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The Washington times., 1932-12-12
NJ CARL Bl lOCkS.
Sd LAY-OFFS

Indefinite administrative fur
loughs for so local employees of
the Federal Power Commission
have been prevented by a deci-
sion of Comptroller General j. R.
McCarl, made public today.
The commission gets an appro-
priation of $3.50, 900, of which not
more than $4,000 may be used
for salaries within the District
of Columbia. However, impound-
ing must be made of $28,3O0,
including the $4,000 salary of
a commiSSionership now vacant,
and $4,000 representing leave
without pay granted to certain
employees.
McCarl has ruled that this i'm
pounded money is to be sub
tracted from the total $250,000
appropriation, and not from the
$4,000 limit on salaries here.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
NOT A GUTTER,
SAYS ROBINS;
CITES PAST

NEW YORK, Dec. IL G.N.SO.
"ThOse who have known my life
in the past will not believe that
1 have been a gutter. those
who are wise in matters Of this
sort assure me. that the darkness
which overlook me in the midst
of my days work was a pro-
vision of nature to save me from
a serious collapse"
That today was the tenor of the
first statement issued by Col.
Raymond Robins, prohibition
leader and friend of President
Hoover, since his discovery in the
Carolina mountains after a mys-
teriouS disappearance whic h
startled the nation.
The statement, issued at Brooks
vile, Fla, where Robins is re-
cuperating at his winter home,
was brought here by DR.. Fred B.
Smith, chairman of the world al
lance for international friendship.
DR.. Smith said Robins case
was one of "overwork causing
physical and intellectual fatigue" J."
Robins in his statement said:
"I have come through a ter.
rible experience. Here in my
home, surrounded by my family
and the friends and aSsOcia-
tiOns / have loved since l was
boy, 1 am being fully re-
stored.
"FOr the generous and tender
helpf u ness of many dear
friends in these hours of suf-
fering for my wife and family
1 am grateful beyond words.
For the competent and kindly
cooperation of the officers of
Government and the immense
aid-and in main truthful and
fair treatment-accOrded me by
the public press, / cherish
abiding gratitude"
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
HOWE |N5P:ECTS
WHITE HOUSE

Col. Louis McHenry Howe, con-
fidential secretary and aid to
President-elect Roosevelt, had a
picture in his mind today of the
layout Of the executive offices
he and his chief will occupy after
March 4.
In Washington over the week
end, after attending tho Gridiron
Club dinner Saturday night,
Colonel Howe yesterday called
at the White House and Law
renee Richey, confidential secre-
tary to President Hoover, es-
corted him through the execu-
tive offices.
What they discussed on the
inspection trip was not disclosed,
nor was it learned whether Howe
will recommend any changes in
the equipment and dozen or
more rooms.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12

doc" Elliott, Washington
glider expert, has just closed
negotiations for one Of the new
Aeronica cabin jobs. these are
two Seaters. he will also have
one of the single seaters in the
near future. this means he
will combine gliding lessons
with. flying lessons, giving the
latter to graduates of the for
mer, it is presumed.
A statement and chart from
the aeronautic branch of the
Department of Commerce shows
that nearly AZ per cent of all
available passenger space in
transport planes in the United
States was used during October,
1882. this was based on the
average for the preceding 13
months and is a remarkably
good record. this department
further reports five amateur
pilots who have logs showing
more than 5000 hours each."
United Air Lines recently
completed 50,000,000 miles of
flying with mail, passengers
and express. this is the first
company to achieve this mile
age. 10000 tons of mail and
over a quarter of a million pas
sengerS have been carried.
Sa turday'S snow storm
grounded everything at Wash
ington.Hoover Airport for, the
first time this year. E. A. T.
was grounded as far as Rich
mond.
Pennsylvania Air Lines report
an exceptionally good week, last
week, with two extra sections
being flown in with no apparent
reason other than aerial trans.
portation being wanted.
Washington will be one of
the checking-in stations for the
annual winter cruise of the
SportSmen's Air Pilots Associa-
ton speed race will
feature the cruise, with about
40 amateur aviators competing
for the Doherty trophy and ac-
companying cash this race
will be a handicap affair be-
tween Daytona and Miami and
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
CHORAL GROUPS
j APPEAR WITH
SYMPHONY
BY RONALD THORNE

Washington's National Sym
phony Orchestra, at its concert
yesterday in Constitution Hall,
had the assistance Of the wash
ington Choral Society and the
Junior choirs of Calvary and Ep-
worth M. E. churches in the Bach
cantata, "Sleepers Wake" pre-
sented as the second number on
the program.
Ruby Potter. soprano; Charles
Trowbridge Tittmann, basso and
DR.. George Anderson, tenor, were
the soloists in the Bach work,
and the chorus was directed by
Louis Potter. Naturally, this cir
cumStance added much to the
local interest of the concert, and
the innovation was noted with
considerable interest.
The orchestral numbers of the
program otherwise included Bach,
Wagner and Bizet. The opening
number was the Bach overture in
D-major, of which four move
ments we're played. Then, follow
ing intermission, came the stir
ring Entrance of the Gods into
Valhalla." from 'Das Rheingold,"
presented with a fine apprecia-
ton of its value.
DR.. Hans Kinder likewise Of
fered a splendid reading Of the
third act prelude to Tristan"
which followed Immediately, and
I. Henry Poalucci. Soloist on the
English horn, acquitted himself
with high credit
Nine. Erna Pielke,, Soloist of
the afternoon, was heard in three
numbers "Traume," by Wagner,
a preliminary study to Tristan"
mon occur S'ouvre ia voix" by
Saint-Saens, and as an encore,
the Habanera from Carmen"
She has a pleasing contralto
voice, and was enthusiastically
received by the audience.
The closing selection was a
Carmen" suite, including the
Aragonaise, and the first and
second act preludes. After hear.
ing its Interpretation by the
local orchestra, even though one
had never heard the opera, one
would wonder how Carmen"
could possibly have failed on it's
first presentation in Paris,
The Washington times., 1932-12-12

Sat turday's snow storm
grounded everything at Wash
ington'Hoover Airport for the
first time this year. E. A. T.
was grounded as far as Rich
mond.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
EurOpe's Conscience
Too Wedk,Sdys Priest

Preaching yesterday on the
Washington Catholic Radio Hour,
the Rev. DR.. Joseph Christopher,
of Catholic University. said the
United States will remit the war
debts only when it is discovered
they can not be collected ex-
cept at the risk Of destroying
the worlds economic balance.
He said the League of Nations
has failed to bring about dis
armament, because the Christian
conscience of Europe is not
strong enough to make itself
felt.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
CLASS TO ELECT

Officers of the Progressive
Women's Bible Glass of the Balls
ton Christian Church will be
elected at the meeting of the
group Wednesday in the home of
Mrs. Ruth McPayne, Ballston.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
TO PICK NOMINEES

The nomination of candidates
for the posts of chief and assist
ant chief of the Kensington
Volunteer Fire Department are
to be made at its meeting to-
night,
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
PROGRAM FOR P.-T.A.

A one-act play, sketch, and
musical program will comprise
the entertainment of the James
Monroe School Parent-Teacher AS
sociation at Aurora Heights, Va,
Wednesday night.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
NEWS OF SKy-WAyS

named the Florida Year-Round
Clubs Race.
Ludington Line figures prove
that winter flying is increas-
ingly popular, if their increase
in passengers over the early win
ter period of last year can be
used as q criterion.
Admiral Moffett's request for
more airplane carriers is based
on experience and observation
and should be needed by the
Appropriations Committee.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12

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Evening star., 1932-07-04
DISTRICT PADDLERS
INCREASE WINNINGS
Potomac Boatmen and Washington
Canoeists Add Seven Events
at Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, July 4. - Oarsmen
and canoeists of Potomac Boat Club
and paddlers of Washington Canoe
Club of Washington, who have been
showing strongly in the Philadelphia
Canoe Clubs regatta on the Schuylk1ll
River, were seeking further honors to-
day, the final day of the competition.
Seven events were won by Washing
ton entrants yesterday. Washington
Canoe Club accounted for five and Po-
tomac Boat Club for two.
Everett Rodman, w. c. c. paddler,
who scored heavily Saturday, was out
standing again yesterday.
Summaries:
Club; second. Everett Rodman tWashing-
ton. Canoe Club; third, Don Connor wash
Novice tandem double blades; quartz, quart ,,II, mile
pie lWashington Canoe Club; second. Ed
mond Hirst and AL Grant philadelphia
Canoe Club; third, Charles Krier and Bill
Dugan philadelphia Canoe Club. Time,
Novice quads single blade, quarter mile
Won by Washington Canoe Club melvin
EFT Rodmanl; second Valley Green Canoe
Club; . ottdhatrn third, Philadelphia Canoe Club.
Novice e77man double blade quarter mile
Won by Herman, VollmeT Washington
canoe CluD)' SECOND. Don Connor CWaSn-
tnston Canoe Club; third George Shorb
Potomac Boat Club, Time. 2:255;
Novice tandem single, quarter mile-Won
by Melvin Young and Jed Florance wash
ington Canoe Club; second, Charles Krer
and Bill Dugan Philadelphia Canoe Club !;
third; Bill Smell and Reverdy Johnson
(Washington Canoe Club. Time. 80.
Novice quad double blades, quarter mile
Won by Potomac Boat Club (George
Sc6agd o Second Pbiadelpba isr canos ane Snb SGh
third. Valley Green Canoe Club. Time,
2:0l
Junior fitting Won by Cacawa Canoe
Club (Wilkie and Krick); second, Philadel-
phia Canoe Club (R. Smith and HirstJ /;
JohnSon).
Senior tilting-Won by Washington Canoe
Club tVollmer and FloTance1; second,
| third Philadelphia Canoe Club (Flad and
Evening star., 1932-07-04
The Invaders Angle.

THE members Of the foreign teams
l. were required TO stage their tryout
performances much earlier, in re-
spect TO the final games, than ever be-
fore. They had to cross an ocean and
a continent or two after deciding who
were going to come. But the important
distinction is that none of the compet-
ing nations is so large or has so many
topnoch candidates that it needed such
an elaborate system Of Semi-fnal and
flnal tryouts The few celebrities got
together and settled it among them
selves. or in many cases the men Of
proven merit were selected without
trials. Some day the United States will
come TO that
Gene Venzke has been helped in his
pre-Olympic campaign by the fact that
he is a schoolboy and did not have to
enter college dual meets and the inter-
collegiates. More than this, ne is not
member Of a big prep school team.
Wykof and Frank HuSsey were
schoolboy sensations as sprinters, but
they were in feverish scholastic COM
petition, almost as busy as the collie
gians.
Venzke has run often enough to keep
IN trim, but not in events where the
honor Of the school weighed him down
II All comes Gown 10 the TACT that 1oI
the United States team the Olympic
games are being run in heats, with the
most important one at Palo Alto this
month, from which all the foreigners
will be absent. II is almost a certainty
that all along the line faster times viii
be made in these final tryouts. with
their interminable, firing trial heats
than will be made in the Olympics them
selves
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Evening star., 1932-07-04
BEARS Bic THREAT
|. TO CHAMPION CREW
Penn A. c., U. S. Title Holder,
on MettIe in Olympic
Test This Week.

BY the Associated Press.
HHILADELPHIA, July Aspiring
- to represent the United States
in the Olympics the national
championship Penn Athletic Club
eight -oared crew faces a serious threat
for the Olympic berth in the University
of California varsity, intercollegiate
champions.
The two crews are among the most
prominent of the nine contenders for
the Olympic position, final tryouts for
which will be rowed on Lake Quinsiga-
mond, Worcester, Mass, next Thursday
Friday and Saturday
The American Olympic Rowing Com
mittee has placed the Philadelphia crew
in the lower bracket and the collegiate
title holders in the upper bracket for
the preliminary and semi-final heats.
The Penn A. c. eight left here for
Worcester today, just as the Detroit
Boat Club crew, runner-up for the ma
tional title, rowed on the Schuylkill
River here last Saturday, which with
drew its entry from the Olympic trials
left for home
In its preliminary heat, rowed at the
regulation 1000 meters Olympic dis
tance, California will battle the Prince
ton University Rowing Association crew
The first heat brings together the Co
lumbia University Rowing Club eight
and Harvard's carsmen, victors over
Yale in the annual dual regatta be-
tween the two universities. The remain
ing heats will be run at half-hour
intervals.
officials for the tryouts include David
L. White, University of California, as
judge.
Evening star., 1932-07-04

Another big improvement" he con-
tinued, has been in my bunker play.
lost more than one championship by
taking extra strokes in a bunker or
putting the ball too far from the cup
to be sure of getting down in two more.
To-day feel fairly confident Of rap
ping the ball from a bunker to within
five or six feet of the cup, even from
bad lie. That makes big difference.
Bunkers were Nightmares to me before
I learned this shot. Now they don't
bother me at all.
"I'll admit I wasn't any too proud OF
myself for reaching that last bunker on
the last hole. I'll tell you how that hap
pened. had decided to play safe-to
reach a spot short of the green where
could be dead sure of s. But at the
last second I said to myself, This Is no
time for yellow shot. Go for the pin
1t worked out all right. but 1t wasn't
the smartest play ever made"
THE old argument as to whether
L broadcasting sporting events has a
helpful or harmful effect on at
tendance at games is on with renewed
fury. For example, no radio broad
casts Of major league base ball games
have been allowed in many Eastern
parks, except on rare occasions. But
in Chicago and Cleveland there Is a
strong belief that daily broadcastS have
helped to increase attendance receipts.
Iris Speaker has been the main radio
announcer in Chicago and the Cubs
have led their league in daily patron
age.
Broadcasting, without any question,
builds up greater national interest in
foot ball, base ball, boxing and any
other game sent out over the air. 1t
has been a leading factor in the SPORT
ing boom that has been under way in
the last few years. With conditions
as they have been since 1880 1t was
only natural that attendance marks
should suffer all along the line-radio
or no radio.
tCcpyright. 1882, By the North American
NeYspaEeE AltApcs. Ine.l.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
Some Research Work.

pUT If something should go aWry
- between now and the f1ag-raising
ceremonies in Los Angeles Olympic
Stadium, it might not be a bad idea to
have some aff1uent foundation take I'D
a study of human fatigue. The best
college athletes, who make I'D three
fourths of our Olympic team, have been
competing steadily since late April. And
now at intervals of two weeks they
have to rate their pace just fast enough
TO clear the hurdles without burning
themselves out
It's not a pleasant memory that in
1928 the candidates for the United
States Olympic team equaled the Olym-
pic lO0-meter record of 1895 seconds
no less than eight times in the trials
before sailing. In the heats at Arnster-
dam, Bob McAllister, the flying COP.
again equaled the record. But when
the chips went down, Percy Williams
OF Canada, voyager, too by the way.
scampered off with the victory in I04k
seconds. And no American was nearer
than fourth.
It's worth while remembering that
not single Olympic fat racing record
Is a worlds record for the particular
olstance. The idea is not to run faster
tnan anybody ever ran, but faster than
any of the other tense and weary ath-
letes VIII run the same afternoon. Raw
Barouti's heroic triumph in the killing
40O-meter run at Amsterdam IS the
model for Olympic hopefuls. He was
not a record Smasher, but he had the
uncomfortable heart. He didn't run as
fast as people knew he could run; he
ran faster.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
SEVEN ROWING TITLES
ARE AT STAKE TODAY
Three Olympic Selections Also to
Be Made in Schuylkill River
Carnival.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, July 4.-The big
rowing carnival on the Schuylkill
River today entered its third and
final day with seven national cham
pionships and three Olympic selections
at stake.
Entrants in the races for four-oared
shells without coxswain, the double
sculls with coXswain and the senior
singles battled for the right to repre-
sent the United States in the OLYMPIC
games races at Long Beach, Calf.
Two crews, the Penn Athletic Clubs
four -oared shell with coxswain and
the senior double scull of the Bach
elors' Barge Club of Philadelphia, were
chosen Saturday as Olympic representa-
tives.
Other championships to be decided
in today's races, beginning at l pm.
eastern standard time), included the
senior double SOULS and the senior
eight-oared 145-pound shells.
The carnival, which began Friday, Is
a combination of the Goth annual ma
tional rowing championships, Olympic
tryouts and Philadelphia peoples re-
gatta.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

