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La gaceta., 1931-12-19
D EP @ R E

no sali6 boxeando. Sc cambiaror
unos cuantos golpes y entonce.
Freeman comprendi6 que par;
veneer debfa apelar a los "aga
rraos" y con tanta eficiencia S,
"refugi6" en- este sistema que
hasta ell decimo ell "combate" fut
una lucha continue, co mel ma.
pequeno sufriendo las consecuel
cias.
A la salida del primero, e
Relampago tenfa una herida en-.
del ojo izquierdo y parecfs
descontento de la 'tfrotaci6n".
Ell segundo fue 10 mismo que
ell primero, "clinches y mas elm
ches", para desventaja del hon.
bre de menos peso.
Al comenzar ell tercero los me-
jores amigos de Remberto Sc
marchaban, creyendo que este
iba a ser acostado antes del quin
to, 10 que afortunadamente no
sucedi6.
Para no variar, ell cuarto sc
limit6 a "agarraos y mas aga
rraos", llevando Tommy la par
tie del leon.
Fue en- ell quinto que el cuba
no pudo aplicarle a Freeman la
1erecha zen la cara, y ell excam-
oe6n comenz6 a sangrar.
En- los primeros 80 segundos
La gaceta., 1931-12-19
Ell cubdno no gGn6 nj I'M solo
ASaItO

Varias wees habfamos dichC
nosotros desde estas columnas
que la pelea Tommy Freeman
Relampago Sagiero, era desi-
quail, que el cubano no podia con
ceder al excampe6n de peso well
ter, que es al presente I'm "sazo-
nado" peso mediano, ventaja en-
peso, experienced, e~statura Y ha-
bilidad.
Anoche Sc comprob6 10 que
habiamos dicho y ell Sagtero tu-
vo su Waterloo, no ganando nj
I'm solo asalto.
La 'aplanadora', Tommy Free
man, pasaba sobre Ell hombre
mas pequeno y lie agarraba y do
minaba.
En- ell primer round ell cuba
La gaceta., 1931-12-19
VICTORIA DE KNIGHT

Lake Worth, die. 19.-Joe
Knight, de Cairo, Ca, ITO libras
puso aver a dormir a Joe Finaz-
20, de Baltimore, en- ell cuarto
asalto.
En- la semifinal, Frank Gierke
de Indianapolis, alcanz6 una de-
cisi6n Unpopular sobre Mutt
Griffin, de Macon, Ga.
La gaceta., 1931-12-19
Edgardo Allan Poe
HISTORIAS
EXTRAORDINARILY
v Aventuras
de Arturo Gordon Pym

Jupiter, Sc puso tan sumamente
palido como es possible a IN ros-
tro negro. Parecia pasmado: CO.
mo es possible a un rostro negro.
Parecia pasmado: como herido
por un rayo. Bien pronto cay6
de rodillas en- la fosa y, hun
diendo sus desnudos brazos has
ia Ell codo en- Ell orc, los dej6 asf
tempo, como 81 gozase de
La gaceta., 1931-12-19

touos 10 POUNDS, Ell cub ho
"pompeaba" CON las dos mai BIS
pero POGO despu6s perdfa la cher
gia, abatido por ell exceso de pc
50 de Tommy y la tactica del
hombre de mas experienced.
Ell sexto, septimo, octave, no.
veno y decimo fueron como los
anteriores, dominando Tommy
ell Saguero tratando de resistif.
Apartaba ell referee a los con
tendencies y Freeman sc tiraba
nuevo, sujetaba a Remberto J
Icomenzaba ell vapuleo a corta dis
stancia, como 81 fuera I'm lucha.
dor metido a pugilista.
Con sus seis O siete Iibras Ok
menos, ell SagGero daba la i'm
preston de I'm hombre valiente
pero sin la necesaria potencis
fisica, dando sus mejores es.
fuerzos para contener ell "em
puje" de un gigantic.
Los jueces fallaron como te
nian que falIar, bajando ell Sa
guero del cuadrilatero con los
Iojos amoratados e inflamados
la nariZ rota e inflamada, san
La gaceta., 1931-12-19
B0XEO

