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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-11

He told me he had decided to re-
appoint Hoover as he had found
that Hoover had not been personal
ly responsible for the abuses that
occurred in the raids and had been
acting under orders"
The records show that orders for
the raids were signed by Frank
Burke of the Bureau of Investiga-
ton, while Hoover at the time was
In the Department of Justice.
Later in 1910 there was a flare.
up of criticism against the FBI
over the arrest of persons in De-
troit in connection with recruiting
for Spanish loyaliSts. Sen. George
Norris sharply criticized the FBI
for the methods used in these ar
rests. 81
An investigation by the Depart
ment of Justice absolved the FBI
agents of wrongdoing. Hoover likes
to recall he attended a gridiron
club dinner in Washington at this
time and President Roosevelt
called out to him: Edgar, what
are they trying to do to you on
the Hill?"
Il told the President It's hard
to say
''He turned his thumbs down on
the table and said That's for
them And the attacks began to
Subside after that.
Hoover has been criticized, too.
for asking authority to tap tele-
phone wires in cases involving es.
pionage, subversion, sabotage and
kidnaping-and then bring this
evidence into court. The use of
wiretap evidence in federal courts
is now forbidden.
Years ago Hoover stoutly op-
posed the use of wire tapping by
the FBI. Now he sayd: 1.-THE FBI
was the first agency to take a
stand against wire tapping. But
world conditions have changed
since that time Pm just as much
opposed to overlapping as ever
except in cases of espionage, sab
otage, subversion and kidnapping.
when the life of the nation is
at stake, then the sanctity of tele-
phone communications should not
be extended to criminals. And
even then overlapping should be
most restricted"
Hoover said there is a general
impression the FBI taps 'thou-
sands of wires when as a fact at
no time have FBI wiretaps exceed
ed ZOO" And a tap is made, he
said, only after the attorney gen.
eral gives his written approval.
In the field of civil liberty vio-
lations, the FBI has probed the
operations of the Ku Klux Khan,
and cases involving peonage, Slav-
cry, lynchings, etc. and these in
vestigations sometimes have
brought attacks.
Hoover says: 81 don't care about
popularity as long as we are right.
If law is bad if a law is I'M
popular, that is a matter for Con-
gress to correct-not the director
of the FBI.
1.-The civil rights statutes are on
the bookS-and as long as they are
there, this bureau is gong to eA-
force them..'
AS for the college trained fiat
feet" jibe-Hoover is proud of the
fact that his agents must meet a
high standard of education.
'Our men must meet high
moral, educational 'and physical
Standard" he said, ''in order to
carry out thei, duties properly. By
insisting on this type of men, our
spirit within the FBI has beer
wonderful.
MANY of our people could leav
the FBI today and go into industr
or other fields and make mar
times what they make here. B
they prefer to stay with the FP
Their salaries can't compensate
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-11
BY DON WHITEHEAD

WV
Copyright 1854 By The Associated
Press
WASHINGTON R-During his 80
years as chief of the FPI, J. Edgar
Hoover has been assaulted. as a sin.
ister menace to American liber-
ties, an enemy of criminal refor-
nation, a "college-trained fiat
foot" and a political partisan.
What has been the end result?
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI still
command a place of prestige
which is unusua. in the nation
government.
Over the years Hoover has run
gantlet of more criticism and
emerged with fewer scars proba-
bly, than any other man in public
service. 49,
His is one of the strangest and
most absorbing stories in all of
official Washington where bureau
Gratis" come and go-but where
Hoover remains year after year in
position that seems almost i'm
pregnable.
What does Hoover himself think
of this criticism?
I'm used to it now," he said in
an interview. 'I'm not as sensitive
any more-except when | think the
criticism is unjust and unfair.
las / see our responsibility, it
is to protect the American people
and to see they are guaranteed
their rights accorded by the Con-
Stitution. We are just as interested
in proving innocence as establish.
ing guilt"
The instructions given to FBI
agents in the matter of observing
civil rights are stern. Agents are
admonished not to step beyond the
boundaries of justice-not to give
even an impression of bullying or
to cast suspicion on anyone
through their acts and manner of
questioning. This is a matter of
record.
The argument hinges on how
well these written instructions are
observed. On this score, Morris L.
Ernst, sometimes counsel for the
American Civil Liberties Union,
wrote in the December, 1850,
Readers Digest:
"a real smear campaign has
been carried on against Hoover's
work. Those who feared the bu-
reau-as l once did-will be glad
to know the facts. The FBI is
unique in the history of national
police. 1t has magnificent record
of respect for individual freedom.
1t invites documented complaints
against its agents. 1t has zealously
tried to prevent itself from violat-
ing the democratic processes.
Among liberals, / am by no
means alone in this opinion. A
while ago Roger Baldwin, former
director of the American Civil Lib
critics Union, wrote to j. Edgar
Hoover: 1t seems to me that your
bureau. has accomplished an ex-
ceedingly difficult task with rare
judicial sense
''For me, that sums up the
record
The Ernst article carried the
title: "Why l no Longer Fear the
FBI."
Scandal has never touched Hoov-
er in all his years as FIJI chief
and neither has it involved the
FBI.
A longstanding complaint is that
the FBI is moving in the direction
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GOOD ADVICE, NOW ELECTION IS OVER.
LET US THEN BE UP AND DOING

