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California was given IA, Texas II,
Miami 8, Princeton 4 and SMU 2.
Clemson, the 18th ranking eleven
polled seven No. / votes, unbeatel
Wyoming, two and South Carolina
one.
How Figured
The standings are figures on The
basis of ten points for first, nine for
second, etc.
The surge of Ohio State featured
the latest balloting. The Buckeyes
who have bounded back from an
opening game loss to SMU to smoth-
er five foes. barely were beaten out
of first place.
They had 2,4O2 points COM
ed with 2,451 for Army. Five more
No. l votes would have put them
on top.
The University of Washington,
whose only two defeats this year
were at the hands of Illinois and
California-teams now resting in the
top 10, was ranked 18th nationally,
two slots above UCLA.
Undefeated Wyoming was 14th
Loyola of Los Angeles 21st, Idaho,
four-way tie for 37th, and Stanford,
tied for 41st.
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ALEXANDER LAID TO
RE5T;CARD|NAL5pAY
FOR MILITARY RITES

ST. PAUL, Neb. Nov. 71R-The
body of Grover Cleveland Alexan-
der lay today in quiet cemetery
in the hills not far away from his
central Nebraska town where he was
born.
Alexander, whose pitching wiz
ardry generation ago elevated him
to baseballs' Hall of Fame, was
buried yesterday with military SER
vices conducted by the American
Legion. He had served in the AEF
in the First World War.
The st. Louis Cardinals. for whom
"Old Pete" had once played, paid
for the funeral.
Alexander died here Saturday OF
a heart ailment.
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RAINIER MANAGER
SELECTION IS OFF
Until AFTER JAN. |

SEATTLE, Nov. 7-,R-Front Of
flee spokesman for the Seattle Rain
iers tucked two more applications
for the vacant managerial post in
the drawer today and said they
probably wouldn't take any action
to fill the berth until the first of
the year.
The latest applications we're re-
ceived from pair of former catch
ers and present major league coach
es.
They were Earl Brucker. 46, with
the st. Louis Browns, and John
Schultz, bull pen coach for the
last two seasons with Boston's Red
Sox.
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It's better looking all ground

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Outstanding good looks accompany the
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cars-only low-priced car with Body by
Fisher-and most beautiful in its field,
according to recent public survey.
II gives more for less throughout
Only Chevrolet offers SO many perform
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ARMY BACK
TOP PLACE,
GRID VOTE

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 LR The
question of who has the best COL
lege football team in the country
probably never has been more wide
ly debated than right now.
Twelve teams received first place
votes in today's latest Associated
Press poll, which saw Army recap
ture the No. position from South,
ern Methodist.
But the Cadets. who led the rank
ing until replaced by the South
westerners two weeks ago, didn't
go to the top on wave of over
whelming national acclaim.
They received only 88 of the 314
first place votes cast by sports
writer's and broadcasters. That was
six fewer than lavished on sbnce-
beaten Ohio State, which moved
up from fourth to second.
Nine of the ten top teams-all
but tenth-ranked Illinois-were rat
ed first by from two to ga voters.
Three in the lower brackets received
top mention.
New First Ten
Here's college footballs new first
ten:
Army, Ohio State, Oklahoma,
Kentucky, Texas, California, South
ern Methodist Princeton, Miami
(Fla), Illinois.
Oklahoma, which has MODERN
record 27-game winning streak 60
ing, received 48 first place VOTES
while unbeaten Kentucky got 80.
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ALL-5TAR
BIB. TEAM
IS NAMED
by Associated Press

Seven players from the American
League and four from the National
make up the 1850 major league all
star team selected for the Associate
ed Press today by 381 sports writers
and sportscaster from coast to
coast.
Half of the 16 big league clubs
four in each circuit, are represented
in the APPS fifth annual all-star
squad.
The world champion New York
Yankees and the Boston Red Sox
are the only clubs to have more
than one representative. In addi-
ton to short-stop Phil Rizzuto, the
most popular of the IL selections,
the Yanks landed outfielder Joe Di-
Maggie and catcher Yogi Berra. The
Red Sox provide first baseman Walt
Dropo and utility man Billy Good
man.
No Pills In Lineup
Not a single member of the Ma
tional league champion Philadelphia
Phils made the team. In fact the
only first division club to be re-
presented is Brooklyn. One man
from st. Louis, one from Pittsburgh
and one from Boston complete the
National League entry. Detroit and
Cleveland of the American League
also placed one man each.
The All-Star Team
First base-Walter Dropo, Red
Sox.
Second base-Jackie Robinson,
Dodgers.
Third base-George Kell, Tigers.
Shortstop-Phil Rizzuto, Yank-
ees.
Left Field-Ralph Kiner, Pirates.
Right field-Stan Musial, Card
inals.
Center field-Joe Dimaggio, Yank-
ees.
Catcher-Yogi Berra, Yankees.
Righthanded pitcher-Bob Lemon,
Indians.
Lefthanded Pitcher-Warren Spa
hn, Braves.
Utility-Billy Goodman, Red Sox.
: Five of the players are holdovers
from the 1949 all-star team. They
are Jackie Robinson, Dodgers; Geo.
Kell, Tigers; Phil Rizzuto, Yankees;
Stan Musial, Cardinals and Ralph
Kiner, Pirates.
Ted Williams, who finished fifth
among the flycatchers, failed to
make the team for the first time
since the poll was inaugurated in
1916. The Red Sox slugger was side
lined for two months with fractur-
ed elbow.
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30 WILING

