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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30


larO, who used to train Vince Dun
dee, has just completed ten happy
years as secretary to Fight Man
ager Max Waxman. Proper odds
on those heavyweight championship
fights now mentioned in the chart
table press-BOb PastOr-J0e Louis,
to S and take your pick; John
Henry Lewis-Joe Louis, ditto; Max
Schmeling-Joe Louis, Schemling, 2
to 1; Tommy Farr-Joe Louis, Louis,
6 to I.
Joe Medwick keeps all the balls
he hits into the st. Louis stands
now. Has the assistant bat boy hus-
tie into the bleachers with a new
ball to exchange for the original
every time he slaps one out there. :.
Pro Golfer Jimmy Hines and the
Missus won many cup for Charles
ton dancing contests when the step
was in style ten years or so ago. .
Motorcycle racers earn $4,000 to
SIC, 900 a year. Have to spend about
s., 900 of this for equipment, since
the one cylinder machines cost $500
and have to be rebuilt after every
race. Mickey Haslin will jump out
of Pullman window if you spring
an insect or q snake on him all of
a sudden.
John Drake, Purdue's star half
back, is summering in California.
The 1889 All-Star baseball game
will be played at Yankee stadium
as a feature of the world fair.
Arky Vaughan, Pirate slugger, orig
inaIly was right handed hitter. /.
Wild Bill Cummings, automobile
race driver, favors handban and
golf as conditioners for those long
grinds. Aubrey Devine, Iowa's
former all-American quarter back,
has an IL year old SON who Is shoot
ing golf consistently in the low SOS
Devine, who assists Howard
Jones in coaching the Southern Cali
fornia football squad, practices law
in Los Angeles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

World Series checks were down,
that Lefty Gomez did the most ac-
complished pitching of the afternoon
and that even the longest memoried
folks must now forget Joe Di Mag
gio's disaster twelve months ago.
Greater New York did not devote
too much time to worrying because
Carl Hubbell looked like a
batting practice pitcher. Neither
was there too much repining be-
cause Mel Harder ran his total of
scoreless pitching innings up to IL
for four All-Star games.
That, to a town with three teams,
is as much applesauce as the addi-
tional news that Dizzy Dean was
pitching like the real Dizzy until
he ran into Gehrig's homer. Maybe
it means the Cards, paced by Joe
Medwick, who obtained a cool four
hits in five trips to the plate, will
more than vex our ambitious Giants
later. But, as has been suggested,
why should New York worry? New
York has three teams and almost
every day it can see the nations
best performers.
Therefore New York is used to
such things and can take them in
a calm, turnstile-tickling stride. But
what about the Buffaloes, the Kan
sas Cities, the Milwaukees, the Bal
timores and other metropolises
somewhat off the big-time baseball
track?
Most of them are fair-sized cities
where baseball occupies a major
portion of the two or three pages
each paper devotes to sports. When
a reporter or player visits one of
these towns to give baseball talk
he is almost mobbed by people
wanting to talk about the national
game.
Yet-in spite of this evidence and
in spite of the less well-substantiat-
ed reports of recent date concerning
increased attendance, baseball is i'm
a bad way in most Of these towns.
Largely it is in a bad way because
the big-time club owners have sell
dom paid proper attention to those
sources Of customer and player sup
ply. Of course many Of them are
represented by farm teams d
each year the high-class gees send
business representatives to whoop
it up for the box Office.
But-well, what was getting at,
is why not give those smaller town
gees a break. Hubbell, Gehrig, Di
| Maggie, Gehringer-the list is too
long to call the roll but it was a
swell show and Washington liked it.
What is good enough for Washing
ton should be more of the same for
st. Paul, say.
So-big-time gentlemen to whom
this piece is mainly dedicated
quit squawking about where you
are going to hold your show next
and what trouble it is. Try IL out
ON the so-called sticks SONS time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Security for 100000

NEARLY 81, 100000 workers are
~ now covered by the unemploy-
ment compensation laws of the 48
states, Hawaii, the District of Co
lumbia and Alaska, the social Sc
curity board estimates. When the
social security act became effec-
tive August IA, 1885, it was expected
only 100000 would be covered.
Most of the state laws specify that
funds shall be made up only out of
contributions by employers; eight
require employees to contribute, and
the District of Columbia adds a gov
eminent contribution to those Of
employees and employers.
Wisconsin, where the state law
was operating before the security
act was passed, is already paying
benefits. Twenty-Five more states
will start January /. The last to
start payments will be Georgia and
Montana, in July, 1899.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
See New Golden Ace

