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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-22
BELGIAN ENVOY
TO PRESENT
TROPHY

The Belgian Ambassador, Baron
de Cartier, will present the Gordon
Bennett international Association
Balloon Trophy to the American
winners at the luncheon to be given
by the local chapter of the National
Aeronautic Association at the Carl
ten Hotel tomorrow. w. T. Van
Orman and w. w. Morton were
the American pilots who won the
races at Antwerp on May 80, 1926,
entering the field against II con:
testants with six nations repre-.
scented. AS result of their sue.
cess, the next race will be held in
the United States.
Among those attending the lunch.
con will be William p. MacCracken,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Aeronautics; Porter Adams,
president of the National Aeronau-
tic Association; George w. Lewis,
vice. president of the contest COM
of the contest committee.
y H.
GIRLS AND BOYS REHEARSE
FOR MI.CAREME FIESTA
A feature Of the Mi-Careme Span
ish Fiesta on Monday night at the
Mayflower will be the entrance Of
the young girls and young mems
dancing floor committees. escorting
Signora Maria Montero, the Spanish
dancer from New York city, who
will come down as the guest of the
Thomas jefferson Foundation to
assist at the ball for the benefit
of the Monticello Fund.
Mrs. Rushmore Patterson, chair.
man of this committee, Is holding
final rehearsals this week in> the
Mayflower ball room With the mem
bers Of the group in which are Mrs.
John p. Jackson, Lieut.. and Mrs.
Edgar Allan Poe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gwinn Rust, Miss Lydia Archbold,
Miss Mary Bradley, Miss Charlotte
Childress, Miss Ellen Wise Cren-
shaw, Miss Eleanor Hall, Miss Claire
Heilmann, Miss Helene Heilmann,
Miss Delphine Heyl, Miss Elizabeth
Howry, Miss Maud Mason, Miss
Francesca McKenny, Miss Sally
Hews Phillips, Miss Dorothy Sellers,
Mrs. Gytha Stourton and Miss Helen
Strauss.
A partial list of the young .men
serving on this committee includes
Count Macchi di Cellere, Kemper
Simpson, Duwayne Clark, Mitchell
Carroll, Charles Carroll, Hamilton
Martin, +. X. Moran, T. Stone,
Charles Smoot, Kenneth Smoot, and
Dickinson Jewett.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
ARTICLE ".
CONTINUED from Last Issue.)

CONTINUED from, Last Issue.)
THE desire on the part Of Standard
! Oil of New York and the Vacuum
Oil Company to purchase Soviet Oil
is explained.
1t remains to explain the contrary
position taken for time by Standard
Of New Jersey. Teaslc, as head of
this concern, had to consider position
and policy of the rival company,
Royal Dutch, headed by his "close
friend"-Sir Henri Deterding.
THE moment Sir Henri hears ru-
i mors of negotiations between
Standard Oil and the Soviet Union
Naptha Trust, he becomes, in the
language of the day, eft to be tied"
Invariably, under such circumstances,
he begins, with the aid, advice and
consent of the British government, q.
worldwide propaganda campaign
against the Soviet Union.
Sir Henri writes letters to leading
British newspapers predicting the fall
of the Soviet government, rousing
new hopes in the breast of the hold
ers of czarist bonds and former own
ers of Russian oil lands, creating an
atmosphere Of suspicion and uncer-
tainty and thereby embarrassing STAN
dard Oil and hampering its negotia-
tions with the Soviet Naptha Trust.
THE Standard Oil of New Jersey
(Soconej as distinguished from So
cony) is-or was-espccially vulner-
liable to this kind of an attack as well
as to more direct methods. Fischer
tells why:
"Thc Soconej operates in France,
Italy, Germany, Scandinavia and other
countries which are large consumers
of petrol. HERE IT Completes
WITH THE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL.
But what is officially styled com
PETITION" is IN REALITY CO.
OPERATION, for instead of strug-
Cling against one another and thus
reducing their profits to minimum,
the two giants of the oil world.
agree to a common market price. De-
terding. accordingly, has a powerful
weapon against the Standard. Only
recently he threatened a price war
with the VACUUM OIL IF 1T SOLD
SOVIET PETROLEUM IN EGYPT.
The Vacuum is ready to defy him
very likely because it does not sup
pose that the Shell would throw down
the gauntlet to the Standard for the
sake of the Egyptian market. BUT
MR.. TEAGLE HAS REASON TO
FEAR THAT DETERDING WOULD
GO TO SUCH LENGTHS IF HIS
BUSINESS IN ALL IMPORTANT
COUNTRIES OF EUROPE WAS
IMPERILLED BY AN UNDER
STANDING BETWEEN SOCON1EJ
(Standard of New Jersey AND THE
RUSSIANS. This. far more than
any question of morals, was at the
bottom of Teagle's Discrimination to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
Latest DEVELOPMENTS.

