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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Joe Di Maggie Will
Have a Tough Time
Busting Bans Mark
q New York Post.-wNU Service.
T WAS just wondering:

7 WAS just wondering:
If Joe Di Maggie has anything
more than a faint chance to beat
Babe Ruth's home run record of six
ty in a season?
The kids good. He's probably the
best two-year-Old performer in big
time history. He slaps a baseball
with authority. American league
pitching is of inferior variety. He
gets better day by day.
That's all on the credit side. The
other side of the ledger is heavily
red-inked with the names of Wilson's,
Gehrigs, Hornsbys and other broad
backed lads whose August marks
and ambitions were similar to Joe's.
September licked them. Ruth had
seventeen home runs during that
month of his eventful 1927 season.
He undoubtedly was in a hitting
streak and he also was the Babe,
a guy accustomed to performing
magic.
Yet, there was more than a sus-
piciOn at the time that pitchers were
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27


when senator is appointed to high
office, for his nomination to be con-
sidered in open executive session.
But when Senator Ashurst (Dem.,
Ariz.) proposed this in Senator
Bla ck s nomination, objections
came forth Immediately from Sem
ator Burke (Dem., Neb.) and Sena-
tor johnson (Rep., Calif.). They
asked that the nomination be re-
ferred to the senate judiciary COM
mittee for careful consideration. !"
This was viewed in the light of a
distinct rebuke for the nominee.
Senator Black has been militant
leader in the fight for the Presi-
dents wages and hours legislation.
AS a justice he would have the OPP
portunity to pass upon measures
regulating public utility holding
companies, authorizing federal
loans and grants for publicly-owned
power plants, and fixing prices in
the soft-coal industry. He was, as
the chairman of the Black commit
tee to investigate lobbying, the cen
ter of storm of public opinion dur
ing the early months of 1886.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
South Demands Crop Loans

CONGRESS regarded adjourn
" ment as possibly farther off
than ever as the wage-hour bill got
all tangled up with surplus agricul-
tural control and cotton loans in
what looked like hopeless mess.
With the Department of Agricul-
ture estimating a Is, 500, 000-bale cot
ton crop, about 100000 bales more
than can be consumed, Southern
representatives and senators were
demanding surplus crop loans. The
Commodity Credit corporation has
authority to make such loans.
In a press conference, President
Roosevelt indicated that he had no
intention of permitting 10-cent cot
ton loan until congress passed the
agricultural control program and
ever-normal granary bill which Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wallace says
is necessary before the new session
in January. Trouble is the house
committee doesn't know how to
write such bill and make it stick,
in view of the Supreme courts deci-
sion on the AAA.
Now the southern bloc has made
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
SHANGHAI Smells Smoke

z IRST clash of the Chinese CEN
L trail governments army with the
Japanese invaders occurred at his
toric Nankow pass in the Great
wall, 30 miles northwest of Peiping,
when the Eighty ninth division,
from the provinces of Suiyuan and
Shansi attacked the Japanese gar
rison.
Through this pass the Japanese
have been able to move reinforce
ments from Manchukuo, its protec-
torate, and the Chinese wanted to
gain control of it. They wiped out
whole battalion of Japanese sol
diers in the opening battle.
The Japanese opened up immedi-
ately afterward with heavy artillery
fire which the Chinese failed to re-
turn. Indeed the latter were silently
retreating into positions they
thought more secure. AS shells fell
in the city of Nankow, fires were
seen to arise from heavily. populat-
ed areas. The Chinese, however,
were said to be well equipped with
trench mortars with which to de-
fend the pass once they considered
their position satisfactory.
Japanese warned that all of their
forces in North China, some 10000
fighting men, would be loosed upon
the Chinese if they made any at
tempt to return to the old capital in
Peiping, now held by the invaders.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:


