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Evening star., 1937-08-27
ACES NON-P[USSED.
BY MARVIN WARD
Downs Four Tough Foemen.
Fischer, Goodman and
BiIIoWs Survive.
BY FRANK GORRIE,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

~ ORTLAND, Oreg, August 81
l. A young upstart from the Pa
cific Northwest who never has
4 won title of any kind
Marvin tBud) Ward-Caused a lot OF
commotion in the national amateur
golf tournament today as he teed of
with three big shots in the 36-hole
serni-fnals.
Champion Johnny Fischer of Gin
cinnatl, Johnny Goodman OF Omaha
and Ray Billows of PouGhkeepSie,
N Y, we're the other survivors.
The trio of famous sharpshooters,
particularly Fischer and Goodman,
didn't know how seriously to take
him.
The 24-year-old Olympia, Wash,
tax collector has gathered enough
pars and brides to eliminate four
tough opponents.
Goodman, winner of the national
open in 1888 and the pre-tournament
favorite, opposed Ward in the lower
bracket battle today.
Evening star., 1937-08-27

Jimmy Braddock is more popu-
lar than ever He came in
from the country yesterday and
visited the Hippodrome Fully
300 fans jammed the sidewalks
IN front Of the joint for more than
an hour until Jimmy came out
And what . hand he goti :
"0ee," said the tickled Braddock,
Evening star., 1937-08-27

Roy Decker, the Chicago kid who
has hurled five nine-inning shut
outs the last month for the Pensa-
cola Fliers of the Southeastern
League? :. He came up with one
three hitter, three four-hitters
and one six-hitter Don't see
how that limb holds all the ex-
perts who are out there on Louis.
You can hear Wallace Wade Of
Duke moaning plumb to New York
All because one OF his ends
broke leg Shove in another
one, brother, you've got 'em.
Evening star., 1937-08-27

Not Good for Farr's Temper.
HE postponement hardly is CAL
culated to improve Tommy's
temper. He was keyed for action last
night and his crabby nature figures
Evening star., 1937-08-27

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
Bank Nights Open
TO All, Whether
Customer or Not

SACRAMENTO, March 22-Any-
one may participate in theatre
bank night" drawings whether
they hold ticket or not and it
is not necessary for the winning
number holder to be in the theatre
when the number is drawn, accord
ing to an opinion from U. S. Webb,
California attorney general. These
restrictions apply, according to
Webb, if the drawings are to re-
main within the law and avoid be-
coming illegal lottery.
Persons over 16 years OF age may
participate in the drawings ticket
less if they demand to sign a roster
supposed TO be displaye in the
theatre lobby.
Non-patrons who win prizes must
be informed of the winning, in
Webb's opinion. The theater might
make the claiming period so short
that it would be impossible to
reach the theater in time to claim
the prize, it was poined out.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
RACE DRIVER
ARRIVES FOR
SAFETY TALKS

The 80-mile an hour speeds of
1897 automobiles were not built
into the cars as a challenge to
heavy-footed drivers, but as con-
venience to safe drivers, Barney
Oldfield declared Monday on his
arrival in Imperial Valley to par
ticipate in a safety drive sched-
uled by the American Legion.
"An automobile capable of an
80-mile- -an-hour speed is built to
cruise at SIS or go miles without
any strain on the engine and other
operating parts" Oldfield said.
The high speed engine is just
loafing along under wraps at a
mile minute. Naturally, it uses
less gasoline and oil"
Oldfield worlds most famous
race driver arrived in Westmor-
land Monday morning preparatory
to safety talks in the Brawley
and Calipatria high schools. He
will appear Tuesday before high
school students in Ell Centre, Holt
vile and CaleXico,> then will adj
dress a public meeting sponsored
by the American Legion in the
Veterans Memorial Hall, Ell Cen
tro, Tuesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
Water Conference
Planned March 30

BERKELEY, March 22.-Officials
and representative of irrigation
districts, reclamation projects and
water companies in California today
were urged by Alex Johnson. sec
retary-trsasurer Of the California
Farm Bureau Federation, to attend
the sixth annual meeting of the
Institute Of Irrigation Agriculture,
to be held at Corvallis, Oregon,
March 30-April l.
Many problems of especial sig
nificance to water users, he said,
including economic, financial, and
engineering phases of irrigation
agriculture, will be discussed at
this conference by outstanding sps-
cialists of state agricultural col
leges, the United States Department
of Agriculture, Department of In
terror, Soil Conservation Service,
and other governmental agencies
and institutions.
The Corvallis meeting is being
held under the auspices of the Farm
Bureau Federations of the western
states. Attendance is expected from
California, Arizona, New Mexico,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Neb-
IaSka and Nevada.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
Slayer of Cook
Escapes 3rd Time

