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Evening star., 1937-04-29
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And these aren't all. If they were
it hardly would be worth the trip,
but dozens of other sporty game fish
abound there in the Summer Bar
racuda, dolphin, ladyhsh, boneflsh
and wahoo, to mention only a few, all
hang around and show no reluctance
about snatching at your bait We
have been there in Midsummer and
know that they can be caught.
Summer Prices Lower.
4 MONG the many advantages OF
dashing down to Florida for bit
of fishing during the Summer is the
price angle About 20 per cent is
Topped off the Winter prices. Hotels
are less crowded, and you can enter
any hostelry in Miami or Palm Beach
and get room without having made
reservation or taking the chance Of
being bedded down on the pool table.
Charter boats also cost less.
Where you shelled out S35 in De-
cember you lay about SIS on the
line in May or June.
A week end in Florida doesn't cost
as much now as it did during the Win
ter, and train and plane schedules have
been speeded up to give more time
down there. Under a new nonstop
plane schedule inaugurated about q
month ago the running time is just
shade over six hours. You can leave
here Friday night. fish two days in the
Glllf Stream and he hack at the office
Monday morning.
Evening star., 1937-04-29
Mary Still Likes No Sir.

HIS daughter, Mary, first woman
trainer to prepare horse for
Americas greatest turf classic. select
ed Pompoon and War Admiral as the
pair to beat, but reserved the right
to rate her horse, No Sir, chance.
well, I'm putting up the money
to enter him." was 24-year-old Mary's
only comment on the prospects Of
No Sir
Bill Brennan, head of Mrs. Payne
Whitney's Greentree Stable. and Bill
Norton, who conditions John Hay
Whitney's thoroughbreds. were the
others to line up with Pompoon.
Brennan will saddle a horse for the
stake if Mrs. Whitney's Chicolorado
shows Derby ability in the Wood
Memorial at Jamaica Saturday.
War Admiral, a son of Man O War,
which scored an easy victory in the
Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace,
received votes from Hirsch Jacobs, the
countrys leading trainer for the last
four years; Earl Sande, who rode
three Derby winners, and Sunny Jim
Fitzsimmons, who conditioned Gallant
Evening star., 1937-04-29
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.

THE Emerald Athletic Club has
been reorganized and plans
made for a base ball team this
season. The club is opening new
quarters at 936 Twenty-second
street and is headed by John j.
Fahey, president. Other officers
are P. j. INLAND, T. E. McEale,
Edward F. Hannah, Walter F. Long
and James F. Parrott.
George Cox has been placed in
charge of the schedule and clas-
sif1cation of entries for the seventh
annual tournament Of the District
Duckpin Association by George
1semann, president of that body.
The tournament will begin in the
next fortnight.
The Washington-New York game
was Cancelled for the second sue
cessive day because of cold weather.
A large delegation of the Mats,
headed by Clark Griffith, attended
the revival service being held in
New York by Billy Sunday. Sun
day and Griffith are close friends.
Evening star., 1937-04-29
WATER AND CINDERS
TO OCCUPY MIDDIES
Sweeps Meet Princeton, Syracuse,
Yachtsmen in Regatta, Track
Team Busy Saturday.

A NNAPOLIS, April 29-Navy will
be represented in two intercol-
legiate aquatic events on SATURDAY..
The varsity and junior varsity crews
will meet Princeton and Syracuse at
Princeton, while two class D dinghy
crews will be entered in the second
annual Spring Intercollegiate Yacht
Racing Association regatta at Prov.
dence.
Track and field forces of the Navy
will stage double-bill show here Sat-
urday. The varsity engages Penn
State and the Plebe team opposes the
University Of Maryland freshmen.
Howard DoWney and Peter Oxlexy
are outstanding in the runs for Penn
State, while Robert Clark did 13 feet
in the pole vault in the Penn relays.
Evening star., 1937-04-29

