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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-04
Sport Worlds
Passing Show

Don Lash, of Indiana, took
spotlight in Olympic tryOuts
when he ran 31:O6 go for an
American "citiZen's" record at
10000 metres as IL other marks
fell in National A. A. U. cham
pionShips at Princeton.
Joe Louis said he believes he
can lick any man in the world
and expects to win the heavy
weight title by next June.
Fred Perry set Wimbledon
record by winning all-England
tennis singles championship for
third straight time as he de-
feated Baron Won Cramm Of
Germany, 6-1, 81, 60.
Three American SchoOlbOy
Fights advanced to semifinalS
in Henley regatta for the
Thames Challenge Cup.
Washin gton and PennSyl-
vania favOriteS for the eight
cared crews in the Olympic
tryOuts on Lake Carnegie.
Tony CanzOneri, lightweight
champion, and Jimmy McLar-
min, former welterweight title
holder, signed by M olson
Square Garden for a return
bout in New York on August n.
AccOlade shattered Suffolk
Downs track record for the
mile and 10 yards in Quincy
Handicap when he ran home a
half-length ahead Of ROustabOut
in 1:41 Is.
ValevictOrian captured In.
wood purse, opening day fea-
ture at Empire City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-04

Tony Latona yesterday assured
his Foggy Bottom hackers that, as
in past seasons without number,
he. has hit his best form with the
coming of July and from now on
he is liable to beat the pants off
any player.
Today though he runs up against
a stonewall in Battering Barney
Welsh, the defending champion
and the National Capitals claim
ant for national ranking this
year.
Barney ROmps
Barney yesterday romped all
over Lieut.. James r. McCue to win
handily. 6-3, 60, while Latona
sprung a distinct upset by trim
ming Price Colvin, last Baltimore
hope, in a snappy three-setter,
so, 81, Ga. Tony had to grab
four straight games in the last set
to avert defeat, Colvin leading,
4 to 2.
Dooly Mitchell tanned one aspir-
ing to his second fiddling District
net honors, when he spotted Ralph
McElvenny a set and then Scurried
home with the bacon, TO, 6-1,
"a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-04

former q. s. amateur champion
and ex.preSident of the United
States Golf Association, won the
Presidents tourney at the Nassau
Country Club, Glen Cove, L. l.. -.
he repeated his victory a few days
ago. Zip" Adams and Eddie Ste
venS CAB about all sports on rainy
days at the Manor Club.
Max Schmeling's knockout over
Joe Louis has lnstilled new vigOr
into Gypsy Daniels, who flattened
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-04

SchmeIing in 1928. Daniels may
drop his bartender'S apron and don
boxing toys again. Dizzy Dean
was mistaken for Representative
ZiOncheck at the Democratic con-
ventiOn. Sonny Workman was set
down Is days by Aqueduct stew
ards because he was unable to
steer a straight course with the
One-eyed colt, Pass EN- By. .Cy
Macdonald, a three-spOrt athlete
at Central High, COmmendS some
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PICklJPN AND PU lou IS = -: Simpson

Of the new public high school ath-
letic regulations and diSagrees with
other changes, principally where a
boy is restricted to one sport. Joe
Cambria, who has transferred his
York franchise in the New York
Penn League to Trenton, has
booked an exhibition with the
Griffmen at Trenton next year. .
and it'll be the Senators" VS.. the
Senators, Trenton also being
called by that name.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-04

Ora C. MOrningstar, a star bill
HARDEST years before Haley'S comet,
has been showing in exhibitions in
New York city. Richard Jerome,
Ieft-handed Vermont golfer, has
bagged four hOle-in-Ones in 20
years. Gene Sarazen holds no
edge on Frank McGuinness, GLOW.
ersville, N. Y. golf professional. g.
McGuinneSs scored q double eagle
on his home course. .Thirty-five
years ago, Findlay s. Douglas,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-04
Donovan Here Thursday

Jack Donovan, Mike Romano's
opponent when the latter recently
met his death in the ring, will
return to the local mat next
Thursday. He meets Eli Fischer in
a 3O-minute match on the Ernie
Dusek-Ivan Managoff card.
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BLuege '36
Miracle
j. Man
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

