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Evening star., 1949-01-06
College
Increased
.Watchfu|ness
Menace Of Bribery
To Be Taken Up at
Coast Meeting
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.-Na-
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
members will discuss the attempted
bribe of George Washington Uni
versity basket ball player at their
annual convention here. and DR..
Karl E. Leib. president, indicated
that the colleges would be asked to
increase their vigilance to prevent a
recurrence of such matters.
Incidents of this Sort" he told
the Associated Press, ARE something
which we have feared would grow
out of the spread of athletics. The
organization (NCAA) has been so
concerned that at our meeting in
New York last year one section of
the program was devoted to discus
sion of the evils of gambling on
college athletic events.
Speaking for myself" he con-
tinued, this incident supports the
feeling that we must be increas-
ingly vigilant in our efforts, not only
to check the spread of gambling but
also to bold in check the CONNER
cialization of college sport which
tends to set the dollar as the goal
Of effort"
In this connection Leib also has
been critical of the mushrooming
spread of postseason bowl football
games. This topic Is expected to be
one of the main items on the con-
vention agenda Of the largest ath-
letic association in the Nation. The
attempted basket ball bribe today
had put football in the background,
temporarily, at least.
While there was some feeling that
the bribe effort would lead to dras-
tic action, possibly banning college
games outside of school-controlled
buildings, there was no indication of
this from DR.. Leib. On the contrary
he gave Madison Square Garden
Officials conducting basket ball
games vote of confidence. He said
he knew from experience that they
and the New York police were using
every means to discourage gambling
on games.
After commenting that the situa-
ton called for increased vigilance,
DR.. Leib noted:
1T is with this in mind that we
have attempted to establish sanity
code, establishing at least some fun
damental principles to prevent COM
mercialization.
II do feel, from what I know Of
the situation, that the Madison
Square Garden people have done
everything possible to prevent such
occurrences but that occasionally
there will be such incidents when
sports events are held in large CEN
ters Of population, and where COM
plete control of the behavior of peo-
pie who have access to the vicinity
is very difficult problem"
Evening star., 1949-01-06
c. W. Case Spurs NCAA to Guard Against Fixes
Mad Scramble of Indoor Track Is Scheduled
In AAU Handicap Mile Relay at Stars Meet

Relay fans will get more thant
their moneys worth, with 13 of the
baton-passing events in The Eve
ming Star-AAU Games week from
Saturday night in the National
Guard Armory, for not only will
there be the championship events,
bringing together nationally known
stars, but also the AAU Open Han
dicap.
Meet Director Dorsey Griffith
terms it the mad scramble of in
door track" and that's apt phras-
ing, as probably 10 teams will start
from colleges, services and inde-
pendent organizations.
Thus far the field includes the
Navy plebes, Melrose Track and
Field Club, Baltimore Olympic Club,
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Matthias Voted Sullivan Trophy
As Top u. S. Amateur Athlete
by the A$socioted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Bob Math-
las thrilling victory over the world S
greatest all-around athletes in the
decathlon event of the Olympic
Games last simmer has won for the
Tulare (Calif) youth the 1948 James
E. Sullivan Trophy as the Nations
outstanding amateur athlete.
matthias will appear in The
Evening Star-AAU Games a
week from Saturday at the Ma
tional Guard Armory)
OF 525 sports leaders who partic-
ipated In the annual poll conducted
by the Amateur Athletic Associa-
ton, 2Ol voted for the 17-year-old
marvel who outran, outjumped and
outthrew them all in the trying To-
event classic at London.
Matthias, who competed in his
first decathlon only two months be-
fore winning the Olympic crown,
will come here February 20 to be
presented the trophy by Mayor
James A. Rhodes of Columbus,
Ohio. at a special luncheon.
The award is voted annually to
the amateur athlete who, by per-
formance, example and good inf1u-
ence, did most to advance the cause
of good sportsmanship during the
year" Six candidates were sub
mitted for the final balloting.
He's Versatile Athlete.
ats terrific" young Matthias said
when he was informed Of the honor
at Kiskiminetas Springs Prep School
in Salisbury, Pa, where he is a
freshman student.
I'm very glad" he added. II
feel it's a great honor-and the Sec
ond biggest thing that ever hap
pened to me-"
His top thrill, he said, was win
ming the Olympic decathlon.
Matthias Is an all-round athlete.
He played fullback on the school
football team the past fall, scoring
four touchdowns. He is also out for
the basket ball squad.
Second in the voting was Harrt-
son billiard, the great Negro sprint
er and hurdler from Baldwin-Wal
lace College, who won the 100-meter
dash in the Olympics and helped
win the 400-meter relay. He received
119 first place votes.
Third was another Olympic ace,
Joseph Verdeur of Philadelphia, who
swept his field in breaststroke SWIM
ming at London. He was given IT
f1rsts. Henry Wittenberg, New York
Citys wrestling policeman who won
the light-heavyweight championship
at the Olympics, placed fourth with
"a admirers.
Two basket ball players finished
fifth and sixth, well down. Bob
Kurland, towering center Of the
Phillips Oilers and member Of the
United States Olympic squad, re-
ceived 36 firsts, while Mrs. Alline
Banks Sprouse of Atlanta, widely re-
garded as the best woman player
ever, was given %.
Third Decathlon Star Chosen.
Matthias selection follows the
precedents OF 1882 and 1886, when
Jim Bausch and Glenn Morris, also
winners of the Olympic decathlon,
similarly were honored.
OF the .18 awards made since
Bobby Jones (the famous golfer re-
ceived the first trophy in 1890, 10
others have gone to track and field
artists. They include Barney Ber-
hnger, Glenn Cunningham, Bill
Evening star., 1949-01-06

for 1948 in the
annual Associ-
ated Press poll.
The Cleveland
shortstop barely
edged out Bob
M a t h las of
Tulare, Calf,
the Oily m pic
d e C a t h ! o n
champion. Ac-
tually Matthias
had "a first
place votes to
80 for Boudreau,
but the Indians
skipper S slid
home first ON
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Evening Star Games
Tickets Now on Sale

Tickets for The Evening Star
Games at the National Guard
Armory on January IS may be
purchased at the Business
Counter in The Star Building,
by mail request to Room 724,
The Evening Star Building; at
the Athletic Office at Howard
University and at the Stadium
Pharmacy, 100 Nineteenth street
Sc.
The scale of prices:
General admission
Unreserved stands $50
Reserved stands 800
Balcony 800
Box seats and "a
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Beaumont Sells HurIer

BEAUMONT, Jan. 6 (P).-Harry
Fowle, right-handed pitcher. has
been sold to Meridian, Miss, of the
Glass B Southeastern League, Presi-
dent Guy Airey of the Beaumont
club of the Texas League, an
nounced.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Giants Lockmun in Line

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 LP.-The
signed 1949 contract of Carroll
(Whitey) Lockman, regular center
fielder. has been received by the
New York baseball Giants.
Evening star., 1949-01-06

cinch."
In agreement with Shapiro is Red Auerbach
coach of the polished Washington Caps of the
Basket Ball Association of America. In game
where teams are evenly matched one star could
throw the game" says Auerbach. Two regulars,
not necessarily stars, could control the score by
working together and probably wouldn't be sus-
pected-at least in that particular game"
Auerbach said a coach would be the first to
realize player was "off his game" but that would
be scant reason for suspicion. The best players
have bad nights" says Auerbach, "and it's rea-
sonabe for coach to leave such player in the
game in the hone he'll snap out of it.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Dons Get Baylor Star

WACO, Tex. Jan. 6 CP.-R. p.
Buddy Tinsley, all-Southwest
Conference tackle with Baylor Uni
versity, has signed a contract with
the Los Angeles Dons.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Basket Boil Gambling Is Big Business

One player shooting missing repeatedly could
wreck club There could that players his
team would follow his the blackboard
defensive
snaring offensive rebounds"
That money. the $1,000 Shapiro he
the Coonials Manhattan points
Basket ball gambling upendous business with its
in New York but the business building of Western
city, where entire pubi
cation which forecasts with amazing accuracy the
games the entire
There the clearing of information
bookies with inomed telephone
minute of angles which might affect
the best informed
with their centschehy bookes
Of
There few remarkably proficient
such information their disposal separately
to what they believe the point should be- Those figures
compared and
those final odds consistently
That bureau is well informed that accepted
on Brooklyn College basket ball exposed
that hve Brooklyn College players in the hire gamblers
four years Brooklyn College
before the fixing discovered quoted games
Evening star., 1949-01-06

Bonthron, Don Lash, Greg Rice,
Leslie MacMitchell, Cornelius
Warmerdam, Gilbert Doods, Bausch
and Morris.
Two golfers have been named,
Jones and Lawson Little; two foot
ball stars, Felix Ooc) Blanchard
and Arnold Tucker; two rowers,
Jack Kelly and Joe Burk; one SWIM
mer, Ann Curtis, and one tennis
player, Don Bulge. Matthias is the
youngest athlete ever to receive the
trophy.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
6. U. Frosh RuIIy to Win

Georgetown freshman basketers
outscored the Headquarters Marines
by II points in the second half yes
terday to win. 77-59.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Boudreou Shades
Matthias in Vote
On Star of Year
BY the Assecioted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Lou Bou-
dreau, player-manager of the world
champion Cleveland Indians, today
was named male athlete -the-year
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Bookies Show Profit Without 'Fixinq'

games while desirable from gamblers viewpoint
thing" knowledge necessary
profit who talk the sides of their mouths
merely have balance their books to clip the public.
middle finish" ideal gamblers situation
the nderdog graousy
favore he'll points
the decided by 1opoint margin it's
the bookies, who pocket every dime bet both ways
Or let's team is 8-point favorle like
eight points
the underdog the bookie will you points
booke those
his books and >gets 81 profit every s6 bet.
Controlling basket ball game
obtain that desired middle nsh" but amazing
spreads when odds
point leaped from shortly
before time that big booke country
Of 1t within 10 minutes
The word out that something's to
maeraze though because Shapiro kept himself
his and the public.
Evening star., 1949-01-06
Win, Lose, or Draw
One Player Can Throw q Court Come
By BURTON HAWKINS

zone possibly could control basket ball game says
cooperation with New York police shared four
gamblers who had offered him $4,000 to Fix series OF the Coona
relaxing defense explains Shapiro
Evening star., 1949-01-06

Methods of throwing would be and hard to
to detect miss repeatedly
hitting consistently coming close He could foul
crucial walk with the ball. defense he could
his hand pretend be struggling block shot, the
time taking ball
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-07-15

Wind electric unit left plus storage batteries nc 32vot AUXILIARY liant seen at
right drive a lo-v0lt aternator. furnishing owe for lights. well pump. furnac
blower. refrigerator. freezer locker n III usual household elechicala appliances
at John Message farm home. Falon county. The new home itself in photo upper
right. has bottled gas for heating n cooking. Practical central hallway plan
is used with Kitchen n living IN right ant w bedrooms with bath between
O n left. Funlength wall closets are buntn in all bedrooms. Basement follows
ami plan with fruit room ant recreation room on right and The twobedroom.
bath INK closet arrangement of III main floor.
Evening star., 1949-03-31
the FSA and the Labor Depart.
ment with operating funds.

the FSA and the Labor Depart
ment with operating funds.
At q morning session, Senator
Ferguson had called the FSA "one
of the outstanding propaganda
agencies in this country and lone
of the chief violators of the law
against use of Federal money to
try to influence Congress.
The Hoover Commission task
force report criticized Federal
publicity in the social welfare
field. saying:
The most common manifesto
ton is to give wide publicity that
will popularize program and
lead to it's expansion and to play
down the material that might
raise opposition to it,"
It contended that while the
actuarial Office of Social Security
Agency, part of FSA, has pre-
pared studies showing that the
ultimate costs of old-age and sur
vivors' insurance may have a
profound effect on the economic
and social system" agency pub
licity has emphasized the benefits
and need for liberalizing them.
Mr.. Mitchell said the Social
Security Agency has prepared and
published % actuarial reports on
Evening star., 1949-03-31

Hugh c. Powers, q bomber pilot
whose widow now lives at the
Arlington address.
The presentation was to be
made by Col. Ernest c. Norman
commander of Fort Lesley j. Nc
Nair, at a ceremony at the fort
Another decoration to be
awarded posthumously at the
same time is the Bronze Star
Medal to Staff Sergt. George R.
Wathen for heroic achievements
in France in 1914. Mrs. Mary R.
Wathem of Waldorf, Md, his
mother, was to receive the award.
Maj. James H. McMullin, 4313
Fourth street North, Arlington;
Milton E. Wilcox, 1912 South
Seventh street. Arlington, and
Fred w. Henck, 2410 Twentieth
street NV, each were to receive
the Bronze Star Medal for meri-
torious service in Warld War II.
Evening star., 1949-03-31

the cost of social security. His
request for an additional appro-
priation of $4,000 to employ 1s
persons on special studies" led
Senator Ferguson to ask about
propaganda
Mr.. Mitchell said the money was
wanted for technicians, not public
relations men" He added the
agency can not keep abreast of
requests for information on social
security costs.
Senator Ferguson made his
"propagada" charge against FSA
earlier while Milton o. Loysen of
New York. was testifying for a
$50, 100000 increase in Federal
grants to States for administering
unemployment compensation and
employment service laws.
Evening star., 1949-03-31
Son, 6, 10 Get Awards
of Flyer Killed in War

Hugh J. Powers. 6, of 1886
Eighteenth street South, Arling-
ton, was scheduled to receive late
today two posthumous Oak Leaf
Clusters to an Air Medal which
his father won before he was
killed in action over the North
Sea in the last war.
Young Powers is the son of
Evening star., 1949-03-31
lisa Official Blasts
Hoover Commission s
Propaganda Charge
BY the Associated Press

A Federal Security Agency Of
fetal said yesterday it was q
shocking Misrepresentation OF
facts" to say that FSA engaged
in propaganda.
This was his reply to Hoover
Commission task force, which
said in a report that Federal
publicity men play up the bene-
fits of social security, for example
and play down the costs.
Senator Ferguson. Republican,
of Michigan asked w. L. Mitchell,
deputy commissioner of social
security, whether he had read the
report. Mr.. Mitchell said he had
and added he took emphatic ex-
ceptlon to its contents.
The matter came up during a
Senate Appropriations Subcom-
mittee hearing on a bill to supply
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07
RUSSIANS CANCEL
 AERIAL FIRING PRACTICE

k. BERLIN, R - The Russians started aerial firing practice today in the Berlin airlift corridors, then announced they had can celled it.
 A three-power verbal protest had been lodged with the Russians as soon as the firing was reported.
 An American officer said there was no indication that the cancel lation was ordered as result of the protest.
 Tt may be that visibility is poor the officer said. The officer said hundreds of similar protests have been lodged with the Russians at the four power air safety center which they ignore.
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07
STATEHOOD NOT POSSIBLE FOR YEAR

(By Charles D. WatklnS)
 Delegate Bartlett estimated today that even if Con- gress passed the legislation approving Alaska State hood it would take another year then for the Territory to become State
 Unanimous approval by House Public Lands Sub Committee Friday sent the Alaska Statehood bill to the full committee This group is slated to consider and Hawaiian Statehood tomorrow. Under the Alaskan bill-if it is enacted-the Gov would have to call Constitutional Convention to prepare Constitution for submission to Alaskan vot ..ap. ..F -f. I
 The approved Constitution then would go to the President who would issue the final proclamation ad- mitting Alaska State.
 Chairman Redden (D-N. O. of the subcommittee read the subcommittee telegram from the Women's Federation of Clubs saying 5,000000 women favored granting Alaska Statehood ao1s 5et5. aa He also said that he had received statements opposed to Statehood from w. Arnold of the Alaska Salmon Industry and Al Anderson executive secretary of the Alaska Mining Association |a e .+s Father Paul c. OConner, of Hooper Bay Alaska tes- tfed he convinced 95 per cent of the Territoys resi- dents want Statehood
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07
Nome, Alaska, Monday March T. 1949


(By Joe WlnS)
 Is Russia winning the to the Arctic? ''There isn't any race, said white-maned Vhjalmur Stefansson grimy, "when one side doesn't run It isn't Russia he made clear that has failed to run. The famed explorer and Arctic authority was inter viewed in his Greenwich Village study, just off the 32,000tem library where with ten helpers and Navy department funds he is putting together fivemillion word Arctic encyclopaedia.
 Progress north in the Soviet is comparable to that in west hundred years ago." he went on we in Alaska are not advancing except through mil itary activity. Canada is making almost infinesimal progress"
 The reason?
 Keeping up with the Joneses!
 Stefansson, of Viking ancestry himself, advanced the theory that Americans have lost the pioneers readiness to live the andto hunt game for food then to grow crops for his use make his clothes and get along by himself
 Instead the modern settler wants to grow cash crop so he can buy food with trimmings Then the little set the table with magazine approved meals, like her friends.
 Russians have such ideas
 The result-a burgeoning population of half million in the Siberian Arctic doing farming mining, lumber ing and shipping. In the Canadian north and Alaska only 100000.
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07
Internation'l News At A Glance ---
Confined from Page One)

