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Evening star., 1928-12-13
BOWLING TEAM ISSUES
CHALLENGE TO FIREMEN

Capt. O. r. Moxley, leader of the
District Firemen's Duckpin team, has
issued a challenge to bowlers of the
Metropolitan Police Department to a
match at any time on the Coliseum
drives.
Monkeys squad has defeated Hyatts-
vile Firemen three times, Kensington
once and Bethesda twice.
Silver Spring Firemen will oppose
Monkeys team at Lucky Strike Saturday
night at 8 o'clock The following Fire
men will report at 7:30 o'clock: Artigo,
Clark, Sheppard, Peterson, Watt, Rit-
nour, Clagget, Handbook, Mayhew and
Mooney Two teams will be selected
'front.' his group to bowl two teams
representing the Silver Spring DEPART
ment.
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CONFERENCE OF MINORS
SPURNED BY THE A. |

CHICAGO, December 13.-The AM
erican League has decided to send no
representative to the minor league con-
ference at West Baden next month.
The league declared that, as the
National Association had failed to take
Official action on the proposed amend
ments to the major-minor league rules.
it would be absolutely unnecessary TO
take any action.
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% -
nd individual averages follow

High team games-Unity. 5nI. Bethahy'
4s9; ashinston centennial; Wsah1n1;o 49i ,ntennal
III. High ptfSnnv team sefs@WaIit 39t Unity 1875.
High individual ssmes-oWen, t,.th " shingt0dd a0d
Centennial: 1870; Anderson Fu'h' al"
High individual sets--Anderson' Rn,h' Rs1, S1,d Ssnd
owen, washington Centennial SzS' anu
Hodges, MiZnah. 3l4. ~., uaebing-
ton Centennial. os-1l; 1. Hicks un''S' 800
0csniI1. strikesDWhftbsck ohfbk Washington Centennial
g.; L.. Hicks. Unity. g. c..ornis1 AZ,
sSpares-Owen Washington Centg,ninhira,lec nihr,eve1 f1
Anderson. Ruth, 3s, and H. Veihf"eSei'
Fiat rSme-Richards, Columbia, 81.
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GRIFF FAILS TO LAND
AUTRY FROM CLEVELAND

CHICAGO, December 13-The
Washington club tried to engineer a
deal with Cleveland late Wednesday.
Clark Griffith offered Catcher Kenna
or Gooch for Chick Autry, third-string
backstop of the Indians, but General
Manager Bill Evans said him nay.
Evening star., 1928-12-13

helm. ss1 G street; Charles, Poulis;; l2o F F
street: George J. DracopouloS. 5l6 Ninth
street; Jack Began. Lansburgh Bro.
League. 400 Emerson street; Hyman Schecter,
926 Sixth street southwest; Harry W. Armi-
ger. slO E street. and John L. Seymour
Arthur W. Dew, Patent Ottice League l42g
Odd Fellows Leagues, GAS Ingraham street;
Sol D. Padlibsky. ATHLETIC Club League. 93s
Massachusetts, avenue; Frank A. Loef1fer,
34l0 Thirteenth street: w. J. Hyde. Masonic
League. 929 F street: Bernard c. Frye, Ath;
letic Club League, 739 Newton street, and
w. Harley. $40 E street:
John Henry Polkinhorne, Lutheran League.
300 Connecticut avenue; Harry J, Kamerow,
926 Emerson street; William E. Duncan
Brentwood, Md: Jack Rosenberg, Theodore
D. Bieber 5000 wisconsin avenue. Arthur F.
Furguson, U. S. Tariff Commission; Louis
Silverberg. Masonic League, 929 street.
Walter J. Snellines, East Washington Chureh
and Southern Railway Clerks Leagues, 518
Ninth street northeast; Louis Rose. ATHLETIC
Club League, COS Fifth street northeast, and
Herbert s. Dern. Typothetae League, l7l8
Frank H. Pietila, Plumbing Industry
League, 59I9 Third street, and James 4.
Moody. Interstate Commerce Commission
League. SIS Mills building.
Evening star., 1928-12-13
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio.-Emmett Rocco, ELL
wood City, Pa, outpointed Frank Wine,
Montana 00).
FORT WAYNE, Ind.-Ted Miranda,
Grand Rapids, Mich. won on foul from
Mike O'Dowd, Columbus, Ohio (3).
frankie Jarr, Fort Wayne, knocked out
Eddie Almond, Cincinnati go.
SAN FRANCISCO-Jock Malone, st.
Paul, won on foul from Jack Gibbs,
Los Angeles (6).
Evening star., 1928-12-13
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.

