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The Washington times., 1937-01-30

Above Cairo the flood-sWept bot
tom lands of southern Illinois ana
Kentucky were at the mercy OF
the approaching crest.
Grave fears that the Ohio River
will sweep over Cairo were eX-
pressed by the War Department,
as the flood waters hammered at
its weakening flood wall.
Paducah, KY, was ordered aba1-
doned.
The entire west bank of the
Mississippi from New Madrid, No.
south to the Memphis area is also
in extreme peril.
Levee CrumbIeS
The Ievee on the east bank near
Tiptonyille also is crumbling, but
a break, considered almost certain,
would be only local" in effect.
The flood crest at Cairo, Army
engineers re rted, is now expected
to reach 81 .eet. The protective
flood wall is only so feet high and,
Continued on Page S, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
PRE- S|DENT' 5
BIRTHDAY
H0N0RED
Mrs. Roosevelt to Lead
'Merry-Go-Rounders'
Trek to Hotels

Washington tonight will dance
nd make merry at the greatest
@ocial affair Of the season-the
annual celebration of the Presi-
dents birthday-with a series Of
balls at seven of the Capitals ho-
tells.
With famous dance bands,
noted stars of the motion picture
world, a gala array Of artists from
night clubs in a series of thrill
ing floor shows, at least $4,000
persons will join in the celebration
that will continue into the early
hours of the morning.
Aid for Ill Children
It will be a gala party-but it
will also be for a deeper purpose,
that of bringing relief to the suf-
ferers of infantile paralysis.
Out of each $3.50 ticket-and
each ticket will admit the bearer
to any or all of the parties-70 per
cent will go to local hospitals,
while the balance will go to the
Warm Springs Foundation, which
is headed by the President him.
self.
So far more than 10000 tickets
have been sold, and Commissioner
George E. Allen, local chairman
of the ball, has announced that
Government workers desiring to
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
} PINS TRACED
IN BOY KILLING

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 81.
GN.SO.-District Attorney War
rem L. Bishop moved today to
question an inmate of East Cam
bridge jail, chief suspect in the
investigation of the Staying of
five-year-old Chester Harris.
Meanwhile, authorities contin-
ued chemical analysis of the soil
in the shallow grave, and awaited
word from Battle Greek, Mich,
laundry supply factory regarding
three numbered safety pins used
by cleansing establishments,
which were found claSped to
pieces of burlap under the body.
Authorities hoped to find from
the factory what cleansing com.
pany had used the pins.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
PEACE PACT
JUNKED BY
HITLER
Nazi Leader Admits
He Wants Franco to
Win in Spain

BERLIN. Jan. 80 G.N.S.9.
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler pre-.
Sented an account of his four-year
Nazi stewardship to the world to.
day.
Admitting sympathy with the
rebel movement in Spain, he
thundered to the Reichstag the fol
lowing announcements:
/. Germany hopes for con.
solidation Of nationalist
Spain" to prevent a greater
catastrophe"
2. The Reich erases forever its
extorted" signature from the
Treaty of Versailles.
3. The Nazis will continue re-
lentlessly their fight against
bolShevism.
4. Germany will guarantee
permanent inviolable neutrality
of Holland and Belgium, rem
dering conflict with France
"unthinkable."
3. Inc Relcn Will make no
colonial demands upon nations
which took no colonies from
her.
Russia Only Foe
6. Peace treaty mortgages"
on the German banks and rail-
roads are nullified.
7. Germany stands ready to
cooperate with all nations save
Russia in preservation of peace.
In an obvious reference tc
troubled American labor condi
tions, Hitler proclaimed I'VE are
all working in Germany" He
added:
"Strikes, according to Nazi
principles, cannot be tolerated.
There can be no economic
SledgehammerS. Common inter-
estS of the nation stand supreme.
While in other nations strikes
and lOckOuts undermine prOduc-
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
D. E. FLOOD AID
OVER TOP

So great has been Washington's
response to the Red Cross call for
funds to aid the Middle Western
flood victims that the city's quota
has already been oversubscribed
by Is per cent.
This was reported by the Red
Cross today, when it was revealed
cash contributions so far total
more than $150,000, as compared
with the original quota of
$4,000.
More than $4,000 garments and
articles of bedding also have been
donated. The material weighs
eight and one-half tons. Most Of
it has been shipped to the stricken
areas,
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
General Motors Chief.
and Aides Confer
In New York
By EDWARD B. LOCKETT
International News Service

