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Glacier County chief., 1939-08-25

out 1000 or more batters. His pres
ent strike-out total is 2.ll7. In that
time he has given up 3,474 hits and
1,080 bases on balls.
In four-year stretch, l928-l93l,
Grove won 1903 games and lost %
for an average Of 1886. In 1881 he
won 81 games and lost only four.
This is the best single season pitch
ing record in modern baseball.
In a seven-year span, l927-l933,
he won liz games and lost 81 for a
percentage Of .761. Groves record
is one Of the greatest Of all time,
and is especially impressive in view
Of the fact that his pitching was
done with lively ball.
Speed Ball Artist I
Lefty started out as a fire ball
pitcher. No other southpaw could
touch his fast ball, and he depended
largely upon it. He was strictly a
speed ball artist. But even the great
est pitchers can't 60 on forever
smoking them over, and he finally
felt his speed slipping. Grove then
developed curve ball and a change
of pace. He studied his batters,
learned their weaknesses, and out
smarted them.
Tom Yawkey, owner of the Boston
Red Sox, bought Grove from Connie
Mack In 1884, paying slightly more
than S100, 900 for him. Lefty had re.
ported at the training camp with a
dead arm, and the experts were
congratulating Mack for a smart
operator. Grove wasn't much help
to the Sox that first season, his arm
failed to respond. He finished the
season with record Of eight won
and eight lost.
The following year Mack wasn't so
sure he had put over a good deal.
Lefty was back in form, winning 20
games for Boston and losing IL.
His career seemed ended again
last year when his arm went dead
while he was pitching against De.
troit. But once more he returned
to form, and through the early part
of August this year, had won II
games and lost two. Not at all
bad considering that the crepe-hang.
ers saw the end of his big league
pitching days back in 1884.
The 1889 season is seeing q south.
paw famine. Right now II looks as
II Robert Moses Grove. the 39-year.
old Sunday pitcher, will be the only
one to win more than Is games.
Other left handlers IN both leagues
are having more than their share o,
diniculties. Comes, Wander Nicer
Lee, Hubbell, Krakauskas, Melton.
Whitehill- fact, all Of them, are
running Tar below expectations
So chances are that the Lonacon
ing lancer, who has been pitching on
borrowed time for Ave years, viii be
the only southpaw TO come through
with . creditable record when the
1850 season d ended.
Glacier County chief., 1939-08-25

ny AINAOIk =. EANiON
NEW YORK.-Perhaps it is the
l ' heat, general, it seems, through
out the civilized world these days,
or more likely it is one Of those
Glacier County chief., 1939-08-25
Sport Shorts

A BASEBALL umpire not only
can throw a player out Of the
park. but has the power to put spec
tators out, too Designer George
Pocock built all 10 of the racing
shells used in the Poughkeepsie re-
gatta Hugh Duffy. whose .438
batting average is still an all-time
major league record, often wonders
what his average would have been
If he had batted against the rabbit
Glacier County chief., 1939-08-25

pROFESSOR ]. B. S. HALDANE,
the famous British biochemist,
who just now offers to sit inside an
afraid shelter while it is bombed
Glacier County chief., 1939-08-25

from the out
S i d e, is tn e
only living test
tube-Stiu I'M
SCARED.
Glacier County chief., 1939-08-25

Be-kilted and tie-less, King George
of England appeared to have the
time of his royal life when he
visited the schoolboys' camp which
he maintains. This year the camp
was at Abergeldie, near the Bal
moral castle. At left is Princess
Elizabeth; beside her an aide de
camp; King George is in center,
then Queen Elizabeth and Princess
Margaret Rose.
Evening star., 1939-05-12

