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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
lands VOLUNTARILY
CUTS SALARY $4,000
Latest Reduction Drops Pay of
Base Ball Commissioner to
$4,000 for 1888.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 7.--Kenesaw
IN NJ. Lands, commissioner of or
gained base ball, who drew one of
the highest salaries in base ball, $65, 900,
from 1926 to last year, has voluntarily
reduced that amount to $4,000 for 1888.
Commissioner Lands previously had
taken SIS 900 "cut" for 1882, and the
present $4,000 reduction puts him
$4,000 under the amount he has re-
ceived since he was reelected for a
term of seven years in 1926.
Lands, then Federal judge In Chi
cago, was appointed high commissioner
of base ball in 1920 following the
BLACK Sox' scandal which saw the
Punishment of several players from
organized base ball
He retained his judgeship in addition
to his base ball work until 1922, when
he resigned from the bench to devote
his full time to the commissionership.
His salary was $4,000, and remained
at that figure until he signed the new
contract in 1926.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
ON THE SIDE LINES
With the Sports Editor
BY DENMAN THOMPSON

IN ABBLING in the ivory
market is just like
1 J specializing on the
Stock Exchange-it'S a
gamble.
Thus does Clark Griffith sum
up trading in base ball. And
he should know, for few have
been as active in the bartering
of talent during a connection
with the game extending over
more than two score years.
AS first a loWly private in the
ranks, then successfully star
pitcher, manager in both major
leagues and finally club preSi-
dent, the Capital City chief
tain has had the opportunity
to study the swapping of tai
ent from all angles and despite
its vicissitudes heartily in
dorses the practice.
His penchant for trafficking
in performers which served
further to emphasize the ap-
propriateneSS of the Sobriquet
"Old Fox" earned through his
canniness as a moundSman,
finally led to the appellation of
Trader Horn"
But the Snowy-thatched
mogul considers himself no
wizard at driving bargains and
Notwithstanding the general
commentator of his latest
transactions is constrained to
see how they turn out before
patting himself on the back.
n EGAINING a dependable
X Slugger in Goose Goslin,
L a thoroughly seasoned
flychaSer in Fred Schultz and
a trio of experienced pitchers
in Wally Stewart, Earl White
hill and Jack Russell, to aug
ment an already formidable
array, some of the Scribes en-
vision the Nationals Suf-
ficiently bolstered to unhorse
the champion Yankees.
Griff hopes they are right,
but pending the eventualities
of the coming campaign he will
have his fingers figuratively
crossed, for he has seen too
many good" deals go wrong
and poor" ones bring rich re-
wards.
BY his own avowal Griff is
"slow to pull a DEAL" never
initiating one unless conditions
call for it, as last month, when
he moved to put new life into
a four-year-old team that was
getting weaker each season.
Then he admits having
waited a year longer than he
should for his belief is to give
a contender two shots at the
flag, and If it doesn't come
through make a change"
CIT RADES seldom can be
effected in a hurry"
= observes Crit. Some
times one man will make a
ball club. Again, several may
be required, but the process
usually is involved and tedious.
"You make a bid, which is
rejected, as you expected 1t to
be. Then you make another,
perhaps, many more before the
talent you. really want and the
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material you actually are will
ing to turn over are settled
upon," he added, explaining
that the ground work for his
recent big swap with st. Louis
was laid a year ago.
His best deal Griff regards as
the one he engineered for the
acquisition of Roger Peckin-
paugh in that three-cornered
affair with the Athletics and
Red Sox, which cost him $780,
900 in cash as well as Outfield-
er Bling Miller, Inf1elder Frank
O'Rourke and Pitcher Jose
AcoSta and also involved the
transfer from Philadelphia to
Boston, by way of Washington,
of Joe Dugan.
1--WE needed a star short
STOP" observed Griff. That's
what we got in Peck and he
meant pennant for us, al
though we had to wait three
years to land it."
IT HAT was in 1924. The fol-
lowing season Griff fig
4 ured his pitching would
have to be strengthened If
the championship was to be re-
tanned, and turned the trick by
obtaining Stan Coveleski. re-
garded as all through Inf Cleve-
land, for Outfielder Carr Smith
and Pitcher Byron Specie, and
the almost equally ancient
Dutch Ruether from Brooklyn
for the waiver price.
For the Nationals in 1925
this pair of "washed-up" vet
Grams turned in no fewer than
38 victories, while losing only
IL decisions.
Griff faltered when asked to
name his poorest trade, because
"I've made so many of them"
but finally decided it was the
shifting to Boston of Buddy
Myer for Topper Rigney early
in the 1927 campaign.
1t was this which led to his
numerically biggest, when,
after the 1928 season, he had
to send Milton CASTOR, Horace
LiSenbee, Bob Reeves, Grant
ellis and Elliott Bigelow to
Boston to get Myer back.
Other dickers that later led
him to do an about face in
volved Tom Zachary, Alvin
Crowder, Dick Coffman and
Carl Fischer in addition to
Goslin and Myer.
"McGraw and I probably
hold the record for getting 'em
back after letting 'em CO."
Griff allows.
THE Capital chieftain never
pulled any trades to rival
= that of the late Joe Can
tillon, who once snapped
Pitcher Booth Hopper for a
bird dog, nor Joe EngePs more
recent transfer of a player for
a Christmas turkey, but he fig
ured in one he recalls with
smile.
1t was while managing the
New York "Highlanders" back
in 1904. His repeated efforts
to swap Catcher Jack O'Con-
nor to st. Louis for Outfielder
John Anderson had been
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.HERE goes Uncle Clark
Yes sir, gentlemen, he's

