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The Washington times., 1934-01-24
ROOSEVELT D. K.
ON LIQUOR ACT
DUE TODAY
Control Board Accepting Bids
For Jobs; Prepare to
Start Prompt Action

President Roosevelt will sign
the District liquor control bill
some time today or tonight.
The bill was returned to the
White House late yesterday after
it had been reviewed by the De-
partment of Justice and the
Treasury Department.
Hope that it would be signed
early today so the new District
Alcohol Beverage Control Board
might start functioning, waned
when the President announced
that, while it is on his desk, he
has not yet had time to consider
it.
Considering New Jobs
While waiting for the bill to be
signed, the District Commissioners
today started considering appli-
cants for minor posts on the ABC,
clerks, assistants and inspectors.
With regulations for sale CON-
pleted, the Commissioners are fin
ishing the type of license blanks
to be used, and as soon as Con-
gress appropriates the necessary
funds, the control board will swing
into action.
AS soon as applications for
licenses are filed, they will be ad-
vertised for two weeks, and If at
the expiration Of that time no OBJ
jections have been filed with the
board, the licenses will be granted
and sale may start at once.
Two o'clock in the morning
will be the latest you may pur-
chase drink when liquor finally
becomes legal in the District,
under the regulations now being
drawn up.
After that the city will be arid
until 9 Of the same morning. If
you have a terrible thirst, how
ever, the "off sale" stores will be
open at a. m. for liquor pur-
chaseS.
Once the bill is signed, the three
members of the District Alcohol
Beverage Control Board, George
Offutt, chairman, Mrs. William
Beverly Mason and Isaac Cans
will meet and start the work of
organization to speed return Of
liquor.
However, nothing can be done
until the $4,000 appropriation
needed to carry on expenses of
the board for the balance Of this
fiscal year and the next.
Drawing Up Rules
Corporation Counsel William w.
Bride and his assistant, Vernon E.
West, are drawing up regulat ationS
to govern the sale. Under these,
it was learned, hours of sale in
"off sale" stores will be from 8
a. m. to 8 p. m. week days, with
the closing hour Saturday night
set at 9 p. m. for hard liquor.
Beer and wine may be sold up to
Rolling bars, as used in New
York. will be banned, and as now
drafted, the regulations do not
permit the mixing of hard liquor
in sight of the patron. This means
that no service bar may be located
in the room where the liquor is
consumed unless it is screened off.
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
Citizens Unit Backs
Black Aqe Measure

Passage of the Black old age
security bill was urged today by
the North Capital Citizens Asso-
citation in a letter to Representa-
tive Mary T. Norton CD Of New
Jersey. chairman of the House
District Committee.
The Black bill differs from a
sim ar measure introduced by
Mrs. Norton, in that it provides
pensions for persons over 68, in
stead of go, and requires admins
tration of the act by the Board
of Public Welfare instead of by q
separate commission:
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
DiStrictLO6
daily resume of the District
Committees District Commissioners
House District Committee

Petition signed by 10000 persons received requesting
religious radio programs. (Story this page.)
Approval of Black old-age pension bill voiced in letter
from North Capitol Citizens Association
Request for passage of D. c. estate tax law made by
Petworth Citizens Association. (Story on this page)
Military Affairs Committee made inspection of nine
proposed sites for D. c. airport No decision (Stoy
this page.)
House District Committee held weekly meeting with
Representative Mary T. Norton D) of New Jersey pre-
siding Public hearing old-age security bill.
Members present: Representatives Norton, Paamisano
Dksen Absent Representatives Black Harlan, Kennedy
Weideman, Owen, Jenckes Werner, Stalker Whitley,
Subject under considerations Od-age security bill No
action. (Story on Page 2.l
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
D. D.C.FUNDFA|LS
To AUTHORIZE
BUILDINGS
District Committee, Upper
House, Holds Hearings on
Dire Educational Needs

