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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
Alperstein Elected
Baseball Captain

BALTIMORE, June 8.-Milton
Alperstein, who will be a senior
next year, was elected captain of
the 1889 Johns Hopkins University
baseball team, with Malcolm Mosh-
mack being reelected manager.
Three players will be lost by
graduation-Le onard Rubinger,
outfielder; Martin Hartke, short
stop, and Semour RomanofSky
second base.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
SChme|ing Seen
Winning By
Knockout
FIRST BLOW VITAL
Louis Hardest Hitter,
But Der Max Has
Toughest Chin
FIRST BLOW VITAL
BY LAYTON CARVER

NEW YORK, June N1.N'S.'
To be quite frank about it all,
it's becoming a little tiresome to
keep on writing about the Joe
LcuisMax Schmeling heavyweight
championship fight on June %
~ Yankee Stadium, and I'm going
to desist insofar as possible from
here on out, but for the benefit
o. those who insist on picking
Louis 1 think this should be said:
The champion positively can't
get away from right hand punch
II the chin. This isn't my idea
enlrely. I simply saw him get
ting belted around by flock OF
Joe Bananas who serve as spar
ring partners down at Pompton
Lakes, N. j., and 1 sought out an
experienced and allegedly wise
man and presented my views, With
this result:
Louis is and always will be a
sucker for a right hand and ne
can't live under a good stiff punch
Ito the chin Thus Schmeling fig
ures to go on to a knockout or a
Idecision-if he can land first.
FIRST WALLOP COUNTS
BY this time the fight resolves
itself into one in which everybody
is wondering who is going to gec
the first real wallop. Louis hits
harder by far, but Schmeling has
the tougher chin and, between the
two, it seems likely that Schmeling
would be able to come back from a
real good betting and go ahead to
Ia victory.
I don't want to build up Schme-
ling's case too much. To the con-
trary, I'm not even interested. but
strictly on reporting he appears
to be the best bet right now,
in spite of all you have read and
heard. Perhaps by the time the
gong sounds everybody will have
suffered a shift of opinion, but
the German looks plenty tough.
He is 80 and, therefore, beyond
his peak, but he has always been
tough competitor and a really
receiving fighter. There is some
talk that he will confuse and BATTLE
Louis entirely by changing his
style slightly, but that undoubt-
edly is bushwah.
DER MAX'S TACTICS
Schmeling probably will go in
with his right tucked across his
chest to knock down leads and
to throw it through the faintest
glimmer of openings and with that
possibly win the fight.
It was good enough before-the
Germans peculiar stance, his right
hand pot shots and the rest. To
say the least, it was confusing to
Louis, who was knocked out in IL
rounds in their previous clash.
Schmeling Weaved and Swayed and
tossed right hands until finally
Louis couldn't go any farther. The
current champion explained it all
perfectly.
THAT Schmeling fought me
sidewiSe," Louis said, bewildered
by il all,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
Nat. Savings Nine
Defeats Heurich

National Savings won from
Heurich, 8 to 2, with Pitcher Gar
vey holding the Brewers to five
safeties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
Revo|ta
Choice in Open
Cold Weather
Mars Practice
Rounds

