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By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Andrew
W. Mellon might be a Civil war
hero or the name of a horse so
far a3 the pres
ent generation
would know
or care. But
the old timers
around town
have not for
gotten the
spry and rest
less little man
who stuttered
In his speech.
Lyle C. Wilson A three-cent
stamp bearing Mellon's likeness
Qwas dedicated in his honor Tues-
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day. Perhaps the old man's
bones can cease rattling now
in protest against what his
friends hotly called a notable ef
fort to smear his memory for
ever. It was just 20 years ago that
FDR's New Deal Department of
Justice sought to indict Mellon
on charges of fradulent income
tax returns. Mellon, Pennsyl
vania's greatest financier, had
been secretary of treasury in
three successive Republican ad
ministrations Harding, Cool
idge and Hoover 1921-1932.
He was for years called the
greatest secretary of treasury
since Alexander Hamilton. But
Mellon's luck faded with the
great depression and former
President Hoover whisked him
out of the cabinet to be ambas
sador to Great Britain before the
election of 1932. The old man
had become a political liability.
Mellon No Crook
But that did not mean he was
a crook. The Roosevelt admin
istration, however, was slugging
the so-called reactionaries in
1935 and Mellon was a standout.
As former ace treasury agent
and tax commissioner Elmer
Irey related to William Slocum
for the book "The Tax Dodgers."
it happened like this:
"The Roosevelt administration
made me go after Andy Mellon,"
Irey said. "I liked Mr. Mellon,
and they knew it, so the FBI
took first crack.
Jackson Needed Help
"Bob Jackson (later attorney
general and Supreme Court jus
tice) was made Internal Revenue
Department chief counsel and he
said to me: T need help on this
Mellon thing. The FBI investiga
tion was no good. You run one
on him.' The FBI evidently had
found no tax dodging.
"In a short time Irey got a
telephone call from Henry Mor
genthau Jr., secretary of trea
sury. The secretary said: 'Irey,
you can't be i99 2-3 per cent on
this job. Investigate Mellon. I
order it.'
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NO MATCH Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulgjnin (left) and Communist Party boss Nikita
Khrushchev (right), with their host, the Maharrajah of Jaipur (center), are dwarfed by
the towering bulk of two wrestlers who entertained the Russian leaders during their
Cfisit in Jaipur, India. The wrestler on the left was released from jail, where he is serv
ing a life sentence for murder, to exhibit his power in the ring.
Around
Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
O Hollywood (U.R) Fess Par
ker has turned in his coonskin
(Sp, officially buried his Davy
Crockett char
acter and ad
mitted that
the nation
wide storm he
he caused is
down to a
drizzle.
A year ago
Parker's furrv
i.hdo top and shoot-
Aline IWosby in' iron
launched the country's su-sub-deb
set on the biggest hero wor
ship craze since Hopalong Cas
sidy. But Parker confesses that
(he kids have left their coonskin
caps to the moths.
"Too much heat in too short a
time," drawled the lanky actor
as he sat in his modern hillside
home. "But I'm grateful to old
Davy. I only feel we should let
him rest in peace and give him
back his cap."
The second of this year's two
part Crockett television series
was aired on "Disneyland" last
week. Unless Disney runs them
again i the spring, that's the
last of Davy.
Parker meantime has starred
In a Disney color feature, "The
Great Locomotive Chase," a
Civil war story. He was pro
moted to a fancy frock coat with
black velvet piping and a wide
brimmed gray hat.
"My wardrobe will knock you
out," grinned the slow-talking
actoi"Before I had a full beard,
but now I'm close-shaven. I still
get killed in this movie, though.
But in my next Disney picture,.
'Westward Ho, the Wagons', I
live. Knd I even get the wo
man." Although Parker's role in Dis
ney's TV series is over, "The
Great Locomotive Chase" was
filmed for home screens also.
The program, "A True Life Ad
venture With Fess Parker," will
be televised next spring and
"that will help me make the
transition."
Success Switch
"Actually, I've svitched from
Davy more successfully than I
imasiped," said Parker. "When
we were on location in Georgia
the kids would come up and say,
Basic Rules by Railroad
Group Keeps Cars on Move
San Francisco U.R) Did
you ever wait at a railroad cross
ing while a long freight train
slid by and wonder who keeps
tab of the nation's scrambled
freight cars?
How did some get so far from
their home lines? Who keeps
things straightened out? Why, at
times, are there so many emp
ties? Why, at other times, are
there no empties?
Although there are a total of
1,785,849 freight cars in the Uni
ted States today, including 716,
874 box cars, certain areas re
port an acute box car and hopper
car shortage such as that being
experienced in the lumbering
sections of Northern California
and Southern Oregon. Why?
One man who knows some of
the answers is Clarence H.
Grant, tall, gray-haired general
superintendent of transportation
of the Southern Pacific.
"Some cars leave our shops at
Sacramento brand new and
never come home," he said.
