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The Washington times., 1935-05-15

one game Ia1S Au'A "Nen'
year.
He pitched against the Yankees
and in the late innings of tho
game Tony Lazzeri hit a home
run over the rightfield fence
with the bases loaded.
It may be said with some truth
that Lazzeri knocked Bean from
the shores of Erie to the banks
of the Potomac with one swing
of the bat.
Used in relief roles last year,
Bean had a fairly successful
year.
He ranked fifth among the
pitchers of the league in per-
centage of games won and fiji
tenth in earned runs per nine
inning games.
He won five games and lost
one for an average of 1888. His
earned run average was 3.88 per
nine-inning game. He was in 81
games and pitched 81 innings.
In Third Year
Bean was starting his third but
not consecutive season, with the
Indians when the changes of base
ball swept him into the Griff
camp.
He was born in Mullin, Tex, on
April %, 1906. He is six feet
tall and weighs 200 pounds. He is
of Irish extraction and lives in
Comanche, Tex. He is married.
He started pitching professional
ball with Okmulgee of the West
ern Association in 1927. He won
nine games and lost five and the
year following he won 20 games
at Augusta, Ga. He went to New
Orleans, which is the stepping
stone to Cleveland. The road to
the Forest City was not wide and
smooth, and Bean met with dis
appointments. He was with Cleve-
land part of 1880, but it was not
until 1888 when he won II out
of his last 20 starts at Toledo
that he was recalled by the In.
dams to remain until he became
q Griff.
johnson began negotiating for
Stewards release when the vet
eran left handler was fighting
his holdout battle with the Wash
ington club. At the time John
son offered cash. This was re.
fused.
johnson Wanted to Buy
When Cleveland visited Biloxi
for a tWo-game series last spring
johnson attempted to buy Earl
Whitehill, OsSie Bluege and Stew.
art but was refused on all fronts.
Stewart leaves the Washington
club with mingled feelings. He
has made many friends in the
Capital, and has a whole ball
club roofing for him. But he is
glad to get with Cleveland, man.
aged by his friend, johnson. 1t
means a great deal to Stewart.
who is certain Of q share, major
or minor, Of the 1885 world series
money. Cleveland in the judy
ment Of many critics is at least
an even money bet to win the
pennant, and Stewart is almost
certain to help them.
President Griffith today claimed
to know little Of the merits of
the teams new righthanded
hurler, Belve Bean, traded here
from Cleveland late yesterday in
exchange for Pitcher Walter
Stewart.
"Bucky said he wanted Bean"
declared Griff today, land I told
him 1t was up to him. He has
been, on the field and seen Bean,
wheAeas I have only watched him
pitch a couple Of innings. I
think Bucky had in mind getting
rid Of a left-hander and sup
planting him with a highlander,
as well as picking up q hurler
six years younger than Stewart.
Bean was the best pitcher
in the American Association
(fOr Toledo several seasons
ago, and probably can do us
some good" Griff concluded.
Bean did great work last sea.
son as a relief hurler, winning
five games as a rescue hurler,
without a defeat.
The Washington times., 1935-05-15
Tim Stapleton Shines
At Third Base
For Colonials
Rv GEoRGE A. SYMPTOM

Whilst big league scouts the trail Of Charley Keller
University Of Maryland sluggng oueder and orn Rogers
University of Virginia hurler they might cast glance
two in the direction Tim sapeton who hasn't let grass
under his feet while playing third base for George Wash
ington University.
The Washington times., 1935-05-15

some front
pages, here
Of late, but
on tn e
sports pages
you m u s t
admit it is
tops.
Fit t cen
months ago,
r Q b r u airy
20, 1884, to
be 9 K g. c t,
Major Ern-
The Washington times., 1935-05-15
Baseball
Standings

"GameS behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
Cleveland, 4; WASHINGTON, 2.
Detroit, 10; New York, 4.
Other games postponed (ratn).
TOday's Games
WASHINGTON at Cleveland.
New York at Detroit.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
Boston at st. Louis.
The Washington times., 1935-05-15