IT HERE is a map of the United
Il States in Bill Terry's Polo
grounds office with red pins mark
ing each city or hamlet that has q
ball club Are Sonia Henie and
Promoter JEFF Dickson about to in
dulge in a 50-G lawsuit? And, IL SO,
what's it all about? . Keep an
eye on little Jane Stanton, Califor-
MAS latest gift to tennis. There are
those who insist she will be even
better than Jacobs or Marble within
another year and anyhow it will be
treat for your eyes just looking at
her.
American horse owners are doing
well by themselves abroad. j. E.
Widener's two-year-old, Unbreaka-
BILE, won his third straight in the
Richmond Stakes and Ralph B.
Strassburger's Firozepore whipped
the best sprinters in Great Britain
at Goodwood recently When
the first international yacht race
was held between Great Britain
and the United States the British
took one look at the America, visit
ing boat, and absolutely refused to
bet. That may seem strange be-
havior for citizens who boast of
their craftsmanship, but it also was
wisdom. Although the home team
made everything as tough as pos
sible for the visitors, America won
easily.
Jimmy Dykes knows that he will
have to trade some of his pretty
pitchers next winter for a catcher
and outfield power to catch the YAM
KEGS in 1888 Prettiest pitcher
of the lot is Monty Stratton, who
throws overland, sidearm, under
hand and very we'll Coach
Billy Webb of the White Sox is al
most as accomplished sign-stealer
as Detroit's Del Baker You
don't want sign-stealers when you
play the Yankees, though You
want hOwitZers.
Ted Broadribb, manager of Tom
my Farr, claims to have another
heavyweight who some day may be
considerably better than the Welsh
man. This new sensation is still an
amateur but he is an Irisher and
his father is a cousin of Gene Tun-
ney's mother. His name-Lydon-
was Mrs. Tunney's maiden name
When the wealthy young Dun
bar w. Bostwick drove his Holly
wood Audrey in the Hambletonian
at Goshen recently he was the
second amateur ever to compete in
the classic. The first was John L.
Dodge of Lexington, KY Mid
weekly nomination for the worlds
worst bungling sports organization
the United States Golf associa-
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Rebels Press Santander

D EPORTS from the insurgent
IN command said that IS villages
and 1000 prisoners had been cap
tured by the rebels in their drive on
Santander and the tiny remaining
slice of the northern Spanish coast
held by the government. The gov
eminent admitted that some adj
vances had been made, but refused
to concede that General Francois
forces were threatening the main
defenses of the Santander area.
Franco, in his new drive, was u.s.
ing the same tactics which eventu-
ally brought about the downfall Of
Bilbao after siege of many
months. Bombing planes and artil-
lery were pounding the Notifications
while other airplanes poured ma
chine gun fire upon trenches and
dugoutS.
Insurgents planned the Santander
advance to require as little man.
power as possible, so as to leave
enough men at the Madrid front to
start separate offensive there if
necessary. They admitted the 10y
alists had caught them mapping with
an offensive west of Madrid in July,
causing them to abandon the Sam
lander drive temporarily, but de-
clared that "That will not happen
this time"
That all might not be going as
well as General Franco insisted was
indicated when he was forced into
the paradoxical act of Smelling one
of his own cities, Segovia. This was
done, it was reported, to quell a re-
bellion among the insurgent forces.
1t was also said that the insurrec-
ton had been spreading among sew
eral provinces.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

while preparing them for future
stardOm, Manush and English, vet
Grams with one final flash left IN
them, have sustained the club.
The truth is that the club is
worse off so far as developing ma
terial for a winner next season than
it was in 1886. The truth also is that
the front office is more interested in
applauding the rowdy behavior OF
it's special policemen and IN hound
ing little boys who chase baseballs
in the bleachers, than it is in inn
proving for 1888.
Sol am wondering about Burleigh
and his sad International Leaguers.
Stengel was fired and still is being
maid the SIS, 500 due him on his con-
tract, because his team played the
second best ball in the league from
July A until October 1, 1886.
National league ball players are
beginning to doubt the infallibility of
Umpire Bill Klem's decisions. They
continue to plug Dolly Stark as the
best in the business except when he
gets excited. Beans Reardon's work
behind the plate, Babe Pinelli's
snappy doings on the bases and
George Magerkurth's all-around ca
pability also receive kind words.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Purge Toll to Date: 800

