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The Washington times., 1938-07-13
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By SHIRLEY SPENCER

BY SHIRLEY SPENCER
This is a general quiz. Score
10 for each correct answer.
/. How many acres are there
in square mile?
2. When is one insolvent?
3. Who was the youngest man
ever inaugurated President of
the United States?
4. Which is known as the
Ozark Continent?
S. How many voyages did Co.
lumbus make to America?
6. In what war was Abraham
Lincoln elected a captain of the
mounted volunteers. although
they were without mounts?
Z. What two States celebrate
Patriots Day" as a holiday in
the United States?
8. Who played the role of
Scarface in 1882 in a picture of
that name?
8. In what State did Aaron
Burr and Alexander Hamilton
fight their duel?
10. According to the Bible,
what happened to Lots wife
when she turned around for a
look?
ANSWERS on Page 15)
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tablished, been the guiding
hand behind the acts of not a
few leftist Congressman in re-
cent years. Mr.. Gale, has had a
desk in the offices of several
Representatives and issued press
releases generously to other
newspapermen regarding these
legislators.
Whenever Mr.. Gale begins to
function in any Congressional
office, 1t happens not infre-
quently that radical or at least
decidedly liberal speeches bear
ing the name of the Congress
man in question start making
their appearance in the Con-
gressional Record.
Usually these lawmakers were
pronounced liberals, or, if Gale
helped make them so, they seem
to have stayed in the path of
liberalism, in a manner mu-
tually satisfactory. One excep-
ton appears to be Representa-
tive Fred H. Hildebrandt of
South Dakota, due to retire in
January, having been defeated
for the Senatorial nomination in
the May primary. Gale went to
South Dakota this spring and
apparently assisted in beating
Hildebrandt and nominating ex-
Governor Tom Berry. Hide
brandt virtually says so in the
Congressional Record and calls
Gale dangerous" and mali
cious." Gale in reply indicates
that he considers it a compli-
ment to credit him with being
a material factor in beating
Hildebrandt.
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is not too desirable, nor is it an
easy place for youngster to
learn to swim. The campaign
will give thousands of children
the opportunity to learn to
swim at designated hours, under
qualified instructors and life
guards"
X Il 4
Mrs. Edythe Hepner, 902 st.
S, E., cashier and bookkeeper:
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Blanaes Lee

In answer to the Confederate
veterans of the civil war who
blame General Longstreet in
stead of General Lee for the de-
feat of the Confederacy at Get
tysburg, I quote from "Muzzey's
American History" page 357,
"Pickett'S Charge"
Lee, tagged with his immense
labors and desperate in his de-
mand for victory, now failed for
once in generalShip.
"Disregarding the almost tear
full remonStrances of General
Longstreet he sent General
Pickett with $4,000 men, the
flower of the Confederate in
fantry, to carry by storm the
impregnable position Of the
Union troops"
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proper instruction, children not
only lose their fear of the water,
but learn the rudiments of
swimming and also something
about life7saving, which every
swimmer should know. If there
had been such an opportunity
when I was a child, I would GER
talnly have taken it,"
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Dangerous

