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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
COUNTY BLUE LAW
EXCLUSION IS HIT
ChiIIum District Democratic
Club Asks Right for Lo-
cal Officers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT RAINIER, Md, March IA
At a meeting of the Chillum District
Democratic Club a resolution was
passed insisting that the delegation in
the Maryland Legislature now in ses-
sion see to it that Prince Georges
County is not exempted in the anti-blue
law bill introduced by Speaker Michel.
AS the bill passed the House of Dele
gates 1t provided for the exemption of
this county, and those present at the
meeting OF the club cannot understand
why the legislation is good for Bal
timore City and other sections of the
State 1t would not be good for this
county.
The local Democratic club felt that
the local governing bodies should have
the say as to whether the theaters re-
main open on Sunday, in that way put
ting the matter up to the people of the
communities affected much more di-
rectly than ii the bill stands as it is at
present, with towns of less than 5000
having to petition to the county COM
mlsSloners for the privilege of operating
on Sunday. The bill must now be
amended to include the county in its
provisions
A motion passed asking that the
county author lLleS designate the club S
secretary, Leo w. Dunn, to accept dec
laratlonS of newly arrived citizens in
the State for registration purposes. The
matter Of the protest from certain citi-
zenS in Mount Rainier as to the Cram
ton act enabling a bill now before the
Legislature came up for discussion and
a motion prevailed that the club have
a special meeting Tuesday night at the
office of the secretary, at which time
t. Howard Duckett will be present to
explain the working plan of the bill
now under discussion.
Plans for a smoker were discussed
and 1t was the concenSus at the meet
ing that such an event should be staged
some time in May Future meetings of
the club will be held at the Office of
the club on the second Thursday of the
month, with the Bylaw Committee
expected to report at the next meeting.
Four new members were admitted to
membership in the club. A partial re-
port was made to the club by the chair
man OF the committee in charge of the
dispensing of the fund recently raised
for the benefit of the needy poor of the
district. 1t was decided to assist in
providing milk for those children at
the schools who are unable to purchase
it, and further names of needy persons
in the community were asked for, The
fund is not yet depleted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

Britain's national debt now equals
$83920 per capita.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
CITIZENS |NDORSE
CRAMTON AID BILL
Prince Georges Federation
Approves Enabling Measure
Before Legislature.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BLADENSBURG, Md, March IA
Endorsement was given the Cramton
enabling act now before the Legislature
by the Executive Committee of the
Federation of Citizens Associations of
Prince Georges County at a meeting
last night at the home here of Judge
Alfred D. Bailey, president of the or
ganiZation. 1t was voted to notify
State Senator Lansdale @. Sasscer of
Prince Georges County Of this action
along with the county members of the
House of Delegates, the county COM
mlssionerS and the Park and Planning
Commission. A committee was named
comprising DR.. Robert<W. Mccullough
Bert H. Wise and Fred w. Cast to
represent the federation at any hearing
which might be given ON the act.
resolution condemning the present
service on the bus line from Fifteenth
and H streets northeast to this section,
was adopted, the terminal facilities at
Fifteenth and H streets coming in for
particular criticism. Efforts will be
made to have the bus terminus moved
from Fifteenth and H streets to a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
HELD.
FOR Jury IN KILLING.
Court Refuses Evidence of
Dogs Trailing Sours
From Scene.
special pispatch 70 The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LURAY, Va March 14.-David sours,
charged with the killing of Edward
Burracker from ambush on a lonely
path in the heart of the Blue Ridge
Mountains, was bound over to the grand
jury by Judge j. H. Booton of the Cir
cult Court following preliminary trial
here today.
Despite the fact that the State had
intended to build its case largely about
the fact that bloodhoundS had trailed
Sours to his home from the spot where
Burracker was found, Judge Booton re-
fused to admit testimony of Sheriff E.
L. Lucas, telling Of the use of the
hounds. The judge held that as the
owner of the dogs was not summoned,
and no proper foundation laid, the tes..
timony was not admissible.
Defense Is Silent.
No witnesses were called for the de-
Tense.
Dr. Virgil Hammer Page County
coroner, testified that the man had been
shot from distance of about 80 or 40
feet and that he had been dead 10 to
"a hours when found, his body lying
beside log, covered With leaves and
brush.
Schuyler Dodson, on the stand, told
OF LnreaCS ne nad heard SOurS make
about six weeks ago, saying that he had
shot at Burracker once, and the next
time he would kill him. Dodson said
Sours made the threats in telling that
Burracker had been spying on his
moonshining activities.
Death Threat Barred.
Lester Burracker, brother of the muir
dered man, testified that Sours stopped
him on the road March /, the day be-
fore the murder, saying: IT shot at your
brother once, and the next time 1 will
fill him fun Of lead, If it's the last act of
my life"
Various witnesses corroborated the
story told by Donald Jenkins, l4-year-
old step-son of Burracker, who told
that the murdered man left home on
March at o'clock in the morning
and did not return home. He said that
he left his mountain home to look for
him and get his uncle and cousin,
brother and nephew of Burracker, to
go with him to the place where he said
lit looked as If some one had been
dragged to the road" They followed
the trail, he said, and found the body.
Nearly 100000 punches of bananas
were exported from Costa Rica last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
KEROSENE VICTIM
Elm CRITICAL STATE
J. SaGringeII in Hospital With
Burns. G. CIagett's
Rites Tomorrow.

