Third party holds key to West (David Lawrence), Evening Star, Aug. 15, 1936, p. 7

Third Party Holds Key to West Montana Safely Roose velt Now, But Splits May Aid Landon. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HELENA, Mont., August 15.-- This is one of the Stales where the labor vote counts decisively and it is ranged strongly on the side of the Roosevelt candidacy. Also with a population of A30.000, relief was given to around 100.000 persons. This helps the New Deal campaign. Careful appraisal by persons who know this State well would seem to Indicate that the President will carry I tt. The Gallup poll first put Montana In the Republic an column and recently twitched It to borderline." but. there ts no evidence here that the State has changed at ail from the set position it has bad for several months--a pro Roosevelt State. Republicans are hopeful of •'breakn" and plenty of them are possible if the factionalism that lias arisen in line the Democratic party should develop or if the Lemke-Coughlin Townsend tickets should begin to ac- quire any strength. For these third party tickets draw votes from Mr. Roosevelt rather than from Mr. Landon. But as the situation stands today, I find that well-informed persons even of Republican leanings concede privately that there is only a fighting chance of winning the State and that if the election were held tomorrow, the Roosevelt party would carry it. by anywhere from 30.000 to 40.000 votes. In 1932. Mr. Roosevelt carried Montana by 49.000. Unlike 19$4 Situation. The chance* of reducing the Roose velt vote to something around 10. qno or 15.000 are dependent, upon the third party movements and possible friction inside the Democratic party itself. Representative Monaghan, who came within 2.000 votes of de feating Senator Murray for the Democratic nomination, is planning to run as an independent. In a three cornered race, the Republicans hope to gain strength. There are some here who believe the Townsend-Coughlin-Lemke ticket will j draw farmer votes away from Roose- velt, in Eastern Montana. This might be thought to parallel the situation tn 1924 when the late Senator La Follette was running on an Inde pendent ticket But actually condi tions are not the same. For example. Senator Wheeler. Democrat of Mon tana was running then on the vice presidential ticket with La Follette and there was enough local strength here to give the third party ticket quite a prestige. Thus Calvin Coolidge polled 74, 000 votes. La Follette 51.000 and John W. Davis 33.000 in Montana in 1924. It will be noted that the com bined La Follette and Davis vote was just 20,000 in excess of the Coolidge Vote. Gold Mine for Third Party. If the third party ticket were well organised and put on an intensive campaign, this would be fertile ground for its appeal, as there is a large radical vote here which lately has been tied up with the Democratic party. Landon's chances of carrying i the State as a minority candidate are. therefore, entirely related to what the third party amounts to and I cannot find many trained observers hereabouts who seem to think much can be expected by the Landon man agers from that source, though they frankly admit that in mid-August it is difficult to say what may materialise In September and October.. The third party idea has usually been pooh-poohed as a negligible factor in our elections, but we have not yet had the experience of what a third party of the radical type may do in a close election year. It is not often considered that in 1924 there were 11 States in which Calvin Cool Idge did not get a majority of the total vote cast for the three candi dates and that he won 04 electoral votes even though he was a minority choice of the voters. It didn't matter so much in that •lection because Mr. Coolidge had a wide margin anyhow, but it is inter esting to note the States in which the radical appeal in 1924 took votes from the major parties and to consider what might happen If this year the Townsend Lemke Coughlin appeal were as effective in subtracting Dem ocratic votes as a third party was 12 fears ago. Figures On Minority Victory. Using round numbers, here is the fable of the 1924 States in which the La Follette party forced a minority victory for a nominee whose platform and apeeches were far more conserva tive than were those of his Democratic opponent: Rep. Dem. La F. Idaho _ 99.000 24.000 54 000 Maryland 162.000 148.000 47.000 Missouri 648 000 572.000 84.000 Montana 74.000 33.000 61 000 Nebraska 318.000 137.000 106.000 Nevada. 11.000 5.000 9,000 New Mexico. 54.000 48,000 9.000 No. Dakota.. 94,000 13 000 89.000 Bo. Dakota.. 101.000 37.000 75.000 Utah 77.000 47.000 33.000 W. Virginia. 338.000 357.000 36,090 In every one of the foregoing States the combined La Follette and Davis vote was greater than the Coolidge vote, and it will be observed that nine of the 11 States were in the West where it might be assumed that the appeal of the Townsend plan and the 1 Lemke doctrine is strong. Father Coughlin's power to infiu- 1 •nee votes is largely in the Middle West and in the East, so it is logical i to appraise the importance of the third party ticket not in terms of its own Inherent strength in electoral votes-- for La Follette got only 13 electoral votes in 1934--but In the possible effect on Landon's chances to repeat the Coolidge experience with 64 elec toral votes. This would be an im portant bloc of electoral votes in a rinse election. The third party in 193R holds the political key to much of this western country. (Copyright. 