weather mans promise of slightly
warmer weather today cheered
nearly 200 of the nations best
golfers who spent Tuesday vainly
trying to warm up for the National
Open on one of cool Colorado's
coolest June days.
The highest temperature was SO,
and the lowest golf score Of the
day on the Cherry Hills course
was II, an even par, shot by Henry
Picard, of Hershey, Pa.
Picard played evenly for his par
performance, turning the top side
in SO, one over, and coming back
in IS, one under par.
TWO FAVORITES
Ralph Guldahl. of Madison,
N. j., and Johnny Revolta, OF
Chicago, who received word SUM-
day that he was the father Of a.
six pound baby girl, were installed
as favorites in the betting at
z to /.
Vic Ghezzi, of Deal, N. j., a.
veteran performer who has seen
is of the past 20 opens, also ap-
peared to have considerable fol-
lowing. Other contestants who
figured strongly in the betting
were Harry Cooper, Dick Metz,
Horton Smith, Henry Picard and
Paul Runyan.
Squawks concerning the tough
ness of the course had all but died
out. Willie MacFarlane, 1885 open
champ, was the only entrant being
quoted on this subject last night.
why no, my man." he
answered when asked II he
wanted to 90 around in a
practice fourscme. THE fair
ways aren't wide enough to &C.
comodate four balls simultane-
ously."
PRACTICE SCORES
Sam Snead, who broke par Mon
day, was off the fairway six times
on the back nine during a
practice round Tuesday with
Guldahl and Helen Hicks, profes-
sional champ OF feminine golfdom
and defending titlist in the
women's Western Open. Snead
estimated his score at 78, Guldahl
a. "A. !
DIN Dutra, 1884 champion: AL
Zimmerman, Charley Sheppard.
and Ed Kinglev went around in
72's Tuesday. Ed Dudley shot a
IS.
Willie Goggin and Ted Long
worth were latest arrivals for the
meet. Both played nine-hole
rounds late Tuesday.
Hollywood's famed mysterious"
John Montague and Walter
Hagen, who failed to qualify in
the San Francisco tryoutS, were
among the spectators.
NEW YORK, June 8 G.N.S0.
Defending champion Ralph Gull
dahl, Sam Snead and Henry
Picard today were established as
co-favorites to win the National
Open golf championship starting
tomorrow at Denver, odds pre-
pared by Betting Commissioner
Jack Doyle reveal.
The price set on them on them
to finish in front Is 8 to /, with
4 to /, 2 to l and even money
offered that they will finish second
third or fourth.
Harry Cooper, Byron Nelson,
Johnny Revolte and Horton Smith
are bracketed as 10-to-1 shots to
come through and at 5 to to
finish second.
In another group are Paul Run
yam, Harold McSpaden, Dick
Metz, KY Lafoon, Victor Ghezzi.
Jimmy Hines, Jimmy Thomson.
Denny Shute. Lawson Little. Ed
Dudley, Tony Penna, Ray Man
grum, Tony Manero, Ben Hogan
and Gene Sarazen, all 15-to-1
shots.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
ACES RECEIVE DEGREES

NEW YORK. June S.-Tw0 Of the greatest mile in
track history graduate today
University'S commencement exercises.
Cunningham received his degree Of doctor Of philosophy for
Relation Selected CardOVascular and Strength
Measures Physical Fitness Of Outstanding Athletes"
receive his masters degree in business administration
Both merS finished their college in 1894 Cunning
graduated from Kansas University and BOnthrOn from
Princeton
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08

MEETING

The Presidents Cup Re
gatta Committee will hold its
first luncheon meeting Of
the year next Monday at
1890 o'clock in the Queen
Elizabeth Room of the
Raleigh Hotel. Skipper James
A. Councillor requests every
member of the Grew" to
be on hand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
GeiseI DroUe Cab

What to do now? The riddle
soon was solved. Geisel took the
wheel and drove on through the
half lights Of approaching day.
At last the sky line of Chicago
pierced the morning shadows.
The cabbie awoke. He drove up
to the Congress Hotel, where
Dick Nallin stayed.
whats the farce" asked
Geisel.
YOU owe me $s6," answered
the cab man
I'll have to get some dough
upstairs. I'm a little light in
the reach" explained Geisel.
We'll, wise guy; I'm going up
with you. Yon can't pull no
tricks one me-" came the skepti
cal speech.
So they went up to Dick Nal
Inns room and sure enough.
Geisel got the dough and paid
off.
You're all right" said the
L
you're an awful good umpire"
So it was that a fine umpire
and a great fellow won name,
and if you call him Taxi" to-
day, Harry will grin and know
exactly what you mean.
Allen in Trouble
Johnny Allen is in more
trouble. He walked off the
pitching mound because he was
ordered to change a shirt, and
was fined heavily by Oscar
Witt. Last year Steve O'Neill
fined Allen for breaking up
hotel furniture. While here.
Allen was tossed out of a game
by George Moriarty for sense
less arguing. 1t is too bad that
the "Tarheel' has such a violent
temper, for there are few better
pitchers in baseball. But he is
cutting years off his career with
his temperament.
President Clark C. Griffith is
spending time and money on
long distance telephone calls.
He is doing everything in his
power to make a deal for a
pitcher. 1t would be smart bust
ness for him to get some worth
while players if he can. The
Mats played to more than As
900 paid admissions over the
week and local fans will
support a team if it can play
interesting baseball.
I would like to see Buck New
som land with the Yankees or
the Indians and get his chance
to pitch for a winning team.
The big guy has enough power
to win, and if he were supported
by the bats of either Cleveland
or New York he would do all
right.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08

