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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-01-10

Hard luck, SIR" he reported
"But at least the experience con-
firms q hot trail. No doubt Gaujos
was a more important agent than
we thought and it's likely he has a
team in San Antonio"
Bart replied crisply: meet me
Immediately at Kelly Field, Ben
ming. Drive as fast as your fiiv-
yer will take YOU"
When, fifteen minutes later, Ben
ming sped up to the gate at the fly
ing field, Lieutenant Colonel Bart
was waiting in military sedan into
which he ushered the captain at
once.
1--WE fast plane waiting for you,
Benning," Bart announced. You're
to return Immediately to Washing
ton-orders of the Chief of Co."
Benning felt the rise of his pulse
as they drove down along the rows
of hangers to whers q sleek new OBJ
servation plane waited with spinning
motors. A captain In flying toys was
standing under the fuselage of the
observation plane. Bart said to him:
"Wallin, this is your passenger for
Washington. Yours to deliver him
there in the shortest possible time.
That's all, Captainlf
In the sky there was the first
rose glow of approaching sunrise
when Benning made out, through the
glass bottom Of the plane, the wide
silver ribbon Of the Potomac. In
the distance, Washington's Monu-
ment stood sentinel over the sleep
ing capital, the large round domes
of Congress doomed up out of the
granite and marble hsddle of govern
ment buildings. AZ IA plane swung
down for a landing q boiling Field,
he glimpsed the khulk that
Ssss.sy; g ne "a ss as1 Of 'a the
White House.
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CHAPTER II

The plane swung back across the
Anacostia and glided TO landing
Benning thanked the pilot for safe
journey north and sped by military
sedan across the river into Washing
ton. At the War Department he went
to the second floor and reported to
the CO section.
Colonel Flagwill had come down
early for Behring'S arrival. His
placid, Unconditional face broke in a
slight smile and his eyes sparkled
at sight of the young officer. He
led the captain into q private office
and closed the door.
Without formality Flagwill said:
Someone must 60 into Mexico and
get the facts, Benning. I needn't
remind you of the danger of such an
enterprise. While I have thought of
you for the detail, you need not &C
cept unless you want to-"
Thanks for thinking Of me, Colo
nel," Benning said with an easy
smile. when do you wish me to
leave?"
There was an approving gleam In
the Flagwill eyes as he took from
his pocket bulky sealed letter and
handed ii to Benning.
You're sailing for Europe at elev-
en- on the America. Available in
formation is in this letter. When
you've read 1t, destroy II by burn
ing. You'd better take a CONNER
cial plane to New York. Your boat
reservations have been attended to.
On landing at Southampton, cross
the Channel to LIE Havre and pro-
coed to Paris by express. Our am
bassador, Mr.. Shields, will be ex-
pecting you in Paris. Any question,
Benning7"
II think not, sir" Benning said.
Good luck" Flagwill said, rising.
DO thorough job Of il and get the
Mexican picture back here as soon
as possible, consistent with thor
oughness. I'll have an officer at the
airport with your tickets and ex-
pense money. That's all, Captain"
The embassy staff had calculated
to the minute when Benning was due
to arrive from the Care du Nord.
No sooner had he dropped the bronze
knocker than the embassy front door
opened. A bespectacled male sec
rotary looked him over in sharp ap-
praisal and said, you are the gen
tleman we're expectlng?"
Captain BenninR, just in from
the United States" the captain an
swered.
please come in" the secretary
said. 'Mr. Shields has reserved this
hour and is waiting for you"
The ambassador was at the door
of his reception room to receive his
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AIR CORPS FICTION

Few people know that in his pri-
vate life the man who stands at the
head of the expanding army air
corps Is an author of books for boys.
Maj. Gen. Harold H. ('Hap") Ar
mold, chief of the air corps, has
written six books that read like the
Rover Boys and bear such titles as
bill Bruce and the Pioneer Avia-
tors" bill Bruce Becomes an Ace"
and bill Bruce on Border Patrol"
The father of three boys, General
Arnold used to write aviation sto-
ries for them as a Preside hobby.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-01-10

We Are Cheated
Real happiness Is cheap enough,
yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit
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PANAMA CANAL TROUBLE

