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Evening star., 1937-08-30
MATTERN FAILS
T0LOCATE FLYERS
Attempts to Contact Polar Airmen
in Substratosphere
Flights.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
JUNEAU, Alaska, August 3O.-Res-
cue pilots and Soviet government rep
7 resentatives refused to give up hope
for the six missing Russian transpolar
alrmen today. despite failure of
Jimmie Mattern to contact the flyers
IN two substratosphere flights.
Mattern, American airman, climbed
to $4,000 and $4,000 feet Yesterday in
the hope special radio equipment he
carried would pick up signals from
Sieismund Levaneffsky's lost plane He
may try again today.
Today flyers who have made aerial
surveys over most of the northern
territory for the plane. turned their
ships into 'sky ferries" to carry gaso-
! line supplies to various bases Of opera
tions.
Pilot Noel Wien planned several
nights from Fairbanks to ferry 1900
gallons of gasoline to Old Crow. There
the fuel was to be picked up by
Canadian Pilot Bob Randall and fer
ried to Aklavik for Sir Hubert Wilkins
and other searching pilots.
A. Vartanian. Soviet representative,
said $500 gallons of gasoline were
taken up the Porcupine River from
Fort Yukon to Old Grow and that
' Pilot King Baird will help transport
1t to Aklavik
Wilkins last night was reported at
Patrick Island awaiting improved
weather.
The Russian representative expressed
confidence wilkins trip in quest of
the lost flyers will not be in vain.
Reports from Barrow said the So
Wet ice breaker Krassin which has
participated in the search, was dam
aged by ice in the Bering Sea and
was making for the Siberian shore
for repairs.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
VIRGINIA CLERIC,
DR.. SMOOT, DEAD
Norfolk Pastor Was One Of
Leaders of Methodist Con-
terence in Old Dominion.
? the Associatad prss

- the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, August 3O.-Rev.
Thomas Arthur Smoot D. D., 66, one
OF the leading clergymen in the Vir-
glnla Methodist Conference and pastor
OF Epworth Church in Norfolk, died
yesterday In Norfolk General Hospital
after an illness of several weeks.
Funeral services will be conducted
at Epworth Church this afternoon at
o'clock with the following officiating
ministers: Rev. William Archer
Wright, D. D., presiding elder of the
Norfolk district, Rev. Frank L. Wells,
D. D., pastor of Park Place Methodist
Church, Norfolk, and Rev. Sparks w.
Melton. D. D., pastor of Freemason
Street Baptist Church, Norfolk. In
terment will be in Wilmington, N. c.,
tomorrow.
DR.. Smoot was born in Oln, N. c.,
March 6, 1871, the son of James
Franklin Smooth and Mrs. Virginia
Brittineham Smoot. He received his
A. B. degree at Trinity College (now
Duke University. Durham, N. c., in
Aooo. AAAS bOSbOl Ol QlNlnlCV WAS
awarded by Randolph Macon College
in 1912.
In the year following his gradua-
ton from Trinity College, DR.. Smoot
served as headmaster of the Trinity
On. c. High School. He was or
dalned in 1900 as a minister in the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Between 1900 and 1910, DR.. Smoot
was pastor of Methodist churches in
Fayetteville, Durham and Wilmington,
N. c. Then came his transfer to the
, Virginia Conference and the first
Norfolk Epworth Church assignment.
After leaving here in 1914 he went to
Centenary Church, Richmond. until
1922; Main Street Church. Danville
from 1922 to 1929, and then back to
Norfolk, where he remained at the
insistence of his congregation.
He has held many important posi-
tions with the Virginia and Southern
Methodist Conferences.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
PORTUGUESE INFANTRY
GETTING GERMAN ARMS
First Consignment Already Being
Distri ributed-New Equipment
to Make Ammunition.

= D, the Associated Press.
LISBON, Portugal, August 30
Portuguese infantry is being armed
with new-model Mauser rifle i'm
ported from Germany.
The first consignment of the new
weapon, costing 100000 pounds ($3,-
10000, has arrived from Germany
and was being distributed today to
Lisbon regiments.
The new Mauser, similar to the rifle
used by the German Army, was said
to have important Improvements on
sights. 1t fires bullets with long range.
Millions of the new cartridges al
ready have been delivered and more
consignments will arrive next week.
Portuguese military factories, mean
while, were installing equipment to
manufacture the new-type ammuni-
ton. These plants will increase pres
ent production seven times, beginning
IN 1888.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
SO, who had barrieaded

