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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-15
AMERICAN LEAGUE


DETROIT TIGERS - C h a m
pions, but can they come back?
Rowe, ready for entire season.
So is Crowder. May be enough,
but I think not.
NEW YORK YANKEES - My
choice. Ruth gone and it's liable
- help rather than hinder. Young
outfield moving at top speed.
Semiyoung infield doing well.
CLEVELAND INDIANS Lost
Knickerbosker, the shortstop, but
young men like Hughes and
Berger have come through nobly.
Club has topped Giants. mostly
without voSmik and .Averill, ought
to be up all the way.
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sorrow for an
hour or two as
their teams
win or. lose.
To the list
must be added
B r o o klyn,
which, though
q part OF
gre alter New
New York, Is
as remote in
sympathy and
homeland spirit
from proud
Manhattan, as
the PortlandS
Of Maine and
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PIN ACE
WINS ND. TEST

BALTIMORE, Md, April IS.
Naomi Zimmerman, of this city
and recent winner of the United
States Ladies Duckpin Sweep
stakes, added another title to her
credit by winning the first annual
Maryland State Ladies, Sweep
stakes here yesterday with 1,172
total.
Frances Krieg, also of this city,
took second honors with 1,105.
Lucille Young, who bowls in the
Mt. Rainier League, finished
fourth with 1895, 33 pins behind
Kay Heinzenberger, who pulled up
at third. Results:
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Kirk Miller the weather
man who has not been a man
at all, here of late, but a
lady. A very tickle lady.
I'd like to be able to pass you
an experts opinion about the
team in which you are most in
terested, Mr.. Clark Griffith's
little palsy-walsieS, the Senators,
but am no one to handicap a
ball club on three spring exhibit.
ton games in which I held my
watch over them, all Of which
were played in Washington on
sleek afternoons with so much
frappe in the air I imagine
neither the pitchers nor batters
were thoroughly thawed and
wherein the base runners main
idea seemed to be to keep warm.
Via Remote Control
However, you are welcome to
what unalloyed impressions I
have formed after talking with
those far closer to the team
than I have been, and after
reading newspapers until my
eyes felt like Ben Turpin's.
I am not nearly so much
worried about the pitching,
which seems to many to be the
major doubt surrounding the
1885 Griffmen, as I am the
catching. I am not at all wor.
ried about either the outfield
or the infield, and to break
down and turn States evidence.
I haven't lost a seconds sleep
about those backStops.
But in bordering this years
chances out yonder on the Grit"
fifth greensward, am forced
to prolonged study. I must
reflect. I must try to recollect
when baseball club of major
league proportions won a pen
nant with a rookie catching
staff. If those three kids, Boil
ton, Redmond and Holbrook
represent the smartness and
alertness to handle that pitch
ing staff, half the pitching
problem is solved.
It seems to me that it is
orthodox baseball to have the
brain trust of your ball club
pretty much centered behind
the bat. That may be old
fashioned baseball, but it is
sound baseball.
Prove to me that these three
comparatively young catchers
are thinkers, can direct the
pitching strategy of such old
SterS as Whitehill, Stewart,
Thomas, yes, and Burke, and
I'll give the Washington ball
club a $3.50 chance to let it.
self be heard from between to-
morrow and September %
when the curtain falls.
All-Age Pitchers
Washington's odd assert
ment of hurlers represents a
nice mixture of mature and
embryo talent that some
times clicks for a ball club.
The staff is not to be passed
off lightly as it steps into its
task, nor is it to be con-
demned so soon because eli
matte reverses have prevented
it from being in complete con-
dition as the season starts. It
Is far from proven but the
same may be said Of any staff
in mid-April.
Iinke and Burke will be eX-
pected to assume far more res
possibility than they have ever
shouldered before. Hadley is
said to be a steady, satisfied
worker, instead of the COM
planning youth Washington
knew a few years back. Russell,
Burke and Whitehill are pro-
nounced ready now to assume
the early pitching turns and
Thomas, Stewart and Weaver
have no physical complaints
but are simply backward pupils
up to the present moment.
Weaver is - las. eating red
meat instead of depending on
vegetables to build bone. muscle
(Continued on Page 26, Col. s.
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OREGON.
Those are The cities Of the
East. The West will feast on the
sports pages Of st. Louis, Detroit,
Chicago, Cleveland. Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati, feeding on the
food that makes a country daffy
for six months.
A Hazardous Guess
Where will they finish, those
teams that start the journey down
the long, long trail that twists its
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OWNER WRIGHT
SH|PSHORSES

