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Evening star., 1950-10-18

& Order to announce the death
.A%M OF its member, Mrs. HANNAH
WfNTT KEANE. The rosary will be
We recited at her late residence,
EA8zS2 26l9 East-West highway, on
SWA-s9 Wednesday, october is, 1850,
VERY REV B. P. SHAFFER. o. P,
KING, WILLIAM c, On october, l6,
OF Margaret knight King. father of VIII
liam E. John II. and Stanley H. King;
brother of Mrs. CAROLYN Wines. Remains
resting al Chambers Funeral Home. 5I7
at 10 am. Services in Fort Myer
Chapel at 1880 m. Interment Airing
ton National Cemetery. is
KNIGHT, VIOLA. On Sunday. October Is,
KNIGHT, She leaves TO mourn their
loss a husband, dauRhter. five sisters.
two brothers, one niece, one nephew.
Friends may call at Boyo's Funeral Home,
1898 10th St NV. at 80 pm. Wednes-
day. October is. Funeral in Tarboro,
N. c. 10
LYLES, VIOLA. On Monday October 10,
1850; VIOLA LYLES Of 623, 2nd st. s.w,
She leaves to mourn their loss one son.
one sister, two grandchildren, a daueh-
ter-in law and host OF other relatives
and friends. Remains resting at Barnes
d Matthews Funeral Home GA 4th st.
s.w. Notice of funeral later.
MANN, CoRDIE H. On Sunday. October
70, 1850, al Washington Sanitarium,
CORDIE H. MANN of Washington D. &C.,
brother OF Lyle w. Mann of Washington,
D. c. Services at the S. H. Hines Co.
Funeral Home. 2901 18th st. NV, on
Wednesday. October IS, at ) pm Inter-
ment private
MCCAIN, CoLuMBUs c. On Sunday, oc-
tober Is, 1850, COLUMBUS c. MCCAIN
OF 3226 llth st. NV, devoted brother
Of Mrs; Henrietta SUIT. Mrs Cordelia
Caldwell and Mrs Aurelia Cline. Also
surviving are other relatives and many
friends. After pm. Wednesday friends
are invited TO call at the Mcclure Fu-
neral Home, 1920 9th st. NV, where
services will be held on Thursday, October
~, at , pm. Interment Harmony Gene
MCGEE. BENJAMIN RYAN. At Baltimore,
Nd, on October IA, 1850. father of
Walton G.. MCGEE. brother of Mrs Norma
Duke, Mrs. Mary Bedford Mrs John R
Wlnder. James, Walter. Charles Dwight
ana Royal MCGEE. Services at Chambers
Funeral Home, 517 11th st. Sc. on
Thursday. october 19 at 2:30 pm In
terment Washington National Cemetery.
McNEEIY, HAZEL MAUDE. Suddenly on
Sunday, October IS. 1850 at her resi-
dence. in Dorchester Mass HAZEL
MAUDE McNEELY, formerly of Washing
ton, D. c.. beloved wife of George Nc
Neely, sister of Mrs Ruth Bowles of
Dorchester. Mass; William R. and Eugene
B. Conway, both of Washington, D. C,
and Thurow R. Conway OF Richmond, Va
Services at the S. H. Hines Co Funeral
Home 290l 14tn ST. NV, on Thursday
October -, at lG:30 am. Interment Ar
lington National Cemetery. tRichmond
Va, and Pittsburgh, Pa, papers please
copyl IS
NcNEFIV nazEI r1o oa7ao,.. i, -, ,.,,,.,
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2Y REV. B. P. SHAFFER. o. P.

