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Evening star., 1951-08-10
Fom High School to West Point Football Squud Stars Case History

ment and this might be a means
of securing a ride with your
brother by plane to Stewart Field.
It would be question as toI
whether your brother could use
the appointment as a means of
identifying you with the Army. I
know that the fact that you must
necessarily pay your expenses
across the country will not deter
you in your desire to come because
you could plan to make the trip
by bus at very reasonable cost.
Uses Commercial Plane.
please understand" Col. Blaik
concluded, that I am completely
interested in your future and will
do all that is legitimately possible
to help you make West Point. You
have no reason to worry about the
future other than to keep hitting
the books and be prepared to do
a good job in preparatory school. "
Mai. Filipski said, mo attempt
was made to fly in a military
plane. l haven't done any flying
since 1948. Inasmuch as I was
transferred from Sacramento to
the Pentagon. Gene and flew to-
gether with a commercial airline.
ITO return to that Little School
course, l note where one story
called 1T a six weeks vacation.
That's more than mere distortion.
Gene and the others roomed to-
gether in a house on the post.
Glenn Davis was in charge. Rev.
ellie was at 6 am. They hit the
books until IL or 1870, knocked
off for lunch, and went back to
the books at / o'clock.
No Football Workouts.
I'm the late afternoon they were
allowed to exercise. There were
no football workouts. The boys
wore shorts. They played softball
and played catch with footballs,
but only long enough to blow the
cobwebs from their brains. Then,
after supper, they hit the books
again. Often they attended night
classes.
"Those pleasure trips to New
York, as some critics called them,
we're infrequent and didn't amount
to much. Some week ends they'd
go down and watch the Giants or
Yankees or Dodgers play ball.
"At the end of the course the
boys took their examinations for
entrance" Maj. Filipski said. He
produced a report of Genes exam
ination. THE passing mark for
physical aptitude is no." he said.
I"Gene's score was 495. Passing in
mathematics was $50. Gene scored
$40. In English Gene scored 531.
He only needed $50. A boy needed
to score 425 to qualify for West
Point aptitude. Genes mark was
537."
Young Filipski played regularly
in the 1949 plebe backfield. Last
year he made the varsity, sharing
right halfback with two first
classmen, Frank Fischl and Jack
Martin. This season he was to
have moved up to the No. l spot
Filipski is a triple -threater. a
punter. passer and ball carrier
In high school and at West Point
he also excelled at blocking. He
also is the Corps light-heavy-
weight boxing champion.
Evening star., 1951-08-10
When Community Starts Communist Fight

adopted, with Mr.. Teitelbaum
casting the only dissenting vote.
Mr.. Bord had left the meeting.
A slate of new officers was
elected. They are: Harry Wechs-
Iler. president; Mr.. Rehmann, first
vice president; Leona Lobley, sec
ond vice president; Mr.. Salins,
secretary, and Jack Zoltrow, treas
Iurer.
Mr.. Zoltrow, proprietor of Zol-
trow's Live Fish Store, 3539 Geor-
Igia avenue NV, said records of
the association are thoroughly
confused. So far as he can find
out, Mr.. Zoltrow said, no dues
have been collected for at least
two years.
In the early '40s, soon after the
association was organized, it had
a membership of about rs. but no
one knows exactly how many
members there are now, accord
ing to Mr.. Zoltrow.
New Cards Planned.
New membership cards will be
printed, Mr.. Zoltrow said, and a
serious effort will be made to COL
Ilect current dues. He will rec
ommend, Mr.. Zoltrow said, that
the new cards include a state
ment to be signed by members,
stating they are not now and
never have been members of or
ganizations which espouse the
violent overthrow of the United
States Government.
Minutes of the July 81 meet
ing show that 13 persons were
Ipresent. when the resignation of
Mr.. Bord and Mr.. Teitelbaum
first was requested. The minutes
do not show how many were pres
ent at last Mondays meeting, but
Mr.. 1oltrow estimates the at
tendance at about 20.
Meyer Edelman, furniture deal
er of 1903 Georgia avenue NV,
and past treasurer of the group,
said the last membership card he
received was in 1947, although his
name has been carried on the
rolls as in good standing.
Mr.. Edelman said he approved
of the action in the Bord- -Teitel-
baum case. because ''it isn't good
to be associated with problem
like that"
Mr.. Rehmann said he voted for
the suspension resolution because
he felt action had to be taken in
view of the charges made by Mrs.
Markward.
Its just like what happens
when a policeman shoots some
body on the street." he said. HE
is suspended Immediately until an
inquiry brings out whether the
shooting was justified.
Mr.. Lane has been absent from
the city on vacation since the
July 81 meeting. The minutes OF
that meeting set forth his view.
point in objecting to action on
the custer resolution at that time.
"Mr. Lane claimed" the min
utes state, 'that his strenuous
and persistent objections to the
business to be transacted was
based entirely on the manner in
which it was being done and had
nothing whatever to do with
whether the accused and sus-
pected Communists were either
guilty or innocent. He asserted
that, at the proper time, and
under the right circumstances,
he thought the thing could be
brought up and voted on, but he
felt that this was neither the
time nor the correct manner in
which to do it.
Evening star., 1951-08-10