Bill Wright, of Baltimore. Md,
who formerly raced the speedy
King Carter among others. has
shipped in with a half-dozen
horses which he will race during
the 36-day session of the Charles
Town Jockey Club. beginning
Monday. May 10.
Following the racing here
Wright will ship to New York,
where ne will campaign both
flat and steeplechaSe horses.
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tortuous way to world series glory,
Or they deadly second division mo-
notony?
One may only guess, fog
broken bone may throw a poten.
tial champion into the second d.
vision. A sore arm, the source Of
woe to pitchers, may wreck the
dreams of an entire team.
Scanning the form charts, it is
difficult to see the Detroit Tigers
beaten in the American League.
Blessed with strikeout pitchers Of
the ability of Schoolboy Rowe and
Tommy Bridges, who between
them famed 800 batters last year,
Cochrane can call upon either one
in a trying moment and be reason
ably sure of stopping a rally.
Roofing for Johnson
Cleveland, regarded by many as
a probable winner, does not justify
this confidence by the records. 1t
has three men who drove in more
than 100 runs last year, and the
greatest of these was Hal TroSky,
with 142.
The Yankees are regarded as a
stronger team without Ruth than
with him, but of this we shall
know more later.
Boston is banking on Grove,
and we shall have to wait develop.
nents on the former fire-ball king.
Joe Cronin thinks Grove is ready.
And now what of Washington
and its chances? Would that
some power could be invoked TO
tear back the veil Of the future
and see the tabulations of Sep
TENDER 30!
There are nine and forty ways
of plotting the chart for the Griff-
men of 1885, and any single one
of them may be right. Bucky Har-
riS must work the men in condl'
ton to play hammer and tongs
baseball. With all Difference to
those who confoun1 carping crit
les, that edge in condition has not
yet been attained. This writer
made a man to man canvas of the
Washington players and found
fewer than half dozen who say
they are in as good condition as
they should be.
The Griffmen have not had sui.
ficient running to harden their
legs, and while their general play
is good, thanks to the native abil-
(Continued on Page rs, Col. -
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Tonight's Ring Card at
Auditorium

MAIN EvENT-Ten rounds. (Welter-
weights), Phil FUR VS.. Icy JannazzO.
SIX ROUND S-(Featherweights Z,
Baby Miller VS.. Phil Baker; eight
weights), Leroy Zinkham VS.. Jimmy
Wade; (Welterweightsl. Roy Manley
vs.. Petey Bevan; (Featherweights), Joe
Teens vs. Pete Powell.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-15
Third Open Swim
Listed at Y.W.C.A.

The Y. w. c. A. holds its third
open swim night of the season
Friday at the Y. w. c. A. pool,
Seventeenth and K Streets North
west, at 7:30 p. m.
Eighteen events are scheduled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-15

there before
me, tomor-
row is April
1 6, W h e n
they open a
lot Of major
| e a G u Q
b all parks
dcOunQ I q q
C o u n t r y
with tn Q
kind per-
mission of
the weather
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FdnSAwait
Baseball
Debut
By FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

Over the land tomorrow in half
a score of cities from Boston's
twisted streets to st. Louis,
sprawling in the Valley of the
Mississippi, baseball's army will
flock to flag-draped stadia to hail
the return of baseball.
Boston, Philadelphia, New York
and WASHINGTON will thrill or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-15

Prize winners: first Naomi thinner
man, 1172, $50; second. Frances Krieg,
11O5, $40; third. Kay Heinzenberger,
1903, So Lucille Young. 140-game at
Tivoli, $3.50; Catherine 564-set at Tivoli
$3.50; Sue Miller. 145-game at Arcade,
$3.50; Audrey Mullaney, 5S0-set at Ar
cade, $3.50.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

At DISCONTINUED for New
York, Brandt for Boston.
At PhiIadelphia-MungO for
Brooklyn, Davis for Philadelphia.
At Cincinnati-Hoyt for Pitts
burgh, Derringer for Cincinnati.
At Chicago. Dean for st.
Louis, Warneke for Chicago.
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Opening Day Pitchers
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE
At New York-Ferrell for BOs-
ton, Gomez for New York.
At DetrOit-JOneS for Chicago,
Rowe for Detroit.
At St. LOuiS-Harder for Cleve-
land, NewSOme for st. Louis.
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
Philadelphia, Whitehill for Wash
ingtOn.
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Catching
Big GriH
Gamble
By KIRK MILLER

