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Evening star., 1942-10-18
Good Police Work

Most OF us are so quick to criticize
the police for their faults that praise
for extraordinarily good work should
be all the more generously given.
Detective Charles T. Williams and
Private Roland M. Kirby of the
eighth precinct seem to have done
some excellent police work in their
solution of long series of burglaries
In Northwest Washington, recovery
of the loot and arrest of the men
charged with the crimes. According
to their captain, their accomplish
ment represents "the finest piece
OF police work in the District in
years" If that is true, even with
qualifications. the men should be
officially commended.
Every year the Board of Trade pre-
SentS medals and citations to police
men and firemen for acts of heroism
In the line of duty. This is an excel
lent custom and provides an organ
lied method of indicating the COM
munlty's appreciation. There should
be as quick recognition of the less
spectacular but equally praiseworthy
work OF policemen whose intelligence
and diligence in patiently following
down unpromising '1eads" solve
crime. Singing out men who have
shown such promise in detective
work, giving them additional training
for promotion and developing their
talents is certainly a more logical
method OF building up an efficient
force OF detectives than hiring men
from out Of town and bringing them
here under the doubtfully helpful
title OF super -sleuth," with special
salary ratings. Human nature, it is
feared, already has condemned this
latter experiment and made it q
failure.
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Non-Wur Spending

The downward trend in non-War
expenditures reported to Congress by
President Roosevelt is encouraging
to a certain extent. Satisfaction is
tempered, however, by the fact that
figures quoted by the President show
the important reductions which
have been made without sacrificing
human considerations" are due al
most entirely to the unemployment
relief slash made possible by the war
boom, while in many other directions
spending is on the upgrade.
A statement by Budget Director
Smith which accompanied the report
points out that the non-war expend-
itures for this fiscal year are esti-
mated at $4,194,OOO,000, representing
a cut OF 1000, 100000 under 1912, and
35.6 per. cent from the peak Of $685.
100000 in 1899.
Reductions were made despite
many expanding war duties of non
war agencies, including such general
service functions as budgeting, &C
counting and personnel work." he
adds.
This 1939-1s43 decrease was $2,322,-
100000. At the same time. relief
expenditures-WPA, Civilian Conser-
vation Corps, National Youth Ad-
ministration and direct relief
dropped 100000. from s2,677,-
100000 to sA35. 100000. Incidentally.
social security benefits were increas-
ing from s347 ,ooO, 900 to $53s, 600, 900.
One set of figures quoted by the
report compares expenditures for
Government services In the fiscal
year 1892, the year before this ad-
ministration came into power, and
those same services as rendered to-
day. The figures obviously were fur
Evening star., 1942-10-18
Fifty Years Ago
in The Star