i those other offers, Gene didn't
have to shop around. They came
after him. Most of the coaches
who played their schools against
Grant Union repeatedly went on
record as calling Gene the best
back they faced"
Clippings from California news
papers revealed that in December
of 1948 Blaik visited young Flip
ski on the Grand Union campus.
That's true" Maj. Filipski as
serted, "but naturally he did not
come West to see Gene.
/ Col. Blaik was en- route to at
tend the meeting of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association in
San Francisco. His visit f1abber-
gasted Gene so much he couldn't
speak for several moments. Col.
Blaik surprised Gene in a SWIM
ming pool"
Maj. Filipski produced nearly
two dozen letters from various
athletic directors and coaches. in
cluding one from George Sauer,
then head coach at the Naval
Academy. It began: Although it
has been quite some time since I
last saw you, I want you to realize
that l am more interested than
ever in seeing you here at the
Naval Academy"
Invitation From Stanford.
Another from William r. Bulls,
principal of Bulls Prep, a Naval
Academy preparatory school. be-
gan: "Separately we have mailed
you catalog of The Bulls School.
I assume that you are interested
in attending the United States
Naval Academy. since we have
been asked to send you our de-
scriptive material on such prepa-
ration. -"
Stanford extended an invita-
ton to visit the campus, plus an
assurance that we can help you
see your way through Stanford
at a minimum of expense" Santa
Clara and California Poly like
wise extended invitations to visit
the schools. ...
Proud of Waldorf Letter.
This is a letter of which Gene
is proud" Maj Filipski said. pro-
ducing a letter from Lynn O.
(Pappy) Waldorf. coach at the
University Of California. 1T reads
Dear Gene: understand you have
received an appointment to West
Point, and I certainly hope that
Everything works out very nicely
for you there. You have the con-
gratulations and best wishes OF
everyone here at California. The
choice of the institution where you
will receive an education that will
give you the background for your
: life work is always very mo-
mentous decision and I hope you
will have every success in your
military career.
"'In the remote possibility that
your plans should change, I want
you to rest assured that we would
always be most happy to have you
give careful consideration to Cali
fornia. Please remember me to
your brother. and may / again
wish you a very good fortune and
success. Sincerely yours. Lynn O
Waldorf
/ He is q very wonderful man
Evening star., 1951-08-10

