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The Washington times., 1938-01-21
U. S. Cage Team
For Tour Named

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 Q.N.S0.
The United States basketball team
that will sail January 20 for a
South American playing tour was
selected today by the A. A. U. as
follows:
Victor Probst, Baltimore; Car
roll Shore, Washington; Robert
Chapman, Temple University;
Willard Youngblood. Schenectady,
N. Y; and four Brooklyn youths
Sid 0liekman, Frank Rosen.
bloom, Irving Schneider and SID
RabinowitA.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Elected
Central POWer Body
HOnOrs 2 D. C.. Men

Officers of the Central Atlantic
region of the American Power
Boat Association have been elected
for the coming year with DR.. G.,
Bache Gill, vice president and L.
Gordon Leech, a member of the
board of directors, Washing,
tonians honoreo.
Harold w. Holt, of Wilmington
was elected regional manager,
Other members of the board in
clude William H. Collins, Chester
town; T. F. Colleran, Havre de
Grace, Md, H. H. Holt, jr., Hamp
ton, Va, B. F. Sherman, St. Mi
chaels, Md, and c. H. Shivers
Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21

er was
the last per
son to talk
to Jim Brad
d ock Ia S t
night. If he
wasn't, t h e
o t h er guy
missed t h e
p a p e r. So
h e doesn't
count.
He'd been
playing hide
and-Seek with
t h e c n
derella m a n
for several
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Eastern, Western Vie
For High Series Lead
Gets Promise
Jacobs Will Discuss
Detroit Bid

DETROIT, Jan. 81 GN.SJ.
Mayor Richard w. Reading re-
turned here from New York today
with the promise that Twentieth
Century Club Promoter Mike ia
cobS will come to Detroit next
week to discuss the proposal to
stage the Joe Louis-Max Schmel-
ing heavyweight championship
fight as an outdoor extravaganza
here next June.
The mayor, optimistic about
Detroit'S chances to land the fight,
said:
Mr.. Jacobs will be in Detroit
the first of next week. At that
time we will resume negotiations
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
C. Club ReVives
Swimming Meet

A revival Of the South Atlantic
States Swimming championships
under the auspices of the &C"
Club, has been set for February %,
According to Dick Newby, chair
man Of the club swimming COM
mittee.
Invitations are to be sent to
Junior and senior high schools
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
ENTERS K. c. MEET

BOSTON, Jan. 81 G.N.SO.-En-
trance of Sam Miller, Indiana
University sophomore and Big
Ten Conference track star, in the
1,0O0-yard run at the annual
Knights of Columbus track meet
in Boston Garden, January 20, was
announced today by meet Off
cialS.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
BILLIARD VIcToRs

Doc Hall and Dave Statland won
their matches in the District Of
Columbia three-cushion billiard
championship last night in the
Lewis and KrauS parlors.
Hall won from Frank Masi, 35-
80, while the Statland-B Burns event
went 81 innings before Statland
won out.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21

Wed Secretly to His Wife's Twin
Sister. The Strange Case of a Man
Who Could Hardly Tell which Of His
Wives He was Living With and OF
Two Women Who Did Not Know They
Were Married to the Same Man-UntiI
He Died and Favored Them Equally
in His VIII. Read This Fascinating
True story in The American Weekly.
with Sundays Washington Herald
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Bill Corurn's S
Column

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 GN.S0.
The copy desk and composing
room will vouch for this. The
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
According
To Izook
Walton
BY GINo sIAI-

