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Evening star., 1934-02-11

Gordon, who each gave several read.
ings. A short business session fol-
lowed the program. One new COM
mittee was appointed, Art and Co.'S
tune, which will be headed by Mrs.
Albert Spear. The group will hold its
next meeting the first Wednesday eve
ming in March, the place of meeting
to be announced later.
Evening star., 1934-02-11

"I am not condemning our romantic
boys and girls of today, however. I
applaud them, particularly the mod
ern girl.
Every generation of loves young
dream has had its setbacks. The big
gest handicap to golden romance
probably was experience in the days
when I was a girl. Those were bore
some days because the young folks
were never permitted to do the things
they liked to do. If they did do the
things they liked gossips Immediately
branded them as improper.
because of the strict watch most
families Kept on their youngsters
many marriages proved unsuccessful.
They turned out to be failures be-
cause the young lovers kept up their
courtships too long"
Wearing the costumes of 1900 and
standing ON a set Of that period miss
Robson is now making You Can't
Buy Everything'O gave an added au-
thenticity to her remarks about the
past. And her alert staccato manner
Of talking made you realize that here
Is one woman who has moved men
tally with her times and whose
opinions of modern life lose none Of
their brilliance because she is no
longer in her early years.
To-day" she went on to say, "our
children sometimes stretch the court
ship situation to the other extreme.
So many of their marriages go smash
because young folks speed up their
courtships in a futile effort to keep
pace with the rush of modern times.
with new records being shattered
every day by speed contrivances, to-
days romantic youth tries to set a
similar hundred-mile-a e-an-hour pace.
Before they learn the first names
Of the sweethearts they intend to
marry they dash off to preacher
or q justice of the peace and tie the
knot Then, after marriage and when
they finally do get acquainted, they
make the bitter discovery that they
took the vital step too hastily and
that they are not suited to each
other.
"Such marriages as these lead
many of our young people into the
divorce courts and often wreck the
future happiness of all concerned.
In the days when I was young
most of the difficulty lay in the fact
that young people were the victims
Of intolerance. No matter what they
wanted to do, they were told, Don't
do this and don't do that
Evening star., 1934-02-11
RIP" on His Way.
WASHINGTON IRvING's immortal

classic. RIP Van Wrinkle" Is to
be the fifth and the next to the last
play TO be given here this season by
the Children's Theater OF New York
under the sponsorship of the Women's
International League.
1t Is announced for a single per-
formance Saturday morning, March
10, at the National Theater. Wendell
Whitten. remembered here for past
performances with Walter Hampden
in "Cyrano de Bergerac," and in New
York for his work with Spring Bying
ton in Arnold Bennett's THE Great
Adventure" and in "Old Bill, M. P"
and "The Countess Maritza," Is to
play the title role.
Evening star., 1934-02-11
Fiftv Years an Actress,
She Talks of Young Folk
Nav Robson, in an Interview, Praises the
Freedom and Mentality of the Boys
and Girls of Today.
By MOLLIE MERRICK.

OIYWOOD February 1OMay Robson for SO years
L i an of mother grandmother
and one hopes will still be acting when she Is a
L i ereatgrandmother made very pointed and phil
observations oday generation OF lovers as compared
to the of her youth.
making If such exists, is that
this rush marriage license before they
become acquainted with each other" she
Evening star., 1934-02-11

ming at the st. Paul's Academy audi
torium, 1921 v street northwest, at
$3.50 pm, the proceeds to be devoted
to welfare work. The players are
Tosca Fattarini, Josephine Pisani,
Fred Prico, Alto Faro and Albert
Pugliese. The rehearsals have been
under the direction Of Ugo Carusi
and the arrangements have been
made by Donate Bianchi.
During the intermission selections
will be rendered by Amalia Cont,
harpist, and Clelia F1oravanti, mezzo-
soprano. Members of the Tau Phi
Sigma Sorority will act as ushers.
NEW LITTLE THEATER."
THE Little Theater Of Takoma Park,
held its first meeting Wednesday
evening at the Takoma Elementary
School, with over a hundred members
and guests present John NJ
Sutton, who is president of this group,
opened the meeting with a word of
welcome and gave short history of
the movement locally. Hugh M.
Smythe gave several musical readings.
He was followed by Edward de s.
Melcher, who was the guest speaker
Of the evening. Mrs. j. Worthington
Hayes, chairman of the Program Com
mittee, introduced three members,
Mrs. Parham, Mr.. Smythe and Mrs.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

