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Evening star., 1935-04-25
FOOD COSTS HERE
CONTINUE TO SOAR
Only Four Other Cities Ex.
Ceed Districts Gain,
Survey Shows.

Food costs III the District advanced
more rapidly during the two weeks
ended April than in all except four
other major cities, the Labor Depart
ment disclosed today.
The retail figure for Washington
went up 27 per cent as the Nation
wide price of all but four foods con-
tinued their climb toward pre-depres-
sion levels. The advance for the coun-
try was 2 per cent.
Fruits and vegetables jumped ahead
of meats, the rapid rise of which has
already caused CONSERVATION.
From Maine to California, the only
cities that saw food prices rise faster
than Washington were Portland, Me-:
Buffalo, Rochester and Philadelphia.
The only food items that backed water
were bananas. navy beans, canned
peas and coffee.
Meat Gains Is per cent.
Commissioner Isadore Lubin of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics declared:
THE current index, 124.1 Q913
equals 1000 is IL per cent higher than
on January 2, 1885, and 1876 per cent
above that of year ago. 1t is 17.9
per cent below the level of April IS,
1880. when the index was 1912.
Meat prices increased 1.3 per cent
All items in this group, with the ex-
ception of leg of lamb, registered ad-
vances. The price of pork chops rose
,r,l,4 IL
have advanced 22.6 per cent during
the current year. They are at the
level of April IS, 1881.
Egg prices rose 36 per cent. this
upturn coming earlier than the usual
seasonal advance.
Fruit and vegetables moved up
ward 68 per cent. Increases of 211
onions and So per cent for potatoes
we're mainly responsible for the rise
in this group.
Dairy products rose per cent,
due entirely to an increase in the
price of butter. Butter prices are
higher now than at any time since
1880"
Butter Production Drops.
At the same time the Bureau OF
Agricultural Economics reported the
February output of creamery butter,
ITO, 100000 pounds, was "a per cent
less than a year ago and the smallest
for February since 1927.
THE recent sharp rise in domestic
butter prices has once more attracted
imports" the bureau found.
ION April II the price of 92-score
butter at New York was 1919 cents q
pound more than the price OF New
Zealand butter in London, which Is
more than cents pound above the
duty of IA cents a pound"
From another Agriculture Depart
ment source-H. j. Gramlich. special
adviser on feed to the A. A. A.-canne
word that 90 per cent Of the live stock
In, the drought area, chief source d
Evening star., 1935-04-25
HEALTH LECTURER
.PLEADSNOT GUILTY
"Prof.". Bragg Arraigned on
Charge of PraCticing
Without License.

Paul c. Bragg, 49,, seif-styled pro-
fessor and possessor of health secrets.
pleaded not guilty when arraigned
in Police Court today before Judge
Ralph Given on a charge of practic-
ing the healing art here without a
license. Trial on the charge, bearing
a maximum penalty of s100 fine,
90 days in Jail, or both, was set for
tomorrow afternoon.
Bragg, an associate editor of a
health magazine, was arrested last
night by Detective Sergt. Harold D.
johnson in the Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street and New York ave-
nue.. while preparing to lecture to a
large audience regarding his South
Sea health secrets"
Rutland Plans Drive.
Coincident with the arrest. District
Health Officer DR.. George c. Ruh-
land announced today that cam
paign will be CT lducted in the Dis
trict to rid the city of any one carry
ing on any kind of healing practice
here without a license. Bragg, it is
alleged, has made thousands OF dol
lars through his lecture courses.
A Snowman to the last. Bragg
pleaded with the detective to arrest
him before the audience. This, how
ever, johnson declined to do. Bragg
johnson said. was getting ready to
change into his stage clothes. con-
Sisting of pair of long white trousers
and an athletic shirt. which has en-
sbled him to exhibit large biceps and
tricepS before his audiences.
Hawaiians Strum on Stage.
While the arrest was in progress
four Hawaiians, who play at local
night club. we're strumming soft music
on the stage in an especially arranged
setting.
Advertisements for lecture course,
for which, police say, Bragg charged
$40 for five lessons, read:
stop wishing for health. Let Prof.
Paul C. Bragg teach you the South
Sea secret of physical fitness. Expert
ence the Joy of being thoroughly alive" ."
Shortly after being booked at No. !
police station last night, Bragg was
out on 81 900 bond, pending his ap-
pearance in Police Court today. Leav-
ing the station house, he declared:
Truth crushed to earth shall rise
again."
Evening star., 1935-04-25
Meeting SET TUESDAY
ON RENTS SITUATION
Groups From Both Chambers OF
Congress to Weigh Housing
Problem.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

