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The Washington times., 1937-08-03
Columbia League
Lists Nine Games

Nine games are scheduled in the
Columbian Athletic League for
today.
The feature game brings to-
gether Celery Kings and City
Baking Company for the first half
championship among the midgetS.
The schedule:
Insects-Addison Chevrolet vs.. Mt.
Pleasant School, p. m, East Ellipse
Bethesda SOmersets VS.. Travis A. c., 8
p. M. North EIlipse; Chevy Chase Car
linaIs vs.. Ginger Ale Makers. p: n.'
south Ellipse; Clarendon Boys Club vs..
Travis A. c., ! p. M. West Ellipse.
Peewees-COfey Senators vs.. Decatur
4. c., 9 a. M, East Ellipse; ZOltrOw's
Fish Market VS.. Ida's Department Store,
9 a. M. Roosevelt Stadium: BrightwOOd
Tigers VS.. lombard BARRIERS, 8 a. M,
North Elllpse.
MIdgets-GeOrge Deoude's Celery Kings
vs.. City Baking Company p. M, East
ElIipse: Pepsi Cola VS.. Chevy Chase B. G.
Cards. p. m, North Ellipse.
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SUSPEND REPAIR.
ON ROAD TO BAY

All repair work on the Annap-
olis-Solomon Island Road has
been abandoned for the summer,
due to the heavy traffic now using
road.
This heavy traffic is attributed
to the fishing season, according
to Nathan G. Smith, chief engi-
neer of the State roads commits
sion.
On October / work will begin
on the road from Prince Frederick
to Solomon'S Island, a distance
of about 20 miles, Of which some
six miles has already been graded
and oiled.
This strip Of read is now IS feet
wide and will oe made into a
road 20 feet wide when completed.
No plans at all at present for
any work on the road from Annap-
oils to Prince Frederick, since most
of the traffic is now using the
Upper Marlboro Road.
The work during the summer
months will be confined to shap-
ing up the shoulders, so that traf.
fic will not be slowed UP.
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Waldorf Is Leading
In Vote for Mentor

CHICAGO. Aug. 3.-Lynn Wal.
dorf Of Northwestern, Gus DoraiS
of Detroit, and Elmer Layden Of
Notre Dame TO-DAY were leading in
the poll to select a coach for the
all-star college football team which
will play the professional Green
Bay Packers here September /.
Waldorf had a slight lead with
126,948 votes against 1887 for
Dorais, while Layden was close
behind with 122,834.
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BATTLE WHITE SOX IN CRUCIAL SERIES TODAY


SHE'D off of nobody-the tough
Archibald included.
Why, after the fight, big AL
WE'LL, Archibald's pilot, went over
and threw his massive arms
around Gevinson in a fatherly en-
brace.
You don't fake that kind of
stuff.
And neither do the lay-it-on-the-
line boys, when they take their
bitter medicine anti declare they
got a real run for their coin.
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Len Hall to Wrestle
In Windup Feature

DR.. Len Hall, wrestler from
California, will head a flock Of
new faces in support of the dou-
BILE windup bouts at Griffith
Stadium Thursday night.
Joe Cox, the Kansas Krasher,
meets Bill Sledge, of Texas, in
one half of the double windup,
and Ernie Dusek, the Nebraskan,
opposes Reb Russell, from the Rio
Grande, in the other half.
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Continued from LIST Sport Page.)
gained them, in his latest downfall
even unto the moneyed gentry
who liked the attractive odds
available right up to the opening
gong.
Too, it must be said of both
Gevinson and his prideful man
ager, Matt Twomey, that in the
local feathers professional ring
career, which is of considerable
less than a years duration, he has
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DC. BattIers Win in
Philadelphia Ring

Howard Cowboy" Scott,
Buddy" Scott and Joe Temes,
Washington ringmen, we're vic
toriouS in Philadelphia fights
last night.
Cowboy" defeated Harry
Ropanti, of Philly. in eight
rounds; Buddy" his brother,
outpointed Jackie Hitler, who
had won 81 straight, and Temes
won a six-round decision over
Young Palmer.
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LOrtOn and Star Tie
In Well-Played Tilt

The Lorton Blues and Star
Radio, of Washington, played to
a nine-inning, 1-to-1 deadlock at
Lorton. Va, play being called on
account of rain. "Fishcakes" Her
ring, for the Blues, allowed but
two hits, both doubles. DAILY. of
the Stars, accepted five chances
in right, two of which robbed the
Blues of sure tallieS. Four double
plays featured the game.
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STAR RADIO
WANT SoFTRALL GAME