if Britain and France will join
Otherwise, says the Kremlin, well,
we can take care of ourselves. We
don't want war in Europe. we don't
like the axis winning without a war,
and we think the axis should be
checked. But don't forget, dear
friend, that isolationism and the
isolationist role offer some advantage
to us"
Soviet Remembers Munich.
I. is not merely the advantage of
isolation that affects the Soviet out
look at this juncture There is also
the burning remembrance of how
the U. S. S. R. was treated at Munich
and during the negotiations which
preceded Munich. Which left craven
in the Soviet heart an unlimited
distrust and contempt for British
Prime Minister Chamberlain and
French Foreign Minister Bonnet.
1 say, without fear Of contradic-
ton, that one of the cardinal fac
tors in the recent upheaval in Mos
COW has been the Kremlin suspicion
which almost amounts to conviction
that the British government was
simply stalling with its talk OF
guarantees, that it was playing for
time or has yet more sinitser plans
Stalin's speech at the Communist
Party Congress gives the Soviet view
in a nutshell when he said, 1--WE
must be careful about the instigators
of war who are accustomed to use
other people to pull chestnuts out
of the fire for them Izvestia is
now the voice of the Kremlin. but
the Kremlin is the voice of Stain.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Slayer Of Brother
Breaks HUNGER Strike
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ENID, Okla, May 12.-Roy
Murphy broke his 22-day hunger
strike with a cup of sirup and
steeled himself today for the ordeal
of a murder trial he tried to evade
by starvation.
Defense Counsel James Mathers
said he would contend the 40-year-
old farmer shot in self defense the
night Murphy's brother and sister
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Murphy,
died in blaze of pistol fire.
County Attorney Hugh Conway
took up the tedious task of quail
flying jurors for the death penalty.
Only two were accepted yesterday
and both sides agreed it might be
tomorrow before II men were
selected.
Glassy-eyed and gaunt, Murphy
heard jury yesterday declare him
sane in a sanity hearing that pre-
ceded the trial.
/ District Judge J. w. Bird then
swept aside Mathers' requests for
more time to seek second hearing
and for a change of venue.
At the end of the afternoon, Muir
ply back in his cell, was given
another dose of glucose in the veins
and gulped down without protest
cup of sirup Jail attendant
| rendered him.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. c. FRIDAY MAY 12

the Dardanelles at the Montreux
conference on July Is, 1896. Under
the Montreux convention Turkey, II
at war, may exercise complete dis
cretion In closing the strait.
Every man and women between
16 and go years Of age in Turkey s
population of more than 16,000, 600
is subject to call for military service.
Army Being Strengthened.
The standing army is being
strengthened with motorized units.
The navy also is being strengthened.
Turkey has made alliances and
treaties with the aim of guarding
her independence. Through the
Balkan Entente she Is allied to Ru-
mania, Greece and Yugoslavia. The
Asiatic pact allies her to Afghanis-
tan, Iran and Iraq. She also has
maintained friendly relations with
Soviet Russia.
Economically, she has maintained
an open-door policy. Germany is
her best customer and recently she
obtained German credits of 150.000,- :
600 marks (about $50, 100000 Brit
ain has granted her credits of E10,-
100000 (about $46,80O,0 ,000) apart
from credits of $4,000, 900 (about $28,-
0OO, ,000) for ornaments. Italy has
resumed her purchases here.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Reich Realizes Setback
In Anqio- urkish Pact

BERLIN, May II P).-The view
was taken in informed quarters to-
day that the mutual assistance dec
laration by Turkey and Great
Britain evens the score for the mo-
ment between Berlin and London in
their sparring for position in the
Balkans.
Just as the British came limping
behind Germany in Rumania,, where
the Reich had negotiated a trade
treaty extremely favorable to it, so
Germany sent Franz Won Papen, vet
eran diplomat, too late to Turkey to
prevent conclusion of British
Turkish pact. it was realized here.
While Germany is not directly
affected by the English-Turkish ar
rangement, the military alliance
with Italy concluded last Sunday
would automatically make her an
enemy of her World War alley Tur-
key in case Britain-and Turkey with
her-became involved in French
Italian conflict.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Bombings of Chungking
Protested by Britain

TOXIC, May IL PD.-Sir Robert
Leslie Craigie, the British Ambassador
delivered a protest today to Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita against last
weeks bombings Of Chungking, de-
claring the air raids were so con-
Quoted as to endanger the lives OF
British residents.
He protested also on what were
termed humanitarian grounds (Chi-
nese have said about $500 persons
were killed in the raidS.)
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Shanghai
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concession issued a joint proclama-
ton threatening severe punishment
and expulsion for persons engaging
in political activities This was
considered a response to japanese
pressure.
The japanese naval spokesman S
statement today was the first open
threat of occupation of Shanghai's S
foreign areas. These sections are
strongly defended by United States
marines, British and French troops
and warships of all three nations
and Italy.
One British destroyer was in
Annoy HaYbor. The nearest Amer
lean naval vessel was a gunboat at
SwatoW, further down the coast, but
naval officers here said there were
no plans at present to send United
States ships to Annoy.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
importance of Pact
Minimized by Italy

