating on production statistics in Hungary. Hungary's

published figures were found far above actual production results. Finland

THE FINNS are paying part of their war reparations to Russia in radio stations for Soviet ships.

Norway NORWAY swapped its unsold stock of furs-—100.000 pelts—for 6000 tons of prunes.

Trieste ITALY is kicking up an official fuss because, Rome officials say Yugoslav authorities have failed to honor applications for passports of those inhabitant sin Zone B of the free territory of Trieste who want to go to Italy.

Iceland

BRITAIN and Iceland are conducting a quiet feud over the limits of territorial waters. British fishermen are in the center of the tiff. The Icelanders apparently recognize the 10-mile limit, which the British say is not regarded by the world court as having the force of law.

- Turkey

THE FICTION is being spread in the Middle East that Turkey [is planning to revive the Ottoman Empire, with United States support. This, the rumormongers say, is behind Turkey's inclusion in a Mideast defense command. A corollary of the rumor is that Turkey and Pakistan have secretly agreed to divvy up Iran in case of a world war.

Free Germany A SURVEY in the German province of Hesse in the United States zone of Germany, has shown that among apprentices only 15 per cent work 48 hours _ or less in a week. Most are required to do 54 to 60 hours, and 5 per cent as much as 90.

Our Fair City—

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Sheriff's Office On the Pan Over Unanswered Calls

By THE TIMES CITY STAFF

LOOK FOR heat to be turned on the Marion County Sheriff's office for failure to investigate citizen calls on reported burglaries. Complaints are Sheriff's office fails to send deputies to scene on excuse no men available. Victims are told an investigator will call, but they wail no return calls made. One complainant is a three-time

victim. :

Latest “no can do” attitude has prompted many to ask just what does Sheriff's office do? They point out repeated statements the office is too short of manpower to patrol roads, do.adequate job of traffic enforcement

and investigate accidents. portion of these jobs.

State police shoulder large

The department, meanwhile, has taken another blow along with its Junior Deputy organization in sponsoring

Bill Martin's Ski-Capades as a fund raiser,

It was a

flop. The champion water skiers in three days, July 4-6, brought but $700 paid admissions.

And the Sheriff's office sold no tickets, The net above local advertising bills was a skimpy $200 of which the show generously gave the Junior Deputies $50. The few who saw the show praised it, but the same could not be said of Indianapolis by the water skiers. They left town with a net loss because of hotel bills, traveling expenses, payroll and incidentals.

It Was Hot Enough

WEEKLY report from Indiana State Board of Health almost started a “tropical disease” scare last week. Report listed 17 cases of tropical malaria in nontropi-

cal Indiana in a single week.

This compared to two in same period last week and five year average of two, But a call to Communicable Disease Section t answer. Board is required to nclude in its Indiana roundup cases at Camp Atterbury. And it just happened there were 17 returned GI's with malaria there last week. But this brings to mind local attorney who says he never drinks at lunch. Claims the gin ‘and tonic he sips is “antimalaria preventive,” and thus is medicinal rather than social. He’s never had malaria but is “taking no chances.” Doctors confirm tonic will ward off malaria, but since Indiana is not exactly a malaria center they figure drinkers are more interested in ounce of gin, than ounce of prevention.

Tough Case

THEY'RE predicting the state will have a tough time getting indictment in that old Mike Mattes slaying. For one thing there are the repudiated confessions of Donald Cunningham and Donald Nicholson, who confessed and denied Elmo Jagger was the “trigger man.” : But there's another loophole, the footprint found at the scene. Reliable information is

that it doesn't match any of -

the suspects.

Everyone's Agreed

For once, both sides in Indiana Bell Telephone rate case agree on one thing. Neither side wants the case to go back to Marion County Circuit Court Judge Lloyd Claycombe, State Attorney General and Public Counselor, fighting the boost, are dead set against fit, would ask immediate change of judge. Even attorneys for Bell, which got a big boost from judge's ruling, don't want him. They weren't satisfied with the increase Judge , Claycombe gave. ; It's fine by the judge, whb got much criticism for his action in the case. He may not be referring only to the weather when he says it's “too hot to go into all that again.”

Long Odds

LET THIS be a warning to anyone still playing numbers. Guy who's been in the racket

for years is pulling out, closing shop, Reason—he says you can't

. (repeat CAN'T) run numbers

today and make money “WITHOUT CHEATING.”

New federal tax takes 10 per cent of gross. What this has meant, to cite a “for instance,” is on a day one numbers operator took in $2500 but had to pay $3000 in hits. Then he had to pay a $250 tax on intake. That was more going out than coming in, not even counting overhead.

This guy's got some legitimate investments, can’t afford to try to “weasel” on tax reporting and have those ate tached. But he says anyone who stays in and shows profit will be ‘“cheating,"—either custome

ers or the governraent,

Get-up and Go

INDIANAPOLIS was half a state away from the Republi= can national convention but through it flowed much GOP trafic "Chicago-bound. Those heading for the Windy City went by-train, by plane, by car and by foot—at least part of . the way. One hardy soul stood in'blazing sun last Sunday thumbing ride. Umbrella he held overhead was emblazoned with “I Want Tke" and “Win With Ike.” Small suitcase — big enough to hold one change—

was lettered: “On to

I'm from Louisville but I want Ike™ Friday's nomination made

ithe trip worthwhile for an ar-

dent supporter.

Want to Look In

TWO citizens groups may ask to be represented in the Wally Middlesworth traffic “fix” investigation and any a other case where “police are investigating police.” Reason-—There are signs of intimidation of rank and file police when their testimony involves superior officers. And in this case there are rumors officials 'way above the captain who issued the order are ine volved. . . Patrolman William Babbitt, the officer who arrested Middlesworth as drunken driving suspect, only to be told later to “forget” it, is in a hot spot. If he tells all it involves Capt. Michael Hynes. And Capt. Hynes is the man he serves under. This unenviable spot may keep lot of rank and file from complaining when “pressure” from above pre. vents them from enforcing the law, So Marion County Crime Commission and Indianapolis Safety Council both think une biased citizens should sit in on all cases of “police investigating police.” .

Tears Dried Now

CRACK of the Republican convention was about Ike-man Eugene Pulliam, whose papers wept long editorials over the Taft “steamroller,” before Ike's nomination was secured. “Eugene Pulliam,” -said one wag, “is becoming the Johnny Ray of the Republican Party.”

Knifed

FOUR MARINES from local recruiting office didn’t like fore mer President Hover's speech, saying bayonet no longer has a place in war. “Imagine that guy,” piped one, “Trying to cut us out of our jobs.” »

‘Con’-gratulations

Lots of people gave hearty congratulations on Major Robe ert A. O'Neal's appointment as superintendent State Police. But most unexpected was from Federal Penitentiary at Leave enworth — an inmate Supt, O'Neal arrested or helped convict on three occasions.

Brief Note to Federal Tax Agents: HPT