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Many New Players.

CINCE Great Britain has never won
a Walker Cup match. British Off
cials reasoned that it would be wise to
choose as many new players on this
years team as possible. Among these
were Dykes and Langley
Dykes, say the critics, wins with his
heart. His uncle was one of the
greatest international players in the
history of British rugby foot ball, and
young Dykes himself is rated one OF
the best in the game
Langley has been captain OF the
English boys international team foi
the last two years, and despite his IL
years has managed to distinguish
himself in high competition. He holds
the British boys championship and
went to the finals on English closed
championship. beating the veteran
Cyril Tolley on the way,
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Stars In Omaha Field.

At OMAHA. for another example.
Johnny Goodman. former ma
tional open champion and ace of the
Walker Cup squad, lined up against
Rodney Bliss. former trans Mississippi;
champion; Phil Aitken of Lincoln and
Bob Fraser of Omaha, pair of sharp
shooters, and 10 other players, with
only three places available
In addition to the British Walker
Cup squad. exemptions were granted
to Tony Torrance, A. r. Aitken, Lieut..
Col. H. A. Boyd. H. E. Taylor. Stanley
Morrison and Henry Longhurst of
Great Britain and the former cham
pions. George Dunlap, Chick Evans,
Francis Ouimet, Jesse Guilford, 8.
Davidson Heron. Max Marston, Jess
Sweetser and Ross SANDY Somer-
vile. Last years title holder, Lawson
Little, has turned professional, leav-
ing the title undefended.
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Thomson Highly Rated.

IN THOMSON Britain feels that at
last she has a player who is not
only capable of winning point in the
Walker Cup singles, but is a definite
threat in our amateur championship
In the last two years Thomson has
won the British amateur champion
ship and the Scottish amateur once
each and the Irish amateur twice.
The son of Archie Thomson. Glas-
gov clubmaker. he is shy and mar
ticulate boy with the dour determine
ton which helps in golf. British crit
les pronounce his swing perfect. his
temperament. imperturbable. And yet
he seemed nervous when he arrived
here.
There is nothing shy or inarticu-
late about Mclean, however. He Is
probably the most sure player on the
British squad and certainly one of the
best. He has won the Scottish ANA
teur championship three times and
has played on the British Walker Cur
team once.
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Team Not Yet Picked.
DR. WILLIAM TWEDDELL, C

)H. WILLIAM A"GODIhh' 0"p-
tain Of the British forces. has nc
preconceived idea of the makeup OF
his team.
The players came over on q boat
which required 10 days to cross, and
since they lack practice Tweddell has
no way of knowing who is going to be
on his game.
To make up for the long iay-off, the
English team was driven Immediately
to Pine Valley. They started practic-
ing this morning.
All members of the team will stay
over to play in the United States anna
teur September 14-l9 at the Garden
City. Long Island. Golf Club. and
most of them will sail for home Sep
tember 20. The other members OF
the British team are H. g. Bentley,
Cecil Ewing of Ireland, G. Alec Hill,
p. B. Lucas and Gordon Peters.
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<&gS$te4lqMM&M Z M3 3
W. By WRMeCAlluM 81

complaining late yesterday on the
accuracy Of the putting stroke that
bagged for him three brides in q row,
starting at the fifteenth. Yep, the
Greene boy played those three holes
In 3, 2, 8. He may need that kind Of
finish today.
IT'S all strictly q gamble. q sporting
business, the business Of playing
36 holes medal play with IL places
among 78 golfers. Right OF the bat
you can pick the stake horses. but
these qualifying rounds have developed
o habit Of showing the dark horses to
the fore and dropping q few Of the
Evening star., 1936-08-25

