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Evening star., 1954-12-23
By ne Assoeiossd Press

ATLANTA, Dec. 23.--Bobby
Dodd. Georgia Teen coach, re-
portedly is being considered by
the Los Angeles Rams as q sue
cessor to Hampton Pool, who re-
signed as head coach last week.
Edwin Pope, executive sports
editor of the Atlanta journal,
today quoted Comedian Bob
Hope, q major stockholder Of
the Rams. as saying in q long
distance telephone conversation
that Dodd lis one of three or
four being discussed for the
vacancy.
Hope. asked about q rumor
that Dodd was being considered,
uuipped: Sure. I'd love to get
him out here. He's the only man
! ever could beat In golf.
In . more serious vein. he
added: Really, ali I can say
IS that Dodd Is one Of three or
four men being discussed for the
job. ] personally am D great
admirer Of Dodd
The Georgia Tech coach said
today he had mot previously
heard the report. And I cer-
tainly am not contemplating
leaving Tech right away Bobby
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Connie Mack Observes
07d Birthday Quietly
al ~ As.oeiai.d 30, p.

PORT MYERS. Fla. Dec. 23.
Connie Mack. the grand old man
.of baseball, Is observing his 92d
birthday with q quiet family din
ner party today.
Actually he was 90 yesterday.
At the request Of old friends he
decided TO celebrate this year on
the date he thought for 50 long
was his birthday.
The longtime manager OF the
Philadelphia Athletics was born
near midnight. Until two years
ago he thought he arrived Just
after midnight on December g.
Then an old family friend dis
closed the birth was just before
midnight December %. He OBJ
served that birthday in 1852 and
1858.
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Kramer BeIieyesU.S.
Must Win Davis Cup
|0r Wait Five Years
BY ihs Asseeiuted Press

SYDNEY, Australia. Dec. 23.-
If America fails to win the Davis
Cup this year, it may be i've
years before she can make
another serious challenge, Jack
Kramer warned today.
This is our one big chance" !"
said the professional promoter
who once was Uncle Sans rank
ing tennis ace. Its a chance we
cannot afford to miss"
Kramer explained that ii the
United States Is beaten again in
the challenge round next week
by Australia, Tony Trabert is
likely to lose interest and Vic
Seixas may retire from cup
competition.
IF the United States wins"
Kramer said, vic may be
brought back for one more fling
next year and Tony probably still
would be the country's best bet
because he is young and strong.
But If we lose we will certainly
face many long, hard winters be-
fore we can get back into the
cup picture"
Richardson Only Prospect.
Kramer said Americas only
Davis Cup prospect outside
Seixas and Trabert is Hamilton
Richardson, the 21-year-old
national collegiate champion
from Tulane.
"But Ham is going to Oxford
as a Rhodes scholar and while
he hopes to keep up his tennis
he simply cannot maintain the
edge he needs. Others will be
catching up with him.
Behind Richardson we have
a group who have been tried
and found not quite up to pres
ent cup standards.
I'VE have no group Of players
to compare with, let's say, Neale
Fraser and Rex Hartwig. who
are ready to step in should
either Lew Hoad or Ken Rose
wall turn pro.
1Our one big hope for the
immediate future would be that
the professionals steal OF Hoad
and Rosewall and one of our
kids comes through"
Can't Be Too Confident.
America cannot be too con-
fldent, Kramer added. even If
the situation is looked at
through long grange glasses.
Let's face it, he said. Right
now even our juniors are not as
(See KRAMER. Page A-1O.)
Evening star., 1954-12-23
North Says Chances
Against South Hinge
On Aerial Attack
BY The Assoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. College
footballs greatest gamer, Full
back Alan Ameche OF Wisconsin.
will spearhead the North ground
attack in the North-South ALI
Star game here Christmas night.
but the Yankees hopes may ride
with their passers.
Ivy Williamson of Wisconsin,
the North coach. says he expects
Ameche to gain plenty OF yard
age but he adds. Il think our
chances will depend mostly on
how well our tIrowers click"
Florian Helinski Of Indiana,
Duncan Mcdonald of Michigan
and Tom Gastall Of Boston Uni
versity have been doing the
passing for the North in the
weeks workouts. With Ends
Bob Long and Bob Heydenfeldt
Of UCLA on the receiving end.
all three looked great.
South Seven Point Favorite.
The South was established
yesterday as q seven-point fa-
vorite and Williamson said that
"by tradition / suppose the
South should be favored"
But he hastened to remark
that II think we can stand toe
to-toe with them"
The South has dominated the
seven-game all-Star series, win
ming five games and tying one.
In the past, the games have been
wide -open aerial battles, but
Andy Gustafson. Miami coach,
who with Jim Tatum of Mary
land, coaches the South, says the
Rebel offense this year will be
based on running.
I'VE don't expect to hold
Ameche," GuStafson said. Hell
score q couple. But we will out
score 'em--three touchdownS to
two"
Directing the South's running
attack will be the man who
knows 1t best, Miami's quarter
back, Carl Garrigus, q deceptive
ball handler and a constant
threat on option plays because
of his equally dangerous running
and passing ability.
Horning Joins Squad.
With Garrigus in the starting
offensive backfield win be Half
backs Buddy Leake of Oklahoma
and Larry Parker Of North Caro-
lima and Fullback Dick Bielski
Of Maryland. Halfback Joe
(Ena N0RTEg. .S0TTTH A-11.l
Evening star., 1954-12-23
By Dick o'Brien

