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Evening star., 1933-11-29
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
r OS ANGELES, November a.
Familiarly known . quarter
of a century ago as the
''teeming turf's mightiest
mite" Tod Sloan, whose career as q
spendthrift and brilliant jockey was
the talk of three continents, was
near death in a Los Angeles County
hospital today.
Reputed to have spent more than
s1,000,0 900 In two years on whimS.
Sloan became a patient at General
Hospital last night, having been re-
moved from the home Of Mrs. Jack
Cudahy In Hollywood, where he had
lived the last six years.
Physicians said he had ciHhosis
q the liver. They held out little
hope for his recovery.
Sloan was christened James Tod
Evening star., 1933-11-29
Mat Matches

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Jim Londos, 204,
Greece, threw Paul Boesch, 205, New
York, 1902.
PHILADELPHIA-E Dusek 216
Omaha, defeated Vic Christy, 200, Los
Angeles, 5l:37 (Christy knocked out
by fall from ring).
Evening star., 1933-11-29
OF $4,000
IN WINTER EVENTS
Many Clubs Now Jockeying
for Spring Dates Likely
to Aid Paid Clan.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

oI W. H. mCIALLUMs
n ECALLNG fondly the
II golden days of prosperity,
/ \ when open golf tourna-
ments for prize money
which ran as high as $4,000 for
one event were being held up
and down the land, the profess
sionals are watching with eager
eyes the dawn of another pros
porous era when gold again will
Sprout from fairWayS which for
two years and more have yielded
little more than pin money.
OF course, so grand is not cigarette
money. but that total in purses to be
split during this Winter is nothing like
the Sl50,000 prize money aggregate
which the Winters of l928-29 and
1929-3o carried with them. Prize
money this Winter will total about $50
600, with two tournaments carrying
top money of $4,000 each.
But next Spring will come the drive
for the big dough and the way the
clubs are iockeying for dates right now,
more than half a year in advance of
V'S 'oIiOAloA OPCllt 10 d ucIIIllIe llul-
cation to the pros that the lean years
are over and the soft pickings are
again Just around the traditional corner.
1t now seems certain that two big
events will be held around Washington
next year, Kenwood is committed to
the National Capital open tournament
in 1884 and Indian Spring, through
Tom Moore. club president. has made
la re- las SITT %raxx-
h0'a'N6 m 0Pen affair NatVTally tht
two tournaments will not conflict and
one in the Fall
Three More Big Journeys.
TN addition to these two events, three
more big open Journeys loom on the
calendar for next year. These are:
A $40 1000 open tournament at Yardley,
Pa, Just outside Of Philadelphia; a S.
900 affair at LLanerch, where Densmore
Shute. the British open champion, holds
down the professional berth, and a
$500 open tourney at the Country
Club Of Virginia, where Bobby Cruick-
shank is the club professional. Il
Already the scramble for dates has
gotten under way and already it ap-
pears that the main fly in the ointment
will be, as it was in the days of pros
perity, the finding Of suitable dates for
all the clubs that want to hold big
money affairs.
Part of the schedule will be straight
ened out at Miami, Fla, neXk week,
where the Biltmore $4,000 tournament
is scheduled, and Washington will have
representative there in Al Houghton,
Kenwood pro, who is going to Miami for
the second year. Last year Al got q
tiny slice of the $l0,0O0-Something like
S25-which just about paid for his
cigarettes. He is to leave Washington
by motor next Sunday, travelling with
Ed Olsen, Kenwood member.
Kenwood Plans to Raise Ante.
EURTHERMORE, the folks at Ken
wood, cheered by the fact that the
1888 edition of their National
Capital open showed small profit, de-
spite bad weather. are making gestures
toward an increase in the ante for the
1884 event. The word has gone out
Evening star., 1933-11-29
BASKET ENTRIES OPEN.

Entries for the Boys Club Basket Ball
League are being received daily at the
club, except Sunday, from $3.50 pm.
until GAS pm, for the IS, 100, lis, 130
and 145-pound loops. League play
starts about December Is. ..
Evening star., 1933-11-29
OPEN HOCKEY TOURNEY
Northeast and Midwest Clash IL
Women's National Event.

women Nat1onaI EVeHt'
, EVANSTON, Ill, November 30 (P-
The Northeast No. 2 team and the Mid
west representative were matched today
in the opening game Of the national
womenS field hockey tournament at
Dyche Stadium.
Two other games were on the open
Ing schedule, the Northeast No. l team
meeting the Great Lakes and the United
States touring team, which competed
recently abroad, meeting the Southeast.
Evening star., 1933-11-29

'Duster" Mails, eccentric hurler of the
Kansas City Blues, is a left-handed
pitcher, but right-handed penman.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
Experts Forecast
Foot Ball Results
BY ANDY KERR,
Colgate Coach.

