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Doodadics about racing: The
stride of the average crack thor
oughbred exceeds that of a fleet
trotter by about four feet. Grey
hound is credited with 81 feet.
1t used to be claimed-around
so years back-that the sensational
trotter, Gloster "a veritable giant
in stature), strided 81 feet. But
then my granddad got a chuckling
kick out of hating a horse friends
rawlings about the proves of Sal
vator. by telling of "a great harSe
in the ould country, Harkaway-
that as could run a mile in a
minute!"
Frank James-himself an out
law for a time and brother of the
famous JesSe-often acted as
starter at harness meetings
through Illinois, Indiana and Mis-
souri,. Just average in ability,
Starter James was veritable
tyrant when it came to controlling
the drivers-his fines and SuSpen-
sions were stiff ones, and nary a
bad boy" of the sulky talked back
to the celebrated gun-toter.
TOP DRAWING CARD
County fair arrangements con.
sidered James an excellent draw
ing card. LexingtonS' Will Estes
and Hunter Moody often scored
down to his Sharp-voiced COM
mandS not to come ahead of that
pole horSe!"
Jack Dempsey was a veritable
three-ring circus during his two
day pause at Aqua Caliente. .
Paramount Parks new directorate
are putting that St. Louis course
in fresh toggery for the meet
which opens there just before
Labor Day. A hundred G's in
money is being transformed into
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-13
PROBABLE PITCHERS

New York Yankees-Murphy.
Philadelphia Athletics-Smith
New York Giants-Hubbel.
Philadelphia Phillies-La Master.
Brooklyn Dodgers-Fran khouse.
Boston Bees-Turner
Chicago Cubs-Parmelee.
Cincinnati Reds-Derringer
Chicago White Sox-Kennedy.
Cleveland Indians-Harder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-13

Turned the Stage into a Human Ma.
chine Shop. The Clever Idea of Lon
don Night Club ImpresariO Who
Wanted Something New and Different
10 Bring in the Customers. One Of the
Many Features in the American
weekly, with Sundays Washington
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-13
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

Toronto 900 900 600 0
Jersey City w COL 900 OOx-1 0
Batteries-Meola, ]. Wilson and Ho-
gan; Stiles and Redmond.
Montreal ,.... 900 OO5 ANS Is o
Newark . 200 900 000-2 5 3
Batteries-Smythe and Kies; Donald
and Hershberger.
Jersey City ....... 900 1O1 Ia
Batteries-Davis, j. Wilson and Hev-
Montreal ........... 0O1 100 O. 0
Newark .... 900 O1O O-1 0
Batteries-Duke and Kies: Fallon and
Rosar.
poned, wet grounds.
buffalo ..... >. 101 OO2 1913 10 3
Baltimore ..... OOG 900 ZOO 2
Batteries-SeweIl and Phillips; Fischer,
Kerr. Sivess and Grouse.
(Only games scheduled).
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION

birmingham ...... 002 900 O1O-3 I o
Chattanooga 49,. 1902 600 N1x-4 IL 0
Batteries-Joiner and Sueme; Phebus
and Livingston.
New Orleans. 900 0O2 O1O- 3 IL l
Atlanta ......... 500 $40 O1x-13 16 0
Batteries-Jakucki. Drake. Weldon
and George, Hahn; Leonard and Calvin.
Memphis ........ 200 100 022-7 IS o
Knoxville ..... 100 900 000-1 Q
Batteries-Spencer and Haley; Heint-
zelman, Burrows and Warren.
birmingham w 01O Dol %
CHATTANOOGA .. 200 101 x-4 9 0
Batteries-Moore and Garbark; Sauer-
brun and Livingston.
Little Rock ,,.. 900 22O 900 is 0
Nashville 49,. 900 201 DOL "a IS 0
Observation-Disclosures, Sharpe, Rogers,
Porter and Thompson; Watkins. John
son and Hofferth.
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Glenn Mccarthy
At the Races

grandstand and stable improve
mentS, new clubhouse features
and decorations.
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REST BET-PENwAY.
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e, Tuleyries Ruby, Lady Buck. Crop, Sally Quick,
Evening star., 1937-09-24
COUNCIL FOR R. (. A.
PREPARES DENIAL

