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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
Little Generals Do Well.

A MONG local nter-high COMPETE
tors, Dan Hoadley of Central
and Norman Baulsir of Tech we're
outstanding. Hoadley won the high
jump with leap of feet 1014 inches,
while Baulsir took the broad jump
by springing 81 feet 10 inches.
Johnny Bakers Washington Lee
High outfit Of Ballston, Va, also ac-
Quilted itself nobly, finishing first
among the high schools in sixth place
with 1917 points. Jim Milks' victory
In the half-mile run and the Little
Generals fleet medley relay chiefly
were responsible for Washington-Lee's
excellnt showing.
Art Schupska of Staunton Military
Academy, Howard Duff, a teammate,
and Gibbons Corbett OF Woodbury.
Forest all jumped II feet inches in
the pole vault, but the short, bronzed
Schupska took first place by virtue of
q rule which determines the top spot
on the least number of efforts to clear
the winning height.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
MARYLANDFOURTH.
IN SOUTHERN MEET.
Miller, in High Jump, Lone
Winning Terp-Duke Runs
Away With Title.
BY the Associated Press.

~ URBAN, N. c., May 15.-Duke
/ University's we'll balanced
/ track and field team scored
- 70 points. new record, to-
day to win its second straight South
ern Conference track and field cham
pionship.
The charges Of Coach Carl Voyales
marked up points in IA of the Is
events, including the first three places
in the broad jump and five first in
all. They lacked only one point OF
doubling the score on the second place
University Of North Carolina Tar
Heels-who got 1912 points.
Dick Stricken, husky v. M. I.
weight man, set the only new record
when he pushed the shot through
the air Al feet 9s4 inches. to better
the mark Of ~ feet 7l2 inches set
in 1881 by Swart OF c. o. I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
Marbury Is Episcopal Star.
0VERSHADOWED by Hahnfeldt

II
outstanding triple triumph, but
chiefly instrumental in Episcopal's
victory was Bill Marbury, who cap
tured the 220-yard low hurdles and
l00-yard dash in addition to running
the first leg on the Alexandrians' win
ming s8Oyard relay.
1t was after Hahnfeldt jeopardized
Episcopal's chances of repeating by
winning the discus that Marbury and
Tommy Todd finished in that order
IN the 220-yard hurdles to swing the
decision to the defending champs.
Hahnfeldt, incidentally, was as cool
as your refrigerator in establishing his
records. He didn't even bother to re-
move his sweat clothes until his final
and record breaking effort In the shot.
He cracked the discus record also on
his last throw, calmly excusing him.
self from a conversation and quickly
tossing the plate. He then resumed
the gabfest nonchalantly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
ZAbala Has Hot Rival.

WHETHER Zabala will compete at
Dallas is a question. Juan re-
manned in Germany after dropping
his Olympic title at Berlin, and his
plans for the future are said to be
indefinite, but the Argentine, even
without him, will be one Of the favor
ties. 1t has in Rivas runner who
has cracked some OF Zabala's records
and several other outstanding distance
men.
The United States can look to half
q dozen runners capable of winning
gallop Of the Pan-American class,
but the Yankee champion, Bill Nc
Mahon, isn't one of them. On re-
turning from the Berlin Olympics, Bill
took himself a bride and tossed away
his running toys. Marathon running
and marriage" philosophical the Wor.
cester Irishman, don't mix
Walter Young, who won the Bos-
ton Marathon last April, may COM
pete here but won't be eligible for
the Pan-American test He is a citi.
zen of Canada, which is not a MEM
Der Of the Pan-American Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
YANKEE HARR|ERS
T0BE PICKED HERE
National Title and Trip to
Texas Will Lure Great
Field to Capital.
BY ROD THOMAS.