LA PELEA DE ANOCHE CON
TOMMY FREEMAN SUPE-
RANDO EN- ESTATURA,
PESO, HABILIDAD Y Elk
PERIENCIA. FUE Ell WA
TERUOO DEL RELAMPA-
GO SAGUERO
La gaceta., 1931-12-19
LEVINSKY TRIUNFO So

LEVINSKY TRIUNFO So
BRE ~LOUGHRAN, ell heroe
de New York, que ha derrotado
a tales hombres como Ernie
Schaaf, Max Baer, Victorio Cam
polo y Pauline Uzcudun, fue de-
rribado aver cuatro veces por
King Levinsky, con golpes que
un novato hubiera evitado.
LeVinsky alcanz6 la decision
La gaceta., 1931-12-19

La mejor batalla de la noche
Ifue la de los valientes chiquitos
IRafaelito Valdes, de Cuba, y Fe-
lipe Lobato, oriundo de Cuba.
Rafaelito tuvo la suerte de
que los jueces decidieran en- SD
favor, aunque bien miradas las
cosas, tablas debi6 ser ell fallo.
Tuvo ell combate INSTANCES de
verdadera sensation y ell p1bIico
aplaudi6 calurosamente a los
"chiquitines".
Rafaelito sali6 del ring" con
la decision; pero los aplausos Sc
10 dieron a Lobato.
Half Pint Lopez peg6 a su
y alcanz6 una facil deci-
sion sobre Sam Pitisci.
Young Higgins, del establo
de Lorente, superb y derrot6, sin
pasar apuros, a Babe Lorenzo.
La gaceta., 1931-12-19

FoAtd" de La Gacea No. 81 las vduptuosdades de IN ba6o ana 4a n
La gaceta., 1931-12-19

Jimmy Leto alcanz6 la deci-
sion de los jueces sobre Cliff
Greenwood, pero ell p1blico ex-
pres6 su descontento, gritando
y dando con los pies en- las ia
Iblas.
Jimmy peg6 mas golpes, perc
Greenwood CONFERENCE.-The con
mas eficfencia.
Pudo haber sido tablas, sin
"macheteo" en- contra de Leto.
Evening star., 1931-06-24
FavOrs Northwest Sites
For War-Navy Buildings

| To the Editor of The Star
was much interested in reading
in The Star recently that Chairman
Wood of the House Appropriation Com
mittee and Representative Ross Collins,
Democrat, Of Mississippi, thought that
| the Northwest section for the Army and
Navy Buildings was entirely too expen-
sive. They wanted to change the site
to the Southwest section.
These public men have been mis-
informed and it is rather strange that
men in their positions would come out
publicly and make a statement which
Is not correct. Are they attempting
to spend the $500 900 which the Public
Building Commission has seen fit to
save for the public Treasury? This
reminds me of the man who was walk
ing backward to go forward.
Another question: Why is this in
terest in the Southwest section so keen
after this question has been decided
by the duly authorized bodies, who were
properly selected and who unanimously
decided on the Northwest sectionP Is
it to spend more of the peoples money
instead Of saving it?
Are these men aware Of the fact
that the 1929-1930 assessment for the
property in the Northwest section only
amounts to $2,162, 900 and that of the
600? On the site which they are Sc
lectng, according to the assessment, it
will cost 100000 more.
They continually quote the figures
Of to 10 million dollars for the cost
Of the real estate in the Northwest
section. How do they arrive at these
figures when the assessed valuation is
about $4,000 600? Surely 1t is not the
intention of these very prominent rep
resentatives to make the people pay
over 500 per cent Of the valuation
1t is time that we are sticking to facts
and not to fiction.
AS a native Of Washington, as q
taxpayer and as man who desires to
see Washington beautified, I wish to
acknowledge my debt of gratitude to
the members of the Public Building
Commission who by their good judg-
ment and foresight have selected the
only desirable and available site to
complete the vista from the Capitol
to the Mall.
G. A. WARRINGTON
Evening star., 1931-06-24
Speed in Transportation

