davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-01-19

:, The disturbance that was central over
the upper Ohio Valley Wednesday morning
is now dissipating over Central Pennsyl-
vanla, while secondary disturbance that
developed over North Carolina Wednesday
mas moved east-northeastward with
rapidly increasing intensity and 1t is
central this morning about 400 miles south
of Nova Scotia with lowest pressure about
29.2O inches. The northern disturbance
has moved slowly eastward Resolution
Island. Hudson Strait. 29.32 inches, and
pressure remains low from Yukon and
Southe eastern Alaska southeastward to
North Dakota. Mayo. Yukon, 29. SO inches
and Swift Current. Saskatchewan. 1866
inches High pressure prevails over Cen
trail ALASKA and the northern Lake region
and from the Pacific States east-south-
eastward to the Gulf Of Mexico and the
east Gulf States .Winnemucca, New, 80 81
inches; Bethel. Alaska. 3O26 inches; Port
Eads, La 3O.32 inches, and Haileybury,
m m the form OF snow, has occurred from
eastward to the Atlantic coast and in the
fallen east OF the Mississippi River, except
IN New ENGLAND and Northern New York
while the weather has become warmer in
the Plains States. the Rocky Mountain
reeion. and the western Canadian
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear n.
Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Great Falls
today.
Evening star., 1939-01-19

for, too she laughed. That's what
makes it so attractive"
Her husband, she said. makes it
possible for her to continue her club
work. If he didn't approve, she
wouldn't 60 on with it.
She has been a club member for 16
years and an active one for eight
years. Last November she was elect
ed to serve two-year term as presi-
dent.
This is her first federation Board
OF Directors meeting and she's very
interested, despite a violent head
ache that threatened to prevent her
attending the sessions.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Congress in Brief
TODAY,

Senate:
Considers nomination of Harry
Hopkins to be Secretary of Com
merce. Noon.
Appropriations Subcommittee con-
tinues study of relief bill. II am.
Monopoly Committee studies pat
ents in television field. 10 am.
House:
Military Committee continues ma
tional defense hearings. 1920 am
Debate begins on $10,5OO, 900 def
cheney supply bill. Noon.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Senate probably will continue de-
bate on the Hopkins nomination.
Military Affairs Committee, ex-
ecutive, 1890 am.
Appropriations Subcommittee, ex-
ecutive, 10:30, to act on w. p. A.
funds.
House:
Continues debate on first def
cheney appropriation bill.
Military Affairs Committee re-
sumes consideration of national de-
fense program, 1890 am.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Civil Service Status
For w. P. A. Uroed

Civil service status for employees of
the Works Progress Administration
and all other administrative workers
paid out Of relief funds was urged
before the Senate Appropriations
Committee yesterday by Jacob
Baker, president of the United Fed
eral Workers of America.
The House excluded w. p. A..
workers from civil service in passing
the relief bill.
1T is to the public interest that
these employees be allowed to come
under civil service, as a change in
administration would result in re-
placing them with unframed en-
ployes," Mr.. Baker told the COM
mittee.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
School Contract Let

The Joseph Light Construction
Co. of Washington has been award
ed the contract for construction of
a new eight-room school at Camp
Spring, Nd, it was announced to-
day by Nicholas Orem, Prince
GEORGES County superintendent Of
schools. The low bid was $42 SOS,
The contract u subject to p, w. A.
approval :
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Dr.. Roscoe Pound
To Lecture at c. u.

DR.. Roscoe Pound, former dean of
the Harvard University Law School,
Will deliver his final lecture in a
series on The Church in Legal
History" tomorrow at pm. in NC
Mahon Hall on the Catholic Uni
versity campus.
Senator Henry F. Ashurst Of Ari-
zona, chairman of the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee, will preside. The
lectures have been sponsored by the
Catholic University Law School as
It's contribution to the university S
golden jubilee observance,
Evening star., 1939-01-19

