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Evening star., 1940-01-05
FORE AND AFT

of activity Ks in Georgetown chan
mel.
The plan would be to extend the
loud speakers every 1000 feet all
the way to the point where most of
the sailing excitement Is to be found
and public address facilities, in the
past, have been lacking.
j. Lee Barrett, secretary Of the
Yachtsmen's Association of Amer
lea, has turned author with the pub
lication of "Speedboat Kings" It
deals with the personalities behind
the scenes in international regattas
staged in this country and abroad
since 1920, the days of Gar Wood,
Kaye Don, Sir Henry Seagrave and
Marion Carstairs. The volume is
perhaps the first history of speed
boating.
At the request of Chief Comdr.
Arthur E. Middleton, a general
meeting of Potomac. River Power
Squadron has been called by local
Comdr. John T. Lokerson for to-
night at Capital Yacht Club.
Comdr. Middleton, q former WASH
ingtonian and member of the local
squadron, will come from New York
for the occasion.
Will "Cruise" to New York.
Baltimoreans of Maryland Yacht
Club will make q "cruise on rails" to
the motorboat show next week. They
have chartered q special train to
take the delegation to the show and
the annual dinner of the United
States Power Squadrons January 13.
The "cruise" is scheduled for Janu-
ary IL and 13.
The heaviest months volume of
southbound traffic ever recorded on
the intracoastal waterway has been
reported by the United States engi-
neers for November. A count at
Palm Valley Bridge. near st. Angus
tine, Fla, showed 219 pleasure craft
motored Or sailed by during that
psriod.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
20 Years Ago
In The Star

Jack Kearns announced that
his fighter, Jack Dempsey, is
willing to sign for . 45-round
fight this summer in Tijuana,
Lower Calf, with Georges Car
pentier. James Codroth has Of
fered to put up $400,00
Julian S. Myrick of the West
Side Tennis Club has been named
president of the United States
Lawn Tennis Association. He
succeeds George T. Adee, who
refused q fifth term.
Billy Evans, American League
umpire, writing in The Star, says
arbiters err, but all try to be fair.
Good eyesight, common sense and
plenty Of nerve are essential
quaNdestions, hs says.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
By MALCOLM D. LAMBORNE, il

A wide assortment of cruisers and
sailboats from many parts Of the
country will appear on the floors OF
New York City's Grand Central Pal
ace starting tonight for a seven-day
stand. It is the 35th annual Ma
tional Motorboat Show that each
January topples sophisticated New
York from its high perch to revel in
a nautical atmosphere unrivaled
anywhere.
All this week marine accessory,
engine< and boat manufacturers
scrambled to get their products
through the large rear entrance to
the Palace, take their allotted space
on one of three floors and then
await the crush of boat-minded folk
who come to see what 1910 has to
offer.
More than 200 manufacturers
will be represented in the show
that began back in 1905, when
the first gasoline launch made its
appearance at old Madison
Square Garden.
The products of 66 of the Nations
builders of recreational craft and
marine engines will be shown in ITO
exhibits, which is two more than
this years record. All space for
the accessory department housing
yachting's many gadgets has been
sold out for several weeks.
The show fleet will number some
$50 craft, with cruisers, cabin utili-
ties, runabouts, speed boats, sailing
auxiliaries and seq skif1s vieing
with the sail and small boat ar
madaS.
Should Boost REGATTA.
Announcement this week of plan
to establish loud speakers for more
than q mile along the Hains Point
sea wall in next years Presidents
Cup Regatta will be hailed by sail
boat spectators. Adequate broad
casting coverase was availble for the
power events this year - the soons
Evening star., 1940-01-05
National Boat Show
Enough 10 Start|e
Oldest Of Salts
Latest Models, Priced
From SIS to $4,000,
Make Display Great
BY BILL WHITE,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

NEW YORK. Jan. 5.-Coming
from a community where bathtub-
full is considered fairly large body
of water, we weren't prepared for
what we saw at a preview of the
thirty-f annual National Motor
Boat Show. which opens tonight.
Matter of fact, it's an even-money
bet that the old salts won't be
either. For the first cruiser that
meets the eye is a $1,000 spoon
nosed cabin job that will climb
sandbars, skip through waterlily-
infested ponds, hurtle logs, or run
successfully up onto beach-all
without damage to the hull.
Some Radical Departures.
The man who was ballyhooing 1t
murmured something about great
help in landing the Marines" If
the Marines ride in that kind Of
boat, it's a wonder anybody's left
in the army.
That, and 37-foot double-ender
auxiliary sailboat, and an aluminium
outboard hull model seemed to be
the most radical departures from
the accepted forms that can be
found in tour of the 150-odd boats
that range in price from SIS to
$4,000.
One thing is certain. you'll feel
awfully poor after pricing the boat
you think you must have for next
summer.
Color Gains Foothold.
Color definitely has gained foot
hold this year in the magnificent
exhibit that tends to prove that
America is building better, safer,
stronger boats'-the keynote Of the
show. Streamlining is more pro-
nounced.
The super fleet on display on three
floors ranges from tiny canoes to
the 57-foot motor yacht, which is
quite bit of boat, even for sac, 900.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Sidot-Singh Heads Five
BottIinq Howard U.