know his recipe Tor Ghe re11e1
If this sort of thing keeps up,
Barney and Jimmy will have to
60 back to their training camps
and start all over again. AS it is
they must weigh in again today.
and it isn't going to be easy for
McLarnin to make lat pounds
what with two days of loafing
and looking out of the window.
How It Started
The whole trouble has been
that a mistake was made in
matching these boys for fifteen
rounds. 1t hasn't let up raining
that long, but there was one
spell of drought there night be-
fore last when I think they
might have gotten in ten.
If anything should happen
that the lads can't scuffle to-
night, the Christmas fund is go
ing to ask permission of the box
ing commission to fight one
round a night for the next ten
nights, starting Tuesday, at that
rate McLarnin will be a gray
headed old man by the time the
fight is over and little Barney
Ross will have grown into a
nght-heavyweight challenger.
Spectators in Middle
Ticket spectators who
boarded lot of seats to hold for
the last minute price rise, are
fit to be tied. They are afraid
now IL public will cool the is
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

Schmidt, the catcher who used to
beat up Ty Cobb for light exercise
before and after games, died last
winter. Claude Rossman, first
sacker, is gone, and so is Herman
Germany" Schaefer, who went
from Detroit to Washington where
he played second base and joined
in Nick Altrock's merry cloWning
long before the coming of Al
Schacht.
The pitching of the Tigers in
that 1907 series was not so hot.
The Bengals got a tie with th7
Cubs in the first game but that
was as close as they came to win
ming. Jack Pfiester, Drive Over
all, Ed Ruelbach and Mordec2l
Brown moved down the Detroit
hitterS. Not even Cobb could 90
anything much with the Chicago
pitching in that series.
AS Cobb failed, so did Crawford.
If Cobb and Crawford failed to
chip the fences in 1907. Davey
Jones hit like a true Tiger. HIS
average for the series was 1853:
and he preserved the legend OF
hitting Detroit outfielderS.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

The regular catchers will be
missing, but Jimmie Archer, now
employed as hog buyer in the
Union Stock Yards at Chicago,
will be on hand. Archer won his
greatest fame with the Chicago
Cubs, but he started with Detroit.
Hughie Jennings shipped Jimmy
to Buffalo for developing and the
Cubs whipped him up while De-
troit's front office was looking
out the window.
The grim reaper has been busy
since those old Detroit athletes
stormed through to meet the Chi
cago Cubs and their Waterloo.
Wild Bill Donovan, former mana
ger Of the New York Yankees, was
killed some years ago in the wreck
of the Twentieth Century Limited,
en- route to Chicago to attend
mid-winter meeting of the Ameii-
can League.
Pitchers Pass
Three of the old Detroit pitch
ing staff are known to have
passed away. Eddie Siever and
Ed Killian are no longer bound
to this terrestrial sphere. Charley
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
By SID KATZNELL