| present local government and with
its predecessors, clear back to the
time when the seat of the Govern
ment was established here, in a
large measure, has been due to the
lack of the American plan of re-
sponsible representation Of the peo-
pie governed in the body which
possessed the real power over them.
Visions Improved Government.
II am inclined to the opinion that
no worthwhile and satisfying i'm
provement in the local government
of the District of Columbia is at
tainable until the District residents
are accorded their natural right of
representative participation in the
Congress, which possesses and will
continue to exercise over them the
power of exclusive legislation in all
cases whatsoever.
THE prevalence of these political
disabilities in the District of Co.
lumbia is not generally understood
throughout the Nation. The impress
sion that most residents of the Dis
trict have a vote in the States is
only one of a number of prevailing
erroneous ideas.
Another is that the National
Capital is a sort of tax-free para
disc, supported entirely on the
bounty of the Federal Government
without obligation on the part of
the local residents. This is entirely
erroneous, for the fact of the mat
ter is that the District pays annually
in national taxes Gnternal revenue)
an amount greater than that paid
by each of more than one-half Of
the States.
Its annual payment in national
taxes for national purposes Is
greater than the amount collected
from nine States combined. In ad-
dition to the payment of national
taxes just mentioned, District resi-
dents pay in local taxation for the
support and upbuilding of the Ma
tional Capital nearly 80 per cent,
while the Federal Government,
which is the largest local industry,
and the owner of extensive tax-free
real estate, pays only a little over
10 per cent.
Convinced of Desire.
~ am glad to say that the people
of the District support this proposed
amendment overwhelmingly. They
have continued to knock at the
doors of Congress annually for many
years. Last spring they held an
unofficial referendum in which there
were cast over $4,000 ballots and of
these 1902 favored national repre-
sentation, and only 6832 voted
against the proposal. To me this
is convincing evidence that the peo-
pie here, organized and unorganized,
desire this legislation"
Senator Capper said he thought
the trainers of the Constitution un-
Intentionally omitted to fix the
political status of the future resi-
dents of the Ten Miles Square con-
stituting the seat of government,
and unintentionally failed to give
Congress the power, analogous to
that which it possesses in relation
to the admission of territories to
statehood, of granting representa-
ton in Congress and the electoral
college to the people of the District"
He commended the General Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs for sub
mitting this question to its constit-
uent clubs for study, at the instance
OF your voteless and unrepresented
sisters OF the District of Columbia
Federation" -,
The federation is to be praised, he
said. "for laying the foundation for
later intelligent, Affirmative action -
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Report for Last % Hour,

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon Yesterday to noon today.)
Highest 33, noon yesterday. Year
| ago. "a
Lowest. "a, 6 am. today. Year ago, 10.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest SO, on January 10.
Lowest, 20, en- January IA.
Humidity for Last "a hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 81 per cent. at 1 pm. yester-
, day.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
To-day. Tomorrow.
High ----------- T:10 am. 7:5O am.
Low -------- 1:48A.m 2:29 am
High ------------ 7:32 pm. S:1Op.m.
Low ------------- 2.O1 pm. H:43 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
sun, To-Day ---- G:24 5:14
Sun. tomorrow -..- 7:23 5:1b
Noon. today - 0:27a,m, 4:47 nm.
Automobile rights must be turned On one.
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Models With Shells

With oyster shells, a model OF
Westminster Abbey and figures IN q
coronation service have been COM
pleted by p. j. Beville Of shoebury-
ness, England, after six years work.
Evening star., 1939-01-19

Citizenship Day, an occasion dedi-
Gated to young men and women In
individual counties who have
reached their voting majority dur
ing the current year.
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Weather Report

about sa Of and slightly colder with lowest
gentle northwest and north
Maryland-Generay
night slowly rising temperature 1890 ~
Vrgnia-Genealy
rising temperature " 'e'' '@
west fair and tonight tomorrow
mostly cloudy with slowly rising after
OF ~ o-'O1-o"
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Italy Starved for Rdwstuffs
To Keep Arms Plants Working
Products Sold Eagerly Abroad to Keep
Production at High Speed for War

