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The Washington times., 1929-06-29
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NEW york, June 20 GN.Sl.-
Max Schmeling, German heavy
weight who set the fistic world
agog by his decisive victory over
Pauline Uzcudun here Thursday
night. was reported today to be
considering an offer to go into
vaudeville. He has received numer-
Gus theatrical offers.
Meanwhile efforts were being
made to untangIe the eontractural
difficulties in which the Black
ChIan is involved. Schmeliug has
repeatedly stated he would never
fight for Arthur Bulow, his man
ager Of record, and was prevailed
upon to go through with the Milk
Fund match with Pauline only by
the intervention of State boxing
! officials.
II was hoped today that the
tangle might be unsnarled as
the result of a conference be-
tween RlIIOw and William r.
Carey, president Of Madison
Square Garden.
Carey declined to discuss the
meeting but showed marked en-
tkusiasm at Jack Dempsey's dec.
laration in San Francisco that he
would like to return to the ring
to fight Schmeling.
1--WE certainly will go after
Dempsey for a heavyweight attrac-
ton this fall, but as vet We have
no definite plans for any fight"
he said. 1--WE have Sharkey under
contract with the Garden for a
fall battle and have until July Is
to name his opponent"
Carey said he wants to hold all
the big fights in New York
The Washington times., 1929-06-29

Strong arm work by his team
mates cost George Uhle, Detroit
mound ace, a 5-to-4 defeat at the
hands of Cleveland. Outfielder John.
son threw from center field clear
into the grandstand in attempting to
prevent a score and Catcher Shea
hurled the ball almost as far in try
ing to nip a runner at second.
Errors also were partly responsible
for the STOP defeat which Myles
Thomas, of Washington, sustained
at the hands of Jack Russell, of the
Red Sox.
Rain washed out other scheduled
games, including the second game of
the series between the Athletics and
Yankees in Philadelphia.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
Chicago, D; st. Louis. 5.
Cincinnati, 10: Pittsburgh. 3.
Philadelphia- New York (RainD.
Boston Brooklyn (Ralnl.
TOday's Games
Boaton at Brooklyn.
CHICAGO At ct. Louls.
Philadelphia at New York.
ctaeinnAA 81 Pittsburgh
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GnM Need New Hychaser
As HagsteQd Fails
By Bob Thayer

BOSTON, June 29-The acquisition Of The veteran Ira
Fagstead to alternate with Sam West in center field while
bosterng the Washington Grfmn against southpaw pitching
failed tn resnts
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CORBYS WANT GAMES

