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Smyrna times., 1939-08-17

would list them. Here also those
who had needs would list those
needs. Buyer and seller would thus
be brought together.
1t was a good idea. II still Is
good idea. Every time. indeed. you
look over the lads" In your news
paper you express your approval of
the idea.
Sellers tell you what they have.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-17
CLAYTON CASE TAKEN TO
DOVER

Squire Jester, of Dover, had a
portion of the female population OF
Clayton before him Thursday. II
was cross suit for assault grow
ing out of a neighbors quarrel
Part of a brick yard was on exhi-
bition in the Justices Office, the
bricks being used to keep one an
other awake while taking their af-
ternoon maps, being tossed from
house to house. Fine and costs
were imposed, amounting to quite
a sum, and the parties bound over
to keep the peace.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-17
SMYRNA HAS A HORSE SHOW

SMYRNA HAS A HORSE SHOW
Prof. Burk's horse show was
fairly well patronized on Monday.
The horses, dozen or more, which
are beauties, showed a remarkable
degree of intelligence, and this in
cluding the acrobatic exercises
made to most Of the people salts
factory exhibit. The music, was,
however, the most execrable ever
heard with a travelling show. The
gorgeous show bills which would
have done for Barnum's show, and
may have been borrowed from
them, were such exaggerations as
to amount to deceptions to those
who put their faith in pictures
Smyrna times., 1939-08-17
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF AUG. 7TH, 1889

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-17

Silver Dinner Service on Display
The 22-piece massive silver din
ner service from the old u. S. S.
Battleship Delaware is now on dis
play in the Zwaanendael Museum
at Lewes, where it is being viewed
daily by summer visitors at Lewes
and Rehoboth Beach.
Smyrna times., 1939-08-17
anpe Day at the Fair

National Grange Day at the Fair
Around twenty Doverites, con-
sisting of Grangers and friends, at
tended the New York Worlds Fair
Friday. The day was known as
National Grange Day.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Clemson Is Favored
Over Gamecocks in
Game Thursday
Citadel in Long Drill
As 1t Prepares for
Clash With 6. W.
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 1s.-Clem-
sons powerful Tigers, pointing for
an undefeated Southern Conference
season and a claim on the 1899 title,
will meet South Carolina's Came
cocks Thursday in prelude en-
counter to the week ends round Of
intersectional firing
The Tigers will go into tomorrow's
annual State fair classic at Colum-
bia the odds-on favorite.
Two top flight teams then will
stand between Clemson and a stake
on the crown-Wake Forest and
Furman.
Two Citadel squads worked on
offense and topped off long prac-
tice with a defensive stand against
George Washington plays.
North Cardinals Tar Heels, fac
ing crucial test at Tulane Satur-
day, went through long scrim-
mage, with the defense showing i'm
provement.
Two reserves, Jim Marion and
Leonard Darnell, held No. end
berths on the Duke team as the Blue
Devils made ready for the Syracuse
game at Durham.
Virginia Tech staged a blocking
drill to polish the running attack
for Centre. Bob Gary, fleet back,
did some spectacular running in
scrimmage as Washington and Lee
took a final rough workout for the
West Virginia engagement at
Charleston.
The N. c State Wolfpack leaves
for Washington tomorrow for q
workout before moving on to Detroit.
A heavy tackling and blocking
drill occupied the v M. I. Keydets.
Virginia's Cavaliers, who meet v. M.
I. at Lexington, were slowed by in
juries to such key performers as Lee
Mclaughlin. tackle, and Mosby Car
doza, Leroy Newsletter and Sylvester
O'Grince, backs.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
CIV. Quint Picks Rugged Road;
7erp-Hoyo Grid Series Shoky;
Miller Puts Himself on Spot