Kirk Miller Major Ern-
est w. Brown commenced an
offensive against what many
call juvenile delinquency,
but which I still like to look
upon as boyish pranks.
He inaugurated the Fifth Pre-
cinct Boys Club upon that
George Washington's birthday,
by dividing a portion of the
housing of that station with
the youngsters Of the neighbor'
hood, stocking their headquar'
tiers with athletic equipment,
games and appropriate reading
matter.
1900 Membership
Almost before you could say
"scat" the club had a member"
ship of 1900. Summer came
along with it's demand for a
camp for the membership, many
of whom were able to have two
weeks out in the open with
water sports and similar past
times. In several cases jobs
were secured for boys Of work.
ing age, and one lad was started
on his way to college.
In such q way, Major Brown
hecanne a sort of a godfather
to a lot Of underprivileged
youngsters. His efforts resulted
in taking these boys off OF the
street, where quite naturally
they got into mischief, and sub
shutting organized and planned
recreation therefor.
This idea took such root, that
requests for similar boy orga11-
cations came from several other
sections of the city, and shortly
a club for the Kenilworth Dis
trict was established under the
wing of the Eleventh precinct
The membership there was ris-
ing toward 500 at last reports
and will reach 1000 shortly
after school is out and the juve-
nile problem again becomes
acute.
Third Club to Open
This week the third boys club
under the auspices Of the Police
Department comes into exist
ence in the Four Hundred block
of I Street Southwest, where q
building has been purchased
and remodeled with an eye to
absorbing the spare time Of the
hundreds Of underprivileged
youngsters. who, without the
big-brother influence which
the bluecoats are lending,
easily fall into hayward habits.
The Fourth precinct has this
operation in charge.
The feature about Major
Browns boys club plan which
strikes me as particularly fitting,
is the fact that he is giving
those youngsters an opportunity
to become well grounded in
baseball, boxing, wrestling, soft
ball, gymnastics and the dozens
Of other athletic endeavors
which build the body, teach
craftsmanship and keep the
embryo minds in healthful
channels.
7 would be a poor champion
Of sports did I not have that
feeling, but I believe I have
seen the benefits of athletic
competition established with
sufficient emphasis down
through a tenure of sports writ"
ing, to be convinced Of my
ground when I say sound minds
and morals go hand in hand
with recreational and sport
competition, the basic founa-
ton of the three local police
precinct boys clubs.
Major Brown has a splendid
committee Of predetermined citi-
zens working with him and
meeting with him from time to
time to chart the course Of his
Continued on Page 30, Col. y
The Washington times., 1935-05-15
CONCORDS SEEKING

Concord A. c. is after games. A
contest for Sunday is especially
desired. Call Georgia $751;
The Washington times., 1935-05-15
STEVENSON Holds Tight
On Golf Medal

They can't count the Miller B. stevnson Columbia Country
Club veteran Of the local golf picture yet Not after post
70 yesterday to lead for the qualifying medal in the annual
Chevy Chase Country Club invitation tournament.
The Washington times., 1935-05-15

Stapleton will be seen in action
today when the ColonialS enter
tain the Quantico Marines on the
The Washington times., 1935-05-15
New GriH
Has Fair
Record
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May IS.
The efforts Of the Cleveland In.
dams to land Walter Stewart
The Washington times., 1935-05-15

ONE OF the reasons for
Pitcher Joe sullivan's. sue
cess as Eastern's ace pitcher,
is due to his grace while
delivering the bail. Here
you see, left to right, Joe's
complete pitching action;
the start Of the wind-up,
the actual throw and the
follow-through. He pitches
for Eastern today against
Central at the Eastern Sta
dunn. Times Staff Photo.
The Washington times., 1935-05-15
Mqi.Brown
D. T.. Kids
Godparent
Bv KIRK MILLER

Times Sports EdLtOr
Our Metropolitan Police
Department hasn't been get
ting any the best Of it on
Evening star., 1935-07-08
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
IrOn Butterfly.