Games behind leader.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Chicago, 4; New York, 2.
Brooklyn, Z; st. Louis, 6.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati, rain.
Boston at Pittsburgh, rain.
TODAY'S GAMES
New York at Chicago ~.
Boston at Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn at st. Louis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
Train Reared Past

Came midnight, and a head
light illuminated the right OF
way. The Chicago special thun-
dered past the station and didn't
even whistle. A station hand put
out the lights and asked Geisel
what he was doing there.
Waiting for the Chicago
train" replied our hero.
THAT was the Chicago train,
but it doesn't stop here" came
the answer.
80 I see,' replied Geisel.
"But I've got to get to Chicago.
How can I work that?"
Better charter a cab" came
the sarcastic reply.
That's an idea," said the reso-
lutte Geisel. I'll do that"
So, after two hours, Geisel
found a driver who would try
anything once. and the deal was
made.
Off to Chicago they started.
The car purred along through
the night over the road way,
stopping for gas twice, to the
disgust of indignant station own
ers. Toward dawn the car
careened across the road, mar
rowly missing an oak tree. The
driver had fallen asleep.
Evening star., 1938-10-19
Tax Adjustment.

Figures give ample weight to the plea
OF the District Unemployment Com
pensation Board for reduction of the
present District pay roll tax rate, ac-
tually 3.3 per cent, for unemployment
reserves.
In three years of operation, those ad-
ministering the law have seen the re-
serves approach total of $10,000,O0O
as compared to benefit payments of less
than $l,500,OOO. Further, with the rate
now stabilized at its maximum level
there would be a yearly income of about
$6,0O0,OO0 as compared to an estimated
maximum disbursement OF some ST.
100000.
Since the relative stability of private
employment in Washington makes it
most unlikely that even this extreme es-
innate of disbursements, based upon
10000 eligible unemployed, would be
reached more than infrequently, there
is an unnecessarily wide spread between
supply and demand"
1t is desirable, of course, that any
contemplated downward revision of tax
rates should be accompanied by con-
sideration of an upward graduation of
the benefit rates. Broadly speaking,
however, the District benefits are COM
parable to those paid in any of the
States and are at a level adequate to
furnish important emergency support to
the temporarily unemployed.
With the qualification that District
benefit standards should be maintained
at level equal to the highest among
the States, support for a readjustment
of the tax rate is fully merited.
Evening star., 1938-10-19

was reversed by the Circuit Court Of
Appeals, which held streeker could not
be deported merely because he had been
a Communist.
Our immigration law provides that an
alien may be barred from the United
States If he believes in or advocates the
overthrow of the Government by force
or violence, or if he belongs to or is
affiliated with an organization which
advocates such acts.
The Circuit Court held no evidence
had been produced to show whether
Strecker or his political party advo-
Gated such an overthrow of this Gov-
ernment, and the question now, there
fore, is whether such proof must be
offered, and, if SO, what shall be the
dividing line between subversive and
non-subversive activities.
The events of recent years have DEM
onstrated the danger inherent in giving
too much leeWay to the disseminators of
Europe have used the propaganda weap-
on freely and effectively in weakening
the democratic states across the Atlantic,
and it's potency has been demonstrated
in this hemisphere, notably in Brazil
There is no reason to believe now that
the people of this country are in dam
ger Of succumbing to the subversive
teachings of Communists, Fascists or
Nazis. But at the same time it would
be foolish to overlook what has been
accomplished in other countries where
the propagandists were given too much
freedom. If the Supreme Court can fix
a boundary beyond which alien agi-
tators may not go. even under the guise
of exercising the traditional American
rights of free speech and free assembly,
it will have rendered a service of vital
Importance at this critical time.
Evening star., 1938-10-19
Transgressor's Way.

Japan is discovering there is some-
thing in that old saw about the hard
ness of the transgressor's way. China S
invaders, who landed nearly $4,000 men
in Bias Bay. northeast of Hong Kong,
last Wednesday at the outset of a
South China drive against Canton, find
themselves halted by Unexpectedly
stubborn Chinese resistance. 1t be-
gins to look as if Canton might prove
second Shanghai for the islanders.
One hundred thousand Well-equipped
troops of Chang Kai-shek's army are
intrenched in strong positions forty-five
miles east of Canton, where they have
stopped the japanese in bitter fighting.
This does not, of course, suggest that
the invaders, forced to attempt to break
Chinas resistance by destroying her
principal source of military supplies
through Hong Kong and Canton, will
continue to be thwarted. The Japanese
have already succeeded in cutting at two
points the KoWloon-Canton railway, bot
tleneck through which Chiang's army
has been supplied. In consequence, some
s2,5O0,OoO to 100000 worth OF war
materials accumulated at Hong Kong
has become untransportable. To that
extent the South China sortie has paid
Japan immediate strategic dividends,
though other southern avenues of sup
ply, such as French Indo-China, are
still open.
The Chinese are standing their
ground at Wong Tong, some forty miles
east of Canton, and holding it against
japanese land and air attack with a
tenacity that is costing both sides
dearly. In anticipation of the current
enemy offensive. the Chinese have been
piling up in the interior military stores
alleged to be sufficient to permit in
definite prolongation of resistance to the
Canton drive. Foreign military OBJ
servers look for an early decisive en-
gagement near Tsengshing, north of
vorable for defense operations The
Chinese must block the japanese or lay
themselves open to an enveloping
movement on Canton from the east.
Chiangs armies have given so sturdy
an account of themselves since they
lost the Soochow line early in the sum-
mer, and especially in holding up the
enemys advance against Hankow, that
it would be venturesome to predict
the fall of Canton without some of the
hardest fighting of the undeclared war,
now well advanced into its fifteenth
month, with China broken, battered,
and bleeding from thousand wounds,
but still unbowed. Japans internal econ
omy reveals unexpected staying powers,
but upheavals within the Konoye cabi-
net are straws showing that the wind at
Toxic is not blowing in as favorable a
direction as the war lords would desire.
Evening star., 1938-10-19
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

feet is one Of diffused light, Of which
artists, both in nature and In the thea
ter, make 50 much
Here the spectator has an effect all
his own, in a sense, for no matter how
many people there may be around him,
he may feel pretty sure that the picture
is his alone II the matter Is otherwise,
he has no real way OF knowing it, 80
may rest satisfied with his own UNDER
standing of beautiful thing.
Space between buildings, even tower
ing apartment houses, comes to life as
the mist gathers and the sunlight tries
to break through.
This is the picture. 1t vanishes later,
as the light becomes stronger, so that
the admirer must be at 1t early II he
is to see 1t at all.
1t is interesting, in 4 trip downtown,
to try and see how many varieties Of the
same picture may be caught. Watch
especially for the glimpses between
buildings, for 1t is there that some Of
the finest effects are to be seen.
The rays Of sun can almost be seen,
slanting, owing to the breaking up in
the particles OF the mist. This is some-
what the same effect the dust particles
In even the cleanest room will have
upon a ray OF sunshine coming through
the window.
Light is SO around us all day long
that most Of US fail to stop and con-
slider 1t for the wonder worker it is.
Only when we happen to look through
q stained glass window are we conscious
of the light, and even then We think more
OF the glass.
But it is the light which really does
the work.
How much Of our everyday apprecia
ton of things beautiful is due to the
light?
Every one knows how artists, in dis
| playing their works, insist that the light
must be right.
If the light is not right" they claim,
| the best painting in the world can ap-
pear mediocre.
A portrait in oils, viewed in the wrong
| light, lacks life.
Seen with the light just right, the
| subject comes to life, as it were, is a
| real human being.
The light in the impromptu mist pic
| lures is struggling light, light trying
| to get through, to light everything
1t is blocked by the mist, that Is what
makes the struggle, and also what makes
| the picture, we may feel sure.
Conflict. that's what the people who
| try to teach others how to write the
| short story call it,
It's just the universal principle of
struggle, all over again, apparent around
! the world. and now greeting us as we
| 60 to town.
Perhaps those who love peace should
not be any more perturbed than they
must in view Of this natural principle.
| 1t is as natural for tribesmen to fight
as for mist particles to impede light
May the rule Of light prevail in the
end.
Evening star., 1938-10-19
Hollywood Cenealogy.

