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The Washington times., 1934-02-09
SPORTS
By KIRK MILLER
Little Also Lingers
Midst Old HGuNts
d. C.. Gives Him Start

Charlottesville, both outfits hav-
ing teams able to produce those
tingles that go all the way
down to the toes, and the stu
dent bodies and public being in
an enthusiastic mood over the
sport.
N. G. Freshman
"The way those freshmen at
North Carolina are battling this
year, they will be hard to beat
when they begin to represent
the varsity next year." says the
StOcky ring official. "They
show earmarks right now Of
plenty of coaching in their high
school and prep school days and
already are fast enough and
clever enough, particularly in
the lighter weights, to give
many Of their seniors plenty Of
trouble in the ring.
"They punch hard, too, al
ways trying for a X. o. Nor
mant Quarels, North Carolina
varsity lightweight, is the best
little man I have ever seen in q
college ring.
Boxing is coming along rap
idly in the Southern Conference.
The rivalry is keen and feeling
runs strong. North Carolina
packs 'erl in at Chapel Hill and
at the recent Virginia-NOrth
Carolina meet at Charlottesville,
they were squatting in the aiSleS
and hanging from the rafterS."
Back to Sandlots
There is a "back to the sand
lots" movement afoot, with
major league baseball, the
American Legion and other
organizations working to make
it easier for boys to play super
vised baseball. Secretary Of
War Dern really had this in
mind when he invited Clark
Griffith to consider Puerto Rico
as the training base for his club
IN Cne spring OF 1900
The cabinet member wishes to
encourage Americas national
paStime in the West Indies.
The sport needs better en-
couragment and organization
right here in America than it is
getting. Until recently the two
big leagues appropriated $4,000
yearly to help promote the
American Legion Junior tourna-
mentS, but hard times made it
necessary to withdraw such
financial support.
Good Old Days
Washington, a score and
more Of years ago was a hot
bed Of amateur baseball, having
some strong leagues and draw
ing huge attendances. The city
had a supervising amateur au-
thority headed by Bob Young
and was we'll organized from
boundary to boundary.
There are equally as good
men available today, if indeed
Bob Young himself wouldn't
like to take another fling at
heading a local amateur organ
ization, and I'd like to see the
amateurs again band under
single leadership. I can name
half dozen men who by their
experience are quite qualified
to bring all local amateur base
ball under a single banner.
Billy Belts, the umpire knows
the kid type of baseball back
ward, and so does Joe Leverton.
Winifree Johnson would be val
liable for his very background
in recreational work. Bill
Flester and Virgil Lawrence
are amateurs at heart, when it
comes to baseball. The Federal
Government can be depended
on to cooperate in the matter Of
grounds. There is a fine oppor-
tunity to solidify amateur base
ball in Washington if the va
riouS interests would take it into
their heads to do so.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
GARCIA FAVORED

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 9.-Cefer-
ino Garcia, of Manila, the Cali
fornia welterweight champion,
was a slight favorite to defeat
Paulie Walker, of Jersey City,
N. j., in a scheduled 10-round
bout at Hollywood Legion Sta
dium tonight.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
CANADIENS UPSET

MONTREAL, Quebec. Feb. 8.
The Montreal Maroons today
held a 3-2 upset victory over
Les Canadiens, their civic rivals
in the National Hockey League.
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HoUGHTON GETS BID

AL Houghton, Kenwood pro, has
received his invitation to compete
in Bobby Jones' golf tournament
at Augusta, Ca, March 1925.
Freddy Mcleod, Of Columbia, is
the only other local pro invited
to compete.
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Virginia-Navy Mitt Contest
Holds National Interest

ANNAPOLIS, Feb 9.-Interest attaches to the boxing
match tomorrow night University Va between Navy and
Virginia not only account of the keen rivalry but for its
bearing upon national intercollegiate boxing.
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Ruth and Camera
Pause in Washington
En- Route to Florida

