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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-01
TAKE
PILL DIET TEST

LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. l U.N.So.
Pili.swallowing marathon has been
the diet of the University of Ne
braska pharmacy students for the
past few weeks, with volunteer
students offering their time and
digestive tracts for photograph in
spection to find out how long it
takes for a pill of a certain kind
to disappear from the patients
stomach.
Prof. F. S. Bukey, of the phar-
macy college, is the idea man. So
far he has caused the volunteers
of his human guinea pig army to
swallow 8O2 pills, become subjects
of 204 laboratory experiments,
and pose for 568 photographs.
There appears to be an in
crease in the length of time the
pills would remain in a subjects
stomach as the day progresses"
he said in reporting his findings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-01

AuOLlOIlGy CISdCCN Wy NOAASAN'S
enactment of the Wagner-Steagall
law at the last session of con-
gresS.
LIMITS ON COSTS
His estate" consists of 40 PWA-
built, low-rent housing projects.
That, however, is only one OF the
headaches"
He will have an operating
capital of 100000 for the next
three years to try to encourage
states, municipalities and COM
munities to build more low-rent
housing projects for families OF
low income.
One of the chief headaches" in
that program is that the law limits
cost of construction for such prof.
ects to $4,000 per family unit and
$1,000 per room in cities of less
than 100000 population, and
$4,000 per family unit and $3.50
per room in cities of more than
100000 population.
COSTS RUN HIGHER
In all of its projects, with three
years OF effort, PWA has been able
to build only one project at a cost
per room of less than $1,000, eX-
cept for it's small native built
projects in Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands, and control of
these is being retained by Secre-
tary of the Interior Ickes by execu-
tive order of President Roosevelt.
The one built at less than 81 900
per room cost was the Paterson
Court apartments at Montgomery,
Ala, containing 1856 units totaling
524 rooms. The per room cost
was 1892.
But the average per room cost
for all of the PWA housing prof.
ects, including the low-cost projects
in Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands, was $1,719.27, and the
average unit cost per family was
$6,155.o9.
RENT SCALES PROBLEM
Another headache" confronting
Administrator Straus will be the
fixing of rent scales for Is of the
PWA projects which have been
completed, or are nearing COM
pletion. Rent scales for 20 of the
projects have been fixed, besides
those in Puerto Rico and the Vir-
gin Islands. Fourteen are not
near enough completion for con-
Sideration Of the rent scales.
PWA rent scales were fixed on
basis of deducting As per cent
Of the cost as a Federal grant,
then fixing the rents to repay the
government SIS per cent of the
cost, over a period of go years
with interest at 312 per cent.
Under the Wagner-Steagall act
the new housing authority may
make annual subsidies Of 3 pei
cent of the construction cost as
a means of maintaining rents
within the reach of !ow-income
families. This, according to PWA
engineers, will enable the new au
ti1ority to make lower rent scales
than were possible under PWA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-01
STRAUS READY
TO TAKE over.
USHA PROBLEMS
$1,000 Cost Limit Per
Room Is Headache
BY L. w. MEREDITH

uN.S.). Heir" 70 $I34,.
033, 400 federally-built est a t e,
Nathan Straus, New York philan-
thropist and business man, will
come to Washington tomorrow to
face-a lot of headaches.
Straus is the new administrator
of the United States Housing
Authority created by Congress
enactment of the Wagner-Steagall
law at the last session of con-
gress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
SHE IS TOPS
No. 1 Soprano Fan Is Loyal to Browns for Sixty
 Years

ST. LOIS, Jan. 26-Miss Anna Oberbeck, 72, can rightly lay claim of being baseball's No. l woman fan" She is loyal to those kicked about St. Louis Browns.
 Dropping into the office of the American League baseball club re- gently to buy 10 shares of the stock the new owners offered to the public, she said she had followed the Browns for 50 years.
 She stands up for the team against it's critics.
 One day last season three men sitting behind me were raging the Browns" she said, particularly Jim Bottomley. Well, I stood it until the fourth inning and then turn ed around and told them that if all they could do was razz the team. they should stay at home.
 They were a bit more quiet after that"
 Miss Oberbeck will be guest of honor when the Browns open their home season next spring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

