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oP Fess Femembers his great uncle reading the Bible aloud and leading prayera. His most cherished possessions are the finger-worn Scriptures of his Mother, and the New Testa- ment he won for Biblical memory work.” , Everyone sssumed young a. Edgar would into ministry, He taught a Sun- day school class, sang in the @holr and did man ehéres around the ehurch. a * * HERO OF His youth was Br. Donald C. MacLeod, his preacher who played baseball with the neighborhood boys of Southeast Washington and led many youth activities, Dr. MacLeod wag Hoover's closest confidant, next io his mother and after his father died. Hoever's early religious activity, spurred by his moth- er, lessened only alightly efter ihe entered the District's Cent- +. fel High School, When the Jones, Hoover that his slender 100- pound frame oouldn't stand the gaff, Hoover concentrated en the cadet corps ahd bis studies. He picked up the nick- “Speed,” not fer sth- prowess, but fer the y he became captain of e corps and elags vale- s s # FAMILY FINANCES—his @ad had been a minor govern- goent official—diverted Hoo- yer from the ministry. He took a fob as clerk at the Library of Congress and en- , By malntaining bis rigid work-school reutine through summers Hoover won his LL.B., with honors in 1976 and Master of Laws frbm G. W. fm 1917, | ’ . «= Hoover got eer sg socially to join Kappa Alp. fraternity. Actor Willam Gax- ton, who was a KA and used to stay at the Chapter house when he passed through Wash- ington, recalls that when Hoover was fraternity presi- dent “Bpeed chastixed us with his morality.” =. . an - # es * EN 1817 Hoover joined the , Department ef Justice and began moving up fast. In 1619 Mitchell Palmer made him a special assistant in charge of deporting allens under the Bedition Act, In 1921 be was appolnted assistant director of the old Burean of Investiga- tion. Most of Hoover's activ- ities since are well docu- mented. However, some of the eld- ye | E E i : : ie pire Femembers that tail promptly trom was Re “When this happened Sloan's some old it hs house buying of bronze and hed forgotten what time it was,” she says. “He loves antiques.” (Next: Heever as he le te- - ‘ - ‘ + . ie : at day.) One Gt His First Cleanups r ‘Buzzard’s Roost’ In Buregs | FBI CHIEF-For. his figh Legion's Syiver a — y a2't