It is pointed out that prac-
tically every progressive Demo
crat was successful in the South
Dakota primary contests and
that evidently the Democrats of
the State looked upon Berry as
a better progressive than Hide
brandt. The vote would seem to
bear out Gales statement, for
Berry won by a three-to-one vote
over Hildebrandt, and the pro-
gressive candidates for the nomi-
nation for Governor and for
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have the type of skin that can
not stand exposure to the sun.
However, I wish that as a child
I could have had the chance to
learn to swim, but I've always
lived in the city and there were
not any pools then"
X X
T. F. Burke, 5000 Fourteenth
st. N. W., radiator company
MANAGER.
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to-swim project. because swim
ming is one of my favorite sports
and 1 received several medals In
high school swimming meets. In
fact, everyone should be able to
swim, and believe anyone can
learn, regardless of age"
y
Mrs. w. HI. elem mt s, 10
Thirteenth st. S. E., housewife:
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parents should make a special
effort to have their children
learn. I hope to have my three
youngsters well acquainted with
the water and swimming before
each is 6 years old. My eldest
daughter will be ready for her
first lessons next summer"
X X X
Harold C. Dalaker, 216 Sixth
St. S. E., insurance agent:
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Passion Play
village. They
remain t h e
simple, unaf-
fected believ-
ers who, 800
years ago and
more, made
q VOW 10 LIlG
Almighty to
reenact every
10 years the
tria |, cruci-
fiXion a n d
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THE only objec-
ton I can find to
this excellent cam
paign is that there
are not e noug h
pools in this city.
After all, the only
swimming facilities
here are the pools,
and a crowded pool
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Inc ueAG DCSO
thing to actually
ope n in g up the
pools is this learn
to-swim campaign.
Children find it diff
ficult to swim prop
erly just by joining
others in q crowd
ed pool. Through
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ut certainly is a
wonderful project.
The pools provide
the only opportun-
ity for many city
children to get re-
lief from the hot
W e a t h r and to
benefit from this
healthful sport. All
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"All boys and
girls should learn
to swim and their
parents should see
that they get such
instruction. There
is no better sport.
Besides, the proper
time to learn is as
a youngSter. This
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well, I'm not a
S W i'm m er and I
don't care at all for
water sports. Mine
are taken in the
tub or under the
S h o W er. But the
reason I shun the
b e a C h e S and the
sun is because 7
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free instruction being given at
the municipal pools is a won
derful opportunity for those
who otherwise could not afford
to take swimming lessons"
y X X
Mrs. Mary Miles, 1437 K st.
S. E., information clerk:
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It's a splendid
idea. The only trou-
BILE is that there
are not e nou 6 h
free pools in the
city for C h il d r en-
who have no other
swimming f &C i IL
ties. I'm enthusias-
tic about this learn
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car, ana pigs JroC unconcerne0ly
along the rivers banks.
The inn, operated by one Of
the famous Lang family, for CEN
turies chief actors and producers
of the Passion Play, is a beauti-
full and hospitable old place. The
dark wainscoted dining room Is
frightened only by the cream
colored tables which have been
scrubbed through centuries into
roundness and into hollows.
WTE DRANK Munich beer, ate
" pigs knuckles and Bavarian
cabbage and finished up with a
huge apple pancake smothered
in powdered sugar and drowned
in lemon juice. We were
waited on by a pretty flaxen-
haired girl of the Lang clan. I
asked her if she ever hoped to
secure one of the two important
women's parts in the play
Mary, the mother of Jesus, and
Mary Magdalene.
It shall be happy" she replied
very seriously, that is, if 7 am
ever selected. You know there
is no favoritism in the casting
of the play"
We walked all over the pretty
place and visited the great thea
ter and stage-settings store
house. We even tramped as far
as the old monastery and had
a drink of the monks liqueur-
for which payment was offered
and refused. And returning at
last through the clear mountain
cold figured that a Scotch and
soda would go wonderfully well.
The little flaxen-haired girl
stared at me in something akin
to horror.
But there is no whiskey sold
in Oberammergau," she ex-
planned at last. IN OF hing
stronger than beer. We are
what you Americans cal-dry."
She tried to make me drink
more beer and was fearfully
disappointed when I refused.
"I need whiskey ever so
badly" I told her-joking.
THE little girl was visibly per-
l. turbed and she disappeared.
After a time she came back
with a man who seemed to be
her father.
st can get you a bottle of
Scotch whiskey if it will help
any," he said, ''but we have to
be very careful. When you get
the bottle you must uncork it
yourself, pour it out yourself
and take it away when you CO."
I promised all these gestures
gladly-and eventually the girl
smuggled a bottle and a cork
screw into my hand.
Listen" I whispered, who's
the local bootlegger?"
"Mr. Mayr," she whispered
back. But don't tell anyone"
I got the cork out, shifted
the whiskey-and called her
back.
What part does Mr.. Mayr
take in the Passion Play?" 7
whispered again.
Judas Iscariot," she an
swered-in a hushed, reverent
sort of voice.
''I sort of figured that" I told
her.
Copyright. 1888, by Washington Timoa
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Hard to AnsuUer

Whether or not "Indignant'S'
ideas of the attacks on the "dou-
ble-crosSing Democrats" and sra
dio robots" by what Indignant
terms anti-New Dealers, are right
is of little consequence.
The sad fact that causes his
outburst of this week is that our
country is more hopelessly di-
vided than at any time since the
civil war. Then, at least, the
division was definable by geo.
graphic limits and we knew by
their home towns who were our
friends and who were not.
It's hard to answer a letter
like Indignant's, who writes un-
der a pen name.
I think the broadminded peo-
pie are beginning to think, espe-
cially when they have to listen
to the same old 1888 radio ro-
bots hokum.
Indignant is evidently of the
fact that the people have q
right to comment on anything
they read in the press, see or
hear in the pictures or radio.
Senator Minton would like to
take this freedom from the
press, pictures and public If he
could get away with it.
AS a disabled World War vet
eran I care little or nothing
about the Roosevelt run-around.
Let 'em come out from under
cover and let their paid press
agents identify themselves. We
war veterans will answer them.
P. S.: You have evidently
guessed it, that I don't care for
the Roosevelt Robots. Recon
struction, Recovery. Recession,
Revolution, etc.
B. J. LAWLoR.
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Design for Waving

