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Evening star., 1937-06-20
burst Wins and Loses,

>OOPERS elimination by Harry
burst came in the first match he
played, the newcomer to local ranks
having received first-round default.
The eventual loser. like Bruins, took
the first set Ga, but dropped the next
two, 6-3, 60.
burst, however, found that the
struggle had taken too much from
even a rugged youngster like himself.
and he fell an easy victim to johnson
In the first quarter-final match of
tho tournament, 6-1, 6-1. johnson
previously had trimmed Clem Will
llams, 6-1, Go, and Jack Hoyt, 3-6.
81, 6-4, although the latter sprang a
real surprlse-and almost an upset
BY his performance.
After splitting the first two sets.
Hoyt established 30 lead and had
an advantage Of 4o-l5 In the fourth
game before johnson rallied to take
of the last games.
Harry March, runner-up champion
last year and in all likelihood the
semi-final foe Of johnson, was forced
to stay round behind for the lack
OF an opponent. March swept through
matches with James Hardey and
Lawrence Swank with ease, but must
await the outcome Of two matches
before playing his quarter final round.
Titus Upset by Walsh.
HE seeded boy player to fall by
the wayside was Harold Titus,
who was upset by little Jack Walsh.
lust 70 days inside the 15-year age
limit for boy competitors. Walsh, who
learned his tennis at the Burroughs
Playground, won by scores of 60,
IS. 60, and thereby became q
definite threat for the boys cham
plonship. 1t was Walsh's second VIC
tory OF the day, Jack Hartz having
proven his first victim by 81, e-l
scores.
Left in the running tor the inter-
scholastic berth In the nationals were
Billy zeller Of Tech. Doyle Royal
and David johnson of Roosevelt,
Nunez OF Western, Leonard Sokol of
Central, Tom Kirk and Bob Richard
son of Eastern, Bob Chichester of
Washington-Lee and Billy Turner of
Darlington Prep OF Rome, Ga. Three
are due to be eliminated today, mas
much as Royal meets Kirk, Turner
plays Darlington and Nunez faces
Richardson, II the latter manages to
get by Harold Landsman in a previous
match.
Boys In Feature Tits.
TODAY'S most crucial competition
occurs in the boys singles, in
which four quarter final matches are
scheduled, all at 2 o'clock. Tom
Walden, seeded No. l, meets Eddie
Richardson, l3-year-old tot of un-
usual promise; Maurice Cowan, seeded
NO. 4, plays John Lincoln; Jack Walsh
meets Billy Walker, Jersey City en-
trant, and Hawley Evans plays Rob-
ert Williams.
Six junior matches should bring
singles in that division down to the
Quarter-finals, stage also to be
reached by the playing of five doubles
matches. The boys doubles to,,rna-
ment also will start with Cowan and
Walden. seeded No. l, and Richard
son and Walsh, No. 2.
Evening star., 1937-06-20
StanAinEs Of the Club.

Schedule for Monday: woodneld, At
Brentwood, Fleshman At Mount Rainier
Sellers At Goode Cleaners. Edgewood at
Rogers Heights.
Evening star., 1937-06-20
Seeded Neen Bov in Stars Tourney Bulge Smoters Aus
BOY, TWO JUNIOR
ACES ARE BEATEN
Nine Left to Contend for
National PIay-Johnsen
Notable Performer.
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
THREE notable developments

BY BILL DISMEK, Jr.
THREE notable developments
marked yesterdays play in
The Stars City of Washington
4 junior boy tennis tournaments
at the Sixteenth Street Reservoir
courts as youthful energy brought
about wholesale double duty and re-
duced record fields for both classes
to stable proportions.
The most outstanding results after
five hours play we're:
l. Elimination OF three seeded
players. two juniors and one boy.
2. Survival Of nine contenders for
the honor Of representing Washington
In the national interscholastic tour
nament.
3. The advance of David johnson,
seeded No. 4 junior. to the semi -final
round, furthest position of any con-
testant. johnson was required to
play seven sets and SO games before
he reached the next-to-last bracket.
John Bruins, seeded No. 7, and
Reginald Cooper, Bermuda boy cham
pion and seeded No. 8 among the
Juniors with whom he is playing his
first season, were the juniors to be
eliminated For Bruins. defeat was ex-
tremely hard, following. as it did,
two-hour three-set victory over
Bernie Blankin. Ga, IS, 6-3. His
conqueror. Mike Nunez, had the ad-
vantage OF freshness. however, and
after Bruins had taken the first set
At 6-4, rallied to beat him, 6-l, 60.
Evening star., 1937-06-20

w YITH the receipt yesterday of
~ the signed contracts Of Vic
wv Carroll, guard, and George
Smith center the rosfer nf
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
MATS IN BOSTON
FOR TWO GAMES

