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made clear that Mr.. Miller
should resign If he were to
take the post. Again the former
justice sent word that he agreed
and that he was ready to re-
sign all business connections.
This meant a willingness, more
over, to sacrifice a salary about
three times that of the Attorney
General.
Then there came a silence.
Meanwhile, mediators-that is
to say friends of Mr.. McGrath
entered the picture and tried
to smooth out the differences
between the President and the
Attorney General. It was known
to them that the Attorney Cen
eral had written a letter to the
President setting forth his own
position and indicating clearly
that if Mr.. Truman wanted to
pick a new Attorney General,
it was all right with him but
that this should not be done
in any manner which allowed
the public to derive the impress
sion that Mr.. McGrath was
guilty Of any wrongdoing or
improperly in the conduct of
his Office.
The President then had a
heart-to-heart talk on Friday
of last week with Mr.. McGrath,
in which certain feelings Mr..
Truman had about the work of
the Justice Department were
frankly disclosed. It turns out
that the Attorney General be-
lieved that he was conducting
the job as Mr.. Truman wanted
him to conduct it but that, if
the President wanted a diff
ferent or more aggressive policy,
administratively speaking, it
could be done forthwith. Mr..
McGrath inherited many as
sistants and staff appointed
for the most part by his pred
ecessors. The press was that
day permitted to say officially
that mo change" in the status
Of the Attorney General was
contemplated"
Immediately, however, an
nouncement came of the Nation
wide crusade by Attorney Gen.
eral McGrath, through the
United States district attorneys
across the country, to run down
every bit Of misbehavior of gam
blers and racketeers on which
evidence could be gathered and
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Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

President Trumans message provokes
double ovation from Congress-for Churchill and Taft
The President rallies the production
foreign aid and high country
great lift Some taxpayers felt good they got up long
enough to brush of their knees
President Humans continue the Fair Deal had an
electric effect Congress quvering some Con-
gressmen sat their hands
President Churchill veto right over our use of
atomic bomb bases in England event of war Churchill
wants to make does not 20 over his headand
equally that Russia does.
The Marines recall Ted Williams the 100000 Boston Red
Sox sgg to active duty It's expected do the
Nations morae-in New York and Cleveland.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee tosses turkey
for British Foreign Minister committee
feels there's nothing too good for visiting
Senator Paul Douglas urges both Democrats and Repb-
cans nominate Gen. Ike for President Douglas give
Ike broad baseso won't have to worry any longer he
stands.
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Ho Chi Mini is expected to start
this year. their chances Of re-
sistance would be very slim.
And a major defeat in Indo-
China may have disastrous
consequences in France itself.
Some observers fear that it.
would be the signal for the
French Communists to start a
successful revolution.
The loss of Malaga would
be q heavy blow to Britain's
already very shaky economy.
France and Britain have spared
neither men nor money in the
attempt to cope with Russia S
conspiracy in Southeast Asia.
But they are definitely ap-
preaching the end of their rope
insofar as being able to cope
with what may become in the
next few months q new Situa-
tjon"-that is, the intervention
Of new and we'll trained Chinese
Communist combat forces.
The estimates of the techni-
cal experts that Eastern Asia
from Korea and Japan to
Singapore and the Indian
Ocean-lnust be considered as
one front is said to have fallen
on receptive ears. But the
major question-where and how
the United States could gather
additional air and possibly
ground forces in the near
future to join the British and
French in the struggle against
Communist encroachments in
the Far East-is another mat
ter. Nobody places much con-
f1dence in an armistice in
Korea, even If the Chinese
suddenly agreed to one. The
American and Allied forces will
have to remain on the cease
fire line and will not be avail
able for any other theaters Of
operation. The enemy has
built up such strength north Of
the present line that it. would
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to lay such evidence before the
grand Juries Of the Nation. The
newspapers had big headlines
about all this, and it looked as
If Mr.. McGrath was to stay on
indefinitely.
1t could mean that, after a
brief period in which Mr.. Nc
Grath has had an opportunity
to demonstrate what he can do
in a prosecuting sense and after
it has been made clear that he
has the Presidents renewed
confidence, there will be NOM
ination of Justin Miller. Or
maybe Mr.. Truman will decide
to ride out the political storm
with his present Attorney Gen.
eral.
Technically no "offer" of
appointment can be considered
a firm commitment until a
nomination is formally trans
mitted to the Senate and a
commission is offered to an
appointee. A President always
has the right to change his
mind anywhere along the line.
It Is unfortunate, of course.
as the President himself said
the other day at his press con-
ference, that these matters
cannot be left to the President
to announce in his own way and
in his own time. But, unfortu-
nately also from the viewpoint
OF the administration, the
Caudle case and similar ex-
posures by congressional COM
mittees have been extensively
reported in the press. Quite
naturally this leads the public
to believe it has some right to
know what is being done at top
levels about the operations of
the Justice Department. espe-
cially because the finger of
suspicion had been previously
pointed at a supposed lack of
vigor in prosecuting tax cases.
II a change in a cabinet post
were a matter of national Sc
curity, it probably shouldn't be
discussed in the press, but this
instance appears to be more a
matter of security for the po-
litical party in power. News Of
that sort inevitably is important
for the press to print whenever
it can lest it be accused of pro-
tecting the political interests of
the administration in power as
against the peoples interest
generally. ..
Reproduction Rishts Reserved.)
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Lowell WeIIett::
BigMoneyConpoign Coming UP
Funds Are Plentiful for Taft and Eisenhower;
Bad News for Pigs and Cows: Bender to Sing