Washington was a fairly i'm
portant point on the sports map
yesterday, three celebrities hav-
ing paused here for one reason
or another. These big wigs Of
their respective professions we're
Primo Camera, Babe Ruth and
Lou Little.
Primo Cameras plane, carry
ing him back to Florida follow
ing his bankruptcy hearing in
New York, idled long enough
to let off and take on mail and
give the south-bound passen-
gers a moment to stretch their
dogs.
Now, when Camera stretches
his dogs, it is no minor opera
tion, and he was glad when he
could walk out in the open and
rear his frame to full height.
They no build deese planes
high enough for beeg man like
me to stand and the seats keep
ma knees in ma cheen, so I'm
always glad to come out Of de-
clouds for walk arOun'," said
the big boy, who declared that
LOughran had no chance against
him February ~.
Ruth en- Route
Another behemoth Of the
sport world who grazed this viii
lage was Babe Ruth, passing
through en- route to st. Peters,
burgh. Ruth doesn't care for
airplanes. The choo-chooS are
fast enough for him and he
stayed pretty well in his state
room, what with still carrying
the effects Of influenza, which
has had him in its grip for 10
days.
Life begins at forty" insofar
as Ruth is concerned, for he
has just celebrated his fortieth
birthday and commenced to
benefit from the 100000 trust
fund to which he has been
devottng so much of his income
over the past 10 years. Ruth
doesn't have to work another
lick the rest of his life, if he
doesn't want to, but he's not
the sort to idle just because he
can.
And last of the big sport
roundup that concerned this
area yesterday is Lou Little, who
completed a 24-hour tour here
among friends before hieing
away to Atlanta for the foot
ball rules committee meeting.
Little visited Frank Hogan
among his other Washington
cronies and blew in to buzz pro-
feSsional football with George
Marshall. The former George
town coach paid high compli-
ment to the present Hilltop
coach, Jack Hagerty, declaring
that if given an opportunity,
Jack will deliver at the Hilltop.
u ks collegiate playing
proved to me he had excep-
tional football instinct and abil-
ity and his work with the New
York Giants professionals eleven
has stamped him since as a stu
dent and a strategist," declared
Lou. "I think Georgetown is
lucky to have him and if pa
tience is practiced, Hagerty will
produce a winning eleven"
Boxing in South
Major Harvey L. Miller,
Heinie to most of us, has been
jumping back and forth be-
tween Washington and South
ern Conference boxing points
like a commuter on the 5:15
and during a breathing spell
between trips found time to
rave about the freshman team
Of the University of North Caro-
lima. He finds collegiate box
ing in the South at its highest
pitch. Heinie foresees one Of
the greatest throngs of modern
times at the Navy-Virginia
matches tomorrow night at
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
RED FLASHES PLAY

Red Flashes, girls basketball
team, plays the Rockville A. c..
Sextet tonight at 8 o'clock in the
Hine Junior High School gymna-
sium. The contest is part Of the
Southeast Community Center
schedule.
The Washington times., 1934-02-09
Eastern Expected to Win
High Basketball Title
Ry SID KATZNELL,

Unless the unexpected happens, champion will be
crowned today in the interhgh basketball series
The Washington times., 1934-09-03

Mr.. Riggin called police and
Emergency Hospital.
An eighth precinct cruiser ar
rived before the ambulance and
took the victim to Emergency Hos
pital. 1t was found that one of
the bullets had lodged in Mr..
Mays side, inflicting a severe
flesh wound and the other had
penetrated his left thigh. Hos
pital physicians say he will re-
cover.
Robbed Month Ago
Less than a month ago, another
robbery assault was made on Mr.
May at the same station. At that
time. Mr.. May was taken by the
robbers and thrown over the fence
behind the filling station border
ing on the park. He rolled down
the steep embankment and was
seriously bruised.
Police were furnished a meager
description of one of the robbers
who is said to be between 80 and
IS years old and weighs about 1856
pounds. He wore a blue suit and
no hat.
Fingerprints found on the fill
ing station. safe and on several
coins the men dropped in fleeing
are being checked by headquar
tiers detectives.
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
KENT BEATEN
:. IN OPENING
LEGAL TILT
'Viruinian Loses in Attempt to
Quash Charge As He Goes
on Trial for Life
BY CARROLL PEEKE

FTNCASTLE, Va. Sept. 3.-The
defense lost the first round in
the battle to save Major Robert c.
Kent, jr., from the electric chair,
for the kidnapping and murder OF
Mrs. Mary Jane Hastings when
Judge A. C. Buchanan overruled
q demurrer to quash the indict.
ment shortly after the trial
opened.
Hundreds Of persons observed
the Labor Day holiday by coming
to the county seat to attend the
opening of the most sensational
trial ever held here, and the
court room was packed, scores
standing in the aisles and on the
stairways.
Major Kent seemed nervous as
he was driven here from Roanoke
under guard.
Wife Weeps in Court
His wife, clad in a blue dress
and white coat, was already in the
courtroom when he entered, and
there were tears in her eyes as
she saw the handouts on mis-
wrists.
Samuel r. Price, defense coun'
sci, entered the demurrer on the
ground that the indictment is
vague and does not specify any
crime under Virginia law.
After overruling this, j u d G e
Buchanan granted a second mo-
ton requiring the State to present
a bill of particulars, setting forth
when the alleged kidnapping took
place and just what was the ''Pe-
cuniary benefit" Major Kent
would receive by Mrs. Hastings
death.
While commemorative Attor-
ney Phillip Kohen was drawing
up this bill, a recess was declared
and Major Kent munched choc-
olate bar, explaining he had
missed his breakfast in the
Roanoke jail.
SwearS Innocence
Before entering the little court
house Major Kent said:
81 swear to God that 1 am in
nOcent. 1 have never killed any
person. This case is a frameup,
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WOll Lays Strike
To NRA Failures