Totals. SO / 5 Totals. 20 1
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PLAZA LIQUOR WINS

Plaza Wine and Liquor defeated
the Loveless A. C. in a st. Mar.
tins League game yesterday, IL
to /. Hughes pitched three-hit ball
for the winners,
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BLUES GET PIcHoTA

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 8.
The Kansas City Blues, a New
York Yankee farm, today acquired
Pitcher Al Pichota from Oakland,
in the Pacific Coast League.
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The Washington Herald softball
team is seeking action Sunday.
Any team wishing a game, phone
prayer, Potomac 0759-W.
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KIDNAP PLOT IS FOILED

her out within walking distance
of a telephone, and instructed her
to call Prentice and tell him to
drive there and pick her up. The
kidnaper who did most Of the talk
ing said:
"After he picks you up have
him drive you past HalSted and
Twenty-secOnd Streets three
times. That will be the signal
that you've given him the mes
sage"
Miss Montgomery said she was
then put out of the car. Went to
q nearby restaurant and called
Prentice. While she waited police
squads went there and picked her
up.
Police said they later examined
Prentice's car and found two auto
matte pistols in the side pockets.
They took this to indicate the
young man was in fear Of being
kidnapped.
A broken knee cap suffered in
an automobile accident 10 months
ago led to the friendship Of Prem
tice and Miss Montgomery.
Prentice was taken to PreShy-
terrain Hospital and Miss Mont
gomery was assigned as his nurse.
After being released, Prentice said
he decided to look her up" and
ever since has been Seing her about
once a week. He added:
Margaret is just a very good
friend"
Prentice is the son of E. Parma
lee Prentice, once corporation
lawyer in Chicago, and Alta Rookie
Teller Prentice, thu second daugh-
ter Of the late oil king. He at
tended Yale University, where he
worked as a telephone operator
and won high scholastic honors.
Today he said:
"The whole family has lived
in fear of kidnapping. Often
other members have received
threatening letters. / never have
received any.
''KidnaperS would never get
any money out of me for the
simple reason that ! don't have
any,"
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Famous Writer Tells of
Own Premonition
of Tragedy