"A II UGH ado is made about Flor
M ida fishing during the VIM
w ter. Things being more or
4 4 less closed up here, due to
Mother Natures icy grip, it is natural
that we should turn Southwark for
our sport. But the truth of the mat
ter is that fishing in Florida and
points South picks up in the Spring
and Summer, just as it does around
here
Fresh-water fsh-trout, bass and
crappie-may be bit sluggish there
when Old Sol turns on the heat, but
this same warmth brings in some of
the bigger and more exciting game
fish. Blues and drums move north
ward, but something Offering even
more sport stays behind and puts
Evening star., 1937-04-29
Melbourne Jake Has Chance
To Tie Tin'ber.ToppingM Mark
With Triumph at Warrent0n

Cup; second, his strongest competi-
tor. Inshore, ran out at next to the
last fence in the Maryland last week
and, third, he has not yet met Mrs.
George H. Bostwick's Fugitive, which
took the Carolina Cup in March,
later won race at Middleburg and
is obviously in top form right now.
If the big, powerful Mellon fencer
could come out this Saturday on the
Evening star., 1937-04-29
TURF Jury VOTES
; FOR EACH HORSE
Reaping Reward Gets Lone
BaIIot-BrookIyn Made
Conditional Pick.
BY ORLO ROBERTSON.

n YEW YORK, April 20 P.-A
N Jury" of u trainers, men
" who should know if anybody
A does, failed today to come any,
where near unanimous forecast on
the Kentucky Derby.
They agreed only that ]. H. Louch-
helms Pompoon, Mrs. Ethel " Mars
Reaping Reward and Samuel Riddles
War Admiral are the horses to beat.
Three trainers, participating in the
Associated Press fourth annual poll,
named Pompoon outright, three Sc
lected War Admiral. one picked Reap
ing Reward and four refused to be
pinned down closer than two horses.
The remaining vote went to E. r..
Bradley's Brooklyn on condition he
show a good race in the Blue Grass
Stakes at Keeneland today.
Max Hirsch. who saddled Bold Ven
ture to win the stake last year, was
one of the three favoring Pompoon.
ANY colt that performs the way
Pompoon did in the Paumonok Handi-
cap and then turns in such fine
workouts afterward gets my vote"
said Hirsch.
Evening star., 1937-04-29

6ptCldl DlopnLSI W 4hC Sldt.
w YARRENTON, Va, April 29.
\A/ Should Paul Melons
" " Melbourne Jake win the
Virginia Gold Cup here on
Saturday afternoon, he would set
record for endurance and consistency
never surpassed in the history of
American timber racing The triumph
would be Melbourne Jake's fourth
major cup victory in four starts made
within a month, all over courses
miles long.
In taking the Deep Run Hunt Cup
the Middleburg Hunt Cup and the
Maryland Hunt Cup on April 3, 10
and 81, Melbourne Jake put the
stamp OF class indelibly upon his
name. II he went on now to cop the
Virginia Gold Cup there would be
many willing to acknowledge him to
be in the same category with the i'm
mortal Billy Barton.
Billy Barton Now Tops.
PILLY BARTON won the Mary
land hunt cup, the Virginia
Gold Cup and the Masters of Fox
hounds Steeplechase in quick order
back in 1926, and horsemen of the
day promptly proclaimed him the
marvel of the age. Melbourne Jake,
already on the road to fame, needs
only to add the Virginia to his string
to attain an equal local reputation.
although he would then have to show
his proWess over the Grand National
course at Aintree or on the big Amer
ican brush courses in order to con-
vince some of the timers OF his
superlative class.
The reason that the Jakes present
record is not yet quite convincing is
threefold-frst, he had almost no
competition in the Deep Run Hunt
Evening star., 1937-04-29
w. P. A. PLAYS NAVAL AIR.

w. P. A. diamonders will stack up
against Naval Air Station tomorrow
in the first game of the Government
League on the East Elipse diamond
at S o'clock. Two previously scheduled
tilts were rained out.
Evening star., 1937-04-29
Fox and Omaha for their triumphs in
1880 and 1885, respectively.
Not Sure of MelOdiSt.

MOI sure OF NnelOUlSL.
EITZSIMMONS will have horse In
the race only if the Wheatley
Stables Melodist Unexpectedly shows
winning form in the Wood. Sande,
however, is training Maxwell How
ards Sceneshifter for the stake. He
gives his horse only an outside chance,
while believing Reaping Reward and
Military will be strong contenders,
with No Sir fit horse"
Reaping Reward received the un-
qualified vote of w. F. Knebelkamp,
veteran Kentucky horseman. H. j.
(Dick) Thompson, who has saddled
four winners for Bradley, reserved
final word on Brooklyn until after
the Blue Grass Stakes. He did pick
the big three" as the ones to beat,
however
J. H. (Bud) Stotler, trainer for A. G..
Evening star., 1937-04-29
NINE WOULD ENTERTAIN,

Action with local unlimited sandlot
base ball teams during June and July
is sought by the Gambrills, Md, nine.
Write w. J. O'Hara. manager, at
Gambrills, Md
Evening star., 1937-04-29

Alex Hagner estate near here and take
the measure OF Fugitive and of Mrs
Frank M. Gould's Ostend, which fin
ished a fast-closing third in the Mary
land Cup, then none could deny his
superlative quality. He is sound sort
Evening star., 1937-04-29

1852; Star Trap, 1872, and The Scaup,
1853.
Post time for the first race Saturday
will be 2:3O.
Evening star., 1937-04-29

J. P. Doc) Jones named Pompoon
if the track is muddy and War Ad-
miral II the going is fast.
Evening star., 1937-04-29

Vanderbilt, and Henry Mcdaniel, vet
eran handler, couldn't decide between
War Admiral and Pompoon, while
Evening star., 1937-04-29
Swordfish on East Coast.

TARPON, Of course, are best on the
West Coast. A few find their way
up the East Coast as far as Vir-
ginia, but these are stragglers. The
East Coast is famed for sailfish and
marlin, cousins under the skin and
In their fighting hearts, High-pressure
publicity takes anglers to Florida dur
ing the Winter to seek these men,
bers of the swordfish family, but dur
ing the Summer they are even larger
and more plentiful
They play about in the Gulf
Stream, 5 to 10 miles off the
coast, and that's no distance at
all for the fast and comforta-
bic charter boats.
Evening star., 1937-04-29
Program Is Attract, >.

NO MATTER what the outcome of
the Gold Cup, the only timber
race on the card here this year, sports
fans are promised a full and WELL
rounded program Of racing. The Vir-
glnla National, 3 miles over brush for
81 500 purse, will test some top brush
horses over fences that are larger
than those at Aintree, and the starters
in the Broadview, a 21z mile hunter
event, will face the same course. There
will also be three hurdle races, in
which entries range from IL to 20 in
number
On the weight-for-age basis by
which weights are determined in the
Gold Cup, all the six entries this year
will be assigned 1865 pounds, as all are
6 years old or over. First of the weight
lists announced for the other tests is
that in the Broadview, in which hand
leaps are as follows: Grooming Water,
160 pounds; Frostcake, 146; Grey Wig,
l45; Quick Verdict, l48; Radient Row.
ley, 154; Rocky Shore, 1862; Sir Gareth,
Evening star., 1937-04-29
Pompoon War Admiral Trainers Bic Choices for Kentucky DERBY

OF horse, young, strong and possibly
destined to be legendary figure In the
history OF our hunt races. Since fame
too often eludes those who do not seize
1t at once, it is to be hoped that Mel
lon and Jack Skinner, who trains the
horse, will decide to finish out the
Spring campaign with a burst OF glory.
Evening star., 1937-04-29
on a grand show that lasts well pas
Midsummer.
We mean sailfish and tarpon,
which, with marlin, form about
the fightingest trio of game fish
fn1rd m thu Alta ufir CnoSf