as oil.
/ Yes sir, gentlemen, he's
taken another shot just
when the trade was beginning to
think he had folded up, and was
ready to stand pat for the season.
WheWi How that man Griffith
has been sniping with his six
shooter these last three weeks.
Four big deals in less than that
many weeks, three in Babylon and
one here along the Potomac.
But we knew Uncle wasn't through
shooting, gentlemen. We saw him draw
bead on Luke Sewell up there In
Gotham, and miss by just enough to
make an eyelash flicker
Now he's got his man, and batting
order that ought to make each pitcher
in not only the American League, but
both OF EN-, stutter in his boots when
he reads it.
And he may not be through, either.
No sir! Up there where the buildings
give you pain in the neck, Uncle said:
I'm going to swap. trade, buy,
sell, and make speeches, if neces-
sary, to give Washington a first
class base ball club-a winning COM
bination. When 1 get it together
Cronin can take it, and make it hus-
tie. But I'm not through bartering
until get that winning combine"
So can only tell you that Uncle has
backed up everything he promised. If
ne were to buy Babe Ruth tomorrow
morning 1 would not be startled
Uncle gets the breaks in the Sewell-
Spencer deal, the boys who know their
statistics tell me. Figures show that on
the offense Luke Is a better performer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
COLGATE FAV0RS TULANE

Shifts Date of Ohio Northern Grid
iron Contest.
HAMILTON, N. Y, January 7 GP.-
William A. Reid, graduate manager Of
Colgate athletics, today announced
that the date of the Colgate Ohio
Northern game had been shifted to No
vember II from November 4. It win
be played at Hamilton.
This was to allow shift in the dates
of the Colgate-Tulane game, originally
scheduled for New York City Novem-
Der IL, but now to be played on the
earlier date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
LAST MINUTE GOAL WINS.

CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. c., January
7 P.-In stirring contest Georgia
Tech opened its basket ball season with
a 1928 victory over Clemson. With one
minute to play. and the Tigers leading
by one point. Roy Macarthur Tech foot
ball star. tossed in the winning field
goal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
MEN.

spurned by Pilot Jim McAleer.
In one game as Bobby Wal
lace famed with the bases
loaded Anderson essayed to
steal" second and q double
play resulted when the man on
third was tagged at the plate.
This brought the boss of the
Browns storming out OF the
dugout yelling to Griff: THAT
deal is on"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08

High scratch scores, s. each.
Men.
Prelirninaries-High set Arthur Newman
tRecreation), 6S1; high game E. Kendall
(Bethesds). III.
Roll-of-High set, Ollie Pacini 677; high
game. Gait Davis. 172.
Women.
Preliminaries-High set. Ruth Rothgeb.
6O4; high game. Henrietta Stanley 1874
Holi-on-High set. Catherine Ouigley,
$50; high game, Virginia Yarnell, 1888
Last nights scores follow:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
QUICK FARM AID
ISSUE IN DOUBT
Political Considerations
Confuse Senate Action
on Allotment Bill.

By Scripps-H0toard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. Po-
litical considerations today confused
the senate plan to deal with the do
nestle allotment bill for farm relief.
There is a general fear of a veto
at the hands of President Herbert
Hoover, in which event this Demo-
cratic proposal to increase farm
prices might encounter large pub
lie prejudice, even before the bros
pective special session.
Thus with many advising delay
until the Democratic President
takes charge with his Democratic
congress, the final decision as to
whether the bill will be passed still
is in doubt.
Henry Morganthau Jr., agricul-
tural advisor to President Elect
Roosevelt, conferred with house and
senate leaders, and left the impress
sion that Mr.. Roosevelt wants the
measure passed and quickly.
Morganthau also is said to want
it amended so to cover only wheat,
cotton, tobacco, corn and corn as
hogs. This would leave out rice,
peanuts, dairy products and butter
fats which we're put in by vote
trade in the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
Bind, GAG and
ROB AGED MAN
Police Without CIeWs in
Hunt for Members of
Bandit Gang.

Police are without cleNs today of
identity of three men who bound,
gagged and blindfolded John Dam
bacher, 70, in the kitchen of his
home at 2O9 South Arsenal ave-
nue., Friday, ransacked the house
and robbed their victim of SO 40.
Dambacher, retired railroad man,
lives alone.
Police were told that the trio
pushed their way into the house
after Dambaeher came to the front
door in response to knocking. One
of the robbers drew Il revolver,
forcing the aged man into the
kitchen where Dambacher said he
was compelled to sit ON a chair
at point of a revolver. The two
other robbers, meanwhile, looted
the house.
Later, the trio assembled in the
kitchen, obtained a clothes line, a
towel, and washrag with which
Dambacher was tied and his pockets
looted. The trio then left.
An hour later, Mrs Blanche Man
mis-, 142 Detroit street, who pre-
pared meals for Dambacher, called
at the home and released him. He
was not hurt.
Dambacher told police he was
attack in a similar manner by a trio
of men about two years ago. He
said he could given no motive for
the robbery attempts. Nothing was
stolen from the house, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
Cannon HOME
LOAN Chairman
City Bank Units Lines of
Credit Over 100000,
Declares Fort.

The indianapolis home loan bank
has extended lines of credit aggre-
eating more than the banks SS.OOO,-
600 capitalization, it was announced
today at Washington by Franklin
Fort, federal loan board chairman.
The announcement followed APP
pOintment OF Fermor S. Cannon,
Railroadmen's Building and Savings
Association president, as the banks
chairman. succeeding arthur F.
Hall, Fl. Wayne, who resigned.
Fort also announced today APP
pointment of w. J. Mooney ST., In
dianapoliS, and Lew O'Bannon,
Corydon, as directors, succeeding
Hall and F. M. Boone, South Bend.
Because of the extensive credit
approved by the bank, it may be
necessary to raise additional funds
through sale of bonds in the near
future, Fort said. However, only
one loan, $4,000, actually has been
consummated.
Others elected by the directors
were: Frank B. McKibbin, eXecu-
tive vice president; John A. Rhue.
Marion, ce-president in charge of
the examining division, and treas
urer, and B. F. Burtless, secretary
controller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
PLEASANT RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION

Shoulders droop under weight Of
years. Young, yet beauty has fed.
Cheeks are SalloW and drawn. I'm
slightly pimples. Keep your system
clean and you keep the beauty of
youth. It's energy. Its irresistible
charm. Then life is not failure.
Clogged bowels and inactive liver
cause poisonS to seep through the
system. Health vanished and with
it beauty and energy. DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets will help save you
from this dark hour. For 20 years
they have been prescribed in place
of calomel to men and women seek
ing health and freedom from con-
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Take nightly before retiring Re-
suits will amaze you.
Thousands of men and women would
never be without DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets, a vegetable compound. Know
them by their olive color. 15c. SOC and
60c. All druggists. Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
M'ADOO ASKS DRASTIC
PLAN TO AID FARMS
War Time Powers for Government
to Help Agriculture Favored.

By Scripps-HoUard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. - The
government should be given war
time powers to aid agriculture in
America, thinks William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, CALIFORNIA; junior senator
elect, who is in the east comforting
with President Elect Roosevelt and
accommodating the scenes of his
coming political battles.
we must not be afraid to do the
radical thing" said the lanky ex-
secretary of the treasury, as he
dashed about through capital halls
seeing old friends.
L would not be averse to declar-
ing the present condition an emer-
gency and have the government
given wartime powers in fixing
prices on farm commodities. This
should, I think, be confined to such
staples as are mentioned in the
Jones bill, wheat, cotton, hogs and
tobacco.
Some thirty states now depend
on wheat and cotton for their pros
perity Farmers must be aided and
aided at once. The conditions as
l have seen them in travelling about
the country are appalling. We can
get nowhere in restoring prosperity
until the buying power of the farm
erS is restored"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
BIZ Times SpecidI

By Times Special
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-Sears, Roe
buck & Co. will have its own build
ing at the Century of Progress eX-
position on the Chicago lake front
in 1888.
Plans have been drawn for a
modernistic building to be used as
a general service headquarters for
those who visit the fair and also
as an exposition building.
The building will be located across
the street and just a little south of
the Administration building of the
Century of Progress and will face
east across the lagoon, which will be
one Of the principal attractions OF
the exposition.
The building is on a plot of
ground 370 feet long by 230 feet
wide just east of the north end of
Soldiers field.
Design Is MOdernistic
MOderniStic architecture in keep
ing with the outline and plan of the
exposition buildings has been fol-
lower in the Sears building,
The building will cost in excess
of $150,O00, but this does not in
clude any of the exhibits, interior
furnishings or fixtures. 1t is esti-
mated that the total expenditure
will be in the neighborhood of
100000.
1t IS for the accommodation of all
people who visit the fair. Large
rest rooms have been provided for
men and women. There will be a
large exhibition hall and very
large lobby in which friends may
gather before beginning their tour
Of the fair.
Structure 3OOx19O Feet
The building itself is more than
300 feet long and 1870 feet deep. The
tower in the center which rises
above the mezzanine level is thirty
seven feet square and 40 feet high.
The main exhibit hall, at the back
of the building, is eighty-siX feet
wide by eighty-one feet deep, The
wings on either side of the tower
are thirty feet high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
WYOMING FARM HANDS
RECEIVING HIGH WAGE
Best Pay in Nine States, State Finds
in Survey.
By United Press


By United Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo, Jan. IA
Wyoming farm hands" receive the
highest wages paid in nine repre-
sentative western and midwestern
states, a recent survey indicated.
Hired help" however, did not
exactly get rich working on the
farms of this state last fall. The
average "hand" received board,
room and $25.25 month, as COM
pared to the board, room and $53
a month he received in 1928 and
1929. In 1890, the wage had dropped
to Salts, and in 1881 to $3.50.
Despite the $40 month reduc-
ton from the 1881 wage, the farm
worker in this state received $3.50
more a month than did men doing
similar work in Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, North and South Dakota
Nebraska, Kansas and Wisconsin.
The average pay in those states was
$3.50.
Only one of the eight states paid
its farm hands more in 1928 than
did Wyoming. That state was North
Dakota, where in boom times, farm
workers were paid $54.25 and board
and room.
This year the North Dakota work.
err received S2O5O a month, or S475
less than his fellow workman in
Wyoming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
Bankruptcy Reform Bill
May Pass House Monday

hands of the interstate commerce
commission.
1t provides that trustees ap-
pointed by the judge to take over
the properties involved must be APP
proved by the interstate commerce
commission.
However, instead of having hear
ings before the commission on pro-
posed reorganization plans, it pro-
vides for hearings before one or
more of six special referees APP
pointed by the President with the
consent of the senate.
Plans approved by two-thirds of
the creditors, and by the special ref
cree, would receive final approval
from the judge; but issues of new
securities under the reorganiza-
ton, would be issued only when APP
proved by the interstate commerce
commission.
The bill would specify further
that the commission might hear all
questions affecting equity, finan-
cial advisability and public interest,
and fix maximum compensation to
reorganization managers and others
for services renderd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
Move From StatehOuSe Hut
to House Obtained by
Welfare Society.

The questionable title of the first
family to live on the statehouse
lawn" can be added to the other
first families of Indianapolis by Mr..
and Mrs. Cecil Allen, late of 1888
Calhoun street, and now of 907 Cot
fey street.
Evicted from their Calhoun street
home, the Aliens were moved to the
statehOuse lawn.
A rude lean-to served as home
for a few hours when they agreed
to move into a home on Coffey
street, 1t was provided them by the
Family Welfare Society.
But, in the few hours the Aliens
lived at the statehousc, they at
tracted a crowd, received the homo
rarium of a lot of speeches on their
plight, and were the recipients Of
approximately ST in cash from gen.
erous passersby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
PICARD TO TELL OF
SHAKESPEARE FLIGHT
Belgian Scientist Will Give Two
Addresses in New York.
By NEA Scrrice

By NEA Scrrice
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Professor
Auguste Picard, eminent Belgian
scientist who twice invaded the
stratosphere to a height never be-
fore attained by man, is visiting in
America and will speak in New York
soon.
The scientist is scheduled to
speak at the founders meeting of
the Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences on Jan. 26. We will de-
liver two talks, both of which will
cover his flights to height. of ten
miles in huge metal sphere raised
by a balloon.
The first talk will cover the sub
ject, The Stratosphere,' and is
expected to impart a great deal of
unknown information regarding the
rarif1ed atmosphere high above the
surface Of the earth.
The second talk will deal with
The World From Ten Miles Up"
and will tell of Professor Piccard's
observations of the earth from his
position ten miles in the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
THO End Lives to Leave
Tragedy in Wake of 18th

Miss Frieda Wallis and Mrs. Emma
Riedweg, both living near Five
Points. Arrangements for the fu-
neral have not been made.
Albert S. Miller, II, of 3619 North
Arlington avenue, ended his life Fri
DAY by breathing fumes from the
exhaust Of his car in a garage at
the home. Reason was not learned
by Dr.. E. r. Wilson, deputy coroner.
August F. Mildner, 81, of l114
North Arsenal avenue, street car
motorman. is in a critical condition
OF a bullet wound in the head. in
flicted Friday in a suicide attempt
because of worry over difficulty in
learning how to operate one OF the
cityS new street car.
Mrs. Nellie Mildner, his wife, had
gone to the home of neighbors.
When she returned she found her
husband lying on the floor Of an up
stairs room unconscious, a revolver
in his hand. He had been a street
car motorntan twenty-five years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
Gets $3.50 FOR
TASTE, SMELL
Accident Victim Awarded
Verdict by Jury for
Loss of Senses.

Life without his senses Of taste
and smell is the fate of Roy G..
Tyler, As, of near Nora, in whose
case a superior court two jury Fri
day awarded a $3.50 verdict for in
juries incurred in an automobile
accident. Tyler is the father of
seven children.
He was hurt in an accident at
Forty second street and Carrollton
avenue, Jan 6, 1882. A truck driven
by Nola K. Plough, milk dealer,
5025 Carvel street, is alleged to
have struck a car in which Taylor
was riding.
Tyler sued Plough for $4,000
damages, charging he suffered
slight conclusion that caused a
blood clot on the brain.
This clot affected his eyesight
and caused him to lose his sense of
smell. He since has lost his sense
of taste.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-14
Committee Will Attempt to
Report Measure Out
Today.

By ScrippS-Hotcard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-An at
tempt to report the new bankruptcy
bill today, and bring it up for pas
sage in the house Monday under
suspension of rules, will be made by
the house judiciary committee.
Long sessions of the committee,
Friday, resulted in agreement on
some of the points at issue in regard
TO relief for individual debtors, both
mortgaged and otherwise, and cor
porate reorganization; but the COM
mittee is not yet in entire accord
as to reorganization of railroads.
The bill now under consideration
before the committee combines the
McKeown bill for relief of individual
debtors, the Hastings version of cor
porate reorganization, and a rilodi-
fed La Guardia bill, affecting rail-
road reorganization.
La Guardia's new plan for the
railroads is compromise between
Senator Hastings desire that the
matter be left entirely with the fed
eral courts, and his first bill putting
the matter almost entirely in the