Although the Roosevelt Good
Neighbor program has been about SO
per cent successful in Latin Amer
lea, there is one contrary spot which
Is causing army and navy officials
genuine worry. That spot is the
most strategic of all countries below
the. Rio Grande-Panama.
Panama is now governed by a
president who has all the earmarks
OF leaning toward the Axis and who
Is holding back on the granting of
important emergency landing fields,
anti-aircraft and searchlight posi-
tons on Panamanian territory to
the u. S.
The president, Arnulfo Arias,
served for six years as Panamanian
minister in continental Europe, and
now fetes Italian and German con-
suls in Panama while ignoring the
British and Americans.
He has also chosen as his secre-
tary a near-albino named Antonio
Isaza, who served as consul in Ham,
burg and whose fair hair and blue
eyes have caused him to be a great
rooter for the Nazi theory of suprem-
acy OF the Aryan race. Isaza seems
firmly convinced that Hitler is sure
to dominate the world and has had
great influence with his chief in the
presidential palace.
It is important to remember that
In order to defend the Panama ca
nal, army operations outside the &C
tual Canal Zone, on territory of the
Panama Republic, are necessary.
This was provided for by the first
treaty negotiated by Secretary of
War William Howard Taft, and gave
the u. S. army the right to use Pan
amanian soil during emergencies.
However, the Panamanian govern
ment under President Arnulfo Arias
Is now talking about ousting U. S.
forces from the vital u. S. army
air field at Rio Hato, which is on
Panama soil, and is holding back on
granting various emergency airports
and anti-aircraft gun emplacements.
So pronounced are the Nazi lean
ings Of the president that his broth
er, Harmodio Arias, most infiuen-
tial newspaper publisher in Panama,
has quarreled with him. Harmodio
Arias gave Panama four years of
excellent government as president
from 1882 to 1885 and is one of the
chief boosters of Panama-American
cooperation. His opposition, howev-
er, has brought threats that his pa
per, the Panama-American, would
be closed by the government.
Meanwhile, the state department,
worried over the situation, soon will
shake up-its embassy staff in Pan
anna, put one of its skilled trouble
shooters on the job.
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Washington, D. C.
FD.R. RESISTS PRESSURE TO
SEND NAVY VESSELS WITH
SUPPLIES

The most important question dis
cussed In inner administration cir
cles before the President made his
recent defense speech was that of
using American warships to convoy
supplies across the Atlantic to Irish
or British waters. This question
probably was in the Presidents
mind also when he wrote the speech.
The problem has been debated
among some of Roosevelt's close adj
visers ever since British emissaries
brought word that while England
could Withstand airplane lombard
ment it could not withstand the con-
tinued sinking of its merchant YES
sells. The British also made it clear
that more average U. S. destroyers
would not do the trick, because the
royal navy was running short of
trained crews.
So far, the President has SHE'D
away from any such drastic step as
using American naval vessels to
guard supply ships across the At
lantic. Some of his advisers have
leaned toward the idea, but Roose-
welt has argued against it. He main
tains, first, that it would be in vio-
lation of the Neutrality act and
could not be done without an act of
congress; second, that if an Amer
lean naval vessel were sunk it would
mean war.
Some of Roosevelt's advisers con-
tend that the last thing Hitler wants
Is to bring the United States into the
war; that the effect on the German
people (who remember how the
United States tipped the scales in
the last war; would be devastating.
However, the President hasn't fallen
for the idea yet, though he is watch
ing carefully the effect of his speech
on public opinion.
Note-One of the British Ennis
saries who put American entry into
the war bluntly up to Roosevelt was
the duke of Windsor. However, the
President replied that he had given
a firm pledge to the American peo-
pie not to take them into war and
he did not intend to be another
Woodrow Wilson.
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CHRlST'S VALUATION OF
PERSONALITY

LESSON TEXT-Luke l<:l.N
GOLDEN TENTS not the life moro
than meat and the body than raimcnt2-
Matthew e:23.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

Chattanooga News-Free Press:
There is a general feeling in
Southern football circles that the
one big coach definitely on the
spot is our good friend Frank
Thomas of Alabama. Tommy's
contract expires next spring, and
if he is to hold any hope of
having it renewed he must take
Tennessee and other major foes
this year"
The word at Saratoga is that
Alf Vanderbilt, the w. K. horse
man, settled his marital diff
culties for two million. Jimmy
Roosevelt wired Mike Jacobs an
order for seven ringside seats for
the Nova-Louis party. Fudge
Heffelfnger's nephew. Cliff, is
trying for a guard job on the
Ohio State team. Leo Wells, st.
Paul shortstop, has the Cub
scouts in a dither.
Betsy Nehf, the nifty locker
Just named Victory Sweater
Girl" by the British American
Evening star., 1941-08-22