nation that I have never seen
equaled.
It was no wonder that her
mother loved her with q love that
came close to idolatry. For she
had seen this small daughter OF
hers take on and win q fight that
in those days was almost I'M
heard Of.
Beauty Of Mind
And to me, Jean Har!oW's
beauty always seemed much more
a thing of the mind than OF the
flesh-which sounds silly consld-
ering what audiences as a whole
thought of Jean Harlow, and the
kind of parts she always had to
play. But that may be because
I knew the story Of now that
beauty came to be.
For Jean Harlow had been told
when she was little girl that she
would never walk again. She had
been stricken with that dread and
awful malady which today we
fight with so much more knowi'
edge.
AS a child she had infantile
paralysis it was because she
had the determination and the VIII
and the courage to obey-endleSSly
obey, endlessly keep trying, end
lessly do things that were torture
and agony to her-that she grew
up straight and strong and beau
tiful.
Knowing that story, having
heard it from Jean herself and
from her mother, I think I always
saw the flame Of that child-Spir1t
shining through her.
Took Uphill Road
For that was. to me, the begin
ming of the career Of Jean Harlow.
The road ahead was uphill and
difficult to climb. But it was the
same little girl who had gone
through those years Of work and
struggle and obedience who start
ed to climb it.
And as you read Of her you will
see that we have lost more than
a movie star-I have lost more
than friend. And it is very hard
to part with friends. We have
lost a very rare and courageous
spirit.
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ture with Clark Gable then-aS
she was when they carried her
off the set a few days ago, never
to return. They were great friends,
those two.
Completely Human
Clarke had for her a sincere,
man-toman, friend to-friend ad-
miration that 1 never saw him
accord any other woman and I
know he liked to work with her
better than any other actress in
Hollywood.
She was no angel, Jean Harlow.
Human, faulty, high-tempered, a
fighter always. When she made
mistakes, they were big ones.
When she made enemies, they
were bitter ones. Her rs years
were filled with drama-but there
is a strange thing about her. There
was never anything petty or mean
that I ever heard about her at
any time.
Three marriages, two divorces,
q suicide.
But at last, I think, she had
come to know real love, I think
she loved Bill Powell more deeply
than she had ever loved anything
in her life except her mother. The
last time I saw her we were all
together at a weeks party in the
country.
And she had found, I saw then,
a measure Of contentment-that
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thing which strangely enough
Jean had always sought and which
explained her marriage to Paul
Bern, and her marriage to Hal
RoSSon.
For Jean Harlow suffered under
that peculiar tragedy Of looking
completely different from what
she really was. Like a comedian
who has a tragic soul, Jean H8r-
low actually was glamour girl
who cared a great deal more for
the things of the mind, a great
deal more for honesty and loyalty
and friendship, than Sine did for
romance and passion and excite
ment.
But when you look like Jean
Harlow it is difficult to convince
anyone, especially men, Of that
fact.
When she was 16, she married
the first time. And she told me
once that she didn't care at all
about getting married, only Chick
wanted to so much and she
thought it woult. be nice to have
companion.
Screen stardom came to her by
chance. It was chance that took
her into motion pictures in the
first place. And it was, of course,
her startling beauty and unusual
allure that made her a star. Moth
ing to do with ability. Nothing
to do with artistry. Just her
platinum hair and her striking
face and her perfect body.
Yet Jean Harlow became a fine
actress-and she became q fine
actress because she was capable
Of hard work and because she
had a mind that was open to learn
ing about things.
No Thought Of Movies
You see, little Jean Harlow
came to Hollywood-a bride Of
16-without any thought Of pic
lures. But she came already vic.
tor in one fight-the first one
against the enemy who yesterday
won the final round. It was no
mere 16-year.old beauty who moved
into the pretty house in Beverly
Hills young Mrs. Charles Nc
Grew. No empty.headed blonde
who knew nothing Of life.
Already Jean Harlow had be-
hind her an amazing chapter of
life-her character had grown and
developed and she had a deterni-
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mate, Miss Katherine Harris, who
in turn notified police.
Summoned by police radio,
squads of detectives went to the
restaurant and rescued her. The
kidnapers, who were believed to be
watching nearby, fled.
Prentice went to the Warren
Avenue police station after police
had found Miss Montgomery. He
said:
81 was a bit skeptical when I
got Miss MOntg0mery's early call
today. Ever since my grand
father died, people think / came
into q lot of money.
II was doubly suspicious when
she told me to come alone.
didn't Hike the idea Of being out
alone at that time Of the morn
ing, driving around.
"That's why 1 called Miss
MOntgomery's roommate"
Prentice, who Is 81, added:
For the last week ! have
been receiving a number Of mys-
teriOuS telephone calls, but when
I would go to the phone there
would be no answer"
Miss Montgomery told police
she had left the nurses home at
Presbyterian Hospital shortly be-
fore midnight, and while she was
passing an alley nearby, two men
seized her, forced a gag into her
mouth and threw a sheet over her
head. Then they forced her into
a parked automobile. One told
her:
'YOu won't be hurt unless You
scream. Do what you're told
and you'll be all right.
1--WE want you to take q mes
sage to mutual friend of ours,
John r. Prentice. ! have been
laying for Prentice for several
years because he disappointed
my sister.
1--WE are using you to convey
this message to him. Tell him:
"'YOu had better settle
down."
The nurse said the men then
told her they were going to put
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
SECURITY UNIT
SPEEDS AGE
BENEFITS
international News Services

