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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09
Momi Claims Underdoe Role
Johnnies Hope to Give District
First Scholastic Bowl Victory

The team. and several of the
accompanying parents, observed
the end of the Marian Year in
the Catholic faith with the reci-
tation OF the rosary at 1915 last
night, Just as the Atlantic Coast
Line train pulled into Florence,
S. C..
Guard Jim tBubba) Healy, the
team captain. performed the
recitation. with assistance from
DR.. Leo Gaffney, the team ply
stefan, Center John Rodano.
Halfback John Renehan and
Tackle Mark Murtagh.
Articles in the Miami papers
have stressed that st. Johns
should be the favored team.
Apparently this supposition is
based chiefly on the fact that
Miami Senior was rated as low
as fourth in the State before
nipping Miami Edison. 60. on
Thanksgiving Day.
Miami Edison had been un-
beaten and united until then.
while playing one Of the tough
est schedules in the State.
Miami Senior. on the other
hand. had dropped games to two
Chattanooga teams and tied
Coral Gables, 14-14. besides win
mig six games.
Angelo Marini, st. Johns de-
fensive halfback who will not
play in the Kiwanis Club charity
game tomorrow night because of
a dislocated knee, agrees with
the odds.
I'D rather be favored" Mar
mi said. We want 'em to know
we're the best before We beat
'thsp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09

whacked Miami University, 800.
down here. Since then. Mary
land has lost to Oklahoma. TO,
in the Orange Bowl and dropped
d. Ct decision to Miami u. in
October. Also. Maryland State
absorbed q 67-19 licking at the
hands Of Florida AIM. last
Saturday.
Then, too. Coach Joe Gal
lagher points out that st. Johns
could become the first WASH
irlgton high school team ever to
win bowl game. The only other
participant in such an attrac-
ton was Gonzaga, which lost to
Jesuit High of New Orleans in
1947.
sSt Johns has had basketball
teams in tournaments in Lexing-
ton, Va. Chicago and Newport.
n 4, and although we've made
the Nnals. we've never been able
to ret away with d achampion-
Ship. Gallagher said. Maybe
We can break the Ice In foot
ban
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09
By GrontIond Rice

Walter Hagen's first Open
competition was in 1913 at the
Country Club in Brookline,
Mass. Years later, Francis Out
met, an all-time amateur, told
me about Hagen's entrance.
"There was a crowd of us, in
Guiding Johnny McDermott. the
defender, ins the locker room
when this black haired young
ster came in and blithely an
nounced, THE name is Hagen.
I've come down from Rochester
to help you fellows stop Vardon
and Ray"
Ouimet did the stopping, but
Hagen outscrambled and OUT
scored every American pro ex-
cept McDernnott, whom he tied
for fourth place!
In 1914, I suggested I cover the
Open at Midlothian (Chicago i.
The desk was ur1eathusiastic.
Although some $4,000 people
were playing golf In America at
that time. probably less than
5000 of them were around metro
politan New York. Hagen won
that 1914 Open without; any as
sistance from me. All told,
Hagen: wen III national and inter-
national crowns record sec
ond only to Bobby Jones. He
won the United States Open
twice, the British Open four times
and the PGA five times.
Humiliation Avenged.
Archie Compston, the raw
boned Britisher. Inundated
Hagen. 10 and II. in a 72-hole
exhibition match a week before
the 1928 British Open. A stint
before the Hollywood cameras
and the subsequent boat ride
had rusted Hagen's game more
than he had realized. While the
British press chortled over Ha-
gems downfall" Walter retired
to a secluded seaside course,
where he went to work in earn
est. A week later, he won the
open at Sandwich. Compston
finished third, three shots be-
hind.
The British change slowly, If
at all. But Hagen, by his tact,
department, style and overall
color. did for the professional
golfer what Babe Ruth did for
the professional ballplayer.
After winning a tournament,
Hagen was often invited into the
clubhouse, where he was the
picture of debonair charm. The
Hagen polish" and unaffected
ease was as real as it was ap-
parent. But he was not the
pushy type and never sought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09
Tukuyomo Tennis Victor