Barnhart, SO, who had barrieaded
himself in his home here yesterday.
Alleged to have driven members Of
his family from the house, Barnhart
is reported to have gone on . ram
page which prompted = squad Of on
GERS to rush his home.
When the officers arrived Barnhart
Is alleged to have vowed he would
shoot every policeman within sight
and began firing. Tear ga5 proving
ineffective. the Officers retaliated with
fre from sawed-on shotsuns, but It
was three hours before the man was
subdued and taken to Jail.
6ergt. Jesse Brown shot Barnhart's
gun from his hands to end the bat-
tie.
Evening star., 1937-08-30
POLICE SHOT BY MAN
BARRICADEDI IN HOME
One Hagerstown 0ficer Slightly
Wounded in Three.Hour
Gun Battle.

BY the Associated Press.
HAGERSTOWN, August 30-Pa-
trolman Leroy Kan was slightly
wounded and several other city po-
licemen were struck by pellets In .
three-hour shotgun battle with John
Evening star., 1937-08-30

cruise tomorrow night on the steamer
Potomac. More than 800 members
and guests are expected to make tho
trip.
noor show will be presented BY 4
group OF speciality artists. Before the
boat leaves the dock at s:45 the Elks'
Boys Band will give a concert.
Evening star., 1937-08-30

A new youth hostel near Walsing-
ham, England, has been named King
George v.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
BOTHER MIN {.
TO STEP INTO
THE BIG TIME

A strong Coca Cola baseball nine,
a team which has bowled over
every leading diamond squad in
the southwest will step into big
time competition Saturday and
Sunday, March 81 and % when
the Bottlers meet Frank Shellen-
backs San Diego Padres.
The two-game series, to be play
ed in San Diego, is expected to
draw one of the largest exhibition
game crowds of the season.
The Valley team will present q
we'll balanced lineup and should
give the Padres great deal of
trouble. Virtually the same team
two years ago advanced to the
semi-finals of the national tourna-
ment In Wichita and last year an
nexed the southern California
title.
Manager Stark plans to start
Elmer Hill on the mound with
L1NCiCtt VIC PiotNs
Black will play first base, Chuey
will be at second, Hasham at
short and Willingham at third.
Praether, Sada and Andrade will
play in the soutfield.
While every other coast league
ball club was weakened by winter
trades, the San Diego Padres is
apparently stronger ball club
than the one which finished In
second place last season.
San Diego boadts the finest
pitching staff in the circuit, u
snappy infield and powerful out
field.
Ward, Salvo, Craghead, Hebert,
Horne, Pillette, and Chaplin make
up the mound staff and MacDon-
aid, Reese, Myatt, and Holman
will fill in at the infield posts.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

run off Friday night, April 2, and
will attract athletes from fifteen
schools.
Point Iona, Escondido, Ocean
side, Army and Navy academy.
Sweetwater and Grossmont high
schools from the San Diego metros
politan league, Mountain Empire,
Yuma, Coachella and the six valley
high schools will send their repre-
sentatives to the first night meet
In Imperial Valley.
The relays will be the third an
nual meet held in Holtville and Is
expected to attract the largest crowd
in history.
Relay races will be run In classes.
A, B and G. The team with the
largest total of points in all classes
will be declared the winner and Will
be awarded the tournament trophy.
The cup, a perpetual trophy, was
won last year by Yuma high.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

was worth q damn until near home.
Track lovers, for example, will
tell you that the Olympic l5-meter
race was q heart-stopper from
start to finish. Don't believe them.
saw that hisoric number in Ber-
lin. and it was about as interesting
as a can opener until Jack Love-
lock turned loose his kick" some
300 yards from home. Up until that
time the race offered nothing more
exciting than a group of earnest
and knobby-kneed young men plod-
ding along at a pace usually asso-
ciated with Tyro goats.
incidentally, three of the men
who finished in the money in that
race will be going at it in the Gar
den. They are Cunningham, the
finest miller America has ever pro-
duced, four times winner of the
race; Archie San Romani, the Kan
sas cornet player who licked Cum
ningham earlier in the season, and
Luigi Beccalli, the sawed-off Ital-
ian, who has done just shade less
than nothing since he was the
Olympic l500-meeter title in 1892.
Cunningham Of the blood red
Jersey and fancy warming-up ex-
ercises is the favorite, but | like
San Romani to take him. San
Romani is going up, Cunningham
is going down. Too, San Romani is
a cornet player. I have heard him
play, and the fact that he still is
alive is proof of his stamina. And
stamina Is what you need to run a
mile. The runners need it, and the
spectators need it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Coach COvingtOn
TO Draw Baseball
League Schedule

