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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT

NEW YORK - Jack kid Berg.
England. outpointed Joe Click, Will
Transport, l0). Koli Kola, Porto
Rico, stopped Terry Roth, New York,
(2l.
INDIANAPOLIS - Eddie Shea,
Chicago. knocked out Joey Rychell,
Chicago, (2).
PITTSBURGH - Willie Davies,
Charle-oi, Pa. ~outpointed Happy
Atherton, Indianapolis, Q0), Billy
Holt, Canton. Ohio. knocked out
Hans Roberts, Pittsburgh, 60.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

terQay. Grimes
Spitball rendered
most of Brook
lyn's hitting in
effective while
b o I { o m VS.
fourth inning
homer helped the
Cards make the
most of their five
hits off Phelps
and Thurston.
Fred Fitzsifn-
m o ms of the
Giants did the
~k - kf~A
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19
GRID FATALITY

COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.
Sept. 19-1F-Harold Akin. 90.
halfback on the Colorado college
football team. died here today as
a result Of injuries received In
practice last Tuesday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19
Starding of the CIubs
AMERICAN LEAGUE
THURSDAYS Results

Cleveland 8; Washington 2.
Boston 4: Detroit 3.
Philadelphia IA; Chicago 10.
New York z: st. Louis 8.
Fridays Schedule
New York at Chicago
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
Washington at Detroit.
Boston at Cleveland.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19
@ THE
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Thursdays Results

New York s, Chicago 2.
st. Louis 4, Brooklyn 8.
Pittsburgh 8, Philadelphia ,.
Only games scheduled.
Fridays Schedule
Chicago at Boston.
Cincinnati at New York.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
Only games scheduled.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

Where Andy High shone before.
Burleigh Grimes and Jim Bottomley
shared the Cardinal hero roles yes
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19
LOUIS HAS :.
GAME LEAD
Sunny Jim's Home Run Is
Deciding Factor I'm
Card Victory
By HUGH S. FULLERTON. JR-
Associated Press Snnrfx Writer

ASSoE1dtcu FTe&e sports writer
Once more Connie Mack has led
the Philadelphia Athletics TO the
point where they have nothing to
do but look forward to q new world
series in which to conquer-or to
be conquered. and from current In
dicat.ons in the race for the Nation
al league flag. 1t appears that the
St. Louis Cardinals will be their ri
walls in the struggle for the worlds
championship.
The Athletics made q formal set
tlement Of the American league PEN
nant race yesterday, cllnching the
title beyond the last shadow Of
doubt by downing the Chicago White
Sox, IA to 10, for their goth victory
Of the season while Cleveland ended
WaShington'S chances with a 3 TO 2
triumph over the Senators. At the
same time. the Cards were drawing
farther ahead OF their rivals IN the
senior circuit. defeating Brooklyn
for the third straight time. 4 to 3.
to gain a two game margin over the
Robins.
Cards Cop Third
A third stirring triumph in as
many games placed the Cardinals in
a fairly safe position as they left
to start a five game series in Phila-
delphia. Brooklyn and Chicago.
their only remaining rivals of i'm
portance. have three more games IN
the lost column and little hope that
the Phillies and Pittsburgh will up
set the Cards. The New York Giants
are out Of the race for all practical
purposes. being 5 1-2 games behind
despite yesterdays 6 to 2 triumph
over Chicago.
Today the leaders stand as fol-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19
The
Sports
Spade
y \ n R n u N N N n

TIE LID comes of the Valley
football container this afternoon
az Harrington when the Cardinals
take on the Edinburg Junior coz
leRe Broncs. This tilt win be watch
ed with interest by those attempt
inr 70 get q lire on the two elevens.
The concensus is that the Broncs
will De weak this year. They have
lost much good material through
graduation. The other question to
be settled Is: How about Dctch
Rektorik's new forward wail2"
Therein Is the question which might
well be the solution 70 the Valley
high school title chase.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

II BEAR stories coming out OF
Edinburg are correct. Harrington
should have a slight edge in this
afternoons game.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19
More Fight

CHARLEY BAKER, Ems, Eagan
ana Roberto Escobar are scrapping
away for the guard positions. Ems
and Eagan hold a slight edge over
the other two boys.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