Winter shad in the Tidal Basin
continue to hold Washington'S
"never-say-die" anglers attention.
One of the most ardent devoteeS
is Louis Luck" Goldberg, whose
almost daily visits to the Basin
finds him coming home with a
h alf dozen or so glistening
finsters.
Best spot for snagging the shad
is the boathouse cove. From here
Snaggers cast out from 100 to 125
feet, let sinker hit bottom and
then jerk and reel in their lines
by easy stages. It's lots of fun
If you don't mind frozen fingers
and a red nose. Occasional cat
fish are being caught along the
Georgetown sea wall.
Florida claims quite a few Of
Washington's top-flight IZaak
Waltons during the winter.
Charles Cohen is enjoying a stay
at Fort Pierce, with side trips to
nearby fresh water streams for
bass weighing up to IA pounds.
Horace L. Mccoy is also some.
where on the Miami shore track.
ing down martins and sailfish.
You can't shoot crows in Vir-
ginia without a license. News to
you. Well, it was news to Sid
Atlas, too, and Sid has his nose
right down among the hunting
rules and regulations for Mary.
land and Virginia. However, it's
open season all year around for
crow in Maryland, and the State
says "Hooray" every time you blow
one of the caw-cawers into king
dom come.
Four of the National Capital
Skeet Club shooters are hopeful Of
getting to the Fourth Annual East
ern Open Two-Men championships
at NorriStown, Pa, over the week
end.
The quartet includes George
Deyoe, D. c. Skeet champion; H.
G. walters, his pal and strongest
rival; DR.. Raymond Curry, preSi-
dent Of the club, and Dick Stew
art The quartet hopes to get to
Saturday and take part
in one Of the two events on the
program that day, either the lao
championship or the 20-gauge test.
They will all shoot 100 birds IN
Eastern Open champion
ship. Deyoe and Walters, paired,
are among the favorites.
Twenty Maryland hounds with
their masters vie with 20 Virginia
hounds and their masters In a
competitive fox hunt at Langley,
Va, Sunday.
The judges will come from the
District of Columbia, thus aSsur-
ing neutrality.
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The Washington times., 1938-01-21

uPs O1llAlOCl1G4O14o4Ay 4lS "N0
showing footwork against us
that would make him a sure
thing against Tommy Farr in
the garden tonight.
In the course Of our pursuit
we had phoned his home in
Jersey, and his 7-year-old son
had answered.
"Who is this?" we inquied.
"Jay Braddock," came the
piping reply.
where's your dad?" we
asked.
OUT SHOPPING
"My papa and my mama" re-
piled the lightest heavyweight
champion of the Braddocks,
"have gone shopping to the
grocery store. And when my
papa and my mama go shop
ping. they sometimes stay out
very late"
Old Jim explained this later
by saying that he had taken
Mrs. Braddock to the picture
show. But that if he had told
Jay that they were going to
the movies, we would never have
got out of the house in one
piece without him. So they
had said they were going to
the grocery store. Jay doesn't
care much for groceries until
they are cooked and on the
table. After that, according to
his dad, he does all right with
'em or even a little better than
that.
ANXIOUS TO DUCK JAY
It looked as though old Jim
was more concerned with duck
ing Jay on his way to the
movies. than he is about duck
ing "Tonapandy Tommy"
Fairs Sunday pitch, and I mean
that actually.
My idea for today's column
had been to try to find out from
Braddock what a veteran fighter
thought about on the eve Of
what may be his last fight.
So I'll give you a transcript
tion of the interview that took
place when Braddock finally
phoned from his hotel 10 min
utes ago.
Hello, Bill, this is Jim Brad
dock"
Yes, Jim. how do you feel9"
Perfect"
"No worries?"
"There amt nothing to worry
about"
TALK TO YOUNGSTER
II talked to your youngster
at home couple of hours ago."
so he told me; I went back
there to tell the kids goodnight
after we'd had dinner"
They know you're going to
fight tomorrow night? That
something special is going on?"
II guess so. But they wouldn't
pay any attention to that. The
only reason they were glad when
1 won the championship was
because I promised I'd buy 'em
o live turtle if I won."
did you buy it?"
"Sure."
"Whatll be the last thing you
think of before you go to Sleep"
Probably how I'm going to
hate to have to get up in the
morning"
And what1l be the first thing
you think of when you wake
up?"
breakfast"
:. "1f you lost this fight, what?"
KNOWS UPS AND DOWNS
'I'1l quit. I'll know its time.
I've been down there fighting
for coffee and cakes more than
most fellows that ever won the
championship. I was up, down,
up again, I don't want any
more of those prelims and semi.
windups. If I blow this one,
that's ALL"
And if you win it?"
Louis, hope, and another
crack at the title. I had him
on the deck. Next time I might
keep him there. You can't hate
a fellow for wanting one more
big shot, can you?"
IT can't" said. Good
night. Jim. Happy dreams,
even though you don't have
'em happy landings tomorrow
night-on the other fellows
chin"
Thanks" he said. See you
at the ringside."
That was Jim Braddock's bed
time story the night before what
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
WALLACE HoNoRED