ROME, May IL (P,.-The Fascist
press today minimized the import
ance of the British Turkish agree
ment for mutual assistance against
any act of aggression leading to war
in the Mediterranean.
La Tribuna said that since Turkey
presumably would be asked to de-
fend Palestine, Lebanon. Syria and
Cyprus-w which Britain and France
took away from her in the World
War-the value of her guarantee
would be "problematical."
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Thousands of Refugees
Returning to Chunqkinq

CHUNGKING, May II (R.-The
return of tens of thousands Of
refugees to this wartime Chinese
capital after last weeks japanese
air bombings is hampering Cen
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek's plans
to remove from Chungking every
thing and everybody not essential
for the conduct of the war.
A program of building air raid
shelters and controlling fires was
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Baby Sporrows
| Latest MorseI
OF SwoHowers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May IL.
Here is the latest in swallow
ing fads-baby sparrows.
Two high school students,
Harold Rosenkrans and Charles
Trimborn, swallowed a baby
sparrow apiece yesterday after
exchanging dares before a biol
ogy class of 80 students while
the instructor wasn't watching.
Learning of their gulping, the
instructor told the boys the un-
drawn birds would digest easily.
Twelve hours later both boys re-
ported they had felt no i'll ef-
fects.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Turkey, Controlling
Dardane|Ies, Holds
Strategic Position
Nearly zoe, 900 in Army;
Air Force Consists Of
500 AirpIones
BY the Associated Press.

| oy tilC AScOCiutCO 1ICoS.
ISTANBUL, May 12.-Strategic
Turkey, which the late Kamal Ata-
turk transformed from the sick
man of Europe" to modern re-
public, threw her weight behind the
British-French security bloc today
with the announcement here and in
London Of the British Turkish mill
tary agreement.
She has a land army Of nearly
200 900 men, trained reserve, an
air force with an estimated 500 air.
planes, which she hopes shortly to
increase to 1000, and she long has
been at work remilitarizing the Dar-
danelles.
Her reserve force includes women
who, since their emancipation from
the harem, are liable to military
service
In the World War, Turkey sided
with Germany. But Ataturk be-
came British in his sympathies after
he had ousted the Sultan and the
allied forces from Turkish territory.
Gen. InOnu President.
When Ataturk died last Novem-
ber he was succeeded as President by
Gen. Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's right
hand man and prime minister for
13 years.
The President enunciated the fol-
lowing policy recently in an address
to mass meeting of 10000 youths:
I'VE must be strong, particularly
because of the imperialistic policy
of large nations with dense popu-
lations, which use force to satisfy
their expansionist principles. I am
convinced that democracy is the re-
gime which fits best the structure
and will of our people"
The crossroads between East and
West" Turkey has taken steps to
defend her strategic position.
She won the right to remilitarize
Evening star., 1939-05-12

being pressed today by Gen. Ho
Kuo-kwang, commander of the Nam
king garrison before the war. The
general replaced Chang Tse-cheng
as Chungkings mayor. The latter
was blamed for failure to perfect
air raid precautions before the at
tacks which last week caused an
estimated 1000 to 5000 casualties.
Apprehensive Chinese military
leaders published statements that
the Japanese were massing bomb
ing fleet at HankOW.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
London
Continued From First Page

