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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01
ROOT
GETS CHANCE TO
SEW UP PENNANT
Pirates Can Win II Cubs
Lose Three Games to
Cardinals
ny GEORGE X -sEY


United Press star CoFrespondentl
The National League pennant race
still was up In the cir today with
the Chicago Cubs struggling des-
perately to lunge across the finish
lire before tho momentum Of theiS
skyrocket streak iixsles out.
All hope Is not lost for the Pitts.
burgh Pirates, who regained theii
bearings yesterday behind Russ
Bauers' four-hlt pitching and gtill
have faint hopes Of overtaking the
Cubs.
Tired ana reacting from their 10
game winning streak handicapped
the Cubs and they had 10 battle
furiously 10 get Q TT tie yesterday
with the Cardinals. They only es-
capped q defeat by q hairs breadth
In the ninth inning when Joe Med
wick fouled, out with the bases
loaded, Now the Cubs must play
q doubleheader today,
A combination Of two-either Cub
victories or Pirate defeats--will win
the pennant for Chicago. Thus the
Cubs can clinch the nag today by
sweeping O doubleheader or BY win
ming ono game II the Pirates lose
10 the Reds,
Close Enough
IT'S possible for the Pirates 10 re-
gain the lead II they win from the
Reds and the Cubs drop both games
10 the Cards. The standing then
would be;
Pittsburgh ,,,,... 81 % .Sst
Chicago ,,,,,,..,,, S6 % .oSS
And the Pirates then could 60 on
10 take the pennant II they won
their last game Sunday from Gin
cinnatl regardless Of what the Cubs
did In their final start,
II Chicago loses It's three remain
ing games, Pittsburgh would need
10 win only one Of It's two 70 finsh
on top. II the Cubs lose two out OF
three, the Pirates can grab the nag
BY taking their remaining Two
games.
Disaster was beginning TO fiirt
with the Cubs. Manager 0abby
Hartnett, their swashbuckling mail-
ager and sparkplug, had his meat
hand banedg up from O foul tip
again yesterday and had 10 retire.
Captain Billy Herman, balance
wheel OF the infield, was spiked On
the big toe but continued IN the
game. The Cubs previously had lost
their regular left fielder, Augie
OalaYl. who WI enched his knee IN
the Pittsburgh series.
Pitchers Needed
Facing today's doubleheader the
Cubs were IN q bad way for pitch
ers and had 10 call upon Charley
Root, who ct 80 10 the oldest active
player in the majors. and Phil Page,
.year.old rookie who Is favoring
an injured ankle. Their rivals were
exc scted 10 be Bob Weiland and
Paul Dean.
The cubs had the Cards grogsy
aud on the ropes early IN yester.
days game and got away 20 Q 6-i
lead but were glad 10 settle for o
tie when the umpires called the
game at the END OF the ninth be-
darkness. st. Louis siashed Carleton.
French and Bryant for ~ hits. and
IL took some bad breaks and stupid
beserunninfi TO keep the Cards from
winning. In the ninth with the
bases loaded and one out, Clay
Bryant stopped Pinch Hitter Epps
and Medwick TO save the day.
After losing the first game, Tel,
Pittsburgh snapped It's 4-gane los
ing streak by defeating the Reds,
AZ, IN the nightcap. Paul Der
ringer held the Pirates TO five hits
10 win his 2lst game In hte opener.
Bauers contributed single, dou-
BILE and triple in addition TO Pitch
Ing q 4-hitter % the Pirates won
/ the aftAfuiece. s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01
tBy Anthony PureaFel

