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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
to a $3.50 status In
= games won and lost as a re-
suit Of dropping three In a

suit Of dropping three in
row to the Athletics at
Philadelphia, but with the pennant
bee still buzzing hopefully in their
CAPS, the Nationals today return to
their own stamping grounds for a
series of four games which may en-
able them to regain the league lead
ership.
Their guests this afternoon and
for the three days following WILL pc
the Yankees, who now share the
top rung Of the American League
ladder with Clevelands INDIANS
lust two games ahead OF Washing
ton, Detroit and Philadelphia, VINO
are tied for second place.
Missing from the New York array
will be the most prodigious pill
FOUNDER Of them all, the far-famed
George Herman Ruth, who Is
nursing a Lee, injured at Boston
Wednesday, buG the Yankees, led by
the smuggling Lou Gehrig, still boast
a powerful punch and may remain
prominent flag contenders despite
the Bambino's enforced absence.
For years 1t has been said that as
Ruth goes, so go the Yankees, and
II this held good now, with the Babe
out for an indefinite period, their
flag hopes would be doomed, but we
have a bunch the Bronx ball bust
ers will carry on In formidable
fashion.
Joe Has Them HuStling.
The chief reason is that under
the direction Of Joe Mccarthy, who
led Chicago's Cubs to championship
heights in few seasons after years
Of mediocre shoWings in the Ma
tional League, the Yankees are
showing a lot Of fight and hustle.
Another is the apparent return to
form Of Herb Pennock, the accom-
plished left-hander, who was re-
garded as through" following poor
campaigns in '29 and 80, and still
another Is the potential ability Of
Myril Hoag, the Coast phenom, who
viii play left field In Ruth's absence.
This 21-year-old recruit, obtained
at an expenditure of $4,000 from
Sacramento Of the Pacific Coast
League, where he carved out a 1897
average last year, unlike Ruth, is
righthanded both as to batting and
throwing. He is confronted with
one of the most formidable tasks
ever to befall a rookie in trying to
fill the shoes of so outstanding a
star as the Babe, but Is tackling the
assignment with courage. Capital
fans will watch his work with keen
interest during the series here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26

Totals 80 l22 Totals "a TAI -
'Batted for Malone in ninth inning
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MARBERRY FACES YANKS
In BATTLE HERE TODAY
Fred Hereafter to Emulate Grove of AS in Doing
Relief Work as Well as Starting Regularly.
Ruth Will Be Missed.

and II days as q firm. That's what
makes Ruth's record remarkable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
LEWIS HITS BACK
AT CRITICS IN u. S.
Author, Returning From Eu.
rope, Denies Being Anti
American in Speech.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March S. Sinclair
Lewis, defender of the honor of his
native country:
Well, believe it or not, the tall, lanky
redhead from Sank Center, essayeo
that role when he returned on the
Europa yesterday with the Nobel Prize
for literature in his pocket.
$50 j. B. Priestly said New York has
the noisiest streets?" he asked well
London has the noisiest lectures!'
PrieStly is a London author and lee
turer now touring America.
Mr.. Lewis defended himself, too. He
had read all the things said about his
speech of acceptance at Stockholm and
he was shocked and surprised"
I'm not anti-American," he de-
clared hotlv. why, l was careful to
explain in the speech that any criticism
I made of America could be made
equally well of any country in Europe.
] spoke of the American scene because
know most about that"
Until he arrived he hadn't heard
that Priestly told Brooklyn audience
Sinclair Lewis career was virtually
over.
ut was Brooklyn" Lewis decided
People have said some mighty strange
things when they found themselves in
Brooklyn. 1t must be the sea air.
If PrieStly says my day is done
suppose that means had a day. That's
more than I would say about some
others. wish Priestly would take over
all the writing there is to be done.
Writing novels is the dreariest and
greasiest job l know of. If Priestly
would take the job over there wouldn't
be any more criticism. I'd much
rather read his books than mine, any,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
$3.50, 900 IN RUM SINKS