Corby A. C. want games tomor-
row evening and Thursday at s
o'clock. Call Lincoln 1049O, Branch
107 North.
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Summary: TwO-bRse h!ts-WIlEams,
BiEelOwS Rhyme. A. CASTOR. Three-base
hit-ScaFritt, Sacrifice hlts-GeFbef,
Russell. Left ON Observation-Disclosures. o:
Boston, g. Winning pitcher-RusseM.
Losing piteher-Th0ulan. Basea On
bnlls-Off Thomas, 8; off Russell, z.
struck 0ut-By Thomas, 1; by Russell,
1, Time-1:46, 600. TIM
plres-Hildebrand and Guthrie.
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These jinxes were strikingly Illus
trated yesterday when the Reds
knocked the Pirates out OF first
place while the Cubs took the lead
by vanquishing the Cardinals. to
5, for their ninth triumph at the
expense of the champions in IL
games this season. The Cards,
who have been beaten by the Cubs
six times in succession, dropped to
fourth place below the Giants.
Pat Malone hung up his eleventh
victory of the season for the Cubs
and helped win his own game with
a home run. Wilson and Hornsby
also got homers. and Kiki Cuyler
stole his twenty second base of the
season. Wilson's homer was his
nineteenth and put him in second
place in the National League home
run derby The blow featured a
seven.run rally in the second inning
in which Jess Haines, making his
first start of the year against the
Cubs, was knocked out.
Red Lucas, of the Reds. beat
Pittsburgh. 10 to 8. Cincinnati
knocked Brame off the mound in
the fifth inning.
As a result of their 7-to-2 win over
the White Sox. the st. Louis Browns
Jumped to a game and a half ahead
of the Yankees, but are all of 10
games behind the Athletics.
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Purchased from the Boston Red
Sox for the waiver price several
weeks ago, Flagstead started out
promisfngly enough, but since has
lapsed. His all-around work, in fact,
has been so fap below his usual
standard that in many quarters he Is
considered through as big Lacquer.
Not only Is he going hitless at
the plate, but his defensive
work is ragged, and he also Is
failing to cover the territory
that he formerly rOamed with
the Red SOx.
Whereas he once was considered
one of the best judges of fly balls in
the big show and also a ground COW
erer par excellence, he now seems to
be travelling on his last legs.
An Illness contracted this spring
which he has since failed to throw
off is explained as the real reason
for his sudden decline. Out of the
Red Sox line up for the most part
prior to his purchase by the
Washington club, he has never been
the same since his return to
action.
"It's too bad about Flaggy," q
Boston correspondent remarked
yesterday while discussing his
case. He was one of the most
popular players that ever wore q
Boston uniform. He would have
never left here II he hadn't skidded
way back. He was one man on
this club who was always liked.
Travelling along in his late sos
and handicapped by poor health
the popular veteran has never been
in position to do himself justice
since joining the Griffmen. And
when 1t is considered that he was
discarded by an eighth place club
one cannot help but wonder If he
hasn't Just about reached the END
of his string in the big time,
The center field situation, ir
fact, seems more complicated thar
ever Not only has Flagstead fal
len far below expectations as {
hitter Of pertsids pitching, but saa
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BOSTON

Iran for BigelOw In the fifth.
2Batted for Thomas in the ninth.
..ea1 O--s
Boston .........,. 002O 900 x--6
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Heinie Manush, of the Browns,
got his one hundredth hit Of the
season. the first American
League player to turn the trick.
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RACE TIGHTENS
|. BY J|NX TEAMS

One of the freak developments
OF the major league races this sea
son has been the inability of sew
eral of the pennant contenders to
defeat certain other teams which,
on paper, do not appear stronger.
The champion st. Louis Cardinals
have captured only eight out of
% games from the other three
first division clubs, the Cubs, Pi-
rates and Giants. New York has
lost nine out of fifteen to Brooklyn.
The St Louis Browns top the Yam
KEGS in the standing of the clubs,
but have dropped six out of seven
To the CHAMPIONS.
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And the taiI-end Cincinnati
outfit has won more games from
the powerful Pirates than from
any other clubs in the National
League.
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West seems more and more punch
less as the season moves on.
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When Bigelcw lifted taInely
"a Goslin the SOx fans groaned'
INIT after setting himself in posi-
tion for the eaten G0shn
dropped the bail and both rum
ners tailed, while BiSeiow
reached second on the thr"w.ln.
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drink, it is token that a man can
mnve his limbs and stretch in
saIety.
We do it ceremonially, we stretch
our legs out In front of us and
spit deliberately, that Is the only
way. How it all rises up before a
man when he is going away the next
morningl
Next morning, after I have been
deloused, go to the rail head, AL
bert and Kat come with me. At
the halt we learn that it will be
couple of hours yet before the train
leaves. The other two have to go
back to duty. We take leave of one
another.
Good luck, Kat; good luck, Al
bert"
They go off and wave once or
twice. Their figures dwindle. I
know their every step and move
nent; I would recognize them at
any distance. Then they disappear.
sit down on my pack and wait.
Suddenly I become filled with
consuming Impotence to be gone.
lie down on many station
platform; stand before many
soup-kitchen! squat on many a
bench; then at last the landscape
becomes gloomy, mysterious, and IA
miliar.
1t glides past the western win
DOVE with its villages, their thatched
roofs like caps, pulled over the
whitewashed, half numbered houses,
It's cornfelds, cleaning like mother
of-pearl in the slanting light, its
orchards, its barns and old lime
trees.
The names of the stations begin
to take on meaning and my heart
trembles. The train stamps and
stamps onward, I stand at the win
dow and hold on to the frame. These
names mark the boundaries of my
youth.
Smooth meadows, fields, farm
yards a solitary team moves against
the skyline along the road that
runs parallel to the horiZon-a bar
rier, before which peasants stand
waiting, girls waving, children play
ing on the embanlcment, roads lead
ing into the country, smooth roads
without artillery.
1t Is evening, and If the train did
not rattle I should cry out. The
plain unfoldS itself
In the distance, the soft, blue sill
houette of the mountain ranges be-
gins to appear. I recognize the
characteristic outline of the Dolben-
berg, Jagged comb, springing up
precipitously from the limit of the
forest. Behind it should Ne the
town.
But now the sun streams through
the world, dissolving everything in
it's golden-red light, the train swings
round one curve and then another
far away, in long line one be-
hind the other, stand the polars,
unsubstantial, swaying and dark,
fashioned out of shadow, light and
desire.
The field swings round as the
train encircles it, and the intervals
between the trees diminish. the
trees become block and for mo-
ment I see one only-then they
reappear from behind the foremost
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CHAPTER XVIII