berS Of Sergt. Jasper Unit, No.
l3. American Legion Auxiliary.
are hereby notified of the death
OF HAZEL McNEELY. on Sun
day, October Is. 1850. Auxil-
lary funeral services will be
held on Wednesday, October Is,
at the 6 Il Ainas Co FL
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uUIY OF 81. DOMINIC Ihlr(
Order to announce the death
OF its member. Mrs, HANNAE
KEANE. The rosary will bs
recited at her late residence
2619 EaSt-WeSt highway, or
Wednesday, october is, 1850
rev. r p SHAFFER q p
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HOLLIE. LULA. On Wednesday. October
Is. 1850 at Gallinger Hospital. LULA
HOILIE of us 5th st. Sc, loving mother
OF Owen, William, oscar and Abraham
Hawkins. She also is survived by two
brothers, two sisters, other relatives and
host of friends. Remains resting at
the John T. Rhines & Co. Funeral Home
Bird ami Eye SITS. sw. Notice of funeral
Lott
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BRIsCoE, HERBERT RUSSELL. De

this life suddenly, on Sunday, Octohe
5, 1850, at his residence, lll012 Yol
st. NV, HERBERT RUSSELL BRISCOE
son of Mrs. Ruby Briscoe Beckley. brothe
Nellie Thomas He also leaves fou
aunts, three uncles. six cousins. othe
relatives and friends. Friends may vieV
the remains after l pm. Wednesday, Oc
tober is. at Ralph Rarbour's Funera
Home AS K st. ne. where funeral Serv-
ices viii be held Thursday October 49, a
80 pm. Interment Arlington Nationa
Cemetery. is
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Dfatha
BANKS. C

BANKS. CORNELIA. On Tuesday, october
Il. 1850. CORNELIA BANKS OF 26l6
Georgia ave. NV, beloved wife Of William
Paul Banks. Other relatives and many
friends also survive. Notice of funeral
later. Arrangements by Malvan g. Schey.
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GREET. JAMES Q. Son Of the late James
G. Greet Of Vienna. Va: father OF Mrs.
Ethel Blankenbaker, John R., James E.,
William E.. Anna E. and Edith v. Greet,
and Mrs Margaret Eurns brother OF
Mrs. MARGARET M. Kannel. Services at
Chambers Funeral Home, 400 Chaplin
st. NV. on Wednesday. october Is. at
2:30 pm. Interment Fort Lincoln Gene
1S
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parted this life MONDAY, October 16,
1850. at 6:1S am. at the Veterans Ad-
ministration Hospital. North Carolina.
WILLIAM H. fBILLY> COOPER. He
leaves to mourn their loss his wife, Mrs.
Lucinda Cooper; daughter. Palma
Cooper; two sisters. Mrs. Lavinia For
Dewey y and d Milton Cooper; two stepsis-
tiers, Mrs. Mary Smart and Mrs. Cleo
McRoy; a stepmother Mrs. Callie Cooper,
and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral Friday, october 20. at l pm,
from Boyds Funeral Home, 1898 goth
st. NV. 19
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Monday, october f6. 1850. at his resi-
dence. 1892 R st. NV. HARRY LEE
(HENRYl GUMPMAN. beloved husband
of Malvena Gumpman. father of Mrs.
Florence Cox, Mrs. Elizabeth Coughlin
and Mrs. Catherine Dean; brother of
Mrs. Eva Adams of Baltimore Md Re-
mains resting at the s. H. Hines Co. Fu-
at St Dominic's Catholic Church, 9Th and
E SITS. s.w., on Thursday, October 10.
where the holy sacrifice of the mass will
be offered at 10 am. for the repose of
his soul. Interment Cedar Hill Gene
terry Is
Evening star., 1950-12-27
By Doris FIeeson

