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Evening star., 1939-10-28
Arturo Will Live to Toke
Much Bullion Home

For his Dempsey fight the gross
was S1,1886O3. With Jess Willard,
the aging cowboy from Potta-
watomie County. Kans, he drew
$431 900. And what he made he
kept.
That is, he kept it until he un-
packed down home in Buenos Aires.
Then it went fast. When last heard
from, Firpo had lost his automobile
agency in Argentina, was sued for
money he didn't have on a real
estate deal and took to chopping
trees for the camera, with a come
back in mind. The way those sap
lings soaked up the best punches he
threw, however, convinced even Luis
Angel Firpo that he didn't have it
any more.
Senor Godoy, now en- route from
Chile to play opposite Louis in the
famous execution scene, for some
thing like a thousand dollars a
minute. is no Firpo extensively. He
can take punishment, or could, a
couple of years ago, but that also
was true of Paolino Uzcudun, the
Basque Tortoise, and one punch by
Louis nullified the Basque. Godoy
won't last much longer.
He'll live, though, to take the
bullion home. And nothing could
be fairer than that.
Evening star., 1939-10-28

Scoring: Touchdowns - tGeorgetown)
Doolan Ford Point after touchdown
Jaworoswki (place-kick). substitutions-
(Georgetovn) Lee. Koehler, Munter
schmitt. oConnell. sorce. Eneles: BOUCHER,
sias. roman, Schmitt. Gelein: George
Washineton) Wholihan. Seeno. Gersh,
Lefkowitz, Sloyanic. Lykos. 9lumenthal
Dobberstein. Dowd. Romasco. Koniszewski,
Evening star., 1939-08-01
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

The Bowdoin came to anchor in
. Labrador harbor, and 14-year-old
Kennett Rawson stared at the scene
around him. On the water were
several boats FILLED with strange
looking brown folk" They were
Eskimos.
"Taku oomiak swah!" shouted one
Of the Eskimos. That was his way
OF saying, Look at the big boat!'
In actual fact, the white mans
vessel was small compared to any
ocean liner, but 1t seemed big to
the natives.
Later, during visit to the viii
lage. beside this harbor, Kennett
was interested in learning what
he could about the Eskimos there.
He and his companions obtained a
supply of sealskin clothing, made
to order by Eskimo women. The
women chewed the hides, cut them
into pieces, then sewed them to-
gether with cords made of sinews
taken from deer.
There were scientists as we'll as
sailors and explorers aboard the
Bowdoin. They treated their young
comrade with kindness, and ex-
planned to him facts about many
things he saw. Now and then he
was allowed to hold the pilot wheel
and steer on the open sea.
On the way to Greenland, Ken
nett found the days were growing
Evening star., 1939-08-01
and Greenland
Fred keher

it. except along some stretches Of
the southern shores.
A short halt, to take on fresh
water, was made at Godhaven,
Greenland. Then the northward
journey was renewed. Here is what
Kennett later wrote about a part
Of the voyage near the Greenland
coast:
I'VE entered a dense fog, and in
a short while began to pass ice
bergs. Weaving in and out among
the bergs, we continued on into the
Arctic wastes. Out of the white
background of the fog, these noun
tains of ice took shape until they
lowered high above. They ap-
peared on all sides, until the sea
was like boulder-strewn field"
Despite the fog, the vessel did
not strike any of the bergs. The
sight of so many of them must
have made 1t plain to the youth
why Greenland is called "the mother
of icebergs."
(To be continued.)
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illustrated leaflet, "Your Body at
Work." send me . Scent, stamped
return envelope, in care Of The Eve
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Tomorrow: The Midnight Sun.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Bidding q Freak Hand

While we continually receive re-
ports of terrific freak hands of II
and IL card suits, for the first time
In our lives one of us has seen a
12-card suit held in actual play. The
place, Indianapolis; the holder, Ed
son Wood; the hand-as follows:
West, dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Winning Contract
By THE FOUR ACES,

david Bruce Burnstone. Merwin D. Maier
Oswald Jacoby. Howard Schenken
worlds leading team-of-four inventors
of the system that has beaten every other
system in eXiStence)
Evening star., 1939-08-01

RAWSON CAT THE WHEEL"
longer, the nights shorter. The sun
sank in the west and stayed out Of
sight only a few hours.
Passing up Davis Strait, the voy-
ayers came to point about go miles
from Greenland. Looking eastward,
they saw a white patch in the sky,
which they believed to be "the ice
blink" in other words the reflec-
ton OF the mighty ice-cap which
almost covers the great island.
Greenland has little green" about
Evening star., 1939-08-01