Underlying recent developments in
France-the attempt to dismiss RAJ
kovsky, the Soviet Union ambassador,
the hue and cry against the Soviet
Union itself, and the debt and credit
negotiations between France and the
Soviet Union on which an agreement
has been reached, is the struggle be-
tween Royal Dutch She'll and Stan
dard 0il-bached by their respective
state departments.
THE New York Times for September
IS, quotes an editorial from the
Pravda in a Moscow dispatch. 1t
says:
"The base means resorted to by the
oil people ended by strengthening
Franco-Soviet relations"
"The British have been trying to
close the French markets against So
Wet Oil, but Deterding's agents have
been defeated in their attempt to bind
the French nation to the chariot of
British Imperialism. 49,.
CTILL more significant is a Paris
dispatch to The Times from
Walter Duranty, the most reliable
correspondent of The Times on Rus
sian affairs and international politics
in which the Soviet Union is involved.
Duranty says, after citing the polit-
ical gossip Of the European capitals:
"One hears a tale of a new rising
of the Caucasian Mensheviki who are
only waiting for French permission
that is French rupture with the
Soviet-to launch revolt supported
by the Cavalry of St: George, as
the French term English gold"
at is all vague and conjectural, but
sometimes behind the smoke there is
fire. Anyway, one thing is certain
the rulers of Soviet Russia are con-
WINGED that Britain is out to get
them by any possible means and that
SIR HENRI DETERMINES ANTI
SOVIET CAMPAIGN IS AT ONCE
A PART AND THE SPEARHEAD
w 1III DIsl lAoIl ~ L AIN. l. nSy
say part, BECAUSE THE ANGLO
D UTCH OIL INTERESTS ARE
DIRECTLY AFFECTED one of
the important factors in the Franco
Russian is the question Of guar
antees' for interest and repayment of
credits to the Soviet THESE
GUARANTEES ARE SAID TO
CONSIST OF THE SUPPLY OF.
RUSSIAN OIL ANNUALLY SUI
FICIENT TO RENDER FRANCE
AND POSSIBLY SPAIN ALSO, FOR
THERE ARE WHISPERS OF THAT
AROUND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF EITHER AMERICAN OR
BRITISH OIL"
"There might be, it is said, an ar
rangement made with one or the
other of the Standard corporations
WHICH WOULD DISARM THEIR
OPPOSITION AND EVEN FACILI-
TATE THE FINAN CING OF
FRANCO-RUSSIAN CREDITS. BUT
SIR HENRI DETERDING
WOULD OBVIOUSLY BE HURT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03

deal with the Syndicate. (The Soviet
Union Oil Trust). THIS, TOO, Elk
PLAINS THE SOCONEJ'S CON
Germ ABOUT STOLEN OIL"
WYE have seen already how Teagle
" dealt with this problem. Royal
Dutch Shell and Standard Oil are now
at swords points-that is to say that
American and British imperialism are
in titanic struggle centering around
the immense supplies of oil controlled
by the Soviet Union.
Royal Dutch Shell has its back
against the wall, fighting to retain
its markets. There is pleI.4S evidence
CT this, but we will quot. sut one
news item from the New York Her.
aldTribune of September Id:
"Thc war between Standard Oil
and the Royal Dutch Shell Com
pany, precipitated when the former
took over contracts for the distribu-
ton of Russian petroleum. has flood
ed Europe with cheap Soviet oil,
Mason Day, vice-president of the SIN
clair Exploration Company, said yes
terday en- his arrival here aboard
the Olympic"
RUT more important than the COM
- mercial struggle are it's political
implications and it is evident that
the part played by the oil resources
of the Soviet Union in international
affairs at present hardly can be over
emphasized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
SHOULD ANY SUCH CONCLUSION
BE REACHED"