STATE PRISON, Florence, Ariz.
March %. UP)-Johnny Quantrell,
27, who killed a cook because he
didn't like his cooking, was at
liberty today, his third escape from
the prison since 1881.
Quantrell, serving a life sentence
for his crime, calmly drove out
of the prison yard in a fast truck.
With him went Marvin Rhodes, 20,
convict from Navajo county. Guards
on the walls let them go without
challenge, believing Quantrell, a
trusty, was engaged in his regular
work outside the prison.
Quantrell, sent here from Pima
county in 1929, was one of IS pri-
soners who scrambled over the walls
Feb %, 1881 He was not re-
captured until September, 1888
Meantime, he married. His wife and
ii live in Florence.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
BLIND MANS BUFF
A REAL HOLDUP

CLEVELAND, March % UR)-
Joseph Stayanchi told police today
he thought friends were playing
blind mans buff when somebody
approached him from behind and
placed hands over his eyes. But
when another person pressed pistol
against his size and began TO rifle
his pockets he knew it was hold
up. Stayanchi lost diamond ring
and 60 cents in cash..
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
SKELETON MAY
GO AT AUCTION

NEW YORK, March %. UP)-If
the owner of a skeleton, found near
the Bronx botanical gardens, does
MT claim it within 60 days it will
be sold at auction, police head
quarters announced today. Sergeant
Thomas F. Maxwell who found the
skeleton said that findings being
keepings doesn't appeal to me in
this case"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22

eight passenger coaches and
freight car for food and refresh
ments for a barbecue at the des-
tination, reached Mexicali late
Saturday after the 84 kilometer
trip into the interior and back.
Rodolfo Sanchez Taboada, new
governor of Baja California, and
his staff watched Ulises Irigoyen,
director general of railroads un-
der the department of eommunica-
tions, drive the golden spike in
the first rail of the line. The
proposed link will cross Sonora
about $50 miles to join the present
Southern Pacific line, according
to present plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
7SS BEGINNING OF MEXICAN RAILWAY LINK
SPECIAL TRAIN
FOR CEREMONY

MEXICAL March 22Consrucion beginnings for the
railway between ghf
witnessed than
international special of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22

WEST PLAINS, Mo U.R)-A. j,
Abbott, 90-year-old Civil War vet
eran and Miss Agnes Galley, 60,
were married here, the first time
for both.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22

Lake Hemet is fullfor the first
time sence 1927.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
THE EVENING WASHINGTON D. c., MONDAY MAY 1887.

was elected to Congress, $4,000 was
Just set OF numbers.
That Scotchman would never get
away with 1t here" Gehrmann re-
marked.
why, say, my district covers third
OF Wisconsin. I'm always on the 70.
I have to buy new car every year.
1t takes about half Of my $4,000 to
get elected and stay elected.
"A beds luxury in this city. I
think I'm lucky, you know. I got a
place down on Potomac avenue where
l live with my daughter and secretary
for only $50 month. used to be
IN hotel In a room just big enough
to yawn in, and it cost me s95.
Il don't eat much for breakfast, but
1t costs me 40 cents, anyway. There s
another so cents for lunch. Dinner,
that's different, that's big, but / try
to get 1t at home"
Booster for District.
Gehrmann is q great booster for
his district, which contains such di-
versified claims to fame as $40 charted
lakes, the site Of the Little Bohemia
shooting and the place where Jimmy
Braddock trained.
But the district is right In the
drought belt, too, and Gehrmanns
Evening star., 1937-05-03
WINNERS SELECTED

Winners in the senior groups Of the
annual Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Bible story contest, held Sat-
urday night in the Central "Y" Build
ing, were as follows
Miss Evelyn Kraft OF Calvary Bap-
tst Church, first place for girls; Miss
Betty Jean Hyman Of Petworth Bap-
tist Church, second; Joseph Gulick,
jr., Of Chevy Chase Baptist Church,
first place for boys, and Robert An
derson OF Petworth Baptist Church,
second.
Chester H. Jones, president OF the
Young Peoples Conference at West
minister, presided.
The judges were Rev. Kenneth
Buker, William S. Jones and Richard
Kreuger.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
SCHOOL CHILDREN
GET EXAMINATIONS
Thousands Are Physically
Tested in Campaign
for Health.