In the Monday night bowling by
the womens league on the Elks alleys
the Sweeney Shamrocks rolled high
game. Pat Grove made 176 and
Dorothy Sweeney I'll. Dorothy Old
ham had high series of 463 and
Pat Grove was second with high
of 49,
Individual and team bowling fol-
lows:
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HOSPITAL NOTES

Admitted to st. AIMS Hospital
yesterday were Albert Bixby, Fred
Fraser, Frank Garnick, Mrs. Ben
ny Macon.
Dismissed James Herbert and
Willis Grant.
Dismissed from the Government
Hospital were George Mayeda of
Hoonah and Jack David of Haines
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fight DOPE

One knockout and one draw las
night in the fight game as follows
MIAMI, Fla.-Humberto Sierra
1874, Havana, Cuba, and Bernie
Dowd, 131 u, Livingston, N j., drew
10.
SALT LAKE CITY-Garth Pan
ter, 100, Dayton, knocked out Eddie
Halligan, I'll, Oakland 90.
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BAZAAR

The Womer's Society OF Christian
Service OF the Methodist Church
will hold their annual Bazaar anG
Food Sale Saturday November Il
at l pm. 649-4t
Evening star., 1950-12-03

French coal-mining area. Lecoeur
volunteered for the Spanish civil
war and commanded battalion
in the international brigade. On
his return he became head of the
party in his area and member of
the 100-man central committee,
Captured by the Germans in the
1935-1940 campaign, he escaped
and returned to underground work
in France. The Gestapo hunted
him in vain for four years.
Lecoeur led the Communist
resistance in the coal basin and
is credited with organizing strike
of 100000 miners in 1941.
Turn to Youth
Anti-Communists charge that
armed resistance groups at the
time of the liberation were less
interested in killing those who had
collaborated with the Germans
than in liquidating those they
considered lacking in faith in
Russia. In any case the miners
union which Lecoeur now heads
turned from a strongly Socialist
outfit into strongly Communist
one.
Lecoeur went into Parliament
after the liberation and was
nameds to a subcabinet post
undersecretary of industrial pro-
duction for Goals. This was during
the honeymoon of the anti-Nazi
parties in France. He kept the
post nearly a year, making a trip
to the United States in May. 1946
to get more German coal for
France.
Lecoeur helped lead the two big
coal strikes of 1947 and 1948, but
their failure seems to have done
him little harm. The party sent
him to represent it at a cominform
meeting in 1948 and last April
chose him as a secretary. His
special job is the key one of Or
ganization and administration.
This gives him tremendous power
in the promotion and firing of
minor leaders, an unequaled
chance to build up a machine
personally loyal to him. Stain
held the same job in the Russian
Party before he became its un-
questioned ruler.
distributed By the Associated Press.)
Evening star., 1950-12-03