and once donated a 5000 bond as
a prize at a bond-selling rally
at the community theater.
He was an air-raid warden dur
ing the war, but was asked tc
turn in his equipment in 1945
after the head warden heard he
was suspected of Communist &C.
tivity. Mr.. Bord denied this.
Mr.. Bord says the only way he
can imagine Mrs. Markward got
his name was through some
harmless sounding organiza.
ton" he may have joined during
the war.
i II was free-handed." Mr.. Bore
said. Il belonged to lots of or
ganizations. I may have signed
lup for something without really
knowing what it was
Mr.. Teitelbaum, prematurely
balding Army veteran, who served
three years with band at Camp
Blanding, Fla, seemed far less
concerned than Mr.. Bord over
the custer action.
These people have been bitten
by the hysteria bug" he said
with a wry smile.
Mr.. Teitelbaum said Mr.. Bord
was the only member of the as
Isociation who tried to do any.
thing constructive for business IN
the community. He said the as
sociation had been dormant ami
pointed out that he had not paid
dues for three years. Only two
meetings were held in 1850, he
said, and the first custer meet
ing on July 81 was the first meet
ing of the organization this year
Terms Meeting Illegal.
I Mr.. Bord expressed grave con-
Icern over what he termed "the
illegal" meetings called to Gus,
him. He said the associations by
laws specify that discussion OF
Iany matter of strictly political
or sectarian nature not be per-
mittedl"
The charges against him are en-
Itirely political, he contends.
The meeting on July 81 was moi
regularly scheduled but was called
|by several members who were dis
turbed by Mrs. Markward's dis
closures. When he called the gath
ering to order, President Carl Lane
insisted that it be considered an
informal meeting" at which
plans could be discussed for a reg
ular meeting, called in accordance
with the bylaws.
After heated debate some one
discovered a provision in the con-
stitution that the president was
compelled to call meeting on Pc
tition of five members. A petition
was hastily circulated and signed
and handed to Mr.. Lane. A resolu-
tion was passed demanding that
the president request the resigna-
tion of Mr.. Bord and Teitelbaum
and scheduling another meeting
for last Monday.
Mr.. Lane was absent on Mon
day. and Mr.. Bord as first vice
president called the meeting to Or
der. A resolution was passed de-
manding that Mr.. Bord turn over
the chair to Norman j. Salins, the
secretary. Henry H. Rehmann was
elected temporary secretary.
Motions were then adopted alb
solving all members Of delinquent
dues and restoring them to good
standing and making all Georgia
avenue businessmen present at
the session de facto members of
the organization with privilege of
paying dues at the next meeting.
The resolution suspending the
two former officers was then
Evening star., 1951-08-10

The cold war on communism
moved down to the community
level in Washington this week as
the Park View Business Mems AS.
sociation suspended two of its OH.
GERS because their names had beer
linked in newspaper articles with
activities of the local Communist
Party.
| Both businessmen denied they
were, or ever had been, Com.
munists. The association made il
clear it would not attempt to pas!
on the truth or falsity of the
charges leveled against them. The
official minutes of the meeting sus.
pending the two state:
"It was explained that (neither)
the association nor any member.
thereof made any accusations a.
to the truth or falsity Of tn.
(press)' articles, but it was fel
that in order to avoid any furthel
publicity this action should b.
taken"
The two former officers will re-
main suspended until such timt
as they clear themselves of charge!
contained in several newspaper ar.
ticles of the Washington press.
Two Stormy Meetings.
This action was taken after twt
stormy meetings in as many weeks
A third meeting will be held a
9 pm. next Monday, at which
a recapitulation of the whole az
fair is expected.
Some members of the associa'
tion who voted for the suspension
resolution frankly said it troubled
them to take such drastic actor
on men against whom the or.
ganization itself had no evidence
beyond newspaper clippings. But
they said, they did not know what
other stand to take in these
troubled times.
The Star sent a reporter inte
the community to talk to people
on both sides of the question.
The suspended members are
Moses (Mischa) Bord, IS, proprie.
tor of the Bord Jewelry Co. al
1923 Georgia avenue NV. for
mer first vice president of the
association, and Irving Teitle.
baum, 90, former secretary who
with his father Joseph, operates
the Title Paint & Hardware Co.
at 1884 Georgia avenue NV.
Named by FBI Counterspy.
Their names, with, some zoe
others. were on the list of Com
munist Party members given to
the House Un-American Activities
Committee by Mrs. Mary s.
Markward, Virginia housewife
who worked within the party for
seven years as an undercover FB1
counterspy.
Mr.. Bord. who wears a United
States Treasury award ''for
patriotic service" on his watchfoh
described the entire proceedings
against him as a "putsch."
He has had reputation in the
community for many years as a
liberal. He has campaigned for
Admission of Negroes to the as
sociation as step toward i'm
proving business relations in the
area, now largely colored. Every
Labor Day for the last three years
he has led movement to finance
a community playground celebra-
tion and usually ended by paying
most of the expenses himself.
He has been active in all char
Iity drives in the community. Dur
ling the war, he says, he sold al
most $250,000 worth of war bonds
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Evening star., 1951-08-10
Transit Co. Head
Again Asks
Bigger Buses
Change in Regulation
Would Help Public,
PUG Hearing Is Told