MANILA, Dec. 9 (P.-Yuji
Takayama of Japan today easily
defeated Filipino Jose Ansaldo.
6-3, 6-1, to gain the third
round of the Philippine Tennis
Association tournament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09

an invitation. With the then
Prince of Wales tagging Wal
ter's footsteps, somehow he
didn't have to.
During the Florida boom in
1926, Hagen defeated Bob Jones,
II and II, In a 72-hole chal-
lenge match-36 holes at Sara
sofa and SO at st. Petersburg
Bob's nerves were badly shaken
by watching Hagen's ball disap-
pear into the palmettos-only
to hear a crash and see the ball
come whistling out and land
stiff to the pin. |
On one short hole, Hagen was
20 feet from the cup, and Jones,
also strong, was nearly so feet
beyond the pin. Jones holed his
long putt for a 2. Hagen turned
to the gallery. What do you
think of that?" he smiled. Bob
gets a half after ALL" Then
Hagen sank his putt.
First to Blow a Million.
Hagen was the first golfer to
make a million dollars and the
first to blow it! I was riding in
a high-priced car with him in
Los Angeles. He had a liveried
chauffeur.
You see this. carp, he asked,
You see my driver?"
What about it?" I replied.
Just this. I haven't got a
dime-not even a dime" Walter
said. But I'll still get by"
Had a golf glove been the
vogue when Hagen was at his
peak, I doubt that he would
have worn one. Most of today's
pros worry more about their
glove than they do about their
hands. Not Walter. His touch
was such that he figured, cor
rectly, that the human skin
gives more feel" than the best
glove ever devised. He never
had a callous-a testimony to
the basic correctness of his grip.
He was also old-fashioned about
shoes. Until the advent of knick-
ers forced him into oxfords,
Hagen preferred high laced
shoes for the support they gave
his ankles.
I followed Walter in perhaps
his bitterest match-and GER
tainly one of his greatest. It
was at Pelham, N. Y, in the
final round of the PGA Cham
pionship in 1923, in a match
play final with Gene Sarazen.
the defending champion. Gene
was then II years old. at the top
OF his game. and with the hackles
OF a gamecock. He had Just
beaten Hagen in a challenge
match.
DOg-Eat-Dog Match.
This particular match was
dog-eat-dog all the way. In one
spot, Sarazen asked for a ruling
from the referee.
why don't you read the rules
Or can't you?" Hagen snarled.
Sarazen missed the putt and lost
the hole.
I'm glad I missed that" Gene
said, $50 when I beat your brains
out today thereIl be no alibi."
Hagen had o l0-inch putt. He
looked at Gene. expecting him
to concede 1t.
Hole it." said Gene. I'm
giving you nothing but hell to-
day."
That's the way it went. They
finished the SO holes all square.
They halved the 37th with two
brides. At the 38th, a partial
dogleg. Hagen hit one OF his
greatest tee shots-a 290-yard
hook that stopped nole-high, 20
yards from the cup, with q
shallow sandtrap intervening.
Sarazen hit q wild hook, and
his ball crashed into q tree at
the out-of- bounds mark. The
ball finally was located In d
wheat fleld--in bounds, but in
wheat up to Genes neck. I was
standing next TO Hagen when
Sagszen played the almost inn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09
The Tumult and the Shouting

fThis is the eighth of "a
articles from, Grantland Rice's
autobiography, "The Tumult
and the Shouting.")
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09
By Dick Sloy
Ssur Sicff Correspondent

EN- ROUTE TO MIAMI, Dec.
9.-The st. Johns Orange Bowl
Special wheeled into Florida in
the wee hours this morning, its
mission to save the Washington
area further football embarrass-
naent by beating Miami Senior
High in the Orange Bowl to-
morrow night.
A little more than a year ago,
the University of Maryland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09
Double-Heoder Tonight
OPENS Season at Garden

NEW YORK. Dec. 9 R.--
Madison Square, Gardens 21st
season OF intercollegiate basket
ball opens tonight with Seton
Hall facing Western Kentucky
and Manhattan playing st. Jo-
seph's of Philadelphia.
Seton Hall, considered one of
the East's best, will be trying
for its third victory of the sea-
son against a team that has
been a regular visitor to the
Garden since 1912. Western
Kentucky won the Ohio Valley
and Kentucky Invitation Tour
naments last season.
Manhattan has three hold
overs from last Season. st. Joe's.
with a 10 record. Is concentrat-
ing more on height than in the
past. All five Of its starters are
over 6 feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09

I'm his merit article, Rice
tells of his close friendship
iuith Bobby jones'
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Basketball
tContinued From Page CID

