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Evening star., 1938-08-17
Major orLeaders
BY the Associated Press.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Battins-Foxx Boston, .34s: Travis,
Washington. .347.
Runs--Greenberg. Detroit, 90; Di
Magsio New York. and Gehrinser, De-
troit, al.
Runs batted in-Foxx, Boston. 113:
Di Magic. New York, 30.
Doubles-Chapman, Boston. 81:
.Tripies-Heath. Cleveland, 1s; Aver
Ill: Cleveland, 10.
ro Home Tuns.aGreenbers, Detroit, ss;
Stolen bases--Crosetti. New York,
Is: Larry Cleveland, 10.
Pitching-Ruffing. New York, 1874;
Chandler. New York. ll-3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Batting-Lombardi. Cincinnati. $40:
Hsc2Tmifk' piffsbnqsh. ss9 Cincinnati and Vaughan
c,1.Gas.,; RqnsMots; !, New York al' Goodman
Runs batted in-ott, New -ork, IS;
Medwick. ST Louis "a.
Hits-McCormick, Cincinnati. 1926
Hack, Chicago, 1874.
Doubles-McCormick. Cincinnati. and
Martin: Philadelphia, 80.
Triples-Mize St: Louis u: Gut
tfrn.,, teridge' 81 Louis and Goodman Gin
Home runs-Goodman, Cincinnati.
and OFT New York, 81.
Stolen bases-Hack, Chicago: Schare-
in Philadelphia. and Koy, Brooklyn.
Pitchins-Blanton Pittsburgh. 1o-2:
Warneke, st. Louis, 11-5.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
WIN SOFTBALL TITLES

Johnson Powell juniors and Taft
Burroughs seniors hold the District
Public Recreation softball champion
ships in their classes, winning yester-
day in the final round of tournament
that lasted three weeks.
johnson Powell was forced into two
extra innings to defeat Hamilton, 4-3,
and the senior champion also had to
play an extra frame to down Sherwood,
SD
Evening star., 1938-08-17
COMPLETES MAT CARD
Turner Offers Four Prelims to
Robert-Dusek Contest.

Promoter Joe Turner today COM
pleted the supporting card for the
feature graphing match involving
Yvon Robert and Emil Dusek tomor-
row night at Turner's >Arena.
Squirming in the semi-fi will be
Cliff Olson and Reb Russell, while
matches restricted to 80 minutes will
find Abe Coleman meeting Ed New
man. Ed Meske facing Steve Budy-
Miss and Bibber Mccoy bending bones
with Jack League
Evening star., 1938-08-17
Ey the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. Aug. 17.-Leo Cab
by) Hartnett. who will have man.
aged the Chicago Cubs a month
come Saturday. had a pat on the
back today to go with his recent
sock on the thumb.
The pat came from Owner P. K.
Wrigley, who said:
Il told Gabby he. has shown me
that he can be relied on to han
die the team in every way and
assured him that he Is free to dis
pose of any or all players on the
roster.
Naturally, I told him the front
office must pass on large expendi-
Evening star., 1938-08-17
MocPhoiI Proves Very Adept
In Getting Terry's Goot.