0XXT E ARE on the threshold Of
Wv tremendous economic and
social changes that will be wrought
by the development of epochal in
ventions just emerging into public
view" That's from report of sci
entists and engineers Of the national
resources committee, made public
by President Roosevelt. "The utili-
cation of these inventions" said the
report, twill make for period Of
great prosperity in which labor
displaced by recent chronological
improvements will be absorbed by
new industries and other activities"
The inventions listed in the re-
port were: Mechanical cotton pick
err; air conditioning; plastics (cre-
alton of new materials and SUBJ
stances by chemical and other
processes; photo-electric cell for
automatic control of mechanisms;
cellulose products; synthetic rub
Der; prefabricated houses; televi-
sion; automobile trailer; gasoline
produced from coal; steep flight air.
craft, and tray agriculture NgroWtn
of food plants in chemically treated
water).
The report said, in part:
"The question whether there will
be large amount of unemployment
during the next period of business
prosperity rests only in part on the
introduction of new inventions and
more efficient industrial techniques.
"The other important elements
are changes in the composition of
the country's production (such as
appreciable changes in the proper
ton which service activities consti-
tute of the totaD, the growth of
population, changes in the demands
for goods and services, shift in mar
kets, migration of industry, hiring
age policies of industries, and other
factors"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

uments for the next twelve montns
be dated as of 'the second year
of triumph" :,
In the first "year of triumph"
more than million persons, mcluo-
Ahg women and children, were
killed. The insurgents claim to have
taken "a of the so provincial capt.
tails of the country, and all OF its
colonies. They have captured SIX
of the eleven cities of more than
1000 inhabitants: Seville, Malaga,
Bilbao, Saragossa, Cordoba ana
Granada.
AS the rebels celebrated the eve
of the wars first anniversary, the
loyalists marked the occasion by
opening a new offensive in north
ern Spain. For the first time in
months they sent out squadrons OF
planes to harass the insurgents near
Santander; they made advances
along the Aragon front, and forced
the rebels to send reinforcements
to the area about Albarracin. Air
planes also caused some damage to
insurgent forces holding siege to
Madrid.
The rebels lost little time in at
tempting to regain their losses
around Madrid. Franco unleashed
the full power of his main army of
100000 in a drive to recapture Bru-
nete and other suburbs of the 10y
alist stronghold; they were met by
at least 25O,oOO defending govern
ment troops. Every weapon of war
except gas was used. There was
hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches
and the greatest use of artillery
since the World war as the fiercest
battle of the Spanish conflict ragged.
The battle was opened by as spec
tacular an aerial fight as the world
has seen in years; insurgents were
reported to have lost q planes
against only four for the loyalists.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Why Not Give Fans
i'm Smaller Cities
Dream Game Break?
G New York Post.--wNU Service.

The upsbOt of a lot of listening
and noting l did at the recent All
Str game in Washington is that
l have an idea. Aside from proving
that if a reporter has strong legs
and an ear trumpet he can always
get pieces done for the papers,
this idea is that far better use
could be made Of basebalPs dream
game.
Last year Boston, usually good
sports town, failed to sell out for
the contest. This year, Washington,
smaller city, not given to making
millionaires out of its sports pro-
moters, was demanding twice as
many tickets as were available.
Why? The reason seems to me to
be that Washington is a town rep
resented in only one league while
Boston can gander at both organiza-
tions. Therefore Washington is
eager to peer at the Dizzy Deans,
Hubbells, Mungos and equally eel
ebrated colleagues who perform
their chores in the other circuit.
Similarly, Cincinnati is most in
terested in getting the game next
year when 1t is the National
leagues turn to entertain. Then the
good burgbers will have a chance to
peer at Gehrigs, Foxes, Rolfes and
other baseball eminentissimoes who
never previously have stepped down
Vine street.
Do you get the idea? Then let us
get on with the improvement on it.
G---4-. N1,,, Veil
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Upper Silesia Still Puzzle