Worn out, Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins today looked at
the wreckage of the third attempt
to bring peace in the General
Motors automobile strike.
Her feelings were more bitter
because "a hours ago she thought
she saw success around the corner.
And early today she blamed Alfred
p. Sloan, jr., president Of the big
motors combine.
A ray Of hope in the befuddled
strike situation was q telephone
conversation reported to have been
held between Sloan and Miss Per
kir1s this morning.
Sloan yesterday conferred with
Miss Perkins for more than two
hours. At the conclusion of the
parley, Miss Perkins said there
was tentative agreement for Gen
eral Motors executives to sit down
with striking United Automobile
Workers and begin peace negotia-
tions.
Sloan Leaves Town
But while the Labor Department
head was home for dinner, Sloan
left Washington for New York. He
said he wanted to "check" with
other General Motors officials. Just
before 10 p. M, the General Motors
chief telephoned the Labor Depart
ment executive that it was all off.
Miss Perkins charged:
"He ran out on me. s,.t was not
what one would expe ct from a
man in his position. FOR two or
three hours I talkeS with him,
and it looked as if finally all
parties had reached a basis for
negotiation. When he called
from New York and said he
could not go through with it,
you can imagine my diSappOint-
ment."
A series of new affidavits filed
with the Labor Department by
the United Mine Workers for the
automobile strikers, bolStered the
workers case. These reiterated
charges that General Motors has
been guilty of coercion, intimida-
ton and threats.
Lewis Makes Charges
John L. Lewis professed COM
plete ignorance today regarding
the Sloan-PerkinS parley. He de-
clared:
"The affidavits show that our
people have been beaten up out
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. u
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
$6,417,ooo Total Fund
Received by Red Cross
International News Service

More than 100000 in public
contributions poured into the
Red Cross $1o,OO0,0O flood relief
fund within the last "a hours,
making the total $6,417,OOO at
noon today.
Besides a $4,000 check from
Henry L. Doherty, who pledged a
like amount to President Roose-
velt's Warm Springs Foundation,
large contributors included:
$4,000, Mrs. Francis Nelson,
Drexel Boulevard, Chicago; Mr..
and Mrs. George F. Baker; the
Friedsam Foundation, Inc.
$4,000, the Commonwealth Fund,
New York.
$27,429 additional members New
York stock exchange; previous
donation, $4,000.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
British Freighter
Afire in-Mid-PaCifi(

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 80
0.N.SO. - The British freighter
Inverbank was reported afire 1900
miles off the Hawaiian Islands, ac-
cording to radio flashes received
by the marine department of the
Chamber of Commerce here today.
The reports stated that a fire
was raging in the ships cocoa
cargo. The Inverbank was bound
from Suva for the United King
dom.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
STRIKE PEACE
UPT0MURPHY

DETROIT, Jan. 80 Q.N.S).
Gov. Frank Murphy today was
expected to make new demands
for a peace conference between
General Motors officials and the
United Automobile Workers Union,
after collapse of a third auto
strike truce attempt in Washing
ton yesterday.
Failure of Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins to bring about
some basis for settlement of the
strike threw the problem back
into the governors lap.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Dead Man Discovered
As Crash Ends Chase

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 UN.S).
A shot from a speeding limousine
led to a police chase and the dis
covery of a murder early today
when one limousine crashed into a
building and a dead man was
hurled into the street.
The driver of the car, James
LAWN, 80, and a woman COM
panion, Mary Higgins, 20, we're ar.
rested, but declared they did not
know the identity of the dead man
and denied he had been killed in the
car. The man had been shot
through the head and shoulder.
He was tentatively identified as
Charles Brady, 38, longShoreman.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
ID. G. Electricity Rates
TO Drop Monday

Reductions in the local electric
rates totalling $504,021.19 were
ordered by the Public Utilities
Commission today effective Feb
ruary /.
The slash in rates here will
bring to the average householder
an approximate reduction Of 20
cents a month. More than half
of the reduction was devoted to
consumers in this category.
The 141, 1854 consumers in this
group were given q rate reduc.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
ga MILLIONS
F0RU 5. FUND
international News Service

international NoWS service
A 1894 100000 deficiency appro-
priation bill with provisions wiping
out the Subsistence Homestead Di-
vision of the Resettlement Admin
istration was reported favorably
today by the full Senate Appropria-
tions Committee.
The bill carried 1926, 900, 900 for
relief, as compared to $790.000,000
approved by the House. The in
crease represented S50,000,000 set
aside for seed loans.
A group of Western and South
ern Senators, who demanded a
81 ,200,000.000 relief appropriation,
were voted down by the committee.
The measure as reported, car.
ried the House provision, that
would forbid use of WPA workers
by congressional investigation COM
mitteeS. 1t was Immediately re-
ported to the Senate, with debate
to start Monday.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

ton of $255,7O2, and the rates
ordered were as follows
First so XVIII. 3.9 cents per
XVIII; next so XVIII. 2.3 cents per
XVIII; next 100 XVIII, 1.8 cents per
XVIII; over 200 XVIII. is cents per
XVIII.
Small commercial consumers
were given the second largest
aggregate slash totalling $217,-
791, and this group can save q
Continued on Page 3, Col. y
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
CITIES MAKE GRIM
FIGHT TO SAVE
MENACED D|KES
international News Service

