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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

YOU'VE HEARD of mink coats, possibly have Seen one at close range. Maybe you know someone who owns one. Did you know that a mink coat is nothing hut shreds? Loosen all the threads and it will fall into a heap of mince mink. Glory be, what happens to a mink pelt shouldn't happen to a rabbit, With the price of mink coats (good ones) up in the $5000 bracket, there's no logical explanation why I should be interested in mink. That's exactly what I said to Frank Zierz, manager of custom furs at 1.. 8. Ayres & Co. “Costs nothing to look,” laughed Frank. “I look at your stuff and it costs me a nickel.” So he showed me a mink pelt being cut to ribbons. In the trade it's “noodles.” Cutter Ray Dichmann was doing the slashing. T “We do that all the time,” said Mr. Zierz. He learned the business from his father, who learned the fur business from his father, (a hand-me-down business),

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“YOU have to cut pelts to make a fine coat,” Mr. Zierz explained. “By doing that you increase the character of the mink skin. Also, you increase the length of a pelt. We call that dropping. An 18-inch skin can be made into a 40-inch skin.” Furriers, it can be said, are great talkers. They're especially good when they have a fresh one nailed to a drying board. Operator Eleanor Buck, who has been sewing mink cuttings since 1917, joined us. Miss Puck doesn’t own a mink coat. Some day, she says. Incredible as it sounds, a mink coat is a terrible sight at its inception. Once the design is established, choice furs selected, Ray begins slashing. To sew pelts in one piece together, they say, would be barbarous. All you'd have would be a bunch of pelts on your back. Would that be bad? It sure would. Wo dev FOR A COAT, Ray employs a technique called single dropping. The exact center of the pelt is marked off. The center is called the grotzen of the mink. Cuts are made from the side of a pelt to the grotzen, When a pelt is completely shredded, it’s handed to Miss Buck who takes the strips and drops

It Happened Last Night -

By Earl Wilson

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20—Americans are having their most extreme case of travelitis ‘this year—but they aren't suffering from it—they’re enjoying it. Flitting ‘around the country on my “Around America” tour, I've found them laughing as they hurried on to their next stop. ou There’s been about a 15 per cent increase in travel this year —according to some experts— and so the people had some money to spend; hence, a good time. They laughed about everything they saw—from Indians : to illness. Bob Crosby, whom I ran into in Milwaukee, was happy because his sister-in-law, Dixie Crosby, was over a recent illness. : / “I know it mustvhava been * Bing. Crosby

TH Bob 'sdld, “because Bing {Hoku Piane : someiihen she went to the hospital... HAS. AO SCARE. Of wun cic. rump meson “Height,” he won't register’ in a hotel above i ONT KNOW

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> @ : SOME SIOUX INDIANS danced down the sidewalk nine floors below my hotel room when I visited Rapid City, S. D., in the Black Hills. ‘Why are they dancing?” I asked a local Jeweler, Ivan Landstrom. “They're celebrating their happiness because we took their country away from them,” he said’ The Indians are hitter that they can't buy liquor legally. Occasionally somebody buys a bottle for them. They kill it quickly to destroy the evidence. So they get tipsy. But “minors and Indians” are not allowed in

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.. EVERYWHERE THERE was laughter about politics. Some of the jibes were at President Truman. One tale concerned a man quitting a government job. He went into business for himself, and later was committed to a mental institution. “It's too bad.” his friends all told his wife. “Yes, too bad he quit his government job,” she agreed. “If he'd kept on working for the government, nobody'd have known he was crazy.” In Spokane, the Rev. Arthur Dussalt of Gon-

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 20—It is highly posgible that the Messrs. John Robert Powers and Harry Conover, gentlemen who deal in the legitimate model business, will soon be searching around for a fresh designation for their photogenic chicks. “Model,” over the past few years, seems to have become confused with a shorter and earthier term for ladies who sell themselves on the side. The square models — the ones who actually make a living from posing for the camera —have . become so sensitive about the name they used to be proud of that they will almost slap you for calling them “model.” Nice gal I know who makes a living at the posing trade E mostly refers to herself as a department store model. Won't # hold still for the “model” brand. Our latest scandal in the town, involving society procurers and night-spot cuties with flexible hours and morals to match, has accented the simple fact that “model” has become a euphemism for prostitute. Any shady lady of no fixed address or livelihood describes herself as “model” for the police blotter. and has succeeded by mass effort in giving a nice bunch of girls a nasty name.

