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Evening star., 1939-12-29
6 6Better-Than-Averaqe
Sprinters Match Strides
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The fea-
ture race at Tropical Park today
brings out six etter-than-the-
average sprinters for dash of fur
longs.
The sextet includes such speed
sters as Warren Wrights Count
Morse and j. D. Wells Double B,
the probable choices, and j. B.
Partridge's feet but faint-hearted
Our Ketcham.
The veteran platter, Taken, tops
field of seven Chalmers in New Or
leans headliner of furlongs. Seven
have been named for the event.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Mary|and's Winter
Sports Facilities
Await Users
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OAKLAND. Md, Dec. 29-Mary-
lands Switzerland-Garrett County
is readying for its annual crop of
winter sportsmen.
Ten inches of snow and below
freezing temperatures have brought
reservations for cottages in the Saw
age River State Forest for the un-
official opening this week end.
The State Forestry Department
has received numerous inquiries
about the new ski, sled runs and
skating rink, completed several
weeks ago.
Included in the projects are g.
mile ski trail down the Meadow
Mountain a toboggan run down the
Big Run road and a skating rink on
New Germany road, six miles from
the mountain.
The Forestry Department hopes to
enlarge the present facilities.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
20 Years .Aqo
In The Stor

For the tnird time in seven
years walter johnson led the list
Of American League pitchers. His
earned-run average was 1.49 and
he famed 147 to lead in that de-
partment for the fourth straight
season.
Hughie Jennings, manager of
the Detroit Tigers, thinks Ty
Cobb is slowing up on the base
paths. He still considers Cobb the
greatest player in baseball.
Bobby Mclean, speed skater
who will race Oscar Mathieson of
Norway next month, has insured
his legs for $685. 900.
Gallaudet's basket ball team
whipped Rockwell's Stars, 81 to
80. Baynes and Wilson led the
winning attack.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

oS tIle AS6OCldteO HIcSS.
Today a year ago-18,039 saw
st. Johns beat Colorado, 39-37.
and Long Island University de-
feat Southern California, 1913,
in basket ball double-header at
Madison Square Garden.
Three years ago-Report to
American Football Coaches AS
sociation by Floyd Eastwood OF
New York University showed %
football deaths during 1896, one
less than previous year.
Five years ago-Len Koenecke,
Brooklyn Dodgers, established
new National League fielding rec
ord for outfielders with mark of
1894. He topped former record
held pointly by Louis Duncan ad
Wally Berger by one point.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Kathryn Hemphi|I Quits
Golf 10 Look for Job
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, S. c.. Dec. 29.-Kath-
ryn Hemphill, Carolina's woman golf
champion and winner of the Mex
ican title recently, said she had put
up her clubs for 1910 and would
look for job.
Miss Hemphill. member Of the
1888 American Curtis Cup team,
said she had to 60 to work as case
of necessity.
every one tells me I've done so
much for Columbia in the way Of
national publicity, but when I hunt
for a position it's a different story"
she said.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Madden Plays HubbeII
For Girls Net Title
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey Lne ASSOClateQ PreSS.
BROOKLINE, Mass, Dec. 29.-
Marguerite sissy Madden of Bos-
ton, defending champion, and Kath-
crime Hubbell of Dedham will meet
for the national girls indoor tennis
championship today. They won
semifinals yesterday.
Miss Madden, 16, defeated Mary
Lou Boyer of Detroit and Wayne
University, Canadian girl. cham
pion, 60. 60.
Miss Hubbell, seeded second, had
a bit more trouble with 14-year r-old
Betty Rosenquist of Bronxville, N.
Y, winning rs, 81.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Nowoskey Given Place
On AII-Eustern Team

Bob Nowaskey, George Washing
tons crack end, has been honored
again, this time with a berth on
the All-Eastern eleven picked for
national magazine by players
themselves. It's called the players
All-America poll and includes Sec
tional teams.
Nowaskey was voted the outstand-
ing end faced all season by Clemson,
West Virginia, Bucknell, Kansas and
Davis and ElkinS.
Billy Richardson, Colonial reserve
quarterback, received honorable
mention on the All-Eastern team.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Conn Possesses Asset
Thot Tunney Lacked

This kind of work calls for adroit-
ness and a flair for the right move.
James Joseph Tunney labored long
and painfully to achieve the knack
which Conn was born with. Lack
ing natural boxing skill-which
means fundamentally an aptitude
for self -defense-Tmney had to
take the brutal licking he did from
Harry Greb in the early part OF
his career. Conn will never take
a licking like that. At least, not
from want of speed and skill. When
Bill gets his it will be because he
is overpowered.
The course of the Pittsburgh
cherub has been straight and smooth
from the moment he first pulled
gloves on. He was lucky, because
he combined an understandable yen
to stab other folks for profit with
the native ability to get away with
it. He was lucky. but at the same
time he was good and still is, and
his natural gifts merely add to his
standing as a prize fighter.
The country's sports writer's when
they nominated Conn as the man
of the year in his profession were
therefore making pretty fair sense.
He was new, and he had the stuff,
and he gave the business something
which wasn't there before.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Ex-G. U. Athlete Heads
Basket Committee
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.-Wiliam A.
Hellmich, newly-elected president Of
the Ozark A. A. u, has announced
the appointment OF Daniel l..
Schlafly as chairman of the Ozark
A. A. U. Basket Ball Committee for
1910.
Schlafy is graduate of George
town u, where he participated In
basket ball, track and tennis.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Ten Golfers Averaging 10 Under All of Years Big Medal Journeys
Grid ProseIyting
Problem Ducked
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 29.-Ari-
zona's Interscholastic Association
has its PROSECUTING problem, too.
Miami High School, in Eastern
Arizona, protested a rival was
promoting Junior varsity COM
petition" Pressed for an ex-
PLANTATION, q spokesman said the
rival taught football to seventh
and eighth grade youngsters to
season" them for high school.
The association ducked that
one, though. It replied 1t has
no jurisdiction over grammar
schools,
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Louis Rescued Fistic
Come From Slump

But it's no fault of Joseph Louis
that he isn't as new as Conn. Be-
ing few years older than the
Irishman, he hardly could avoid
coming along a few years earlier.
And his coming rescued boxing from
true, deep slump, and his presence
still pays the living of many a boxer
who would otherwise be crushing
rock on some wholesome relief
project.
Take Louis away, in other words,
and what would you have left?
Take Conn away and you would
still have Louis and reasonably
happy industry, though I agree
that good young fighters are not
emerging as fast as they might,
even now.
Getting away from the broad,
cosmic aspect of things and study
ing Louis technical record for 1889,
we find it-at least, find it, and
this is my turn with the hazel rod
to be considerably in excess Of
Conn's performance.
Conn beat Fred Apostolic twice, he
took two dukes from Melio Bettina,
he outpointed Gus Lesnevich, and he
hove a random harpoon into the
heavyweight division and split the
eye Of Gus Dorazio. This is fine
going, because it means that Billy
worked steadily and did everything
they asked him to do.
Or did he? He scored one knock
out, very technical. His second
fight with Apostoli was close
enough to be called the other way,
whereas Ceferino Garcia, much
lighter, made mincemeat of Apos-
toll. Conn's other wins were we'll
earned decisions, but there never
was a question of knockout, and
1t seems to me that some of the
fans and the critics, if not the pro-
moter, were asking him to produce
knockouts for the sake Of his fu-
ture,
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Roosevelt High VS.. Alumni,
Roosevelt High gym, 7:30.
Montgomery-Blair VS.. Harpers
Ferry High, Silver Spring, Nd, 8.
Ice Hockey.
Washington Eagles VS.. Mon
treal Royals, Riverside Stadium,
$50.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
George Washington VS.. Florida,
Tech High gym, $3.50.
Central High VS.. G. w. Frosh,
Tech High gym, Z.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
From the
Press Box
Louis Is Awarded Title
Of Fighter of Year
By JOHN LARDNER.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (N.A.N.A0.-
AS between William Conn and Joe
Louis-rival nominees for the title
of prize fighter Of the year, the pos
session of which, plus 3 cents, en-
ables you to send a letter to any
part of the country-this depart
ment's ballot goes to Louis unani-
mously.
I do not mean to asperse young
Conn, who is the best rookie to
come over the ridge in couple OF
years at least. From the day Willie
first pulled a girls hair in choir
practice he was marked for fame
in the fight racket. Pulling hair
had little to do with it (though they
claim it limbers the wrist, but
even as a youngster Conn's instincts
were bent toward chastisement OF
some party of the second part with
out penalty to self.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Eight Schools Place
Gridmen on Negro
An-America
BY the Associated Press.