This is the sirth of O. series OF
articles from Rome on "After
the Munich Peace"
Evening star., 1939-01-19
Precipitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches IN tn.
Capital current month to date):
Evening star., 1939-01-19

servation of natural resources.
After free afternoon, the women
will convene at the Mayf1ower Hotel
tonight to hear a recital by the
Chevy Chase Woman's Club Chorus
and the report of Mrs. Wiley Nor
gan, chairman of the Education De-
partment. Federal Aid for Educa-
ton" will be the subject discussed
by DR.. Howard A. Dawson, director
of rural service of the National Edu-
cation Association. His talk will
be followed by an open forum at
which Mrs. Morgan will preside.
Mrs. Clausen Speaks.
Mrs. Frederick H. Clausen of Hori-
con, Wis, chairman OF the Depart
ment of American Citizenship. told
the women at yesterdays meeting
that spiritual awakening and a
knowledge of the privileges and re-
sponsibilities of citizenship are the
objectives of her department.
I'm the arch of government" she
said, "America has placed at the
highest peak the keystone of democ-
racy. But that keystone remains
in place only through good citizen
ship"
She advocated study of foreign
governments. recommending Mem
Kampf" and Assignment in Uto-
pia," as reading matter.
Il have always felt" she said,
that if students studied other forms
of government and equal emphasis
was placed on the United States,
there could be no question of choice
between them"
An immediate project, she said,
will be the Nationwide promotion Of
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09
Floyd &1&os's.
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF
THE Bomb In the Boxcar )"
HELLO; EVERYBODY:

I + ELLO; EVERYBODY:
You know sometimes there's lot of difference between
what people may think of and what he thinks of himself
of John Feen of Miami Okla for instance there
people who think he is hero During the his officers
all for recommending John for decoration because they
thought certain brave act of Johns deserved medal
act Of heroisrn did,
other think of it, Just between U.S.,
John doesn't share their views at ALL In Johns estima
ton he's just doggone careless and whatever happened
his fault in the first place And he deserved to be shot
a heck of lot than he deserved medal
That's what John thinks about it, He that what he did
wasn't herois at all Welyou decide that for yourself
But there's thing I'm certain Of 1t it not have
been herosn-but it adventures!
Now let's take this Siberia and tag along with that little
bunch of American soldiers who stayed there after the to
the Unpleasantness Two bat
aons of the infantry CHARTERED at Beosova
keep bit of land where both law and order had
broken down The bandit leader Seminole with large band of Cos
Sacks pnderng and oong numbering the using
anored railroad train base of operations And January
1920, word that he headed toward Berosovka
AS Leaned There a Sharp, Ominous Click
Both baaons ordered to the field and John Feen
rifle I'd
like to tell about that with serino cosac but
that's adventure all itself All tell here is that the
waited Semno tra blew the track front
bombed their the On the
John took what he had left out of his knasac
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

lege girl. Farr said the girl gave
him diamond Part of the
Worlds fair sports program to be
presented on Treasure Island will
be IA nights of indoor soccer
COMFY Warmderdam, San Francis
co, recently broke the indoor pole
vaulting record with jump of IA
feet 6b inches ii. Ellsworth Vines
claims he will quit pro tennis after
this year and 60 in for golf as
profession. He has plenty of mon
ey and doesn't like to play second
fiddle to Don Bulge Jess Will
lard is now the hand shaker in front
of Jack Dempsey's hotel in Miami
Since Lew Andreas became
basketball coach at Syracuse in 1924
the Orange has won 210 games while
losing only SO Great Britain
was the first nation to accept an
invitation to the 1910 Olympic
games in Finland.
g Western Newspaper Union.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09
Hot Stove Fuel

FUEL for baseball's ''hot stoves"
: was furnished in abundance re-
Gently by the National League
Green Book, which contains enough
information to keep arguments 60
ing until the diamond season is well
under way.
For instance, Editor Gill Brandt's
gleanings show that nine parks
were used by the senior circuit
clubs last year, and that one player
was successful in chalking up home
runs in all nine. He was John Costa
Rizzo, Pittsburgh's rookie sensation
who set new Pirate record with
% homers.
Though Mel OFT of the New York
Giants spread his 36 home runs
through all eight cities, he obtained
none in Shibe Park, which the Pr
rates called home the last half Of
the season. OFT, incidentally, drew
118 passes, his sixth season with
more than 100.
Contrary to earned run and per-
centage calculations which showed
Big Bill Lee of Chicago the seasons
foremost pitcher, the green book
shows Johnny Wander Nicer of Gin
cinnati was tops on the basis OF
opponents batting averages.
The system evolved by Tommy
Holmes, sports writer of the Brook
lyn Eagle, showed that the collec-
tive batting average of all players
off Wander Nicer was .213, while
Lees opponents hit .254. BY this
rating Russ Bauers of Pittsburgh
and Clay Bryant of the Cubs were
second and third best hurlers.
Only player to get more than 200
hits was Frank Mccormick, Gin
cinnati's rookie first baseman. He
also led in punching them, twice
clustering five safeties in a single
game, and on six other occasions
punching four.
Paul Waner, veteran Pirate, new
er much of a slugger, moved into
the leagues all time home run lead
ers on only six homers. He is one
of II players now active in the Ma
tional league who have hit 100 or
more home runs.
His 1921 average placed Stanley
Hack of the Cubs in company with
II other present players who have
lifetime average of over 300.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