IL
puld, of course, have made seven
1learts with no difficulty whatsoever,
and we wish to commend Mr.. Wood s
bidding highly. Certainly great
many players would have been un-
able to resist an immediate jump to
six spades. However, Mr.. Wood rec
ogni1ed the unpleasant fact that his
hand contained no semblance of de-
fense. He therefore reasoned that
1t was vital to bid in such manner
that he would create the impression
that he was desperately defending.
1t goes without saying that If Mr..
Wood had not bid his hand so de-
ceptively his opponents would have
continued to their grand slam,
whereupon he would have been
forced to defend at seven spades.
You were Oswald Jacoby's partner
yesterday and held:
Xxx
vKxxx Xxx
<Qxx
Xxx
The bidding:
Jacoby Schenken You Maier
an T Pass CD
Answer-Your correct bid is three
no-trump. Conceivably a final con-
tract of four hearts will be better
than three no-trump. On the other
hand. three-heart bid might en-
courage your partner and get you
too high.
Score 100 per cent for three no.
trump, 80 per cent for three hearts,
for pass with king and queen
you must get to game after an open
ing two no-trump bid.
Question No. 200.
Merwin Maier is your partner.
You hold:
AQx
vQJxx
<Qxxx
AK
The bidding:
Maier Burnstone You Schenken
"a Pass 2NT Pass
~ Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
released by the Bell Syndicate. IneJ
The Four Aces will be pleased to
Evening star., 1939-05-21

Anyway, these are the men now
being talked of for nomination in
the two contending parties. There
will be the annual excursion of Mr.
Norman Thomas, of course, on the
Socialist ticket and names offered
by three or four other parties, but,
in the final count, they never
amount to much and chances are
the same result will take place in
1910.
Though it is only one year away,
and though the people of America
are interested as they never were
before. mulling over names for the
presidency at time of year when
baseball usually occupies the public
mind, anything in the world might
happen to change the entire politi-
cal situation between now and
then :.
Take, for instance, war in Eu-
rope-and war and 1910 are the two
uppermost thoughts in most peo-
Piles mind. Take a war and see
what happens.
Immediately the first declaration
of war sounded the whole political
setup in the United States, the
entire political aspect, would
change: but the Nation would get
away from terrifically important
internal problems and turn thoughts
toward outside influences, not to say
interferences.
All bets would then be off.
War Possibilities.
Or, should there be no war and
should there be a boom of some SOFT
in the months between now and the
great political conventions. 1t would
be safe to say then that the Re-
publicans would merely go through
the motions of making a nomina-
ton; for it is an axiom in political
philosophy that no administration
is ever turned out in times of
prosperity.
Which leads into the issues Of the
campaign ahead:
As things now stand the greatest
Evening star., 1939-05-21

skimming just above the surface OF
the water under the lifting blanket
of fog, Read saw a farmhouse in
the distance on a headland jutting
into the sea.
1t was Flores, the most western
of the struggling Azores group. The
NC-4 had made it!
The Atlantic had been crossed by
air for the first time and Uncle
Sans boys had virtually beaten the
British. A few days later they COM
pleted the conquest, flying to Ponta
Delgada, then Lisbon and finally
to Plymouth. England, the goal of
the expedition.
While the NC-4 was at Ponta
Delgada, Harry Hawker and Mac
Kenzie Grieve, one of the rival
English crews, hoped off from
Newfoundland. but they failed to
make the crossing. They were ulti-
mately rescued in midocean. 1t was
not until nearly a month later that
Alcock and Brown, also English
made the first nonstop hop. But
Evening star., 1939-05-21

form of the Naval Flying Service
that he was when he took off from
Trepassey Bay. or when he landed
at Plymouth, England, to receive the
acclaim of the world.
1t. Hinton, now retired from the
Navy, conducts flying school at
Washington. Stone, who later en-
tered the Coast Guard Service, died
a few years ago. OF the other
members of the crew of the NC-4.
1t. J. L. Breese. pilot-engineer. has
retired to a ranch in New Mexico
and the reserve engineer, E. S.
Rhoads. lives in retirement near
Pensacola, Fla. where, when he
gazes upward, he can see almost
daily a new generation of naval
flyers being trained at the Naval
Air Station on the Gulf Ensign
Herbert c. Rood, who was the meas
radio operator, is dead
Towers Chief.
Risen highest in the service since
the memorable flight is Capt. John
H. Towers, whose promotion to chief
of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics
takes effect in June.
Towers was in personal command
of the NC-3, which landed in the
sea nearly 200 miles from Ponta
Delgada. and which could not take
off again and had to be TAXED on
the surface to the island, some of
tho tir,oec hopkuor6 IL, q bou-li,,p
gale that threatened to swamp their
craft at any moment
1t. Comdr. Bellinger, who was in
Evening star., 1939-05-21