Complete reorganization Of the
old-age benefits division OF the
Social Security Board, which
handles fully IS per cent Of the
Federal activities under the Social
Security Act, was under way today.
The division is being reorganized
into IL regional divisions, CORE
spending to the IL geographic re-
gions set up by the board q year
ago.
If the reorganization plan works
out as expected, the regional
division organizations now being
formed at the Baltimore office
will be moved to the IL regional
offices. All records Of the States
within the IL regions will be trans
ferred to the regional offices, leav-
ing only supervisory officials and
records in washington.
Speed is Aim
Frank Bane, executive director
of the Social Security Board, said
today:
"We are setting up the IL d.
visions in the Baltimore office
for the present. If it proves out
that claims and payments can
be handled more rapidly by the
divisional Set.upS, then the
regional records, and regional
stats, will be transferred to the
regional offices"
Bane explained that old-age
monthly benefit payments do not
begin until January /, 1912. Un'
til then, only lump-sum payments
are made to persons who reach
the age of IS, or to the estates OF
persons who died on or before
reaching that age, if they have
contributed to the old-age bene'
fits fund from their wages.
All Federal Rule
Bane explained:
"The Old-age benefits bust
ness Of the board comprises
fully IS per cent Of its work.
It is the only wholly Federal
section Of the law. UnemplOy-
ment compensation, Old-age as
sistance, aid for the blind and
for dependent children are
State functions, the Social
Security Board having only
supervisory power.
''When the benefit payments
begin in 1912, we want to be
in q position to make pay
ments with the least possible
delay, as we are now trying
to settle claims for Iump-Bum
payments rs they fall due. If
decentralization Is the right
answer, that is the system the
board will uSe."
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KIDNAPPED
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in-alw Of Mrs. Parsons, to his New
York offices.
Parsons telephoned from the eS-
tate of his brother. At his offices
it was said no information could
be given on whether a contact had
been made.
William Parsons is pigeon fan
cier and chicken farmer, nephew
of Herbert L. Pratt, Standard OIL
mogul, and the son Of the late
William H. Parsons, militant cru
sader against obscenity and vice.
The comedy social registerite
was seized by two men last night
as she strolled in the shopping
district. They sped away with
her in an automobile before she
could cry for help.
Suffolk county police broad
cast an eight-State alarm and
stretched a bottle-neck Gordon
across all exits from the island in
belief the kidnapers and their
captive still were in either Nassau
or Suffolk counties.
Mrs. Parsons was soon to inherit
$165, 900, it was learned. She was
the former Alice w. Mcdonnell.
The police alarm described her
as five feet in height, weighing
1876 pounds, with gray hair and
gray eyes. She was wearing q
blue dress with red buttons, q blue
hat and carried q white beaded
pocketbook.
Detectives from District Attor.
ney c. Baron Hills office and
State troopers from Hawthorne,
N. Y, were summoned, but news
of the kidnapping was not made
public until early today by Lieut..
James Gaffney, in charge OF the
Bayshore headquarters Of the
State police. He refused to say
under what circumstances the ran.
som note was found or 70 reveal
its exact contents.
He said:
"When Mrs. Parsons was last
seen she was in an automobile
with two strange men. Shortly
afterward a note demanding $25..
900 for her safe return was
picked up. We have been in
formed that Mrs. Parsons soon
was to inherit $165,0OO."
William H. Parsons. ST. had
been an officer Of the New York
Society for the Suppression Of Vice
for % years. An active crusader
against obscenity and vice, his
most intense hatred was directed
against burlesque shows. For many
years an elder Of the Madison
Avenue Presbyterian Church, he
died at Rye, N. Y. September 20,
1885, at rs.
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sack homes during the excitement,
was being held in $4,000 bail to-
day for trial on more serious
charges after pleading guilty to
impairing the morals Of minor.
Henry McCracken, Is, who po-
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lice say was werner's lieutenant,
is being held for the grand jury
on arson charges. Police believe
Werner's arrest may explain q
dozen fires in the midtown area
during the last two months.
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
Million Workers Get
Increases in Wages

More than one million industrial
workers received pay increases be-
tween March 16 and April is, the
Department Of Commerce arl.
uounced yesterday.
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Accused as lncendiarY

p NEW YORK, June 10 d.N.S).
Joseph Werner. 20. accused Of be-
ing the ''Fagin" who taught four
boys to start fires so he could ran
The Washington times., 1937-06-10
BY ADELA ROGERS ST.
JOHNS