This year, the grudge is warmer
than ever. and Mr.. Terry, is just as
cold toward his neighbors. Williams
policy is to ignore them completely,
whenever he can. This is hard to do,
however, when he is up to his neck
in them, so to speak. and when ri
bald cries assail his ears from every
quarter of the grandstand.
1t is harder than ever when Leland
Stanford MacPhail, the human port
able phonograph. leads the chorus.
Maybe Leland is not your dream
prince, but the bashful fellow has
got an uncanny knack of getting in
and among Mr.. Terry's ribs.
You know how Mr.. Terry execrates
the game of night baseball. He will
play under nobody's arc-lights, least
of all the arc-lights of Mr.. MacPhail,
the patron saint of the f1refly game.
William has been heard to say that
night ball is beneath the notice of a
dignified citizen.
!. On the night that MacPhail rode
. his hobby into Brooklyn, he tele-
dpliSu I1l 4Clly Go 1oAAoWo-
We invite you, as the pioneer of
night baseball in New York, to be the
guest of honor at our first night game. p"
This was a malicious reference to
one of the skeletons in Williams
closet. Back in 1892, to pick up few
extra dollars, he staged an exhibition
night game in one of Brooklyn's small
er parks. 1t was the first time a
major league club ever had played
night ball in New York. William
would just as soon forget it.
He did not answer Mr.. MacPhaii S
invitation. and he did not 60 to the
game And here, nothing daunted. are
the Dodgers within his gates. ready to
present him with the key to third place
in the National League, the highest
honor at their disposal
{Copyr.Rht, 1898, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1938-08-17
BY the Associated Press.

ANDALUSIA, Ala. Aug. IT,
Young Virgil Trucks, Andalusia's s
lightning ball right-hander, struck
out is Evergreen batsmen last night
to run his seasons total to 1898
and advance to within l3 of the
41l-strikeout record hung up in
1884 by Charlie Radbourne of the
Providence National Leaguers.
Trucks, slated to hurl double
header in an attempt to break the
record, was withheld from the Sec
ond game after conference be-
tween Eddie Goosetree, Detroit
Tiger scout, and Manager Yam
Yaryan Of Andalusia.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
NETMEN SCORE UPSET.

Interior Departments tennis team,
cellar club in the Departmental
League, scored an upset by trimming
General Accounting Office, 80, on
Potomac Park courts.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
From the
Press Box
Dodgers Show Gionts
They're Still in Loop.
By JOHN LARDNER,

special correspondent OF Inc StdF.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Once again
the Dodgers of Brooklyn find them
selves in a position to spoil the season
for William H. Terry and his Giants.
and once again the Dodgers of Brook
lyn mean to make the most of it.
One river and world Of good, clean
hatred lie between Brooklyn and its
proud neighbor. TO handle emer-
gencies, though, there are all kinds OF
bridges across that river, and, If
there weren't any bridges, the burghers
of Brooklyn would swim, or cross by
canoe and kayak, to watch a Dodger-
Giant series at the Polo Grounds
and to remind William H. Terry, in
early Anglo-Saxon terms, that he
is no gentleman.
Just lately, the Giants had been
making new gestures in the direction
of the National League pennant, while
Pittsburgh was making gestures in the
opposite direction. This is situation
made to order for the Dodgers. They
don't care dirty dime for Pittsburgh,
but they'll do their best to knock the
Giants over and grab the flag from
Mr.. Terry's clutching hands.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
MONROE TRACK CHAMP
Wins Northern Division Honors
in Playground Competition.

Monroe Playground track squad
holds top honors in the northern di-
vision of the Department of Play
grounds, having scored 80 points
to win a meet yesterday. Rose Park
was second with %, and Banneker
was third with IS.
Other scores we're Fenton, II; Dun
bar, 6; Cook, S; Deanwood, S; Howard,
3A; Shaw, 8; Smothers. 3; Morgan,
8; Young, 8; Banneker, 212; Garrison,
2, and Burrville, /.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
Terry's Besmirehine Words
Scored in Dodgers Heorts.