The special House committee which
recently completed two-month in
vestigation of vice and law enforce
ment conditions in the District briefly
reviewed its tentative report at a 30
minute executive session this morning.
Another meeting was being held be-
hind closed doors this afternoon In
an effort to complete consideration
Of the document.
At the same time Chairman Norton
Of the House District Committee an
nounced that a joint session of her
committee and the Senate District
Committee will be held in the caucus
room of the old House Office Building
at 10 am. Tuesday to consider Wash
ington's rent and housing situation.
Arrangements for the joint meeting
were made by Mrs. Norton as a re-
suit of recommendation of it by her
committee more than week ago. 1t
will be the first such meeting of the
two committees since last year. when
the District liquor control bill was
under consideration.
Report Is Bulky.
The Crime Committees report is
voluminous and contains, in addi-
ton to a summary of the testimony
of more than so witnesses. more than
a score of recommendations. The
tentative report was prepared by John
r. Fitzpatrick, who served as COM
mittee counsel during the inquiry.
Virtually all recommendations, it is
understood, are designed to improve
Washington's law enforcement and
prosecution machinery. In pre-
liminary report several weeks ago the
committee recommended an increase
of al in the personnel of the Police
Department, but the House and Sem
ate conferees on the 1896 District
appropriation bill are reported to
have allowed only 35 additional men
the number recommended by the Com
missioners in their budget estimates
last Fall
Police Supt Ernest w. Brown had
q brief conference with Chairman
Randolph of the Crime Committee
shortly before the executive session.
He said the conference did not con-
cern the Crime Committee report but
related to plans for the establishment
by the Police Department of a Sum-
mer camp for members of the Police
Boys Clubs.
Two Proposals Up.
The House and Senate Joint Com
mittee will consider two proposals.
q congressional investigation of the
rent situation or enactment of legis-
lation creating a rent commission to
fix and control rentals. A similar COM
mission existed in Washington during
the war period.
The House Committee took the
initiative in seeking a solution of the
rent situation at the inSistence of Rep
resentative Patman, Democrat, of
Texas, who said he had received a
number of complaints of rent goug-
ing on members of Congress as we'll
as Government employees.
Representatives Ellenbogen, Demo-
erat, of Pennsylvania, also is taking
active steps to prevent rent profiteer-
ing. He has introduced a bill now
before the District Committee provid-
ing for the creation of a rent COM
mission. He said, however, he would
not push his measure pending action
of the joint Senate and House COM
mittees.
Evening star., 1935-04-25
LEGION DANCE SATURDAY

Ray L. Zwinglas, commander of the
Stanley Church Depue Post No. 80,
American Legion. announces that the
annual dance will be held in the
auditorium of the National Press Club.
Saturday night, April 81. from 10
to / o'clock. A committee headed by
Kenneth O'Connor is making ar
rangements for unusual entertain
ment features. Refreshments will be
served.
Evening star., 1935-04-25
Actress Daughter to Wed.

