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The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Baseball
NelDGrk NeGrs Title
In International

NEWARK, N. j., Sept. % G.N.S0
With Newark leading, two games
to none, the Newark Bears and
Baltimore Orioles moved to Balti-
more today to continue their In
ternational League play-off series
there tonight. The first team to
win four games will represent the
league against the American AS
ISOLATION winner in the little world
series.
The Orioles almost pulled the
second game here out of the fire
with a three-run rally in the ninth,
climaxed by Joe Martins homer,
but lost, 6 to S, when Umpire
Campbell called a third strike on
Chink Wilburn, Baltimore short
stop. Wilburn Immediately socked
the Jump, who returned the blow
with interest. Other players fl
nally separated them.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
DOMINION LOOP
BOWLERS START
SEPTEMBER %

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Sept. %.
The Old Dominion Boat Club
Bowling League begins operation
for the eighth consecutive season
on the local woodways, September
%. RenGon Hoy is president of
the loop, Will Snyder vice presi.
dent and Frank Davis secretary.
treasurer.
Eight teams will compete for
prizes and the teams and cap
tans follow: Floats, Earl Robey;
Souls, Hack Howard; Sweeps,
Frank Davis; Gigs, Jimmy Blake:
Bow Five, Johnny Brookfield; An
chors, Jim Luckett; Rudders, Jack
Yunch, and Quads, Denton Hoy.
Matches will be rolled at the
Health Center alleys each Tuesday
night at 8 o'clock.
Second round matches In the
annual ladies' tourney of the Belle
Haven Club are underway over
the local links. Among the favor
ties to cop so far are Mrs. John
Howard. Mrs. Caroline Dunn, Miss
Elsie Cole and Mrs. Charles
Waring.
George Washington Presidents,
who won practice game from the
Episcopal High varsity on Hoxton
Field, 60. trek to Richmond, Va,
tomorrow for their initial game in
Conference "a" play with the John
Marshall Justices.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

ute 56A seconds for mile, at
Lexington, KY.
Newark defeated Baltimore,
6 to 5, for second straight win
in International League play-off.
Campillo beat BubbleSome by
a head in White River Handi-
cap at Rockingham Park.
Threadneedle, a 10-to-1 shot,
won Westminster purse at Havre
De Grace.
Giants regained lead of 21a
games in National League pen
nant race as Cliff Melton held
Cubs to six hits and blanked
them. 6 to 0.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Sports Passing Show

Four boxing champions to de-
fend titles before $1,000 at Polo
Grounds tonight.
Breaking the course record at
Belmont, Mass, Jimmy Thorn
son of Shawnee, Pa, gained
tWo-Stroke lead at halfway
mark in 36-hole qualifying test
in Belmont Open golf tourna-
ment.
Old Westbury won Open polo
championship at Westbury, N.
Y, by defeating Greentree, II
to 6.
Greyhound equaled 15-year-old
world trotting record of / min
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
ENGRAVERS TO PLAY

The Bureau of Engraving base
ball team will journey to Wayson,
Md, Sunday for a doubleheader
against the Wayson Service Sta
ton nine. The printers were run
ner-upS in the Federal League.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

THERE's no question about it
1 men like a Misunderstanding
whiskey. If that's what you're look
ing for = try Kessler's Private
Blend.
julius Kesslerhas been the king
pin whiskey man in America for
over go years. He still is. Expert
Montana labor news., 1937-12-16
IS SOUND
JOHN Lewis SAYS