"If all the pledges we have
obtained can be translated into
delegates when they are chosen"
says Candidate Taft. Il believe
We have more than half the con-
vention votes"
That is a very realistic state
ment. It reveals just what
pledges amount to at this
stage of the campaign for the
presidential nomination. Some
represent their full face value,
Of course, and Senator Taft is
safe in placing the promised
votes in his column. These are
pledges of State and local party
bosses who make politics their
business and are accustomed to
keeping their promises in order
to stay in business; and who,
further, have unquestioned con-
troll of the machinery through
which delegates are chosen.
Those are about the only pledges
that mean very much at this
date. Senator Taft doubtless
knows the full total of delegates
in this category, but naturally
he is not announcing it. It
would look small alongside the
number needed to nominate.
Other pledges represent lit
tie more than the hopes of his
friends in various States, and
their sincere intention to de-
liver if they can. Others are
only haif-pledges at best, some
given when 1t was thought that
Taft's runaway lead could not
be overtaken, but given with
certain mental reservations.
Still others are pledges given by
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of a large section Of the finan-
cial and business world that has
no confidence in Senator Taft's
shifting views on foreign policy.
These people will come through
for Gen. Eisenhower as readily
as they did for Wendell Willkie.
All of which adds up to a con-
vention calculated to shatter
the nerves Of the pigs and the
cows who find themselves in the
Chicago stockyards during the
week of decision.
In that connection there is
bad news to report. George Ben
der is going to sing. Remember
ing Philadelphia and I'm
Looking Over a Four-Leaf
Clover" this column gently
limited a few weeks ago that
this time the Ohio Representa-
tive at Large would make q lot
Of friends if he sort Of re-
Trained. But I read in the
Editors Column of the Cleve-
land News:
"Ihave George Bender's prom
ise that in 1852 he will sing
more times than, and just as
loudly as, in any previous year,
for the Republican cause"
The pigs and the lows will
have to make the best Of it.
Evening star., 1952-01-10
Security for the Party in Power
Truman Recently Started Search for New Attorney General
But MeGroth Moy Be Able to Ride Out Poitieo! Storm
David Lowrence:

President Truman not long
ago started a search for a new
Attorney General. Three Of the
men he had in mind to head up
the Justice Department found
practical reasons, some of
personal nature and some of a
professional nature, as barriers.
A fourth man decided to accept
and so notified the President.
The names who were origi-
nally considered for the post can
not be divulged. The name of
the man who accepted is Justin
Miller. executive head of the
National Association of Radio
and Television Broadcasters and
formerly an associate justice of
the United States Court Of Ap-
pealS Of the District of Columbia.
He was recommended to the
President by Chief Justice Vim
son Of the Supreme Court, who,
it will be recalled, also served as
associate justice of the United
States Court of Appeals here
during the same period and
therefore had an opportunity to
know of his colleagues ability
and personality.
Mr.. Miller has consistently
refused to make any comment
about his communications with
the President but, since he oc-
cupies a position Of Importance
in the business world, the news
that he was under considera-
ton became the subject of pub
lished reports in the press.
Again Mr.. Miller declined any
comment.
The facts as learned from
other reliable sources are these:
Mr.. Miller was given to un-
derStand that he might have
the cabinet portfolio of At
torney General. He then in
quired Of his board of directors
whether he could take leave of
absence for one year, because
to leave completely would de-
prive him Of retirement bene-
fits. The leave of absence was
granted, and he notified the
White House.
Then the word came back
that it would not be feasible
for Mr.. Miller to be Attorney
General and continue. even on
leave Of absence, as an en-
ploye of a trade association
which has lot of business mat
ters up before the Government
from time to time. So it was
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Doris Fieeson:
LOIS F7eeSon:
Era Of Democratic Rule May End
StoteoftheUnion Message Renforces Conviction Of Party
That President Truman Does Not Intend to Run Aqoin