LONDON, April Is R.-The we'd
ding Of 1S-year-old Dorothy Hyson,
daughter of Dorothy Dickson, the
stage and screen star, to Robert
Douglas, 24-year-old actor, has been
set for May 81. It will climax one OF
the most popular romances in Lon
don.
Evening star., 1935-04-25
WILL HOLD SHOWER
Junior Hadassah Will Stage An.
nua1 Event Tonight.

nua1 Event Tonight.
The Junior HadaSSah will hold its
annual Spring shower tonight at BIS
o'clock in the Jewish Community
Center.
Leo Schloss and Larry Beckerman
will give pantomime, accompanied by
Miss Ruth Diamond. Vocal selections
will be sung by Bernard Fischgrund.
Arrangements for the shower have
been made by Miss Nora Wall and Miss
Mildred williams, co-chairmen.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
Brundage Held Dodging Issue
As to RemOraI of Olympics

NEW YORK, July 81 R.-Sidney
Kaufman. chairman Of the Olympic
Boycott Committee. tonight charged
that Avery Brundage, president Of the
American Olympic Committee, was at
tempting to "sidetrack essential issues
involved in the question of removing
the 1886 Olympics from Nazi Ger
many"
Brundage yesterday said that the
fact no Jews had been named thus far
to compete in the Olympics for Ger
many did not mean they had been
Disseminated against on that score.
In the 40 years Of Olympic history he
said, he doubted If the number Of
Jewish athletes competing from all
nations totaled per cent in the games.
Kaufman said Brundage's state
ments exposed undeniable bias in
favor of American entry in the Nad
Olympics at any cost"
Attacking the Nazi regime, kaufman
said:
"Why are the Hitlerites so eager to
Evening star., 1935-07-28
Yanks Get Great Break.

nRAGGING their tails behind them,
the Yanks merely went through
the motions thereafter until fortune
gave them a helping hand in the
seventh. which Chapman opened with
q single and then watched Frankie
Crosetti fly out.
Up came Earl Combs, batting for
Murphy, and Earl swatted a grounder
to Kress that had double-play written
all over 1t. Instead, as Red joyously
reached for it. it struck pebble and
hoped over Kress' dome for a freak
double that scored Chapman and paved
the way for 5-run Yank uprising,
tying the score.
Hill followed with single, scoring
Combs and then, after Rolfe had
forced Hill, Selkirk drew a pass.
Gehrig shot homer into the right
field bleachers for a TT score.
Red Ruffing came on to pitch for
the Yanks after this. He breezed
through the eighth inning, then easily
disposed Of Myer and Powell in the
ninth.
But Rufing passed Schultz and
Kress and Bluege INDUCED In o
moment of croquet with the pitchers
legs serving as the wicket. And there
was the ball game.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
Mats Hot in Fifth.

THE Yanks took the lead away from
- the Nationals in their half of the
third frame when Hills base on balls
and subsequent singles by Rolfe and
Robinson Crusoe Selkirk made it to
1. In the fourth, though, Schultz and
Red Kress singled and Schultz scored
on Sam Holbrook's one-baser.
Up to this point the Griffs had been
only nuisances, but in the fifth inning
they became downright nasty. Manush
opened the round by walking and hot
footing it to second on Myers single.
Powell flied out, but then Harris
strategy began to work on a really
large scale.
The Schultz -KreSs combination ac-
counted for successive singles once
again, scoring Manush and Myer.
The blow by Schultz brought Johnny
Murphy on the scene as would-be
rescuer, but it was not Fordham
Johnny's day. After Kress' one-baser,
Bluege rammed out single to score
Schultz and then Holbrook walked,
filling the bases.
This brought up Newsom, who took
one strike, swung for another at o
ball above his head, then confounded
the congregation by ripping a clean
hit to center field, scoring Kress and
BMege. It was Washington, to 2.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
May Bring in LaSky.