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 G.N.S0.
George N. Wallace, of New Ro-
chelle, N. Y, today was named
commodore of the Cruising Club
of America,
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
LOST

FOX TERRIER DOG. year old: answers
to name Foxy vicinity Westmorsland
Hills, June 10; reward. WI. 2444.
GOLD NURSES PIN, Home for IncurabIes,
Baltimore, Nd; initials &c. E. CO.: lost
Monday; reward. Phone Lincoln ais.
Terrier. female, vicinity
GEORGETOWN, June IT: answers to Patsy:
Va. license 32929l reward. TEm. 4419-W
WRIST WATCH - Lady's: 2 diamonds:
Wednesday night vicinity Potomac Boat
Line. Reward. 304 ST. N. E. Ii. 09S4s
tOtheF Lost and Found Ads on
Page 10, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
7 TROOPS CALLED
IN SUGAR STRIKE

GEORGETOWN, British Gut
ana, June II Q.N.SD.-Police and
militia reinforcements entrained
for the interior today to halt in.
creaSing violence among striking
sugar plantation workers.
At the Albion estate police car
was attacked and a constable in
jured. Strikers also attacked the
plantation hospital and the over
seer's quarters.
The governor announced plans
have been made to enforce virtual
martial law in the affected region
and to close rum shops if the dis.
orders continue.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18

John and Anne Mdrried;
Simplicity Marks Rites
Facts About
The Ceremony

NAHANT, Mass, June 1S
U.N.SD.-Facts Of tOday'S
Roosevelt Clark wedding:
Bride and GrOOm-Anne
Lindsay Clark, daughter of
Mrs. F. Haven Clark (called
Annie) and John AspinwaH
Roosevelt, youngest SON Of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
called Johnny.
The Place - Uncovered,
stone Union Church.
Time-High noon (E.D.T.).
Maid of Homer - Sally
Clark, sister of the bride,
Bridesmaids-Miss Nancy
Cassels, Miss Elizab eth
Jaques, Mrs. Charles Sturgis,
Miss Ledlie Laughlin, Mrs.
James Roosevelt, sister-in-
law of the groom, and Mrs.
John BOettiger, sister Of the
groom.
Best Man-Franklin De-
lanO Roosevelt, jr., third SON
of the President. ,
The Single Ring Ceremony
-(Plain gold band ringl
with Rev. Henry Knox SheF-
riIl, Episcopal Bishop of Mas
sachusetts, and the Rev. DR..
Endicott Peabody, headmas-
ter of GrOton School, offict-
ating.
Attendance --- AT church,
800, at the reception, specta-
tOrs coming in and out Of
this mile-sQuarU peninsalar
town estimatei at 10000
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
ARTHUR E. COOK.
ATTORNEY, DIES.