The news in President Tru-
mans 1851 state-of-the- Union
message is not in what it con-
tanned. which is familiar, nor in
its reception by the Republicans
and their allies. the Democratic
underground. for that coalition
has increasingly thwarted him,
but in Mr.. Truman.
The President often has
hurled programs at Congress he
didn't expect to get but he has
hitherto managed to act as if
he ought to get them. In the
past a certain fierceness under
lying his unshaded delivery con-
veyed very well the impression
that his opposition was un-
worthy Of the great American
people.
Thus Mr.. Truman managed to
campaign effectively on the is
sues he raised, no matter
how Intellectually he sometimes
seemed to govern. On the basis
Of Wednesdays performance he
can do neither.
He has thereby reinforced the
conviction of his party that he
does not intend to run again.
Some members professed to
flnd desirable what they called
the Presidents more conciliatory
attitude this year. The attitude
Of the Republicans as Mr.. Tru-
man droned on showed how
much chance exists of concili-
ating the differing points Of
view at the two ends of Pennsyl-
vania avenue during this cam
paign year.
Had he suddenly indorsed the
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be foolish to withdraw . single
Allied unit.
Our entire armed strength to-
day amounts to 3.5 million men
in the three branches Of the
service This does not mean
that we have anywhere near
3.5 million combat troops. Our
Air Force is barely sufficient for
our present commitments and
We have nothing available for
other possible fighting areas.
There are only four divisions
at home and they cannot be
spared for new battle areas.
The Navy alone has enough
immediate strength, but the
Navy cannot do much In Indo-
China, Malaga or Burma.
Hence President Truman's de-
sire to increase our military
strength by at least 100000
men as soon as possible.
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es another straw into the pre-
vailing wind. AS usual Califor-
mia Democrats are fussin' and
feudin: Washington scouts re-
ported to the White House that
a strong hand from Washington
was vital If the State were to be
saved for Truman reelection
campaign.
The President refused to he
interested. Instead, Mr.. Nc
Kinney, as in Minnesota, is
recommending that the con-
vention delegates get behind an
almost unknown favorite son,
States Attorney Edmund G.
(Pat) Brown.
Then there is the matter of
Attorney General McGrath's s
tenure. Various Truman ad-
visers had it rigged to send Mr..
McGrath as Ambassador to
Spain, and replace him at JUS
tice with former Judge Justin
Miller, president Of the National
Association of Broadcasters.
This, they said, would be house
cleaning enough.
Mr.. McGrath politely declined
at an evening session at Blair
House to consent. He would
leave, he said, If the President
wished, but he wanted no other
post. His show of firmness won.
The President told a cabinet
meeting there would be no
changes in the cabinet this
year. Hence the Attorney Cen
erals gayety on leaving that
meeting. ...t
Again. too, the prevailing be-
lief is reinforced that Mr.. Tru-
man will not run again.
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men who have no reason for
believing they can deliver, but
would like the credit for it In
case things work out well.
Among experienced Repub-
lican politicians none believes
that Senator Taft has firm COM
mitments to assure him any
thing approaching half the
needed delegates. And the
same goes for Gen. Eisenhower
or, rather, for Eisenhower's
promoters.
The primaries will not change
the situation greatly. since few
of the States that have primaries
bind convention delegates very
tightly. There is no record Of
any delegate having ever gone
to jail for fiouting the expressed
desire Of his State. as many in
the past have done.
So real majority Of the
delegates is yet to be won. That
makes certain one Of the hardest
fought campaigns in American
history-and one of the most
expensive. The Taft forces have
money. They spent more in the
recent campaign in Ohio than
has been spent in the past to
elect many a President and they
had money left over when the
job was done.
And the Eisenhower forces
have money, all the money they
can possibly use. Basically the
Eisenhower boom is exactly
what it seems to be, q wide
spread popular demand for the
man most everybody admires.
But it also represents the wishes
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Ten Commandments without 9
suitable pause to allow it to sink
in. they would hardly have raised
a handicap. Deafenings silence
greeted even the most laudable
statement of his aims. s7 =
Republicans, of course, are not
really for poor health, under
privileged lives and injustice to
labor. They are only adamantly
suspicious of Mr.. Truman's
packaging and they will not risk
a cheer for his principle.
It adds up again to the fin de
steele. An era is ending. It is
unclear what will succeed it and
it is not irrevocably a Republi-
can year but change is in the
air. j.
In the present atmosphere
restlessness among the Demo-
Gratis will grow. Many of them
sincerely do not believe that all
is lost.
A source Of their encourage
ment is the new national chair
man, Frank Mckinney, whom
few had ever heard of when
Mr.. Truman named him. Mr..
Mckinney impresses them as
a man who is not accustomed
to losing and would prefer not
to begin now. His business
career supports their feeling.
Several say bluntly that he
looks like the first real chair
man the party has had since
Jim Farley. If it proves true
it would be ironic that MFR.
Truman should have picked
him out of the blue when his
own days are numbered.
The California situation toss
Evening star., 1952-08-24
By the Asseeiated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 23.-
A 16-year-old Californian today
captured the PGA-National Cad
dies golf championship and a
$1,000 college scholarship.
AL Chandler of Hawthorne.
Calf, just outside Los Angeles,
smothered Jim Lucius Of North
field, Mimi, 8 and 6. in the 36-
hole finale over the Scarlet course
of Ohio State University.
Chandler. son of an aircraft
plant foreman and a caddy Sc
capable that prominent amateurs
transport him up and down the
West Coast to tournaments. never
was headed from the 10th hole
He clipped Lucius' chances with
a putter that gave him eight o1
the last nine holes of the morn.
ing 18-going from even at the
end of the first nine to eigh
holes up at lunch time.
Lucius, whose golf form de-
lighted the experts. couldn't seen
to get his game going. He hadn''
been off the fairway Throughout
the tournament until today bu
he made up for it with sprayed
tee shots. And his putting wa
nine strokes worse on the first Il
than q andler's.
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PGA Champ Posts
13-Under-Par 203;
Boros, kro|I Next
By the Associated Press