One need not tell
you ardent baseball
fans of Washington
that Ossie Bluege, age
IS, practically relegated to
the bench over a year ago,
is the most talked-of player
in either branch of baseball,
American or National.
But some of you might be re-
minded of the fact that in his
fifteenth year as a big league
ball player he is playing the
very best baseball Of an excep-
tionally brilliant and long
career.
That salient truth just about
comes as near to gliding the lily
as it is possible to achieve and, in
so saying, I believe I am not in
the least guilty Of exaggeration.
Another Bluege Day
I am thinking, too. should Blu
eye continue his sensational gait
both afield and at the bat. we
here in Washington will have to
begin talking about staging an
other day for him, a day"
such as was rendered him back
in 1888 when he was presented
an automobile. bought with
nickels and dimes collected by
The Washington Times from his
scores upon scores of admirers in
Washington.
The thought behind the honor
for Bluege three years ago was
that he must be at about the
peak Of his career and that it
would be wise to honor him be-
fore he might commence to slow
up.
That unhappy hour has not yet
arrived, my friends. To the con-
trary, like rare old wine. Bluege
is ever improving.
In addition to the fact that
right now Ossie is enjoying one
of his greatest spans of profes-
sional ball, it must not be over
looked that he is successfully fill
ing the shoes of the most valu-
able ball player in the American
League last season-Buddy Myers
who topped Charlie Gehringer
Of the Detroit Tigers by some
thing like an atom and a half.
For the Book
That is significant in my base
ball memory book. It ought to be
in anyone's.
Bluege's dynamic hitting spree
since he succeeded Buddy Myer at
second base just month ago IS
also something for YOUR base
ball memoirs-and MINE.
Early June saw this unobtrusive
sphinx of baseball rusting away
on the washington bench with a
batting average of around lis.
Then shortly Buddy Myer
showed up nth an ailment which
has had him on the shelf full
month, despite the fact that he
has been able to take short daily
workouts at the ball park with
Nick Altrock who was kept off the
last Western trip especially to give
Myer these daily drills.
Held In Readiness
This precaution was taken in
order to have Myer something like
ready should his veteran under
study, Bluege, show any signs of
cracking under the day-in-day-out
strain of playing second base at
the age of So.
Well, we all know Bluege hasn't
cracked. He hasn't even creaked.
He is moving about that position
with the ease of a fancy figure
skater and the grace of a swan.
CONTINUED on Page II, Col. II
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Netn1en May Provide
Fireworks Today
By GINO SINH

It's the Fourth of July and tennis fans may be treated to
expected fireworks the Columbia Country Club today when
the c four toprankng performers clash in the District OF
Columbia tennis tournaments semifinals at p.
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American Association

Minneapolis. ....... 900 1O9 1905 10 1
St. Paul. .......... 200 OO1 01O-4 IL o
Batteries-McKain and George. HRr.
grave: Herring, Spencer and Pasek.
Kansas City at Milwaukee, postponed,
rain.
Toledo at Columbus, be played at later
date.
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Louis Still Believes
He Can Lick AnyMan
Bv PAT ROBINSON

international News Service Sports Wrter]
NEW YORK, July 4-Joe Louis still believes he lick
any the world Max schmeling and Jim Braddock in
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Baseball
Standings

Yesterdays Results
Detroit, 8; st. Louis, 5.
Chicago, 8; Cleveland, 5.
Only games played.
TOday's Games
New York at WASHINGTON (2).
Philadelphia at Boston (2).
Detroit at st. Louis (2).
Cleveland at Chicago (2).
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International League
NIGHT GAME

NIGHT GAME
Syracuse. ......... O1O 900 2OO-3 II 1
Newark. .......... O2O 900 SOx--5 8 /
Batteries-Hockette and Legett; La
famine and Collins.
Buffalo. O1O 900 OO2 900 OO1-4 IL 1
Batteries-MOOty and Heath, Sewell,
Jacobs and Phillips.
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SGames behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
No games scheduled.
TOday's Games
Boston at New York (2).
Brooklyn at Philadelphia (2).
Chicago at Pittsburgh (2).
st, Louis at Cincinnati ~.
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Major League Leaders
RATTERq

Fox, Red so1 gel DIckey, Yankees. is
Gehrig, Yankees, 20lOtt, Giants ,....' IA
TrOsky, Indians. 20
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Texas League

