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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-11
BANDITS GET
10000 PENNIES

CHICAGO, Feb. II. UP)-Machine
gun bandits held up VILLA mSzla-
us, railway express agency truck
driver, and seized bullying money
bag. We're in the money" chort-
led one as the trio staggered away
under the load of their loot. Off
Gals said the bag contained-10,000
pennies.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-11
AUTOS INDICTED
FOR GREAT LOSS

CHICAGO Feb 1.-THE National Safety Council said today that
sucked a nation rising from the
depths depression killed 900 1896 Americans
$3750O000oo Both figures alltime high totals.
employment and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-11
By HENRY SUTHERLAND

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. II. U.p) =
Dangling Gary Cooper filed his yen
for aerial coyote hunting under "un-
finished business" after shuddering
producers grounded him for dura-
ton of his current picture.
Cooper, who mas experienced all
kinds of shooting possible from the
ground has long nursed an ambi-
ton to HEDGEHOG after old man
coyote, banging away with swiv-
el-mounted shotgun.
A golden opportunity seemed to
offer when Robert Cummings, work
ing with him in Souls at Sea-
offered to pilot the expedition, and
the two were shopping for slow,
open-cockpit, pusher plane when
panicky Paramounties tossed in a
veto.
Hunt was to have been staged
over desert country southeast OF
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-11

plants which reported accident ex-
perience to it reduced their num-
her of accidents per one million
man-hours 10 per cent from 1885
to 1896.
The increase in deaths from
miscellaneous public accidents
(firearms, poisonings, asphyXla-
tions. drowningS, and catastrophe
weather conditions) was reported
to have been caused primarily
bv fatalities occurring in lorna
does last April in the southeas'
Evening star., 1937-09-07

ever since. Even where a union got
itself established. it should be en-
phasized that the legal right TO de-
stroy the union still lay with the
employer, and, if he chose to do so,
there was nothing but the economic
strength of the union to prevent him.
These armed truces often broke into
open conflict and sometimes the union
won and retained its standing and
sometimes it discovered that it had
challenged too powerful a foe and
was destroyed or driven underground
Many other employers, large and
small, made full use OF their legal
power to prevent their employees from
having a union. Often the technique
was to spy upon the efforts of the
men to unionize by planting stool
pigeons among them to report their
activities. A few well-directed dis
charges of the leading spirits would kill
OF the growing union. The other
employees and their wives and children
knew that the complete economic ruin
of discharge and blacklist would be
their lot unless they got out of the
Evening star., 1937-09-07

advising the country that this act was
not the law. I cannot recall that any
single piece of advice which they gave
in the course of 60-page brief was
right. AS I recall their legal score it
was perfect--a perfect zero. But the
fact that all that they said and wrote
turned out to be wrong. did not prevent
it from having a very serious effect.
1t helped to incitc volume of re-
sistance to the law which would never
have occurred had the normal legal
doctrine been followed, that an act Of
the Congress is presumed to be con-
Stitutional until the courts have de-
cided to the contrary. A large pro-
portion OF the employers against whom
the board proceeded applied for in
functions to halt the proceedings at
the threshold. before even a wsrd of
testimony had been taken as to the
merits of the cases. The United States
marshal honored the board with al
most daily visits to serve papers upon
the members charging them with be-
Evening star., 1937-09-07

II the denial of the freedom to or
ganize causes strikes then, If the Gov
eminent should protect that freedom.
the necessity for such strikes would
disappear, and the strikes with them.
The logic of this assumption seems
interchangeable, and nothing has oc-
CURED since the enactment of the
law to throw doubt upon the assump-
ton. Indeed, this law follows the
best traditions of preventive legisla-
ton. 1t was carefully thought out in
advance, upon the basis of logic and
experience. and considered and de-
bated through two sessions of Con-
gress. Those who sought its enact
ment and finally. in 1885, attained
that end had high hopes that spir-
itual and material benefits of great
Importance would follow 1t is fair
to ask on Labor day, 1897, whether
and to what degree those hopes have
been fulfilled, and what promise the
future seems to hold.
To answer these questions, it is nee
essary to review briefly the principal
events which have occurred in the ad-
ministration of the act. The Presi-
dent signed the act on July 5. 1895.
but the board which was to admin
lister the act was not appointed until
late in August Of that year. The
board has. then, been at work for
almost exactly two years. But the
law has not. in any real sense, been
in effect for two years.
The fundamental and far-reaching
objectives of the law made it neces-
sary that it be tested in litigation in
the Supreme Court of the United
States to ascertain whether the Gov
ernment could go so far to protect
American workers and American COM
merce. The board planned to move as
speedily as possible toward those tests.
But before any case had come before
the board a large committee of law
yers, which included many prominent
ones, published brief gratuitously
Evening star., 1937-09-07