FENWAY PARK, BOSTON,
Mass, Sept. 7.-Starting today's
double-header 10 minutes before
the scheduled time in order that
both teams might make an early
train, old Rube Walberg was
selected to oppose DeShong in the
opening contest.
FIRST INNING
WASHINGTON - A I'm d a
popped to Cronin. Lewis grounded
out to Foxx. Travis popped to
Foxx. Nothing across.
BOSTON-Mills singled to left.
Cramer sacrificed, DeShong to
Kuhel. Cronin walked. Foxx sing
led to right, scoring Mills and
sending Cronin to third. Higgins
singled to right, scoring Cronin,
Foxx stopping at second. McNair
grounded to Lewis who stepped
on third forcing Foxx and then
threw to Kuhel doubling up Nc
Nair. Two runs, three hits, no er-
rors, one left.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
ARMY REVOLT
HITS PARAGUAY

ASUNCION, Sept. 7 Q.N.SO-A
Paraguayan army division headed
by Major Martin Cich staged a
revolt here today, demanding re-
turn of Col. Juan Franco to the
provisional presidency.
The rebels took over police
headquarters and established
street patrols, bringing activities
throughout Asuncion to stand
still.
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. Z
G.N.S0 Reports received here
today from Asuncion, indicated
the rebels under Major Martin
Cich had gained the upper hand,
and that Col. Juan Ayala would
be installed as head of the govern.
ment, pending the return of ex-
President Juan Franco, who now
is in BuenoS Aires.
A counter revolt, however, is in
prospect, according to Ascuncion
dispatches.
LONDON, Sept. 7 G.N.SO.-A
new revolution has broken out in
Paraguay and rebel forces are the
master of the situation" Reuters
Agency reported in a dispatch
from Asuncion today.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
STOCKS BREAK
ON. WAR FEARS

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 G.N.S).
Stocks suffered one of the worst
breaks of the year today, leaders
cracking 81 to more than So a
share as Wall Street was upset
by the further serious foreign de-
velopments over the Labor Day
weekend.
Selling was at a heavy pace
from the opening, with the high.
speed ticker falling behind for the
first time in weeks. 1t was three
minutes late.
All sections of the list were en-
quilted in the heavy liquidation.
Leaders, as U. S. Steel, Bethle-
hem, Chrysler, and Atchison.
slumped 81 to more than Sc "a
share, while J. I. Case tumbled SO
before meeting support. A long
list of representative issues broke
into new low ground for the year.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07

JOHNSON CITY, N. Y, Sept. Z,
G.N.SO. Blocking all highways
leading out of central New York,
State troopers today continued
their manhunt for Clyde Derrick,
32-year-old desperate who kid
naped two local policemen Sunday
and escaped with their patrol car
and arms.
Wanted on a bad check charge,
Derrick held up the two policemen
when they stopped him for queS-
tioning, the police not knowing at
the time that he was their quarry.
They were forced to drive him to
an abandoned garage where he
held both until nightfall, IL hours
later, and made off with their car
and a makeshift police uniform.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
) FLEE PRISON,
z 2RECAPTURED

CHICAGO, Sept. Z 0.N.SO.-
Military police today sought three
prisoners who sawed their way out
Of the guard house at Fort Sheri-
dan whilee awaiting removal to
Fort Leavenworth. The fugitives
either were under sentence or
awaiting trial for criminal Of
fenses, are:
Lawrence B. Deacon, "a, and
Erward A. Swanson, Is, of Chi
cago; Harold Hensley, %, Shum-
way. Ill.
Richard Troy, 1S, Detroit, and
Richard B. Carroll, 18, were cap
tured.
When Superintendent Jack Cur
tain attempted to halt the break
he was knocked out with a paint
bucket.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Wheat SkyrOckets
On Biz Markets

CHICAGO, Sept. 7 U.N.SO.
With foreign political develop
ments influencing broad buying,
wheat rocketed here today. Prices
gained 314 to 33sc led by Septem-
ber. The latter reached $l.08B
Other grains also advanced.
September corn gained as much as
&c to 995s, and oats u to 24c.
Prices in the Winnipeg wheat
market were as much as 3Ac
higher in early trading while
Liverpool was around 2 pence up
in late trading. Buenos Aires
opened as much as 4c higher de-
spite bearish crop news.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Russia Protests
II Duce's Reply
On Sub Raids
MOsCOW Demands
Meet Cool RetOrt

