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Evening star., 1935-06-25
IEW YORK, June 25.-Joe Louis
\ and Primo Camera are set
" to 60. and the story about the
Knlnn "a kidnon thu raartu Of

and Primo Cafnera are set
to GO, and the story about the
plan to kidnap the party of
the first part is phoney. The cops
deny it. So does Louis. Yet there
were so many similar rumors around
Joe's training camp that it might be
well to consider what would happen
If the beige bonbon. or any fighter
of equal fame, were snatched on the
eve of battle.
Louis managers, Julian Black and
Johnny Roxborough, must have given
it some thought. They smothered
their boy with detectives of every hue.
A couple of gumshoes walked with
Joe whenever he crossed the lawn.
One rode horseback with him
in the early stages of training,
though this dick complained
that IL was trouble enough to
keep track of his nag without
watching Joe.
There's a difference. he pointed out.
between Royal Northwest Mountie
and a respectable flatfoot.
Then they posted a detective in Joe's
corner during the workouts, to see that
no happy-go-lucky soul poured prussic
acid into the water bucket.
This operative had deeply suspi-
cious nature. Unaware that most
sports writer's look like gunmen and
are frequently picked up and frisked
on street corners, he kept chill and
fishlike eye on your correspondent,
moving the bucket away whenever I
reached in my pocket for a stick Of
gum or harmless bolt of morphine.
Ransom Terms Holly Debated.
A Lso, the boys around the camp
: used to have conferences about
what to do in case of a snatch. Would
the kidnapers hold out for fiat
guarantee? Would they be satisfied
with a percentage of the gate? Could
they be squared with, say. so choice
ringside seats and small piece OF
the Bomber?
The boys were confused. There has
been no important case of athlete
kidnapping since Flint Rhem was
Snatched from his ball club ana forced
at the point of loaded cream puff
to drink alcoholic liquor.
Luis Firpo trained in Jail for his
fight with Wills, but that was little
different.
You get better treatment In
the pen. sometimes, than you do
at the hands Of q gang Of des-
perad0es.
The boys decided that. in the event
Of snatch, they might frame their
note to the kidnapers something like
this:
Joe should get IA or Is hours
sleep per day while he is staying with
you folks. He Is very fond Of fried
chicken. but would mot advise heavy
Evening star., 1935-06-25
LONE HIT OFF POHL.

Austin Pohl, star hurler of the Patsy
Inn A. c., granted but one hit in
turning back the Indian Head nine.
20, on the Maryland Park diamond.
Evening star., 1935-06-25
Resembles Classic Statue.

Resembles Classic Statue.
You thought of Robins thinker"
as Louis sat there leaning slightly
forward-except that the great French
sculptor's figure has sodden BRITISH
ness which is entirely lacking in
Louis.
He is 1.-the, pantherish and, although
his face, strongly of Oriental cast, is
vacantly immobile, YOU do not believe
it signifies lack of intelligence. If
he knows you well he will convince
you speedily of his intelligence. If
he doesn't you just have to guess
about him.
But does emotion lie behind that
inscrutable face? Has he the inag-
ination to picture what the next few
days hold for him-all the possibili-
ties they present of fortune and
eminence, or, on the other hand, of
defeat and comparative obccurity.
If so, no one knows it; not even
those closest to him. Any secret Of
Evening star., 1935-06-25
BETHESDA CHALLENGES.

Games for Sunday and July 4 are
wanted by the Bethesda A. C. Call
Bradley 30.
Evening star., 1935-06-25
RAIF0RD HURLs VICTORY.

Lee Raiford. former Roosevelt High
ace, hurled the E. w. A. diamonders to
q IA victory over Federal Housing
yesterday on East Ellipse.
Evening star., 1935-06-25
FROM THE PRESS BOX
With Louis the Choice of Experts,
Camera Must Be Given Fine Chance.
BY JOHN LARDNER-