Ambulance Corps. is the daughter
of the old Giants southpaw, Art
Nehf. Halls from Phoenix, Ariz.
Did you know the fight man.
ager Jimmy Gleason plays in the
picture Here Comes Mr.. Jordan"
is supposed to be the late Yussel
Jacobs? Incidentally, Jacobs
Beach votes this one the top
fight film of 'em all.
The Dodgers are the only
National League club averaging
better than five runs per game.
Yanks, Red Sox and Browns do
ing it in the American League.
Does that mean the Nationals
have better pitching or the Amer
leans better hitting.
Baseball scouts better start look
ing up timetables to Owatonna.
MINI. AL Bell, pitcher for the
local club there, hasn't allowed
an earned run in 932s innings.
The Dorothy Kielty who quail
flied in the women's Western golf
tournament this week Is the same
Evening star., 1941-08-22
This Yeor, Jock Was to Be Mr.. Big

Just good chance TO set Some KIND
~ record by winning his freshman the
decision The lowy Eagles were raneo OUT OF
necessated postponed game 10 De
clash with the Redskins VINO noeo
protested vigorously out got nowhere
tongues
and thereby gained the final round.
This was to He to have learned
his forthghtV saared men,
style of needed TO WI" III pro loo'
to Big OF the Eastern coaches
Sutherland Is PACK
He's got to rebuild from scratch yo
still hanging IN balance ana
early worry about JOCKS pre-
d,camsnt but idea Losing % players no 1u
Leonard Sid Hudson buooy Lewis
and Cen struggling to finish out OF the
celia .- -
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Dodgers Cards Mark Time They Await Start of Vital 4me Clash Sunday
Win, Lose :: !;,,,';. o. or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN,
Mr.. Whiskers and the Football Dodgers
By FRANCIS E. STAN,
Star staff Correspondent.

OLD POINT COMFORT Va, Aug ga kid with two-bit water
pistol could bndfoded this of the woods sprinkle
enough football khaki the
sprayed probably would George
the Brookn
Sam This reminds that Brookyns
been the most patriotic sports firm in the
this picture Shelley
called the coo Bragg
23d the
Shelley the blocking
and blocking backs hard find Before him
Kercheva,
priced carefully selected rockies
1t follows that this blow to the good loyal brgh
Brooklyn At time when they felt the grid Dodgers
they their all
skins Redskins
Todd still
years
Evening star., 1941-08-22
No Other Sports Firm Took Such Licking

forced that % have
Whskers baseball Tigers lost
bitter comparable losing Cafego Kh
Phles Mucahy. All
with
either Phes would have finished last
hockey whose titles the best and most
Canadians suffered like this single football team
John Sutherland it cruel blow When the good
coaching college ball he just about the No His
Pittsburgh pretty terrific UNTIL of sudden the Pitt
This Jock and the tall Scot moved
offered him the job coach
Of with alacrity and fat salary
afternoon he first played the Redskins in WASH
propheed things in subtle sort of
yav THESE his bruised warriors
We'll be hard
beat In month nobody will be running over u.s.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Dark Horses Menace
Trapshooting Aces
In Grand American
Lueus' Victory in S., 900
Event Hint Of Threat
'Thut Novices Garry
Ax The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
vANDALIA, Ohio, Aug. 22.-Trap-
saooting's top-f1ight event. the
Grand American Handicap with
more than $4,000 at stake. comes
I'D today as the big finale OF the
42d annual Clay Target Carnival
and, as usual, the winner likely Will
be an unknown from nowhere.
With the hot-shots placed as far
as IS yards from the traps, while
the novices are as close as 16, the
better marksmen have little chance
10 take the blue-ribbon event.
Just how that works out was Il
Illustrated yesterday as Elmer E.
Lucas, a 31-year-old filling station
operator at PEBBLES, Ohio, cracked
90 of 100 to take the $4,000 pre-
liminary handicap, shot over the
same course and under the same
conditions, as the Roaring Grand
Lucas Keen Under Pressure.
Lucas was participating in his
first championship shoot OF any
kind, and was arrayed against $50
of the best marksmen in the land.
On 500 registered targets at 16
yards this year he had missed ITO
for a .780 average. Yet, with the
pressure on, he was perfect yester-
day on all except the 98th target,
while 10 of the better-known shoot
ers knotted for second with SO OF
100. The second-placers shoot 1t
out today.
The big handicap has been won
by railway conductors, mailmen, OIL
men, mechanics, millionaires, IA
year-old boys, 70-year-old men,
store owners and host OF others,
but no one ever has won it twice.
Seek Second Victory.
Today's field was expected to soar
over the 1000 mark for the second
time in the events history, the
l,1O0 in 1929 being tops.
At least a dozen former cham
pions, from r. Guptill of Minnesota,
the 1905 winner, to E. H. Wolfe of
Charleston, w. Va, defender of the
crown, will try to break the old
tradition that no man can take the
title twice.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Coach Thomas Seen or Spot at Bomo This Year
Beers May Shift ond From Fubok Guard