D. ANDI hLhh,
Colgate Coach.
Albright -Ursinus, Ursinus.
Colgate Brown, very even.
Franklin and Marshall Gettysburg,
F. and M.
Penn-Comell, very slight edge to
Cornell.
P. M. C.-Iebanon Valley, P. M, G.
Pitt-Carnegie. Pitt should win.
II Trl0YtTfa pnJN1aNy from 'asE two
st. Thomas-Davis Elkins. Davis
BY C. w. Spears,
Wisconsin Coach.
Nebraska Oregon State, Nebraska
should win.
Kansas-Missouri, Kansas.
Oklahoma Oklahoma A. and NJ, looks
Like the Aggies.
Saturday, December 2.
Notre Dame Army, Notre Dame. .
AZ BY DAN McGUGIN.
Vanderbilt Coach.
Tennessee entucky, Tennessee.
Alabama Vanderbilt, Alabama.
Virginia-North Carolina, Virginia.
v. P. I.-V. M. l., v. P. l.
Furman Clemson, a toss-up.
BY JAMES PHELAN,
U. of Washington Coach.
Oregon-St. Mary's, st. Mary's on
passes.
Washington State-U. c. L. A., Wash
ington State.
Nebraska Oregon State, hard for
Nebraska, q toss-up.
Evening star., 1933-11-29

Lawrence dribblers routed the Sigma
Tau five. 60-l2. on the Langley Junior
High court. Shaner, with 80 points,
was high scorer.
Evening star., 1933-11-29
Kenwood Plans to Raise Ante

Kenwood Plans to Raise Ante.
EURTHERMORE, the folks at Ken
n wood, cheered by the fact that the
1888 edition of their National
Capital open showed a small profit, de-
spite bad weather. are making gestures
toward an increase in the ante for the
1884 event. The word has gone out
Evening star., 1933-12-24
Bells and Arriual Of Pilgrims
Herald Holy Land Observance
Spirit and Piety of Worshipers Remain
Unaltered as They Gather in Reuerent
Remembrance of Birth of Christ.

for vespers at 9 o'clock. The service
will continue until shortly before mid
night.
Promptly at midnight a large star
representing the traditional Star OF
Bethlehem, will be lighted above the
altar in this century-old edifice of stone
and wooden rafters and at the same
time q curtain will be drawn away to
reveal the effigy of the Holy Infant.
High mass will begin then.
Procession to Holy Grotto.
Shortly afterward, the patriarch, fol-
lowed by his clergy and notables, will
participate in a procession with the
Holy Babe to the Grotto where. in the
spot of the manger marked by a star
the eff1gy will be laid reverently.
The Grotto, hollow chamber under
the main altar Of the Church Of the
Holy Nativity, is said to mark the ira
ditional stable where Christ was born.
The spot is the object of alteration
by the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catho-
lies, Armenians, Protestants, Copts and
others, and there are very strict rules
as to the number Of lamps each fac
ton is allowed to have.
Another annual ceremony is the spe-
cial service on the Young Mems Chris
tian Association site in the fields OF
the shepherds. near Bethlehem, where
Christians, with Jews and MoSlems as
onlookers, will gather tonight to sing
carols after partaking of bread and
meat at the entrance Of the shepherd S
cave.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
QUIET YULE PLANNED
BY VICE PRESIDENT
Garner Resting at Home Preparing
for Busy Session of
Congress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UVALDE, Tex, December 23-An
old-fashioned Christmas, free from the
hustle, hustle and elaborate prepara-
tions consonant with the day in many
other parts of the country, will be the
choice of Vice President John N
Garner.
In his quiet home in a pecan grove
here, he will hang up cotton sock
and hope for the rest of the country
the same tranquility that he has known.
While carrying out the holiday spirit
Cactus Jack" will be thinking of the
work before him-for Congress will con-
vene soon and he will return to the
political ring from which he has been
absent for many months.
He has been resting, fishing and
hunting Only when Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley made whlrl-
wind trip through the Lone Star State
did he come out of retirement, ac-
companying the head of the National
Democratic Executive Committee to the
larger cities of the State.
His out-of-doors habits have put new
vigor into an already strong constitu-
ton. On his frequent hunting and
fishing trips his companions have been
his neighbors and cronies-Pete WAL
colt and Ross Brumfie1d.
Recently when President Roosevelt
tried to get Garner by telephone, the
operator found him two days later IN
a boat. He rows while his companion
fishes.
Santa's visit this year will find Gar
ner unchanged in the minds OF his
friends; for he is still simply Uvalde's
first citizen
Evening star., 1933-12-24
FRANCISCAN MONKS
OBSERVE CHRISTMAS
Will Hold Celebration Identical to
Annual Services in
Jerusalem.

