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GUILTY OF SELLING TAX INFLUENCE James P. rfamegan
(right), whose activities as St Louis tax collector touch off the
Bureau of Internal Revenue and Reconstruction Finance Corp.,
investigations, leaves Federal Court in St. Louis after he was con
victed on two counts of misconduct in office. He was acquitted on a
third charge of misconduct and two counts of bribery. Judge Rubey
M. Hulen set March 24 as the date of sentencing. Each count of
misconduct carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison
and $10,000 fine.
A Nichols' Worth of .
Comment On
BY HARMAN
Unite Press
vashington U.K As my old
friend,. Dr. Henry Canby, looks
? t. -.retina fi erica has learped
I V HTT! how to breathe
in tne past two
decades.
Dr. Canby,
who is , con
nected with
the dental di
vision . of the
district health
service, re
ferred to
breathing as
Harmon Nichols practiced b y
aut.v., t-ai ncularly runners
and jumpers. -'
"A runner or a jumper," Hank
told me at lunch, "has to know
how to breathe. When I was
competing, it wasn't so import
tant. Track records were pretty
fancv then but they are fancier
now." ".
When I knew Henry Canby at
the University of Iowa he was
a dental student. He was serious
about his studies, but he also was
serious about his track ability.
Broke World Record
Henry was a pole vaulter. In
1930 he and a fine vaulter named
I t . X
McDormott from Illinois traded
week-ends breaking the indoor
world's record. When the records
finally were inked into the
books that year, Henry had it.
From a dirt and cinder runway
13 feet, 7 and one-half inches.
"If I had been jumping off a
board runway, with a better
grip on my cleats, I could have
cleared 14 feet," he said.
Today at least four jumpers
have cleared 15 feet. They do it,
according to Henry, because
they know how to breathe on the
take-off. and because they use a
different kind of pole.
Pole Didn't Straighten
"We used to use a bamboo
pole that didn't straighten out
when you needed the final kick,"
he said. "Today, a metal pole is
used. It comes up perpendicular
when you are about to cross the
bar. It has more strength, which
- is important."
Henry says that when a kid
wants to become a pole vaulter
he ought to make up his mind
early. Henry did just that on his
dad's farm near Olds, la. He
started at the age of five, pitch-
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forking his way over the hedges
He doesn't recommend that
method because a pitchfork is
dangerous. A kid can get hurt.
But that is the way he learned
it.
In high school he hit 11 feet.
9'2 inches, which was good in
those days and could win a lot
of dual meets today, too.
Have To Have It
"You have to love this pole
vaulting business to keep at it,"
the dentist said. "Most of the
moderns who are setting the rec
ords do better after they leave
school when they get to be 25
to 27. That is their peak. They
have perfected what we never
did the delayed pull-up, mean
ing riding up the pole, instead of
letting the pole pull you up.
But getting back to this breath
ing business. In pole vaulting,
according fo Canby, you fill your
lungs before you sprint to the
take-off. And maybe you gulp in
a little ozone before you kick
yourself over the bar.
Running Different
In running it's a little differ
ent. Thirty years ago a hundred
yard dash man used to puff and
steam to make it in 10 seconds.
Today, a man takes on a load of
air and gasps a couple of times
and winds up a few tenths of a
second faster.
Will there ever be a four-min
ute mile?
"Before you have a four-min
ute mile, you'll see a 16-foot
pole vault."
Acl by Congress
Allows Adoption
Washington 0J.R) It re
quired an act of Congress for
Tina, a five-month-old Norwe
gian girl, to join her foster fam
ily here. ,
She is the new addition to the
family of Rep. Lloyd M. Bentsen
Jr. (D., Tex.), who started adop
tion proceedings in Norway last
summer while on a vacation trip.
When the congressman returned
he .found that the Norwegian
quota had been exceeded for the
year. A senator introduced a bill
to waive quota restrictions.
The bill went through the
House and Senate in only two
days and was promptly signed by
President Truman.
Tina is the Bentsens third
child, joining sons Lloyd, seven,
and Lan, four, whose wish for
a baby sister led to the adoption.