FORT WAYNE, Ind. Aug. %
Jim Turnesa of Briarcliff. NY.
the PGA champion, took over the
lead in the $4,000 Fort Wayne
Open Golf tournament today. His
last nine of 80 followed five con-
secutive 34s.
Turnesa's 203 total is 13 under
par for the 81 holes.
The steady Turnesa was the
last man off the Fort Wayne Elks
course. and his eight-foot birdie
putt on No. II took the three
quarter lead away from Julius
Boros of Mid Pines. N. c.. the
National Open champ, and Ted
Kroll of New Hartford, N. Y, the
halfway leader.
The muscular Boros, in six
way tie for fifth place Friday
matched Turnesa's 81 today ana
Kroll had SO. That gave them 204
totals.
Cary Middlecoff Of Memphis
showing the strain of long win
ming streak, dropped from his sec
ond-place tie Friday to a fourth
place tie today with Jimmy CLARK
of LaGuna Beach, Calf. Middle
cotf took a 68 for 205 total.
Clark splashed a 6-under-par
80 on the back nine, lowest score
ever fired on that half of the
course. to go with par 36 on the
outward trip. His back nine in
cluded four brides and an Eagle
and his Sc compared with 50 and
70 on his first two rounds.
Dave Douglas of Newark. Del,
tied Friday with Turnesa and
Middlecoff for second place. took a
II today and skidded to a three
way tie for eighth.
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u. 5. and Canadian Pros
Tee Off in Tourney tuesday
Ry the As.oeio,ed pr.,.

MONTREAL, Aug. 23.-Headed
by Julius Boros. National Open
champion, six of Americas top
golfers tee off Tuesday in the first
official team competition between
Canadian and United States pro-
feSsionals.
The tournament, over the Mon
treal Beaconsfield course, will be
three four-ball matches on Tues
day and six singles Wednesday.
In addition to Boros, the Amer
ican team includes Cary Middle
coff, Memphis dentist; Doug Ford
Harrison, N. Y: Ted Kroll, New
Hartford. N. Y; Dave Douglas
Newark, Del, and Jack Burke, jr.
playing captain from Houston,
Tex.
The Canadian team is headed
by Bobby Locke, British Open
champ who halls from South
Africa. Locke is an honorary mem
ber of the Canadian Professional
Golfers Association and, under
regulations for the competition, is
permitted to play with the Cana
dian team.
Rounding out the Canadian
square are Stan Leonard. Van
couver; Pat Fletcher. Saskatoon
| 1852 PGA titltholder: Jules Huoto
Stan Horne and Bill Kerr, all Of
Montreal. and Gordie Byrdson
Toronto. Kerr is team captain and
alternate.
Evening star., 1952-08-24
California Coddy's Hot Putter
Wins Him National Title