Chamberlain yesterday that any at
| tempt to change the status of the
Free City of Danzig by force and
thereby threaten Polish independ-
ence," would bring war
The Times said the speech was
"one of the most important he has
ever delivered 1t may be hoped it
will attract at least as much atten-
ton everywhere as the much
heralded speeches of leaders Of
other nations"
The Telegraph contended that
the German government now had
no excuse for misunderstanding
Britains position and attacked the
German propaganda machine for
disseminating the most fantastic
nonsense about our policy"
It was permissible to doubt
whether in the long run peace can
be preserved If the Nazis are
minded to keep Europe under per-
petual nervous strain and are pre-
vented from embarking on some
cherished aggression only by fear
of resistance they will meet" the
Telegraph added.
Izvestia Editorial Ignored.
British observers expressed little
concern over the editorial in lives
tia, Russian government organ in
Moscow, declaring that Russia
wanted guarantees from England
and France for herself as we'll as
for Poland and Rumania before
entering into a security agreement.
1t was believed here that the
League of Nations Council session,
postponed a week at Russia's re-
quest. would speed understanding
by permitting personal exchange
among the British. French and Rus
sian foreign ministers.
The Rumanian British trade
Evening star., 1939-05-12

agreement was received with relief
by Britain, with editorial commen-
tators expressing a certainty that
Rumania would adhere to the
British-French front, which in
cludes Poland and Greece.
Evening star., 1939-05-12
Woman Dies at 113

Sava Noise Popa, who has died in
Dragoslavele, near Rucar, at the age
Of 113, was believed to be Rumania's 5
Evening star., 1939-05-12

Oldest woman. Up to her last year
she worked In the fields and could
ride horseback. After her hundredth
birthday she lived chiefly on vege-
tables.
Evening star., 1939-09-19

halted here in their fight before
the advancing German forces, were
reported today on their way by sep
arate routes to Bucharest, from
where, it was said, they might go to
Paris.
President Moscicki entrained last
night for Craiova, near the Bull
garian frontier, where he was given
permission to reside with Foreign
Minister Beck. Col. Beck left here
by motor and Marshal Smigly- -Rydz
departed by way of Bikaz, in the
Carpathian Mountains.
A bitter argument between Col.
Beck and Marshal Smigly- -Rydz on
an undisclosed subject occurred at
the Cernauti station as they bade
farewell to Moscicki. The army
leader. ignoring Col. Becks aides,
stalked off to his automobile.
Russian Army Rolls On.
While the Germans were advanc-
ing from the west, the vast motor
lied Russian Army was reported
rolling through the Ukraine from
the east.
Red forces were said to be moving
through the province of Tarnopol,
through Zaleszczyki "a temporary
seat of the Polish government) and
Sniatyn. Observers believed the
Evening star., 1939-09-19

course of action. We have come to
an understanding with Russia and
we have decided that-contrary to
British belief-our interests are in
deed strictly limited.
The very fact that they are lin
tied as demonstrated by this under
standing, ought to make this very
understanding most welcome fac
tor to Britain.
AS far as our future aims are
concerned, want to state that our
program will effect general less
ening of the European tension.
We have thought that, as far
as the west is concerned, peace
could be maintained, but certain
western interests are opposed to
this peace. They tried Immediately
to rupture the unbreakable ties
existing between Mussolini and my
self.
Friendship My Aim"
1t has always been my aim to
maintain friendship with Great
Britain, but if they do not want
this, then I have to answer, as
follows: Poland as it existed after
the Versailles treaty will never live
again. After ALL this statement is
also backed by Russia.
The English statement that they
are Waging war only against my
regime I personally take as a COM
pliment. I am proud to be the
object of their attack. Any German
regime which would merit the praise
of Britain would be in the pay of
Britain.
And any Englishman who thinks
that the German nation can be
Weaned away from me is downright
insane. England may be sure that
the propaganda it is now waging
will utterly fail of its mark. If they
want to conduct effective prop
aganda they had better first come
to Germany to learn a few lessons
When they say that this war will
last three years I can only say that
I feel sorry for the French poilus,
and, furthermore, in any determine
ton as to the length of the war
Germany-after all-Will have some
thing to say herself.
This war will never result in the
dismemberment Of the German
Reich. We fight for our national
existence. Think of it! England is
not pleased by the internal regime
in German country.
And she thinks this fact alone
gives her the right of removing this
regime.
We May Surprise Them.
They claim that we are making
war upon defenseless women anc
children. We have not done so anc
will never do so. AS to their type
of weapons, they are using vessels
and ships which, they think, We
ourselves cannot employ in return
of these tactics.
However, we may some day sur
prise them by employing weapon!
which might not be available tt
them.
The British war is not by any
means directed against our regime
but solely and purely against the
German nation.
We know what our fate Woulc
Evening star., 1939-09-19

