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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-02-18

Roy SIGHTING and Lola Snyder were
married yesterday by Justice of the
Peace Haigler. The many friends of
the young couple are extending con-.
gratulations and best wishes for them
in their married life.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-02-18
Commercial Club Meeting Postponed.

NUIIiIlFfEEHI NiuH IIEEtAIIE UoEPUIIEu@
Elmer Switzer ST. president of the
Libby Commercial Cub, announces that
the monthly meeting of the club that
was to have been held tonight has
been postponed until next Tuesday
night, Feb. %. Please bear in mind the
change of date.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
China
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and along hilly roads toward heavily
| fortified Chinese positions at Nankow
Pass. The japanese reported their
warplanes were bombing Chinese
| troops near Kalgan to halt all advance
into Hopei.
AS the columns moved through
Peiping, two American photographers
were beaten on the head and jostled to
| prevent them from taking pictures.
They were Sheridan Fahnestock, 23-
year-old New Yorker, and Bonny
Powell, news reel camera man. jap
anese news photographers and news
reel camera men were permitted to
take pictures without objection.
Fahnestock was beaten on the head
| by japanese while attempting to
| photograph cheering japanese
crowd near the Italian Embassy. Pow
ell was showed and pushed about to
prevent his taking pictures of motor
lied column moving through the city.
Japanese officers, reservists and civil
ians ganged up on Powell while SOL
diers mounted on passing tanks leveled
their rifles at his camera.
The Japanese desisted from their
attacks only when an Italian guard
was ordered out to protect their En-
bassy gates.
Two japanese Army columns
marched steadily closer to central gov
ernment troops south of the ancient
dragon capital
Gen. Chiang's declaration before
Chinas educators reiterated his stand
Of two weeks ago, when he told them
China was prepared to face the worst"
in the North China hostilities with
Japan.
The strong man" acknowledged
overwhelming handicaps in the strug-
gle, but declared Marking was
"swamped with nationwide indica-
tions" Of a determination to resist
further japanese encroachment.
He said the spontaneous response"
indicated a unified China stood behind
the governments position, from which
there Is no turning back
The government has plans, he said,
which Il believe will enable us to
strike effectively when the time to
show our hand has arrived"
American missions in North China
which missionaries feared might be
| obliterated if the crisis spreads are
those of Catholic, Methodist, Presby-
terian and Adventist Churches and
the American Board of Missions.
| Schools whose existence were be-
lieved endangered included the Rookie
feller-Pekin Union Medical College
Catholic University and Yenching Uni
versity. In Hopei Province alone
American missionary property includes
81 hospitals and 1852 churches.
Rockefeller Pekin administrators
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Mrs. Witherspoon Leaves
$1,000 to Care for Cdnaries

In an unusual will filed today In
District Court, Mrs. Eleanor E. Wither-
spoon, widow of a wealthy patent at
torney, left some 100000 Of her es-
tate, tentatively valued at 100000, to
the Smithsonian Institution and set
up a $1,000 trust fund for care of
her pet canaries.
Mrs Witherspoon, who resided at
1855 Euclid street, died July rs in
Atlantic City.
Apparently entertaining great af-
lection for animals, she provided in
her will that none of the money left
to the Smithsonian should be used
for collecting birds or animals, dead
or alive, or for purposes of vivisection." ="
One thousand dollars was bequeathed
to the Washington Loan e. Trust Co.,
the executor of the will, in trust. the
income to be used "for the care of any
pet canary birds or any other pet"
which Mrs. Witherspoon had at her
death She requested that "the GUS
tody of said pets be given to some one
who can give them intelligent care
and who already loves them"
At the death Of the last of the pets
the trust fund will be divided equally
between the Washington Humane So
ciety and the Washington Animal
Rescue League
Evening star., 1937-08-05

Numerous bequests were made to
friends and relatives, most OF them out
of the city:
The largest was 100000 trust fund
for the benefit OF Mrs. Anna Frances
Poole Bush, cousin, who lived with
Mrs. Witherspoon.
At Mrs Bushs death three -fifths of
the trust fund will 90 to the American
Red Cross and two-fifths to the Sal
vation Army.
Mrs. Witherspoon directs that her
executor, the Washington Loan &
Trust Co., after paying the numerous
bequests. turn over the residue to the
Smithsonian Institution to establish a
fund known as the Thomas A. Wither-
spoon Memorial, $4,000 trust fund
for the benefit of Mrs Witherspoon's
two sisters-in law, Martha H. Wither-
spoon and Fanny w. Witherspoon.
After that the fund will be turned over
to the town Of Gallatin. Tenn, and the
income used for educational loans. A
similar $4,000 educational fund was
left to the cit Of Fulton, N Y
The Florence Crittenton Mission
Home, 4759 Conduit road, was left
IS 5000
The will was filed by Attorney Leon
ard Marbury.
Evening star., 1937-08-05

