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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
NATIONS BUSINESS

Grain Futures Ae: : declared coz
stitutional by tie Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court rules
against lower New York phone rates.
Senator Couzens assails railroads
plan OF spending $500. 600 600 and
threatens Congressional action unless
there is economy.
Judge Gary's speech at annual
meeting OF United States Steel Stock
holders taken as indication that ex-
ira disbursements will De paid this
year.
No salvation for anthracite indus
try, say producers. unless the United
States curbs miners union.
Pay of civilians il New York Navy
Yard increased, others reduced in an
order effective May l.
Industrial rehabilitation taking on
large proportions under Federal aid.
Sugar prices up because Of short
age, not speculation, says Cuban
planter on arrival in New York City.
Trade and crops need good
weather.
Administration 20 make Chester
concessions basis for universal open
door" demand at Lausanne.
President Harding says tariff has
no more to do with sugar imitation
than his golf score.
John T. Hickey of New York be-
came the possessor Of 5,291,551 IN
dershirts as tn successful bidder n
a Wal Department sale Of surplus
stock.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
BEFORE THROWING IT
is WELL TO WARM UP
This May Be Best Done by Two
Players Tossing the Ball
Back and Forth.
(By CARL LUNDGREN, Baseball Coach.
University of illinois,.

(By CARL LUNDGREN, Baseball Coach,
University of illinois,.
Before throwing the ball with any
speed the players should always warm
up well. This may best be done by
two men throwing the ball back and
forth between them at first for a
short distance and later for a longer
distance. Ball players almost always
throw too much and too hard In prac-
tice. The result is they have dead
arms or arms that are permanently
injured.
In throwing, the player should con-
centrate his attention on the target.
If he has acquired the proper form
in throwing he can center his thought
on the spot to which he is throwing.
The overland throw for most pur-
poses is better than any other method.
With this form the player can throw
more accurately and with greater speed
and with less chance of injuring his
arm than with the side-arm or under
hand throw. In using the overland
throw the ball should be held with the
uISl tWO uilStIS anu tHc pdii SoSS W.
the ends of the fingers. In making the
throw the hand starts behind the head
and is brought straight over the
shoulder. AS the hand and arm are
drawn back the left foot Is stepped
forward, and as the throw Is COM
pleted the right foot steps forward
with the arm motion.
The underhand throw should be used
on some occasions among which may
be mentioned the following: 1. The
shortstop uses the underhand throw
when making a short throw to second
base or after fielding slow hit ground
ers and the throw Is to first or home.
2. The third baseman uses the under
hand throw IN hunts and slow hit
grounders. 3. The second baseman
frequently needs to throw under
handed, but he likewise may be called
upon to throw with side-arm or over
hand motion.
The catcher uses the overland throw
when throwing to bases except some
times on hunted balls, and most of
the throws made by the infield should
be of the overland variety. The out
feeders should throw over-handed.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
FOREIGN

Defiant German workmen in Ruhr
laugh over sabotage reports.
Chester tangle causes British to
urge Greeks to halt action against
Turks in Thrace.
British Admiralty refuses to enter
into controversy over Admiral Sims's
defense of U-boat commanders.
De Valera expected to order nation
wide cessation of hostilities in Ire
land pending peace conference.
France claims $4,000, 900, 900 gold
marks, offers United States and Eng
land worthless German &C" bonds for
debt, under indemnity plan.
Violence predicted in the Ruhr if
French enforce coal tax.
Soyiets again postpone trial of Pa
triarch Tikhon and open press propa-
ganda first to discredit him with the
people.
Scotland Yard foils plot to kill Lon
don police heads and free Irish in
prisons. Austin Stack, Republican
leader, captured.
Scotch blame Frances Ruhr policy
for their trade depression.
Early retirement of Bonar Law as
Premier definitely forecast.
France will leave the Ruhr only as
Berlin pays, Poincare reafirms.
Cuts in beer and income taxes In
British budget.
Bishop Williams, head of American
Episcopal Churches in Europe, dies in
Paris.
Premier Mussolini visits birthplace
and shop where he once worked as
blacksmith.
Commissary Kursky declares for.
mer Patriarch Tikhon will be put on
trial April % despite foreign protests.
United States War Department or.
dered the return to America of all
army officers engaged in relief work.
Eddie Roush signs contract with
Cincinnati Reds.
Bombing of bridge and viaduct in
Ruhr lead French to suspect official
sabotage.
Mrs. Harrison in first public state
ment says she advised against Mrs.
Harding's visit to Russia and insists
courted ar est. .
The dove of peace, which has been
tapping about the Quai d'Orsay,
Paris, for some days, has fed. 1t
was announced following a confer
ence between Premier Poincare.
France, and Premier Theun's. Bel.
GUM, that Germany may expect in.
oraacad nraasurp in the Ruhr iuetaad
of the olive branch.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Clark Griffith More
Optimistic Than Ever

