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Evening star., 1941-10-07

Yet to hit their stride, three
former champions-Astor Clarke
Lafayette Bowling Center pilot; Bill
Krauss of Rosslyn Bowling Center
and Joe Harrison of Anacostia Spill
way-are not among the A bowlers
hitting for averages of 120 or better
in the fast District League, accord
ing to figures released today by
Scorer Dick Hobart.
Clarke, who established an all
time record average of 131 to annex
his second consecutive champion
ship two seasons ago. has an eye
ailment and has hit for only 1876
in eight games.
Krauss, who set sensational
pace to grab the title in 1887, has
only 1873 for II games.
More interesting to Washington s
bowling fraternity is the comeback
Of Harrison after a seasons layoff
Champion in 1884 and 1885. the
former No. l duckpinner of the
country in IL games is pins short
of the l20 mark.
Smith Leads With 1871.
Pacing the field is Champion
Hokie Smith of Lucky Strike with
q brilliant mark of 1877 for IL
games. His two nearest rivals are
Billy Stalcup of Rosslyn with 1874
for nine games and CletUs Pannel oi
Spillway with 1853
Coma uornntt ~ C1arnNL@x, {r
running fourth with 1881 while
Tony Santini of Convention Hall is
fifth with 132-11. Elvin Shank OF
Arlington is sixth with 1904.
Among newcomers shining in the
all-star circuit are Charley Bauer
Baltimore. who Is hitting 1872 witt
Hi-Shor, Pete Wells of Penn Rec.
reation with 1924, Jack Perrell anc
Johnny Ressa of Chevy Chase Ic'
Palace with respective marks O.
PAIL and 121, Warren johnson o
Hyattsville, the all-time record 10;
game roller, with 1865: Georg'
Allen of Brookland with 1929, anC
Ernie Kurkhalter of Lafayette
with l20-l.
Veterans off to hashy starts ar,
Frank Mischou of Arlington, 1926
Lou Pantos of Hi-Skor, 1881; San
Simon of Hi-Skor, 1911; Miltol
Walker of Georgetown, 1865; Lol
Jenkins and Bert Lynn of Del Ray
/ 1862 and 1888; Lindsay Stott o
King Pin, 1865, and Brad Mandle.
! of Rosslyn, 125.
/ G-Girls Bowl to Lead.
/ Despite season records of 532 ant
/ 1.572 and Alberta Pollard's high
/ single of 1873, N. NJ. P. dropped tn
Evening star., 1941-10-07
Women's S PIico Loop
Makes lis Bowling
Debut Tonight
Graphic Arts Rollers
Smash Marks; G-Men
Led by BeordsIey

Organized bowling among the
Capitals women will get boost to-
night at 7 when the newly organized
Plico League inaugurates its season
at Hi-Skor. Heading the opening
ceremonies will be Mrs Harvey CHS
well Byers and Fenton F. Leith.
Frances Jones is manager, Rose
Penn scorer and Edna Blake treas
urer of the four-team loop composed
of woman employees of Peoples Life
Insurance Co. Most will be in league
competition for the first time.
The team captains are Industrial,
lillian Hili; actIa7y, Edna Canter;
ordinary. Arlene Lightfoot, and
branch, Christine Balderson.
Graphic Arts Records Rolled.
Three season records went by the
boards in Graphic Arts League when
Bill Beatty fired 426 at Lucky Strike
to feature team counts of 627-1 ,822
as champion Judd & Detweiler rout-
ed Big Print Shop despite 155-4l1
turned in by Elvin Shank. Stand
ard Engraving gained first place
when Buster Anderson led 80 win
over Law Reporter with 154-394.
A double-header strike that capped
Herbie Coles top single of 158 cli-
NAKED E. A. Merkle's shutout over
erstwhile leading National Capital
Press.
Season individual highs in Prince
Georges County Volunteer Fire
mems League after two weeks of
rolling at Hyattsville Recreation are
Joe Wood, Glendale, l48; Eddie Hill
Bladensburg, 372.
Top honors in Department OF
Justice League went to Beardsley OF
Administrative with 1921. Ac-
counts and Registration posted re-
spective team highs of 586-and l.
653 at Lucky Strike.
Beeler PAGES League
Harry Beeler of Secretaries was
high man in the Monday section OF
1nterdepartmental Mixed League al
Lucky Strike with 1882.
Chick Darr's lat and Nick Ri
naldi's 405 were the heaviest wallops
as Clarendon Bowling Center ran up
1880 to oyerwhelm the invading
Fredericksburg (Va) All-Stars by a
margin of l20 pins. George Demeres
was best for the losers with 407. The
Clarendons made it a sweep when
Lee Marcy and Rinaldi counted TOP
to 675 for Demeres and S. Carver
Darrs 1863 gave him an ll-pin singles
victory over George Hart.
Harry Blanchard was a standout In
Convention Hall Commercial League
with season records of 176-39e
Team highs went to George w
Cochran with 583 and Sport Center
with l,675.
A Isl wallop by Fanshaw gave
/ Shah & Shah a team high of 613 ir
Mount Rainier Commercial Fire.
man Babe Moore, tops with 40l, en-,
abled Mount Rainier Fire Depart
ment to chalk up high aggregate
of 1894.
Evening star., 1941-10-07
ADVERTISEMENT.
A Scratching Dog
Nay Be in Torment