Fifty years ago the whole country was
excited over the opening of the Chicago
Worlds Fair, in
World Fair tended as a ouadri-
Reody to Open centennial exposition
commemorating the
discovery of America. Crowds at Chi
cago' read headline in The Star of
October l8, 1892 "Chicago's population
has increased greatly and each train
arriving at the Union Depot brings its
quota of pleasure seekers, who come to
witness the dedicatory exercises. Hotel
men are anticipating the greatest gath
ering of strangers that has ever as
sembled in the city,
The Star of the same day printed an
other article on the same subject, from
the local angle.
Government Visitors Special trains
To the Fair were run from
Washington to
Chicago for Government representatives.
First of the three trains to pull out for
the place which Columbus would have
discovered if he could was tine one which
was laden with cabinet officers and men,
bers of their families. A few min
utes later and the Supreme Court of the
United States was on its way to Chicago.
-" There was no great surplus of room
in the diplomatic train, which left the
city about 10 minutes after the Supreme
Court had departed. - No three trains
ever eclipsed the three that are now
racing toward Pittsburgh" The pur-
pose of these specials was to get their
passengers to the fair little ahead Of
the dedication ceremonies, on Friday
the 2lst The trains waited in Chicago
to return the party Saturday afternoon.
With the election less than month
distant interest in politics was intense.
Leaders to Confer said The
Election Star of october II, 1892. "At
pI.,e Republican headquarters Tin
New York; all interest today
centers in the conference to be held this
afternoon between Messrs. Quay and
Blaine and the managers of the cam
paign. Mr.. Quay's presence has been
the one thing most desired by the Re-
publican managers and they have re-
ceived telegram from him saying that
he will be here today. The active in
terest shown in the campaign by Blaine,
Quay, Reed and other leaders of the
party in the past few days gives new
tone to the campaign and the Democrats
as we'll as the Republicans admit that
the Republican chances have greatly
improved" They did not, however, i'm
prove nearly enough to win. Grover
Cleveland was elected by comfortable
majority.
One of the worst sea disasters of all
time was the wreck of the S. S. Bokhara
off China. In a dispatch
Steamship from Hong Kong The Star
Wreck Of october 18, 1892, re-
ported: THE steamer ran
into the storm before dark and would
probably have come through all right
had, it not been for the seas boarding
her. The water poured in torrents
through the hatchings, the covers of
which were carried away, and down the
companionways leading to the fireroom.
The fires were soon out and the steamer
became helpless. The chief officer .
says he never saw such a tremendous
storm. The boats were either
smashed or carried off the davits before
the vessel struck. y When the steamer
struck she sank almost Immediately
= Of the crew, 1O2 are missing and
little if any doubt is entertained that
they were drowned"
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huge Army. Rather, the argument
merely is that it would be better to get
arms quickly into the hands of armies
already in the field in the hope that
the1 can turn the wars tide. If they
do, then the cost to this country in
lives will be less and the war will be
ended more speedily. If they do not,
then there still will be time to speed
up the rate of building the American
Amy. On the basis of the most
optimistic estimates it is not going to be
possible to move more than 100000
men overseas by the end of 1943 and
than that.
An army of 100000 men, or even
100000 in England, plus the British
and Canadians, could bring immense
pressure on Germany. The Germans,
at the very best for them, still will have
to keep millions of men in Russia. The
Itahan Army is insisting that it can
not do the job required of it in Africa,
let alone help Hitler in Europe. Any
British American invasion of Europe is
to release an imnortant amount of
trained manpower for use on our side.
The advocates of some slowing in
the rate of Army Building urge all
e..-rhccis upon quick creation of an
American air force of at least 100000
men and navy of immense size and
strength. They believe that the con-
tribution of this country can be greatest
in the air and at sea, If the present war
is to end within any reasonable length
Of time.
That. then, Is the background Of Q
very important question that q getting
Evening star., 1942-10-18

liam M. Mooney, Who mas a packcround
OF 45 years In the postal service, working
his way up to chief clerk of the Post
ONCE Department and for is years post.
master of Washington. But as neither
MI Swanson nor Mr.. Mooney was
familiar with the peculiar duties Of ths
House tally clerk. Mr. Hickson had to
BE- brought back from Philadelphia to
drtu them.
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WEST HIGH FOR GREEN;
TOLEDO HAS HOME TOUCH

Bull session: talking it over with
some of the eastern basketball
coaches:
Ossie CoWles (Dartmouth)
every team we met out west
seemed to be needed. Sellout
crowds everywhere.
wisconsin is not the club it was
last year. Johnny Kotz is great,
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BY
DAN PARKER

the strength of their billing from the local
papers wc indicate the Clowns neither
Army Feb He served with the 10th
Joe Beckett weren't enough
anoLner OF the same name middeweght retired
recently
soentee IN
looked upon the find of the who
writes sports column
Phelan, the boxing commissioner.
DICK GRIFFIN fight promoter from Dallas Texas
ioerhd system Of typewring
young George Clam
mastan standing six feet four and weighing
at the $14OO00O Municipal Auditorium
summons the barrer the
WIN ana the Jap Of spades will be topped American
former Yankee baboy will
Coast Guard those Naz
former lightweight champion fined CITY
Court recently for intoxcaon
'oo Fltzsmm0ns
Der Of the Brooklyn Chamber Willie andot one
time Brooklyn BANTAM is managing
weight from Chicago , " ~
LEW DIAMOND DENIES that hex doctor nut
dropped him with left Office recently sn
Mack Binder Box H. Ebbets Field shipped
ne ddn ask Dr. A. G. Silver to bill
ne wore them
ne TO them
manager who has bne laid
is now on the Nnd Complaints
recent Saturday night the whole
minutes with main bout that wasn't preliminary
whose we died recently Local gamblers stories Of the
Ixas- Baylor BASKETBALL
l en Won o-o3 New Years
IN singapore snce
Japanese INVASION thi year The Roanoke
season includes New
Id Ryder Rutherford Ed Andrask
Schnann OF Hackensack
queens County and Metropolitan manager of the s
bowling
city within a city in the pA" Vic
Copyright, 1872 King Features syndicate)
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NATIONAL YMCA :
CANCELS JOURNEYS

