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Evening star., 1937-02-09
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Season Records.
Hish team xame--Duplicatine.- e05.
Hish individual same-Catts. 1888.
Hieh individual set-Mulroe. 3S5,
High spares-O'Donnell 100.
Htkh strikes-Mulroe. 80.
High averaee-Mulroe. Hill.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
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season Records.
Hish individual same-Reichsut. 100.
High individual set-Hervey, 3s6.
High strikes-Simonton, Neviaser, %.
High spares-Weisbach, II.
High nat game-Reicheut, 95.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

~ OCCASIONALLY there oozes
into this cut-throat boxing
business some grease along
~ with the vaseline. In o game
Evening star., 1937-02-09
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Season Records

High team eame-Duplicating sos.
High team Set-Purchase. 1857
High individual eame-Catts, 1913.
High individual set-Mulroe. 3S5.
High individual spares-Mulroe. I24.
High individual Strikes-Mulroe, 81.
High average-Mulroe HILL
The Washington times., 1937-07-30

when it got too hot for US to
remain on deck.
Everybody started to jump
overheard. / was holding on to
the rail when a flash of fire
scared my arm.
81 let go and fell into the
water. Everywhere people were
swimming around and a num-
Der Of boats were picking them
up. Some one grabbed me and
pulled me into q boat.
81 was coming from the din
ing room when I heard the
alarm bell and someone cry out
'fire!'
81 ran to the deck where the
crew was passing out life pre-
servers and showing how to ad-
just them.
"One Of the men in our
group had a raincOat. We
stretched it out as wide As 1t
would 20, and made q sort Of
shield against the heat. If 1t
hadn't been for that coat, we
would all have been more badly
burned than we were.
Finally it got too hot to stay
on deck. One man jumped
overheard. 1 don't know what
happened to him. Then an
other man went over and swan
away from the ship"
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
YACHT SAVES
F|REVICT|MS

BALTIMORE, July 80 GN.S).
Two survivors Of the City of Balti-
more tragedy, DR.. William Lut-
terloh, Of Hot Springs. Ark. and
Mrs. Charles PalaSe, Of Norfolk,
Va, owe their lives to the crew
of the Recipes. private yacht OF
S. Lester Simms, Of Baltimore.
Skippered by Capt. Reuben
Johns, the Recipes was cruising
down the bay when the lookout
sighted the glare from the burn.
ing steamer. Johns said:
1--WE thought at first that 1t
was caused by the usual Stag
dumping off SparrOwS Point.
Then I looked through my
binoculars and saw it was q
ship ablaze.
"As fast as the Recipes would
90 we headed for the steamer.
The fire seemed to glow with
each passing minute.
"By the light Of the flames
we saw q man swimming in the
water. We picked him up. Then
we saw o woman and hauled
her aboard.
"They were DR.. Lutterl0h and
Mrs. Palase. Both were partly
supported by life preserverS."
The Washington times., 1937-07-30

However, the smoke from the
blazing steamer was so dense the
lifebOats soon disappeared from
sight.
"Then a number Of other pas
sengers, some of them In flames,
climbed the deck rails and
jumped into the water. Z pleaded
for them to hold on as long as
possible, but most Of them could
not stand the intense heat and
leaped into the water.
GIRL SEEKS FATHER
Suddenly q young girl ran
up the bridge screaming for her
father. When she saw he
wasn't with us she started back
into the flames. Carter made
. grab for her, but / had to
help him before she could be
stopped from running back into
the inferno.
"Then the three Of us rsade
our way to the lee side Of the
ship and held on to the hot
railing, waiting for an OppOr-
tune time to jump into the
water.
"The fire was close to our
feet when / saw q big speed
boat burst through the clouds
Of smoke. It seemed to be bear.
ing right down on us.
81 took another look at the
flaming decks in an effort to
ascertain whether any more
passengers were still on board.
No one YVES visible. I am sure
we were the last ones alive to
leave the ship.
DRAGGED INTO BOAT
''By this time the speedbOat
had worked its way into posi-
ton, so I gave the order to
jump and the three Of us went
into the water. As soon as we
hit we were dragged into the
boat.
"Then we made our way slowly
around the burning hulk, seek
ing others who might still be
aflOat, but saw no one. The
larger boats were playing their
big SearchEghts on the water
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
WOMAN TELLS
OF COLLISION
AMID FIRE
Burning Ship Rammed
BY Rescuer, Survivor
Of Tragedy Relates