CEVENTY-TWO Russians in East
y Siberia were lined up and shot
by the government, bringing the to-
tai number of eastern executions in
Russia's purge of "Trotzkyists'' to
800. The u, described as rightist
terrorists, were charged with op-
Grating along the Siberian railroad
for the japanese secret service.
It was alleged the accused had
wrecked train, killing IA persons
and injuring 40.
Arrests of officials in charge of
various branches of the Soviet econ
omy who had failed to make their
production quotas continued.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
II Still Wasn't War

n
" who is credited with the re-
markable observation that "war is
hell" Now the 1900 Yanks in the
North China danger zone are agreed
that while the current unpleasant
ness" may not be official war in
the eyes of the Japanese govern
ment, it surely is the other thing.
With shrapnel raining around
their ears, Americans in Shanghai
prepared to leave while the leaving
was good, and the U. S. S. Augusta,
flagship of Uncle Sans China
squadron, stood by to help them
make their getaway, as the great
city of 3,500,0 900 inhabitants sweated
in crisis that threatened greater
destruction than the fighting of 1882.
At least three Americans were
killed in the opening skirmishes,
along with about 900 others, mostly
Chinese. Yet the American State
department indicated that the Unit
ed States had no intention of becom-
ing involved, even if some American
lives were lost.
The gravest situation in the unde-
clared war to date arose when three
Chinese bombing planes attacked
the Idzuno, Japanese flagship, as it
lay in the northern end of the Bund.
The bombs missed their mark, but
they drew the fire of the Japanese,
and it was not long before consid-
cradle areas of Shanghai were set
af1ame by the incendiary shells.
Ironically enough, most of the
damage and loss of life was caused
by the Chinese themselves. Chinese
planes zoomed over the city in the
direction of the japanese ships, to
the cheers of the populace, still
mindful of the fact that the out
come of the 1882 affair might have
been different had the Chinese
owned military planes at that time.
But the cheers turned suddenly into
screams of horror as bombs began
dropping not upon the hated enemy,
but upon defenselsss Chinese civil
ians who filled the native quarters
streets.
Frightful were the scenes which
filed the bombed area, as 1900
dead and wounded lay about, some
of them blown to bits. Explanation
for the slaughter, as prepared by
Nine. Chang Kai-shek, wife of the
Chinese dictator, was that the men
flying the bombers had been wound
ed by Japanese anti-aircraft and
machine guns and their planes had
been so crippled that the bombs
were released Internationally before
the f1iers reached their objective.
Two of the airmen were killed.
The planes of destruction had
been purchased in the United States.
However, the opinion of members
of the United States senate commit
tee on foreign affairs was that
statement expected from President
Roosevelt would not involve the neu-
trality act, with it's power to outlaw
the sale of arms and the extension
of credits to belligerent nations.
Japanese authorities continued to
insist that they meant no harm to
the Chinese people, and that their
aim was still for the Cooperation"
of China, Manchukuo and Japan.
They also revealed that voluntary
contributions to the nations war
chest, coming from all over Japan,
had reached total of $2,500,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Dodgers on Downgrade:
1887 Prospects Poor

What is going to happen to Bur-
leigh Grimes next season even if the
present owners do continue to fiout
the best interests of baseball by
holding onto the Dodgers?
While wondering, I am not trying
to rap the unshaven gentleman who
has managed to get himself thrown
out of almost as many ball games as
his team has won this season. But
facts are facts.
A few of these facts are that the
Dodgers are not as strong and as
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

cording to his friends, today in debt.
The story went that he would be-
come an executive of the Pierce
Arrow Motor corporation, that 5000
new shares of stock would be deliv-
cred to him, and that he would also
be allowed to share in the 100000
stock purchase warrants.
Wonder if the Pierce-Arrow sales
force is watching the charts for
Maine and Vermont?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

been stymied on the
deal for two weeks
the Yanks bought
Blondy from Mil
waukee, ostensibly
for their Kansas
City farm, then sold
him to their Nation
al league rivals -.
If Joe Strip be-
hayes himself and
hastles he may be a
Giant next season
Jimmy Ripple
AIr iii L. ,~,.4
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