that will be held in the heat of next
summer.
Who will be first in the field
Democrats or Republicans?
That is the question now upper
most in the minds of the men who
guide the political destinies of their
parties.
First in the field will have a dis
advantage-and that is why the
secret will not be let out till the very
last moment
The Republicans would like to see
the Democrats get into action first
because that would tip-off the Nation
to just what manner of man the
standard bearer-whether Roosevelt,
or Garner. or Jim Farley, or Cordell
Hull, or some person now not men,
toned will be.
BY the same virtue. the Democrats
would like to get a line on the Re-
publicans, by way of their conven-
ton, because that would give the
1ncumbents a taste of what might
be eXpected-as Judged even from
the keynote speech, and certainly by
the caliber of man nominated. If
it were Dewey, for instance, they
would fight him as a prosecutor and
a prosecutor rolled into one If it
were Vandenberg they would handle
him in the good old-fashioned
American manner because he is of
the old school old-schooly, even
though a modern in many senses
of the word He looks and acts like
a statesman of yesterday. And
your New Deal is nothing If not
up-to-date.
Though this is the day of stream
line and the moment of modernity,
both the old parties will swing back
into traditions of the past when
they get going in convention-and
though that time is a year or so
off, the first primaries will be held
in the State of New Hampshire on
the second Tuesday of March, 1910.
That is not far away.
When all the primaries and the
State conventions have been held,
when all the delegates to the two
big political shows have been handed
their credentials and their tickets
and the hotel reservations have been
(see ELECTION, Page C-60
Evening star., 1939-05-21
BY John Jay Daly.

Like prosperity, the 1910 elections
are just around the corner.
About this time next year the big
guns of politics will boom Already,
and far ahead of schedule, the
American people are mulling over
in their minds the possible results
of a great national election.
In the opinion OF old timers there
was never a moment in American
history when the national thought
was projected so far ahead.
The two big political parties-the
Democrats and the Republicans
have started to groom their horses,
dark and light. Also, they are now
jockeying for position-to see which
shall be the first to hold a national
convention.
Ten names have already appeared
on the sign-poStS.
First and foremost is Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, President of the
United States.
Will Roosevelt seek a third term?
That is the Big Question.
Before that question is decided
men on both sides of the fence must
Of necessity play waiting and
Watchful game .. For if Roosevelt
should decide to run again the en-
tire political picture will change
overnight.
Roosevelt has designed his Hyde
Park home as the repository for all
his papers, public and private. This
is taken as an omen that he intends
to close his public career with the
end of his second term On the
other hand, he has done nothing
concrete-by word or deed-to as
sure his followers he intends to step
aside and let another bear the
standard of the New Deal.
Consequently, the Republicans are
at loss to know who or what they
must face in 1910 The idea is
to keep them guessing.
Garner Movement.
There has been a terrific Garner
for-President movement. sponsored
in some quarters even by the Re-
publicans-notably the National
Committeeman from Texas, r. r.
Evening star., 1939-05-21

sputtered If that happened their
job was to walk out on the wing,
snap the belt around an upright
strut and go to work on the motor
while the wind whipped by at 100
miles an hour and footing was in
secure.
AS they neared the Azores, Read
and his companions flew higher and
higher The fog got thicker and
thicker. 1t seemed as though their
attempt would finally come to grief
in the turgid ocean below.
Sights Flares.
Then Read, peering intently from
his post in the bow. spied an open
ing in the white, clammy blanket
about them. He ordered his pilots
to spiral down through and then
virtually dived the plane for fear
the hole would close up. Wires
whistled The driving rain stung
the faces of the men, but they
smiled with JOY because below they
could discern the outline of rip
tide sign that land was near. Finally,
Evening star., 1939-05-21