AS The Citizen has remarked repeatedly over the
years. where there contest of any kind there must be
winner and loser It's advice to the winner not to crow
and to the loser to accept the result without spite or
nifty. Everybody admires the good loser"
Key West has just had hot election but bv no
means the hottest has had In this or any other
local election the heat is continued after the voters
have expressed their Choices the only sufferer will be
Key West itself.
The Citizen is confident that the losers are just as
much concerned in the welfare of Key West as are the
winners So winners and losers should not assume an at
tude that may harm to the economic life of our
city.
In local elections, many years ago. some losers were
stepped in spite they asserted regarding movements
designed to help Key West that if So-and-so had any,
thing to do with it. Count OUT Their reasoning was
unsound, because in thinking they hitting back at
the winners they were instead 1ambasting their own
hometown.
Broodng over the past regarding anything in or out
Of politics, the most futile thing in all the world The
past is dead and in trying to it, we increase only
nervous tension which, if persisted In undermines our
health
On that point, get good advice from a thousand
writer's Longfelow tells us, Let then be up and do
ing and Dr. Samuel Smiles says, Enjoy the present and
anticipate the glories of the future"
The Citizen keeny alive to the fact that nobody
likes to ose But does lose sight of another fact
knows that if he enters contest of any kind. he
may win or he lose and that he should grid himself
in the event that he loses
Key West is now experiencing its greatest progress
so let unity ourselves in efforts to increase that pro-
gress we do anything that may reard it. we hurt our
selves as we'll as the entire community.
Our major objective is to attract more tourists to
Key West and to build and build and build to provide
accommodations for them But in all other civic matters
also we should be up and doing" for therein lie the
gories of the future"
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Waits Dog, Not Hubby

DALLAS, IA woman reported
tor police that her husband had
disappeared with her Chihuahua
puppy.
81 don't care if my husband ever
comes back" she explained. SCI
just want to find my dog"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-11
Behind The Scenes With he
J. Edgar Hoover Marks 80 Years On The Job

