Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

jurisdiction, but all other political prlS-
oners are to be freed.
X
UNITED STATES.-Federal revenues
Of the first n days of the current ifs
cal year totaled less than those of the
corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year by $117,941 ,695.
Former Secretary Of State Frank b.
kellogg has been elected by the League
Assembly and Council a judge OF the
World Court to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Charles Evans
Hughes.
Secretary Wilbur has renamed Boulder
Dam Hoover Dam"
Boston has been celebrating with
a mighty historical pageant and in sun
dry other ways the three hundredth
anniversary of her foundation. We
should not, because Boston is in a
crepuscular phase. allow ourselves to
forget that she has really played a
mentionable role in our history. AT
any rate, she gave the only now bore
some tea party known.
On September Is the series Of Ameri-
cas- Cup races opened off Newport. The
American Enterprise beat the British
Shamrock v by minutes So seconds.
Light breeze, smooth sea, a condition
supposed to be favorable to the Sham
rock 30-mile course. The Enterprise
led by minutes and 4 seconds at the
end of the first leg, gaining AZ seconds
coming back. The second race, on the
18th, was a walkover for the Enter
prise, which won by minutes and "a
seconds, triangular course on Newport
Especially did Enterprise show marked
superiority in windward work. After
the first race one ton of lead was taken
out of Shamrock, but was put back
after the second race. The change
proved a mistake. The yachts nose
often wallowed during the second race.
In the third race, on September II,
the Enterprise won hollow victory.
The Enterprise leading by about a
quarter of mile and gaining steadily,
breeze IL knots, when the Shamrock's
main halyard parted at the sheave at
the head. Down came the main sail.
The Enterprise completed the course.
On September Is Enterprise won the
fourth and final of the series by min
utes and A seconds.
On September IL, in the National
Tennis Singles Championship Tourna-
ment, William Tilden, seven times win
ner of the title, lost to John Hoe Doeg,
the 21-year-old blond giant of Califor-
MIA The next day Doeg won the title
by beating in the finals the redoubtable
New York schoolboy, 19-year-old Fran
els Shields, whose playing has been the
most remarkable of recent developments
in the tennis world. The struggle be-
tween Doeg and Shields was a terrific
one over four sets, the score of the last
being 1914. The West boasts the
championship for the first time since
william Johnston won in 1919.
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THE LEAGUE.-The League Assem-
bly, has directed the formation of a
committee representing 81 European
states, which during the coming IL
month shall prepare concrete proposals
looking to closer collaboration between
those states, and which shall work in
close liaison with the League secreta-
riat. The resolution suggests that M.
Brands famous memo Of last May and
the various replies thereto of the pow
ers serve as the basis of the committees
work, It does not use the word fedora
ton So far has M. Brands project
progressed,
NOTES Strikes continue on a seri-
GUS scale in Spain.
Our Government has recognized the
revolutionary government of Argentina
Peru and Bolivia. Our Government, an
nounces Secretary Stimson, lis satisfied
that these governments are de facto in
control of their respective countries and
that there is no active resistance TO their
rule"