$400 Million Tax Bite
Predicted for Oregon
Portland iu.fi it will be no
blarney and all bite for Oregon
tax payers come Monday, March
17.
Midnight Monday is the dead
line for filing 1951 income tax
returns without penalty and so
far as can be ascertained the
St. Patrick's day blarney not
withstanding Uncle Sam's an
nual bite will add up to an esti
mated $400,000,000 in income,
excess profit and withholding
taxes in Oregon.
Tax Collector Hugh Earle of
the Oregon district made the' es
timate today on the basis of last
year's annual tax bite, when the
three categories produced $382,
318,308 for the U. S. treasury.
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In Draft Calls -
Washington (UJ9 Defense
Secretary Robert R. Lovett has
reported that the armed services
will need a "substantial" number
of men this year, indicating a
sharp set-up in draft calls this
summer.
Lovett's semi-annual report to
President Truman covering the
period through last December 31
made no direct comment on the
possibility of increasing the size
of draft calls. ,
But the secretary said that
"military manpower require
ments will remain substantial
during 1952," and he promised
to continue efforts "for proced
ures providing greater equality
of sacrifice and limiting the re
call of reservists to the absolute
minimum."
Deadly, Tasteless Poison
Trapped by Science Effort
London U.R) The "poison
er's best friend," a . deadly,
tasteless, odorless, liquid hither
to almost impossible to detect in
the human body, has been trap
ped by science in a brilliant
piece of international research
extending from native Africa to
Oxford.
No one will ever know how
many "heart attacks" or how
many fatal cases of "lockjaw'
were really murder through its
use. From now on poisoners no
longer can administer the fluid
with imounity. Science has
caught up with them.
The story of fluoroacetic acid
the active component of the
gifblaar plant of Africa was
told by Prof. R. A. Peters of the
biochemistry department of Ox
ford, where the clue to paralysis
and death was found to be an
innocent chemical, citric acid.
No one had suspected prev
ioussly that citric acid, which is
produced by the body Itself in
burning sugar, could be linked
to murder.
Used By Witch Doctors
Peters said Sir Henry .Dale,
who investigated the plant 40
years ago, told him it was wide
ly believed witch doctors in
West Africa used it as a secret
poison and that it was respon
sible for a fatal paralytic dis
ease among natives raging at
that time.
The difficulty in' detecting
the poison has been due to in
complete knowledge of the pro
cess In the body by wrucn
energy is drawn from sugar.
Peters and his team were doing
a biochemical study of flutoa
cetic acid when they discovered
it prevents the body from break
ing down the citric acid created
when sugar is burned into
simpler compounds.
Retention of the waste citric
acid they found finally acted as
a violent poison on heart and
nervous system.
Can Be Traced
The importance of this dis
covery to criminal investigation
was noted immediately and Pet
ers and his chemists, who came
from Belgium, Italy, Britain,
the United States and Australia,
set about finding a method of
determining when the poison
had been administered,
That cannot be done before
death but it may be some com-
Relatives Involved
In Three-Car Crash
Robbins, Md. U.R It was all
in the family when three cars
were involved in an accident in
front of the home of Elihu Ab
bott on Maryland's eastern
shore.
A northbound car driven by
William P. Abbott of Andrews
collided with a car driven by
Russell Abbott of Lakesville.
The impact drove the second
Abbott's car into a parked auto
owned by Thurman G. Abbott
of Bishop's Head.
The owners of all three cars
and Elihu Abbott are all distant
relatives. No charges were filed.
Tunis, Tunisia (U.R) A
homemade bomb exploded early
Saturday in the garden of the
home of Tunisian Premier Mo
hammed Chenik. There were no
casualties. Chenik is a strong
supporter of the Tunisian Na
tionalist cause.
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Around Hollywood
Hollywood U.R) John
Barrymore Jr. said today he
wishes he coud imitate his fa-
Te3 mer s pnva ie
me oecause
he thinks off
screen. exist
ence these days
is dulL
The profile
Jr. said today
he has no yen
to duplicate his
pater's acting
style or mar-
Aline Momby tini capacity.