MIGHT above par on two holes and
- still around the golf course in 80
strokes. That is the remarkable
stunt standing today to the
credit Of w. C. Goodwin of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club. Good
wyn's card shows 36 for the first nine
and a for the last nine. He took IL
on the par fifteenth hole and buzz
zard 6, two over par, on the par eighth
hole. In many ways it is one of the
most unusual scores ever recorded on a
Washington golf course, for mixed in
with a let of pars and that IL ON the
par hole was an eagle deuce on the
par fifth, where he drove the green
and sank the putt for 2, one of the
few deuces recorded on that hole. Here
is Goodwyns card:
Out-Par. ....4 3 4 S 4 4 4 3-35
Goodwin ....4 "a 5 2 5 4 6 3-36
In-Par ....4 3 4 4 3 4 4 4-35-70
Goodwin "A 3 4 4 IL 4 5-44-80
J. William Harvey, the long hitting
chairman of the club Golf Committee,
triumphed over the club title holder,
Tom M. Belshe, in the final round of
JIle CQHlpeIIJlOIl IOI Tile 1IlUdl DONl dI
the Indian Spring Golf Club yesterday.
Scoring IA and II fer the 36-hole
final round, Harvey won from Belshe
by and 3.
A L HOUGHTON, the club pro, and
n Walter Cunningham of Burning
Tree teamed together successfully
yesterday to win an exhibition four
oall match from Mel Shorey and George
Diffenbaugh at Kenwood. Houghton
and Cunningham won by l up, with
best ball of SO, to 60 for Shorey and
Diffenbaugh. Houghton played the last
nine holes in 33 strokes and led the
quartet in scoring, with IL. Diffen-
baugh had rs and the other two had
76S.
The semi-final and final rounds we're
carded today in the Bicentennial cham
pionship at Congressional, following
two match play rounds yesterday.
Those who reached the semi-flnal
Evening star., 1932-07-04
The Mental Side.

GONE day scientist is going to dis
~ cover just how much of a handi-
cap it is on an athlete to know
that he is best of his class. How much
ooes 1t cost Eastman in nervous energy
TO realize that record time is expected
OF him every time he steps out?
Maybe it's not cost. Perhaps the
commence and eXultation he has gained
from past successes cancels the handicap.
But it stands to reason that when the
cheer leaders get together out in sunny
California and begin chanting, we
must win! We must win!" the tom
tom will begin wearing down Wykoff.
Venzke, Eastman and the others. Who
Is the consulting psychologist for the
Olympic team?
Foot racing is in compartment by
itself, anyhow. You can't settle down
and pull yourself together during the
test as you can in foot ball, base ball.
even tennis or golf. You start. YOU
either lead or lag-and the chances
are overwhelmingly against your COM
ing from behind TO win
It's not like cycle racing, where the
pedalers try TO lurk behind and nip the
victory at the finish. There have been
some great runners who were trembly
at the start, but usually nervousness is
an enemy. And it's part Of our sys-
tenn that patriotism, plus the long
stage waits between tryouts. gives our
athletes plenty Of time to magnify their
assignments
Evening star., 1932-07-04
THE SPORTLICHT
by GRANTLAND RICE

MOST of the ball players I have
1'1 talked to figure Joe Mccarthy s
Yankee team will have the flag
won by August. But few are willing
to make any guess concerning the Ma
tional League race. in which any one
of six clubs can still win-and where
any one of six clubs is good enough to
win with slight margin in the way
Of luck.
Pittsburghs remarkable surge from
around the bottom to the top has made
this club slight favorite over the field.
The Pirates at least have been the best
ball club in the league for the last
month and this is the club that Will
take most Of the watching.
lust after Paavo Nurmi breaks all
records in the marathon run, or
rather over the marathon distance,
Mattt Jarvinen. another Finn, breaks
the javelin record by nearly 10 feet.
1t Is one thing to break an old rec
ord, but it is something else again to
break it in four or five pieces, leaving
only debris In ones wake.
If Nurmi isn't barred by a final de-
cision, Finland will pick up more points,
man for man, than any other nation
entered.
Nurmi, officially cleared by his own
country, should be reinstated. The
chances now are that he will be.
ID INNING across Gene Sarazen, the
N double champion, asked him
just how much he thought he had
improved in stroking the ball since he
won at Skokie In 1922.
MY greatest improvement" he said,
SIS in playing the wind. On a quiet
day ! don't believe I am hitting the
bail much farther now than I did 10
years ago But there Is big difference
when the wind begins to blow. Ten
years ago I couldn't use 1t at all. Now
I can take advantage of any type Of
cross wind to let the ball ride with IL.
And on windy days most Of the holes
are caught by q cross wind Of one kind
1 or arnthar