Missouri college of agriculture and the state highway department in sponsoring Dr. Winterkorns experi- ments.
 There are three way. 10 use the mixture in road building. It can be spread on the surface of a dirt road in much the same manner as oil at a cost of $250 mile; mixed with soil loosened to depth of six inches at cost of $4,000 mile; or mixed with soil in a mixing machine and pressed into play with roller.
 The last method. Winterkorn says, would cost around $6,000 a mile, but would provide durable base that should last IA years or more. Tn each method a wearing surface of an eighth of an inch of asphalt or gravel is applied. W
 Before coming to the United States in 1881, Winterkorn was as- sociated in research work with lead- ing German scientists.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
Use COrnStaIkS
 to Build Roads
 Being Advocated
Chemist Is Now Conducting Laboratory Test to Bear
 Out His Scheme
By HOWARD L. ERICKLEY

COLUMBIA, Mo. Jan. 26,-High- ways built from waste farm pro- ducts are the goal of Dr. Hans Win terkorn, assistant professor of soils at the University of Missouri.
 Winterkorn discovered that fur fural, fluid obtained by distilling cornstalks, bran and other cereal hulls, has great potential value as a cement in the construction of semi flexible roads
 Furfural was developed by sci entists several years ago, but the soils specialist here is the first to investigate it's possibilities as a paw ng material.
 Used Tn Argentina When mixed with soil, Winter korn says, the fluid forms a hard cake possessing tensile strength of 200 pounds per square inch. Fur fural-treated soil cubes have with stood 36-day water tests without noticeable disintegration. The chief obstacle to develop ment of the distillate for use as a highway base, the chemist says, is the present cost as compared with he lower priced industrial mixtures made from bituminous asphalt and tar.
 Where bituminous asphalt and tar products obtained from coa are relative scarce and farm waste products abundant, furfural dis tiled from the latter may prove eco- nomically more advantageous he explains. Such situation exists in Argentina"
 The Argentine government is CO., operating with the United Gates department of agriculture, tn e
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
WEATHERLY HAD
 HARD FIGHT TO GET TO MAJORS
But Now He Is One of Am erican Loops Best Slug
 gers Watch Him
By FELIX MCKNIGHT

BEAUMONT, Tex, Jan. 26.-Five years ago a youngster of scarcely Is, tugging pair of overall pants held to his slender waist by rope, walked into MT. Rube Stuart's baseball stadium here.
 To say he attracted little atten- tion would be a gross misState- ment. He attracted practically no attention at all.
 Roy Weatherly, who had just left his home town Honey Island way, except for those overall pants, rope and blue work shirt, was just another hopeful performing at the Beaumont Exporters rookie school. He encased his feet in ancient baseball shoes, obviously hand-me- downs, that threatened to fly apart with every step he took. The tattered glove he wore on his left hand was patched with adhesive tape. For several days he shagged fly balls in the outfield -and shagged them well. Then came his turn at the plate.
 That's His Start i That was the start of young ster who became the Cleveland In- dians' prize rookie outfielder and hitter of 1886 and of whom much lis expected in his sophomore" year
 l Beaumont, productive farm of the Detroit Tiger system which has sent along Hank Greenberg, Lynwood tSchoolboyJ Rowe, Jo-Jo White, Pete Fox and many others, didn't completely ignore Weatherly. But it did miss bet.
 Weatherly's performance won him trial with Fort Smith of the Western ssociation. He Topped mis- erably there
 Next season he tried again and landed a place on the Opelousas, La., semi-pro team. He never quit thinking of his failure with Beau mont, however, and confided in one of his mates he was about fed up with baseball and was going to quit"
 A little persuasion kept Wealth erly in baseball, however, and he started his comeback.
 Crashes the Southern
 He went down to New Orleans of the Southern Association, a Cleveland unit, made good and at l2l was hustled off to Cleveland.
 He rode the bench for quite a time, but finally got into the line . up and lusty hitting kept him there. He is one of the American loops best sluggers today with a 1886 batting average of 335 in 84 games.
 Detroit and it's Beaumont farm, where crafty Jack Zeller keeps a weather eye peeled for youngster stars, have missed few bets in the last few years-but they still hear about Roy Weatherly down here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
AL
 FOOTBAL ONLY POST GRADUATE
Just Another Step for Col lege Players, Declares Red Grange