indicative of the world demand fol
spesd in transportation are the ex-
periments now being carried on in
Germany to develop a new type of rail-
way car which provides its own power
by means Of q propeller and a twelve
cylinder airplane motor. Recently, this
stream-line creation, built more or less
In the shape of an airplane fuselage,
burned over the track between Hamburg
and Spandau, a suburb of Berlin, in an
hour and thirty-six minutes. The dis
tance Is slightly more than one hun
dred and sixty miles, with a high speed
attained Of one hundred and forty
three miles an hour and an average
speed Of one hundred and six miles an
hour. The car beat the plane time
between these two points by four min
utes. 1t carries fifty passengers and
gets four miles to gallon OF gasoline
Speed in the air. speed on land and
speed afloat is the motto of this fast
travelling generation. Transatlantic
ships have made their appearance In
the past few years which boil through
the ocean from Europe to America at
an average of nearly thirty knots. q
speed which carries the passenger from
one continent to another in slightly over
four days. Railroad schedules have
likewise been made faster and the crack
trains in America are keeping up with
them. Airplane transport lines are de-
manding more speed from the manufac-
turers and the air traveller Of today cuts
through the sky at speeds upto one hun
dred and nifty miles an hour.
Unquestionably, the airplane has
pointed the way for more speed in all
forms of transportation. The confirmed
spending five hours on a train when
he can cover the distance in two hours
by plane and consequently the railroads
must quicken their service to secure his
patronage. The same thing, to q GER
tain extent, applies to slow boat and
fast boat, although the question Of
expense enters into 1t. No person,
probably, to whom time Is money would
spend seven days on the ocean when he
could just as well make the crossing In
four and one-half days.
And so 1t appears that developments
in speed of transportation will come
rapidly in the future. The public wants
it and what the public wants 1t generally
gets.
Evening star., 1931-06-24
Gang Film and Mail-Order Gun.

A lad of sixteen fatally wounded an
other of twelve In Montclair, N. j., the
other day in the course of a re-enact-
ment of q motion picture which he
had seen. This was gang" film Of
the type that of late has been fire.
quently shown on the screen. The
boys went to "den" they had built
in the back yard of the home of one
Of them. The older boy, on arriving,
reached into secluded corner and
pulled out something which he put in
his pocket. At the moment of dramatic
climax he drew the object from his
pocket and there was an explosion and
the smaller boy fell and died shortly
after. The boy who did the shooting
told the police that he had obtained
the pistol from mail order house last
month. He had been arrested for US
ing it in target practice with other
boys but had been dismissed with a
reprimand by the police recorder. He
had told his father that he had thrown
the gun away, when in fact he had hid
it first in his room and later at the
hut.
Here is a clear illustration Of the
evil both of the highly suggestive mo-
tien picture showing gang life and Of
the easily obtained deadly weapon.
This lad had no difficulty getting his
gun despite the federal law prohibit
ing the sale by mail CT weapons capable
Of being concealed on the person. Any
body, it would seem, can get a pistol
by this means at very small expense
and slight delay. In this case the boy
had been already warned against using
the gun. The police recorder merely
''reprimanded' him. He was not re-
quired to surrender the gun. 1t still
remained in his possession. He hid
the weapon and lied to his father.
There was gross negligence in this mat
ter on the part of police and parent.
This sort Of thing is happening all
the time in this country. Children
are playing gang" in every city as
Q result of their attendance at pic
tusk shows that illustrate, mere or less
Evening star., 1931-06-24
Visitor Says River Has
Stencil and Health Peril