Everglades, Boca Grande, Captiva
Pass, Shark River, Fort Myers-they
all mean tarpon and they mean big
tarpon. The silver kings arrive from
Cuba about the first of the year, but
only in fairly limited numbers. Later
they increase in numbers and size
until the peak is reached from March
to July. Then they go up the west
coast of Florida and across the gulf
to Texas.
Evening star., 1937-04-29
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dl5pHtch 70 The star.
w YARRENTON, Va, April 2s.
~ Should Paul Melons
" " Melbourne Jake win the
Virginia Gold Cup here on
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
TWO STATES HUNT
PAYNE AND TURNER
Believed Near Myrtle Beach,
S. c.. Though Winston
Salem Is Aroused

Georgetown. S. e.. Dec. 21.-(AP)-
A search continued today on Mac
camaw Neck for two men officers
believed were Bill Payne and Wash
Turner, North Carolina desDeradoes.
The hunt was concentrated on the
narrow strip of land between the Mac
camaw river and the Atlantic ocean,
after a highway patrolman lost the
trail Of the two men at Myrtle Beach
Sunday night. ~
Police Chief j. F. Hamilton, of
Myrtle Beach, said he was virtually
positive the men were bottled up
on the neck, and highways leading
to Georgetown, Conway and Little
River were closely guarded.
Officers throughout the Carolinas
were on the watch-out of the Grim
inals, abject of many manhunts since
they and five other long-ternners es-
capped from the Caledonia sprison farm
last February.
Winston-Salem, N. c., police last
night received reports that a car be-
lieved to contain Payne left Durham
and was headed that way, but no trace
of Payne was found by officers who
guarded the surrounding highway.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
SC NEW WORKERS
FACE INDICTMENT
Gang Accused of Defraud-
ing Government of ST.
100000 In Taxes

New York, Dec. 81 (AP)-F'ifty-six
persons were indicted by the Federal
grand jury today on charges OF ope-
rating a huge bootlegging conspiracy
which deprived the government OF at
least $1,8OO,OOO in taxes in the last
three wears. The defendants included
three city policemen and a former
inspector of the alcohol tax unit.
Assistant United States Attorney
Mahlom Dickerson said the gangs
operations resulted in two killings, one
by officers.
Eeventeen trucks and cars were selz
ed during a six months investigation,
Dickerson said, and five stills were
uncovered, each with capacity OF
from 200 to 500 gallons. Two of the
stills were maintained in New Jersey,
he said, one in Delawanna and the
other in Clifton. Other stills were ope-
rated in four New York State cities.
Dickerson named Frank Giordano as
a leader of the alleged conspiracy
which he described as "by far the
largest uncovered in the bootlegging
line" since prohibition days. The in
dictments accuse the defendants OF
producing more than 100000 gallons Of
bootleg grain alcohol a year. This
was blended with water, coloring mat
ter and cooked whisky, the indict
ment said, and distributed from 81 Out
lets to bar rooms and restaurants.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
Sudden Move at San Pedro,
CAL, Made by Radio
Call, Meets Com
plete Silence
ORDER is CALLED
SERIOUS MISTAKE
Two High Ranking Admir-
ais of Navy Hold Surprise
Conference on Pacific
Coast but information Is
Lacking; Monkey Drip,
Observers Think

San Pedro, Cal, Dec. 21.-(AP)
The navy high command threw a
screen of silence today around the
sudden transfer of nine destroyers
from their San Diego base to the main
body of the fleet at San Pedro
A radio call in San Diego last night
for the entire personnel of the air
craft scouting force to report imme-
diately for duty was described later
by an official source as a serious
mistake"
At the same time, Rear Admiral Err
nest King, commander of the aircraft
force, was participating in surprise
conference here with Admiral Arthur
Hepburn, commander-in-chief of tho
United States fleet. Admiral King
flew back to his San Diego headquar-
ters.
In the absence of other informa-
ton. shore observers were inclined to
believe the destroyer transfer might
ihe nothing more than monkey
drill" testing the speed of mobiliza-
ton under holiday conditions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
Say $4,000
OF Haitians
We're Killed
Wholesale -Extermi-
nation in Domini-
can Republic Is AL
legged by Official

Washington, Dec. 21.-(AP)-Minis-
ter Lescott, of Haiti, estimated today,
on the basis Of refugees reports, that
1858 Haitians have been killed in
the Dominican Republic since early
October.
He issued statement shortly after
letter from Bishop j. M. Jan, of
Cape Haitian, was made public here.
The letter declared "nameless sava-
geries" had been inflicted on Haitians
who had moved across the Dominican
border.
Refugees told him, the bishop wrote
to the archbishopric of Port-au-Prince
that Haitians had been thrown,
group by group, into the sea-food for
sharks-or led into the woods near
the city Monte Christi) to be mas
sacred"
Dominican officials have denied any
mass slayings during border clashes,
which were said to have developed
from the heavy migration Of Haitian
laborers into Dominican territory.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
Says Former Contention u.
S. Gunboat Fired on Jap
Troops Was Parti-
ally Error
STICKS TO DENIAL
OF RIVER FIRING
Says Japanese Army Boats
Did Not Machine-Gun
Sinking American War
ship in Yangtze River; Chi
nese Frightened by New
Japanese Program

Shanghai, Dec. 21.-(AP)- Major
General Harada announced today fur
Their investigation showed the sink
ing United States gunboat Panay had
not fired it's cannon at japanese
troops, as his report had stated yes
terday.
The military attache added, how
ever, the additional study had not
changed his denial that the Japanese
army coats had machine-gunned the
vessel. despite American official re-
ports to the contrary.
Investigation by Lieutenant Colonel
Nishi, war ministry staff officer, was
the basis for the new statement on
the bombing of the Panay and three
Standard Oil Company boats on the
Yangtze river near Ncnking Deem
Der 12
Meanwhile, Japanese troops and
warship movements aroused Chinese
fear that three of the nations great
coastal cities would suffer the fate OF
fallen Marking. The Chinese expected
Japanese to drive against HangchOw
Chekiang province seaport, about liz
miles south and west of Shanghai
Canton, China's southern metropolis
and Tsingtao, Shantung province sea
port to the north.
A party of 300 American and Bri-
fish women and children trying to flee
war threats in central China was
turned back toward Hangkow. one Of
China's three temporary capitals.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
House To Vote To Send
Measure to Conference
After Senate Acts
Late in the Day
WHITE HOUSE NOT
TO GET BILL NOW
Only Measure of Conse-
quence To Be Enacted Al
Special Session; Landon
Offers Roosevelt Support
in Foreign Situation; FDR
Is Very Grateful

Washington, Dec. 21.-(AP)- The
House recessed for two hours today
after Majority Eeader Rayburn an
nounced the special session of Con-
gress might adjourn later this after
noon.
Rayburn asked for the recess, OK
planning Senate leaders hoped to pass
the houcing bill at 3 p. M, and, IN
that event, the House would speedily
be abe to send it to conference and
complete the legislative business pos
s, 1e at this session.
A possibility Of hitch in these
plans appeared, however, when Repre-
sentative Rankin, Democrat, Missi:s
sippi, called attention to the Senate
Banking Committees elimination of
provisions for insurance of small rural
homes. Rankin said proponents of
such insurance would try to instruct
the House conferees to hold out for
it's reinstatement.
Minority Leader Snell Republican,
New York, then sought assurance that
the conference report on the housing
measure would not be brought back
for House action while most of the
members were out of town for the
holidays. Rayburn indicated that was
not contemplated. That would keep
the bill from reaching the White
House for presidential signature be-
fore adjournment.
At the start of the Senate session,
at which that body took up the hous-
ing bill for the first time, the bank
ing committee reported the legislation
would create mass market" for
moderately priced homes and aid in
bringing Sound and lasting re-
covery."
Other developments:
The Treasury said December income
tax collections were running about 20
percent ahead of last year. Collections
through December 20, in all districts
except Delaware and New Mexico.
where reports are available only to
December 16, were $467, 250,772. A year
ago they totalled $275, 706, 1888.
Alfred M. Landon gave President
Roosevelt a pledge of cooperation
and support in the difficult foreign
situation confronting year admins
tration." In a telegram made public
at the State Department, the 1896 Re-.
publican standard-bearer criticized
members of Congress of both parties.
The President, in reply, said: "The
generous spirit of your telegram helps
me to meet the problems which con-
front our countryl4in the field of fore
ign relations during these troublous
times"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
3O-Year-Old
Mother Kills
TwOChildren
Iowa Woman Also
Wounds Two 9th
ers Because "They
Wouldn't Mind"