The best dog In the world can't be
truly happy when he must continually
scratch. dig, rub and bite himself, seeking
that has centered in the nerve endines Of
his skin: He is in frenzied torment
can't help himself. But you may. Try
Hunters Dog Powders, once each week
glad purchaser wrote: II surely was
dog immediately He has practically
quit scratchins, has more pep and his
hair is glossy again Rex Hunters Dog
Peoples Drug Stores and leading dealers
EVERYWHERE
Evening star., 1941-10-07

Eight other players have scored IL
points apiece - Ken Kavanaugh,
George McAfee, Hugh Gallarneau
and Ray Mclean, all Chicago Bears;
Jim Poole and Frank Reagan, New
York; Tony Canadeo, Green Bay,
and John Drake, Cleveland.
Evening star., 1941-10-07
Hockey Borons List Six
Tuning-up Contests
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Oct. THE Cleve-
land Barons. champions of the
American Hockey League, will play
six exhibition games before the sea-
con opens. here on october 2s.
President Al Sutphin announced
at the clubs Windsor, Ontario,
training camp last night that the
first exhibition contest would be
played at Windsor, october Is.
against the Pittsburgh Hornets, and
the last in Cleveland on October 25
against the Detroit Red Wings of
the National League.
Evening star., 1941-10-07
De Solo Stalking Scott

Jimmy De Sola, 1s0-pound young
Spanish heavyweight, is trying to
get a bout with Buddy Scott. 1t
would be staged in Tampa, Fla.
Scott recently outpointed Manuel
Villar, another Spaniard.
Evening star., 1941-10-07
Sell Navy Grid Tickets

Good seats for the Navy Lafayette
game at Annapolis Saturday and
the Navy-Cornell game in Baltimore
October Is are on sale at the Key
stone Automobile Club, 1643 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1941-10-07
Potomac Boutmen to Elect

Election of officers and members
Of the Board of Governors is the
main business scheduled for to-
morrow's meeting Of the Potomac
Boat Club at the clubhouse at pm.
Evening star., 1941-10-07
244 Dogs in Roanoke Show

ROANOKE, Va, Oct. 7 Pl.-An
entry Of 244 dogs, including some of
the Nations top-notchers, will vie
for honors in the ninth annual all
breed show of the Roanoke Kennel
Club Thursday at the Auditorium
Evening star., 1941-10-07
After l20-Pound Come

A football game with a 12o-pound
eleven is sought for Sunday by Bur-
leith-Glover Park Club. Phone
Emerson 9l50.
Evening star., 1941-10-07

A Isl wallop by Fanshaw gave
Shah & Shah team high of 613 in
Mount Rainier Commercial. Fire
man Babe Moore, tops with 401, en-
abled Mount Rainier Fire Depart
ment to chalk up high aggregate
of 1894.
Evening star., 1941-10-07

E. H. Stanley Of Quantico, Va, Is
the new champ of the Middle At
lantic Association of Greenkeepers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06

attachment not only to things German, but to things Nazi.
 That in the very face of all these facts, the Bolivian government had the cour- age to kick out the German minister and arrest squads of powerful and in- fluential people, argues that it felt the menace was very real. Bolivia moved sums up to this: In no country is there a people, or even large popular minority, which likes or wants Nazism. But in almost every country there is a small and powerful minority of army men and reactionarieS who do admire the Nazi regime, and who will be so inflated by final Nazi success in the war that they are almost certain to grasp for power i'm mediately.
 In certain countries they might well succeed. Bolivia was one of them, and hence Bolivia has shown both wisdom and courage in squelching the conspiracy be- fore some signal from Europe gave it the go-ahead. It boilS down to this: If Nazism is defeated and discredited in Europe, it will gain no foothold in the Americas. If it is successful, no country will ever be safe from the kind of out break which Bolivia has just Squelched.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06
A Big Defense Bill

It's pretty big tax bill that the House passed this week and sent along to the Senate. But of one thing we can rest assured. There'u be no joint returns by husband and wife The House voted down this provision and we feel pretty sure that the Senate will follow along the same line of thought Otherwise, though, the House took into consideration the fact that the government needs a lot of financing in these near-war days And it provided accordingly.
 Income taxes are upped considerably as anyone will find out when the tables are made generally available. There's bare chance that the Senate will fool around with the figures somewhat, but for the most part the present House ones will stand. There was almost complete unanimity in the House on the three billion tax bill which is unusual to say the least. Only 30 members voted against 1t, proving that majority of our legisla- tors realize that the times are crucial and only by united action can anything con- Structive be accomplished.
 Here in Connecticut there will be almost general approval of the elimination of the joint return proviso in the income tax section of the bill. We don't recall any recent tax proposal occaSioning the ad- verse comment that this did. The range of comment was extensive, too, for it brought criticism from individuals who ordinarily fail to take any recognition of such proSaic matter as an income tax measure. Such interest is good sign in these times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06

they would be wise in nothing else They would live in the fools para disc of exaltation. They would sit on the edge of the perennial spring Of knowledge and never have sense enough to turn around and take a drink. They would miss all the teaching life affords because they would forever be fascinated with the echo of their own voices.
 Conceit is selfishness operating fin the realm of opinion. It is the gathering of the whole of life about the core of self-esteem. The con- ceited man puts himself at the cen- ter of his own world, and no matter which way the planets are moving. he pretends to believe that they are moving in an orbit around him. "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?" asked the writer of the Book of Proverbs. There is more hope of . fool than of that man." And good old Benjamin Franklin, who looked deep into life with an eye which always had a twinkle in it, once declared that he who falls in love with himself will have no rival.
 All Rights Reseved--
 hahson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06
You Do This Or =

Ii Republican aldermen who are so vehement today in their criticism of Mayor Vincent Scully and who intimate that he need only curl his little finger to bring about salary raises for city employees would become a bit more tt tmperate in their public statements they might be able to work better with their Democratic members of the board AS it is the charges that they fling around simply alienate Democratic officials and make it exceed ingly difficult for program to be worked out that will be generally satisfactory
 For instance Alderman Joseph Reiner went to considerable lengths this week to make it appear that Mayor Scully rewrote the city charter for political purposes. Dis interested persons will tell you that the charter changes made this year were not merely sensible but necessary. And the subject is quite apart from a sane discus sion of salary raises for city employees. That they are in order we don't think wen the mayor will deny. We presume hat he has given the matter thought for t's not like him to be ignorant of what is going on in his native city.
 It would be fine thing for the City If Waterbury to grant general 10 per sent wage increase to all it's employees. But we wonder if the Republican legislators 'ealize that there might be citizens of Waterbury who feel that if the city has 70 much money on hand that it can af- Ord such a wage jump that it might spend some of the money in other ways Tax relief is one of them; expansion of city services is another; reduction of bonded indebtedness can't be overlooked There are many ways for city to spend
 
 good reasons for favoring each one of them
 But we don't think that any city of- ficial has the right to suggest or urge the mayor to do any of these things if they can't be done legally or if they are not feasible at the moment. And when you come right down to it there is prob ably as much political consideration behind all these Republican charges as the Republicans claim there is in the Democratic desire to hold up action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06
Stroke of Lightning

For more than two years, American newspapermen, diplomats, business men, and all sorts and conditions of visitors have been describing Nazi penetration into South America From the hysterical reports that Germany was about to take over the whole continent by telephone, to the pooh-pooh reassurances that they weren't really getting anywhere, there have been reports of all degrees of tor ridity. No report has ever denied that the Nazis are there, doing what they can.
 Over this somewhat murky picture the story Of the illustration by timely Bolivian atclon of a potential "putsch" there by Naxl sympathlzers illumines like flash ol lightning. Bolivia is a country which hn6 powerful German influence. The Bolivian army was German trained. Off, ,oEs from Germany who helped train and .lrert 30 in the Chaco war remained after- Wafd Many young Bolivian army offi- r1f1 n4Ye sentimental and professional
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06
Farm Price Dilemma

