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The Washington times., 1938-03-12

sion. The Rector's 1000, the fea-
ture event of the evening will be
broadcast over Station WMAL
starting at 10 o'clock.
Colleges represented in the meet
include Georgetown, Maryland,
George Washington, American u,
Catholic u, Navy, Washington and
Lee, Wake Forest, Villa Nova,
Penn State, Duke, Randolph-Ma-
con, Richmond, st. Francis of
Brooklyn, Washington College,
Delaware, New York u, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, S e o n
Hall and Oklahoma A. and M.
High schools represented in
events tonight include Maury of
Norfolk, Tech, Central, Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson, West Catholic
The Washington times., 1938-03-12

With that Mr.. Magnificent was
what he said lat night
in his dressing room, while blood
oozed slowly from his nose and
from a cut inside and outside of
an eye that no longer was an eye.
1t was just a big chunk of red
and blue flesh puffed over an in,
distinguishable slit.
HIS ONE DESIRE
Mr.. Magnificent, or Max the
is convinced by now that
he can take everybody-including
Louis, who knocked him out In
three rounds in their previous
meeting.
AS to that he said:
"Ail you newspaper guys
please get this: You thought I
quit last time against Louis.
Regardless of that, I want him
again more than anything else.
Il told you when I came to
New York that 7 wouldn't break
training and I didn't. I didn't
try to get my right in shape
this time by lifting high balls
and I won't go for that again.
If they ever get me back in a
night club again it will be a
break for the night club be-
cause I'm through with all
that" Mr.. Magnificent said
without even pausing to catch
his breath.
MODEST Make
GAIL I want to do now is
catch the first train can back
to that papoose-Max, jr. From
now on I'm fighting for him
and you are looking at a diff
The Washington times., 1938-03-12
By CHICK KENNY

Shades of the mammoth indoor
track and field meets of another
day that were the major winter
sports attractions in Washington
and staged at old Convention Hall
and at the Brookland gym by
Georgetown and Catholic Uni
Versities, respectively, will become
a reality tonight when athletes
from 81 colleges, Is high schools
and four independent organiza-
tions compete in the Fifth Annual
Catholic University Indoor Track
Meet in the Brookland gym, start
ing at 7:30 o'clock.
Twenty-nine events are listed
on the program Of events which
opens with the heats and semi.
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Senior Cage Teams
In Alexandria Tits

ALEXANDRIA, Va. March IL.
Three Senior League basketball
games will be played tonight at
Armory Hall starting at 7:30 p. m.
The schedule follows: Arrows
VS.. Boys Club, Police VS.. Times
Herald, and DR.. Pepper and Klein
man. The Kendrick Flashes are
leading the loop. They are unde-
feated and so far have won 80
consecutive games this year.
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Bethesda Lone
D. {. Entrdnt
In Tourney
FACES DURHAM
JohnnieS' Downfall In
Title Play Due to
Long Periods
snecial to The Washinrton Timea