The first area military unit
to file claim for honors in The
Evening Star Golden Gloves
tournament when the entry list
opened yesterday was the Dis
trict Air National Guard under
the direction of Coach Ray
Alcorn. The Golden Gloves
tournament opens at Turner'S
Arena February with the FIRST
preliminary round.
This is the first year of COM
petition in the Gloves for the
Airmen. but already elaborate
training facilities have been
made available for. novice and
senior recruits at the spacious
National Guard Armory.
Coach Alcorn announced yes
terday that training for the Air
men already has gotten under
way with sessions Monday and
Wednesday evenings. However,
he win institute Q stepped-up
conditioning program after the
holidays.
Alcorn. q former Golden
Glover. who now Is q student at
Wilson Teachers College, expects
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Snow on Practice Field
Title Game to End Pro Career
OfBingomon1 Perhaps Graham
Ap wirephoto.

tofore unknown talent when he
framed this statement:
"Win or lose. this is It;
TIN %. and it's time to
quit"
Bingaman, who played his coll
lege football at Illinois, plans to
become a brewery representa-
tive. He joined the Lions In
l948 and has played seven sea-
sons. The question of Binga.
mans weight. long pondered by
experts. was partially settled last
July when he weighed In at
training camp at gasping 349la.
But since then 1t has dropped.
Some guess he now is a skinny
315.
Otto Graham, Cleveland's
tSee BINGAMAN, Page Aid
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Snow on Practice Field
seven seasons.
sv me Associated Pres.

CLEVELAND, Dec. %. - The
National Football League cham
pionship game here Sunday
means a lot Of things to a lot
of people.
To most, Of course, It's the
test that will prove for another
season which pro team is the
best In the land--the defending
champion Detroit Lions, favored
by 2 points. or the challenging
Cleveland Browns.
To one player, the contest will
be an end to a highly successful
career In the play-for-pay loop.
Les Bingaman. 315-pound guard
for the Lions. is the man who
says he definitely will be playing
his last game Sunday.
Whether he did = Intentionally
or not. big Les displayed q here
Evening star., 1954-12-23

The answer, which should come easily
in these parts, is James Barton Mickey
Vernon of the Senators. The point is raised
because it appears equally implausible, II
not more So to hail Bobby Avila OF the
Cleveland Indians as the 1854 batting king
His 341 average was cool SIS points better
than the Mexican batted in SO, and where
do guys get off with thumbing their noses
so at form?
The genuine, gold-plated champion
should have been Ted Williams. returning
from Korea to bat 345 But Ted was IA
clorf of nuo lifvipo under the d0n- -fimeS-at-
Evening star., 1954-12-23

tsee CIV. Page A-1oo
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Big Ten Routed.

In the tough shedding for the
Big Ten teams. Brigham Young
upset Michigan 70-60. Butler
downed Northwestern 83-62. De-
Paul edged Michigan State TO-
fSee RASKETRATI. page Ain !
Evening star., 1954-12-23
C.oIoniaIs Prove
No Match for
Dons IN FinaI
San francisco Wins
Title III Waltz as
CIV Turns Err0tic

OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 2s.
Seldom has : team 20 COM
pletely dominated Z top-fiight
college basketball tournament
the way the unseeded san Fran
cisco Dons waltzed through the
1sth College Tournament
here. winning three games by .
total Of 50 points. with its mar
rowest margin 16.
George Washington Univer-
sity's Southern Conference
champions were the Dons' third
victims. bowing, 1857. in the
title game last night before q
crowd OF $500. Previously the
once -beaten coast team had won,
94-75, over Wichita and T5-51
over Oklahoma City.
And CIV, Wichita and Okla
l1oma City won all games they
played in the tournament except
the ones with San Francisco,
Oklahoma City taking third
place and Wichita fifth.
Failure to get its shots OF
and only a 81 per cent average
when it did shoot proved costly
to George washington. which
took only 56 shots compared to
San Francisco's 90 and made
only IL. The Dons made %
of SO.
COIOnials Miss Klein.
The Colonials were without
their playmaker, George Klein,
who suffered q slight ankle
sprain IN the semifinal against
Tulsa. without Klein. CIV did
not set up the plays the way 1t
did in beating the Oklahoma Ag-
gies and the Oilers.
Klein Is expected to be ready
for next weeks tournament at
Richmond, Va, where CIV. the
Steel Bowl champion. meets Col
gate next Tuesday night.
George Washington,s fiashy
Corky Devlin made the ALI
Tournament team along with
two San Francisco players, Jerry
Mullen and Bill Russell, Cleo
Littleton Of Wichita and Bob
Patterson of Tulsa.
Russell, who turned most of
GW's missed shots into San
Francisco recoveries with his
great blackboard work. was un-
animous choice as the outstand-
ing player. The 6-foot-9 junior
(See CIV. Page A-10)
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Big Ter shutout t1ighIiehts wave Of Maior Upsets
Ebel,irlg Sfar sporfs LaSalle Finds
Win, Lose Or Dra..
By FRANCIS sTANN

for the man with the long white Whiskers Name the big
league ball player spent IA years trying to bat 30O
accomplished the trick twicand the American League
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Gold Coast Rood

Work is progressing on q new
Gold Coast road which will re-
duce the 73-mile travel distance
between Accra and Winneba to
SO miles.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Governor for Sumou

American Samoa recently
learned that Richard Barrett
Lowe. who started his career as
school teacher. will be the Ter
ritory'S new governor.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Wilson 0uizzed by Abbiif
On Closing Of Pickett
By shs Assosia,sd Press

Secretary Of Defense Wilson
has been asked by Representa-
tive Abbitt. Democrat. Of Vir-
ginia. to say at what level the
decision was reached to close
Camp Pickett. Va.
Mr.. Abbitt told a reporter he
had been 'misjnformed of the
intentions" Of the Army and de
prived Of the opportunity" Of
discussing the necessity OF clos
ing the camp by June 80.
Mr.. Abbitt was critical of what
he described as the short notice
given him Of the decision to shut
down the camp located near
Blackstone.
He wrote that he had received
repeated assurances that no de-
cision had been reached on Camp
Pickett.
; Meanwhile. Mr.. Abbitt said he
is requesting early committee ac-
ton on a bill he offered to force
disposal of the As. .OO0-acre camp.
An identical bill was offered in
the Senate by Senators Byrd and
Robertson, Virginia Democrats.
Mr.. Abbitt said he hopes the
bill will help to bring some def
mite solution concerning future
use of the camp. Unless some
permanent use can be made by
the military. he said, it would be
best for the economy of South
side Virginia to dispose Of the
camp altogether.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Rescue Ship Picks Up
Crew Of Sinking Vessel
, By ne Assceio,ed Pres.

MANILA, Feb. 5.-The Pana-
manian freighter Liberal radioed
today that it had picked up two
boatloads of crewmen from the
British motorship Fernmoor,
which ripped open its bottom
on q reef near Palawan Island
In the South China Sea.
The United States Navy base
at Sangley Point near here said
the Liberal reported that other
members Of the Fernmoor's crew
were standing by the sinking
ship. The crew was believed to
total 40 men.
The Japanese freighter Eisho
Maru also was reported stand
ing by.
An earlier message picked up
at Sangley Point said the ship
was low in the water and the
crew was in four lifeboats tied
alongside.
The message from the vessel
was picked up by Globe Wireless
said water had flooded the No. 2
hold and the engine room Of the
Fernmoor.
The sea was reported calm.
Evening star., 1954-02-05

tives Of the Associated Press are
always available for discussion
of any complaint that an indi-
vidual or organization wishes to
bring to our attention. Inter-
eSted parties may always have
access to our news files for de-
tailed examination of what the
Associated Press has transmitted
on any given subject. This pol.
icy and practice conforms to our
fundamental obligations as OBJ
jective and honest news report
erS.
1--WE respond frequently to
inquiries from both official and
unofficial sources as to the con-
tent of our news report. There
fore We did not deem as unusual
the visit of the House Commit
tee Investigator except perhaps
the vague and generaliZed char
acter of his inquiries"
Velde Denies Probe.
Mr.. Velde. when asked about
the committees inquiry to AP.
said it was mot an investiga-
ton"
IT was just interested in see
ing what facts were reported"
Mr.. Velde said.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Today
In
CONGRESS