Howard University will play Ban
neker Center Collegians in basket
ball at Howard U. tonight.
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, former foot
ball and basket ball star at Syracuse,
will lead the Collegians while Billy
Giles, the mighty atom, will head
the list of veterans battling for
Howard.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Cards Home Again,
Satisfied About
Sun Bowl Tie
Bring Many Souvenirs
Of Their Enjoyable
Trip to EI Poso
Bv WALTER McCALLUM.

Given q hearty welcome by men,
bers Of the student body, Catholic
University's football team returned
to Brookland this morning after
trip to the Sun Bowl at Ell Paso. The
trip netted several things. Among
them were a loud and fancy collec-
ton of Mexican blankets, 10-gallon
cowpuncher hats, q lot of "gracias"
done in pseudo Mexican after trip
to Juarez, q few assorted bruises, a
tie with Arizona State Teachers Col
lege of Tempe, Ariz., and glorious
memories of a wonderful time.
No regrets tinged the happy return
Of the gridiron warriors to their halls
Of learning at Brookland over the tie
with the Tempe boys. They felt they
did a good Job in the scoreless battle
in the picturesque, mountain
flanked Sun Bowl They Travelled
more than 1900 miles, and if you
will look at the records Of the bowl
games this year, with only one ex-
ception, victory has perched on the
banner Of the team which either
played at home or travelled the
shortest distance.
The husky Cardinal Squads in
all-left their head coach behind in
E Paso. Dutch Bergman, athletic
director at Brookland, is in Mexico
City for q short vacation, to return
to Washington around January 20.
The team returned in charge of
Assistant Coach Forrest Cotton and
Line Coach Wayne Millner.
The lads were away nine days and
Travelled through a part of the coun-
try many of them never had pre-
viously seen. Ell Paso is the
heart of the COW country, where
everyone wears high boots and big
hats, and the lads didn't miss their
trip to Juarez when they broke
training. They had themselves a
big time buying souvenirs at the ex-
change rate Of $50 pesos to the
dollar.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
SchIosser Out to Keep
Masonic Pin Edqe

Paul Schlosser will strive to pro-
tect top average Of 120-21 when he
bowls in the Masonic League at
Convention Hall tonight. Second
high season game of 1859, two sticks
under Bill Lawrenson's record, and
season record set of 428 gave Albert
Pike team star a lead of 10 pins
over Lee Brown, Centennial ace.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Rhumbo Mistake
Bunkers Cooper

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.-Har-
ry (Bolero) Cooper isn't golfing
just now. Blame the rhumba.
he moaned, as he abandoned a
shot at his third Los Angeles
Open title.
Blushing clear through q
heavy coat of tan, Cooper re-
lated he pulled q wrist muscle
as he and his wife, thumbs
locked, went into a twirl. He
rhumbaed to the left. He should
have rhumbaed to the right.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Bio Tossers Given
Berth and Half
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORMAN. Okla, Jan. 5.-Ok-
lahoma's defending co-cham-
pions doze into the Big Six bas-
ket ball race tonight with Sleep
er insurance.
Coach Bruce Drake rented a
berth and a half each for the
giant mainstays of his team, g.
foot-6 Hugh Ford and Herb
Schef1ler, so they could stretch
contentedly on the ride to Law
renee, Kans.
Tall players need to relax
the night before a game" Drake
explained. They can't do It in
the average Pullman BERTH"
Oklahoma opens against Kan
sas, runner-up last season.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Eagles Cling to Lead
In Bowling League

Taking a 2-1 decision over the
Swingsters with a top game count
of 504, the Eagles maintained their
grip on first place in the Women S
Procurement Bowling League. With
Marie Anderson's 339 high in a
LAT team set, the Pinettes swept
the Kingfshers to take over the
runner-up spot as the Maullers
dropped to third place by losing two
games to the Rollettes Margaret
Smith of the Maullers shot high
games of 121.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Fights Lost Night
By the Associated Press