The secretary of the World
Moslem Conference recently
served notice that further delay
on the 3-year-old issue of who
is to have Kashmir might dis
rupt the armed truce in the In
dian peninsula. At the same
time there are persistent reports
in New York of encouraging re-
suits in exploring for oil in
Kashmir. Coming at the same
time as the Communist threat
to India via Tibet, these de-
velopments turn the spotlight on
what may prove to be one of the
most explosive issues faced by
the United Nations.
On the map the Eurasian land
mass resembles an arch over the
Indian Ocean from Africa to
Australia, with India serving as
the ill-cut keystone ready to
slip out under the strain. In
that keystone the onlys part
which seems locked in place is
the northern tip. Kashmir,
which, with the neighboring
Northwest Province. is squeezed
In on the west by Afghanistan
with Russia on its back. and on
the east by China, thrusting
down symbolically upon Tibet.
India and Kashmir are in
reality just as badly placed in
terms of today's global strategy
as they always have been pic
torially in the biographies. For
the Indian Ocean is the key to
Asia and whoever uses it must
base on India.
Today Russia and China are
moving against Kashmir under
circumstances favorable to the
Communist technique of inter-
vention behind the screen of in
ternal discord. Russia's Malik
as long ago as last August prac-
tically notified the West that
communism would adhere to
that system when he harangued
the United Nations on the sane
tity of civil wars and the Grim
inality of exposing or resisting
their instigators.
Because Kashmir is the back
door to India. which in turn is
vital to the current world strug-
gle, the fight over it is impor-
tant. There are really two stimuli
taneous fights for Kashmir.
The Communists seek to detach
it from the West, and the two
states into which India is now
divided seek to take it from each
other.
First a glance at the internal
struggle. Kashmir belonged to
a maharaja. who was chased
out when India won independ-
ence. The old India is now
divided into PakiStan (Moslem)
Evening star., 1950-12-03

Indus. That river eventually
opens up the part Of India
nearest the Arabian Sea and
the Persian Gulf-the close-in
combat area for a fight for the
Near East oil fields via the
Indian Ocean. It also leads
down to nearby Leh, focal point
for caravans from the west and
from the north for Ihasa. 1t
ties in with the direct threat
to Tibet via the passes farther
east.
Descendants of Huns
The Hunza district. into which
Russia is dribbling its scouts
or settlers, is still inhabited by
a Hun tribe chased out of China
centuries ago. Its inhabitants
resemble Chinese more than
they do Indians proper. The
Immigrants" who are, OF
course. illegal entrants. are, as
stated, Uzbeks, which is to say
Russian Mongols. They are
directly descended from the
Golden Horde of Genghis
Khan. They are coming through
the defiles near the point where
the Chinese border and that Of
Afghanistan meet the northern
line of Kashmir. They are COM
ing in with difficulty, at an
elevation of almost miles, but
they are slowly coming. Even
if they establish themselves in
force they would not have
opened up a military route, since
the deflles are too high and
narrow.
The Chinese infiltration is
entirely different. 1t is by way
of the ancient Karakoram Pass,
and could be either an immedi-
ate military threat or, in con-
junction with the Hunza pene-
tration, q stacking" Of the pop
ulation of upper Kashmir. which
is thinly settled. with racial
elements to augment the Mon
golian strain already there and
form the basis of a strategic
conquest by means of an appeal
to a plebiscite while India is still
in turmoil on that issue.
If the Russians and Chinese
now coming in are really SOL
diers, they might seriously upset
things, if the inflow continues,
by striking at the backdoor of
the Khyber Pass. They would
also be in a position to take LEX
and operate down the Indus as
far as their strength would JUS
tify.
This is taking place at a time
when neither India nor Pakis-
tan is strong enough to defy
either Russia or China.
Evening star., 1950-12-03
By RondoIph Leioh

taneity" smells of a total plot.
Russia led off with an agree
ment with Afghanistan, f1anking
Kashmir. It's terms are secret
but it is reported that the
famous desire" clause, pat
termed on the agreement with
Iran in 1921, is included. This
clause authorizes the sending
in of Russian troops IF a third
party occupies or desires to
occupy" the protected" nation.
Under that clause Russia poured
troops into Iran in 1941, against
the desire" of Hitler. which in
that case was real enough.
Russia has also set up tre-
mendous propaganda machine
in Pakistan and India. Com
munists are now allowed to
publish scores of newspapers
violently hostile to the West.
They are in the vernacular and
in English. Many of them
carry articles. identical with
those in Pravda of Moscow and
even with the same release
dates.
China has made the boldest
move of all by inflltrating some
5000 men through Karakoram
Pass into Northeast Kashmir.
Along with this went in August
a smaller colonizing movement
OF Russian Uzbeks. via the Chi
nese def1les above Hunza, into
that district, which is India's
northernmost outpost. Slightly
below Hunza the British created
so years ago the Gilgit Agency,
on the upper Indus, as a barrier
to just such a Russia move.
That these "migrations" in
force into desolate area must
have high-level direction is in
dicated by three facts. First,
they are aimed at territory
where the actual boundaries in
dispute are ill-defined even as
regards the local factions. Next
they foreshadow the reasser-
tion of nationalist claims, espe-
cially on the part of China, of
a kind which have not been put
forward for more than CEN
tury. Finally. the land. aside
from the new oil rumors, has
almost no economic but con-
siderable strategic value.
What strategic value in
snoW-covered area, nearly 3
miles above sea level. where the
Hindu Kush, Karakoram and
Himalaya Ranges fold in toward
one another to form the roof
of the world?"
For one thing, the Karakoram
Pass leads down from China
into the headwaters of the
Evening star., 1950-12-03

