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‘EDITOR'S NOTE: Here's thocacowert of three dispatches on the fabulous career ef J. Edgar Hoover, whose record as bead of the FBI is a phene- menon of federal job-holding mever before matched in Washington history. By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON Oct. 7 —One of Herbert Brow- nell’s first acts as Attor- bey General was to order all the buge oijl paintings of form@n AGs, which hung in his office, moved to other parts of the department. The walls were buckling. J. Edgar Hoover promptly asked for the one of Harlan ¥. Stone for his own office “Bure, Edgar,” sald Brownell “but why that one?” Older hands aronnd the department woudn't have asked. It’s common ksewl- edge among them that yl dializeae Gtane the BOT MVS GPU, See brifliapt Jurist appointed by Coslidge to clean up tke Harding adinisjstration mess, -Jt as Stone. who moved . Hoover up to be director of the then Bureau of Investiga- tlon, replacing the famous detective William J. Burns, suck 2 famous . ( = | FBI's Hoover ““BIGNE saw 1aepepetb iii- ties in Hoover which today accounts for one of the most amazing active careers in federal service, A 20-year-old fireball, Hoover was ‘the nattiest dresser in the Separt- ment, kept his thick crop of black Lair seatly plastered down ahd attacked detatfl work like a real beaver. Stone and Hoover saw eye- to-eye en what the bureau needed. ‘Phe ex-cons, riff-raff and political hangers-on had to be booted aut. A merit system of promotion ded. Top caliber bew m to be recruited. Stone gave Hoover thority te make - cHaAges and the results to- ars BoOmMmoa kn te every schoel child—the Prestige of FB] agants, the smashing of the inwiees gangs of the ‘Ste, the pre- Veation ef all enemy di- rected domestic sg successful fight cabinet tes i. it One of Hoover's first acts in the bureau was to alimin- aie “buxzzard's roost,” a reom where the loafers congregated to swap dirty stories and help polish off the bottle which wip Laadeahiea agent was axe oo i Te tare Sepp eee ea pere 0-) Tolson _ Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg ——_—_ Glavia—+—_—_ Harbo Rosen Tracy ————_- Gearty : Mohr b orali Shenton “roost” as muc hae be waaby | Tele. Room — the tims it wasted A deeply,’ Holloman ivf for many things Hoover hae Mies Gandy | @ens in Ais career, His pastor, : explains: ’ ste aa “His great-great uncle, John Hitz, was the firet Bwiee eine ¢ ‘ister to the U. &. and a robust, Calvinist. Hoover, born . _ Washington New Year's : - MIOOVER RAKES OVER > iste te nes 9 5 tut weceree. 2 He Wh Loy a- Times-Herald ——. Wash. Post ——. Wash. News eee Wash. Star —_—_— N.Y. Herald Tribune ——_ N.Y. Mirror Indianapolis Times Indianapolis, Indiana Date: October i