And they are off to flying start,
with a victory in the first game of this
weeks three-game series.
1t was back in 1884 that the Brooks
scored their most gorgeous and grue-
some triumph over the cold man from
Memphis. The foundation was laid in
January of that year, when, as every
Flatbush school kid knows, a re-
porter bearded Mr.. Terry in hotel
lobby and asked what he thought OF
Brooklyns chances.
Brooklyn" said William. and his
words are scared in the hearts OF the
faithful. is Brooklyn still in the
e league?"
For the time being, injustice pre-
vailed No avenging power struck
William down with a thunderbolt. His
team was bot that year, and threat
ened to race away with the pennant.
Going into September, it had seven
game lead. Then the masonry began
to crumble A sizzling, carefree pack
of Cardinals were gaining ground. The
Giants foundered
Their lead was almost exhausted,
but they still had lead, and the
finish line was near-when, in the
last week of the season, the mad hordes
of Brooklyn swarmed over the river.
They descended on the Polo Grounds
like wolves on the fold, and their
: cohorts were cleaning, as we'll as
their barred fangs.
They still were in the league, and
they howled with glee as Will Terry
ate his words without catSup. The
Brooks won three games in a row.
On the day that Van Lingle Mungo,
then in the pride of his youth and
power. pitched and slugged his col
leagues to overwhelming victory, the
joy Of the invaders overflowed and
. ran into the Harlem River, where it
poisoned the fish (all Giant rooters)
for miles around
Evening star., 1938-08-17
ROMANS EASY VICTORS.

Paced by the hitting of Mimi Pc
trone and Joe Urciolo, the Urciolo
Romans swamped Goodwill Boys Club.
21-3 in an insect baseball game at
West Potomac Park.
Evening star., 1938-08-17
TAKOMANS SEEK ACTION.

Takoma Tigers want action with
strong unlimited baseball team, pref
erably an out-of town club. for Sun
day. Call Georgia 5499 between 4 and
nm
Evening star., 1938-08-17

TEXAS LEAGUE.
Shreveport. 12: Dallas, 9.
Oklahoma. City. 8: San Antonio. 3.
Houston. IL: Fort Worth, T.
Beaumont at Tulsa. rain.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
C. 0. P. CHARGES
'SHAK EDOWN
BY DEMOCRATS
New Pressure on u. S.
Workers Alleged

G.N.S) The Republican ma
tional committee today charged
the Democrats with a shake.
down" of Government employees
to fill the Democratic treasury.
Citing a recent letter sent out
by Democratic Treasurer Oliver A,
Quayle, jr., mimeographed state
ment issued by COP. headquarters
instructed Federal workers they
were under no obligation to con.
tribute to political campaigns, and
called on the Civil Service Com
mission to protect" the workers.
INCREASING PRESSURE"
I'm June. Oliver A. Ouayle.
jr., =. sent out a letter COM
menclng the Shakedown of
Federal employees for the party'S
war chest. Apparently the re.
Sponse was not encouraging. be-
cause Mr.. Quayle has now sent
out another letter, marked
personal, and more firmly call.
ing on Federal workers to come
across"
WORD TO COMMISSION
Under the civil service reer.
latlons, no Federal employe is
under any obligation whatever
to contribute to any political
party. In view of Mr.. Quayle's
activities the Civil Service Com
mission should now publicly
come to the protection Of Fed
eral workers."
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

the George Washington to vote
in the primaries and (ain't get
ting to be a good reporter) 1
tried to get a story. did. and
here It's. Senator Barkley will be
renominated today but in Novem-
ber he'll be defeated by the Re
publican nominee. Why? Funda-
mental, my Fran! He will be re-
nominated because the Kentucky
dyed-in-wool Democrats think he
has done a good job and because
they still like MY FRIEND in
that State. He will be defeated in
November because in Kaintuck
they have never elected any Sena-
tor for a third time, which &C
counts for them going Republican
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
KILLS FOR Beer
BGrkeeper Wouldn't
Sell 1t for Nickel

CHICAGO, Aug. 6 0.N.s0.-A
young gunman early today shot
and killed a tavern keeper be-
cause the saloon owner refused to
cut the price of glass of beer
from dime to a nickel.
The gunman walked into the
bar of Alex Sulima, So, ordered a
glass of beer and and laid a five
cent piece down.
"A glass of beer costs 10
cents" said Sulima.
This for you then" said the
man as he drew a gun.
The gunman waved Sulima and
nine other persons, including Mrs.
Sulima, toward a rear room. When
Sulima lunged at him, the gun
man fired.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