NEW YORK, March 5 (R.-A $780,
900 rum cargo went down to Davy
Jones' locker when one of the mother
ships of rum row, the John Manning of
Halifax, foundered 100 miles southeast
of Ambrose lightship over the week
end, Coast Guard officers said Tuesday.
The crew, waist deep in water before
aid arrived, were taken off by speed
boats engaged in transporting the rum
ashore. The John Manning sprang a
leak when one of the contact boats was
hurled against her side by swell, stav-
ing in q plank It was not known
whether any of the Manning's cargo
had been removed to shore before the
shin sank
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EMPLOYEES OF WORLD
DISBAND ASSOCIATION
Officers Resign and Abandon Prof.
ect to Bid for Paper as
Group Scatters.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 5.-James w.
Barrett, who was city editor of the
Morning World Tuesday announced
the designations of the officers of the
World Employees Cooperative Associa-
ton, which made an attempt to buy
the World newspapers and continue
publication.
Barrett was president of the asso-
citation, which was formed when the
Pulitzer brothers sought authorization
20 sell the World newspapers to Scripps-
Howard for consolidation with the New
York Telegram. The consolidation was
effected last week.
The employees had hoped to obtain
sufficient financial backing to make
definite bid for the World. but two
factors arose which caused the officers
to abandon the project. Barrett said
these were a scattering of the World
talent and inability to obtain definite
assurance of a plant in which to OPP
crate.
Barrett expressed gratitude to per-
sons throughout the country who sent
messages of sympathy. He requested
that editors who had openings for for
mer World men communicate with him
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Mexico to Fight Import Wheat.

MEXICO CITY, March tP).-The
department of agriculture yesterday an
nounced it was studying measures to
check importation of foreign wheat.
The announcement was in answer to
protests from Mexican growers and the
Coahuila state government. Those pro-
testing pointed out that bumper wheat
crop Is about to be harvested in Mex
leo and that the Mexican growers would
suffer loss If obliged to compete with
cheap foreign grain.
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TANKS ARE ERECTED TO PRESERVE
FRUIT YEAR ROUND WITHOUT ICE
Storage Plants Will Contain No Oxygen Winter Citrus
Products to Be Saved for Summer.

storing the fruit IN steel tanks free from
oxygen of the air that causes decay.
This method, according to Mr.. Howey,
is much cheaper than refrigeration.
eff it is successful" he said, cit will
be the most revolutionary development
in the history of the citrus industry.
The dollar-a-box fruit of the Winter
season will become Sc and So a box in
July, August and September"
Mr.. Howey also announced that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
BY the Associated Press.

HOWEY, Fla, March, 5-The first
tank of a plant to preserve grapefruit
and oranges in their natural freshness
throughout the year without refrigera-
ton was being constructed here today,
according to announcement of w, j.
Howey, developer of a 60,000-acre citrus
tract in this area.
The process of preservation, invented
by John F. Rudd of Atlanta, is by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

had acquired control Of the storage
process for Texas and Florida. The
tanks he is erecting here viii have
capacity of 1000 boxes of fruit. Fruit
from the first tank will be released to
the market next August.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05

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KEYSTONE DATE MARKED
ESQ Years Since King Granted
Pennsylvania to William Penn.

PHILADELPHIA, March lP).-Penn-
sylvania yesterday observed the 250th
anniversary of the granting to William
Penn by Charles II, King of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, of the
territory that is now the keystone
State
On March 4. 1851, Charles II gave to
the famous Quaker certain territory
sin the parts of America not yet Gull
tiyated and planted" lying between the
fortieth and forty-third parallels, north
latitude, and between the Delaware
River and a line five degrees west of
that stream.
Pennsylvania failed to officially recog-
nize the day until four years ago, when
the Legislature passed an act designat-
ing March as Pennsylvania day. It is
not legal holiday.
The great English poet, Alexander
Pope. was little more than 4 feet in
frrL1N
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Diaper Cloths - "Baby's Closest
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Evening star., 1931-11-22