" VARSITY sharpsheoters at George
I Washington, with a lengthy
" schedule ahead of them, got off
to an early start last week, firing
their opening match against
John Tarleton College. 1t was tele-
graphic encounter and their opponents
cards have not yet been received, but
they dropped only four points in the
contest. Their total of 496 was points
better than that of their initial match
last season. This indicates that the
team is starting in championship form,
ready to defend its national intercol-
legiate laurels.
Helen Prentiss fired the only possible.
Betty Clark, India Bell Corea, Naomi
Crumley and Airline Spencer each fired
90. This week the team is firing Gettys-
burg College and the University Of
Pennsylvania.
Only one shoulder shoulder match
Is scheduled so far. That Is the annual
triangular match between George Wash
ington, Maryland and Drexel Institute
on March 28 at G. w. Other tele-
graphic encounters listed include the
University of Maine, Penn State, Uni
versity of Washington, Dot and Circle
championship; NJ r. A. team cham
ptOIlSIlip dIlQ Ns II, n. 1IlUAflQudl CiIdIl-
pionship.
Helen Taylor captains the varsity this
season, with Eugenia Cuvillier serving
as manager. Others on the team are
Helen Humphries, Naomi Crumley, Mar
jorie Leighey, Verna Parsons, Helen
Prentiss, Airline Spencer, Roberta
Wright, Betty Clark, India Bell Corea
and Grace Mclean.
A large field Of beginners have report
ed for range practice at George Wash
ington, and new system of coaching
has been inaugurated. Assistant man
ayers, appointed from the ranks of the
experienced markswomen, are doing all
of the coaching for the new recruits.
Two of the varsity have been selected
as official coaches for that group as
well. Helen Prentiss and Betty Clark
were chosen for this latter post. AS
sistant managers in charge of the be-
ginners are: Verna Parsons, Florence
Brookhart, Virginia Whitney, Catherine
Palmer, Grace Mclean, Emily Mitchell,
Naomi Crumley and Katherine Junkin.
Interclass matches for the beginners
will be held after New Year, as will the
annual individual shoot for the best in
dividual marksman in this class.
Jewish Community Center and Cap
itol Athletic Club sextets will meet to-
night at o'clock in the Jewish Com
munity Center gymnasium for a pre-
Evening star., 1928-12-13
UMPIREs' NEW OFFICERS.

william Watt is the new president of
the District of Columbia Umpires' Asso-
citation. H. B. Mcclure has been chosen
vice president, and James Green secre-
tary and treasurer.
Evening star., 1928-12-13
MANY DUCKPIN CIRCUITS
TO HAVE REPRESENTATION
District Veterans Bureau Ladies, Eastern Star, War
Leagues Latest to Send Members into Big
s@ Contest to Be Held During Holidays.

v than time remaining in which TO ME
their entries annual individual duckn cnan
wv held under the auspices OF Inc
Evening star during the holiday season at Lucky Srke
beginning 10 StoIHl oAAo"S "eS
nentS entries - .,.uo uooo,uod +odo, Tho
however independent bowlers who are unable TO
league competition or are prevented
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BALL CLUB IS SOLD.

COLUMBUS, Ga, December 13 R).-
After season of financial losses, the
Columbus Club of the Southeastern
League has been sold to c. D. Smith
and associates, thus assuring the city Of
professional base ball next year.
Evening star., 1928-12-13
TEAM SCORING.
LYONS GETS PRO JOB.

Bob Lyons, who has gained fame here
as q sandlot pitcher, will cast his lot
with professional base ball next Spring.
He has signed with the Clarksburg club
of the Middle Atlantic League
Evening star., 1928-12-13
HICKEY BEST SCORER
IN PRO BASKET BALL

NEW YORK. December 13 (R.-In-
dividual and team scoring figures of
the American Basket Ball League, In
Guiding games of December TO- follow:
Evening star., 1928-12-13
ROD AND STREAM
By Perry Miller.