~ COURSE the young man Is
4 50 good at the business Of
~ q manicured pasture that he
could take q base ball bat and mas
sage it into o first-class imitation Of
q driver, but Roger Peacock. the Dis
trict amateur king. has grabbed him
self an armful Of conjecture and spec
ulation as he faces his biggest test of
the year at Columbia today, where 10
simon-pures gathered from Washing
ton and surrounding precincts were
scrapping for IL places In the national
amateur championship.
The tip-ofi is that Roger Is 80
darned good that he might conceiv-
ably win the national this year, al
though it isn't likely. But the young
man is good enough to win. You'll
have to take our word for that, bar
ring definite proof. And the further
tip-off Is that Roger is out there to-
day stroking the apple around that
lengthy Columbia course with set OF
wooden clubs which he hadn't seen
or held In his hands until yesterday.
It might sound like taking an awful
chance to some Of the golfing inept,
who carefully treasure the old fairway
mauler with which they've been
knocking 'em $50 yards for q decade
or so. But for a lad like Roger, who
can take any old golf club and con-
vert 1t into a pretty good imitation
Of O good driver, 1t isn't so hard. But
it does leave Roland Mackenzie with
out a set Of wooden clubs for several
days, and you can bank on it that
II Roger does well today with the bor-
roved set he'll have 'em as a per-
manent addition to his golf kit.
IT COMES about because yesterday
Roger played a round with Roland
at Columbia as a final tune-up for
the amateur sectional test today. Dis
satisfied with the way he was hitting
his tee shots "a mere distance of 240
yards or so), Roger asked Roland II
he couldn't try the new set Of wooden
implements which Roland acquired
only last week The Peacock man did
fairly well with 'em. II you can call
u doing pretty well. after an indif-
ferent start, and he's out there with
'em today. For the ordinary guy to
start out in an important tourney with
a new set Of woods would be suicide,
but it doesn't worry Roger. As we
may have remarked, the young man
could take a well-aged broom handle
and convert 1t into a good golf club.
Today. however, Peacock Is only
one of a good bunch Of par-busters.
There were lots of others out there
at Columbia today who figure to
shoot a couple of 75s or whatever 1t
will take to qualify. Such lads as
Ernie Caldwell. Spencer Overton.
Billy Shea, Billy Dettweiler, Morton
Mccarthy. Volney Burnett, Harry
Pitt. Harvey Johnson. Ralph Quinter,
Bobby Brownell, and in the veteran
class such hard scrappers and smooth
strokers as Miller B. Stevinson and
Martin F. Mccarthy. You could
choose any of EN- as sure qualifiers
and not 60 wrong.
And you wouldn't be far wrong to
pick young Hickman Greene, late of
Louisiana, sub, to make the grade. He
had Claude Rippy and Tommy Webb
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YOUNGSTERS RULE
IN WESTERN GOLF
Patty Berg, With 80, Heads
Juveniles, Scoring Low
in Qualification.
By the Associated Press.

oUTH BEND. Ind, August rs
~ The kids may not be around
when they are handing out the
~ cups Saturday night, but they
certainly had a field day in the quail
flying round of the thirty-sixth annual
womens Western closed golf tourna-
ment.
Leading the younger brigade into the
first of the match-play rounds today
was Patty Berg, the freckled-faced
red head from Minneapolis, who
banged out an 80 in her qualifying
round despite badly blistered hand.
With her were such veterans OF the
fairways as 15-year-old Edith Esta-
brook of Dubuque. 15-year-old Hope
Seignious Of Detroit, 18-year -old Hilda
Livengood Of Chicago, Shirly Ann
johnson, 10, also from Chicago; Bea-
trice Barrett. ls. Minneapolis: Eva
Shorb, l8, Massillon, Ohio. and half q
score more who still make no secret Of
their age.
Evening star., 1936-08-25
Homer Standings