To the Editor Of The Star:
All claim Washington to be most
beautiful 1t is, in some sections, where
wealth exists and is improving in some
parts Of Pennsylvania avenue. But
come to the point of the Potomac River
front. In my estimation, 1t Is the most
inSanitary and unSightly section in
this community or any section I have
visited. We have only one wharf on
the river front worth looking at, and
tahat is the fish wharf. All the rest are
nothing but a lot of junk, and the fa-
cilttieS are even worse.
was motoring around Potomac Park
on the evening of June IL and the tide
was loV, the air was Stagnant and it
smelled like a sewer near; but when we
passed near the rose garden the per-
fun1e was very fragrant. After We got
q square away we sInelled the stagnant
water again around the park and
through the Tidal Basin, and 1t was
even worse through the basin section.
There should be something to remedy
all this, as 1t Is running many Q per-
sons health, some people staying late
at night and some staying all night on
the river front. ! think this could be
remedied easily If money were spent in
other ways, on projects not so good, and
for the welfare of the ones that have to
60 to such places for recreation.
Why not look to the river front and
look to the good for the health Of the
people? w. KEISTER.
Evening star., 1931-06-24
Queen VictOria's Faith a
Model for Hard Times

To the Editor of The Star:
Here is recipe to end depression and
bring back prosperity. In an article In
the London Times, Lady Gwendoline
Cecil tells us that when the Boer War
seemed about to end In disaster to the
British arms, Mr.. Balfour visited Queen
Victoria to condole with her and discuss
what was TO be done. She cut him
short with these words:
Please understand that no one Is de-
pressed in this house. We are not in
terested In the possibilities of defeat.
They do not exist"
England reached the greatest peak Of
prosperity In Victoria's time, due per-
haps to her indomitable faith in the
promises Of God. She knew the magic
that lies in the exercise of faith, vision
ing success and prosperity even when it
did not exist, and thus creating 1t out
of disaster and chaos. Let us do the
same, and prosperity win come back
with o bound. III NJ. u. FORBES,
Charlotte, N. "a
Evening star., 1931-06-24
Waiting for France.

At no period during the moresor less
piping times of peace since the bugles
blew for the armistice on the Western
front has the world waited for an off,
cial announcement with greater anxiety
than 1t stands by for todays decision in
Paris.
Unless the United States project has
undergone change since 1t was promul-
gated last Saturday, its success or fall
ure now hinges upon the French. If
they demur. debate or defect, the
scheme is almost certainly doomed to
defeat Mr.. Hoover and Secretary Stim-
son have indicated that universal ac-
eeptance by all countries at interest
prompt and unqualified acceptance-is
Of the irreducible essence Of the scheme.
Put forth to meet grave emergency. 1t
calls for a minimum alike of delay and
Of quibbling.
No more refreshing commentary on
the Presidents program has been forth
coming than that from quarter in which
partisanship might possibly have been
looked for. If not justified. 1t is Sena-
tor Pat Harrison. Democrat, genial but
irrepressible batter of all things Repub-
Mcan. who says:
Times like these are like times OF
war. and political truce should be de-
clared. So far as my own feelings are
concerned the public interest will best
be served by declaring an armistice on
politics. so these issues NAV be solved
by American statesmen rather than by
American politicians.
The conditions are not quite analogous
but Senator Harriscn's words are not
altogether inapplicable to the delicate
situation which has arisen in conse-
uuence of the French attitude-so del
icate that at the eleventh hour last
night Secretary Stimson decided to post
pone his intended elucidation of the war
debt holiday over a countrywide radio
network. France has an unanswerable
ease for demanding that haste be made
slowly in any enterprise avowedly de-
signed to rehabilitate Germany. No
nation whose frontier does not lie
athwart the Rhine or which has not
been invaded by German armies twice
within forty-hve years has right to
hector the French people for refusing
to accept off-hand a proposition which
advantages the ancient foe $425 200, 900
and disadvantages France 100000, 900
in the same year:
Americas hope-the hope of the rest
OF the worlds that the French will
measure against even that colossal
factor the greater good in revived con-
fidence, improved trade, tranquilized
international relations and discouraged
demagoguery that will flow from the
plan to give Germany a twelvemonth's
breathing space. Frances friends in
the United States, and their name is
legion, are truStful that the statesman
ship Of Doumer. Laval and BRAND this
critical day in Paris will rise to the
level so aptly suggested by Senator Har-
rison and decree IAN armistice on poll
tics" The world waits confidently for
such a demonstration Of French world
mindedness.
Evening star., 1931-06-24