90 the Flag Commission is going to get busy
y banner for the District of Coumbia-and
shall be able to sing truly:
"Oh say, can you see by the daWns early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twghts last gleam
ing
flag since first became the custom to float banners,
is presumed to mean somethng-the Lion for England,
the Harp Ireland the Stars and Stripes for the United
States the Bear for Imperial Russia the Rising Sun for
Japan. There has been always tradition accomplish
ment and glory in the flutter of
Flag Must silk, be it the pennant of
nx cIL: simple knight of old Sussex,
~ with Coeur de Lion at Acre,
the striking rattesnake with the warning Don't Tread
on Me- which flew so defiantly at Bunker Hill
But what sort of an emblem we, the dsfranchised
residents of the Capital of the Nation fly from
windows Washington's flag day-or any other day?
In heraldry there certain marks of contumely-
deserved and undeserved-which were branded on the
coatsof-arms of great families who had, in way, half
rights banners cresS and other devices. One of these
is the bar sinster-though many noble British families
are quite proud of eft-handed descent from royalty
The Bastard of Burgundy, great soldier that he was
carried proudly his battlefags the word Unworthy
disprovng the brand at every thrust of his spears Not
bad idea-the Burgundian's. Why not the figure "49"
in blue with question mark and then the word "Un-
worthy in red-al white ground?
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Congressman in Hildebrandt's
own district had large major
tiles.
The lesson to be drawn might
be that it is dangerous" for o
politician who rode to victory as
a liberal, employing an active
liberal as his ghost writer, to en-
ter a much bigger fight on O
much less liberal platform-with
his former ghost writer cam
paigning against him.
THEODORE A. JOHNSON.
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DectlItcuz<zzeA o..
002M
BY Frank Romer
ROSSETTI

IN FAREWELL to his
wife, the emotional
Rossetti had buried with
her a collection of his
original verses. Months
later he sought vainIy to
recall the lines. So, at the
expense Of her memory,
he refreshed his own by
having the coffin raised
one night to reclaim the
miIdewed leaves.
Copyright. 1888. by F. RomeFl
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heInquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

What do you think of the
"learn-to-Swim" campaign being
sponsored by the Welfare and
Recreational Association and
the Red Cross at the eight mu-
nicipal pools?
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January l, 1888, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

the Editor should be limited 200 words Names addresses
the writers will be omitted upon request
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THE ANSWERS

Miss Margaret Hudson, 2025
Kalorama Rd. N. W., dental as
SiStant:
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have done any forcing of his
opinions on the residents of the
The times-news., 1938-12-14
FLAT ROCK
WINSCHALKED
Bows and Girls Teams De-
feat SaIuda for Success
sive Victories
Bv EDGAR H. CASE

Flat Rocks basketball teams
rang up their second successive
wins of the season by trQuncing
saluda in both ends of twin
attraction at the Flat Rock gym
The Flat Rock girls, faster and
more experienced, put on daz-
Ling exhibition of goal shooting
against the comely Saluda dam
sells. winning by AZ to 9 score.
Nelson led the winners in scor-
ing with 25 points. Hull was next
Flat Rocks guards, Ward, An
ders and Godfrey, did such bril-
liant work that the Saluda for,
wards hardly got an open shot
at the basket.
The boys game was a closer,
harder-fought contest most of the
way through. At. the half Flat
Rock led 9 to 5. In the third quar-
ter Saluda pulled up to within one
point of the home quint. But,
mostly through the nice work of
Sherman, sub forward, Flat Rock
launched ahead 21 to ,13 in the
last quarter.
-Anders was high scorer with Z
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ornithologists have determined
that 800 distinct species, WIN
1900 sub-species, of birds exist
TODAY. -e Z. ...-.,'
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National league.
The Dodgers sent first baseman
Buddy Hassett and outficlder
Jimmy Outlaw and some cash to
the Bees in exchange for pitcher
Ira Hutchinson and outfielder
Gene Moore. Although Hassett
has been used recently as an out
fielder in Brooklyn, he is expect
ed to return to his regular job as
lst sacker with the Bees. Brook
lyn purchased Outlaw recently
from the Cardinals.
The new night game resolution
is expected to permit each Ameri-
can league club to play seven
moonlight games on their home
grounds. The St. Louis Browns
have had special permission to
play night ball for the past two
seasons but they never exercised
that right, feeling apparently that
it woul dbe inadvisable to install
a costly lighting plant at Sports
mans Park before the league
adopted the night game. ....
The National circuit adopted
night ball four years ago, and the
Cincinnati Reds have been play
ing it since. Brooklyn played un-
der the lights last season. 1t: is
quite likely that both. ST. Louis
clubs and both Philadelphia clubs
will install lighting systems at
their joint parks before 1910, at
the latest, likewise Cleveland and
perhaps Washington and other.
clubs. -.. ,''r ...
The only apparent difference
between the American league
plan for night ball and that which
exists in the National division
will be the peImanence of the
American proviSo which will per-
nit the night game for all time,
whereas it is voted upon each
year in the National. -.
The National league voted yes
today to permit use of the yellow
baseball at large crowd games at
which -batsmen might be bothered
by the background of white shirts
in the bleachers. Opposing man
ayers must agree to. the use of
the ball before such games.
Aside from these, r. big-crowd
games, Ford Frick's circuit voted
to retain it's present brand of ball
with the somewhat heavy cover
and the raised seams. The Amer
lean division indicated that it is
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u. S. Bank Will
Aid Extension OF
Communications

