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Evening star., 1941-04-06
Tribes Utility Players
Few but Versatile
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ANDERSON. S. c., April 5.-The
Cleveland Indians probably will
carry only four utility men this
season, but three of them are ultra
versatile.
Oscar Grimes and Russ Peters
can handle any position in the in
field satisfactorily and Outfielder
Beau Bell is a good first baseman.
In addition either Clarence Camp
bell OF Murray Howell will be carried
as a spare gardener.
Evening star., 1941-04-06

Ace Pro Golfers Patty Berg and
Helen Dettweiler will draw two of
the big crowds of the season when
they appear at Kenwood April 27
and at Rock Greek and East Potomac
Parks April 30 Already, judged from
inquiries about the two shows. in
tereSt is Steaming up. They played
in match at Pinehurst last week.
With them in the Kenwood match
will play District Amateur Cham
pion Ralph Bogart and former
Champion Roger Peacock. Their
partners for the April 80 match
probably will be Tommy Doerer and
Cliff Spencer of the public links
staff.
Willie Klein. we'll known New York
pro. was in town for a few hours
last week. He said he may come
to Washington later in the season
to play match with Billy Burke,
former national open king, over one
of the public courses.
AL Houghton has been offered
plane trip to Midwestern tourney
during the summer by one of AIS
winter golf playmates at Miami
Beach. Al is right in the scoring
groove this year and again will be
headache to the lads around
Washington.
Claude Rippy, Washington Golf
and Country Club amateur, had five
rounds in a row below 10, including
brace of Cts. Obviously that trou-
BILE Rippy had with a strained back
last year is over He is playing
the best brand of golf of any anna
teur around town right now.
Witty Cox has been spending a
few days in New York.
Congressional plans an informal
opening April 10, with the formal
club opening slated for May O.
Planned improvements inside the
clubhouse now are in progress, but
no announcement has been made
about golf course changes, including
the possibility of watered fairways.
Walter Bogley of Bethesda, Md,
will be Al Houghton's aide in the
Beaver Dam golf shop this year
He succeeds Stanley johnson.
Four schoolboy matches are sched-
uled Tuesday.
When you want to put on circus
finish at Columbia take a leaf from
the book of M. x. HEARTFELT. He
was matching cards with Barge
Hartz and, thinking he was down,
announced he needed 3 at the
18th. After an Indifferent drive
a spoon shot parked his ball feet
from the cup. He won the match,
l up.
Jack Harris. who is a golf pro,
can play in Federal Golf Association
matches. At least that is the de-
Evening star., 1941-04-06

1Orce isn't expected Tor another
week or 10 days, but you do stand
a chance of getting an odd one or
so before then.
Capt. Joe is all ready for the
season now with most of his little
red rowboats in the water all freshly
painted and caulked.
1t never fails to happen that just
as the river fishing season opens we
have a rain and the river gets
muddy. That's what happens now
with yesterdays heavy rain up in
the hills promising to keep the Po-
tomac muddy for possibly a week
or more. The Monocacy, too, is
muddy but the several trout streams
emptying into that river don't take
long to clear. Five hours after
rain is all that Big Hunting Creek
needs to become clear as crystal,
Evening star., 1941-04-06
District Pistol Championships
Today Attract Stellar Field

The first annual District % pistol
championships will be decided in a
match fired today on the National
Rifle Association range at 10 G
street NE. Shooting will begin at
9 am
At least rs pistol experts and eight
teams from the District, Baltimore,
Richmond, Frederick, Fredericks-
burg, Fort Belvoir and other nearby
shooting centers are expected to
take part. The tourney will include
competition in each of the three
stages of pistol shooting, slow, timed
Evening star., 1941-04-06
OutfieId Of Southpuws

There are three ieft-handed out
fielders on the Maryland ball team,
Fritz Maisel, Carl Cline and Frank
Dwyer, and two of them usually
are in the game. DWyer also plays
first base and can pitch if needed.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Coach of Loyola Five
To Have Sidelines
T., ~. .Associated Press.

