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The Washington times., 1939-01-30
DEATHS

Andrews n. Goebel, So. Ill Fifth st.
N e.
Theophtus J. Moore. 10, 1857 Park
Mary D. strobeI. 7s. 1925 Park Rd.
N. w.
James Delaney. 78. United States Sol
diers' Home Hospital.
Bridget Bladen, II. National Homeo-
pathc Hospital.
Charles NJ. smithson, IS. 1920 Long
fellow st. n. w.
George A. Coupe. "a. Casualty Hos,
pital
Bertha Kraus. II. 221O Pennsylvania
Ave. N. w.
Augustus NJ. Shepherd ss. sa7 1 St.
n. w.
Susie G. Dyson. Ss. S44 Fifth st. N. e.
Charles Whelan. 65. Garfield Hospital.
Julia A. Stone. SO. Providence Hos
pital.
John L. Flaherty. So. a5Os Tenth St.
n. f.
Alice a. Danenhover. So. 1872 Eleventh
ST S. f.
Mary Kenny. ST, Georgetown Hospital
James P. Kelly, 81, George Washing
ton Hospital.
Charles R. Chick. SO. Casualty Hos
pital.
Eliza J. Davis. SIS, 1887 Vermont Ave,
Phoebe Campbell. TO- 64s st. s E.
Edward Washington, SO. Gallinger
Hospital
James johnson. 5S. Treedmens Hos
pital.
Willis Lewis. so. 424 First St. N. w.
Susie DOwdle, 35, Garfield Hospital
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and dancing will hold sway in
his honor that this generation and
future generations may walk, play
and dance once again. The cele-
ration of the Presidents Birth
day Ball" has become a national
event Of deep significance. His
name will be on millions Of lips in
hotel bathrooms, armories, meet
ing places and wherever people
gather.
The "Old Skipper" offers his
club members a brief thumb
nail" biography Of President
Roosevelt for their school scrap
books.
Born Hyde Park, N. Y,
January 80, 1882 School .
Groton. College Harvard . .
Graduated class of 1904. Com
pleted the four-year course in
three student at Columbia
Law School admitted New
York bar 1907.
Entered politics as New York
State senator 1910 reelected
1912. Led fight in national con-
vention for nomination of Wood
row Wilson later appointed
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
. was in charge Of inspection
of U. S. Naval Forces in European
waters in 1918 in charge of
demobilization in Europe in 1919
. nominated for Vice President
in 1920. Defeated in election.
He was elected Governor Of New
York State in 1928 and reelected
in 1880 received nomination
for President in 1882 4. flew from
Albany to Chicago to deliver &C
ceptance speech to convention
elected by largest majority since
civil war and was inaugurated
March 4, 1888 Entered his
second term four years later.
Speaking for our entire jolly Crew
Happy Birthday.
THE OLD SKIPPER.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
W.M.Dyer,Sr.
Rites Set

Funeral services for Wilfred
Montague Dyer, ST., veteran en-
ploye of the American Security
and Trust Co.. who died yesterday
of a heart attack at his residence,
2700 block Woodley Pl. N. W., will
be held tomorrow at p. m. at his
home, with the Rev. DIR. James H.
Miers, pastor Of the Fourth Pres
byterian Churc officiating
Burial will be in Rock Greek Gene
terry.
A native Of Washington, Mr..
Dyer was born July 20, 1887, the
son of William A. Dyer of the De
partment of Justice. He was a
graduate Of Mckinley High School
and joined the American Security
and Trust Co., after his gradua-
ton.
His widow, Mrs. Rose I. Dyer
two sons, Wilfred M. Dyer, jr., and
William A. Dyer; a daughter, Miss
Rosemary Dyer, and three sisters
Mrs. Helen Claxton, Mrs. Harry
Blake and Miss Elizabeth Dyer
all Of Washington, survive.
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Writing Story Under
The Gun Is Most
Exciting
CHAPTER XIX
BY PAUL CALICO