A universal manpower program
is the goal OF hearings which Sen
ator Lyndon Johnsons prepared
ness subcommittee will open next
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basis of cold official communicates.
We reached high pitch of opti-
mism when our forces smashed
through the enemy lines and ap-
peared to be near full execution
of the United Nati-,s mandate to
liberate Korea, set up condition,
for free elections and then get out.
Fiction Repeated.
When the masses of Chinese
Communists entered the battle
and our troops began to suffer
reverses we were seized by fear.
The reverses forced us to make
orderly retreats with what the
military terms normal losses" I"
But they were described for the
public as routs and disasters.
Some newspapers in Britain
which is one of our principal Allies
that approved the U. N. police
action so far as to say that
the U. N. forces. composed prin-
cipally of American units, ran
away from a shadow" Chinese
force.
This piece of fiction was re-
peated by some "hush-hush"
quarters in Washington. This re-
porter was told by one source that
Gen. Macarthur had ordered the
retreat because he did not have
the 10-to-1 superiority which the
Army general staff considers es-
sential in order to fight vic
torious battle. In support of this
flgment of fevered imaginations
it is cited that we had real air
and sea superiority when we
landed in Normandy in 1914.
The same quarters in Washing
ton and abroad who sang Gen.
MacArthur's praises after the
Inchon landing in September were
quick to hedge with the statement
that the supreme commander in
Tokyo was too old to command
armies in the field and should be
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McL.emore
Looks Forward
To Rheumatism
By Henry McLemoys

I wish I were an old, old man
with rheumatism.
You may consider that a crazy
wish and wonder why I don't
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New work Henry McLemore.
apartment building, and it's win
ter.
One Way to Judge.
If I were an old, old man and
had rheumatism I could always
Judge the weather. When it was
snappy weather my joints would
only creak. When it Was bitter
cold they would sound like casta-
nets. This would enable me to
know how to dress for going out.
Living in a house. where you
can just walk out to the front
door in your bathrobe to find out
what the weather is like, is much
different from living high in an
apartment. For. me to find out
what the weather is in New York
I have to dress and go down 10
floors.
And when get there I am likely
as not to find that I dressed all
wrong. The only thing I can be
sure of. without going down 10
floors. is whether it's raining or
not.
| So-and I suspect I am like a
million other New York apartment
|. dWellers in this respect depend
on the elevator men, the man who
brings the morning and afternoon
papers. the grocery delivery boy
and the doorman for my weather
reports.
This sounds simple enough, but
it isn't.
I soon discovered that the door,
man. a Scotsman, had been raised
in a climate that was cold, damp,
and usually miserable, so he
thought any clear day. even though
the thermometer was near zero,
was a wee hit of heaven, and snug
as toast. He liked to have caused
my death by exposure until I
figured him out.
Tries to Strike Balance.
One of the elevator men has
blood as thin as chicken broth SO
he would report to me that l
should not venture forth without
earmuffs, long drawers, mittens.
a muff. keg of brandy about my
neck. and Identification papers in
each pocket in case I was over
come by the bitter cold.
On the other hand, the grocery
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premise that would have made
such a defeat impossible 1t is
human and understandable. So,
too. is the attempt to blame the
United Nations in the cropping
around usual in escapism..
Blow to National Pride.
1t is hard to be coldly reasonable
just now about what has happened
in Korea. There is the blow to
national pride which everybody
feels. That stirs up the emotion
to confuse clear thinking, even
though we have suffered defeats
before.
But there is something much
closer to many of our people That
is the very personal tragedy in
the death aud injury OF loved ones.
Also, on a still wider scale, IS the
anxiety of parents and wives all
over the country as more and
more men are called into service.
OF all Of this there must be
understanding in making an
answer to the questions. Because
of all of this an answer is needed.
If it was right to go into Korea
last June, it is still right.
The U. N. made its decision to go
into Korea because there was a
clear act of aggression by North
Korean Communist forces against
the Republic of South Korea which
had been set up by the U. N.
and was ward Of the U. N.
The U.N. could do nothing else
than what it did if it intended to
survive as an international agency
to keep the peace, which is the
purpose for which it was created.
That was it's test. Fifty-th three ma
tions stood up resolutely and met
the challenge. including our own
which suggested, in the first in
stance, that the hand of the Soviet
Russian aggressors must be called.
AS the leader of the free nations
of the world which want to remain
free, we took the leadership, as
we should have.
Moment of History.
That will become one of the
finest moments of our history
that great decision. In history, too,
this U. N. action will stand out,
it is forecast here and now, as
the beginning of its maturity as
the champion of the free people
of the world for peace and justice.
That will mean something to all
who come after. We have given
something to mankind for all time
Diminished in perspective, but
not forgotten, will be the present
anguish and turmoil that now OBJ
scure the simple, but great, objec-
tive represented in the U. MS
decision. The desperate clinging
to beachhead in the days just
after that great decision, when
the alarmists whispered that we
would be Showed out of Korea" J"
The disappointment that other
nations of the U. N. did not con-
tribute greatly. The slow fight up
the peninsula. The debate over
crossing the 38th Parallel, and
then the crossing, now a renewed
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Draft Likely
Universal Manpower Program
Goal of Hearings Set Next Week