biles result in bringing the offenders
into court for punishment. And the
reason lies in the fact that the police
have lacked the manpower to follow up
their many tickets. Under the pro-
possl to issue these tickets in tTiplieate,
one will go to the motorist, another will
be retained by the officer and third
will be sent to the Traffic Bureau. 1t
is presumed that the intention Is to
make the tickets a matter of record
that will stand until court action
changes 1t.
But have the police, the necessary
personnel to follow up this work? Can
they go into the businesssOf following
up every ticket issued and still have
the men and the time to carry on other
normal police functions? And if the
courts should follow the precedent set
by Massachusetts judge and rule that
the leaving of a ticket does not consti-
tute evidence that the ofTense was COM
mitted, what then2
The efforts of the authorities should
be directed to reducing the number OF
traffic ofTenses and concentrating the
police work on enforcing the important
regulations that remain.
Evening star., 1931-11-22
Are We Thankful?
ny THE RIGHT REV. LANES E. FREEMAN, D. D, L. D.
Biskop of Washington.

ployment: true, We probably have less
money than we once had to spend for
the things that We desire and possibly
need.
Notwithstanding all these circum-
stances. We certainly can discover rea-
sons for thankfulness at such a time as
this. It may be that our very adyersity
may prove our salvation, and out of all
the stern disciplines of the present hour
We shall emerge a stronger, stabler and
more compact Nation. We have thought
too much that life was made up of
things, that our possessions constituted
our real assets. We are being COM
PEELED today to reckon with other and
more enduring values. The first
thought that must occur to every right
thinking American at this time is that
God hath made and preserved us a
nation" and that our very present
emergency Is compelling US to think
more definitely Of our moral and spirit
ual obligations. Diversified as our life
is, representative of many races and
kindreds, we are coming more and more
to aSsimilate and consolidate these ele-
ments and to compact them into one
great and united people. Again, let us
be thankful that we are witnessing a
finer exhibition of social responsibility
and more generous demonstration Of
known. Many are learning to give at
the cost of personal sacrifice, and in
doing so they are learning lessons of
incalculable value. Again, there are
striking evidences that industry itself is
exhibiting more of the spirit of altruism
and is readily assuming obligations that
hitheTto 1t wholly ignored. Another oc-
casion of real thankfulness is the finer
evidence of comfy and good will and
the growing fellowship among religious
bodies of every name.
There are signs on the horizon of
better days that lie ahead. In spite of
all that witnesses to the contrary, we
express thankflltness this year for the
evidences of a deeper, finer and more
articulate religious conviction than we
have known for q generation past. II
this approaching Thanksgiving day can
find us more ready to play our whole
hearted part in improving conditions
domestic, social, economic and political
1t may prove to be the most memorable
national Thanksgiving day in our entire
history,
Evening star., 1931-11-22
A Shout of Inv

If a great shout of glee was heard
from hundreds of thousands of voices
on Friday it meant only one thing. 1t
was the paean of joy of the Nations
golfers who, instead of the drear out
look of playing the balloon" ball-that
gyrating, curving and misbehaying con-
ception of the United States Golf AS
sociation--will be allowed to romp over
the fairways with a new and heavier
ball that perhaps will obey when hit
with well directed blow. For the U. s.
G. A. has just announced its august ap-
proVal OF q pellet heavier in weight
but of the same size as the one that has
been the despair Of buffers since 1t was
introduced more than year ago.
So many trip will be planned this
Winter with full anticipation of pleas
ure over rolling hills and valleys. Last
Winter the agonizing cries of buffers
could be heard from one end es the
continent to the other. 1t was a critical
time in the Nations history. However
unpleasant to the ears, the groans and
walls and gnashing of teeth had their
effect. The U. s. c.. A. was not able tn
Withstand the appeal. 1t could not sit
idly by and watch its patients Zowly
dying 1t nohly "came to bit" and
after a series of experimes.s was able
to announce that the "balloon ball"
was hanished forever and a new and
heS@ier sphere provided for trudging
linksmen.
Compared to the business depression
the introduction Of the big, light ball
last year was major calamity. Many
a persons hair became white overnight
after a struggle with that erratic sphere.
Strong, healthy men, who could sit un-
blinking and without emotion in trans
actions Involving millions of dollars,
turned into raving maniacs as their ball,
in curving arc that no respectable ball
should take, disappeared into the depths
OF the jungles that bound the fairways
OF almost every golf course. Tempers
were lost, friendships were frayed and
the game Of golf became a nightmare.
1t is all changed now, thanks to the
U. S. G. A. Scores will come down and
spirits will go up. 1t promises to be a
happy Winter indeed.
Evening star., 1931-11-22
Treaty for St. Lawrence Waterwayto
Sea to Be Presented to Senate Soon