ID EFORE a new accord could be
ID reached, the 15-year-old Geneva
convention designed to reconcile the
interests of both Poland and Ger
many in Upper Silesia, expired. Up
per Silesia was once part Of both
Germany and Poland. The people
of the two sections have since that
time mingled freely with one an
other, carrying on a live commerce
unhindered over the boundary lines
set by the League of Nations.
The diplomatic difficulties oc-
CURED when no solution was forth
coming for the problem of what to
do with the Poles who wanted to re-
main in the German section and the
Germans who wanted to remain in
the Polish section.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
6.625 Miles in One Hopl

w ITH the world still thrilling to
w the recent fight of three Rus
sian aviators from Moscow to the
United States via the North Pole,
three more Russians did it again,
completing the longest nonstop
fight in history.
After flying 6,625 miles from the
Russian capital, Pilot Michael Gro
NOV, Co-Pilot Andrei Yumoshev and
Navigator Sergei Danilin, made a
forced landing in COW pasture near
San Jacinto, Calf. A leaking gaso-
line line had exhausted their fuel
supply as they battled heavy fogs
which hung over the west coast re-
gion. Their flying time was esti-
mated at So hours and II minutes.
The fiiers spent the next few days
reaping the rewards of their ac-
complishments, as they were hon
ored at many celebrations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

delphia charity, kept 81 per broad
cast for herself and paid nothing
whatever from her radio earnings
to the government.
Assistant Attorney General Rob-
ert H. jackson replied for her, ex-
planning to Chairman Doughton of
the congressional committee that
the bureau of internal revenue had
advised Mrs. Roosevelt she need
pay no tax on the receipts from the
broadcast. He declared the respon-
sibility ''is not that of Mrs. Roose-
welt, but that of myself and others
who were treasury officials at the
time"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
12azunka ~. HGckGtd
~ SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK
Q Western Newspaper Union.

ton of opposition greater than had
been expected in the house of rep
resentatives was another factor
pointing to the eventual fall of the
bill.
Another battle was not long in
getting under way to decide who
the new majority leader of the SEN
ate should be. Conservative DEM
ocrats were anxious to wrest a
measure of control from the White
House by backing Sen. Pat Harri-
son of Mississippi, who has been
faithful to the President, but is
fundamentally conservative. The
more radical senators backed AL
ben w. Barley of Kentucky, Demo-
cratic national convention keynoter,
who had been Robinson's assistant
as floor leader.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

toll, the Presidents
plan for securing
new appointments
to the Supreme court
bench, even in its
amended form, died
with him. :
That is the belief
of close observers in
Washington. F o r
.'.Joe'' Robinson was
the Presidents tow
er of strength in the
legislative branch of
fho onvnrnnonnf. He
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Sino-Japanese Crisis

lust after a verbal agreement
- between Chinese and Japanese
military commanders had appeared
to have prevented an impending re-
newal of the Sino-Japanese war, the
Japanese government officially an
nounced that heavy concentration of
Chinese troops had been made at
Peiping, constituting direct act of
aggression against Japan.
At the same time the Marking
government claimed that IL Japa-
nese troop trains, carrying $4,000
soldiers, were en- route to North
China from Corea and Manchukuo.
Earlier $4,000 Japanese troops
were said to have arrived in North
China to supplement the regular
garrison of 1000.
At Tientsin, Gen. Sung Cheh-Yu-
an, chairman of the Hopei-Chahar
political council and commander of
the Chinese forces in North China,
had complied verbally with the jap
anese ultimatum for peace, al
though he refused to sign anything.
In a talk with Lieut. Gen. Kiyoshi
Katsuki, the Japanese commander,
he apologized for the clash between
Japanese troops and the Chinese
Twenty-ninth army at Lukowkiao
July z, the incident which perpe-
trated the new crisis, and expressed
the regrets of the Hopei-Chahar
council. He said that he would dis
miss several of his officers as a
punishment.
Gen. Sung assured the Japanese
he would evacuate the area west
of Peiping, and would do his utmost
to suppress communism and anti
Japanese activities.
Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, dictator Of
China, had not yet formally replied
to the Japanese ultimatum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

lander that Jimmy
Foxx would hit over
.320 this year. Then
gave the rival first
sacker one of his pet
bats with which to
hit. The recently
C los e d Aqueduct
race meeting showed
an increase of 10000
in attendance over
1886, which is not
exactly peanuts at
$3.50 a ducat. {.
Rq1AT. MI
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Crater Lake in Oregon

