Utah's Vetterli

A onetime famed FBIman, Reed Ernest Vetterli, whose career could yield a dozen detective yarns, is in the middle of his hardest case: trying to get elected to Congress as a Republican in Utah's heavily New Deal Second District. His platform: support the President in the war; get new blood into Congress.

Big (5 ft. 11 in.), heavy (200 lb.), blue-eyed, brown-haired Vetterli was born in Salt Lake City in 1903, joined the FBI soon after getting a law degree from Washington, D.C.'s George Washington University in 1925. He was one of the FBI men in the...

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