interesting as they
were twelve months
ago. The hustling
spirit displayed in
late July, August
and September of
1885 is missing in
spite of front office
manipulated bally-
hoo to the contrary.
The now ailing
Mungo, one or two
other pitchers for
whom Stengel took
A.. LJooH DocN NynaW
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27


his bat to come within foot of a
good ball.
That, so dugout gossip ran, was
because he was a swell guy and was
aiming at a record which would
stand for all time and could only be
made by him anyhow. Nothing you
could put your finger on maybe and,
in fact, nothing wrong with it even
if you could establish any truth in
the gossip. But baseball authorities
did do a bit of serious thinking and
strong limiting to their aides at the
time.
So-but even though that II in
September has stumped all the Geh-
rigs, Hornsbys and Wilson's since
then, there's no harm in trying.
Joe's a great kid as well as great
ballpIayer. Along with Ruth and a
few million other fans l say "mOre
power to him."
nodrare oy, DoxOnorade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

helplng him out a
bit. Not deliberately
tossing him home
run balls, you know,
but laying fast ones
down the middle in
stead of working
the corners. Pitch
ing to him in spots
where, during the
early season when
the pennant race
amounted to some
thing, they w o u ! d
vpnk hnUyA nA,NpHN IffnH
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

friends in Washing
ton say, and Jim
has not denied the
rumor, as he has
promptly d e n i e d
similar rumors in
the past. Farley, it
is said, seeks to re-
habilitate his per-
sonal fortunes. AS
postmaster general
he has lost $40, 1000 a
year over his salary
of S15 600 and is. ac-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

cy on the Supreme
court bench caused
by the retirement of
Justice Willis Van
Devanter. Senator
Black had not even
been mentioned for
consideration previ-
ously, and the APP
pointment was a
complete surprise to
his colleagues.
For 20 years it has
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

Baru&S pleuSeS SO as
to g2ble more Chi
nese territory let us
look at some records
closer home. Since
the republic was
formed we have de-
liberately broken 264
separate treaties with
the original Red own
ers of this land.
From these viola
tions of our solemn
promises border wars
E. 4
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
utt .
SS.CI1oobnb
Nlvvpb1 about
Japs Killing Cinnamon

Japs Killing Cinnamon
CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ The formula still holds good.
"A Jap kills Chinaman- That's
another dead Chinaman. A
Chinaman kills a Jap. That's q
war.
But before we get too busy de-
ploring Japan's little way of disre-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Rumor Has Farley Quit+ino

rs "Genial Jim" Farley going to
L resign as postmaster general to
become the executive head of an
automobile firm? That's what his
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Yankees Helped Giants
Get Blondy Ryan

The Giants freely admit that they
never would have been able to get
Blondy Ryan without the assistance
of the Yankees. After Terry had
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Nominee Draws Rebuke

w It'll his customary exercise of
w the dramatic, President Roose-
welt nominated Senator Hugo L.
Black (Dem., Ala.) to fill the vacan-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Field Days for Reds.

T Under the warming suns of toll
~ erance and Indifference and
even tacit encouragement in GER
tain quarters, many of our hot
house communists are changing
from the pallid, timorous fowerlets
of discomfort into full-blown advo-
Gates of the glad new age when
Lenin will take over Lincoh's niche
in the gallery of the immortals and
government everywhere will be of
the Trotskys, but the Trotslkys, for
the TrotSkyS., r-f ~4
True, there still remain some
wavering souls who are SO pink
they'd be red if they weren't so vel
But these quivering aspens shrink
in number as their holder comrades
openly profess the blessed doctrine
which is doing so much for the I'M
ldertaking business in Russia.
IRWIN S. COBB.
G-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Camera Shipping.