Protesting the failure Of the
District budget to carry any
major school construction items,
citizens from practically every
section of the city today laid
District school needs before the
Senate District Committee at an
open public forum.
Danger to children's lives be-
cause of the necessity of travel
ing great distances to schools,
lack of facilities, overcrowding
and other complaints were ad-
vanced as men and women, rep
resenting civic associations, took
the stand.
Must Cross Tracks
c. w. Sherratt, representing
the Benning Citizens Association,
urged construction of either an
underpass or an overpass from
Minnesota Ave. to Kenilworth,
declaring that the lives of hun
dreds of children are endangered
each day.
He pointed out that the chill
dren are required to cross rail-
road tracks en- route to school
His wife followed him to the
stand and urged additional school
facilities in Benning, pointing
out that children of Junior high
school age must travel great dis
tanceS to school.
She said further that her asso-
citation had carried this complaint
to the Board Of Education, but
that it has failed to do anything
about it.
Illiteracy Charges
Construction Of a junior high
school in West End Washington
and remodeling of the 5O-year-old
Grant School was urged by Mrs.
Belle Cutler Parker, chairman of
the school committee of the West
End Citizens Association.
Mrs. Parker complained that
the Grant School is much over.
crowded and in "bad shape"
Declaring that illiteracy is
greater on the other side Of
Fifteenth and H Streets Northeast
than in any other section Of the
city, Edgar w. Horad, represent
ing the Charles Young Parent
Teacher Association, a colored
group, asked for increased school
facilities in that community.
He blamed the illiteracy on
the lack of proper school facilities
and urged construction of a
junior high school and senior
high school.
ASSailS Douglas
Mrs. Leslie Wright, representing
the Alice Deal Junior High
School Parent Teacher Associa-
ton, caused sensation in the
forum when she complained that
Budget Director Lewis w. Douglas
"Sits up in the Treasury Depart
ment" administering District funds
without knowing anything about
District needs, she said.
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
No Economists

I would make a side bet that
no one will nominate the work
Of an economist, and that
makes me think of a little pc
culiarity about human beings.
I suppose that for the last 5000
years the principal problem OF
our existence has been to ar
range a way for us to live in
reasonable comfort and prefer
ably in an orderly society. Yet
If you are asked to name the
hundred greatest men who ever
lived should think that less
than half dozen would be
men who had contributed any
thing to the satisfaction of that
primary need, and of that half
dozen three would be religious
leaders who had set up ideals
which had not been followed.
We have men of superlative
genius on our list in the very
necessary business of establish
ing kingdoms by killing citi-
zens: and of equal genius in
expressing the feelings Of love
and pity and protest against
the cruelty of the world; and Of
men who make great discov-
cries in science or invent at
tractive devices. But Is there
anybody in the field of econo-
mics as certain of his rank as
Newton is in science, or Shakes
peare in poetry? The usual an
sWer is that economics is neither
as definite a thing as science or
as emotional as poetry. The
main trouble seems to be that
economics depends on human
beings.
Millions For New Marxes
But think that one reason
for this chaos through which
we are living is that the great
est minds of the past have never
bothered about how we should
live at all. You have Aristotle,
Adam Smith and Karl Marx
as the great theorists-three in
IS centuries. It hardly seems
enough. What is more, we have
thrown the business of develop
ing a satisfactory way of liv-
ing together into the hands of
people whom we ourselves con-
slider unfit-the dreamers of
Utopias, the rebels and the out
casts.
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
Senate District Committee

Met and conducted a forum. Various citizens and rep
resenaves of civic organizations expressed views and
posas for legislation Present. Senators King Reynolds,
Capper, Keane Davis Story this page Absent: Sen
aors Glass, Copeland Tydings, Gore Lewis Bankhead Nc
Carran Carey, Austin and Couzens Met for two hours
Senator King advised by the Treasury Department that
the latter has no objection his bill designed to aid in the
reorganization of the Mt Vernon Savings Bank and Frank
lin National Bank. (Storv on page 81
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
True To
. Type
oCitizens Plead With Senators for School Aid
SpengIer and Wilson
Recommended to
Posterity
R~ CTT DEDT GET nEc

The first two nominating
speeches for books which will
be alive after 1854 are not only
interesting in themselves, but
for the contrast which they pro
vide. william Liberman raises
his voice for Spengler's DE
cline Of the West" and Tay'
ley Mack nominates Professor,
How Could You?" by Harry
Leon Wilson. Even under the
New Deal the population of the
United States would probably
be 150,000,000 in 1854, so that
there will be a chance for more
than one book and more than
one kind of book to survive.
But my memory of these two
books would suggest that one
will kill out the other. For
Spengler, Mr.. Liberman says
that his conclusions will GER
tainly be pointed at-perhaps
with awe perhaps with tri-
umph," especially with triumph
If Spengler is wrong and hui
manity "overcomes the destiny
which he maps out" It is as
Q poet and philosopher, how
ever, and as a man revealing
the primal moving forces Of
the soul that Spengler is chiefly
to be admired"
Good Americana
Mr.. Mack has a kind feeling
for Wodehouse, Thomas Mann,
Proust and Faulkner, but linn
iting himself to one of first
choice, he writes: "I nominate
Harry Leon Wilson's Professor.
How Could You?' which I think,
in addition to being one Of the
best stories have ever read,
will be considered by the col
lege professors as important in
the same sense they will con.
slider Main Street or 'Babbitt'
important; namely, that they
both shed light on America.
But while 'Babbitt' is in danger
Of dating, Wilson'S America is
far more than America of the
particular dec a d. he wrote
about. And a very much nicer
picture of America, because he
has found it's kindliness."
The Washington times., 1934-01-24