LONDON, Sept. Z dN.s).
Police guards have surrounded
the Italian embassy in Moscow
as a result of Soviet charges that
Italian submarines torpedoed
Russian ships, the London Daily
Mirror reported in an undated
dispatch today.
The Mirror said the guards
were stationed around the en-
bassy after Soviet protest meet
ings and demonstrations. It
added Italy's replies to the Rus
sian charges were considered the
limit of arrogance" In Moscow
and that Soviet Dictator Josef
Stain was reported to have been
deeply insulted" by the Italian
attitude.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Blowout Fatal
To 2 Rich Youths

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 G.NSJ.
The blowout of a front tire
brought death today to two
wealthy young men and serious
injury to two others as the auto
mobile in which they were riding
overturned several times on Mon
tauk Highway near Southampton.
Killed were William A. D. Blake,
81, son of the late DR.. Joseph A.
Blake, famous New York surgeon,
and Vernon Morice, "a, of Shin
necock Hills. Injured were Defor-
rest Manice, jr., 81, a summer
resident Of Southampton, and D.
P. Ingraham, %, of New York.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Army Personnel
Barred From China

Q.N.SO. The United States to-
day barred travel of the families
Of American Army officers and
enlisted personnel in the China
war zone. The War Department
announced it had forbade Army
personnel to visit China on leave.
and that families of military per.
sonnel ordered to China would
not be permitted to accompany
the soldiers. Similar orders were
issued by the Navy two weeks ago.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Envoy Invites US.
Aid in War Peril

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 Q,N.s).
Warning that the entire United
States is threatened by Japan's
military machine, Chengting T.
Wang, Chinese ambassador to the
United States, today "unofficialy"
asked the American Government
to intervene as a mediator in the
SinoJapanese crisis.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
RUSSIANS AID CHINA

MOSCOW, Sept. 7 UNsJ.
Many persons who have "disap-
peared" from Russia during the
last month have not been arrested
in the current purge. but have gone
to China to assist in organizing a
defense against Japanese military
forces, 1t was reported today.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07

the man said. I'm so and I
served in the First Division over
seas. My pension was cut off
in 1882, and I'm too weak to
work"
Another man arose from a
spectators bench and approached.
He identified himself as Richard
Springmeyer, owner of several
inns in New York.
I'm a veteran, too," he said.
II served as a buck private in
the 9th Division. I'd like to
give Foley a job"
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Missing Girl, 13,
Returns to Home

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Sept.
7 GN.SO.-Constance E. Lyman,
10, who rode away from her home
on her bicycle August 81 and was
gone for five days, was safely back
home today but her parents de-
clined to comment on her strange
disappearance. Police are still
investigating.
The only information given
them, detectives said, was that the
mother, Mrs. Charlton E. Lyman,
had learned her daughter was
with friends" in Perth Amboy,
N. j., went for her and brought
her back,
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Seeks Honduras,
Nicaragua Peace

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Sept. 7
G.N.S).-In the hope of preserv-
ing peace in Central America,
President Cortes of Costa Rica was
on record today with an offer of
his services to Honduras and Mica
ragua in their dispuate over terri.
tory.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Spurns
Francois Regime

PANAMA CITY, Sept.7 G.N.SO.
The government of Panama will
refuse to recognize the nationalist
government in Spain despite rep
reservations from Uruguay urging
that it do so, it was stated un-
officially today.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07

UT DeQ 10 sleep III Tor week.
Edging his way timidly into
night court, he told Magistrate
Henry H. Curran:
I'm sick, broke and home
less. And wound that I got
in the Argonne is troubling me.
I want to be sent to Jail where
I'll be taken care Of"
Magistrate Curran, a major in
the 77th Division during the war,
was interested.
What were you doing in the
Argonne?" he asked.
my name Is John Foley"
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Roach, Cannery
Magnate, Expires

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept.
7 G.N.SO. - William Robert
Roach, canning industry leader
for more than quarter Of a
century, was dead at his home
here today. He died one day after
celebrating his seventy-fifth birth
day anniversary.
He will be buried at Adams,
N. Y, Thursday. He was born
at Pierrepont Manor, N. Y, in
1862 and was graduated from
Adams Collegiate Institute.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Airlines Report
Gains in Business

QN.SD. The 20 scheduled air
lines operating in continental
United States reported large gains
in July, in passenger and express
traffic and miles flown, according
to the Bureau Of Air Commerce.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07