81. Stanley Gringell of Rockville, re-
NAMED In a critical condition at
Emergency Hospital last night from
burns he received in the kerosene ex-
plosion which took the life of Lawrence
q. Clagett, National Training School
teacher, at PooleSville, Md, Friday night
when the men attempted to kindle a
IRE with the kerosene.
Meanwhile, arrangements were COM
pleted for Mr.. Clagett's funeral from the
home Of his uncle, Or. E. w. White, at
PooleSville, tomorrow morning at $50
o'clock. Rev. Guy Crook, pastor of the
Poolesville Episcopal Church, will con-
duct the services. Burial will be at
Petersville, in Frederick County, Md.
Emergency Hospital physicians said
last night that Mr.. Gringell, operator OF
a private detective agency and furni-
fering from second and third degree
burns which virtually cover his body
and legs.
The two men, close friends received
their burns when they Sprinkled the
explosive liquid from a can on a fire
they were building in the Poolesvllle
home of Mr.. Clagett's mother, Mrs.
Mary Clagett of Salisbury, Md. The
resultant explosion bathed both men in
flames and damaged the home. Clagett
died two hours later at his uncle's home,
where he was rushed after the ex-
plosion
Mr.. Clagett's bride of six weeks, for
merly Miss Rowena Jefferson, who
lives at 1918 Thirteenth street, and his
mother arrived at DR.. Whites home
yesterday. The bride was visiting her
mother at fredericksburg, on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, at the time of the
tragedy. The young couple had plan
ned to begin housekeeping April /.
Mr. Clagett was one of the four
original members Of the Montgomery
County, police force which was estab-
lishsd in 1922 He subsequently re-
signed to go to Texas, but returned
after an absence of one year. He left
the Maryland police for a second time
to join the staff Of the National Train
ing School.
Mr.. Gringen was a d:puty sheriff Of
Montgomery County for Is years, re-
firing from Office five years ago to
launch his private business at Rockville
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

Nearly 100000 punches of bananas
were exported from Costa Rica last
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Mother Declares
Fingerprints Err
In Regard to Son
Says immigration Bureau
Records Are Wrong
in Barring Man.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 14.-The science
of f1ngerprint identification and a
mothers word were weighed against
each other by immigration authorities
here today.
On their decision rests the fate of
Albert Kelly Carver, whom the Govern
ment suspects of being Albert Kelly, an
alien who was deported two years ago.
Mrs. Mathilda Connover Carver, the
mother, insists that Albert is not the
Kelly the Government claims him to
be, but is one of ten children born to
her in Warsaw, KY, and as such is an
American citizen.
Against this mothers word goes that
of Robert E. Moore, superintendent of
the identification Bureau of Wayne
County, who says Alberts fingerprints
are the same as those of the deported
Albert Kelly.
Mrs. Carver claims to have copies of
a birth certificate showing that Albert
was born in Kentucky May 8, 1893.
The man involved is held in the county
jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
REPUBLICAN
CLUB TO MEET MARCH rs
League of G. o. P. Women to Be
Guests at Affair in
Clarendon.
By Sac C0rrsspOnden. Of The star.