The crowd is still roaring and
rustling with excitement. There
are policemen in the ring, and
seconds and attendants are drag
ging the fallen and unconscious
champion to his stool and begin
ming the work of resuscitation.
The victorious fighter and new
champion is still jigging deliri-
ously around the ring, waving
one arm aloft and with the other
holding his bathrobe about him,
bowing and smirking and dan
cling. His manager is trying to
kiss him, his seconds are pound
ing his back, his friends are
attempting to climb through the
ropes and are being pushed back
by men in uniform. The an
nouncer is making a circuit of
the ring, leaning through the
ropes and bawling the time of
the knockout to the reporters,
his face purple with the effort
Of making himself heard above
the hubbub. Photographers are
everywhere, their flash bulbs
winking and flashing continu-
ously.
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Football a Mess

On the other hand. If your
Judgment is wrong ad you have
inadvisedly telegrsphed along
toward the 14th round: white
can't lose," and it turns out
when the slips are handed in
that, according to the official
verdict White not only can, but
has lost, you have cost your
paper thousands of dollars in
wasted time, lost sales and pres
tige. The white Wins" head
line, bulletin leads, and picture
captions must be ripped out
from front and inside pages and
correct ones substituted.
OF all the sports-reporting
jobs, modern football is the big
gest mess and the most diff
cult to write accurately. And it
is quite true that except for de-
scriptive passages that come to
you through viewing the scene
on the field, or the manner in
which the scoring plays are exc
cuted, the football reporter
might just as well sit at home by
his radio and prepare his re
port.
The lineups are provided for
the press before the start Of the
game. Then the two teams come
trotting onto the field wearing
nice white numbers on their
backs-and what a fight it was
to get the colleges to number
their playerS!-the figures sup
poSedly corresponding to those
in the printed program. You
Immediately discover that the
lineup you were given has been
switched, or is all wrong, and
you begin frantically to write
down the numbers of the %
men as they warm up. tumbling.
or throwing passes, or jogging
about, to check them with the
names on your program.
When the game is over the
loudspeekers supply you with
the statistics of the game. you
check your notes, knock the
cover off your portable type
writer, and wax as lyrical as you
can over something you have
partly seen, partly heard de-
scribed to you and partly
guessed, and hope that you are
not too far away from the facts.
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Smallest of Jobs

But that final story. slugged
at the top OF your page in the
upper left-hand corner: New
Lead ALL" is the least of your
jobs on a big baseball show.
Sometimes you have only one
thing to do-look at the game,
estimate it, and report it when
it is all over. And at others
notably, when you paper is en-
joying the throes of a periodic
economy wave-you may be
called upon to do four or five.
A pleasant and exciting after
noon working a World Series
during a period of press parsi-
mony will go something like
this:
Arrive at the ball yard an
hour or so before game time,
go down on the field, mingle with
the ballplayers and managers of
both teams during their warm
up periods, and pick UP stray
bits Of news, gossip, advance
dope on choice of pitchers, hui
man interest touches, injuries,
news. Climb up to the press
box about 80 minutes before
game time and slap out two
pages of notes on what you have
just picked up, little, short,
three or four line paragraphs,
and likewise a page or two of
solid filler, sometimes called
"A" matter, on the crowd, the
situation according to the games
already played, or the prospects
If it is the first game of the
series, or anything in the news
or feature line that you can
think of. This is to hold UP the
first edition with your flash lead
and fill space that will later be
occupied by your detailed story
of the game. Just before the
game starts, you make certain to
shoot in the corrected lineup
with the starting pitchers and
catchers. for the kid in the
Office who will make up the box
score from your play-by- play
account.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
Rush That Copy