charge that can be leveled against
the New Deal is contained in the
one word. Extravaganza"
Over and against Extravaganza
the New Dealers can point to many
accomplishments that came under
the head of Emergency-and some
of the measures undertaken even
have the benign approval of tie
Republicans.
1t would have to be admitted, in
all fairness, that when Roosevelt
took Office business was fiat on its
back; that banks had popped, and
were popping. right and left into the
faces of the depositors; that agricul-
ture f1oundered under glutted mar
kets that millions were out of work
and some of those who worked led
hand-to- existence In a
word. Depression.
With situation like that, drastic
measures were introduced, some
good and some bad. Of the good,
no political party would dare recon-
mend repeal.
Who would say that bank de-
posits-up to S5,000-should not be
insured against loss? Or that the
Social Security Act. protecting cid
age against the scrap heap, should
be wiped off the books? Or that the
wolves of Wall Street should be
turned loose again, devouring the
lambs without benefit of the Secur-
ity and Exchange Commission? Or
that the C. c. c. camps-acknoWl-
edged to be the greatest contribution
of all to the youth of the country
should go the way of the world?
These are just some of the ques-
tions that Republican and Demo-
Gratis alike must ask before they
gather their political togas about
them and go forth to champion any
candidate.
And when they 90 forth they must
60 forth in the prescribed manner
and that is by the way of the con-
vention. The national conventions
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Both Republican and Democratic Nominations Likely
Chicago; If They Should the Same Building They Will
Back to Precedent Set in Baltimore a Century Ago

Cresger, but that may be merely a
favorite son gesture
Jim Farley's name has come to
the fore
The Postmaster General is no
mean politician and, given half q
chance, could steal the show. So it
is believed. Farley has henchmen
in every political district, not to
say precinct, in the Nation.
Then there is Cordell Hull. If
his reciprocal trade agreements
come out on top, the Secretary Of
State will be natural contender
for the honor-provided, always,
that Roosevelt does not run again.
Should the one serious criticism
leveled against the New Deal-ex-
penditures-be the issue in 1910, and
should Roosevelt drop out of the
picture. the man in his own party
who has waved the banner of econ
omy most vigorously would get a
hearing, This is Senator Harry
Flood Byrd of Virginia. former
Governor of his State, whose econ
omy program there really got the
Old Dominion a new place in the
sun. Senator Bennett c. Clark of
Missouri and Commissioner Paul
McKnutt have many friends.
With one more name added
that of Senator Alben William Bark
ley of Kentucky, the majority leader
the Democrats can safely close
their list of eligibles, at the moment.
On the Republican side five more
gentlemen step to the front AS one
mans guess is as good as another,
any one of these-or none-may
figure as the actual candidate for
the presidency in 1910.
Republican Lineup.
With the help of an astute politi-
cal observer, here is the way the
Republicans start into the fray at
this early date:
Robert Alphonse Taft, United
States Senator from Ohio:
Thomas E. Dewey, district attor-
ney, New York;
Evening star., 1939-05-21

whether the British, who had two
expeditions making ready to leave
St. Johns, just across the head of
land from Trepassey. had got off
yet in the race over the ocean. The
Britons, privately financed, had Sc
cretly hoped to take off in time to
beat the Americans by flying the
short, direct route to Ireland. even
though it involved a much longer
over-water hop of 100 miles and
the extra hazard Of flying over un-
patrolled sea lanes, where a forced
landing would mean almost certain
death.
1t Walter Hinton and the late
Eric F. Stone we're at the controls
Of the NC-4 and time and again it
took the strength of both to man
the controls of the 11-ton boat.
Engineers spelled" each other,
sleeping next to their window wash
ers' leather belts, which they might
be called upon to use if a motor
Evening star., 1939-05-21

Arthur H. Vandenberg. United
States Senator from Michigan;
John w. Bricker, Governor Of
Ohio, and
Raymond E. Baldwin, Governor of
Connecticut. Senator Lodge of Mas
sachusetts will be among the 1914
candidates.
Two celebrated names are found
in that list. Dewey and Taft; but, as
wise head points out. You cannot
expect young Dewey to go fighting
on the reputation of an admiral,
especially since no one knows
whether the late Admiral Dewey
was a Democrat or Republican.
AS for Taft, the Senator, he has
the advantage of being the son OF
the late President of the United
States and Supreme Court Justice
William Howard Taft. There. of
course, is a name to conjure with:
but, as the old war horses on Cap
itol Hill point out, you've got to
have something else besides a
name" Admittedly. Senator Taft
Has oAp Al :"
three -cornered good-natured test
not long ago-at the spring festivi-
ties of the Gridiron Club-he came
off as "the show horse" in race
where young Tom Dewey was the
winner and Senator Vandenberg
placed"
Even with Senator Vandenberg
getting "the place position from
the newspapermen-judges. it is COLI
ceded that Vandenberg of Michigan
so far, is the top man amongst the
Republicans. For one thing, his
name has been before the public
more consistently than any of the
other contenders He has a hop,
in experience, on most of his ad-
versaries in his own party Dewey,
the phenominal, is so very young
his youth may be against him. AS
for the two Governors. Bricker of
Ohio and Baldwin of Connecticut,
their names have Just come to the
top.
Evening star., 1939-05-21

