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Discovery Necessity Mahang Every Resource of
Attempt Overcome Menace-Pe May Have Come
From Hawai-Parasie Employed in Campaign

more than 100000 plants and plant
products barred from the United States
on account of harboring this and other
pests being seized at Mexican border
sorts alone last year.
More than so per cent of the huge loss
annually of American crops from pests
and diseases is attributed to pests and
diseases which have come from foreign
lands. Some of the worst enemies of
our principal crops include the HesSian
i, fly, the cotton boil weevil, the alfalfa
weevil, the Japanese beetle, the San
Jose scale, and such plant diseases as
the wheat smut, pine blister rust, citrus
canker, potato wart, chestnut blight
and many others.
Altogether they include upward Of 100
important plant enemies and many
hundreds of lesser importance, whose
board and lodging cost this Nation from
one to two billion dollars annually.
The San Jose scale, which was intro
duced with Towering peach from China
some so years ago. is now costing this
country at least $10,000000 a year for
the spraying of orchards and in reduced
output and value of fruit crops.
Citrus canker, introduced with Jap
anese trifoliate orange stock some 20
years ago, has cost in actual expendi-
lures of Federal and State moneys in
control work approximately $4,000 900,
and in the value Of orchards and nur-
series which have been burned to the
ground in the effort to exterminate this
disease in Florida and other Gulf
States upward Of $!2.0on,o00
The Oriental fruit wo' ~, hrhUG,rt to
the United States with Il1warin2 ci,er-
ries about 1911, VII y va 0s--:s2ct pep
ular demand for this ,au. full love ing
tree developed, threatens to BE- cn2 Of
the most serious checks en- the produc.
ton of all common deciduous fruit. Al
ready it is known to be we'll established
in half a dozen Eastern States. Other
foreign pests which take enormous toll
Of American crops include the European
corn borer and the cotton boil weevil.
The plant quarantine act Of 1912 gave
authority to the Department Of Ag-
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connecting with a booth convenient to
the Senate chamber. Direct connection
can be made with the regular Capitol
switchboard in case the White House
wishes to talk to any member of Con-
gress in his office.
Almost every room in the White
House, both in the executive Offices and
residential quarters. can be reached from
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mains on duty until midnight. or until
the Presidents family is known to have
retired. From midnight until the day
operator arrives for duty calls at the
switchboard are handled by a House po-
liceman who is on duty.
The switchboard is in q small room
In the Executive once Building. ad-
Joining the room where the presiden-
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tial booth since about IS years ago, when
the White House once Building and
telephone system were enlarged.
IT was some time after the telegraph
and telephone had been invented be-
fore the White House took advantage
of these time-saving discoveries.
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handling Of the Presidents calls in the
quickest manner, as there are direct
lines to the Offices, and even to the
homes of the officials with whom he is
most likely to talk frequently. Direct
connection can be made with the Secre-
tary of War, Secretary of the Treasury
and so on.
A direct line goes to the Capitol,
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the switchboard. There is a booth just
outside the Presidents Office which he
sometimes uses for long distance calls.
Another booth, rather larger than the
average. is in the same room as the
switchboard and is frequently used by
the secretaries for long distance calls,
It was originally built for President Taft,
but has not been the official presiden-
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reason that, according to DR.. Marlatt,
10 to 20 years may be required for a
pest to develop sufficiently for its pres
erce to become known.
Fruit flies have frequently been inter-
cepted by the quarantine inspectors,
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tial secretaries are located and not far
from the Presidents Office. In the same
room are the telegraph sending and re-
ceiving instruments, which are used
chiefly for handling official reports.
President Hoover is a believer in the
efficiency of the telephone in business
and originates many calls. The switch
board is so arranged as to facilitate the
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the Federal entomologists to repel this
pest, whose unchecked spread will set
back the American fruit. industry half
a century. Just how the fly managed to
elude the Government quarantine corps
at coast ports is unknown; it may have
come in the baggage or clothing of i'm
migrants, through the mails, or in ships
stores.
The Mediterranean fruit fly occurs
in many tropical and subtropical coun-
tries, where it causes enormous damage
to crops, including oranges, grapefruit,
plums, peaches, grapes. melons, squash,
beans and other products. 1t also at
tacks guayas. mangoes, certain cherries
and many other tropical and subtrcp-
lcal fruits and vegetables grown in vary
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BY c. MORAN.