Physical examination OF thousands
OF children got under way in the pub
io schools today as part Of Washing
tons child health campaign, which
was formally inaugurated May day.
District officials are cooperating
with private agencies, medical and
dental societies, parent teacher asso-
Citations and other groups in the in
tensifed program aimed at the i'm
provement of the health of children.
Dental Program Begun.
A Good Health Club demonstration
this morning at Ludlow School sig
nalized the start of dental program
to be effective among all pupils of
the sixth division of the school system
The Health Department will con-
tlnue expansion of its campaign for
immuniZation of all children against
diphtheria and to protect children and
diseases.
More TO Be Enrolled.
More mothers will be enrolled in
the campaign under the programs
planned by DR.. Ella Oppenheimer
chairman of the General Committee
on Child Health Day and director of
maternal and child welfare division
of the Health Department She has
charge of the operation of II child
health stations of the Health Depart
ment.
Some 1900 children of pre-school
age will be examined for physical de-
fects in the Summer roundup spon-
eored by the District Congress of Par
ent-TeaCher Associations.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
impossible for NJ. C.'s to- Liue
On SIS a Week, T,uo Declare
Scotch Member of Parliament, Who
Lives on Sum, Would Find Things
Different in WusI,in gtOn.

Maybe Willie GALLAGHER, M p, can
keep going on SIS week. but
He lives in London, and besides he
was born in Scotland.
If he We're an M. c. and had to
spend most Of his time in Washington
he would find it hard to save nickel
out of his $4,000 year.
Washington is the most expensive
city in the United States, and 1t has
no accommodations such as Mr.. Gal
lacher finds in Westminster for $485
week.
Bryon Scott, NJ c., for instance,
used to do as well in Long Beach,
Calf, on a teachers pay of $4,000
year as he manages on his legislators
stipend plus 40 cents mile travel ex-
penses to and from the Pacific, plus
5000 for clerical hire.
]. Gehrmann, M. c., fnds it so
difficult to stretch his pay to cover
his needs that he has to keep most Of
his family down on the farm in Wis
consin.
That's no kind Of family life," he
commented, but I'd be in a tight hole
If had to support them all here"
Mr. GALLAGHER, Scotch Communist
representing the Paisley district in the
House of Commons, whose pay is 400
pounds sterling a year. told his col
leagues SIS a week is a cinch.
Lucky Fellow" Says Scott.
Lucky fellow said Representative
Scott. Democrat.
It's lot different over here. I'm
always shoveling out to the party
national, State and county. Some
box is always coming up from home
to borrow dollar or two or five.
When you're school teacher, you
pay IS to the Community Chest When
Evening star., 1937-05-03

you're in Congress, it goes up to $50.
ut costs money to 60 back and
forth across the continent several
times a year, even though the Gov
ernment will pay for one round trip.
And remember, l have a family OF
mother, brother and two sisters who
stay with me.
That Scotchman gets along for
breakfast with tea, toast and marma-
hde. Well, like bacon and eggs,
something substantial.
HE pays l pound a week for a
room, pay $125 q month for house.
He smokes four ounces of tobacco a
week, 1 use two cartons of cigarettes
week
He sits in a tWo-bit seat in the
movies. 1t seems to me I usually pay
about Sc cents and always take some-
body with me.
Besides, l wonder If he ever had
to go to 500 dinner for the party.
I wonder, too. If he ever looks in on
night club"
Gehrmann, Progressive, has been a
dairy farmer in Northern Wisconsin
for % years. When he was l3, he i'm
migrated from Germany. and until he
Evening star., 1937-05-03

dairy farming hasn't paid It's way for
four years.
II have to send lot OF my money
home to keep the farm up," he said.
my wife and my sons stay out there.
I'd naturally like to have them here,
but my heavens, on $10,00O2 There
wouldn't be anything left"
Evening star., 1937-05-03
ADVERTISEMENT.
corns Shed Off
Core and All

Hardest corns shed right off when
magic-like E-Z Korn Remover goes to
work. Smothers pain-softens up dead
skin and core comes right out. Easy
to use-fast in action. Thousands use
it. At drug stores, 35c.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
It's Fun and It's Easy-FuU In
st1',sctiOnS With Each Ne,r Paqe

Now you can start your museun1-buiId it week
by Week-decorote your room at home or at school
with these coorfuI museum groups For every Sunday
there Will be new dioromo to cut out and put
together. You'll find each one foscinoting-with
scenes of long ago. pictures of our present world and
g|npses into mans future.
Evening star., 1937-05-03

You rrOz,f 1ca11f to miss
nz,g Of Lk,ese-.,,ake uOul1'
Museum, Complete
Next Sunday look for the full color page in the comic
section that you cut out and put together to make
your first dorono, 1.-THE Coronation Of King George
vi and Queen Elizabeth"
Evening star., 1937-11-19