II PASS over the bridge, I look
L. right and left; the water is as
full of weeds as ever, and 1t still
shoots over in cleaning arches; in
the tower building laundresses still
stand with bare arms as they used
to over the clean linen, and the heat
from the ironing pours out through
the open windows.
Dogs trot along the narrow street,
before the doors of the houses
people stand and follow me with
their gaze as pass by, dirty and
heavy laden.
In this confectioners we used to
eat ices, and there we learned to
smoke cigarets. Walking down
the street I know every shop, the
colonial warehouses, the chemists,
the tobacconist's.
Then at last I stand before the
brown door with its worn latch and
my hand grows heavy. I open the
door and wonderful freshness
comes out to meet me, my eyes are
dim.
The stairs creak under my boots.
Upstairs door rattles, some one is
looking over the railing. 1t is the
kitchen door that was opened, they
are cooking potato cakes, the house
reeks of it, and today of course is
Saturday; that will be my sister
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Ito Be Continued

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Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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make myself laugh, to speak, but no
word comes, and so I stand on the
steps, miserable helpless, paralyzed
and against my will the tears run
down my cheeks.
My sister comes back and says:
Why, what is the matter?"
Then pull myself together and
stagger on to the landing, I lean my
rife in corner, I set my pack
against the wall, place my helmet
on it, and fling down my equipment
and baggage. Then I say fercely:
Bring me a handkerchief"
She gives me one from the cup
board and dry my face. Above me
on the wall hangs the glass case
with the colored butterflies that
once I collected.
Now I hear my mothers voice. II
comes from the bedroom.
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new CRUISER
HOUSTON GIVEN
BAPTISM RITES
Sea Warrior to Be Ready
for Service by 1880,
Navy Announces.