Times Sports Editor
Unless something is screwy
about that red, white and
black calendar hanging up
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Opening Day
Program
AtPark
II A. M.-Gates open,

Noon-Concert by Goldman's
band starts.
2:45-President Roosevelt ar
riveS to throw out the first
ball. Army band will greet his
arrival with Hail to the
Chief"
2:50-Vice President Garner
and Clark Griffith, accom-
panied by both ball clubs, and
led by the Army Band, parade
to center field staff for flag.
raising ceremony.
3 P. M.-President Roosevelt
throws out the first ball.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05
FL CENTRIC HAS
q CLEAR DAYS
in NOVEMBER

Ell Centrans had 81 clear days in
November and the sun was visible
294 hours out of possible 314 hours,
according to a report prepared by
Howard Emmons, United States
Weather Bureau observer. Six days
were partly cloudy and three were
cloudy.
The first frost came November IL,
and a trace of precipitation was rec
orded November 9, the same date
upon which Ell Centro residents ex-
perienced heavy fog.
The maximum temperature for
the month was 81 degrees, the
minimum was 81 degrees and the
range As degrees, according to En-
mons summary. The mean maxi
mum was 1896, the mean minimum
4156 and the mean temperature
58.76. The mean relative humidity
at a. m. was So, at noon was % and
at p. m. was 81 degrees.
Total wind movement for Novem-
ber was 2402 miles and the hourly
average was 33 miles. The highest
velocity, according to Emmons, was
40 miles on November 2, at 1:30
p. m. The prevailing direction was
northwest.
Discharge of the Colorado river
at Grand Canyon was 100000 acre
feet as compared to last November's
discharge of $4,000 acre feet. The
estimated storage behind Boulder
dam was 100000 acre feet, accord
ing to the observers summary.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05

There have been hints that the:
Townsendites might put up pres
idential candidate to run nominal
ly throughout the country but act
ually to grab California's electoral
votes.
There are indications that Oarp
(old age revolving pensions Ltd
is not taking hold in the midwest
and east as securely as its leaders
expect. You don't hear much of
Oarp coming west until you get
far this side of Kansas. Then it
begins to appear.
Politicians On Spot
Politicians are On the spot or
probably soon will be. That goes
for California, the northwest and
mountain constituencies. Even af-
ter discounting some of the claims
made hereaboutS for the Townsend
movement, an organization of tre-
mendous potential political influ-
ence remains. 1t may easily be as
effective as the Ku KluX Klan or
the Anti-Saloon League in making
congressman and senator's vote
right and like it.
Former State Senator Frank Ar
buckle who works directly under
Townsend said the gross take of
the Townsend movement was ap-
proximately $1,000 day, $365,000
year. That is the return from in
itiations at 25 cents per head and
voluntary dues Of 10 cents per
member Der month
Oarp income is far beyond the
combined receipts of the Democra-
tic and Republican national COM
mittees in the past year or so.
A Townsend plan bill will be in
troduced early in both house and
senate. But Oarp doesn't expect
much until after 1886. Sen. Pat
McCarran, D., New, who was here
when I arrived, told me he would
introduce the bill in the senate.
McCarran, a pudgy and effective
senator, likes the Townsend plan.
He is the only United States senator
to which Oarp makes direct claim,
so far.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05
Bill From First
Bank in County
Returns Home

After 81 years of travel, one of
the first bills issued by the original
bank in Imperial Valley returned
Wednesday to the man whose sig
nature is on the bill, Leroy Holt,
This bill, whose issue was author
lied on Oct "a, 1901, the bank
opening on Dec. 16 of that year,
is one of the old fashioned large
greenbacks, seeming huge in COM
parison to the small bills of today.
1t bore the imprint of the First
National bank in Imperial, of
which Holt was then president.
1t was brought to the Bank of
America branch Wednesday morn
ing with another bill bearing Holt's
signature, one of the first bills
issued by the First National Bank
of Holtville authorized in 1910, the
year the bank opened. Holt was al
so president of the Holtville insti-
tuition.
Since the time the Imperial bank
bill was issued it has seen many
changes come over the valley, in
Guiding the closing and liquidation
of the bank from which it was
issued.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05

ldJure IOT nuillUer Ol bcllllo, Will
describe problems confronting the
state. Address of welcome will be
delivered by A. Y. Preble, chair
man of the board of supervisors.
President Leroy Lyon of Alham-
bra will be in charge of the bus
mess meeting with George Kellog
of Yorba Linda, secretary of the
highway association. Lyon is an
Orange county supervisor and Kel-
log is president of the Orange
county associated chambers OF
commerce.
Hugh T. Osborne, former presi-
dent of the association, Wednesday
urged valley residents to attend
the meeting for a proper reception
of members from the upper por-
ton of the highway. He said that
Imperial county has only seven
miles of the road to complete and
this portion has already been
graded and is in good passable
condition. This section, he declared
can be surfaced with moderate
expense, if and when the connect
ing link in San Diego county is
built.
The Imperial highway is being
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05
POWER RATES
\ FORCED UP
BY DIVIDENDS