Mrs. Karl Fenning, president Of the
Twentieth Century Club.
The six past presidents of the Dis
trict Federation. Mrs. Ellis Logan,
Mrs. Howard Hodgkins, Mrs. John
w. Frizzell. Mrs. Virginia White
Speel Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt and Mrs.
Harvey w. Wiley.
Mrs. w. w. Husband, Mrs. George
Durno, Mrs. Frank M. Stuart, Mrs.
r. Lee Spire, Miss Mary Mason, Mrs
CHARLES Augustus Simpson, Mrs. Ar
thur J. Seaton, Mrs. George Hulburt
Mrs. I. L. Stormont, Mrs r. K. Bailey
Mrs. A. H. o. Role, Mrs. Byron NJ
Coon, Mrs. James H. Underwood and
Mrs. Charles B. Walcott.
The program for the Tuesday event
includes lecture by Henry Wads-
worth Moore. muralist and portrait
painter and president of the WASH
lngton Landscape Club; picture slides
OF famous paintings, an exhibition
OF Star art pictures and piano solos
by Miss Myrna Morse Macklin.
Meanwhile the first public exhibit
ton OF color reproductions of famous
paintings offered by The Star in COL
laboration with the National Com
mittee for Art Appreciation will be
concluded tomorrow. A number of
the prints may yet be seen today and
tomorrow from l:3o to pm. in the
studio of the League of American Pen
Women at the Grafton Hotel. Next
week the league exhibit will be open
to members only.
The second of a series Of lectures
on The Stars campaign was to be
delivered before the Woodward School
for Boys in the Y. NJ. c. A. today by
Miss Louise McCulloch, student in the
fine arts division of George Washing
ton University. She will base her
talk on the second picture set of the
campaign, the period of the Italian
Renaissance.
-Four young women from the uni
versity including Miss McCulloch, are
conducting II weekly illustrated lee
lures on the art project for the Wood
ward student body. Miss Leila Hatch
EFT opened the series last week.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
ESCAPED CONVICTS
NABBED IN VIRGINIA
Held With Third Man After Ar.
rest in Car Containing
Money Bags.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va. Nov. 1.-two
men identified by officers as Eddie
Cobbs and Roscoe Grice, escaped North
Carolina convicts, were held in Hen
rico County Jail today pending ar
rival OF North Carolina authorities.
Cobbs and Grice were members of
a trio captured about IL miles south
OF Fredericksburg yesterday afternoon.
The third man gave his name as
Paul Douglas Sykes.
Grice escaped alone from the North
Carolina Catalonia Prison Farm where
he was serving six-to- eight year
sentence on a charge of breaking,
entering and larceny
Cobb was one Of eight prisoners
who escaped from the Central State
Prison at Raleigh, N. c., last August.
He was under sentence Of 80 to 40
years for burglary with explosives and
possession of burglary tools.
spotsylvania County Officer S. w.
Burgess said three bags of money
containing Silver and bills" were
found in the trios automobile.
The men were brought to the State
Penitentiary here for fingerprinting
They gave their names as Jack Worth
Lester, q; William Albert Clark. 49,
and Sykes.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
Potronesses' Art Program List
For Tuesday Nearly Complete
Euent Is Sponsored by Women's Clubs
Federation in Connection With Star
appreciation Project.

The list of patronesses for next
Tuesdays city-wide art program spon-
sored by the District Federation Of
Women's Clubs in connection with
The Stars art project was virtually
complete today.
Included in the group are one cabi-
net member. Miss Frances Perkins,
Secretary of Labor; the wives of four
cabinet officials, two members of Con-
greSS and other women prominent in
official, social and club circles of
Washington.
Mrs. Lloyd A. Morrison. chairman
of the fine arts division of the District
Federation in charge of arrangements
for Tuesdays program, which will
begin at pm. at the Hotel Roose-
velt. announced the following as pat
roneSses for the event:
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson. wife of
Evening star., 1937-11-19

the Secretary of the Navy; Mrs. Dam
iel Roper, wife Of the Secretary of
Commerce; Mrs. Henry w. Morgen-
thau, jr., wife of the Secretary of the
Treasury; Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife
Of the Secretary of Agriculture: Miss
Perkins and Representative Virginia
Jenckes of Indiana and Mary Norton
of New Jersey.
Lady Lewis, wife of Sir Willmott
Lewis, Washington correspondent of
the London Times; Miss Daisy Prem
tice: Nine Julia Cantacuzene, grand
daughter of President Ulysses S.
Grant; Mrs. Justin W. Macklin, wife
of the first assistant commissioner of
patents; Mrs. Roberta Campbell Law
son, president of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs: Mrs. Cloyd
Heck Marvin, wife of the president
of George Washington University, and
Evening star., 1937-11-19