LEXINGTON, Va, March IL.
Bethesda Chevy Chase cagerS
were leading Due West, 20 to
II, at half time.
The Marylanders took a four.
point lead in the very first
minutes of play on baskets by
Bill Morell and Leon VannaiS.
The South Carolina quintet drew
up to to 4 on a basket and free
toss and then the locals made
three straight baskets. The Game
cock team rallied in the final
minutes of the quarter and at the
end of the period the Bethesdans
held a 12-to-9 lead.
Each team accounted for eight
points in the second period and at
intermission time Bethesda was
still in front by 20 to II. For .
while it loked as though the South
erners would take the lead, for
they came within one point Of
the suburban quint at II to IL.
Three consecutive Bethesda baS-
kets put the MarylanderS well to
the fore and when Due West
scored two in a row at the fag
end of the half the Bethesdans
still had their lead.
LEXINGTON, Va, March IL.
Longer periods and lack of re-
serves were mainly responsible for
the elimination of st. Johns
30-to-27, in an upset by Due
West IS. c. High last night in
the fourteenth annual South At
lantic scholastic basketball tourna-
ment. Bethesda Chevy Chase now
remains the single standard-bearer
for the title hope of the District,
having subdued Staunton Military
Academy, 80 to %, in the night
cap of last nights double-header.
Yesterdays play was a reversal
of form of the games the two fives
played against Ashevile and Lam
ier, as the Johnnies flashed power
that caused no little concern
among the other entrants, while
the Marylanders were unimpres'
Sive in a three-point victory over
the Virginians.
CADETS HAMPERED
Ten-minute periods were an in
novation that wreaked more dam
age to the Cadets, however, than
brace of sharpshooting forwards.
inasmuch as the Vermont Avenue
boys have only six players upon
whom they can depend. By the
same token, Bethesda gained an
edge with plenty of strong reserves
and one of the best scholastic
zone defenses ever seen around
Lexington, according to observers.
Bethesda progresses to the semi"
final round today, where it meets
rugged Durham five, while Mon
roe A. and M, conqueror OF East
ern, tangles with Due West. 4.
Carroll Hayden, Louis Vanna1S
and Bill Fuller were the shining
lights in the Bethesda victory over
Staunton's taller, more expert
enced team.
SCORING SLUMP
st. Johns was floundering
around in the midst of a scoring
slump that was all the more un-
explainable because of their
sharpshpoting against Asheville.
Only the brilliant play of Joe Gal
lagher, who did everything essen
tial to gain a spot on the all
tournament team again this year,
kept the local lads within reach Of
the speedy Dixie team.
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W e 1 b II y pN
ture today.
He got the
booS Of that
C r o W d at
M a d ison
Square Gar
d e n ! a S t
night when
he e n t e ed
t h e r n G.
They m u S t
have stirred
him to &C
tion.
For a t ter
fighting Tom
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merce. All that has gone before
in the camp of the Washington
club came under the general head
ing of conditioning the boys to
make a showing before the staff
of inspectors.
From today on throughout the
end of the trip, including the
journey home, the most promising
men of the squad will be put on
the buffer as Bucky Harris, Clyde
Milan and Nick Altrock attempt
to add polish to their style and
ability.
KRAKAUSKAS WILD
Ranking first in Importance to
the general scheme of things are
Joe Krakauskas and Kendall
Chase, the young left handlers.
The hopes of the Washington
Ball Club rest upon these young
men in no minor degree. Not g
| little has been said about them
and their ability. 1t is the vogue
to express confidence in their
ability to beat the Yankees and
balance the race.
All of this will be fine If they
really come through and beat the
Yankees. But no one in the Off
cial family will put himself hon
eStly on record and predict just
how many times these left hand
ers will stop the Rupert forces.
Both Chase and Krakauskas
have a lot to learn. Right now the
latter is in the throes Of a spell OF
wildness that has him tearing his
hair and muttering oaths in clear
est Lithuanian, tinged with Ca
muck cockney. If balls and strikes
had been called on Crackers yes
terday, he would have kept the
bases filled. He has stuff all
right, but he needs control.
LONG TRAIL YET
Chase, too, has a lot of natural
ability. He may train on and be-
come a top-hand pitcher. The
writer is going out on no limbs
predicting that Chase will beat De
troit and New York until we've
seen him under fire against these
clubs for a while. He beat New
York last year. He has this year
to go.
Nick AItrock has worked with
sublime patience on both Chase
and KrakauskaS. He is getting
results. But there's long. long
trail a-windin' before these boys
rank with Gomez and some Of the
others.
Development of a second string
catcher is the No. 2 problem OF
the Washington board Of strategy.
Right now Mickey Livingston has
the inside track on the rest Of the
The Washington times., 1938-03-12
HOya Rifle Team
Defeats Marines

Georgetown University's rifle
team. with a score Of 1860. de-
feated the Navy Yard Marines
yesterday on the Navy Yard range.
The Marines posted 1926 total.
The Washington times., 1938-03-12

IOWA IN LEAD

CHICAGO, March IL UN.S).-University
Of Iowa track team led the field of qualifiers
in the Big Ten indoor track meet today as the
thincIads of the Western Conference prepared
for tOnight's final championship events.
The Hawkeyes, who placed six men, were
closely followed by Michigan and Indiana
teams, both of which placed five men in the
finals.
The Washington times., 1938-03-12
WNlAnt OUer
Farr Vict0,y, Eager
For Crack ut Louis
BY LAWToN CARVER
international News Service Sports Writer

NEW YORK. March IL (I.N.S). ZONE or two more fights
me- Louis for the heavyweight championship
please quote his-T fight Louis this time long
and beat him." Max Baer said today following
his dramatic coorfu and victory 15round
Tommy Farr Madison Square Garden last night
The Washington times., 1938-03-12
Hopes Rest
On KrAkAuSkAS and
Chase, Lett-HAnderS
By FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL

ORLANDO Fla. March 12-SEghtly than three
weeks intervene between today and April when the Ma
tonals break camp in Orlando Exhibitions start March
16 with the St. Louis Cardinals although there will be inra
squad for the benefit of the chamber of
The Washington times., 1938-03-12
WILSON DEFEATED

Baltimore City College trounced
the Woodrow Wilson High School
swimming team here yesterday,
39-2S.
The Washington times., 1938-03-12
TWO MATS INJURED

ORLANDO Fla, March IL u.NSO.-The
Washington Senators after fierce batting
practice had two casualties to show today.
Dan Brainard, rookie pitcher, was ironed out
BY a bIistering blast from Buddy Myers bat.
Brainard's pitching paw was Temporarily
knocked out Of whack.
The veteran Ossie Bluge was knocked cold
by hot drive from rookie Jimmy washers
bat.
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- fighting Tom
A''A- Aih my Farr for
Is rounds, Baer not only got the
decision, but he drew the un-
stinted cheers of the same
people who one hour before
had been openly derisive.
Baer's and Fairs bout, which
had been generally ridiculed as
being one between Tweedledee
and Tweedledum saw two Sc
rious and unyielding heavy
weights giving everything
throughout a battle that eddied
and swirled, first toward one
corner and then the other.
Blind Fighting
Baer, fighting half blind most
Of the distance, what with his
left eye starting to close as
early as the fifth round, made
q gallant stand. His was the
courage that marked his rise in
the ring, albeit that quality de-
serted him after he became the
champion.
And Tommy Farr, a better
puncher and boxer than before
he came under the handling Of
Joe Gould, shares the fate Of a
hard-luck horse named SeabiS-
cult. He will probably get his
longed-for trip back to Tony
pandy now, convinced the fiS-
tic fates Of America are against
him.
Three times has Farr fought
either heavyweight champions
or men who had held the title
and on each occasion the VIC
tors laurels escaped him. He
is, to all intents and purposes,
out Of the picture now, but in
his trade you never can tell.
Baer was supposed to be
through when he lost to Brad
dock-but he's in again.
Words, With Music
We are presently going to be-
gin to get a true line on Wash
ington's baseball outlook.
Because while reams of words
have been seeping UP from the
Southland, forming a sort Of a
clinical chart on the known and
unknown in camp, the music be-
gins tomorrow when the Regu-
lars and the Yannigans stage
their first competitive hate.
Thence will follow an exhibi-
ton ordeal of 30-odd games and
here will be a test tube from
which a pretty definite story
can be told.
More and more in recent years
have "Bucky" Harris and Clark
Griffith been stiffening their
exhibition slate.
Orlando is the main highway
Of traffic of big league teams,
something that couldn't be said
for Biloxi, where the GriffS
abided too long. Fourteen major
league teams will be encoun-
tered, Detroit being booked on
no less than four occasions.
RSzorre nf Least
If you are at the Catholic
University indoor meet by $3.50
o'clock tonight, it may occur
that something has gone a bit
bizarre. History will be in the
making with a 600-yard football
relay.
The five Washington colleges,
Maryland. G. u, Georgetown,
American u. and George Wash
ington-are bringing their foot
ball backs. in uniform, to lug a
pigSkin In relays and hysteria
IS bound to sweep the gymna-
SUM when this grotesque spec
tacle occurs.
They tell me this one is the
brainehild of Tom Whelan, a
flashing back who starred at
Catholic University around 1880
and 1881 and who now runs a
restaurant close by the campus.
Anyway, some famous names
from the local gridirons will be
seen tearing around the track
with a football
The Washington times., 1938-03-12
KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor
Says:

That man is in again!
Max Baer, whether you like
It or not. is back in the heavy
The Washington times., 1938-03-12

Totals. II 20 Totals. is T37
Referee-Proctor (Gooch). Score at
half-Durham, POLL.
The Washington times., 1938-11-05
&W@zf

Copyright, 1895, by San Francisco
Examiner and The Washington Times)
When the Rocks "oVerzealous
discipline" starts working on a
cons 'subStandard constitution,
there's bound to be a mess, and
in many cases it's a bloody mess
That's because the con just
can't stand the Rock any longer
and begins figuring out ways tc
beat it and finally hits upon sui
eide as the only way.
Dozens of cons have tried te
do their time quick-hut only one
has actually made 1t and I'll tel
you about him first.
I got to know Sailor Burke
pretty well. He was doing az years
for murder on the high seas, and
he made up his mind early that
no man, certainly not the sailor,
could ever 90 that much time in
THAT stir.
The sailor had been kicked
around all his life, and didn't
know much, SO he began asking
for information. He wanted to
know the best ways of doing q job
of suicide-the quickest, and the
least painful. and the surest that
could be done with the limited
materials at hand.
The Washington times., 1938-11-05