In these days when strenuous efforts are being made to keep prices from rising, the question of prices of farm products is touchy one. Generally speaking, the prices of farm products have never gotten up to the point where economists believe farm income is satisfactory. Leon Hen derson, administrator of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Sup ply (OPACS) has clarified present policy. The government still wants higher farm income. Demand for meat, dairy, and poultry products is rising. To stimulate greater production of these things, the government proposes to take the risk of guaranteeing higher minimum prices, yet notat setting maximum prices It would set top on those prices only if they be- gin to get out of hand.
 On the other hand, the OPACS has already acted to halt rises in prices of farm machinery, putting the farmer in a position to benefit still farther from higher prices for his hogs, milk and chickens. There will be a good deal of this balancing and counter balancing as price variations become more complex. Trial and error, mixed with heavy leaven of patience and honest effort to cooperate, are all that can pull us through.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06

How many times has this been said, too, about our own section of the state. Pres ervation of what beauties are left in the Naugatuck Valley has been slow. Ger tainly civil authorities procrastinated on the tremendous job of retaining the river itself from the sewer beds into which it has been transformed in the past half century Nothing has contributed to the downfall of the Naugatuck Valley as a scenic wonder so much as the pollution of the river Only when this has been over come. can there be real effort to do for the Naugatuck Valley what has been done elsewhere and what is now being planned for the Housatonic Valley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06

land, hearing that she would be included with Germany when Hit. ler's funds were frozen, argued for weeks.
 But in the case of China, many of her funds are in the hands of big Chinese merchants and bankers in Shanghai, who for business reasons are playing in with the Japanese. And they have been draining Chinese cur rency from the country.
 So RoOsevelt's special Chinese emissary, Lauchlin Currie, was requested by Chiang- g-Kai-shek to ask Secretary OI State Hull to freeze Chinese funds. This would have hamStrung the pro- Japanese Chinese.
 However, Secretary Hull re- fused. Twice Chiang Kai-shek made the request, both times it was refused. In fact the State Department even denied that such a request was made, pre- surnably on the ground that it came not through diplomatic channels, but thruogh Mir. Currie who is only a White House secre- tary.
 Finally, however, when Jap. anese funds were frozen, Chiang Kai-shek got his request full filled. But it took Japanese ag- gression in the South Pacific to do it.
 BOOTLEG GASOLINE
 The days of bootlegging from Canada may be coming back again. In this case, however, the bootlegging will be gasoline, not alcohol.
 Canada has imposed a ban on sale of gasoline between D. m. and 2 a. m. on weekdays, and all day Sunday. But this restriction does not apply to Americans. To keep the tourist dollars flowing, Americans are allowed to buy gasoline when Canadians cannot.
 Now comes the proposal of Oil Administrator Ickes to impose a similar ban on gasoline sales in Eastern states. Result would be that 8 motorist would be unable to buy gasoline in Buffalo or De- troit, but could cross the river and buy it in Canada. MERRY-GO-ROUND
 AdministrationiteS are quietly throwing their weight behind the candidacy of Francis Miller, mili- tant New Dealer, for the Vir- ginia legislature. Miller is being opposed by the Old Guard ma chine led by Senator Harry Byrd Nine days after Congress voted him a new appropriation for the training of defense work CTS, National Youth Administra- tor Aubrey Williams had 65,OOO student starting apprenticeship training in MA shops. Sixty thousand IVA trained workers are being placed in industry a month.
 Copyright, 1941, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06

Conservation of the Housatonic River Valley brought the commendation of Gov Robert A. Hurley the other day. The chief executive revealed at the time that he was
 acquainted with it's beauties and had become so as boy when he vacationed on his grandfather's farm near Falls Village. What he said, though, about the Housatonic Valley is just as true of the Naugatuck Valley and we quote him, to wit: 'This countryside was beautiful then and it's beautiful now, but anyone who can look even 20 years forward into time can see that the Housatonic Valley may be, if we preserve it now, beautiful play ground for the people of the greatest city on earth. What that may mean even in dollars and cents to the State of Connecti- cut every Connecticut Yankee ought to understand. Even on the lowest terms, then, the preservation of this valley will be good business. Putting it the other way, the vulgarizing and dissertation of this valley will be simply stupid. ."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06
Current Comment

loved it. I thought I was an important person, as what young girl doesn't? Brenda Frazier Kelly, former glamor deb. I would hundred times rather see my country ally itself with Eng land, or even with Germany with all her faults, than with the cruel- ty, the godlessness, and the barbar- ism that exist in Soviet Russia.
 Charles A. Lindbergh.
 He doesn't know the tempo of the American citizen and that's why he's an ex-president instead of our President. -Sergt. Alvin 0 York, World War hero, on Herbert Hoover's recent speech.
 The numerous good will missions (to South Amerlca) in the best case amuse, in the worst annoy our good nelghbors.
 -John Y. Normano. research direc-
 tor, Latin American Economic Inc etituto.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06

