Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-06-30
A. B. BIELASKI
is WELL KNOWN
IN ANNAPOLIS
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arise. He is big, powerfully built
man, former football star for Col
umbia University, in Washington,
now George Washington University.
His friends picture him as without
fear, with nerves that never were
ruffied, even in the most trying days
OF the war, man who can face bit
ter disappointment without a tremor
and an executive OF rare ability and
charm.
The reason so little is known about
him and his work is that he looked
upon his Government work as a duty
to be done and not boasted about. He
was offered large sums of money to
write the story of his departments
activities DUNG the war, but he re-
fused, although Attorney General
Gregory himself asked him to- do so
and said 1t was something the coun-
try should know
was hired TO do my work, not to
talk about it, was in substance Bic
laski's reply
Chances Came Through Baseball
"Bielaski got into the Department
OF Justice because he was a good base
ball player. That also won him his
vile. He had been football and
baseball star in college. and was the
only man on his team who could sue
cessfully pillow through the Carlisle
Indian lineup. He played Summer
baseball at St Michael's on the Mary
land cast coast. and the tall. good
locking college star met there the
girl who later became Mrs. Bielaski.
and who was with him when he was
Kidnapped in Mexico. She is q grad
uate of Goucher College.
After he left college Bielaski went
into the Government Printing ONCE.
Baseball between teams representing
the different departments was then a
feature of Washington life, and Bic
laski shone at shortstop. He was so
good that the Department of Justice
offered him job in the file room if
he would play for them.
When the Bureau of Investigation
was formed, Bielaski was picked as
one OF its operators because he was
said to be the only man who could
md anything in the files. He attract
ed attention because of his quick in
telligence. From this position he rose
rapidly until he became head of the
bureau, one of the youngest of the
important officials in Washington.
Bielaski is 80 years old.
when the war started all Gov
eminent investigation and the control
OF the foreign State Intelligence
Service came under his control. He
worked twelve hours and more at II
day. Those in the office maryeled
at him. for he never became excited.
could handle dozens of important mat
ters at a time without appearing un-
usually busy. and did not show fa-
tigue until toward the end of the four
years. His good physical condition
was partly due to the fact that he
played baseball and tennis when he
could and swan little, knowledge
Of which came in handy when he fell
OF the Mexican cliff into the water
sWonld Not Garry Revolver
Despite the fact that Bielaski was
constantly exposed to the danger of
attack by foreign spy, he. did not
carry a revolver at any time during
the war, and refused body guard
He lived near Chevy Chase and often
left his office alone at night to drive
out in his car. The circumstances
OF his fellow workers and even CT Of
ticials in the State Department were
met by Bielaski with a deprecating
smile. He thought his fists and feet
would be of more value to him in a
scrimmage than a revolver, and he
determined that If he were ever at
tackled there would be a scrimmago
If he could get at his man. Third
Assistant Secretary of State Adee gave
him a small, pearl-hanled revolver
at one time, insisting that Bielaski
carry it for the sake of the Govern
ment 1t always lay on his desk so
that Adee could sec that it was not
lost, but Bielaski never put it in his
pocket
One adventure Bielaski had while
head of the bureau was at the time
of the raid on the Won Igel Offices in
lower broadway, when agents of the
department seized several safes full
of documents. 1t was not known to
the newspaper men who saw the raid
ing party that a tall. quiet man. APP
parently merely an agent, was Bic
lash. Yesterday was the first time
this incident was told. 1t is now di-
vulged that in the lively scuffle which
took place in the Offices when agents
were attempting to prevent the safes
from being closed. Bielaski with his
powerful arms took a prominent part.