Houston. s11 1IGalvsstOn D.. 4 .
Evening star., 1936-08-02
Federal Reorganization Studies "~
Bring Hi gh Hope of Reduced Taxes

of government are to be reduced pro-
portionately. Gov Pollard was forced
at one time to cut 80 per cent and
this was done without any apparent
neglect. On July / Gov Peery re-
stored the last 10 per cent cut when
the State budget was balanced.
People Hail Program.
In three subsequent elections the
people have voted with increasing ma
jorities when the issue was raised OF
continuing the reorganization pro-
gram and economies of the Byrd
regime. The question is the only one
in the coming governorship fght-the
papers and people are demanding a
pledge from candidates to continue
this system of administration.
Having put through such a system
for his native State-Senator Byrd is
working along the same lines to get
the best set-up he can for the Fed
eral Government-to meet the eco
nomic stress which is forcing the
people to demand drastic reductions
in the cost of government.
This is the most important ques-
tion before Congress in the coming
session." said Senator Byrd. "We
must find a solution and I am ex-
ceedingly hopeful seeing what We
were able to do in Virginia, and what
has been done in other States, that
we will be able to put the Federal
Government on an economy efficiency
basis"
Evening star., 1936-08-02
KIDNAP 'FINGERMAN'
SEEN TAKING POISON
Court Spectators Say John Peifer,
Defendant in Hamm Case,
Took Pill.
ay the Associated Press.

BY me Associated PreSS.
ST. PAUL, August 1.-The accounts
of two eye witnesses today indicated
John P. PETER gulped lethal poison
in court as he was being sentenced
to 80 years in prison as conspirator
in the William Hamm, jr., kidnapping
Peifer, former st. Paul night club
operator, accused of being the finger
man" in the abduction, died in his
cell at the county Jail late yesterday
two hours after being sentenced by
Judge NJ NJ Joyce.
The court room spectators were
Herbert Wenzel, employe of the st.
Paul w. P. A. Office, and his assistant,
Miss Angeline Concette.
I'VE were sitting about Is feet
from Peifer," said Wenzel "Peifer
had his hands behind his back.
noticed small white object in his
left hand. 1t appeared to be a pill.
A moment later PETER made quick
motion with his left hand. He put the
pill in his mouth"
Willie Sharkey. member of the
Touhy gang of Chicago, hung him
self in the same Jail after he had
been acquitted in the Hamm case and
was awaiting transfer to Chicago on
another charge.
Evening star., 1936-08-02
Wages Gain Faster Than Profits
In Upswing From the Depression

higher the income of family was. the
more it saved, and while production
and new capital to finance production
continued to expand, the purchasing
power of the consuming millions did
not keep pace.
The consumptive requirements or
wants of the people were far from
satisfied during the period of our
highest economic achievement" says
the report. The value of the total
national production of goods and Serv-
ices in 1929, if divided equally among
the entire population, would have
given to each person approximately
S665. There were nearly 100000
families with incomes of less than
$1,000; 100000 with incomes un-
der 81 500: more than 100000 with
incomes less than $4,000. and over
100000. or II per cent Of the
total, with incomes less than S2.500.
A family income of $500 at 1929
prices was very moderate one. per-
mitting few of the luxuries of life"
The Brookings economists found
the proceeds of the Nations pro-
ductive efforts going in disproportion-
ate and increasing measure to a small
percentage of the population-in 1929
as much as % per cent of the national
income to per cent of the people.
We found the unsatisfied wants
needs according to any good social
standard-of the 90 per cent OF all
families below the level Of $1,000 an
nual income sufficient to absorb the
product of all our unused capacity
under present conditions Of produc-
tivity, and still demand much more
from such unexplored potentialities
as might thereafter be opened up. We
found the income of the rich going
in large proportion to savings and
these savings strongly augmented by
others impounded at the source by
corporations through the practice Of
accumulating corporate surplus. These
savings, after providing for such in
crease of capital goods as could be
p-ohtably employed, we found spilling
over into less fruitful or positively
/ harmful uses, ranging from foreign
/ loans (bad as we'll as good) to the
artificial bidding up of prices of do
mestic properties, notably corporate
securities"
Evening star., 1936-08-02