IT'S A WHALE of orts show
our own George Mar Ii is put
ting on down thar in Texas to
L cap of the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton, and don't be surprised if the
marathon runners provide the grand
thrill.
At least three Of the leather -lunged
lads who run at Dallas will perform
here for the sixth annual Evening
Star marathon, June II, for the Ma
tional A. A. U. championship, has
been chosen as the official tryout for
the Pan-American run.
The first three American citizens to
finish in the Mount Vernon to the
White House stretch will represent the
United States in competition with the
foremost barriers of 81 other Pam
American countries, and it promises to
be WOW of contest. South Amer
lea is rich in marathon runners,
though we hear little about them in
the States, aside from the great little
Argentinian, Juan Zabala, the 1882
Olympic champion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16

TOddS Record Is Faulty.
TOMMY TODD OF Episcopal, also
was credited with clipping a rec
ord unoficially in the l20-yard high
hurdles, but his mark was not allowed
because he tipped over three hurdles
on his way to the tape. His mark Of
l5.4 seconds trimmed that Of 1876
seconds made by Bob Slye Of Eastern
in 1882, but the latter record will
stand.
Among the strictly local high schools,
Central headed the group in eighth
place with IL points. followed closely
by Tech with 10. Roosevelt scored
points and Eastern 4.
A note Of sadness was injected into
the proceedings when Otto STREET,
berger, Eastern quarter-miler, suf-
fered severe cash in his ankle during
a jam on the first turn in the sprint
medley relay.
Streltberger running in the second
lane, was in third position when the
field rounded the first turn, but the
boys bumped each other at this point
and Otto proved the victim. The
S-inch cash necessitated six stitches
at Garfield Hospital and naturally
will keep him out of the high school
meet this week. Coach Artie Boyd
regarded Streitberger almost a GER
tainty to win the 440-yard dash in
the local schoolboy meet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16

Totals 81 - 10 Totals rs "a Is
'Batted for Leerand in eighth.
'Ratted for HUDSON in ninth.
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scopal Keeps Club Title Pan-Anerican Marathon Hot Race
CHAMPIONS GIVEN
SCARE BY BULLS
Hahnfe|dt of TWo.Man Team
Dominates Track Games
With Is Points.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

~ ULLIS PREP'S tWo-man track
l. team, on the verge of cap
turing the nineteenth annual
- &C" Club track meet at Cen
trail Stadium yesterday, was thwarted
when Episcopal High OF Alexandria
rallied in the late events to retain its
championship.
At that, it was Ed Hahnfeldt, curly
haired 2l0-pounder, who completely
dominated the scholastic cinder COM
petition. winning three events and
shattering two records to account for
IS of Bulls l8 points, which We,
enough to finish second to Episcopal's
%. Staunton Military Academy
grabbed third place with II points.
The l9-year- old Hahnfeldt, who has
received his appointment to the Naval
Academy and currently is awaiting the
outcome of entrance examinations
echpsed records in the discus and shot
put. the steel-rimmed dish sailing l42
feet inches and the iron ball defying
gravity for 81 feet inches. He also
won the javelin event.
Officially, Hahnfeldt cracked the
only records, but his teammate, Don
Vogts, also smashed the shot put mark
of so feet l inch, established by Bill
Guckeyson, then of Bethesda Chevy
Chase and currently of Maryland, in
1888. Vogts propelled the hefty hunk
81 feet 6l2 inches.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

ship at Hoboken, Pershing and
and his officers were awaiting
them "over there"
Awaiting them also-and even
more impatiently-were the peo-
pie of France. There had been
mutinies among certain French
troops in the Aisne. French regi-
.ments had been cut down to half
their. strength. Old men and little
boys were joining the reserves.
The casualty lists were mount
ing higher every day. There was
not a home in all France which
had not felt the cruel hand of
war and her war weary people
were discontented, discouraged,
almost despairing. Unless "les
Americans" arrived quickly it
would be too late.
Out Of the Fog.
And then one June morning
their dream of help from America
came true. That morning the
harbor of st. Nazaire was shroud-
ed in mist. It's citizens knew that
out there somewhere the blue
gray transports and their cruiser
conveys were approaching the
port. Suddenly, about Z o'clock,
a motor tender came put-putting
through the fog. In its PROV
stood an American bluejacket.
He shouted something to a
French sentry who was pacing
the dock:
Astonished at this sudden ap-
pearance and embarrassed at his
inability to understand what was
shouted at him, the poilu stopped
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11
Festivals Of Various Kinds
Call Attention to bits
Of Europe" Here.