BRICKER AMENDMENT -
Senate continues debate. but
Senate Republican Leader
Kncwland says key test votes
will be put on for 10 days or
more.
POSTAL RATES-House Post
Office Comraittee, which yester-
day voted to raise the cost of
mailing out-of-town letters to
four cents, turns to proposed in
creases in charges for newspa-
pers. magazines. advertising and
commercial mail. Raising air
mail letters from six to seven
cents is also UP for considera-
ton.
BEESON - Albert C. Beeson,
whose nomination to the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board is
opposed by Senator Labor Com
mittee Democrats. faces further
committee questioning on wheth-
.er he still has pension ties with
the Food Machinery and Chem
ical Corp.
FOREIGN AID - S Senator
Humphrey. Democrat. of Minne-
sofa. says he will take issue with
Foreign Aid Director Stassen on
a policy Of awarding some de-
Tense contracts overseas when
there is unemployment at home.
Mr.. Stassen appears before the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee in a closed session.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Mississippi Executes
Slayer Of 7 Policemen
BY The A.,oeIe.sd Pres.

HATTIESBURG, Miss, Feb. S.
Luther Carlyle Wheeler, who
killed two Hattiesburg policemen
in a gun battle nearly two years
age, was executed in Mississippi's
portable electric chair early to-
day. About 200 persons watched.
Wheeler was calm. He asked
the audience to accept God. He
spoke clearly. but at the end
his voice broke into sobs.
The execution took place In
the courtroom where a. jury in
1852 condemned Wheeler to
death.
United States Supreme Court
Justices Black and Frankfurter
declined to intervene or grant
q stay last night.
Wheeler's appeal was tele-
graphed to Washington a few
minutes after Judge Wayne G..
Borah Of the United States Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals in New
Orleans refused to grant a stay
Of execution.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
President AccIainls
Mindszeniy 5 Spirit

President Eisenhower says the
spirit Of Cardinal Mindszenty
and other church leaders perse-
cuted by the Communists "las
defied confinement by the totali-
tartan state
In q letter to the United
Catholic Organizations for the
Freeing Of Cardinal Mindszenty.
the President noted the fifth an
niversary OF the Hungarian pre-
late's imprisonment BY the Com
munists.
"The unjust nature Of the
proceedings against Cardinal
Mindszenty is, of course. well
known to the American people. !"
the President wrote. They re-
garded the attack upon him as
a blow against religious freedom,
in Hungary and an unprinci.
pied attempt to destroy spiritual
and moral influences in that
country. I...
"The Communist assault upon
religious liberty and leadership
in Hungary has failed, however,
to turn the Hungarian people
from their faith in God. The
plight of Cardinal Mindszenty
and Of other churchmen who
have suffered at the hands Of
the Communists has not been
forgotten. Their situation con-
tinues deeply to concern the
people Of Hungary and to evoke
the sympathy Of the free world.
Despite the constraints of per-
son and silence imposed on
Cardinal Mindszenty and other
church leaders by their persecu-
tors, the spirit Of these men has
defied confinement by the totali-
tartan state. It has become. in
deed, symbol of faith and free
dom for our times"
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Six wild West Bandits
Rob British Mail Truck
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

SHIPLEY BRIDGE. England,
Feb. 5.-Six masked bandits am
bushed a mail truck in wild west
style before dawn today and
swooped off with registered mail
believed worth several thousand
pounds.
They blocked the main road
of this Southern English hamlet
and swung hurricane lamps to
halt the mail truck. Then they
smashed into the locked truck
bound and gagged the driver
and ripped open mail sacks.
The raid was over in a twink
ling. Not a soul in the tiny COM
munity woke up until the mail
driver broke free and blew his
whistle.
Police brought out blood
hounds in efforts to catch the
robbers.
The robbery was another in a
series of truck and railway
thefts which have plagued the
British post Office for months
The biggest was staged in Lon
don 20 months ago, when q
gang held up a mail truck and
got away with currency worth
more than half million dollars
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Economic
CONTINUED From First Page.)