By a Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, March 14.-The
Republican Club of Arlington County
will hold its next "polito-social" affair
in Odd Fellows Hall here on the night
of March IS, with members of the
League of Republican Women of Ar
lington County and other women identi-
fed with the party as special guests.
This will be the second of a series Of
social affairs arranged by the cluo to
be given between now and the opening
of the political campaign for county
Offices this Spring and Summer.
The Entertainment Committee has ar
ranged for a varied program of in
strumental and vocal music, quartets,
duets and solos, together with vaude-
vile specialties. j. Foster Hagan, presi-
dent of the club, is in charge of ar
rangements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
GROUP TO HOLD FARLEY
Arlington-Fairfax Board to Meet
at Presbyterian Church on
Columbia Pike.
D e 81 Correspondent of The star.

~ STAG Correspondent Of The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va, March 14-The
Arlington-FairfaX Board of Religious
Education will hold a dinner and con-
ference on Tuesday, March "a, at the
Arlington Presbyterian Church, Column
bia pike and Bingham road.
The principal speaker will be Rev.
DR.. Minor c. Miller of Bridgewater,
general secretary Of the Virginia Council
Of Religious Education. other speakers
VIII be Miss Ethel Morrison, director of
weekday religious education, and Wal
ter x. Handy, president of the Airing
ton-Fairfax Board Of Religious Educa-
ton.
According to the members of the
Committee on Arrangements, Rev.
Walter F. Wolf and Rev. George l..
Common, every pastor, Sunday school
superintendent, Sunday school teacher
and every person serving on any COM
mittee In connection with religious edu-
cation in either county is invited to
attend.
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point downtown. The matter was placed
in the hands, of the Public Utilities
Committee. of which John r. Riggles is
chairman, and w. r. Beattie Of Decatur
Heights viii work in conjunction with
the committee.
North Decatur Heights sewage dis
posal was criticized and c. w. r.
Frerie, chairman of the Health Com
mittee. was asked to take the matter
up with the washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission.
Judge Bailey presided over the meet
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
SHIP LINES MERGED
Baltimore & Carolina in Deal With
Another Company.

NORFOLK, Va, March IA Op.-
Completion of the merger of the BaIti-
more g. Carolina Line with the
Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat
Co. was announced here today, effective
as Of March 9. The Baltimore &
Carolina has transferred the steamer
Ruth to the new line and will dispense
with the boat Birdie H., in the service
between Baltimore and Philadelphia.
There will be no change in the line
at Norfolk, it was stated, and A. IT
Null & Co. of Baltimore. operators OF
the Baltimore g. Carolina with a sub
stantial holding in the new corporation
will be agents for the merged companies.
S. A. Tubman will remain general man
ager, with headquarters in Baltimore.
Britain's national debt now equals
$3.50 20 per capita.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Kansas Rabbits Freed.

HAGERSTOwN, Nd, March IA (Spe.
ctaD The FIRST consignment Of Kansas
rabbits, So in number, were freed in
Washington County Thursday. They were
sent here by the State Game Commits
SION for restocking the county and were
distributed by the Izaak Walton
Chapter.
The Washington times., 1931-07-13

The Hecht nine needs only one
victory to cinch the first half of
the department store baseball
series. Yesterday, they had little
trouble in trouncing the cellar
holders, Palais Royal, 1877.
Development of a real "mur-
derers row" and dependable pitch
ing in the pinches has made the
Hechtmen the most powerful in
the league. This is quite re-
markable, due to the fact that
this year is the first time for
many years they have sponsored
a team. all players are employees
Of the store.
All told the Hechtmen Just
have to win one game of their
scheduled double-header with
Lansburgh, Saturday, for the
championship.
Bits Eaton and Paul Messink
will hurl the games for Hecht.
Messink will pitch the opener
He has won four and lost one
for Hecht.
The double-header between
Kanns and Palais Royal was
postponed on account Of wet
grounds,
W. L. ", l..
IsnssurIS.% 1 slPslsis Royal. .
The Washington times., 1931-07-13
TEMPLE LISTS
NIGHT T|LTS