ther the re-shuffle might lay the groundwork for another try al solving the Berlin problem and the whole German question.
 Others interpreted the move as foreshadowing further, communist crackdowns on the satellite coun- tries of Eastern Europe to win ab- solute control over the govern ments and peoples of the region.
 Andrei A. Gromyko was ap- pointed to the second spot in the foreign ministry. Gromyko has been an outstanding spokesman for the policies of Molotov.
 The Russian government put out statement that would cast any light on the situation. The Soviet Press. which carried terSe an nouncements of the promotions, made no comment either. There was not the slightest hint that N1OlOlON w dS III oioldNoi' Spy trials continued meantime on both sides of the cold front.
 In Sofia, a three-man peoples court delivers it's judgment tomor- row in the espionage trial of IS Bulgarian Protestant pastors. The trial itself ended Saturday after week-long orgy of confession and self accusation by the defendants.
 The prosecution has asked the death penalty for four of the de- fendants
 In Munich, an eight-man U. S. military commission resumed its spy trial of eight Europeans charg- ed with gathering American mili- tary information for a foreign power.
 A prosecution witness has testi- fled that nearly all the data col lected went to Russia.
 : In Washington, Senator Mundt R.-S. D. declared the United Ma tions has hired some persons who were fired by the state depart ment as security risks. , Mundt said the names of sev- eral such persons are in the files of the House Un-American activ- ities committee. The committee, of which Mundt is member, has had investigators trying to find out whether foreign governments have been using the United Ma tions as a shield for spying on the United States.
 | A conservative newspaper in Berlin said the Soviet secret po- lice have spread a net for turn coat communists in the Russian zone. The paper said 30 former communists have been arrested so far, charged with melting Eastern Germans to resist Soviet occupa- lion policies.
 In Batavia, Indonesian Repub- licans turned down an invitation to attend Du.ch-sponsored par ley on Indonesian statehood.
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07

They predicted great decline in federal revenues and another unbalanced federal budget.
 But they were 100 per cent wrong
 Under the reduced tax rates the treasury finds that the government collected in 1948 nearly billion dol lars more than 947 under the previous higher rates
 Moreover the New Deal was given the first balanced budget that it ever had.
 This record confirms an economic fact with which all competent tax authorities familiar but which the New Deal has never acknowledged.
 That fact is that the law of diminishing returns Oper ates in government finance does in all private af fairs. When tax rates exceed a certain level, normal business investments and business transactions either cease to expand else actually decline and the gov ernments share in production-which is expressed in terms of tax returns-contracts correspondingly.
 Shortly after the First World War the late Andrew w. Mellon, as secretary of the treasury recommended tax reductions and predicted that abandonment of wartime rates would return increase in peacetime revenue.
 This proved to be exactly correct; and during pe- rod of prosperity and industrial expansion, the national debt reduced by billions of dollars.
 On the basis of the treasury departments fig ures, the Republican 80h Congress has again demon straed the infallblity of the simple economic law.
 Obviously it would be sheer folly for the Democratic 81st Congress to ignore the twice-learned lesson
 Moreover, there is still another economic posuate that the New Deal dangerously ignores. n Financial history proves that when taxes
 more than 25 per cent of national income industrial de- cline sets in. E p.
 Investors, having no incentive quit investing; the volume of production fails to provide necessary ncreas ing employment and stagnation turns into depression With Al bon-dollar federal budget, with several state budgets exceeding billion dollars each and with counties and municipalities seeking money to per
 init more public spending this country is at the danger point l. . N Congress should read the current treasury report and admnistrations hightax demands, with these DOT
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07
TAX REDUCTION PAYS OFF

(Seattle ost-Intelligencer) The final argument against President Truman's pro- posed billion-dollar ncreaseand in favor of other tax reuction-has been provided by the United States treasury department
 Among the noteworthy services which it performed, the 8Oh Congress gave the overburdened taxpayers the first decrease that they have had in years ur The social planners and spenders at Washington pro tested in anguish
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07
POLES EXPECT COLLEGE BOOST

WARSAW, Poland, (H)--Poland's ministry of educa- tion expects 20 percent boost in enrolment of stu dents in colleges'and universities during 1949.
 The ministry estimated registrations would reach around 100000, compared with the previous top post war figure of 1000.
 The rapid reconstructon of educational institutions damaged destroyed during the war is credited with steadily increasing facilities for expanded student en- |rollments
The Nome nugget., 1949-03-07

Sausages are mentioned in the writings of Greeks in the third century.