cation to regulate the games rela-
tionship with college football.
In the winter of 1920 he called a
meeting of the leading professional
teams in the East and Middle West.
Thirteen clubs responded, and a
league was organized. Curley Lam
beau and George Halas, who took
out franchises for Green Bay and
Chicago, respectively, are charter
members and are the only ones who
have survived the turbulent years.
He entered professional athletics
at 10, as secretary of the Ohio State
Baseball league. Two years later
he became the league president.
For the next 20 years he served as
president of various minor baseball
leagues and at one time was presi-
dent of the Columbus club.
He has never forsaken baseball,
and at present is a member of the
executive committee of the Associa-
ton of Professional Baseball league.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

game like rain or snow during a
tournament"
Thousands of golf bugs will hope,
though perhaps skeptically, that
Hagen can make comeback. The
old master started winning tOurna-
ments long time ago. In 1914 he
won the National Open, repeating
in 1919. He captured the Western
Open in 1916, FL, '26, ~ and '32.
In 1916 he won the Metropolitan
Open, duplicating the performance
in 1919 and 1920. And as regards
another try at the British Open, he
should do all right. He's had plenty
of practice, winning it in 1922, "a,
'2S and '29. The Canadian Open
crown fell to him in 1881.
Hagen contracted malaria last
year during big game hunting
expedition in Africa. He has had a
long rest, and has regained much Of
his lost strength. During his re-
cuperation he devoted his time to
designing and building new clubs.
At one time he stated that he was
through with tournament golf-that
he'd putter around the course in a
friendly game or two, but was
through with competition. Now he
declares he made that remark in
order that friends would not insist
on his. playing when he was not in
shape.
"Sarazen spoke the TRUTH" he
said, when he remarked that our
American courses are softened up
for the tournament players. It's a
fact that with green's as soft as the
tournament players want them you
can stop a midiron shot dead, with
out fear of it rolling over Then,
too, we have our greens so targeted
that you can shoot at them as you
would a Coney Island pistol range"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

bis ts The Then s AND @
had come out from Berosovka to get them
their s5eeps1in them
n1p np the Gai oa f @
coats the John
Slipped % pile sharp eaek
~,
pocket and John in picking those coats had accidentally
Faces says john themselves
whose and b a e the R bomb
ht Then na have
1.-The sTsyns o real the fatal words Ten
nnethen eight. The rumble of the
gloom closed nan we waited - -
G as s had ssa es ae %
Fen the first to his He that
@ to the B was nI oa
standing right bomb lips
Johns Body Protects Others From Grenade Blast.
But was only for m9en There hardly G t time for
s os1 do a aaa a e py had
left his lips when he aped forward that pile of his
deadly buried that pile
sounded to had the Of
the pile of beneath hmand then John just
him He heard else talking and the words sounded faint and
5 ae @ na o Olsn h s e
White faces that were bent h they we're ali there those
dies Of s. x. s1s sosS. BIT SURPRISED
find that he s alive He I sa have been
that the steel
ms wound WAS aye eome aaa DTS
few days later while he recuperang S from the apuaOn
tie be ss nsn % tie s sn If
had done was what he knew daned we'll was duty do
u he says 1t %as my Ress that held that
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

the Buddha. The identical tree un-
der which Guatama sat when in.
spiration came to him is still
pointed out, and since it has been a
holy place during all the centuries,
it is quite probable that the tradition
is accurate, so that the estimated
3,OOO-year age of the 'bo-tree" is
well supported.
Not so well fares the giant CIV.
press of Tule, in Mexico. at which
stout Cortez marvelled.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09
Baseball Schools