II could not Iace lt, Sne
told her husband as she walked
into his room early this morn
ing.
Before he could stop her she
pointed a 80 caliber revolver at
herself and fired once, slumping
to the floor.
Such was the story told police
by Lieut.. Raymond Asserson, the
husband. The AsserSonS live at
The Washington times., 1937-09-07

1888 Fifteenth st. N. w. There
are three children.
Recently, Lieutenant Asserson
said his wife, who is 80, has been
respondent and in i'll health.
At Emergency Hospital, where
she was taken after the shooting,
it was found that the bullet had
coursed through her lower left
shoulder. Her condition was de-
scribed as satisfactory.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
GIRL, 5, SLAIN;
TWO MISSING
CHILDREN SAFE
Return Home Up
sets Confession

ELPHIA, Sept. Z
UNS0.-Unaware they were be-
lieved slain by a msn whose vague
confession" prompted a manhunt
for them, two children returned
safely to their nome here today,
switching all police efforts to in
vestigation of the mysterious
death of five-year-old Nancy
Glenn.
Police announced that Helen
Whebley, 6, and her brother,
Frank, jr., 3, believed to have
been victims of a sex maniac, have
been found "alive and we'll"
The children came home "a
hours after they had disappeared
while at play in Fairmount Park,
clirnaxing a frantic search under
taken by police and Boy Scouts,
spurred by the confession" Of a
man who said he had attacked
the children and hidden their
bodies.
CONFESSED" CRIME
The suspect, Philip Krho, 81,
earlier had told Mayor S. Davis
wilson that he had thrown the
children into the Schuylkill River
He was arrested early today after
the body of Nancy eileen was
found in a mud-filled hole in an
isolated section of North Phila'
delphia.
The children told their parents,
police said, that they had spent
the night in an automobile not
far from their home, after visiting
Fairmont Park yesterday.
The eileen child's body was
found by her father, Joseph c.
eileen, an accountant.
Glenn began a search when his
wife told him their child had MOI
been seen since 1870 p. m. yes.
terday. He found her lying face
down in muddy pool. A pile of
tin cans and sheet metal lay over
the little form.
SLAIN, SAYS FATHER
The child was pronounced dead
upon arrival at a hospital,
Asphyxiation was believed the
cause at first, probably from
drowning, but Glenn insisted the
child's death was no accident.
"She was pushed down in a
puddle of mud and there were
marks to show somebody was
responsible for the DEATH" he
said.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
JAPAN Attacks IN NORTH

PEIPING, Sept. 7 ON.S).
Fighting flared again today on
China's northern front as Japa-
nese aircraft went into action on
a major scale.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
BY JAMES E. BROWN

cow, Sept. 7 G.N.S).
With Russo-Italian relations
strained near the explosion point,
hundreds of thousands of Russians
throughout the Union-except in
Moscow - paraded and demon
strated today to show their bound
less wrath and indignation against
piratical acts in the Mediterran-
ean."
Accusation by the Soviet gov
ernment that Italian submarines
torpedoed and sank two Russian
merchant vessels inflamed the
U. S. s. r. to a high pitch Of ex-
citement and rage, inflamed even
more by 1taly's rejection Of the
charges.
PLEDGE LOYALTY
Everywhere the parades were
held the demonstrators pledged
themselves to "be ready at any
moment to rise and defend the
Socialist fatherland."
Hundreds of thousands took
part in the demonstrations. At
Kiev alone 10000 persons
marched and shouted threats. An
other 100000 paraded at Sverd-
lovsk. The demonstrations, though
ostensibly aimed at Mediterranean
piracy" were obviously intended
as grim warning to Italy.
The Italian reply to the Soviet
note, which demanded indemnity
for the two ships and punishment
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
The Washington times., 1937-09-07

1T of 100 pigs, entrusted to their
care, died.
Ten more were executed at
Baku on charges Of sabotaging
agriculture.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
CRUISE ENDED
BY PRESIDENT.
new TRIP DUE.
Western Tour Set
For Late in Month