Five of Temple University's
football games for the 1881 sea-
son will be played under the arc
lights installed at the University
Stadium last year, it was revealed
by athletic authorities of the
school.
The marked increase in at
tendance of students at the
night games last fall prompted
this move, the officials de-
Clared. Mt. st. Mary's Albright,
Bucknell, Haskell Indians and
Washington and Jefferson will
be played under the artificial
lights.
The day games completing the
schedule will be played with Penn
State, Villanova, and Carnegie
Tech. on the home field, and the
University Of Denver, at Denver,
Colo. ~
The Washington times., 1931-07-13

1--WE Just can't get games
anymore" he walled, although
we take painstaking care to
book only the strongest teams
in the city. They don't want
no parts Of us! What are we
gonna do?
eve aim to prove that we
are the best unlimited and semi
pro team in the city, and our
challenges are directed to all
and any aggregation who think
they can hang the bird on us.
But. though there are flOckS Of
teams squawking about how
good they are, 1 sit all day by
the telephone, all alone, feeling
blue, because nobody calls mp
to schedule games. They only
call up to cancel them!"
It seems that good, ole Ham
really has grounds for his com
plants. His Eagles have chalkec
up ten straight victories over the
most powerful teams that Wash
ington and nearby territories car
boast. They have beaten them
so thoroughly that the teams
never even thought Of reschedul
ing games. Hence the sob stuff
Manager Clippers phone number
is Cleveland l2s2-W after
o'clock n -
The Washington times., 1931-07-13
Free and Open Mind

We recite these facts to
establish in your mind, Lee'
what we mean by having a
free and open mind about the
matters on which one is pre-
dieting. :,
Now. to go back. We picked
Dempsey over Tunney for two
reasons. We thought in our
heart no man living could ever
cut down the Manassa Mauler.
Ninety.five per cent OF the
people who are reading this
thought the same things.
Dempsey was our idol, as he
was yours. We were a fresh
young sporting editor then and
didn't have the experience which
the last five years have brought.
We are by no means a gray
headed (although somewhat
bald) old sporting editor now,
but we've learned In five years
to not have idols in sports.
They crack. They are Of dust,
even as you and I.
The Washington times., 1931-07-13
RO AMATEUR
GOLF TOURNEY

Several pro and amateur golfers
from the District are competing
today in the pro-amateur, 18-hole,
best-ball tournament of the Mid
die Atlantic Professional Golfers
Association over the Woodholme
course in Baltimore.
AL Houghton, pro at the Ken
wood Country Club, will leave
Wednesday morning for the
Crestmont Country Club at West
Orange, N. j., where the Metro
politan Open will be contested
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
w. Byrn Curtiss, sOuthpaw
golfer. won the Tribal Bowl at
Indian Spring, defeating Tom
Belshe, 5 and 3, in the 36-hOle
final. Curtiss was up at the
end of the first 1S and in
creased his margin to 8 by tax.
ing the nineteenth. Curtiss
toured the first 18 in IA, three
over par, to annihilate Belshe.
T.. a. OTdy WdS W11AAACA VI VAAN
sweepstakes at Kenwood with a
gross card of "a and a net Of IL.
He carried a handicap Of 13
strokes. Maury Fitzgerald grabbed
second prize with a gross of 79
and a net Of 70. Third prize
went to w. L. Miller with a gross
Of IS and a net of 70.
Leopold V. Freudberg and
Henry Kaufman were victorious
in the two-man team scoring at
Woodmont with a gro9 176 and
net IA. Freudberg had a gross
of 81 while kaufman crossed 80.
S. w. Straus. gross SO, and H.
M. Shapiro, gross SO, were second
with net 149, due to a handicap
of Al strokes. Jack Shulman and
L. E. Harris were third with a
net Of 149.
The Washington times., 1931-07-13
Old Tommy Rice