Bv scYiDps-Rotodrd Ge1ospdDer alliance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The
cruiser Houston, latest of the navys
new warships to be christened and
launched, will not be completed and
ready for service until next year,
navy officials said today.
The Houston was sent down the
ways during special ceremonies at
Newport News Saturday. 1t cost
more than 100000, and is one Of
the nine-gun 1O,0oo-ton type of
ships which the government Is build
ing.
The launching ceremonies we're
described by officials of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Drydock
Company as the most successful Of
any If the navy vessels. Promptly
at noon the ship was released and
slipped easily into the water. while
airpIanes hummed overhead, scat
tering roses, and the navy band
played THE Star-Spangled Ban
ner."
Houston, Tex, had made the &C
casion a memorable one by send
ing a special train of officials and
citizens to attend.
The Houston will be assigned to
what is known as the Atlantic, or
scouting, fleet, and will have its base
in one of the Atlantic ports, prob
ably at Newport News. The ships
officers are to be named and will
supervise its completion.
Champagne gave place to brackish
water from the Houston ship chan
mel for the christening ceremonies.
So there might be no slip-up, two
such bottles were decorated and
prepared for the occasion.
Although some have reported that
the bottle failed to break when Miss
Elizabet Holcombe of Houston
smashed it against the ships side,
this was denied later 1t had broken,
but was smashed again so that the
crowd could see the water fly. For
the bottle to fail to break is consid-
cred bad omen.
TIE occasion nost Houston in ex-
cess Of $20.006 o. which $4,000 is
for purchasing and presenting to the
cruiser a silver service set.
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tree and stand out long line
against the sky until they are hid
den by the first houses.
A street crossing. I stand at the
window, I can not drag myself
away. The others put their bag
gage ready for getting out. I repeat
to myself the name of the street
that we cross oyer-BremerstraSse-
BremerstraSse-
Below there are cyclists, lUrries,
men; it is gray street and gray
subway; it embraces me as though
it were my mother.
Then the train stops, and there Is
the station with noise and cries and
sentries. I pick up my pack and
fasten the straps, 1 take my rife
in my hand and stumble down the
steps.
On the platform I look round; I
know no one among the people hur-
rying to and fro. A Red Cross
sister offers me something to drink.
I turn away, she smiles at me too
fooliShly, so obsessed with her own
Importance: Just look, I am CIV
ing a soldier coffee!" She calls
me "Comrade," but I will have none
of it.
Outside in front of the station the
stream roars alongside the street, it
rushes foaming from the sluices of
the mill bridge. There stands an
old, square watch tower, in front Of
it the great notified lime tree and
behind it the evening.
Here we have often sat - how
long ago it is we have passed
over this bridge and breathed the
cool, acid smell of the stagnant
water; we have leaned over the still
water on this side of the lock, where
the green creepers and weeds hang
from the piles of the bridge; and
on hot days we rejoiced in the
spouting foam on the other side of
the lock and told tales about our
school teachers.
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leaning over. For a moment I am
shy and lower my head, then take
of my helmet and look up. Yes,
its is my eldest sister.
Paul" she cries, Paul"
I nod, my pack bumps against the
banisters; my rife is heavy.
She pulls a door open and calls:
Mother, Mother, Paul is here"
can go no further-mother,
mother, Paul is here.
I lean against the wall and grip
my helmet and rife. I hold them
as tight as can, but I can not take
another step, the staircase fades
before my eyes, I support myself
with the butt of my rife against my
feet and clench my teeth flercely,
but can not speak a word, my sis
ter's call has made me powerless.
I can do nothing, I struggle to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
RID OF RHEUMATISM
AND BACK-ACHE
Had Five Years of Misery, But
Finally Found Road to
Health.

Anyone who is enduring the pains
Of rheumatism, backache, kidney
weakness or stomach tortures, will
be more than interested in reading
the experience of Mr.. G. T. Bowen,
62e Mulberry St., Rockford, Ill. He
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Rheumatism made my life nliser-
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that I couldn't lie on my right side.
I couldn't even lean back in bar
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and my liver felt sore all the time.
/ had suffered for years with con-
stipation and stomach trouble, and
was always taking pills and laxa-
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ever I ate, gas would form and I
would bloat and cramp so that I
was afraid to eat. I rolled and
tossed all night long, and got up
more tired than when I went to bed.
/ was a mighty sick man when I
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I had finished the first bottle, I
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1 am eating heartily and sleeping
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enjoying life which 1 never ex-
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Viuna has worked wonders in
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The Wonder Medicine
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CHAPTER XVII Continued