BALTIMORE, July 30 Q.N.S).
Swathed in bandageS covering Sc
we're burns, Miss Elizameth Ram
say, 80. of Baltimore, told of her
experience soon after fire broke
out aboard the Inflated City of
Baltimore last night. She said:
Suddenly, while we were all
huddled in the bow, q ship
doomed up in front of us.
at bore right down on us and
struck us almost where we were
standing. It was q big ship and
looked like a liner.
"The blow knocked us all
down. Then the ship backed
away and we didn't see any
more of it. 1 still don't know
what ship 1t was"
ARKANSAS SAVED FIVE
Miss RamSay's reference was
believed to be to the steamship
Arkansas which, after hitting the
side of the doomed craft while
participating in rescue efforts,
picked up five survivors and pro
ceeded with them to Norfolk.
Miss Ramsay was plunged into
the water when a tongue of flame
suddenly licked around the deck
rail which she was holding. She
added:
There were 20 of US who
huddIed in the bow Of the boat
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
CHINA GATHERS
HER FORCES
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Continued from Page II
force of japanese were in con-
troll of the Tientsin east station,
and in that region, Japanese said,
only few Chinese snipers re-
NAMED to be "mopped up"
TOKYO, July 80 Q.NS0.-PlanS
for an immediate major Japanese
offensive in north China to meet
the threat of hostilities by Cen
eraliSsimo Glazing Kai-Shek'S Nan
king government troops were pre-
sented to Emperor Hirchito today
as large areas south Of Peiping
were taken over by NipponeSe sol
diers.
Five leading members Of Premier
Prince Fumimaro Konoye'S govern
ment met to draft the plans, be-
lieved to call for widespread mo-
bilization and new punitive"
measures against the Chinese.
Twelve hundred Chinese and
300 Japanese were killed and
wounded in heavy fighting at
TientSin, which included a heavy
aerial and artillery bombardment
Of the Chinese city, according to
unofficial estimates today.
The entire Peiping- TientSin area
to the east of the Yungting River
is IN the hands of Japanese
military units, the spokesman de-
clared.
limiting some action may be ex-
pected to cleave more Of China
from control Of the Marking gov
eminent. the spokesman added:
Japan does not consider
herself obligated to suppress
autonomous movements which
may possibly develop from
efforts of Chinese Organiza-
items to maintain order"
Meanwhile, the rich city Of
TientSin, Japanese military base
in North China, was in Japanese
hands following two days Of fight
ing and Smelling reported to have
cost hundreds Of lives.
A major clash between the Japa-
neSe and Chang Kai-Shek'S ma
tionalistS, who are being rushed
to the north in defia nee of
Tokyo's peace terms" Is ex-
pected within "a hours.
New fighting in Tientsin started
when Chinese troops bomharded
the japanese concession. l.
The Washington times., 1937-07-30

nlSnC III LIle CuSSdpcdhc Day .
True to the tradition of the sea,
the master of the Inflated steamer.
Capt. Charles o. Brooks, was the
last living person to leave his ship
as it dwindled into a charred
hulk off Bodkin Point.
Burned painfully on both hands
and face. Captain Brooks told the
following story to a Times re-
porter:
eve were bound down the
bay on our regular run, having
left Baltimore at $3.50 p. m.
There were approximately IS
passengers aboard and So men,
bers in the crew.
at was just getting dark as
we started through Cut-Off
Channel, off Seven-FOOt Knoll
about 1880 p. m.
81 was standing ON the bridge
when I heard cries Of fire! fire!
1 started running aft to sound
the alarm, but flames burst
from the stern Of the vessel and
envelOped the whole ship.
part Of the crew rushed to
their fire stations. while others
raced to the lifebOatS. l gave
orders to launch the boats Inn
mediateIy and they were soon
in the water, loaded with pas
Sengers.
However, I fear many paSSen.
gers and crew have been lost.
Many never even had chance
to leave their cabins. The en-
CINE room crew must certainly
have persisted, as the fire started
some where down there I am
sure.
SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS
There was q series of expIO.
siOns, but don't believe an
explosion started the fire. Most
of the blasts probably were
caused by exploding gasoline
tanks on a number Of autOmO-
bileS we were carrying.
"The flames finally forced me
to retreat to the bridge. There
/ was Joined by my steward.
James C. Carter. We signaled
franticalIy to a number Of boats
that were speeding to the scene,
trying to attract their attention
to the HfebOatS.
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
Husband and Wife
Reunited After Fire

