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Evening star., 1936-10-27

- lCHIGAN, writes q west
M ern correspondent, is
V thinking about moving
4 East. where there are no
Minnesotas or Indians or Michigan
States or Northwesterns." Yes. but
there is still Pittsburgh and a Ford
ham and, on November 7. there may
be Penn quite different from 1885.
In his excellent history of the
Olympic games, John Kieran
shows how professionalism broke
into amateur sport 1000 years
ago.
And 1000 years from now the same
thing will be happening, as long as
the human race retains a good part
of its so-called human qualities.
In Kieran's book one fighter fixed
three opponents without a manager
cutting in. Maybe they were even
smarter then than now.
The Danger Line Again.
THE list Of the unbeaten who wade
L up to their necks in trouble Oh
Saturday is longer than usual. Here
1t is: Fordham facing Pittsburgh, with
the bounding Goldberg Juggling the
ball-Minnesota and Northwestern,
both unbeaten-Auburn and Santa
Clara. the same-Yale against high
class Dartmouth team-Holy Cross at
Temple-Marquette meeting st. Mary's
Friday night. S. U. VS.. Vanderbilt
Texas A. and M. at Arkansas.
At least five from this group should
step out on the soapy chute.
What Is What.
"GOLF," remarked a well-known
pro. ''is about IS per cent swinging
ability-60 per cent mental attitude
and IS per cent condition. There are
far more golfers with good swings than
there are golfers who have winning
mental attitude"
I asked Slip Madigan, before start
ing for Chicago, to dissect foot ball
in the same way. ~Td say foot ball
was 60 per cent fight" Madigan said.
This also can mean mental attitude
for the day In question. No team can
remain keen and keyed up every Sat-
urday.
Look what happened to Pitts
burgh. against Duquesne-and
then Duquesne against West
Virginia Wesleyan-nearly all
so-caIled upsets result from .
heavy let down by the better
looking team.
This mental attitude affects block
ing and tackling more than anything
else. And blocking and tackling are
Evening star., 1936-10-27

Pitt. and a pro team. as John Tunis
did. but because he goes back. begins
at the beginning. and overcomes deal
ing in generalities by the sheer sin
cerity of it all.
1t doesn't pretend to be all news.
nor is it. To the foot ball man lin
the know" it might invoke yawn
and psge-turning. But to the layman
who wants an up-to-date Carnegie
report in understandable English. it's
worth the outlay of nickel.
Evening star., 1936-10-27

EoL1o, ONtobNi liz
~ foot ball series between Navy
~ and Pennsylvania was born
4 \ In 1888, but will reach its ma
jority with the game of next Saturday
in Philadelphia. The explanation is
simple. The teams have frequently
missed years and will play their
twenty-first game Saturday.
Pennsylvania is Nays Oldest rival
with which 1t still has foot ball rela-
tions. The first Army game was in
1890 and the series is the closest.
Pennsylvania has won 10 games, Navy
9 and one has been draw.
1t is expected that two red-hot
teams will meet. The Navy has out
rushed and outpaSsed both Yale and
Princeton and lost to both. Penn
sylvania has lost the last three games
with Navy and has not crossed its
goal line. Navy hopes to break into
the winning column again and Penn
is determined to reverse the results OF
the last three meetings.
Drills Start Today.
YESTERDAY Tom Hamilton, Navy
head coach, gave his charges a
complete rest, not varsity man DON
ming his foot ball togs. This after
noon he was to begin direct prepara-
tions for the Penn game. Even be-
fore the first game. Hamilton warned
his charges that Penn would be one
of its strongest foes this season.
While there may be some surprises
in Navys starting lineup Saturday
the team which will be in the hare
fighting will not differ much from
that used in the other big games
Irwin Fike and Zeke Soucek will b
the ends, with Ned Hessel at ont
tackle and Duke Ferrara and Franz
Lynch alternating at the other. Tht
center trio, Capt Rivers Morrell anc
Ray Dubois, guards. and John Miller
center, is playing right up to th'
mark.
Frank Case, Sneed Schmidt, Bill
Ingram and Bob Antrim make thu
backfield quartet expected to deliver
Nays hardest thrust.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
PITT IS RATED z.
NORTHWESTERN Sd.
Washington U. Voted Next
in Line Followed by
Fordham and Army.
BY ALAN GOULD.


NEW YORK, October 27.-To the
surprise OF none. it's unanimous this
week for Minnesota in the Associated
Press college foot ball ranking poll.
The gslloping Gophers received the
No. 1 vote of all A expert contribu-
tions to the second weekly poll from
the key points of observation from
coast to coast.
The main race, for second place,
was won by Pittsburgh's Panthers,
who rebounded at the expense of Notre
Dame with display Of rushing power
rated only a few notches below the
performance of Minnesota.
Pitt outscored Northwestern, this
weeks challenger Of Minnesota, in a
close race for the No. 2 spot. The
Panthers leaped all the way from
ninth place in last weeks poll to take
the runner-up spot from Duke, which
was the victim Of the South's main
upset and consequently toppled to a
tie for thirteenth place in the latest
ranking.
The Leaders and Scores.
HERE are the results with points
Tailed for each ballot on a "10-9-
hac
Evening star., 1936-10-27
The Top Five.

Inc 1Op ENCs
"HAVE you the nerve" writes
IL Sideliner. ito pick the five best
teams In the country now?"
This assignment isn't 20
much a matter of nerve as it
Is a lack of common sense.
The No. pick Is Minnesota. Just
back of the Gophers you might take
a careful look and find Nebraska,
Washington, L. s. U. and Pittsburgh.
Tulane, Army, Auburn and North.
western may force their way into
this group later-but we are talking
now about October-not late Novem-
Der.
The same is true of Fordham and
Southern Methodist, or Texas A. and
M. and Marquette. Fordham and
Yale have turned In the two best Jobs
in the East, beating Southern Meth
odist, st. -Mary's, Cornell. Pennsyl-
vania and Navy.
A good Army team has been
tested so far In only one big
rame. And Columbia was beaten
by Michigan.
There can't be any debate about
Minnesota's place. with So points to
7 against Washington. Nebraska and
Purdue. Both Washington and Ne
braska have proved their power. So
have L. s. U. and Pitt, in spite Of .
tie and q defeat.
acopyrisht. 1886. BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance Incl
Evening star., 1936-10-27
THE SPOTLIGHT
Minnesota, Nebraska, Washington, L. S. U.
and Pitt Picked as Standouts So Far.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

the winning part Of foot ball-also
the bruising, battering part, where
the temptation to ease up is strongest
when you are not keyed up"
Evening star., 1936-10-27
NAWBEC|NS WORK
FOR PENN CONTEST
Few Lineup Shifts Likely
for Saturdays Battle
With Oldest Rival.

A NNAPOLIS, October 27.-The
~ foot ball series between Navy
~ and Pennsylvania was born
\ In 1888, but will reach its ma.
Evening star., 1936-10-27

No Escape for Michigan.
IS "A n ICHIGAN," writes a West
M ern correspondent, is
V thinking about moving
4 y East where there are M
Evening star., 1936-09-06
TENNESSEE CENTER
OF POWER SUITS
19 Companies Withdraw At
tack on T. v. A. From
Alabama Courts.
By tie Associated Press.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, September S.
Nineteen private power companies
which are challenging the constitu-
tionality Of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thoritys power program moved their
legal attack out OF Alabama today to
concentrate it in Tennessee
James Lawrence Fly, T. v. A. gen
eral solicitor, announced a suit filed
against the T. V. A. by the power COM
panies in Federal Court at Birming-
ham last May is TO be dismissed at the
request of counsel for the complain
ants.
This leaves an identical suit pend
ing in the Eastern Tennessee District
Federal Court. In this suit the power
companies asked that the ''yardstick"
power program of the Government
agency be decreed in violation Of the
Constitution of the United States.
They also filed a motion requesting a
preliminary injunction to halt all ex-
tension of T. v. A. power activities.
First action in the Tennessee suit is
scheduled before Federal Judge John
day when attorneys will argue T. v.
AS motion for dismissal on grounds
of jurisdiction. The Authority con-
tends it cannot be sued outside the
Northern district of Alabama, its legal
residence.
Charles M. Seymour, Knoxville at
torney for the Tennessee Public Serv-
ice Co., one of the 19 complainants,
said dismissal of the Alabama suit
would not affect the one In Tennessee
Evening star., 1936-09-06
JUGGLING OF Jobs
CHARGED G. 0.P.
Spoi|man's Board Of PoIiti-
clans Declared Operating
in West Virginia.