HAT comparatively new and
= rapidly growing institute of ed
ucation, the baseball school, seems
to be finding few hackers other than
faculty members and student
bodies.
Indeed, there are those alert in
dividuals who look at the schools in
anything but kindly light. They
realize that "racket" is horrid
word, but haven't found an ade-
quate substitute in describing dia-
mond colleges. Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands, who has some
what more than passing interest
in the game, is known to be cooking
a scrutinizing eye over some of the
various baseball schools blossoming
in the country.
For the most part, deans and pro-
fessors of these schools are past and
present major league stars. Big
names in baseball. They furnish
bait for students. Entrance re-
quirements are very simple-almost
too simple. ALI the student needs
is enough money and the desire to
become big league star. Re-
quirements for the instructor are
equally simple. He needs only a
nationwide reputation and the de-
sire for bit of out-of-season spend
ing money.
It must be admitted that some
sponsors really expect to find good
prospect among the run-of-the-mill
aspirants at their schools. But
there is real danger that the base
ball school, if permitted to operate
without close supervision, will be-
come nothing more than a racket.
There is little need today for base
ball schools. In an overwhelming
minority are the stars who credit
their rise to what they learned from
Indifferent instructors. They still
come up the hard way, learning
their trade in the semi-pro or minor
league ranks.
When the baseball bug bites
Junior he'll probably quit his job at
the Bon Ton Soda Shoppe, withdraw
his savings from the Soda Jerkers
National Bank and embark for the
closest college of clout. Nine times
out Of ten the experience won't
harm him, and odds are the same
that he'll be no closer to big time
baseball. However, parents are be-
ginning to mutter. They don't want
Junior spending both time and mon
ey trying to reach the moon, espe-
cially when he's negIecting the lib
eral arts or his more mundane Job.
Eddie Collins once said that abil-
ity to hit big league pitching was
SO per cent confidence and SO per
cent natural talent. All of which
doesn't leave much room for in
struction.
Though instruction is undoubtedly
helpful, the principal ingredient in
any baseball star. is natural ability.
It isn't the result of PROFESSIONAL
brain work.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

Honors for greatest age among
living things are Rewarded to the
big trees of western America in
summary study by the late DR..
Hans Molisch.
The big trees only close competi-
tor for record length of life, in DR..
Molisch's tabulation, is the baobab
tree of Africa, which is given an es-
timated age of 5000 years.
Next in line come the banyan of
India, sacred for having sheltered
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

q III q CC u IIOC n e
championship of the
world for the third
successive y e a r
winning it at Basic,
Switzerland. The
Canadians were I'M
d e f e a t e d a n d
blanked the U. S.
a to 0 Tommy
Farr, bashful Brit
ish heavyweight, has
confded to friends
that he is engaged
to an American col
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

motors OF profess
sional athletics who
have been able to
stay with their en-
t e r p r i S e S long
enough to see them
become a success.
Before and irnmedi-
ately after the war,
Carr saw the need
for discipline to halt
players from jump
ing from one club to
another and the
naad of an oroopi-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09
Unworried Chief

Joe CARR of Columbus, Ohio,
y founder of the National Football
league, is one gridiron official who
doesn't worry about his tenure of
office.
At a recent league meeting Carr
was reelected president and secre-
tary for 10 years by unanimous
vote of the club owners.
Carr is unique in the field of
sports. He is one of very few pro-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09
Sponges Were Originally Used by the Greek Soldiers

rious animals first attracted the at
tention of the Greeks many years
ago. Grecian soldiers wore metal
helmets and shin guards and cursed
at the blisters they raised. Then
someone dove into the Mediterran-
can, came up with sponge and
discovered it would make a good
pad. Sponges were used for bath.
ing then, too, and also as floor mops
and brushes.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09

Strange though it sounds, sponges
live and grow and die just like any
other animals. And because they're
saltwater animals, the fresh water
was their finish, observes the Wash
ington Post. Actually, sponges as
we know them aren't sponges but
the skeletons of sponges. The
sponge is a collection of tiny one
celled creatures who get together
and build the skeleton. These Gu
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-03-09
speaking of Sports
Hagen to Play
In British Open;
Plans Comeback
BY ROBERT McSHANE

w ALTER HAGEN, few years
w ago regarded as one of the
greatest of all golfers, amateur or
pro, emphatically declares that he
is long way from being through
with tournament golf.
"I'm going to play in tournaments
again and I'm going over to Great