ISCOVERY of the Mediterranean
fruit fly in Florida has thrown
the Department of Agriculture
into CONSERVATION. Every re-
source is being marShaled by
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BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

r r AVE you noticed that gleeful ap-
IL pearance on the face OF your
club greenkeeper? Is there any
4 4 particular reason for the ebul-
Hence and overweening OPP
timism on the part of Dick Watson OF
Indian Spring and Chevy Chase, 0. p.
Fits of Columbia, Stewart Whaley OF
Washington, Peter jackson of Congress
sional and the other men into whose
hands the clubs have intrusted several
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of golf course for maintenance?
There is, and the reason Is that
shower which fell on the courses about
the Capital Tuesday afternoon, drench-
ing golfers and golf courses alike in the
impartiality of a rain which was a
blessing so badly needed that the green
keepers we're wondering whether there
ever was such thing as rain.
The golf courses about Washington
today are in better condition than they
have been for much more than a
month. The last rain of any conse-
quence fell on June 81. Since that time
there have been scattered showers, but
they were so short and so small a vol
ume of water fell that they did little
good. Not within the memory of the
Oldest golfer had such drought been
known. And, strangely enough, even
though fairways were burned to crisp,
the putting greens generally were good,
and are good today.
For weeks Dick Watson has been
fearful lest his water supply from the
lake at the seventh hole at Indian
Spring would dry up. The lake is fed
by springs, and before the rain 1t was
doubtful If there would be water enough
in few more weeks to water the put
ting greens.
Small Streams Dry Up.
The ditch which crosses the fairway
at the third hole at the Washington
Golf and Country Club had completely
dried up. The creek bed, which usually
has in it small stream of water, was
completely dry. No man could remem-
Der when this had happened before.
Small streams, which always had in
them at least a trickle of water at Con-
gressional and Beaver Dam dried up,
and only their bare beds were left to
make what the golf course constructors
intended as water hazards.
Then came the rain of Tuesday, and
although it lasted all too short a time
to suit the greenkeeperS, 1t was truly
a ife-saver for fairways and tees.
The putting green's have not suffered
as much from brown patch this year
as in past years, for the heat has not
come in theform of the sultry nights
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81 to 20. The deciding skirmish was
warm, and the crowd was thoroughly
on edge. With the count 10 to 18, it
became largely test of nerve control.
Tnghman proved the steadier and got
the decision with ringer, 81 to 10.
Tilghman and Marshall will repre-
sent Prince Georges County in the
State finals.
The Montgomery County finals will
get under way today at Rockville.
Prince Georges results follow:
Franklin Marshall defeated Ralph
Day, % to 10.
Ralph Day defeated Franklin Mar
shall, % to 20.
Franklin Marshall defeated Ralph
Day, 81 to II.
Felix Tilghman defeated Raymond
Wallace, 81 to 10,
Raymond Wallace defeated Felix
Tilghman, 81 to 10.
Felix Tilghman defeated Raymond
Wallace, 81 to 10.
Samuel Williams defeated Joseph
Wheeler, 81 to IL; 81 to 4.
Felix Tilghman defeated William
James, % to 10; % to 9.
Franklin Marshall defeated Samuel
Williams, % to 10; "a to IL.
Franklin Marshall defeated Felix
Tighman, % to 10; % to IL.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