But Junior wouldn't mind re
peating that life of the movie
gods that kept Hollywood jump
ing 'in the gay '20s.
"Boy. Td imitate my father's
private life," he enthused. "He
had two yachts and between
movies he'd go out and catch
sharks.
"I'd have a yacht in the Car
ibbean with," he took a deep
fort to the victim to know his
slayer probably will be punish
ed. Highly technical, in itvolves
detection of the amount of citric
acid in the kidney (which has to
be ground up for the purpose).
An abnormal amount indicates
poison.
. "We have a new discovery
which should be of medico-legal
importance," Dr. Peters an
nounced. "I cannot think of any
other instance of a research in
which investigation into the bio
chemistry of a poison has pro
vided a possible means of prov
ing its administration."
Prisoners To Receive
igious Teachings
Columbus, O. (U.B Protest
ant religious educators are plan
ning to extend religious teach
ing in the country's prisons.
The program will be pushed,
said Dr. Richard E. Lentz. execu
tive director of adult work for
the division of Christian educa
tion of the National Council of
Churches of Christ in the U.S.A
because of the success of a three
year experiment in the Calif
ornia prisons.
Dr. Lentz said the A's and B's
in religion on the report cards
of California prisoners improv
ed their morale considerably. He
said 2,992 students completed 79
classes in the prisons at San
Quentin, San Pedro, and Chino.
Ghost Painting Big
Washington Business
Washington U.R A new
ghost has been found on the
Washington scene the ghost
painter.
Ghost painting is big business,
at least for the few here who
paint minus only their signa
tures.
It started as a joke, but when
their friends and other customers
returned with more and bigger
requests, these part-time ghosts
found a good way to pick up ex
tra money and also to experiment
with new ideas.
Included in "the staff' besides
the Number One Ghost, a promi
nent Washingtonian are five
other artists: two painters in
New York, two here and one
sculptor."
Ghost painting has developed
to a point where those who buy
the ghosts' products, can t stop.
Friends who admire their latest
"masterpiece" want to know
what they are "working on
now." That involves another pic
ture.
DEFENSE TAX FREE
.Chicago (U.PJ Bomb shelter
costs can be deducted from tax
es as current business expenses.
according xo tne commerce
Clearing House. The clearing
house said the Bureau of Inter
nal Revenue must be convinced
however, that the shelter would
be worthless for any other pur-
pose.
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breath, "40 women aboard. Td
build a big house and live in
the lap of luxury.
'1 don't drink, though," he
added.
"But one of these days," he
said, "I'm going to take a drink
if I want to. I think that's right,
don't you?
Town How Different .
"Anyway. Hollywood Just
isn't the town it used to be. It
never will be again, unless dras
tic steps are taken. What we
need is another Jolson. another
Barrymore."
He thinks the' only thespians
left in movleland who "are real
stars, legends like my dad,"
are James Stewart, James Cag
ney, Humphrey Bogart, Lionel
and Ethel Barrymore, Gloria
Swanson, Katberine Hepburn,
Cary Grant and Charlie Chap
lin. "By great stars." he explained,
"I mean the people who still
throw me when I see them. They
have the atmosphere of the past
They've been built into legends."
Kicked Heels Once
Once young Barrymore did
kick up his heels, in Quebec,
Canada, where he was on a per
sonal appearance tour.
"We tried the old gag." he
grinned. "I walked across the
street and a friend, driving a car,
pretended to hit me. I had a
blood capsule in my mouth and
it broke and this technicolor
blood trickled down my face.
Corinne Calvert rushed over and
hit the other guy on the face.
"Oh. the crowds that gath
ered! They thought it was an
accident Then they saw it was
a gag and they thought we were
wonderful.
"I also drove down the street
steering from below like there
was no driver. Then I did that
dumb-waiter gag. I bought $40
worth 'of dishes, put on a white
coat and dropped all of them in
a restaurant Oh, everybody in
Quebec loved us! '
"If we'd tried that in Holly
wood we'd have been thrown in
Jail in two minutes."