BY the Associated Press.
Home runs yesterday-Jensen,
Pirates; Appling, White Sox;
Sewell, White Sox, one each.
The leaders-Gehrig. Yankees.
40: Trosky, Indians. IS: Foxx. Red
Sox, "a; OFT, Giants, 81; Di Mag
gio, Yankees. %; Goslin, Tigers, %.
League totals-AmericanJ $780,
National, 400. Total, l,l20.
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BRITISH CUP TEAM
IS COSMOPOLITAN
Whisky Salesman, Pros
Son, Rugby Ace, Boy to
Face American Golfers.
BY SCOTTY RESTON,


n YEW YORK, August 25.-Great
nj Britain's chances in the forth
" coming Walker Cup matches
a lie mainly with whisky sales
man, a golf pros son, an international
rugby player and an l8-year-old boy.
The whisky salesman is Jock Nc
Lean, a confident, 25-year-old boy
from Glasgow; the golf pros son is
Hector Thomson, British amateur
champion; the rugby player is j. Nor
ton Dykes, another Scotchman, and
the youngster is Johnny Langley, the
British boy champion.
All four arrived yesterday with the
other six members Of the British team
and Immediately went to Clementon,
N. j.. where they will play the Ameri-
can team for the international trophy
September 2-3.
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Sports Mirror
BY the Assoc,atsd Press.

Today a year ago-Fred Turbe-
vile, l9-year-old rookie, pitched
l4-inping scoreless duel with Willis
Hudlin before Athletics lost to In
dians, 20 in the Fifteenth on
Averill's homer.
Three years ago-Giants won two
games from Pirates and increased
lead in National League to seven
games.
Five years ago-Harry r. Sin
clair announced retirement from
turf.
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Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
HOLYOKE, Mass.-Tony Dupre.
116A, Manchester, N. H., and Ruby
Bradley, 117&, Holyoke. drew uO
Joey Greb. 1873. Herkimer, N. Y, out
pointed Tommy Rawson, 1873. Cam
bridge, Mass, 10.
Evening star., 1936-08-25

IF Little Is correct" said Or
singer, "fish fanciers will be saved
a great deal Of money and gold
fish raising will become simpli-
fed"
Evening star., 1936-08-25
PLAYGROUND MEET.
|DRAWS 1000 GIRLS
World Record Due for Anna
LieguS-GeorgetoWn Is
Team Favorite.
WORLD record Ia expected I

A WORLD record is expected to
~ be shattered tomorrow when
~ 1000 laurel-seeking lassies,
4 \ picking up where their boy
friends leave on today, converge on
Central Stadium to compete in the
thirteenth annual Department of
Fairgrounds girls track champion
ships.
While the girls, representing 63
Fairgrounds. turned out to urge the
boys on In their quest of honors to-
day. one Of the largest crowds ever to
witness the fair athletes perform Is
expected to watch Anna Liegus, versa
tile Georgetown star, make her bid
for the record book when she fiips
the basket ball for distance.
Miss Liegus. who tossed the ball
96 feet inches to win the event In
the. Western Conference meet, one
of four sectional trials, has hurled
the ball 100 feet in practice. The
present mark is held by Nan Gingele
of Chicago at 81 feet 8 inches.
The battle for team honors Is ex-
pected to be fully as interesting, how
ever. with Sherwood, defending
champion, facing a well-balanced
squad Of Georgetown girls as its
strongest challenger.
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Georgetown Il Fav0rite.

CEORGETOWN'S strength. demon
strated by the fact that the West
End lassies captured 10 first places in
competition with Is other play
grounds in the Western Conference
test to tally 80 points. installs it as a
favorite to supplant Sherwood as the
titleholder.
Virginia Avenue and Hoover, first
and second. respectively, in the
Southern Conference meet: Takoma
and Phillips. which finished in that
order in the Northern Conference
trials, and Rosedale. which was run
ner-up to Sherwood in the Eastern
Conference meet, are expected to
make trouble, however
Ruth Hite, 70-pounder; Mary Hew-
lit. 85-pounder. and Ada Doyle. 100
FOUNDER, present Virginia Avenue
with q formidable sprint squad,
while Rosedale Is well fortified with
field event stars.
A colorful parade will precede the
meet. with Willie O'Steen of Virginia
Avenue taking the Olympic oath for
the competing athletes.
Maude N. Parker. director of girls
and women's playground activities.
will conduct the meet.
Evening star., 1936-08-25