Look for Georgetown and Mary
land to cease grid relations sooner
or later. The Hoyas have built up
to a point where the Terps appear
unable to match them.
Leonard No Star Referee.
Benny Leonard booted decision
at Newport News only a week before
saving Joey Archibald's feather
weight crown for him against Harry
Jeffra here. New Haven, Conn.,,
decided it didn't care to import
referees any more after viewing
Benny in action there some months
ago.
Heinie Miller, who is secretary of
the District Boxing Commission and
president of the National Boxing
Association, finds himself in the
embarrassing position of taking
orders in the former role and dictat-
ing to the D. B. c. in the latter spot.
Joe Judge, who performed a neat
job of patrolling first base territory
for the Mats, feels Jimmy Wasden
represents the best bet among the
players who cavorted there this
year. He'll have to alter his attitude,
though, says Joe, to make the grade.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Almost on Par
After 50 Big
Contests
Fine Showing Made
By Southeastern
Conference
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

| NEW YORK, Oct 18.-Despite
the strength shown by Southeastern
Conference teams this season, the
East and Midwest still rank as the
two major divisions of the football
map.
On the basis of some so major"
intersectional tilts played so far, the
MldWestern sector ranks first with
IL victories and : defeats and
the East is practically even with 13
games won and 9 lost.
This ranking is based upon games
between teams of approximately
equal importance in their respective
sectors, although some "setups" that
came close to producing upsets are
included while many borderline
games between teams that are close
together geographically have been
tossed out.
Big Six Teams Do Well
The MldWesterners, particularly
Big Six Conference clubs fattened
their winning average largely at the
expense of rivals from the Rocky
Mountain region, which has only
one victory and an important tie
between Utah and Santa Clara to
show for ten intersectional contests.
Taking the Southeastern Confer
ence apart from other Southern
teams, however, the record shows
seven victories over strong rivals in
the East and Southwest against three
defeats. These were Georgia Techs
l7-14 loss to Notre Dame; Georgia's
1870 loss to Holy Cross and the 1910
defeat Texas inflicted upon Flori-
da.
Fordham Twice Jolted.
Balanced against this, Fordham
has fallen before two Southeastern
teams, Alabama and Tulane. and
Rice has been beaten by Vanderbilt
and Louisiana State Other victims
include Holy Cross, trounced 26-7 by
L. S. u: Boston College, which lost
to Florida, and Arkansas, beaten by
Mississippi State.
Most of the victims of the big
Eastern teams have been the lesser
lights of the Southern Conference,
(See FOOTBALL, Page A-15D
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Smoky City Grid
Teams Thrive
On Trouble
Pitt, Tech, Duquesne,
All in Hot Woter,'
Have Clean States
BY JOHN CAMPBELL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1S. - This
steel center, hub of preseason dis
sension which threatened its place
in the football sun, topped the ma
ton today with three undefeated,
united major college elevens.
No city in the land at this date
can match the collective big time
accomplishments of Pitt, Carnegie
Tech and Duquesne. listed in the Or
der they are ranked by most ex-
perts. Each has won three games
and both Carnegie and Duquesne
have spotless defensive records.
And in much the same order their
troubles developed. Split by internal
chickering's for some time, the Pitt
athletic cauldron boiled over last
spring with the resignation of DR..
John Balm Sutherland, longtime
head football coach. The school went
strictly amateur and soon after
yearling gridders revolted, claiming
they had been promised free tuition
but had been billed for it.
Far Exceeds Expectations
Pitts troubles, though, were
smoothed over and Charley Bowser
took over Jocks job along with
an array OF second stringers ex-