Iron Butterfly.
Used to sing of roses round happy
little home,
Hear the airplane humming, as it starts
again to roam,
To Africa, where trouble will be waiting,
like as not,
And to Arabian deserts where the sands
are always hot.
Just across to China and still onward
to Japan,
A loop to show a glimpse of what the
Soviet may plan;
A wurst in old Vienna or a frankfurter,
by chance,
Or a lunch of truffle sausage as you
fiutter on through France.
The roses swiftly wither as 1t passes
us on high,
A thing of gaudy color like an iron
butterfly.
1t leaves a brood behind it that is filled
with shapes of fear,
Devouring caterpillars, with each air.
plane draw near.
Evening star., 1935-07-08

in spite of all the differences OF party
opinion we have worked together in
trying to make this institution worthy OF
our Capital and our people. I am glad
to believe that this progress will be
unimpeded by any changes that may
happen at the Capital, and unchanged
by any vicissitudes that may happen
to the country"
This forecast has been fulfilled.
Gallaudet College, as the collegiate
branch of the Columbia Institution for
the Deaf is known, has been maintained,
but at times with difficulty owing to
inadequate funds. This present pro-
posed ALLEGATION Of work relief funds will
provide improvements and enlargements,
the need of which has been felt for
some years. Regard for the services OF
the devoted men and women who for
more than three quarters of a century
have labored in this important field of
education should insure the grant of
this fund and the establishment Of
more liberal scale of financial provision
for its future development.
Evening star., 1935-07-08

placed in operation and later the act Is
held unconstitutional by the courts?
VIII the industry be any sicker? Will
the workers be in any way better of?
Or will the whole picture be worse? If
the President desires a change in the
Constitution so that what he now pro-
poses in the Guffey coal bill and what he
sought under the N. r. A. and other New
Deal measures be legal, why does he not
frankly say so? He has the right to
suggest to Congress that Congress sub
NIT to the States proposed amend
ment to the Constitution. Why beat
around the bush longer? Or does he
consider that such move would not for
the present be popular?
Evening star., 1935-07-08
Columbia Institution.

Secretary Ickes has filed an applica-
ton for $4,000 of work-relief funds
to provide necessary new construction
for the Columbia Institution for the
Deaf in this city. If this proposal is
approved-and there should be no ques-
ton on that score-it will be the first
provision of funds for building in sew
enteen years, during which time the
student body has increased twenty
seven per cent.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf
was incorporated by an act Of Congress
approved February 16, 1857, and was
established on two-acre tract given by
Amos Kendall, . leading citizen Of
Washington. Through Mr.. Kendall'S
activity the late Edward M. Gallaudet,
member of a family of distinguished
educators, was brought to Washington
to be the superintendent. He served
for many years. Under his administra-
ton a collegiate establishment was
organized for the higher education Of
those deprived of hearing and speech,
and in the course of the years many
hundreds of students have been gradu-
ated from its halls and have gone forth
to success in various fields of occupa-
ton despite their Affections.
On the occasion of the public ami
versary of Gallaudet College in May,
1881, President Garfield was present
and made an address in the course Of
which he said: 'I am glad to say that
Evening star., 1935-07-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Europe's experience in dealing with
the problems of youth is to be explored
this Summer for the benefit of Presi-
dent RooseveltS newly created National
Youth Administration. Investigations TO
that end will be carried on by Col H.
Edmund Bulls, formerly of Washington
and now executive officer of the Ma
tional Committee for Mental Hygiene at
New York. Col. Bulls, who has just
sailed, will survey conditions in 13 coun-
tries, including Great Britain, France,
Germany, Italy, Soviet Russia and the
Scandinavian kingdoms. He will inter-
view educational leaders and attend in
ternational youth conferences to which
he has been invited as a delegate On
his return early in September he will
submit an exhaustive report to Aubrey
Williams, executive director Of the N.
Y. A. at Washington. Col. Bulls is
seasoned globe -trotter and investigator
of world economic and social conditions.
X **
Lately published statistics indicate
that employees of the Federal Govern
ment now number 7l2,112, q new high
under the Roosevelt administration and
the biggest total since World War days.
1t does not include the Army, the Navy,
employees of the legislative and judicial
branches, enrolled personnel of the c.
c. C. or employees of the District OF
Columbia. 1t is made up only of those
directly employed in the civil executive
branch" of the Government. The New
Deal alphabet is not chiefly responsible
for the record number of civil servants.
About two-thirds of those on the Fed
eral pay roll are said to work for the
long-eStablished Post Office, War. Navy
and Treasury Departments. Salaries and
wages in the civil executive branch"
amount to $108, 100000 a month. Be-
fore we entered the World War this
is estimated to have been more than
the entire cost of the Federal Gov
ernment.
They're now calling Gov. ALI M.
Landon, leading mid Western G. o. p.
white hope for SO, "the Kansas Cool
idge," because of his passion for econ
omy in Government. In cooperation
with his Legislature, Gov. Landon has
reduced real estate taxes in the Sun
flower State by almost q third, and the
total expenses of State and local gov
ernments are far below the 1929 level.
Kansas by law is forced to keep its
expenditures within its revenue. 1t is
therefore not afflicted with q budget
balancing problem and has no State
debt other than for q soldiers bonus.
Kansas, of course, is receiving New Deal
largess in various forms, but paying its
full fair share, unlike some States which
have shifted the burden of relief to the
broad shoulders Of Uncle Sam.
y y n
Transatlantic tourists include Lau-
renee Todd, Washington representative
of the oficial news agency of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics, who is
sailing for Leningrad, via England, to
spend several weeks giving present-hour
Russian conditions the once-over and
acquainting himself with Moscow's cur
rent attitude toward relations with the
United States.
tCopyrieht, 1889
Evening star., 1935-07-08
No More DELAYS.