By ADELA ROGERS ST.
JOHNS
/ had a strange experience this
week about Jean Harlow. When
I heard that she was i'll again, I
was somehow frightened. Things
were happening to her too fast
and too often. When I saw her
last in California it had seemed
to be that she didn't look strong.
Something was gone from her
and I didn't know what it was.
But I knew that when Jean Har-
low left the set in the middle Of
a picture, something was radi-
cally wrong. For Jean was q
trouper down to her boot heels.
So I telephoned out to Califor.
mia to find out. And her mother
sent me word that Jean was
much, much better-that she was
quite out Of danger, and would
soon be well again.
But-on Friday, on my own
radio program, it is my custom
to select 1.-The Woman Of the
Week." It's just an idea-just
to call attention to whatever
woman has that week done
something outstanding, some
thing fine, or good. And on last
Friday, for some reason I didn't
quite understand myself. I Sc
lected Jean Harlow.
Tribute to Courage
I said it was because she had
once more. through sheer courage,
beaten death-once more come
out on top Of great trouble and
grief and illness. I thought she
had done it herself, by her own
effortS-I had feeling, clear
across 5000 miles and q good
many months-for I hadn't seen
her in over q year-that the fight
had been q serious one, an i'm
portant one-and I thought she
had won it.
Knowing how many struggles
there have been in her life, had
the conviction that made her
the woman Of the week. And
when finished and was off the
air, I found myself crying like q
fool, utterly unable to control my.
self. I just put my head down
and howled.
I was right-it had been q bit
ter fight. But I was wrong when
/ thought she had won it, for
even as I talked the tide turned
against her and not even Harlow
could stop it that time.
AS I think of that end, think
Of something Marie Dressler once
said of Jean Harlow. It was in
the days right after Paul Bern'S
death, when nobody knew whether
the career Of Jean Harlow, movie
star, had been ruined forever or
not. Jean had come back to work.
Looked Frail, Taut
She looked. I remembered, In.
credibly frail and worn, as though
she were strung too tight and
might snap at any moment. But
she came back and carried on,
true to a tradition that becomes
stronger than personal feeling
after little while-the old, funny
sacred tradition that the show
must go on.
Dressler, she of the great heart
and the bottomless understand
ings. watched little Harlow going
on and she said to me:
"That girls courage Is too big
for her body"
1t Is a strange coincidence that
Jean Harlow was making q pic.
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Strong Will Helped
Her to Conquer
Infant Disease

This Is the story of "The Girl
From Missouri" second OF a Sc
rieS of articles on the Hollywood
career of Jean HGrloD, film
dom'S platinum blonde. Written
BY Adeld Rogers st. Johns. ia
nous noueliSt and newspaper
Don1n. This chapter tells OF
the Driter's premonition that
something tragic tDGS in store
for the glamour girl.
The Washington times., 1937-12-24
APPEAL
FOR YULE TOYS

Have you contributed your toy
to the Christmas Cheer Club2
Today is the last day in which
to get the toys to the shop at 1887
Massachusetts Ave. N. W., where
scores Of persons from the District
Playground Department and the
Girls Playground clubs are repair,
ing toys given by kindly Washing.
tonians. More than 10000 unfor-
tunate children will benefit by
these contributions, it is hoped.
The Washington Times and the
Washington Herald are sponsoring
the Christmas Cheer Club in con-
junction with the Playground De
partment, WJSv and Loew's The
aters.
Firemen will finish the job Of
painting new faces on old dolls,
repairing broken down fire wagons
and autos so that Washington's
underprivileged youngsters will not
find an empty stocking.
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Says Boake Garter

reason for the girls appearance before the
judge. They had cashed a neighbors WPA
check, forged the woman's name. They wanted,
they said, good clothes and good times"
Curfews and boyfriend bans, as the Judge
hints, probably would be useless, even pointless
Such things would not eliminate romance and
Surreptitious meetings.
The cure lies not in the court but the home,
it seems to me. The lack Of any spiritual train
ing at home develops the spirit of rebellion in
young that eventually becomes uncomfortable
and leads to trouble and misery. The trouble
is that today half of the parents in every walk
of life don't even know the names of the boy
friends with whom their daughters associate each
night.
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FRIDAY, DEC. "a, 1887
By Evalw Walsh Mclean

me over the bad places many many times We
have been given this power to shut our eyes to
the utterly diScouraging things in our life.
So, tell the little ones of this world of the love
and power that is in each of them God stands
closer to us in the shadow than in the sunshine.
He has given us soul and the only way we can
go forward is by using that great gift.
No matter how cold or empty the house may
be, don't get discouraged. The cheerful spirit
a sweet and happy story to the children of what
lies ahead of them, and true love, will help you.
Simple Life of Christ
will never forget the aweinspiring memory
of the day went to the rough stone cave where
the baby Jesus was born. You must go on your
knees as soon as you enter the small, cold cave
with its stone floor, worn to high polish by the
millions who go there in rapt devotion every year.
Remember how simply Christ lived! You dear
people in small houses, or in a single room-you
are the ones who are dearer to him today than
the people who live in mansions He lived as
you are living. He was born more humbly than
any of you, and He knew cold and hunger and the
great sacrifice of giving His life for you.
But through it all He kept His faith and love,
and if you will only feel that He is near, it will
comfort you and your dear ones