be If they were victorious. We
are told what they would do if the
war were ended with a victory fol
them. They speak of liberatine
minorities, of the sections they
would set free, and of the lofty
brows upon which they would set
the royal crowns.
I feel called upon to express my
sincere thanks at this moment to
the German people. You have per-
formed and endured bravely. Sol
diers, men and women have given
what has been asked Of them. The
Almighty God, who has blessed our
weapons up to this time, will con-
tinue to aid us.
For the first time today I am
back in the German City of Danzig
This city personifies the ideals which
since time immemorial have motivat-
ed the German nation.
I had made a resolution never tc
enter this city until would be able
to come to you as your liberator
Today this day has arrived.
Through me you are now pelne
accepted formally into the German
Reich. We stand resolved never tc
surrender you again.
Danzig was German-Danzig Is
German-and Danzig will for al
time remain a German city!
Generations will come and go, but
they will all look back upon thu
period just ended as period o.
misery and unhappiness.
The greater German Reich i!
now united with you. May th'
greater German Reich live anc
prosper!
Sieg He'll!
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Text of HitIer's Speech
Donzigers Hear Fuehrer AssoiI
Britain and Soy He Wants Peace

Until the very last moment I
thought and tried to prove that 1t
might still be possible to bring
such dangerous men to their senses.
For Two days, upon one occasion.
I sat in Berlin waiting for any
reasonable reply to my proposals.
but none came.
With unbelievable patience I
have tried to solve our difficulties
by peaceful means. Again and
again I tried peaceful means. Peace
could have been saved on so manv
of these occasions.
Mussolini did his best to assist
me in this worthwhile cause. But
England failed to see the issue
in our light. The English thought
erroneously-that our Reich was
still the country it used to be.
But the Germany of today no
longer is a country to whom ulti-
matum can be dictated.
If Poland went to war 1t was
only because she was driven into
war. Poland did choose to fight,
but the result has been bitter dis
appointment to that nation.
Impossible Lies" Told.
Impossible lies and falsehoods
have been told during the course OF
the struggle. Stories OF German
cruelties, atrocities-yes, and even
of German inferiority. And yet 1t
has helped them not bit They
have been defeated and arnlhllated
at every turn until they were wiped
out.
Batches of prisoners have been
taken. Yesterday it was $4,000. To-
day 10000, and I don't know how
many prisoners there will be taken
tomorrow.
The German soldiers have car
ried on magnificently. Our army
has not only been mastery, it has
actually proven itself a master
supreme.
In this moment of our victory
we shall be generous to the van-
quished Polish Army. In many
cases they have fought valiantly.
At this moment we have taken ap-
proximately 100000 Polish prisoners
On the other hand, must speak
to you of Polish cruelties visited
upon our German minorities. Feet
and hands were chopped off, eyes
were goughed out, and yet not one
protest has been forthcoming from
the western statesmen.
From the beginning I gave Or
ders to conduct a humane warfare
Still the western statesmen must
not think that this condition can
60 on forever. If they want things
differently they can have what they
ask for.
In 18 days we have Gquidated
Poland, and now, for the protection
of its own minorities, Russia has
marched into certain sections OF
Poland.
Our Soviet Interests Limited.
This Russian action and the
German- Russian understanding
have been labeled by Britain as 6
perfidy. I want to make it clear a.
this point that as far as we are con-
cerned. Germany will remain wha
Germany is and has been, and thu
same applies to Russia.
have decided that the common
problems of Germany and Russii
can best be solved by a common
Evening star., 1939-09-19
Poland
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Jill IL 1 a6S(
nizing in the occupied areas, and
there were no reports of fighting.
Polish resistance to Germany's
overwhelming armed might was re-
ported to have dWindled to three
widely separated and virtually sur
rounded armies.
Dispatches indicated the Poles
still were holding out at Warsaw
along the San River west of LWoW
and in the sector between Bialystok
and Pinsk, but the plight of the de-
tenders was said to be desperate.
The three Polish armies were said
to be operating as individual units
without direction from the Polish
general staff, which yesterday fol-
lowed government leaders across the
Rumanian border.
The desperately fighting Poles
were reported practically without
aerial assistance Most Of the Polish
air force already has been destroyed
or interned in Rumania.
Polish government leaders, who