Tommy Rice, now a member
Of Mayor Walkers crime COM
mission and the sporting edi-
tor of this newspaper a long
while back, once advised us
not to bet on sports if we were
writing about them. It's the
only piece of newspaper advice
we have ever followed 100 per-
cent.
We d. bet occasionally, but
not on the outcome of a sporting
proposition of which we are
writing or exporting, as it were.
We made six bets in Louis
vile the day of the Derby. We
didn't bet on the race about
which we were sent out there
to write. We believe we could
trust ourself to write just as
fair a story about a race on
which we had lost money, yet,
we are not positive it wouldn't
cramp what style we have. So
we always lay off gambling on
Derbies, Preaknesses, world
series, the few fights we travel
to see and other flotsam and
ietsam of which we treat.
The Washington times., 1931-07-13
Get Good Information

Next to not caring who or
what wins, the most important
thing is to read all you can
about the principals. Talk all
you can to those in a position
to give you knowledge, and If
possible see the principals in
their last few workouts. Then
sum up everything you have
learned, and shoot.
You can't be right all the
time, and when you are right,
few will remember, as you have
Lee. But, Lee, THEY WILL RE
MEMBER when you pick wrong
3 and many of them will never
let you up when you have once
been wrong.
Just one more thing, Lee.
Sometimes, as in the Sharkey-
Dempsey fight and as in the
Schmeling- -Stribling fight. the
easiest way is to drop two
names in a hat and pick out
one and call him the winner.
We picked Dempsey against
Sharkey, because we didn't
think enouL1 of Sharkey then
to pick him to pick his teeth.
Our selection of Schmeling was
almost similar. We couldn't
pick Stribling to do anything
we weren't even sure he'd show
lIp for the fight. But he proved
"A it he had more heart than
anyone suSpicioned. So long,
Lee. and thanks for them kind
wnidS.
The Washington times., 1931-07-13
T|LDEN BETTER
THAN EVER
BY MICHAEL J. FOSTER

FOREST HILLS, N. Y. July l3.
William T. Tilden. worlds profes-
sional tennis champion.
There were some who thought
that Big Bill was being presump-
tuous when he thus signed his
name as king of all the pros" "
For, after all, large William had
never been officially crowned as
worlds champion.
But there are no doubterS to-
day. Not after that crushing 7
5, 60, 6-t defeat Tilden handed
Winnie Richards before 5000 spec
tators at Forest Hills yesterday,
dethroning the 28-year-old Nor
wood Country Club pro" as pro-
fessional tennis champion of the
United States.
The victory over Winnie Off
cially gives Big Bill only the
American pro laurels, but the
field at Forest Hills included prac-
tically every well-known profes-
Sional in the game, and Tilden'S
title is tantamount to a worlds
championship.
There must have been more
than one u. s. L. T. A. official in
the West Side Tennis Club Sta
dunn who sighed SOrrOwfully
while he watched TiIden hand
Richards the pasting Of his life,
thinking of what the former
amateur champion could do to
Henri COchet this month, if
only the lanky PhiladeIphian
were still a "SimOn pure" and
a member of Americas Davis
Cup team.
There is no doubling that Big
Bill right now, despite his almost
two score of years, and his bad
leg, is playing better tennis than
ever before in his life.
In the doubles final, Richards
had a bit of revenge when he
and Howard o. KinSey of San
Francisco, defeated Big Bill and
Frank Hunter of New Rochelle,
in five sets. The score was 7-9,
IS, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Hunter erred frequently in this
match, and nothing Tilden could
do could overcome the handicap
Hunters misplays imposed.
The Washington times., 1931-07-13

1t was the rise of Heinie
Manush from his recently ter
rible batting slump. Heine hit
the ball yesterday, and hit" 1t
hard, and looked like the Heine
of old even though his team lost.
One-Tw0 Punch
If Heine is really back in hit
ting fettle, the attack of the
Griffmen will be materially
helped at this time, especially
with the AS as opponents today.
Also it will give the team
the Old-time "One-two" punch
Of ManuSh and CrOnin.
Heine only socked out two hits
yesterday. but they came at
times when they meant some
thing. In the third he doubled
to start the first Griff run scor-
ing inning off of Herb Pennoc'--,
while in the sixth he singled to
begin another rally which he
converted into a run.
True, this second hitand-run
of Heine's was not necessary as
the Yanks had the game sewed
up by that time, but it brought
out the fact that Heine was IN
there punching at the old apple