police for what he called "inartistic
and unscientific" methods Of identifica-
ton, but sentenced a man identified
by these methods to 10 years for 4
$270 robbery.
Police testified five persons were led
in to identify Norman Spriggs as the
man who held up saloon, and Judge
O'Dunne said this was the wrong way
to make the identification. He added
there was no doubt the right man had
been charged.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
SON TO AID MAYOR
Woodrow Wilson, rs, to Be Paid
81 Year by Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, New 10 (P.-A
new city position, assistant to the
mayor" at salary of 81 a year, was
approved yesterday by Council at a
hearing on the $78,398,5o0 city-county
budget for 1888.
Woodrow, 25-year-old son of Mayor
s. Davis Wilson, is to occupy the po-
sition, Louis w. Wingarde told the
Council members. Young Wilson Is a
law student.
Council also restored the Mayors
salary to its original figure Of $4,000
year. For the past two years Mayor
Wilson has taken . voluntary reduc-
ton Of $4,000 . year.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
Woody English Sued for Divorce.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19 R.-Elwood
WOODY English, Brooklyn Dodgers
lnnelcer, was sued for divorce yester-
day by -.alen Alice English, who
charged lie deserted her in October,
1896.
The bill said they we're married
in 1880 in Crown Point, Ind, while
English was with the Chicago Cubs.
Mrs. English, former model, asked ALI
mony.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
ALASKAN INQUIRY
Congress Urged to Investigate
Bureau Of Fisheries.

JUNEAU, Alaska. Nov. 10 (P).-
Congressional investigation of the
Bureau of Fisheries in Alaska was
urged in resolution adopted at the
All-Alaska Labor Union convention
yesterday.
THE bureau has protected and con-
served fish, but only for corporate
profit" Harry Stuhr, delegate, charged
The resolution also charged United
States Commissioner of Fisheries
Frank T. Bell and Alaska Agent L. G
Wingard Ignored" the Bristol Bay
situation where Japanese were accused
of invading fish resources.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
CRITICIZED EVIDENCE
USED FOR CONVICTION

Judge Says Police Used Wrong
Methods, but Sentences De-
fendant, Regardless.
BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 10 Judge
Eugene O'Dunne yesterday criticized
Evening star., 1937-09-12

eric the Great census enumerators
could count only 10000 inhabitants.
A few decades later there we're nearly
the 100000 that one finds in the
capital today. Berlin grew itself, and
while it grew, small towns were rising
beyond its city limits. Gradually these
were absorbed in Greater Berlin.
Look down upon the German capi-
tai from the air today and you will be
amazed by the vastness of the city.
Its heart is where the FREDERICK
Strasse, and the Unter den Linden
meet at right angles. From the inter-
section a network of avenues and
cross streets leads to the east to the
Evening star., 1937-09-12

for reasons unknown to historians,
gave its name to the city which rose
from them.
"The two villages, consolidated in
the fourteenth century. gradually grew
into towns, and in the sixteenth cen
tury were favored with the first touch
of governmental Importance. 1t was
then that the elector of Brandenburg
made the city his official residence.
But even this distinction did not boom
Berlin; it was not until the close of
the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, that
it leaped into prominence as one of
the worlds leading cities.
AT the time of the death of Fred
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Berlin, Once Fishing Village,
Celebrates 7OO-Year History

Berlin is celebrating, this Summer.
700 years of history. The German
capital, metropolis of more than
100000 people, recently donned holi-
day attire for week, when a Jubilee
exposition, historical pageant and
. series of theatrical performances
absorbed the attention of residents
and drew thousands of outsiders to
the city.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

Berlin grew out of two fishing vii
lagos on the banks of the Spree
River-Coelln and Berlin" says a
bulletin from the National Geographic
Society.
"Berlin's first mention was in 1874.
Although Coelln was then seven years
old, and it is really from the founding
of Coelln that the modern Berlin is
dated, the younger of the two villages.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

Spree and beyond. To the north and
west the network extends to Berlins
principal park, the Tiergarten, which,
because Berliners enjoy its fresh air,
has been called the lungs Of the city.
Industry and trade flourish in the
capital. The business district is a
constant scene of animation during
the day. But Berlin also is city of
pleasure, for many of those who make
it an industrial and commercial titan
while the sun is high, spend the
remainder of their walking hours in
the city's amusement places. There
are 118 theaters and many cafes
where tired workers seek diversion.