The Republican National Commit
tee charged last night that .
"spoilsman's board" composed Of New
Deal politicians, used Works Progress
Administration relief funds to put
State officials. already receiving sala-
ries, on the pay roll and to provide
other New Deal supporters with COM
Portable Jobs at more money than they
were receiving in State jobs.
West Virginia legislators. the Re-
publican press statement stated,
were put on the relief rolls and the
fancy-salaried jobs were doled out
by q "spoilsman's board" composed of
prominent West Virginia New Dealers.
"The acceptance of two salaries
by the West Virginia lawmakers is
in direct violation of q State law
forbidding any member of the State
House or Senate to hold other politi-
cal ofiices.
Given Better Jobs.
Another activity of the sspoils-
mans board was the taking Of hun
dreds Of men out of jobs paying sala-
ries Of from 500 to $3.50 monthly
and placing them in w. p. A. Jobs
paying from $500 to $3.50 q month.
The evidence uncovered corrobo-
rates statements made on the floor
Of the United States Senate by Sena-
tor Rush d. Holt, Democrat, of West
Virginia, who charged that New Deal
political sport with misery in his
State was q stencil in the nostrils of
decency, and refused to attend the
New Deal party's convntion at Phila-
delphia.
Charles c. Morris, former clerk of
the State House Of Delegates and later
a w. p. A. employe, chara cterized
operations of the w. p A. in West
Virginia as a shame ans q disgrace.
Morris, who resigned his job in dis
gust last April, was for four months
the head of a w. P. A. warehouse in
Charleston, and earned $3.50 a month
He Is graduate Of Columbia Univer-
sity and was for several years q
teacher.
Power Over Appointees.
appointment to positions in the
official and upper brackets in the West
Virginia w. P. A. is absolutely in the
hands Of five men, Mr.. Morris oe-
clares. whom he named. along with
legislators alleged to receive double
pay.
1.-The unofiicial w. p. A. Hiring
Board took hundreds Of men out OF
other positions paying from 500 to
$3.50 a month and put them into W
p. A. positions paying from 5000 to
$3.50 monthly" said the statement
1T took no less than so men from the
State Road Commission. With the
commission these men were paid from
$125 to 5000 q month. With the w
P. A. their pay ranged from $3.50 to
$500 month"
tCopyrisht. 1896, by New York Herald
Tribune)
Evening star., 1936-09-06
C. K. F|NKEL DIES,
VETERAN TEACHER
Thomson School Principal
Succumbs While on vaca-
ton in Atlantic City.

Charles K. Finkel, SO. principal Of
the Thomson School and an employe
in the District school system for more
than 40 years. died yesterday Of q heart
attack in Atlantic City, where he was
vacationing.
A native Of Washington, Mr.. Finkel,
who resided at 1889 Monroe street,
was educated In the public schools and
the old Wilson Normal School. He
first taught in the sixth grade at the
Thomson School and later was made
principal Of the Brookland School.
After several years there, he served as
principal Of the Franklin School until
that building became headquarters for
the systems administrative ofiices.
He returned to the Thomson School
as principal and had served in that
capacity until his death.
For many years Mr.. Finkel had
been treasurer of the Elementary
Principals Association. He also was
member of the Federal School
Mems Club and OF the Committee of
Street Safety, which supervises the
School Boys Patrol.
Mr.. Ffnkel Is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Grace S. Finkel, and two daugh-
ters, Eleanor Ffnkel, a teacher here,
and Mrs. Carl H. Brook Of Akron,
Ohio.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
|G. .P.0. WAREHOUSE
BIDS ARE OPENED
Federal Triangle Landscape
Project Another Step in
Building Plans.

Work on both a new million dollar
warehouse for the Government Print
inf Once and comprehensive pro-
gram for landscaping the entire Fed
eral Triangle in downtown WASH
ington probably will start soon, as
the next steps in the Governments S
public building program.
Bids have been opened for both of
these jobs and contracts are expected
to be let within a few days by the
Public Works Branch, Procurement
Division Of the Treasury Department.
Charles H. Tompkins Co. of 1890
Connecticut avenue, this city, was low
bidder for the warehouse job, with a
figure of sl,048, 900 to erect the big
building on G place, opposite the
present Government Printing Office,
on the east side of North Capitol
street, running back to the railroad
yards. The contractor is given 800
calendar days to complete the job,
figuring from the day he is given
notice to proceed with the work.
The warehouse is to be Of sub
stantial construction to support the
heavy machinery and supplies used
by the G. P. O., but has been de-
signed with a view to harmonizing
with the general architecture in the
neighborhood, which includes the
City Post ONCE and the Union Sta
tion.
Tunnel Under Street.
A tunnel and bridge are included
in the job. The tunnel will be dug
under North Capitol street to con-
meet the new warehouse with the
G. P. o. The bridge will be built
over First street northeast to carry
the railroad spur from the railroad
yards above First street into the new
warehouse siding.
The landscaping Job will include
planting of trees to carry out the ef-
feet intended in the setting of the
monumental buildings forming the
triangle group from Seventh street Il
Fifteenth street, between Constitution
and Pennsylvania avenues. 1t viii
supplement the planting already there
Low bidder of the seven who SUBJ
mitted bids was the Edison Landscape
Co. Of Ardmore, Pa, with an offer ol
$83,617. A. Guide Sons Co. Inc, OF
1918 I street, this city, was sixth ir
the list with an offer of $103, ,260.90.
Conspicuous among the landscap-
ing jobs to be done in the triangle
will be the preliminary treatment fol-
Square No. 226, bounded by Pennsyl-
vania avenue, Fourteenth, Fifteenth
and E streets, the site of former Polls
Theater, facing the huge Department
of Commerce Building.
To Plant Pin Oaks.
On this irregular shaped square
which now is simply q grassplot viii
be planted ~ pin oak trees, of sum.
cient size to make a substantial show.
ing when first planted. They will bt
Az to inches in diameter through
the trunk and about 18 feet in height
Further development Of this old Pol
site will be left for future planning
Evening star., 1936-09-06