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“MODEL” IS the latest, When I was a hoy, like as in yesterday, the fancy female adventurers used to call themselves “interior decorators.” They decorated their apartments with gin: and gentlemen, but the profession was sufficiently vague to excuse the fact that the girls slept until late afternoon and only hit public view at the witching, shall we say, hour of 5 p. m. I have known a mess of models, real ones, I mean, from the Counihan ladies whose faces looked at you from all the magazine covers to some of tomorrow's sprouts, and a nicer, harderworking, more business-paying-attention-to flock of real gentlewomen you wouldn't want to find. Most of the ones I know came into modeling when It was a real glamor job—leading to movie contracts and money in the bank and solid marriages that lasted. The hatbox in the hand was as much a badge of success for the out-of-town beauty as the fiat limousine and the sunglasses for the successful actor. Not that it ever paid much in the way of big dough. Photographers are fussy folk, and they take a lot of time with the light meters and lenses. A good take for a highly successful model in New York would be a couple hundred bucks a eek, and she couldn't count on that! The ones bi posed for the brassiere-and-girdle ads might never

have worked steadier, but the pay was astronomic, dT SOME OF THE GALS from Itching Palm, 8. C., who came to town with the big ideas, found that they couldn't make the rent at the Barbizon

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them *; of an inch and sews them together. The pelt becomes narrower but longer. For a cape, a method called reverse dropping is used. Two skins are sliced up and split in half, After a furrier does that. he has, on his hands, four halves of two pelts cut into diagonal strips 3,16 of an inch wide and about seven inches long. If you imagine the four halves stretched out side by side—one, two, three, four—the strips from one are sewn on four and the strips from two are sewn on three, each strip being dropped 5% of an inch. “Nb IN THIS way, with careful attention to the mutations in the pelt, two stripes are made out of one skin, or out of books. And you don't practice with mink pelts that may cost 100 bucks a pelt. It's Miss Buck's job then to sew the strips. Mr. Zierz said it is the finest sewing in the trade. Thousands of small strips must be made into one solid piece of mink. About $700 worth of labor goes into the coat. Ouch. Mr. Zierz produced a finished product of natural wild blond mink he called “My Baby.” The tag said softly, “$5500.” “How much to feel it?” I ‘asked, Free feel. It’s easy to understand what feeling a woman must have for a mink coat, dD HERBERT KLINCK, executive secretary of the Travelers Aid Society, can help everyone but himself. Shortage of personnel and more business than usual have forced Mr. Klinck to take his second week of vacation by the half day. He works in the morning and takes the afternoon off. ode oO WOMEN NUTTIER? Pearl Twigg, Morrow's Nut House, 46 W. Washington St., says women buy and eat more nuts than men. “Men are scared to death of their weight,” she explains. Who's scared? o & @ LOCAL COLOR: Bill Burns, Collins Barber Shop, 151 E. Market St. the city's most colorful barber, is anxiously awaiting his new white topcoat for fall. The latest addition will bring the total to 19 topcoats and the rainbow should have 80 many colors. They'll go well with his 42 pairs of loud slacks and 30 loud suits.

Americans Enjoy A National Tour

zaga University chuckled as he told me how inventors try to get at Bing Crosby through his old school. “Up here on that shelf is a sure-fire hay-baler that somebody wants me to show to Bing’s firm.” Bob Hope, whom I met when he was en route to Europe, was exclaiming about his new'ranch-— “I mean farm”—near Mt. Gilead, O, not far from Columbus. ; His brother Fred has a farm there, too. Bob was as excited about his place in Ohio az he'd be about a new “Road” picture. “All the farmers have television sets and they tell me what's wrong with the show.” he said. “Evidently, there's plenty.” Breakfasting in the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, T wanted a jelly doughnut which I found on the menu but my waitress said there weren't any.