Clark Griffith, president of the WASH
ington ball club, never was more opti-
mistic than this year.
"The Yankees are not going to win
the p%ennant this season." he said re-
Gently. Neither will the Browns.
Neither team has been strengthened.
Look out for a dark horse this year.
Cleveland, Washington and Detroit
have added a lot of new material,
and of the three. Washington has the
best prospects. Just keep your eye
on u.s."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
GENERAL

British taxes cut to boom business,
budget estimates disclose.
Supreme Courts decision holding
futures trading act valid results in
sharp downturn in wheat prices.
Father Dillon, who shot and killed
his superior, pleads guilty and is sent
10 Michigan State Prison for life.
Arrival Of Carmania at New York
with $50 Irish |irregulars reveals 1000
republican troops landed here in a
week.
Harry G. Brock, wealthy Philadel-
phia clubman, begins six to ten years
prison sentence for killing three per
sons with auto
Transit Commission report shows
vast human tide flowing in n out
OF New York daily.
Women OF Florida denounce peon-
age evil and call on legislature to
wipe out convict leasing.
Clothing workers deposit $500 0
when first labor union bank in New
York is opened.
Mayor Hylan breaks ground for
Brooklyn-Richmond tunnel at Bay
Ridge Ferry terminal.
President Harding in conference
with Chairman Lasker decides to offer
Shipping Board vessels and routes for
sale.
Governor Parker of Louisiana de-
elares publicity is best weapon against
the Khan.
National League of Women Voters
adopts modified resolution urging our
adhesion to world court.
Wilson's letter against Conditional
acceptance of world court likely 20
hamper its adoption by senate.
About sixty brood mares and colts
were reported destroyed by a fire that
burned down the brood mare barn OF
the RancO,as Stock Farm, Jobstown,
N. j., ownd by Harry F. Sinclair who
campaigns a big thoroughbred stable.
The loss is put at $1,000, 900.
The Paris police are e~ndoaVoring
to stamp out the narcotic evil. In a
roundup se~venty-eight persons, in
GLIDING physicians, druggists and ad.
diets, were arrested.
Samuel Gompers, president of
American Federation of Labo-, SAYS
Vauclain, president Of Baldwin Loco
motive Works, who defed union la
Dor, is the Lenin type Of %autocrat.
Postage stamp collectors poured
$4,000 into the treasury through the
post Office philatelic agency in the
first three months of this year for In
used postage stamps, principally new
Issues.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25

United States Supreme Court sus-
tains high telephone rates over New
York State commissions order.
Attorney General Sherman tells
Justice Staley evidence was withheld
from grand jury in Ward case.
Morris family's $500. 900 gift slaves
of loss of 400 packing house pension
ers' stipends for eighteen months.
Plans made by Shipping Board to
advertise fleet for sale; prospective
purchasers will be given opportunity
to suggest groupings.
Chairman Lovett of Union Pacific
a Y 1928 will be record year for
Western roads. Railway will spend
much on improvements.
Country faces a labor shortage, Ell
bert H. Gary says; United States
Steel Corporations undivided sur
plus is nearly half a billion.
Cure for diabetes will soon be in
hands Of every physician, says DR..
Flexner, of New York.
Congregation at Calvary Baptist
Church, New York City, rises in
pledge to forswear theatres, cards n
dancing.
E. H. Gary returns on M%auretania.
silent as to conditions in Europe.
New York Supreme Court impcunds
famous Hap" ~catlegrams in Ward
case as attorney general hints nc
grand jury action.
Gift of $4,000 to National Education
Association b. moving picture pro-
dueers will make first of classroom
films.
Big packing plants grant 10 per
cent wage increase to 200, 900 en-
ployees.
The genera! board Urged sweeping
changes in the high command of the
navy in a report to Secretary DENLY
on his return from visiting the feet.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Oldest Among Owners