Coach Ed Covington of Calexico.
secretary of the valley high school
league, was instructed last night
at a league meeting to draw up
the baseball and softball schedules
for league play.
The schedules will be released
in a few days.
Calipatria, El Centro, Brawley,
Calexico and Imperial will enter
baseball teams and Holtville will
enter only a softtall team.
Calipatria will be the only
school which will not enter the
softball league.
The valley track meet will be
held in El Centro on April 10.
Coaches of the valley offered to
allow Brawley to put on the meet
but Clark indicated the northend
school would be unable. to put on
the event.
All high school principals and
coaches attended the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
TODAY'S-
Sports Parade
eY HENRY McLEMORE

NEW YORK, March II. up
They'll be running the Columbian
mile, most highly publicized of
this country's foot races, at Madi-
son Square Garden, and this OBJ
server is going over to see if the
officials have adopted the very
sane suggestion he made last year.
The suggestion, which came after
what seemed an interminable series
of races during the indoor season
was this:
That in all races of more than
quarter of a mile in length the
horse liniment and diaper brigade
be made to run all but the last
440 yards in the basement, and
come into the view of the public
only for the finishing sprint.
During my trip up the Mississip-
pi at flood time the young man who
was good enough to pinch hit for
me in this space sounded off the
same idea. but I do not believe he
used enough vigor. Under his plan,
the athletes would get the early,
and boring, laps out of their sys-
TENS by running around the block
and then burst through a door for
the finish. That would hardly be
fair to the pedestrians outside.
Pedestrians have few enough rights
in this country as it is, without
having a covey of smelly and thin
ly clad youths appear suddenly in
their midst.
No, the basement is the place
for the noble athletes, and prefer
ably a dark one
I know track loyers viii yearn to
cast large and solid stones at my
skull for this suggestion, because
of all the flowers which bloom in
the sports garden, the track lover
is the most nuttical, or rabid. He
will sit through things (the ham,
mer throw, for eXample) which
would drive a normal man out in
to the night air, babbling and inc0-
herent. Track lovers even profess
to enjoy the early stages of q dis
tance race. This is impossible, and
they should be protected from
themselves. I have seen many foot
races, ranging from the grammar
school ones in which the little shaw
ers threaten to lose their pants at
any moment, to the Olympic class
ic, and I have yet to see one which
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
RAIN DELAYS
BALL DRILLS

High school baseball candidates
of Central, Brawley and Calexico,
forced inside Tuesday by rain, to-
day looked forward to next weeks
practice games.
Calexico, Ell Centro and Brawley
are the only schools which have
started baseball thus far, but Cali
patria, Holtville and Imperial will
open practice Monday.
CaleXico will open a series of
practice games against leading val
ley semi-pro teams and Brawley
and Ell Centro high schools plan to
play games against Calipatria and
Imperial. The Spartans are also
slated to meet the Coca Cola base
ballers next week. The game was
previously scheduled wednesday
but the diamond is too wet for
playing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
MIDGET RACE
DRIVERS TO
RISK NECKS

Every Sunday afternoon fifteen
or more midget race drivers take
their lives in their own hands and
whiz their tiny cars around the
oval at the Ell Centro speedway.
And next Sunday will be no ex-
ception.
The object of the sport is to send
the tiny autos around the track
40 times without hitting one of the
other contestants, without running
into the crash wall and then across
the finish line ahead of all the
other daredevils.
Hardin Young. 1896 champ, has
become an expert at fulfilling the
above requirements and as re-
suit the rest OF the valley drivers
will exert every effort Sunday to
push him into the background.
How Young gets around the oval
40 times without breaking his neck
is the most amazing thing to wit
ness, for when the Brawley driver
winds up his auto and starts roar
ing down the speedway he takes
chances that would tax the strength
of a full grown automobile.
He zigs and he zags around, over
and under the other drivers, yet
comes out unscathed.
Sundays races at the speedway,
according to midget officials, will
be made even better than last
weeks thrilling events because sew
eral outstanding feature races will
be added to the program.
The oval Is reputed to be in
perfect shape and there will be no
obstacles in the path of record
breakers who will make their week
ly assault on the existing speed
marks.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
DIZZY SAYS
HE'S THROUGH

SARASOTA, Fla. March II. U.P)
Dizzy Dean, eccentric and effec-
tive pitcher for the st. Louis Car
dinals, is definitely through"
with organized baseball, he reaf-
firmed with regrets today.
IF I don't play this year, I'll
never play again." Dizzy said at
his home in nearby Bradenton.
It regret very much leaving base
ball, but I'm definitely through.
I'VE can't get together and I'm
going into business"
The other party of the we
is Sam Breadon, owner of the
Cardinals, whose avowed deter
mination in the matter of Deans
salary this year was no less ada
mant than that of Dizzy himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
U.C.L.A. BEATS
BERKELEY IA

LOS ANGELES, March IT. UD
University Of California at Los
Angeles defeated University OF
California at Berkeley Ia yester-
day in the coast conferences OPEN
ing baseball game. The first game
Of the two-game series, rained out,
will be played In Berkeley next
month. Each team hit 10 times,
but the Bears made two errors
and failed to reach home. The
Bruins tailed three times in the
first inning. Zaby. UCLA left
fielder, smashed out a homer In
the seventh and scored Hirshon,
who had doubled, ahead of him.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

The Bachelors club will meet I.
v. Hardware in q preliminary tilt,
starting at 7:3O.
The Golden State and 20-30 club
quintets have met twice before
In first and second round play
and each team grabbed victory.
When the Golden State walloped
the clubmen in a first round game
the 2O-30 was handicapped by an
absence of players, and when the
clubmen beat the staters in the
second round Golden State was
short two players.
Tonight. however, both teams
will have full strength lineups on
the floor and as a result a bang
up game is anticipated.
The Bachelors, who upset the
Golden State team last week to
cage their first victory, are slight
ly favored over the Hardware.
Probable starting lineups for the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Fifteen Schools Will
Join in Track Meet

Holtville high school athletic Of
ficials today rushed toward COM
pletion plans for the biggest in
vitational track meet ever held in
Imperial Valley. The meet will be
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

MADRAS, India, March II. WD
Two hundred and fifty Pilgrims.
returning to their villages from a
festival here, have died beside the
roads of cholera, it was estimated
today. Cholera broke out as the
festival was held and spread
through the city. All markets have
been closed. -4..
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
CAGE SQUADS WILL
CLASH TONIGHT AT
SCHOOL GYMNASIUM

leadership possible league championship will be the
reward of the ubGoden State commercial
squads clash in third
round meeting game virtually cinch the loop crown
for the winner $50 the E Centre gymnasium
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

Central California dairymen are
buying hay from Oregon and Nev-
ada.
Evening star., 1937-01-01
FEW ACCIDENTS
IN HEAVY TRAFFIC
Only Three Mishaps in lam
Last Night Are Re.
ported.