truthfully, the career Of the gunmen
and crooks and bandits. The pictures
themselves may feebly point the moral
of evil living. The Juvenile mind, how
ever, does not grasp the vital truth Of
penalty. It gets only the glamour Of
bravado and danger and daredevil en-
terprise. Gunplay is common to these
films. In few States boards of CEN
sors ban the actual showing of weapons
in use, but the picture, even when so
excised, nevertheless glorifies the gun
and the young beholder is tainted and
tempted.
Parents should make sure that their
children are not exposed to the rerni-
cious influence Of crime exploiting pic
lures and that they do not avail them
selves of the ready opportunities for
personal armament. This New Jersey
case is surely a demonstration of the
need OF greater care than Is now ex-
ercised in these matters.
Evening star., 1931-06-24

of service in the Empire State Assembly
Trubee was definitely predestined by
education and paternal endowment fol
career in the public service.
* \
Speaking of 1882, one Of the very
latest things under the Democratic sun
Is the emergence of Senator Thomas j
Walsh OF Montana as a possible
runningmate for Gov. Roosevelt. Such
combination suggests natural advan-
tages-East and West, wet and dry
Protestant and Catholic, virile youth
and dignified age, and all the rest of it
Walsh Is said to have conferred with
Roosevelt recently, for what purpose OF
with what results is not of record.
DR.. c. G. WI, retiring Minister of
China, is leaving Washington tomor-
row. He will sail for China via Gibral-
tar from New York on July 8. In the
interval DR.. and Mrs. WI will visit
Ventnor, near Atlantic City. where he
regret at leaving the United States,
after an official tour of duty which be-
gan in 1929, is tempered by their Joy
in rejoining their children in China
Two younger children, who have been at
school in Washington, are going back
to the East with their parents. On the
night of June 80 DIR. Wu will broad
cast from New York a coast-to-coaSt
valedictory to America over the Column
bia network. 1t will take the form of
question -and-answer interview con-
Quoted by this radioscribe and range
around the general theme why I'm
Returning to China"
y F&
States Navy, retired of Washington, Is
he repaired last month 10 represent
the United States at the annual meet
ing Of the Kipling Society. He has
sent back enthusiastic accounts of the
session, which included a report that
the author of "Barrack Room Ballads
and plain Tales From the Hills" is
not losing vogue in this country with
the passing years. Admiral Chandler,
who is Americas acknowledged author
ity on Kiplingiana, wrote Capital
friends that my three-quarters Of an
Kipling alone would have repaid me for
the trip" Kipling, now a somewhat
grim gentleman approaching 10, lives
quietly in Sussex, denying himself to
visitors except on rare occasions.
Senator Jim Davis is to the front with
a brand-new story. A middle -aged
woman (who turned out to be hard OF
hearing) stood up in public meeting,
when the speaker asked any woman in
the audience to rise who agreed with the
theory that it was a wIfes duty to
mother her husband" She said she'd
misunderstood the proposition. She
thought the speaker had said smother
your husband"
(Copyright 1e31)
Evening star., 1931-06-24
Prince Peter Pan.