Barney Dreyfuss of Pitts
burgh and Charles 81. Ebbets of
Brooklyn are the oldest club
owners in the majors. Dreyfuss
has controlled the Pirates since
1900 and Ebbets was elected
president of the Brooklyn club
in 1898. The Giants passed into
the hands of Charles A. Stone
ham in 1919, the Cincinnati
Reds have been handled by Au-
gust Hermann for twenty years.
William i. Baker and others
took hold of the Phillies in 1913.
George w. Grant bought the
Braves four years ago. William
Wrigley and partners purchased
the Chicago Cubs franchise in
1916, and Samuel Breadon be-
came the principal owner of the
Cardinals in 1920.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25

Miss Clarice MaeLevy, New York's
super girl athlete, who can swing ZEN
where they do most damage, and the
gloves feel as big as they look when
she gets through. Miss MacLevy, who
is training down at the Madison Square
Garden gym, where other title holders
and %contenders are practicing out, is
n of the participants in the Good
VIII contest now being run where
those with the most votes will be
givea a trip to France.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
New York Authorities
Regard McTigue Champ

The stand of the French boxing
federation that Battling Sikh still re-
tains his title because he did not make
the weight in his bout with Mike Nc
Tigue is rejected by New York authori-
ties.
While the New York boxing commits
sion refused to comment, good judges
held that as long as McTigue made
the weight, Skis weight was not i'm
portant, and the Irishman Is recog-
nized as champion.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Australia Starts Fund.

A newspaper fund has been opened
at Melbourne to raise 10000 to in
sure adequate representation of Aus
tralia at the Olympic games in Paris
in 1924. 1t is proposed to send 40 ath-
letes from Australia.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
British Olympic Plans

The British are rapidly
rounding out their plans for the
Olympic games at Paris next
year, and more than one-fourth
of the proposed fund of 100000
for support of the team has been
raised.
Each town of 5000 popula-
ton has been asked to contrib
ute at least f10 TO the fund.
SO far London has subscribed
$4,000.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Goullet Has Scored
Eight Big Victories

Alfred Gonllet added to his fame by
his victory in the recent 6-day bicycle
race in Madison Square Garden. He
has scored eight victories in New York
since his first with Joe Fogler in 1913,
as well as other triumphs In Paris
and Chicago and has the one-mile
sprint record of 1:47 As.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25

John Cooney, late of the New Haven
club, pennant winners in the Eastern
league, is being rated as the like
Hest l~eft-handed pitcher in organized
league baseball. Johnny won II
games last year and dropped but
three. 1t was his pitching that won for
New Haven over Baltimore. Johnny
is an offspring of Jim Cooney, star
shortstop of the old days, playing with
Pop Arson.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Toronto Gets O'Rourke.

Shortstop Jones, on whom the
Rochester club had waived claims, has
been traded for Frank O'Rourke Of the
Portland Pacific Coast league club.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Blackmer 10 Reelected.

A.. A. Blackmer of Oak Park has
been reelected captain of the VIII
liams college basketball team for nexs
war
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Miner to Lead Buckeyes.

John Miner of Columbus, a junior,
has been elected captain of the 1924
basketball team at Ohio State univer-
sity.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-04-25
Yale Elects O'Hearn.

c. NJ. O'Hearn, PAS of Brookline,
Mass, has been elected captain of the
Yale varsity hockey team for next sea-
son.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28

be paid in paper. Under the provision
of this law the government will repa.
more than $20,O00,OO0,0OO war loan
and other debts for less than 8 cents
on the dollar.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28
DIAMONDS
MOVEMENT AWAY FROM FARMS
is HALTED IN COLORADO

