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Evening star., 1932-09-21
|EX-GOV. GOODRICH
| SEES BETTERMENT
Indiana Conditions Much I'M
proved, Eastern G. 0. P.
Headquarters Told.
By the Associated Press.

by tne hSsoClhtcu FTess-
NEW YORK. September 2l.--A report
Of improving business conditions. inr
creasing agricultural prices. and a
better feeling among the farmers" Of
the Middle West was brought to Re-
publican Eastern headquarters yesterday
by former Gov. James F. Goodrich OF
Indiana.
The situation In my section Of the
country is improving" he said In a
formal palc.a statement; a1 fntr commandments
rorn, hogs-have increased from 40 TO
80 per cent In the last so days. We
for farm products In a better feeling
among the farmers. ,.'< n"
"Going Right Ahead" ~
Better conditions are also noticeable
among the merchants and business men
In fact, they are doing as much sbuSi-
ness as they did year ago in volume,
although not in dollar total.
Feeling is headed in the right direc-
ton. We are going right ahead"
In giving out his statement, the
Hoover Curtis campaign leaders listed
Goodrich as "a recognized authority on
agricultural conditions in the MlooIe
West"
A. L. Brockway vice president Of the
New York State Agricultural Society,
issued a statement criticizing Gov.
Roosevelt's farm address.
Facts Held Misrepresented.
why" he asked, does Gov. Roose-
welt stoop to deliberate mfsrepresenta-
ton Of some facts and ignore
Those OF us who know him. who
have seen how he has attempted to
capitalize in New York State the fact
that he inherited an estate at Hyde
Park which had belonged to his father
and his paternal grandfather. thus
qualifying him as farmer, are well
aware of the fact that he has capitalized
this to the extent of enabling him to
talk to farmers as though he were one
Of us
The farmers of this country should
have it made clesf to them that this is
a pose. His appeal is made to emotions
and passions and not TO reason.
When he talks to railroad men he
talks as though he had on overalls in
his speech"
Evening star., 1932-09-21
WIFE HELD ON CHARGE
OF SLAYING HUSBAND
Accused After Retired Petty Off,
Ger Dies, Telling officials Nots
''to Blame the Girl"

BY the Associated Press.
POPLAR BLUFF. Mo- September 81.
Murder charges were filed in Wayne
County Court yesterday by Prosecuting
Attorney J. Osborn, against Mrs. Edna
Williamson. "a, in the death Thursday
night Of her husband, Earl D. William
son, SIS, retired chief petty oficer Of
the Navy. and former member Of the
Nays Olympic rifle team.
Williamson, formerly Of Huntington.
W. Va, was shot at his home He told
officers. Don't blame the girl: I'm to
blame" and died a few hours later.
Mrs. Williamson refused to make a
statement and has remained secluded at
their little Ozark home.
c. M. Scanlon, cousin, of Los An
geles. Calf. who came here immedi-
ately after the shooting, said Williamson
was considered wealthy He owns prop
erty in Huntington. w. Va. and has ex-
tensiye interests in San Diego, Calf.
Three years ago he elected to seclude
himself in the Ozarks. away from
friends and old associates.
Evening star., 1932-09-21
CUBANS FLYING HERE
Three Good Will Aviators to Go Via
Leavenworth, Kans.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. September 81
(P.-Three Cuban Army flyers, who
Aew here yesterday from Mexico City,
planned to continue on to Leavenworth,
Kans., tomorrow with stops at Dallas,
Tex, and Muskogee, Okla.
The flyers, headed by Capt. Mario
Torres, are on a goodwill flight to
Washington. With Torres are Lieuts.
Rodolfe Herrera and Pablo Alfonso Con-
Eales and three enlisted mechanics.
The officers were guests here of Brig.
Gen. Charles H. Danforth, in command
Of the air corps training center, and
Maj. u l. Martin. commander ct RAN
6olph 1e3d. 80
Evening star., 1932-09-21

ton and by his exemplary conduct SO
inspired his command that the objec-
tive was carried and a high standard
of morale prevailed among his troops.
Residence at appointment, Washington,
D. G.
Mai Muncaster is now retired and
resides at the Army and Navy Club,
Seventeenth and I streets northwest,
Washington D. c.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-09-21
BROTHERS WAR AT GOLF