Of game and inland fisheries Of Virginia.
told this column that the closed season
had not been changed and Is as stated
above.
Evening star., 1928-12-13
Unity Team Has a 3-Came Lead
In Eastern Star Duck pin Loop

Y VAVING lost but one game in 80,
Unity team finished the first
series race in Eastern Star
4 L Bowling League with 3-game
lead over Washington Centen-
NAL and Bethany, tied for the runner
up berth. Luck owen of Washington
Centennial is the individual star to
date, setting the high-average pace and
topping the field in spares and holding
high game.
Team and individual averages follow:
Evening star., 1928-12-13

Hnder.ripe leaves. No aat.tasting over
ripe leaves. From heart to wrapper,
none but Nature-perfected, Aavor-1aden,
fnlly-ripe middle leaves of choice tobacco
Evening star., 1928-12-13

plants. This
is the secret of
that unriya1ed
goodness of the
cigar thousands
Of smokers pre-
fer to all others.
Evening star., 1928-12-13

Jewish Community Center and Cap
itol Athletic Club sextets will meet to-
night at o'clock in the Jewish Com
munity Center gymnasium for a pre-
Evening star., 1928-12-13

HANES shirts and drawers az
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acknowledgements in both.
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Say s'HANES' to your dealer.
If your regular store can't
supply you this famous.
brand (be sure TO look for
Evening star., 1928-12-13

MAN. look at those HANES S
points. Don't they solve all
the troubles you've ever had
with winter underwear? Con-
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Evening star., 1928-12-13

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Evening star., 1928-12-13

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True.tasting tobacco flavor; delightful
fragrance; cool, clear, mellow-mild
smoke-there's nothing smoker
Evening star., 1928-12-13

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Buttons are
sewed to stay.
Same warmth,
softness and
nm ug fit in
ks.s
Evening star., 1928-12-13

Y VARSITY sharpsheoters at George
" Washington. with a lengthy
" schedule ahead of them, got off
to an early start last week, firing
Evening star., 1928-12-13

AFTER all, tie variety Of suit
able Christmas gifts for a man is
limited. Most of them last for
years-and the chances are he
is already well supplied with
such. What can you give him?
IF he smokes, it's no hard
problem at all. . Give Cigars.
He consumes cigars. No matter
how many boxes others may
send him, your gift will be
equally welcome. The more he
gets, the happier he'll be -
provided, they're good cigars.
Evening star., 1928-12-13

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KnO70Iedge That 1t Has
SerUed the Public Is
Real Re7Card of Times

IT be selected the newspaper which has performed the
'mo disinerested and mertorous service" is
and distinction in which The Times takes pardonabe
pride.
There is great satisfaction in the knowledge that The
Times has been such outstanding service this State
the community that its work recognized by great leaders
journalism who composed the jury of awards in the Pulitzer
prize
There is satisfaction too in the words Of citation "for
it's work exposing political corruption in prosecuting the
guilty in bringing wholesome of af-
fairs in civil government"
inspired
hope of winning prizes or recognition.
Light People way"
IS upon policy S
honest Journalism public
The Times believes the ability Of the people to rule themselves It
the common and woman.
A condition Of public affairs existed which The Times believed
RneT the truth in' LINES '''S0 ~ 10 '0O n0 ''' ' people
was to purpose informing the people than filling
their that
Governors hiding D Shind the statute Of miaoDs mayors anu
There is real pride and satisfaction the fact that the people of
hsT naa gide ' S '' ana can go 20 ' ''0 BOXES "' un as
necessary uneart the story shame Of conspiracy
the mask from hypocrisy and hypocrics
down the curtain of respectabiy behind
It has not been an easy tasknor pleasant nor safe one
always desperate
destroy the editor OF this newspaper through manufactured and forged
been to laugh the malicious falsehOOds and
shameful stores that have been circulated with intent dd
service lender rendered by The Times has been at all times just
Times has sought private had selfish
has kept the faith It has followed always the guiding beams
lighthouse 1t has kept the faith the and with
he pulitzer is, course a proud badge.
realization that The Times has able to bring about whole
State.
"Gve light"
pledge purpose gave light
s. people their way"
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and Ft. Wayne, its county seat, in
dicated an abnormally heavy vote.
Reports from Decatur said Adams
County was voting heavily. In Ko-
komo the vote was above normal,
with the day half gone, but light
response was the word from the
surrounding countryside.
Muncie reported an unusually
heavy vote in the north half of the
city, with a light vote on the south
side.
Heavy voting was the information
from Bedford and Anderson, the
latter reporting the largest primary
balloting In years.
Only an average vote was said to
be recorded at Terre Haute, with the
same condition true at Evansville.
RushvilleA Senator Watson's home
town, was voting light, reports said.
The balloting was light at Lebanon
and Frankfort, said early advices.
Hamilton County farmers went
to the polls early in large numbers,
H. G.. Brown, of Noblesville, pres
ident of the State Adams-for- Gov
ernor club, reported. Farmers drove
to Noblesville, Cicero, Arcadia, West
field and Sheridan, he said, "aS they
never turned out before"
One factor diScouraging a heavy
rural vote was the absence of any
contest for township offices.
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Japan SEIZES
RAILWAY; War
Held CERTAIN
Act Regarded as Official
Start of Conflict With
Chinese NatiOnaIiStS.
BV United Press