receive within their borders thousands
of foreigners animated by beliefs whose
expression on German soil constitute
capital crimes? It is obvious that the
Third Reich has swallowed its pride and
tarnished its Aryan purity and tenn
porarily forgotten its philosophy of
blood and steel in order to obtain the
economic benefits to be derived from
the expenditures by thousands of ath-
letes and visitors"
kaufman said that in the 1882
Olympiad in Los Angeles 4? Jews were
entered and of these "a succeeded in
making point scores. In all, the Jewish
competitors scored 116 points, he said.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Base Ball.
washington at New York. 3.
Tennis.
Finals, Public Parks tourna-
ment, Rock Greek courts.
Aquatics.
Tri-City Regatta, Herald Harbor,
starting II am. and lasting all
day.
National Junior water polo
championships, Maryland Club
Gardens, 3.
TOMORROW.
Boxing.
Joe Temes vs.. Roger Bernard,
10 rounds, main bout, Grifhth
Stadium, $50.
TUESDAY.
Base Ball.
Boston at Washington, Grifhth
Stadium, 3:15.
WEDNESDAY.
, Base BAH.
Boston at Washington. Grifdth
Stadium. Sis.
THURSDAY.
Base BAH
Boston at Warrington, Gri1ath
Stadium, 3:IS.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
Yankees Send T,co Slab Aces 4 gainst Criffs
In Desperate Attempt to End Losing Streak

double play in the seventh instead
it hoped cra1ly over Red Kress'
head and started all the trouble . q.
Newsom. incidentally, has finished
every game he has started this sea-
son, both for the Browns and for the
Griffs.
James J. Braddock, the heavyweight
istic king. and Manager Joe Gould
saw the Nationals kayo the Yanks
for the second day in a row {.
the victory, by the way, makes the
season score between the two teams
read: Yanks, 8; Washington, S.
The Nationals furnished an inkling
of why the Yankees have been skid
ding . Kress was on second base
and Sam Holbrook on first when New
som lifted a foul back of first
Tony Lazzeri called for the ball,
caught it. and then was slow In
throwing it back into the infield
Kress raced for third after the catch
and made 1t while Holbrook,
seeing second base as unguarded as q
Huey Long speech, broke for this sack
and did the Yanks, clustered on
the right side Of the infield, look
foolish!
In spite Of the importance Of to-
days game to the Yanks there were
only e,014 spectators but the
Giants were playing the Dodgers at
Ebbetts Field. which probably &C.
counts for the lack of customers.
Huey Long is stopping at the same
hotel in which the Griffs are quar-
tered and the Kingfish's heuten-
ants boldly are displaying badges with
the Long motto-"Every Man a King"
Maybe that's why the Griffs are
doing what they're doing to the
Yanks. r. e. S.
Evening star., 1935-07-28

Bell of the Marysville Harriers, who
was clicked in IL seconds fat.
Norman Cahners lost in the hammer
throw. The Harvard weight man was
of form and tossed the hammer only
143 feet 2 inches, while D. Campbell,
Glasgow policeman, won the event at
1872 feet 9 inches, with the aid of
sizable handicap. In an exhibition
Cahners got away a toss Of over ITO
feet, although fouling slightly.
Although given a handicap of SIS
yards, w. G. Woodland of Yale was
last in a field Of IL in the 2-mile
run. won by P. Laidlaw Of Edinburgh,
q 45-yard handicap man, in 9:16.2.
Robert Woodward of Harvard failed
to place In the mile.
Evening star., 1935-07-28