By the Associated Press.
Rural electrification lawyers are pre-
pairing a sharp denial Of the Alabama
Power Co.'S charge that the agency
operated in competition with private
business.
The company asked the Federal Dis
trict Court Wednesday to issue an in
junction against loans to the Cherokee :
County Electrical Membership Corp
of Alabama.
"The shoe is on the other foot,
said " D. Nicholson, r. E. A. general
counsel. I'VE didn't interfere with
their business. They are trying to
interfere with ours"
Nicholson said the r. E. A. answer
which probably will be filed soon, will
tell the court the Alabama Power Co
did not care about rural service until
Evening star., 1937-09-24
The younger generation before I'm fee.

the younger generation before I'm fee
BILE"
She refused to make any announce
ment OF this intention before the
night. She felt there was time enough
for that when 1t was behind her and
We were ready to disclose the other
activities which lay alluringly be-
fore us.
A. E. often said that, on her solo
Atlantic flight, her chances of success
were one to ten, and on the Honolulu
Oakland hop fifty-f1fty. What per-
centage she reckoned on this world
flight do not know. I do know that
she recognized its risks. During all
our years together, the shadow of
danger hung over her, frankly recog-
nized.
Some day." she would say, "Ill be
bumped off," And then likely she
would add: when I 60 I would like
best to go in my plane. Quickly"
The Last Flight.
From June l, when she left Miami
with Fred Noonan, her navigator, to
July 2, her night around the world at
its waistline progressed brilliantly.
She flew t. Natal, in Brazil, thence
over the South Atlantic. She crossed
the deserts Of mid-Africa and made
the first nonstop flight from the Red
Sea over the forbidden shores of
Arabia to Karachi, in India. Thence
she folloWe' the airline route to Port
Darwin, in Australia, and eastward
another 1906 miles to Lac. New
Guinea. Il all the $4,000 miles of
flying from California, with 30 or
more separate stops at strange air.
ports in strange lands. there was not
mishap or error in plotting.
On july 2. A. E. and Fred Noonan
showed of from Lac for the 2,550-mile
water jump to the tiny island Of
Rowland in mid-Pacific. They never
reached Rowland.
OF that nnis. Dudley Field Malone
wrote this verse:
To Amelia Earhart.
Lovely bronzed lady with the tousled
hair
Stand on the farthest silver tip Of
your dear plane
And look them in the face-these
craven men
As even Christ looked searching eyes
at other men when Mary sought
his arms.
They say you few for fame-you, Of
Of all girls, who'd flown the seven
seas.
They say you few without a purpose
to pursue
You with new instruments testing
both wind and space.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

of the Gulf OF Mexico on her 1885 solo
hop from Mexico City to New York.
Looking down on that rather large
and wet expanse." she confided, Il
promised my lovely red Vega that I
would not take it on any more over
ocean hops. True. its single Wasp
engine had never failed me, nor even
complained but I felt that hencefor-
ward for ocean flying I'd like a ship
with two motors, capable of staying
aloft on one"
She found. as she put it, "the tree
upon which costly airplanes grow" and
the big Lockheed. with two Wasps in
stead of one, became hers. Her pet"
she called it.
The original route planned for the
world flight was east to west. In
Evening star., 1937-09-24

March she few to Hawaii, establishing,
by the way, a record for that crossing.
On take-off in Honolulu the plane
crashed when a landing gear failed or
a tire blew. Which happened first is
undetermined.
Following the crash We seriously dis
cussed abandoning the flight. This
she was unwilling TO do.
please don't be concerned" she
said to me. 1t just seems that must
try this flight. l have weighed it all
carefully. I want to do it,
The world flight was to have been
A. E. s last grave undertaking.
There's just about one more good
flight left in my system" she said to
me, adding with a twinkle: I'm get
ting old and ought to make way for
Evening star., 1937-09-24
SILVER SPRING PIT. A.
BEGINS SAFETY DRIVE

Special Dispstch 70 The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, September
24-Arouscd by several recent acci-
dents involving school children. the
Parent Teacher Association of the
East Silver Spring Elementary School
has begun safety campaign.
As its initial step the group will ask
the immmedite erection of markers
near the school to caution motorists
In addition the association will ask
Evening star., 1937-09-24