Arther E. Cook, attorney with
offices in the Southern Building
formerly assistant to the Secretary
of Labor, and past master of Ma
tional Lodge No. IL, F. A. A. NJ,
died today at his residence, 1855
Montague st. N. w. Death was
due to a heart ailment.
Born in Grand Rapids, Mich,
November II, 1895, Mr.. Cook at
tended public schools and. business
college before entering Govern
ment service as a stenographer in
the stamp division, Post Office
Department, in 1914. In 1918 he
was sent to Japan by the War
Trade Board and later transferred
to the consular service, being ap-
pointed American vice consul at
Kobe, Japan.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18

Reports that two other 17-year-
old girls were missing in the
neighborhood Immediately set sew
eral hundred townsfolk, farmers
and sheriff's deputies on a search
of the numerous bywaters.
The young mothers body, be-
lieved to have been thrown into
deep water and then to have
drifted to the spot where it was
discovered, had been in the water
for from five days to a week, !"
physicians said.
After an examination, Sheriff
Charles H. Truitt said:
"It is a plain case of mur-
der"
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
Wife
ReWed as Token

HOLLYWOOD, June 18 Q.N.SJ
Harry Langdon. baby faced
comedian of the silent screen, and
his wife, Mabel, are going to be
remarked in Ventura shortly in
what they described today as a
purely sentimental gesture. Mrs.
Langdon was a bridesmaid when
her sister, Adeline. married Sur
rendra Guha, Indian film pro-
ducer, in Ventura several years
ago. At that time. Mrs. Langdon
promised her sister that when she
married the ceremony would also
take place in Ventura. The Lang
donS were married in Arizona.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
BERLIN GUARDS
JEWS AGAINST
STREET GANGS
By PIERRE J. HUss

BERLIN, June 18 UN.S) /.
Wild outbreaks of anti.semitic VIC
lence following in the wake Of
Nazi Germany's determined at
tempt to drive the Jews from busi'
ness life today compelled the gov
ernment to decree measures Of
protection for innocent sufferers
Tacitly admitting extremist
Nazis had taken advantage Of the
situation to vent their personal
spleen, the government ordered
the Gestapo (NaZi secret police)
to put a halt to rough-houSing Of
Jews, particularly in the. north
end of Berlin, where Jewish resi-
dents have been reduced to panic
by rowdy disturbances.
Throughout the night, bedlam
reigned in the Jewish areas Of
Berlin, with groups Of "Aryan'
troublemakers roaming the streets
in search of victims.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
FRANCE GIVEN
WAR POWERS

PARIS, June 18 Q.N.S).-A
measure permitting conscription
of the entire French nation in the
event of war was part of the law
of the land today - adopted by
parliament just before Premier
Daladier sent legislators away for
a long vacation.
The premier recessed parlia-
ment until November for fear of
a political eruption resulting from
communist demands the Franco
Spanish border be opened to per-
NIT goods to be shipped to the
Spanish government.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
Movie Tough Guy
A Moses i'm Jail

LOS ANGELES, June 1s G.N.SO
Tough guy" though he was as a
youngster in the films Dead End"
and Crime School," 20-year-old
Leo B. Gorcey, actor, was meek
today as he began a five-day Jail
sentence. Gorcey pleaded guilty to
speeding charges.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
Miller Confident
OF New Record

PRINCETON, N. j., June 1s
Il. N. 81. Archie San Romani
Kansas miller, predicted here to
day that he will set a new record
at the Princeton annual invita-
tion meet. He said:
Il will break the. record for
the mile even if I have to go
out and set the pace myself"
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
|NAzIS DEMAND
u. s. CLARITY
FOREIGN POLICY
Charge Lineup with
Britain, France

