Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19

Northern Manchuria before attempt
ing to expound them,
United States Of America.-Secre-
tary Kellogg sailed Friday for France
10 sign. along with representatives OF
IL other governments, the anti-war
treaty.
The net earnings of the General
Motors Corporation for the first six
months of l9ca--viz. s16l26a, 900
probably established a new world
record for an industrial The ne:
earnings of this corporation for the
corresponding period of 1927 were
$l29,2500o0. During the half year retail
sales by General Motors Corporation
dealers amounted to 1.062.733 cars (as
against $40 4Sl in the correspondents
period Of 1920. Other sales amounted
to l.083.3l6 cars (as against 8S3. 447 in
the corresponding period Of 1921.
Sport.--On August II in the OlympicS
at Amsterdam WeisSmuller of Illinois
won the l00-meter free-style swim.
cqualing his own Olympic record of
SO 3-5 seconds Miss Osipowich OF
Massachusetts won the l00-meter free
NtSlG SWIM avn WOtAICLl ltl L IiHiNtE 4 /
seconds, a new Olympic record for
women. Peter Desjardines of Florida
won the high dive Mrs. Pinkston of
Detroit won the high dive for women.
Miss Braun of the Netherlands won
the l00metcr backstroke swim for
women with a new world record for
women of | minute % seconds. The
American team tClapp. Laufer, Kojac
and WeiSsmullcr) won the s0n-meter
relay swimming race with new
Olympic record of minutes So is
seconds.
Final scores In the swimming contest
Mems division--United States 5;
Germany !, Japan. /; Sweden, /.
Argentina /
Women's division-U United States. S:
Germany, l. the Netherlands. /.
II is thus seen that the United States
won great glory in the water events
The results Of the individual boxing
contests on August II are as follows
Flywelght, Hungarian: bantam
weight, an Italian; featherweight. a
Hollander. lightweight, an italian: well
terweight' New 2ealander; middle
weight, an Italian; light heavyweight.
an Argentinian; heavyweight. an Ar
gentinian.
beaten by Italians.
Final score--Italy 8: Argentina. 2;
British commonwealth Of nations New
Zealand, y; Hungary, /; the Neither
lands. l.
On August IL the Netherlands and
Poland tied for first place In the equeS-
trlan competition, the American en-
trants having been early eliminated.
Other Olympic Events.
Certain Olympic events not noticed IN
the foregoing record resulted as fol-
lows
Modern pentathlon. won by Sweden,
soccer foot ball, won BY Uruguay. field
hockey, won by British India: weight
lifting, won by Germany; Winter
sports. won by Norway; United States,
second.
On August Il the ninth Olympic
games ended tremendously.
OF course, when you consider that
there are only about 3500,0e0 people
in Finland, Finland's showing is seen
10 be far and away the best for any
nation in the Olympic track events
Moreover the marathon excepted,
every one of the long distance runs at
these Olympics, that is, the events re-
quiring most stamina, was won by a
Finlander, About IS per cent of the
population of Finland are of Ftnnie.
that Is. Mongoloid stock, the rest being
mostly of the Swedish. that is Nordic
stock. take II that the Ave Olympic
heroes from Finland are all of the
Finnic stock. Another upset for the
old authropological dope
Note also. that the Hungarian team
won the championship In the tourna-
ment Of the International Chess Fed
Grafton recently held at The Hague, the
American team placing second The
Hungarians. too are Mongoloids. Are
the MongoloidS superior To the Nordlcs,
both physically and mentally
Personally. Ell Ouah, the marathon
winner. described as an Algerian Arab"
strictly answers that description. and is
therefore Semitic. a Caucasian of
the Mediterranean division, which isn't
so disconcerting After all. anthro-
pology Is In It's infancy,
On August IL, at famous Stamford