PITTS IS VERSATILE.
After Alabama Pitts Started q ca
reer of professional base ball he con-
tinued in foot ball and basket ball.
Evening star., 1936-08-25

ny VIRTUE of their victory last
* night in the interdepartmental
/ swimming meet, Federal Bu-
~ raau of Investigation nata tors
Evening star., 1936-08-25

@HOSE smooth-swinging amateur
golfers who qualify today at
Columbia for the 1895 edition
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-07
BROKEN GLASS
SUICIDE FAILS

EAsTVILLE, Va, Oct. 7 GIN,
SO.-Breaking his watch crystal,
DR.. H. R. Hege, dentist of Mt.
Airy, N. c.. one of two men held
in connection with the wedding
present bombing" at Cape Charles
last July. used the ragged edge
to cut his wrist in suicide at
tempt, Sheriff George Turner
reported today.
Jailers soon noticed what he
had done and the wound was
treated. His condition was not
regarded as serious.
DIR. Hege and Edward Banner,
were ordered detained by postal
inspectors pending grand jury
investigation of the bombing
which blew Curry Thomas, a
wealthy middle-aged farmer to bits
and manned his bride for life. The
bomb was sent to the couple
through the mails and exploded
when Thomas unwrapped it as he
and his wife sat in their automo-
bile.
The bride worked for the dentist
before her marriage. Banner is a
Works Progress Administration
foreman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-07
JUR|STS DECRY
COURT DELAY

In a terse statement, the Fed
eral judicial conference headed by
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes yesterday rebuked Fed
eral judges for the prevailing
tendency" in some districts to de-
lay sentence in criminal cases
The report was signed by the
Chief Justice following his annual
meeting with the senior judges of
the country's ten circuits.
The conferees made public a
statement by Attorney General
Cummings relative to the post
ponement of sentences for Federal
criminal offense, meanwhile per
hitting the defendant to go where
he will without restriction"
Directing the attention of judges
to criminal appeals rules calling
for sentencing without delay"
the report said:
"The practice thus challenged
is diSapprOved."
Federal court dockets were
found in better shape, although
the number of cases has increased.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-07
PRICE HALTING
GASC0MPANY
PURCHASE
P. u. c. Says Million
Too High, No Aid to
Consumers

Providing the purchase price is
slashed substantially below
one million dollars, the Public
Utilities Commission will approve
acquisition by the Washington
Gas Light Company of the neigh,
boring gas plants at Alexandria,
Va, and Hyattsville. Md.
Officials of the companies in,
dicated they would be willing to
make a slight reduction in the
original purchase proposal of ST..
375,O00 but apparently are not in,
clined to cut substantially" un-
der the one million dollar mark.
Stand After Farley
1t was in this position that the
two factions stood today, follow
ing a conference late yesterday
which lasted several hours.
Those who met with the com
mission included George H. Cliff
ford, president of the Stone and
Webster Management Corpora
ton; George Wood, of the First
Boston Corporation, and Robert
C. Overs, treasurer of the Wash
ington company.
After a recent public hearing,
the commission turned down the
CONTINUED on Page rs, Col. 81
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One Permit Revoked |.
II Are Suspended

J. Arthur R. Decker, jr., Alexan-
dria, Va, IS miles.
James D. Kubrock, 900 KaY q
back St.. Takoma Park, Md, So
miles.
Edward H. Loftin, Alexandra,
Va, 40 miles.
George w. Miner. A Chapel
Rd., Seat Pleasant, Md. So miles.
Robert A. Norman, Vienna, Va,
40 miles.
Richard B. Wheeler, Hampton,
Va, 80 miles,
Isaac Wolfson, Baltimore, Md.
So miles.
Those convicted in Traffic Court
yesterday were:
Second Offense Speeding
Emory F. Best, 1920 Fairmont
N. W., $40.
First Offense Speeding
John F. Mulheirn, 2945 Newark
st. N. W.. $40.
Herbert j. McClanahan, Vir-
ginia, SIS.
Leon sellman, SIC Sixth st. N.
E., SIS.
Ernest L. Linthicum, 1916 Som
erset Pl. N. W.. $40.
Walter E. Thomas, 1909 Trini-
dad Ave. N. E., $40.
CONTINUED on Page 81, Col. y
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IN WASAINGTOH'S 60
a. Heroes mBZZzp @
Boyhood Dreams Of John Sweeney Come
True When He Becomes D. c. Fireman,
Winnnq Many Citations