Promoters Pass Up Schmeling
As German Demands $780, 900
And Cate Slice to Meet Baer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEw YORK, July 27.-Max
nj Schmeling. the temperamental
VI Teuton, broke his silence to-
4 day and talked himself right
out Of the American heavyweight pic
ture.
He demanded such a fancy figure
to come to New York to fight either
Max Baer or the sensational Joe Louis,
that Jimmy Johnston and Mike
Jacobs, rival metropolitan promoters,
threw up their hands and said they
guessed they'd have to try to struggle
along without the German f1nancier.
All Herr Schmeling wanted was: A
fiat guarantee of $l50,000 (free OF
taxes) deposited in an Amsterdam
bank in advance of the fight; IS per
cent of the gate (also free Of taxes)
and $1,000 for training expenses.
Mike Jacobs Gives Up.
TN THROUGH" said Mike Jacobs.
who was working on Schmeling-
Louis match in the interests OF the
Twentieth Century Sporting Club.
"T've crossed that guy of my list"
1.-THE terms are ridiculous" exploded
Jimmy Johnston, Madison Square
Garden impresario, as he saw his
chances for a Baer-Schmeling show
knocked higher than a kite. He
talks like he was Dempsey and this
is 1929"
Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's manager.
put on the hot spot by the Germans
dawdling around, was aghast when he
read his warriors cable. He was dis
appointed and disguised.
"I am convinced he's been giving
us all the old run around, including
me, who put him in the champion
ship" he said. Hes just been STALL
ing around"
Schmeling's decision followed upon
several days of frantic cabling back
and forth across the Atlantic. First 1t
was indicated one promoter would win
out and then the other. Also, Schmeling
talked personally to both promoters
during the negotiations.
The Garden, It was revealed, agreed
to a fiat guarantee of 500 900 and
third of the gate. The Twentieth Gen.
tury offered a like percentage and was
willing to post $50, 900 as an evidence
of good faith. but not as a guarantee.
Schmeling wouldn't gamble on the
weather. an injury to his opponent, or
anything else. He held out for a
Evening star., 1935-07-28
y a stan Correspondent Of The star.

BY a STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
n Ew YORK, July 27.-Martyrs to
nj conquerors in two hectic days,
| Y Washington's crippled but VIC
tory-flushed Nationals tomor-
row will attempt to make 1t four games
in a row over the Yankees In a double
header
Under ordinary circumstances this
goal might appear overly ambitious.
even to the Griffs, but unless the New
Yorks show q complete reversal OF
form a sweep of the current series is
far from an improbabihty.
His batters apparently overanxious
and tensed, especially with runners
on the bases, Manager Joe Mccarthy
will send his two slab aces against the
Nationals tomorrow in a desperate ef-
fort TO break q losing streak OF four In
a row. Hurting for the Yanks will be
Lefty Gomez, prize southpaw. and John
Allen, who has been one Of the chief
reasons why the Yanks have been able
to hold their high niche In the Amer
lean League flag race.
Against this pair Manager Bucky
Harris will send Earl Whitehill, vet
eran southpaw, and Bump Eadley, the
plump right-hander. Neither has been
impressive in recent starts.
Allen is looked upon by the Nationals
as the tough man to beat. The right
handed Tarheel has not faced q Wash
ington ball club since 1888. Johnny
was out almost all Of last season with
sore arm and for some reason Nc
Carthy has not called upon him In
Evening star., 1935-07-28

guarantee and a bigger cut than either
promoter was authorized to offer.
Developments followed swiftly on the
heels of today's broadside from Berlin.
The Twentieth Century Club said it
wuuld go right ahead with plans to
feature the Detroit Brown Bomber"
in a big show here In September and
hinted it might seek Max Baer as
Louis opponent.
May Bring in Lasky.
RAER has an agreement to fight for
49, Madison Square Garden. but 1t is
believed this agreement is contingent
on the Garden getting Schmeling as
an opponent.
If Baer is not available, Mike Jacobs
plans to bring in Art Lasky or some
other good heavyweight, to oppose the
Negro.
Johnston is uncertain as to the fu-
ture. He still would like to match
Baer and Schmeling. with the winner
to fight James j. Braddock next Sum-
mer. but this is out unless the German
comes down to earth when he talks
figures.
Busy with headache drops. Johnston
withheld comment on the gossip the
Twentieth Century would try to sign
Max Baer.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
CRICKET SCORE IS HIGH
England Gets 357 Runs Against
South African Team.