doses of same as chitlings are better
for him and can be got at nearest
store, 10 pounds for so cents.
Please give him plenty Of
work on light bag and five miles
on road per morning. Advise
one of you 90 to Camera camp
and scout developments there.
Can let you have guarantee Of
$4,000, plus 10 per cent of net and
is per cent of motion picture rights,
though smaller guarantee and bigger
percentage would be better. as the sale
IS 900 cash and 20 per cent of net,
though we would be cutting our
throats to do so. Please consider
terms and advise"
Gangsters Deny Wanting Louis.
THERE was plenty of this sort Of
talk. There were so many detec-
tives on hand that they couldn't very
we'll help turning up nest Of gang
sters now and then. though their cap
tives usually insisted that kidnapping
Joe was the farthest thing from Their
minds. Thus, the mob captured last
Sunday never heard of Joe, though
Joe's detectives thought otherwise
This mob was wanted in connection
with the half-million- dollar stick-ur
in Brooklyn last year.
Through all the gumShoeing and
prowling. Louis himself remained ex-
tremely calm.
He regarded the detectives as
a necessary evil, nice guys at
heart though a trifie fiat in the
arches. He lost no weight nor
sleep over the snatch menace.
In fact, he slept so long and strong
ly that his sparring partners began
to think that sleep was going to be
declared illegal in July.
Between maps. Joe flashed enough
form to convince this department that
he will beat Camera. Perhaps there
won't be a knockout, but Louis can
certainly give the ambling Alp more
than he'll get In return. He figures
10 ldQu b STcdO Audny UiOWo'' A@AA-S
will jab him constantly, and with
some success, but the jabs won't hurt
and think Joe is strong and agile
enough to break clinches quickly and
avoid the punishment inside.
The experts are nearly all vot-
ing with Louis. In the last
month this has come to be re-
garded as mighty sinister de-
velopment It counts for Primo,
no doubt Of that.
But until the experts are permitted
by law to reach decision and then
vote the other way. there's nothing
to, do about it.
So here goes ballot for the brown
shadow-and a further guess that
the fight viii last. the limit.
(Coryrfsht. 1888, bx the North American
7, Newspaper Alliance. 1ne.)
Evening star., 1935-06-25
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

~ OMPTON LAKES, N. j., June
25.-Joe Louis sat on a wooden
bench, leaning slightly forward,
Il facing the sunset. Just to
please a large crowd, he had boxed
against three sparring partners. one
round each. He then had gone to
the showers. The-crowd had de-
parted.
Now he sat alone and his mood
was the sort of mood where every
one who knows him-and even those
who don't-knows he. wants to be
alone.
Evening star., 1935-06-25
Louis Nav Be 81 Shot.

THE odds appeared likely to be at
least . to in favor of Louis when
the clans gather at the ringside.
There was little Camera money in
sight. Broadway shared the general
belief of hstic experts ana followers at
large that the huge italian is made to
order for the deadly punching Negro.
Reports that Carnera would scale
close to 265 considerably over his best
fighting weight, did not lend any en-
couragement to his followers. Despite
his advantages in size, reach and ex-
perience, Primo's chances of avoiding
Louis knockout punch were not con-
sidered bright
The belief "a well-informed fiStic
circles was that Carnera, still she'll
shocked from the terrific beating he
took from Max Baer last Summer,
would be lucky to last a half dozen
rounds.
His one big chance seemed to be
that he might share the current luck
of the long shots. He did it once
before when he Knocked out Jack
Sharkey and won the heavyweight
title. He proved his courage under
fire against Baer.
He lacks only two things in a
physical makeup that otherwise make
him the most formidable fighting
specimen of his time. Those two
things happen to be punch and
durable chin.
No Racial Trouble Expected.
ID ACIAL rivalry and the fact that the
~ fight occurs at a time when the
governments of Italy and Abyssrlia
are in a dispute has prompted pro-
moters and police to cooperate in
taking unusual precautions against
the possibility of an outbreak among
spectators.
Authorities minimized the prospect
of any disturbance, but more than
1000 uniformed men were due for
assignment to the stadium.
Both principals were kept under
continual guard as a result of un-
substantiated rumors that attempts
would be made to approach" one
camp or the other. The commotion
was reminiscent of the old days when
no big heavyweight fight was complete
without alleged underworld activity,
threatened arrests or attempts to put
something in somebody's tea
The fighters were expected to report
to the commission to weigh in not
later than noon eastern standard time.
The preliminaries start at pm. and
the main bout is slated for not later
than 9 pm. There will be no broad
cast.
Evening star., 1935-06-25
SEEKS SATURDAY TILT.

North Washington base ball team
wants action for Saturday. Call
Georgia 1859.
Evening star., 1935-06-25
League Statistics
TUESDAY. JUNE 25, 1888.
American

RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Detroit. 9; WASHINGTON, 8 ia inninss)
New York. 4 Cleveland. /.
Chicago. g.: Boston. 4.
st. Louis, 2; Philadelphia. 1 10 inninEs)
Evening star., 1935-06-25

GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Wash. at Detroit. 3. Detroit at Chi.
New York at Cleve. Others not scheduled.
Boston at Chicago.
Phila. at st. Louis.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
UPHOLDS
BAN ON CHILD
ARTISTS
Bureau Head Fined by Judge
Bentley For Promoting
Concert by Girl, 10