Natures test of mans effort to control the
Mississippi River approached climax today.
While an army of mroe than 100000 men desperately
bolstered the billion evee system stretching from
Cairo to New Orleans the flood crest Of the Ohio River
moved slowly through its lower valley towards Cairo and
its confluence with the Mississippi.
AS the ohios inched southwark left in its wake
bleak toll of death and destruction suffering and prvaton
sordd picture of catastrophe be painted in the lower
Mississippi Valley the evees crumbe under the relentless tide
Under the direction Of engineers the huge pick and shovel
army worked increasingly the dkes final effort to
the flood from adding to the toll already exaced-
25OO homeless least 400 dead and property damage Of
more than $4OO 100000.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Prince Michael Gains
In Pneumonia Fight

FLORENCE, Italy, Jan. 80.
Q.N.SO. Michael, boy crown
prince of Rumania, who developed
q touch of pneumonia after an
appendicitis operation. was re-
ported slightly better today.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
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The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Tennessee Reports
Of Quake Denied
BuU. U.S.OfficiaIS

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 30
GNSO.-Reports of an earth
quake in the Tiptonville area be-
fore dawn today were met with
vehement denials at the en-
gineer'S headquarters here.
Officers Said
eve have been receiving re-
ports from that section every
hour but there has been no
mention of earth Shocks"
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
WEATHER FORECAST

WEATHER. FUNEOAOI
Cloudy, followed by rain, be-
filming late tonight or tOmOr-
row; lowest temperature tonight
about 40 degrees; warmer to-
morrow; gentle eaSterly winds,
becoming southeast or south and
increasing by tomorrow.
weather Details on Page 2O)
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
He Ran Out on Me- Miss Perkins
Says of Sloan and Strike ParIey

Alfred P.
Sloan, Jr.,
president
Of General
Motors
Corporation,
who is
charged by
SeCreray
Of Labor
Perkins
with having
run out"
on her in
the midst
Of negotia-
tions look
ing toward
peace in the
automobile
strike.
"ItWas not
what one
would
expect
from a man
in his posi-
ton" said
Madame
Secretary.
However,, it
was report
ed today
that there
had been
another
telephone
conVersa-
tion be-
tween the
two.
0
O
Evening star., 1937-06-09
D. c. WOMEN LEAD
BALTIMORE TENNIS
Four Playing in Quarter Finals
Today-Men From Capital Also
Holding Upper Hand.
Srecial Dispatch to Tie Star.

SteCldI DlSpdtcn 10 lie Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, June 9-Four
- Washington women we're in the
quarter final round of the MARYLAND
State tennis tournament. while the
same number Of men were left in the
late round of their division.
Marked by return meeting between
Margaret Robinson and Sara Moore,
who met in the same round in the re-
cent city of Washington tournament
the women's competition was to send
Edith Clarke against Mrs. Barry Wood
and Anne Ellis against Frances
Grimes. The only match not involv-
ing Washington girls was the one be-
tween Anne Harrison and Eugenia
Carton.
Barney Welsh and Hugh Lynch were
furthest advanced of the man sin
glists. If Ricky Willis was able to de-
feat Price Colvin, one of Baltimore's S
better netmen, this morning, he and
Welsh would clash this afternoon.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
C0.CHOICES IN STAKE
Heelfy, Reaping Reward Appeal
IN $15,O Latonia DERBY.

CONVICTION. KY, June 9 LP).-
Winner in a mile and one-sixteenth
preparation" event, Heelfy was es-
tablished alongside Of Milky WAY
Farms Reaping Reward today as an
early favorte among Is horses indi-
Gated to start Saturdays $4,000
added Latonia Derby.
Reaping Reward, show horse in the
Kentucky Derby, won the Yacht Club
Purse at Washington Park Monday
in 1875 for the mile.
Dellor, another Kentucky Derby
starter, was second by a length in yes
terday's preparation race as Heelfy
won in 1:45. J. w. Parrish's star
performer is booked TO join three
other "also rams" of the Churchill
Downs classic in the ffty-ffth run
ming OF the Latonia feature for g.
year -olds.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
R0SENBLOOM is WINNER
Aging Ringman Nearly Floored,
but Outpoints Ramage.

