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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
MAROONS FINISH.
TOPTRACK SLATE.
IN c. CLUB MEET.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 10.
One of the most successful spring
sports programs in the history Of
Episcopal High School will be
brought to a close on Saturday,
when the MaroonS' crack track
team invades the Central High
School stadium in defense Of the
"C'' Club title it has held for the
past two years, and the baseball
team journeys to Orange, Va, for
the traditional finale against
woodbury. Forest School.
The cinder path aggregation
will be seeking permanent posses
sion of the team trophy it has won
for the past two seasons, and q
full squad Of "a runners will be
entered in an attempt to bring the
title back to Episcopal for the
third straight time. In view of
their past record, marred by only
one defeat in the past three years,
the AlexandrianS will rule as
slight favorites
The Maroons have shown a de-
cided weakness in the field events
in recent meets, and will bank
mainly on their runners to bear
the brunt of their scoring. Out
standing entries will be Tom Todd,
who established new State rec
ords for both hurdles events at the
recent prep school meet at Char
lottesville; Don Jordan, ace miller:
John Cronly, speedy quarter
miller: Peyton Hopkins, 100 and
22O yard dash entry, and their un-
beaten mile relay team, consist
ing of Hopkins, Jordan, Cronly
and Bill Marbury.
In their baseball finale, the
Episcopalians will be seeking their
first state baseball title by down.
ing their traditional foes from
Orange. The locals have won
four straight games against
State prep school foes, and a win
against Woodbury. will leave them
the only unbeaten nine in the
prep division of the State race.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
3 CLASSES TOP
DISTRICT SHOW

Hunter, jumper and pony
classes will feature the Columbia
Horse and Pony Show Sunday at
the MeadoWbrook Club when the
foremost performers Of Maryland,
Virginia and the District Of Co
lumbia will compete.
Indications are that 100 entries
from more than so stables, will
participate. General admission Is
to be so cents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
By DAVIS J. WALSH

NEW YORK, May 10 G.N.S).
Probably the only way you'll be
able to fully understand all this
is to take a home-study course in
Esperanto, the universal art of
double-talk, but the fact is that
Henry Armstrong, the feather
weight champion who isn't q
featherweight, is liable to wear
himself out, recuperating from
what he hasn't done in order to
be quite prepared for the strain
of all the ceaseless inactivity he
plans hereafter. In fact, I'm be-
ginning to wonder whether this
colored gentleman isn't going to
leave his fight on a settee.
He didn't work" in his train
ing camp at Pompton Lakes on
Tuesday. He boxed two rounds
yesterday. He won't work"
today. He won't work" tomor-
row. On Saturday, he will; like
wise Sunday, after which he'll
probably take no further chances
with fatigue.
After all, his fight with Barney
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
.SCHUMAN RATED
NO. | TABLE ACE

For the fourth straight year,
Elias Schuman, District champion,
has been ranked No. in the mems
single division of the D. C. Table
Tennis Association.
The rankings:
Mems Singles, Elias Schuman; z,
Larry Sherry; 8, Lamar Harper: 4, Ed.
Gee; 5, Eddie zap; s, Harland Crowell
7, Fred Mizell; 8, Ray Sherry: ., 81.
Rather; 10. Louis CORN; II, Peter De
Vries; IL, Sam Temin; 10, willard King
n, Leonard Summers; is, Bill Helfrich
16. Abel Norris; IT, Abe Chasanov; IS,
Mil Zimmerman; 10, Bob GOttlieb; 20,
Monroe Goldberg; 81, Norman Dancy;
%, Kilbourne Castell; 20, Philip Kind
"a, Cleveland Stauffeur; rs, Robert Ros-
enblum. Not ranked, insufficient data:
Bob Lee, M. Gelfand and H. Berkowitz.
women,s Singles, Florence Farwell;
2, Jane Stauffeur; 3, Mae zap; 4, Char
lotte Decker; 5, Betty Miller: 6, Virginia
Mapes; Z, Carolyn Wilson; s, Teresa
Emge; .. saunier; 10, OFlaherty.
Mems Doubles, Schuman-Summers
2, Sherfy-Sherfy; ., Harpsr-CroweIl; l.
Gee-Gorin.
Juniors singles-1, Irwin Markowitz;
2, Aaron Friedburg; 3. j. Rosen; 4
Louis Wilmer; S, Dick Mizen; 6, Warren
Showalter; Z, Spedro Pappafotis; s
Buddy Williams; 9, Tim Vermillion; 10
Agricola; II, Burgess; IL, Jack Skin
ner; IS, Gerdine Lumpkin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
Loop Lead at Stake
In Softball Game