CNAPSE1OOTING of famous folks
~ from ambush may be upsetting
to the victims of the sniping, but
the subscribing public certainly gets
an illuminating eyeful every time
one of the Photographic magazines
appears. Ea
I've just laid aside the current
copy of a periodical which could be
called either "The Weekly Expose"
or "Stop, Look and Laugh" Among
other fascinating, not to say Illusion
ing, Illustrations, ! note the follow
ing: $500 H.
A reigning movie queen with her
mouth so wide open that her face
looked like a gates ajar" design.
If I had tonsils like hers, I'd have
'em right out. i-'. '1 "a
A political idol taken in brief
one-piece bathing suit. Next time
they snap him, he would be well
advised to wear more than mere
g-string. A Mother Hubbard would
be better. Or, anyhow, toga. A
statesman is greatly handicapped
when he suggests barrel of leaf
lard with the slaves knocked out.
A closeup of Mr.. John L. Lewis
with the lips pouting out and con-
gested expression. Would not this
tend to confirm the impression that
lately Mr.. Lewis bit off more than
he could chew?
This candid camera stuff is trans
iating into the pictorial fact the
nightmare all of us have habitat
horrid dream of being caught out
doors with practically nothing on.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
NesUs ReUieU of Current EUents

YANKS DESERT SHANGHAI
Bombs, Shells Rain Death !. Sen. Black Nominated
For Court Post White House Legislation Snagged
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27

When the Indians started fighting we
called it an uprising. When we sent
troops forth to slaughter the Indians
it was a punitive expedition to re-
store law and order. If the white
soldiers wiped out the Indians that
was a battle. If the Indians wiped
out the soldiers that was massa-
ere.
Those who make history rarely
get square deal from those who
write history.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-27
Keeping Underc0ver.


THIS is the land where, in self
i protection, you hide your place
of residence and have your tele-
phone privately listed. The result
is, if your aged grandmother hap
pens along and doesn't know your
address, she can never reach you,
but any smart stranger may APP
preach the right party-let us call
him 'phone-legger-and, by pay
ment of a small fee, get the number
instantly. o.
So, in about two calls out of three,
you answer the ring to find at the
other end of the line somebody with
a neat little scheme, because here
in movieland neat little schemes
grow on every bush and gentlemen
promoting them are equally numer-
Gus. s~i- ~-
Through long suffering, I've be-
come hardened to this, but today
over the wire came winning voice
saying the speaker desired to give
me, as he put it, "a checking over
for white termites."
I admit to a touch of dandruff and
there have been times when sus-
pected f1eas-we excel in fieas on
this coast-but I resent the idea of
also being infested with white ter
mites.
I've about decided that, to mod
ern civilization, telephones are what
coolies are to a war-nobody likes
''em, but everybody has 'em.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Will These Be Counted?

Drifters on the socioI seos-the hobtuoIIy iobIess
ond homeess-present problem in thot greet notionoI
undertaking Of counting Of the unemployed.
Without even 9enerol delivery address, they "un
known to the Post Office Department. Their unem
pIoyed census cord will have to be honded to them
and it will toke persons wise in the drfters woys and
wondernes to eoteh up with some Of these types and
bring them into the stotsteo picture Uncle Som wonts
Evening star., 1937-11-07

Are you suffering from an
itching, burning, irritated
skin? There no need to. For
80 years Zemo has brought
welcome relief to millions of
sufferers. Because of its rare
ingredients, Zemo usually
cools, soothes and relieves
the itching of Eczema, Sim
pie Rashes, Pimples, Ring
worm and similar annoying
skin irritations promptly.
Buy Zemo today All drug
gists' ,35e, 60s. 81 .Approvedby
Good Housekeeping Bureau.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

(Left) Dinners
on the fire. Here's
q fleeing chance
for q couple Of
tn ose c e n S US
cords to get filled
out.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

Will the census
toker wake them?
Hord heorted
thought! It wos
too { lily for
sleep the night
before.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-08
RAINBOW OFFICERS

Attention. If Quarantine is lifted there will be a practice at l sharp on Saturday afternoon.
 adv. L. SHEARER, Recorder
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-08

ka since he first went to Nome in 1907, coming out to see service in the Army in 1917 and then back again to the diggings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-08
NOTICE

Scottish Rite Masons. Regular Friday evening, 7;3O. Full atten- dance desired. adv