CHICAGO-Two brothers battled ii
out for the championship of the Illinois
Golf Club, and the younger won.
They are the sons of Joshua Despo-
sito, Chicago builder.
Julian Desposito took the 36 holes of
play from Joshua, jr., the defending
champion.
Evening star., 1932-09-21

france, OctOper II,
1918. After the loss
of all his company
commanders, Maj.
M u n C aster ad-
vanced at the head
of his battalion,
leading the men
from a very disad-
vantageo,,s position
to the capture of a
nearby hill held by
the enemy. In the
counter - a t t a C X
which followed he
not only COM
manded the men
OF his battalion
personally, but as
sisted in the de-
Tense of the nOSi-
Evening star., 1932-09-21
Districts Heroes
i'm the
World War
Compiled by sergt. L. e. Jaeckel.

A 8 recorded In the official citation,
n John II. Muncaster. major, llth
II Infantry, 5th Division, Ameri-
4 \ can Expeditionary Force. was
awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross for extraordinary heroism
In action with the enemy near Cunel.
Evening star., 1932-09-21
VANDERBILT KIN TO WE'D
Harry Hays Morgan Gets License
in Baltimore.

in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, September q R.-A
marriage license was issued yesterday
at the court house here to Harry Hays
Morgan, jr, Of New York, brother OF
Mrs Reginald C. Vanderbilt, and Mrs
Edith G. Arnold. who earlier in the day
received a divorce in Philadelphia from
Paul Mitchell Arnold, a former Army
captain
The license gave the Belvedere Hotel
as Morgan's Baltimore address, but the
clerk there said no Harry Hays Nor
gan was registered or had been regis
tered there His age was given on the
license as "a and Mrs. Arnolds as 80
1t could not be learned where the
couple were to be married.
Evening star., 1932-09-21
INVALID" NOW 100

Health Was Too Poor in 1861 to
Enlist.
WAMPSVILLE, N john Smith
who couldn't fight for his country in
1861 because his health was poor,
was the guest of 81 relatives gathered
to help celebrate his Tooth birthday
anniversary.
Smith tried three times to enlist in
the Union Army during the War Be-
tween the States and each time was told
that his health wasn't good enough.
Evening star., 1932-09-21
HOOVER FARM AID
DEFENDED BY HYDE
More Money Advanced to Ag'
riCuIture Than R. F. c. to
Industry, He Says.

By the Associated Press.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, September
2l.-Secretary Hyde In a Republican
campaign address here last night de-
Tended the agricultural policies of the
Hoover administration.
The administration. he said. through
Federal agencies has loaned more
money to farmers than the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation had loaned up
to September l6 to all banks, all rail-
roads and all corporations in America" ="
Sources of Loans.
As Secretary OF Agriculture. Hyde
continued, he himself lent sl2l $40, ,344
to more than 900 900 individual farm
ers. Other sources of such loans were
listed by him as follows: intermediate
Credit Banks. SOIL l.138,912: Federal
Land Bands. $l03 PIE. 500; Farm Board,
exclusive of stabilization operations.
1852 .3l2 052; the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. s7,044.2l6 to farm credit
organizations.
THE total of s1.2o5, ,:32.l24." the Sec
retary said, does not include sl25,-
000,0 put up to strengthen Feoerai
Land Banks so that they can give more
time to distressed farmers.
1T does not include a minimum OF
s36, ,000. 900 put up by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation to set up II
agricultural credit corporations. with
lending power of $500 100000 more. to
take the place Of rural banks and rural
credit machinery which has broken
down"
Wilson Policy Scored.
Turning to the tariff question, Secre-
tary Hyde questioned the legal authority
fer foreign loans during the last Demo-
cratic national administration and de-
clared that these loans, m his b-llef'
have proven a greater barrier to inter
national trade than all the tariffs ever
enacted"
Remembering the disastrous conse-
ouences of international agreements
negotiated by the Wilson administration,
which Gov. Roosevelt 50 conspicuously
adorned" Hyde said, Il shudoer to think
of the consequences to America If the
Democrats should be turned loose IN
Europe again But even at that 1t would
be less disastrous and less dangerous to
America to let them negotiate on foreign
debts than it would to open the markets
OF the United States to the competition
of the world
Evening star., 1932-09-21