BV United Press
PEKIN, May 8.-The gravest
move in recent Chinese history was
made today when Japan formally
announced her seizure of the
Tsingtao- -Tsinan Railway in Shan
tung, where Nationalist troops are
driving toward Pekin.
The seizure was regarded by for
eign military observers here as a
virtual declaration of war.
simultaneously with the an
nouncement came news that fight
ing had recommended at Tsinan be-
tween NationalistS and the 5000
Japanese troops defending the for
eign quarter.
1t was announced officially that
Nationalist aggression" had COM
PEELED offensive measures"
When fighting was resumed, dis
patches said, the Japanese expedi-
tionary force destroyed the Chin
ese barracks with explosives and
delivered an ultimatum demanding
immediate evacuation of Tsinan and
a zone extending for seven miles on
each side of the Tsinan- -Tsingtao
railway.
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Hourly Temperatures
Congratulations

Boyd Gurley, The Times, Indianapolis, Ind
Hearty congratulations to you your staff, and The
Times the splendid recognition that has you in
the Pulitzer award. This honor from the best informed
and most unpreudiced jury American journalism
semble is only tribute to you and The Times, but it
is evidence of the Nation faith in Indiana.
If your work had been regarded agitation
and undertaking. it would have been valueless and would
have received little consideration. The award of the
Pulitzer committee which for constructive not destruc
tive effort shows its faith and belief that the result of
you and The Times giving light the people of Indiana will
find their own way. ROY HOWARD.
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Chinese Start Attack
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
TOXIC, May 9.-One hundred
thousand Chinese nationalists have
started an attack on japanese troops
at Tsinan and Gen. Chang Kai
Shek, the nationalist leader, has
fled to Taian, Nichi Nichi was ad-
vised today.
The Chinese general, according to
the advices to the newspaper, lied
when he found he was unable to
control his troops.
Severe fighting is continuing in
Tsinan, the ASahi Shimbun's Tient-
sin correspondent reported, and the
gravest of fears are felt.
Communications between Tsinan
and Using Tao have been severed, 1t
was said, after they had been re-
established Monday. Only the most
meager details we're received here.
The war Office lacks official ad-
vices of the new attacks, but are
maintaining a careful watch. The
Japanese in Tsinan are greatly out
numbered.
At present twenty transports with
troops are being held in readiness
for dispatch to the Chinese area as
soon as the cabinet makes a final
decision on the need Of their being
sent on to China.
Some Japanese reinforcements
were said to be en- route to China
today. Eleven destroyers and two
torpedo flotillas were due to leave
from Sasebo this morning.
Six armored airplaneS already are
en- route from Ping Yang for
Using Tao.
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PEAK HONOR IN
JOURNALISM IS
Won BY Times
$500 Pulitzer Prize Given
for Most MeritoriouS
Public Service.
BIZ Tnited Press

BU United Press
NEW YORK, May 8,-The Indi-
annapolis Times has won the $500
Pulitzer prize, a gold medal given
annually for "the most disinterested
and meritorious public service rem
dered by an American newspaper
during the year"
The judges announced that The
Times, a Scripps-HoWard news
paper, had received the highest
honor in American journalism "for
it's work in exposing political cor
ruptlon in Indiana, prosecuting the
guilty and bringing about a more
wholesome state of affairs in civil
government"
Thornton Wilder was awarded the
Pulitzer prize of $1,000 for the
American novel published during
the year (which shall best present
the whole atmosphere Of American
life and the highest standard of
American manners and manhood"
Fantasy Is Best Seller
Wilder's novel, "The Bridge of
San Luis Rey," became a best seller
soon after it's publication by Albert
and Charles Boni. 1t is a philo-
sophical fantasy, depicting the lives
of five old and young individuals to
the point where they are DESTROYED
together in the fall of a bridge ut
San Luis Rey.
Eugene O'Neil's long distance dra-
matte innovation, Strange Inter-
lude," was awarded the Pulitzer
$1,000 prize for the Original play
performed in New York which shall
best represent the educational
value and power Of the stage in
raising the standards of good
morals, good taste, and good man
ners."
The Pulitzer prize judges thus
split sharply with the attorney for
Lee and j. j. Shubert, New York
producers, who attempted to have
the police paddock Strange Inter
lude" as indecent. It was produced
by the Theater Guild.
@A"AA LQlbOIldI IIINt
The $500 prize for the "best ed
ttorial written during the year" was
awarded to Grover Cleveland Hall
for his editorials in the Montgomery
(Ala0 Advertiser against gangism,
fioggings, and religious intolerance.
Nelson Harding, cartoonist of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was awarded
the $500 prize for the best Ameri-
can newspaper cartoon of the year.
Entitled May His Shadow Never
Grow Less" Hardings cartoon de-
picted Lindberghs plan flying over
a hilly section of Mexico.
The planes shadow formed a cross
in which was inscribed Peace on
Earth, Good Will to Men"
Parrington's History Best
The $4,000 Pulitzer prize for "the
best book of the year upon the his
tory Of the United States" was
awarded to Vernon Louis PAIRING
ton for his Main Currents in Ameri-
can Thoughts" in two volumes;
THE Colonial Mind, 1620-18OO." and
THE Romantic Revolution in Ameri-
ca, 1800-1860."
Charles Edward Russell was
awarded the $1,000 prize for "the
best American biography teaching
patriotic and unselhsh service"
Washington and Lincoln bio
graphies barred as too obvious) for
his "The American Orchestra and
Theodore Thomas" a study Of the
founder Of the Chicago Symphony.
Edward Arlington Robinson, the
poet, who like O'Neill is no stranger
to Pulitzer prizes, again carried off
the $1,000 poetry palm with his
"'rTl-istraY1, +"
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History of Crusade Waged by The Times
Against Corruption in State Government
disagreement ThWarted Cleanup Won Only by
Long and Determined Fight.