pessimistically pointed to the fate Of
the Mukden Medical College when
Japan conquered Manchuria. They
said the college was rendered inef-
fective by japanese persecution which
drove out competent doctors and
others" Doctors of the institution feel
that their college is destined to a SINH
lar fate and that, sooner or later, they
will be found guilty of anti-Japanism
or whatever other offenses the Japa-
nese desire to allege"
On the Shanghai American Emer-
eency Committee were specialists in
communication, transportation, food
supply. medicine. housing and registra-
ton.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
CLOCK GIVES UP

to Get New Hands.
NEW YORK, August (P.-Madi-
son Squares town clock, the three
story-tall timepiece on the twenty-sixth
floor of the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance tower, which the company claims
is the largest four-sided clock in the
country, has been out of kilter for the
past nine days.
After % years of telling the time
it dropped its hands in WEAKNESS. A
new set of eight hands is being forged
in Brooklyn and will be installed soon
the company announced today.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Cartoons Educate.

Colored cartoons are used by
to induce rural COM
to construct water systems
and bring running water into the
home.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Raid
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Continued From First Page)
cation in the woods near the cottage,
which is located at 1927 Battery lane,
in a flrst-class residential neighbor-
hood.
Two More Seized.
This morning at about 10 o'clock two
other men who drove up in an auto
mobile were arrested and the car
seized. Agents said the machine con-
tanned supplies for the distillery. The
pair gave their names as Nick Magau-
lis, 43, and Joe Hodgens, 3S, both of
Washington. The agents said all four
men will be arraigned on charges of
possession and operation of an illicit
distillery and possession of untaxed
whisky.
The agents seized l40 gallons of
white moonshine whisky such as was
manufactured in large quantities dur
ing prohibition. The whisky was con-
tained in five-gallon tins and had
been loaded in an expensive new closed
truck when the raiders arrived.
The big copper boiler of the dis
tillery was located on the second floor.
1t was fired by three gas burners fed
from a pipe that had been tapped
on the gas line behind the meter.
Pipes ran from the boiler to the con-
densers in another room on the same
floor, while the attic was filled with
five 1,000-gallon vats for the fermen-
tation Of mash.
Supplies Destroyed.
The agents drained off 1000 GAL
Ions of mash made from wheat bran
and sugar.
This afternoon the raiders chopped
open the whisky cans with axes,
smashed the distillery. condensers and
mash vats and destroyed 1000 pounds
Of sugar found on the premises.
The Federal raiders estimated that
the distillery had been in operation
for at least month and had produced
from three to five thousand gallons of
untaxed whisky during that time The
elaborate equipment was installed by
experts, according to Federal men who
have been chopping down Illicit stills
for years.
Evening star., 1937-08-05
Safety
Continued From First Page J

'SoliIlilACd olll IdSt.)
liable in apprehension of drunken driv-
ers and otherwise aid in solving traffic
problems.
I'VE are out to educate the driving
public again, Edwards said, but along
what lines our program will be de-
veloped is uncertain Just now"
Loose Interpretation of the traffic
laws, it was revealed at yesterdays
meeting, has been a factor in a ma
jorlty of the accidents here this year,
which so far have resulted in "a
deaths, Is more than for the same
period last year.
chart compiled by Van Duzer
showed that during the first half of
this year highway mishaps have in
creased approximately 40 per cent over
the same period a year ago.
The outstanding danger area" is
IN the second precinct, the chart re-
vealed, where, from January through
June, II per cent rise in accidents
was noted. The first precinct has
been the safest" so far this year, with
an 8 per cent increase in accidents
being recorded. Not single precinct,
1t was emphasized, reported decrease
IN mlshaps over the siX-month period.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen, who
presided at the safety session, said
monthly meetings would be held until
the citys accident record showed
marked improvement.
After the meeting Commissioner
Ha5en appointed committee, headed
by Van Duzer and composed of In
spector W. E. Holmes and Capt. Arthur
Miller, third precinct commander, to
analyZe the discussion and draft rec
concentrations.
Receives Protest Letter.
As result of the most recent traffic
fatality here, that of Richard Levy, 4
Of 1929 Twenty-eighth street, who was
run down Tuesday near his home, Var
Du1er yesterday received a protest
letter from Chester j. Mcclure, a resi-
dent OF the neighborhood in which
the accident occurred.
MCGUIRE pointed out that no action
had been taken when about a yeal
ago residents of the 1900 block o1
Twenty-eighth street sent the traffic
director petition urging that Twenty.
eighth street be limited to one way
parking, due to its narrowness.
In his letter, MCGUIRE said Var
Duzer had advised that a one-way
parking regulation would not be pro-
mulgated because of limited parking
space in the vicinity land the re-
sultant inconvenience to residents
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
MALONEY HEADS
PLAYOFF SERIES