st. Paul gal who used to hold
national speed skating titles.
Thirty-six ex Joe Colleges
turned out for grid practice for
the Moffett Field (Calif) Air
Corps grid team. They included
Tony Calvelli, late of Stanford
and the Detroit Lions; Halfback
Bud Gathers of Nebraska's 81 80
squads; Utah States Lynn Hunt
and Ned Conner, Penn 81.
One of the National Amateur
golf .qualifiers is Herman Berg,
jr., who admits his sister can
knock him off any day in the
week. She's only Patty Berg.
, Fight Manager Eddie Walker
has taken over Babe Richie, the
6-foot-4 Texan, and has him
booked for Atlantic City Au-
gust %.
If Clyde Mccullough clouts a
homer in the current Cub
Dodger series, he'll have one in
every park In the league.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Special Dispatch to The Star.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 22.-For
some weeks now it has been whis-
pered around the American League
that the job of Stanley Harris as
manager of the Mats is in danger
1t also has been whispered that the
Job of Del Baker as manager of the
Tigers Is in danger. This, despite
the fact that his team won the
pennant last season when few con-
ceded 1t a chance. Thus far neither
Clark Griffith nor Walter Briggs
has uttered a word publicly con-
corning his intentions regarding his
manager. And they are really the
only ones who know, since Griff
is the boss of the Mats and Briggs
the owner of the Tigers.
Nevertheless, the story persists
that Harris will be replaced if his
team finishes last and that Baker
will be replaced if his team finishes
in the second division. The two
have been described as two men on
a hot seat.
Harris Comes Out Best.
The teams boSsed by the two men
on the hot seat met in a double
header here yesterday, and if the
outcome means anything, Baker is
in greater danger of losing his job
than Harris is of losing his. For
the surprising Mats dealt another
blow to save their boss job by tile
ing the Tigers over in the two
games, taking the first by the score
of to 3 and the second by the
count of to 0. The double victory
ran their winning streak up to six
straight games and boosted them to
sixth place, right on the Tigers
heels. 1t also left them with a
record of 13 victories in the II
games played with the Tigers this
season, not counting a schedule of
seven spring exhibition games which
the Grifis won in a clean sweep.
Who can blame the Detroit fans
if they claim that Harris has his
club hypnotized?
Six-hit pitching by young Sid
Hudson accounted for the Griffs'
Shutout triumph in the second
game. The young man turned in
one of his best exhibitions of the
year. He had control, for one
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Fair Racketers Hold
Stage as Men Rest
In u. ). Doubles
Excitement Promised
With Competition in
SemifinoI Stage
BY the Associated Press.

BROOKLINE. Mass. Aug. o.
The glamorous tennis girls, who
seldom baSk in the spotlight during
a mixed tournament, will put on
the feature acts in today's national
doubles show at Longwood.
Down to the exciting semifinalS
stage. top-seeded Mrs. Sarah Pal
frey Cooke of New York and Mar
garet Osborne of San Francisco will
vie with tiny and unseeded Shirley
Cation and Pearl Harland of Los
Angeles, while second ranking
Pauline Betz of Los Angeles and
Dorothy Bundy of Santa Monica,
Calf. engage Mary Arnold of Los
Angeles and Hope Knowles of
Philadelphia.
Since Defending Champions Jack
Kramer and Ted Schroeder quail
fed for the semifnals yesterday,
along with fourth-seeded Bobby
Riggs of Chicago, and Gene Mako
of Los Angeles, those players will
mark time until tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in other quarter
final matches, second seeded Frank
Parker and Don McNeill, the ma
tional singles champion, will engage
Frank Kovacs of Oakland: Calf,
and Bill Crosby of Los Angeles, and
Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables,
Fla, and Wayne Sabin of Portland,
Greg, the No. tandem, will meet
Atlantans Bryan (Bitsy) Grant and
Russell Bobbitt, who were unseeded.
The first to become finahsts in
the five divisions of play were Null
10y and his father, r. B. Mulloy, in
the father-son competition, an
event they won two years ago. The
mems and women's veterans tour
neys were down to the semifinals
but most of the mixed doubles sur
vivors had failed to pass their third
round tests.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Defense Coils End
BeItsviIIe Show