Services identical to those held an
nually in Bethlehem will be celebrated
as a part of the Franciscan Monastery
Christmas program, which opens this
evening at 10:45 o'clock. The Friars
will commence Mathis with the intoning
of the Christmas message, Christ is
born unto us; Come, let us adore Him. "
At the conclusion of Mathis a SOL
emn high mass will be offered for the
benefactors of the monastery. The mu-
sical program will be rendered by the
friars with DR.. James Dickinson at the
organ. Immediately after the midnight
mass procession will go around the
church bearing a hfesiZe image of the
Infant, while the traditional hymn
"Adeste Fideles" will be sung by the
friars. The services will come to a
close with the intoning of the message
of good tidings, GLORY to God on High,
and on Earth Peace to Men of Good
Will" Low mass will be celebrated at
The same Grotto Of Nativity hourly, from
to am.
The second solemn high mass will
take place at 9 am, with appropriate
ceremony. At $3.50 pm, there will be
program of Christmas carols, compris-
ing Melvil's Christmas Natus Est No
bis" Holy Night" "Gesu Bambino'
and "Star of Hope" to be followed by
solemn benediction.
The church has been extensively dec
GRATED for the ceremonies and a Christ
mas tree with Illuminating lights will
be Lit every night up to and including
January z.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
COAL MINERS FACING
CHEERFUL CHRISTMAS
Conditions in Pennsylvania's An.
thracite Fields Better Than
Year Ago.
By the Associated Press.