Declarer now leads a trump, and
although on this play Vests discard
does not matter, We will say he throws
small heart and dummy the five of
hearts. Declarer then leads the ace
of clubs, and follows with his last
trump. West cannot throw his high
diamond, so is forced to discard the
nine of hearts. Dummy discards the
jack OF diamonds, which has served
its purpose. and East, in turn, must
choose between throwing his high club
or unguarding his queen of hearts.
AS in all squeezes, the one essential
is to eliminate ore or more suits from
one of the opponents hands, the only
difference between this and the pre-
vious examples being that the squeeze
oprates on both opponents.
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appear tomorrow.
Evening star., 1936-08-02

lemon Juice, which, under heat, turns
q rich, dark brown. Nine. saw her
children no more ever. She was shot"
Maj. Russell said that Mata Hari.
the famous Dutch spy, faced the firing
squad with perfect tranquility and
even looked a little bit serene. "The
reason was discovered later. Among
her thousands Of lovers one remained
faithful and, to ease her last trying
hours, he told her he had bribed the
firing squad to shoot blanks and that
she was to be careful to fall forward on
her face to conceal the absence of
wounds. Bribed men would then dump
her into a casket and, on the way TO
the cemetery, would let her out.
II walked over to her body after the
lieutenant on duty had fired the coup
de grace into her head. That firing
squad had shot so true that, if YOU
placed one hand over her heart, you
would cover every wound they had
made"
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Newspaper Alliance. IncJ
Evening star., 1936-08-02
u. S. Cracking Doavn on Spies
Former Provost Marshal Gen. Perhngs Staff Says Coun
try Is Full of Mercenaries Engaged in Espionage.

brought into his shack. her skirts
flouncing in her rage. That was her
mistake They founced little too
high and revealed a faint simmer Of
white petticoat.
In peace time, the officer had been
a stylist. He knew that white petit
coats had gone out of style years be-
fore. He knew also that the rest Of
Mines attire was, as they say. of the
utmost chic. So he ordered her white
petticoat brought in to him. ironed 1t
himself and brought out on it the blue
prints of a new type tank the French
Army had been developing. The plans
had been drawn on the petticoat in
Evening star., 1936-08-02

Squeezes.
TINE squeeze is undoubtedly the
most spectacular play in bridge,
and every player, from the
= worst duffer to the greatest
expert. invariably gets a kick when
he squeezes an opponent out Of win
ming card. In order successfully to
execute a squeeze. a player must first
have sufficient imagination to see the
squeeze possibilities. That is, he
must be able to say to himself, "If a
certain opponent holds certain cards,
will be able to squeeze him"
Also, he must be able to recognize
the actual squeezing cards. so as to
know what to discard, not merely to
run off number of trumps with no
idea in mind of what he hopes to ac-
complish We have often seen a de-
clarer get an opponent hopelessly
squeezed. only to let him out of the
trap because, unaware of the situa-
ton, he discarded some vital card.
There are several types of squeezes.
the simplest of which is the natural
squeeze"
South. declarer.
Spades are trumps.
Evening star., 1936-08-02
1900 GET PAY BOOST
Granite City, I'LL, Steel Workers
Are Given 2 Per Cent Raise.

GRANITE CITY, ILL.,, August l (F).
F. E. Heavenridge. business agent
of the Steel Workers Union, said to-
day $500 employees of the Granite
City Steel Co. will receive a 2 per
cent wage increase.
The increase, which becomes effec-
tive as OF July l, was agreed to after
six days of negotiations by company
and union representatives. Workers
to receive the increase are members
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers Union.
There was no estimate available of
the aggregate increase in wages under
the agreement, as most of the men
are on piecework.
Evening star., 1936-08-02
75.Pound Shark
Is Landed in Bay
Off Bloody Point
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, August l.
A party of fishermen from Wash
ington caught a 75-pound shark
off Bloody Point in the Chesa-
peake Bay, Capt. Charles An
drews of Shady Side reported
yesterday.
Capt. Andrews said he did not
know the names of the fisher
men. They also caught a num-
ber of other fish.
Andrews said the shark was
one Of the largest caught In this
section in recent years.
Evening star., 1936-08-02