The leaders in the Community
Center Softball League meet at
$3.50 today at Roosevelt Field with
DR.. Pepper and international Bust
ness Machine in action.
Abe Rosenfield will pitch for
DR.. Pepper and Bob Plaisted will
20 to the mound for Information
ais. Yesterdays Standards Com
munity Center game was rained
out.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
Greenbrier Nine
Meet V.M.I. FrOsh

LEWISBURG, w. Va, May 10.
Greenbrier Military Schools base
ball team plays the Virginia Mill
tary Institute freshmen here Sat-
urday.
Monday, the Cadets play Park
ersburg High on the local dia-
mond.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
BAILYs STOP TAFT

Bailys CROSSROADS baseball
team won from the Taft A. C. by
6 to 5. on the Taft diamond in a
game played through nine innings
Of rain. Bailys play Maryland A.
c at Anacostia at 3 p. m. Sunday
on FairlaWn lot No. /.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19

should write
a colu m n.
A b out the
worst offend
erS in t h i S
line are your
family, a n q
decidedly the
m o S t vocal
will be your
brother.
The only
way to silence
S NC h &C n
Structive crlti-
c j S m" is to
tell them to
4 80
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
LIKELY PITCHERS
AMERICAN LEAGUE

WASHINGTON NeOnard 2-2) at
Cleveland (Hudlin I'D.
New York (Chandler 10y at st. Louis
(WalkUp O-S).
Philadelphia Nelson 10y at Detroit
(Wade O-2).
Boston iVIlsOn 2-2) at Chicago
whitehead 10y.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago Nee 1-2l at New York Gum
bert Sly.
Pittsburgh (swift O-2) ut Boston
St. Louis Macon O-8) ut Brooklyn
(MunEO l-S).
CINCINNATI (Cascarella 2-O) at PhIIa-
deIphia (Mulcahy IA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
LAST NIGHTS FIGHTS

AT NEW YORK-George Zangaras,
1875, New York. scored technical knock
out over Frank Terranova, New, in
the sixth round.
Andy Melia, 1877. New Cork, won on
technical knockout over Grover
Barnes. 1853, New York, in the fifth
round.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
SEEKS OPPONENT

Loew's Columbia Theater is
seeking an opponent for a Sunday
game. Call Taylor, Metropolitan
5O01.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
WOrnen's Golf Title
Play at Elkridge

The Maryland State Golf As.
ISOLATION women's championship
is to be played at the Elkridge
Hunt Club course, May 1928, with
30 qualification places open to the
field,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
WOMEN'S
RIGHTS
and LET'S
Bv Lillian Rirey-

When you get started on job
like this, all your friends Tally
round and tell YOU how you
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19
VOL to Broadcast
Indianapolis Race

The May 30th Indianapolis
Speedway 5OO-mile race will be
broadcast here over Station VOL
through the Mutual Broadcasting
System, as will the trials and
qualifications, starting May %.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-19

Ross for the latter's world weller
weight championship is scheduled
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
Capital Is Peaceful
Today After Royalty
Disrupted Its Quiet
American Curiosity and Camera Men JangIe
at Nerves of Albanian EnUOy
BY CARROLL PEEKE

Peace and quiet descended the Capital today after yeser
days deuge of royalty which brought the three Pncesses
zogu sisters of King zog of Albania to the Capital already
being visited by that Oriental poena the Sultan of Musca
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
DEAD
FROM BEATING

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March
S Q.N.S0.-The murder of a 49,
year-old stenographer, Nina Dek-
ker, in a downtown office build
ing yesterday remained a mystery
today as police sought to learn
what happened during an 11.min-
ute interval between two business
calls.
Attracted by groans from a rear
room, Ray Peters, a customer of
the girls employer, found her un.
conscious and bleeding shortly
after l p. m. with her head
dubbed. She died two hours
later.
DR.. Simeon Leroy, Kent county
coroner, said her skull showed five
fractures, any one of which could
have caused her death. The
which he said may have
been a hammer, was not found.
Police were without clue to her
slayer or the motive.
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
FINDS HUSBAND
HANGED IN HOME