/. High power rates are necessary
because of dividends which must be
paid stockholders of the private
utilities companies" Evan T. Hewes,
president of the Imperial Irrigation
District, pointed out wednesday
when speaking of the low rates
which prevail wherever power users
arS served by municipality owned
plants.
A case in point is that of Spooner,
Wis, midwest city which owns its
power distribution system and which
has made a remarkable record dur
ing the past few years, Hewes re-
lated, referring to recent bulletin
which gave facts relative to the Wis
consin city situation.
Utilities are allowed an approx
mate 10 percent profit on their in
veStment by the Public Service
Commission. Since the utilities have
no obligations of their own, this 10
percent is practically all profit, ac-
cording to this bulletin.
ouC Vi Ciilo IJlOllI CllC CiOy VI
Spooner is caring for its bonded debt
so that no part of this goes on the
tax roll In this way the expenses
of the city, with the exception of
school needs, have been met regu-
larly by the profits from the utilities.
All this has been made possible by
the fact that there are no dividends
} to be paid out to stockholders and
no interest on bonds. Instead, the
profits, in the form of service, are
turned back to the owners of the
utilities, the people, the bulletin
stated.
With entire distribution of ALL
American canal power kept in the
hands of the people of this district,
it is easy to realize future condi-
tions here" Hewes said. when no
dividend payments are to be made
, to stockholders of a private company
handling canal power, the people of
this district will enjoy low power
rates and greater financial security
he added.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05
Leicester Wagner
Strolls Thru HOLLYWOOD

Because film colonists won't talk,
Hollywood is currently overrun with
parlor games.
Conversation has long been a dy-
ing art in the movie capital be-
cause there is nothing to talk about
but shop" and. the movie mines
gallantly try not to bore each other.
Consequently when you walk in
on Hollywood party these days
you must step gingerly over the re-
cumbent forms of boys and girls
busy with pencil and paper
Avoid VOcalities
The minute dinner is over, the
host makes beeline for the draw
ing room and pulls out some kind
of game calculated to prevent
guests being forced to fall back on
the old fashioned pastime of dis
course.
Charades long has been pet
game of Charlie Chaplin, although
he, like Edward G.. Robinson, would
rather indulge in an evening of
heavy conversation with worth
while people. "Postoffice" has no
kick for the film folk who are
forced to kiss pretty maidenS be-
fore the camera daily.
Word Chess" favorite of Har-
old Lloyd, is kind of automotive
crossword puzzle. He is standing
sitting champion of the game, with
Adolphe Menjou close runner-up.
Murder Game
Twenty Questions" is a favor
lite with the youngsters. In a party
of several persons, all but one de-
eide upon the name of a famous
man or woman. The absent per-
son who has been out of the room
then tries to guess the personage's
name using just 20 questions, which
must be answered with "yes" or
mo"
'Detective' or more creepily,
Murder is another favorite. One
guest plays the corpse, another the
detective. He, too, must solve the
crime just using 20 queries.
Carl Brisson will try to inveigle
you into a game of Danish Bill
lizards" when you visit his home.
Don't try it, because its a game of
his own invention and he has two
strikes on you at the start.
OF course there are games with
out number like "Our Minister'S
Cat" in which the guests think up
adjectives for "cat" beginning with
"a" and ending with "z.'
When Roland Young first came
to Hollywood he expressed amaze
ment
"The games are ripping he re-
marked, "but when do we talk?"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05
DAMAGE ASKED
IN LEASE SUIT