amounted to an incitation to organi-
zation. Yet when workmen took these
incitations seriously and attempted to
organize and were economically ruined
by being discharged from their jobs
our legal system turned its back upon
them. 1t said, in effect, we invite and
incite you to emerge from your con-
dition of helplessness if you can muster
the power. We urge you to economic
warfare with its accompaniments of
disorder and disruption of community,
State and national well-being. But
the law will not lift a finger to assist
you to gain your freedom by peaceful
means.
Employers Interference.
Such was the strange condition of
the law before the enactment of the
national labor relations act. The
results, which the slightest use of the
imagination would have predicted. in
fact, occurred. Somewhere near one
half of all the strikes which beset the
Nation were caused by employers
interferences with labor's attempts at
self-organization or by their refusal
to recognize and negotiate with the
chosen representatives OF their en-
ployes.
These strikes, then, were strikes for
freedom, and were, like all struggles
for freedom, particularly bitter. They
destroyed the peace Of the community
and the commerce of the Nation.
When the smoke of battle had cleared.
after such major conflicts. congress
sional committee or a distinguished
industrial commission would be ap-
pointed, which would in due time
make report in which 1t would re-
affirm the necessity for labor organi-
cations. and condemn those who de-
MED this privilege But the law would
remain as before, that if employees
wanted freedom to organize they
could get it by fighting for it.
The national labor relations act
was based upon the assumption that
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union, and by and large, they got out
or stayed out. The conflict between
the brave or reckless ones who per-
sisted in asserting their desire for
organization, and the conservative or
timid ones. who were not willing to
take the ruinous risks was often bitter
Epithets such as "agitator" on the one
hand and "scab" on the other were
hurled. And the whole situation was
overshadowed by fear, for both sides
knew they had no legal protection,
that all the legal power lay with the
employer, and that their only recourse
was to the primitive and uncertain
remedy of self-help.
The anomaly existed that judges,
Congressman, economists, and all per-
sons acquainted with the facts were
constantly saying that the individual
workman is helpless in the modern
economic world. Such expressions
Evening star., 1937-09-07
ing trespassers and Intermediates and
seeking to enjoin them from doing

ing trespassers and intermeddlers and
seeking to enjoin them from doing
what they were appointed to do.
The boards lawyers succeeded in
winning practically all of these cases,
but in many of them the course of the
litigation was long and wearisome.
and by the time the board had extri-
Gated itself from these legal entangle-
ments and went back to pick up the
merits of the case nothing recogniz-
able remained Of the situation. Al
though the higher courts never had
any difficulty with this injunction
question, it took many decisions by
them to stop this flood of injunc-
ton suits, with its complete waste of
time and money.
Even in the cases where employers
did not attempt to enjoin or did not
succeed in enjoining the board from
holding hearings and obtaining evil
Continued on Page A-16.)
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Indianapolis Speedway
Ready for Ne,u Record

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. a.
The Indianapolis motor speedway
say racing experts. has been made
faster than ever since the 1886 Me-
mortal Day race.
Additional covering has been put
on the bricks so that virtually the
entire course now has smooth
surace by Which tires grip tenac-
iously.
Widening the turns and covering
the bricks at various points with a
special preparation last year had a
part in the record breaking victory
of Lou Meyer, who averaged 100 069
miles an hour in the 500-mile clas-
sic. The next four drivers to finish
all bettered the old mark.
Now. with the nome stretch
smoothed over and with the gasoline
imitation lifted, there is a good
chance of another speed record be-
ing set May 81, 1871. Since Me-
mortal day comes on Sunday this
year, the race will be run on the
Monday following.
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DIVORCE is
POSSIBLE,
NO MARRIAGE