JACK LEBOwITz of san Benito
who usually cavorts at a backfield
post. was absent from practice yes
terday. The team shown to the left
averages around los pounds Per
man. while the one TO the right av-
erages about 100. The coaching
staff Is working hard TO have a
smoothly working unit for the Har-
lingen high CANA
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

SIDNEY BENNETT and "Lofo"
Escobar are showing decided I'M
orovement at the tackle positions
Goodrich and Isidor Iongoria are
making them step. Bennett and
Escobar got lots OF game experience
with the Eagles last season.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

HERBY THOMAS and Beshear
are waging a vigorous fight for the
center post. Thomas showed up In
camp weighing around $50. And II
casn't fat. because he has lost bu.
two pounds after three weeks OF
hard work. Beshear. a newcomer,
has made q good impression a. the
pivot position.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

mo POSITION on the team Is
sewed up" Red Irvine says. Every
boy on the squad has a chance 70
make the starting eleven. ! Ike
the hustle and spirit shown BY
them"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-19

BOLTON. a newcomer from
Sweetwater, Is showing good form
This back. weighing around $50
sticks a hefty boot into the oval
and will likely see much service
before the year Is out. Although
Bottom did not letter at Sweetwater.
he shows indication OF becoming .
classy back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-18
That Interrupting Buzz,

Those who sit at their ease in their
listen to the entertainment and instruc-
ton emanating from their radio loud
speakers rarely think of the most val
liable use to which this marvel of the
ether is put, the use, indeed, to which
it was originally put in its first practical
development. Once in a while they may
hear the intervening swapping buzz OF
an IS o S." or emergency call, and
programs are interrupted while signals
are exchanged from shore to ship, or
from ship to ship, or from ship to shore
In most cases these listeners, safe on
land, are annoyed by the loss of some
Of their favorite performances through
the air. Occasionally they complain to
the broadcasting companies of such in
references.
Perhaps a realization Of what the
radio means to those who are isolated
at sea by some misfortune will be effect
ed by the accounts of the saving of the
company Of the steamship Tahiti in the
South Seas, without the loss of a single
life. 1t is not an extraordinary story,
just one of the occasional sea adventures
in which the wireless figures nowadays.
But it is worth noting TO remind the
land-bound radio addicts that their
plaything is after all chiefly valuable
for an entirely different purpose than
entertainment.
The Tahiti was steaming along in
good shape bound for San Francisco
from Wellington, New Zealand, when,
some five hundred miles of Rarotonga,
one of the Cook Islands, her starboard
propeller broke and she lost the screw.
The break caused breach in the skin
OF the ship, through which the water
poured in greater volume than the
pumps could handle, and the vessel be-
came quite disabled, Her radio sent
forth calls for help. They were heard
by many ships, and two of them bent
from their courses and speeded toward
the crippled craft. One, small Nor
wegian tramp freighter, got there first,
but was incapable Of handling 20 large
number Of people as those on beard
the Tahiti. She stood by until second
ship arFivsd. aAd ~ b wsni Mnne-
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ferred the BIT passengers and crew of
the Tahiti. Some of the mails were
lost in the transfer, but no one was in
jured. The Ventura stood by until the
Tahiti sank, half a dozen hours later.
Thus by narrow margin were these
people saved. They might have got
away from the disabled ship by small
boats, but some of them would surely
have persisted before aid reached them.
But for the radio the plight and fate
of the Tahiti would not have been
known until passing ship CHANGED to
sight one of the boats adrift in that
vast expanse of sea-
This is but one Of many cases of its
kind 1t is well worth thinking about
so that when next the radio program
is checked for code it viii not cause re-
sentiment for the brief loss Of enter
tainment of perhaps dubious quality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-18
Pioneers, Prairie Fires and Planes.