BY tne ASbUCIdVeU fItos'
CHICAGO, April 5.-Lennie Sachs
will be very busy man next
fall if he continues as head basket
ball coach at Loyola University.
Sachs was appointed gym in
structor yesterday at Wendell
Phillips High and probably will
coach that schools football team
next fall. This appointment does
not mean necessarily that Sachs will
give up the Loyola post.
Evening star., 1941-04-06

and rapid fire with the course to be
20 shots at so feet.
Another individual event will
combine the three stages in one
match at the same distance with
competitors taking 10 shots for each
stage
Among the outstanding shooters
expected to compete are Walter
Walsh of the F. B. l., R. B. McMahill
of the Metropolitan Police, DR..
William Cooke, one of the old timers
at the sport, and John J. Cash of
the White House Police.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
American U. Rocketeers
Nose Out Y. M. |. Team

~ tfc hSsOClaIed Press.
LEXINGTON, Va, April s.
American University defeated the
V. M I. tennis team today to 4
singles-Thomas, v. NJ. /. defeated
feated Beckhsm, IS, l---6, - Doo-
little, a U, defeated Hill, 3-6, 6-2.
S 8l Mullen BiHchet re Sffefted M defesisd FsanS
Nelson. FL, 6--3: Mccarthy. A. u,
defeated Preston, 60 2--6. g.
Doubes-Webb and Doolttle, A. U. de-
feated Thomas and Beckham 81, l2-l0,
Sc: Evans and Landsman, A. U. de-
feated Hill and Mullen. e.. SIS;
FonVeille and Van LanninEhsm. V. NJ. J..
defeated Mccarthy and Nelson, 4-6, e..
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Washington WrestIers
Deadlock for Second

BALTIMORE, April 5 (Ap,.-Balti-
more Y. M. c. A. won an interstate
wrestling meet tonight by scoring
% points to IA each for Washing
ton and Wilmington.
The locals won four of the six
final bouts.
Erwin N. Behn won in the 1885,
pound class for Washington.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Creighton to Give Fans
Twilight Football

BY TIE Associated Press.
OMAHA, April 5.-Twilight foot
ball" will be offered Creighton fol-
lowers next autumn.
Contracts have been signed for a
4 pm. game with ST. BenediCt's
College Sunday, September 81.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Fordhom, l. S. U. Stort
Grid Series in 1912
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 5.-Fordham
and Louisiana State will open foot
ball relations next year.
The first game will be played In
New York November 7. 1912.
The site and date for the 1943
game have not been determined.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
james Heads Golf Club

PURCELLVILLE, Va, April S
(SpeciaD Fleet H. James has been
elected president of the Loudoun
Golf and Country Club. He Sue
ceeds Harry T. Pancoast. who de-
clined reelection. Other officers
chosen were H. T. Pancoast. vice
president, and j. F. Potts, secre-
tary.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
CoIesviIIe Cards Called

Colesville Cardinals of the Mont
eomery County Baseball League will
practice today at o'clock at the
Colesville field. All candidates are
expected to report.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Rod and Stream
By GEORGE HUBER.

Perch are due to arrive in the Potomac Washnston at almost
likely will Joe Fechers
place today trying catch them using small
hooks the bottom and small pieces of boodworm.
Rockfsh far behind already
Evening star., 1941-04-06

accurate throwing member of the
basket ball squad. Last spring
he also was on the track and
field team, specializing in the pole
vault-where his wheel chair and
crutch muscles are a big aid-and
in the dashes. That he really has
recovered the full use of his legs is
shown by the fact that he regularly
is clocked at 1912 in the 100.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Seu-LeveI Cunui?