agents and propagandists as the New Deal ad-
ministration.
For each publicity expert employed by any
previous government. the New Dealers have en-
ployed and still are employing scores. The cost
to you and me- taxpayers is staggering, sufficient
to keep many, many families in comfort for life
AS told recently in this column, the Brookings
Institute found it impossible to get complete in
formation on the Federal publicity machine; but
it did discover that, in Washington alone, 80 of
the 80 "offices Of information and publications.
admitted to employing $50 whole or parttime
press agents, drawing annual salaries totaling
$99,123-at which rate the entire 80 offices would
employ 525 press agents at approximately 81 ,9OO,
600 year.
GrOtesque and COndemn0ble
ENOR senatorial proberS or other politicians to
make it appear that it is iniquitous for organi-
cations Of businessmen to defend themselves pub
licly is as grotesque as it is condemnable
If the New Deal has deemed it necessary to add
to the burdens of taxpayers the most gigantic
army of press agents and propagandists America
has ever known, why should it be accounted a
crime for the victims of denunciation and con-
demnation to make at least modest attempts to
defend themselves against such overwhelming
assaults accusations, asperSions?
Is it that WashingtonianS are convinced they
have such weak case that it cannot Withstand
the slightest questioning, cannot stand up against
even feeble attempts to present the other side
to the public?
Copyright 1898 by B. C. Forbes)
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

noted? According to recent trends
they must graduate from a spe-
cific college to become a Gov
ernment attorney, with additional
experience with railroads, bus
lines. municipalities, or what have
you. Why doesn't the CommiS.
sion be honest, admit it's barring
all but untried children because
the latter have more years to vote
'right?' Merit system? Piffle!
What merit system?" j. A.
Dear j. A: Experimental docet,
but youth must be served!
B0rkley to Win, Lose
Dear Mr.. Moser: Here I go,
sticking my neck out again. Last
night I spent few hours in that
spot opposite Old Post Office with
few of my fellow (note that
fellow m1ad) Kaintucky
Colonels. They were leaving on
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
By EValyn Walsh Mclean

radio and many other added costs to give the
public the latest news, have not touched on.
There are Investigations of the Group Health
Associations, Investigations of how the money
that Congress voted is being spent and now.
it seems to me, it is high time to start
thorough investigation of the tieups and the
links in this white paper industry
If present conditions are allowed to continue.
before long Johnnie will be without his funnies.
Mama will be without her woman's page. Papa
will not have his sports column to read at night.
1t is simply unthinkable in free and fair
country like ours that few men can snap their
fingers whenever they feel like it and Jump the
cost Of white paper. Remember the millions of
people from whom they are taking away pleasure;
not only pleasure but real education A fine, high
type of newspaper can and does do untold good in
exposing graft, helping raise funds for the poor
and supporting a thousand and one other splen-
did causes for the welfare of our country.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
9Th District 6. 0.P.
To Select Delegates

ARLINGTON, Va, Aug. 6.
Delegates to the Eighth district
convention and new committee
members will be elected at a mass
meeting of Republicans here on
August 16, Grayson A. Ahalt,
chairman Of the Arlington Repub-
lican executive committee. an
nounced today.
A total Of 81 delegates are to
be selected. They will attend the
district convention at Culpeper on
August 18. Precinct chairmen also
will be named. The meeting will
be held at 8 p. m. at the Lee
Tavern on Glebe Road.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
The Award List

MARLENE BEAUTY KIT:
Ellen L. Buckley, Engraving
and Printing, is invited to
visit GOldenberg'S cosmetics
counter and receive one Of
these snappy, fast-Selling
"naturalS" for keeping In the
desk for face refreShment.
HIGH ICE CREAM: Alfred
Oskin, Agriculture, has q slip
awaiting at this desk entitI-
ing to a quart Of this tasty
commodity on presentation at
any High store, one Of which
is doing business at 1859 c
st. S. E.
MOONLIGHT TRIP: James
H. Pitts, Treasury, and LO-
rena HudlOw, Treasury, have
two tickets each awaiting at
the Potomac River Line, Sew
enth and Water SITS. s. w.,
from which the S. s. Potomac
sails nightly, 8:45.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