pected to be little more than stooges
for the opposition.
But the panther went west and
smashed Washington 27-6, came
home and beat West Virginia 900,
then skinned past Dukes Blue Dew
lis, 14-13.
The road hasn't been as rocky
for Carnegie Tech but the bows
proved they had something beside
pretty uniforms with a 60 victory
over Temple, which later licked
Texas Christian. They crushed
Wittenberg by IS points and picked
up 81 against Cleveland's Case.
Bill Kern, in his second season,
ran into difficulties last spring when
group of Tech sophomores, holders
OF scholarships, asked a clear defini-
ton OF their status in the face of
dwindling alumni contributions. The
situation cleared up, however, and
Kern has about the same squad
which won the mythical Eastern title
last year.
New Coach at Duquesne.
At Duquesne. John Little Clipper"
Smith resigned before the start of
spring practice and Aldo Buff" DON
elli took over squad of sophomores.
They routed Illinois Wesleyan and
Waynesburg by 81 and 20 points, re-
spectively, and beat Manhattan, TO.
But this week end comes the rev.
olution. The Panthers take on little
Duquesne in the first of the city
series and even if Carnegie gets past
New York University at New York,
the city's ranks of topnotchers will be
thinned.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
1iger-Lion Struggle
Most Co|orfuI Of
Ivy Loop Ti|ts
Woodrow Wilson Coached
Team Thut Made Record
Score in Series
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Oct. 18.-If you like
history and football tradition as a
background for your Saturday after
noon entertainment, you might do
worse than look in on the Columbia
Princeton game at Baker Field, New
York, this week.
You can get something on the
same order at New Haven, where
Yale and Army clash for the thirty
eighth time since 1893; at Cam
bridge, where Pennsylvania and
Harvard, another pair of ancient
ivy League" rivals come together;
at Pittsburgh in the Pitt-Duquesne
contest between two undefeated
teams, one of a round robin for the
city title; at Charleston, w. Va, in
the annual West Virginia Washing
ton and Lee intersectional tilt, and
in the Carnegie Tech-New York
University encounter at New York.
Tiger-Lion Game Colorful.
But nowhere will there be as many
or as interesting historical associa-
tions as in the Princeton Columbia
game. In fact, there's nothing much
at stake beyond their private salts
faction in beating each other, for
Columbia already has lost to Yale
and been tied by Army while the
Tigers took humping from Cor
nell last week.
It was in 1874, only five years
after Princeton and Rutgers played
the first intercollegiate football
game, that Columbia and Princeton
met for the first time. The Tigers
won, 60, and it wasn't until 1900
that Columbia scored a touchdown
and won for the first time, 6-5.
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton 70,
coached the Tiger team in 1890 that
beat the Lions IS to O-the biggest
score ever run up in the series. Then
In 1902, these teams met in game
which was part of the program
celebrating Wilson's Inauguration as
president of Princeton.
Spoils Columbia Record.
They drifted apart after that,
meeting in 1905, then not again un-
til 1882, when a post season charity
program brought them together and
Columbia won, 1870. That paved the
way for 2-year resumption of for
NAL relations. The Lions marked up
a 20-7 victory in 1882, and the next
year Princeton won, 300. That was
Columbias only defeat that season,
and it was the source of considerable
hullabaloo when the Lions were in
vited to the Rose Bowl in spite Of
the loss. That was all forgotten
when Columbia trimmed Stanford
in the New Year Day game.
Despite their records, next Satur-
days clash also promises to be an
interesting affair. Princeton's main
offensive threat so far has been a
well-planned air attack, while Co.
lumbia's best weapon is Les STAN
czyk, youngest of three brothers who
nave starred for the Light Blue.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Despite the College Purist, Well Take the Pros