Despite the heaviest now of New
Year eve trafIic in years only three ac-
cidents were reported last night, and
two Of these resulted in only minor
injuries. according to police
Most seriously injured Of the New
Year eve mishsp victims, police re-
ported. was Mrs. Pearl Knuckles., 81
OF 1246 G street northeast. Struck by
q street car at Thirteenth and II
streets northeast, Mrs. Knuckles was
taken to Sibley Hospital, where ply.
sicians said she was suffering from In
juries to her head and spine. The car
was operated by Motorman Dwight
Dennis, IS, of l7Ol West Virginia ave-
nue. northeast. the police said.
Meanwhile. Senator GufIey, Demo-
crat, OF Pennsylvania was in Emer-
gency Hospital recovering from frac.
tured RIB and bruises received vester-
day afternoon when a taxicsb in which,
ne was q passenger collided with a
mail truck. The accident occurred at
Second street and Indiana avenue as
the Senator was on his way from his
Capitol Hill once to the Raleigh
Hotel.
Unless complications develop.
Guneys physician said today, the
Senator will be able to attend the
opening session of Congress next
Tuesday"
Esther Tinkins So of 36l5 Newark
street was run down by a truck while
crossing Wisconsin avenue at Ma.
comb street. She was taken to George
town Hospital and treated for internal
injuries. The truck was operated BY
James H. Winslow, 26, colored.
Jack Tarr, 25, Of 1907 M street suf-
fered cuts about the face and pos-
sibly q skull fracture when hit by an
automobile at Fifteenth and M streets.
He was taken to Emergency. The au-
tomobile was driven, police reported
by Walter F. Scott. IS, colored, 700
block OF Park road
Evening star., 1937-01-01
GERMAN CHURCHES
RENEW PROTESTS
"Nazi Drive Against Chris.
tianity" 0epIored by Car.
dinaI Won Faulhaber.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. January Germany S
churches last might faced the New
Year with renewed protests against
what their spokesmen called the Nazi
drive against Christianity.
Michael Cardinal Won Faulhaber in
a New Years eve sermon in Munich
deplored sharply the alienation OF
Germany's youth from the church"
I'VE already had this battle against
church and Christianity Is years ago, "
he said. In those days 1t was Marx
ism.
To-day Christianity is accused OF
being the cause of wars and blood
shed. In this respect, the crusades
are often cited but in the last analysis
the crusades were really a laring up
Of knightly spirit in the name OF
Christian spirit. II only we had one
glimmer Of that knightly spirit
Letter Against BoIshevism.
He said that next Sunday a pas
toral letter against bolshevism would
be read In the churches.
In Berlin. the Official Catholic or.
gan "Katholisches Kirchenblatt" Wig.
orously assailed julius Streicher,s
snti-Semitic weekly Stuermer, which
recently has carried a series of Carl
cstures Of Catholic and Protesta mt
clergy.
One caricature pictured a Catholic
priest and a Protestant pastor en-
bracing. Beneath it was the text:
Isn't it fine, my brother in Christ,
that we both agreed on sabota ging
the Government"
"MonstrOus Accuse tiOnS."
The Catholic organ branded this
as a m0nstrOus accuSat ation of high
treason against both churches"
Two declarations will be read from
Protestant confessional pulpits Sun
day.
In one 1t Is cOmpla ined that events
OF the last year have shown that the
church can no longer place any ia ith
In assurances that Christian churches
can pursue their aims unhampered
The spread OF neo- hea thenism. it
declares. shows clearly in what direc-
ton Nszi "welts nschauung" view of
life) is tending.
The other declaration protests sta te
interference with theological educa-
ton.
Evening star., 1937-01-01
new YORK OMAN
DENIES DISCORD
No Friction Between His Office
and City's Police. Rhea
Whitley Says.
6v the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 1.-Rhea
Whitley, agent in charge of the New
York Office of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation, Yesterday denied there
had been friction between his office
end police in connection with the
arrest of Anthony Cutro this week on
bank robbery charges.
A high police source yesterday gave
own Information that Cutro, charged
with robbing banks in Queens and New
Jersey. had been moved several times
from one precinct station to another
to keep Federal agents from question:
ing him.
Whitley yesterday said reports that
the police had not co-operated with
his men we're absolutely without
foundation" and that as soon as
Cutro was identified the bureau was
notified.
Meanwhile Sixth Deputy Police
Commissioner Byrnes Macdonald was
relieved of night touring duty by Com
missioner Lewis J. Valentine
Macdonald participated with Fed
eral agents in the capture on Decem-
ber Is OF Harry Brunette. wanted on
kidnapping and bank robbery charges.
After the raid on Brunette's apart
ment Macdonald praised the accom-
plishment of the Federal men.
The following DAY Commissioner
Valentine and Fire Commissioner
John J. McElligott criticized the ham
ding of the raid as "melodramatic"
and small town stuff"
Evening star., 1937-01-01
Low ASSESSMENT
RATE THOMAS GOAL
Tax Burden in District Is
Misunderstood, Says
Oklahoma Senator.

Washington's tax burden will con.
tinue to be misunderstood as long as
the present formula OF high assess
ment and low rate is retained. in the
opinion OF Senator Thomas. Democrat,
of Oklahoma, who has charge OF Dis
trict appropriation bills in the Senate.
Senator Thomas reiterated yesterday
the belief he has held for several years
that some members Of Congress under.
estimate the Districts share Of the
cost Of running the Capital by looking
only at the tax rate Of 3l.50 per hum
dred, without considering the fact that
this rate is applied to high basis OF
assessment. For . number Of years
District officials have been required to
assess property at full value, whereas
many other cities reverse the pro-
cedure by adopting low assessments
and a high rate.
The Oklahoma Senator believes
that some legislators look at Washing
tons SI.5O rate and recall that the
rate back home Is 81 or 50 without
considering that in some States the
basis OF assessment Is SO per cent or
less of true value.
For several years he has felt the
Commissioners should recommend q
change In the law to permit adoption
OF the low assessment and high rate
system. The taxes paid by local resi-
dents would be- the same. he pointed
out. but the rate would not be mis-
understood as 1t Is now.
The fact that Washington has no
bonded debt to necessltate large an
nual interest payments Is another
point the Sens tor believes Is frequently
overlooked by persons who compare
Washinston's tax levy with other
cities.
Senator Thomas urged inclusion In
the current District appropriation act
Of the provision under which q study
of fiscal relations between the Federal
and District governments Is now being
made by . committee Of experts. ap-
pointed by the President. The report
Is scheduled to be presented to Con-
gress early In the session which starts
next week.