on him because he had bumped
i off a guy-thought he was rib
bing; they figured that a gee who
is going to go the Dutch route isn't
going to do any talking about it.
They still thought he was rib
hing when he got himself a ten
foot length of rope that had come
into the moat shop where the
sailor was working, in a load of
tires. The sailor showed that rope
around for weeks, trying to find
out If 1t was strong enough to do
the trick, and If it would strangle
him or break his neck, and how
much it was going to hurt.
Finally he ditched the rope and
doped out a better way. He
sprung it to his partner in the
mat shop and the partner didn't
believe it. 1t was like this:
The sailor was hauling sidewalks
of old tires up to the butchers
block, where his partner Wai
hacking them into two foot
lengths with a sharp hatchet, Tht
sailor eyed that hatchet and theI
asked his partner; You suppose
that thing is sharp enough to taxi
off mans head?"
The other con, still hackins
away and thinking nothing of it
said, Sure" and then hlinked 6
couple of times when the sailol
went on: well, this is too much
of load for me, / can't make 1t
I'm going to do my time in 9
hurry"
The sailors partner, thinking
he was calling a bluff, waved thI
hatchet and said; "Au right, vol
crazy herring g-ehoker, If you wan
your block CHOPPED off, put 1t down
here and I'll take it off for you"
The sailor, very quietly and de
The Washington times., 1938-11-05
YOU'LL ALWAYS
BE CONSTIPkTED
UNLESS

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less liver bile flows frealy eVerv day iAto
your intestines to help digest fatty foods
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Olive Tablets, being purely ss0stGblS,
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treating patients for constipation aad
sluggish liver bile, today Olive Tablets
are Justly FIRST choice Of thousands
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The Washington times., 1938-11-05

When the cons talked about it.
it wasn't the manner of his sui.
eide, or the fact that q con could
lie in his cell bleeding to death
without being found, that made
them sore. It was the way they
buried the poor sailor. They
buried him in a two-tone suit-a
suit of clothes that had been made
in the prison tailor shop after a
mix-up of materials.
Half the coat was black and
half of it dark blue. One pants
leg was blue and the other black
There were two dozen suits
made up that way, and we heard
that the rest of them went up to
McNeil's Island and were given
to discharged cons.
John Stadig, the college-boS
counterfeiteF, who built himself
up as a pretty good escape artist
| AnVETRTTSFNFENT
The Washington times., 1938-11-05
Finds Bones
Of Lost
Race

skulls, bones and the per-
sonal belongings of a hither-
to unknown race of people
who once inhabited the Aleu-
tian Islands were under the
scrutiny today of DR., Ales
HrdIicka, curator of physical
anthFoDOl0gy of the Smith
sOnian Institution.
The race is about 1000
years old, DIR, HrdlickR esti-
mates, and differed greatly
fr0m the Aleuts of the pres
ent day,
Finding OF this race of pre-
Aleuts brings to an end ten
years Of research by DR., HFd-
lickR In Alaska and the far
north which resulted In uR-
covering at least five types of
people whose paths crossed
and recrOSSed over the cen
tuFieS. At least two different
types Of Indians and two dif-
eerept types Of EskimOs lived
IN the region at one time.
DR.. HFdIIoka will lecture on
his discoveries in the auditO-
rum of the National Museum
next Tuesday evening, The
IeetwFe h open to the public.
The Washington times., 1938-11-05
|R U 7 H ALTMAN
EARNS PRAISE
in FAUST ROLE
But Support Appears
Unframed in Voice
BY WILLIAM NEWMAN