Joseph r. Rimany, Jr.. and Rob-
ert N. Parmelee, physical directors
OF the Central YIN. c. A., were in
formed here today by the National
Z. M. G. A. headquarters in New
York that in order to permit it's
physical directors to devote their
full efforts to health building ac-
tlvities In local communities, the
Y. M. c. A. has Cancelled all of it's
national athletic tournaments with
the exception of the basketball
meet to be held in Chicago March
1913, "Y' officials announced here
today.
tournaments Cancelled included
volley ball, swimming, badminton,
handball, wrestling, bowling and
gymnastics. The Chicago basket
ball tournament is being held as
part of the nationwide celebration
OF the court games Golden Jubilee.
Basketball was originated so years
ago by DR.. James Naismith, then
an instructor at the Y. M. C. A..
Training School now known as
Springfield College.
We feel that the time devoted
to the promotion of national tour
naments can be better used by our
physical directors in their war time
efforts to improve the health of
their communities" j. Edward
Sproul, national program director
of the Y. M. G. A., explained.
Many of the Y. M. C. AS special
gymnasium classes for defense
workers are being held late at night
or early in the morning, and 1t
would BE- impossible to continue
these and at the same time oper-
ate a series of national tourna-
ments."
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Jungle League
R-O-A-R-S!

For the first time this year the
mighty" Hyenas have been pushed
out of first place by the Monkeys.
Well 1t looks like Sal "Smasher"
Addessio was red hot with his 1854.
Them Buns" Balloons just
couldn't see the pins after Long
Lou" and SLEEPY" lost their range.
1.-THE Great" Jacaruso was high
man for the night with his 800.
wonder Boy" Severino was the
clown Of the night especially when
he tried to slide down the alleys.
Those "Luckless" Zebras just
couldn't make the grade against
those new first place Monkeys.
"Slicker" Campana and "Slugger"
Adducci were the big guns for the
Monkeys white washing job against
the ZebraS.
Big doings are being planned by
the bowling banquet committee.
All the fellows are asked to set
aside Feb. 81 because that Is the date
the banquet will be pushed ahead
because Of the present condition.
Because Of the new closing date
the league expects to find changes
in the lineup each week.
Next week Them Buns Balloons
meet the Fighting" Hyenas whom
expect to go into first place.
The headline attraction will see
the Growing" Gorillas try to
strangle the 'Menacing" Monkeys
out of first place.
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MILLR0SE GAMES
MORE IMPORTANT.
AS K. c. CANCELS
East, West Track Stars in
First Meeting February
I in New York
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS

(Unlteo FreSS Stan COrreSp0n0ent)
New York, Jan. 26.-(UP)-Can-
collation. of the Boston knights of
Columbus meet left track and field
followers today with a two-week gap
in board-floor racing which will not
be broken until Feb. when leading
east and west athletes meet in the
Millrose Games.
This annual meet at Madison
| Square Garden always has provided
one of the sports most versatile
events, but the addition of the years
first meeting of eastern and western
stars adds luster this season. Ordi-
narily, the sectional stars would have
met first at Boston, but the K. of
c. meet there was postponed be-
cause of K. of c. war work.
Early Millrose l!stings show the
western contingent-always a for
midable group with the cream of
the Big Tens champions-even more
potent this year.
Roy Rochrane, Campbell Kane
and Roy Wilt, and a powerful team
for the two-mile relay, head an I'M
usually strong roup from the Univer-
sity of Indiana. Cochrane, Big Ten
indoor and outdoor titlist at 440
yards, will attempt to repeat in the
Mel Sheppard 600 Kane, NCAA half
mile champion and Big Ten ruler at
$50 yards and a mile, will run in
either the Wanamaker mile or the
Millrose $780, Wilt, the NCAA two
mile king, will meet Greg Rice and
others in the two-mile event. Kane
also will anchor the crack two-mile
relay team.
Irish" to Run
Other outstanding entries include
Notre Danes mile relay team which
will run in the east for the first
time, Keith O'Rourke, Notre Danes
all-time record-holder in the high
jump-six feet 7 7-8 inches - and
Michigan's two-m!le relay team
which won here year ago.
The usual banner crop of eastern
standouts will compete. This group
paced by Leslie MacMitchell, the
miller and Rice, the three miller =
sent the season off to fast start
by shattering one world record and
five championship marks at the
Bronx Coliseum Saturday night.
MacMitchell, performing before
capacity crowd Of 5000, shaved 3
3-l9 seconds from the title STAN
dard with ABB clocking on the
n1ne-lap oval. Rice came through
with 14:10.7 performance In the
three miles to erase the meet mark
Of 1874.
New World Mark
Fordham's crack relay runners
took two titles, cracking the world
indoor mark in the 1850 yards
sprint medley with a 1:54.1 timing
to nip $40 of second from the two
year old mark registered by NYU at
Madison Square Garden. They won
the mile relay in 1921 for a meet
record.
Another championship standard
feH to Jimmy Herbert of the Grand
Street Boys when he ran a 'front.'
race all the way to retain the 600
yard crown and battered his own
1:l2.1 record with a 1:11.7 clocking.
The nights final record went to
Henry Dreyer, mammoth NYAC per-
former, who heaved the 35-pound
weight Sc feet inches to better by
eight inches the record he set two
years ago.
New York A. c. won the team title
!or the 10th straight year, scoring
As 2-3 points. NYU was runnef-up
with "A 1-3.
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HARVARD PLAN
PROVIDES ISSUE
ALL over U. S. A.
Fireworks Sure to Fly at
Next Meeting in Far
West
BY JACK CUDDY
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

