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Evening star., 1949-02-11
bobsIed Title Races
Postponed "a Hours
After Belgian S Death
BY the Assoeioisd Press

LAKE PLACID. N. Y. Feb. IL
The opening days program IN the
world two-man bobsled champion
ships scheduled here tomorrow
was postponed for "a hours today
because of the accident which
killed Max Houben. Belgian Olym-
pic star, and critically injured his
brakeman.
Solemn requiem mass for the
52-year-old Houben, driver o1
Belgium's No. l two-man team who
was injured fatally while on &
practice run yesterday. will be
held at 10 am. tomorrow in st
Agnes Church here.
The Organizing Committee de-
cided today to hold all four heats
of the two-man championships
Sunday. Original plans called fol
two heats tomorrow and two the
following day. The championship
is awarded on the basis of aggre-
gate times for the four runs.
The Belgian squad, stunned by
the fatal accident, withdrew from
the championships. leaving the
French, Swiss and American
teams to compete for titles in the
two-man races this weekend ano
the four-man races February 81
and %.
With the exception Of Jacques
Mouvet, hospitalized with serious
injuries received in the crash
surviving members of the Belgian
squad will depart for home to-
morrow night with Houben's
body.
The two competing teams from
eacn OF the three remaining coun-
tries went through their fina
practice spins today on the
treacherous Mt. Won Hoevenbere
run. The run will be closed al
day tomorrow.
The Belgians' tragic accident
the first fatal one to occur on the
Mount Van Hoevenberg run-came
shortly after two American teams
had qualified for the champion
ships in trial runs.
The Belgians speeding craft left
the icy course about halfway dowr
the curling slopes, striking some
heavy poles and plunging into g
small shed housing water pipes.
The 52-year-old Houben. who
piloted the Belgian four-man slec
to second place in the winter
Olympics at st. Moritz, Switzer-
land. last year, suffered head anc
chest injuries. He died about ar
hour and a half after the accident
Evening star., 1949-02-11
By Ben McAIwee

Hearst Playground girls will be
seeking their fourth straight
championship in the senior class
when General Manager j. w
(Bill) Wood holds his 18th an
nual bowling party for lassies OF
AZ D. c. recreation centers start
ing at $50 tomorrow morning at
Lucky Strike.
Columbia will be the defending
champion in the junior class. The
big affair for girls from II to 16
will be held under the direction
of Mrs. Vivian Schaefer and Mrs.
Mae Chapman. playground super
visors. The boys will bowl on Feb
ruary 26.
With many of the East's lead
ing woman duckpinners expected to
compete. the 10th annual Lorraine
GULL tournament at Lucky Strike
tops the Capitals Sunday duckpin
card.
The 18th annual Queen Pin
handicap and three one-ball tour
naments will provide the local
action for the men while the 10Th
annual Eastern event at Wilt
mantle, Conn. will lure host of
the topnotchers.
New Jerusalem No. ! pinmen
will strive to protect a one-game
lead in the Masonic League flag
chase against Roosevelt at Colo
nial Village tonight. A sweep over
Potomac moved the new pace
settlers ahead of Hope No. / when
the latter, after winning the first
two games from Washington Gen.
tennial with 635 and 595 scores,
dropped the final tilt by one pin,
598 to 597. Joe Cicala with 401
and Whip Litchf1eld with 1894 were
the heaviest wallopers for Hope.
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Hudson, Mats HurIer,
SIGNS 1o4o Contract

Sid Hudson, expected to be one
OF the Mats best pitchers this sea
son. has sent in his signed 1s4s
contract.
The lanky hurler won only four
games last year while dropping Is.
He was bothered by a muscular
strain, but now looks In good
shape, Calvin Griffth, club vice
president, says.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Howard Edges Lincoln
For Its EIGHTH Victory

Howard University pushed its
c. I. A. A. basket ball record to
eight victories in II starts by beat
ing Lincoln, 45-41, last night at
Turner's Arena.
Frank Booth and Elmer Clark
led the Bison's second-half squirt
that kept them ahead Of Lincoln
most of the way.
Evening star., 1949-02-11

his State. May
be the gag of
changing ones
luck by expec-
torating on the
bait may have
some merit to
1t, if we can be-
lieve adm o n j.
tions of one of
the In d i a n S
I a m Gus sha-
mans, or priests,
" h o S e name
W a S Swimmer
and who was an
l---e44 - +nic
Evening star., 1949-02-11
McKeever 10 Coach
backfie|d at |. ). j..
BY the Asseeioted Press

