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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

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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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