New York, Jan. 26 - CUP.) -
The big sports problem now con-
fronting colleges throughout the
land-that of freshman participa-
ton In varsity athletics during the
war-will be settled within the next
few months at faculty and confer
ence meetings, but not without con-
siderable dispute.
This was emphasized today in a
United Press nationwide poll of 80
representative colleges by state
ments accompanying the ballots.
The question was brought to the
fore last week by Harvard's an
nouncement that in expanding its
athletic program for physical fit
ness during the war, it would make
freshmen eligible for varsity sports,
including football.
Harvard, like many American COL
leges, is condensing its educational
program into three instead of four
years. This factor and the shortage
OF varsity players because of the
draft and enlistments, are the ma
jor reasons for the Harvard plan.
And they are potent reasons, as is
indicated by the poll in which Al
colleges favored freshman partici-
patton in varsity sports, q opposed
and IA We're uncertain.
On The Way
The Missouri Valley conference, at
its recent meeting in st. Louis, re-
vised its rules to permit freshman
participation. The southern confer
ence, while not voicing approval yet,
has set up an executive committee
to put such ruling into effect
whenever it is found necessary. The
Southern Conference viii vote on the
proposition at its spring meeting in
Atlanta. The Southwest Conference
is expected to favor it in May, and
the Big Six next month at Kansas
City.
Invites PROSECUTING
Chief opposition is found in the
MidWestern Big Ten and the Pacific
Coast Conference. Of five big ten
schools polled, only Minnesota fay
ored fresh participation. The other
four were against it - Michigan,
Ohio State, Wisconsin and North
western. Herbert O. (Fritz) Crisler,
athletic director and football coach
at Michigan, said, L hope we don't
have to play freshmen. 1t would
lend itself to invite PROSECUTING to a
degree unknown at the present
time"
Crisler's statement, it was under
StnnI rnf1patc tho <f
Big Ten, which may not even vote
on the proposition at its March
meeting.
Action Ahead
Fireworks are expected at the
June meeting of the Pacific Coast
conference where Stanford, Mon
tana and Idaho favor the Harvard
plan, with Southern CAL and Ore
gon State-Rose Bowl champions -
are uncertain but expected to jump
on the Frosh bandwagon. However,
the movement is vigorously opposed
by California, Washington, UCLA,
Oregon and Washington State.
Opposition to the plan will come
in other conferences from such
schools as Texas in the Southwest,
Colorad and Renyer in the Big
Seven, Louisiana State and Georgia
in the Southeastern, North Carolina
and Virginia Military in the South
erin and Missouri in the Big Six.
There1l be plenty of argument
over the so-called Harvard plan, but
it seems now that flock of fresh
men will be trying for all-America
this Fall.
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Pacific Coast And Midwest Oppose Frosh On Varsity Team
Northwestern's Graham Follows
Football Success In Basketball
kotx Is Great,
But Wisconsin
Feels Loss of
Gene EngIund
what I call cooperation"

what I call cooperation"
Joe Lapchick (St. Johns: dc
we respect western teams? We
respect the Boomer Girls before we
play them. But here's a thought
Why do they only come East when
they have powerhouse? Where is
Stanford since Luisetti? Where was
Washington since 1882"
led. Note: Ned Irish, who books
the Garden games, can answer
that. Why bring in second
raters?)
Honey Russell (Seton HalD :
close. Near the end there's a tip
off we have to get. I have big
ST guy all ready at the timers
table, and I hustle him in. The
referee gets confused The game
is delayed about minute and a
half, long enough for Ossie CoWles
to get a 6-8 guy undressed to
jump against my 81 guy. Now
the ref is bewildered. He pushes
these two big fellows away and
puts two little buys in the pump.
Amid my little guy gets the tap.
That's real strategy"
UNBEATEN ROCHESTER TEAM
is ONE OF NATIONS BEST
Dots and daShes: Rochester has
one of the nations better unde-
feated outfits Lou Alexander's
lads whipped Yale, Michigan State
and Princeton . Jim Beall, Glenn
Quaint and Pete Kelly lead the
way Writes Eddie Ash of the
Indianapolis Times: unless that
Chicago quintet wins one shortly
they'll be calling it the big Nine
and-a-Half" !. Bradley Tech has
another fine team A. J. Robert
sons Greatest Action Team in
Americt," as they call themselves,
handed towering West Texas State
it's first defeat . New Workers are
gloomy about eel foldo" of local
teams Long Island snapped
Creighton's six-game streak, C. c.
N. Y. beat Oklahoma A. and M
and st. Johns topped Oklahoma,
but elsewhere the boys were lathered
Rice whipped Fordham, Oregon
ing beat City College, Colorado
State trimmed Manhattan, Wyom-
clouted st. Johns, Washington muir
dered N. Y. U. and L. I. U. fell
apart and lost to Tennessee.
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YMCA OSTOGENARIANS
OPPOSE KENOSHAS

Believe it or not, but Art Purin-
ton will don basketball suit and
play a quarter or more IN the game
between the Central Y staff and the
Kenoshas tonight at the Central Y
gym at 8 o'clock.
Coach Herb Smith of the staff
team will show Walt Mains, Bob
Parmalee, Aubrey Greenlaw, Matty
Matthewson, Joe Rimany as his
starting team which is managed by
his brother, Tom. who will also keep
time and score the baskets, If any.
The Kenoshas will trot out with
Joe Kenny. George Morrison, Sam
Ella, Don DAILY and Franc.s Le-
vesque. The public is invited to
see this comedy of errors free.
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SPADES ORGANIZE

The Spades, a junior socia1-ath-
letic group held an annual election
Saturday night at the Boys Club.
The following members who were
elected are: President, Santo Mi
cell; vice pres, Leonard Schiavo;
secretary, Fred Napolitano; treas
urer, Raymond Bear Henry Behr,
club director acted as moderator
during election. The following
members are leading the Boys
Club junior basketball league: NJ.
Andolina, J. Cicchetti, t. Damelio.
F. Napolitano, F. Roke, and l.
Schiavo. This club is also interested
in other Boys Club activities.
The Spades are looking for game,
with other teams between thu
ages of IL to Is. Phone the Boys
Club and ask for William Behr o,
Noberga between 3 and 6 o'clock.
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western clubs?' I don't think col
lege is the place to teach that. 1t a
high school kid comes up with that
kind of a shot - fine. But we won't
change them over"
Ed Kelleher (Fordham) Were
playing Rutgers, and there's a
referee named Ferguson. The
whole first half and for 10 minutes
of the second, this guy doesn't call
a foul on Rutgers. Only on us.
So I yell to him: Hey, Ferguson,
how about calling one on Rutgers
for a changer He looks at me -
sort of panied and Immediately
calls one on the other team. That's
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but they miss Gene Englund.
Toledo is very strong
II can't see how they'll ever lose
at home. Their co-captains = Bob
Gerber and Bart Quin-were pros
before they ever came to college.
They have the touch at home"
Howard Cam New York Uni
versity): How good is Washing
ton? (The Huskies set a Garden
record of 70 points against N. Y. ID
don't know. They were all so fast,
I couldn't tell one from the other"
Nat Holman Getty College,:
people ask: Why don't you teach
your boys to shoot one-handed like
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In the last contest the "Luckless"
lebras expect to climb out of last
place by taking over the high-step-
ping Apes.