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 G.N.SO =.
Matthew Woll. vice president OF
the American Federation OF Labor,
today ascribed the succession of
strikes and labor disputes to the
New Deals promises to labor
which, he said, have turned into
a succession of disappointmentS.
Upon these alleged disappoint-
ments, Mr.. Woll blamed not only
the strike fever, but also the tight
ening of the grip of corporate
control upon the economic life Of
America"
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
Millionaire Heir
VaniSheS, Hunted

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 0.N.SO .
Police of Illinois, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Con-
necticut today were asked to
watch for William Weinstock, 49,
year-old son of millionaire parents
and a student at New York Uni
versity, who disappeared Friday
from Atlantic City. Young Vein
stock, an enthusiastic stamp col.
lector, carried $500 worth of rare
stamps and $500 in cash when last
seen,
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
Labor Chiefs
Hopeful On
Holiday
By International News Service

Labor leaders and Federal
labor authorities, faced with a
strike in the textile industry,
today took stock of labor's posi-
ton, and found much for graft
fication as they addressed Labor
Day throngs in various sections
Of the country.
Labor leaders who praised
President Roosevelt's National
Recovery Administration and the
New Deal included William Green,
president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor: John L. Lewis
and Phil Murray, president and
vice president, respectively, of the
United Mine Workers of Amer
ica, and Frank Morrison, secre-
tary of the A. F.. of L.
Matthew Woll, vice president
of the A. F.. of L., in a Labor
Day weekend address found the
succession of disappointment"
under the New Deal resulting in
greater interest in Commun-
ism"
Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor, pointed out that purchas-
ing power had been increased in
the past year by public projects
and that "aS a nation we are
recognizing that the programs
long thought of as merely labor
welfare are really essential eco
nomic factors for recovery and
for the technique of industrial
management in mass produc-
ton age"
Citing the Federal experiments
in industrial readjustment, Mr..
Green asked:
"ShaII we plan for future pro-
ductiOn of abundance for all
or shall we try to curb mass pro-
ductiOn into scarcity channels
with luxury for the few and pow
erty for the many?"
Mr.. Lewis maintained industry
had failed to take up the slack
of unemployment and declared
the time ripe for the passage of
34-hour week bill.
Mr.. Woll called upon the
churches to unite with organized
labor to promote social justice in
all phases of American life as the
only means to defeat a common
foe"-communiSm.
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
MANY IGNORE
WALKOUT 7
ORDERS
Real Test Not Expected
Before Wednesday Night;
Leaders Satisfied
By LEO V. DOLAN

NEW YORK, Sept. ON.SD.
Operators of the nations textile
mills, where the clatter of whirl-
ing SpindleS was scheduled to be
muted to a murmur today and to
be halted tomorrow, were cheered
this afternoon with reports Of
numerous defections in the Strik.
ers' ranks.
Although it was impossible to
gauge effectiveness of the nation
wide strike call today, because OF
the Labor Day holiday, plant
owners were hopeful that the de-
sertions noted today would indi.
cate the trend at clock puching
time in the mills tomorrow.
Strike leaders, grimly silent,
pushed forward with plans to ex-
tend the planned walkout to other
industries allied with the cotton
textile plants and force show
down with the manufacturers.
Many Remain
A bird's-eye view of the strike
panorama showed that while an
industrial paralysis gripped sew
eral of the important textile-pro-
ducing centers of the South.
where Labor Day is not generally
observed, reluctance in some labor
circles to obey the strike call had
crystalized into definite deterni-
nation to remain at work, with
this determination observable not
only in the South but in the pop
ulous mill-towns of New England
as we'll
Constituting the most serious
blow suffered by strike leaders
in the South, all mills in the
Greenville IS. c. area opened
their gates as usual today. Less
than 1000 of the 1880 textile
workers in Greenville county OBJ
served the strike call. At Seneca,
S. c., $50 employees disregarded
jeering picket lines and, under
the convoy of National Guards.
men, entered the mills.
Eighteen mills in the Anderson
IS. c. sector likewise began opera
tions on a normal basis today.
with $500 operatives trooping
into the mills on schedule.
N. C. Mills Closed
In contrast, survey of North
Carolina showed a Tightening Of
the strikes grip there. Picket
lines were drawn about the few
mills which planned to open.
Other mills issued surprise "ob-
servance orders" for Labor Day.
Thirty7seven of the As mills in
CASTOR county failed to open,
while only so per cent of the mill
personnel at Gastonia reported
for duty.
Strike votes in the six Horse
Creek Valley mills in Georgia in
dicated nonconformance with the
strike order. In Augusta, how
ever, 1000 workers have voted to
join the strike.
Strike leaders in Ala ba m a
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Lumber Schooner
Aground in Fog