that cause brown patch. The past 10
days have been worse for brown patch
than all the preceding two months.
But that was because rainclouds have
been lowering over Washington Waiting
for concentration point to burst
1t cannot be long now before the
usual heavy Fail rains set in and bring
the golf courses of the Capital area
once more into proper playing condi-
ton. But in the meantime that rain
of last Tuesday has saved them for the
time being. Had 1t been put of for
another week the courses would have
been in far worse condition.
AL Price, professional at Rock Creek
Park, does not drive a golf ball a long
distance. But, unlike some of the great
sluggerS OF the game, Price usually is
able to knock them down the middle
Price has cultivated hook that starts
| away off at the right side of the fair
way, comes into the middle and starts
the ball on running course down the
center. He plays it so well that just
the other day he came within two
strokes Of tying Harry Pitts record of
SO for the Manor Club course. The
terrors Of that tree-bordered first nine
holes meant nothing to Price, for that
cultivated hook worked wonders and
he played the nine In IS strokes, scor-
ing the second nine IN the same num-
Der of blows. MY puts were drop.
ping" Price said, modestly.
Just the other day Mel Shorey, pro
at East Potomac Park, went up to Rock
Creek Park to play a twilight game
with Price. He later went around the
A course in 35 strokes, beating Shorey
by one hole. And the next day I
went out and took Al. Why is 1t that I
can't be consistent?" Price asks.
Members of the Town and Country
Club will qualify for the scratch club
championship next Sunday, and then
will play for the title at match play on
September % and 30. The handicap
club titular event was finished only last
week.
Chairman w. Fred Byrne of the Ban
nockburn golf committee, who will be
in active charge of the invitation tour
nament which Bannockburn will hold
next week, urges all prospective entrants
to get in their entries by Sunday night,
when the entry list will close. From
present indications the Bannockburn
tourney will have more than 200 play
ers. The event is one of the most popu-
| lar played about Washington.
Guy Mason's buffers" tournament
was held today at the Congressional
| Country Club with disappointingly
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MARSHALL TAKES
HORSESHOE TITLE
Colored Star Beats TiIghman
for Prince Georges
Championship.
!" rankin MARSHALL, Hyatts-
- vile runner-up, yesterday at

n y fLANhL1N NAhS0ALL,. f1yaCCS-
- vile runner-up, yesterday at
Brentwood won the Prince
i Georges County championship
of the colored metropolitan
horseshoe pitching tournament. A
crowd of several hundred that sur
rounded the court witnessed four rounds
of high-class pitching.
Marshall was steady throughout and
captured the crown In two straight
games. He threw Is ringers in the
two 21-point games, three of which
were topped by Tilghman. The Hyatts-
vile fans and Chairman Warren Walker
believe they have the winner of the
grand finale in Marshall.
Julius Wheeler, Brentwood chairman
and incidentally Secretary Melons
private messenger, had this to say:
Marshall was plenty hot and beat my
man fairly in this match, but still
believe Tilghman will take his measure
in the State finals Wheeler will con-
troll the 1880 tournament at Brentwood.
1t is due to his generosity that the
electric Lighted courts were available
and in perfect condition.
In a semi-final preceding the Mar
shall Tilghman affair Tilghman defeat
ed Raymond Wallace, the Lakeland
champion, in sensational match.
Tilghman took the first game after a
hard fight, 81 to 49, but Wallace staged
a quick comeback to take the second,
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HELEN HICKS LEADS
BY A WIDE MARGIN