1938.1 Silver Perfect Solder. j Silver makes a perfect solder. It melts between 1.178 and 1.600 degrees Fahrenheit and the silver Joints In a mend are atmnger than the metalg joined together. News Behind the News Parties Lift Shrewd Strategy From Coolidge Book To Soft Pedal Appearance of Activity. BY PAUL MALLON. THE surface serenity of this campaign la deceptive. Just because the candidates are not making noisy news does not mean that thlnga are as lofty and Impersonal as they agent. From the Inside, to date, this is easfiy the moat shrewdly schemed contest In modern politics. Around the White House, there is no outward evidence that a cam paign is in progress. President Roosevelt's calling lists rarely contain the name of a politician. His public utterances are devoted mainly to selected subjects of the moment, such as drought, relief expenditures, flood con trol, international affairs. Chairman Farley and the lowly politicians are kept at headquarters in New Yoik. They are on their own. out of the White House picture. The President is presumed never to talk to anyone about such mundane thing as votes. This perfect campaign strategy t _ might have proceeded undetected i for an Indefinite period, except for '"'CHirr Mr. Roosevelt's slip in getting caught attending an extraordi narily secret meeting of Maryland politicians at the Welles hide-out near here a few days back. A Maryland politician naturally let a Maryland news friend know all about the meeting. Subsequent White House denials that any politics was Involved only served fo remind all political observers that there was not supposed to be any politics in drought, flood control or Inter national affairs, eitheT. Thus was unleashed the current flood of comment concerning Ihg smartness of Mr. Roosevelt's indirect campaigning methods. The basic idea is noi new. Essentially it t* the tame strategy employed by Mr. Cootidgr in his campaign lor re-election, only it has been carried T uch further. iA wise politician OtlCt said Politics is like war: always changing but always the same: you always develop strategies, but you never drop any of the old ones j. j. You can see the extent of the maneuvering by measuring what ha* happened so far, from the Philadelphia convention floor up. While the campaign is supposed lo have not yet begun officially, Mr. Roosevelt has made these following swift stroke* lo crowd his opponent Into the back* ground and lo draw public attention to his accomplishments: Foreign affairs--Centered attention on the rescue of American* in Spain and protection of American property there, in contrast to previous lack of interest In "dollar diplomacy" during the Cuban revolution and the Ethiopian war. Speaking--A few day* after Gov. Landon announced his first big speaking engagement at Chatauqua. N. Y th# Democratic National Committee adviser on the religious note. Stanley High, hastily made an engagement for Mr. Roosevelt lo speak there 10 days ahead of Mr. Landon. In recent presidential campaigns, none of the candidatea. has con sidered Chatauqua worth attending. The significant aublect chosen by the President for his speech was "foreign affairs." in line with what Democratic politicians have been saying, that Landon a Governor of Kansas, could not possibly know anything about foreign affairs. Flood Control--This is the subject of the moment. It ha* been stressed as the reason Mr. Roosevelt returned from Hyde Park and Ihe reason for his present trip. Of course, local communities receiving money appropriated for flood control from the last session of Congress naturally will connect them with the President's visit. But the unstressed main pur poses of the trip were to make Ihe foieign affairs speech, and to have Mr. Roosevelt show himself in Cleveland (.which has no flood control problem) on the day that ihe Coughiinites are meeting in convention there. Drought--Administrative relief activities in the Iasi month have called daily attention to Mr. Roosevelt a policies, revived the Rural Resettlement Administration, caused the President to arrange another non-political in spection trip next month. i Few politician* o-i either side will question the complete legitimacy of this type of campg.gmng. recognising only the clever ness of It. The only deep pc.litical inferences they tee is that it may indicate more presidential doubt about the outcome than Farley has conceded to date i