HOUSTON, Tex. Jan. 26-Pro- fessional football is nothing more than post graduate" work for col lege men, according to H Harold CRed Grange, acting coach of the Chicago Bears, pro team.
 The games are remarkably alike" says Grange. You have to be much better and more versatile to play pro football but we treat our players like the colleges do. If they are injured, salaries con- tinue and all hospital expenses are paid Training rules are just as rigid.
 T could call the names of two or three men who would have been great professional stars. But they wouldn't train. And soon we drop ped them from the squad-just like a college coach would do."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
AUTO BREAKS DEBRIS
 BACK; HIT NIGHT TIME
(Ketchikan Chonicle)


 A deer, it's back believed broken by an automobile, was found on the Ward cove trail about a mile and a half above the first lake. The animal, two or three-point buck. was found in the ditch alongside the road by a CCC worker, Allen Sallee, who was on his way to work Saturday morning.
 The animal was still alive when found and Sallee, after attempting several times to get it on it's feet, killed 1t with a wrench. He report ed the incident to w. R. Selfridge, game warden. who said that all evidence indicates that the deer was run down by motorist Fri day night before the heavy snow.
 After reporting to the game warden, MT. Sallee and MT. Self ridge returned to the scene where they skinned the deer to see If 1t had been shot There were no bull let wounds, but the bucks back was found to be broken. It ap- parently had been struck by fast moving car and was either knocked or fell off the road into the ditch below.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
EMBARRASSED

PALESTINE, Tex, Jan. 26.-Hus- ky D. M Telford, East Texas bas- ketball official, was embarrassed
 It happened this way.
 He placed his conventional strip ed shirt, knickers and basketball shoes in a leather bag, boarded a bus and started for Grapeland to officiate at high school basket ball game.
 He arrived on schedule, hurried to the mems dressing room and started to dress He opened the bag and pulled out, to his chagrin, a varied assortment of women's pink underclothing.
 Game time neared and team coaches pushed Telford, but he de- clined to wear the feminine regalia. His bag, with the cage equipment, exactly matched that of another accidentally carried off the bus.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
They Pass;
 They Pray
Latter Day Saints Church Takes Religion to Youth
 Via Basketball

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 26.-Tht Latter Day Saints Church carries religion to youth to the tune ol bouncing basketball.
 Some l2,000 young men partici. pate in its gigantic league, said tt be the largest in the world.
 To be eligible for play, boys mus attend at least two weekly meet. ings a month of the Mutual I'm provement Association, an auxil. iary.
 Organized in 1920 by group o1 church officials determined to rem edy a falling away" among young men IT to 24, the league soon gain- ed foothold throughout Utah and spread to all parts of the globe where the church has missions and branches.
 College Athletes Barred
 Homer Warner, athletic director of the church, terms the plan a huge success"
 Basketball attracted many young men reluctant to attend church because of bad habits" he says. Participation in athletics encour- ages them to overcome these hab- it's. They also benefit from religious instruction at the meetings"
 League rules bar college and jun for college lettermen-'to give the little fellow a chance" says Warner.
 Approximately 1900 ward teams of 10 players each compete in stake competition throughout the winter. Stake championships then fight it out in IA divisional tournaments, winners coming to Salt Lake City, capital of the church, in March to contest for gold medals for the titlists and silver medals for the 
 Baseball, Cricket, Too
 Last March's church-wide tour nament brought teams from Ari- zona, California and Canada, the remainder from Utah and Idaho. These divisional champions repre- sented no stakes and more than 300 wards.
 The 1936-37 program expanded to new territory, including the Mexican, Czechoslovakian and South African missions.
 Tn foreign countries, however, the missionaries include baseball and cricket in the sports program, also.
 Church officials invite non-mem- oers to join in the athletics, at the same time requiring attendance at auxiliary meetings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
Sport Stunts
-Bw PkP'

It is interesting that India n Broom, coast racing sensation of 1886, is rated the future book fav- orite for the $1OO,0O0 Santa Anita handicap at 10 to 1.
 Indian Broom went to the Ken lucky Derby last spring with a great reputation Earlier he had set new world mark for the mile and a furlong and was regarded as likely winner of the Blue Grass classic. The thoroughbred had sky reelected to prominence by his sen- sational victory in the Marchbank handicap over Top Row and Azu- car
 The coast champion did not come through in the Derby, finishing be- hind Bold Venture and Brevity. However the colt did very well the rest of the season out west.
 Incidentally, Indian Broom made that world mark under stirring ride by Jockey Basil James, the Sunnyside, Wash, apprentice who stepped out and won the 1886 rid ing honors. James booted home in first place 243 of the 1,101 mounts he took to the post. His big thrill was that record breaking ride aboard Indian Broom.
 Backing May Wane
 Being rated the future book fa- vorite at this early date does not necessarily mean Indian Broom will go to the post highly favored. A lot can happen to a thoroughbred in a few weeks. It is going to be very difficult to rate Indian Broom over Roman Soldier, Rosemont, Time Supply, Top Row and other outstanding runners.
 Santa Anita promoters wisely have refrained from trying to build up their rich handicap by import ing flock of ''big names"-the Cavalcades and Twenty Grands to be specific-just to add lustre to the entry list. The result is a far more interesting contest.
 Turf followers, quite humanly, welcome an opportunity to see in action the thoroughbreds they have heard and read about. But there is little to be gained by advertising the entries of these same thor oughbreds when there is little pos
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

Kent Ryan, durable Irishman from Utah State, generally was re- garded as the best collegiate ath- lete in the Rocky Mountain area last year. Ryan won a halfback post on the all-Rocky Mountain eleven for the third year and was named to the all-conference bas- ketball team at forward for the second time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
Sports Briefs

A track record set by Epithet in 1892 never will be broken. Epithet ran the Futurity course at the cen tury-old Kentucky Association track at Lexington that year in 1:08 3-5. Int track no longer exists.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

The birthday of John Underhill American colonist born in Warwick shire. England, is not known. He died in 1872.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

sibility that they will even go to the post, let alone give the fans 8 run for their money.
 Had No Alibi
 When Trainer Darrell Cannon re- turned to San Francisco with In dian Broom, immediately after the ntucky Derby, well-meaning friends tried to worm an alibi out of him. Cannon would have none of that
 We have no excuses to make" he said. We just couldn't beat the winner. Indian Broom is a fine colt, and before the summer is cut he will live up to all the promise he showed early in the spring.
 Indian Broom made good.
 Bold Venture passes out of the handicap picture with the an- nouncement that the 1886 Ken lucky Derby winner will stand in stud in Kentucky. His owner, Nor ton L. Schwartz, was prompted to make the decision after the cham pion failed to train well following long layoff caused by an injury.
 Bold Ventures passing into re- tirement follows close on the heels of one of his greatest rivals last year, Granville. Thus the two lead ing contenders for 1886 3-year-old honors pass out of competition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

Notre Dame and Butter basket ball teams have been meeting since 1909.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
NOTICE

The Rebekahs will hold their regular meeting Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 8 PM. in the Odd Fellows Hall. Installation of officers. All members are urged to attend.
 MILDRED CASHEN, -adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26
SPORTS HELD
 TO WESTWARD
Anchorage, Palmer Hockey and Basketball Teams
 in Tournament

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 26.-- The Anchorage Hockey team defeat ed the Palmer bunch here Saturday by score of 2 to l.
 The Palmer boys basketball team defeated Anchorage 24 to 21 but the Anchorage girls beat the Palmer girls "A to IA.
 Return games will be played next Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

Warren Wright, Chicago sports man, is owner of two winners of the Preakness. They are Nellie Morse, who triumphed in the Mary land classic in 1924, and Boston ian, victor in 1927.
 Because of congested conditions in the Michigan State College gym nasium, the backs and ends of the football team are getting their win ter training in a barn.
 William Stack, who will be a soph center on the '37 Yale eleven, as high school boy practiced with the Michigan State College grid ders
 Sickle, imported thoroughbred sire that topped the list of money winning stallions in 1886, got off to a good start in 1897 when Tenn pestuous, his 6-year-old son, won the Santa Anita New Years stakes.
 Suffering effects of an appen- dectomy, Paul Nowak, Notre Dame basketball center, scored only Il points in four games. Shaking off the effects, he rang the bell for 40 markers in his next four appear ances.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