EDITORS Note: In 30 years as
director of the FBI, J. Edgar
Hoover has run a gantlet of criti-
cism ranging from charges he has
abused civil rights to downright
name-calling. Here's his story of
how he has survived the blasts
and what he has tried to accom-
plish in service under five presi-
dents.
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What is the truth in this?
Hoover himself brushes off such
suggestion as an absurdity and
points to his record of consistently
opposing proposals-some original
ing in Congressional the FBI be-
come national police force.
Twenty years ago it was pro-
posed in Congress that each state
send two men here for FBI train
ing-the candidates to be chosen
by the governors. Then these
agents would return to their states
and act as rowing" FBI men with
in the states boundaries.
Hoover regarded this bill as the
opening wedge in a move for a
national police force. He Issued in
structions to his bureau saying:
II do not want to be party to any
such ntastic and ridiculous
plan -. be particularly careful
that by no stretch of the magma
ton anyone CLEANS any infcrma-
ton from us that will place us
even indirectly as encouraging any
such program. :.-
Hoover had been in the Depart
ment of Justice only a short time,
as special assistant to Atty. Gen.
A. Palmer Mitchell, when critics
first assailed him. This was in con-
nection with the So-called Palmer
raids of the early 1920's.
In those raids, FBI agents act
ing on warrants issued by the I'M
migration Bureau, swooped down
on aliens in mass roundup of al
legged suspects in the anarchist
terrorism that followed World
War l.
More than $500 aliens were br-
rested. Agents broke into houses
in the middle of the night. Suspects
were herded by the hundreds into
auditoriumS and mauled around.
They were given no chance to call
families or relatives. And the due
process of law, it was generally
admitted, was pushed about.
An FBI man familiar with the
raids (but not then with the bu-
reau) said:. at was pretty grue-
some proposition.
Hoover prosecuted the deporta-
ton cases against some of the sus-
poets and 249 were deported to
Russia. For years afterward,
Hoover's name was linked with the
raids although he protested that
he had nothing whatever to do with
the raids themselves and the man.
handling of the suspects.
In 1910, Morris Katzeff, Boston
attorney who had helped in the
defense of the. suspected anar-
chists, wrote to Hoover saying:
81 recalled that you had nothing
to do with the Irregularities and
harsh treatment of aliens suspect
ed of being Communists. And
I recalled hearing at which
you deplored as sincerely as we
did the incident attending the cir
cumStances :"
Katzeff said he wrote merely to
set the record straight as he was
one of the few persons still living
who knew the facts of the case.
At the start of the first admin.
list. alton of President Franklin d.
Roosevelt, there were reports that
Sen. Thomas Walsh had said he
intended to throw Hoover out of
office when he (Walsh) became
attorney general.
John Wattawa, a nephew Of
Walsh and a practicing attorney
here, gave this report of the in
cident in an interview:
''In making preliminary arrange.
ments to take over the Department
Of Justice, Sen. Walsh did discuss
the question of reappointing Hooy-
er as director of the FBI. There
was opposition to Hoover because
OF stories about the part he had
played in the Palmer raids.
Shortly before the senator's
death-which came before he could
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)r the time and sacrifices they
I'VE given"
The average FBI agent makes
out $1,000 year. The top sal
y in the FBI is drawn by Hoover
nd is fixed by Congress at $40, 900.
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The glad-greeter who always meets you with COM
pliment is sucking for something
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-02-26

A number from this section at
ended the Curdsville P-TA meet
ing Friday night. All enjoyed the
playlett Light of Tomorrow
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-02-26
Common Glory Tyouts
TO Be Held in March

Tlyouts fc1 TIE 1854 production
Of The Common Glory" have
been scheduled in widely separat-
ed areas of Virginia On Successive
week ends ii March, Allen r.
Ma Aevs eHeeg We vice-presi-
dent Of The plodscmq jamestown
Corporation. announced today.
III additl u, Matthews aid. d
final two-day addition for sue
cessful applicants tae Pre-
lin nantes has been scheduled
for Saturday ana sunday, April
10 ana H. at the production 5
Natoaka Lake A1ph.theatre
Ell Virgln.an applicants for
places in The shows ca {. orche5-
ira technical crew, ana group
must be audlt.oned o. the case
OF technical Grew applicants. M
teIviewed at one Of the three
rrallmintries. Only two dance
t1youts VIII be held.
The Corporation official said
the acting and technical pre-
liminaries viii begin at the Wren
Kitchen basement OF the Wren
Building the College of william
and Mary, on Saturday. March
6 On the same date, dance NY
outs viii be conducted at JEFF
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-02-26

Harris home. Sunday afternoon
Nrs, - NAPLES. Mrs, j. c
Bersch and Jim Ownby visited
AFR ard Mrs. c. NJ. Ow'nby. at
T2ents Mil. Sunday.
Misses Arm Cook and BeuIah
Forbes were dinner guests of
Misses Connie and Frances o.
Brien, at Appomattox. Sunday.
Mis- Z. r. Senger is sick again.
MI. and Mrs H. F. Harris and
children were supper guests of Mr..
and Mrs F G. Lynn. in Farm
vile Sunday. Mrs. Harris also
visited several friends at South
side Hospital Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. A N. Morris and
children visited Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Harris. at Sheppards,
Sunday afternoon.
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and children called in the same
home, sunday evening
Mir and Mrs r. = Soneer and
sons spent sundsly win her par-
ents ut JetersYilTe, and also visit
ed Mrs. Herman Thompson. at
SouthsIde Hospital
MI. and Mrs. Hobert Harris. Of
Sheppards. visited MI. and Mrs.
r. II. ChernaHlt, Thursday night.
IL. D. Club Meets
The home demonstration club
viii mee5 with MIS- K. NJ. BeasleY
Monday Marfh ! AZ ? p. n The
demonstration Will be Color Har-
mony IN the Home All members
are urged 70 te present. MIS-. Mary
Bracev viii he co-hostess
T NJ Manis and Paul MANS
Of Famville visited in the r. L.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-02-26