It is obvious that with the Standard
Oil possessing an importing, a re-
filming and distributing machinery
divided into separate corporations and
chartered by the French government,
(these corporations were organized
shortly after the wary and with con-
tracts for the purchase of Soviet oil,
Standard Oil can easily risk losing
some of its French income provided
its rival, Royal Dutch Shell, is
squeezed out of the French market.
OURANTY continues:
~ Finally, this storm appears to
be having the effect of diverting
French attention from the original
talk about the recall of Rakovsky or
a rupture with the Soviet"
So far the, world struggle between
Standard Oil and Royal Dutch APP
pears as a development which, utilized
in the mastery manner in which it
has been by the Soviet Union
diplomacy, seems to have thwarted
an immediate offensive against the
Soviet Union under British auspices
and therefore to have averted for
the time, being the danger of i'm
perialist war. To some extent this
is doubtless true, but only fools will
see in nner-imperialist conflicts
continuous guarantee for the safety
of the Soviet Union.
NOT only does the safety of the So
~ Wet Union from imperialist block
ade and invasion lie in it's own
strength and the will and the ability
Of the masses in the imperialist
countries to defend the fatherland of
the working class, but there is also
the world struggle for oil, danger to
the masses of an imperialist war be-
tween Great Britain and America de-
veloping out of it.
While the main task of the labor
movement Of the world is war against
imperialist war on the Soviet Union,
it is necessary also that we keep in
mind the ever-sharpening antagon-
isms between the two world imperial
isms-Great Britain and America
which the phases of the struggle for
oil outlined previously bring into clear
relief.
&TUDENTS of oil and international
~ politics, especially those who re-
alize the tremendous influence of the
struggle for the oil reserves of the
world, which recent technical dis
coveries and processes have given
new immense values, are already do
ing something more than limiting at
the possibilities of world war con-
tanned therein.
Albert d. Brokaw, oil engineer,
writing in the October issue of
Foreign Affairs" takes a serious
view of the struggle for OIL One
does not have to read between the
lines to realize that war is in the air.
Ito Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03
Oil and the War Danger
By William F. Dunno


Teagl and DetengIhe Relations Royal Dutch and Standard Oil
of the SuuggleOn Companies
forOl -Hovthe Dang
Deveop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03

Head Of the German chemical in
dustry whose agreement with Walter
Teagle of Standard Oil left Sir Henri
Deterding out in the cold i'm connec-
tion with the extraction of oil from
coal by the Bergius process.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-03

THE democratic faction in Chicago
does not agree with the republican
mayor of that city that he has crime
on the go. Neither do we for that
matter But in the matter of UNDER
world connections one faction has
nothing on the other. Under the
Dever regime vice, graft and crime
Of all kinds flourished and gangsters
killed and hijacked with impunity.
They are simply little looser in their
methods under Thompson. Wars are
always won by the side with the
heaviest artillery" and since Thomp-
son won the last election perhaps the
democrats have cause to grumble. But
they had the money to buy the guns
and their failure to stock the arsenal
cannot be blamed on Thompson. The
latter learned his lesson from the To-
cal Hearst sheets whose policy calls
for the biggest army and navy in the
world for the United States.
IT. J. O'FLAHERTY.
Evening star., 1927-08-22
FRENCH SPORT LEADERS
ARE PEEVED AT YANKEES

countries. Darkness is so long de-
layel there that men can run in the
evening even after taking adequate
time for the digestion of their dinners.
For that matter, over In England
the American athletes had no difficulty
in reading newspapers outdoors after
o'clock and farther north there is
good light as late as IL o'clock.
In this country, of course, conditions
in this respect are very different and
college men who have been graduated
and have entered business have little
or no opportunity for keeping up their
work provided their specialties have
been distance running.
The great bulk of American Olympic
teams are made up of college men and
of these the distance runners who are
effective are undergraduates. Gradu-
ates who have run the distances while
i'm college drop them after graduation
! simply because they have no time for
training and practice.
European distance runners are older
than the Americans who meet them.
This fact is chiefly due. as already
said. to the fact that darkness sets in
very late, thus enabling the Europeans
to attend to business and have the
evening for their athletic activities.
With this in mind, it doubted
very seriously that the United States
will ever compare as favorably 10 the
European distance men as patriotic
Americans might Akes -. -.
Evening star., 1927-08-22
BY THE SPORTSMAN.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. August %
1t is not considered an act of obeis
anCe to Lady Luck to enter golf
championship with new clubs in one &
bag. but Chick Evans, former anna
teur title holder. and George Won Elm
the defending champion. violated that
superstition when they started in the
thirty-irst amateur golf championship
over the Minikahda course here this
morning.
For years Evans, who has won one
national open championship and two
amateurs, putted with contrivance
that looked like an overworked sad
iron. The contraption began to fail
him several years ago and after his
bad showing in the national open at
Oakmont in June he hurled it into the
woods ands later purchased an alum.
inum putter. Never a good putter,
Chick will pin his faith on the new
blade in the current championship that
is being played over the same ground
that he set afire back in 1916 when he
won the open.
Won Elm on His Game.
Won Elm, who is now very much on
his game-as his par-breaking II on
Sunday proved-starts the qualifying
matches with pair of new steel-shaft.
ed wooden clubs in his bag. George
would like very much to use those of
81 Newton, as he did at Baltusrol,
where he won the crown he is defend
ing here. But Newton is in the quail
flying round and will nerd his weapons
until Tuesday night at least.
At Baltusrol, Won Elm borrowed
one club from Newton each day and
in his battle with Bobby Jones in the
Evening star., 1927-08-22
HELEN WILLS PICKED
TO WIN TENNIS TITLE