Thlrty-five years ago Congress was
wrestling with the veXatious ques-
ton of whether a sea-level or a
high-level canal across the Isthmus
of Panama was the more desirable.
Today that question, in revised form,
has been raised by a joint resolution
introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Mansfield of Texas, chair
man of the House Rivers and Harbors
Committee. The resolution, pro-
posed in the interest of national de-
fenSe, would provide for conversion of
the present high-level waterway into
a sea-level canal so as to obviate any
danger that the canal might be
closed by bombing of the locks.
1t is of interest to review the argu-
ments for and against a sea-level
canal which agitated engineering
groups and which echoed through
the halls of Congress after the United
States decided to take over the great
project from French interests. Count
Ferdinand de Lesseps, head of the
French company, had favored a tide
water channel from the outset. Dig
ging of that type of canal was begun
in 1888, but the work Jagged, due to
financial and other difficulties, and
in 1887 it was decided to adopt the
lock plan, which involved less eXcava-
ton. The French company finally
went bankrupt, however, and Con-
gress authorized purchase of the ca
nal rights for $40,000,000. At the
same time Congress expressed its
preference for the high-level plan.
Surveys and engineering studies by
the Isthmian Canal Commission re-
suited in a report by the chief en-
gineer favoring a Sea-level waterway
on the grounds that it would be best
and cheapest in the end. This view
also was announced later by the En-
gineering Committee of the commits
sion, which recommended that the
big ditch" extend, at tide level, from
Colon Harbor to Panama Bay, with
a width at the bottom of $50 feet.
To resolve the controversy, a board
of consulting engineers was ap-
pointed in 1905. The board divided on
the question and gave Congress data
on both plans. The report showed
that the lock system would be cheap
er, costing only STAT 900 900 as COM
pared with the sea-level estimate
of $3.50 OO0,0 900, and that it would take
only eight years to build the lock
type, instead of the twelve to fifteen
years estimated for the sea-level
canal.
With these facts in hand, the
Senate Committee on Interoceanic
Canals reported in favor of the sea-
level project, but the House, acting
as a committee of the whole, voted
for.the cheaper and quicker lock pro-
gram-and the Senate quickly con-
Cured. That settled the dispute.
To convert the present canal into
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Committee Chairman Sends Thanks
For Article by Mrs. Evans.

10 the Editor of The Star:
l really feel that I cannot adequately
express my appreciation and gratitude
for the splendid article by Mrs. Jessie
FAINT Evans which appeared in The Sun
day Star, March 16, regarding the schools
which are under the protection and
guidance of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. We call them our ID
Approved Schools" and here, in the
District Of Columbia, feel such a great
responsibility for them that we allot 20
per cent of our State budget, the greatest
amount which we give to any committee,
Added to this amount are 80 scholar
ships, with value of S1,650, and cash
gifts Of over $500, as well as bundles of
clothing, etc., valued this year at S2,265.
So you can understand, I am sure. how
deeply appreciative am of Mrs. Evans
story
If there is just one of our 3574 Daugh-
ters in the District who did not read the
article, I have yet to find her. This is
work which touches closely the heart of
all OF us, and there were unanimous ex-
pressions of delight that this work had
been featured
RUTH BOWIE HOUGHTON,
State Chairman Approved Schools Com
mittee, Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
By On Old Barn

Brier and thistle and ruSted rake
Flank the empty trough, yet the herd
could slake
Its daily thirst in a tdr-of tins
Here t0here the leaf and blossom
climb.
Abope cobWebbed stalls dreams a
bdt-hung loft
Where dove talk sounded cool and
soft
As ,Dater bubbIng from spring,
As root-rain teaching the barn to
sing.
An nnremembered lilac near
Tells heartbeat tales none heed,
none hear;
No mortal in this place but me?
I sense throng I cannot see!
Silence! Silence! Tell Dho tossed
The hay to the nroD IN days long
lost!
A whispering door the last hinge
keeps
A murmuring bee Where the stone
UdH sleeps.
JESSIE M. DowLrN.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
The Strike Issue


Settlement of the strike at Wright
Field, Ohio, although it comes be-
latedly and only after the War De-
partment was preparing to use strong
measures to force a resumption OF
work on that vitally important job,
will be welcomed as an indication
that union leaders generally are
turning away from use of the strike
weapon in this particular type of
dispute
The Wright Field walkout, which
has held up work for seventeen days
on an Army Air Corps expansion
program, was staged by 400 American
Federation of Labor craftsmen in
protest against the hiring of four
c. l. o. Workmen by an electrical
contractor engaged on the job In
calling off the strike, union Spokes-
man takes the position that the ne
ceSsitieS of the national defense pro-
gram come ahead of the A. F. of L.
interest in maintaining a closed shop
on the Wright Field job-an atti-
tude similar to that expressed by
the local Building Trades Council in
announcing diScontinuance of the re-
cent strike on the Army Medical
Center job at Walter Reed.
For practical purposes, it makes
little difference whether the Wright
Field strike was called off for
patriotic reasons or because union
leaders had come to realize that thev
were in an indefensible position and
that the strike was going to be
broken in any event. The important
consideration is that the A. F. of l..
has put itself rather definitely on
record as acknowledging that dis
putes such as those at Wright Field
and Walter Reed do not Justify
strikes on national defense projects
during the present emergency.
That, so far as it goes, is a distinct
gain, but it does not 60 far enough
by any means.
The eXigencies of this country's
position are such that no avoidable
interruption to defense work can be
tolerated. 1t is time that those in
charge of the defense program should
stop talking in terms of preventing
unnecessary strikes, and direct their
efforts to preventing any strike. This
can be done if both employers and
employees voluntarily refrain from
taking advantage of the current
emergency for selfish purposes, or,
failing in this, if they are forbidden
to do so.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
National GoIIery's Meaning