Alvin ("Jake'D Powell, former
local sandlotter and star out
fielder for the Albany senators Of
the International League, is COM
ing back to Washington.
Powell's acquisition was COM
pleted early today when President
Clark Griffith, of the Washington
Ball Club, turned over Pitcher
Mark Filley, Catcher Elmer
Klumpp and an unannounced sum
of cash to Joe Cambria, owner Of
the Albany club.
Fred Babe" Sington, the
other slugging Albany outfielder,
whom the big league scouts have
been cycling all year, has also been
obtained by the Griffmen. He was
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

purchased yesterday in a transac-
ton which sent Pitcher Ed Chap
man and a bundle of coin to Al
bany.
League Leaders
Both Sington and Powell are
right-handed hitting outfielders.
Both have played Sensationally
with Albany this year, afield and
at bat. Sington leads the Inter
national League in runs driven in,
while Powell is one of the leading
hitters in the circuit.
The new Griff players involved
in the deal are already at Albany.
They've performed there through
out the campaign on option. Now
their options have been erased,
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

sue and go to the shore over the
weekend.
Bill Brown, the loquaciouS
commissioner, who said Baer
wasn't fit to fight Camera, has
nothing to say for the first time
in his life. He says he can't
think when it's raining, but
promises a statement at the first
ray of sunlight.
When the fight is held a
100000 gross gate is antici-
pated.
Should showers continue to-
night, the scrap will have to
pass over until Tuesday night
on account of the Hebrew holi-
day, which starts tomorrow at
sundown and ends Tuesday
the same time.
Barney Ross has been spend
ing his time in the Park Gen.
tral Hotel playing cards and
Jimmy McLarnin has been do
ing likewise in Breton Hall,
but it wasn't a telegraph
match.
Barney RoSs's mother was in
a group where a reporter asked
of a prominent Broadway
character:
who'll VIM"
"The best man." was the
reply.
That's Barney" said Mrs.
Ross.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

players from the Chattanooga
lookouts of the Southern Associa-
ton. They are Leon Petit, Sid
Cohen and Orville Ambrust,
pitchers; Sam Holbrook, catcher,
and Johnny Mihallic, second base
man.
Cohen was purchased from the
Minneapolis Millers by the Look
outs, the Millers getting Johnny
Gill, hard-hitting outfielder and
some cash in the bargain.
Gill played with the Griffmen
for a brief spell this year. The
Chattanooga players will not re-
port to the Griffmen until next
season.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

They will report to the Washing
ton team Immediately following
the international League play-off.
Albany, which finished fourth,
stands a chance of winning the
pennant, nevertheless.
Both Powell and Sington were
given trials by the Griffmen last
year. Powell is % and Sington
is "a. Powell played one season
with Chattanooga, another with
Youngstown, and still another
with Dayton before joining
Albany this season. Sington
started his baseball career with
Atlanta of the Southern League.
President Griffith also an
nounced the acquisition of five
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

the Tigers, has issued invitations to the men
who won the first pennant for Detroit back
in 1907. Eight of the first Detroit champions
have been located. Almost an equal number
have long since passed into the great beyond.
The old Tiger outfit still survives and prob
ably will be on hand. Tyrus Raymond Cobb,
the Georgian Peach Ruth's only rival as the
all-time star of the American League, is in
California living on an income of $4,000 a
year. Wahoo Sam Crawford, slugging con-
temporary of Cobb, and Davey Jones, the
shrill voiced ball hawk who rounded out the
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

But It has been great light so 1ar-1or
the Amalgamated Association Of Hotel Own
ers of Greater New York and Environs,
Limited.
What with hangover guests hoping to get
Ross and McLarnin out of the trenches by
Christmas, and guests scheduled to occupy
rooms starting this weekend, both ends of
Turkish towel are often in use at the same
time.
But Upton Sinclair has been visiting
President Roosevelt and Upton will find an
answer for this fight. He has one for
everything and it will be interesting to
tho rnliaf nf 4hn in1nf Hoxa land fon0
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

the of their former triumphs
Charley oLeary doughty little shortstop Of the Benga
the only member of the old champions still in harness He
with the st. Louis Browns serving coach Bill coughlin
third baseman coaching at Lafayette College They've
counted for two of the old pitching staff George Mullins the
poty master of the fast ball. will be hand, and will
Kickapoo Summers
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Nauin Invites Tiger
Champions of U7
TO See Series
BY FRANK "BUCK" o'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

ST LOUIS, Sept S-The heroes of yesterday will be
paraded Detroit when the Bengal of "a 20 into action
against the New York Giants Frank j. Navn president of
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Observation-Disclosures
Over Ross Fight
With McLQrnin

NEW YORK. Sept S-The twice delayed Barney Ross Jimmy
postponed until September Is because of
favorable weather conditions prevailing here.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Sept 8-The show must 60 on, and that is
exactly what has happened the Ross McLarnn howt is
going on and on and on.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
FINAL EXERCISES
At TCOLLEGEPARK
Elementary School Children
viii Repeat Part in May
Day Program.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, June 1s-
Closing exercises of the College Park
Elementary School will be held this
evening at o'clock on the school
grounds under the general supervision
of Mrs. Miriam Mcdonnell Holmes,
principal. Pupils of the schools will
repeat their part in the May day
rural schools musical program which
was a representation of the return of
Spring to the European peasants after
a bitter Northern Winter.
Two short dramatizationS will fol-
low. One, to be presented by pupils
of the upper grades, will be "The
Three Wishes" a French folk tale,
and in the cast will be Billy Kemp,
Charlotte Backing and June Lamore
The other, to be staged by pupils of
the lower grades, will be Little Black
Sambo." The cast will comprise
Grant Roberts, Ann Kushner, Billy
Arthur Hoist and Fillmore Buchanan.
Will Award Certificates.
Mai. Alvan c. Gillem. jr, head of
the Military Department of the Uni
versity of Maryland. and president OF
the College Park Home and School
Association, will award certificates to
the following. who have completed the
schools seven-grade course:
Mary Gillem, Lois Suit, Charlotte
Backing, June Lamore, Billy Kemp,
Forrest Holmes. Peter Dawkins, Walter
Springman, Marion Dwiggins. Philip
Buddington, Bobby Jewell, David Shaw
and Elwood Boehman.
Certificates for perfect attendance
will go to Lois Suit, Bobby Jewell, For
rest Holmes, Katie Haller, Ruth Suit
and Lorraine Follin.
The following will be awarded GER
tif1cates for good attendance Q80
days.:
Roger Wetherald, Doratha Lanham,
Mary Gillem, Barnett Broughton, Lu-
cille Traband, Ellen Suit, Robert
Ward, William Bladen, Louise Suit,
Ralph Simmons, Lee Cohie, William
Wetherald and Robert Herr.
Library Certificates Won.
Library certificates (gold seaD will
go to Peter Dawkins. Marion Dwiggins.
Forrest Holmes, Bobby Jewell, Billy
Kemp, David Shaw, Lois Suit, June
Lamore, Mary Gillem, Mary Jane
Kellerman, Doratha Lanham, Roger
Wetherald, Ned Steinberg, Arthur
Conger, Philip Buddington. Elwood
Buchanan, Barnett Broughton, Mil
dred Groves, Elizabeth Eppley, Louise
Suit. Jane Pollock. George Kellerman.
William Bladen, Victor James, Jean
Cory, Polly Sellers. Betty Louise Axt,
James Cohie. Thomas Buchanan,
Thomas Wetherald, Ralph Simmons,
Ellen Suit, Ann Lee Robertson,
Robert Bellman, Lucille Traband,
Wendell Sigler. Billy White, Robert
Buchanan, Harold Holbrook, Beatrice
Backing, Reba Groves, Harvey Poole,
Paul Ebersole, Robert Ward, Grant
Roberts, Margaret Prince, Betty
Boyer, Fillmore Buchanan, Dorothy
Zenty. Lorraine Follin, Francis
Haszard. Barbara Hoist, Betty Brunck,
Ann Kushner, William Wetherald,
Robert Herr, Arthur Hoist, Martha
Ann Cotterman, Kathleen Allen, Ada
Wilson Haszard, William Byrd,
katherine Ryan, Robert Wiley and
Allen Groves.
The following will be given plain
library certificates:
Margaret Lewis, Robert johnson.
Frank Mowatt, Theodore Richards.
Theodore Cromar. Katie Holler,
Eleanor Sigler and Lee Cohie.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
MARYLAND METH0DISTS
ELECT OFFICER GROUPS
Superannuate Fund Committee
and Mutual Relief Associa-
tion Are Chosen.