. “Why do they have it on the menu then?" I

asked, testily, > COREY PI rm SR PA “I DON'T KNOW,” she said. “They've haw it on the menu for years but we've never had any.” I got several eating thrills—at Jake's in Portland where I ate crawfish—at Canli’'s in Seattle

where you look out a picture window down on the water—and at the Rock Mountain Inn outside Butte where you need a couple of stomachs This may be one of the three or four great restaurants of the world. With your T-bone steal you also get ravioli and spaghetti.

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YES, and you could even find out about international politics staying right here in America. Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota told us how He and other Americans had visited Tito once and arranged a secret, sneak meeting with some of his opposition. They concealed their late-at-night meeting carefully. Next day, conferring with him, they subtly asked whether he had any opposition—and how it was treated, “You ought to know.” was his answer, had a meeting with it last night.” a b

WISH I'D SAID THAT: "You can usually tell when a high school boy is serious about a girl by the way she calls him up every evening. .. . That's Earl, brother.

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Phonies Discredit Models’ Good Name

just posing. Some found that they could make more money in a single night with an outa-towner sugar-dad than they could make in a month of sweating over a hot studio. So they started picking up the easy buck via gin-mill acquaintances. This eventually managed to confuse their profession in the heads of gentlemen with fat expense accounts and rolled collars, the boys who seem to know everybody and who don't worship work. There were just enough of the girls who would say a meek yes at the end of a fancy eve1ing, and who wouldn't sneer at a small tip for their trouble, to smear the whole profession.

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THIS MADE it an open sesame to the solid

shooters for the fast but slightly immoral buck. Just as every woman of no special assignment in Hollywood is a ‘‘starlet,” her opposite sister in New York and Chicago and Miami and the other big towns became a ‘model.’ It sounded real nice, and very real genteel. And some actually posed for pictures. But I guess the designation is gone for good, now, since it's been pawed over by every tramp who was switching her swivel hips for a quick score. The honest models will call themselves “photographer's assistants,” or something, and leave the old term to the fresh flock of opportunists who no longer want to be known as interior decorators or showgirls as a nice name for what they really are, {

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—T would like information on English violets. I used to he very successful with them, but not in recent years. 1 wonder if losing the variety I had and getting another that requires different treatment is the cause. I want to keep on trying. Mrs. Charles A. Brown, 5652 Central. A—As far as sweet violets in the trade are concerned it seems to me plant breeders have been trying so hard for larger flowers they have lost some of the sweetness of the little old-fash-ioned double flowers my grandmother used to raise. She had no trouble having the short-

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

stemmed, but very fragrant flowers every year. I haven't had her luck with them. For one thing she lived in the cooler part of Ohio where climate was to their liking. Also she had only one kind and had rich soil for it. I, on the other hand, have tried to raise them in central Indiana heat and have encouraged wild violets to grow in the yard. That is a mistake for violets cross too easily. I know of many local gardeners who have “luck” with Rosina, the pink named variety

of viola odorata. Give your plants rich woodsy

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The Indianapolis Times

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1952

POLITICS RATES SECOND—

Mrs. Ike's Big

. By FRED SPARKS DENVER, Aug. 20 (CDN)—Mamie Eisenhower is an American mother

and wife whose son is in a combat outfit in Korea and whose husband is running for President of the United States, An exclusive interview with Mrs. Eisenhower convinced me: Her thoughts first are with her soldier son—around the clock. Even as she plods through these busy days, through the many chores required of a candidate's wife, her imagination is concentrated not on the White House but on the battlefields north of Seoul. Seldom, if ever, has a woman faced two such ordeals, » ~ » TWO things are daily increasing in tempo —things that try the stamina, the normally

high spirits and the soul of this charming, tortured woman: ONE--The political campaign' nears its most violent weeks — the traditional cross-

country journey. Mamie Eisenhower works a 12-hour day seeing important visitors, (always with a forced smile) answering mountains of

mail and preparing--with her soldier-husband for public appearances throughout the republic, TWO--The military cam paign in Korea again flares in fury. More and more American boys are crippled and killed on the slopes of such expensive real estate as Bunker Hill and “Old Baldy.” Communist artillery sends an ever-more intense rain of destruction on our young men. ~ ~ ~ SOMEWHERE in the midst of that madness is Maj. John Eisenhower, her only beloved

child. \ She waits for every letter | she studies every fresh edition. She is but like the 100,000 other American mothers whose sons are in front-line foxholes tonight. During the first part of my visit with her in her smartly appointed air-conditoned suite in the Brown Palace Hotel Mrs. Eisenhower talked glibly of going to New York in a week to pick up her wardrobe. She has most of her duds, she said—including some fashjonable items purchased in Paris—in. the closets of their

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home on the Columbia University campus.

