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Show S ar Westbrook Pegler B,iei w WNI) Fea"lr'! H . cnJlE OF US RECALL, Franl A c Hosan, the district attorney n. f county, slipped on a gas ,Jttt!i i"3' Pcent annual dinner of th ?: al vork boxing writers, peiteratei KelV,0Topinion of the fight rackel .' led out again. ut.; and PPpea chairman of the -5 l commission, is an old n prwdf" d lntercollegiate heavy-TrP- and a former as K . tn the U S. attorney in New rln a temper and sassed e,VVo hrk He said that 'if Hogan le,'H0g3 much evil about the pr.ze-"""m pr.ze-"""m racket the thing for him to do nrosecute. Superficially that was Thpr eU put and some of the lead-intrM lead-intrM ' malists on this seamy run l'ingkC Pitch from Eagan and Hogan another going-over. tSt:i ' a a roP' with individual ex" I5" ceptions. the boxing writers have I1 ":: e n down on Hogan for about a ' t; ear since he turned up some cor- S;! Ition that they should have known about and started the ex- lt nose ol the sorry army career and Lice record of Kocky Graiiano. mi L present middleweight cham- i p...i,nl Is now a king with- J country, for after he won the l(t title h, Chicago writs of ban.sh-t ban.sh-t .nent were Issued in many jur.s-, jur.s-, dictions because he was a bad sol-el, sol-el, (, dier. Ctti' Before the expose fully broke, prB Eagan argued with sweet and genu- It ine charity that society could be big iisi enough to waive his past and let rtil Graziano gather the rewards of ms rmr, talents and opportunity. 1 HE IS A GOOD BOY SCOUT LEADER AND WOULD BE A GOOD 11' PAROLE OFFICER BUT HE IS NO l i HAN FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP 2' OF THE BOXING COMMISSION IN , NEW YORK BECAUSE IT WOULD I' BE HARD TO IMAGINE A FEL- Z LOW AS NAIVE AND IGNORANT OF ALL THAT GOES ON AROUND , k HIM AS EAGAN. ) When he .snapped f Hogan back that Hogan j js ought to prosecute in- i T c stead of ust talkm8 prf! To ima" about crookedness he . i was leading with his chin because bis job as chairman of the com- mission includes the duty of know- i ing what's what and keeping crooks jut.' This he can do by the arbitrary ! powers given him by the legislature. But by his instinctive and perhaps political reaction to Hogan's charges i I le let Hogan maneuver him onto the is' side of the rogues and put him in lie! ipposition to law, order and the good ' society which he is sworn to uphold. The journalese reaction pro-13 pro-13 Eagan and anti-Hogan aroused a fflx virtuous resentment in the D. A. 6 He had his suspicions of some of at the writers' motives, judged by their congenial association with the vermin of the racket. To be sure, a writer of boxing should know the personalities of the business and their home phone numbers for emergencies. Bu he needn't have social truck with them and if he P daes he can'v complain when others form a certain opinion of him. a Some time after this episode, Irv-" Irv-" ' ing Cohen, one of a triumvirate A'hich operates Graziano as a propyl prop-yl ;rty, discovered that his name had IB been forged to a check for $320, ap-'f ap-'f oarently by someone familiar with his office. Cohen said "Oh well, " ;asy go," in the philosophical way of lfl a fellow who is insured against such aroral error by fiduciaries, and the oonding company made him whole id ind started its routine inquiry. In Jhis process, Cohen was asked to f ?ive samples of the handwriting of all persons in his professional, as it were, household for comparison with !he writing on the check. . ' Almost all of the New tfork writ-f writ-f ers on the priiefight run are on this ' u5. together with these little fig-f fig-f urcs, and these individuals have been allowed to hear the news, in-jj in-jj directly. It would be presumptu-JkjV presumptu-JkjV us to peer into Hogan's mind and ' say that he is enjoying the situa- & lion, but since when h nrpmmn- ion been felonious? ., T,, Donald Day, who 7 I his iived in urope many ' Be years after W J r 1 d Treason War 1 has been de' tained by the Ameri-P Ameri-P :ans in Germany where he was j Picked up after the coUapse in 1945. j He seems to have been suspected j collaboration on the ground that : ie didn't come home when he could ave. Another exile in a similar fix, ' i obert Best, has been brought back nd accused of treason, which turns ut to be a charge more easily made , n to stick. ; ' could tell Best's jury that I be-1 be-1 I ved ne was spying on the Amer- an and British correspondents in enna' "here he lived, a dissolute ; j'fjolo. and, in the light of later do-i do-i "eiopments, that he probably was in-: in-: forming the Austrian Nazis on his , -"leagues who spoke freely on the j "sumption that their little conversa-I conversa-I 's were a family affair. The other i 'ericans who later were interned j h nim in Germany 'until the ..x-, ..x-, nf culd be arranged and saw Jump ship in Lisb0I1 to r,turn Jen any may hve some evi- |