LOS ANGELES, June 9 (P).-Maxie
Rosenbloom, 1873. New York, slapped
and cuffed his way to a 1O-round de-
clsion over Lee Ramage. 1913, San
Diego, at the Olympic Auditorium to-
night.
The aging Rosenbloom built up an
early lead and managed to stave off a
vicious closing rally. He started Ram
ages nose bleeding in the second and
split his lip in the eighth. Ramage
several times shook the New Yorker
with punches to the head and body,
but failed to follow up his advantage
In the ninth round Ramage drove
home a volley of punches, nearly floor
ing his foe.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
BY PAUL j. MILLER, Jr.

a TAUD sEWALIs chairman OF
nu the District cham ionship
| VI for women, says that any
4 a feminine player may enter
In the open-title tourney, , which
the second round will be played to-
night at 8 o'clock at the Parkside
Hotel.
Eight women now are entered in the
tournament and each plays the other
one game under the official laws of
the International Chess Federation.
Present contestants include
Mesdames Vivian Jeffers, E. r.
Shepard, Charlotte Hallett, DIR.
M. Fitzgerald. H. E. Kittredge
and Anna Bran, and Misses
Mary Owens and Maud Sewall.
Other official title tournaments on
the associations annual agenda are:
Evening star., 1937-06-09
( iS3YRA!&HI ! &!!G TO LQlfk&
-
~*~'"~Ss~v~>~ By Walter McCo|Ium ~
By Walter McCo|Ium

TALL, lean Bill Harvey has played
golf balls from some queer
places. Bill is a member of
4 the Manor Club and, as any
Manor member will tell you, you can
md some queer spots down in those
woods where golf balls 60. But of all
the funny ones that have befallen Bill
in quite few years of humping a
golf ball around, the queerest one
came to him on the seventeenth hole
at Indian Spring
Bill is a member of the Treasury
Department team in the Federal Golf
League. AS team member he had
to try hard, for Treasury was the
favorite to cop the Mellon Trophy,
and it finally did But before the
verdict was in Bill had a tough shot
to play. He pushed his second shot
to the right of the seventeenth green.
where it came to rest on a napkin left
out there in the grass. The wind blew
and the napkin completely enfolded
Bills ball. They finally found it,
Evening star., 1937-06-09

Lynch meets Lindsay Franklin, Uni
versity of Texas star, today. Franklin
eliminated one of two Washington
Juniors to fall by the wayside yester-
day, upsetting Harry Hef1ner, 60,
6-3.
The other Capital youth to drop
out was Ralph Buddy Adair, who
succumbed to Richard Bennett of the
University Of California, 60, 81. A
third District junior, Billy Turner, still
was in the running, however, having
beaten Page Boyce, 6-2, 1-6. 60.
Stan McCaskey and Lynch we're
paired for doubles play. starting today.
as were Joe Baker and Fred DOYLE.
Welsh is playing with Modesto Alloo
of California, whom he defeated at
singles yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
Plays Surer Game.

RUT the younger generation Of par
busters, seeing in the breaking Of
the wrists possibility of getting off
the line and not hitting the ball cor
rectly all the time, have gone to the
conception of chip and short pitch
as an elongated putt, and are playing
them just the same as lengthy ap-
proach putt. 1t all makes for ac-
curacy around the greens, and it's one
OF those little things that will be on
view at Detroit this week; but a
point that observers will miss unless
they watch closely.
These boys who score so low are
changing the game all around" SAYS
Bob Barnett. They are making it
more mechanical and they're doing
everything to remove the possibility
Evening star., 1937-06-09
RYDER CUP BERTHS
AT STAKE IN OPEN
Nine Players Remain in Running
for Four Places to Be Filled
on U. S. Team.

by lne ASSoClateQ fTeSS,
BIRMINGHAM, Mich, June 9-The
three-day chase for United States
open golf championship honors at
Oakland Hills. starting tomorrow, also
will decide the remaining makeup Of
the Ryder Cup team, which leaves a
week from tomorrow to play the Brit
ish professionals at Southport.
Nine players definitely remain in the
running for the four team berths as
yet untitled. Scores for the combined
36-hole qualifying competition Of the
P. G. A. championship, decided re-
Gently at Pittsburgh, and the regula-
tion 72-hole open competition will de-
eide the contest.
Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa, with
139, now has a four-shot lead over his
nearest Ryder Cup rivals. Paul Runyaa
and Harold McSpaden, each with 143.
Others and their scores: Ed Dudley
and Vic Ghezzi, l45; Sam Snead and
Jimmie Hines, 147; Ralph Guldahl,
l48.
Three eligibles have indicated they
can't make the trip, regardless of the
scoring outcome. They are KY Laffoon,
l43, and DIN Dutra and Craig Wood,
148 each.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
METZ OUT OF HOSPITAL
Golf Pro, Hurt in Auto Accident,
to Play in Chicago Open.