Crater Lake in Oregon has the
most romantic geologic history of
any lake in the United States. Its
rim was once the base of a volcanic
mountain which collapsed and sank
into the earth. Later it cooled,
springs came out of the sides, snow
collected and it filed with water. It
is 6 miles in diameter and con-
tains the bluest water known to ex-
list naturally today. There is no out
let and no streams running into it
and yet the water is always fresh,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

GTGateT NEW L OTh,
possessed of three
big-time teams, can
be very well pleased
with the news that
Lous Gehrig's home
run and double ac-
counted for 70 u r
runs and thus beat
the National league
total single-handed.
There also W a s
pleasure in the news
that Red Rolfe and
Bill Dickey were per-
$685.. - - - / L -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

haf-mast enchanceS
the attractiveness of
the average adult?
Our forbears of the
Victorian era wore
too much for health
or happiness or
cleanliness. But isn't
it worse to offend
the eye all through
the lingering sum-
mer by not wearing
enough to cover up
the blotches, t h e
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

tee, he demanded
that the committee
investigate the in
come of the wife of
the President from
r a do broadcasts,
charging that she
was not paying a
cent of income taxes
upon those earnings.
She had turned over
500, 900 to the Amer
lean Friends Service
H. Mill
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Europe Short on Grain

~ the possibilities of a hungry
winter as early threshing indicated
a serious grain shortage.
Germany's shortage was estimat-
ed at 100000 tons. The deficit will
be met partly with increased con-
sumption of potatoes and sugar
beets, and partly with cheap, plenti-
full corn from southeastern Europe.
It is expected, even so, that Ger
many will have to buy 100000 to
100000 tons from other foreign
countries. Experts estimated that
the German harvest for 1887 would
be 10 to 20 per cent below the aver
age for the years 1930-35.
Poland, from which Germany has
been able to buy grain in the past,
will not be able to sell any this year,
while Hungarian, Rumanian and Jul
goslavian crops will be smaller than
last year, because of drouth.
It was believed that if the current
drouth continued the farmers of
Great Britain would likewise suffer;
rainfall in the past month has been
about one-fifth normal.
Of the Baltic countries only Lithu-
ania, it is believed, will have crop
equal to her needs. Crops suffered
badly in Latvia, Esthonia and Fin
land. Only Spain, in all Europe,
with an increase of is per cent
over last years grain harvest, ap-
pears likely to enjoy a well-filled
bread basket.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
NOT I'M THE BOX SCORE:

100000 for Joe MedwiCk--M
they had the money. Yet, six years
ago they could have had the great
est right hand hitter since Rogers
Hornsby even II they didn't have the
money. That was when he worked
out each morning at Ebbets field
hoping somebody would give q
husky high school kid chance :.
Similarly, the Giants blew a swell
opportunity to obtain Chicago's Bill
urges for nothing. That was when
he was clerking for Williamsburg
bank and devoted two weeks Of one
summer vacation working out at the
Polo grounds. A recent racing
survey reveals that the more people
there are at track the less money
Is bet or spent by the average Wis
itor. The reason probably is that
the cr0wding makes it more difficult
for visitors to bet or spend.
Spike Webb, former Olympic box
ing coach whose navy teams have
won so many intercollegiate ring
titles, writes from Europe that
"This is my seventeenth trip over
here and each time I noticed big
Improvement in the athletics :.
Schmeling says he can take Louis in
five rounds. . A friend reports that
Wayne Sabin, Davis Cup team al
ternate, cleared $1,000 in expenses
last winter. II true, that indicates
a considerable upturn in the anna
teur tennis business. Not too long,
ago it took Berkeley Bell, one Of
the better financiers in his simon
pure days, whole season to achieve
similar profit. Ford Frick, pres
ident Of the National league, is a
diligent stamp collector. Police
at Cuban ball parks carry swords
In Mexico umpires wear ads
on their chest protectors and smoke
big black cigars during the games.
Sugar Cain of the White Sox and
Yves Terrell Of the Senators are rat
ed the best checker players in base
ball. 1t costs London Fight Pro-
mOter Critchley $500 a week to keep
Max Baer's public supplied with
photographs of the great "He-I"
man. Or at least that's what Critch-
ley confides. Managers of losing
ball clubs use three times as many
pitchers when performing in the
home park as they do on the road.
They insist the fans squawk SO much
when faltering hurler is not re-
moved that this is the only way to
convince the customers every effort
is being made to win. They also
add that such tactics use up pitchers
who need rest and so weaken the
teams chances. Big Heart, once
the favOrite pony of Prince Serge
Mdivani, now is the favorite mount
in the polo string Of Major Joe
Nichols, first division leader at Fort
Hamilton. The Frank (polo writ
ing) Whites expect visit from Mr..
StOrk shortly after that busy bird
gets back from the Army-Navy foot
ball game.
Coaches Fritz Crisler and Johnny
German are having merry argu-
ment at Princeton. German says
the freshmen he coached last fall
will provide the greatest sophomore
line in Tiger football history. Crisler
keeps saying ''No". Lloyd Blinco,
Hershey amateur hockey player,
is to marry Lois Hanlin, daughter
of the Wierton Steel Mills v. P.
The lady is a Carnegie Tech grad
and now medical technologist at
Ohio Valley hospital.
Hank Greenberg bet Boston fan
who delights in picking on the Mary
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30