time President Hoover contend
ed that those temporarily laid
of should not be classified as
unemployed. Later. as the de-
preston deepened, most Of those
people never got their jobs back
Older Workers Leaving.
Senator Douglas also said he
doubted Government figures
which show that the Nations
total work force, those employed
and seeking work. have decreased
by IL million persons in the
past year.
Mr.. Ecker, who claimed that
Census figures showed only a
small margin Of error, explained
that a large number of women
and older people took jobs dur
ing the Korean War. He said
that the loss in the total work
force showed that those persons
now had given up their jobs.
Today's hearing follows an
other governmental action re-
lated to the current dip in busi-
ness activity. The Federal Re-
serve Board. in a move to make
money more plentiful, lowered
the interest rates banks must
pay in borrowing money from
the Federal Reserve System.
The board approved lowering
the discount rate in six Federal
Reserve districts from 2 to l34
per cent. It was indicated the
other seven Reserve banks would
follow the same course soon.
The lower rate went into effect
today at the Federal Reserve
banks of Boston. New York,
Philadelphia, st. Louis. Mime
apolis and San Francisco. Other
districts are expected to take
similar action in a few days.
washington Is in the Richmond
Reserve district.
End to '"Tight Money"
The action Of the Federal Re-
serve removed about the last
trace Of the tight" money policy
on which the Eisenhower admin
istration embarked q year ago
when imitation was held to be
the chief economic threat.
In January last year. the Re-
serve Board approved raising the
discount rate, a move calculated
to tighten credit and make
money less plentiful. That was
followed by other governmental
actions restricting credit and
money changes which since have
been reversed because of def1a-
tionary elements in the economy
The witness before the eco
nomic committee, holding hear
ings on President Eisenhower's
recent economic report to Con-
gress. late yesterday was Harold
E. Stassen, head of the Foreign
Operations Administration. He
described plans Of the admins
tration for strengthening the
free world economy. and Of en-
couraging investment of capital
abroad.
Evening star., 1954-02-05
Big Four
Continued From First Page.)

gent" Mr.. Dulles said, ito be-
lieve that the people or gov
ernment of West Germany would
accept his proposals or that
the Western powers would sug-
geSt that they do SO
"One can only conclude that
the Soviet foreign minister does
not submit his proposal with any
expectation that it might be ac-
ceptable. His purpose is quite
different. He Is actually at
tempting to hold on to the
Soviet position in East Germany
by preventing free elections. j.
Gould anyone doubt the effect
ofelectionS of that kind on the
future of the East German re-
gime? Clearly the Soviet pro-
posal is a. maneuver designed
to protect this puppet regime in
Eastern Germany from being
subjected to the test of what the
l8 million people who live there
would say If they were ever given
the right to say it."
Mr.. Eden promptly backed up
the American stand and declared
Mr.. Molotov is obviously we'll
aware that any free elections
would sweep the Moscow
regime in East Germany out Of
existence.
Feared Chain Reaction.
AmericailS officials said they
felt sure Mr.. Molotov had to
block free ail-German elections
to avoid setting of a chain reac-
ton in the powder keg Soviet
bloc. In The American view, Mr..
Molotov could hardly grant the
Germans democratic rights
which the Kremlin has consist
emily refused its vassals in East
ern Europe. particularly in res
tive Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Facing the Western Big Three
was the crucial decision whether
to scuttle further German talk
or go on with the endless
wrangling.
The crisis came in q two-hour
speech yesterday by Mr.. Molo-
tov. He bluntly told the three
Western ministers they didn't
know how to hold a free German
election which would keep out
Hitlerites and other corrupt.
aggressive" circles. 'a
To make certain that Western
ideas would not influence the
elections, Mr.. Molotov proposed
that all foreign troops be with
drawn from Germany. And the
Communist controlled quarter
(17 million population) would
would have a weighted vote
equaling all the rest of the coun-
try in shaping a future Reich.
Within the American camp a
large group favored giving Mr..
Molotov a quick explanation why
his type of Communist govern
ment would not be acceptable
to them or to Western Germany,
and then telling him bluntly:
"The subject Of Germany is
finished. Let's get on with a
discussion Of Austria and see
whether any measure of agree
ment is possible"
Many Westerners thought Mr..
MolotOv laid himself so open to
attack It should convince even