paragraph, a remarkable instrument
that enables you to engrave what
ever you want on whatever you have
in such way that 1t is absolutely
invisible until put into special
projection machine With the panta-
graph, you can engrave. say. the blue
prints of a new type of gun on the
Of your coat and wear the eyeglass
or the button without anybody-even
yourself-being the wiser. Not a
microscope nor the violet ray will turn
up the marks of the engraving-only
the unique protector. There have
been hundreds of attempts made to
get the working plans of this contrap-
ton and the Government doesn't
know yet whether any of them has
succeeded"
Spies. even in peace time. sur
round their work with plenty of
hocus- -pocus," even when it's not need
ed, Maj Russell sad ''Hocus-pocus
is part of the technique of the serv.
ice. 1t not only prevents capture. but
it makes the work more glamorous,
more attractive to the desirable type
of men and women who go in for
it in spirit of patriotism.
Some of the hocus-pocus is much
more ingenious than anything the
movies have thought of. During the
war Hoegnagel, a Hollander operat-
ing in the German service, used to
write his information on onion-skin
paper. stuff it into the bowl of his
large Dutch pipe and fill the bowl to
the top with tobacco. Then when
he was caught and questioned, he
calmly lit his pipe and puffed all
the incriminating evidence into ashes -
Spy Catching Requires Patience.
Spying is just as tedious and hum
drum in its foundation work as any
other form of grand larceny, said the
major, and catching spies more often
than not calls for just patience and
leg work. But every once in a while
something happens-a fash, a hunch
that lights up the work and touches
1t with magic.
II remember once going to a secret
PHOSPHORUS fire test being held by
the French Army and seeing woman
on the proving grounds I asked who
she was. Why that's Nine Mar
guerite Francillard Everybody knows
madame. She is the angel of France
II talked to Nine. Francillard, a
most charming woman, mother of
three children. She had been an opera
singer, and, when war broke out, she
rushed from her home in Berne to
Paris to offer her services to the
government as an entertainer. She
went everywhere and was hailed
everywhere, and her travelling permit
was signed by the French high COM
mand, her passport by the president
of the republic himself.
"She had made only one condition:
That she be permitted to visit her
family in Berne once every five or
six weeks. She entered Switzerland
through one control post of the bor-
der, and passing her through had be-
come mere formality. Here comes
Nine! Oolala, zut! A kiss blown to
the old major in charge, and she was
on her way.
New Officer Suspicious.
"But in 1917, influenza struck
France and carried off the old major.
A young, disabled officer was sent to
take over the post. and this fellow
took his duties seriously. He gave
orders that no one-and that meant
nobody at all-was to be passed
through without his personally deliv-
cred okay.
In due course of time, an out
ragged, foauning Nine. Francillard wa
Evening star., 1936-08-02
ROME BOOSTS PAY
500, 900 Industrial Workers Get
New Wage Contract.

ROME, August (P.-Ten per cent
salary increases for 100000 industrial
workers were announced today after
negotiations conducted in the presence
of government officials. They were
estimated to affect 10000 mechanical
and metallurgical establishments, both
large and small
The increases were promised in a
new national work contract which
would replace the contract form in
effect since 1928. It provides piece
workers larger percentages of pay
than previously guaranteed.
Evening star., 1936-08-02

Here South's problem is to eliminate
the diamonds from the East hand SO
that he can squeeze West. He there
fore plays the ace of diamonds and
trumps a small diamond in his hand.
He then leads small spade to dummy,
and trumps another diamond in his
Evening star., 1936-08-02

hand. This removes all the diamonds
from the East hand, and Sets the
stage for exactly the same squeeze
that occurred in the previous example,
the only difference being that de-
clarer had to trump two rounds Of
diamonds in order to set the stage
for the squeeze.
The double squeeze Is somewhat
more complicated and consists of first
squeezing one hand and then the
other. so that both opponents are
forced to discard a winner or unguard
a suit.
South. declarer.
Spades are trumpS.
Evening star., 1936-08-02
HOAG RESTING EASILY
New York Player Out of Game for
Season, SAYS Doctor.

Season, Says Doctor.
DETROIT, August l R.-Myril
Hoag, New York Yankee base ball
player severely injured this week
when he collided with fellow out
fielder, was reported resting easily to-
day and probably out of danger"
DR.. william E. Keane, physician OF
the Detroit base ball club, who made
the report, said Hoag's mind was clear
and his temperature and pulse norma!
today. He said Hoag unquestionably
was out Of action for the season.
Evening star., 1936-08-02

We have a Laryngological, Rhino-
logical and biological Society, with
headquarters in Rochester. N. Y, and
Denver.
Evening star., 1936-08-02

Declarer's hand has been changed
slightly, but he follows the same pro-
cedure as before After he has played
the ace of diamonds and trumped a
diamond, he returns to dummy's ten
Of spades and trumps another dia-
mond. The cards are then distribut-
ed as follows: