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The Washington times., 1937-07-09
ISLANDER SEES HOPE

A better than Robinson Crusoe
existence is facing Amelia Ear
hart and her navigator, Fred
Noon, if they are on one Of the
coral reefs south of Rowland
Island, according to Samuel w.
King, congressional delegate from
Hawaii, who once served as a naval
officer on an expedition to the
area now being searched.
The endurance of the persons
stranded would be the deciding
factor, King said, but natural food
is available and pure water can
be dug from inland wells, he said.
Rains are frequent and sea food
in the form of crabs and fish
abound in the waters surrounding
the islands.
AS commander Of a scientific
exploratory voyage to the How
land group in 1924, King brought
his ship, the U. S. S. WhipporWill
into the reef-ridden islets whose
position on the map is still marked
"P. D." position in doubt.D
King would not speculate on
which of the coral groups the
filters might have landed for fear
of confusing the searching parties.
He pointed out that Rowland is
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
MINE E XPER7
WARNS OF
WASTE

NEW YORK.-The national re-
sources of coal, oil and gas, with
out which our highly mechanical
civilization could not survive, are
dwindling so rapidly that industry
may begin to feel "the cramping
hand" of a shortage Of some fuels
within a decade or two, DR.. Arno
c. Fieldner, chief of the technol-
ogic branch of the United States
Bureau of Mines, warns.
Speaking as president Of the
American Society for Testing Ma
terials, at that organizations open
ing session of its fortieth annual
convention, DR.. Fieldner urged "a
more rational" utilization of our
fuel reserves. WaSteful consump-
ton, he pointed out, is an impor-
tant factor in depicting fuel re-
sources and the avoidance of such
unnecessary losses" would push
the day of ultimate reckoning
with a shortage farther into the
future.
Use of Coal Cut
DR.. Fieldner did not paint an
altogether dark picture Of the ma
tons outlook for future fuel sup
plies. He pointed out that many
millions of dollars are being spent
annually toward the development
of more efficient techniques, both
for obtaining and utilizing fuel.
AS an example, he explained that
in 1919, 80 pounds Of coal were
consumed to produce one kilowatt-
hour of electricity, whereas today
the most efficient modern power
stations can generate the same
amount of electricity by conSum-
ing only 0.8 pounds of coal.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

eve expect to continue to OPP
crate as we have in the past.
Neither the pilots nor the OPP
orators, nor the Bureau of Air
Of Commerce have complained
to us of the facilities offered
at the Washington Airport"
Spurred to action by the pilots
ultimatum refusing to land planes
at the Washington Airport at the
expiration of a 60-day period Of
grace, the Washington Airport
Commission today was scheduled
to report to Congress on the Sc
lection of a site for a new munici-
pal airport - either at Camp
Springs, Md, or in Montgomery
county.
The report, decided on yester-
day after the ultimatum was is
sued by the Air Line Pilots ASso-
citation, was to be presented Off
cially to the president Of the
Senate and the Speaker of the
House.
Bound by law to secrecy until
the report is in the hands of Con-
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
DISTRICT AIRPORT IS DEFENDED

gresS, the commission would not
divulge the results of its two-and-
a-half-year deliberations, although
indications were that it had de-
cided against the Gravelley Point
site in favor of one of the other
Maryland sites.
The commission meeting was
held subsequent to the revelation
of the pilots threatened "strike,"
under the terms of which they
will immediately refuse to land
Douglas IA and 81 passenger
planes at the Washington Airport
except under the best weather
conditions, and that at the end
of go days they will discontinue
the use Of the Washington Air
port altogether.
The announcement Of the ulti-
matum was made in a letter to
Fred D. Fagg, jr., director Of the
Bureau of Air Commerce, by David
L. Behncke, president Of the pilots
association, in which the local air
port was described as the worst
major landing field in the country.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
CONTINUED from Page u