SAN JOSE, Cal, Jan. 22.-Appear-
ing in court with three grown chill
dren to obtain divorce, Mrs. Catar-
ina Gerard, San Jose woman
learned for the first time that she
had never been married.
To the amazement Of all parties
concerned, investigation of the mar
riage license obtained by Giavanni
Gerard, husband of the woman, in
santa Cruz nineteen years ago, re-
vealed that neither the marriage IL
cense or affidavit had ever been
signed by minister.
The children-Mrs. Angela Man
cusco, eighteen, and Miss Virginia
Gerard, sixteen-testified that their
father beat their mother.
Superior Judge w. F. Ames ruled
that where there has been no mar
rage there can be no divorce, but
.,'ck The case under advisement.
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Sport

BIZ PAP

The fact that two years ago Dave
Sweeney Schriner of the New
York Americans was named the out
standing rookie of the National
Hockey League failed to jinx the
youngster from Calgary. He came
right back last season to lead the
leagues high scorers with As points
This is Schriners third year with
the Americans and it looks very
much as though he is on his way
to make good the predictions that
he is destined to become one of the
greatest left wingers in hockey.
There are plenty of Schringer sup
porters who insist that he already
rates with the greatest portsiders.
The king of the National League
marksmen has improved steadily as
he has picked up needed experience
in the major league.
The fact that opposing defense
men are laying for Schringer, has
only served to inspire the young
ster to greater heights. He must
have anticipated a warm reception
for he reported at training camp
with a new, tricky shift that his OPP
ponents have failed to solve with
any success. This shift, particular
/ y effective because it enables Schri-
ner to come within couple of feet
of the defensemen before hopping
off and leaving them flat-footed,
is one of the sensations of the new
season. The lads may discover the
secret of this tricky movement
but by that time you can depend on
Schriner to have a new stunt up his
sleeveless always one jump ahead
of the field.
Schriner is a master of the art of
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ERIE and NAVY
WIN FINAL PIN
DUELS AT ELKS
Art Henning, Elliott, Dele
becque, Mrs. Reynolds
Luminaries of Evening

Coming through with a sprint,
Art Henning broke into the front
ranks of the bowlers again last
night at the Elks, as Erie wound
up its schedule by taking the de-
Gliding game from Alaska, repre-
scented in its final contest only by
Eta Mae Kolasa, by three pins.
Henning's top total was SGT. The
second match saw Louis Delebecque,
unfolding alone the might of Min
nesota. go down to an odd game
defeat before Drake, despite his
marks of I'll and 557, both of which
won place honors for the night.
Jack Elliott's top 22e was the big
factor in brakes win, though Mrs.
Percy Reynolds played a large part,
leading the ladies with SIG. In the
final, the Navy closed its season
with the colors of the fleet riding
high, as the result of two out of
three game win over Susquehana.
In the next to last session of the
present tourney tonight, six confer
ence squads for the last time give
their all for Alma Mater.
Princeton engages Vanderbilt at
1880; Cornell meets Richmond at
$50; and NIT. opposes Drake at
$50 O'Clock. Last nights scores
were
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EXPERTS warn
TOM L0UCHRAN
TO LEAVE RING
Thirty-four Year Old Star
Has Slipped NO Speed
Left Is Claim