NContinued From Page CID
Tulsa defeated Texas Ann,
57-45. to make Its record SO.
Purdue defeated Valparaiso,
62-6o. West Texas State over
came Harnline. 67-64. and Mar
quette made it 80 by taking st.
Norbert of Wisconsin. 83-47.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-09

Picture on Pose C-l
Evening star., 1954-12-29

-RALElGH HABERDASHER OPEN THURSDAY 1880 to 9 P.M-
Evening star., 1954-12-29
High Court Log -JomMoyDel eloy
Security and Racial Rulings

loyalty. He has denied any past
or present connection with the
Communist Party. He also has
contended that his constitutional
right to due process of law was
violated when he was dismissed
without opportunity to know or
confront informants against him.
The friend of the court" brief
filed with the Supreme Court by
the labor group declared that
the security program denies due
process of law. It charged also
that the program and its hear
ing procedures encourage private
as well as public employers to
fire workers without fair hear
ing even on the suspicion that
they may be security risks.
Many Cases Await Action.
But the Peters case, while one
of the most important awaiting
argument and decision at this
or any session of the court in
recent years. will have to take
its turn. Some of the other
major issues the court also has
agreed to hear raise such ques-
tions as:
Can witnesses before con-
gressional committee be legally
convicted of contempt for re-
fusal to answer questions with
out being asked specific ques-
tions, or specifically claiming the
privilege against possible self
incrlminat ton?
Does Congress have the power
to provide for court martial OF
q civilian for a crime allegedly
committed while he was in the
armed forces?
Is the Federal gambling. tax
and registration requirement
constitutional as applied in the
District?
Can States enforce their own
anti-subverSive laws or must
such sedition prosecutions be
confined to Federal courts? .
Are compulsory blood tests
constitutional when used to de-
termine whether motorists are
intoxicated?
Evening star., 1954-12-29

expected to speed up the diver
sion 90 that it viii be completed
within the next 80 days or so.
The Ciyil Aeronautics Board.
In its recent cut OF ton-mile
rates for the American overseas
carriers. took into account the
increased volume Of military air
mail they would handle.
Rates TO Drop.
on January I. the rates will
drop from so cents to so cents
per ton mile In the Pacific and
from 81 cents to SIS cents in the
Atlantic.
"A CAB spokesman said that
the new business for commercial
carriers probably would mean a
cut in Government subsidies
now being paid them. But he
was unable to estimate how
much this cut might be.
The Defense Department said
the new policy would not result
in any cutback of MATS opera
tions. It added that this mill
Evening star., 1954-12-29

mercia1 carriers actually has
been going on for about q year.
But it became ofacial policy yes
terday when acting Defense Sec
retary Robert b. Anderson sent
q memorandum on the subject to
the three service secretaries.
The gradual shift this year
has resulted in almost hall
or about $500 tonsof the mill
tary air mail being handled by
commercial airlines. Virtually
all of the eastbound pieces to
Europe and Africa. some west
bound from those areas to the
United States and q small
amount of mail to and from
the Pacific now goes CONNER
cial.
Registered mail and official
Defense Department mail will
continue to move by military
aircraft.
The Anderson memorandum is
Evening star., 1954-12-29

tary air service would be- able
to maintain greater logistical
employment of its aircraft.
In cases where scheduled conn
mercial air service is not avail
able. MATS will continue to haul
by mail. No military air mail is
scheduled to. be carried by for
eign airlines except perhaps to
remote places, q defense spokes-
man said.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Buy America Act
Foe Drops Fight
BY N. Assosios.d Press

Representative Smith. Demo-
crat, Of Mississippi doesn't plan
10 push his fight to repeal the
Buy America Act next year.
The Buy America" Act re-
uuires Government agencies to
favor American concerns over
foreign competitors unless there
is an unreasonable difference in
price.
President Eisenhower recently
issued an executive order setting
up uniform practices for pur-
chases which cut the price
spread factor to about z to 10
per cent. However, domestic
companies in designated areas
of high unemployment still get
preferred treatment.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Air Mail to Overseas Bases
Shifting to Commercial Airlines