CHICAGO, September II CP).-Helen
Hicks, 18-year-old golfer from Inwood,
Long Island, today apparently had only
to go through the motions of playing
10 holes over the Flossmoor course, be-
fore receiving the winners trophy for
the Western Women's Golf Association
72-hole Derby.
The smuggling Miss from the East
owned 54-hole score of 239, or 10
strokes better than Mrs. Lee Mida of
Chicago, in second place. Miss Hicks
failed to bring out her par wrecking
game yesterday, carding an SO to add
to her first two rounds of 70, but Mrs.
Mida produced her third straight SO
and failed to gain a stroke.
Maureen circuit Of New York, and
Virginia Van Vie of Chicago, finally
found themselves and shot an 80 and
70, respectively, but got going too late
to overtake Miss Hicks. Miss circuit
was third with a total of Isl, and Miss
Van VIE fourth at 255.
Mrs. Gregg Lifur of Los Angeles and
Mrs. Austin Pardue of Hibbing, MINI,
were tied for the next position with
scores of 256.
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More than 400 men and women,
many from Maryland and Vir-
ginia, saw the veteran Tallmadge
triumph over an opponent whose
manner of hurting the shoe drew
the praise of a number of experts
present. He gripped the iron well
down from the right heel and
threw a three-quarter turn. In
variably the shot opened wide as
it approached the peg, but too
often the youngster over pitched
or was to one side.
Early in the first game Quantrille
assumed comfortable lead and APP
peared to have his foeman outclassed.
Against the youngsters cleverly manipu-
lated shoe, the twirling and wabbling
slipper of Tallmadge looked ''ama-
flourish"
He Wasn't Lucky.
when that fellow makes a ringer he's
just plain lucky" was heard from sew
eral observers. But Tallmadge made
too many ringers before the battle was
finished to term him merely fortunate.
His shoe twirled lot, but it was under
fair control. He averaged is ringers a
game and he had total of seven
double headers.
However, it was endurance that told
in the end Quantrllle began exerting
himself in the second skirmish to get
the shoe up to the stake. Some day
this youth, barely out of his teens, will
make a great horseshoe pitcher, no
doubt, but he will have ironed out one
serious fault in form. He will make
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more use of his body. A tired right
arm ruined his game yesterday.
Fatigue showed on Tallmadge toward
the end, but he had enough stuff to keep
going steadily and won many points
with close shoes, the youngster having
lost the range almost completely.
In the three games he threw IS ring
ers against 48 for Tallmadge. This was
below the average of both, according
to those who have followed their per-
formances.
"Tallmadge," observed Paul Morrison,
his regular barnyard golf playmate,
pitched his poorest game of the tourna-
ment." Similar comments were heard
on Quantrllle.
indicated Star Plays.
Another large gallery is expected for
tomorrow's match. Many of the fans
are curious over Fort, the only player in
the Washington tournament who hasn't
lost a match. The others who reached
the finals survived in at least one pre-
liminary by being runner-up.
Forts rival of tomorrow, Pixton, was
vanquished in the final of the West
section by Tallmadge, but those in the
know do not place much stress on this
in doping the city finals. Pixton plainly
was off stride, they say, when he lost to
Tallmadge, and moreover was handi-
capped by an infected finger. THAT
didn't bother me much" he declared
yesterday with becoming modesty, land
it's we'll now"
Pixtco is the champion of Brightwood
which ely mas become a hotbed of
horsesh,,. pit. hing. And, by the way,
novice S come forward sensationally
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out there, who is being groomed to take
Pixton's scalp in next years tourna-
ment. His name is Bill Kupner.
Among the most interested spectators
yesterday was M. E. Peake, Southern
Maryland champion. Peake observed
Tallmadge's hold with peculiar concern.
1t is similar to his own, but Peake
makes the shoe turn less than Tall
madge.
Vernon Mccarthy, director of the
Plaza playground, directed the contest.
and his general arrangements were
about perfect,
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small entry list. The list totals only 81
names and Is not indicative OF the true
number of players whom Mason. ex-
pected to enter this tourney, wnicn mas
handicap minimum Of 20 as the en-
trance requirement.
Clyde B. Asher, vice president Of the
Columbia Country Club, has gotten into
the habit Of winning the golf tourna-
ments of the Rotary Club. The Ro-
tarians held tourney yesterday at
Columbia and again Asher led the list,
this time with q consistent card OF 31--
Sta, IL strokes better than the score
of his nearest competitor, l.. w. Laudick,
who registered an 85. Asher won the
low gross score prize, and Hugh H. Saum
won the third gross prize with a card
Of So. The low net award resulted IN
tie between Monroe Warren and O. r.:
other prizes were distributed.
Joseph B. Trew, jr., and George T.
Sharp, jr., today were to play in the
final round for the junior championship
Of the Columbia Country Club, while
J. e. Powell, jr., and Walter D. Murphy
were to meet in the final of the con-
ISOLATION event. Trew yesterday defeat
ed Clarence Dodge, jr., and A. s. Gar
diner. while Sharp downed William
Asher and Allen Sherrier, to reach the
final. Gardiner won his morning match
on the twenty-second hole and then
lost to T'rew on the nineteenth, when
his second shot went into trap.
Byrn Curtiss of the Indian Spring
Golf Club, the lad with the fine SOUTH
paw golf game, who recently won the
Indian Spring junior title, yesterday
led small field in the first half of the
qualifying round of the Rolling Road
Clubs invitation golf tourney, scoring
70 for the tricky Gainesville layout,
which is only 3 above par.
Curtiss was 2 strokes In front OF
Thomas w. Sasscer, Maryland veteran,
and his card has good chance to
stand up as the low qualifying mark.
Many fine golfers, however. were to have
shot at Curtiss' mark today, and one
or two of them may beat the 70 he reg
istered. Among the men from Wash
ington who were to play today were
j. Monro Hunter, jr.; Karl F. Keller
man and Leroy Sasscer.
Curtiss was out in SO and back in 81
for his leading score of 70. A. A. Jones
and w. B. N. Legg of Chevy Chase
played yesterday, and turned in scores
of 80 and 90, respectively. Page Hufty
of Congressional, who recently returned
from vacation trip in New England,
scored an 80 for the qualifying round.
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PROCTOR FIGHTS FRIDAY,