the subcommittee and the coun-
try under happy auspices. The
Senate Armed Services Committee
from which the subcommittee is
drawn, after exhaustive hearings,
cleared her of charges of Com
munist sympathies, and voted,
1870, to approve her confirmation.
The Senate followed suit almost
unanimously amid chorus of
approval from leading citizens
everywhere.
Work Fight Decisions.
Such an ending was vital to the
success of Mrs. Rosenberg mis-
sion. The work-or- fight decisions
which will reach into every home
in America will be largely hers,
the product of her long experience
both in private business and in
the Government during World
War II. AS the investigating Sem
ators knew so well. they could not
allow confidence in her to be i'm
paired to the least degree. At
best hers will be a hard and un-
popular job.
Senator johnson will assure his
witnesses that the subcommittee
is there to learn. not to put across
its own preconceived ideas of
what ought to be done. Their past
experience, however, has suggested
that the draft age should be in
creased and the physical stand
ards lowered. 1t is not necessary,
one Senator put it, to staff the
Pentagon exclusively with men fit
for combat.
The Johnson subcommittee is
continuing its explorations into
shortages of materials as we'll as
men. It's next target will be nickel.
a monopoly controlled ingredient
in dangerously short supply. The
committee will demand a scrap
drive for nickel. an end to it's use
in coinage and development of
new sources for it.
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This Changing World
High Morale of Our Troops in Korea
Should Strengthen the Home Front

deprived Of his command. This
state of mind fortunately has not
affected the men in the field who
fought against heavy odds in Ko-
rea's subzero weather.
The fact that the 100000 United
Nations forces (Which include
about 100000 South Koreans)
were being attacked by 40 Chinese
and North Korean divisions $780,
900 to 100000 mem did not affect
the spirit of our soldiers. They
have unlimited confidence in their
own fighting ability and in their
commanders. They do not under
estimate the adversary, but they
know that they can hold their own
If they are properly supported by
the home front.
Lions Change to Lambs.
There was no panic among our
forces such as was exhibited by the
U. N. diplomats. At the first news
of reverses the lions in June
changed to lambs in December
seeking and imploring the Asiatic
potentates for mercy at almost
any price.
1t was humiliating to see the
sponsors of the cease-fire resolu-
ton squirm and beg the arrogant
representatives of Mao Tze-tung
to consider their appeal. even Of
fering to go to Peiping or any
where else in China-regardless
how remote the spot-to lay their
plea at the feet of Moscow's
Chinese puppet. That must have
warmed the hearts of the Kremlin
masters even more than the sue
cesses Of their armies.
Even after the Chinese entered
the battle with an army numer-
ically superior to the combined
forces of the West, the United
Nations, which is directing the
political end of the operations in
Korea, refused to permit its su-
perior air force to destroy the
Manchurian supply centers and
lines of communication of the
Chinese Reds. The fact that the
destruction of such targets is es-
sential for victory was overlooked
in favor of political considera-
tions."
The United Nations air force
was used only tactically, in sup
port of the ground forces, just as
the Russian air force was used
during World War II. It's vital
strategic role has not been recog-
nized because, it was said at Lake
Success, ''it might hamper the
peaceful solution of the war in
Korea"
The distinguished diplomats had
not learned that a war, regardless
of the name in which it is waged
cannot lead to a peaceful solution
until 1t has been won.
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for the future, does not answer
the presents urgent needs.
Senator johnson and his col
leagues. who are making the mill
tary facts of life, however un-
palatable, their special province,
begin the manpower story with
several harsh assertions.
Marshall First Witness.
One is that no matter how you
slice it. we are at war. Another
is that manpoWer is our most val
liable and at the same time most
limited resource; our survival
therefore will depend on how
wisely We use it. They are also
convinced that the country is on
the threshold of full mobilization
so any plans of lesser scope will
not be worth discussing.
A comparative analysis of the
enemy's manpoWer riches and the
situation here will be put into the
record. The Departments of De-
fense and Labor will then be asked
to develop the story of how they
propose to apportion our fewer
but highly skilled manpower re-
sources among the fighting, serv-
ice and industrial fronts.
Secretary of Defense Marshall
will be the first witness, to be
followed by the expert he drafted
from her lucrative practice as an
industrial consultant. Mrs. Anna
Rosenberg. to be his Assistant
Secretary in charge of manpower
problems.
Mrs. Rosenberg will go before
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Confused Thinking
Withdrawal of Forces From Korea
Urged Loudly by Men of Little Faith