WASHINGTON, Dec. ID. (UP)
The United States broadened it's
campaign for improved trade re-
lations with Latin America yes.
terday when the Export-Import
bank, subsidiary of the Recon-
struction Finance corporation, au-
thorized $1O,O00,000 loan to
expand operations of the Interna-
tional Telephone and Telegraph
corporation in South America.
At the same. time, the Export
Import bank announced that a
group of New York banks has
arranged to; loan an additional
$5,000.000 to L. T., & T. Details
of specific projects which the
company contemplates were not
MADE Known except that the
funds will be largely used in ex.
pansion operations in South
America"
Inc announcements came short
ly after Secretary of the Treas.
ury 5 Henry Morgenthau, Jr., dis
closed that he is studying feasi-
plhty OF lending treasury funds
TO Latin American governments
IN an attempt to facilitate trade
movements between the two
haIves of the hemisphere.
Under terms of the |. IT. ;&HT's
contract, the entire amount of
notes securing the Export-Jnnort
oank loan must be paid off in 10.
years, with a 10 per cent IN
terest rate payable twice a wear.
/ In one year the notes will ma
lure at the rate of 100000; two
years, 100000; three years,
9oO0,o00 and thereafter at the
rate of 81, 100000 annually.
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OHIO VILLAGE HAS
YOUTHS, CYCLE COURT

XENIA, O., Dec. IA. (UP)-
There isl a bicycle court" to try
cases of juvenile traffic violators
on wheels, in yellow Springs, a
village near here.
The court was established by
Charles Wyndham, the village
traffic officers, with the cooper
alton of high and grade school
students who ride bicycles. Traf-
fic yiolators are tried before an
executive board composed of rep
| resentatives from the schools.
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AMERICANS TO
PLAY BENEATH
LIGHTS IN 1899
Night Games Will Be Au-
athorized in Loop Today;
: : All Year Salaries to Rule
BY JACK CUDDY
ID Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Stair Correspondents
: NEW YORK, Dec. IA (UP)-
The American league last night
drafted a resolution permitting
night baseball to be played thru
out its circuit, on a basis some
what similar TO that which now
prevails in the National league.
The resolution will be passed
today. Club owners indicated that
they favored introduction OF the
nocturnal game into the Amerl-
can division, after the Philadel-
uhia and Cleveland clubs asked
permission to use the are lights.
This was the most important
development at yesterdays open
ing separate meetings of the Ma
tSonal and American league club
owners in the WaldorfAstoria.
While the magnateS were in seS-
sion. one player deal was an
nounced and other negotiations
were rumOred.
The lone deal was completed
By Brooklyn and Boston Of the
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Blue Devils Put
Through All Ut
Wade's $ Tactics