Eight presidents (Washington,
John Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Jackson
and W. H. Harrison) were bom
British subjects.
WHAT ARE TODAY 'S FACTS ABOUT
NEW CAR ENGINES AND POWER STEERING?
I AST tia Chrysler introduced Ha
J new FirePower V-8 engine, and
America's first passenger car full-time
power steering. Both new ideas "took
hold" in a big way.
Today, others are announcing "new
engines" and "power steering" ... but :
with somehow differences worth keep
ing in mind if you're baying a new car.
First: about "new engines." The
fact is, a really new engine design hap
pens only once in a great while. It did
happen in the FirePower V-8. Its 180
h.p. was only incidental to its basic "
new design. Its key idea is a hemispheri
cal combustion chamber, which makes
floft-pvsnnim gasoline develop
usable power than other designs
can get from premium fuel.
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SHOCKS BRITISH - Sharon
Koehnke, 17. of Chicago, shocked
the British sports world when sre
appeared (above) for a practice
session for the English Table
Tennis Open at London. Sharon
said she would dress more con
servatively for the tourney and
save the abbreviated outfit for ex
hibition in the U. S.
Taking Deer Census
Said Difficult Job
Cleveland, O. (U.R) Taking a
census of deer is a much tough
er Job than counting humans
and it's done more frequently,
too.
While the U. S. Census bureau
counts the nation's noses each
10 years, the Ohio wildlife divi
sion surveys the state's deer pop
ulation each year, by air.
The state wants to know
whether herds are moving, stay
ing in one place, multiplying,
dying or being killed.
Twelve northeastern Ohio
counties have been selected for
the 1952 census.
The survey will be made from
airplanes flying at about 300
feet
Oto Man Tnoune Want AOm
Only Chrysler engineering has so
far mastered this design. Several cars
do have some power increase, in terms
of previous designs. The important fact
is that. FirePower is not a "warmed
over" engine, but brand new in per-,
formance, construction, and efficiency.
In power steering, too, there are
basic differences. Chrysler uses hy
draulic power, always in effect, to do
two things. First, it does 45 the steer
ing work as you turn the wheel Second,
we've cut the amount of wheel turn
needed by over 13.
Parking or cruising, you get more
and easier control than ever before. In
sand, snow, or ruts, the hydraulic
power is always there to keep the front
wheels from "steering back" at you.
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Life for Austrians
Progressively Grim
Vienna (U.PJ Life for Aus
trians vwas progressively grim
mer and more expensive during
1951.
Once, the lowest in' Europe,
prices in Austria Jumped by 39.1
per cent during the year, more
than four times the average rise
through the world. Stringent
measures were taken to deal with
increasing food shortages.
Two weekly meatless days
were ordered last autumn. The
sale of pork and veal, basis of
wiener-schnitzel, the country's
national dish, was limited to
Saturdays.
This winter, rationing of but
ter, which has been unobtainable
except at black market prices,
was ordered. Each person was
limited to a weekly ration of 4.5
grams, or less than one-fifth of
an ounce.
Most painful of all to the cof
fee and pastry-loving Austrian
was the ban put on the manufac
ture and sale of whipped cream,
Vienna's famous "schlag" which
once topped every steaming cup
and filled most rolls. t
Soaring food prices have be
come the gravest danger to the
national economy. In a country
which does not produce enough
to feed itself and had an unfa
forable balance of trade, the ave
rage Austrian spends more than
60 per cent of his income on
food.
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Medford, Mass. (UJJ A
school for railroad engineers,
possibly the only one of its kind
in the world, holds forth in the
cellar of a Medford home. ;
The schoolmaster is 72-yar
old Charles H. Evans, who
learned his profession during 40
years with the Boston & Maine
before retiring in 1945. He fig
ures that since 1915, when he be
gan teaching, he has helped
about 500 engineers pass their
state and federal examinations.
His one-room basement class
room is equipped with a library
of 300 books and pamphlets,
complete line of railroad equip
ment supplied by manufacturers,
and two blackboards.
Daily commutation tickets for
dogs are sold on German rail
roads for less than half the third
class fare to accommodate watch
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