When John James Sweeney
was little fellow and used to
sell papers down at the old B. &
o. station, he would watch the fire
engines run and dream of some
day being a fireman.
And the biggest day of his life
was in 1905 when he donned the
uniform of a District fireman.
and wore it with distinction for
the next q years-until he was
retired with the rank of sergeant.
His record is filled with COM
mendations for heroic and excel
lent service. and he is down as
the first driver of No. 20 engine
when it became motorized.
He received the Commissioners
decorations for his work in the
Knickerbocker disaster, and was
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-07
Ken Murray
Says:

They say this is a small world
after all, but you wouldn't think
so to read the ballyhOo of those
newspapers that have sent their
representatives on a race to en-
circle the globe, using only COM
mercial aircraft Seems to me,
that's going after news in o
round about way.
Guess it's only natural that
three Americans should lead
the way in this game. That
World Series proved that Yam
kee aces can always be de-
pended on for a long fly.
It looks as if the scribes en-
gagged in this race are playing
safe when they use the regu-
lar passenger planes, instead Of
plotting their own Nowadays,
the dictatOrS are changing the
map too often.
Well, anyway, this IS one time
when they're giving the prize
to the correspondent who sees
America first.
Copyright. 1895. by McNaugh&
Syndicate Inc
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ZEPPELIN PORT
FAVORED NEAR
BALTIMORE
Eckener Would Like to
Combine With D. c.
Airport, However

Hybla Valley and Baltimore are
considered the best sites for a
western terminus of the German
Zeppelin Transport Company, DR..
Hugo Eckener, designer of the
Graf Zeppelin, Won Hindenburg,
said today.
On the way from an inspection
trip of the Baltimore and Hybla
Valley sites en- route to New York
for his last crossing of the Allan
tic this year, DR.. Eckener ex.
planned that the meteorological and
chronological conditions surround
ing these two sites made them
more desirable than a suggested
terminus in MorriStown, N. j.
AS between the Hybla valley
and Baltimore sites, it is six of
one and a half a dozen of an
other" the designer said. He
added. however, that Mayor How
ard Jackson of Baltimore had
shown considerable interest in the
project and had asked of its cost
and what profits could be ex-
pected.
Optimistic View
He said
81 am very optimistic that
we will reach satisfactory
agreement with Mayor Jackson"
DR.. Eckener and his travelling
companion, F. w. Won MeiSter,
Continued on Page rs, Col. p
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The privilege of driving an all,
tomobile in the District was taken
from one out-of-town motoriSt,
while driving privileges of IA
others were suspended from
periods of from Is to 80 days as
a result of the action of the
Board of Revelations. Suspensions
and Reservations today.
The person whose driving priv
lege was revoked was Edwin M.
Wallace, of Newark. N. j., who
was charged with driving So miles
an hour,
Those whose permits we're SUI
spended for 80 days are:
David Athan, New York city,
48 miles.
Hatcher S. Butcher, Richmond,
Va, SO miles.
John H. Gregory, Baltimore,
Md, As miles.
Ivar Malmstrom, Montclair,
N. j., As miles.
Joseph C. Murphy, Ardmore,
Pa, As miles.
Ben Nirnoff, Cleveland, Ohio,
~ miles.
Clyde Roberts, Fl. Belvoir, Va,
AZ miles.
Those whose permits were sus-
pended for Is days are:
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COMMISSION
HEARS 29
PETITIONS
Plan for Apartment
Boosted and Fought
At D. c. Hearing