Mrs. Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey,
head of the concert bureau which
bears her name, was fined $25 by
Judge Fay Bentley in Juvenile
Court today for violating the Dis
trict of Columbia child labor law
in arranging and presenting TO-
year-old Ruth Slenczynski, pianist
prodigy, in a concert at ConStitu.
ton Hall on January %.
Judge Bentley held that the con-
cert manager had violated the
"letter and the spirit of the law"
and declined to concede that
there was extenuation in the fact
that the child enjoyed playing
and that Mrs. Dorsey lost money
on the concert.
Appeal Planned
Three points were made by
Mrs. Dorsey in her own state
ment and the argument Of her
attorney, Robert E. Lynch, who
filed notice of appeal, saying he
would ask a writ of error to get
the case before a higher court.
These were:
!. That the small performer
was not working" when she
appeared before an audience,
but on the contrary her con-
cert appearance were part Of
her useful education"
2. That she was not "gain.
fully employed" within the
meaning Of the child labor act.
3. That the kind Of perform
ance given at Constitution Hall
was not intended to be covered
by the act.
Father Paid $1,4OO
Judge Bentley, who heard the
case after two earlier continu-
ances, declared in reviewing the
act that in the light of its fail
ure to exempt any "gainful en-
ployment" other than housework,
agricultural pursuits and the SELL
ing of newspapers and similar &C.
tivities under the guardianship Of
the child's parents, she could
recognize no purpose on the part
Of its trainers to permit exemp-
tions.
Fourteen hundred dollars was
paid the father of the pianist for
her single appearance here, it
was testified. Judge Bentley held
that a letter addressed by Mrs.
Dorsey to Charles Wagner. the
child's manager, saying no one
was to make any money from
the concert, was written in an
ticipation of the prosecution un-
der the child labor act, and that
the appearance contributed to
the running of the concert bu-
reau" in any event.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
z AUTO VICTIMS
RETURN HERE

Two victims of an automobile
crash in which Albert j. Sardo,
80, well-known Washington under
taker, was killed, were back in
washington recovering today, while
a third remained in a hospital at
Farmville, Va.
Mr.. Sardo's son, Albert. jr., was
at the home Of his grandfather,
William H. Sardo. sr., 7106 Chat
ham Rd., Chevy Chase, Md. He
suffered a sprained ankle and a
Sprained wrist. Lieut.. James l.
Kelly was in Casualty Hospital
with several broken ribs, cuts and
bruises. Robert A. Walker, traf
fic bureau policeman, remained in
the Farmvine, Va, hospital with
more serious injuries.
The tragedy occurred yesterday
near Keysville, Va, when their
automobile struck a truck. The
men and boy were on the way to
attend the Mari Gras at New
Orleans.
Funeral services for Mr.. Sardo
will be held Monday morning at
st. Aloysius Church, North Capitol
and I Streets.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
Ken MURRAY
Says:

Ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker
told a London Chancery Court
the other day that he was
broke. Apparently, when Tam
many gave the mayor the gate"
they failed to include the re-
Ceipts.
"Hizzoner" was being sued
for dress bills incurred by his
first wife. Being in London.
1 guess Jimmy couldn't figure
why he should be the only one
to pay an old "war debt"
He claimed that out Of the
S25,OOO per he received as
mayor, he gave $4,000 to the
first Mrs. Walker, but she spent
more than that on her dresses
Another case where the hus-
band should have married the
dreSSmaker.
So REMEMBER:
The mayor may have put
aside enough for q rainy day
but, evidently, forgot to a.
low for those fOggy London
nights.
BY Universal Service
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
MERIT SYSTEM
WINS FAVOR
Of ROPER
Asserts Courses on Civic
Employment Should Be
Taught in Schools

Secretary Of Commerce Daniel
C. Roper not only favors expan
sion of the merit system but also
believes that civic employment
should be taught in schools com.
parable to West Point or Annap'
oils, it was revealed today.
In a letter to E. Claude Bah
cock, president Of the American
Federation of Government En-.
ployes, Mr.. Roper said:
81 am very glad to assure
you of my strong personal ad-
vOcacy of the merit system in
the Federal service. We must
be awakened to the truth that
our greatest need is not for
external defense, as important
as that is, but for internal
Defense"
Pointing out his approval of
a civic "West Point" Mr.. Roper
continued:
eve have long appreciated the
importance of external defense,
but we are not adequately awake
to the needs of this better inter-
nal defense. West Point and
Annapolis have functiOned won
derfully in preparing for the
former; we need to create civic
courses in our schools and col.
legeS and build a reserve corps
of executives to be recorded
with the Civel Service COmmis-
sion or in the United States
Bureau of Education of eIigibles
on which those in authority
could draw with confidence"
President Babcock is host to a
delegation from Lodge 81, of
Philadelphia here "to see the Wal
Department appropriations bill
safely through the House without
damage" according to their
leader, John Hoffmaster.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28