It is estimated that today there are 10000 bowlers in New Jersey,
 Cklahom A. and M. teams had a winning percentage of .622 in all sports in 1886. Only in football did the Cowboys fall below the 500 mark.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-01-26

Empire ads are reao.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-12
ADRIAN BIG THREAT
TO u. S. CUP HOPES
Great Money Player Broke
Spine of Americas SO
Tennis Challenge.
BY JOHN LARDNER,

n YEW YORK, May l2-Australia
n is an even thing to block us
u off from the Davis Cup again,
A chiefly because an undressing,
chunky young fellow, whose tennis
shorts display the size and power of
his India-rubber legs, will play the
No. singles position for the team
from Down Under.
This is Adrian Quist. Quist, Jack
Crawford, Vivian McGrath and John
BromWich have just arrived at Forest
Hills to warm up for the North Amer
lean zone final with America team,
to be played May 30, 30 and 81. Nor
mally, the Australians would have
stayed at home this year
Travel money wasn't easy to get"
explains Clifford Sproule, their man.
ager, land with England holding the
cup and Fred Perry playing on the
English team, we had no great incen-
tive and no great chance to win. But
Perry turned pro. and it began to look
as though somebody else would beat
England if We didn't come up here
and do it ourselves. Right now we
have as good a chance for the cup
as anybody else.
I'VE beat America last year, and
we'll try to do 1t again. It's worth
an effort"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-12

harness horse classes, too long dead
here. Bit more public education to
these types tsome one should explain
them over the loud speaker as the
Army explains its dreSSage horses at
the American Show and they
will become a tremendously popular
feature. Certainly they lend variety,
color to program.
tb) The Washington Horse Show
Association was short on time in its
preparation for this years meet, had
not the opportunity to sod the ring,
build proper outside course, put up
the decorations. flags and Whatnot
that add so much to horse show as
a spectacle. Time is legitimate ex-
cuse, right enough, but next year let
US hear no more of it.
(c) The covered grandstand
Is vast improvement.
td) The committee worked
like mad to achieve something
that does not, after all, profit
Its members wit except in so
far as they may have the salts
faction of knowing they have
done public spirited thing.
(e) In conclusion, the show had
many and serious faults this year
but not because of lack of willing
ness in its directors. Next season
they, and the public as well, must
dedicate all efforts to enlareing the
virtues, increasing the receipts of q
worthy enterprise.
In 1888 should like to write under
the heading Debts" the all-inclusiye
word-"None."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-12
Quist Won for Australia,

IT WAS Quist who beat America last
year-not his famous colleague,
Jack Crawford. the man with the
Ratchet face and mighty waistline.
Quist snapped the spine of America S
challenge by routing Wilmer Allison,
our national champion, in the singles.
Then he elaborated with Crawford
in the all-important doubles match,
shouldered the burden when Crawford
faltered, and locked Don Bulge and
Gene Mako almost single handed
A few weeks ago reports were
emerging from the neighborhood of
Mexico that the Australian team
would rely this year on Vivian Nc
grath, its number one player" and
Crawford and Bromvich. 1 was sur
prised by this, wondering whether
Quist had been run down by an OK
cart or something After all, you can
not very well skip over a guy like
Quist.
It turns out that those reports were
literally laced with dizziness.
How could We do without Quist?"
OCiIldIluSd MdlldSel opI Jul Oll 1cdSll>
ing Forest Hills. Hes our chief
threat-cool as ice, always most
dangerous when the stakes are high.
You bet he'll be in there, unless he
drops dead"
This year, as before, the issue be-
tween America and Australia seems
to rest on the doubles match The
dope sheet indicates that Bulge. at
his best, can win two singles matches
If he loses one, there is an outside
chance that our No. singles player
can beat Australia's No 2, presumably
Crawford. One way or another we
figure to split the singles matches
two and two. That puts the matter
squarely up to the tandem depart
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