The Senate subcommittee on the Sec
ond deficiency bill is considering the
item for a new home for the General
Accounting ONCE, headquarters of the
controller general. That branch of the
Government has grown to large propor-
tionS. 1t has never had an establish
ment of its own and it is now housed
in the old Pension Building, in Judiciary
Square, a temporary location pending
the construction of a new building or
perhaps the rearrangement and possible
extension of that structure. The House
bill now before the Senate subcommittee
contains provision of $4,000 900, part
of an ultimate expenditure of s4,700, 900,
to add two wings to the old Pension
Office and to reface the exterior. Two
factors, however. enter into the equa-
ton to raise doubt as to the advisa-
bility of this plan. One is that senti-
ment prevails in Congress that the Cen
eral Accounting Office should be located
nearer the Capitol. Another is that in
the readaptation Of plans for the Mu-
nicipal Center, for which a large area
was purchased by the District between
the Court House and Pennsylvania
avenue and which cannot be utilized be-
cause of the Districts financial strin-
gency, the use of Judiciary Square is
contemplated for such erections as may
be required for municipal purposes, with
the old Pension Building revamped and
perhaps enlarged as one of the units
of the group.
1t is to be hoped that the complica-
ton will not cause delay in decision and
further postponement of definite and
adequate provision for this needed addi-
ton to the Federal Governments equip
ment. Choice should be made now be-
tween the two propositions, with third
possible in the taking of part of the
Districts Municipal Center land on Penn
sylvania avenue for this purpose. There
is no advantage in procrastination, which
has already, in the case of other Gov
eminent building works in Washing
ton, cost enormously. The whole mat
ter has been thoroughly studied and is
ripe for settlement.
Most of the Governments official hous
ing troubles in Washington have arisen
from postponements caused by differ
ences of opinion regarding sites and
designs. The plan for the taking OF
the Mall-Avenue triangle Jagged for
many years for that reason, and in con-
sequence the ultimate cost to the Gov
ernment for the land alone was nearly
trebled Even now there is blockade
in the completion of this great project
due to lack of decision. In the same
way the construction of new homes for
the War and Navy Departments, now
wretchedly housed in the temporary"
wartime buildings in Potomac Park, is
tagging for lack of decision, and the
transaction of the public business is in
consequence impeded and complicated.
Evening star., 1935-07-08
S'Trial and Error" -"