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. z
UN.S). - President Roosevelt
brought a five-day fishing cruise
to an end this morning as his
yacht Potomac entered the upper
reaches of the Hudson.
Word from the yacht was that
Mr.. Roosevelt would land at
Poughkeepsie in time to motor
to his home for lunch. He will
remain at the estate another
week before returning to Wash
ington.
PLANS Swing"
During the next seven days the
President will have an excellent
opportunity to map out the "in-
take" swing to the Pacific Coast
he plans later in the month.
Also, he may work out the out
line of the Constitution Day speech
he is to make September II from
Washington over a national radio
hook-up.
WILL LISTEN
When the President referred to
his proposed trip to Seattle to
visit his daughter and grandchil'
dren as an intake" trip he said
he was going to look and listen
over the route rather than speak.
To most observers this meant he
proposed to ascertain at first hand
what the country's reaction is to
his program, particularly that part
which failed of passing in the last
session of Congress.
The Constitution Day speech,
in the nature of a fireside chat.
will lay the groundwork for this
trip, it was believed.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Moscow Jails Seven
For Neglecting Pigs

MOSCOW Sept QNS).-Soviet Russas purge of its
internal enemies swept forward today with series of death
and prison for wrecng and other alleged crimes
including failure to properly for pigs.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Ill, Hungry Veteran
Finds Aid in Court

NEW YORK, Sept. QN.S.).-He pale, gaunt and
shabby dressed He looked he hadn't had square meal
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
D. C. Woman Shoots
Self, Dreading Knife

Mrs. Hhdegarde Asserson wife of retired lieutenant in
the Navy was to 60 hospital shortly for operation.
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
Chinese BOn1berS Set
For Attack
BY M. C. FORD
Copyright, 1897. by international
News Service)

News Servtce)
SHANGHAI, Sept. -Four hun.
dred suicide" Chinese fliers vol
unteered their services today in a
plan to bomb Tokyo
from the air, in retaliation for the
havoc wreaked upon Shanghai.
The "dare to die" warriors Of
fered to sacrifice their lives In
the undertaking. Officials warned
them that their chances of return.
ing are virtually nil.
Japanese warships and artillery
resumed their pounding at dawn
in an attempt to avenge failure of
their infantry to crush Chinese re-
sistance in the Chapel and Kiang-
wan sectors.
Tokyo bombing volunteers we're
so numerous officials Immediately
ordered brothers to draw lots, in
order that parents would not be
deprived Of all their sons.
CHANCES ARE SLIM
A squadron of 10 huge bombing
planes is being made ready for the
raid. First objectives will be Japa.
nese munitions plants and troop
centers, to be followed by devas-
tating attack upon the capital it.
self.
The nearest point in Japan is
more than 500 miles across the
China Sea. Many Of the Ameri-
can.built bombing planes China
owns have cruising ranges of 1.500
miles, but there is little likelihood
any of the machines will escape
the withering blasts Of antiaircraft
and machine-gun fire awaiting
them.
Repeated Japanese attacks on
Shanghai's civilian population i'm
PEELED Chinese authorities to draft
this plan of revenge. Hope is held
out that Tokyo will be given a
grim taste Of what the Japanese
have been doing to Shanghai.
BOMB CUSTOMS BOATS
Japanese airplanes today bombed
two Chinese customs ships off
Ningpo, killing one Chinese and
wounding six.
The two vessels, the Haisui and
the Haitsing, which were com.
manded by two British officers,
Captain Jagow and Capt. A. Pit
endrich.
In Shanghai Japanese planes
bombed Chinese entertainments in
the Kianwan and Yantzepoo dis
tricts, and unsuccessfully tried to
locate Chinese batteries concealed
in the wreckage-strewn Pootung
area.
The Japanese flagship Tdzumo,
which had been driven down the
river by Chinese artillery, returned
to her moorings half a mile from
Continued on Page 2. Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-09-07

Trial of seven more wreckers
began in the Koloushkinsky dis
trict of the Black Sea region. They
were charged with systematic
anti-Soviet activity. One Of the
accusations against them was that
The Washington times., 1937-09-07
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
slowly rising temperature; gentle winds,
mostly easterly. "Details on Page D
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-12
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1887, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.

st. Petersburg, Fla, Feb. Ito
get my idea, make two studies: First
walk up and down beside the assem-
bly line of an automobile plant. Pick
a day, of course, when the boys are
not "sitting down." Watch the steady
flow of a motor car in the making.
Like a river of manufacture, the job
sweeps along, fed by tributary
streams of engines, tenders, and other
essentials, converging from the sides.
Successive workers at their stations
attach their respective parts and bolt
them home. It is an amazing master
piece of organization and a thrilling
spectacle Of mass production.
Handmade Houses Doomed?
Then make the second study: Stop
at the nearest lot and watch the build
inc of a house according to the best
traditions of the trades. Observe the
crude puttering of saw and plane
Mark the ancient rites Of hammer and
trowel. See the craftsmen swarming
higgledly-piggledy over the job. You