Some reactionary members of
Congress who oppose wage and hour
legislation have tried to make an
'out" for themselves by distorting
the stand of Labor's Non-P artisan
League and labor generally on this
vital legislation.
Chairman John L. Lewis of La
boris Non-Partisan League has effec-
lively blasted these sabotaging re-
ports with a flat statement sent to
every member of Congress which
demands immediate enactment of the
bill.
The letter to the chairman of the
House Labor Committee follows:
my dear Mrs. Norton:
I'm reply to your inquiry of to-
day, I am writing to clarity the posi-
ton Of Labor's Non-Partisan League
upon the Black onnery Fair Labor
Standards Bill, now pending in the
House of Representatives.
'"The principle underlying this
legislation is u%ndeniably sound. Gov
ernmental establishment of adequate
standards of minimum wages and
maximum hours is of the utmost
importance, not only to the workers
directly and indirectly affected, but
also as a principal means to bring
about that sterilization of industry
which should be a prime objective
of government. Had such legislation
been upon our statute books during
the past four years, and had it been
so administered as to fix reasonable
minimum wages and to shorten hours
in step with increased labor produc-
tivity, we should have made much
greater progress toward complete re-
covery from the depression than we
have. Certainly the recession now
spreading in industry is largely due
to the failure of industry and gov
eminent to increase employment and
raise wages during the last expan-
sion in business activity.
'gThe bill as reported out by the
House Labor Committee has many
serious limitations. The Labor
Standards board to be created may
not establish a minimum wage of
more than 40 cents per hour, or a
maximum work week of fewer than
40 hours. The scope of the proposed
legislation is also unduly restricted,
Labor cannot permanently accept
these limitations, and will a~ssuredly
endeavor to remove them at future
sessions of the Congress. But in the
legislative situation which now exists
and in the face of the determined
opposition mustered by those en-
ployers who profit through sub
standard labor conditions, any at
tempt substantially to improve the
bill would perhaps result in its COM
plete failure. Recognition of the
principle of Federal prohibition of
starvation wages and oppressive
hours of work is of such transcendent
importance, and the direct benefits
of the legislation will be so great in
the area to which the present bill
will apply, that every effort should
be made to bring about its passage
at the earliest possible moment.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) JOHN L. LEWIS,
Montana labor news., 1937-12-16
Two Notorious Labor
Haters Are Acquitted

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (FP)-Pres.
James H. Rand, Jr, of Remington
Rand, Inc, and Pearl L. Bergoff,
millionaire strikebreak king, were
acquitted in federal court here of vio-
lation of the Byrnes act which for
bids the transportation of strike
breakers across state lines with the
intent to interfere with peaceful
picketing. Aided by Judge Carroll
Hinck's astonishing attack on the
governments attorneys in his charge
to the jury, the two notorious labor
haters escaped punishment through
the laws two loopholes - intent
and peaceful picketing. Amend
ments to make the law effective will
be sought by the U. S. Department
of Justice.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-16
very truly yours,
"(s) PATRICK J. TAFT,
WCor1nea1 "
Counsel"

counsel.
The Building Trades Employers
publication of the statement obvious
ly prepared by advice of counsel
should be the last of this series Of
attacks upon the livelihood of the
labor press. It's statement was as
follows:
VIRTUALLY unknown by employers
is an Interpretation given here of a
union provision in the Wagner Act,
which, if applied, could end an ad-
vertising nuisance occasionally a
racket which has cost employers a
great deal of money. The provision
referred to is paragraph 2 of Sec
ton 8, of the Wagner-C onnery N.
L. R. Act, which states:
1T shall be an unfair labor prac-
tice for an employer to dominate or
interfere with the formation or adj
ministration of any labor organiza-
ton, or to contribute financial or
other support to it,
'"This, in our opinion, prohibits
under penalty of the Wagner Act,
any contribution by an employer to
a union, to the A. F. of L., c. I. o., or
any local labor group for advertising
purposes. This would include maya
zipac ond diraoforiac
1.-THE B. T. E. A. has long had a
prohibition against such advertising.
1t reads:
"RESOLVED, that members of
this association shall not contract for
space in any publication controlled
or published for the benefit of any
labor organization, nor shall they
contribute any sums of money what
soever for the benefit Of any such
organization
'In this connection News & Opin-
ion has always wondered just where
several Senators earned their repu-
tations. Certainly the several New
Deal Acts which bear distinguished
sponsors names suffer tremendously
from their authors lacks of knowl-
edge, foresight and legal sophstica-
ton. This case of advertising is, to
be sure, but a minor example, but
it would be laughter for the Gods if
the c. L. O. were to cite space con-
tributors to A. F. of L. publications
for unfair practice"
Mr.. Taft's opinion has been for
warded to R. E. Woodmansee, secre-
tary of the international Labor Press
of America, with the suggestion that
Secretary Woodmansee forward the
opinion of the National Labor Rela-
tons Board and for such comment
as the board may care to make. La
Dor newspapers are advised to use
the legal opinion now available to
them for their protection in what
ever manner may seem the best cal
culated by them for that purpose.
Montana labor news., 1937-12-16

in any sense, acts of 'contribu-
ton or support and may not be
so construed or interpreted by
the Board in administering the
Wagner Act.
81 hope that I have answered your
question and that the opinion con-
tanned in this letter will help to com
bat the pernicious anti-union propa-
ganda which employer publications
are attempting to put into circula-
ton.
VERY truly yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22
TWO WAYS TO ELIMINATE
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