ably a greater number than any
commercial field has ever han
died. This perfect safety record
has been maintained day in and
day out for a period of years.
Even with the most skilled per-
sonnet, If the airport had serious
shortcomings accidents would
happen. However, nothing has
happened.
PROUD OF RECORD
Tin my opinion the airport
has performed very useful pub
lie service with a splendid rec
ord. Pilots and other personnel
have, Of course, contributed to
this safety record. If Military
Road were closed and the lagoon
were filled, other improvements
could be made that would in
crease the facilities of the air.
port.
Its perfect safety record,
however, could not be improved
upon.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

cisco frances insurgent forces.
In a statement to a plenary ses-
sion of the International Non.
Intervention Committee, Charles
Corbin, French ambassador, de-
manded this step be taken with
out delay"
If it is not. he said, France will
withdraw recognition of the for
eign observers now posted on the
French side of the Pyrenees TO
prevent material aid for SPANS
loyalists from crossing the from
tier.
German Plan Rejected
The recent Italo-German com.
promise neutrality plan embrac-
ing the granting of belligerent
rights to the warning factions in
Spain is unacceptable to France,
Corbin said, partly because it
would destroy the equilibrium Of
land and sea control and partly
because it is equitable neither to
Spain nor the powers. He said:
Ear from Strengthening con-
troll, the ItalO-German plan
would weaken and ruin It,"
"SOme form of naval control
must be continued.
eff it cannot be maintained
outside the harbOrs of disem-
barkation, then it must be done
inside"
Celebrating on the French attl'
tude toward the Italo-G German
plan, Corbin said it might be &C.
ceptable to France as far as
the land control factors are con-
cerned, providing it is made ap-
plicable to all nations.
France Adamant
Corbin stated France would
steadfastly maintain its own view
point but remained willing to
examine any proposals viii C h
might form a basis for agreement.
With Frances adamant stand
solidifying the deadlock, Britain
was encountering difficulties in
her plan to Sidetrack the issue
to subcommittee of neutral
powers, the latter apparently
showing no desire to assume the
burden.
Britain and Soviet Russia fol-
lowed France in rejecting the
Italo- German plan, while German
and Italian representatives sought
to prove it a fair solution.
Ivan Maisky, Soviet envoy, as
sailed the proposal as "deliber-
ately one-sided."
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Chamberlain Makes
Friendship Bid to Nazis

LONDON, July 9 (U.s0.-Brit-
iSh Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain, in a significant speech
last night, voiced an open bid for
Germany's friendship as one
means of preventing SPANS civil
war from spreading into an Euro
pean conflict.
The prime minister's words.
spoken before an audience Of
thousands in London's Albert Hall,
were believed to reflect a British
move to separate Chancellor Hit
Ter from his solid front with Pre-
mier MuSsolini in the Spanish
crisis.
Chamberlain, in effect, invited
Hitler to send German Foreign
Minister Konstantin Won Neurath
to London for conversations to
explore our difficult problems in
a friendly and helpful spirit"
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Drama Broadcast
Mistaken for Message

SAN FRANCISCO, July 9
0.N.S0.-Authenticity of a re-
port by a Hilo (HawaiD radio
operator that he had picked up
a message from Amelia Earhart
and Fred Noonan, missing filters,
was diScredited by the Coast
Guard radio station at Fort
Funston here. which intercepted
the message early today.
The Coast Guard said the
operator apparently heard the
March of Time" broadcast from
Station KGMB in Honolulu
which presented a dramatized
version of the Earhart search.
ARLINGTON, Mass, July 9
TN.SO.-"This is Amelia Ear
hart. The weather is getting wet.
This is KMAQ" Joseph w.
Kenna, Arlington Heights, re-
ported today that he and two
friends at his home late last night
heard this message on his short
wave radio. Miss Earhart's call
letters are KHAQQ.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

half the distance 10 the SUM-
DR.. Fred L. Whipple, Harvard
astronmer, said the maximum bril-
lance would occur about August
10. The comet is now a "conspicu-
Gus" object, he said, but whether
or not it has a tail is not yet
known.
The new comet is not as diff
fuse as Peltier's comet, which last
year approached nearer the earth
than this one is expected to, but
Peltier's was much smaller.
DR.. Whipple said the comet
would first appear as small hazy
star in the constellation PerSeus,
and would move northward until
in August it would be found is
degrees below the Pole star and
would be visible at midnight.
At mid-August, it should near
the second star in the handle OF
the Big Dipper, Whipple said, and
should be moving at the rate OF
five degrees a day across the sky.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
ALF0NS0'S SON
SPAIN-B0UND