and India (Hindu). India as
now constituted has in its con-
stitution the official alternate
name of Bharat. Both of the
new nations rushed in to grab
Kashrnir. India, with $50 mil
lion population as against bare
ly 100 million for Pakistan. got
there first with the most men.
and still occupies that beauti-
full state. Civil war over that
and other issues loomed.
Leaders of the two nations
called a truce, froze their boun-
diaries, left their troops in place.
and appealed to the United Ma
tions. in January. 1948. The
United Nations sent an Aus
tralian commissioner. who fin
ished his survey months ago.
1t is over the delay in hearing
his report that the Moslems
now clamor.
Both SIDES agree in principle
on a plebiscite. But who will
referee it? The issue is further
complicated by the fact that
Kashmir is held for India by
Sheik Abdullah, who also has
an army of his own on the spot.
But it is not certain that any
solution can be peacefully i'm
posed. Pakistan insists on the
withdrawal of troops. since they
are hostile. and since the popu-
lation is mostly Moslem. So,
nominally, is Abdullah.
Chinese Invade Kashmir
Even if India consents to with
draw its troops. what will hap
pen if Abdullah keeps his at the
ballot boxes? He is the only
politician whose job is at stake.
He could create a splinter state,
counting on the dread of civil
war on the part of both sides.
For a religious war in Kashmir
would mean a civil war in India.
II Abdullah gambled thus and
was hard-pressed, he might ap-
peal to Stain. If civil war
breaks out in Kashmir. under
whatever guise, the West would
have another Korea on it's
hands-a Korea 1000 miles in
land, with the whole Indian
subcontinent as ultimate stake.
What are Russia and China
doing while the rest of the
world awaits the United Nations
solution for Kashnir, which
may not be a final solution?
Both are active there. This is
doubly significant for China,
since it discredits claims of
volunteers only" in North
Korea and Of non-ofncial activ-
ity in Tibet. Too much "snon-
Evening star., 1950-12-03
Tough Red Takes Over Thorez' Hammer in France

PARIS.-A new tough leader is
expected to close Communist ranks
in this key sector of the Vests
defense.
Many believe 39-year-old Au-
guste Lecoeur is slated to replace
Party Boss Maurice Thorez, par
TALLY paralyzed by a stroke sew
eral weeks ago. A protege OF
Thorez, Lecoeur. like him, is a
coal miner from Northern France
When Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Vishinsky's plane-an
American C-47-f1ew here to take
the ailing Thorez to a Russian
sanatorium, leaders of the French
Communist Party filed into the
plane to say farewell.
When they emerged, few in the
crowd noticed that one remained
in the plane. It was Lecoeur, of
on his first trip to the Kremlin.
TITS like the French kings who
had to go to Reims to be crowned ~
one anti-Communist Frenchman
remarked. "The Communist kings
have to be consecrated in Mos
cow"
Underground Active
If Lecoeur, who has since re-
turned to Paris. is to be king of
the Frenchs Communists, he can
expect to have fewer, but more
fanatically loyal, subjects than
Thorez. Many see him as head
Of a new type of French Commu-
mist Party. designed only to bolster
Soviet foreign policy and dealing
as little as possible with domestic
issues.
When the present French Par
Lament was elected four years ago
the Communists polled 5,489 600
votes-over 2S per cent of the total
and more than any other group
They were the mo. l party OF
France" where no party ever gets
a clear majority. Their leaders
won strong positions in the cabi-
net and could argue convincingly
for even stronger ones. They DOM
mated the General Confederation
of Labor, the country's biggest
labor union.
Many people would not have
been surprised if they had taken
over entirely, without too much
violence. That actually did hap
Evening star., 1950-12-03

present 700,000-odd members, it
would be satisfied with about 400,-
000-some think as few as 1OO,-
000-if they could be counted on
to the death.
To carry out the new retrench-
ment the party seems to be turn
ing to younger leaders. Their ad-
vantage is that they have been
brought up to believe that the
Kremlin is always right.
Lecoeur seems to be one of the
leaders-perhaps the leader-of
the party group that non-Com-
munist Frenchmen call the
''Durs," slang term which trans
lates roughly as "the hard guys. +"
He Joined the party at 19 and
in his early 20s became Mayor
OF Lens. center Of the northern
Evening star., 1950-12-03