K n OK lie
have gained
a fairly clear
inside ide a
now as to
W h a t m a y
come out of
it.
Th ey ex-
pect a thin
coat of white
W a h a n d
some thin &C
ton.
The white
W a sh will
consist main
= .l
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

instances where associations Of
businessmen engaged public
relations experts. The atti-
tude Of the probers reveals
that they account it iniquitous
for business and industry to
endeavor to defend themselves
against political maligning and
mud7Slinging, to educate the
people regarding their actions.
to win public approval.
Much has been made of the
fact that the National AsSocia-
ton of Manufacturers en-
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
SENATE PROBES
new CAMPAIGN
FUNDS TRICK"
Candidates Must Now
TELL It All"

GN.SO. Shifting campaign
methods today caused the Senate
Campaign Funds Committee to
adopt new means of exacting a
complete picture of cost of sena-
torial campaigns.
The committee has discovered
that most expenditures of candi-
dates for the Democratic or Re
publican senatorial nominations
are being made by specially formed
committees. Often senatorial can
didates disclaim knowledge of the
expenditures.
HEAVY EXPENSES
T'he big increase in both Federal
and State payrolls and the un-
usual activity of organizations
have opened avenues for enor-
nous expenditures in many bit
terly contested primaries.
Senator Sheppard CD, Texas,
chairman of the Senate Campaign
Funds Committee. already has de-
cided to revise the QUESTIONABLE
used to obtain a complete finan-
cial picture from the candidates.
The revised QUESTIONABLE will
call upon candidates to report
what other people have spent in
their behalf, including individuals,
groups and associations.
OHIO ELECTION
The issue Of special campaign
committees was raised most promi-
nently in Ohio, where Robert A.
Taft and Arthur A. Day, Republic
an candidates, construed the re-
quest of the Sheppard committee
to apply only to funds contributed
to them.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky,
Democratic Senate leader who
closed grips with Gov. (Happy)
Chandler at the polls today for
the party senatorial nomination,
reported that many county COM
mittees had been formed to raise
funds for him, and that he lacked
knowledge of their activities. The
committee is seeking a complete
report.
TAFT REPORT
Biggest sums have been spent
in Ohio, first reports show. The
campaign committee of Senator
Robert Bulkley, Democrat, spent
$16,083, while first reports showed
expenditures of $15,684 by Taft
and an estimated $10,700 in Days
behalf.
Use of either State or Federal
funds, including Federal relief
personnel and social security OF
highway funds held by the State.
is being investigated by the com.
mittee. Chief complaints have
arisen from alleged coercion OF
voters.
One of the most unusual com.
plants made to the committee
only in informal fashion thus far
is that an Eastern governor is de,
laying his highway program, SO
that a huge number of workers
can be put on the payroll in Sep.
tember and October-just before
the general election.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

Happy however, will not be dead
politically but will win Logan's
seat in 1912"
JOHNNY FEDERAL.
Memo to j. F.: Okay, Well see
how close you are.
Jingling, JGngling
Dear Mr.. Moser: The little
Jingle was hardly worth your gen.
erous reward. My thanks again. !"
M. E. H.
Dear M. E. H.: Just goes to
show you never can tell. Be be-
lieve jingles help keep the nerves
from jangling in this too-serious
world!
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
Bargain Tactics