"It takes celebrations like a tu-
! lip festival to call ones attention
to the many bits of Europe scat
tered throughout the United
States" says a bulletin from the
National Geographic society.
Recently thousands of flower
loving Americans descended on
Holland, Michigan, to witness the
towns annual tulip festival. The
gay blooms stretching for eight
miles, lure visitors each spring to
this largely Dutch community
sprinkled with Dutch names and,
for the festival period, with resi-
dents in Dutch costumes.
A ''LittIe Greece" in Florida.
Holland is one of the largest
Dutch communities in the United
States. Until recently, many of
it's factory workers spoke only
Dutch, and neighboring farmers
wore wooden shoes.
'Tarpon Springs, about half
way down the west coast of the
Florida peninsula, is the home of
many swarthy, mustachioed
Greek sponge divers and their
families. They came to the warm
blue waters of Florida fisheries
from the sponge fishing grounds of
the Mediterranean, and have
made Tarpon Springs famous as
a sponge city, Their brightly
painted diving boats are patterned
after those used in Greek waters.
The town supports a Greek Ortho-
dox church, and on January 6 an
nually celebrates Greek Cross
day, a religious fete brought from
the homeland.
Northwestern Pennsylvania
has it's Russians. Nearly half a
century ago, some old Believers
descendants of seceders from the
Russian church in the Seventeenth
century, settled in Erie. The Rus
sian colony now numbers about
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

officer or man Of the First division
living who will not agree that the
French officers sent from Paris
to watch the debarkation of the
division at st. Nazaire had every
reason to suffer then and there
a very considerable sentiment of
disappointment.
These khaki-c1ad soldiers who
came ashore at St. Nazaire had
little IN common with the Anneri-
can regular army. They were for
the most part boys who possibly
a month or so before at home
had succumbed to the war fever.
and joined the army. Uniforms
had figuratively been wrapped
around them. Ordnance Jdepots
had issued them army shoes and
a hat with a cord around it, guns
were placed in their hands and
they were off for Hoboken and
France.
A Division in Name Only. !.
"The First division at that time
was a division in name but not in:
fact. Most of its trained officers.
and men were left in the United.
States to train more raw material
on this side of the water What.
was first to arrive in France was
the vanguard of the real thing. T
So after remaining in camp
outside st. Nazaire for little.
while, the First division was sent
to quiet areas of eastern France
for intensive training. One unit,
however, the Second battalion Of
the Sixteenth infantry, was left
behind to-. give Paris evidence
that the Americans had really
reached France and the Fourth
of July was selected as the oc-
casion for the demonstration.
Brought to Paris by train, this
battalion was quartered In bar
racks on the outskirts Of the city
in preparation for a long n1arcll
over the bouleVards. ... e..
On July Paris turned out en-
nasse to see their new allies
march between the lines Of crack
French troops from the garrison
of Paris, drawn up alongside
the streets and boulevards. AS
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

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Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

eighth and the Sixteenth Infantry
regiments landed. Field Hospital
No. 13 and Ambulance Company
No. 13 came ashore June %. But
it was two days later, due to
inadequate landing facilities, be-
fore the Eighteenth Infantry reg
iment and the Second Field Sig
nal battalion were able to leave
the ships. Twenty days had
elapsed since they had left Ho-
boken.
Considering the historic impor-
tance of this occasion, it would
be most gratifying to the patriot
ic sentiments inspired by Flag
day if there could be recorded at
this point the great enthusiasm
with which this vanguard of I'm
Gle Sans millions were received
at st. Nazaire and the admira-
ton which they excited among
the French who welcomed them.
But as regard for historical truth
prevents painting any such word
picture as that. In fact, just the
contrary was true-and for this
statement we have the testimony
of an American eyewitness to
the landing. He was Wilbur For
rest, war correspondent for the
New York Herald Tribune, who
tells how French officers of the
general staff came to st. Nazaire
to see the arrival of this "crack
First division of the highly
trained American, army. -. a
historical event for both France
and America" He continues:
"There is probably not today an
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11
Spots in America That
Resist the Melting Pot