Commissioner Walter H. Ma
loney, of the National Bituminous
Coal Commission, has been elected
president of the organization that
will stage the playoff series among
the winners of all the amateur
baseball leagues in the District of
Columbia.
. The tentative name of this new
organization is the National Capt.
tai Baseball Federation.
Other officers elected we're
Judge Edward M. Curran, of the
Police Court, vice president;
George Riley, executive secretary;
Chris Heurich, jr., treasurer; Mike
Sklar, recording secretary, and
John F. Maragon, public relations.
Delegates from each league
will act as the board of directors
of this new group. They are
Stanley ]. Tracey, U. S. Govern
ment League; William Flester,
Industrial League; Roland Tabb,
Bankers League; Vic Gauzza,
Departmental League, National
Capital League and Federal
League: George D. Riley, Herald
Government League: Mike Sklar,
Sports Center League: and Mar
shall Finnan, assistant director,
National Park Service.
The rules and bylaws com
mittee lines up with Roland
Tabb, William FleSter and Vic
Gauzza, while the schedule
committee is composed of John
Moran, jr., Stanley Tracey, Will
liam FleSter and Vic Gauzza.
Clark Griffith, Joe Judge and
Arch Mcdonald. have been
asked to serve on the board Of
arbitration, to settle various dis
putes that may crop up in the
playoff series.
The next meeting of the or
ganization will be staged Wednes-
day night in the offices of the
Bureau of Investigation.
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
COAST STARS IN
PUBL|NX FINALE

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IA.
Two buddies of Southern Cali
fornia golfdom-City Fireman
Bruce Mccormick, of Los Angeles,
and Gas Meter Reader Don Erick-
son, of Alhambra-meet today in
the 36-hole final of the sixteenth
annual amateur public links cham
pionship of the United States Golf
Association.
Mccormick entered the final
by eliminating Andy Szwedko, the
Pittsburgh pipe cutter, S and 4.
Szwedko started with a bang and
held the lead until the twelfth
hole. After that, Mccormick was
never headed, the match ending
on the thirty-Second green.
Erickson conquered Frank To-
ronto, the Sacramento, Cal, beer
truck driver, 4 and 8, in the other
semifinal match.
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
FIVE US. BOXERS
IN EXPO TOURNEY

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. l4.-South
American amateur boxers, here
for the Pan-American Exposition
bouts, today we're in position to
carry off the honors of the three
nights of fighting. The finals will
be tonight.
When the second nights
matches ended, the South Ameri-
cans had won 16 victories and the
United States only six. Qualifiers
for the finals included five from
the United States, seven from
Argentina and three from Uru-
quay.
The Friday night results were:
11S-POUND CLAss-Leonardo Guile,
Argentina, decisioned Fidel Tricanico.
Uruguay.
1sS-PoUND CLAss-Justo Lozada.
Argentina, decisioned Edgar Walling,
Detroit: Charles Miegel, Lincoln. Neb.,
IS5-PoUND CLAss-Joseph Kelly. Nat
locke, Pa, decisoned Amelio Piceda,
i4TPOUND CLAss-salvador Bonano,
Argentina, decisioned Jose Garcia. Uru-
quay.
160-POUND CLASS-Francisco Cos
tanzo. Uruguay decisioned Ted Cerwin,
Detroit: jose Marterell, Argentina, de-
cisioned Joe Maths. Charleroi. Pa.
175-POUND CLASS-Francisco Risigli-
one, Argentina, knocked out James Will
liams, Anderson. w. Va. ~: Joseph
Tierney, Cincinnati, decisioned Antonio
Dos Santos, Brazil.
HEAVYWEIGHT CLAsS-Carlos Mere
duz Argentina, knocked out Babe
Richie, Lubbock, Tex. (); Bernardo
Mortimer De Vicenzi, Uruguay. deci-
stoned Frank cubic, Charleroi, Pa.
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
RECORDS CRASH
IN CIRCUIT MEET
At GOSHEN OVAL