B LIN, June 18 G.N.S).
With the declaration that Secre.
tary of State Hull already has
thrown Americas moral support
on the side of Great Britain and
France, Germany today, in a sud-
den show of anxious doubt, de-
manded a clear-cut statement of
American foreign policy.
The German Foreign Office,
through its semi-official organ,
Diplomatic CORES ondence,"
openly suggested that Secretary
Hull straightforwardly voic
American policy Ito forestall pos.
sible misinterpretation."
SAYS IT'S ONE-sIDED
Hull has committed himself
to a definite course by declar-
ing his readiness to lend the
moral support of his country in
favor of q peaceful settlement
of disputes, in cooperation with
identical viewpoints'-by which,
obviously, the democracies are
meant" said the Correspond
ence. -
This is, in point OF fact. one.
sided conception Of international
cooperation.
Germany was aroused by a re-
port published in New York that
United States fleet maneuvers
might be held this summer in
mid-Atlantic.
Gn Washington it was denied
the fleet would enter the Atlantic
before 1899, when it is scheduled
to visit the New York World Fair.)
REICH ANGERED
The Reich was also angered by
an editorial appearing in the
New York Times last Wednesday,
which was interpreted here as
expanding on Hull's attitude.
(The New York Times said, in
a long editorial, 1--WE shall be
fully prepared, if war on large
scale envelops Europe, to choose
the side of the democracies.D
SAN PEDRO. Cal, June IS
G.N.SO.-The United States fleet
will spend this summer in regular
tactics in the Pacific and visits
to west coast ports on various
holidays. It will not go into the
Atlantic until next February for
its annual winter maneuvers.
These statements were made to-
day by the high command of the
fleet. There has been no prepara-
tion to take the fleet on a long
cruise this summer.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
DECLARES Love
FOR DEAD MATE
STILL LIVES ON
Unable to Explain
Dates With Nurse
Verbatim testimony in
the Lands trial appears
on Page 4.
BY JAMES J. CULLINANE

ny ~EANAA4S SS NSAAA44ANAA4N~
Picturing himself as an innocent
victim of circumstances, James
L. Lands, handsome ex-fireman,
today told the jury trying him for
murder, that his devotion to his
wife had never wavered.
Lands was on the stand for two
and half hours, until the court
recessed until 9:45 next Monday,
Assistant United States District
Attorney Cecil Heflin was in the
midst of cross-examination when
court recessed.
ACCIDENT, HE INSISTS
Entirely composed and speaking
in a low, soft voice, the young
defendant Internationally denied
he bludgeoned his estranged wife,
Mrs. Blanche Gertrude Lands, to
death with .. heavy rock. and told
the jury she was killed in an acct.
dental fall from his automobile.
He repudiated, but did not ex.
plain, his romance with Miss Vir-
ginia Lee Simpson, beautiful
young student nurse to whom
he gave an engagement ring nine
days before Mrs. Lands was
fatally wounded.
Miss Simpson, Lands testified,
misinformed the jury when she
said she did not know he was
married until after she read of his
wife'S death.
TOLD SEVERAL TINES"
II told her several times was
married. Lands said, and my
mother told her I was married"
His love for his estranged wife
was so great, Lands testified, that
he sneaked away from his post at
the District fire-boat on the fate.
full morning of March 4, just to
be with her.
Shortly after they were sepa-
rated last August, Lands testi-
fled, he had pleaded with his wife
to leave town with him and start
their marital life over again
where they would be free from
family interferences. She refused.
he said, but on the evening Of
March %, she telephoned him at
the fire-boat and told him she
wanted to see him about some
thing important"
II thought she wanted to talk
about starting all over again."
Lands told the jury, but when
l met her she told me she
wanted to talk about a doctors
bill she owed"
NURSE LISTENS CLOSELY
Miss Simpson, seated in the
second row of spectators, listened
intently as Lands denied that the
gold wrist watch he gave her for
Christmas was the same one he
had given his wife for a gradua.
ton present and later taken back.
Lands said the watch he gave
Miss Simpson looked like the
watch he had given his wife, but
Under cross-examination, how
that it was not the same one.
ever, he said he had obtained
Miss Simpsons watch from his
mother, and he did not know
where she got it. He admitted he
could not discern any difference
between Miss Simpsons watch
Continued on Page 4, Col. A.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
CATTLE RUsTLERs HUNTED