The American public is a strange pub
lie, according to a visiting British pub
Usher. He comments, rightly, that one or
two airplane accidents cause drop in
air passenger travel of so percent
which was the case last winter. On the
other hand, he points, We kill thousands
and thousands by traffic deaths from
drunken or ignorant drivers, and the
public placidly goes its way.
We have never seen any proposal
whereby all traffic accidents could be
done away with. If we saw one we would
MT pay much attention, because we long
since have lost faith in panaceas.
But we do believe many traffic deaths
could be eliminated by curbing the drunk,
en- driver, and eliminating those drivers
who are just on this side of the intelii-
genee line and who often drive cars just
on this side of the junk heap.
It's always easy to tell the other fell
low how to run his job, but there would
MT be anything mysterious about hav-
ing free lance pair of state highway
patrolmen in every county who, nightly,
would set up their stands on different
highways and test drivers suspected of
intoxication. The homeward bound drunk
en- motorist would sooner or later be
caught BEFORE he kills someone, and
fear of being caught would also go
long way to keep the driver from drink
ing too much. The officers should carry
with them proper flares and signs and
subject suspects to some simple test.
We stop entrants into the state as
means of protecting our agriculture.
Why not stop drivers in our communl-
ties to save human life?
To weed out the incompetent driver,
stricter tests for licenses should be
adopted, and rechecks in cases of doubt.
There isn't driver on the road but who
almost daily sees someone driving car
in a manner which endangerS the life OF
every other motorist. Ordinary observa-
ton indicates that many of these "men-
tally dangerous drivers" are foreign
born. This does not mean that those of
foreign birth are any more dangerous
than those born here. 1t appears, how
ever that the percentage runs higher IN
that group.
Nor does this mean that the driver
of an older model car is any more dan
gerous than the driver of a 1897 model.
But mechanics and automobile dealers
know that there are hundreds of cars
on Imperial county roads which are
mechanical threats to the lives of those
motorists who spend their hard earned
money to keep brakes in good condition,
all lights burning and adjusted, and
motors not in danger of going dead right
in the middle of the highway
Until better protection has been es
tablished, the rule-abiding motorist will
not feel satisfied We believe some plan
can be worked out.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22

AS the Chinese Japanese conflict
dangerously approaches actual
large-scale warfare, it is none TOO
soon to begin thinking about neu-
trality.
Already factors are beginning to
pile up, before there is any formal
war, which will make the neutral
course hard.
In London, a vast $1O0,000000 loan
is already being negotiated Tor
China. The Morgans are believed 10
be interested. and part of the loan
NAV be raised in the United States
from individual subscribers. Every
such subscriber imny y,diately ac"
ouires a stake in Chinese victory,
and will find it hard to be neutral
The danger to Americans now IN
China has not yet been averted. A
statement by one missionary Or
ganization that Japanese victory
would nullify the effort and money
spent in China by Americans chur-
ches for many years, is already an
example of the pressure that VIII
be brought against complete neu-
trality Enterprises undertaken by
private individuals or by private
associations in China must not be
permitted to influence our policy
as a nation.
Word comes from the west coast
that American flyers are being re-
cruited to fly for China, and Ameri-
can planes are being sold to the
Chinese. American individuals lea
wing the United States to fight Tor
China or any other foreign power
forfeit any protection they might
expect from this country. We can
not prevent free American individ-
uals from doing anything they like
but we can make it clear that
once enlisted in a foreign cause
they forfeit American protection.
The constant pressure on the Am
erican State Department to change
it's policy toward Spain is gooc
example of pressure that will mul-
tiply a hundred times over if there
is a war in the far east. Radicals
continue to insist that the us
policy of refusing to ship arms tt
either side in Spain is all wrong
Because Portugal, Italy, and Ger
many are shipping arms to Franco
and only Russia is shipping then
To the legal Valencia government
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22
1T MAY BE TOO EARLY
TO CROW, BUT -.