Joseph Sanders, 46, assistant
manager of a local meat packing
firm, was found dead early today
by his wife, Edith, his partially
clad body suspended by a rope
from a rafter in the basement of
their home at TIC Varnum st.
N. w.
Mr.. Sanders had been. suffering
from a sinus affliction, his wife
told police, and had been despond-
ent over the effects of a recent
operation. Mr.. Sanders lived at
the Varnum Street address with
his wife and one daughter, Miss
Dorothy A. Sanders. The latter
planned to be married some time
this month.
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
Levine SEARCH
SHIFTS TO BRONX
By WALTER KIERNAN


NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, March
S U.N.S0-Scene of the search
for the missing Peter Levine
shifted abruptly to the Bronx to-
day following telephone tips to
New York police headquarters that
his body would be found in Indian
Lake there.
Police emergency squads max
ing slow progress in dragging the
lake resorted to draining to speed
up the search after the first few
hours. Crude lettering in the
snow-"find Levine boy in middle
of lake"-guided them.
From q drugstore pay station
in Manhattan the first telephone
call was switched to Police Capt.
William Sullivan when the caller.
whose accent appeared to be Span
ish, told the police operator "I'Ve
got some information"
THE Levine boys body Is in
Indian Lake in Crotona Park"
the caller told Sullivan.
An hour and half later, a
second call came, this time from
Brooklyn candy store. The same
voice repeated the same informa-
tion. A little more than an hour
later a third call was received
from an apartment house lobby in
The Bronx.
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
$4,000 Donate
To Chest Fund

More than 10000 persons con-
tributed to the Community Chest
last year, Herbert L. Willett, ir.,
director stated in an address to
volunteer workers last night.
However, he added, approx
mstely 100000 contributions were
for $5 or less. Eight per cent of
the money is needed for upkeep,
he said.
Willett advised the speakers to
avoid quoting statistics and budget
figures, pointing out that the
human beings behind the figures
were of prime Importance.
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
'CRAMP' SAVES
3 CHILDREN; DIES
HERO IN BLAZE
Drops Youngsters Out.
Window to Father

sLIz ABETHTOWN, N. Y.
March G.NSO.-Three young
sters were alive today because
"Gramp" came through in a
pinch-Saved them from the fire
which levelled his home and died,
himself, in the flaming ruins.
'"Gramp" was 60-year-GlG Gus
man Parker. The youngsters were
his married daughters children,
their ages ranging from a year
and half to three years.
HOUSE IN FLAMES
Fire awakened the Parkers in
the middle of the night.
Margaret, 20, and Claude, IT,
helped their father to rouse the
children. But the youngsters were
sleepy, they couldn't understand.
"You run for it," Parker told
his son and daughter, "1'll get
them out"
Margaret and Claude fought
their way through the flames and
to the front yard.
The bedroom window went up.
I'm going to drop them
catch" called Parker and Claude,
barefoot in IA inches of snow and
with the thermometer below zero,
stood there in his pajamas, braced
himself and caught the three
children, one after the other.
CAUGHT IN TRAP
Then flames roared out the
open window, the walls leaned
drunkenly and with a roar the
two-story six-room frame house
settled to the ground-a funeral
pyre for "Gramp."
But the kids" were safe. Even
as the flames reached out for
"Gramp," he probably thought of
that and was satisfied to go.
Adoring grandfathers are like
that.
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
2 Children Imperiled
By Water Main Blast
Stone Fragments
Hurled in Room
Of Home
Harris-EwIRw Photo

Two sleeping children narrowly
escaped serious injury today as a
water main burst in the TOO block
Of E Street Northeast, sending a
stream of water. cement and stone
fragments into their room.
Quick action Of . Chestnut
Farms Dairy truck driver, Ray.
mond Harris, AZ, averted more
serious damage when he backed
his truck against the powerful gey-
ser squirting into the home Of Jo-
seph II. Gill, TIA f st. N. E.
Two windows on the second
floor of the Gill home were
smashed and the front bedroom,
where his two daughters. Jean, II,
and Joyce, 4, were sleeping, thor
oughly drenched. -.
RESCUES SISTER
The two children were sleeping
together when the main burst with
a dull roar. Chunks of cement
and rock hurtled into their room,
The older girl picked up her sister.
and rushed to safety.
Harris, delivering milk nearby
backed his truck against the verit7
able geyser, diVerting the power
full stream of water.
''If he hadn't done that" said
Gill, 1--WE would most certainly
have had our whole house
flooded"
Window glass in the first-floor
door of the Gill home also was
AWAKES NEIGHBORHOOD
The main burst about $50 am,
awakening the neighborhood.-
Police Immediately closed the
street to traffic and water de-
partment emergency workers hur.
ried to the scene.
The water was soon cut off,
pending repairs.
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
Hutton CritiCises
New British Policy