subject of dispute as to its wisdom.
The advance through the snow to
the Manchurian frontier, also
hotly debated again now since the
Red Chinese hordes swarmed
across the border. The retreat, the
evacuation at Hamhung, and
again the whispers that we will
be showed out of Korea"
Now, loudly, the voices of the
tinlorous and the defeatists. The
call to withdraw from our COM
mitments to our allies in Europe
and wall ourselves in. Men of little
faith would recant the great de-
cision and thus make vain the
sacrifices for it.
That would be a betrayal OF
those for whom our people mourn
Evening star., 1950-12-27

boy, just turning 18. is as hardy
as a sledge dog and would be fan
ming himself on the days the ele-
vator man told me weren't fit for
man, beast, or Admiral Byrd.
So I have had to study my
various weather informants and
try to strike a balance between
their reactions and what the
weather is really like.
Naturally, I haven't been able
to work this out in such short
time. AS result, my clothes are
a happy medium between what I
am told. I wear earmuffs and
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u n i v e r S a |
military train
i n G W i'll b e
sllunted a S l d e
until thorough
and exhaustive
plans have been
made to meet
the immediate
m a n p o W e r
problem. TIL e
S u b c Ommlttee
can be expect
ed to announce
that UNIT, how
er desirable
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90. i m not SO
sure now"
Or: Il don't
think so now"
Or: why are
we in Kore a
anyhow ?"
1t develops
that this change
of attitude can
be traced fire.
quently to our
military defeat.
Reasoning be-
gins now with
that and goes
hnnE 70 fnl q
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us at home and
our Allies in
E u + O p e. 1t
should m a k e
us better pre-
pared for the
i m p e n d i n G
struggle W i t h
the hordes of
the new Tanner
lane Joseph
Stain.
We, far from
t h e K ore a n
b a t t l e fie | d,
judge the situ-
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wish t + a t I
were a young,
young man with
a Washb o a + d
stomach, t W o
front-roW seats
to Guys and
Dolls" and a
mink coat fac
tory.
But it isn't a
crazy wish. Not
II you are a
middle : a g e d
man who lives
way up in a
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THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. ALL
II,

dancing pumps, top coat and no
shirt, a muff1er and no socks.
Yes, I'll take age and rheuma.
tism.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Ine)
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Constantine BrOivu

The remarkably high morale
and determination not to run
from danger. displayed by our
troops in Korea, should strengthen
Evening star., 1950-12-27
By Thomas L. Stokes

All around today we hear some
thing like this:
When we first went into Korea
thought it was the right thing to
Evening star., 1950-05-07
A SNORT sIoaS

GHERIFF WALLlNC had six in his Jail to-
~ night. or would have. when one of the
prisoners got back That was Tony Lessons,
who had asked if he could have the evening
off to 60 to his brothers farm and fix the
tractor. Tony would be in early; he always
was. Tony stayed with the sheriff regularly.
usually for getting drunk
The county judge was a reformed two-bottle
man and tough on offenders of that sort
But the sheriff saw no reason why, if Tony's
cherries needed picking, or he had chance at
a small repair job. Tony shouldn't step out
for few minutes. Tony was punctilious
about not getting befuddled on such leaves
and avoided citizens who would have frowned
at seeing prisoner several miles from prison.
On the same side of Jail. in the second of
the three cells on that corridor, there was Sam
Spodle, another tenant of long if intermittent
standing. Sam spent about fourth of the
year with the sheriff, on an average.
That was for non-support of shrewish wife
almost as big as the sheriff himself and no
where near as tolerant. The sheriff and Sam
understood each other; man took asylum
where he could. Sam wasn't hard to account
for, in this mental roll-call the sheriff was
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making. Sam lounged on an old daybed just
behind the sheriff's swivel chair. Sam looked
little plain tonight. Usually the sheriff let
him wear his badge. Tonight, rare mood of
fornality was upon the sheriff and he was
wearing it himself
On the other side of the bullpen there were
three other cells. Tommy Marshall, back
again for the third time this year for stealing
chickens; Barney MacAdams, paying his first
visit of the year but an old acquaintance and
Old Fitz Wigging. frail little man who always
fought the same bartender and whose rela-
tives left him in few days each time to pom
der his shortcomings
NORMALLY these three would have gathered
in the empty bullpen for friendly game
of hearts.
But not tonight. Ever since five o'clock
the sheriffs charges had been treating him
like the warden of Alcatraz
That was to make things look stern. ship
shape. and penal. For the sixth and last of the
sheriff's prisoners was Carl Decker, the bank
robber, the man prisons couldn't hold Decker
had been lodged in the Jail overnight by depu-
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these melodramatic and uncharacteristic
thoughts. he sent Sam Spodle to bed.
''I1l be bunking next to Decker" Sam said.
''I'm in Number and he's in Number 3.
Maybe you'd better take me back"
Sam meant, It'll look BETTER" and the
sheriff nodded his thanks. Spodle went before
him through the big barred door which led
into the Jail proper, and turned left, past the
empty bullpen. In the dim light of two high
yellow bulbs it looked like cage for dino
saurs. Spodle went into Number without
saying good night and the sheriff was glad
Sam hadn't been ham enough to fake snarl.
DECKER. in the corner cell, looked up from
his cot and said Good evening"" He was
wiry man of forty, with the most honest face
the sheriff had had in prison for long time.
Those were the first words the sheriff had
heard him speak. Decker's handsome coat
was laid across the head of the bed, but not
folded as pillow. He hadn't taken off his
well-shin shoes, and he lay as man does
who is preserving the press in his pants. He
came forward. The sheriff had bad feeling.
He had seen men WHO looked more settled.
Evening star., 1950-05-07
by Robert NJ. YOder
illustrated by David Berger

ties from Oklahoma who had captured him in
Ohio and were taking him back by car
Remember this is Decker" they had told
the sheriff. He broke out of two jails." It
was nice of them not to say better jails than
this"
HE deputies had expected to stay close to
their prisoner tonight. But Walling had told
them, a little firmly to get their sleep This
was Walling's Jail and it was his duty to
manage it. The big, easy going sheriff had
his own somewhat informal ways of operating
But beneath them was sense of the dig
nifty of the law, and he didn't feel it added to
that dignity to fioodlight a Jail and call out
the National Guard simply because it held,
among Others, page-one celebrity.
There was no bravado in this The sheriff
was afraid of many people: of youngsters with
guns. of anyone wild with dope, of all den
lists. and of women carrying umbrellas. But
he was not afraid of Decker nor alarmed
about having him in custody. Decker was
tough and Decker was smart.
But Decker would be there in the morning
or the sheriff would not A little ashamed of
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