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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TBIBUNE. MEDFOHD. CtfCSON THURSDAY. UNE 28. 196J FBI Director Enjoys Distinction Even President Can't Claim r I w .1 ? l il p f 1 0 its 1 1 HAS DISTINCTION FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover enjoys a distinction even President Kennedy can't claim. He is Immune Irom political sniping. No politician In his right mind will attack him openly. They might criticize, but their words are tempered not from fear but from admiration for a man whose service and integrity have carved him a special niche in the nation's hall of fame. Hoover, (center) is shown with President Kennedy (left) and Attorney General Robert Kennedy in this Feb. 23, 1981, file photo. (UPI) By GEORGE J. MARDER United Press International Washington -WTD- FBI Di rector J. Edgar Hoover enjoys a distinction even President Kennedy can t claim. He is immune from politi cal sniping. No politician in his right mind will attack him openly. They might criticize, but their words are tempered. This is not from fear but from ad miration, perhaps grudging at times, for a man whose serv ice and integrity have carved him a special niche In the na tion's hall of fame. , Hoover recently entered his 38th year as head of the coun try's No. 1 police agency. He celebrated the anniversary without fanfare and worked as usual in his justice depart ment office. But it was a different story at the capitol. There, con gressman after congressman marked the occasion with flowing tributes to the 67-year-old lawyer and crime specialist The President also took note of the date. So did his younger brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy who said he hopes Hoover will still be with the FBI long after he - Robert - leaves the cabinet. On the FBI payroll when Hoover, then a young lawyer, took over were drunkards, ex-convicts, politicians, friends of politicians and political hacks. The agency was a dumping ground for political patron age. Its effectiveness as a crime investigating agency was minus zero. But Hoover cleaned house in two swoops. First he fired the ex-convicts. Then the drunks. And he made life so miserable for the political appointees that some quit. Others were hoot ed out. He Ihen laid down ground rule No. 1 - No political ap pointments to the FBI. It was not going to be a de pository for patronage from cither party. Changes came swiftly. But it took years to wipe out the agency's bad reputation "and build up a new one. Hoover joined the FBI -then known as the Bureau of Investigation - In 1917. With in five years he rose to as sistant director. In 1924 a shakeup of the corruption ridden agency forced the res ignation of Director William aiTs GIANT u SUMMER f$ziy,EmY PAIR 0F SH0ES IN 0 STOCK MARKED DOWN FOR QUICK CLEARANCE! J. Burns, the famed dctcclive. Hoover was named acting di rector while then Atty. Gen. Harlan Flske Stone scarchec for "the best available man." Seven months later Stone called In the hard - driving Hoover to his office and said he had found the man - 29- year-old John Edgard Hoov er. This marked the turning point in federal crime detec tion. At the time he look over his agents had to use street cars to get around. They were not armed and had no powers of arrest. The bureau had no up to date scientific crime de tection equipment. Public indignation aroused by the Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., kidnaping and rise of the John Dillinger gang helped change all this. Once the pub lic was aware the FBI needed more' powers, Hoover and then Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings had no trouble Shaffer Resistant Lenses Recommended For Active Boys New York - (IIPI) - Use of shatter-resistant lenses in a safety frame are recommend ed for the little leaguers who need to wear glasses al all times. 'Don't gamble that an acci dent won't happen," warns Dr. John W. Ferree, executive director of the National So ciety for the Prevention of Blindness. He cited the case of a ball player whose glasses shattered as he crashed into a fence chasing a fly ball. Glass particles penetrated the buy s led eye and may cost him its sight, the doctor said. CHILDREN'S All leather sandal In brown. Sizes 5 2. WOMEN'S-TEENS" Smart Cape Cod Casual. Sailcloth upper decorated with ship's ornament. Bouncy crept sole. In black, red. n me a or betce. s.i.in WW Headache Object of Improved Research Washington - llll'n - Head ache sufferers spend an esti mated $300 million each year on popular remedies nation wide, the U.S. Public Healt.i service reports. For professional treatment, the PUS recommends that headache victims think first of the family doctor. "Re search In headache is making such strides today that you need to keep in touch with your doctor to gain the advan tage of improved treatment," the PUS noted In a new book let about throbbing temples. winning congressional approv-. al. ! Hoover got money for the best crime laboratory, the best guns, the best auto mobiles for his agents. In 1934 congress gave him anti-crime laws to blot out gang lawless ness that had swept the coun try. In short order the FBI rooted out Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, the Barkens, Pret ty Boy Floyd and Frank Nash. Then it caught up with Alvin Karpis, who had inherited the title of Public Enemy No. 1. Later, Karpis broke jail and Hoover led the raiding party that captured hirti in a Chi cago apartment. Hoover's next offensive was against jewel and bond thefts and white slavery. "The job is never done," he said at the time. His agency went on a war basis long before World War II. The effectiveness of hts preparations was demonstrat ed later by the fact that dur ing the war there was not one instance of foreign - directed sabotage. Eight would-be Nazi saba teurs landed by German sub marines were captured before they could cause havoc with explosives they had brought along. Six of the men were electrocuted, the others im prisoned. Hoover not only directed the roundup but served with then Atty. Gen. Francis Bid die in prosecuting the Ger mans before a military commission. The FBI director's next campaign, and the one he still prosecutes most vigorously today, was against the "Red Fascist" menace, better known as communism. In addition he is an arch foe of juvenile de linquency and organized crime. In a recent speech at which he received another of many decorations, Hoover said: "A tidal wave of lawless tyranny is now surging from the criminal and subversive underworlds. Our national conscience, our heritage of freedom, the entire cause of decency, are being severely tested by these deadly enemies." In another typical speech he said that "a more despic able person does not exist than a dishonest policeman." And in crimes of violence he fav ored equal treatment for juveniles and adults. "I can see no difference." he said "between a 17-year-old who wilfully robs, rapes or kills and a person of greater age who commits the same acts. I am disgusted by misguided sentimentalists who want to pamper and excuse teen - age thugs . . ." Hoover, who takes great pride in his own cooking, has remained a bachelor, not be cause he doesn't like women but because his first and only love is the agency he has built into the most powerful, yet perhaps most popular, detec tive force In American his tory. As Look magazine once said, the FBI "has become his living monument." Hoover's salary is $22,000 a year. Some years ago con gress voted to pay him at that rate until his death. As usual the FBI chief's current security and crime targets are wrapped in mys tery. But It can be assumed that organizrd crime and com munism are at the top of his slate. He has an operating budget of about $125 million a year. Even economy - minded con gressmen agree it is well spent. Hoover made many changes in FBI methods of ferreting out crime. But he is proudest of something much more in tangible than John Dillinger and other notorious criminals he hunted down. This was the spirit of integrity and inde pendence he brought to Mie FBI - something unique in politically minded Washington. In these later days no poli tician dares to try to put a political tinge on the FBI payroll or the agency's pro cedures. The esteem enfold ing it was evidenced a few years ago when its files be came the subject of a hot dispute. The U. S- Supreme Court had ruled that secret files must be made available to de fendants in criminal trials which involved the FBI. WOMEN'S-TEENS' White canvas pointed-toe tennis oxford. Sizes 4-10. Also corduroy tennis oxfords in tha most wanted colors for s' nd missies. WOMEN'S-TEENS' Tatrap sandal In summer white. Airfoam heal-to toe. Sizes 410. 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