, the st. Lawrence naVigahle-a project
for which a popular majority can be
easily accumulated. Albany takes the
power issue, which the Hoover admin
istration will be delighted to let Albany
have. The Hoover administration has
been sufficiently charged with being too
favorable to the private power inter-
ests. It encounters that accusation in
connection with Muscle Shoals. 1t will
do nothing to create another such ac-
cusaticn on the eve Of a presidential
Gov. Roosevelt:
''If. by insisting upon having the st.
Lawrence water-power. problem for
yourself, you can take 1t of our menu
card, thank you. dear fellow"
= y 4 X
1t would therefore appear that the
certain prospect just now Is as follows:
!. The Midwestern States viii get
their seaway.
2. Gov. Roosevelt win keep his issue.
These two results will transpire from
confluence in the Congress of the
public ownership faction and the rivers
and harborS faction. The two factions
together are irresistible, as Eastern
commercial interests opposed to the
seavaY have long suspected.
The treaty wiz deal primarily with q
stretch of the st. Lawrence 48 miles in
length. The United States will bear
the cost Of erecting two dams in it and
Of deepening 1t to 27 feet. The cost is
said to be unlikely to exceed $135, ,000,-
GOO for navigation purposes. New York
States expense for power purposes will
probably equal that amount.
y 4 4
A ship proceeding from Duluth,
Mimi, to the Atlantic Ocean will then
have the following national and inter-
national experiences:
1t will traverse Lake Superior to st.
Marys River, which Is to be deepened
to 81 feet by the United States. It will
emerge from st. Marys River and ira
verse Lake Huron to the st. Clair and
Detroit Rivers, which are to be deep
ened TO "a feet by the United States.
It VIII then traverse Lake Erie to the
Welland Canal, which has been deep
ened to 81 feet sy Canada.
1t will emerge from the Welland
Canal into Laae Ontario and traverse it
to the st. Lawrence River. There it
will go first through the Thousand
Islands section" 81 miles long, now
getting deepened to 81 feet BY the
United States. 1t will then go through
the International Rapids section" 48
miles long, which Is the new treaty's
principal subject matter, and which will
be deepened to 81 feet by the United
States without financial participation
by Canada.
But thereupon the ship win presently
enter the "BeauharnoiS Canal" which
Is IA miles long and which is being
constructed by purely Canadian enter
prise. 1t will then also soon thereafter
enter Q new "Lachine Rapids Canal, F."
which Canada viii undertake to bring
| into existence withollt oa1r lnaIv, Ez-oro
Montreal the ship win proceed to the
ocean along . channel already 80 to as
feet deep and running wholly through
Canadian territory.
It Will all be an International Joint
achievement Of good win and consider
ate collaboration worth reporting per
maps to the Council Of the League Of
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1931-11-22
Germany's Capacity to Pay.