The Naugatuck Rams will face the
strong Century Football Club To-
morrow OF Hamilton park. The Rams
have o strong ball club and no doubt
should give the Century boys Q good
battle. The Centurys will be with.
out the services OF Tom Lacilla and
George Graham, who were hurt NJ
last Sundays game against the
Meriden Falcons. Over 700 fans VIII
come to Waterbury from Naugatuck
to see the battle.
At Torrington the fans will be, in
for q treat when the Town Plot
Crackerjacks, undefeated champs OF
1887. winners Of both the city and
valley semi-pro football titles, will
oppose the Torrington A. O. ct
Fuessenich Park. The Torrington
team will show some outstanding
players IN Sundays game. Tbs boys
from the Brass City win wear their
new outfits for the first time this
year. This game should no doubt
be the biggest drawing card ever
had In the town. t.
Oakville. the team that was to
have played the Plotters according
to the schedule released several
weeks ago, but was changed at the
last meeting Of the Valley League,
will remain idle, but will hold Q
light practice drill Sunday morning
at the drill grounds. The villers will
play the Century Club next Sunday
at waterbury In their FIRST Valley
League game. The boys are coached
by Tony Trotta.
The Town Plot Crackerjacks held
q black board and practice last
night at Hamilton park. Coach Tony
DiSantis was well pleased with the
showing Of the team. Several new
plays were tried and worked o. X.
The hackers will hold another drill
Sunday morning at nine sharp at
Washington park and all players
must be on hand. The team will
show many former high school stars
and with their addition the Plot
tiers are looking forward to again
winning the Naugatuck Valley SEMI
pro titles.
The Valley schedule to date is as
follows:
October 2-Naugatuck Rams ct
Waterbury VS. the
Century Club.
october 2-Crackerjacks Of Wa
terbury vs. TorTington
at Torrington.
October 9--Oakville VS. Century
Club at Waterbury.
October 9-Crackeriacks VS. An
sonia at AnsOria.
October 0-Naugatuck Rams vs.
Torrington ct Tor
rington.
October 1e-Oakviile VS. Nauga-
tuck at Naugatuck.
October Century Club vs. AM
sonia ct Ansonia.
October i6-New Milford VI Town
Plot Crackerjacks ct
waterbury.
The Waterbury Uniteds and tn
Glastonbury Soccer will collide q
Fulton Park Sunday In . Centra
Connecticut Soccer League game
The local team win show severa
new players IN their line for en-
Sunday battle.
The game at the Yale Bowl thil
afternoon viii usher ID the football
season for both Ynle and Columbia
and Win have the fans On their Zee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01
MINNESOTA 81
OVER NEBRASKA

Minneapolis, MINI, oct. I-(uP)
--Minnesota's Golden 0ophers, de-
termined 10 avenge the i4.e upset
defeat by Nebraska last year az
Lincoln, met the Cornhuskers to-
day IN the 1898 renewal Of the an.
nuAl gridiron series.
Minneapolis dopesters gave the
0ophers an overwhelming chance
TO revenge their last years loss, Of.
fering 3-i-2 10 / on Minnesota.
MINNESOTA NEBRASKA
Mariucci Kahler
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Games YesteFday
ChicaEo 3, st. Louis 8 (2nd d'knH)
washington Boston (rain).
(only games scheduied).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

Games Yesterday
Pittsbursh 4, cincinnati . S2nd).
Chicago Z, ST. Louis z tie. d'knes)
Philadeipfia- New York (rain).
(only games scheduled).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

Officials: Referee: Frank Lane,
Detroit: umpire, John Schommer,
Chicago; field Jupdge, Megie Nor
ton, Michigan; head linesman. An
thony Haines, Yale.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

Cambridge. Mass. Oct. i-(UP)-
Harvard and Brown meet today for
the 10th time In the football season
opener for both teams. The game
will end their football rivalry for
1t least four years as Harvard Is
scheduled through 1912 and Brown
isn'+ on the list.
Brown Is touted as the best team
since 1892 and Is expected TO show
better than last year when Har-
ward won 34-7.
Lineup:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

Games To-day
Detroit at Cleveland.
New York at Boston.
81. Louis at Chicago 90.
(Only games scheduied).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