Gray-haired Americans who in their
youth forty and fifty years ago resd
stories of the pioneering days and the
covered-wagon trek across the Western
plains will remember tales of how the
prairie fires were fought by back-firing
how the wagons were drawn III line
and little blazes were started to clear a
space over which the onrusning fire
could not leap. Sometimes this was
successful, and again it failed and lives
were lost. Just so settlements were
often saved from the flames by back
firing against the fiery onset driven by
the wind. Now a new method has been
developed, a method that could not
have been used in the pioneering days
for a very simple reason, because there
was no means of raising the wind" at
will. 1t is reported from Riverside,
Calf, to the War Department that
when a prairie fire started to sweep
across March Field, a large airport,
some of the Army aviators ran their
planes out to the edge of the fire and,
turning on their propellers, held the
blaze at sufficient distance to enable
emergency squads to extinguish it. If
the wagon trains of the early days had
had few planes to battle the grass
blazes, they would have been in no
peril. But then, if they had had such
means of transportation, they would not
have crawled across the prairies at
a snail's pace. One thinks with some
measure of pity of the Flooding pio-
neers who spent months in crossing
the continent when the record of Capt.
Hawks, who flew from coast to coast
in little more than half a day, is
recalled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-18
Endurance Flights.

1t is quite unfortunate that CONNER
! cialism should enter so strongly into
the fine endurance refueling record just
established by Dale Jackson and Forest
O'Brine. Although the flyers them
selves deny the statement of their
| manager that they would have been
''saps" to stay up any longer in view of
! the lack of public financial support
and claim that a faulty motor alone
was responsible for bringing them to
earth, the commercial end of the en-
terprise has been unduly stressed since
they broke the record of the Hunter
brothers. And in this respect it is sig
nificant that the Hunters, whose record
Jackson and o Brine have just bettered,
state that they are the losers by at least
a hundred thousand dollars because of
the latest successful effort of the vet
eran endurance pilots.
OF course, it takes money to finance
refueling fight, the expenses being
estimated at about one thousand dol
lars a week to keep a plane in the air
But Just why a community should be
called upon to finance such projects
and just what benefit a community
might be supposed to get from them is
difficult to understand. On the con-
trary, it is the manufacturers of the
various parts of the plane. makers of
the fuel that has been used and the
pilots themselves who reap the reward
of a successful flight, and they by all
logic should be the ones to support it.
If the oil companies, the engine COM
panies or the plane companies do not
get enough advertisement from a flight
or are not willing to chip in to put
such project across purely for re-
search purposes, certainly, the public
cannot be expected to pay and pay
and pay. Perhaps it is as Jackson and
O'Brine say, that cracked crank case
necesstated their coming to earth. If
this is the case, however, they should
silence their marager, who laments the
fact that citizens of st. Louis would
not support the venture and that it
was silly under these circumstances for
the flyers to continue.
Endurance flying has very definite
place in the advancement of aviation.
1t is fine test of plane, motor and
man. But if it is to be put solely upon a
commercial basis, like a ong-sustained
vaudeville show where admission is to
be charged, much of its scientific value
is lost. If, as their manager says, Jack
son and O'Brine came down because of
lack OF public financial support, it is
very much like the case of an actor who
refuses to continue in the play unless
he receives his pay. Endurance flying
should never be conducted under such
conditions.
Leaving all this aside, however, the
new record just established is an i'm
pressive one, and the two pilots richly
deserve the congratulations that have
come to them from all parts of the
world. To stay aloft for twenty-seven
days cooped up in a stuffy cabin Is no
childs play, in fact 1t is a wearisome
and disagreeable task, and, whatever else
may be said, persistence, skill and cour-
age were the main factors OF its sue
cessful conclusion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-18