The Defense Department esti-
mates that within the next
month. virtually all air mail to
and from military bases over
seas will be carried by scheduled
commercial airlines.
The department announced
yesterday that under its policy
of minimum competition by the
Government with private enter
prise" air poStage-paid mail
would be carried commercially
whenever possible.
A defense spokesman esti-
mated that this viii return the
carriersPan American, Trans
World and Northwest Airlines-
about $I8.4 million. The Post
Office Department would pay the
carriers and be reimbursed by
the Pentagon.
Gradual Shift.
The diversion from Military
Air Transport Service to COM
Evening star., 1954-12-29
By Robert K. WoIsh

The Supreme Court may end
it, current term next June with
out ruling on constitutionality
Of the Governments personnel
security program. This seemed
likely today because of delays
and q litigation log-jam that
also could postpone until next
fall q decree on how to end racial
segregation in public schools.
A security program test case
is among more than 80 the court
already has agreed to review.
The justices will not return to
the bench until January 10 to
hand down opinions on some Of
the score Of cases already argued
They will not resume hearing of
oral arguments until January 81
on the cases previously accepted.
Meanwhile, since the present re-
cess began December 6, almost
100 additional petitions for review
have piled into the clerks office.
A tentative schedule of argu-
ment sessions lists total Of only
SIX weeks in February, March
and April. At least one of those
weeks will be reserved for dis
cussion that was to have taken
place this month on how and
how soon to put into effect the
unanimous decision of last May
II outlawing public school racial
segregation.
Lawyers directly interested in
the case of DR.. John p. Peters
said today that even If the Su-
preme Court is able to hear argu-
ments in March or early April
1t may not decide the issue at
the current term which will end
in the first or second week Of
June.
AS with the school segregation
question. the courts main pro-
cedural problem in considering
the security program controversy
Is that it lacks ninth justice.
A somewhat similar test Of the
Governments loyalty program.
in the case of Miss Dorothy
Bailey, was adjudicated two years
ago by q 4-4 vote which sustained
her dismissal from a Govern
ment job.
Delay in Consideration.
Judge John M. Harlan of the
United States Court of Appeals
in New York was appointed to
the Supreme Court by President
Eisenhower last November 8. The
Senate judiciary Committee
failed to take up the nomination
during the Senate special ses-
sion. It probably will not do so
until February In the new Con-
gresS.
The appeal by DR.. Peters at
tracted further attention yester-
day because of brief filed by
the Engineers and Scientists of
America. This is q federation of
labor unions representing an
estimated 10000 scientific and
engineering employees of govern
mental agencies such as iva and
private companies having de-
fense contracts with the Govern
ment.
DR.. Peters, a Yale University
professor of medicine, was dis
missed in 1851 as a special con-
sultant to the Surgeon General
of the United States because
of reasonable doubts as to his
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Reversal of Ban
On Tv Hearings Sought
By shs As.sris,.d Pres.

Radio and television CORE
spondents on Capitol Hill say
they will ask Representative Ray
burn. Democrat. of Texas. pro-
spective Speaker of the House
next year. to change his mind
about barring TV coverage Of
COMMITTEES hearings.
In the past two years. Speaker
Martin has left the decision to
each committee. Mr.. Rayburn.
at his home in Texas, indicated
yesterday he viii reimpose ban
on such coverage which was in
effect when he was Speaker in
1949-53.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Burmese Women Do
Plenty of Breudwinning

More women are heads Of fam
lilies and breadwinners in Burma
than in any other country, fig
ures from a recent census indi-
cate, Rangoon reports.
In many of the 185 towns in
which the census has been COM
pleted, it was found there were
nearly twice as many women
as men,
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Two-Stote Alarm
Finds Truck Block Away
BY N. As,esiossd Press

CASPER. Wyo.-A truck was
stolen from construction firm
here. and when a search failed
to locate it. police sent out .
two-State alarm over Colorado
and Wyoming.
The next day a Casper hotel
man notified officers about the
truck. 1t was parked q block
fram police headquarters.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Colombia Outflow Slain;
BIumed in 100 Killings
By the Associated Press

CALI, Colombia, Dec. pa
notorious Colombian outlaw,
blamed for more than 100 kill
ings, was shot and killed yester-
day in a wild gun battle with a
police detachment. Several OF
the officers were wounded.
The 28-year-old outlaw, nick
named "Pistocho," had escaped
from several prisons during his
life of crime. There was a 5000
peso ($2,000) "dead-or-alive" re-
ward on his head.
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Peru Uses Pesticides

Peru is using more pesticides
tn an ever before on cotton.
sugar, potatoes. rice. corn, wheat,
vegetables and fruits, Lima re-
ports. Imports of all pesticides
in 1853 were Is million pounds.
Evening star., 1954-12-29