Vegetarians Hold Farley.
On thousand eschewers Of meat
gathered recently at Oranienburg, Ger
many, for a vegetarian congress.
Evening star., 1932-09-21
President Among Sympathizers.

Messages of sympathy for the family
came yesterday from all parts of the
Nation. Among them was one from
President Hoover.
The humblest of the mourners was
the little white dog shown with Mrs.
Garner in the photograph of her most
used by newspapers 1t shows her sit
ting in a rocker before the fireplace at
her home, logs blazing ON the hearth,
with the dog in her lap. It was by her
bedside almost continuously during her
last illness.
Evening star., 1932-09-21
RITES ARE SIMPLE
FOR MRS. GARNER
Brief Service Is Held at Side
Of Grave on 0ak-Topped
Texas Hill.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Tex. September 21-A
burial service as simple as the life she
led was arranged today for Mrs. Sarah
Jane Garner whose son was born in a
United States House OF Representatives
and now is Democratic vice presidential
nominee
Nance Garner died peacefully yesterday
in the home she and her husband built
in this little community shortly before
their eldest went away to become an at
torney and Congressman. She had
hoped to live to see him elected Vice
President
Son at Bedside Recognized.
The Speaker was ct her bedside
Though his mother was in a coma dur
ing the greater part of the last few
days, she rallied long enough to recog-
niZe him and speak to him.
4 brief service was arranged at the
grcvcsido today in little cemetery on
an oak-topped hill outside the town
Afterward Mr.. Garner will return to
Washington, then go to New York
to take up again the work for the
Democratic national ticket which he left
to see his mother for the last time.
Il think my mother was the sweetest
woman in the world said the white
haired Speaker. Besides rearing seven
children, she took care of five orphans
Her entire life was devoted to doing
good for Others"
Evening star., 1932-03-14

click. We never moved after that. I'm
sure that it will not happen again, and
with running start we hope to wind
up giving the Yanks a battle. After
all, figure the New York club the most
dangerous. If Lefty Gomez gives them
some pitching they will have to be
licked"
Conversation with Griffith. the gray
pilot, leads to the belief that he is de-
pending upon the readjustment period
which will follow the opening of the
season as the time when he can snare
himself a utility infielder and, possibly
pitcher.
But he talks as if the acquisition OF
a dependable hurler is out of the ques-
ton at the moment and that all efforts
will be centered on the tutoring of the
youngsters at hand.
With probably the exception of one
or two youngsters, this unit as it now
stands may move on to Washington
intact.
When the infeld problem was dis
cussed TOO closely, the Nationals leader
reminded that Moe Berg. the big
Gather. knew few things about infield
work, having broken in with the White
Sox as an 12f1elder. But he admitted
that Berg AMP Harris would only be
used in qases bf dire necessity.
What GrtRth really plans is a grab
at an nneSdefA coattail In April or
May.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
TROUBLE DELAYED
. FOR NET FAvOR|TES
Smooth Sailing Likely in Third
Round of U. S. Indoor
Singles Today.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, March 14-The
M national indoor tennis cham
V pionships moved into the third
round of singles play today, but
trouble still appeared to be another
round or two away for the three invad-
ing French stars and the 10 seeded
American players.
The third round matches will reduce
the field, originally 80 entries, to 16, all
but three of whom were placed on the
seeded lists. The theoretically lucky
ones who would face unseeded op-
ponents are Sidney Wood, jr.; Berkeley
Bell and Frank Bowden, rated third,
fourth and eighth among the Americans.
The three French stars who have
lifted the tournaments from just a fair
event to an international battle, Jean
Borotra, who Is defending the title;
Christian Boussus, who has been made
one of the favorites to win this year,
and Young Antoine Gentien, drew some
OF the hardest of the opposition on
today'S list.
Borotra was sent against Merritt
Cutler, good club player; Boussus
faced Stanley Harte of New York Uni
versity and Gentien was paired with
Sidney Seligson.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
BY WILLIAM WEEKES.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