HAVANA, July 9 0.NS)-The
Count of Covadonga, disowned son
of former King Alfonso of Spain,
has received four cables from
SPANS insurgent generalissimo.
Francisco Franco, urging him to
return to Spain, according to an
announcement today by the
counts English secretary, Jack
Fleming.
Fleming declared the count plans
to leave for Spain August 3 via
Southern France. He claimed it
was highly probable" Covadonga
would become King of Spain.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
GreenLee TO Direct
SchenIeY Promotion

Walter R. Greenlee left Wash
ington today for New York after
a days visit here on business.
simultaneously the Schenley Prod
ucts Company announced his APP
pointment as their vice president
in charge of the newly-consol-
dated advertising and sales pro-
motion department.
A native of Minnesota, Gresnlee
was educated in Chicago and be-
came nationally known for his
advertising campaign featuring
the Bring Back Beer slogan.
He backed that campaign while
he was associated with the Pabst
Brewing Company.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Insurgents Claim Victories
On Three Spanish Fronts

SALAMANCA, Spain, July
U.N.SO.-Further insurgent sue
ceSses on the Madrid, Biscay
and Aragon fronts were claimed
today in an insurgent com
munique.
All government attacks in the
drive west and south of Madrid
we're repulsed and more than
200 loyaliSts were killed. the
statement said.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
RAINS HINDER
.EARHART HUNT
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Continued from Page II
somewhere between Rowland Is
land and the Phoenix group, we're
. unavailing. ......
The position of Winslow Reef
was charted as doubtful" 1t is
so small that it only juts from the
water a few feet and could easily
be covered from the eyes of the
scout aviators by breaking waves.
The Colorado's search of the
Phoenix group probably will be
completed tomorrow afternoon.
This was the original plan OF
Capt. Friedell-to search the tiny
group of islands until Saturday,
and then swing the search back
to the northern waters OF the
area-the vast sweep Of ocean
north of Rowland.
The aircraft carrier Lexington,
with 81 planes aboard and 300
crack Navy aviators, was expected
to steam southwark from Laha1na
Roads late today.
The big aircraft carrier which
sped from San Pedro with three
destroyers was still being refuelled.
When the Lexington reaches the
scene, some time late Sunday night
or Monday, its small army Of
planes will Scour an area Of zoe, 600
square miles, including the Phoenix
Islands.
ItaSca Continues Hunt
If the Lexington's planes do not
find any trace of the lost filters,
Admiral Murfin will feel that the
United States Navy can do no
more. He previously declared the
absolute deadline in the search
would be the report after the Lex
ington's planes have made their
search.
The Coast Guard cutter Itasca
continued to search the area
southwest of Rowland. The mine
sweeper Swan was concentrating
its efforts east of the island. The
Colorado was cruising south, mid
way between Rowland and the
Phoenix group.
Tells Of Message
Ray Ravens, a Conrad (Mont.)
creamery worker and amateur
radio operator, reported to Coast
Guardsmen in San Francisco that
he had picked up message which.
for the first time since the round
the-World filters were forced down
from fuel exhaustion nearly a week
ago, gave their position.
According to Ravens, Miss Ear
hart and Noonan are on an atoil
situated at 173 west longitude and
5 south latitude.
Feasibility was given Ravens
report by radio experts who have
maintained the plane was down
somewhere in the Phoenix Island
group approximately $50 miles
south and east of Rowland Island.
Belief Expressed
Ravens position would place the
disabled flying laboratory" at a
point between Sydney and Hull
Islands, Southernmost of the
Phoenix group and close to the
jagged Caropdelet Reef. He
claimed the message read:
position 173 west longitude
and S south latitude, Okay but
help needed"
So far radio experts and Coast
Guard and naval authorities have
placed little credence in amateur
radio reports, but they admitted to-
day that Ravens message must
be considered.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

approximately 1920 miles south
west of Honolulu, and that given
an even break, Miss Earhart and
her navigator, Noonan, might out
last the elements until their posi-
ton is located.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
France Ready 10 End
SDOniSh NeufrOIifu
BY KINGsBURY SMITH