CHICAGO. March S GN.S0
Graham Hutton, London economist
and author, believes Britain will
lose by seeking alliances with
Italy or Germany.
1T is highly doubtful if Mr..
Chamberlain's cabinet, minus
Mr.. Eden-and that means
minus in popular esteem-can
do any kind of effective deal
ing with Mussolini. No treaty
would be worth anything with
either dictator"
The Washington times., 1938-03-05

: and Oman.
But the dove of peace did not
hover over Union Station yester.
day when the Princesses Zogu ar
rived, chaperoned by His Excel
lency Faik Konitza, Albanian min
lister to the United States. His
Excellency was quite irritated and
spoke bitterly of the curiosity" of
Americans and the audacity of
newspaper Photographers, whose
flash bulbs hurt the eyes of the
princesses.
BUT THEY POSED
But even that did not stop His
Excellency from hating his
charges and having them pose for
pictures, which they did with an
air of boredom.
Special police at the station
were near clashing with the pho
tographers, and it looked for a
moment as though the princesses
might be treated to the sight of a
good old American free for ALL"
but they were hustled into an auto
mobile and rushed to the royal
suite of the Mayflower Hotel,
where the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor were expected to stay I'm.
til they cancelled their visit.
The princesses had tea at the
White House with Mrs. Roose-
velt, and the President came in
to pay his respects to them.
Later they left for New York, but
will return here for a week or so
on an official" visit. Yesterday
was strictly an unofficial" in
cognito call.
SULTAN LIKES IT
In contrast to the Albanian at
titude, the Sultan welcomed the
press with open arms. He held
press conference at the Willard
Hotel, and kept State and Navy
Department officials waiting
while he discussed various mat
ters with reporters.
Today the Sultan will visit
Mount Vernon, making the trip
down the river on the former presi-
Dental yacht Sequoia, before leav-
ing for New York.
The Washington times., 1938-03-05
Lefty Gomez Poor
Despite His $4,000

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
5 G.N.SD.-"Lefty" Gomez proves
sour, even while displaying a $780,
900 contract to pitch for the
Yankees.
with my wife (June O'Day)
asking 5000 a week separate
maintenance, income tax, and
few other things, don't have
much to live on"
The Washington times., 1938-11-10

electric company or street car
company sometimes partly block
the street and the sirens or bells
warn them in time to move
equipment out of the way.
Who would be at fault, if the
apparatus had been delayed by
the accident and lives were lost
because no warning had been
given? Would the person caus-
ing the accident by not getting
out of the way take the blame?
Don't forget all alarms re-
sponded to are not false alarms.
Fire apparatus passes any
given spot in a few seconds, and
anyone with a clear conscious
should have no trouble falling
back to sleep again. There are
many people who don't even
wake up when the fire apparatus
stops to put out a fire in their
own house. Think of that, and
while you are, also think how
good that siren would sound to
you, coming to help you if your
house was on fire. What say Ye,
Citizen? ELMER F. STEIN.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
"The Works"

In last Sundays Herald Times
there was an item telling Of
Joe Cronin, manager of the
Boston Red Sox, whose car hit a
man causing a brain concus-
sion, internal injuries, broken
leg and a lacerated scalp!
No charges were made against
Joe, police said, because it was
the fault of the man who was
hit! Maybe. Far be it from
me to doubt any member Of
the police department.
Now again tonight, November
8, is another item telling of John
Smith, who died in the hospital
Saturday night of injuries re-
ceived last Saturday when hit
by a car driven by Leroy Hamil-
ton! He is charged with reck-
less driving. Leroy is sure to
get the works with the possible
exception Of the electric chair.
II KNOW"
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
August Predicts