BATON ROUGE, La. Feb. Ii
Ed McKeever. head coach of the
Chicago Rockets of the All-Amer-
lea Football Conference last year,
will be backf1eld coach at Louis
lana State U. next season. His
appointment was announced yes
terday along with that of Alfred
N. Satterfield, 1916 Vanderbilt
star. as assistant line coach.
This will be the first time since
1914 that McKeever hasn't been a
head coach. He coached at Notre
Dame in 1914. succeeding Frank
Leahy. who went into the service
and the next two seasons was
head man at Cornell. In 1947 he
had the top football Job at Uni
versity Of San Francisco and last
year was with the Rockets.
At L. S. u, McKeever succeeds
Jesse Fatherree, who went to Mis-
sissippi State a few weeks ago.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Laird on Mot Cord

Lew Laird. formerly the Red
Terror, comes to Uline Arena on
Monday night for the feature
rassling match against the 270-
pound Green Hornet. a new
masked mystery man.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Sunday School Cage Comes

Mount Vernon Place Methodist
defeated Petworth Methodist, As
33. and Epworth Methodist nosed
out First Brethren. 36-32, in last
nights Sunday School Recreation
League basket ball games at Cen.
tral gym.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Kovokos Does 1t Again

Kavakos Grill basket ball team
defeated Naval Air Station, 65-37
last night for its 18th win in II
outings. Bart Fugler. onetime
American U. star, led scorers with
IS points.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
G. u, GoIIoudet Mat Foes

Georgetown meets Gallaudet IL
wrestling match tomorrow a
$3.50 at Gallaudet.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
OUTDOORS

Bill Sharpe. who runs the State
News Bureau in Raleigh, N. c., has
turned up a bit of interesting folk
lore from the Cherokee Indians of
Evening star., 1949-02-11

Today a year ago-Citation
won the Seminole Handicap at
Hialeah with Delegate second
and Armed third.
Evening star., 1949-02-11

procedure in fishing centuries ago
Swimmer. whose oratory was ex-
tremely f1owery, admonished the
angling members of his tribe to
chew a small piece Of a plant
which catches insects (probably
the pitcher plan) and spat upon
the bait and also upon the hook
Swimmer claimed if this was done
the angler would Immediately or
at most soon get his fish.
If we can find a pitcher or other
nonpoisonous insect catching
plant this coming season. we
promise to try this method and
report thereon. Judging from our
angling results last year we might
possibly do ourselves some good.
AS the result of the furore be-
ing kicked up in Talbot County
Md, over haul seining OF spawn
ing rockf1sh prior to and during
the spawning season, a meeting
of interested persons is to be helo
February 19 in the courthouse al
Easton to discuss the situation. II
will be headed by Carroll Lowe
Evening star., 1949-02-11
leIond Swimmers Win

/ Leland Junior High swimming
team of Bethesda defeated the
Knights of Columbus junior team,
24-22. in a swimming meet yes
terday at Baltimore.
Evening star., 1949-08-14

and Is proud of his record in han
ding the evacuees. but it is note
worthy that the Presidents Com
mittee on Civil Rights. in 1947
took DINNER view of what 1t
acidly termed the most striking
mass interference since slavery
with the right to physical freedom. .
Mr.. Clark returned to the JUS
tice Department to move rapidly
to head of the Antitrust Divi-
sion for few months. head OF the
Criminal Division, and finally
Attorney General. He had become
acquainted with then Senator Tru-
man as chief of the department S
War Frauds Unit; Mr.. Truman
frequently called on Mr.. Clark
during Investigations conducted by
the Truman committee. Shortly
after Roosevelt died, in 1945. Pres
ident Truman picked Clark tc
succeed Biddle.
In his four years as Attorney
General. Mr.. Clark has had his
ups and downs, but he is prouo
of his record. Trust-busting be-
ing popular with the public, it may
be significant that a bulky pub.
licity release issued on the fourth
anniversary of his stewardship
takes pains to point out that under
Mr.. Clark 100 antitrust cases were
started. contrasted with an aver
age of only AZ for each of his
predecessors since adoption of the
Sherman Act in 1890. 1t will be
recalled that President Truman
campaigned last year in part on a
vigorous antimonopoly platform
and those who are SO Grass as to
impugn political motives to many
Of Mr.. Clarks actions are quick to
point out that the number of anti
Evening star., 1949-08-14