ATLANTA, Dec. 29.-An all
America Negro football team, in
Guiding two players each from
Langston (Okla), Florida A. & M.
and Morris Brown (Atlanta), was
announced today by the Atlanta
Daily World. Negro newspaper.
The selection-including a sopho-
more, Wilberforce'S Hersc h el
Schnebly, 266-pound tackle who
kicked five field goals-was based
on votes of players of the Nations
40 major Negro teams.
Henry Butler, Florida A. g. M.
back, was the most popular choice
with 70 votes.
Tho Rref faov~..
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Marines Seek Rifle Foes

The small bore rifle team Of the
Marine Barracks would like matches
with local and nearby teams. Those
interested should call 1t. Hugh M.
Elwood at the Marine Barracks.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
Defense Of Tennessee
Better Thon Attack

I will rate Tennessee this season
as much stronger defensive team
than an offensive machine.
Of1ensively it isn't nearly up to
the Volunteer squad of 1888, with
Wood and Cafego on the march.
But defensively it is high-ranking
outfit, with a fast, hard-charging,
aggressive. smart set of forwards
that tackle in groups, with a smart
pass defense headed by Foxx, an
underrated football star.
I can't rate Southern California
as any killing offensive machine.
saw almost the same bunch score
a lone touchdown against a worm
out Duke team last year in the clos
ing seconds OF play.
Southern California had to have
Its full share of luck to score ono
touchdown in its last two games
against Washington and U. C. L. A.
You can't rate this as any whirl.
wind attack. I wouldn't rate it even
close to Cornell, for one example.
But Southern California is packed
tight with man power-big, fast,
three deep-wave after wave-a
tidal wave of reserves who are Just
as good as the first-string men.
Tennessee will be badly out
weighed. But Tennessee as a team
will be faster and smarter.
Tennessee will have just as hard
a time scoring as Southern Cal will
1t will be Tennessee's better all
around speed and smartness against
Southern CALIFORNIA; man power.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
TuIone and Texos Aqs
Hove Greet BoIonce

There are fewer divergent angles
IN the Sugar Bowl test. Tulane and
Texas A. and NJ, in my opinion, for
combined strength, outrank South
ern California and Tennessee.
II there was any set way to meas
ure the all-around value of the two
games I'd say the Sugar Bowl has
the call.
There has been no top-ranking
team this season, no matter what
few of the astrologers, soothsayers.
second guessers and mathematician
have reported.
For example, one of the leaders
ranked Southern California first
and U. c. L. A. eleventh, and vet
U. c. L. A. outplayed the Trojans
In their big test. If you can dis
cover any logic in this situation you
have Christopher Columbus out
classed as a discoverer.
1t would be difficult to think of
two teams as well matched in every
detail of good football as Tulane
and Texas A. and M.
None of the four teams has a.
good an all-around back as McFad-
den OF Clemson. But they make It
all up in quantity.
Over 250,000 spectators will pay
out well over 100000 to see these
four top bowl games.
In this respect the Rose Bowl
takes the lead, via attendance and
gate receipts.
Evening star., 1939-12-29
The
SPORTLIGHT
Picking Bowl Winners
Is Too Hazardous
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (NAN.A).
into the crystal ball that
should call the turn on the Battle
Of the Bowls from the Pacific to tho
Atlantic, I find these significant ad-
vance signs:
Rose Bowl, Pasadena-A smashing
defense on both sides that should
tend to low scoring. 1t will be difi-
cult for either Southern California
or Tennessee to break through.
There should be little scoring If
form carries through.
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans-Hers
Is another game where defensive
strength may overpower the attack.
Both Tulane and Texas A. and M.
are loaded with power. Both are
defensively strong with two big,
fast lines, well flanked by good ends.
I have an idea there will be louder
crashing in this Sugar Bowl game
than any game played this year. I
mean the collision of human flesh
and bone.
Orange Bowl, Miami-On form
this should be a fairly free-scoring
affair, since on each side the Of
fenSe more than matches the de.
tense. Georgia Tech will face busy
afternoon throttling Paul Christ
mans able right arm. Missouri will
face just as busy an afternoon stop
ping Georgia Techs deceptive
assault.
Cotton Bowl, Dallas-The hardest
game OF the lot to figure. But a
game that should be full of scoring
action. Clemson is a far better
football team than the country at
large knows about. It is on a level
with the best of them. So is Boston
College. This will be-or should be
game replete with con-
siderable action
Evening star., 1939-12-29