PhfoOtdSt 0t0 10 WtgCs 10 tOtu tCtC
BY the flyers husband. ,uidely-
known author and editor, in a series
OF articles, OF Which this is the
sirth and last.
(NT WHETHER they know it
A or not, flyers love flying
~ because OF the aesthetic
beauty Of flight ITSELF"
Amelia Earhart often said
Frequently have heard her asked: ::
what was your greatest thrill?"
That question was never quite an
swered. Sometimes she would parry
with the reminder that, when a car
swerves out from side street and
misses your fender by inches, the
memory is quickly forgotten.
Her own flying memories concerned
not the thrills" of danger, but those
Of beauties seen and experiences en-
1oyed. Sunrise over the Atlantic,
Diamond Head seen at dawn, "a night
OF stars so near that you could touch
them as she flew over the Pacific.
the silver gleam of the moonlit Mis-
Sioo3PPl kliillPSCd SQQQClliy tltlOQS
clouds on trans continental cross
tng-those were the memories that
fingered with her.
In her cockpit A. E. kept an in
formal, penciled log book. Here are
verbatim extracts, limiting the flavor
Of these air-written records:
From the first Atlantic crossing,
1928: The light of the exhaust is
beginning to show as pink as the last
glow of the sky. Endless foggies. The
view is too vast and lovely for words
l am getting housemaid's knee
kneeling here gulping beauty"
1885 Pacific hight: Ahead are
golden n-edged clouds. Then the golden
nothingness of sunset beyond. The
aft cabin is lighted with weird
green blue light. Our instruments
show pink, the sky rose-yellow
The moon shines on the engine cowls
and into the cockpit. Daylight
comes at last. The stars fade. We
are over an endless sea of white. 1t
might be desert. Looking back. the
silhouetted clouds seem like rolling
hills against a twilil hit sky"
Had Beautiful New Plane.
Last Summer, chiefly through the
generosity of friends of the Purdue
Research Foundation, associated with
the University of Lafayette. Ind.
A. E.s dream came true. She was
able to acquire two-motor Lockheed
Electra, beautiful airplane, whose
special equipment, as she had it built
for her, provided a cruising radius OF
1000 miles.
With her flying laboratory" as it
came to be called. Purdue's peripatetic
professor had planned a year of prac-
tlcal research in aviation. What inter-
ested her particularly were the human
reactions OF fying-the effects upon
passenger and pilot of altitude. food
fatigue ana the like. Originally she
planned this work first, to be followed
by the world flight. Then. as the ship
was completed, she decided it was bet
ter to try the flight first and then. with
nothing hanging over her, undertake
the research.
She told me that her desire to get
multi-motored plane first took form
when she was flying across 700 miles
Evening star., 1937-09-24

the County Commissioners TO build 4
walk or street between Silver Spring
and Thayer avenue, to connect with
Carroll lane.
The association adopted testimo-
nal honoring the memory of Mrs.
Lloyd Y. Beers. one-time president Of
the organization.
FRANK Smith was named delegats
TO the Montgomery County Parent.
Teacher Association.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

You flew, my dear, straight to the
world OF God
There were no routes you had not
charted here.
And when you looked at Death, "her
sable skirts all fringed with light"
! know you said, with starlight in
your eyes,
Dear God, what fools men are to
fear this loveliness!"
Copyright. 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-09-24

the farmers co-operatives made ar
rangements to build distribution lines
with Government money.
Then they got busy" he declared,
"and tried to wreck the projects
Evening star., 1937-09-24
U. G. z. Meets Tonight.

The United Government Employees
will meet at pm. tonight in the
Garnett Patterson High School audi
torium at Tenth and U streets. This
membership campaign for 5000 Fed
eral and District workers will bs
discussed.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
DOG DOOMED By COURT
TO DIE, WINS ON APPEAL
Widow, Who Depends on Pet for
Protection, Is Acquitted In
Highest Tribunal.

BY the Associated Press.
SKOWHEGAN, Me, September "a.
June, handsome German shepherd
dog which Mrs. Matte Perkins has
come to regard as her protector,
won't have to die.
A Superior Court jury acquitted
June's aged mistress yesterday of
keeping vicious and dangerous dog.
The widow had appealed Munich
pal Court conviction which brought
from Judge Maurice P. Merrill a SEN
tence of death for the dog.
Harry A. Dinsmore, 80-year-old
Skowhegan insurance agent. repeated
today before a jury headed by a
woman his charge that June had
bitten him July 81 while he walked
across Mrs. Perkins garden.
Judge George L. Emery in his
charge told the jury that under the
statute complainant must have
been peaceably walking or riding and
not q trespasser when attacked.
Three decker sandwiches have inst
Evening star., 1937-09-24
My Life With Amelia Earhart
By GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM
when | Go | Would
Like to Go in My
Plane Quickly"
Noted FLYER Said.