And running the show is the
71-year-old committee chairman
from North Carolina. seemingly
out-of place figure In the Wash
ington Of the atomic age.
The striking Hoey oddity is hi.
dress. His assorted blue and gray
cutaways are made by a North
Carolina tailor and worn six days
a week; on Sunday he wears Q
black tail coat and striped gray
trousers.
MY everyday coats" he. ex-
planned to a reporter, ARE what
are properly referred to as Eng
lish walking coats started wear.
ing them 40 years ago, have worr
them ever since and would fee.
strange without them"
Also specially made are the Sen.
ator's collars, a quaint variety o1
choker that look not unlike 9
clerical collar worn with the open
sectien to the front.
Finally. there is the always
present lapel flower.
Younger Washington politi-
clans, given to wondering how q
man with a suit like that" could
win popular election. can take a
tip from, the Hoey political tech
niques. -
For 30 years. says the Senator,
he has made it q practice to try
whether or not he was a candi-
date, to make speech each cleo
ton year in each North Carolina
County. Throughout the four
years Of his governorship, the
proceedings of the mems Bible
class he teaches were broadcast
on q State hookup each Sunday
and the broadcasts continue today
when the Senator is home for a
week end. He personally answers
every letter from q constituent.
Evening star., 1949-08-14

interrogation. and replied, in effect
that Tom Clark was going to see
to it that Tom Clarks record was
untarnished.
The answer was revealing. 1T
would have been equally revealing
in another way had he responded
that he would continue to press
the case because he believed the
Federal Government, not the
coastal States. owns the margina.
sea. The quick flash into his
thinking apparently revealed that
his primary concern was with his
own reputation. his record, his
career. And that concern. it may
be submitted, provides the key to
his activities. rather than any
underlying. guiding social or eco
nomic philosophy.
Mr.. Clark himself probably
would be the last to deny this
1t was admitted political ambition
that prompted him to abandon his
Dallas law Office in 1887. where he
was earning up to $4,000 a year
for Washington and an obscure
$5,000-a-year job in the Justice
Department.
Mr. Clark needed powerful polit-
ical allies, a few breaks, and lega.
talent to reach the Justice pima
Gle. and he had all three. He
worked hard and with undisputec
'technical skill in the department
first in the Bureau of War Risk
Litigation then a special assistant
in the Antitrust Division under
Thurmond Arnold. On the out
break of war he was lent to the
War Department to help remove
persons of Japanese blood from the
West Coast. Here again. of course
he was merely carving out orders
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Senator Hoey Goes After
Five Percenters With
Rose in Lapel
By Mortin S. Hayden

At exactly $50 each weekday
morning. a figure that might have
stepped from a daguerreotype OF
the political day of Daniel Web
ster, Henry Clay and John CAL
houn emerges from the main
door Of the Raleigh Hotel.
Three minutes later the white
haired, erect old gentleman is in
a nearby florists store. where q
clerk pins a red rose in the lapel
of his blue-gray cutaway coat. In
another five minutes he is on a
streetcar and, at 8 am, on the
dot, Clyde r. Hoey. Senator from
North Carolina. gentleman Of an
old Southern school and the Cap
ital's new keeper of the public
conscience. enters his Office for
another day Of work.
Makes Fast Start
Republicans scoffed and some
Democratic administrative officials
relaxed several months ago when
Senator Hoey Che pronounces it
''Who-eeD succeeded heavy
handed Homer Ferguson of Mich
igan as chairman Of the Senate
Investigating Subcommittee.
The prediction was general that
shop would be folded up in the
committee that sent Maj. Gen.
Benny Meyers to perjurer's cell,
dumped Representative Andrew
May out Of his congressional seat
to face bribery charges and then
instituted q sensational hunt for
Communists on the Federal pay
roll.
Now the critics have reversed
their field and worried administra-
ton men are wondering where
next the expose hatchet will be
directed by Washington's newest
skullduggery hunter-the gentle
Senator from North Carolina. r.
In one-week preliminary run,
Senator Hoey's committee has al
ready blown the roof off the White
House corner by airing charges
that genial and bemedaled Maj.
Gen. Harry Vaughan, the Presi-
dents military aide, was a behind
the-scenes fixer for q group Of
race-track promoters. He has
shown how Gen. Vaughan and
Maj. Gen Alden Watt, suspended
chief of the Chemical Warfare
Service, were kind to James v.
Hunt, the towns most publicized
peddlers of influence for 5 per cent
of contract profits. $
The committee has highlighted
the strange perambulations of
John Msragon and still to come
is the story OF another suspended
major general, Herman Feldman,
the Army's quartsrmastsr general.
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Man in the Cuta1uay Carries an Ax
Critics Who Thought He
Might Be Soft Have
Changed Minds