DURHAM, Dec. IA. W.T.
each Wallace Wade brought out
his repertoire of football strategy n,t'y
Yesterday and had the DUKE niue
Devils doing Just about every.
thing he could think OF as .hes
continued preparations for S,.a thelp ell,
Rose Bowl game with oou'hefi'
California. c,a,,,,or wa
Sthe sensation of short offensive
;scrimmage that ended the work
outs, Spangler led an attack
AGAINST the unbeaten freshman
Team for a touchdown, reeied OF
an S4-yard run for another and
caught a pass from Eric Upton
The Devils went through their
usual group drills with the backs
working on handling the ball, the
ends drilling on defense against
Trojan plays and the linemen
working on their charge. La!er
there was a long session on oe-
tense against use. plays. ~
The team also had q long ses,
sion ON one of the Blue Devils,
strongest Observation-Disclosures
With Upton doing most the boot
ing.
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TEXANS NAMED
AS CRIDIR0N.
CHAMPS OF 1888.
Sports Writers Poll Puts
Them on Top; Pitt, Z
Irish, Vols Follow
Bv HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Dec. Ia. (UP)--
; Texas Christian university. which
will carry the hopes of the South
into the Sugar Bowl game at New
Orleans, was chosen by the ma
tion's sports writer's last night as
the college football champion OF
1888.
Ballots in the United Press an
nual sports poll showed that men
whose business it is to watch foot
ball teams ranked the college out
fits as follows:
/. Texas Chrirtian-34 per cent
of the votes cast
2. Pittsburgh--18 per cent.
3. Notre Dame-15 per cent.
A. Tennessee-12 per cent.
One featureaof the poll was that
the two teams which will meet in
the Rose Bowl this year-Duke
md Southern California-did not
win. a place among the big four. =,
Both Duke and use received
scattered votes as the outstanding
teams as did Carnegie Tech and
Oklahoma.
'TCU, with an All-America cen
ter in Ki Aldrich and an ALI
America quarterback =, in Davey
ORrien, swept unbeaten and un.
lied through a schedule that sent
the team against Centenary, Ar
kansas, Temple. Texas A. 4 M
Marquette, Baylor, Tulsa, Texas,
Rice and Southern Methodist.
One indication of how good the
TCU team was came when the
professional football clubs met for
their annual draft meeting. AID
rich. O'Brien and |. =. b. Hale, a
Texas Christian tackle, were
among the first college players
chosen.
Coach Dutch Meyer turned out
this great team. bv taking boys,
from his own backyard-almost
ali the TCU players are native
Texans-and shaping them into. a
In choosing TCU as. the best
college team of the year, r. e.
Lynchh, sports editor of the Mll-
waukee Kurnal. wrote: !,
ats passing and running game,
figured to score on any team ana
its line was magnificent. Those
who did not see TCU play cannot
realize the potency of its pass at
tack. The passes were seldom
downfie!d. Ends and backs were
sent down as decoys. Q'Brien fad
ed we'll back with good protection
and, usually passed to a receiver
ON the line of scrimmage, after
which a running play with good
interference proceeded" -: ,
;. Despite the fact that Pittsburgh
was defeated twice and Notre
Dame once, the" sports writers
chose them as great football teams
that would be at least an even bet
against anybody on a given after
noon, '.<. -
Moving over to the realm of
baseball. the sports writer's pre-
dicted that the. New York Yankees
and the Cincinnati Reds would
meet in the 1889 world series. The
one-two-three finished in the Am
erican and National league was
predicted as follows:
American National
/. New York l. Cincinnati
3. Cleveland 2. Chicago
8. Boston 3. Plttsburgn
Eigty-eight per cent of those
voting selected the Yankees, vic
tors in three consecutive world Sc
ries, to win again. Nine per cent
favored the Indians and three per
cent liked the Boston Red Sox.
Cincinnati got 80 per cent of
the votes cast; the Chicago Cubs
received "a per cent; and the
Pittsburgh Pirates 20 per cent.
Six per cent of those voting fa.
vowed tho New York Giants.
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Trojans Worked
Out z Hours On
Forward Passe.

LOS ANGELES. Dec. ID. (UP)
The University of Southern Cali
fornia Trojans, evidently taking
to heart the tales of Duke uni
versity's stonewall defense, work
ed for two hours yesterday on
forward passes in their second
day of practice for the Rose Bowl
football game.
The three top quarterbacks,
Grenville Lansdell, Oliver Day
and Mickey Anderson, did most
of the throwing, but were spelled
by the fullbacks, Bob Peoples
and Bill Sangster. Most of the
tosses were completed to AL Krue-
ger, the left end, and to Bob Win
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START RESCUE WORK
ON ENDIC0TT TREE

DANVERS, Mass, Dec. Ia
(UP)-Attempts are being made
to save the life of the 305-vear-
old Governor Endicott pear tree
partly uprooted in New England,s
recent hurricane, from which
most of the nations pear trees
are descended. 'ee'
A Few roots of the "ancestor
@ tree cling to the soil, lendinp
nope to the possibility it could he