NEW YORK. August 90 LR.-
Helen Wills. judged by the opinions
of the hundreds of sports followers
viii be queen of the tennis world again
when the fortieth anual women's ma
tlonal championship comes to close
next Saturday. 1t starts this after.
noon.
Forced to relinquish her national
title last year because Of appendi-
citis, the California girl, with a Wimb.
ledon conquest behind her, is among
81 players seeking the crown.
Probably the most formidable of
her opponents is Mrs. Molla Mallory,
the defending champion, who yester.
day added to her various victories this
year the eastern title, gained at Rye,
at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Hos.
mer Chaplin of Springfield, Mass, for
mer Californian.
Other entrants are: Helen Jacobs,
California school girl; Eleanor Goss,
Joan Fry, Betty Nuthall, English sen.
sation, and recent conqueror of Miss
Jacobs; Eileen Bennett. Kea Bouman,
Dutch girl who holds the French
women's championships; Mrs. Chaplin,
Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree, captain
OF the British Wightman Cup team;
Penelope Anderson of Richmond, Va,
and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman.
At 5 pm. Miss Helen Wills plays
Josephine Crookslank, another Cali.
fOrnian.
Evening star., 1927-08-22
ANOTHER RECORD BECKONS
TO ZONES AT MINIKAHDA

most beautiful and we'll kept courses
to he found in the world.
Fully half of the players who will
contest for places in the champion
ship fight are making their debut in
the national amateur. Most of them
will fall short Of meeting the require.
ments, but some few are bound to
break through and a new sensation
may develop from their ranks. State
and sectional champions are to be
found at every turn.
Mixed in with the newcomers are
10 who at one time or another have
won the amateur crown. The dean
of the championship group is Findlay
S. Douglas, the title holder % years
ago, when golf was played only by
the rich and derided by the masses.
Keeping him company are William
Fownes. Francis Ouimet, Jess Gull
ford. Chick Evans, Bob Gardner. Max
Marston, Davidson Heron. Bob Jones
and the present title holder, George
Won Elm. A rather regal crew, and
awe inspiring to some of the raw
youngsters.
Won Elm Is Playing Well.
Jones and Won Elm, the center Of
attraction for the golfers of Mime
apolis and st. Paul, are finding Min.
ikahda to their liking. Won Elm has
been around in par and is hitting
every shot with crispness. He appears
to be in far better form than at
Baltusrol, where he started poorly
and then found himself as the cham
pionship progressed. Jones is playing
his shots with more surety than he
did at OakmOnt and his iron play
appears cleaner and far more ac-
curate. There is little question but
what those two are ready for the test.
Evening star., 1927-08-22
200 Golfers Are Striving for Title in Amateur Tourney at Minneapolis
SUBURBAN TOURNEY
NEAR COMPLETION

Singles semi-finals and the doubles
final in Suburban Tennis League
tournament will be played next Sat
urday and Sunday on Bureau of
Standards courts. Play reached that
stage as the result of eight matches
held yesterday on Burleith and
Standard courts.
Louis Doyle and Stellwagen sur
vived the doubles competition at
Standards courts and will meet Hodge
wood and McCabe. who surprised their
rivals on Burleith courts.
Singles survivors are r. DOYLE,
Harring. Callan and Stam. The last
named is the favorite.
Yesterdays summaries:
Singles second round-F. Doyle defeated
Ladd. 6-3. 6-3: Harring defeated Gable.
3-6. e.. Ct.
Third iound---F. Doyle defeated Hubbard.
60 Sc: stam defeated May. g.. g.:
:. Doubles. sem-final ,roundLL. Doyle and
80. 6-,3. 6-l: Hodgewood, and McCabe
Pairings:
Singles. semi-final round-F. Doyle vs..
Harring. Callan vs.. Stam.
Doubles finals. DOYLE and Stellwagen
vs.. Hodgewood and McCabe. on Saturday.
Evening star., 1927-08-22
SUPERSTITION is DEFIED
BY Won ELM AND EVANS