LONDON July NSl France today threatened formally to abolish neutrality on her
established Immediately halt the steady flow munitions Grals Fran
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Giant Comet Visible
lTOBOre Eue Here Soon

CAMBRIDGE Mass July scientists today announced giant comet will become
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14
WALLY BERGER
 GETS RIDE IN
 BOSTON GAMES
Fans BOOh as CIOuter Strikes Out Four Times
 Against Cards
BY ERNEST BARCELLA fT1nifed Prass Stan Cnrresnoden1

United Press Stan COrrespOdent)
 Boston, June 14-(UP)-Hanging the Monday wash along the New England sports line:
 They ballyhooed it as another Joe Wood-Walter Johnson duel |. |. and yesterdays much publicized clash between Dizzy Dean and Bos- tons 30-year-old Rookie" Lou Fette at the local National League orchard turned out to be just that Even down to the final score.
 When Smokey Joe and the big train hooked up in their classic 25 years ago, Wood came out on top, 10 :. That was exactly the margin of the great Deans victory yester- day There was total of Il hits in the Wood-Johnson duel Dean and Fette were touched for 12 hits all told.
 Error Costly
 Had it not been for the rival shortstops, the game might be going yet The St. Louis Cards tallied their lone run on an error of mis- sion by Rabbit Warstler He neglected to tag second base in the second inning on simple double play that would have retired the side ScoreleSS Then, in the fourth frame, Lippy Leo Durocher, the West Springfield boy who made good as captain of the Cards, pro- ceeded to save the game for Dean and again Warstler figured in the play.
 Rabbit reached second on an er- TOT and failed to make third on a long flyout Tony Cuccinello sent scorching drive between third and short that would have scored Warst- Ter But Durocher dove at the ball and managed to stop it, hold ing Warstler to third.
 Dean may be pestiferous gent with all his popping off, but none can question his drawing power in five days, he pulled a total of ST. 900 customers .. There were 55,- 900 at the bee hive yesterday
 While Joe DiMaggio was bashing out three home runs in one game for the Tanks out at St. Louis, his brother Vince struck out as many times in the first game against the Cards here Vince was benched for the second game, Manager Bill McKechnie undoubtedly recalling that the last time DiMaggio faced Dean here, Vince whiffed four times in row.
 Berger Taken For Ride Wally Berger, home run hero of BoSton's National League fans, also was in the doghouse ;. Cheers turned to boohs every time he step- ped up to the plate. He famed four times in the two games ano hit the ball ou tof the infield only once in eight tries.
 Comedy relief during the other wise tense action was furnished by Joe Medwick and Pepper Martin =. Medwick went far out of the way to use Berger's glove as cus- pidor every time he walked out to his left field station And Pep per vowed 'em with his snap un- derhand heaves from center field.
 The customers got little joy out of Boston's double defeat But those who occupied the bleachers and a pavilion pews went home with good SCnburn. anyway
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14
Today's Sport
 Parade
By HENRY McLEMORE
Limited Press Stan Correspondent,

1 play with the entire U. s. navy and all its 14-inch guns.
 When\ Guldahl stood on the 10th tee, with 10000 people at his ten- dons, he knew that he had to shoot the last nine holes of one of the worlds toughest layouts without making a single mistake. With the exception of Sammy Snead and Bobby Cruickshank, who were safe and sound in the clubhouse with 72-hole totals of 283 and 285, re- spectively, all the other prize petu- t1ias had died on the vine. 1 Nobody had a better right to reel than Brother Guldahl. It meant a helluva lot to him. He was gunning for 1000 bucks, a Ryder cup team berth and 8 chance for easy living he hadn't had since Lord knows when. To show he was human, he blew the 10th, just as Bobby Jones had blown it and the title 13 years ago in the same spot. To go Jones one better, he blew the 11th. But from there in he had the nerve of a burglar and the touch of 8 pick pocket.
 That is how Guldahl won. This makes him 8 great guy for all of 12 months. And this time next year I'll be telling you about a gent named Jasper who jolted Guldahl and made Ralph's 281 look just as inept as Ralph did Horace's 173. That is, if am alive next year and haven't been toted of to my reward in a direction which I fear is due south.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14
LAWN ASSOCIATION
 PICK WOMEN STARS