A new plea for Public Utilities
Commission approval of longer
and wider buses here was made
today by j. A. B. Broadwater,
president of the Capital Transit
Co.
The transit official testified at
the public hearing on the PUG
investigation of the reasonable
ness" of the company's service
here.
He said one advancement the
management would like to make
on behalf of its passengers and
in the interests of further eff
cheney was the use of bigger buses.
Rules Restrict Size.
At present, District regulations
restrict the size of such vehicles
to no more than IS feet in length
and feet in width, he noted.
"On some of our heavier lines,
on which the service is now very
frequent, we find that, because of
traffic conditions, service with A.
passenger buses can be improved
upon with a bus of larger seat
ing capacity and wider aisle which
will provide easier ingress and
egreSs," he declared.
Mr.. Broadwater said a bus 40
feet long and 812 feet wide also
would enable the company to do a
better job without adding to the
number of vehicles on the street.
Benefits Cited.
Besides tending to alleviate traf-
f1c congestion, particularly in rush
hours, the larger bus would make
possible a more effective use of
available manpower, the transit
official said.
Mr.. Broadwater said the COM
pany has enough buses on hand to
absorb a reasonable increase in
passenger travel which he hoped
would come.
Earlier in the hearing, Dean J..
Locke, company staff engineer,
testified that while no new buses
have been purchased since 1949,
the company is using only 796 of
the 963 buses it already owns.
Conference Disclosed.
Mr.. Locke disclosed that COM
pany officials had conferred with
city officials about a change in
regulations to permit larger buses.
Under cross examination by
PUG Counsel Lloyd Harrison, Mr..
Broadwater said the company did
not mean to imply refusal to buy
new buses because OF present size
limitations.
Mr.. Broadwater in his state
ment declared that the company's
procedures outlined in the hear
ing would continue to be looked
at with a critical eye by manage
ment" in the hope that they could
be made more efficient and eco
nomical. He expressed the view
that the hearing had been good
for the company" in providing
an opportunity to show its prac-
tices to the public.
"It has been and will be the
policy Of this company to go for
ward-to take advantage Of every
chronological development in the
art of public transportation" he
declared.
Checks on Operation Aired.
James G.. Somerville, PUG chief
engineer, testified about the checks
kept by the commission staff on
various phases Of the transit op-
erations.
He said IN January and March
Of this year a survey was made
Of the cleanliness OF the buses,
and found that Cleanliness was
not receiving as much attention
rs it should"
He said this condition was re-
ported to the commission, and that
subsequent inspections in May
disclosed considerable improve
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-25
20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
AUGUST 25, 1881

The Alaska Line Alameda south this morning Sika and Todd with the following StkaWiiam Warm, C. Larson Leidy T. K Ketleson Kenneth Keller w. K Keller, Todd MT and Mrs daughter Mandy, Ika Winche For Kehikan Seattle Isabel Caher Ole Oson Irving w. Sabe Pearl
 
 At meeting of the Juneau retail last night unanimously agreed by all their closing time effort has made the said they would popular demand to daily until grocers a hardship their
 Krkham celebrated birthday many friends present enjoyed pleasant time things
 weeks trip Ska reports having Margaret accompanied her mother They represent attend a postmasers' Omaha Nebraska.
 Royaton Mnn, 32 She will the coast, about months, the southern route.
 M Mary Smith Bob Lee, A. B. McGnnis, Jack
 Weather: High, 57; low, 5l; cloudy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-25

upon questions of human rights, there is little pros pect that the ideals of the United States or Great Britain will be adopted.
 Now however, complaint from Sirdar J. J. Singh, president of the India League of Am erica who says that the Asatic nations resent, as unfair the fact that populous they are they get but one vote each in the international organization Mir Singh objects particularly to the twenty Latin American nations, with only one-seventh the popu- ation of Asia, having three more votes than the Asian nations.
 We'll MT. Singh may have something there, from the Asatic point of view, but are something less than sympathetic.
 We'd like to remind him that the United States, which puts up most of the money for the LIN pro- gram, has only vote to the twenty for Latin- America and the seventeen for the Asatic nations.
 From the tone of MT. Singh's plaint, we gather that he would favor a reapportionment of the LIN vote We might be willing to go along with him but not on a basis of population. We suggest that each nation be given votes in direct proportion to the financial burden it bears in the LIN program.
 How about it?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-25