Mr. and Mrs. f. D. Senger. Mrs
r. M Beasiey and Mr.. and Mrs
Fl. F Harris attended the meet
ing OF Curdsville Grange IN the
school last Wednesday night
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been holding a big banner. car
ried Doory from the floor, then
presented the banner to his
mother.
But in the 157-pound bout,
Grover Manderfield of Gu was
battling John Jacobs Of Gallau-
Diet. with Johns Hopkins chances
hanging on the outcome. Man.
derf1eld won and JH fans
swarmed on the mat and carried
off Manderfield.
! That put Gallaudet seven
points behind Hopkins with only
one more wrestler remaining
Harold Wright. who was meet
ing Dennie PSoraS of Towson in
the 167 pound bout. Johns Hop
kinS had no more wrestlers left.
That meant Wright had to win
by fall to gain Gallaudet a tie.
He did with a cradle hold and
this time it took Is minutes to
| get the floor cleared of Gallaudet
supporters so that the last three
boutS-all anti-climactic-could
! be held.
| Towson, Loyola and Western
Maryland followed the top four
teams in that order.
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Hoyus' Record Broken
Distance Runners Give 7erps
Dominance in Conference

well = remembered Georgetown
runner who set q 1:11.7 stand
ard for the 1000 in 1919. Tom
Courtney ran the distance Sat-
urday in 2:l0.9.
Only one Of five defending
champions Al Thompson Of
Columbia in the shot-was sue
cessful. The most notable upset
came when Paul Raudenbush Of
Penn not only lost to Courtrey's
record run in the 1000 but was
photoed out Of second place by
Mike Stanley of Yale.
In the Atlantic Coast meet,
Maryland swept all places in
the 440 with Joe Hemler home
first. and had additional win
ners in the mile relay. Charles
Wagner in the $50. Larry Faass
in the mile, Ben Good in the
2-mile and Mel Schwarz with q
record Is feet 324 inches in the
pole vault. The record he broke
belonged in the old Southern
Conference. but the new loop is
taking over the others standards.
The Terrapins also counted
heavily with places in all events
except the 70-yard low hurdles.
Joel Shankle Of Duke won that
event and also took the broad
jump tied for first in the high
jump. and was second in the
pole vault for individual honors.
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Top District Sports Figures
HonorKnocky Thomas Tonight

Max harrington. Lee Field, Jim
Wagner, Ralph D. Pittman, Jack
Gass and Donald H. Adams.
Dinner Chairman Sam Ormes
will present Knocky with a gift
from his admirers. Others on
the dinner committee are j. Kip
Edwards. Hector airing. Hal Hal
likson. Steve Douglas and Fred
Carpenter.
Officially representing the
University Of Maryland will be
Dean of Men Geary Eppley,
Thomas former track coach; Bill
Hotel, veteran publicist. and
Graduate Manager of Athletics
Bill Cooley.
Some of the sports, business
and civic leaders who will join in
the tribute are the Rev. Fred
erick Brew, S. j.; George Neu-
mann, Jack Riley. DR.. Jack Fa-
Der, Charley Reynolds, Eddie La
Fond. AL Mergardt, Raymond
(Sonny) Workman. Eddie Smith,
Col. Joe Escude, Dick Mccain,
Jim Simpson, Goldie Ahearn,
Scotty Morris, Ted Welliver, Ben
lola and Ted Lewis.
Tickets are SIS apiece and will
be available at the club. 1414 I
street NV.
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Patty Berg, PETE Cooper
Rule Mixed Golf Tourney

ORLANDO, Fla, Mar. l.
Superior driving and putting
yesterday brought Patty Berg
and Pete Cooper a and VIC
tory over Grace Demoss Smith
ana George Bolesta and the In
ternational Mixed Two-Ball Golf
Tournament title.
Miss Berg. from Chicago: and
Cooper, from Tampa, who lost
in the 1851 final to Bolesta and
Babe Zaharias. led all the way
after the second hole.
They completed the morning
Is ahead. 3 up and one under
par II. Mrs. Smith, a Coral
Gables. Fla, amateur, and Be-
lesta. another Tampan, were
three over par.
The lead shrank to l up after
a Berg Cooper DOGGY on the
Goth and Smith Bolesta bir-
die on the 22d but that was the
closest the losers came. Berg
Cooper were again 3 up after
par on the 23d and a birdie
on the 25th.
Cooper closed out the match
with a 15-foot putt for a birdie,
the sixth of the day for his
team, on the par 8 33d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-01

