Show Of All the Characters From Stripes Strides to Riches I Is Tale of Larry Knohl By RS Frederick C. C Othman V WASHINGTON Of Of all the peculiar characters parading through the congressional income income income in in- come tax inquiry in in- s quirt L Larry a r r y Knohl the ex ex- auctioneer is C the 0 one n e to tomake tomake make a fellow s ti k kg g gulp u 1 p. p Fro From m J 1 s stripes t rip est to 0 J riches is his lL biography in brief t II The f fabulous Tabu- Tabu a b u. u lous bus Larry of Mr Othman the graying temples the bulging bulging ing middle and the booming voice rose from rom prison cell to the presidency of oC so many corporations corporations corporations cor cor- he simply cant can't keep track of them all He runs a restaurant a used- used car lot a Sunday newspaper on onI I Long Island an oil company in Kansas an investment firm in Washington and a few other enterprises he cant can't quite recall recall recall re re- re- re call now When hes he's in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York he stays at the Waldorf- Waldorf Astoria In Washington he maintains a suite at the Mayflower Mayflower May May- lay flower Hotel he doesn't know whether it is the presidential suite This costs him more than 35 per day When hes he's on the road he I travels in his own place 10 Lockheed Lodestar Lodestar and and now were we're getting someplace That's the flying machine for which he paid to a pal of oC T T. Lamar Caudle the assistant attorney g general e n e era r a l 1 with the southern accent fired a couple of weeks back by President Truman i Paid The pal paid the assistant attorney attorney attorney at at- torney general a commission commission commission commis commis- sion for or selling the ship to toI I Larry When the latter learned I of this he was aghast He phoned Caudle and asked him how come he was taking a cut cuton cuton cuton on the deal But he explained that he had taken this up with the attorney attorney attorney at at- torney general who approved and I was satisfied said Knohl Then it turned out that Knohl actually had spent the i money of the Rean Bean Oil Co of oC Russell Kan to buy the plane He was president of this firm all right but a good deal of the cash to finance it he got from rom one Jacob a black mar mar- in the toils of the tax collector Two months after part of Friedus' Friedus bank roll by an exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- circuitous r route o 0 u ute t e reached the manicured hands of Caudle Friedus was in jail on charges of oC tax evasion Hes He's still there Very Confusing Where this leaves us Im I'm ImI none too sure Neither apparently apparently is the House Ways Says and Means 1 Committee Larry told reluctantly of going behind bars as an embezzler embezzler em em- for a spell himself in inthe inthe inthe the thirties while he still was an auctioneer Then he met Jake who financed him in an assortment of oC deals One thing seemed to lead to another And there was Larry functioning functioning functioning as vice president of the Starrett Radio and Television Corp of Chicago which Jake and his father Samuel Aarons had bought This corporation was in the throes of oC buying from the thc Reconstruction Finance Finance Finance Fi Fi- Fi- Fi nance Corp a juke-box juke factory in Kansas City Kan when the boom fell Proprietors Friedus and Aarons took up residence in the penitentiary Profitable Year Larry said he still believed he was vice president of oC the radio company that is if there still is a radio company compan All this happened in 1950 a year ear which otherwise was good to Knohl On his tax returns for forthe forthe forthe the annum he said will be found a profit he made on a horse race You in the gambling business business business busi busi- ness too asked the committee commit commit- tee counsel IINo INo No sir replied Larry You mean you retain your amateur status insisted Attorney At At- torney Bruno I That I do roared the busiest busiest busi busi- e est t businessman yet to tangle I with the tax investigators J I i |