WIRELESS waves cracked be-
w tween Arlington and the
Houston for the entire morning
after the note was delivered.
Mr.. Hull smoked like the Great
Smoky Mountains and his ire
was higher. It was he who
recommended that the Presi.
dent make a statement express
ing the adamant inSiStence Of
the Government on its position.
Inner councils Of the State
Department seem to have found
out at last how to bargain with
Mexico.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06


ployment, Personnel Division" of the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the policies of which and the
conduct of whose directors, it might be remem-
bered, are now under investigation of Joint
Senate House committee
The letter was sent to former employers of
persons applying for specialized types of work
with the IVA.
On iva letterhead addressed Knoxville Tenn,
the mimeogrsphed letter form follows:
my Dear Mr.. (blank to be filled tn):
1--WE are considering Mr.. (blank to be filled
with applicants name) for position with the
Tennessee Valley Authority as (blank for type
of position).
IF you do not believe the applicant qualified
for the position for which we are considering
him at this time, please indicate what type of
position you consider him best qualified to fill
and answer the following QUESTIONABLE in light
Of your recommendation ="
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

on the street corners Of every
city all over the world.
The game little mechants
trying to sell their own papers
first. If they see their rivals
from other papers getting
ahead of them, they take it
with a grin and superb sports
manship that is a great lesson
to anyone who watches them.
How many Of the countless
buyers of papers, when they
pay their few pennies for
their favorite sheets, realize
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
Today in Films
WARNER BROTHERS.

film schedule, for which you
may have received passes:
EARLE: Harold Lloyd in
Professor Beware" plus
Frances LangfOrd in person
on the stage: METROPOLI-
TAN: ClaIk Gable and CIau-
dette Colbert in ct Happened
One Night: AMBASSADOR:
LuiSe Rainer and Melvyn
Douglas in "TOy Wife,; CAL
VERT and TIVOLI: Fred
MacMurray and Harriet Hill
lard in "COcOanut Grove;
PENN: SimOne Simon and
Don Ameche in "JOsette";
UPTOWN: Bobby Breen in
Hawaii Calls"
The Washington times., 1938-08-06
MEXICO CHAMBER VOTES
:REJECTIONOFHULLNO NOTE

cOnfiScatiOn Of .Ame ericGn.
owned farm lands.
Eighty-nine deputies voted
by a show Of hands to adopt
a resolution ratifying the note.
The resolution added:
1--WE are sure this incident
will not in the least prejudice
the cordial relations which ex-
iSt between the tive peoples"
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

MEXICO CITY, August 6
N.N.SD.-FOlIOwing a debate
that lasted only one minute,
the Mexican Chamber of Dep
uties was on record today with
flat approval Of MexicO'S note
to the United States rejecting
Secretary Hull'S request for
arbitration of the dispute over
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

T AM very moderate when I make this state
ment, and know the public will realize how
serious conditions are when they learn that every
publisher loses from three to six cents on every
paper that he sells.
BY all means let the authorities get to work
quickly and look into this white paper business
Talk about monopolies-this is the tightest
sewedup monopoly in the country today and it
is not one that only hurts few people, It is
one that is going to hurt millions if it is not
stopped and stopped soon. We must be able to
print our newspapers, give the people the news
and the pleasure and the knowledge which
they so richly deserve.
You authorities remember unless you act
quickly and thoroughly there will be no such
thing as freedom of the press because soon
there will be no press to be free
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

Record Of Representative Clare
Hoffman of Michigan concern
ing the CIO and the National
Labor Relations Board.
This act, among others, was
castigated by the NLRB as
employer interference" an d
therefore automatic violation
of the Wagner act. The en-
ployer was found guilty by the
NLRB.
Here is a copy of a mimeo-
graphed letter form from the
office of the Director of EN-
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

what trouble and care and real cost it takes to
produce the newspaper which they throw away
after reading.
Just think, paper selling for cents costs
from to cents to put on the street. This and
the magazine business are about the only ones
I know of where the consumers pay only half the
cost Of production.
The Washington times., 1938-08-06

SpeakinS OF
/ GOVERNMENT
WORKERS
By ]. EARLE MosER
~ III

II you knoD of tDrong you
should right it,:
If you haze q bad habit you
should fight it;
But on all other troubles, hand
US your DluddleS,
Just ease yourself doDn and
tDrite it,