and Mutual Relief Associa-
tion Are Chosen.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WESTMINSTER, Md, June 18.-
Election of officers of the Superan-
nuate Fund Committee and Mutual
Relief Association formed the pyin-
cipal business completed during the
sixth day of the Maryland Annual
Conference, Methodist Protestant
Church.
Oficers named were: Superannuate
Fund Committee-First vice president,
j. w. Kirk, Linthicum Heights, Md:
second vice president, w. B. Judeflnd,
Baltimore; third vice president, C. K.
McCaslin, Bel Air; recording secre-
tary. J. A. Dudley, Newark. N. j.: cor
responding secretary. Louis Randall.
Milford, Del; treasurer. F. Murray
Benson, Baltimore.
Mutual Relief Association-Presi-
dent. w. H. Litsinger. Salisbury: first
vice president, ]. F. Bryan, Baltimore:
second vice president. c. E. Dryden.
ouShcyotOWH, ScCicIdl III cdSulcI, VI.
A. Ogg. Baltimore
Henry Shauer, Harbeson, Del, grad
uate of the Westminster Theological
Seminary was admitted into the con-
ference and was ordained Saturday
DR.. Lawrence C. Little, department of
religious education, Western Maryland
College, was transferred to the Mary
land Annual Conference from the
North Carolina Conference.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
FUNERAL RITES HELD
Miss Ann Rebecca Burch !

Miss Ann Rebecca Burch Is
Buried in st. Marys County.
BY q STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
OAKLEY, Md, June 18.-Funeral
s5, were held from the family home,
River View. near here, today. Inter-
ment followed in the Burch family lot
at Sacred Heart Church, Bushwood,
st. Marys County.
Miss Burch was the last survivor of
Is children of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Burch. She is survived by several
nieces. nephews and other relatives.
She died Friday morning after a brief
illness.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Chamber Seeks Members.

FAIRFAX. Va, June 18 Especially.
An intensive campaign to secure a
renewal of membership for the COM
ing fiscal year, which begins July /,
bers of the Fairfax County Chamber
of Commerce, and in addition to in
crease the present membership by
more than 100 per cent is to be made
at once. according to plans of local
chamber officials.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Library Group to Meet.

MCLEAN, Va. June 18 Especially -
The Mclean Community Library As
sociation will hold meeting tomor-
row afternoon at 2:30 for the purpose
of organizing junior branch among
the high school pupils of the COM
munity.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Church TO Hold Carnival,

FALLS CHURCH, Va, June 18 (Spe-
ciaD Members of the Sunday school
of the Presbyterian Church will hold
a carnival on the church lawn next
Saturday afternoon from 2:30 to 5
O'Clock. A number of interesting fea
lures are being planned.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
HYATTSVILLE TO HAVE
SUMMER BIBLE SCHOOL
Glasses for Beginners and Prim-
ary and Junior Pupils to Be
Held for Three Weeks.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Nd, June l8.-
Hyattsville will have community
Summer Bible school again this year.
1t will open July 2 and continue three
weeks. Glasses will be held in the
Spencer Street School and assemblies
in the parish hall of Pinkney Memorial
Episcopal Church. There will be
classes for beginners, primary and
Junior pupils. Mrs. Leone Barber will
serve as principal and the teachers
will be Miss Laura Purdum, Miss
Margaret Smith and Mrs. Orson N.
Eaton
There will be no tuition and all
parents are urged to enter their
children. Expenses of the school are
being taken care of by various churches
OF the town. This will be the sixth
year a community Bible school has
been held here. Rev. U. S. A.
Heavener, pastor of Memorial Metho-
dist Episcopal Church and treasurer
of the ministerial association, is re-
ceiving contributions toward expenses
OF the school,
Evening star., 1934-06-18
HOMES WILL BE MOVED

Employees Houses to Be Taken
From Mount Vernon Grounds.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT VERNON, Va, June 18.-
In accordance with a ruling made by
the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
at their Spring council, all of the
homes of employees residing within the
grounds are to be moved of the
premises by next month, save those
of w. L. Rouse, James B. Rouse and
Wolford Neitzey.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Democrats Will Meet.

BRANCHVILLE, Nd, June 18 (Spe-
ciaD. The Twenty-first District
Democratic Club will meet Wednesday
night in the Branchville Fire Hall.
Judge George Phillips, who is in
charge of the program, has invited
Charles c. Marbury, a member of the
House of Delegates, and M. Hampton
Magruder, counsel to the county COM
miSsioners, to speak.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
WILL GET DEGREE
Lyon Park Minister Will Get
B. A. as of Glass of 1896.

~ Oh oA A1AlSIcI w Ill 0CJ
B. A. as of Glass of 1896.
After an interim of SO years, the
scholastic work done in the University
of Pennsylvania by Rev. Francis j.
Lukens of Lyon Park, Va. is about to
be recognized. DR.. Lukens has been
advised by the university authorities
that he will be awarded the degree of
bachelor of arts on Wednesday, June
20, at the University of Pennsylvania,
as of the class of 1896. He will be
present to receive the award. Mr..
Lukens is former Baptist minister
and at one time was superintendent
OF Central Union Mission of this city.
he Is now an instructor in Howard
University and connected with the ad-
vertising agency of Rexford L. Holmes
OF Washington. He is 81 years of age.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Association Meets Tonight.

MERRIFIELD, Va, June Is (Spe-
ciaD .-Merrifield Improvement As
sociation will meet at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Salisbury tonight
at 5 o'clock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-03
NRA CHIEF HITS
AT MALICIOUS
PRESS ELEMENT
GarbIing of important News
Attacked Bitterly by
Gen. Johnson.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. Aug. 3.-Swinging
right and left in the scorching
rhetoric he has made famous, Gen.
Hugh Johnson last night attacked
a malicious" element of the press.
defended the policies of President
Roosevelt and assailed arm chair
economists" who deny that recov-
cry has come.
Speaking in the huge Lagoon the
alter of the Worlds fair, the NRA
administrator cited the fair itself
as proof that economic progress has
been made.
Does it argue nothing for the
Presidents program, he asked,
that business was able to put mil
lions more into this venture this
year, and that our people can re-
turn here in so much greater num-
bels?"
I'VE welcome criticism" he said,
but we would prefer it to be true.
and many of our opponents state
ments are not one inch short of libel
on the public welfare"
From defense of NRA's economic
position the general switched to a
smoking assault on newspaper op-
ponents, whom he described as "a
WEAKNESS to the heart and a griev-
Gus ailment to the stomach
Reporters, he said, are forced to
prostitute their talents in libelous
and misleading stories pandered as
news at the behest of opinionated
Bosses"
Il protest that it is not freedom
of the press" he added, ito suppress
or garble important news of public
affairs which happens not to be in
accord with some editorial policy or
opinion"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-03

By rnfted Pros
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Rear
Admiral Richard Harry Leigh,
who sailed the seven seas under
the American flag for forty-seven
years. has issued his last order.
Admiral Leigh. who held three Of
the highest commands IN the
navy. Will retire Sept. l. due. ac-
cording to official announcement
TODAY. 70 physical disabilities
incident 70 his naval service"
The veteran officer is relin-
gushing his Craftsmanship Of the
navy's general board. His other
high posts were commander of
the battle force and commander
in-chief Of the United States fleet.