Denver.-ReportS received byth State
immigration Department indicate that
the movement away from the farms,
which did not become acute in this
state until 1923, has been halted and
that there will be an increase in the
number of farms operated in 1924 over
the number for 1923.
The season has been very favorable
for sowing winter wheat and at least
a normal acreage has been sown, per-
hapS 100000 acres more than was har-
vested last summer. Winter wheat has
been sown on many farms that were
not operated at all for the 1928 harvest
and plowing has been done for spring
crops on several such farms. Most of
the winter wheat has come up and is in
fine condition, with plenty of moisture
in the ground to carry it through the
winter.
Weather conditions have been favor
able for farm work during the past
month and large amount Of ground
has been broken for next years crops,
In the non-irrigated districts a cOnsid-
cradle amount of new land has been
broken and present indications are that
much more raw land will be put in
crops in 1924 than in 1923. Though the
acreage planted to spring crops Will de-
pend very largely on the weather con-
ditionS prevailing from now until next
July, it seems fairly certain that
larger acreage will be planted for the
1924 harvest than was planted for har-
vest this year. This will not necessar-
lily mean a record acreage for the
state, for the acreage under cultiva-
tion in 1923 was smaller than that for
1922.
Some fear is expressed by expert
enced agriculturists that farmers may
permit themselves to be too much in
fluenced by the exceptionally fine corn
crop grown this year and may increase
their acreage of corn beyond justifica-
tion, sacrificing diversity for large
production in single crop. 1t should
be remembered that Colorado has not
had such a season as that of 1928 in
the previous twenty years. The rain
fall between June and Nov. was al
most double the normal rainfall, and
corn and sorghums attained a growth
which can not be expected again in
Colorado for a good many years. These
crops, however, are among the most
dependable crops grown in the state,
and though it is not safe to build hopes
for the future on the yields of 1928, it
crops should continue to account for
one-third or more of the cultivated
acreage in the state one year with an
other.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28

ERNEST CHUARD of Lausanne was
IL elected president of the Swiss con-
federation for 1924. The Swiss parlia-
ment, which chooses the president,
gave him 1S9 of the 219 votes. The
new vice president is Jean Musy Of
Fribourg.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28
German Commercial Pact sianed

Washington. = Announcement We
made at the State Department last
week that a commercial treaty had
been signed with Germany to replace
the similar convention abrogated at the
time of the war, and that Instructions
had been sent to the minister at the
Hague, Richard NJ. Tobin, to begin ne
gotiation of a similar treaty with the
Dutch government. The action marks
a forward step in the purpose OF the
Washington government to make over
all of its general commercial agree
ments with other countries.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28
Irritation License Application Made

Washington. - The Federal Power
Commission has announced that appIi
cations for permit or license under the
federal water power act include an ap-
plication by A. E. Humphreys for Ii
cense for a small project in Goose
Creek, in Mineral county, Colo, in the
vicinity of Del NOrte. He plans to con-
struct an S5-foot dam and a power
house with a capacity of $50 horse
power. The stored water will later be
used for irrigation purposes in the vi
cinity of Wagon Wheel Gap.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28
Utah Seeks injunction Against U. 8.

Washington.-Sui for an injunction
to prevent issuance of a federal per-
NIT to private interests to prospect for
oil on a tract of 1,37O,75O acres in the
state of Utah was filed by the state
in the District of Columbia Supreme
Court against Secretary Work of the
interior department and Commissioner
Spry Of the general land office. The
known as San Rafael Swell, belongs
to the state by right of a grant made
for school purposes when Utah was
admitted to the Union.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28
WASHINGTON