MANCHESTER, England, July 81
@.-England was of to a good start
in the fourth cricket test match with
South Africa today. scoring total Of
357 runs for its first innings. r. W.. ".
Robins Of Middlesex scored 1oS, in
cluding 10 fours.
South Africa had scored runs with
out loss when stumps were drawn for
the day.
The match Is a critical one for
England, for q victory for South
Africa would give the visitors the
series. The South Africans have won
one match and the other two wers
drawn. Five In all are scheduled.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
Homer Standing
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Home runs yesterday-washington,
White Sox, l; Gehrig, Yankees, /;
Pepper, Browns, /; Grove, Red Sox,
/: Reynolds, Red Sox, /; Cooke, Red
Sox, /; Vaughan, Pirates, 1: Hartnett,
Cubs. /; ODea, Cubs, /; Bottomley,
Reds, /; Byrd, Reds, l; Goodman,
Reds, /.
The leaders-Greenberg, Tigers, ~;
OFT, Giants. %; Johnson, Athletics,
20; Berger, Braves, 20; J. Collins,
Cards, 10.
League totals-National, 446; Ameri-
can, 424. Total, $40.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
DASH|NG bENGALS
DRUB INDIANS, 6-2
Boost League Lead to 2I2
Games Behind Bridges
Fine Pitching.
BY the Associated Press.


~ LEVELAND, July 27-Detroit's
Tigers maintained their VIC
tory pace to wallop the Cleve-
~ land Indians, 6 to 2, today
and boosted their American League
lead to 2la games over the losing
Yankees.
Tommy Bridges pitched shut-out
ball until the ninth inning, when
Hale and Berger scored for the Tribe.
The Indians found Bridges for nine
hits, several of them scratch bingles.
1t was Bridges fourteenth victory Of
the season.
Detroit opened the assault In the
fourth. scoring three runs on three
hits and two errors by Milt Galatzer,
Tribe outfielder.
Greenberg Starts Drive.
CREENBERG. who singled. took
~ second on Galatzer's error and
scored on Goslin's line drive to CEN
ter. Goslin came in safely on Fox's
single to left. Fox went to third on
a wild throw by GaAtzer and scored
when Knickerbocker threw out Owen
at first.
The Tigers converted three hits into
as many runs in the seventh. White
doubled. Cochrane walked. Geh-
ringers single scored White. Green
berg doubled, scoring Cochrane and
Gehringer. At this juncture, Harder
who was trying for his fifteenth win,
was replaced on the mound by Lloyd
Brown, who later was relieved by
Winegarner in the ninth.
Ten in Row Over Tribe.
THE victory was the Tigers tenth
= .rrira hn IradinI
Evening star., 1935-07-28
PutNew Hearts, i'm
Racing Hounds
BUNNY AUSTIN.
BY the Associated PrgIs.

7 ONDON. - Racing greyhounds
literally are being equipped
with new hearts at the Royal Col
lege, Of Veterinary Surgeons here.
The heart of the dog, strained
in racing, is taken out, the cavity
enlarged, and within a month the
animal Is back on the track good
as ever.
The operation is q delicate one,
but has reached the point where
it is invariably successful.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
j. s. TEAM LOSER
IN GLASGOW MEET.
Harvard. Yale Band Scores
Firsts Only in Relay
and High lump.
BY the Associated Press.

~ LASGOW, Scotland, July 27.-
The combination Harvard
Y Yale track and field team,
~ conqueror of Cambridge-Ox-
ford. had to be content with two firsts
in the Clyde Foot Ball Clubs sports
carnival, staged before 10000.
The victories came in the high jump
and relay with A. r. Hall of Harvard
winning with leap of 6 feet / inch,
with the aid of a l-inch handicap.
A relay team composed of Milton
Green, Carlisle Abbell, Mills and
zeliner covered the four and one-haf
laps in 1:27.6 to beat Glasgow Uni
versity and the Bella Houston Harriers.
GREEN could do no better than
second in the invitation 120-yard
dash, finising a few inches behind D.