HARRISBURG, Pa, December 23.-
CHEEKY Christmas is the outlook for
PennSylvania'S anthracite fields.
Though far cry from "the good old
days" of five years ago or more, con-
ditionS are definitely better than dur
ing the pre-holday season year ago,
survey reveals.
Some sections reported the condition
"the best in four years"
From all quarters an optimistic note
was heard, and the significant contri-
button to that note is that the anthra, /,
cite industry is free of active labor
disturbances Of major character.
After strike in the Scranton Wilkes
barre section, where a score of mines
were affected and a clash of rival
unions brought dynamiting and rioting,
newal of operations in the basic in
dustry have pumped new life blood
into the yuletide trade.
Another strike in the Panther Greek
Valley, affecting more than 1000 men
in the Carbon-Schuylkill County area,
has been settled, at least temporarily
The United Anthracite Miners Of
Pennsylvania, the organization which
called the strike in the upper field
more than a month ago in opposition
to the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, has renewed activity however.
Leaders of the So-called 1nSurgent
union have declared dissatisfaction
with the report of the National Labor
Boards Fact-finding Commission and
have issued a call for resumption of a
special convention in Wilkesbarre on
January 2,
Evening star., 1933-12-24
UNFORTUNATES GET
CHEER IN GOTHAM
Father Knickerbocker Takes
Role of Santa for Needy,
III and Blind.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, December 23.-Father
Knickerbocker has already begun play
ing Santa Claus on big scale to the
hosts of unfortunates within his city.
The poor, lhe blind, the sick, chill
dren Of all ages, immigrants from many
countries, all are being remembered in
Father Knicke-bocker's plans for
Christmas
From the downtown Spanish colony,
in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge, to
Black Harlem, from Bellevue Hospital
to Sing Sing, Christmas cheer will be
distributed by Santa Claus in many
guiseS.
VIII Give Something Extra"
Welfare agencies will help many
thousands of needy families to eat
Christmas dinner in their homes, with
extra delicacies on the table and with
the children happy over stockings filled
with candy and toys.
The Catholic Charities, which has
families of many nationalities under It's
care, will give them all something ex-
ira" SO they can celebrate Christmas
after the fashion of their homelands.
The City Health Department has
been investigating prices and reports
that perfect" Christmas dinner from
fruit to nuts, with turkey, three vege-
tables, and even Sherbet, should cost no
more than $3.50 for 10 persons, or 65
cents a person.
One of the picturesque Christmas
parties every year is that at Bellevue
Hospital, where clowns and trained
dogs diSport themselves to entertain
children whose Christmas will be spent
in hospital bed.
Policewomen are giving a party for
children Of the East Side, while the
Rotary Club is distributing warm cloth
ing to colored boys in Harlem. And
the down-and-outs of the Bowery will
foregather at the "Old Bucks and
Lame Ducks" Club in Chinatown for
cake with their coffee and a handout
Of clothes.
Invalids to Get Turkey.
The Junior League has gathered bed
ding, pajamas and blankets to give a
white Christmas" to one group of
needy families. Free movies for the
poor Is local touch on Staten Island,
New YorkS most Seagoing borough.
The 1900 or so invalids in city hos
pitalS will have as much turkey as doc
tors will allow them to eat, while in
mates Of city prisons. numbering almost
5000, will have chicken.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
DISPUTE YULET|DE
POEM AUTHORSHIP
Critics Differ, but Children
Will Honor Clement C.
Moore for Epic.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 23.-Critics
may disagree even on the night before
Christmas, but tomorrow children will
take flowers to the grave of the teacher
who, some folks say, wrote
Twas the Night Before Christmas
and All Through the House."
He wrote it for children-if the
legend is true-and the story gave rise
to cry and hue as to who wore the
kerchief and who wore the cap and
who settled down for that long Winters
nap.
Clement c. Moore is credited general
ly with writing the epic. But descend
ants of Henry Livingston, jr., say it was
his lawn on which there arose such
clatter that he sprang from his bed
to see what was the matter.
Printed ITO Years Ago.
The controversy has never been set
tied The poem was published in a
volume by Moore, who was born in
1779 and was a teacher of theology.
1t was exactly ITO years ago today
that the story of Santa Claus tour
appeared in print in the Troy, N. Y,
Sentinel. The editor commented that
its author was unknown to him. Twenty
one years later the poem appeared in
Moore's book.
He died in 1862 and was buried in
a little graveyard way down Broadway,
where the cold stone peaks of sky
scraper row give the shadow OF night
fall to objects below.
And each year children, after their
stockings are hung by the chimney with
care, take flowers to the grave and leave
them there-where shade troops by
from an old church house and no crea-
ture stirs-not even a mouse.
The Livingston claim to the poem
came sometime after it appeared under
Moore's name. He was patriot who
was born near Poughkeepsie in 1748
and whose family says he composed the
poem to recite to children, who have
never tired Of that midnight ride of the
saint of cheer with his miniature sleigh
and little reindeer.
Title Given by Critics.
But the children's crusade is made to
Moore's grave and in unison they say:
ITO the top of the house, to the top
Of the wall-now dash away, dash
away, dash away all"
Critics of Moore's and Livingston's
various poems explain that the poems
real title is "a Visit From st. Nicholas. {"
They say Livingston was deft manipu-
lator of rhyme and that Moore was
a very serious-minded man. but that
Christmas and children make even
serious minds light.
1t seems bit tragic that there is an
argument over Santa Claus and Comet
and Bitten, but on one thing the critics
agree-regardless Of who is right
Merry Christmas to all and to all a
good night"
Evening star., 1933-12-24
OUARANTINED CONVICTS GIVEN
PRESENTS BY THE TRUCKLOAD

system, which makes guards out Of the
prisoners themselves, will have a Christ
mas program Of music and other forms
of entertainment.
But the usual large number of visitors
here on Christmas will be missing. Un-
der the quarantine no one is permitted
to leave or enter the prison farm.
Some of those now isolated might
have been home for the holidays before
the quarantine was ordered but for Gov
j. M. Futrell's decision not to follow the
custom of many of his predecessors of
issuing numerous short furloughs at this
time of the year as a reward for meri-
toriouS conduct.
State health officers quarantined the
farm upon discovery of three cases of
meningitis. One of the victims died two
days ago.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
Text Of Pope's Yule Message
Cites Encyclical of 1881 Regarding liberalization"
and Urges Prayer for Welfare Of the
Whole Christian Family.