could reach the scene itself was by
walking q slender pipe line and
scrambling the rest of the way through
the thicket.
Ambulances and police could not
get within many yards of the crash.
Roads were blocked by the rush Of
traffic from the fair and from parks
and night clubs in the vicinity.
Mrs. Beckley reached the airport
about an hour after the crash. She
was weeping and was Immediately
taken into an inner Office away from
the throngs that milled about the Ad-
ministration Building.
Beckley was about IS years of age
and airport authorities said he was
considered IAN excellent pilot"
He had been flying for William
Howard of Pittsburgh and associates,
owners of Pittsburg Skyways, for a
short time only. Prior to that time
he had flown for Russell Hays Aerial
Surveys, Photographic firm.
A graphic word picture of the
scene Of the crash was given by
Joseph Fedela, airport restaurant en-
ploye.
when I got there all that was
left was the frame Of the ship" said
Fedela.
"The rubber on the wheels still
was burning. The wheels were all
spraddled out and the bodies were
still resting In the frame. They still
were smoldering.
Il saw the body Of a woman under
one Of the motors, with her hand
hanging out and a ring on a finger
1T was terrible and I couldn't stay
to look any longer"
Explanation Lacking.
DR.. John j. Mclean, airport di-
rector, was at a loss to explain the
crash pending further investigation.
The ship took of successfully at
1914 pm. eastern daylight ,ime)
and apparently had gained proper
altitude for flight" said DR.. Mclean.
Then came that sudden dive into
the thick woods of Buttermilk Hol-
low"
As 1t faltered. John Heron, the
radio operator at the field, saw there
was difnculty and gave IL warning
blasts on his siren.
| A few moments later the glare of
the flames arose, lighting the way
Of the throngs who rushed toward
the scene from all directions.
The first rescuers reached the
scene before the flames died away
but could do nothing to save the
human torches.
Frank Schwager, airport mechanic,
said he reached the scene before the
fire was over and tried vainly to drag
bodies from the machine.
Tried 10 Drag Out Bodies.
II could hear the fire cracking
and roaring as pushed through the
underbrush," he said.
II ran up with some other men
and we tried to drag the bodies out.
but they all were burned. We couldn't
do q thing.
"All Of them still were sitting In
their seats, straight up, their heads
back No one moved or said any,
thing. They all were sitting there,
dead.
"They had been knocked senseless
in the crash or may have been killed
before they were burned. don't
know.
II tried to pull one man out. He
was sitting right behind the pilots
seat. But couldn't do q thing. It
was horrible.
Then had to run to save myself
from the fire"
Three hours after the accident an
extra gasoline tank in a wing Of the
shattered ship exploded.
Two hundred officials and specta-
tors scurried for cover. None was
injured.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
CONCERT SERIES
IN OPEN HAILED
Should Be Held Every Sum.
mer, Musician Says-Last
Program Tonight.