4S7 44S 4eS 1858
ULEvICH (2)

High single Ulevich, Ia.
High three--Ulevich, 347.
High game Ulevich, 400.
High team-eulevich. 1884.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

The Waterbury Uniteds and the
Glastonbury Soccer will collide e
Fulton Park Sunday In Central
Connecticut Soccer League game:
The local team viii show several
new players IN their line for the
Sunday battle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-01

IT'S possible for the Pirates 10 re-
gain the lead II they win from the
Reds and the Cubs drop both games
10 the Cards. The standing then
would be;
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
SKODA RACE FURNACES BLAZE DAY AND NIGHT
Play Role in Future of World

tiplicity and numbers of the weap-
ons here before our eyes in this
one section of one factory which
is one-tenth of the Skoda plant.
Officers of the ministry of de-
tense worked beside us as we mar
yelled at gauges so fine that a
cigarette paper would seem to
their sensitive finger like two-inch
planks. Next door were displayed
all the types of shells and air
bombs made by Skoda, a range
from armor-piercing air torpedoes
to bullets for tanks and airplanes.
From another source + heard
that the ground underneath the
Skoda works is mined in such a
way that if defeat came to the
Czechoslovak army and Pilsen had
to be evacuated, the vital parts of
the plant could be blown UP.
This report I did not hear or con-
firm at the Skoda works.
KruppS at Essen, Schneider
Creusot at LIE CreuSot, Vickers at
Sheffield, a dozen others through
out the Continent are all working
at the same furious speed as
Skoda's. The war in fact has al
ready begun. It is a war today Of
menaces. Who can build the most
! guns fastestP
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
ERROL FLYNN'S
MINING FAILS

HOLLYWOOD, July 30 d.N.sJ.
Enrol Flynn, noted Irish screen
star, was more than willing to
admit here today that he is a
positive failure as a mining finan-
cier.
The actor has asked that the
courts dissolve his partnership
with two mining men which was
intended to result in the develop
ment of property in Alaska.
Flynn declared that although
he had invested thousands of
dollars, all that remains Of the
venture is an airplane in none
too good condition. In fact the
airplane is being held for repairs
in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Flynn asked that a receiver be
appointed to conserve the assets
of the Kingward Exploration Co.,
and that the partners, Otis O'Dell
and Ward Hamilton, be restrained
from taking possession.
Appointment of a receiver was
refused but the court granted a
temporary restraining order, nam
ing August 5 as the date for a
hearing.
The Washington times., 1938-07-30

it was disclosed today.
This move is reflected by state
ments which are now appearing
almost daily in the British press,
urging the necessity of clearing
up what is described here as the
only major cause Of misunder-
standing between the two great
English speaking nations.
Furthermore, the debt drive IS
assuming a non-partisan char
acter. Laborite and Liberal quar-
ters are joining the government
and its supporters in suggesting
a new settlement which would en-
able Britain to resume payments.
HINT NEW LOAN
All the talk here now is regard
ing a possible settlement based
on elimination of interest and re-
duction of the principal to a
point compatible with Britain's
present economic ability to pay.
Also suggested is flotation Of a
long-term loan in the United
States to help Britain meet the
payments.
The British people are being
told that resumption Of the pay
ments is not only q question OF
honor and is essential for the
close understanding Britain Is
seeking with America, but that it
will enable this country to seek
resumption of the payments due
it in connection with the European
and inter-allied debts.
The people are even being told
they must not forget or minimize
the fact that America really did a
great deal to bring victory to the
allies.
The greatest Importance also
was placed in parliamentary quar-
ters upon the fact that a new set
tlement of the debt question would
free Britain from the penalties OF
the johnson act and would enable
this country to secure credits in
the United States in the event
Britain should become involved in
a European war.
Although little is being said
publicly regarding this last factor,
it is regarded in diplomatic circles
as the chief consideration impel-
ling Britain to consider reSump-
tion Of payments.
Lord Cato, director of the bank.
ing house of Morgan, Grenfen and
Co., in a letter to the Times OF
London, proposed a debt settle
The Washington times., 1938-07-30