Germany has taken the anticipated
initiative in calling for a fresh survey
Of her capacity to continue reparation
payments as provided for in the Young
Plan. Under the rights therein grant
ed to 1t. the Reich applied Friday
I to the World Bank for International
Settlements to assemble without delay
a snecial advisory body charged with
the G,ty of finding out whether or not
Germany can bear the burdens tc
which she Is now committed. The
Berlin government declares that pres
be taken with the greatest urgency
1t would hardly subscribe to such q
statement unless Berlin is able to sub
stantiate it with incontrovertible facts
and figures, the insinuations of certain
detractors OF Germany, including some
American publicists, to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The Germans action Is the logical
fruit of the recent visit Of French
Premier Laval to the United States. 1t
was decided in his conversations with
President Hoover that the next step
il and when necessary, further to re-
lieve Germany's financial plight should
originate in Europe and not in WASH
ington. Immediately after his return
to Paris M. Laval began negotiations
with the German Ambassador to
France. Fridays appeal for i'm
mediate consideration Of the Reich's
necessities is the prompt result OF this
three-cornered Observation-Disclosures
man understanding.
The world will not note without dis
appointment me pevelation by the Ger
mans that their financial difficulties
have not been substantially rernedied
by President HooVer's "far-seetng IN
itiative" in securing a one-year mora
torium on intergovernmental debts.
Reviewing developments since last June,
when the moratorium was declared,
the memoranda to the World Bank
states that the hope that the Hoover
year, would bring about q decided i'm
provement has not been realized. The
moratorium Of itself has proved insufi-
cient to Danish the danger Of Ger
many's collapse.
Germany does not go too far when
1t points out that the world "has in
creasingly realized the interdependence
Of financial problems and the necessity
to tackle them without delay" It was
in that conviction that President Hoo
yer and Secretary Stimson pledged M.
Laval the readiness of the present
United States administration to recon-
mend to Congress further sailing
down of European war debts.
The Geneva Disarmament Confer
ence will proSpectively have come and
gone before matters reach q point at
which President Hoover might ask
Congress to exhibit further leniency to
our debtors. The guess can safely be
hazarded, even at this long range, that
if Europe reveals at Geneva q stub
born unwillingness to cut down mill
tary budgets, Congress will register a
corresponding lack of enthusiasm for
trimming war debts.
Evening star., 1931-11-22

A query arises in the minds OF many
people as we approach another Thanks
giving day: what in the present sit
uation have we to be thankful for?"
It is a curious characteristic OF human
nature to be thankful only IN Gays
that are filled with sunshine and glow
ing with health and prosperity. MoSI
of the gifts of life we take as matters
of course; our health, our home, our
children, our friends and our ability
to prosecute our daily routine. Health
seems never so precious to us as when
we are laid low and most OF us are
rebelliouS when the prosecution OF our
designs and purposes is interrupted.
We are largely disposed to view life
with reference to the Satisfactions OF
each day Few Of us seem To nave
the capacity to see life as whole ana
SO seeing it to understand the parC
which each event plays in its making.
One part, one little part. we dimly scan
Through the dark medium OF life's feVer-
Vet dass afrsisn the whole stupendous plan,
II but one little part incongruous seem.
What we have of success or failure,
of 10y or sorrow. we appraise by meth
DDS of comparison. We rarely get over
the habits of childhood where we reck-
oned our gifts, their size and i'm
portance, by comparing them with the
gifts of others. We readily recall those
sornber and shadowy recurring Thanks
giving days during the period OF the
Great War, when the lods OF our
households were away from us and
surrounded with perils. and yet 1T is
safe to say that rarely, If ever, have
VIZ disclosed a finer spirit or a loftier
conception of spiritual values. Our
thanksgiving days may have had their
shadows, but they were days of grati-
tiude, nevertheless. The whole world
at the present time is faced with a
situation that appears threatening;
there seems to be no part of it immune
to ills of one kind and another. In
the face of this situation can we of
America claim that we are less fortu-
nate than other folk? Are there no
evidences to provoke our gratitude To
God for what we possess? True, our
problems seem less susceptible of solu-
tion than hitherto; true, there are mil
lions of our fellow countryn1en who
are suffering privation through unem-
Evening star., 1931-11-22

that it is difficult to understand the
bad habits of local drivers. 1t is all SO
simple. The outside lane for right
turner's, the inside one for left-turners
and the center lane for through traffic,
with strict adhere1ee at all tines to
straight steering of the automobile. Few
persons will not agree that if these uh-
complicated rules are followed traf1c
movement will be expedited to a large
degree. Until the motorists themselves
viii cooperate the police should step in
and compel them to learn the funda-
mentals of good manners in driving.