Waverly, Iowa, Dec 21.-(AP)-A
38-year-old mother ran amok with a
shotgun early today, Sheriff Frank
Sugar said, killing two of her chill
dren, wounding two others, and firing
random shots into two homes.
The sheriff said the woman, Mrs
Bertha Waters, admitted the shoot
ing and told him her children would
MT mind her,"
The tragedy occurred about $50 a
m. at the Bremen county home, near
here, where Mrs. Waters, her hus-
band, Elias, a timber cutter, and the
four children. lived IN cabin.
The sheriff said Mrs. Waters first
shot the sleeping children, then went
to a neighbor's cabin, where she fired
random shots. She finally was disarm-
ed after she had fired several times
at the county home steward and .
Waterman. Sugar said she gave ne
motive for the shooting, other than
that she had had trouble with the
children and one of the neighbors."
Her husband had been employed on
a timber clearing project near Lans-
ing, Iowa, the sheriff said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-21
British Commons Hears In
dictment of Nippon by
Premier for East
ern Strife
TIME TO RESPECT
FOREIGN LIBERTY
Government Takes Grave
View of Far Eastern Crisis
and Has Sent New Ambas-
sador to China To Serve
During Warfare; Britain
Anxious for Peace

London, Dec. 81 (AP)-Prime Min
ister Neville Chamberlain told the
House of Commons today that no at
tempt has ever Deen made by Japan
for peaceful settlement" of her war on
Chin.
1T is time now for the Japanese gov
eminent to show they are not unmind-
ful of the rights and interests of for
eigners, and that their assurances and
apologies meant something more than
words, the premier declared.
About the entire foreign situation he
said Great Britains definite objac-
tive" is the settlement of the griev-
ances Of the world without war;
Chamberlain declined to be drawn
into a discussion of the origin of the
Chinese-Japanese war, but dealt spe-
officially with Japanese attacks on
British ships.
The House of Commons gathered for
foreign affairs debate with a group
of its members advocating a mighty
patrol of Chinese waters by a combin-
ed fleets of American, British and
French warships. At a session of the
group on the eve of today's discussions,
the view was expressed that a lump
ing of the naval forces of the three
nations in the Far East would tend to
check "Japans aim to dominate China
to the complete exclusion of foreign
interests"
This view was expected to be for
mally urged during the debate, and
the House expected a cautious state
nlent from Prime Minister Chamber
lain and Foreign Secretary Eden. on
the governments reaction to disturb
ing developments in the Orient.
The government already had en-
phasized its grave view of the Far
Eastern crisis by naming a new am
bassador to China to replace Sir
Hughe Observation-Disclosures inactive
since he was wounded last August
when japanese aerial machine gun
ners strafed his automobile.
The foreign office announced Sir
Archibald Kerr, ambassador to Bagh-
dad since 1895, would succeed him "as
soon as possible"
Recent events in the Far East"
the announcement said, had made it.
necessary Britain be represented in
China ky diplomat of ambassador
lal rank and that arrangements to
such an end should be made with
the least possible delay"