Featured by a verbal tug-of-war
between two retired rear admirals
of the U. S. Navy, the District
Zoning Commission opened hear.
ings today in the District Build
ing board room on 20 petitions for
rezoning.
Petition of Miss Mary E. Patten
to have her residence at 2122
Massachusetts, Ave. N. W., rezoned
from residential "B" restricted to
residential "C'' area, which would
allow erection of an apartment,
drew the rear admiralS on oppo-
site sides. Miss Patten has had a
similar petition before the COM
mission five times previously.
Supporting the petition was
Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, 1921
Massachusetts Ave. N. W. He con-
tended that an apartment house
in the neighborhood would not
cause any damage, financially or
otherwise, to adjacent property.
Strauss Opposed
Rear Admiral Joseph V. Strauss,
of 22O8 Massachusetts, Ave. N. w.
heatedly opposed the petition.
Speaking for himself and a num-
Der of neighboring property
owners, Admiral Strauss con-
tended that an apartment building
materially would reduce the value
of their holdings.
Additional support for the petit.
ton came from H. G. HoskinSon,
vice president of the Riggs Ma.
tional Bank, which has a branch
in the section. Joseph A. Rafferty,,
representing Lars Anderson, 2118
Massachusetts, Ave. N. W., and L.
M. Leisenring, an architect, ap-
pearing for the Dupont Circle
Citizens Association, joined in the
opposition forces.
Petition Renewed
The commission heard renewal
of a petition by Mrs. Marie Won
Unschuld, of 1913 Columbia Rd.
N. W., to have her property re-
zoned from residential to CONNER
cia1. Each year for the past 10
years, Mrs. Won Unschuld unSuc-
cessfully has fostered the same re-
quest.
1t was expected by the commits
sion that the hearings will con-
tinue throughout today and be
concluded tomorrcN. Among the
petitions are five requests for re-
coming of alley properties in the
Northwest section so that business
establishments would be permit
ted. These petitions have been
defeated at previous hearings by
failure of owners to obtain 'front.'
age consents. However, recent
amendment to the coming regula-
tions abolished the consent re-
quirements.
Advocating a change in zones
for house at 3701 Macomb st.
N. w., to be operated as a shelter
for aged couples, Charles F. Will
son, trustee of the Episcopal
Home of the Washington diocese,
told the commissioners the change
would be benefit to the neigh
borhood.
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Gently leading DR.. Warrington
to a little gossip on the old-time
pleasures of the Maoris and the
Fijiians we brought up the CHEEKY
subject o fcannibalism.
The Maori, we learned, when he
wanted to pay you compliment,
ate you for dinner or even for tea.
This, naturally, was before civil
lization dulled his appetite.
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ploSion, and again in the tobacco
ompany fire when he was
trapped by a falling wall and
two of his buddies killed.
Sergeant Sweeney lives at 1882
Montella Ave. N. E., where he
and Mrs. Sweeney recently cele-
brated their thirty-second we'd
ding anniversary.
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commended for directing the
fighting of the fire on the roof
of the Capitol in 1880.
Twice he narrowly escape d
death, once in the big ware
house fire of 1925 when he was
blown through door by an ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-03
SOCIAL AC77V77ZES==V V
Junior League To Meet On Monday

The March meeting of the Water bury Junior League will be held on Monday at the Waterbury Club at 12:S0 o'clock.
 pr. Samuel D. schmalhausen will be the lunchceon speaker. He will have as his subject, "The Inferior ity Complex" Following a brilliant career as teacher, editor and au- thor, Dr. Schmalhausen is now spe- cializing in Psychiatry of re-educa- ton.
 Reservations for the meeting will be in charge of Mrs. J. Warren Upson. The League is especially inc terested in the work of the speaker and Q large attendance is expected.