President Roosevelt has certainly done
an unusual, if not an amazing, thing.
He has asked Congress to pass the Guf-
fey coal bill, even though it may have
reasonable doubts as to its constitu-
tionality. He did this, moreover, after
his own Attorney General had declined
to give an opinion that the bill is con-
stitutional. Here is new trial and
error" system of legislation sponsored by
the Chief Executive. He wishes to have
the measure enacted into law SO that
the Supreme Court may pass upon it.
Under such a plan for legislation Con-
gress should feel at liberty to try any
thing. The courts and the country would
have a merry, if somewhat hectic, time.
The President seems to have been i'm
PEELED to take this course with regard
to the Guffey bill because of the strike
threatened in the bituminous coal in
dustry. Another reason for his course
has been suggested. 1t is that the Presi-
dent is inclined to show the country that
under the present Interpretation Of the
Constitution by the Supreme Court it
is impossible for the Federal Govern
ment to undertake to help out in eco
nomic and social problems" of Nation
wide scope. That was the Presidents
complaint after the Supreme Court had
unanimously declared his N. r. A. law
unconstitutional. It is not understood
that he has abandoned it.
The situation in the soft coal indus
try has been unfortunate for years. But
that does not seem to warrant de-
mand that something be done by Con-
gress that is not within the Constitu-
ton. Nor does it warrant yielding by
the President to the demands of the
labor leaders who are now threatening
. strike.
What will be the situation in the soft
coal industry 4 this law Is passed and
Evening star., 1935-07-08
MussOlini's Motives.

With the failure of Emperor Halle
6elaSsie to induce the United States to
set the Kellogg pact in motion to stay
Italy's hand, MuSSolini seems to regard
all international possibilities of obStruc-
ton at an end and now thunders his
'irretrievable decision to make war on
the Ethiopians. Fresh troop transports
leave Italian ports almost daily and the
country has been laShed into a war
frenzy as II Duce electrifies it with
grandiloquent visions of the manner in
which Fascist legions in Africa are about
to "rewrite an heroic page of Italian
history" Along with assertions OF the
idealistic purposes which inspire their
"civilizing mission" comes the grim
announcement that Italian scientists
have perfected chemical for saturat-
ing the Abyssinian soil so as instanta-
neously to burn the soleS of Halle Selas-
sizes barefooted soldiers who cross ter
rain thus treated.
In The Sunday Star there was quo
tation from an article written for the
Manchester Guardian by an Italian,
Carlo Rosselli, which is one of the
acutest analyses so far to reach this
country as to the motives alleged to
underly MusSolini's war plans. Signor
Rosselli declares that the Fascist state
has never been so powerful, but that
italian society has never been so weak"
Material strength and irresistible coer-
cion, he says, march shoulder to shoul-
der with popular paSSivism, indifference
and resigned despair, youth included.
The cooperative state, with which Mus
solini attempted to galvanize the masses,
is depicted as myth. Trade unions
have been disillusioned. Wealth has
not been distributed" National finan-
cial chaos is held to be imminent, with
reserves depleted through fabulous ex-
penditure for appearances and for war"
Exports decrease, taxes rise and living
standards diminish.
These" Signor Rosselli contends "are
some of the hidden motives which have
decided II Duce to throw himself into
the colonial venture against all reason"
The Abyssinian expedition is thus en-
visioned as not merely diversion, but
as supreme effort to break through the
inertia of the country and give to the
dictatorship goal justification and
glittering success. At the same time,
the existence of state of war imposes
an iron discipline upon the people,
silences criticism and serves to rid Italy
of dangerous social and political ele-
ments, which. according to Signor Ros-
selli, are simply banished to Africa.
Allowance must be made for the prob
ability that the writer who thus pre-
tends to lift the veil is a militant anti
Fascist, yet other uncensored indica-
tions oozing out of Rome have corrob-
GRATED much of the dark picture which
he draws. If conditions even approx
mate those which he narrates, Musso-
lini has ample reason to drug his peo-
pie with prospective "glories" on African
battlefields as the surest method of bol-
stering tottering regime at home.