The diversion from Military
Air Transport Service to COM
Evening star., 1954-12-29
Germans Aid Iruo

A German firm has Sc million
contracts to build roads and
bridges in Iraq.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Store Detectives
May Trade ReyoIyers
For BIackjacks Here

A woman lawmakers COM
plant that Washington store
detectives are not permitted to
carry any protective device ex-
cept a loaded revolver" may
soon win them the right to carry
blackjacks instead.
Representative Vera Buchanan,
Democrat. of Pennsylvania, wrote
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
last week making her complaint
= on behalf of the G. c. Murphy
Company's three Washington
stores. She comes from McKees-
port, Pa, the home Office of the
company.
The Commissioners referred
her letter to the corporation
counsel for study.
Since Mrs. Buchanan's letter
said the situation arose from "a
recent ruling of the Metropolitan
Police Department" Corporation
Counsel Vernon E. West called
In Police Chief Robert v. Murray
for an explanation.
Chief Murray said that under
the National Firearms Act only
policemen, sheriffs and other
duly authorized law enforcement
officers are permitted to buy or
carry blackjacks.
He agreed with Mrs. Buchan-
ans suggestion that the word
policemen" probably is broad
enough to cover special police
officers, and a ruling to that ef-
feet is expected from the corpor-
alton counsel.
Capt. Michael Mahaney of the
Special Investigation Squad de-
MED that the ban on blackjacks
Is the result of a recent ruling"
Capt. Mahaney agreed with
Mrs. Buchanan and Chief Muir
ray that 1t would be wiser to
let such officers carry black
Jacks than guns.
Her letter summed up the arg
ument, quoting c. e. Frey of
the Murphy company:
I'VE hesitate to think Of the
consequences that could follow
providing these special officers
with loaded revolvers in crowded
stores. We feel slapsticks (sic)
or blackjacks would be much,
much more safer and would in
no way endanger any of our
good customers. We know they
will do less harm with a black
Jack on a criminal than they
could inf1ict with q firearm."
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Regularly I.N
Decorator
Pillows
98e

Toss q few of these lovely decorator pill
lows on your SOTO or studio couch and
see how smart and colorfui they look.
l7-inch size, covered IN royon sotin or
cotton in handsome decorator colors.
incidentally, they make wonderful gifts.
Lansburgh's-ART NEEDLEWoRK-
Third Floor
Evening star., 1954-10-25

WED so YEARS-Mr. and
Mrs. Louis S. Yassell cele-
brated their golden wedding
anniversary last week at q re-
eeption in their home, 1927
Jenifer street NV. Mr.. Yas-
sell is q retired band conduc-
tor at Fort Myer, Va. Mr.. and
Mrs. Yassell have four daugh-
tiers, IL grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
Conferees to Meet Tomorrow
To Seek Transit Compromise

A belated and none-too- hope
full move is due tomorrow to
compromise wide House and
Senate differences over the pro-
posed creation of a Washington
area transit study or control
commission.
House and Senate conferees
have listed a meeting - their
first-for 10 am. tomorrow
There were warnings, however,
that this might have to be called
off or postponed if a big fight
develops in the Senate early in
the day on the atomic commits
sion-public power issue.
The Senate last year passed
the johnson bill to create a
regional commission to regulate
transit operations in the entire
metropolitan area. Virginia
state authorities bluntly opposed
any application to Virginia
operations.
Regional Study Favored.
The House, instead, passed
the Broyhill bill for the creation
of a regional commission to
make a study Of transit. bridge
and highway and related prob
lens. Later, the Senate accepted
this with some notifications. but
only with the inclusion of Its own
transit control com m issio n
measure.
Senator Johnson, Democrat
of Colorado, yesterday reiterated
his contention that another study
commission would be a waste OF
time and money and q STEP
short Of getting action.
Senator Butler. Republican. OF
Maryland, said he hoped some
solution could be found.
Action Due On Is d. C. Bills.
The House may act tomorrow
on is bills reported from the
House District Committee If time
is allowed by House considera-
ton of the Atomic commission
revision bill.
This list includes measures:
To strengthen the city's power
to condemn or raze insanitary
buildings, to repeal the old law
forbidding human occupancy OF
houses fronting on allies; to per-
nit the United States Attorney
to try juvenile felony cases IN