1000 inhabitants. Folk songs are
sung to balalaika accompaniment
by bearded men and long-haired
women.
Firms Settled in Forest Lands.
"Although Films dwell in small
numbers in every state in the
Union, they have not found the
South appealing, and have settled
chiefly in Michigan, Minnesota,
Massachusetts, and Washington.
From Finland, the Land, of a
Thousand Lakes, they have been
especially drawn to Minnesota.
Their physical stamina and expe-
rience as lumberjacks in Fin
lands vast forests have fitted
many of them particularly we'll to
take part in Americas lumber in
dustry.
"The Films retain their love of
education, focking to schools and
night classes. AS in their home
land, they build log lighthouses
in which to take steam baths, and
carve from brentwood skis which
carry them over the fields in rig
orous winters. Finland, Suomi,
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

the khaki-clad columns came on,
the enthusiasm Of the crowds rose
to a high pitch. At last, they
were to see for themselves these
fighting men from across the sea
who would turn the tide of war
in their favor. But again the re-
alization was something less than
the anticipation. For, to quote
Mr.. Forrest again:
''It must be confessed that
those of us who watched this
uniformed t'soldiery' land at st.
Nazaire. and were watching them
on the Paris boulevards were I'M
able to compare them at all IA
vorably with the spick and span
and rather grim troops of Eng
land and France. Many of us
had seen the latter both in action
and on parade. Something was
lacking with our own COM
patriots.
Hundreds of French officers
mingling in the crowds and who
had perhaps entertained the
same enthusiasm the day before
were getting "a psychological
shock. The writer, in civilian
clothing, was able to hear sad
and frank comment passed.
"'Is it that this is the Ameri-
can regular army?' one queried.
Mon Dieu!' .54.
Surely these men are not
soldiers remarked another.
"'If this is what we are to
expect from America the war is
lost, said a third.
'''They were, perhaps, right
about it then. But they also lived
to change their minds. ''y..e.--,,-... =
7 ''Fighting First" Makes Good.
i They changed their minds a
year later when they heard how
the First division captured Can
tigny on May 18, 1918 and held
it against all counter-attacks by
the Germans and when they
heard of the part played by the
First in Marshal Foch's great
drive of July 1918, in the Chateau
Thierry Rheims scissors tri-
angle to cut off the Crown
Princes army. In the wheat fields
beyond the Forest of Villa Cot
terets two of it's regiments suf-
fered appalling losses, leaving as
high as IS and IS per cent of
their strength on the ground eth
er dead or wounded. But they
gained their detectives and had
it not been for the failure of
French, Scottish and Italian divi-
sions on the other side fighting
across from Rheims to close "the
sack''-the Crown princes army
would have been destroyed.
For the Fighting First
earned the unstinted praise not
only of American and Allied gen.
erals but even the enemy paid
it high tribute. In fact, through
out its career in France this di-
vision lived up to its designation
as "First." 1t was not only the
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11
Somehow the PrOverb
Sounded a Bit Off

He had only recently joined the
ranks of politicians, and he was
anxious that his first speech to his
prospective constituents should be
a great success, says London An
sWers.
He spoke for a long time, warn
ing his hearers of the dangers of
war and the importance of keep
ing a large army. Wishing to fin
ish with some quotation, he
thought of the proverb about lock-
ing the stable door. But he want
ed to be a bit more original.
Suddenly he had a brain-wave.
Ladies' and gentlemen" he
cried, "don't, I beg of you-don't
wait till your house catches fire
before calling the fire brigade"
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11
TDEnTu YEARS AGO THEu CARRIED
THE STARS AND STRIPES TO FRANCE
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