Joe Proctor, Washington heavyweight
boxer, will face Fireman" Griffith Fri
day, September 90, at Charlottesville,
va. The bout will be the semi-final on
the card featuring scrap between Ad
Warren and Henry Lamar.
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A golf course is being planned in
Moscow, the first Of its kind in Soviet
Russia
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University of CALIFORNIA; base ball
team won six lost six games with col
lege teams of Japan and took six OF
10 in Honolulu
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OUANTRILLE is DEFEATED
AFTER VICTORIOUS START
Semi.fnal, but Tires and Drops Next Two.
PixtOn and Fort Clash Tomorrow


the heel effective when Andrew Tallnadge met
semi-hanls Washing
ton championship tournament, at the Plaza.
Talmadge by scores 43-53 sos the
other em-nal match at pm Charles A. Fort will
A. Pxton Monday at o'clock the winner of
this contest Tamadg title right
Capital the finale of Washington Stars
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.lar Monarch Amateurs 1alqdge Reaches Horseshoe Final

small entry list. The list totals only 80
names and Is not indicative Of the true
number of players whom Mason. ex-
pected to enter this tourney, which has
handicap minimum Of 20 as the en-
trance requirement. . ~
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Y r AVE you noticed that gleeful ap-
pearance on the face Of your
club greenkeeper? Is there any
4 4 particular reason for the ebul-
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Detroit University has q skillful
center by the name of Lardner. You
might never guess it, but his nickname
Is Ring" Not quite as tall as the
original Ring Lardner, he has more
hair and weight. Still, he Is plenty
tall enough. Laid end to end, the two
Lardners would easily reach from
Miles, Mich, to Detroit.
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Members of the Town and Country
Club will qualify for the scratch club
championship next Sunday, and then
will play for the title at match play on
September % and &c. The handicap
club titular event was finished only last
week.
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ST. PAUL GOLFER
+. REAL SPORTSMAN
Crowd INDUCED When Jones
Is Accorded Break in
Starting Time.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

~ OBBY JONES is undoubtedly the
- greatest general favorite in golf.
The professionals and amateurs
IL alike have only admiration for
The Washington times., 1929-01-30
JACK PROTECTS
TEX FOLK

MIAMI BEACH. Fla, Jan. 3d.
Jack Dempsey was chuckling today
over the synopsis Of story pub
lished in a Chicago newspaper and
written by d New York correspondent
stating that the ex-ehanpion was
working so hard here to protect
money he had invested with Riekard.
had no money invested here
with Richard" !" Dempsey explained,
my principal interest in returning
here after Tex's death was to do
everything / could to protect his
investments for Mrs. Rickard and
Richards baby. !"
s.FEowever, Dempsey con-
tInueGi, II have a $4,000 in
terest IN the fight between
SharIxey and StribIing. When
MIR. Carey and 1 went to BOs-
ton 10 sign ShaTkey, Jack held
ont for 3 500, 900 guarantee.
.,The Garden officials had set the
limit at $4,000. but / had 50 much
confidence in the success OF the
venture offered to split the differ
enee with Mr.. Carey. He agreed
and we each added an equal ST., 800
to complete the guarantee for
Sharkey's demands Since that
time the Garden has relieved me OF
that investment.
1T Is ridiculous to say that any
money have is imperilIed. That
is impossible. l have an established
trust that will provide me with all
the money will ever need.