HICAGO, March 14.-A serious,
4 bespectacled young medical
Y 4 student from the University of
Indiana, Henry Brocksmith,
has romped right into the front rank
of American Olympic prospects, and he
hasn't done his best yet.
Brocksmith, who comes from Free
landville, down In Knox County, Ind,
has been running foot races at from a
half mile to cross-country distances
three years this month. Saturday night
in the Big Ten championships he es-
tablished himself as something the
Midwest didn't know 1t had this Olym-
pic year-a really great middle-distance
dunner. To prove 1t, he ran some
what lonely 4:12 $40 mile and followed
it I'D with a 9:18 4-l0 -mile-and
said he could have done better.
DRoCKsMITH and his coach, E. C.
- Billy Hayes, figured a Ais mile
would win the. Big Ten indoor
championship race, and that is what the
Hoosier greyhound set himself to do.
However, instead Of 61-Second first
quarter, he did an even go seconds, and
at the half-mile mark was just under
2:O6 instead of 2:07 as planned. There
was no one near him from there on to
the finish, but he passed his three-quar-
tiers in $40 and finished in 4:12.5 with
out spending himself.
IT didn't figure to do better than
AIS" he said, because knew had
to try to win the 2-mile little later,
to give us chance to beat Michigan
for the championship. knew I was
fast on the first quarter, but thought
had eased of in the third quarter. Yes,
/ think I could have cut of q second or
two II I had been pushed" =
A half hour later he had broken the Big
Ten two-nile record BY eight seconds, still
Evening star., 1932-03-14
Brocksmith Acclaimed Olympic
Find, Rival of Venzke After
4:l2.5-Mile Run Under Wraps

had enough breath to shout encourage
ment to the Indiana mile relay team for
nearly three end a half minutes and
run over and assist Ivan Fuqua, HooSier
anchorman, from TIE track at the
finish.
LIE did no running before going to
i L Indiana and has been at it only
three years. But he has twice been
Big Ten croSs-country champion and
this year has suffered only two defeats
He lost 4:17.2 mile to Dean Woolsey
OF Illinois early in the season and fin
ished behind teammate, Chuck Horn
bostel, In 1885 half-mile a week
ago. In the same meet he won the
mile by 10 yards in AIT before running
in the shorter race.
BrOcksmith is nearly % years old
and his powerfully muscled frame packs
$50 pounds. He is working toward the
Olympic trials and looks forward to a
race with Gene Venzke, the Eastern
flyer, who has done a 4:10 mile.
"A race with Venzke," he said before
going to eat himself back to 160 pounds
after the meet Saturday night, would
be a sure way to find out how fast I
can rum"
Evening star., 1932-03-14
Fischer Is on His Way Up
Crifs' Southpaw, With Altered Mental Attitude May
Achieve Stardom This Year.