As soon as the campaign

POLITICS IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT . . . No. 3—

One Vote Can Win Important Election

By JOSEPH E. McLEAN T 1S EASY for the individual citizen to get discouraged as he views the problems at any layer of our govern-

ment.

Even though he has been a conscientious voter, even

though he has tried to keep

" abreast of civic affairs, he may

be disturbed by the picture of political corruption or waste, He may also he discouraged

. hy the sheer complexity of the

government and by the political process. But instead of excusing himself on the ground that all politics is ‘‘corrupt,” a citizen should keep the following facts RES ARRAN re Fant Lh WEES fT ONE — Most professional politicians -are inherently dé= . cent peoplé. Many would like to do a better job. They would do so if the general public showed a more positive interest in government and gave them year-around support. TWO — The vast majority of civil servants are honest and are trying to give the taxpayer a full return on his tax dollars. THREE--Politics will improve as the moral tone of our whole society improves. We should not ignore the man who places temptation in the path of a politician. The person who buys political favor is just as guilty as the one who provides it. FOUR--Something can be done. One answer to bad politics is not less but more politics — good polities, in which the citizen - politician plays an effective role. Ah even stronger answer is to

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raise the general level of morals in business, in labor, and in farm and other groups in society. n ” ”

AS A FIRST step toward playing an effective role, the citizen-politician must understand that one person—himself can be of crucial importance in the political

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“Which “turned “én one Véte or

proportion of the There are many

on a small votes cast. examples. In the famous disputed presidential election of 1876, President Hayes was elected by one vote in the electoral college. That vote “in turn was supported by a one-vote margin in a special 15-man commission. The man who cast that decisive vote had been elected to Congress by a margin 6f one vote. And that one vote was cast by a sick man who asked that he be transported to the polls in order to cast his ballot.

Less than one vote a precinct in the state of California in 1916 lost_the presidency for Charles Evans Hughes. Thirtytwo years later, California was lost to Thomas E. Dewey by a margin of close to one vote a precinct. In 1950 Congressman W. Kingsland Macy lost by a margin of 138 votes out of

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planners finish the itinerary she will know exactly what dresses and hats to pack. That depends on the sections of the

land to be visited, on the climates, ~ ” » THEN -I-was sorry I did it

I mentioned, casually, that I had been in Korea. The smile disappeared. The mask dropped. It was a worried mother who now rambled: “John has been over there three weeks now you know. I just got my second letter from him, He's with the 3d Diviston. “He complained that our letters are getting there very late the mails must be slow, John told us all about the system for rotation—the points the fellows must have before they come home, John writes that he never saw a grayer place in his life than Korea. “Tell me really, how bad is utr What do you think I said? » n » I TOLD MRS. EISENHOW-

ER, “Well, compared to most wars, like World War II that

A sick-man's vote was the balance of power in a presidengal

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155,000 votes .cast—or qne vote in every third precinct. o " » MORE SUCH dramatic examples could be offered. Even more important, however, are those cases—most of them un-

-known or undocumented-—where

one individual started the chain

‘reaction leading to the estab-

lishment of a new public policy. During World War II a major fiscal reform--the pay-as-you-go personal income tax plan--became a reality through the efforts of a one man ‘‘pressure group’ Beardsley Ruml. In 1949 the successful drive to unseat the boss-controlled mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich,

was led by a beautiful grand-

mother, Currently in a New Jersey community, an effort to obtain better public library service ig being sparked hy a housewife who is using the telephone, a station wagon, and her neighbors in a “pressure” drive

WHY DO WE NEED A NEW BIBLE?—

Recent Discoveries Lend Accuracy

By FRANCES DUNLAP HERON NEW YORK-—Each Christmas the women in the Jones family make plum pudding, using a recipe handed down from their great-great-great-. grandmother Jones. Not long ago, a new Jones bride, clearing out the attic, made a remarkable find. She uncovered, in the painstaking script of Great-great-grand-mother Jones, aj copy of the recipe three gengfations nearer the original than any other known, And lo and behold, a comparison shows great variation, Somewhere along the line a cook left out half a cup of molasses - most likely because it was stuck in between half a cup of citron and half a cup of grape juice, and the copveye simply slid over the middle half cup. Next Christmas, the Jones wives will return to the attic recipe, the nearest to the original.