Navy and Dartmouth big strong afraid
lose After the first 10 minutes looked
And a
football writing
stalemate.
The day the played First the Redskins
Then the Pirates took 76 Then Redskins
Pirates 14-7. Then the Redskins,
Some football people insist this isn't football
maintains that baseball the lights
that whatever
thrilling spectacle
The college pur admits that he
them e6-yad touchdown taking
line leaves this emotoness IF
against college
school, explains the purist shifting length
Maybe We wouldn't know
hand we'll take of who
they college and
it.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
It's Easier for the Pros to Score

The of have different rules
And strange sound
To draw well rivalry bunko college team
must The must
they must of their sacrifice
the
1t easier for the
goal lines where they belong They
the line of They
touchdown lead nothing pro touch
downs will make hackers period
deposit That's the kind
be and said before not be real football
And if it isn't real football still to be
In the the
teams have something the haven't this
partisan like Awegh" Brave Old
Army Team, "On Wisconsin, Boola
Flight theme song
isn't bad Of but isn't what
goals
coegans trying things But that
Navy-Dartmouh well, it.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Sportsparks - Lynn Woodworth,
who shifted to Central High from
Roosevelt, probably will succeed
Jack Ray as basketball coach there
this year. George Washington has
booked its toughest court sched-
ule in some seasons, the Colonials
being slated to play both Army and
Navy, Georgetown, Maryland, Ohio
State, st. Johns of Brooklyn. ETC.
George Murtagh Georgetown's af-
fable assistant grid coach who
secuted G. w. as it lost to Butler,
feels the Hoyas are in for a rough
afternoon when they face the Co.
lonials. And G. w. is hoping he's
right.
Despite rules against it, at least
one public high already has started
basketball practice.
Carter Barron hopes to import
Brother Reds crack Georgia schol-
astic football team for a post-season
tiff with the public high champ.
Capital to See Big Ice Show.
A spectacular ice show will pre-
cede the debut of Eastern Amateur
League ice hockey at Riverside
Stadium. Redvers Mackenzie, coach
of the Washington Eagles ice outfit,
nurses genuine grudge against the
Atlantic City Sea Gulls, whom he
piloted for some years.
Increased attendance at American
League professional basketball tilts
is anticipated by league officials, who
have eliminated the two-hand dri5-
BILE and installed a personal foul
rule to bring their game closer to
the collegiate version. Most of the
brawling will be clipped from the
script
Tuffy Leemans said he was going
to play only two years of pro foot
ball when he joined the New York
Giants. This years his fifth.
Murtagh says he said the same thing
when he hooked up with the same
club, but he stuck around for nine
years.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Griffith, Big Ten Head,
RoIIies From Illness
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct 18.-Maj. John l..
Griffith, Western Conference COM
missioner of athletics, was reported
improving today following his COL
lapse Monday night with stomach
ailment.
After visiting her husband in an
Evanston, ILL.,, hospital, Mrs. Griffith
said: I'VE think he is much better
now, but he must have complete
rest"
THE doctors say there is nothing
alarming about his condition now,
but he can have no visitors and no
telephone calls for a while. But he
looks much better now than he did
Monday"
Evening star., 1939-10-18
9. VIC. u. Frosh Game
Shifted to Afternoon

The highly touted freshman foot
ball teams of George Washington
and Georgetown will collide at 2:30
pm. October q instead of that
night as originally scheduled.
The game, to be played on the
eve of the varsity tiff between the
Colonials and Hoyas, is expected to
entice . record crowd for . fresh
man game In this sector.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Navy Dartmouth Interest Comparatively Dead

Washington, pro football unbelievable
Washington
than Baltimore There stadium here but Baltimore has that
holds 5000 The Baltimore and
alumni
undergrads the the battle
unbeaen united tradition
that of hey ehey.
The drew comparatively small crowd of $4,000 according
estimated The Redskins the hopeless
Pirates $4,000 little Griffith Stadium which
q football Neither the Redskins
bnacle of tradition cngng They
and undergads They offer only crowd
pleasing football the weekly wang Hail Redskins
We didn't the Catholic University that
somebody backyad stuff
for the theme
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Midwest and East Still Set Pace Major nterecona Football Game
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS {. STAN.
Pro Football Is More Exciting Football, Etc.

When George Marshall
they cared all and they threw tentative barrier
mental Manot Line the word football phoney
football.
When Mr. Marshall and his cleated pachydems paid attention
cordia
folk
the Redskins reflected the
emphasizing phenomena behalf Redskins the gentleman
ST. Johns night last week
Whether this impression will last remains We think it
all The before the Redskins 44to14 the
Catholic University
thriller Detroit 14-13, college of the
thrill parlay Catholic University the
Redskins danger will lie unsusping Saturday
play typical pro game
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Keep Eye on Kent Stute

KENT, Ohio, Oct. 18 R.-Look
out for Kent State next year. OF the
SO frosh gridders now drilling daily,
ten are former scholastic captains
and a. earned some sort Of all-scho.
lastic honors.
Evening star., 1939-03-12

This is one of a series OF Weekly
articles discussing activities OF
the Community Chest agencies.
This article is based on the sec
ond of sir lectures to be giUen
bu an e.recutiue of a Chest agency
on "A Mental HygieniSt Looks
at Lite"
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Griffenhagen Report
Dodges Main Issue,
Prettyman Says
Study Fails to Specify
How Governing Body Is
Selected, Club Is Told