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22.-Tom-
my Loughran. the erstwhile dane
ing master of Philadelphia and
one-time light-heavyweight cham
pion of the world, should retire!
That was the opinion of Pacific
Coast boxing experts after watch
ing Loughran in his recent ten
round bout with Sonny Boy Walker,
The promising young heavyweight
from Phoenix, Ariz.
Walker, who was in his cradle
when Loughran first started to
climb the fistic heights, put Lough-
ron ~ the canvas twice, took seven
rounds and the decision, easily. 1t
was case of youth conquering age
Loughran, now thirty-four, is still
a crafty boxer-but crafty boxer
without speed is lost.
While Walker was giving Lough-
ran a lacing, Loughran's seconds
kept yelling:
No Speed
Faster, Tommy, faster . come
on, more speed :"
But, Loughran couldn't produce
the speed. At the end of the fight
he was very CORY sight, with blood
flowing freely from a cut under his
right eve and from his mouth
Should Loughran accept the adj
vice of the experts and retire. he
can look back over colorful career
that stamped him as the ringmaster
with more speed and cleverness thar
any other light heavyweight in the
game-before 1887
The experts are convinced that
the Loughran of yesteryear woulc
have toyed with Walker.
Who is Walker?
May be Contender
Many fans may soon ask thai
question for one or two reasons
One reason might be that he con
WINGED Loughran that he should re-
tire. Another possible reason is thai
Walker himself may soon rank al
contender for the heavyweight
crown.
Walker, who cleaned up on all
heavyweights in Arizona before
moving into California to seek big
ger and better game, has licked Sa-
voldi twice here and has also trim
med Andre Lenglet, who is called
the heavywe ig h t champion of
France. Walker tips the scales at
203 pounds.
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Congress are convinced that silirk-
ers ultimately will have to be
squeezed off WPA rolls by hard
nosed administrators. Two senators
from neighboring western states
we're comparing notes on the hum
dreds of WPA workers and ex-work-
ers who had laid complaints before
them during the summer. One Sena-
tor estimated so a day had called
at his office throughout the sum-
mer. Investigations disclosed, ne
said, that many. although not all,
were individuals who never had
worked regularly even in flush
times.
One Senator candidly agreed that
the nature of the complaints had
not changed in the past year but
that his own attitude toward them
had. He thought it was time to put
the pressure on unemployed to get
jobs in industry, as well as time
for industry to supply more jobs
for unemployed.
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PROS SHIFT GRID
STARS WITH LUCK

NEW YORK, Jan. z2.-Converting
players from one position to anoth-
er has worked out for the best in
at least three instances in the Ma
tional Football League John Del
Isola, a center at Fordham and
last year with the New York Giants,
was put at guard post late last
season and is now one of the best
in the circuit at that position.
The same is true of Buckets Col
llenberg, Green Bay Packers, shift
ed from fullback to guard, and Del
bert Ritchhart, guard and end with
Colorado University and now center
on the Detroit Lions.
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U. WASHINGTON,
OREGON STATE
CLASH TONIGHT
Important Games Are to Be
Played in NV. Pacific
Conference

SEATTLE, Jan. 22.-Victorious in
their opening conference competi-
ton, the University of Washington
basketball team will meet the Ore
gen State college quint tonight and
tomorrow in Seattle.
By winning both games of the
Idaho series the Huskies became the
only undefeated team in the con-
ference. Oregon and Washington
State split their series, while the
Cougars won both games from Ore
gon State.
The Idaho series proved that the
Huskies have a long way to go be-
fore they reach the scoring ability
of past Washington teams. In the
first game against Idaho only "a
points were scored by the Purple
and Gold hoopsters, and it took ex-
ceptional defensive play to keep the
idaho score to II.
Tough Competition
In practice during the past week,
a team of reserves has been giving
the first string of Loverich, Cannon,
Voelker, Egge, and Captain Wagner,
the toughest of competition. Last
years freshman team forms the
basis of the reserves, with Harry
Lockhart and Bob Door at forwards,
and George Ziegenfuss and Pat Dor
sey at guards. Ross Warner, var
sity letterman, fills the center spot
The Beavers will miss their spark
plug CT the last three seasons, Wally
Palmberg, who last Syear set new
northern division scoring record
The Oregon State lineup will prob
ably include Merryman, Conklin,
and futile, all with varsity exper-
fence. Elmer Kolberg, foot A.
inch football fullback, has made a
successful fight for guard posi-
ton, and Howard Lyman, sopho-
more, will be Kolberg's running
mate.
Foxy Mentor
Teams coached by Stats Gill are
always feared by Washington, as the
foxy oregon State mentor is always
cooking up something new in bas-
ketball strategy His greatest coup
was staged here last year in the
Olympic Games tryouts, when his
second place Northern Division team
defeated the conference champions
from Stanford.
Northwest fans still remember
that game, and how Gill outsmarted
Coach Bum of Stanford. Knowing
his team could not keep pace with
the speedy, tall, shaip-shooting In
dams, Coach Gill gave directions to
freeze the ball whenever his boys
got it. Thus the Oregon State team
drove the Indians frantic, by passing
the ball around without attempting
to score After six minutes of score
less play the Beavers suddenly drove
in to score, and the continuation of
this waiting for the breaks" brand
of basketball won the game for Ore
gon State.
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MARCUM, RED SOX
HURLER, MARRIES