BALTIMORE. Md, July 80.
Each believing that the other had
drowned when they jumped from
the burning ship, joyful reunion
was held at the Southern Hotel
early today as Charles PalaS and
his wife, Alice, Of Norfolk. Va.
met in the hotel. The couple was
picked up from the water by diff
ferent boats. They had been at
tending a convention in Baltimore
and were returning home on the
Inflated ship.
The Washington times., 1937-07-30

and smaller cruisers were slowly
edging their way to the City Of
Baltimore, which, by this time,
had gone, aground off BOdkin
Point.
81 saw there was sufficient
help on hand, SO asked my res
cuer to take us ashore.
I'D like to say that every
member Of the crew aboard my
vessel stood at his post until
ordered to leave. Everybody was
surprisingly calm throughout
the ordeal"
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
THAT ANYONE escaped

THAT ANYONE escaped
from this inferno was a
marvel to boatmen who
rushed to the aid Of the
stricken Chesapeake Bay
steamboat, City of Balti-
more, aflame from stem to
stern off the mouth of the
Patapsco River. Note the
funnel Of fireboat Tin bot
tom photo) which dashed
down from Baltimore when
the first word of the blaze
reached shat city. 1nterna-
tional News Photo.
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
Relatives Line Dock
For News Of Victims

BALT1M Md, July 80.
Not long after news of the fire
spread through the city, anxious
friends and relatives of passengers
and crew lined the dock to receive
whatever information was at hand.
The 12-year-old daughter Of Sec
ond Engineer Albert Neil wept
continuously as she scanned the
faces of arriving survivors.
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
Baltimore Physicians
Rush TO Tragedy Scene

BALTIMO E, Md, July 80.
Physicians from Baltimore who
rushed to Bayside last night to
aid in the treatment of survivors
Of the ship fire included DR.. Allen
r. VoSchell, of the Herman Hos
pital and Industrial School for
Crippled Children, and DR.. Charles
w. MaxSon, chief surgeon of the
South Baltimore General Hospital.
The Washington times., 1937-07-30
CAPTAIN Brooks Tells
Graphic Fire Story

BALTIMORE, July 30-Vsibly shaken and at times on
the verge of tears veteran skipper rested in his Baltimore
home early this morning and recounted wildly the ship fire
tragedy that struck his ship the City of Baltimore last
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23

the defects and 1t is entirely pos sible that some objections which have been noted by me might be re- moved upon further clarification.
 I am confident that much simpler plan car be worked out which will be productive of the de- sired results without the numerous complications and defects of tl1e pro. posed amendments.
 You will agree, no doubt, that the subject is of such great and lasting importance that no plan should be adopted without careful study and that, when evolved, the plan should be presented to the people uf Wat erbury in form and language that may be easily understood. Our cit- izenS should not be asked to sign De- titions for drastic changes without full knowledge of the details which lie behind the title.
 So much publicity has been given to this proposal that I am sure you will not object if copies of this let- ter and the accompanying comments are furnished to the press of the city after you have received them.
 In conclusion, may I express the opinion that your committee has acted with fine sense of civic duty and that the time and effort which you have given to this plan is deep ly appreciated? Ii we cannot agree upon the merits of this particular plan, we are at least in accord on the principles behind it.
 It is also my opinion that a man with so much power as the proposed personnel director should be elected by the people. If this were done un- der the proposed plan, yol should then call him mayor because he would have more power over the destinies of the citizens of Waterbury than any man that ever sat in the mayors chair.
 It is my earnes5 hope that further and combined effort may result in a civil service system or lasting bene- fit to the city of Waterbury.
 Very truly yours,
 FRANK HAYES,
 Mayor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23
HARRY W. MARSH.
 TO SPEAK HERE.
Merit System Group Plans Meeting at Settlers
 Village

Newly appointed director of per- sonnel of the state administration, Harry w. Marsh, has been added to the list of prominent speakers who will attend the annual meeting of the Connecticut Merit System asso- ciation at Settlers Village Wednes- day, June 30th.
 MT. Marsh, formerly of New York city and widely recognized for his knowledge of the merit system, was recently recommended by Governor Wilbur L. Gross for the office to su- pervise the newly-introduced merit system in Connecticut. His appoint ment was confirmed by the senate.
 MT. Marsh will share the speak ing honors with Mayor LaGuardia of New York city, Governor Cross and Horace D. Taft, state president.
 A picnic supper will be served members between and 6 p. m. The business meeting will take place at 6:S0 o'colck, followed by the prin- cipal addresses and a band concert to which the general public is in- vited to attend.
 The Waterbury chapter of the Connecticut Merit System assoc.a- tion today filed with City Clerk John P. Fitzmaurice 200 printed copies of the proposed amendment to the city charter which would establish a merit system in Waterbury. The board of aldermen recently request ed that copies be filed.
 The chapter is HOW seeking to se- cure the signatures of IS percent of the city's voters so that the amendment can be voted upon at the city elections next October.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23
WEDS HUSBAND OF DEAD SISTER
Constance Cutter Morrow Was Married to Aubrey
 Mel Morgan Tuesday