Totals -15 $50 Totals ---12 10 "a
Montana labor news., 1939-03-09
They Won't Do It

Increasing the purchasing power Of low
paid wage earners is generally recognized
as being one of the fundamental principles
the application of which will bring prosperity
to industry. The difficulty of the remedy is
that the increase must be provided by the
employers in pay envelope contents for their
employees. And so far employers manifest
a definite Discrimination to part company with
any of their surplus funds for this commend
able purpose.
A INSTALLATION Of this question was pre-
sented by Secretary Of Labor Frances Perkins
in an address before the recent Farm Insti-
tute at Des Moines, Iowa. She is reported
as having said that if the small sum of one
dollar a month per person were added to the
incomes Of the lowest paid groups in the
United States during the next few years,
the expenditures of that augmented purchas-
ing power would raise the sale of commodi-
ties to levels never attained heretofore.
The remedy offered by Miss Perkins is
valid. The only hitch in the program is the
persistence of one of the smallest but most
significant words in the English language
eff"
Expressed plainly and in more definite
phraseology, Miss Perkins evidently meant
to say this: If the employers would increase
wages only one dollar per month per person
to workers in the lowest income groups for
a number of years, the spending of this in
crease of one dollar per month would provide
a very much larger market for goods. But
the employers Just won't do it.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-09

haunting every elderly person: the question
of what would happen to him when he no
longer could earn a living. Of course what
the Senator meant was what would happen
to the elderly person when employers would
no longer permit him to earn a living.
Emphasizing the point that all of those
eligible for pensions after go had contributed
large amounts to support our governmental
institutions, Mr.. Andrews declared that
there ought to be some kind of dividend for
men who nave paid taxes for 40 years and
w a part of the richest government in the
world"
Representative Peterson asserted that, de-
spite our large national income, to-day the
old people probably need help more than at
any other period in history" He said the
plan for 5000 a month pension would put
money in circulation and stimulate business.
It might result in some increase in living
costs, but the element of social justice in
volved in providing for the elderly should
be considered even though it did raise the
cost of living.
Representative Cannon expressed his be-
lief thatIthe 5000 a month pension would
abolish the need and necessity of poor
houses" which he characterized as "eyesores
on civilization" He said the enactment of
the pension legislation would be justified on
that ground alone.
Much of the insistent and growing demand
for pensions for elderly people is rooted in
the policy of many employers to discriminate
against the employment of middle-aged
workers, who are thus compulsorily rele-
gated to the unemployed army despite their
mental and physical ability to produce wealth
and perform service.
When employers refuse to permit hun
dreds of thousands of able-bodied working
men and women to earn a living, pensions
adequate to support them in comfort are
absolutely imperative. Under our system of
representative government based on the
franchise for all adults, it is inevitable that
the victims Of this discrimination should use
their political power to secure by legislation
the essential justice denied them by our
economic dictators.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-09

with Hitler; a bite here and a bite
there simply makes him froth at the
mouth. I don't know whose particu-
lar chestnuts Deladier is pulling out
OF the fire, but Chamberlain can well
afford to pat himself on the back.
being the owner of between IL and
IL thousand shares of "Vickers Ltd
which now has taken control OF
Skoda Works wrested from Czecho-
slovakia. The rich copper and mer-
curry mines of Spain aside from its
strategic military position on the
Mediterranean makes it a very
choice morsel for the Rome-Berlin
axis. No matter what personal adj
vantages were gained in the recent
political deals, a harder blow to the
prestige Of France and Great Bri-
tain is hard to imagine. Fully con-
versant with the Soviet's intention
and ability to carry out it's treaty
obligation in regards to Czechoslo-
vakia, France under the pressure
from England actually cut her own
throat in a political sense, making
herself the most likely victim in the
next series of aggressions.
A. E. ANDERSON.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-09
Enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act