Many thousands of people already
have visited the National Gallery of
Art, and it is natural that a great
majority OF them should ponder the
significance of the magnificent build
ing and its precious contents in a
world dominated by conflict and by
the threat Of still more cataclysmic
strife to come.
Symptomatic of the common Won
derment is the observation of Anne
O'Hare Mccormick, printed in the
New York Times today. Andrew
Melons Medocean gesture in giving
this museum to the Nation" she says,
may have been a signal that an
epoch was ended. Or it may be the
beginning of an epoch. In a way it
signalizes our maturity as strikingly
as the heavy sense of world RESPONSE
bility that begins to Cypress the
American people. The folly and the
glory of man meet at the door where
one turns from the picture of war
to the masterpieces of human genius,
and one knows that they represent
the Italy, the Germany, the England
and the America that endure. One
knows, too, that no people can enjoy
the increment of civilization without
bearing the common burden and
paying the price of maintaining its
values"
Certainly, Mr.. Mellon, a sensitive
person, was conscious of the dangers
to which humanity is exposed by its
own sins. But he also had a coura-
geous faith in the capacity and, above
all else, the Willingness-the glad and
cheerful willingness-of the race to
meet and to solve its problems. He
did not give his pictures and their
endowment to society which is
dying. Rather, it was to men and
women and children vibrant with
life, perhaps because of the threat
of death with which they constantly
are faced-people who realize their
danger and are not afraid; people
who comprehend the peril to which
the necessary institutions and tradi-
tions of Christian democracy are
exposed and believe profoundly that,
though He'll itself rise against them,
they will prevail.
The National Gallery may mean a
variety of values. Each pilgrim to its
portals will view it with his own eyes,
behold it by the light of his own
spirit. But there will be general
agreement that the eternal verities
for which it stands are worth what
ever sacrifice may be involved in
protecting such powers as brought
them forth and now preserve them.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Member of the Associated Press
Recreation Unity

Despite a virtual unanimity OF
opinion on the need for unification
of the Districts public recreation
facilities, the unWillingneSS Of par
ticipating agencies to surrender con-
troll over units they regard as pecul-
iarly their own has operated during
the past decade to prevent the eStab-
liShment Of what many persons feel
would be a greatly improved recrea-
tional establishment.
There is pending at present pro-
posal for a recreation board on
which each participating agency
the Board of Education, the District
Commissioners and the National
Capital Parks Office-Would be rep
resented, but majority control of
which would be vested in voluntary
citizen members. This plan would
tend toward a solution Of the "juriS-
dictional' difficulties involved, with
due regard for the merits of the
claims of each interested agency.
The need for Improvement in the
local recreational field is becoming
more pressing with the influx of
population brought here by the Gov
ernment's national defense activi-
ties. More than $4,000 persons are
believed to have come to Washing
ton in this connection since last
summer, and for great many of
them present recreational facilities
are inadequate.
In view of the urgency of the need,
1t Is to be hoped that this problem
of unification will be approached by
all parties concerned from the pri-
mary standpoint of serving the pub
lie rather than their own particular
departments.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trdce,Dell.