They have already sent away
the flash edition replate, with
the round d-by-round account of
the fight, and the big black
headline naming the winner.
Now they want that story. They
don't want it fancy, they want
1t quickly. Trucks are waiting
at the delivery room. There
are trains to be made at the big
terminals.
And so when the ringside tele-
graph operator gives you that
expectant look, it means that
the wire is clear and the boys
down at the Office are waiting to
get out a newspaper. You draw
q deep breath, try to quiet the
pounding of your heart, run a
sheet of copy paper into your
mill, rap out your byline auto
matically, and begin to write.
Before the bell on your carriage
has indicated the end of the
first line, the operators bug is
clicking away furiously, ming
ling with the hurried tapping of
the typewriter keys. No King
out. please, or throwing the be-
ginning away and starting the
lead all over again. That first
line is in the Office already.
Keep it coming. This is sports
writing at its most exciting
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
.EugenicS Tests
Ur0ed for District

Greatly alarmed by the enor.
nous growth of veneral disease
in the District, health officials
will press for immediate passage
of legislation to reduce the toll OF
syphilis and gonorrhea here.
Two major laws which the
health authorities will seek will
be a requirement for all persons
applying for a marriage license in
the District to undergo tests for
syphilis before the license is
granted, and the second will re-
quire all expectant mothers to
undergo a similar test.
MEETING WEDNESDAY
Steps toward enacting this leg.
islation will be discussed at the
big meeting Wednesday in the
Mayflower Hotel, when the Social
Hygiene Society of the District
is host to hygiene society dele
gates from many States.
At that time, DR.. Thomas Par
ran will be presented with the
William Freeman Snow medal in
recognition of his fight against
social diseases throughout the
nation.
Resolutions will be presented
by delegates outlining specific
program of war on syphilis here.
CASES ON INCREASE
Statistics of the Social Hy-
giene Society here show that the
number of social disease cases re.
ceiving treatment in Washington
has jumped from $4,000 in 1923
to 142, 900 last year.
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under the guns. used to like
that.
Or perhaps you are working
in the narrow press coop at
World Series time, fighting that
first edition deadline. Hun
dreds of things worthy of note
happened in that nine-inning
ball game that has just ended.
The players have already dived
down into the dugout passage
way to their dressing rooms,
the inevitable knot of curious
spectators has already gathered
around home plate and the
pitching mound, the crowd is
not yet through the center field
gates, and your story is already
begun-or should be if you
don't want a pleasant but sar-
castle little note to come click
ing over your wire from the
boys back on the desk, inquir-
ing SolicitouSly whether you
think they are getting out a
weekly magazine or what.
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When Jones Resigned

Tennis matches are compare
lively simple to cover if you can
survive the atmosphere and a
good glaring at, but golf tourna-
ment- are poison unless you have
good legs. and an absolute in
stinct and nose for news, and
colossal luck. The play is scat
tered over a souple Of square
miles of landscape, and in an
open championship there are
some 10 or IS players to be
watched, any one of whom may
win.
In the old days it used to be
easy. You just followed Bob
Jones. But when the master
retired. his crown was liable to
land on any one of 80 heads.
1t was merely a question of who
was likely to get hot on that
last round.
There is no hard and fast
rule for being in on the big
stories that I can think of ex-
cept to come early, stay late,
and be lucky. I have seen a
football game in which three
touchdowns were scored in the
first four plays. two by one side,
one by the other: after which
there was no further scoring all
afternoon. Late comers to For
est Hills by five minutes one
afternoon were shocked to find
by looking at the scoreboard
that Helen Wills Moody had
lost the first set of match to
Betty Nuthall, an English girl,
by 81. And reporters stroll
ing to their seats for the TerriS-
McLarnin fight in Madison
Square Garden who fingered to
light a cigarette or chat with a
friend never saw a lick of the
fight. because Terris was being
carried out by the time they
got there. The second punch
got him. That is what makes
it exciting under the guns.
(TOmOrrOw'S article has the
Sports Writer for its theme.)
Copyright, 1899. by Paul Calico. Dis
tributed by King Features, Inc)
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
ETHEL MAIDEN,
BANKERS Wife,
DIES IN CAPITAL
Native Of Suffolk, Va.
To Have Private Rites