GOSHEN, N, Y, Aug. 14.-Three
new trotting records were put in
the book today as the annual
Grand Circuit meeting drew to .
close.
In the Progressive Stake, with .
$500 purse, Calumet Evelyn.
driven by Ben White. and Rosa
lind, 1886 Hambletonian winner.
established a record for a three
heat split race. Rosalind took the
first heat in 2:01, and Calumet
Evelyn swept through the next two
in 2:00A and 2:001a.
In the $1,000 Goshen pace, Do
minion Grafton, owned by Paul
Bowser, ston, established a
fourth-heat record by pacing the
mile in 200 flat, marking out the
2:02 record. established II years
ago by Margaret Dillon.
The Hollywood Stake found Mr..
Watt winning the event in straight
heats, trotting the final in 2:00H.
within a half second of the world
record for 3-year-olds. In winning
the $1,000 purse, Mr.. Watt estab-
lished a new world record for three
heats by a 3-year old trotter.
The trotter, Calumet Dubuque,
owned by Mrs. Florence Dibble, Of
Newburyport, Mass, in an exhibit.
ton run, covered the mile in
2:061a, the second fastest mile
ever trotted under the saddle.
In the first heat Of the pro-
gressive stake, E. Roland Harri.
man, well-known sportsman, had
a narrow escape from serious in
jury, when his trotter. Friscomite.
pulled to one side, smashing into
another sulky. Although both
drivers and horses went down, all
escaped injury.
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
BRUINS SERIOUS.
i'm BATTLING FOR.
LEAGUE BUNTING.
By LAYTON CARVER

NEW YORK. Aug. 14.-Ap-
parently the Chicago Cubs are
serious about this business of win
ming the National League pennant
and, also quite apparently. the
Yankee s-who have all but
clinched the American League title
are not invincible after all.
You can take the two clubs in
that order today and discover that
the Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds
yesterday by % to 6, making 81
hits and capitalizing on eight
errors. The only consolation the
Reds got out of the ball game was
glimpse of Pitcher Parmelee, OF
the Cubs, headed for the showers
in the second inning.
But after they knocked him out
the aged Charlie Root had every.
thing pretty much his own way
the rest of the route.
MAKE THREE HITS
AS for the Yankees, they made
a grand total of three hits off a
couple of infant twirlers named
Lee Ross and Edgar Smith of the
Philadelphia Athletics. Ross, who
is % years old and a highlander,
allowed all three hits, including a
homer by Lazzeri. Smith, a "a
year-old Highlander, pitched hit
less ball through the last two
innings, and with that the AS won
by 4 to 3.
However, the Yanks remained
111a games in front Of the Boston
Red Sox, who lost to the Washing
ton Senators, 3 to o, and he
Detroit Tigers, who beat the St.
Louis Browns, z to s, and climbed
into a second-place tie with the
Red Sox. This dropped the Chi
cago White Sox, who were beaten
by Cleveland, 7 to 3, into fourth
place. Appleton pitched the Sena-
tors Shutout.
BEAT PHILLTES
The Giants remained six and
one-half games behind the Cubs
in the National League race, beat
ing the Philadelphia Phillies by
5 to 0 as Carl Hubbell scored his
sixteenth victory, tanning nine
and scattering six hits.
The st. Louis Cardinals trimmed
the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 to l, and
the Boston Bees, with Lou Fette
on the mound, beat the Brooklyn
Dodgers by 5 to 2.
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
STAR RECEIVER
ALSO MANAGES
bean EATERS"
Catcher Slugs Ball
For 500 Average
BY SID KATZNELL

Boston must be given serious
consideration in the Union Print
ers International Baseball Tourna-
ment, which gets underway Mon
day, August IS, and will run until
August 81 at Clark Griffith's ball
emporium. You know, the New
Englanders reached the finals last
year before bowling to Chicago, and
they are still directed by that fiery
italian catcher, Julio Santo. who
was voted the best receiver in the
Chicago tournament.
Santo has had quite a baseball
career. He was educated in the
Boston public schools. Julio caught
on the championship Commerce
High School team in 1921 and
1922.
CAUGHT HADLEY
After graduating from Com
merce he entered MercerSburg
Academy where he Immediately be,
came first-string backstopper and
battery mate of Irving Bump
Hadley, who Is now q prominent
member of the champion New
York Yankees. Santo was on the
receiving end of the 26 strikeoutG
Bump" pitched in the last game
of the 1924 season.
Since joining the Boston typo
aggregation, Santo fired the
Bean Town" boys with spirit anc
has contributed greatly to the re
cent success of the Boston club.
At the 1885 Cleveland tourna
ment of the typos, Julio led the
Boston club to third place in thu
final standings.
RARE ACHIEVEMENT
This was rare achievement in
deed, because the Boston club
spent q number Of years in the
cellar. In this tournament, Santc
was awarded the Springmeye1
Medal, symbolic of the most
valuable-player award. Along with
this honor, Santo topped all bat
tiers with a 500 average.
Santo is 81 years old, bats right
hand, and still has a lot of stuff
left in the old throwing arm.
Sunday night the executive
board of the Union Printers base
ball committee will gather at the
Wardman Park Hotel and map out
the schedule for the tournament
Five games will be played each
day starting at II a. m. Detroit
Chicago, st. Paul, st. Louis
Indianapolis, Cincinnati. Pitts
burgh, New York, Boston, Balti.
more and Washington are the
cities represented in the printers
baseball classic.
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
BRITISH CHAMP
SHOWS FETTLE
IN DAILY DRILLS
Crouch Style May
Upset the Bomber
By DAVIS J. WALSH