when in doubt give Faust"
was an adags long observed at
the Metropolitan. 1t holds good
for Washington. This popular
Gounod opera, with its wealth of
well-known melodies and Its
greater wealth Of theatrical pad
ding, sold out the Belasco Thea
ter for the National Opera Com
pany, last night.
What Is more to the point, the
audience gave every evidence Of
its abundant satisfaction, though
nc artist stopped the show, as
has happened in the more loosely
knit italian works Of the roper.
tore,
This need not imply that there
vas not some excellent singing.
the best, in fact of the engage
ment, thus far. Ruth Altman, as
Marguerite provided it--alI of it.
She has q lovely voice, She has
been well trained-principally, if
reports are correct, in Chicago.
She has great musical talent and
a true gift for the stage ripened
in light opera which, dramatically,
is a far more eXacting school
tnan the variety called grand.
POTENT VOICE
She endowed the ballade and
the waltz.seng in the garden
scene with all the qualities that
a soft, lovely, unforced, but potent
voice can lend to grateful melody
end her acting was SO much
better than the normal operatic
variety that it stimulated the
most iaded.
There was more acting Of the
same rare kind. Patrick Henry,
the Faust of the evening, and
Louise Rernhardt, its siehel, pro-
Vided 1t. Unhappily, neither has
learned to sing. Henry's voice is
white, open, and suffers from a
too rapid vihrato, Miss Bern
hardt, on the other hand, prac.
tiees vihFat0 so ample that she
could sing . duet all by herself.
NEW MEPHISTO
The Mephisto was Philip
Whitfield, who assumed the role
at the last moment, replacing
Norman ROLAND, His infrequent
lapses may be forgiven. His his
trionic gift already has been recog-
niAed, but he, too, needs to learn
more about the art of song,
Symphonic and choral ele-
ments were sketchy.
The Washington times., 1938-11-05
Succeeds In Second
Attempt To Die

And the cons who thought the
sailor was fooling changed their
minds a month or so later, Some
body had told him just where to
find the jugular vein and the
sailor had gone looking for it
with the blade out of a pencil
sharpener. He didn't go deer
enough, and the wound healed ur
after a couple Of weeks in pogie-
the hospital.
But the next time he made it.
He used a razor blade and he went
plenty deep. They found him dead
in his cell, leaning over a bowl
and just about bled white.
The Washington times., 1938-11-05
PLANS FOR new
CITIZENS GROUP
BRING PROTEST.
ChiIIum Heights Fights
Association Split
ny A. J. DRlaCOLL
CItIaena Associations EditaR

Formation Of Q new citizens
association that would take over
part Of the Chillum Heights Cit
izens Association was protested at
. meeting Of that organization
last night at the Keene school,
Delegates to the Federation of
Citizens Associations were In
structed to register an objection
ct the next meeting Of the Fedora
ton.
SCHOOL REPORT
Miss Helen Stadler, secretary
Of the Keene School PIT, A., In
formed the meeting the new ele-
Eaentary school under eonstruc-
ton between Second, Third, Ham
ilton and Ingraham Streets,
would be ready for occupancy by
January ], 1870, according to the
District Commissioners,
L. A. carruthers, president Of
the Federation of Citizens Assoeia.
tiona, will be guest of honor at q
wa W W A4NVA 0y &Hp W0a4tAk4A'
tonians tomorrow afternoon from
. to 7 o'clock at the apartments
Of its president, Miss Eta L, Tag,
cart, the Highlands, Connecticut
Avenue and California Street.
AMATEUR NIGHT
Sponsored by the Anacostie
Citizens Association, with talent
from the community, amateur
night was observed last night Of
the Anaeostia High School,
First prize was awarded to 9
group Of tap dancers consisting OF
Theresa Herrick, Gloria Montus
Naomi and Dolores Cusler; second
prize to Charles Fowler, third ia
John O'steen, fourth to three sis
ters, Gloria, Bette and MyleeH
Berger; fifth to Charles to Charles
Ioughrey, sixth to Kenneth White
and John Garofola and seventh
to three-year'eld barbara Ann
SwiSher.
The Washington times., 1938-11-05
SlGshes Vein
With EyegIass

He was trying to repeat that
performance on the other wrist
when they found him, That time,
they decided that maybe stad1e
wasn't quite right, mentally, and
they took him away-to Leaven'
worth.
And on the very day he reached
Leavenworth he pulled his last
escape. He beat the place with
the broken lens of his eyeglass,
The report we got was that ne
was sitting in the waTden's office
and ne sliced his jugular, and sat
there holding it open until ne fell
over. He died three days later,
Another con who didn't quite
make 1t on the Rock, but who put
over Q good try, was Rufe Perstul.
the Arkansas kidnaper who used
to brag about being q Con'guard
in Arkansas. Besides Dragging. he
used to worry about it, too. He
wouldn't 60 in the yard with the
other cons until he got permission
to wear his ''blues"-his Sunday
clothes-se the gun guard could
keep an eye on him. All the rest
of the cons had to wear their
"grays"-their eoverall working
clothes,
MONDAY, Reed will relate
how the Alcatraz cOnvicts, re-
v0lting against the FigOrs Of the
Rock, attempted to make II over
according to their own desires
how and why they went on
strike and what came Of it,