| list totals 81 varieties, all Of which have
seen more than once
Our summer prizes include the tana-
ger and indigo bunting, both of which
are usually about, and can be counted on
to show off to visitors, though they do
not, OF course, eat at the tables. Our
titm1ce have tried their usual stunt, try
ing to get hair for their nest from our
dogs tail and mothers head, as well as
fur coat hanging on the line to be
aired.
Something is always happening, there
is never dull moment with SO much
activity around, and it breaks our hearts
when some of our feathered friends meet
with mishaps.
Two years ago heard a commotion
and rushed out just in time to see blue
jays tearing our baby wood thrushes to
shreds
Il tried to save two, but all in the nest
had been pecked so they died. Our baby
robins met the same fate, also in front
of my eyes, but so high in the tree that
I could not frighten the jays away.
How bold they are!
"One night setting towhee was killed
while on her nest, only feathers and cold
eggs being there in the morning. Could
that have been the work of weasel?
When one starts writing about his
birds there is no end, and I started out
merely to tell you about our finches
aSIY1 te
pleasure to all nature lovers. Recently
woman from Montana wrote that it
was now her only contact with bird life,
after having fed birds in Wesley Heights
for many years.
very sincerely, C. E. R."
"P. S. The snow has brought back the
fox sparrows and all the aunts, uncles
and cousins of our regular guests"
1t Is interesting to note that people
in the woods have about the same list
and number of birds, both resident and
migratory, which persons in the sub
urban sections have.
They do have more of them, however,
which is a great deal.
We have had an indigo bunting but
once in ten years, and the scarlet tanager
but once a year.
1t is interesting to note, too, her de-
scription of i'll deeds done by blue jays.
There can be no doubt that these fell
lows are capable of anything; our extern
uation for the jay always has been that
we, personally, have never seen them do
any of these evil things.
The culprit in our experience has been
the grackle. This big bird, with its pow
erful neck and bill, is we'll equipped to
Kill f1edglings, which it does persistently.
Jays may be tolerated for their beauty
of plumage, interesting calls and notes,
and mischievous behavior, bordering on
the clownish.
The other day we heard such a va
riety OF strange calls and clucks coming
from feeding station that we thought
surely we had some new kind of bird,
but it was only lone blue jay, after all,
happy over the approach of spring.
He, too, had seen the flock of 100 rob-
ins, as it went through on its way to
New York, and he knew what that
meant.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

a sea-level waterway would cost
about billion dollars, according to
Chairman Mansfield. He says this
expenditure would be justified by the
security which would come from
elimination of bomb-vulnerable locks.
The third set of locks, now under
construction, could be used during
excavation Of the deeper channel,
he believes. The Mansfield plan has
not been presented as yet to Army
engineers. A thorough study of sea-
level possibilities, in the light of fu-
ture defense needs, might be well
worth while, as a corollary of our
tWo-ocean Navy program. Any sew
erance of the Panama life line could
have grave consequences for all the
Americas.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
MCLEAN, Va.

Dear Sir:
Your recent comments about purple
finches have prompted me to write.
have often wanted to share my bird ex-
periences with you, but felt had moth
ing special to contribute until now.
Il think I can account for the scarcity
of purple finches in some sections of
the suburban area for I must have a
goodly portion of them right here
by actual count have had 81 in sight
at once, and, of course, cannot count
both feed tables and four sides of the
house all at once. They have no special
preference as to eating places under the
shelter, window ledge or regular feed
tables on posts, all they ask is plenty of
grain.
They are very tame, often sit on the
window ledge and peer into the room,
even with my setter peering out at them.
THE first one arrived November 8,
the flock within a week. Last spring
they left me May S, so you see I have
them with me half of the year, and
always in quantities. They are now
singing their sweet little notes and what
joyous, beautiful group they are.
II y
'In passing you might be interested
in my first encounter with purple finch.
1T was in Maine. My neighbor was in
her yard one day when a bird fell at
her feet with broken wing She picked
it up and carried it to still another
neighbor nurse, who made a splint
out of match and bound it up.
1T became very tame and in a short
while was making short flights. Then
one day it disappeared and there was
much grieving in the neighborhood.
"A week went by and then one morn
ing, 10 and behold There was the finch
back again. easily distinguished be-
cause its wing still drooped) With sew
eral others.
That was a dozen years ago and ever
since the purple finches have nested
around my neighbors house and fed
from her window sill all summer, bring
ing their young at very early age to
Initiate them into the ways of humans.
Until that time we had never seen a
purple Lncn, so you know how We mar
veled at its beauty.
I'D like to think that my group here
go to my old home in Maine for the sum-
mer, and so often wish that they could
be banded.
LAS for my other birds, I have the
usual variety, with the exception of no
Knockers, sparrows, grackles and STAR
lingS
Am I not lucky?
I'VE live in the woods and sometimes
when I look out the whole woods are
alive with birds. What Joy they are to
us, and never-ending source of enter
tainment for our guests, who can watch
them from window seat.
Il have only eight cardinals this year
and no baY-breasted nuthatches. which
l have had other years. The fox SPAR
rows haven't been around for nearly
month, but the White-throats. tree SPAR
rows, titmlce, chickadees, hairy and
downy woodpeckers, juncos and brown
creepers are daily visitors.
Including migrating birds, my check