Ross Cannon brought suit against
F. P. Mendoza for cancellation of
a lease on a store building at first
and Hefferman streets in Calexico
and seeks $1,000 damages and 5000
advance rent paid under the terms
of the lease, according to a COM
plant filed in the county clerks
office Wednesday afternoon.
The plaintiff alleges he lost bus
mess as a result of Mendoza rent
ing space in the vicinity to persons
engaged in the same business as
Cannon. He also accused Mendoza
of refusing to cancel the lease
when requested.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05

working order and the deputies
have been demonstrating their abil-
ity as broadcasters for some time.
The SO called mike fever" is
thing of the past among the dep
utieS.
BY the use of the broadcasts and
Une receiving sets, according to
Sheriff Robert Ware, it will be
possible to keep in touch with the
deputies even in the isolated parts
of the county where their work
often takes them. Installation of
the three sets is one of the most
recent steps in equipping the sher-
iff's department with the modern
facilities used in combating crime,
the sheriff said.
One of the new receiving sets
was installed in the machine driven
by T. M. Sharp, chief criminal
investigator for the sheriff's office
The second went into the car
driven by Deputy Sheriff Frank
Raney and the third into that
driven by Deputy Sheriff Frank
McCaslin.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05
GROUP TOHUNT
FOR ELLSWORTH

NEW YORK, Thurs, Dec. 5. U.P)
Plans to rescue Lincoln Ellsworth
and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, un-
reported since Nov. % on trans
Antarctic flight were revealed to-
day in a copyrighted article by
the New York times and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
F. Trubee Davidson, president of
the American Museum of Natural
History of which Ellsworth is a
trustee, said that "a group of men
prominent in exploration and avia-
tion" had started the rescue pro-
gram which will begin Friday or
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05
PRISONERS WILL
BETAKEN TOL. A.

Los Angeles officers were sched
uled to depart for the coast city
at an early hour with four prisoners
from the Imperial county Jail.
The four included Tony Espejo
and Dan Cabe, held in Jail for
investigation concerning participa-
ton in the slugging and robbing
of Partap Singh, in Los Angeles.
Alfred A. Ibarro and c. w. Is
rael were brought from Conorano
by the coast officers and parked
in the Imperial county Jail for the
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-05

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. S. tUR)-
Three-word description of sound
mixer: An aural tea-taster.
Ears actually attuned, the tech
nical knowledge of physicist and
equipment enough to stuff large
moving van, the mixer tastes" the
voices of the stars of movieland and
blends them with laboratory pre-
ciSion.
]. A. Goodrich twirls the dials on
smost of Bing Crosby's pictures, cur
rently Anything Goes He has met
met so many acting celebrities pro-
feSsionally he finds it hard to think
of them except in relation to their
voices.
1t Is No Defect
Never has he met anyone with
quite the same type of voice as
Crosby's, he says. The crooner has
a small growth in his throat that
gives a peculiar caressing tone, yet
at the same time possesses a high
degree of resonance.
At first Goodrich was at loss
for what to do with the dials and
the sound-boom during Crosby
song or speaking lines.
II thought Bing's voice would
nave to be modulated, particularly in
speaking" he explained, ito make
it sound natural in relation to other
voices. 1t wasn't necessary. I eX-
perimented in leaving the mike in
normal position, just over his head,
and the dials on the ordinary nat
ural frequency. The result was per-
feet"
But when petite Ida Lupino and
, siX-foot- Arthur Treacher ap-
peared in the same scene, Good
richs troubles began. Ida has low
pitched voice without much volume; !;
Treacher's voice is high and twice
as loud When Ida spoke, the mike
was jerked away to safe distance
where his booming voice would not
break the delicate valves.
! Heard Through Chest
The average human ear, Good
rich says, can hear sounds as high
as a frequency of $4,000 cycles, and
as low as 16 cycles. Beyond those
limits the ear is deaf The low note
on an organ, for instance, is heard"
entirely through the chest.
When Wallace Beery speaks he
registers half through the chest,
half through the ear. It's all right
in ordinary life but for the movies
the sound mixer must modulate the
deep tones.
Harold Lloyd's rather high pitch
ed voice is natural" for the screen,
requiring little work for the mixer.
On the sound stages, where noise
is held at minimum during shoot
ing, the mixers griefs are not many,
lbut when the company goes on loca-
'tion his troubles multiply.
Scrambled Sounds
While shooting on the Paramount
ranch recently, hen laid an egg at
an inopportune moment and be-
gan to cackle in celebration. She
ruined the sound track. Gargling
nuts and bolts on rattletrap autos
can be picked up by the sensitive
microphone for half mile distance.
For Is minutes one day Goodrich
thought he was hearing army air.
planes IN power dives, although the
sound stage was locked tight. In
vestigation proved that bee had
slipped beneath the black cheese
cloth draped over the microphone to
keep out the flies.