CNNE June day 20 years
ago q force Of khaki
- clad m en- m rche d
along the docks at Hobo boken,
N. j., and walked up the
gangplank Of a ship that was
all ready to start on a trip
across the Atlantic. The day
was June IA, 1917-a singu-
larly appropriate day for
their departure. For June "A
is Flag day and these soldiers
were taking the Stars and
Stripes across the sea into the
greatest war in the history of
the world. They were the first
combat troops of the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces,
the vanguard of a mighty host
of more than 2,000,0 900 men,
the greatest army ever trans
ported across an ocean.
Considering the day and the
Importance of the occasion it
would have seemed appropri-
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

Toini, and Toivola are some Min
nesota place names that tell of
Finnish population.
Shipping Lures Dalmatians.
"F'or centuries Dalmatians have
either titled the soil or sailed un-
der Ragusan and other flags all
over the world. Today these dark,
spirited people, with blood of bold
sea rovers in their veins, not only
man the orange-sailed fishing
boats off the Dalmatian coast, but
Trey man American ships and
work in fisheries of Louisiana,
Florida, and California.
"From green vineyards, gray
olive groves, fig and orange Or
chards stepped in almost perpetu-
al sunshine along the Dalmatian
coast, have come many of the
large commercial fruit growers of
the Pacific coast, particularly
those in Santa Cruz and Santa
Clara counties. Watsonville, south
of San Francisco, has population
almost entirely Yugoslavian.
''The majority of fishermen in
Provincetown, Massachusetts, are
Portuguese. Their ancestors
sailed there on whalers from Por-
tugal and the Azores. The city
directory is filled with names that
sound strange among those of
most New England towns: last
names such as Silva, Ramos, Fur
tado, Costa, Fora, Dutra, Cabral,
Almeda, Agna, and Corea."
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11
Your Io,

Do YOU retAize that your
job is the most important
affair in the world, just because
it is your job? The way you
look at your job makes all the
difference to your career. Do
you regard it only as a money
making stunt? Or do you con-
slider it a position to be proud
Of?
If you put your heart and
soul into your effort, you are
bound to make good and will
wake up one fine morning to
discover that you are one of the
indispensables. The world re-
spects you because it cannot
get along without you.-Geof-
frey Rhodes.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

and saluted. Then he raised his
shoulders in an eloquent gesture
as much as to say 81 can't under
stand q word you're saying, but
it's all right-I'm glad to see you
anyway" Whereupon the blue
jacket grinned broadly ait him
and the little craft on which he
was standing turned her n Q e
back into the fog.
As soon as the sailor reported
back to his ship that the docks
were clear, tugs began to- ease
the transports in toward the
docks where French soldiers
warned back a group of idle spec
tators who soon gathered as the
news of the coming Of the Ameri-
cans spread. Soon a big ship
Ioomed out of the fog, broadside
to, and was slowly warped in.
Landing stages came down with
a bang and in another moment
soldiers of Company K of the
Twenty eighth infantry were
streaming down them.
Within an hour the sleepy old
town of st. Nazaire was seeing
more and a stranger activity than
it had ever known before. Its
streets were filed with men in
the khaki of the American army
and the blue of the navy, glad to
be stretching their legs on land
after more than. two weeks
aboard ship So they: proceeded
to 't'take" the town. They firted
with every French girl who came
along; they squatted in the street
to stage irnpromptu crap games
while groups Of puzzled French
men gathered around to watch
them at this strange sport; they
sWarTned into shops and cafes
especially the latter. Altogether,
they gave st. Nazaire such
stirring up as it had not known
for centuries. s....
All Quiet in st. Nazaire.
Later in the day a sem
blance of order was restored and
the soldiers were marched to a
tented military town on the out
skirts of the city. The next day
the remainder OF the Twenty
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

Mai. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard,
Who Took Command Of the
"Fighting First in December,
1917.
, - t&.E*g3;
first to reach France, but it was
the first to go into the trenches,
the first to suffer battle losses
Cts total casualty list was 22,-
668), the first to capture prison
ers, and the first to enter Ger
many after the Arrnistice was
signed. Only once was the First
division last-in returning for de-
mobilization to the United States
from which it had sailed on Flag
day 20 years ago.
GWestern Newspaper Union
Carbon County news., 1937-06-11

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