CHICAGO. June (P.-Dick Metz,
young Chicago professional whose
chance OF playing in the national open
golf championship tournament at
Birmingham, Mich, this week was
blasted by automobile accident in
Juries. will return to action in the
$4,000 Chicago open July 1926.
Metz. winner of the Thomasville,
Ga, and Hollywood, Fla, Winter
tournaments, and an automatic quail
fler for the national open, has Just
been released from the hospital, fol-
lowing six-week tussle with a leg
infection. The ailment was the result
OF an automobile accident at Safety
Harbor, Fla, March II.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
OPEN RICH HORSE SHOW
Equestrians in Chicago Event to
Get $4,000 in Prizes.

CHICAGO, June 9 P).-Saddle
horses, harness horses. jumpers and
hunters moved into Soldier Field to-
day to compete for 10000 in prizes
and blue ribbons for 30 championships
in Chicago's Charter Centennial Jubi-
lee Horse Show.
Todays program, with famous sta
bles from Kentucky, Texas, Connecti-
cut, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Cam
ada represented, included events in
every division.
One of the big features of the FIVE
day show, battle between the 6lst
Cavalry of New York. winner over a
strong list of Eastern foes, and the
10th Cavalry, from Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., champions of the West, VIII
open tonight.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
OUTRUNS STREET CARS

SAN FRANCISCO Up. - Norman
Bright, the Sunnyvale schoolmaster
and distance runner, has a new record
He has broken the mark set in 1914
in the annual cross-city run from
the bay ferries to the ocean beach,
covering the IA miles in 80 minutes
So seconds.
Even the electric trolleys don't al
ways equal that time.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
WR|ST-BREAKG0NE
FROM CHIP SHOTS
Pitches Also Are Played Like
Puts, Making the Game
More Mechanical.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

TINE old game of golf is being
turned all around by the boys
who are winning nowadays.
In addition to straight line
swinging and other changes in the
swings of the top-notchers which have
come about since the universal use
OF steel shafts, the boys are getting
more Observation-Disclosures on the short
shots around the green.
The latest wrinkle among the head
liners is that short chip shots and
very short pitch shots should be
played just like lengthy puts, with
no break in the wrists as the club is
brought back. And the same grip
that is used on the putting green
the reverse overlap-is used by many
OF the stars. The old method of
playing those stroke-saving chip and
pitch shots was to play EN- Just like
any other iron shot, with wrist
break.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
mead Wild Open Ne,v Golfers Revising Short Game

OF error. The straight-line swing,
and now the idea that a chip or pitch
shot is played like long putt all are
intended to stop those little errors We
all fall into sometimes. It's easier
to play a chip shot like a long putt.
AS matter of fact the chip from a
level stance with no intervening OBJ
ject over which the ball must be
pitched is only long putt, in effect.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
Little Room for Mistakes,

"RUT the way the topnotchers play
EN- they don't leave much room
for mistakes. You won't find em
hitting behind the ball or topping it
if they play it with no wrist break"
Out there at Detroit therell be half
dozen leading advocates of the
straight-line swing: such men as
Picard, Horton Smith, Witty Cox and
few others. That swing also is
aimed at the idea of swinging the club
in straight line from back-swing to
follow through, with limitations i'm
posed by the necessary body turn.
But even the body turn is greatly re-
stricted nowadays by the stars. They
use their arms more and their body
less. Yep, the old game is changing.
It's becoming more mechanically per-
feet than it ever has been before.
Evening star., 1937-06-09
RIDER NETMEN AHEAD
Living Up to Expectations in
Title Tournament.

Title Tournament.
AS expected, Roosevelt is setting the
pace in the first interhigh singles
tennis tournament ever held, with
David johnson and Doyle Royal, its
No. l and 2 seeded entrants, both in
the semi-fnaS. Emanuel Nunez of
Western and Harry burst of Central
are the other survivors.
Both semi-final matches will be
played at the Monument courts to-
morrow, starting at 3 O'Clock. The
championship round is scheduled to
begin on the same hour Friday. John
sen defeated teammate, Mcneil So.
6-2, yesterday, while Royal conquered
Dalby of Western, 2-6, 6-4, 81.
burst defeated Burnside, 6-3, 3-6.
Ga. and Nunez tipped Bonham.
4-6. So, 6-4. Both of the latter
two losers were from Western.