International News Service Sports Editor
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-From
something that started out as a
piccolo solo, the Louis-Farr fight
suddenly began making a noise
like a calliope today. with appar-
emily better than fair chance Of
finishing behind a band wagon in
the IL days remaining before the
young men begin hopping each
other in the ring at the Yankee
Stadium. Oddly, Louis, the cham
pion, isn't the answer this time.
It's being furnished by Farr, the
British Empire challenger for the
heavyweight title.
He seems so sure he's right that
he's got everybody guessing and
moreover, after talking a superb
prize fight for the first few weeks
over here, he's now beginning to
behave like one. He gave a pretty
good show two days ago at Long
Branch; so good, in fact, that a
lot of people are prattling now
about the possibility of a great
upset on the night Of the twenty
sixth.
Naturally, Promoter Jacobs
would very much like to- have this
sort Of thing continue and, in
fact, gain momentum with the
passing days!
GET SERIOUS
So he weighed in this morning
with statement that, if the writ
ing boys really want to get seri-
ously impressed with Farr, they
would do well to eye him very mar.
rowly during the next ten days.
"He's ready now to really be.
gin pitching" says Mr.. Jacobs.
This isn't just promotion chat
ter. The guy has been a good
fighter all along and now he's
going to prove it."
Admitting the possibility that
maybe by this time Jacobs is even
beginning to believe himself and
conceding that he has more than
just a friendly interest in the
Louis camp, the fact is that the
latter seems to be taking the Brit
ish champion far more seriously
than anybody expected.
COUNTER WITH RIGHT
They've even been working on
Joseph about those left hooks of
his, the idea being that crouchers
like Farr and Schmeling are likely
to slip lead like that and counter
with a right, full upon the visage.
Schmeling did it and knocked
Louis flatter than job of paving.
Farr could do it and maybe go Is
rounds or even steal the show. the
decision and the title. Even Brad
dock, a stand-up fighter, was able
to do it in Chicago, scoring a
flash in the first minute of play.
So they're telling Louis to lead
with a snappy straight left, which
would be and is quite all right,
except for this: Louis hasn't got
a snappy straight left.
The Washington times., 1937-08-14

~N-ASN' 46TI G"0OSJS 4GV5
Burning Star, III; Gosum, 112,
and Up and Doing, 112, compose
the field and none of them, al
though possessed of class and
speed, can be remotely COM
pared with War Admiral or
Pompoon in quality.
The smallness Of the field and
the absence of topflight stars in
this years TraverS is disap'
pointment, although a good fight
can be anticipated, since none
of the quintet shapes up as a
standout. making it an open con-
test.
Melodist. winner Of the Wood
The Washington times., 1937-08-14

Memorial Stakes which preceded
the Kentucky Derby, has proved
a sharp disappointment in his
subsequent engagements and his
124-pound topweight assignment
today may be detrimental to his
chances over the long mile and
a quarter unless he shows sud-
den return to best form.
Suffolk Downs, in Boston,
coming to the end of its meet
ing, gives away a $4,000 added
money purse in the headlined
Constitution Handicap today.
Continued on Page IL, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-08-14
Kirk Miller
SPORTS EDITOR
Says

Light weekend reading,
and midsummer literature:
The boys are whispering
about two or three of the
recent knockouts at Grit
fifth Stadium.
Jack Reno, the erstwhile
heavyweight who looked like
Dempsey, but that was all, is
ambitious to become a local
referee.
Looks like Irish Johnny Dean is
being built up for a crack here at
Lou Ambers in the very near fu-
ture.
Rob Roy Mackey returns to
Southeast Washington this week
end from q Sojourn to the sands
of Rehoboth Beach. He retired
from the Navy Yard a year ago
and has been at the seashore for
a rest"