Gradually employers throughout the
United States are learning that the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1888 means what it says
when it stipulates that employers subject to
the act shall pay their employees not less
than Is cents an hour and shall limit their
employment to A hours per week.
Most employers obey the act without gov
ernmental pressure. Others, however, seem
to be unduly intoxicated in their subversive
belief that the policy of paying low wages
is their private and personal right guaranteed
by the Constitution of the United States
against which statute law must not prevail.
The Powers Manufacturing Company of
Waterloo, Iowa, is evidently one of the con-
Germs which require legal pressure to con-
vince them of the error of their illegal low
wage policy and the ACCESSIBILITY of obeying
the very reasonable wage stipulations i'm
posed upon employers by Federal statute.
Following adequate evidence that the
Powers Company was paying its employees
less than the 25 cents an hour prescribed by
the Fair Labor Standards Act, Elmer F..
Andrews, Administrator of the Department
Of Labor Wage and Hour Division, informed
Federal District Judge George c.. Scott Of
the delinquency of the Waterloo company.
Judge Scott thereupon issued an injunction
permanently restraining the company from
paying employees less than 25 cents an hour
and from shipping its products in interstate
commerce until the legal minimum wage is
paid.
Announcing that this was the first perma-
nent injunction restraining an employer from
alleged violation of the Fair Labor Standards
Act which has been in effect since October
"a, 1888, officials of the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion estimated that the company, which has
approximately IT'S employees on its payroll,
would be required to pay in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 in back wages, this amount
representing the difference between what the
workers got and what they would have
gotten under the legal rate of pay under the
act since it became effective.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-09
Pensions for Oldsters

The political influence of elderly people
whose capacity to produce commodities and
render effective service in our system Of pro-
duction is still very large but who are barred
from employment by those who own and
operate industry continues to impress Fed
eral legislators.
This influence was apparent when Senator
Charles o. Andrews and Representatives j..
Harding Peterson and A. Pat Cannon, all of
Florida, told the House Ways and Means
Committee in the hearing on proposed
amendments to the Social Security Act that
persons past so years Of age should be guar
anteed a comfortable living by means of a
5000 a month pension.
Senator Andrews said there was one ghost
Montana labor news., 1939-03-09
WHAT Is THE
UNION DOING!

The above is one of the most COM
mon expressions heard on the job.
Many members speak of the Union
as if it were some detached thing of
which they were not a part, and
over which they had no more con
troll than they have over the weather.
The Miners Union is not the sign
over the door, nor is it the officers
of the organization. It is exactly
what the name implies-"ALL INTO
ONE" "All into one" in this cas-
means the wants, desires, and direc-
ton of between 5000 and 5000 men.
Every n of these thousands is a
part of the Union and it is his duty
to take some interest in the Union
affairs; because this "UNION" of
which so many of them speak in such
detached terms is a tremendous
power for harm or for good. If those
who consider their duty done when
they merely pay their dues, and do
not attend meetings or make their
desires known in some fashion as to
how the Union should be conducted
persist in their attitude, then the
Union can be made a powerful in
strument of harm just as vicious and
just as all embracing in its destruc-
ton as a clOudburst resulting from a
turn of the weather, to which wealth
er they compare the Union when
they say: WHAT is THE UNION
DOING?"
This has been proved many times
in the past in Butte; it should be
needless to elaborate upon this state
ment. Where did the rustling card
come from? Where did the contract
system come from? They are both
impositions made possible by the
destruction of former Unions and
which destruction was made easy
by lack Of mass interest by the
workers comprising these unions.
And again, did these two outrages
miss any of us? All of this took
place while the same type of men
said WHAT IS THE UNION DO
ING?" instead of telling the Union
what to do.
On the other hand, our Union can
be made a power for our advance
ment, when and if at least ninety
per cent of the membership take an
active part in its affairs.
Do not say, WHAT is THE
UNION DOING?" Tell the Union
what to do; attend meetings; act on
committees when asked to. If you
do not like to talk on the floor, get
some fellow worker to do it for you
and if you do not want to do this,
your aye or nay vote on any issue is
just as good as anyone else's.-From
The Miners Voice.