The Southern Californian, who
never had a golf lesson from a
professional in his life, needed
only 27 puts for the morning
round. Lucius used 36.
Lucius may have given the
match away on No. 10 this morn
ing. When he hit over the green
with his second and Chandler
dropped his second within three
feet of the pin, Lucius conceded
the hole. That was when Chan
|dler's great drive began.
After lunch Lucius could do nc
better than pick up two of the
deficit by the 27-hole mark.
The youths halved the 405-
yard 28th in par and Chandler
took the hilly 29th with a one.
putt par after chipping close from
the fringe.
Lucius, dormie with seven hole.
to go and q deficit of seven holes
Hooked up on his second shot o.
the 560-yard 30th and that wa!
the match. He conceded wher
iChandler stood ready to. try for {
birdie from eight feet away.
Both boys fly to New York to-
might for television appearance
/ AS runner-up, Lucius collects ,
$1,000 four-year college scholar
1ship. II
Evening star., 1952-08-24


about their golf games and when
the trophies are at stake they
don't want to discuss split-T,
the buck lateral series or pass de-
Ifense. They come to play golf.
An oddity of the tournament is
that it precedes by a day the
annual football officials clinic at
which the coaches brush up on the
rules changes. That's a very
technical session. Yet the day
before the football rules are gone
lover, the same coaches break
about every golf rule in the book.
Most of them never play in tourn-
aments except at their own get
together.
Bill Young, a guard on the last
,of the Redskins good teams and
formerly a member of Manor
Country Club, was runnerup In
the coaches division for the third
straight year. Big Bill shot 73,
Il over par and one stroke behind
Walt Pupa. assistant coach at
Carolina who won with a r.
Young now is head coach at
Furman.
Maryland's Jim Tatum drove
200 miles from his wife's home ir
South Carolina to compete anC
led six members of the Maryland
staff with an 81. The Terps' All
American guard, Bob Ward, has
just taken up the game and shot
"a 102. but Bob is going to be a
pretty good golfer in a year or Sc
and next season should take &c
shots off that score. s.
Maryland's Joe Blair was ac-
Icepting congratulations for his
teams spread in Golfers, but not
for his golf game. The public re-
lations man did win a prize fol
the most improvement, shooting
1873 compared to 1852 last year. He
made 30-foot putt on one green
which was longer than his drive
of the first hole.
Oh yes, a fellow from Washing
ton-was there who was out in 36
even par. On the back nine he
was out of bounds. in bitches
trees and in general pulled 6
Evening star., 1952-08-24
|Graham-Garber Team
Wins Golf Tourney

George Graham, the District
public links champion and Betty
CARRIER of Argyle, the District
women's golf titlist, won the East
Potomac Invitational mixeC
Scotch foursome tournament yes
terday with a gross score of 81
from mines of 40 and AZ.
The field of 78 teams was the
largest to compete in a mixec
tournament on any of the Dis
trict public courses.
Bill Sayers and Anne Clark wor
low net with an "a, minus Il
handicap strokes for a net SO.
Other low gross prize winner.
were Earl Marcy and Heller
Konopa with q 42-41, 83; Franl
IMailley and Kitty Ward with ar
81 and S. q. Leoffler, jr.. and Mrs
C. B. Howard with an 88.
Frank Abel and Kitty Neali.
won runner-up honors In the me-
Evening star., 1952-08-24
By the Assoeioied Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Ben Ho-
gan today was named the top pro-
lfessional golfer of the last so years
in a poll conducted by the Profess
sional Golfers Association OF
America.
PGA headquarters said it polled
3,032 of its members as well as
more than 900 sports writer's and
radio commentators.
Bobby Jones was selected the
top amateur.
Hogan received 522 votes, three
more than Walter Hagen. Gene
Sarazen was third with 504. fol-
lowed by Sam Snead 499. Byron
Nelson 491, Tommy Armour 351
Lloyd Mangrum 304. Macdonald
Smith 172, Ralph Guldahl las and
Jimmy Demaret lit.
Jones received Sis votes In the
amateur group while Chick Evans
was second with 447. Then came