And if there Is any one in base bal
who should know more about pitching
than Sir Walter-then you name him
But in the meanwhile hear Walter:
"There Is no one more pleased trith
CdrPs attitude this Spring and no
one more entkused oper his prospects
than I am. I dlW1ys haze felt that
he g0uld be good pitcher tDhen he
assumed certain frame OF mind.
This year he has 1t. And am
pleased.
when you say that he may likely
touch 90 games you tell the truth
When you say that, however, you arr
only touching upon part of 1t. Car
may 20 beyond that for the reason thai
for the first time he has become a real
earnest pupil"
Down on the field the other morn
ing there was our young Mr.. Fischer
taking cues from two or three
coaches in the art of pitching that
very peculiar ball which has enabled
Jack Quinn to kid Methuselah-a
slow loafer down the alley.
remember Carl with Newark, wher
he thought a fast ball was pitcher!
heaven and it was the other thing fol
a batter. But he Is learning.
And today he is the most promising
prospect on the squad, boy they
thought was "sot" in his tDdys, too
set to eUer change.
Watch his smoke!
Evening star., 1932-03-14
SAM STRANG, FIRST
PINCH HITTER, DIES
Former 0riole, Giant, Cub and
Dodger Passes On at Chatta-
nooga at Age of Sc.

BY the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March IA.
-Strang Nicklin. whose batting ability
gave base ball the term pinch hitter
died last midnight. He was Sc and
formerly owned the Chattanooga Club
of the Southern Association.
Nicklin was with the New York
Giants many years age and Manager
John McGraw noted the regularity
with which he hit in pinches. So he
called him q pinch hitter"-and the
term stuck. McGraw called him
Sammy Strang," as he always was
known as a big Lacquer.
Nicklin was born here in 1876 and
entered professional base ball with st.
Joseph. Mo-, after he was graduated
from the University of Tennessee. He
later played with the Baltimore Orioles,
New York Giants, Chicago Cuby and
Brooklyn Dodgers.
In 1907 he coached at West Point.
He Is survived by three brothers, Col.
Ben T. Nicklin and John Bailey Nick
lin, jr., both Of Chattanooga, and
Dwight T. Nicklin Of Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
NO-Hit Game a Pain to Burke
Tired, Legs Ached, Arm Hurt When He Climbed
Mound, Criff Immortal Reveals.

~ nOXI, Miss, March IA
K Back last August 8, Bobby
Burke, the fork-fsted Ma
tional, turned In a scoreless
no-hit game to place his name
among the greats of base ball.
Last night he told just how
pitcher feels when in the throes OF
cne of those once-in-a-lifetime;
achievements.
Never felt worse in my hfe,' said
Bob. st was SO fatigued before the
game that 7 was hoping 1t would
rain-or the call would go to some
one else. After I had tackled up
few innings of hitless pitching, I
was getting worse. My legs ached.
My arms hurt and 1t was an effort
to drag myself out Of the dugout.
Boston threatened and tighten
ed another notch. They went after
me again, and where got the power
to hold 'em back I'll never tell you.
Evening star., 1932-03-14

1t was one Of those days when I
thought I had the tonsilitis, bach
ache and fallen arches all at one
time.
when the bell rang I was too
groggy to know what it was all
about" Then Bobby went on to ex-
plain that he frequently turns in
his best performances on his worst
days and his punk showings on the
afternoons when he thinks there is
more power in his Tipping wing
than the law should allow.
II pitched that no-hit game on
Saturday. On the Friday preced-
ing went for fishing trip down
the bay and burned my back ON an
exhaust pipe in the boat. 1t was
painful, and so painful on the day
pitched that it made me twinge
every time shot the ball over"
So, after all, these athletes who
turn in those rare feats in sports
are never at their peak when writ
ing 1t on the scroll.
Burke'S case is usual, not unusual.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
20 YEARS AGO
r UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, with
IN THE STAR.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, with
~ Eppa Rixey, southpaw, pitch
ing stellar ball, defeated Wash
ington in the Jatter's first game of
the season yesterday at the Char
lotteSvllle training camp. Rixey al
lowed only three hits and not run
in the last six innings.
Joe Turner, Washington wrestler,
has accepted the def CT the giant
Irishman, Jack Mccarthy, for a
match at the Gayety.
Charlton, former Tech High and
st. Paul player, has signed with the
Portsmouth team of the Virginia
State League.
Ed Walsh, Chicago, is the top
notch pitcher in the American
League as to shutout victories, with
49. Other leaders and their totals
are: Waddell, At; joss and White,
each A; Young and Plank, each 43;
Mullin, 80; Donovan, %; CoombS
and Bender, each 27, and Smith and
Walter johnson, each 26.
Claude r. Zappone is seeking the
Middle States regatta for Potomac
Boat Club.
Business High BANKED Alexandria
High at basket ball, A to 0. Busi-
ness players were Pedlow, Struble,
Wilson, Harris and Bigham. Alex
andria used Howard, Wensell, Curtin,
johnson and Petit. Baltin was the
referee, Brodie and Cockrell the
tlmekeeperS and Ehrmantraut and
FlnkS, scorekeepers.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
BY TOM DOERER.