BY popular agreement, the nadir OF the
motionless is supposed to be w. P. A.
worker on a road job, while at the other
end of the scale the zenith of the busy
is a one armed paperhanger with the
hives. However, the activities of the
movie colony in the past few years have
furnished the possibility of another
simile Who, for instance, could possibly
be buster than Hollywood genealogist,
assuming that anyone could be found
rash enough to take this job?
While the attention of the world has
been focused on important events in
Europe and elsewhere, these players have
kept steadily at their favorite sport
acquiring new mates and turning them
in for later models, so that 1t is difficult
to pick pair of them at random and
not find kinship between them In the
Hollywood sense of that word. If a
man and woman are chosen, they may
have been married at one time, or even
two times. If two men are considered,
they may have married the same actress
Or two actresses must be related because
they have both been through the Wom-
ans Exchange and each of their divorced
husbands has married the same woman,
Jane Doe, one after the other. In fact,
there is literally no end to the possibili-
ties in such community and new terms
are needed to describe their complex re-
lationshipS. The following are suggested,
supposing you are an actor:
Husband in-law-Your divorced wife's
next husband.
Husband-in-law once romoved-The
Evening star., 1938-10-19

imagination Of the poet, but even so 1t
appears to me as being only too apparent
that modern woman is fast losing her
good looks and physical appeal.
1t also is plain as pike stan" that the
women OF this age are likewise losing
their ascendancy over men. This is at
tested not only by the appalling num-
Der of divorces today, but even more
strikingly by the fact that, compared
with their sisters of yesteryear, the mod
ern woman is strikingly colorless. What
woman of today can even pretend to
compete with the most gorgeous" Lady
Blessington, who was the friend and
confidante Of such great men as Byron,
D'Orsay. Bulwer-Lytton, and the god
like Disraeli? What woman Of today
has been able to inspire SO great a
work of art as "the Honorable Mrs.
Norton" who served as the heroine Of
Meredith's Diana Of the Crossways?'
This age, with all of its tinseled heroines
OF the celluloid, has given us no woman
who could stir the pulse of our genera
ton as Emma Hamilton stirred hers.
Nor, in spite Of all the tons of silly
fashion magazines that have rolled off
the presses during the past 20 years,
have we seen the like of Dolly Madi-
son, Cora Livingston or Kate Chase.
Your obedient servant has very little
regard for either Herr Hitler or Signor
Mussolni. but in sending woman back
to the nursery, must confess I believe
they are on the right track. A woman S
place is in the home, and these ram
bunctious virile, hair-pulling she-men
who are always trying to play "a mans
part in the world cannot fail to re-
mind me of that Promethean saying of
the immortal DR.. johnson concerning q
woman preacher: 1T, sir. reminds me
OF dog dancing on it's hind legs. 1t
is not done well-but then, sir, you are
surprised to see it done at all"
G. K. HORTON.
Evening star., 1938-10-19
Alien Propagandists.

The Supreme Court is justly famed as
the guardian of individual liberties in
America. On many occasions it has
acted to shield the private citizen
from oppressive laws, holding that the
urgency Of safeguarding the freedom of
speech, worship and assemblage out
weighed any remote threat to the Amer
lean form of government which might
have been read into the actions of par
ticular individuals.
Thus, in the De Jong case, the justices
ruled unanimously that joining the
Communist party and attending a Com
munist meeting were not acts for which
De Jong could be convicted of criminal
syndicalism under an Oregon statute.
The court, in effect. held that there
was not sufficient evidence to prove that
De Jong had advocated forcible sub
version of governmental authority, and
that mere proof of membership in and
activity on behalf of the Communist
party was not of itself sufficient to just
ify the conviction.
The court has now indicated its will
ingness to explore this field bit further
by passing upon the question whether
an alien can be deported solely because
he belongs or has belonged TO the Com
munist party.
Joseph G.. Strecker, an alien restau-
rant owner of Little Rock, Ark, was
ordered deported because he belonged
to the party and paid dues for few
months during the twenty-six years he
has been In this country. That action