Mrs. Ethel Norment Alden, wife
of John Alden, vice president of
the National Bank Of Washington
and daughter of the late Clarence
F. Norment. former president of
the Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Co., died at her resi-,
dence, HOO block Michigan Ave
N. E., after a lingering illness.
BORN IN SUFFOLK
Mrs. Alden was born in suffolk,
Va, July %, 1881. She was edu.
Gated at the Mt. Vernon Seminary
here and married on Octo-
ber %, 1908.
She was member of the Young
Women's Christian Association and
was particularly interested in the
Children's Emergency Home of
the Central Union Mission. She
also was prominently identified
with other charitable institutions
and club organizations.
FUNERAL PRIVATE
Funeral services will be private
Besides her husband, she leaves
her mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Nor.
ment. of Wardman Park Hotel;
brother, Clarence F. Norment,
president of the Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Co.; three
children. John Alden, jr., Clarence
Norment Alden and Judith Eliza.
beth Alden, and a sister, Mrs.
Judith E. Norment Fuller.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
Mason Rites
BRADLEY

Masonic rites for William r.
Bradley, So, Of the Edgar Morris
Sales Co., who died Saturday at
Georgetown University Hospital,
will be held tomorrow at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, following services
at ! p. m. at the s. H. Hines
funeral establishment, Fourteenth
and Harvard SITS. N. w. The Rev.
DR.. Charles Enders will officiate.
Mr.. Bradley was a native Of
Virginia and had been actively
associated with the Edgar Morris
Sales Co. since coming here in
1918. He was a member Of the
Concordia Lutheran Church, the
Masonic fraternity, the Indepen-
dent Order Of Odd Fellows, and
the Washington Board Of Trade.
His widow, Mrs. Clara w. Brad
ley; son, Roy Albert, and 0
daughter. Mrs. Mary B. Wright,
all Of Washington, survive.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
The Fun Begins

The first batter approaches
the plate at last, swinging his
two bats. tosseS one away, and
takes up his position. The
pitcher regards him long and
earnestly, the crowd settles back,
buzzing with tension and ex-
citement, and the fun begins
especially if it happens that you
have to work two wires.
The blow-by- blow description
of a big prizefight is, I think, the
most difficult of all sports re-
porting work on which to do a
decent and accurate job, and
the next is a oneman coverage
of a big football game.
Your office is depending on
you not only for a curt, swift.
accurate description of what is
going on. but also for reliable
tips on which way the fight is
turning so that the editors and
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
E. W.Sn1itherS
Burial Rite

Requiem mass for Edward w.
Smithers, chief Of communica-
tions at the White House, who
died yesterday of a heart attack
at his residence. 370O block Nc
Kinley st. N. W., will be celebrated
tomorrow at $50 a. m, in the
Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament,
Chevy Chase Circle Northwest.
The Rev. Thomas Crowley will be
celebrant, and burial will follow in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Mr.. Smithers joined the White
House staff February IS, 1893,
when the Maine was sunk in
Havana Harbor, and the White
House was swamped with so many
kilograms that extra operators
were called in to handle the
messages.
He was intimately acquainted
with every President since he
entered the White House. and
travelled extensively with each
Chief Executive.
His most priced possession was
a gold telegraph key, fashioned
from the first gold mined in the
Klondike, and presented to him
by President Taft in 1909. He
took this instrument with him
everywhere.
Mr.. Smithers was born June
18, 1869. at Gordonsville, Va, and
came to Washington when is. He
was employed by the B. & o.
Telegraph Company and later
joined the night staff of the
Western Union. He had the dis
tinction of being one of the
fastest and most accurate oper-
ators in the country.
His widow, Mrs. Jane Durnin
SmitherS; a daughter, Mrs.
Thomas D. Quinn, and a son,
Edwin Durnin Smithers, all Of
Washington, survive.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
Farewell to Sport
Calico Finds Baseball and
Boxing Toughest to Cover
Blot1- by BloO Account
OF Big Ring Battle
Is Difficult

makeup men in the composing
room can slap the already pre-
pared heads and office-written
short leads naming the winner
into the open forms, and wait
only with a little hole for the
last inch and a half of agate
type describing the last round
and the official flash from the
ringside. If your eyes are sharp
and you see a man suddenly
vince and fall forward a little
from a punch that wasn't hurt
ing him earlier in the fight, you
interrupt your flow of dictation
with quick: white looks bad.
Tell 'em to get ready for a
Knockout" and gain precious
minutes.
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The Weather

District of Columbia - Rain
this afternoon and tonight. low
est temperature tonight about "a
degrees; Tuesday fair and colder;
moderate shifting winds, becom-
ing strong northwest tonight.
Maryland-Rain and slightly
colder tonight, probably clearing
in east portion Tuesday morning
snow flurries in west portion
Tuesday; colder Tuesday.
Virginia-Rain and colder TO-
night; Tuesday generally fair and
colder, except snow flurries in
extreme west portion.
TIDE TABLES
High tides today at 2::58 a. m,
and at 1874 p. m.
Low tides today at 9:31 a. m.
and at 1892 p. m.
High tides tomorrow at 4:02
a. m. and at 4:34 p. m.
Low tides tomorrow at 10:4O
a. m. and at 1875 p. m.
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Pop Warner May
Return to Stanford

Continued from 1st Sports Page)
coach for A years. beginning with
the famed Carlisle Indians and
continuing through stays at Pitts
burgh, Stanford, Temple, and
other schools. He brought Thorn
hill with him as assistant when he
came to Stanford in 1924 from
Pittsburgh. Thornhill was his
star tackle at Pitt.
Warner piled up an excellent
record at Stanford. but the juicy
offer from Temple, which came
just at the time that he was the
object Of an attack from a section
Of the alumni, led to his switch.
During the nine years Stanford
enjoyed a preponderance of tri-
umphs in its annual "big games"
with California, losing to the
Bears only once and being tied
twice. Warner-coached Stamford
elevens were in the Rose Bowl
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
Tragic Moments

You yourself are still trem-
bling and thoroughly shaken as
the result of what you have just
seen, the stunning knockdowns,
the staggering, helpless cham
pion trying to save himself, a
tragically broken caricature Of
what was once a man, the re-
lentless doom-laden pursuit Of
the challenger with the sweet
scent of victory flaring his nos
trils, the vision of triumph and
wealth dilating his eyes, the
soft. thup-chuck-thup of blows
driven home, and the hard, saw
age breathing, the tight, tense
hand duel between two men
that suddenly exploded into raw
and brutal drama.
At this point your telegraph
operator, sitting at your right,
goes "Ticky- tick-tickety-de-tick-
tick" with his bug, as he calls
his transmitter, and looks at
you expectantly. The other end
of the copper strand runs right
into the composing room of your
newspaper. where another teleg-
rapher sits at the receiving in
Strument with a typewriter and
little halfbooks of copy paper
and carbons, waiting to trans
late the incoming dots and
dashes into copy. An editor sits
at his shoulder waiting to snatch
the sheets as they come out of
the typewriter and make a swift
stab at copy-reading them, and
marking them for the compost
tor. At his side waits a copy
boy to rush the sheets to the
linotype machines. The make
up editors stand impatiently at
their forms and yell for type.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
Restuing Fleet
Hunts Fishermen

VINAL HAVEN, Me-, Jan 80
G.N.SO.-The Coast Guard patrol
vessel, Harriet Lane. led a number
of small boats in seafcn yester.
day for two men in a 26-foot fish.
ing boat, missing off the coast of
Maine near here. The two men
left Rockland yesterday and have
not been sighted since.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
Alumni
Will Give Dinner

University of Michigan Law
School alumni in Washington will
be hosts to two faculty members
from the institution at a dinner
in the Raleigh Hotel, Thursday
night. The guests o. honor will
be Dean Henry M. Bates and Prof.
Ralph w. AigleH.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
Poor Goods Unlooded

Meanwhile, unethical manufac-
turers and jobbers of second-rate
prophylactics are unloading them
in the defenSeleSs States, such as
New York. The sole protection af-
forded these States is the power
of the Food and Drug Administra-
ton of the Department of Agricul-
ture to seize mislabelled prophy.
lactics shipped in interstate COM
merce.
During 1888 Federal agents con-
demned more than 100000 rubber
sheaths, grabbing shipments made
by % different concerns to 38
cities. Six shipments were de-
stroyed in Baltimore, five in Chi.
cago, and thee each in New York,
Boston, Pittsburgh and Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
One of the largest, 1855 gross,
contained a dozen brands with
such label claims as tested 100
per cent perfect" guaranteed for
five years again deterioration,
top quality" and free from holes
and defects" Tests showed that
many of them did contain holes
which would have admitted Syphi-
lis germs by the thousands.
Urge Standardization
Leai ierS of the American Social
Hygiene Association, while en-
phasizing the medical attack on
venereal diseases, recognize the
value of prophylacticS and the
need for S ia n d ardization. DR..
Clarke said he personally favored
such a State law. None, however,
is now proposed or in sight at
Albany.
Much will be said at Social Hy-
giene Day meetings about Sulfani-
lamide, the drug which has, in
the last two or three years, proved
TO be exciting news in the medical
world.
One reason why syphilis, rather
than gonorrhea, is more talked
about by social hygicniStS is that
the treatment of syphilis is more
effective, although its companion
plague is two or three times as
prevalent and regarded by some
experts as more destructive.
Syphilis Cure Found
Twenty-Five years ago Ehrlich,
German scientist, discovered
salvarsan, or "606," now called
arsphenamine in the United
States. This drug, in various
forms, usually cures syphilis and
makes it non-infectious within a
day or two. No such specific
existed for gonorrhea before the
arrival of sultanilamide.
Sulfanilamide has not by any
means been proved a 100 per cent
cure for gonorrhea. But its results
are constantly more encouraging.
A survey of 500 cases in New York
city venereal clinics and hospitals
showed that 1t brought speedy
cures for rs per cent Of all pa
tients treated. Physicians said ac-
tive germs disappeared in from
two to ten days while under old
methods of treatment two or three
weeks of disqualification was re.
quired for the average serious
case
The Washington times., 1939-01-30

P r e S / dent OF
this great ma
ton, Franklin
Delano ROoSe-
velt. The en-
tire nj t e d
States, regard
less Of politics
or ere e d, is
h e ping him
celebrate hi S
57th birthday
g. n n ! v e rSary
with q noble
gesture.
In e v e r Y
State tonight
noiatu mnSin
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Kansas g Member
Victim Of Pneumonia

RAVENNA, Ohio, Jan. 3O.-Fu
neral arrangements today have
been made for John Clements
member of the Hutchinson (Kan.)
team of the Western Association
who was a victim of pneumonia
after an illness Of four days.
The Washington times., 1939-01-30
BIRTHS

Philip and Margaret Cole, girl.
Thomas and Elizabeth Delaney. boy
Paul and Izetla DeVol, girl.
Anthony and Fronnie Dowdle, girl.
Rudolph and Ina Gauan, boy.
George and Pearl johnson, boy.
Arthur and Esther Koons, boy.
Jack and Martha Martin. boy.
Mack and Phyllis Roberts, girl.
Rodney and Lillian Rogers. girl.
Roscoe and Winoma Sines, girl.
Milton and Yetta Singman. boy.
Joseph and Catherine Winter, girl.