1t may be too early to crow and pat
the police department on the back for
the excellent record, thus far, of only
a few isolated cases of house-robbery
There is still month before valley ac-
tivity revives to normal levels ana many
things can happen in 80 days.
But it would be unjust indeed not to
commend the local enforcement agency
for protecting the large number of empty
houses as they have.
To date, there is the lowest record Of
house robberies of any summer season
in many years. This is partly due to the
new system of house protection institut-
ed by Chief Oswalt or Commissioner
Scriven or both. The system, originated
here. calls for inspection every night by
police officers of homes which have been
reported to them by families departing
on holiday trips. 1t would appear that
the other portion of the credit goes to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22
News Behind the News
Sugar Trust Lobbyists :. =. Cry Die
tatorsIiip :. But Do Plenty OF
Debating -.

wAsHINGTON.-The Sugar Trust lobby
lists cry out that the President and his caplnet
members seek to dictate to Congress. Auii,lilis Minis
tration experts cry back that the sugar lopoy
is debating to Congress and controls more meiii-
bers than the administration -,
The one sure thing about this sugar battle
outcome whether F. D. r. takes another lick
ing or not is that the consumer will continue
to pay through the nose, as usual Inc consumer
is the house wife who buys sugar at SO nueh
a pound Usually she doesn't know tnat she
and commercial users paid S35O,OO0'0O0 or more
last year to protect an industry officially SAID
to be worth S700,000000.
o
The fight has been over the question whether
imports of refined sugar from Puerto Rico and
Hawaii shall be kept down and the Cuban quota
shall be reduced both as to refined ana raw
Refiners backed by beet and some cane sugar
producers, demand these restrictions ana tnelr
LOBBYISTS have jammed them through the House
Roosevelt, backed by five caoinet secretaries
holding that Hawaii and Puerto Rico are parts
of the United States and taking the position
that Cuba is part of our economic political sys-
tenn and must be kept from chaos promises to
veto any bill containing such provisions.
Eastern sugar refiners, to whom Congressman
Hope refers as "a sugar trust organized III 1901
and in continual conflict with the courts ever
since" and whose Sugar Institute was held by
the Supreme Court to be engaged in monopons-
tic practices on 40 separate counts would De
chief beneficiaries of the House bill. Ihey
have provided the backbone OF the biggest sugar
lobby operating here.
The pure consumer viewpoint has been urged
only by Congressman H. jerry Voorhis 36-year-
old Californian A Yale graduate born in Kan
sas Voorhis has been Phi Beta Kappa man,
official YM.C.A. goodwill tourist in Germany,
a Wyoming COWBOY, freight-handler,9 automo-
bile plant worker, headmaster of boys school
and an Episcopal church lay reader.
Voorhis wants sugar production transferred
from high cost-production areas to low cost
areas under the quota system so that in time
13O000OOO or more sugar -eaters won't have to
pay $3.50 100000 year for the privilege of keep
ing up sugar prices. Each year, under his
proposed amendment for which he will continue
to fight certain amount of high cost-produc-
ton tonnage quota would be reallocated to low
est-cost areas. High-coSt producers would be
compensated for quota reductions with pro-
ceeds of an increase of the sugar bills proposed
tax of from so to rs cents per hundred pounds,
which Secretary Wallace says wouldn't mean a
retail price increase.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22

the reputation for efficiency of the po-
lice department.
The grapevine route" of the under
world carries many messages. Word can
go out quickly that town is easy or it's
tough. Such regulations are enviable
in that they stop crime before it is COM
mitted.
Whatever the reason, the department
deserves a word of praise for the show
ing made thus far. 1t is to be hoped that
the record is not marred before the end
of the summer season.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22