ROCHESTER,, Ind, June 18
GN.SO. - Sheriff Lester King
turned back the pages Of time
today, forgot for the time being
about Safe-crackers and auto
mobile Speedsters, and hunted
cattle rustlerS. Farmer Edgar
Sheets reported the rustlers had
stolen four 7OO-pound steers.
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
Son of Presid e n t
Takes Bride
In Nahant
BY DOROTHY KILGALLEN

l s
NAHANT, Mass, June IS
QN.S0.-In a rustic church filled
with sunshine and blooming with
white flowers, golden-haired Anne
Lindsay Clark today became the
bride of John Aspinwall Roosevelt,
youngest son of the President Of
the United States.
The President and the First
Lady, sitting in the front pew,
looked on with proud smiles as
their handsome, boyish son, speak
/ ing in a loud, clear voice, vowed
to "love, honor and cherish" the
lissom Boston debutante, whom
he met and fell in love with three
years ago.
400 SEE SERVICE
Four hundred distinguished
guests and members of the imme-
diate families, including four gen.
erations of the Roosevelt clan.
witnessed the simple, single ring
Episcopal service. @
Outside the picturesque, Ivy
|colored Union Church crowd Of
many thousands, whi ch had
lcheered the bridal party and the
President as they entered, waited
I to catch 4 glimpse Of the happy
couple leaving through the mas
siye Gothic door.
The blue-eyed bride, wearing a
fairy-like gown of diaphanous
white voiIe encrusted with shirred
satin ribbon, and carrying sprays
of rare white orchids, was a pic
sure of radiant happiness as she
moved slowly down the aisle on
the arm of her uncle, Russell
sturgis. Sumter. s.. C.
BEAUTIFUL VEIL
Her lovely face, seen through
a cloud of white illusion, was
sweetly solemn. Her veil, 10 yards
long, fell In a voluminous cloud
|
from a white Juliet cap encircled
with orange blossoms.
Johns eyes never left his bride
as she made her way to the altar
where he stood with his best man,
his brother, Franklin, jr. A hush
fell over the assembled guests as
the stately bridal procession,
Continued on Page 3, Col. u
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
Mother
Slain, Found in River

SALISBURY, Md, June 18 (INS.).-Weighted with four
powshares the battered body of teen age expectant
mother found today in the shallow waters Of the Nant
coke River on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
The Washington times., 1938-02-01

lawyers office is an unusual expe-
rience for any girl, but that's the
see scene Of comedy comedy and drama In
serial. Kathy, played by Nan
Grey, and Allen MCCrea. played
by Owen Davis, jr., are the two
involved In this scene WMAL
DISCUSSIONS
5:O0-INTERVIEW - Doris Humphrey
and Charles Weidman, Americas
foremost dance team which 10 ap-
pearing In recital at the ROOse-
welt High School this evening at
$3.50 o'clock. will he interviewed
by Ray Brown. music critic. VOL
9;45-WAR AND PEACE-senator Guy
Gillette, OF Iowa. will talk on the
topic: Neutrality and the Far
East .''.... ....... "OL
1O:SO-JIMMY FIDDLER-Listen to Bob
sherwood on this Hollywood
Gossip program. He has an
amazing announcement to make.
WRC
10 O:SO-BOARD OF TRADE-Ben Nickel
way, speaker. Theodore Noyes
WMAL
OUT.OF.TOWN FEATURE
S:OO-KAY KYSER'S KAMPUS KLASS
Various musical games will be
played on the program which is
very similar to his broadcast
heard every Monday night over
VOL from 1890 to 80 a. m.
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CONCERT
10 O:3O-SYMPHONIC STRINGS -A Alfred
Wallenstein's orchestra F.. VOL
ORCHESTRA DANCE TUNES
s:OO-sAMMYIKAEE ........ VOL
II :OO-TOMMY DORSEY. .,.,, WJSv
II :35-ABE LYMAN. VOL
2 2:OO-SAMMY KAYE VOL
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