And this eccentric gentleman
from North Carolina has never
lost an election. He was a men,
Der of his State Legislature before
he was 81. State Senator before
he was Is, an assistant United
States attorney under Woodrow
Wilson and a member Of the
House of Representatives. When
he announced for the Senate in
1914. the incumbent. Robert Rey-
nolds, threw up his hands and
quit.
The man who is making life
miserable for Gen. Vaughan and
the f1ve-percenters is a devout
Methodist, an ardent prohibition
ist and a believer in the peculiar
Southern Interpretation Of civil
rights. But he stuck with AL Smith
in 1923 when North Carolina
Democrats generally bolted on the
issues of rum and Romanism and
he was the first North Carolina
omceholder to indorse Harry Tru-
man when Dixiecrats last year
threatened him with political ex-
tinction.
His party regularity" was one
thing which made observers doubt
that Senator Hoey would continue
the committees activities as a
rooter-out of administrative evil.
There is nothing partisan con-
nected with it," Senator Hoey ex-
plains. II regard these committee
hearings as semilegal procedures.
We are not out to persecute; we
have no desire to humiliate or
embarrass. Our duty seems to be
to acquaint the public with facts
and to put officials on notice that
their activities are under scrutiny.
That makes them more careful" ."
The Senator says his commit
tee will, at the end of its hear
ings, present bill requiring that
those who get Government con-
tracts show under oath the names
of those who worked on it and
how they were paid.
OF the big names publicized be-
fore his committee. Senator Hoey
says, 1T is most unfortunate. but
they JUST happened to be in the
street when we turned down it. )"
He comedies the. big names prob
ably do not like it and sympa-
thizes, but adds that he recalls
also the sorry complaint of his
hrst law client SO years ago who
ended up in jail on a manslaughter
charge.
About three months later" the
Senator recalls. "the prisoners
brother came to see me. He said:
Counsellor, John wants to get out
of Jail; he says 1t is no place for
a gentleman
ksrth Amssissn kswspspss Aliienss
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Henry
Continued From Page C-1.)

ton OF responsibility to local
officials and participation by the
people in municipal government
lis necessary if the democratic
process is to be given the neces-
sary strengthening. Machinery
for local elections has been estab-
lished. and it is expected that
these will be held in secure areas
this autumn. While the posi-
bility of national elections re-
mains questionable until further
progress has been achieved in
establishing security, the pre-
requisite revision of electoral rolls,
suspended for the past two years.
has been started"
In his appeal for continued
American support of the Greek
program. however. Mr.. Grady does
point out that "the Greeks are
a volatile people with a sharp
sense of reality. They cannot
be sustained on propaganda
alone. Their morale can be sus-
tanned If military successes con-
tinue and If they are made to
realize that needed social, political
and economic reforms will come
with the restoration of security.
They realize keenly the vulner-
able geographic location Of their
country and they feel strongly
the need for American support"
With success of our policy in
Greece more clearly in view than
ever before, the Ambassador feels
most emphatically that It's aban-
donment or its curtailment not
only would be uneconomic from
our standpoint but would be most
damaging to our whole effort to
strengthen the nations of the en-
tire Atlantic area"
While at first glance the prob
lem Of communism in China may
seem thousands of miles removed
from the Balkan situation there is
an obvious connection.
Soviet Russia today is COM
mitted to engagement on two
fronts, the East and the West, a
situation which they were care
full to avoid during World War
II. The Communist stake In the
Far East is tremendous, particu-
larly if success in China can be
projected into the volatile area Of
Southeast Asia. Facing today
what are infinitely stronger bar
riers of containment running
crescent-wise from Western Ger
many to Turkey, the Kremlin
might quite logically direct its
more aggressive attention in the
future to this Asiatic
Such a course of Soviet con-
duct would provide a golden op-
portunity to the Western nations
to continue the strengthening Of
their own positions and to clear
up such a long-standing problem
Is that Of Greece.
Evening star., 1949-08-14