she can't have a birthday until
1886, and then will only have them
every four years for the rest of her
life.
But that doesn't make any diff.
ference in the Gessford household,
where they will have a birthday
cake with three candles on it this
year, even though the birthday is
missing.
Grandfather Headed Police
Both are children of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Leslie Gessford and grand,
children of the late Major Harry
L. Gessford, for many years SUI
perintendent of police in the Dis
trict. They live in the 5000 block
Perry st., Mt. Rainier. Another
sister, Barbara, is 10 years o1d.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
Geographic Society
To Hear Air Queen

In her first public Washington
appearance since her epoch-mak.
ing transpacific flight, Amelia
Earhart Putnam will speak tomor-
row night at Constitution Hall
under the auspices Of the National
Geographic Society.
Mrs. Putnam, who is a personal
friend of the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, will be a White House
guest with her publisher-hushand,
George Palmer Putnam.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
7 MAZE
Of LEVIES
SCORED
System Retarding Recovery,
New York Official Tells
Conference Here

Immediate adoption of Fed.
eral sales tax was urged today
by Mark Graves, New York COM
missioner of taxation and finance,
at the opening session of the
second Interstate Assembly Of
the Council of State Govern.
ments.
Representatives of 48 States
gathered at the Mayflower Hotel
for the three-day session of the
organization, which is attempting
to find a solution for conflicting
taxation problems throughout the
nation.
Recovery Hampered
Pointing out that the present
tax system constitutes a formi-
dable barrier to national recovery,
Commissioner Graves said:
"Shrunken revenues from
normal sources plus increased
costs for unemployment relief,
recovery, and debt service indi-
cate the immediate need for a
general sales tax.
"UnIess immediate action is
taken the situation will be fur
ther complicated, for the simple
reason that present trends indi.
cate that every State will be
collecting a sales tax within a
few years.
This tendency is to be de-
plOred. My experience with the
New York State retail sales tax
has convinced me that this form
of levy is not suited to State
USE"
A Federal sales tax would be
sufficient to permit repeal Of all
Federal and State business taxes,
Commissioner Graves believes.
"BoOtIegging" Feared
The sales tax should be handled
only by the Federal Government,
he holds, to prevent "bootlegging"
of articles in interstate commerce
to avoid payment of State taxes.
His plan calls for the Federal
Government to handle all indirect
taxes, such as those on tobacco,
liquor, motor fuel, and other com.
modities, and to share the tax col
lected with the States.
Inheritance, personal, and
corporate income taxes would be
collected by both State and Fed.
eral Governments under his plan,
with an allowance credited against
State taxes for those paid to the
Federal Government.
The first report of the inter-
state Commission on conflicting
taxation was given at the after
noon session, followed by discus.
sion of it's recommendations by
the delegates.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
3, About to Miss
= Another Birthday

Out in Mt. Rainier is a brother
who thinks so much of his small
sister that he believes the papers
ought to publish her picture and
a story about her. He wrote to the
editor to say so. The editor
thought so, too, which accounts
for what you see.
Dick GeSSford, IS, is the brother,
and little Shirley Ann Gessford, 3
years old, the sister. The story is
that sometime between February
% and March l Shirley Ann is
going to miss another birthday
her third annual loss.
Born in Leap Year
The trouble is, as Dick explains,
that Shirley Ann was a leap-year
baby. Born on February 20, 1882,
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
SOUTHWEST FORUM

A program will be given tomor-
row night at the Southwest Com
munity House, SOL Second st. S.
W., by the Youths Forum of that
organization, under the direction
of Miss Jane r. Bosfield. James
Diggs, president of the Forum, will
be master of ceremonies.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
PLAY AT SCHOOL

"Craig's Wife," a play in three
acts, will be presented at Garnet
Patterson Junior High School
Saturday night under sponsorship
IT. Howard University Women's
Club. The cast will include mem
bers of the Negro Little Theater,
of Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28

A3CN0' ~ i n A9G4G6GA
ber of posters for the dance
and bridge party being staged
tonight at the Willard Hotel by
Lodge No. 2 of the American
Federation of Government EN-
ployes.
A Bostonian by birth, the
young employe-artiSt has been
in the Government service four
years, coming to A. G. o. after
scholastic terms at Chelsea and
Memorial high schools in Mas
sachusetts. She developed her
talent by a year of training
under the famous Felix Ma
honey, at the National School
of Fine and Applied Art.
Although proficient enough
to carry on art work profes-
Sionally, Mrs. Kriegel plans to
continue in the Government.
Her chief hobbies are the fire.
quent social affairs staged by
her colleagues.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
Institute Alumni
Fete School Heads

