Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-10
Senator Kefauver
Dies Of Heart Attack
Tried Twice
To Run for
Presidency

Senator Estes Kefauver. the
big, honey TenneSsean whose
soft voice twice asked Demo-
Gratis for their presidential
nomination, died this morning
after heart attack. He was so.
After participating in Senate
debate Thursday evening, the
Senator entered Bethesda Naval
Hospital with what he first
thought was severe indigestion.
Doctors found evidence of q
mild heart attack and pre-
scribed three weeks of COM
plete rest.
But early this morning. at
$40 am, as a plane landed
here with his wife and two Of
her daughters from an inter-
rupted Denver (Colo) vacation,
the Senator died. Physicians
ascribed death to a rupture of
the main artery, or aorta,
which carries blood from the
heart to the body.
Worked for "the People"
A big, Southern heart that
had worked long and hard for
"the people"-NegroeS, conSum-
ers, the Ill and the victims of
boxing and crime-waS stilled.
The Tennessean was a liberal
who roamed the Nation to say
in a drawl, I'm running for
President of the United States.
I hope you'll help me-"
Many voters liked him. In
1852, he took IA of the II Dem
ocratic presidential preference
primaries.
He led on the first two ballots
in Chicago, but party figures
such as former President Tru-
man helped Adlai Stevenson
pull ahead.
Senator Kefauver tried and
lost again to Mr.. Stevenson for
the 1856 nomination but de-
: feated a rising figure, Senator
John F. Kennedy of Massachu-
, sets, for the vice presidential
> nomination. Again. however,
the Stevenson ticket was de-
/, feated by Ike and Dick"
The Senator was a vigorous
/. opponent last year to the estab-
liShment of the Communica-
tons Satellite Corp. as a pri-
vately owned organization.
. On Thursday, Senator's Ke-
fauver and Gore, also of TenL
> nessee, and Morse of Oregon
were battling to require the
corporation to pay to the Ma
tional Aeronautics and Space
:. Administration some of the ISL
million NASA would spend in
the coming year on commune
cations satellite research.
In Senate investigations, it
was Senator Kefauver who spot
lighted problems and profits in
Americas drug industry. He
: also investigated boxing ills in
recent years.
Saw Peril in Gambling
But the investigation that
! made him a national figure
was in 1851. The Kefauver g.
! foot-3, 200-pound frame be-
came well known to millions
J watching televised hearings of
the Senate Crime Investigating
,, Committee, of which he was
chairman.
5 He saw gambling as the root
: of Americas organized crime
and warned:
! THE 50 horse player and the
five-cent numbers player are
] not only gambling against
hopeless odds.
They are also sending young
, people into drug addiction and
! young girls into prostitution.
They are undermining our most
sacred institutions"
; Though from the South, Sem
ator Kefauver worked for equal
rights for Negroes long before
the current demonstrations and
congressional civil rights bat
tie began. In 1860, he defeated
a segregationist candidate to
return for his third term in the
Senate.
Senator Kefauver supported
anti-poll tax and anti-lynchlng
> I-gislation.
+. AntagOnized Colleagues
His support Of reform moves
to curb filibusters in the SEN
ate also caused many of his
Dixie colleagues TO consider him
, downright un-Southern.
He did not join in the critical
reaction OF many Southerners
TO the Supreme Court school
desegregation decision.
Desegregation, he declared.
See KEFAUvER, Page B-S