at as is either Sot in his ways or
making a fool of himself over some
wench." Never saw we'll fed group
that could resist munching from a
bowl of buttered pop corn. What
price politics: Grover Whalen pass
ing up all those high salaried jobs
to run for Mayor. Pretty difficult
to sneer at Hollywood after seeing
Lost Horizon" and THE Good
Earth" Basil Woon once worked
with a Fleet street reporter named
Tiny Scoop. Learn one thing each
day: Ventriloquists do not throw
voices. You just imagine they do.
A hunch: the next hit tune will be
turned in by Vincent YoumanS. Most
remembered walk: Through the deep
forest of Fontainbleau one sunny
day in June after receiving cabled
news of a salary hike.
In a note regretting he could not
sit in with a group of poker players
due to illness, DR.. George A. Dorsey
wrote: I'm a pretty fair diagnosti-
clan but this flare-up doesn't lend
itself to the art" Two days later
he passed on. never mention Bill
Corum that a dozen or so Missouri
ans do not write in to say what a
swell fellow he is. AS tho I need
/ evidence.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. = Purely
personal piffle: never fail to peek
into the medicine chest in strange
bathrooms. A girl who has every
thing: Gloria Baker. Among minor
movie enthusiasmS: Robert Mont
gomery. Nothing tickles me more
than Mussolini mugging before the
news reels. Unless it's Mayor La
Guardia.
I've always wanted to write a
small town novel but never got
further than the title: Fingers OF
Dusk" Frazier Jelke sounds like
something iced Martha Raye un-
able to walk along New York streets
without a police escort is one of the
things the matter with civilization.
If were running night club the
only music would be a pianist like
Johnny Green or Eddy Duchin i'm
provising softly. I've always wanted
to send postcards to friends from
the Raffles Hotel, Singapore. Finest
tribute to Amelia Earhart: Dudley
Field Malones poem to a newspaper.
An "old fogey" with a little red
school-house education told me in
1926: Sell every stock and bono
you have and invest in government
bonds or life insurance annuities.
But I hearkened to an honor gradu-
ate of a big Eastern college with
several degrees from abroad. And
a carnation in his lapel.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22
Deficiency Bill
Passed i'm Senate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. CUP)-
The senate today passed the third
deficiency bill--a carry-all measure
providing about $140,000000 to COW
er expenditures previously authori-
zed by congress-and sent it back
to the house for concurrence in a.
mendments. The senate amendments
added more that $4O000,000 to the
house measure.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22
Editorials and Comment
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST %, 1887
on Sol
FRANK WATANABE
ny 60 HOLDEN
CHINA
ny 60 HOLDEN

Many U. S. slang words make my
skull vibrate. Such like. "he amt got
Chinaman's chance" Them sylllpals
seems be very nice for eXpressage. but
of lately them Cinnamon are blowing
up that expression at the rate Oh '"o
battleship each day.
For year and year they teaching us
that China have been sleeping Tor Two Two
centuries. Now China waking up IKE
a old hear animal who have just arrive
from hibernia. And the morning are
the crankiest time.
Which proving that it are a long rope
which have no end. From little acorhs
grow.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22
Corruption Talk
Threatens 'BlOWup'

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. CUP)-
Chairman Burton X. Wheeler oil
the senate interstate commerce COM
mittee today threatened "a terrible
blow-up" if further "talk about cor
ruption" in the federal communi-
cations commission reaches congress.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22

That, of course, is not neutrality
Neutrality means not getting init
a war, and treating equally those
who are in it. If the contestants are
unequally matched, or find them
selves in a spot where equal treat
ment helps one, hinders another,
that is their hard luck, and tn.
ought to think about that before
going into the war.
The conception of neutrality that
argues that we are somehow bound
to see that contestants are evenly
matched and to back the weaker, is
hard to understand.
Should China and Japan fight, it
seems likely that American neu-
trality would be harder on China
than Japan, which has control OF
the seas, money, and armament.
Quite regardless of any sympathy
one may have for China, neutrality
means equal treatment for both,
even if China gets the short end,
Any other kind of neutrality, which
would change policy with the wind
to see that the odds were some
how evened, is not neutrality.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22

A lesson for all entertainers: Amos
n Andy who have endured longest
of modern performers have never
spoken a line that would hurt a
listeners feelings. Featured players
with the same attraction as stars for
me: Arthur Byron, Ruth Weston
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-22
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

l. What is the most populous city
in China?
2. What city is the capital of
Japan?
3. What city was the first CAPT
tai of the United States?