these semifinished weapons into
another great shed where, bristling
like a forest of denuded trees,
were the completed instruments of
death-or peace. We opened and
closed breech blocks, peered
through glistening tube after tube.
Skoda supplies nearly all the
guns for the Yugoslav government,
ally of Prague. Contrary to popu.
lar belief, Skoda does not sell to
the potential enemies of its coun-
try.
In another spacious room we
were surrounded by the antiair
craft guns so famous throughout
Europe. Here they showed me a
useful device whereby the interior
tube Of the antiaircraft gun, which,
due to it's rapid fire and the ter
rifle charge soon wears out, may
be renewed in the field with extra
inner tubes.
A royal crest on one gun caught
my eye. A workman was just etch-
ing it in. For Rumania," re-
marked our guide, 1--WE manufac-
ture only for our friends"
For blocks we walked through
the armored car and tank depart
ment, the anti-tank gun depart.
ment and wondered at the mul-
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
HEAR
STEEL OFFICIAL
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ago by the CLOS Steel Workers
Organizing Committee.
White said he had conferred
frequently with the executives ot
other steel companies, explaining
1--WE didn't know exactly what
was going to happen. They (the
SWOC) had spent a million dol.
lars on the fight for organiza-
ton in our mills. People in
charge of law enforcement
seemed to be in favor Of the
CIO and it looked like a pretty
desperate situation for the coun-
try"
White said steel men all over
the the country-in Chicago, in
Indiana and through the great
steel manufacturing areas of Ohio
and Pennsylvania-talked of moth
ing but a possible strike in the
months before the walkout oc
CURED.
what was the attitude Of
these executives?" La Toilette
asked.
1--WE were mostly concerned"
White replied, with the reasons
why the SWOC wanted con-
tract. We had a public policy
to deal with any person or or.
ganization representing any Of
our men. It seemed strange TO
us that we were being presented
with a ultimatum."
White testified:
1--WE did not see how we could
sign a contract with the SWOC,
because it would lead us into
trouble with the men in our
own plants who did not want to
join the CIO."
I'm the Republic plant"
White emphasized, "the men
were satisfied with our own
employe-representation plan"
The Republic official went or
to say that a SWOC contract
would have brought a closed shoI
eventually-and that, he tolc
Chairman La Toilette. would havC
been an injustice to thousands o:
men in 'httle steel" who did no
want to join the CIO.
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
Wiedemann STAYS
Al Hitler Retreat

BERLIN, July 30 (I.N.S.).
While reports from Paris and
London sought to beStOw the
quality of ubiquity on Capt.
Fritz Wiedemann, Adolf Hit
Ier'S confidential agent today
remained at BerchteSgaden
quietly pursuing routine du-
ties.
Paris reported him there
last night, talking with pOliti-
cal leaders. London thought
he might call on Premier Ne
vile Chamberlain today.
But, it was officially stated
here, Captain Wiedemann
has been at BerchteSgaden,
HitIer's mountain retreat,
since Thursday.
He will return to Berlin
Monday, however, and the
possibility is still strong that
Wiedemann will go to Berlin
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
TOBACCO QUEEN
Cabinet Aide tC
CrOIUn Her

Oscar Littleton Chapman, Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior,
yesterday was chosen to crown
Senorita Erma Castillo Najera,
daughter Of the Mexican Ambas-
Sador, Queen Regina Tobacco ",
at the fourth annual National To
bacco Festival at South Boston,
Va, September and 8.
Chapman. active in Colorado
political circles before coming to
Washington, was born in Halifax
County, Va, only six miles from
South Boston. He received his
education at Randolph-Macon and
the University of Denver. He
later attended the University Of
New Mexico and received his law
degree from Westminster Lay
School in Denver.
He was appointed Assistant Sec
retary of Interior in 1888, and is
also executive secretary Of the
Public Works Administration
board,
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
ALL HOPE CONE
NeW Deal Blamed by
G.. 0. P. Speaker