” ” ” AS WITH THAT plum pudding recipe, so it is with a very, very old book—the Holy Bible,

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20,000 CAUGHT—

It is some 3000 years since the Old Testament began to take written form. Almost exactly 1800 years ago the New Testament was completéd. Until printing was invented about 1450, the Bible was kept alive by the only method known copying by hand. Just as with the pudding recipe, it is unlikely we will unearth a first copy of a Bible book. But manuscript discoverjes and archeological research of the last 75 years have pushed our knowleffge ever nearer to

the originals,

The ‘Revised Standard Vergion of the Holy Bible,” due from the presses Sept. 30, is the result of these discoveries

and research, To John Wycliffe, rector and college master, we owe the first translation of the Latin Bible into English, completed in 1382. The first English version of the Scriptures to be made by direct translation “from the original Hebrew and Greek, and the first to be printed, was the work of William Tyndale. His

New Testament of 1535 was to become the basis of all later revisions. Accused of perverting the meaning of the Scriptures, he was hurned at the stake in 1536. Soon afterward, however, his dying prayer-—‘Lord, open the King of England's eyes’-—was answered and a succession of versions began to win favor.

King James’ instructions to hig 54 translators was for a revision ‘‘as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek.” That they realized they were but one point in history ig evident in their statement of purpose in translation: “To make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one.” n " »

BUT WHEREAS in 1611 they had access to only a dozen or s0 late medieval manuscripts of the New Testament, full of the accumulated errors of centurles of hand-copying, today's revision committee could draw on hundreds of old manuscripts far ante-dating those of the King James group. Recent arch-

on ‘the governing body of her community. z ;

It's a fact—one individual can be very important.

Once the citizen-politician has accepted the idea that he can be influential, he should then develop his personal radar equipment to cut through the fog that surrounds the political process. = ~ Ed A FEW facts are basic: ONE—A party or any other political organization needs money and workers; how it gets them is very important.

SECOND — The grass-roots unit of the political organization is generally the precinct or election district, This usually has from 300 to 1000 voters. The total number of precincts in the nation is about 150,000.

THIRD -— The number of party workers at the precinct

eological finaings® row new light on the meaning of the Old Testament Hebrew, The Chester Beatty manuscripts of parts of the Bible, turned up in Egypt in 1930, go back as early as the second century, A. D. Fragments of Deuteronomy have been found from the first or second centuries— B. C. The Isaiah scroll rescued from a cave near the Dead Sea by a shepherd lad in 1947 appears to date from the late second century, B. C. It becomes the basis for 13 readings Incorporated in the Revised Standard Version of Isaiah. Throughout the new revision are changes correcting the additions; omissions and substitutions traceable to ancient and medieval copyists. These and other inaccuracies have heen corrected because the committee could be back nearer the original manuscripts than any other group of. scholars in history. ” ” ” JUST AS THE COOK copying successive “half cups” left out the molasses, 80 In Revela-

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her husband won, Korea is kind of minor stuff.” Her eyes wandered to a paper on the table—the headline sald: “Chinese Communists Charge Bloodstained Hill.” And she continued: “I don't know. The papers said some 2000 people have just been killed. That's a real enough war for me. “Of course, John says that I'm not supposed to worry about him, it isn't bad. But all the boys probably write that. They. really don't want to worry anybody at home. d ” un “I THOUGHT of sending him something, then I realized that the Army gives them everything that they need. No other Army in the world gives them that much. Some people say that it spoils them--thank God that we can afford to spoil our kids like that. “You know, people have been wonderful, I've had many letmothers whose sons are in Korea, They all write: ‘“‘Dear Mrs. Eisenhower; we are praying for your hoy—just like we are praying for our boy. May God bring him home safe and sound.”