finals he procured the loan of his
friends brassie. The Californian he.
lieves that if he can do that again,
luck will be with him.
The sharpshOOters assembled her
believe that $50 will be the maximum
to qualify for the championship
which if true, will be lower figure
than in the last several amateurs. A
large number of the amateur stars are
finding it easy to break 80 over Mini.
kahda, but few of them have been
able to touch par. Playing from the
back tees the fairways are tighten.
ing up and the pins will doubtless be
spotted on the most inaccessible parts
of the tricky greens.
Five Sons of Pros.
Five sons of prominent profession
ais are entered in the field, as we'll as
the four semi-finalists in the recent
National Public Links championship.
The five to whom golf was cradle
talk, are:
Fred Band, son of the professional
of the Pittsburgs club Densmore
Shute, whose father is an instructor
at Columbus, Ohio; Jack Mackie. jr.,
son of Jack Mackie of Inwood; Dave
Ogilvie, son of Cleveland pro, and
Maurice Mccarthy Of the old Flatbush
club in Brooklyn.
The test at Minikahda will be in
the approach shots. Most of the long
holes can be reached with drive and
a short iron and it is the masters of
the short irons that will score best and
win. The greens and fairways are i'm.
maculate and keen as glass. Every.
thing points to one of the greatest of
all amatuer championships end per.
haps one of the most surprising.
Evening star., 1927-08-22

Washington's tennis representatives
in Intercity Public Parks Tennis
League practically assured them
selves of another championship by
defeating Baltimore yesterday on
Henry Park courts. to 3.
Baltimore previously defeated Phila'
delphia, 5 to 4. making it possible for
the local team to win by splitting
with the Quakers when they meet
later.
The other two teams are tied.
Bob Elliott and Eric Jacobsen of
Baltimore won the feature match yes.
terday from Dooley Mitchell and
Gwynn King. King failed to show
his usual form, losing in the singles
as we'll. Hugh Trigg was also forced
to bow in the singles, after a hard
battle.
Summaries:
Singles--Rudv Baltimore defeated King
Ct 6-3: Mitchell Washington, defeated
Jacobsen, e. s-6: Consdine, Washing.
ton defeated Elliot: ."-6. g.. Cd:
O'Neil Washington. defeated wemon. 7-5.
"a: Hedeskin waShingt2n ah defeated Taylor;
TM Trigs ID !Hs te f'enr. Sm.4 Baltimore defeated
Doubles-Elliott and Jacobsen Baltimore
Ct. O'NeiI and Considine Washington. de.
feated Rudy. and La Fleur:. e.. "-6
6-4: Hedekin and Fowler. Washington de-
feated Robinson and Taylor. 81. 6-4.
Evening star., 1927-08-22
PROS OF THIS SECTION
GET TEST SEPTEMBER 16

Freddie Mcleod, Columbia Country
Club professional, has announced that
the Middle Atlantic section qualifying
sociation championship tournament
will be held September 16 on a Bal.
timore course to be selected by him
self and Bob Barnett, Chevy Chase
pro.
Tommy Armour Of Congressional
Club, must qualify though he holds
the open title.
Evening star., 1927-08-22

in Boston. The Boston infield Is haru'
and Scott always longed for a bertn
on the New York team. The lnlleiu
at the Yankee Stadium is or better
soil. 1t is softer and has more spring.
Scott wanted to go there. reallZlhs
that it would be easier on his legs.
His wish was finally fulfilled, ana
| il was undoubtedly due to his chanSe
| of uniform that he was able TO run
his string Of consecutive games up 10
1307. The softer ground somewhat
slowed groundhit balls, While tme
same ground that slowed the DdHs
made it possible for Scott TO move
| faster because there was more spring
| to the soil. Under these conditions
Scott managed to hold on, but had
his mind not been on the record ana
had he taken an occasional rest when
| strained ligaments cried for rest, ne
would still be part Of the big show.
He was one Of the most intelligent
| infielders of all time. He played ac-
cording to the catcher's signals, chang
! ing his position with the pitch and
managing to get chances that escaped
| other shortstops. He was one of the
| hardest men l ever saw or heard or
to suck in" on hit-and-run play,
| and ball teams finally gave up trying
/ to hit through ScOtt's position.
lie was a weak batter, according TO
/ the averages. but a batter always
! feared by pitchers because of his time
! ~ hitting. He was always dangerous
| with a man on base. rarely ever dan
serous with bases empty. This condi-
lion is ordinarily reversed in base ball,
Ball players will always regard him
as a great player, although the public
never regarded him as an outstanding
star because Of his unobtrusive man.
ner. The spectators missed the inside
play that made him famous among
The members ei his Drotsssiesa a>4.a