AS a steady reader of your
paper, will you kindly publish
this in your Voice of the People
column. Thank you.
The Nazi government can
dish it out, but can't take it. BY
that I mean, they have driven
thousands of people to suicide;
countless thousands to pauper-
ism and misery; broken up
countless thousands Of families.
Their only crime was being
born Jews.
Yet when a Jew shoots one
of their kind, their cries OF IN
dignation are hurled to the sky.
But not giving a thought to
what they are doing. Why, even
the most desperate criminals are
not treated that way. But as
sure as there is a God in heaven
there will be a retribution. The
Nazi oppresSorS will suffer
plenty. AS history has proven
that the Jews have always sur
vived to see the downfall OF
their oppressors. ~
AUGUST PARsON.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
THOMAS E. DEWEY

and the strong race he ran for governor
We think Mr. Dewey should be congratulated on having
missed out on this attempt, New York county
should be congratulated on the fact that
UeLOeyS Dewey never promised to resign as district
FUtUrp attorney, however the election might turn
out. He should on no account resign, we
think.
We'd like to him finish out the remaining three
years of his term district attorney meantime develop
ing matured social philosophy of kind another.
If he runs for governor again. think he'll win-though,
indeed, the fierce fight he gave Lehman might make
Dewey strong contender for the 1910 Republican pres
dental nomination.
Other Republican presidential possibilities blown
into prominence in the 1888 ballot storm For one there
is Robert A. Taft Senatorelec from Ohio Ohio is piv
otal State; and Mr. Taft besides having reputation of
his for level headedness of the late President
and Chief Justice William Howard Taft Another Repub-
ican whose only handicap presidential possibility is
his States comparative political unmportance is Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, young and en-
ergetc statesman who is owned exclusively by himself
Democracy they say, may be inefficient. But it's
certainly pleasant place to live in when power be
transferred with such by peaceabe ballots register
ing the will of the people, instead of by bullets
the New York; News
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
ROllln' Along
By W. A. S. Douglas

NHROUGH the kindness of Sergt Sidney Houston-a bet
ter breeder of cocker spanes than he nom
conf have received copy Of the Stars and Stripes the Of
ca newspaper of the American Expedonary Force which
carries the story of the battle of Cangny fought Tuesday,
May 2o, 1918 interested in the original account be-
cause units of the Regular Army and the National Guard will
reenac the engagement tonight North Sligo Park
Silver Spring
Cantlgny to my mind, is important to the American
patriot and student of history of the major
men IN which this country participated during the World
War 1t first attack force first purely Ameri-
can effort as battle unit-and it unquestiOned de-
csve victory would urge every person who do to
get out to Sligo Park onght- only sound andoe to
radio scares AS long Americans fight they fought
at Cangny we don't have to be tremendously worried
word picture of the victory has been promised by Col Robert
H. Mccormick editor of the Chicago Tribune who the
American artillery commander on the field.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Just a Plain Person

The man that signed "Bewil-
dered Jew" to his letter is fool
ish to even give those square
heads a thought. I mean Ger
mans; if Hitler was to send all
the people with Jewish blood out
Of this country there would be
but about 10 per cent Of his
people left, because racially
they are a blend Of Nordic,
Mediterranean and Alpine, with
daShes of gypsy, Jew and Mon
gol.
Hitler knows, and I bet some
Of the Square-heads are startled
to learn there is a dash of Mon
gol or yellow strain in German
people. I am only sorry that
there is some good Jewish blood
in those square-heads; also
salute MuSSolini. The same to
you and your pure Romans as
Hitler's pure Aryans.
I am no Jew; my skin is white,
I was born in this country, my
people come from Czechoslova-
kia. I am a citizen of this
country, but I don't belong to
any race. Just a plain person,
as is everyone else, black, brown,
yellow, white or red.
GEORGE HITCHO.
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Midnight Alarms

I read with interest one of the
letters published last night in
the Washington Times, signed
Citizen" objecting to the "out-
landish noise" the fire depart
ment made responding to alarms
in the middle Of the night.
In the outlying district, milk
wagons using horses have a
habit Of moving down the mid
die Of the street unattended
making it a hazard to not only for
the fire department but anyone
who happens to drive along that
way. Downtown late at night the
The Washington times., 1938-11-10
Tuned Hin, Out

How can we Americans be so
quick to forget? I am referring
to Herbert Hoover who had the
nerve to talk the way he did on
Saturday last. I shut my radio
off the moment I realized it
was he. ny ...
Do you people really forget
or is it politics that you put one
like Hoover over the air. No
wonder you Republicans have
failed thus far because you
haven't a clean slate amongst
the lot of you.
We believe in a judgment day
and unless you give us honest
and upright men to vote for you
are doomed-sc awake, you Re
publicans: away with all your
crooks and gangSters.
AN AMERICAN.