Petition signed by 10000 persons received reques
religious radio programs. (Story this page)
The Washington times., 1934-01-24
Board of Commissioners

The Commissioners did not meet board.
Melvin c. Hazen president of the board and Commissioner
George E. Allen held one-hour conference in regard to
liquor regulation and other matters pertaining to liquor leg
islation. (Story this page)
Superintendent of Insurance Herbert Davis suspended
the license of the Our Home Life Insurance Co. Story
this page)
Evening star., 1934-08-05

He'd rather be
swinging on a tree
limb in Sumatra-
but next best this
orang-utan Ii k e S
his Washington
Zoo home.
Evening star., 1934-08-05

Dressed II wheat.
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Washington State
turn out in q Va
rletv Of costumes
for the first an
nual wheat style
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Wala center Of
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wheat country
VIDE " 0rld Photos
Evening star., 1934-08-05

The GRO c odile
sees the joke. Or
maybe he sees only
a dainty morsel CT
fish dangling be-
fore those unpleas-
ant jaws.
Evening star., 1934-08-05

4 testimonial. tor
bottle babies Tins
African { and larg
est ut the 3ntelOpe>
was raised on a
bottle AZ the Zoo
from his birth IN
February. 1852
Evening star., 1934-08-04
Team Carefully Chosen.


1.-THE Aurora four. for instance. Is
back In this country after
playing for a month or so on
English fields. This invading team
was carefully selected by the Polo As
sociation not only for its ability to
play polo-which, of course, was OF
important onsideration--but for the
character Of the players. their sports
manlike qualities, their status as men
Of the world.
Playing abroad, they won the great
est championship of all. the British
championship; they won the Roe
hampton open and lost at Ranelagh
and in the Coronation Cup.
The fact that team so good as
tHlis-it rated 80 goals-did not sweep
everything before it. as 1t was ex-
pected to do, was the most hearten-
ing thing that has happened to Brit
ish polo since the World War and has
given an impulse to the game over
there which nothing else could have
done.
But, from a broader aspect, this
bulks unimportantly beside the fact OF
the wholesome reception OF the
American players in England. hos
pitality which, while It may have
gained added fervor from the fact
that the visitors had not swept all
fields Of their British rivals, was not
initially due TO this fact. Indeed, en-
tertainment began before important
matches were played. !.
The Jockey Club, for instance, took
the Aurora players. to the Derby as
its guests, something that has never
before happened in the hundred or
more years in which England's ruling
turf organization has been In exist
ence.
Evening star., 1934-08-04

than harm out of daily runs, due to
the terrible strain put on the heart
in carrying such bulk at a running
pace. There is, too, some truth to
this. All that one has to do is to
look back on most of the great dis
tance runners and they will find out
that these runners were small
men"
If you happen to think Italy
hasn't taken this fighting business
seriously, follow Spike Webb's re-
port further:
"A move is now on foot through
out Italy, with none other than
Mussolini himself back of it, to
force Max Baer to meet Camera
again. When this happens the
people here are going to send a
complete staff of expert trainers to
look after their fighters welfare.
Camera will be trained entirely by
Italian trainers, with no Americans
allowed in the camp, so they say.
''Thsse Italian sportSmen are
proud people. They want that
heavyweight crown back here, where
Evening star., 1934-08-04
NET
FIELD NARROWED
Semi-FinaIs in Senior and
Junior Divisions Will Be
Played Monday.

q EMI-FINAL play in both the
- senior and junior divisions
will begin Monday in the
- Playground Departments
city tennis championships. Six
players reached the quarter
finals in the senior group yes
terday and only quarter-final
junior match remained to be
played.
An upset yesterday among the
seniors was the victory Of John Koont7
Of Sherwood over Dave Schaefer Of
Twin Oaks, Ga, 6--4. Schaefer was
seeded No. 4. Others to move for
ward in the senior division were
Nathan Ritzenburg, seeded No. /, of
Cooke; Eddie Pinkham, Tech High
captain, Burroughs. seeded No. 2,
and Melvin Dover, 1888 junior cham
pion. Balisario Contrares, Eastern
High captain, and Dave Cromer Of
Park View gained the quarter finals
on Thursday.
Evening star., 1934-08-04
Italians Firm i'm Belief Carnera Was Overtrained
Boxing Interesting Ring

have talked to several expert
trainers and they agree that
Primo Camera was more than
overtrained for the contest. They
go on to point out that Cameras
American trainers forced the big
fellow TO run miles on the road
for three straight weeks prior TO
getting into the ring. This, they
contend, was entirely too much
for their countryman along with
the great amount of other work
the trainers mapped out for him
to do.
such strenuous training. they
say, not only took all the rubber
out Of Cameras legs and arm
muscles, but weakened his heart
as well These Italian trainers are
pretty smart men when it comes
10 knowing the makeup of the
human body, as they are required
70 study medicine along with other
things.
What interested me most of all
was how they went on to explain
that man of Cameras height and
weight could not get anything more
Evening star., 1934-08-04
63 PLAYING FINAL
INCANAD|AN OPEN
Armour in Van by 3 Shots.
Short LakevieW Course
Has Stars Guessing.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TORONTO, Ontario, August
4.-The top so and ties,
making SO all told, came
= out today to play the final
So holes of the 72-hole medal
rounds for the Canadian open
championship, and no one, not
even Tommy Armour, in the van,
knew what to expect of the short
Lakeview course.
The war-torn Scot from Chicago
Eeaded the field, with rounds of So
and 73 for a halfway total of 142,
three strokes better than Bill Mehl-
horn Of Louisville and Herman Bar
ron Of Port Chester, N. Y, both of
whom added 73s yesterday to earlier
TBS for a second-place tie at las
strokes.
Jack Littler, Ottawa professional,
who shot SO, the only subpar round
yesterday, was the closest of the native
shotmakers. and he was tied in the
third division, behind Barron and
Mehlhorn, with Fay Coleman of Cul-
yer City. Calf, Light Horse Harry
Cooper of Chicago and Sam Parks of
Pittsburgh, with 146.
Evening star., 1934-08-04
SWIM FINALS HOLD
ATTENTION OF GIRLS
Midcity Completes Playground
Trials-Ann Tilson, Mary
Zanelotta Lead.

%IRL swimmers aff1liated with va
NJ rious Fairgrounds of the city
now are looking 10 the city inter-
playground meet next Friday after
noon in the Monument pool. The
last of three sectional meets to de-
termine qualifiers for the city affair
was held yesterday when nearly 200
competed in the mid-city tests In the
Monument pool.
Ann Tilson and Mary Zanelotta
were standout performers in 25-yard
free style tests. Those winning and
placing second and third in the sec
tional meets qualified for the city
affair.
Summaries:
BEGINNERS CLASS.
10 Years and Under.
l0-yard free style-Won by Eleanor
Aeler tMunicipaD: second Norma Dono-
van IEeklnston)i third, Ellen Harris (Mu-
Over 10 Years.
= 10-yard free style.-won by Doris Payne
tMunicipaD; second. Mary Shelley iMu-
nlclpaDi third, Margaret Partlow (Ecking-
Balloon raee-wOn by Margaret Part
=. u
Partlow (Eckington).
OPEN CLASS.
10 to I2 Years.
o5-yard free style-Won by Lois SOM
mers (MunicipaD second. Marsuerite
knupp tEckington); third. Martha Mothers
head tMunicipai).
zanelotta CMunicfpaD; second. Mary
Stevens CMunicipaD; third, Helen Fiett
BaIIoon race-won by Helen F1ett. sec-
ond. Dorothea Dron (MunicipaD; third,
Martha Mothershead.
Is and Ia Years.
25-yard free style-Won by Mary Zane
(Garheld) third. Lillian Snider (Municipan
25-yard breast stroke-Won by Mar
garet Alley; second. Mary Zanelotta; third.
Lorraine Dorr tEckington).
Balloon race-Won by Lillian Snider;
second, Peggy Walter tMunieipaD; third.
May Green (Garheldl.
Is and is Years.
25-yard free style-Won by Ann Tilson
tEckingtonl; second, Tille Dlegelmann
CMunicIpaD; third. Mary Relic CMunicipaD
25-yard SIDE stroke-Won by Louise
Ratcliffe tVirginis Avenue second. Anna
belle Knauss (MunicipaD; third, Helen
FersuSon tEckinRton).
II Years and Over.
25-yard free style-won by Evelyn
Strother; second. Ruth Dorsey; third.
Lucille Hininger TALL MunicipaD.
25-ysrd side stroke-Won by Lucille
HiIlinger; second. Evelyn Strother; third,
Faye Newman tall MunicipaD.
Special Open Event.
Won by Mildred warei second Ann
Rider, third. Dorcas Neil.
Evening star., 1934-08-04

II Duce can point to it with pride,
saying, That is an accomplishment
of one OF my men,"
Although it is the opinion in this
corner that Camera never will be
able to cope with fighter of Baer's
punching power. always provided
Bser is in shape himself, neverthe-
less the public clamor over their
first championship bout was such
as TO guarantee big dividends for all
concerned If and when return
match is arranged. Moreover, the
reaction has been to give the big
Italian the benefit Of the doubt, II
any, inasmuch as he emerged from
the bout with fractured ankle and
in defeat gave a highly courageous
account Of himself.
do not imagine Signor MuSsohni
will make any issue of a return
match with our Department OF
State. SO far as the two principals
are concerned, assurances respect
ing the gate receipts should obviate
the necessity Of diplomatic over
tures,
Evening star., 1934-08-04
1STR,AnQsHT OEE THAE TEE
by w. r. Ms CALLuM

the credit of Capital golfers as a
result of yesterdays links forays.
Over at Washington w. E. Birgfeld
scored an ace on he 155-yard second
hole, the result of an accurate mashie
shot, and at Kenwood Tom Dennell,
a Maryland State policeman, whacked
a shot toward the pin at the seven
teenth which hit in the trap, bounced
the bank and rolled into the cup
for the ace. The hole plays about
100 yards in length.
Mrs. F.. G. Await, chairman of the
Women's Coli Committee, and Mrs.
j. F. Dowdall, the club champion,
split first place in the tourney at
Congressional yesterday. Both fin
ished down to par. Mrs. D. A.
Welte won the putting event, with
"a puts for the Is holes.
Over at Manor another tie found
Mrs. E. NJ. McClelland and Mrs. D.
w. Bell deadlocked for first place
with net cards of n in the blind
bogey affair. Mrs. J. z. Nell and
MIS-. l.. " E4oS A1A II AACI W SAC
for second place. Mrs. ]. Ebert won
the tourney on the inside nine with a
net of 40.
Greenkeepers of the Midatlantic
sector are to gather on Monday at
the Arlington Turf Garden for a
talk by DR.. John Monteith and to
inspect the various kinds of grasses
being raised at the garden. A golf
tournament in the afternoon. at Ban
nockburn will follow the visit to the
turf garden. and a dinner at night
will close the meeting.
Evening star., 1934-08-04
WOMAN NET STARS
FALL BY WAYSIDE
Mrs. Andrus, Katherine Winthrop,
Not Among Top Ten, Play
Woodin Cup Final.

BY the Associated Press.
II ASTHAMPTON, N. Y, August 4.
r. Two Eastern girls from out
side Americas first ten," 20
year-old katherine Winthrop of Bos-
ton and Mrs. Dorothy Andrus of
Stamford, Conn, are all that is left
today Of a field of stars that sought
the william H. Woodin Gold Cup for
the annual Maidstone Club tennis
tournament.
They came down to the final round
today through a series of upsets that
eliminated yesterday when Miss VIM
throp eliminated Josephine Cruick-
shank Of Santa Ana, Calf, 6-3,
Sc, 6-4, and Mrs. Andrus put out
Mrs Mary Greet Harris Of Kansas
City, 81, Ga, Is, in the semi
finals.
The doubles final matched Carolin
Babcock of Los Angeles and Mrs.
Andrus against Miss Cruickshank and
Mrs. John Van Ryn of Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1934-08-04
BELLS NET STREAK
BROKEN BY PARKER
Californian Is Bereft of Place in
Final as frankie Stars at
Meadow Brook.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COUTHAMPTON, N. Y, August A.
y There's a final on for a singles
tennis championship today and
for the first time in many weeks
Berkeley Bell, the veteran Texan,
isn't in it.
He was snapped up short yesterday
in the semi-finals of the annual
Meadowbrook invitation tournament
by young Frankie Parker, l-6, 81,
60, 11-9, and so today the 18-
year-old Lawrenceville student meets
Bryan (Bitsy) Grant. the torrid little
Georgian, in the final round. Grant
eliminated Henry Prusoff of Seattle,
in straight sets, 6-4, IS, rs.
The final for the Meadowbrook
doubles title is scheduled to follow the
singles. Robert (Lefty) Bryan of
Chattanooga and John McDiarmid of
Fort Worth are paired against the
young California team, Gene Mako Of
Los Angeles and Donald Bulge Of
Oakland.