Failure of the Griffenhagen report
on reorganization of the District
government to specify how the pro-
posed governing body should be Sc
lected lodges the principal question
involved in reorganization plan,
E. Barrett Prettyman, former cor
poration counsel and chairman Of
the Citizens Efficiency Committee,
told members of the civic section
of the Women's City Club at meet
ing at the clubhouse yesterday.
Mr.. Prettyman said he agreed
with the contention that the Dis
trict would have less voice than at
present in its government if part
time governing body as we'll as the
proposed administrator were ap-
pointed instead of elected.
The speaker. however. deplored
the controversies developed through
discussion of the plan, pointing out
that all who have studied the ques-
ton of reorganization of the Dis
trict are In agreement on certain
fundamental changes.
Some Changes Favored.
1t is generally accepted, he said,
that Federal and District functions
should be untangled that ordinary
functions of the District govern
ment should be departmentalized; :;
that the Commissioners should De
given powers ordinarily granted city
heads, such as ordinance making
powers; that there should be some
local voice in the local government
and that the District should have a
greater degree of financial inde-
pendence.
He opposed personally the number
OF departments set up under the
Griffenhagen plan and also the ap-
pointment of an administrator "for
life"
He also said that, while the report
repeatedly says that it would give
legislative power to the governing
body. such powers could not be
granted without constitutional
amendment.
Mr.. Prettyman added that the
plan drawn up by the Citizens Eff
ficiency Committee would give cit
liens of the District a voice in It's
government by proposing the elec-
ton OF two delegates to Congress
who, with the three Commissioners.
would sit together for ordinance
making purposes.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley. civics chair
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Oil Case Defendants
Reduced by Five on
Motion Of j. ).
Dismissal Orders Are
Signed by Judges on
Price-Fixine Charges
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, March 1.-THE
array of defendants in the Federal
Government oil price-hxing case,
scheduled for retrial in October, was
reduced further today with dismissal
Of indictments against five in
dividuals.
The Federal District Court docket
disclosed that Judge Patrick T.
Stone, who heard the original trial,
and Judge Walter c. Lindley of
Danville, ILL.,, who is to hear the
second trial, had signed dismissals
on motion of the Government for
the following men who had not been
brought to trial:
John A. Brown, New York, vice
president of Socony-Vacuum Oil
Co.; D. w. Harris, Shreveport, gen.
eral manager of the Louisiana Oil
Co.: Bernard j. Majewski, Chicago
vice president of Deep Rock Oil
Corp: Keith Fanshier, petroleum
editor Of the Chicago Journal OF
Commerce, and r. G. A. Van Der
Woude, New York. president of the
Shell Union Oil Co.
Second indictments against some
OF these individuals, charging re-
striction of jobbers' margins, also
were dismissed.
Sixteen oil companies and 80 ex-
ecutives were convicted January %
1898, after numerous defendants
were dismissed during four
month trial. Judge Stone later up
held the convictions of II companies
and 5 individuals, ordering new
trials for some of the other de-
PENDANTS.
Evening star., 1939-03-12
man for the Women's City Club, pre-
sided at the meeting.
Club Eayors Simnlification.

Following Mr.. Prettyman's talk.
the civics section voted to recon-
mend to the club that it go on record
in favor of slmplifcation and reol-
ganization of the District govern
ment. 1t also voted to recommend
that autonomy of the Board of Eau
cation and the Library Board be re-
tanned.
The section earlier adopted a vote
of commendation to Chairman Col
Inns Of the District Subcommittee Of
the House District Committee Tor
the part he played as adviser in the
settlement Of the controversy over
the control Of Gallineer Hospital.
Mr.. Collins signifled approval of a
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Boys Garden Club
To Beoin Soon

The 18th season of the Washing
ton Civitan Club Boys Garden
Club will begin soon, according to
an announcement by Rudolph Jose.
chairman of the Club Activities
Committee.
Ninety-five boy gardeners, rang
ing in age from 10 to is years, par
ticipate in the program, raising
vegetables on 10-acre tract at Ana
costa road and Blaine street NE,
under supervision of w. R. Beattie,
senior horticulturist of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
At the end of the season. the 10
boys regarded as having been most
successful are awarded with q one
week vacation at Camp Let's, Md.