da, aged 75, is listening to as- sistant Secretary of State Barrett testify regarding the Voice of America and the importance of selling the United States to the rest of the world. MeCarran keeps wider awake than his colleague from Tennessee. He even admits that Barrett puts up a plausible argument. Finally, however, he concludes:
 T would hate to answer for the spending of all this money to pre- vent war, when I feel sure war is inevitable"
 Scene W Back in Berlin: The studio of radio station RIAS operated by the State Department in the western sector:
 A group of East German young sters have crowded into the RIAS studio. Supposedly Communists, and attending the Communist youth rally, they want to see the radio station they have been lis tening to across the Iron Curtain in East Germany.
 Before the microphone come various RIAS radio perfor- mers = first a singer. She gets terrific round of applause. Then comes a political commentator who every night takes gihes at Soviet operations in East Germany. He too is gleefully recognized by the youthful audience.
 They know their RIAS radio performers as an American au- dience knows its Jack Benny or Milton Berle It's a recognition that can come only from listen ing.
 These youngsters are the future generation of Germany = the kids who will really decide whether Communism stays or goes; who will fight or fraternize with Am erican boys in the war that Sem ator McCarran says is inevitable.
 Yet Senator McCarran, an old man of 75. who won't have to fight: and Senator McKellar, now 88, say the State Departments radio program is wasted money, poured out on empty ether.
 Soviet Russia today spends S2,- 0OO,OOO,OOO a year on propaganda It even has 1900 tanning stations to drown out the Voice of America the voice which the old men of the Senate say is waste of money. It appears so important to the Kremlin, however, that the Krem- lin spends more than the cost of the Voice in order to drown it out.
 This year the State Department
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-25
INVITATION TO BID

The Employment Security Com mission of Alaska announces the Invitation to Bid for furnishing five thousand, (5,000) booklets of En- ployment Security Law, fob. Ju- neau, Alaska.
 Interested bidders may secure bid forms and specifications by calling at the Employment Security Com mission Room 314, Goldstein Bldg, or writing the Employment Security Commission, P O. Box 2661, Juneau, Alaska.
 Sealed bids will be received until 10:O0 am. Monday, September 10, 1851, and then publicly opened.
 JOHN T. MCLAUGHLIN,
 Acting Executive Director. First Publication: Aug. 25, 1851. Last Publication: Sept. 8, 1851.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-25
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

Even little bit of arsenic goes a long way in jeopardzing heah but the pending tax bill is loaded with it. The bill might well be substituted Arsenic and Old Lace" because the deceptive frills are there-as trimming for the moose about the neck of American economy.
 The Communist Manifesto gave the moose it's first recognition Messrs. Marx and Engel saw and re- marked heavy progressive taxes on income would most quickly destroy system of private capitalism and enterprise How right they were! In this respect have closely followed the party line" since The normal and highest surtax rates which began so deceptivey one and six per cent respectively grew, so gradually, to wartime peak of 20 and 9l per cent
 When the House Ways and Means Committee changed the percentage point increase in the rate to an overall 12h per cent increase in the tax, 1t added the finishing touch to MT. Roosevelts soak the-ich fairy tale That increase levied upon present taxes for incomes over s26 ooo would have resulted in tax of over S1o2 for every dollar of income in that bracket
 Attention was called by tax critics to this po- tential threat of confscatory taxation and the Dill was quickly amended by means Of 945 per cent maximum rate on taxable income over $8O,ooo
 However the amendment is little more than sop to the minimizing In effect it will provide approxi- matelv s75 000 GOO than is now drawn from the same income brackets The actual effect of the amended bill is to make the bootleg" dollar of un- reported revenue worth nearly twenty much as an honestly reported and taxed dollar
 That's right The income producers in these brackets will have little over nickel eft ol every dollar so taxed And such tax policy IS bound to reflect itself in more unreported earnings ana less paid-in tax dollars
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-25

asked for little more money to carry on the war of ideas, but the old men of the Senate Appro- priations committee voted cut. Here is their secret vote to ham string their country in the battle of ideas: McCarran, McKellar, Me Clellan of Arkansas, Bridges of New Hampshire, Ferguson of Mi chigan, Wherry of Nebraska, and Hickenlooper of Iowa.
 Scene V = A West German Youth Center in West Berlin: h. side is a line of East German youngsters waiting for soup and noodles. The Communist food sys- tenn has broken down in the east zone and they have come over to West Berlin. They know where to come because the State Depart ment publis he'd a pocket-size guidebook in advance telling the Communist kids where to find the West Berlin youth centers.
 Around the walls of the youth center sit another group of East German youngsters, bent over, their noses buried in magazines