ton law frankly designed to cut
the number of Communist Depu-
ties to a minimum. If followers
of Gen. Charles de Gaulle win
a big vote in next years election
the party may even be outlawed.
with their tradition of conspir-
acy and clandestine politicking,
the Communists are always ready
to close ranks and go underground
The process is gradual and already
under way. Half-hearted followers
are purged. Good Communists
drop their non- Communist friends,
or find themselves in serious trou-
bile with the party. The leaders
are surrounded by more and warier
bodyguards.
The heavy iron shutters have
closed permanently on the book
Evening star., 1950-12-03

a b r o a d. In
creased effort is
going into speci-
allied propagan-
da work among
workers. For in
stance, the Re-
nault automobile
factory in the
suburbs of Paris,
with 10000 en-
ployes. now has
As Communist
cells. 6 d ally
newspapers a n d
IL weeklies.
What the party
seems to want
now Is a we'll
t r a in e d hard
core of militants
ready to make
any sacrifice for
the u. S. S. r. in
a hot or cold war.
Instead of the
Evening star., 1950-12-03
By CorI Hortmon

pen in Czechoslovakia after a free
election gave the Reds the same
position they had m France.
But a middle of -the-road, anti
communist coalition managed to
hold together in France. strength
ened by massive American aid,
and the Communists found them
selves isolated.
Their ministers were driven out
OF the cabinet. Their Deputies
Evening star., 1950-12-03

found themselves
almost alw a y S
on the short end
of votes in Par
lament. Their
labor union split.
Its strikes were
broken and rela-
tive prosperity
returned.
m m u n / S t
popular strength
was clearly on
t h e downgrade.
c i + C u lation of
L'Humanite, the
party's CHI e +
daily, d pc d
from a high of
about 100000 to
225, 1000. Local
elections showed
the same trend.
N ow Parlia-
ment is at work
on a new cleo.
Evening star., 1950-12-03

shop that used to occupy the
ground floor of party headquarters
in Paris. The even-story building
looks more like a fortress than
ever.
Investigators working secretly
report three top leaders of the
Communist resistance to the
Nazis are now concentrating on
underground work. Funds are be-
ing amaSSed in France from
Evening star., 1950-12-03
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY. DEcEMBER ;. 1850
Controlled U.S.. Spending
May Stop Philippine Reds
America Willing to Lay Out Money, but
Not the Way 1t Was Done in Chino's Case
By Frank White

MANAThe United States apparently willing to spend dol
Philippines the threat communism.
there will be unsupervised
ing out of dollars done in Nationalist China.
There ample evidence preliminary United States aid
signed in Baguo that the Truman ad
Evening star., 1950-12-03
Malaga Rubber Stoppoge*
Has Complexities for Reds
Chinese Communists Now Need Supply
Which GuerriIIus Have Cut Off From u. S.
By Lawrence GriswoId

Last week there was Maayan rubber surplus available to
the American market bale of It, ribbed
bought government China
probably re-export to the S. S. r.
This
position for the widespread bandy Malaga
Evening star., 1950-12-03
.it-and.Run Tactics

In the Philippines feudal sys-
tenn of farming still Is largely
intact. Landlords have evaded
the provisions Of national legisla-
ton increasing the share of crops
received by tenant farmers, null
lifying attempted reforms. In
dustrial workers in the cities
receive scarcely enough for a sub
standard living and their plight
Increases as imitation continues.
Measured in real income, both
workers and tenant farmers re-
ceive less than they did before
the war.
These conditions provide popu-
lar support for the Communist
leaders Of the Hukbalahap move
ment who contend they are chief
ly interested in agrarian reform,
the same propaganda line once
Evening star., 1950-12-18

Government spokesmen said
about one-fifth of those executed
were women.
They said the 391 were convict
ed of murder, arson, rape or mill
tary crimes of destruction.
Executions were witnessed by
prison doctors and court prosecu-
tors.
DR.. Rhee said United Nations
officials found no basis for reports
children were executed as political
offenders. 2
"The investigators, who wit
messed exhumations in prison
cemeteries northwest of Seoul,
said they were satisfied that no
children had been killed." DR..
Rhee said.
The Investigation was observed
Evening star., 1950-12-18
BY the Associated Press

SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 18.-Presi-
dent Syngman Rhee said today
that ''in view of the military
situation and lack of prison IA
cilities" he is ordering a speedup
Of Red trials and executions.
DR.. Rhee said 391 persons have
been convicted and sentenced to
death by the Seoul district court
since October l. He said 242 have
been executed.