Beltsville horse shows appear
to be definitely Cancelled for the
duration. And that includes the
Sd annual affair which was
scheduled Sunday.
Army orders, calling virtually
all of the committee members to
active service. made it imprac-
tical to continue with prepara-
tions for Sundays show.
John McManus, P. G. Bailey
and Sam Jones have been or
dered to report Monday at
Texas post, while J. David
Schaffer will leave for Alabama
September 3. All are recent grad
yates of the University of Mary
land where they took R. o. T. c.
work,
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Etten Is at Best
In Tough Spots,
Hitting Shows
|, Claims Foney Curves
Worry Him, but Phil
Ace Regoins Lead
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. %. - The
hands that swing the most potent
bat in the National League today
rock a cradle with equal facility and
considerable more gentleness, but
Nick Etten of the PhillieS insists
'it's easier to hit Whit Wyatt than
make the baby go to sleep"
And if you didn't know, wife
Helen's signal snaps big Nick into
action at home with more alacrity
than when Acting Manager Hans
Lobert puts on the hit sign at Shibe
Park. He can get the job done both
places, though.
Domestic chores, however, don't
mean a thing to Etten when he
thinks of the trouble he's having
trying to keep at top Of the batting
heap. Nick vows he's currently
facing the best pitching in baseball,
what with Brooklyn's one-hit Wyatt.
Cincinnati's Johnny Wander Nicer OF
no-hit fame and so on.
Bounces Back Into Lead.
It looked as much earlier in the
week when Wander Nicer and COM
pany set him down in all six trips
of a double header. pushing him
from first to third in the hit race.
But Nick came back yesterday TO
help rout the Cardinals with three
safeties and regain the lead at 1874.
even though just percentage point
over St. Louis John Hopp.
Il think American League pitch
ing is good, but the National League
brand is more deceptive" lamented
the 26-year-old first sacker, who
worked a year for the Athletics.
then went to Baltimore in the m
ternational, where the Phillies
claimed him this season for $4,000.
In the American" explained
Etten, 'if a pitcher gets you two
balls and no strikes or three balls
and a strike you can look for fast
ball Well, ever since I was a kid
on the sandlots out home in Chicago
I could hit fast-ball pitching, but
those fancy pitches licked me.
Not Bad Against Curvers.
Last year when they told me I'd
been sold to the Phillies I wondered
what would happen to me when I
had to hit mostly curve-ban pitch
ing.
Il kept telling myself, Maybe
they got couple of guys like Bob
Feller in that league. then I'll get
my base hits When I was with
the AS faced him twice and had
six hits for eight times.
We'll, I found a couple fast-ball
pitchers in the National League. but
they're with Brooklyn and they
spend the afternoon knocking me
down"
But Nick isn't doing so bad even
though with a tail-end club. His
batting mark of 1873 bingles includes
Is homers, although the big fellows
chief ambition is just to hit safely.
especially when there are men on
base. Etten was right-field hitter
while with the Athletics, but he's
mastered clouting to both right and
left fields nows. with an occasional
jolt to deep center.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Sutherland, They Said, Had to Open Up

nobody running over the Dodgers hey
big lead fading AS the
the Dodgers the best team IN the Eastern
might well have
At Pitt for his conservative style OF
play powehouse kind of football They ham,
nered rarely aerial circus and never
lateraed deviation of the moderned ~ for
conservative There was no DOUBT ABOUT a
Most the Sutherland had to make good or admit
test OF
college variety After ALL wasn't Jock sutherland
the top college coach?
quoted saying that Sutherland 1ad 70
show him said the usually retcent
Raw ito this league"