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. Coon
Struction of an annex on Johnny
Marcum's farm house near Emf
nece, KY, was explained when the
Boston Red Sox pitcher and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Wilcox, his fiancee
for ten years, were married, De-
cember 80, at Jeffersonville, Ind.
Johnny and his bride will remain
on the farm until the latter part
OF February, when he will depart
for the Red Sox' training headquar-
tiers at Sarasota, Fla.
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changing pace. To certain de-
gree his unusual skating ability
comes naturally, but he is more than
Just a fine skater-he is a real stu
dent of the game.
Gets His Rest
Even in the oIf-seaSon SchrineT
lays the groundwork for the winter
campaign. The hockey season Is a
long and arduous one, SO Schriner
takes a rest, combining his sum-
mer efforts to fishing and golf
Two many hockey players, accord
ing to Schriner, work hard in the
off season with the result that they
return to the hockey wars almost
as worn physically as when they
quiet at the end of the previous sea-
son.
Don't get the impression from
Schriner's great scoring record that
he is merely a fine individual play
er. He is not, for when it comes
to working with his teammates
there isn't a more willing worker
in the league. The great success
the Americans enjoyed early this
season was largely due to the fact
that opposing defensemen beat
themselves by concentrating on try
ing to stop Schriner. That made it
perfect for the rest of the team to
put over winning scores And it was
Schriner who took advantage of the
situation to set up shots for his team
mates.
The surprising form shown by
the Americans in their early season
ice battles has been the talk of the
National League circuit. The team
started the season working under
the handicap of not knowing exact
ly where the club stood in the mat
ter of franchise or who was or
who might be heading the club
The clubs business affairs were in
badly muddled state, but that
didn't stop the lads from going out
at the opening bell and giving an
excellent account of themselves.
The sign on the blackboard in the
Americans dressing room indicates
the spirit of the team. 1t says:
Boys, the news for the 1936-37
reads the same: Keep punching
and hardp"
Cornell Comes Back
For 40 years Frank Sheehan, vet
eran trainer of the Cornell football
squad, has sat on the bench and
watched his charges battle the Red
and Blue of Pennsylvania on
Thanksgiving day. The rugged de-
Tense which the young eleven from
ithaca put up against the veteran
Penn State team this year warmed
Sheehan's heart. 1t promised great
things for future. Turkey day games
on Franklin field, Cornell definite
ly is on the way back.
Sheehan has been on the Cornell
bench every year since 1897, but his
association with Cornell athletics
dates back much farther than that.
His father was janitor at the Old
Amory Cornell's gymnasium, in
Franks youth. In 1886 he helped
his father lay out the first Cornell
football field. He witnessed the
first intercollegiate grid game Cor
nell played the following year. He
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LEWIS KNOCKS
ART SYKES OUT
IN ROUND SIX
Oh pic n Light Heavy
weight Wins His Bout
Easily Last Night

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. %. =
John Henry Lewis, of Pittsburgh
light heavyweight champion, won
easily last night over Art Sykes
Chicago light heavyweight.
Lewis scored a knockout in the
sixth round of the r1atch scheduled
to go ten rounds.
Lewis weighed 1856 pounds and
Sykes tipped the scales at 18e
pounds.
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TROJAN SKATERS
LEADING FIELD

YOSEMITE, Cal, Jan. 22.-Uni-
versity of Southern California was
headed apparently for another
championship in the eight annual
Pacific Coast intercollegiate winter
games. The Trojans present hold
ers of the President Hoover trophy,
defeated the U. c. L. A. Bruins hook
ey team, 7 to 2.
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FOREIGN-BORN

-Four gridders in the National Pre-
League were born outside the U. s.
Ace Gutowsky, Detroit, was born in
Novotny, Russia; Buckets Golden
berg, Green Bay, Odessa, Russia
Phil Sarboe, Brooklyn, in Alaska,
and Harry Field, Chicago Cardinals
in Honolulu.
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PuCCine|Ii Back
With Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Mr., JAN 22:-Out-
fielder George Puccinelli is back
with the Baltimore International
League Orioles from whom he was
drafted year ago by the Phila-
delphia Athletics The AS sold him
back to the Orioles for cash, with
out any other players being involv-
ed.