Probably because he continues res
olutely to turn his back on the joys and
blessings Of matrimony, Edward, Prince
of Wales, is envisioned by most of the
world as still very young man. Head
lines over English cable dispatches
narrating that the heir to the British
throne was thirty-seven years old on
June %, are sure to have taken many
by surprise.
The royal records at Windsor may
emblazon the fact that Edward Albert
Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall
Duke of Rothesay, etc, was born in
1894. To millions of admirers the globe
round he is Prince Peter Pan, who, in
their estimation at any rate, simply does
not grow up. They cannot-at least
they are loath to-reslize that he IS
well advanced into mans estate and on
the verge of becoming what George
Bernard Shaw calls "fortyish."
The boyish-faced prince, it is some
times said, is destined to be "the last
King of England" Democracy is
described as being so irresistibly on the
march in John Bulls islands and in
the "dominions beyond the seas" that
the throne is marked for disappearance
with the reign of the present Prince of
Wales. His stranglehold on the people S
affections, especially among the masses,
seems to be guarantee that no
intervening political upheayal will be
permitted to cheat him out Of his
ancestral heritage.
The prince is no royal idler. He does
not spend nearly as much of his time
falling of his horse as American news
paper readers may think. He does not
resent being dubbed Britain's of1icial
ambassador of trade and international
good will. Modern and democratic to
his f1nger-tips, Prince Peter Pan is at
his best when spreading the glory Of
Britain in those foreign par whence
London and Liverpool, Birmins. and
Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle would
fain consign their argosies full of wares
turned out by "the shopkeeper of the
world" The heir-apparent's recent ex-
ploits as his country's foremost COM
mercial traveler--in South America
came up to the high standards he has
Evening star., 1931-06-24
Rate Plea StndiAd.

The plea of the railroads for an in
crease of fifteen per cent In freight
rates Is to be considered not alone by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
but also by the State railway and public
utility commissions, meeting in joint
State railway commissions are to begin
their meetings on July 7, in the coun-
try's four rate groups, under a call is
sued by the president of the National AS
missions. Under the law, consideration
of rate changes may be made a coop
| erative matter, with the Interstate
Commerce Commission and the State
{ commissions both playing their part.
Another step toward the ultimate de-
cision on the railroads application for
rate increases Is the order of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission calling on
the railroads for much additional in
formation regarding their application.
This information, representatives Of the
railroads assert, Is already well in hand
and should be presented to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission within .
comparatively short time. The rail-
roads have strongly urged that their
plea for rate increases be considered as
an emergency plea and be given as
prompt consideration as possible. The
disposition on the part of the commits
sion Is to comply with the request for
early consideration. But very properly
the commission wishes to be fully in
formed before 1t acts.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has received letters both approv-
ing and disappearing the application
of the railroads for freight rate in
creases. The major part of the let
ters are in protest against increases
The burden of the protests, for the
most part, is that railroad freight
rates. particularly on heavy articles and
commodities, are already too high, and
that to impose added charges would be
a severe blow to industry, which is
struggling to get itself out of the pres
ent depression. But not all the ship
pers are opposed to the suggested in
crease in rates, some Of them asserting
that it would be sound policy at this
time to aid the railroads, which have
been falling off rapidly in the matter
Of net revenue in the last year.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
and the State commissions have O real
problem before them. The railroads, If
the strict letter of the law is followed,
appear to be entitled to an increase in
freight rates, provided such an increase
would really make their business more
profitable. Under the law, the figure
fixed for net return on the investments
in the roads is 5.T5 per cent. The net
earnings of the roads, 1t has been esti-
mated, have dropped ss low as 217
per cent in recent months. But the
commission must take q broad view of
the matter under existing conditions
In this country. An increase in rates
miot+ materially and disastrously affect
49, u lstries, and thereby prove
blow to the roads themselves which the
increase would be designed to aid. The
answer to the railroads problem, after
all, is a revival Of business and industry.
If business is able to make the hoped
for turn in the road at a comparatively
early date. the fortunes Of the car
riers will improve. too.