Declaring the New Deal twas
destroying all hopes and ambitions
Of American parents" Mrs. Marion
e. Martin, assistant chairman of
the Republican National Commit
tee, in a radio address last night
said:
THE women OF the country
want the wheels of industry to
turn in order to make an oppor-
tunity for their children. They
know the WPA holds out no
promise for a rosy future.
"They know, too, that fac
tories are closing because Of vim
dictive and uncertain tax and
labor policies of the Administra-
ton which is leaving business
with neither the courage nor
incentive to take commercial
risks"
The Washington times., 1938-07-30

without the permission Of the min
istry of defense.
Besides armaments they make
everything from locomotives and
river steamers to complete brew
cries, tobacco factories, dairies,
mines, rolling mills, automobiles,
alrplanes, in fact list of products
so long it would take full news
paper page to itemize.
At this moment all other prod
uctS fade into insignificance com
pared with the Importance of the
guns.
Cascades Of sparks mark its
birth. the pouring Of the ingot,
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
PRIVILEGE TAX.
OFFICE TO TAKE.
DEADLINE MAIL
Will Accept Those
Posted in Time

While hundreds of men, women
and children formed queues at
the five windows where dog taxes
were being paid today, attaches
of the District Tax office where
business privilege tax returns are
made up, were having compare
lively easy time as the deadline
approached.
Both offices formally closed at
noon today with every indication
that the 10000 dog licenses last
year would be exceeded by a
large figure during the current
year.
WILL BE ACCEPTED
A. F. Brook, official in charge
Of the business privilege tax de-
partment, announced that, al
though tomorrow at midnight is
the deadline for those returns and
his office will be closed, those
returns mailed in and postmarked
before the midnight hour will be
accepted without penalty.
More than 1000 taxpayers Will
be subjected to the 10 per cent
penalty for filing delinquent re-
turns, Brook said on the basis OF
an estimate as his office closed.
Further, he said, those who do not
file during the month of August
will be subjected to an additional
S per cent penalty for each month
the returns are delinquent.
500 A DAY
The apparent lassitude in his
office, Brook said, is due to the
fact that most of the returns ar
rive by mail and others have been
made in person at the rate Of
about 500 a day for the past sew
eral months.
Eleven thousand returns have
been made up today, he said, and
it is expected the Monday mall
will swell the total to 10000, leaV-
ing 1000 still unaccounted for.
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
COL. GIFFIN ACCUSER
FACES ARMY TRIAL
Officer
Files Charges
OMIT. Smith

NEW YORK, July 80 QN.S0
Reserve Lieut.. James o. Smith,
jr., complaining witness in the
court martial of his superior Of
ficer, Lieut.. Col. Stewart S. Giffin,
today faced trial himself which
may result in his peremptory dis
missal from the service.
Smiths story to the court mar
tial body, which found Giffin
guilty only of two minor viola
tions, tantamount to complete vim
dication, has now resulted in
charges being brought against the
lieutenant by his own command
ing officer, Reserve Col. Charles
G. H. Scheer.
REVENGE MOTIVE
Scheer charges that Smith, as
he admitted when testifying
brought the charges against Gif.
fin in revenge for a business deal
which had failed to go through.
The office of the Second Area
commander, Brig. Gen. Evan H.
Humphrey, has already notified
Scheer that a trial board will be
appointed to hear the charges
against Smith.
HITS REGULATION
IT hope this extraordinary
trial which we have gone
through" said Col. Robert Starr
Allyn, counsel for Giffin, will
patch the hole in Army regula-
tions by which any Tom, Dick
and Harry can jeopardize an Of
ficer's whole career on charges
that wouldn't bring a SIS fine in
the magistrates courts"
Scheer stated that he is bring.
ing these charges as a matter OF
duty to improve the relations be
tween Reserve and Army officers
and to show that we countenance
no malice"
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
Canyon Walls Bare
Queer PiCtoqrdphs

SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 80
GIN. )-Qu er photographs,
carved on weather-beaten canyon
walls in the east Mojave desert,
may soon yield the secret of COM
and reveal the origin
of several early North and South
American tribes.
This was indicated by Curator
David Banks Rogers of the Santa
Barbara museum of natural his.
tory. who recently completed sew.
esal weeks of exploration near Pi
lot peak in the Granite range. He
photographed and sketched the
carvings, estimated to be at least
5000 years old.
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
SOC|AL|TE SUED
Atterbury Daughter
Seeks Divorce

MEDIA, Pa, July 80 G.N.SO.
Suit for divorce from Walter Win
chester Keith, member of a So
cially prominent Baltimore family,
has been brought in Delaware
county court by Mrs. Elizabeth
Atterbury Keith, daughter of the
late Gen. w. w. Atterbury, former
president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, it was learned today.
Keith, married and divorced
twice before, and Mrs. Keith,
whose one previous marriage also
ended in divorce, were married
in Baltimore January 7, 1886. She
charges her husband with cruelty.
The Washington times., 1938-07-30
|"MUSCLING IN"
CHARGES FL Y.
IN VA. POLITICS.
ICkes' Use of Term
.StirS Smiths Ire
BY THEODORE HUNTLEY

"Who is muscling in?" became
burning issue in the Virginia
congressional campaign involving
the political fates of Messrs. Dodd
and Smith today.
Secretary of the Interior IckeS
charged earlier in the week that
Representative Howard w. Smith
was attempting to muscle in" on
PWA popularity and thereby pick
up some New Deal votes. Last
night Representative Smit h
charged Secretary Ickes with at
tempting to muscle in on Virginia
politics.
In his first speech Of the cur
rent campaign, delivered over
Radio Station WJSV, the Alex
andria congressman also charged
the CIO with "muscling in" to aid
his opponent, William E. Dodd,
jr., of Loudon county.
DODD REPLIES
Dodd, replying an hour later,
insisted Smith had tried to
muscle in on the White House
by offering to switch vote In
return for White House influence
in yanking Dodd out of the
contest.
"The popular meaning Of the
term MUSCLE in," Smith said,
"is to indicate someone else is
trying to get in on the particular
private racket of one Of the
gangster mobs.
It must be distressing to mil
lions of citizens in America that
Harold Ickes should have used
this unfortunate term with all
its sinister implications.
ACCUSES ICKES
"The unhappy Harold Ickes
has been muscling into the Re
publican party and helped to
ruin that; he deserted the Re-
publican party and muscled into
the Bull Moose party and helped
to ruin that; he deserted that
party and muScled in on the
Democratic party and is trying
!! to ruin that.
"He is now attempting to
muscle in on a Democratic pri-
mary in Virginia in his frantic
efforts to destroy the true Demo
cratic party"
Dodd cited a statement by Ickes
charging Smith with "obstruct-
ing" PWA legislation and added:
TN view of the official state
ment of the man who by his
sheer respect for honesty and
truth has become Mr.. Roose-
velt's strong right arm, I am
wondering how he can recon-
cile Mr.. Smiths attack on the
Secretary with his profession
of friendship for the Admins
tration"
The Washington times., 1938-07-30

Fifty thousand workers, all
loyal CzechS and Slovaks, labor
the clock around, seven days a
week at Skoda's. They do not all
work on armaments, but the
prime goal of Skoda today is to
put guns in the hands of their
government and its friends, the
powers which want peace and are
willing to fight for it.
I entered the works with a
major of the CzechoSloVak general
staff and q Skoda official with
whom ! had motored down from
Prague. You cannot visit Skoda'S