cial matters and therefore Of precise
interest-it was his stronghold and he
had been asked for his advice.
Cannot Give Any Advice"
"'Advice2' he replied.
I cannot give any advice
Then what is your opinion?" he was
asked.
"opinion2 I cannot have any opin-
ion.'
Then what Is 1t you think?
"'What do I think? I think moth
Then can you tell us anything?
81 can give you my impreSsion-it Is
that nobody can know anything on the
subject
THAT is little. but it is very clear and
it is all that we can say.
Leaving aside the precise subject Of
financial questions which are moved by
measurable. and looking at the whole
strange and new aspect of humanity in
the midst of so many contrasts, nego-
tiations and refusals of negotiations,
conflicts and contradictions, We have a
word to say, and 1t Is word Of our own,
for 1t seems to us that all Of the others
derived from human foresight, precau-
tions, negotiation, efforts and also from
so much human generosity are truly
unfounded and without basis.
"Once Napoleon I, who well under
stood war 1--WE do not say this because
our thoughts are of war, inaSmuch as
'Dissipa Gentes Quae Bella Volunt' is
our daily prayer was asked what was
the first and greatest necessity for max
ing war.
"He replied: Money and since
those who were interrogating him ex-
pected a reply having to do with war
they insisted in their questioning, ask
ing this time and the second thing?
And the reply was again money
To a third request and what is the
third thing?' the answer was still the
same, money"
"Pray, Pray, Pray"
Beloved brothers, we also have q
word that we can repeat, not three
times but as many times as we may be
asked what should be done by all
those who have desired for the good,
peace, general concord and general well
fare of the whole Christian family,
but who are in the same condition as
we and are constrained to Judge mat
tiers by that which is done, or, better
said. by that which is not done?'
"Our word is this: They should,
firstly, pray; secondly, pray; thirdly,
continue to pray.
In short, it is that which the Divine
Redeemer, the teacher even before the
Redeemer, taught: 'Oportet semper
crare ct nunquam deficere'
1T is that which we do and wish to
continue to do, inviting all to pray and
persist in their prayers for it seems to
us that men have until now said too
much and said 1t too uSelessly.
I'VE invite all to turn to God, to
that blessed God, who has never re-
fused those who placed their hopes in
Him, to that divine providence which
foresees all, to that divine compassion
that pardons all.
"And after this we wish only to i'm
part that paternal benediction you ex-
pect together with all of the good wishes
for a happy season, not only for you
but for all those whom you wish to
have those good wishes and blessings
with u.s.
Evening star., 1933-12-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark, De-
cember 23.-ChriStmaS presents came in
by the truckload today for convicts shut
off from relatives and friends by a
meningitis quarantine and surprise
gubernatorial decision against the Gus
tomary holiday clemency.
To make up for the disappointment
brought on by the combination Of cir
cumstanceS, Supt. A. G. Stedman is
planning to make Christmas as merry
as possible for the 951 convicts.
They get respite from their farm
work lasting from noon today till Tues
day morning. And while there won't be
turkey and dressing on Christmas the
tables will be loaded with barbecued
meats, vegetables and other products of
the prison farm. The best pastry cooks
among the convicts are at work, too,
baking cakes and pies.
Each convict will receive a Santa
Claus bag-fruit, nuts and other good
les" The Christmas packages, arriving
from home in large numbers, are being
delivered promptly.
The convicts, who are allowed con-
siderable freedom under Arkansas merit
Evening star., 1933-12-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
! BETHLEHEM, December "A (Sun-
day The pealing of bells and the
hustle of arriving pilgrims early today
heralded the Holy Lands Christmas OBJ
servances that will reach their climax
at midnight.
Despite the strained racial and politi-
cal atmosphere and the decline In the
number of visitors because Of the de-
preston, the spirit and piety of the
worshipers gathering In this cradle Of
Christianity remained unaltered.
Hundreds of pilgrims, American and
European visitors among them, as
sembled in reverent remembrance Of
the birth nearly 1000 years ago of the
Christ Child.
For despite the many centuries Of
change and destruction, and the strife
in this land even at this time, the Holy
City still holds the imagination of man
kind and no power has yet been created
that can break the spell which binds
the world to 1t.
Latin Patriarch Prays.
Early this morning his beatitude the
Latin patriarch went out in procession
from Jerusalem to the Roman Catholic
convent situated on the north side Of
the Church Of the Holy Nativity, there
to spend the day in meditation and
prayer.
Tonight he will go into the Church
of the Convent, which communicates
with the Church of the Holy Nativity,