Evening star., 1951-12-16
Everything Is Made for Love
Except Gull, Boykin Believes
Lavish Dinner Host
Has Tolerant Smile
For Help to Friends
by the Asseeioisd Press

An Alabama House member
whose watchword is "everythin5
I is made for love-" smiles with
gentle tolerance when his nam,
flares up in headlines about 'in.
fluence" testimony.
i He is 66-year-old Frank Boykin
millionaire Alabama timber king
bear hunter, and lavish dinner
host.
Il never help anybody" say.
Mr.. Boykin, IF I think they're
guilty of anything"
Guilty or not. some of his
cronies and constituents hav,
come under the harsh scrutiny Of
official investigators in cases in.
volving Government loans. an al.
legged 100000 bank shortage, ane
a tax fraud episode that figured
in the testimony of T. Lama,
Caudle. ousted Assistant Attorne,
General.
He's . Hoped for Witness.
Mr.. Boykin himself has moi
testified before any Of the variou.
congressional committees siftine
through charges of dubious doinps
In high places, although at least
one committee chairman has ex-
pressed the hope that he woulc
take the witness chair.
Nor has there been any EVIL
dence that the mellow voiced
gentleman from Alabama ever
benefited personally from any
misdeeds.
AS to his own role in the spot
llghted ventures. Mr.. Boykin saws
cheerfully:
i did what did for my friends
my constituents-and I'll do II
again."
Mr.. Boykin is one of the last
OF the old school of Southern Con-
sressmen. A jovial man with flow-
ing white hair and a short, rotund
ngure. ne Is widely known for his
de luxe dinner parties that are
said to have centered around
some slightly out Of season yeni.
son steaks.
He Likes to See Them Souirm.
One party he gave for official,
in Washington was reported te
have cost $4,000.
Mr.. Boykin knows about every.
body worth knowing in Wash.
ington. He likes to bring riya)
factions together. watch them
sduirm as they sit down at a din.
rer table. and then glow as the,
depart arm in arm.
Resounding on the floor of the
House. he proclaims:
Everything is made for lover
Mr.. Boykin began life as a wa
ter boy on railroad In rural
Alabama. He has said he never
went beyond the third grade in
school. But unbounding energy
and the will to get ahead have
made him q millionaire and
more. with rich holdings in tim
Der, real estate. farming and live
stock.
Mentioned in Paper Deal.
His name first crept into the
investigations this year when Sem
ate investigators began looking
into Q complaint by Reuben e.
Hartman Of Mobile, Ala, that he
had been forced to turn over stock
control Of the Mobile Paper Co.
to members Of Mr.. Boykin's family
to get an RFC loan. Mr.. Hart
man was president OF the paper
company.
Mr.. Boykin denied any impro-
priety or wrongdoing. and de-
manded an investigation. A SEN
ate committee headed by Senator
Hoey, Democrat Of North Carolina,
is expected to begin hearings or
make a report on the case early
next year.
Then. in May. Mr.. Boykin's
name came up again when Frank
Prince, assistant of the Recon-
struction Finance Corps Office of
loans, resigned at the request of
Administrator w. Stuart Syming-
ton in departmental shakeup.
Mr.. Prince acknowledged having
"a part in negotiating a $3.50, 900
RFC loan to the Mobile Paper Co..
but said his role was purely in
line with his position.
Every Man A Cousin.
At the time, various news stories
identified Mr.. Prince as a cousin
Of Mr.. Boykin. Mr.. Prince denied