w ASd1NV1O yin
Automatic train control devices as
installed on the Rock Island Railroad
between Blue Island and Rock Island,
Ill.,, a distance of 165 miles, have
been approved by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. Train control de-
vices are now being tested on a num-
ber of railroads, in accordance with
orders issued by the commission sew
eral months ago.
Twelve awards, totaling apprOXi-
mately $1,0OO,O0O, were announced re-
Gently by the mixed claims commits
sion in favor of American claimants
against Germany for property losses
sustained during the war The larg
est awards were to the Standard Oil
Company of New York, 100000, and
the Remington Typewriter Company,
S64, 800. The Tahatian Trading Com
pany was allowed $4,254.
Plans to aid wheat growers by
granting government loans which
would permit them to purchase cattle
and diversity their farming, were
drafted into a bill by several members
of the Senate and House from the
northwest. The bill would provide a
S5O,OOO,O00 fund The loans would be
for a five-year period at a rate of in
terest not to exceed 6 per cent and
with the cattle as security.
Larger acre yields and better prices
generally of most of the important
farm products of the country, com
bined with an Increase OF about 600,-
900 acres in the aggregate planted
area lifted the total value of this
years crops $872, 2,S91,0 200 above last
year. Value of this years crops was
placed at $8322, ,695,000 by the depart
ment of agriculture in it's final crop
report of the year. The values were
based on the farm price of the crops
on Dec. 1.
Soldiers bonus legislation received
a setback with the refusal of the
House ways and means committee to
give it right of way over administra-
tive provisions of the treasury'S tax
bill. The committee declined, however.
to sidetrack it until a decision is
reached as to what changes should be
made in tax rates The bonus was
given another jolt by Secretary Mel
lon, who declared in letter to Rep
resentative Andrew, Republican, Mas
sachusetts, that if the compensation
measure vetoed by President Harding
were enacted the direct cost would
total 50, 400, ,526 444, and would average
S225, 100000 for the first four years.
San Diego naval authorities con-
firmed a report that Admiral Samuel
S. Robinson had disapproved court
martial findings holding Lieutenant
Commander II. o. Roesch guilty of
neglect in permitting the destroyer
Nicholas to run ashore in the Honda
disaster, September s.
William Gibbs McAdOo, wartime di-
rector general of the American rail
roads, announced his candidacy for the
Democratic presidential nomination in
a telegram sent from Los Angeles to
w. w. HOWeS. Democratic state cha4..
man, Pierre. S. d.
The Winslow mail., 1923-12-28
GENERAL

aneSe government Tor prosecution OF
the alleged murderers.
GENERAL
Henry Ford declared, in Detroit,
that he, ''like a great many of the
American people," feels that the cOun-
try is "safe with Coolidge" and that
he himself would never consider run
ming against Mr.. Coolidge on any
ticket.
With John Hatfield, s.70-year-old
feudist, and three of his companions
in iail. officers have turned their eff
forts to pursuit of G. o. Edwards, only
member still at large of the quintet
that broke from the Wise, Va, Jail
Hatfield, Stephens Wood, Alec Null
Inns and Carl Miller were captured in
had been hiding.
If state medical licensing boards
will admit to examinations only those
qualified by education to be phys-
states are directed to search out and
prosecute men practicing medicine
without a license, the nation will be
freed from unqualified doctors, the
American Medical Association de-
clared in an official statement by its
executive committee.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's tentative valuation on the
railroads of the country is $3,400,0O0,-
900 too low, according to e. E. Loomis,
president of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road and chairman of the committee
on public relations of the eastern rail
roads. Mr.. Loomis, in a detailed state
ment, places the rock bottom value
of the railways of the country at S22,
35OOOO,OOO, while the commissions
valuation totals $20,984, ,683000 at the
end of 1919 Since then the carriers
have expended 81 1884, $4,000, which
must be added to the commissions
figure.
Seven persons were seriously in
jured and a panic among more than
$50 other severely shaken passengers
was narrowly averted when three In
diana interurban cars crashed in
rear-end collision on the Big -Four
bridge at Louisville, KY, 100 feet
above the murky, fog-enshrouded wat
ers Of the Ohio River.
The bodies of three men were re-
covered by firemen from the ruins of
the Capitol hotel, in the center of
the business section Of Houston, Tex.
which was destroyed by fire. The
bodies were burned virtually beyond
recognition. Property damage is esti-
mated at $300,000 The flames for a
time threatened the entire district.
The shopmens strike on the Santa
Fe, begun July 1, 1922, was officially
declared off Dec l, it was announced
in Chicago last week. 1t is understood
that the strike has been virtually off
a year, but officials of the railway EN-
plOyees department explained that Of
ficial notice was issued to system fed
Grafton officers canceling the strike
as matter of union record, and to
permit members of the federated shop
crafts to return freely to the service
of the Santa Fe company.
Johnny Dundee of New York, world
featherweight champion, added anoth
er star to his crown by taking the
American junior lightweight cham
pionship back from Jack Bernstein of
Yonkers on the judges decision after
a fifteen-round bout, the feature of the
Christmas charity at Madison Square
Garden, New York.
Binding the driver of a mail truck
to a wheel of the vehicle, two daring