North Haven, Me, June B. (UP)-Constance Cutter Morrow, sister of Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergil, and her brother-in-laW bridegroom, Aubrey Neil Morgan, remained in seclusion here today pending an unannounced honeymoon trip. They were married yesterday at the sum- mer home of the brides mother, Mrs. Dwight w. Morrow, widow of the late senator and ambassador to Mexico. The Rev. Henry P. HuSe, pastor of North Haven Baptist church, officiated. Only family members attended. Morgan was the husband of Miss Morrow's sister Elisabeth, who died in December, 1884, only two years after their mar riage. He is son of MT. and Mrs. John Llewellyn Morgan of Llandaff, Wales.
 Plans Made Quietly
 Preparations for yesterdays marriage were made quietly by Mrs. Morrow, who returned here a few days ago after visiting Mrs, Lindbergh in England. She was &C., companied by her daughter Con- stance and Morgan.
 The bride first figured in the news during the investigation of the kidnap-slaying of her nephew, Charles A. ,Lindbergh, Jr. Extor- tion letters threatening violence caused her to be placed under guard at Milton academy in Milton, Mass, and at Smith college in Northamp- ton, Mass, where she was second in her class enthusiastically. She was her sister Elisabeth's only attend ant at her wedding to Morgan in 1882,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23
Legal Notices
LIQUOR PERMIT OTICE OF APPLICATION

This Is to give notice that l, Henry Charles Carbone of 61 Wal nut Ave-. Waterbury, Conn.,, have filed with the Liquor Control Commission for Restaurant (Beer) Permit for the sale of alcoholic liquor on the premises, S2 South Elm St., Water bury, Conn. The business is owned by Henry Charles Carbone, or Sl will be conducted by Henry Charles of 61 Walnut Ave-, Water- bury, Conn.,. as permittee.
 HENRY CHARLES CARBONF.
 Dated June 16th. 1887. S-l6-23
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23
LIQUOR PERMIT NOTICE OF REPLICATION

This. Is to give notice that l, Lutflia K. Stevens. of I52 Walnut St., Waterbury, Conn.,, have filed an application dated June 18th. 1887. for Package Store Permit for the sale of alcoholic liquor on the prem- ises, 151 Walnut St., Waterbury, Conn. The business Is owned by Luthla K. Stevens, of 152 Walnut conducted by Lutfiia k. Stevens, of i52 Walnut St., Waterbury. Conn.,. as permittee.
 LUTFLI.A K. STEVENS. :,
 Dated June 18th 1887. S-16-23
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23
LIKE HIS FATHER

Cambridge, Mass, June 23-(UP) Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., of New York, grandson of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, will graduate from Harvard college after complet- ing the four-year course in three years. Twenty-Five years ago. his father accomplished the same feat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23

Barking as though to call at- tention to the sign on the fence below, Peggy" 8 neighbOrhood favorite in Canton, O., near the c. I. o. headquarters, calls atte;:- ton to the sign which has daily admonished steel strikers at their headquarters ever since the walk out at the Republic Steel plant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-23
BARREL ON FIRE

A burning barrel of tar brought firemen to Liberty and River streets at 9:16 o'clock this morning. Four companies answered the alarm.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Fred's Leading Lady.

JOAN FONTAINE, youthful and tai
ented young actress, whose first
few appearances before the cameras
have warranted the great faith placed
in her by the R-K-O-Radio Studios,
has been chosen as the leading lady
for Fred Astaire in the dancing star 8
first solo starring vehicle, "Damsel in
Distress"
Miss Fontaine. whose beauty and
ability have been the subject of en-
thusiastic critical praise, is Just COM
pleting role opposite Nino Martini
in his first R-K-O-Radio musical.
Music for Ma dame" Previous to
this she has appeared in a small
role with Katharine Hepburn in
Quality Street." with John Beal in
THE Man Who Found Himself" and
with Preston Foster in You Can't
Beat Love"
Also included in the cast of "Damsel
in Distress" will be George Burns and
Oracle Allen. The story has been
adapted from the book by the noted
English humorist, P. G. Wodehouse.
With a MUSICAL score provided by the
late George Gershwin and his brother
Ira. 1t viii be produced by Pandro
S. Berman, VINO mas presented six of
the hit Ginger Rogers We
hicles.
Astaire will co-star in another screen
musical comedy with Miss Rogers
after completing his current role. The
production, which will also be handled
by Berman, is scheduled to be done
entirely in technicolor.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
League of Nations.
VERA zORINA, ballet star.