The story OF the porld's most
famous nonan apiator, as renowned
parsonage and as wife, is told here
BY the flyers husband. pidely-
known author and editor, in a series
OF articles, OF Which this is the
sirth and last.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

Three decker sandwiches have Just
invaded London
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ers controlled, by Lewis at, :more-,tnah''/a
per cent. of the total At one plant en-
ploying nearly three thousand men the
Shutdown" strikers numbered less than
hundred 1t is true that in several Key
plants the proportion is greater. One plant
employing 10000 men has around l'ooO
sit-downers. These men, the RADICALS ana
rough-necks among the workers. nave
seized the property of the corporation Dy
force and intimidation and because they
hold key plants are able to gum up the en-
tire organization and throw nearly 150,Ooo
workers out of employment.
They have accomplished this because OF
a cowardly State administration which mas
failed to enforce the laws of Michigan.
Any intelligent ten-year-old boy knows
that not in Michigan or any other one Oh
the 4s States does an individual or group
of people have a moral or legal right to
forcibly take possession of property be-
longing to others, to hold for their own use
or to prevent it's lawful owners from hav-
ing and using it. Therefore, there is no
ground for argument as to the conditions
existing in Michigan and when General
Motors declines to negotiate with Lewis
and his cohorts while they are forcibly and
illegally holding that concerns property,
the corporations officers are both morally
and legally right and standing on the
bedrock of principles which are eternally
right.
General Motors officials are going much
further than any principles of fairness and
right Justify, in offering to treat with Lewis
and his crowd Under any circumstances.
They would be amply justified in declining
to negotiate with them under any condi-
tons, and in declining to re-employ any OF
the insurrectionists.
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LEWIS REMARKABLE STAND

This country has witnessed many strikes and
heard strange and far-fetched arguments from en-
ployes and employers, but John L. Lewis is show
ing us something new in strikes and arguments.
With the sit-down strike a weapon he is I'M
lawfully taking possession of automobile factories
or plants supplying necessary materials for auto
mobiles.
Then he makes peace in some plants in order to
give competitors of General Motors an opportunity
to 90 back into the market while General Motors is
tied up by the strike, which may be called real
military strategy.
Still ambitious to be first in many things, Lewis
publicly calls upon President Roosevelt to reward
him for labor votes in the election by taking sides
with him in his fight against General Motors
Deciding his own case as lawyer judge and jury
Lewis explains that he is simply seeking to make
good the guarantees given to labor IN the Labor
Relations Act. That act sought to have employees
select their own representatives, but Mr.. Lewis
knows what labor should have, and he kindly offer:
to represent even those who prefer some othe,
spokesman.
Mr.. Roosevelt promptly and properly declined tc
have the Federal government intervene in behalf
of strikers or employers. Times.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
AN ASTOUNDING PROPOSAL

Whether, as Washington correspondents seemed
Yesterday to think, President Roosevelts brief
statement on the General Motors strike implied a
rebuke of John L. Lewis, is matter of opinion.
That the demand of Mr.. Lewis for intervention by
the President to win the strike for the Lewis or
ganization deserved rebuke will be the view, we
are confident, of the American people.
Regardless of the merits or dement's of the cause
of the strikes in the General Motors plants, it is
difficult to imagine a more offensive suggestion
than that which Mr.. Lewis put forward publicly
when he urged Thursday that because he and
his followers supported Mr. Roosevelt in the recent
election while Mr. Sloan of General Motors and
the Du Points opposed him. Mr. Roosevelt should
now step into the breach and throw the full weight
of the power and influence of the Federal govern
ment to Mr.. Lewis and against General Motors.
The employment of the office Of President in the
manner and spirit which Mr.. Lewis desires Mr..
Roosevelt to exercise would reduce the presidency
to contempt Mr.. Lewis, in this outburst, in which
he bluntly gives the country his conception of the
national government has in fact given the country
his own measure. He has exposed thoroughly his
dangerous untness for the responsible position OF
labor leadership which he occupies.-The AsheVille
Citizen. .,. AssNa ga
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Stun. Removal Rem vat BY By;
State Is Sought
New York City Conditions
Are Most Severe

ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. 25. (uP)
The problem of adequate hous'
ing and slum clearance in Now
York State has been directed to
the attention of the 1887 legisla-
ture in an effort to provide low
income families with sanitary
homes at reasonably low rents.
Leading The drive to wipe out
slum conditions, most severe in
metropolitan New York. Assem-
blyman Abbot Low Moffat l.
sponsoring a bill calling upon the
state-with the approval of yot'
ers-to issue housing bonds up to
1O0,O0O,000 for rclending to
municipal housing authorities fol-
slum clearance under the supeTvi.
sion of the State Housing Bodrd
The plan is to obtain the loans
by mortgage on the projects, the
loans to be paid off out of rev,
enues of the project at n rate
which will enable the state to meet
interest and amortization on It's
housing bonds without recourse
to taxation.
Moffat's state Stun clearance
bill, however, is expected to meet
opposition in certain quarter:
where interpretations of the Con
stitution assert no loans can be
made by the state to municipal
housing authorities.
.Moffat and other colleagues
challenge the Interpretation, anc
have suggested a court test. HC
proposes a constitutional amend
ment if the courts docisio mis- not
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accept any such postulate since he
never could have faith in any
thing he could not understand.
Yet that man has faith in electri-
city, though he does not under
stand it; if he does understand it,
he should hasten to tell the rest
of us about it, as he is the only
person in the world who does un-
derstand it.
Universally we have faith in
electricity. Stupendous sums are
spent on plants to create it; on
systems to distribute it; and on
appliances to use it. Yet nobody
knows what it is, where it comes
from or where it goes to. Elec-
tricity is great symbol of our
absolute, blind faith in a thing
we do not understand.
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ALPHABET FOR HOME USE

If the government has found the alphabetical
nomenclature so practical and useful why should it
not prove equally satisfactory in the home? A list
of hand authorizations might be as follows
FH.B.-Famiy hold back
C.N.O-Cook's night out
T.C.F.M.-Telephone call for mother.
N.S.N.D.-No spinach, no dessert. .o-
D.LS.-Dinner is served. ..s '"a. 'g '.'
L.T.D.O.-Let the dog out. t''
T.LJ.B.N-This is Johnnys bath night.
N.A.P.O.C.-Not another piece of candy
C.TC.D.-Close the closet door.
P,U.Y.T.-Pick up your trash.
Y.AF.D.-Visitors at front door.
S.MT.M.-Silence. Mother taking nap.
S.TD.-Stop that dawdng.
G.O.T.B.-Go on to bed.
D.A.M.B.-Dont answer me back.
T.EFY.-Thats enough from YOU
Y.FLS.-Your face is smudged
Such code of frequently recurring expressions
if learned by all the members of the househoid
would save no end of time and energy for all con
cerned.-Chrstopher Billopp, Baltimore Evening
Sun. ~ Ga tiE-.4
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THE EW DE AL
IN WASHIN
-eY rooney BUTCHER.

At any rate. he controlled the
Democrat: machine in Virginia
chose debates for himself, anC
was prominent among the favorite
sons who. hch out with Al Smith.
John Raskob, Jouett ShouSe, anC
other conservatives in the "Stop.
Roosevelt" efrot. -,
II was generally understood tina,
the Virginian wa out for the vice
presidency if he couldn't capture
the major prize.
After the electio, oyru was an
unannounced candidate for secrc.
tary of agricultureor for a sor,
Of an assistant Resident" jot
which would give I'm charge OF
White House politicaEelations.
But Byrd'S preSidetial ambi-
tons. his conServatiS,, and the
question whether he Guild be de.
pended on for full loyNty to his
chief were more than pough te
! cause Roosevelt to turn fm dowr
for any appointive job.
BYRD then had himllf an.
- pointed and substuentI,
elected to, the U. S. Smat wher
Claude Swanson resignedto be.
come secretary of the MY ii
1888. He became perhaA tn,
most persistent critic of TIL al.
ministraibn'inyc onservatise \esn..
ocratic ranks, attacking ondad.
ministration measure or pic,
after another.
Various optimists proposed In
as a presidential candidate oil;
conservative Democratic ticket.l
AS 1886 approached, it begant
be common talk among many VI
ginia politicians that Senator ByrI
still in control Of the state ma
chine, was figuring on having tn
Virginia delegation to the conven
ton vote for his own nomination
That's the background as toll
by New Dealers, in explanation c
why. the president, with his ow
Reorganization program. doeSn
intend to be pushed around" b
Harry Byrd.
DOWNRIGHT 1897. NEA Service. Ino