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.
G.N.SO.-Groping through a pea
soup fog, the lumber schooner
]. B. Stetson ran aground today
on the rocks of Cypress Point
off the Monterey Coast, accord,
ing to a report received here by
the Chamber of Commerce sta.
ton. The United States Coast
Guard cutter Daphne was racing
to the rescue. Plying between
Los Angeles and Monterey, the
vessel carried a crew of about
Is men.
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
THRONGS SEE
LABOR DAY
PARADE
Troops, Firemen Join Labor
in CoIorfuI Line of March;
Rain Fails to Mar Fete
BY EARL GOODWIN

Labor Joined with the fire
fighters today, to stage a color.
full parade in washington, which
lost none of it's interest because
of the clouds and the occasional
burst of rain.
Led by a troop of cavalry and
a battery of artillery, together
with a mounted band from Fort
Myer, the parade hiked along the
Natl ional Capitals traditional
route for such professions. filling
Pennsylvania Avenue from the
Peace Monument to the Treasury
At the Treasury the paraderS
turned south to Constitution Ave
nue., filing past a reviewing stand
on which were men prominent
in local labor organizations, as
we'll as the heads of the police
and fire departments, with the
visitors from neighboring towns
and cities.
Firemen Add Color
Although the parade was spon-
sored by the Central Labor Union,
and was Labor's annual celebra.
ton in honor of the organized
labor movement in this country,
the firemen carried off the hon.
ors in so far as colorful units of
the procession are concerned.
Fire engines, "hook-and-ladder"
companies, and the numerous
ladies' auxiliary organizations
connected with the out-of-town
volunteer organizations as we'll as
a few from within the limits of
the District, and several huge
floats entered in the parade by
the various District of Columbia
fire battalions, led the column
and aroused the crowds to cheers
despite the driZZle.
The four sections of the parade
were led by Gen. Amos w. Fries,
with Major E. w. Brown, super
intendent of police, and Chief
Engineer Charles Schrom, of the
fire department, and John B.
Colpoys, United States Marshal,
representing labor. Richard A.
Dickson, president of the Central
Labor Union, acted as grand
marshal for the day.
COlpOyS Speaks
From a reviewing stnad on
Constitution Avenue near Fiji
teenth Street, officials of the day
received the Salutes of the march
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2-Week Romance
Leads to Wedding

TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 3 G.N.S).
The old Western story of a pretty
coquette from the East who is
wooed in a whirlwind courtship
by a dashing cowboy has come
true for Betty Laycock, educator
of Dayton, Ohio, and A. Studley,
Hart, of Elgin, Ariz.
The two were on a honeymoon
in the Southwest today after a
secret wedding. They met for the
first time two weeks ago. They
will! live on a ranch at Elgin.
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Rogers
Says:

ODESSA, Sept. 3.-Say these
old RuSShianS can really fly.
We had about a IS to 7O-fOOt
ceiling today and they stuck
right under it. That's what the
japanese are more afraid Of
than any other thing Is that
these guys will Outfly 'em.
Commercial aviation not hot,
but military, and it looks like
they got 'em by the thousands.
Who hasn't pictured Odessa on
the Black Sea. Russia and Tur-
key been fighting over this for
a thousand years. Do you re.
member it in the Russian pic
ture "POtemkin," that long row
of steps from the ocean to the
hill. Well, they are right into
this hotel.
Copyright. 1894 by McNaughO
syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
Jewish Veterans
Oppose McFadden