Stephenson documents was L. j.
Julian, the business associate.
A gand jury had been called, two
of whose members reported regu-
larly to the law Offices Of Stephen
sons friends, a member of which
holds one Of the highest political Of
fees in the gift of the State.
XXTHEN The Times asked for a
w subpoena for Julian, that
man, a highly respected citizen of
Evansville, rushed hurriedly 10 the
penitentiary, was closeted for two
hours with Stephenson at a time
when all others were barred, and
then disappeared from the State
until the election was ever and the
grand jury was about to close its
term by time limitation.
Later The Times was responsible
for the delivery, under orders of
Stephenson, Of two black boxes"
strong iron affairs, and filled with
documents, by Julian.
Other witnesses mysteriously were
spirited away. The stenographer
whom Stephenson trusted was taken
to Cincinnati, registered under an
assumed name in one Of the finest
hotels, and kept away from the
jury.
A succeeding grand jury, which
finally acted on the facts produced
by The Times, recommended the
prosecution of one of StephensOn's
lawyers, who, according to one Of
the men indicted with Stephenson,
had been in the employ Of State Of
ficials interested in Suppressing all
the facts.
This was the situation at the be-
ginning of 1927, the groundwork for
what happened later.
DIGGING into records. following
- clews, The Times produced
evidence under which Mayor John
Duvall was indicted and convicted
of violation of the corrupt practices
act. He was forced to resign, pend
ing his appeal.
Then evidence was produced un-
der which six of the city councilmen
were indicted for accepting bribes.
All had been elected by the polit-
ical machine created n the days of
Stephenson. These councilmen
recently pleaded guilty to a minor
charge and paid fines and resigned
their jobs.
The city administration Of Indi-
annapolis, heir to the days Of Steph-
enson, a product of his Klan con-
troll, was completely changed and
new council elected under recon-
mendation of the Chamber Of Com
merce, acting with the City Mana
ger League.
In its major work The Times pro-
duced the original of a check drawn
by Stephenson, in favor of Ed Jack
son shortly before he was elected
Governor and while he was candi-
date for Office.
Attached to it was a note written
by Stephenson in his cell, stating
that it was one-fourth of $4,000
given to jackson personally for his
campaign expenses.
The Governor, after three weeks
deliberation, said that the check
was payment for riding horse,
with the suggestive name of The
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guilty and bringing about a more wholesome state
of affairs in civil government"
The award was made by the trustees of Co.
lumbia University on recommendation of the adj
visory board Of the school of journalism The
board consists Of the following:
President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia
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The Indianapolis Times today was awarded
the Pulitzer prize in journalism for 1928-a gold
medal costing $5OO-for the most disinterested
and meritorious public service rendered by an
American newspaper during the year. The award
was made to The Times for its work in exposing
political corruption in Indiana, prosecuting the
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political house-cleaning, although
hackers Of Senator James E. Wat
son were prompt to claim heavy
vote would not be detrimental to
Watson's candidacy.
Word from many rural communi-
ties that farmers were scurrying to
the voting places, casting their bal
lots, and getting back to their fields,
encouraged Watson forces who had