Oy IIIe hSNUClhVSU 1ICoS.
ST. LOU1S.-Henry Armstrong,
1861, welterweight champion,
Los Angeles. knocked out Joe
Ghnouly, 1854. St. Louis 60.
BOSTON.-Larry Bolvin, 1901,
Providence, R. l., outpointed
Jimmy Gilligan, 124, Buffalo, N.
Y. Q0).
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Charity to Get $50, 900
From Eust-West Grid
~ the Associated Press,

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.-A pre-
liminary report on proceeds of the
annual East-West charity football
game played New Year Day for the
benefit Of the Shrine Hospital for
Crippled Children indicated that the
institution would receive more than
$50 5000.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Eastern Joyvees Active

Eastern High School Jayvees
basket ball team was to seek its
second straight today when 1t plays
Roosevelt Jayvees at the htter's
gym. Eastern whipped Techs Junior
Varsity yesterday, % to Is, with
Richard Preston pacing the attack.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Basket Games Wanted

Warrenton A. c. basketball teams,
girls and boys, are seeking games
with teams in or around Washing
ton. Write John T. Kessler, Warren
ton, Va, P. o. Box 1893, or call
Warrenton 694-W.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Hockey Results

BY the ASBOC1ated Press.
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
New York Rangers, 8; New York
Americans, 2.
Detroit. 3; Montreal. Q.
Chicago. 2: Toronto. l.
INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Providence. 5: Syracuse, 2.
Indianapolis 4: Pittsburgh, 4 lover
time tie).
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
=" Omaha. 4; Tulsa. 2.
COLLEGE.
k,ss.;s,::a. ss.,:, Il; k!,Ss':ss 4,as:sss. TS;:A' .
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Seeks Unlimited Title

Petworth A. C. is seeking court
games with unlimited teams tomor-
row or Sunday. Call Randolph 5026
after 6 pm.
Evening star., 1940-01-05
Koyok Made to Live Up
To His Quoint Nome

He was not self conscious in those
days. Down in South America, you
understand, the word II is not used
IN the sense Of deuce" or two" It
means second" in the chronological
sense, as in 80 lis make a minute. :"
1t also takes 60 Kayaks to make q
fleet, but that is beside the point.
The other horses began to rib
Kayak II. They told him he was
making bum out of his ancient
lineage.
If you're Kayak Second" they
asked him. "Why amt you?"
The rest is history. 1t was Kayak
second to Challedon in the Pimlico
Special last fall. and it was Kayak
second to Whichcee at Santa Anita
the other day. Telephone your
bookmaker and make a future book
bet on Kayak to place in the handi-
cap this year. This antelope is in q
groove, through no fault of his own.
I don't know If 1t comes under the
head of cruelty to animals or not,
but if the district attorney won't tell
us, what are we paying taxes for?
Evening star., 1940-11-17
The Fleet Today

By Kendall Banning Neu York: Funk & WagnaHs Co.
From sailors their duties and habits
and what makes them tick Author Banning
haustive manual-338 pages-on the United States Navy
Interestingly written envend anecdotes
any conclusions ls primary interest despite the
conscious public win probably be- its publishers
prospective sailors and their families and close friends.
Mr. Banning explains. among several things:
That natveborn fully natuazed citizen Of the
and morally qualified eligible apply enlistment
(Saor boots denote approved
appeaonsnever gob which considered
civilian coining)
That the Navy, addition to improving the health
department OF teaches valuable cag
work Woodworking woodworking machnst
hazardous The mortality only $50
thousand 13 Extra pay
helps to make the work attractive
% Of enlisted
sailors that however owrated
difnculty in obtaining re-enlment
sailors
that believe
pride the badge the Enlisted Abstinence League
Evening star., 1940-11-17
BY George B. MoreIand,
Readers Adviser to Young People,
Public Library


Public Library.
This past week was set aside as
National Book Week with the theme,
Good Books Are Good Friends"
The Public Library, Eighth and X
streets NV, and its branches have
been the meeting places for good
friends and good books for many
Years. For the past year, at every
branch, as we'll as at the Central
Library, there has been a librarian
especially designated to introduce
good books to young people. High
school and college students and
other young Washingtonians have
been helped in their studies, their
vocations and their pleasure reading
by sympathetic assistance in the
choice of books.
Among the new friends in good
books which have been suggested is
Antoine de st. Exupery's Wind.
Sand and Stars" In this book, the
author Of Might Flight" describes
the thrilling adventures encountered
In his establishment of commercial
airlines, first between Europe and
Africa, then between Africa and
South America, and finally between
Chile and Argentine, and the diffi-
culties Of flight across the Andes.
It is a beautifully written story Of
modern pioneering in the air. Other
books of like character, some new,
some old, are Anne Lindbergh's
North to the Orient" and Listen.
the Wind!";; Wolfgang Lange-
wiesche -Brandts "Ill Take the High
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Judicial Opinions Of Oliver Wendell Holmes

By Harry c. ShriUer. Buffalo, N. Y: Dennis & Co.
Pictured Supreme
Court during his 80 the National Capital the Justice
Wendell Holmes little remembered generally member the
Judicial Massachusetts,
three of which he Chief Justice of
Harry the District
of Columbia the deneate
the genesis Of Holmes State
For Mr. Shr1ver from the law library of the Library Congress-
IN his preface concerning the excerpts illustrating
growing Holmes legal mind
sional
who do not follow the legal profession"
admirably flns that intention
his opinions the State bench Mr. sver has the public his
host epigrams cued from
Holmes those
Francis Bddle thmsef erswhe Federal juis
word to the book,
boy is dull at probably dull at
the remembrance family
could unsuitable
matter Of law"
allowances
cannot be handled like a rapier"
particularly timely Washington is consider.
ing the construction Of Oliver Wendell Holmes Memorial
by that Supreme Court that he sraced so well
WILLIAM A.. MnLEN.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Yankee CoboIIero
By William N. Merryran.
Ne1D York: Robert M. NC
Bride e. Co.

By William N. Merrymdn.
NeD York: Robert M. NC
Bride & Co.
Tracing the footsteps of the Span
ish conquistadors, who were among
the maddest gamblers with fate the
world has known, the author pos
sesses himself of strange adventures,
which he relates with vivid pleas
ure.
He gets himself captured by the
bloodthirsty Chavante Indians, to
this day among the least known
Of the worlds peoples; saves his life
by a bit of white mans magic in
volving a flashlight and some Ro-
man candles, wins the friendship
of the chief. gets himself elected a
subchief of the tribe, unwittingly
getting an Indian princess to wife
In the process, and finally escapes
with a pocketful of gold.
He survives an Andean blizzard
and the arrow of an upper Amazon
Indian while hunting Inca gold
said to have been buried 400 years
ago to keep it from the clutches Of
Pizarro.
Once embarked on the trip with
Mr.. Merryman into the primitive
world Of the interior Amazonian
jungle, where natives live today as
they did thousands of years ago,
before the dawn of civilization, YOU
will find it dinlcult. indeed, to lay
this volume down before going all
the way through to a stirring cli-
max. JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Tiger Tiger
BIZ Mdr White. \

BIZ Mar White. Ne1D York:
Duell, Sloan e. Pedrce.
This novel Is a study Of an artists
developement-that is all. 1t takes
the case of John Martin. an Ameri-
can painter of Spanish descent.
beginning when he is 18. 1t carries
on over the next 10 years, while
John studies abroad in Paris and In
Spain. It ends when he returns to
America and, serene in his genius,
devotes himself to his matured art.
The interim is given over almost
solely to describing his emotions
and reactions as he falls in love
with various women, as he looks
on at the intense competition OF the
French art schools and dealers, as
he experiences the poverty of Mad
rid's slums and learns to understand
outcast populations. These episodes
are convincingly written and are
impressive in their honesty and
freedom from conventions. How
ever, beyond asserting repeatedly
that art is hardly ever free, but is
constantly being enslaved to fashion,
the author seems to have no point
to make.
His book, which has q compass
worthy of a better end, therefore
resolves into a mere story Of . mans
life It is q long thing, and one
cannot but regret that SO much
work and good writing has gone to
produce a novel which falls short
Of a great novels first function
which is to cast light on the lives
Of all men. But that is the case,
and one can only put 1t down.
NC, r.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Best Sellers

The following list Of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained In WASH
ington by The Star and IN
New York, Boston. Chicago
and San Francisco by the
North American Newspaper
Fiction.
For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Ernest Hemingway; The Fam
ily," Nina Fedorova; Mrs.
jMiniver," Jan Struther; "Field-
ing's Folly" Frances Parkin-
son Keyes; Foundation Stone"
Leila Warren; "You Can't Go
Home Again." Thomas, Wolfe;
"Raleigh's Eden," Inglis
Fletcher; "The Stone Of Chas-
tity," Margery Sharpe.
Non-Fiction.
"The Wave of the Future"
Anne Lindbergh; "Trelawny,'
Margaret Armstrong; Pilgrims
Way" John Buchan; "Coun-
try Squire in the White
House." John T. Flynn; Treas
ury of the Worlds Great Let
ters," edited by Lincoln Schus-
ter: Prom Many Lands"
Louis Adamic; Bet It's Boy"
Betty Blunt; Europe in the
Spring Glare Boothe.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Pistols at Ten PAGES
By"Willtan, OH

By~Willtans OiDer Stevens.
Boston: Honghton, Mt61tn Co.
This Is nothing more nor less
than an informal history Of duelling
in America. with a short preceding
account of the development Of the
custom in Europe from the days of
the medieval champions down to
the code-of -honor hotheads. It Is,
Of course, q perfectly fascinating
subject, and Is this work proceeds by
the method Of telling the stories Of
the outstanding duels Of history .
book could hardly be more interest
ing. The horrid business Of gentle.
manly murder undeniably had its
charms.
Mr.. Stevens classifles his combats
according to different types. There
was the political duel, Of which Of
course the Hamilton Burr meeting
was the most spectacular; there was
the congressional duel, which num-
bered In its antagonists John RAN
dolph and Henry Clay. There was
the grudee duel, under which Mr..
stevens lists Andrew Jackson's I'm.
rnod slaying Of Charles Dickinson.
There were the Army and Navy
codes. There were the less courtly
and sometimes comic duel1ing
types. which existed along the from
tiefA of N thee, Mr.. Stevens
gtves picturseQ,le and morbidiy d.
Mehtflll o1nnap1es.
H points ct, q course, that nasn
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Berkeley Moynihon, Surgeon
Bv Donald Bateman. Nep York.

MQcmtttdn.
This is an account Of the life OF
the first Baron Moynihan Of Leeds.
the most famous English surgeon OF
his day "a day which ended with
his death September s, 1880. Dur
ing the first three decades of this
century, he was one of the dominant
figures in British surgery. His mas
terful personality, his amazing sur
gical skill and his brilliant oratory
caused his reputation to spread all
over the world, especially to Amer
lea.
This history of doctors life is
by its very nature, interesting. The
adventures of man who dedicates
himself to saving others lives arc
adventures with a meaning for US
all. Moynihan was born in the midst
Of different adventure, military ad-
venture. His father was a soldier,
and 1t was because Of the stories
this father brought his wife about
the squalid medical service accorded
the British troops In the Crimean
War that Mrs. Moynihan decided
that son Berkeley George Andrew
should study medicine.
The book at hand makes no effort
either to recount in detailed manner
the surgical work of Lord Moynihan
or to set forth his Nfe in biographi-
cal comprehensiveness. What 1t
does do Is evoke with extraordinary
skill and success picture of Berke-
ley Moynihan the man-and he was
quite q man. From modest origins.
he climbed to great heights. No
surgeon has ever inspired greater
faith In his abilities to heal. No
doctor has ever been more loved.
B. B.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Choosing Books for Young
Folk Is Library Speciality

Road" and Amelia Earhart's Last
Flight"
Another new friend whose ac-
quaintance is worth making is Cap
tain Horatio Hornblower." This
trilogy by c. S. Forester is a grip
ping saga Of the sea In the days of
the Napoleonic wars. Other sea
stories of appeal to all ages, and
especially to youth, are John Mase-
fields Bird Of Dawning" and "Sard
Harker":: Nordhon and Halls great
"Mutiny on the Bounty; Herman
Melville's American classic, ''Moby
Dick; Howard Pease's modern sea
tale, wind in the Rigging" and
the justly famous stories of Joseph
Conrad, Victory" and Lord JIM"
No more outstanding personality
has been brought to life in the pages
of q book than Nine. Curie, whose
daughter Eve has written such q
warm and sympathetic study of the
discoverer Of radium. Then there is
the old friend Of the gay 90s, Mr..
Day, who has been immortalized by
his son Clarence in Life With
Father"
II Married Adventure" by Oso
johnson, is not only the story of
African safaris, but to a great ex-
tent an intimate picture Of the lives
together Of two young Americans
with an Unsuitable desire for ad-
venture. Other friends in books are
Katherine Cornell, in Il Wanted to
Be an Actress; Jack London, in
Sailor on Horseback" by Irving
Stone; Hiram Maxim, in Genius in
the Family" by his son; Abraham
Lincoln in THE Prairie Years." by
Carl Sandburg, and Vincent Sheean,
in Personal History"