laLlOIlS Oh EGpe1 CIV
les, the occasion
was one for joyous
celebration, with
festas, bull fights
and concerts the or
der of the day. Gen.
Francisco Franco,
commander of the
insurgent + o r C e s,
publicly proclaimed
it a "year of tri-
urnph. {" He ordered
that all comnunica-
+ionc and public doc
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
inventor Of Wireless Dies

GUGLIELMO MARCONI, who al
- tered the lives Of all of us
when he invented the wireless, died
suddenly of heart attack at his
home in Rome. He was sixty-three
years old, had been in good health
and was planning the construction
OF new radio station in the Vatican
at the time of his death.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
uJt% ut .
SS.(I.oobiib
NIv1bD about

CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ Clothes may not make the
man, but leaving them off GER
tainly makes him foolish. And
that goes double for the women.
Whence arises the present-day de-
fusion that going about dressed at
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Falls Face TO Battle

VIZ HEN Sem. Joseph T. Robinson
of Arkansas dropped dead of
q heart attack in his apartment
across from the United States CAPT.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Mrs. RooseveIt's Taxes

wv HEN Representative Hamilton
w Fish (Rep. N. W sought to
demonstrate the unfairness of the
tax evasion investigation commit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-30
Bloody Anniversary

II HE Spanish civil war entered
i its second year. For the popu-
The Washington times., 1937-12-11
BOYS CLUB SETS
ENTRY DEADLINE

Teams in the 85-115-130.145.
pound classes, desirous of compet-
ing in the Boys Club Of Washing
tons Basketball League, are urged
to get their entries in not later
than Tuesday, December IA, 1887,
as league play will be restricted to
a limited number of teams in each
weight class. The entries will be
accepted and handled on a first
come, first served" basis.
A huge silver loving cup was pre-.
sented to the club by Frank B. Ed
monds, local optician and a men,
ber of the Rotary Club, to be COM
peted for by the teams playing in
the basketball league.
A small replica of the cup will
be presented to the team scoring
the least number of fouls during
the season and, in addition, will
have its name engraved on the
original cups H
= The league schedule will be ar.
ranged so as not to conflict with
any games scheduled in the Metro
politan Police Boys Club tourna-
ment.
For further information, call
Charles Reynolds. National 1886.
JUNIOR SECTION
Indoor Baseball-December 13 6:l5
p. m, Braves VS.. Indians.
Soccer-December Is, 6:15 o. M, In
dians VS.. Giants.
Touch Football-December II, sis
p. M, Giants VS.. Indians.
Volley Ball-December IS, 10:45 a. M,
Red Sox VS.. Braves. December Is, 10:45
a. M, Indians VS.. Giants.
= INTERMEDIATE SECTION
Indoor Baseball-December l3, 7:l5
p. M, Senators vs. Purdue.
Volley Ball (Second HalD-Decemb ber
is, 7:15 p. m, Eagles VS.. Cubs. Decem-
ber 10, 7:15 p. M. Yanks VS.. All Stars.
December 1b' 7:15 p. M, Purdue VS..
Senators.
Touch Football-December II. 7:15 p.
M, Cubs VS.. All Stars. December IS,
p. m, Senators VS.. Yanks.
SocceF-December Is, 7:15 D. m,
Purdue vs. Yarks.