the way from Newfoundland to the
Azores, a distance of some 1900
miles.
Cut off at times from even the
sight of the Wingtips of the big
Navy-Curtiss fiving boat which held
them aloft, the courageous crew
under 1t. Comdr. Albert c. Read
navigated as best they could with
the relatively primitive instruments
at hand.
Sometimes they saw the faint
glow of rockets through the fog and
headed their pulsating plane in that
direction. At other times, Read.
who was navigator as well, shot"
intermittently visible stars with
neWfangled device called a bubble"
seXtant which had lately been de-
vised by a young lieutenant COM
mander named Richard Evelyn
Byrd. Wedged in a tiny cockpit in
the bow, Read nearly froze doing
these navigational chores bare
handed while the wind tore at his
Jacket and driving rain laced his
goggled eyes.
King Neptune and the Wind God
Aeolus, it seemed, had conspired to
thwart this daring human incursion
into their jealousy guarded do
mains. One whipped up white sea
and the other bade his worst winds
blow. Together, they frothed an
opaque mist of hate.
Battleship Patrol.
Optimistic weather forecasts re-
ceived the day before from five bat
tleshlps along the intended course
had not foreWarned the flyers of the
gods clandestine conspiracy.
When the "Nancies," as the NC-1,
NC-3 and NC-4 yinflg boats were
familiarly known to an admiring
American public, had gotten under
way from placid Trepassey Bay the
previous afternoon, May Is. 1919.
the geographic officer las the Navy
calls the weatherman) had told
the airmen that conditions all the
way to the Azores would be un-
usually good.
But the NC-4, under command of
1t. Comdr. Read, was not finding
the going good as the bitter night
Of May 1917 wore on. Read and his
crew had long ago lost sight of the
flights Flagship" the NC-3, COM
manded by 1t. John C. Towers, who
was in charge of the flight as a
whole. The NC-l. under command
Of 1t. Comdr. P N L. Bellinger.
also had disappeared in the gather
ing mists hours before
The rain lashed in all its fury at
the half sheltered men in the blue
flying boat hull. Their muscles
ached and their faces showed strain,
but they had no choice other than
to fight the elements until daylight
came or disaster overlook them.
The 48 cylinders of their four 400
horsepower Liberty motors purred
powerfully in the downpour, giving
them courage. From the exhausts
of each engine poured aureoles of
light blue flame These the pilots
nursed with the concern of a mother
for a child as gusty blasts sent first
one wing down and then the other,
or shivered every spruce spar and
strut when met full in the face
Never a stroke was missed by those
cylinders. Oil pressure and water
temperature held just right.
British Competition.
I'm odd moments, nc doubt. Read S
crew wondered as they flew on
Evening star., 1939-05-21

and passenger service across the
North Atlantic by airplane.
Read on Saratoga.
Capt. Read, who is now stationed
aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga,
is no longer the debonnair young
hero in wartime peasoup- green uni
Evening star., 1939-05-21

by then the Americans triumph
was secure.
The memory of the meas historic
flight is due for revival this year.
as Uncle Sans COMMERCIAL pioneers
prepare to beat the British again,
this time with the first regular mail
Evening star., 1939-05-21
United States Navy's NC>4
Successfully Fought All
Hazards in a Transoceanic
Flight 20 Years Ago ..
Today the Clipper Ships
Make the Trip in Ease and
Comfort
By George E. PeHetier,
Member National Auidtion Writers Association

Literally flying by the rockets
States Navy flyers bazed the
which luxurious flying clippers will follow with
this
In first the
expeditions in which stirred continents and
of many famous flights
Through bizarre night which ens1rouded them darkness
and
leather
uniforms the peou
into the from
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