The Washington Society Of
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech.
nology will hold it's annual alumni
dinner. and ladies night at the
Congressional Country Club Sat
urday at 7:30 p. m. Speakers in
clude President Compton, Of
M. I. T.; DR.. Isaiah Bowman, presi.
dent of Johns Hopkins, and DR..
H. w. Tyler, president of the
local society. Dancing and enter.
tainment will follow the dinner.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
HOran Addresses
Student Writers

Members of the class of creative
writing, sponsored by the Interna-
tional Federation of Catholic
Alumnae Associations, last night
heard Harold Horan, Washington
correspondent for the London
Herald, Time, Newsmagazine, and
Fortune, speak on the subjects Of
political and feature writing. Mrs.
Lewis Payne, governor of the local
chapter, presided. The program
was arranged by Miss Ruth
Craven, head Of the literary COM
mittee,
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
FLEMING TO SPEAK

Engineering students at Cath
olic University will hear a dis
cussion by T. Alfred Fleming, di-
rector of conservation of the Ma
tional Board Of Fire Underwrit-
ers, at noon today on "The Rela-
ton of Proper Building Construc-
ton to Fire Losses"
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
Retires After 81
Years Messenger

After serving as personal mes.
senger for all surgeon generals
of the Army for So years, William
Myers, 70-year-old messenger to
Surg. Gen. Robert U. Patterson,
was retired today. A purse was
presented to him at a little cere-
mony in General Patterson's Of
flee in the War Department.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
Duke Alumni Plan
Dance, Card Party

Duke University alumni and
their guests will attend a dance
and card party at the Shoreham
Hotel Saturday night for the
benefit of the scholarship and
loan funds of the alumni aSSocia-
ton.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
Conoics,Sports
u. $. Sales Tax Urged at States Parley
Pretty Typiist
Makes Art
Her Hobby

Among talented employees now
on the rolls Of the local Gov.
ernment service must be count
ed Mrs. Ruth Kriegel, young
and attractive clerk-typist of
the Division of Rolls and Ros.
ters, Adjutant Generals office.
Mrs. KriegePs principal hobby
is art, and her latest achieve.
ment was to illustrate a mum.
The Washington times., 1935-02-28
REV. NEVIS HONORED

President Roosevelt yesterday
named the Rev. w. Coleman
Nevils, S. j., president Of George
town University, as a member Of
the board of visitors Of the United
States Naval Academy for 1898.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-14

BY BlOSser
BY Hamlin
Iashaoa

At that instant the English girl changed her
plans She had thought to seek some exit from
this evil terrifying land; but now she must find
some way to help her friend. What could she dor
She did not know. OF only thing was she
certain-she must try!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-14
KEAD THE STORY. THEN COLOR THE PICTURE)

"Heyl I guess I'm pretty good
today" He had the steer sprawled
on the ground. The contest thus
was DER.
The Tinymites cheered in delight,
and Scouty said, That was aii
right, but one steer topped is quite
enough. We don't worry any more. "
Then Dotty, with a whip in hand,
cried, 1--WE a stunt that's simply
grand. A cowboy taught me how to
make two horses do some tricks.
I'm going to try it out right
now, and I just hope it works, some
how. If I fall down, I'll feel that
I am in an awful fix"
The horses then raced into view.
The next thing that the Times
knew, wee Dotty cracked her whip.
exclaimin,g "Now's my chance to
try"
Both Of the horses stopped dead
still. and then the TIMES got thrill
when one more crack made both the
horses stand away up high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-14

The cowboy wrestled with the
steer, and Dotty said. "Oh. dear, oh,
dearl I am afraid that he'll be hurt.
1t looks like dangerous sport.
If that big beast throws him
around, hen likely flop upon the
ground. The steer is getting mad.
I'll bet, cause I can hear him
snort"
Don't worry bout that cowboy,
miss. He's often tried a stunt like
this" exclaimed another cowboy.
Just sit still and watch the fun.
'Bulldogging is an art. you see,
and really hard as it cali be, but
everything turns out all right, when
it's correctly done.
The man will twist the steer S
head round until the beast drops to
the ground, and then the contest S
over and the cowboy has a win.
Then, if you like the stunt
enough. and do not think it is too
rough, we'll get another steer and
let a new contest begin"
Just then the cowboy shouted,