New York, June 14.-CUP) The U. s. Lawn Tennis association named nine of the country's most prominent women tennis players to- day to try out for the Wightman cup team which meets team of British players in international matches at Forest Hills, August 20- 21.
 The former worlds ranking play CT, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, headed the list, but unranked because of lack of competition last year, Mrs. Moody said she did not expect to accept the invitation, ard that so far she had no plans for playing in the women's nationals.
 The other players requested to practice frequently and get ready physically were National Champion Alice Marble, Wimbledon champion, Helen Jacobs .Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan. Mira. Marjorie 0lAdmsn Van Ryn. Carolin Babcock, Helen pedersen. Dorothy May BlIndy and 0racyn Wheeler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14

Detroit, June 14-(UP)-On a balmy October day in 1895, one MT. Horace Rawlins won the first na- tional open golf championship with a magnificently wrought 173 for the 36 hole ordeal.
 When Horace paid of his caddy and posted his phenomental score, his Newport admirers undoubtedly rushed him into the clubhouse, or dered champagne, thumped his shoulder and gushed, Horace. how did you do it?"
 That is what am wondering to- day as lie stretched out in my divan and ponder on the score with which Ralph Guldahl won the 1937 open championship. Guldahl, a stoop shouldered Chicagoan, via Dallas, Texas, and Oslo, Norway won the '37 with 281. While they have doubled the distance since the redoubtable Horace was hacking with his baffy and jigger, little Felix in the last row of the third grade for underprivileged children could quickly estimate on his abacus that Guldahl was 65 strokes superior to Rawlins. For Horace, had he been playing 72 instead of 36 holes, would have wound up with an inelegant 346 and he'd have been asked to use the tradesmen's en- trance in leaving.
 This, my little chickadees, gives you 8 rough idea of how they have stepped up the game of golf in AZ years. Guldahl was playing over a course that would have made Hor- aces look as hazardous as the par Tor Administer. Guldahl's course was more than 1000 yards long, trapped like muskrat area in upper Canada and had rough on 1t that would have caused Horace to impale him. self on his clerk.
 I do not know whether 1t Is the man or the merchandise, that has been needle so much since 1895. Per- haps it is little of both. There is no denying that Guldahl had in his bag every implement of modern war fare, while poor old Horace had to rely upon a few homemade irons and woods that you wouldn't beat a rug with these days. Horace may have been a hot shot, but I doubt if he could have matched Guldahps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14
GREAT DIAMOND FEATS
 THIS DATE
.BY BRACE E. JARRETT
Kauff Cheated Jimmy Lavender Out of No.I1t Game
June IA. 1916, at New York

June IA, 1916, at New York (This is the best individual pitching
 performance for June IA
 Had a slower man than Benny Kauff hit an infield bounder over Jimmy Lavender's head in the seventh, or put it this way: had Kauff been no faster than the average ballplayer when he poked this scratch hit, Lavender would now be resting alongside the no-run, no-hit celebrities.
 In depriving Lavender of this honor 1t was necessary for Kauff to put on an extra burst of speed, for when the ball hopped over Jim u,y's head it was relayed to Safer by Mulligan with much speed and precision thta Benny saw her had to hustle, and in doing so strained a tendon and had to retire from the game.
 Lavender permitted only two drives to pass the infield, both out- field flies. He did not issue walk. although he did hit three batsmen.
 Though Lavender's work in sub- duinR the Giants was a marvellous performance, Mathewson was pitch ina d rare article of ball himself, allowing eight scattered singles and nr1e walk. The Cubs won 4 to o, but saeetd fielding was responsible for host Of these runs of the "Old Master" an unusual proceeding, as ae Giants generally tighten and are 0n tlieir mettle when Chfisty . ritchine. The Score: