RED-HOT DAYS FOR THE RED-HUNTERS
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By Frederick Ellis
On offfee close to the Capitol. the wall is a startling, vicious- looking mounted blue sailfish, something like a swordfish.
Washington, LAD to know you," drawled the Red- hunting Senator Joe McCarthy when I met him at a swell dinner, given is 7ft. to honour a fellow-hunter Velde, now to be a judge.
Then he
cracked
"I caught it off Miami last and summer, 11 weighed 51lb.
lin, long." rattled
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1954.
Velde, who represents the district ак slavo- same emancipator Abraham Lincoln, does not look a dangerous man. An Ho oozes charm and has engaging smile,
A widower with two children, he will be a grandfather in two His daughter months' time, Joan, who is 21, is married to u US. Navy ensign.
No treason
anti- the other VELDE ack
Reds (here they pronounce anti "an-tye," with the accent on own the second syllable) justify their of the United States, stitution probes because, under the Con- there is no such thing as treason in peacetime.
A powerful man physically, he is more than powerful politi- with a
cally. Powerful enough to live disarming smile: "Do you on down sending for ex-President Trumon for Investigation by any torna?" For Senator Joe is
the Un-American highly amused that he is rethe garded in Britain as doing the Committee. wark of the devil.
Joe is in strict contrast with
bat pretty penell-silm, hb
married
Jean, whom he
cently. As the Americans "Sho is quite a dish."
THE
Big hand
veteran
wife
re- кау.
HE senator is betie-browe L Viln- heavy-jowled, with ning hair. He looks more illee a bookmaker than a top-flight politician
Senator But when
only McCarran. Pat Democrat at Unis Republican dinner, described Joe McCarthy ns "the senator who has done colossal job, despite vilin- cation," there was upre
Q
The
man
the
whole 250 diners reem to
and
They woman. and
cherie. They clapped. They
It was a start- even whistled. ling performance.
It was the biggest demonstra- Non of the evening an evening whch ruse and Rank back In exhaustion my seat almost to
as one Red-hunter after another
was given the bly hand.
Do
underestimate nol
Impact of this
the McCarthylan Maybe not all America is sold on the turbulent senator.
of Americans the majority
ht
1
meet believe in what he stands for the fight against the Com- munisi menace.
Deep belief LISTENED to speech after
from sprech
-proemineu Republicana, sonators, and Con- Kressmen as they vied with one another to whip up hate agalus the Red-real or Imaginary.
Communism and subveraly← ness is the spearhead of military Action,' said Senator Jenner. Red-hunting of boss
another Senate committee.
Activities
the
Velde did that off his
without consulting rest of his committee. It started a political storm that has only Just simmered down.
On the walls of Velde's office,
Citizens can only be charged as in McCarthy's office along with treason when guilty of The corridor, hang plaques from "giving aid and comfort to the varioun bodies in honour of enemy."
So three Capitol committers-
Senate sub-committee Although Joe McCarthy and the his work against Communists. Velde are regarded with some (McCarthy), the Un-American and the Internal <userment in Britain, they are (Velde).
in Red Security (Senator Jenner) fight powerful force
or im- the Red menace, real conscious America.
aginary, by exposing suspects to a fierce public probe,
Heat's off
pale who
The heat's off Europe now," proclaims Velde. "We are the main larget." So the heat is on tho Reda, near-Reds, pinks, and almost anyone is not a Republican, the which
President has hower at the White House, it's Lids McCarthy, who in bi
friend, Congressman from the Middle wheat belt around
are
But the publle probes take place only after secret sessions Most of the have been held.
ending sessions
being cleared. with the suspects
Velde is well qualified as a former Red-prober, for he is
of the Federal Bureau
doubt he
passionately believes of Investigation, and there is no that Amexien is being under mined by Communists secret pockets-in Government offices, in the Services, and factories,
Election aim
this
Krat Veide comes West-the Chicago.
That was the prewar centre THE cynics have another ex- Red- for theplanation Now it is Isolation. of
And hunting. They say the Repub- of McCarthyism. centre
McCormick the
newspapers licans are
feeling to asure which supported Isolation back anti-Red McCarthy. They and their sup- victory porters are the extreme Right- November.
The wing of the Republicans.
cashing in
on the
THE NEW EXPLOITS OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
By
ADRIAN CONAN DOYLE and JOHN DICKSON CARR
The Adventure Of The Sealed Room
the
now engaged in contemplating to me and I had paused on the at fast to, the grim realities of
hideous painted face that stairs to answer her Inquiry the night, stared above his head.
whether I would be staying for dinner when a loud report rang "By all means," he replied. through the house. Mra Hudson "What is your theory to account clutched at the bannister. for the locked door, Inspector Mac?"
"That the Colonel himself locked It for privacy."
Holmes crossed to his desk and, in the pool of light cast by the green-shaded reading lamp, I caught the grave expression on "There, sir, he's at it again," his face as he opened a drawer sho wailed. "Them dratted and took out a life-preservar. pistola, And not six months
"Slip this since he blow the points off the
into your pocket, "Quite so. A most suggestive mantelpiece! In the interests of Watson," sald he. "I fancy that man may be inclined to Justice,
Mr Holmes sald, Oh, Dr Pur Watson, sir, if you don't get u Hudson has probably been in violence. Now, Mr Mac, as Mrs "It is suggestive merely of the there quick, like as not it will bed an hour since, if you are madness that drovo Colonel be that expensive gasogene that
ready we will step downstatra and hail the first honsom,” answered MacDonald,
circumstance,"
Warburton to his dreadiul deed," will have gone this time,"
reen
Inter-
Throwing the worthy woman a word of comfort, I raced up the
"Come, Mr Holmes," posed young Lasher. "We ull the stairs and threw open know your reputation for serving door of our old sitting-room just WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR
Justice through your own clever as a second report rong out,
It was a clear starlit night methods and naturally we are us Through a cloud of pungent
a short drive through a clear poor black powder smoke, I caught a and Colonel Warburton was found shot dead in the curio
keen as mustard to uncle's name. But, devil take it, glimpse of Sherlock Holmes. He network of small streets carried At a us across Edgware Road, room of his house in Cambridge Terrace. His wife,
there is no Way round the was lounging back in his arm-
word from Holmes, the cobby Eleanor, lay wounded at his side, and there was a pistol
evidence and whether we like it chair, clad in a dressing-gow, pulled up at a corner, and as on the floor. The door and the french windows were
or not we are forced to
cigar between his lips with the inspector here that and a smoking revolver poised wo But did the Colonel shoot his locked from the inside.
Colonel Warburton Wat the in his right hand. wife? Eleanor's friend, Cora Murray, asks Sherlock
victim of his own insanity." the
"All, and tells him investigate,
he Watson," Holmes to
Holmes raised one long thin
languidly. only other occupants of the house
hand.
the "Colonel Warburion was
"Good heavens, Holmes, this is Colonel's guest, Major Earnshaw; his nephew, Captain Lasher: and
native
Chundra Lai. butler,
victim of D singularly cold- really intolerable," I cried, "The
3
were
the
agree with a
on
nlighted saw the long expanse of Cambridge Terrace stretching away before us in sald empty desolation of lamplight and shadow. We hurried down the street and turned through the gate leading to our destina-
lon
'My gaze fell upon something that
brought a chill to my senses...
C
on
Mac," "I take it. Inspector AMBRIDGE TER-
RACE,
that said he, as he wandered about April the room peering into the glass sunny
cases and display cabinets, "you morning, lay silent
have already questioned all the Behind the inmates of this house?" and deserted. stone wall, and the narrow strip of rock-garden, lay the stone house, with its white ot the elections
window-facings and green- Administra-painted front door. Democrat lush hotel tions of Roosevelt and Truman D where I first met Velde, stripped are big anti-Red targets. With
ond
Democrats to shirtsleeves like the rest of Republicans
room, equal in the Senate, and Elsen- in the overheated us eracks were being made about hower with a majority of only this year's In Congress, "Fascists"-for suma Americans four
election is vital.
So, say the cynics, the Right- regard them as such.
These ariti - McCarthyltes compare the witch-hunt tactics Wing Republicans are going all
At
u party
in
of Hitler
prewar.
with those
**** With Hiter the target was the Jews. With McCarthy the Reds.
And they say it with the pas- ston of deep belief in a cause.
But make no mistake about Anyone who does not belleve in the Red menace is dubbed "Cgg this. The hysteria over Com- munism u this country is red head" by the fanatics.
of the hot-and anyone who goes after geta ток McCarthy
Communists this business. the 1
is Close runner-up
Harold public's applause. Velde
Veldce), (pronounced 43-year-old Congressman from
Pekin
Blinois-20 named be-
It Hes
us the clty
on the Rame in Red
сриве latitude China,
of the Volde is chairman powerful Un-American Activi
Les Commitee of Congress, And whereas America's Uncle Joe hunts his Reds only in the service
thic of
Dayt or present,
suminon
people.
the whole
Government,
Velde can American
I called on the rugged Con- gressman
{DAYER)
at hiB two-room
Parasitic skin disease, itching tegema etc.
'Mitigal'
CL & DISTRZEDST
gets
the
"Mon, I've done nothing else!" groaned Inspectur MacDonald. "But what can they tell me? This room was locked up. Tic It gave me something of a
only man who committed a shock to see near the win crane, in thooting himself and dows towards the left of
So far as the his wife, is dead. the white police are concerned, the cate is the entrance, dressed figure and turban of closed. What now, Mr Holmes?" B native butler. Chundra
Mr friend had stooped sud- La! stood there as motion- denly. the Red-hunt to win
less as one of his own idols,
this?" ho "Hullo, what's looking at us; then he
cried, examining a small object On the hotel melted TAILPIECE:
into the house which he had picked up off the table at which I am typing there through one of the french noor.
notice telling me what to do in the event of an "enemy I must go outside my attack." room and "ie near a corridor wall." Boy, get me a pink gint
oui on votes,
DONALD LUDLOW Reporting America
Hamburger Frees
Kidnappers
New York.
IDICULOUS
Of the 1,785 dailies, 1,043 are
verdicts in verdicts in cities with fewer than 25,000
E dally line-up of suspects,
to be
juries, says Judge Richard Tedged overnight from New B. Austin, of Chicago.
He cited the case of two York's underworld, kidnappers who, caught red- televised on a closed circuit from hended, were yet found innocent the Manhattan to the Brooklyn
police headquarters. in less than 15 minutes.
Amazed, Judge Austin asked the all-women jury why. They sald that the victim said one of the men had brought him. a soft drink and
The a hamburger, pollee, they insisted, should have found out which man it was.
The judge, by the way, was addressing-a men's club.
THAT WAR on too dear coffee: THA
Two Philadelphia hotels, the John Bartram and Sylvania, are a five cent cash giving guests bonus for every other kind of beverage they drink.
And they say: "We're saving money too." AMERICA
»Bayer « LEVERKUSEN for 1953 averaging a record
GERMANY.
THREE
rends more and more daily newspapers, sales 54,472,280 copies among the population of 100 million.
SILENT
In on
If the experiment is helpful, likely to be TV screens are installed at all main stations in New York, so that detectives can tune
the Rogues Gallery every morning.
THOSE "doctors" and "nurses"
who
and plug foods cigarettes and patent medicines on TV will have to be the real thing it Senator Thomas C. Deamond gets his way.
THOSE
He has introduced a B1 in Ure New York State Legislature that these white- demanding gowned salesmen, often with round draped stethoscopes their necks, be required to hold medical licences,
"We've had enough of these he says. phoney scientists, "They fool the public and bring discredit on the medical pro- fession."
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windows.
1
Sherlock Holmes, it was clear, had been similarly affected. saw his shoulders stiften under the frock-coat as he watched the retreating Agure of the Indian window servant. Though the
immediately to the left of the
- Murray had left
15.
Colonel "Merely the stub of Warburton's cigar which, as you see, burned a hole in the carpet," sepiled MacDonald,
"Ah. Quite so."
CHUNDRA LAL, stood there looking
at th.
door Even as he spoke the burst open and there entered a portly elderly man whom I pre-
sumed to be Major Earnshaw. blooded murder," he stated Behind him, accompanied by quietly.
her hand on Murray,
his Cora arm, come a tall young man with a bronzed high-nosed face and a guardsman's moustache.
you
His words were followed by a tense silence as we all stared at cach other.
•
MacDonald nodded towards the planks which now blocked the shattered window.
"They're loose on one side," be whispered. "But move care- fully."
There was and, an squeezed
a slight creaking Instant later,
we had Our way past the boards to find ourselves in the utter darkness of Colone! War- burton's curio room.
place smells like a rifle range. If
care you
nothing for the damage, I beg of you to consider
on Mra the effect
Hudson'. Holmes had produced a dark nerves and those of your jantern from the pocket of his clients" I threw -wide the Inverness, and following its windows
relieved to faint beam we groped our way and was
wall until observe that the noisy stream of along the
we came passing hansoms and carriages to an alcove containing a couch. had
concealed the apparently sound of the shots, *The
atmosphere is most unhealthy, I added severely.
*
Holmes retched up an arm and placed the revolver on the mantelpiece,
"This will do," whispered my friend. "We might have found
worse roast and it is enough to the replace for our purposes."
Д
ncor
The night was singularly quiet and, as it turned out, our vigil
dreary, one, Once, belated revellers went by in a hansom, the sound of their
а
SCITIO
"Really, Watson, I don't know singing and the clip-clop of the horse's hoots gradually dying what i would do without you,” he remarked. · "As I have had away towards lyde Park and, occasion to observe before, you an hour or so later, there camo bavo a certain genlus for to us the deep rumbling gallop supplying the element ofa af a Arc-engine tearing furiously touchstone to the higher work along Edgware Road with
clamour of bells and the sharp ings of the trained mind."
pistol-shot
cracking of driver's whip, Otherwise, silence was unbroken save for grandfather
а
the
the
"A touchstone that has, to my knowledge, broken the law three times in order to be of assist the ticking of a ance to you." I replied a trife clock at the other end of the bitterly.
"My
dear fellow," said he, and there was that in his voice that banished any resentment and mollified my ruffled feelings.
room,
musuem
front door was intact, a gap b the rock-garden showed where a large stone had been prised out; and the other window, further
The atmosphere which Wis to the left, had been smashed to
"It is some time since I saw heavy with the aromatic musti- bits. It was through this open-
"I understand, Sir, that On
cigar," I pro- това of
an Oriental Ing that the native butler,
are Mr Sherlock Holmes," began "By God, Sir, whom are you you smoking a silent feet, had moved inside.
Major Earnshaw stiffly. "I must accusing?" roared Major Earn- nounced, as I threw myself into hegan to weigh me down with increasing lethargy until I HOLMES Buy at once that cannot per- shaw. "I'll have you know that my old chair.
had to concentrate all my "It is a matter of mood, faculties to keep myself from whistled, but he celve the reason why Miss Mur- there are slander laws in this did not speak ray should have called you in country."
Watson. In this instance, I
falling asleep. until Cora to this private tragedy."
"Well, well," sald Holmes took the liberty of purloining good-humouredly. "I will take one from the stock of the late I have referred to the utter you into my confidence, Major, Colonel Warburton." He broke darkness, but as my eyes grew the conditions You saw nothing strange or reason," replied Holmes quitely. oglass from the french an hour to spare," he concluded. tion of light from some distant
"Others might perceive the by telling you that my case rests off to glance at the clock on the accustomed to
largely on all those broken por mantelpiece.
We have I became aware of a pale reflec inconsistent in the narrative of "Did your uncle always smoke windows which, you will per- 150 let us exchange the
street lamp stealing through the Miss Murray?"
the same brand of cigar, Captain celve,
Man's manifold unboarded french window, and have gathered dup Into problems of Lasher?"
the fireplace. When I return to wickedness for the expression of I was idly following its path "Yes, sir," replied the young morrow morning to piece them that higher power that exists when my gaze fell upon some- man, with a puzzled glance at
trust that I will then even in the worst of us, Watson, thing that brought a chill to together, Holmes. "There is the box on be able to prove my
It is in the Case to the Stradivarius. the side table."
We all watched Sherlock Your satisfaction. By the way, corner behind you,”
Inspector Mac, I take it that you cat oysters?"
**Tall m.c Watson," said he.
"Strange, horrible, yes," confessed "But inconsistent? Surely not."
"Yet you yourself have been the first to protest about it."
"My dear fellow, 1 have uttered not one word of protest this morning."
I
Holmes in silence as fie went across and picked up the box of clgar. For a moment he peered at the contents and then, lifting the box to his nose, he sniffed
"Not this moming, perhaps," deeply. said Sherlock Holmes. "Ah, "Dutch," he said. "Miss Mur- Inspector Mac! We are met upon ray, you are quite right in your the occasion of another prob-
Colonel Warburton affirmation. lem."
was not mad.”
a
moustache.
my
"I'm.
of
A
my BELLING. A face faint and.. nebulous, yet dreadful as the fig- ment
nightmare, weS It was nearly eight o'clock
end of that dim radiance. and I had just lit the gas when glaring down at me from the far there came a knock on the door must have started involuntarily, and Inspector MacDonald, his for I felt Holmes lean toward long, angular figure wrapped me.
in a plaid overcoat, bustled into. the room.