Washingtonians should be assured
Of regular season of symphony con-
certs every Summer-regardless Of
who sponsors 1t.
This was the opinion voiced yes
terday by Thomas j. Mullikin. man
ager Of the Washington Summer
Concerts Association, an organization
Of 80 Washington musicians who to-
night will present the last Of q series
Of % concerts, ending the National
Capitals second successful season Of
symphonies on the Potomac"
Washington has demonstrated be-
yond any doubt that it wants these
concerts" Mullikin said, "and it
would be unthinkable for them to
be stopped. It isn't important who
sponsors them. The whole idea Is
to have them"
Presented on Cooperative Basis.
The musicians banded together and
presented the Summer series on q
cooperative basis after the National
Symphony Orchestra Association had
abandoned plans to undertake Sec
OllQ 6SdSOll dI tllC UdOCA NdUC Va SAAO
Arlington Memorial Bridge. Almost
all OF these musicians played with
the National Symphony Orchestra
last Winter.
Mullikin described the closing sea-
son as 'highly successful in every
way" estimating approximately l0o,-
600 persons have attended the con-
certs. Proceeds were approximately
$1,000, of which $4,000 was paid
out in salaries, with each musician
receiving about s125 for the seven
week period.
The performance of the orchestra
did a great deal to center the audi
ence's interest in the orchestra itself
rather than the conductor, Mullikin.
Believes Orchestra Won Praise.
"The f1exibility and maturity Of the
orchestra was demonstrated by the
musicians ability to grasp new works. :"
Mullikin said. After the second
week We averaged no more than one
rehearsal for each concert. and yet
the musicians we're able to play many
compositions never heard here before.
Every guest conductor remarked
on the high spirit of cooperation
among the musicians"
The association manager said the
season would have been even more
successful if they had had more time
to plan for it.
Ten days before we opened our
season, We didn't know If we'd have
a stage. or whether We could get the
Water Gate site. A Summer series
should begin around the middle Of
June rather than late in July, as they
| did this year."
He expressed the opinion opera and
ballet should be added to these out
door presentations.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
ILLINOIS CORN TALL

Stalk of IL Feet and 4 Inches Dis
played at Aledo.
ALEDO, III, September 5 (P.-The
corn grows tall in Mercer County's
Perryton Township.
Col. E. and j. L. Boulingthouse
brought stalk into Aledo today that
measured IL feet inches. 1t con-
tanned one well-developed ear and q
smaller shoot.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

tCOntlnueo from F1rSt Page)
I" were the only ones to fasten safety
belts, adding:
when the plane landed all the
others were jerked forward in their
seats except John and l."
The plane crashed from an alti-
tude of about 1000 feet shortly after
it had taken OF for a flight over
nearby South Park, where the county
fair was in progress.
A few seconds after the ship struck
it caught fire.
Fell Into Wooded Ravine.
1t had fallen into a thickly wooded
ravine. Fire apparatus hurriedly sent
from the airport and from the fan
grounds could not reach it.
Mr. and Mrs Harry Bruce, a farm
couple were first to reach the scene
Mrs. Bruce told of the sight:
when We reached the place we
saw the girl there screaming" she
said.
I'VE could see at least four burned
bodies. The girl was calling the name
Johnny and crying"
Drove to Airport.
Mrs. Bruce said q neighbor later
drove Miss Mcdonald to the county
airport.
Then my husband, John Lutz, a
neighbor, and I went back to look
at the plane" she said. I'VE were
the first ones there.
II wouldn't look again at the
bodies. But Harry looked and said
ne saw four.
This girl said she was from Miami
on vacation here.
"All the way back to the airport
she kept saying. oh, my Johnny, my
John. What will his mother say?"
Hundreds Of spectators watched the
ship burn, helpless to render assist
ance.
The ship was owned by Pittsburgh
Skyways, Inc, sightseeing firm
which had been giving short rides OIL
one dollar a person.
As it took OF from the county air
port attendants there said the pilot
appeared to be having difhculty
gaining altitude.
Two miles from the field one OF
more of the motors failed and the
crash followed.
Mrs. Bruce and her husband ap-
parently were the first to reach the
scene.
Pushing through heavy under
growth in Buttermilk Hollow they
came upon the scene to find the
young woman survivor wandering
dazedly about, hysterical.
Airport attaches said most or all o1
the passengers may have survived thu
crash itself only to die in the flame.
that followed.
The only way. would-be rescuers
Evening star., 1936-09-06
PRODUCE PRICES UP

MINNEAPOLIS. September Up).-
Two University of Minnesota agricul-
tural economists said today q survey
indicated prices of farm produce re-
ceived by farmers rose II per cent be-.
tween July IS and August 49,
The general range of prices, W. q.
Waite and w. 3. Carver. the econo.
mists. added, was the highest for this
month since 1929 and was within per
cent of prices paid during the base
period, 1924, 1925, 1926, used in the
survey. The study was based on 16
principal Minnesota products.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair and
slightly warmer today; tomorrow prob
ably fair, showers tomorrow night or
Tuesday; gentle to moderate south
east and south winds.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair and
slightly warmer today; tomorrow
probably showers in extreme west
and fair in east and central portions,
followed by showers tomorrow night
or Tuesday.
West virginia-Fair and somewhat
warmer today; tomorrow showers.
River Report.
Potomac River very cloudy and
Shenandoah cloudy late yesterday
afternoon.