Health and the Anglo American Food Purchasing Committee. WINSTON CHURCHILL
 PHONES
 It was hot in Washington. Everyone who could possibly get out of town had left. This did not apply, of course, to thousands of government workers, nor to the hundreds of big-top executives sweating over the Defense pro- gram. Nor did it apply at the moment, to two ladies, the beau- tiful Evie Robert, wife of the ex- Democratic National Secretary, and the gracious Mrs. Lionel Att will, ex-wife of General Douglas MacArthur, new military poten- tate of the Philippines.
 Hot and a bit bored, Mrs. Rob- bert and Mrs. Atwil decided that Washington needed cheering up. So one of them picked up the telephone, called the White House.
 "Is this the White House?" asked Mrs. Atwill in a broad British accent. "This is the overseas operator, London calI- ing. MT. Winston Churchill would like to speak to MT. Steve Early. And, oh, yes, MT. Churchill asks MT. Early to pay for the call"
 There was excitement at the other end of the telephone for a moment, then:
 "Ask MT. Churchill to wait for a moment. MT. Early will take the call in the other room.'
 But all MT. Early got was some amused Snickers.
 Later Secretary of the Interior got call from Winston Churchill charges reversed. But the econ- omical MT. Ickes refused to pay for the call - even from the sup posed Prime Minister of Eng land.
 The Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles also received a call, and while he was willing to pay for 1t, he was the only one who kept MT. Churchill wait ing His secretary said MT. Weiles was busy and that he could not speak to the Prime Minister for at least ten minutes.
 So passes the hot weather in Washington.
 FREEZING CHINESE FUNDS
 There was one unwritten chap ter in the story fo American freezing of funds of those two Oriental neighbors, Japan and China.
 It was published that the funds of friendly China were frozen as well as the funds of unfriendly Japan. But unpublished was the fact that China for four months had been asking the State Department to freeze Its funds, but the State Department had refused.
 China's request was quite un- usual, for most nations object strenuously to having their funds frozen. For instance, Switzer-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-06

Today, practically every ship leaving U. s. shores for embat- tied England carries stocks of food as part of its cargo. Also sig nificant is the fact that this steady flow of food shipments dif- fers markedly from those World War days.
 Then the foodstuffs were in bulk form = boatloads of grain and fresh meats. But now, with British and Allied shipping suf- fering terrible destruction, there aren't enough bottoms to transport both bulky armaments and bulky food across the hazardous Allan tic.
 Since the cargo space for bulky armamehtS cannot be reduced, and with the British food Situa- tion becoming acute, food is be- ing shipped in concentrated and dehydrated form. Thus it is car- ried in the same ships with arms and munitions, taking up relatively little space.
 The extent of these shipments and what they meant to the Amer ican farmer is shown graphically by the following list of lend- lease food purchases between June and July 19:
 American cheese, 2O,483,1 ,175 pounds; corn starch, 35,82O,O 1000 pounds; frozen eggs 36,648,63O pounds; dried eggs, 4,458,650 pounds; canned fish, 1,O83,O52; cases; dehydrated soup, 4,400,OOO pounds; soy beans 9,O70,O0O pounds; dried beans, 4O,77O,OOO pounds; corn sugar, 5,696,OOO pounds: enzymes, 3,36O pounds; dried apricots 9,9S6,O0O pounds; honey, 3,557 300 pounds; en- riched flour, 399,O0O pounds;
 concentrated orange juice, 92,- 3O2 gallons; vitamin A, 2,547,- 183 units; Vitamin B1, 3,965 kilograms; peanut butter, 1,- ! 762,OOO pounds; lard, 28,662,72O pounds.
 NOTE = Management of the lend-lease food program is under the Surplus Marketing Adminis- tration, aided by the U. s. Health Srvice, the British Ministry of