LEANING back
I
In my scat T.
tried to relax,
"The mask," he whispered. MacDonald's face reddened,
"Our own trophy is likely to be "Mr Holmes, I have had aye
"I got your message, Mr less improreive but rather more a liking and a respect for ye," Holmes," he cried, "and every dangerous.” he said sharply. "But there are thing has been carried out in MAJOR EARN- times when it is neither douce accordance with your sugges- SHAW uttered a nor seemly in a man to-what tons. There'll be a constable in loud snort, while the dell have oysters to do with the front garden. at midnight. Don't worry about the french window; we can get in without rousing the houta,"
Holmes rubbed his thin,
excellent! "Excellent,
tho younger PA.
man, with better
manners than
monograph
lating
friend.
but the sight of that grisly relic had turned ...
my thoughts into
a new field of ****** conjecture. The sinister white-
You
clad
Agure of Chundra Lal,
that
vant; arose in my minthe
effect
egt,
In tho
shattered window. stepping carefully over fallen
"Merely that to eat them you the take shards of glass, appeared *
presumably his senior, at would freckled - faced sandy haired
tempted to hide oyster fork nearest to hand. To young man with the dogged his amusement by smoothing his the trained observer, surely there fingers together. stamp of the police officer.
would be something significant "Deuce knows we are all very if you reached instead for the have a gift for promptly carry Colonel Warburton's Indlan ser "Great Scott, Mr Holmes, you
problem?" relieved to have your assurance, fork beside your neighbouring out-ch-suggestions don't call this
I give you the thought will take you far" he said and attempted to exclaimed Inspector MacDonald, Mr Holmes," said he. "Doubt plate.
warmly.
by Miss Mrs
Hudson will exact words used raising his eyebrows. "Unless less you deduce it from the for what it is worth."
For the question is why Colonel colonel's taste in cigars,"
a long moment Mac- serve us supper here, and after Murray in describing the felend answered Donald stared intently at my wards a pipe or, two may help of the death-mask upon the man. · even more than Warburton went mad?"
Perhaps
than Dr
to all in the time. Watson can inform
consider "Well, well," said
that it might be fatal to my Holmes, I know, enough Holmes you that I have given somo good-naturedly, "I presume you attention to the study of tobacco "Aye, Mr Holme," he said at plans should we take up our India to realise that religious
and that I I have even will allow us to enter?"
ventured length.
"Verra interesting. I positions before midnight. Now, fanaticism and a rense of incri❤ "Aye, and welcome," retorted to embody in a small should be glad of your sug- Mr Mac, draw up your chair lege would not only justify any
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separate
and try this shag. Waston can crime but inspire in the devotee the young Scot.
tell you that' varieties of ash. Colonel gestions." We found ourselves in a lofty Warburton's taste
It has marked a cunning of execution which In
baule the cigars
might well "I would advise that you have characteristics of its own."
Western ceptions of -room which; thougli narrow
merely Well,
confirms
other the broken window boarded up,”
the furnished with
evening however experienced in the comfortable
THE MacDonald?" avidence.
repllod Holmes. "Apart from chairs, conveyed the fnipression, A trown fand
passod pleasantly ways of our fellow men, % settled on the that let nothing be touched of a barbaric, muscum. Mounted Scotland Yard man's face and until we all meet again.
enough. Sherlock -Holmes, whe WBS I was considering whether I on an ebony cabinet facing his small light-blue eyes peered morrow morning. Come, Watson, windows stood an extraordinary at
Holmer
in his most should open the subject to my I ace that it is already past
genial: mood, Tent companions when my attention one o'clock. A dish of Calemare
an attentivei der was arrested by the low, creak at Pelligrin!'
to the Scoliond of a door hinga): There was not, Yard man's account of a gang a moment to lose in warning of French colners whose optra Holmes that somebody was tions were actually threatening entering the room. But when I the stability of the Loule d'Or, stretched out my hand was and thereafter proceeded to only to and that my friend was During the afternoon, I was bahure tha Scotsman,, with
tito longer beside me. facts, busy upon my beleted medicat highly ingeniousthof
Himlabe This story. exposing timplon PA (POMy friend had strolled across early evening, that I found any day-lopment;
To my surprise Holmes scarce to the body cabinet- and with self ones more in Baker, Btrost, oldall ly, glanced at, the hideous (object, this hands behind his bacle was zurs Hudson Copter then door middel vi
the
suspiciously from
"object; "the", effigy of a ̈ human beneath his sandy vjehru NAV“ alla Siciliano
face, brown and gilded, with "Evidence? What
are
yo
two great eyes of some hard and ing at, mont' he cried suddenly, would hat come amiss.” glittering blue stones.
plain-an-apike- Pretty little thing, isn't H?" staff, The colonel and his wife grunted young MacDonald, are both that in a room that is That's the death mask that locked, bolted and barred from teems to affect em like a the
o, you deny it?" ***
Hieland spell, Major Earnshawe Do you d
and Captain father, are in the "Then n let us stick to th
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