soon as he is confirmed as At
torney General.
The appointment of Senator
Dulles Of New York to fill the
Wagner seat pending an election
this fall has changed the Senate
lineup to So Democrats and 43
Republicans. Even if the Repub-
licans hold this seat in the spe-
cial New York election this Mo-
vember, that gain will be Offset
by the appointment of Con-
necticut Democrat in January to
fill the Baldwin seat. A Democrat
also will be appointed to succeed
Senator McGrath. Therefore, bar
ring further unexpected changes.
the Senate will stand at 81 Demo-
Gratis and 42 Republicans going
into next years election. It takes
49 to control the Senate. If the
Democrats should elect a Senator
in New York this fall, the Repub-
licans would then have to capture
eight seats in 1850 to take over
the Senate.
Taft's Future at Stake
| Ohio will be the main battle
ground next year, not only because
Senator Taft's political future will
be at stake, but because the Re-
publicans will be trying to get
back some of the eight House seats
they lost there in 1948. Organ
lied labor is expected to make the
co-author of the Taft-Hartley Act
its chief target. Senator Taft is
expected to put on. a whirlwind
campaign. and if he is reelected
to the Senate he will be in the
forefront for the COP presidential
nomination in 1852.
Connecticut may rank next to
Ohio in general interest next year.
since two Senate seats will be at
issue due to Senator Baldwin's de-
cision to go on the bench. The
other seat, held by Senator Nc
Mahon, Democrat, already was on
the regular list coming up in 1850.
The Republican Senatorial Cam
paign Committee is headed by
Senator Brewster of Maine.
The Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, headed by
Representative Leonard w. Hall
of New York, will count heavily on
Pennsylvania for House gains, be-
cause the COP lost IL House seats
in the keystone State last year.
The special election next month
in the district surrounding Johns
town is for one of those II seats.
The Republicans had held that
district for 10 years until the
young war hero, Mr.. Coffey.
captured it for the Democrats
in 1948. Representative Coffey
was killed last April in the crash
of a jet plane in New Mexico, and
now his mother has been nomi-
mated to run for the remainder Of
his term.
The Republicans have nomi-
mated Navy veteran of World
War II. He is John P. Saylor Of
Johnstown, lawyer.
In New York both parties will
pick candidates early in Septem-
ber for the one House seat and
one Senate place to be filled this
November.
Evening star., 1949-08-14
C|ork's Role on Court Uncertain
Record Not Stronq.
On Individual
Liberties

trust cases filed surged last year
as the election drew near.
Mr.. ClarA also is an outspoken
foe of cartels and international
monopolists. having devoted many
a fiery speech to this subject,
What is this lanky Texans rec
ord on human rights. the most
crucial issue that can come before
the Supreme Court? A study of
his speeches shows that they over
flow with feeling for individual
liberties and freedoms. A typical
excerpt. from a talk earlier this
year: THE trainers of our Con-
stitution were convinced that hu-
man rights stemmed from AL
mighty God. And thus the Amer
ican system of liberty and oppor-
tunity is grounded in something
sacred and permanent. On this
godly philosophy our Republic has
reached a pinnacle Of service to
humanity never before rendered
in the whole history of the world"
Yet the speaker of these pious
words has been criticized sharply
for drawing up a blacklist, on
executive order. Of 140 organiza-
tions as subversive. even though
the offending activity in some in
stances has been no more disloyal
than opposition to the un-Ameri-
can poll tax.
The only notable civil rights
case won under Mr.. Clark's regime
was Shelley VS.. Kraemer. which
involved racial restrictive cove
nants on real estate. His depart
ment's Civil Rights Section. estab-
lished by Attorney General Muir
ply in 1889, has dipped sporadi-
cally into lynching and peonage
cases in the Far South, as we'll as
several mass assault atrocities per-
petrated by the Kluxers and SIM
liar organizations.
But the section has been far
from being the dynamic, crusad-
ing unit envisioned. for example,
by the Presidents Committee on
Civil Rights in its comprehensive
report. AS Mr.. Clark's defenders
are swift to point out. and as the
Presidents committee empha-
sized. the section has been handi-
capped severely by weak statutory
tools, by insufficient personnel, by
inadequate cooperation on the
part of regional States right
United States attorneys, and by
the inability or unwillingness of
the FBI to allot sufficient time
to civil liberties cases.
With due regard to these statu-
tory and personnel handicaps
however the impartial President
committee still seemed dismayed
on finding that the Civil Rights
Section had prosecuted only 17e
cases in eight years. although COM
plants ran from 1,500 to $500 9
year.
| At best, Mr.. Clark's record or
individual liberties and human
rights appears pygmy in size
against the towering backdron o1
his Jealous hunt for subverstves
And the plain fact is that less il
known about his inner convictions
on vital theological questions
after fours years as Attorney Gen.
eral, than was known about Stont
Jackson and Murphy when they
stepped up from the department
helm to the high court in recent
times. Only one thing appears
certain. he will continue to greet
friends, even as a justice, with a
breezy: How va doin'?"
(By Special Arrangement with St. Louis
Post-Dispatch)