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.,, Sept. 3
G.N.SO war veterans, in
annual convention here today,
adopted resolution protesting to
the Republican National Commit
tee the selection of Representative
Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylva-
mia as one of the party's official
speakers, because of disparaging
remarks made by him against
Jews and appearing in printed
copies of the Congressional Rec
ord.
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
NRA TO LEAD
NEW DRIVE
FOR JOBS
Labor's Unrest Forces New
Dealers to Tackle Problem
of Unemployment Afresh
By FRANKLIN G. sARTWELL

BY FkANhk1N u. SAn1 WE'LL
Discontinue Of organized labor
over the failure of the New Deal
to make appreciable inroads on
the ranks of the unemployed is
causing Administration leaders to
pass a troubled Labor Day today.
With William Green, president
of the American Federation of La
Dor, voicing the discomfort of his
cohorts over the lack of definite
plans for increasing employment,
Administration officials are por-
ing over the recent report of the
executive council, seeking some
light on what steps should be
taken in the immediate future to
meet both the problem and the dis
couragement that marks labor'S
outlook.
New NRA Drive Seen
Out of the present deliberations
of the New Dealers is expected to
come some concrete plan for re-
employment, with the probability
that the new effort will be made
by the National Recovery Admin
istration after the pending reor-
ganizaion has been completed.
The new plan, it is expected,
will result from a stronger appeal
to industry to absorb additional
workers, not as a sacrifice to the
national good, but as a matter Of
"enlightened selfishnesS."
The new effort that is being
considered will be directed toward
assuring industry that the Govern
ment does not contemplate any
sensational schemes which would
cause capital to be frightened.
Hopkins to Be Quieter
Along this line the Government
already has taken several steps.
These include the softening of the
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Mrs. Mooney Dies,
Battling for Son

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3
U.N.SO.-Mary Mooney, 86. who
had devoted her last years in an
effort to free from San Quentin
prison her son, Tom Mooney, died
last night after heart attack in
her small cottage South of the
Slot"
Mooney. serving life term, was
notified, but was not allowed to
make statement until the return
to prison of Warden James B.
Hogohan. John Mooney, another
son, said his mother, had been
weakened by her activities in be-
half of Upton Sinclair, Democratic
nominee for Governor.
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
McCandless Raps
Hawaiian Critics

Despite President Roosevelt's re-
cent praise for the Territory OF
Hawaii, the island continues to
suffer from misstatements of un'
informed writer's and other pre-
JUDGED critics, Representative l.
l.. McCandless, Congressional del
egate from the Territory, declared
in public statement today.
Representative McCandleSs, hit
ting at critics of the island
pointed out that in the "a years
she has been a part of the United
States, Hawaii has remitted in
Federal taxes approximately $50,
100000 more than she has re
ceived from the Federal govern
ment for running expenses.
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
Machine Gun Kelly
Off to AlcatraZ

LEAVENWORTH, Kan, Sept. 3
U.N.S.O.-After a weeks delay due
to premature publicity, George
''Machine Gun" Kelly, Harvey
Bailey, Albert Bates and more
than 100 other toughest" con-
victs of the Federal penitentiary
here today were en- route to their
new home, Uncle Sans escape.
proof" prison on Alcatraz Island
in San Francisco Bay.
Shackled in pairs. the prisoners
were placed aboard an armored
train of six coaches as floodlightS
illuminated the penitentiary build.
ings and grounds.
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not to be the actual security on
the loan.
Hitherto, the only private finan-
cial institutions that could provide
cash for the repair and alteration
of homes, stores and other prop
erty. under the rules of the Fed
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Arkansas Gets
Heavy Rainfall

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Sept. 3.
Heavy rains fell in Arkansas yes
terday, the first time any sub
stantial amount of precipitation
has fallen generally in the State
since May.
In the Fort Smith area about
as inches fell, and Fayetteville
reported a six foot rise in the
White River during a "a hour
period.
The Washington times., 1934-09-03
Professors Fate
Still a Mystery

GLACIER PARK. Mont, Sept.
3 O.N.SO.-EffortS of scores Of
Searchers on both sides of the
Canadian boundary failed today
to lift the cloud of mystery hang
ing over the disappearance Of DR..
F. H. Lumley, q, a member Of
the University of Ohio staff.
Conflicting stories as to where
he planned to go when he left
Goat Haunt Camp in the north
ern part of Glacier National Park
three weeks ago made the search
more difficult.
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Suspect Is Taken
In HOusebreaking

Robert Brisiel, of Hazelton, Pa,
IS held by Montgomery county po-
lice in connection with the enter
ing of summer cottages in the
woods near Chain Bridge. He was
captured by Policeman Frank
Soper after. a chase of nearly a
mile yesterday. Police said he
was carrying a suitcase loaded
with jewelry and clothing.