VERA zORINA, ballet star, who
recently arrived in Hollywood to
make her film debut in Samuel Gold
wyns THE Goldwyn Follies," is a
one-girl League of Nations. OF Nor
wegian parentage, she was born in
Berlin, Germany. She was educated
in Germany and Norway, won her first
dancing success in those countries
and subsequently starred in England.
Italy and Spain.
For two years she was star witt,
the Russian Ballet and during that
period she danced in the principal
cities Of the United States as we'll as
in the capitals of Europe. To round
out the international favor, she wears
Italian ballet slippers made in Paris.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

Dut It's career IN tne cinema was an
ignoble one. People looking for a
picture house in the vicinity natu-
rally gravitated to the Music Hall,
the show place of the neighborhood,
and the motion picture producers,
realizing that fact, we're reluctant to
let the theaters managers have any
but their class B photoplays.
Thus thwarted in their attempts to
make the house another Hollywood
shrine. the operators had nothing TO do
but fall back on the good old so-called
legitimate theater 1t was. on the
whole, cheaper to keep the place go
ing as playhouse of some kind than
to have it stand idle all the time. And
room comedy or an intimate drama in
its epic expanses. That is why the
Center Theater became the home OF
vast musical spectacles; that is why 1t
houses so amorphous a work as the
current Virginia" uncertain har-
binger of the new theatrical season.
1t is, however, simpler to say that
the Center Theater should present
large and reasonably noisy musical
spectacles than it is to devise one for
it: which is probably the only thing
have said so far this theatrical year
that Laurence Stallings and Owen
Davis, the authors of the book OF
Virginia" will agree with.
You cannot use the type OF melo-
dramatic carnivals that the Hippo
drome employed in its heydey because
the cinema now has an effective copy
right on that sort OF thing. You cam
not lean too heavily on dialogue, be-
cause the theater is bit too large
for every one in the audience to hear
the actors, unless they stepped up to
microphone every time they talked, a
solution hardly conducive to the best
dramatic illusion. You cannot go in
too heavily for big ballets, lest the
critics infuriate you by making impo-
lite comparisons with the Music Hall
and saying something about waiting
for the accompanying motion picture
to go on. You cannot indulge in the
extreme simplicities of plot and dia-
logue that are the easiest to hear and
handle on so large stage without
going in for naivete embarrassing n
these partially sophisticated days.
THERE is little doubt that the
Messrs. Stallings and Davis recog-
nized the difficulties they had to face
and set about manfully TO overcome
them. There is, however, considerable
question as to whether they were sue
cessful in their efforts. My own i'm
preston is that, in their determination
to be neither too simple nor too sub
tie, they had the misfortune TO be
both too complicated and too elemen-
tary.
They devised a little story about the
adventures in Colonial Virginia of .
Evening star., 1937-09-12

troup of touring English actors and
how they got mixed up with the Amer
ican Revolution in its early days on the
side Of the patriots. Importantly con-
cerned in the proceedings were the
efforts of the heroine to send a mes
sage to Col. George Washington. her
romance with the inevitable Capt.
Richard Fairfax of the Virginia Rang
ers, and something or other about how
the comic got drunk the night he was
to play Romeo.
Mr.. Stallings has a genuine talent
for the telling Of dashing, picturesque
tales from the romantic annals of
early America and Mr.. Davis knows his
dramaturgy, but the Center Theater
requirements were too much for them.
In dialogue and story their book is
too simple and commonplace for COM
fort, and in some of its minor maneu-
verings 1t seems too mixed up for any
one, including the authors, to follow it.
WISH Mr.. Stallings had been able
to bring to his libretto some of the
heartiness, vitality and romantic color
that he got into his splendid book for
the Inflated musical show. called
Rainbow" some years ago. Due to an
incredible series of first-night disas-
ters, Rainbow" was, it is true, fail
ure, but 1t remains in the memories of
some of us as the best period Amer
lean musical play next to Show Boat"
A pleasantly swashbuckling tale of
the West in the covered wagon days,
1t actually succeeded in combining
dramatic effectiveness, characterize
tion, atmospheric reality, and even q
bit of tragic power, amid its musical
comedy trappings. while its score re-
mains one of Vincent Youmans' finest
achievements. Mr.. Youmans wrote Q
comic ballad for his show-it was
called THE Bride Was Dressed ir
White" and it was sung by Charles
Ruggles, now Of the films-that should
stand among the American folk
classics. Perhaps I am going Just q
trifle far af1eld in my discussion, but