Emphasis in national comment on the
lynching of two Negro prisoners at Mar
ion. Ind, is placed on the lack OF pre-
paredness in the sheriff'S ONCE and on
apparent official indifference to the
question of prosecution for the mem
bers Of the mob. The lynchers were
citizens of nearby Paramount.
"The cowardly attitude Of the ON
GERS of the law, supposed to enforce the
peace" thinks the Wichita Beacon,
probably was in evidence before the
riot took place. They did nothing TO
stop the mob. They will do nothing
after" The Milwaukee Journal asks:
Are the white women of Marion safer
because q mob happened to 'avenge'
the outrage and murder than they would
be If the law of Indiana had brought its
own swift punishment" That paper
adds: 1T is all an old story and a very
gard the law, and wonder where the
country is coming to when its citizens
show no respect for law"
zone of the chief bases Of criticism
of Southern communities in similar out
breaks" recalls the Fort Worth Star
Telegram, lis the comparative failure of
prosecution of members of the mob.
Perhaps the Indiana community will
show up with a complete cleanup of
the mob, with all active members iden-
titled, tried, convicted and sentenced.
But it Is to be doubted. The fact is that
human nature is pretty much the same
all over this country. There are crimes
which makes less law-abiding citizens of
a community desire to take the law into
their own hands to punish the perpe-
traitors, and 1t matters little whether the
scene is in the South or the North"
Comparing Texas and Indiana, the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch tells the story
OF the treatment of similar cases In the
two States. An Indiana mob tore from
jail. dubbed to death and hanged two
Negroes who are said to have confessed
numbering a white man and aSSaulting
his girl companion, while few hours
later in Texas a Negro, similarly ac-
cuSed and three times courageously
saved from mob violence for fair trial
and lawful conviction, was duly put to
death by electrocution in State prison
at Huntsville. We draw no unfair gen.
eral conclusions and make no compare
son but the specific one. Texas has
lynched Negroes, and so has Indiana;
Missouri, too. for that matter. But the
obscene spectacle of bestial passion in
Indiana almost coinciding with orderly
process in Texas, in a parallel case,
needs no adding touch to point the
moral"
I'VE are told" says the Hartford
Courant, that, after the lynching. SO
State police officers and other officials
armed with machine guns maintained
order in the city. This may not have
been difficult task, inasmuch as the
mob had already found and killed the
prisoners whom it sought The
prosecutor of the county said that no
charges would be filed against the lead
ers of the mob. Negroes have
charged that the sheriff's force did not
properly protect the lives Of the two
prisoners, but that is now merely an
academic question since, no matter
what the law may do, 1t cannot restore
life to the two men who were lynched.
We wonder II the State of Indiana Is
satisfied with the condition of things?"
"GangSteB who shoot down each
other DO much less TO destroy law and
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clined visitors have been driven out OF
town. Certain of the oficials of the
municipality have been asked TO re-
sign because Of suspected collision with
the lawless ones. Some of the unde-
sirable folks have been physically de-
ported, taken out in motor cars and
dumped outside of the municipal
boundaries. This process has not pleased
the neighboring communities to which
the donations were made, but Mayor
Bacharach is deaf to all pleas for let
dp in his home sweeping HIS philosophy
appears to be that each town must dis
pose of its own refuse. Folks who are
fond of occasional sojourns at Atlantic
City for the sake of its ocean frontage
AID wonderful beach and its refreshing
air and its entertainments will in the
main applaud the mayors efforts to
purge it OF the crooks and swindlers
and strong-arm fraternity brethren who
have of late years been making it a
place of horror.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-18
Snapshots Useful
To One Who Thinks So
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore sun.
Snapshots are chiefly valuable in that
they justify the possession of cameras
Then there is always the vague POSSIBLE
ity that the next batch of pictures may
turn out better than the last ones did.
Snapshots may be roughly divided
into two classes, namely, the underex-
posed, which give the impression Of .
Photographic message from the spirit
world, and the overexpoSed, in which
the subjects resemble Hawaiians or
other dark-Skinned people in Occidental
clothing. A happy medium may be
achieved by having the subjects pose
beneath trees, thus giving them mot
tied complexion suggesting some
virulent forAn of plague or pestilence.
The best results are accomplished
when the person taking the picture
stands with the sun coming over the
shoulder In the very nature OF the
case it follows that the sun will strike
directly in the eyes OF the persons whose
pictures are being taken. This Is such
a familiar problem that its solution has
been worked out. To offset the froWn
caused by the sun, 1t Is customary 20
request the subjects OF snapshots 70