CHAPTER XVII Continued
1t gives us goose-fesh-
That would be good, Albert, what
do you think2"
He mods. Y have white trousers
at home, too"
White trousers" says 1, but a
girl like that"
We look askance at one another
There's not much to boast of here
two ragged, stained, and dirty
uniforms. 1t is hopeless to compete
So we proceed to tear the young
man with the white trousers of
the boarding, taking care not to
damage the girl. That is something
toward it.
I'VE could go and get deloused,
anyway" Kropp then suggests.
I am not very enthusiastic, be-
cause it doesn't do ones clothes any
good and man is lousy again in
side two hours. But when we have
considered the picture once more,
1 declare myself willing; go even
farther.
I'VE might see if we could get a
clean shirt as we'll"
Socks might be better" says Al
bert, not without reason.
eyes, socks, too, perhaps. Let's
go and explore a bit"
Then Leer and Tjaden stroll up;
they look at the poster and imme-
diately the conversation becomes
smutty. Leer was the first of our
class to run wild, and he gave stir
ring details of it. After his fashion
he enjoys himself over the picture,
and Tjaden supports him nobly.
1t does not distress us exactly.
Who isn't smutty is no soldier; it
merely does not suit us at the mo-
ment, so we edge away and march
off to the delousing station with
the same feeling as If it were a
swell gentlemen's outf1tters.
I am called to the orderly room.
The company commander gives me
a leave-paSs and a travel-pasS and
wishes me a good journey.
I look to see how much leave I
have got. Seventeen dayS-fourteen
days leave and three days for travel
ling. 1t is not enough and I ask
whether 1 can not have five days
for travelling.
Bertinck points to my pass. There
see that am not to return to the
front Immediately. After my leave
have to report for a course of
training to camp on the moors.
The others congratulate me- Kat
gives me good advice, and tells me
l ought to try and get a base job.
If you are smart, you'll hang on
to it,
1 would rather not have gone for
another eight days; we are to STAY
here that much longer and it is
good here.
Naturally I have to stand the
others drinks at the canteen.. We
are all a little bit drunk. I be-
come gloomy; I will be away for six
weeks. That is lucky of course, but
what may happen before I get
back? Shall I meet all these fell
lows again? Already Hale has gone
who will the next be?
AS we drink, I look at each of
them in turn. Albert sits beside me
and smokes, he is silent, We have
always been together; opposite
squats Kat, with his dropping
shoulders, his broad thumb, and
the calm voice; Muller with the
protruding teeth and the booming
laugh; Tjaden with his mousy eyes:
Leer, who has grown a full beard
and looks at least 40.
Over us hangs a dense cloud of
smoke. Where would a soldier be
without tobacco? The canteen is his
refuge, and beer is far more than
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"Is she in bed2" I ask my sister.
"She is ILL" she replies
go in to her, give her my hand
and say as calmly as I can: Here
l am, mother"
She lies still in the dim light.
Then she asks anxiously:
Are you wounded?" and I feel
her searching glance.
mo, I have got leave"
My mother is very pale, I am
afraid to make a light.
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SEPT. 9. 1929

Here lie now" says she. and
cry instead of being glad"
Are you sick. mothst?" ssk.
81 am going to get up little tos
day." she says and turns to my sis
ter, who was continually running to
the kitchen to watch that the food
does not burn; And put out the jar
of preserved whortleberrieS--you
like that, don't you? She asks ME.
Ito Be Continued
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Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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Escape When Ship Sinks

BIZ United Press
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 9.-Forty
passengers and the crew of thirty
of the steamer Heimdall were
en- route to Stockholm today after
scaping when the ship struck rocks
of the coast of Ostana, northeast
of Stockholm, and sank shortly
afterward. The seventy victims es-
capped in lifeboatS.
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Introducing the Beautiful Flush T
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-02
-~----~-
Henpecked Man Calls
for Worlds Sympathy

often think Of the last car Of
Russia. He was the ruler of great
country, with royal blood in his veins,
and the owner of possibly the worlds
greatest collection of crowns, jewels,
vestments and the like. His subjects
pretended to love him, and reverently
called him the Little Father. At d
frown from him, great hordes of men
sprang to arms. Yet one night
some men took him into dirty cellar
and beat him to death, together with
his wife and children. /
didn't know it for years, but ! was
always better off than the car. E.
His main trouble was dreadfully COM
monplace; he was henpecked. So far
as ] am able to make out, from the
records, his wife was one of those
good women who, without the slight
est evidence, believe in signs, omens,
dreams, and find the truth shock
ing. The rule is to laugh at a
henpecked man. We should, instead,
go to his rescue. l know henpecked
men who are being as cruelty wrOnged
as a man seized by bandits.-E. w.
Howe's Monthly.