level may approach 1 million in a hotly contested national election. FOUR~—The precinct committeeman or committeewoman is a very influential person. Do you know your Republican and Democratic precinct leaders? FIVE Committee members generally are elected at the primary elections? Do you know when your primary election is held? SIX — The party officials choose the candidates, influence the party program, and in general may influence public policy at all levels of government. There are also informal

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are important parts politics. SEVEN-—The- political proeess is not the exclusive property of the two major parties— Democratic and Republican. An indivdiual may exercise political power in minor parties or in nonpartisan civic organizations (such as the very suc-

cessful Cincinnati City Charter

Committee or the - e. of Women Voters). Or he may be effective in special-purpose pressure groups.

The citizen should remember that not all “pressure groups” are bad. Many provided valuable information to legislators and to the public; others are concerned with a single service of interest to the general public—for example, the ParentTeachers Association, which is concerned with the proper. development of our public schools, NEXT: What do you want out of politics?

tion 8:7 a long-ago scribe over. looked the clause “and the third part of the earth was burnt up” and went right on to the next, “and a third part of the trees.” Another ancient copyist substituted “Joseph” for “his father” in Luke 2:33. In RSV the verse (referring to the baby Jesus) is correctly restored: “And his father and mother marveled at what was sald about him.” Someone in the Seventh Cen-

tury undertook to bring Ephesians 5:30 up-to-date by adding to the original statement, “We are members of his body,” the words “from nis flesh and from his bones.” The King James translators did the best they could by treating the inserted words as apposition “For we are members of nis body, of his flesh, and of his hones.” The flesh and bones are

no more in the Revised Standard Version. Thus it stands—on minor points and on significant interpretations—the newest version with the oldest authority. (Last of a Series)

FBI Knows Tricks Of Draft Dodgers

By ANDREW TULLY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20— Look, Buster, if you're thinking of _trying to dodge the draft—don’t. It's you against the FBI, and the FBI almost always wins. J. Edgar Hoover's outfit put out a report today on how it's doing in ite sideline of catching draft dodgers. and the conclusion was, dandy. Since the present Selective Service act.became law in June, 1948, the FBI has located more than 20,000 delinquent registrants, most of whom now are in uniform. In flagrant viola-

tions, 590° draft dodgers have been sent to jail for a total of 1295 years. By now, the FBI has seen just about all the tricks people use to try to stay civilian. Tt may- take Mr. Hoover's men a little while, but no matter how bizarre the scheme, they usually get their man, n » -

THERE WAS the case, for instance, of Stanislaus Jindkoviak of New York. Jindkoviak registered as “Frank Allen” and then dropped out of sight. It wasn’t -until eight years later that the- FBI caught tp with Jindkoviak — in a barn

on the grounds of a foundling home on Staten Island. Jindkoviak had spent more than seven years in a space, two feet high, three feet wide and six feet long, under the floor of a carpenter's shed on the institution grounds, He came out only for food which he stole from the foundling home ‘kitchen. When the ‘ood was locked up and Jindkoiak had to forage for gruh, he was caught, Then there was the Misgourian who adopted a Spanish alias

and went to Mexico for a few -

months, When" he re-entered

the United States, posing as an alien, he was nabbed. 8 a 8.» AND THE Navy petty officer who charged upwards to $500 for ‘professional advice” to registrants who wanted to feign insanity. And the West Virginia fortunedteller who sold prospective dodgers an incense which she claimed would give them heart palpitations. And the registrant who merely had

a friend call his draft board and say he had died. Recently, too,: the FBI has

been interested in fake registrants -— people who register under another name to secure “positive” identification for il-

legal purposes like somebody else's checks.

» o o ONE CHARACTER in the Midwest did well at this dodge for some time. First he would steal U. 8S. Treasury checks from mailboxes, then go to a draft board and get a registration card issued in the name of the payee. 1t. worked, that is, until this guy pilfered "a ¢hec¢k made out to a woman whose first name could be either male or female. Seems the draft hoard eventually sent this woman a notice to report for induction and, being a Gold Star Mother, she was outraged.

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