"Sometimes there's a reason. All
railroads want new cars. The old
ones and the broken ones, like
poor relatives, are those that
come back."
Basic Rules
Grant explained that there
were certain basic rules laid
down by the American Associa
tion of Railroads in Washington
to keep the cars rolling. The
basic doctrine is the Freight Car
Service Rule. This calls for a
'Mr. Parker, can we have your
autograph?' They didn't call me
Davy. Most of my fan mail is
addressed to Fess Parker.
"I'm grateful to Mr. Disney
for this opportunity to do other
pictures. Otherwise, my career
would have ended right where
it began."
Fess figures Davy Crockett's
popularity faded because of oth
er historical TV westerns such
as "Frontier" and "Wyatt Earp."
To confirm the demise of Davy,
the. actor is sending back his
Crockett outfits to the Disney
wardrobe department.
"The other night I wasdriv
ing down my street and I saw
two little girls wearing their
coonskin caps." Parker said with
I o tnnnh nf nnstaleia. "That made
me feel good that somebody
remembered."
loaded car to be routed as di
rectly as possible to its destina
tion and, when empty, to be
routed by the most direct route
back home.
"This rule, of course, is often
violated" Grant said. "But then
there is the per diem rate of
$2.40 for each car, running from
midnight to midnight, and
charged by the home road when
the car is on a foreign line.
When we set foreign cars, na
turally we want to get them off"
our line and onto someone else's
as quickly as possible. But when
there is a shortage everybody
grabs cars the best cars."
Shippers frequently upset the
system. Cars consigned to one
market are re-routed en route
to another market where the
commodity shipped is selling
better. Some cars are consigned
without a destination specified,
subject only to instructions en
route.
Card System
"Girls punching holes in cards
keep track of the cars," Grant
said. "The cards, of course, are
run through machines to keep a
running inventory of where the
car is, on whose railroad it is
and whom to charge for it."
A set of such cards may repre
sent an entire freight train as it
leaves Los Angeles for Ogden,
one of the "portals" of the West.
Here an interchange from the
Southern Pacific to the Union
Pacific occurs and the freight
leaves for Omaha, where other
interchanges can occur, the cars
going over the C.B.&I. and on
to Boston, or the C. &N. W. to
the Twin Cities or Chicago. The
original freight train now is
completely scrambled and its
cars have been absorbed in other
trains on other roads.
"But each company makes out
a weekly and a monthly report,
Grant said. "This is designed to
show where the cars are and to
be held the AARO tells where a
surplus of cars is located. Each
month the railroads swap
charges for the $2.40 per day
on each car on a foreign line."
The individual railroad can
determine where each car it
owns is by looking over the
records of the auditor of-freight
accounts. These records show
the number, the interchanges
and whether the car is loaded
or unloaded.
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SEATTLE $ 9.15
LOS ANGELES $10.70
SAN DIEGO $12.40
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Jewish Soldiers Will
Spell Christian Gs
Friedberg, Germany (U.R)
Jewish soldiers of the U.S. 29th
Field Artillery battalion will
man all posts on Christmas day
to give Christian soldiers free
time for religious services.
An Army announcement said
the Jewish soldiers had volun
teered to stand guard, do kitch
en police work apd all other nec
essary tasks on the holiday.
NATURALLY
Hartford, Conn. (U.R) A
meeting of officials to turn over
to the New Haven Railroad prop
erty for construction of a new
station to provide more efficient
service was delayed several min
utes. Finally the railroad's repre
sentative, Atty. Thomas J. O'Sul
livan, arrived and explained,
"The train was late."
"Irey explained his personal physcally, given to
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viewpomt that Mellon was in
nocent although admitting it was
not his place to judge. Morgen
thau's answer was: "I'm direct
ing you to go ahead, Irey."'
Jury Refused io Indict ' '
Mellon's tax paying easily
survived investigation, and that
was that. The grand jury refus
ed to indict.
Mellon was a patriot by his
own and the standards of many
others but he was no softy. He
was, in fact, hard in many ways
although a wispy little man,
fluttering
traffic in
through down town
Washington like a startled bird.
Treasury corner tourists usually
scoffed when a guide suddenly
urged them to believe that the
slight figure dodging the trams
and autos at 15th and Pennsyl
vania was, in fact, secretary of
the treasury of the United
States.
Brutalities Charged
His coal and iron policy in
industries Mellon controlled long
were under charges of strike
brutalities. When depression
came there is the word of Mr.
Hoover, himself, that Mellon had
only one formula: "Liquidate
stocks, liquidate labor, liquidate
the farmers, liquidate real es
tate." Although a great giver
to good causes, cnurches, mu
seums and it is true, hungry men
and women, Mellon was hardly
a humanitarian. But neither was
he a tax dodger. The grand jury
refusal to indict after. FBI and
treasury investigations seems to
call a foul on the New Deal
against'on old, tax-wise innocent
man.
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