So widespread are the roots
Of Knocky Thomas in the ath-
letic field Of Washington that
tonight's testimonial dinner for
him, at the Touchdown Club,
will bring out most Of the top
sports figures Of the area.
Thomas admirers have pyra-
mided through the years. begin
ming in the 1920s when he starred
in football and track at the Uni
versity Of Maryland (1924-1928)
He later played FOOTBALL with the
Stanton Juniors. Mohawk Ath-
letic Club and ran unattached
as a trackman. He was a sprinter
and quarter-miler.
Thomas was the seventh pres
ident of the Touchdown Club
and for several years its manager.
At least nine other past presi-
dents are expected to be on hand
when the reception is held at 6
o'clock. with dinner to follow an
hour later.
Robert c. Simmons, a past
president, will be the master Of
ceremonies. Others attending
who served in the Office will in
clude Chief Judge Leonard p.
Walsh of the Municipal Court,
Arthur J. (Dutch) Bergman,
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DC. Golden GIovers
Draw Three Byes

Spoefoi Otsp0seh - The Sf0r
NEW YORK, Mar. Three
Golden Gloves boxing champions
from Washington, D. c.. drew
first-round byes. but the other
Ave were handed stiff first-round
opposition for the Eastern gloves
tournament opening tonight.
Heavyweight Len Kanthal Of
the Quantico Marines got a par
ticularly tough one when paired
against Ray Lessard. a protege
of Rocky Marciano from Brock
ton. Mass.
Other pairings were: Bantam
weight George Davis against Joe
Herring Of Newark. Feather
weight Harold Conklin against
Norman Hutchinson Of Newark,
Lightweight Ernie Williams
against Bertram Bailey of New
York and Middleweight Ellsworth
Gray against Elwood Thornton
of Sampson Air Force Base.
Washington fighters with byes
were Flyweight Johnny Gray,
Welterweight Francis Harper
and Lightweight Ray Tucker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-01
Hoyos' Record Broken

Jim Kehoe, coach of the Mary
land track team. a good half
miller himself in college days. has
come up with a fine group OF
middle distance and distance
runners to dominate track activ-
tiles in the new Atlantic Coast
Conference.
The Terrapins wo. everything
from 440 yards up--including
the mile relay-to pile up $685.
points while easily winning the
first ACC indoor championships
at Raleigh Saturday.
It appears that Yale will be
the big favorite in the heptago-
nal championships this Saturday
after Squeaking through with a
half-point edge over Boston u.
last Saturday in the IC-4A meet.
The Ellis didn't win a first place,
but they counted heavily with
seconds and thirds.
Georgetown was far down the
list with four points. with the
2-mile relay team taking a third
and with Paul Baroncelli finish
ing fifth in the shot. The Hoyas
have a number of promising
sophomore distance runners, but
as yet aren't up to the first-class
competition they met Saturday.
Only one record was broken at
the IC-4A meet, and it was the
mark belonging to Joe Deadly, a
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Fairfax Gunners 10 Hold
Banquet for New Officers

The Fairfax Gun Club, follow
ing its annual election yesterday,
will install new officers at the
club banquet at Odd Fellows
Hall in Falls Church March 20.
Elected president yesterday
was Kennedy Ludlum, ANNOUNCE
err for Radio Station WRC and
outdoors columnist for the
Times-Herald. John A. Writ is
the new vice president, George
A. Barnett was chosen treasurer
and c. Glenn Norris recording
secretary.
Other new officers include:
Mrs. Margaret B. Shockey. CORE
spending secretary; Thomas B.
McKneeley. sergeant at arms;
Richard H. Rule, chief instruc-
tor; John L. Getting, first direc-
tor, and Pete Brown, second di-
rector.
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ConferenceMotMeetuT Thriller
As GoIIoudet Ties Joysfor Title

The fans had a lot of fun at
the Mason-Dixon wre stlin g
championship at Towson State
Teachers College.
In one of the closest tourna-
ments in history Gallaudet and
Johns Hopkins tied for first
place Saturday with rs points
each and Catholic U. and Bal
timore U. tied for the third at
20 points.
: It was so close that the spec
tators piled from the stands to
the floor three times and each
time they carried of a victor
In the traditional manner.
al Doory Of Baltimore was the
first so honored. Doory. who had
beaten Gallaudet's top 147-
nounder three straight years in
this tournament, took on Bob
Connor of Johns Hopkins. A
Conner victory would have just
shout knocked Gallaudet's
chances out the gymnasium win
dow.
But after almost getting
vSinned and then losing points
for an illegal hold. Doory beat
Conner with a pin in the last
three seconds.
Gallaudet spectators, who had