smile violently. Elder persons who feel
that it is undtgnif1ed to smile may strike
o suitable pose by closing their eyes
tight.
Children, who figure 20 conspicuously
in snapshots. are rather difncult sub
jects to handle. When at last they have
been persuaded not to turn their backs
completely on the camera they Will
avoid the sun by digging their ch11s
into their chests. Just at the moment
of swapping they may be instructed TO
look up, which they will do without re-
moving their chins from their resting
places. This is hardly graceful, but 1t
has to do. After all, a snapshot is only
a snapshot.
No matter how many snapshots are
taken, there Is always just one film left
which must be used before the roll can
be developed 1t is not unusual to try
this on q really good" picture OF the
dog. 1t remains, by means OF signs,
coaxings and other indirect methods, to
explain to the dog that the term snap
shot" Is not to be accepted in its literal
sense, q somewhat tedious procedure.
Sometimes snapshots turn out 10 well
that there - no reason 10 suspect that
there IL o0xnethlng wrong either VITA
tina AHA o. with the ealnseAA -..-..-.A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-18
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing TO our Informa-
ton Bureau in Washington, d. G.
This offer applies strictly TO informa-
ton. The bureau cannot give advice
on legal, medical, and financial matters.
1t does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles, or undertake exhaustive re-
search on any subject. Write your
question plainly and briefly. Give full
name and address and inclose 2 cents
in coin or stamps for return postage.
The reply is sent direct to the inquirer.
Address The Washington Evening Star,
Information Bureau. Frederic j. HaSkin,
director, Washington, D. G.
@. Please describe the color and
material of Mrs. Coolidge's dress in the
collection of gowns worn by Presidents
wives in the New National Museum
D. N.
A. The dress which Mrs. Coolidge
first had sent to the collection was an
ivory or cream brocaded satin. Later
this was replaced by a dress OF an
exquisite shade of old rose chiffon
velvet.
@. What was the name of the famous
French horse brought to this country
few years ago to race against American
horses?-F. o. H.
A. Epinard was brought to this
country in 1924 for three races. The
first at Belmont Park, was won by Wise
Counselor; the second, at Aqueduct
Park, was won by Ladkin: and the third,
at Latonia, was won by Sarazen.
@. Why do the more desirable
avenues in Washington, D. c., bear the
names of Northern States and the less
desirable bear the names Of Southern
States?--A. w. H.
A. When the streets we're numbered,
lettered, and named in the very Begin
ming of the plans for the City of Wash-
ington, no one knew in which direction
the Capital would grow. 1t was ex-
pected, in fact, that the city would grow
toward the east and south. 1t actually
happened that the city grew more
rapidly toward the north and west.
Some of the avenues which now run
through somewhat undesirable sections
of the city are so located that as the
plans for the city's improvement are
executed they will be perhaps the most
beautiful of Washington's streets. An
example of this is Virginia avenue,
which at no very distant time will pro-
baby be one of the most beautiful
streets 1t is doubtless true that the
streets around the Capitol were named
first and the States for which they were
Ildn1SQ were IIiOSS DtIOIlSulB W CLAC
Union at that time.
@. Does Florida produce minerals
T. A. S.
A. There are minerals in Florida,
principally phosphates, lime, limestone,
kaolin, and fuller's earth.
@. How many men lost their lives in
the airship Shenandoah-D. S. E.
A. There were IA men killed in the
crash of the dirigible Shenandoah.
@. Which city is larger, Sydney or
Melbourne, Australia?-R. H.
A. The population of Sydney Is
1,101 900; of Melbourne, 975,160.
@. Where did traders get all the
glass beads which were traded to the
IndianS?---L. H.
A. The first ones were brought from
Europe. but in 1921 several italian glass
workers were imported TO manufacture
beads for the Indians.
@. Is 1t possible to distinguish the
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Housecleaning at Atlantic City.

When a motor car turned over on q
New Jersey road about two months ago
and Mayor Anthony Ruff of Atlantic
City was killed there may have been
some uneasiness on the part of the free
and easy members of that community
lest IN the readjustment Of municipal
affairs disturbance would be caused.
They were not treasured when Harry
Bacharach, a banker member of a fam
lily noted for its vigorous political ac-
tivity and integrity, took Office as
municipal chief. Mayor Bacharach did
not act at once in the direction of
municipal housecleaning, but took a
little time to look about him and find
out who was who in the administration
and what was doing on the Boardwalk
within the twilight zone of permissive
illegality or in the actual area of down
right lawlessness. A few days ago he
began to move and his doings have
caused great rumpus in the seaside
playground city. establishments that
! pre- known in the language Of fervid
reformeay a. "stnks OF iniquity" have
laAen raided and closed. A Racketeers
! sRxe haae been HauictAng SScrttyeag in-