BY TOM DOEhEh.
~ HOXI, Miss, March 14.-It
X might be sleepy time down
- South, but it Is get-up-
Malindy baby for Car
Charles, for those who would
be formaD Fischer, that very
curly haired moundsman from
Medina, N. Y.
Backed by no less than your uncle,
Clark Griffith, and that fine heads-up
manager of the Nationals, Walter john
son, Carl has picked for himself 20
victories as his goal in the Griffs' fight
for the American League gonfalon, and
possible world series bay sheafS and
laurel decorations.
Yet the tonsle-hdired lett-hander
OF the Nationals tucked aDGy only
13 packets OF tOins last year, against
9 losses
That makes him sighting on seven
more victories than he got last year,
which wasn't a bad one for boy just
recently from the International League.
But there is another Mr.. Fischer
to deal with this semester. oh, a
very much more different lad. And
IL you don't believe it, here's the
receiver and listen to Mr.. Walter
Johnson talk about him.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
Much Exhibition Toll GS Lot Xans Success Up to Ne1v Infeh
Marberry Excels
AS COntOrtiOnist

PHOXI, Miss, March 14-Fred
- Marberry, big, but no longer
bulky, is the most supple Griff-
man.
So the players say.
Fred, for instance, can stand fat
footed and place the plans Of his
hands on the floor without bending
his legs.
Then, when the audience gets in
terested, Firpo will stand on box,
inches high, and do the same stunt.
Easy? Try it.
Then, to cap the show, Fred can
take one of his legs and put it
around his neck.
IAN good pitchers" says Walter
johnson, are supple, but powerful
in the legs. Look at Bob Grove of
the Athletics and Yves Ferrel Of
Cleveland"
Yves Ferrel, by the way, is a
pitchers pitcher. The boys say he
has everything but a high hat on
the pellet.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
On the
SideLines
II With the Sports Editor.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

T~HAT the Nationals are
rated highly by their
1 followers, despite the
fact their strength has
yet to be put to test, is en-
phatically shown as tickets for
the opening game of the cham
pionship campaign go on sale
today.
Early contests of the training
season don't mean much, any
how, especially against a club
such as the Orioles, which has
been working out for only
week, but the heavy demand
for seats to witness the seasons
inaugural is something else
again in these hard times.
If the GriffS were rated as
favoriteS to land the title this
year, or were booked to make
their 1882 bow against either
the Mackmen or Yankees, the
interest being displayed by
Capital fans would be easier
to understand.
Evening star., 1932-03-14
De Glane Is Promised.

DE GLANE, champion of the
- invaders, and Sonnen-
berg. an ex-title holder,
are scheduled for early ap-
pearance here, as are Don
George and Pojello, the latter
to draw a testing opponent
next time. AS Ahearn ex-
plains it:
1--WE are trying to operate on
a building-up basis, landing
he most attractive matches
ssSilAble until we get on our
lNfk and then demanding
them. All we want is a break"
Alright, Goldie, tt.ow's that!