The Landon strategy likewise has been lifted from the Coolidge book, from a different chapter. While Mr. Roosevelt* basic problem is to rail attention to hia ac complishments without seeming to be doing it. for political purposes. Gov. Landon's is to keep the biggest possible open door and open house for all who want to vote against Mr. Roosevelt. Political grandfathers know the country has voted negatively more often than affirmatively in preai dential elections. In 1920. it was not so much pro-Harding as anti Wilson: in 1924, afraid of La Follette as much as for Collidge; in 1928. anti-Smith: in 1932. against more of Hoover. This year most political seers agree the out come will be decided by the sl*e of the anti-Roosevelt, not the strictly pro-Landon. vote. The Landon strategy at and since the convention seems to have been baaed on the assumption thst his main problem Is to collect rather than convert. It explain* why he has spoken Infrequently and kept both bis platform and his acceptance speech couched tn terms of a general rather than a specific Invitation While many of his foolhardy followers are howling for him to take a particular stana on every issue under the sun. every time he takes a stand on a debatable issue, he runt the risk of alienating a voter on the othei side of the issue who would otherwise cast a rote against Roosevelt The absence of fire and aword in this type of conflict ma* lead the un wary to surmise that there is no contest, but the fact seems to be that few past campaigns have been as skillfully handled on both sides at this stage of the game. (Copyright. lf»3«.> Heat Chaser Hostess Is Happy Serving Policemen Cool Drinks Just because the men attached to the harbor police precinct ride around on the Potomac instead of plodding the sun scorched streets, they often find the need of a heat chaser. Hope Batcheiler, The Star's heat chaser hostess, found that out. Here she is seen serving cold orange juice to Lieut. W. H. Carlin, in command of the harbor patrol, as he piloted the police boat to its Water street berth. --Star Staff Photo. The Star's heat chaser hostess likes helping policemen. "I'm glad the police are getting a break," Hope Batcheller remarked to day as she prepared for another hu manitarian trip in the heat chaser truck. During the last two week*, she has dispensed, free, a dally average of 12 quarts of orange Juice and 70 bot tles of soft drinks supplied by The Star to thirsty officers unable to leave their posts for a cooling drink. The heat chaser wagon, furnished by the Chevy Chase Dairy, brings the icy refreshment to the policemen direct. _ They deserve what they get, in the •pinion of Miss Batcheller, "It's got now so they look for us •very day." the hostess said. "If we re not there at a certain jjgie. they begin to get worried and wonder what's happened to us. Duty keeps them out on the hot pavements." The policemen are welcome to drink all they want. The record is four glasses of a soft drink. Set by three men found St target practice at Camp Simms. "They don't come any nicer than the policemen who use the heat chaser," the girl says. "T think they are great. They're very courteous and appreciative." The only policeman Miss Batcheller knew Before she became hostess of the heat chaser was officer Yost, whose Bsat includes The Star build ing. where the hostess usually works in the stock ticker room. Now she knows Maj. Brown, the superintendent; the inspectors at the i top of the force, and coujtleaa men None Should Deride CrisL in Spain. Spread of Fire Into War Clouds of Real Concern to U. S. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. ONCE already In European his tory the intervention of Ger many in the domestic affairs of Spain was the immediate cause of war. That war occurred 66 year* ago this month, was won by Germany and established the unity of the German Reich under the leadership of Prussia. The hero of that war was Bismarck and its recol lection mast have come often to Hitler, who has a mystic feeling about German bistory. Then, as re cently, Spain had risen In rebellion against an incom petent dynasty. In 1868 Isabella was overthrown by the mutiny of one of lier squad rons and went into exile, with hardly a fight made on her be j half. Not unlike I Alfonso. The country rejoiced in having rid it self of the Than'p*,,n' "spurious race of Bourbons.'* and set about modernizing itse'jT. But Spain I then, as now. was torn bv factionalism and proved itself unripe for a republic. Then, as now. part of the opposition lo republicanism was also opposition to the dynasty. It was led bv the Carllsts, followers of Don dailos. brother of the former King and uncle of Isabella. These were the political ancestors of the Oarlists of today, who have associated themselves with the blue shirted Fascists led bv Primode Riveras son, and with the clericals. It was impossible lo maintain public order and as a result other nations fished the troubled water*. A regency was established and since the various factions were unable to agree about the succession. It was decided to offer the job to Prince Leopold, one of the Catholic and Swabian Hohenzollerns. France Won. but lost. King William of Prussia was op posed to the Idea, but Bismarck thought it would be well to have a friendly pro-German government in Spain, and so caused the German prince to reconsider his refusal, even after it had been made. This led the French government to intervene and threaten war if the plan was consum mated. King William withdrew his relative's candidacy, but France had now worked herself up into a frenzy and demanded apologies. .The result was the war of 1870. Spain was never ruled by the German prince, but France lost Alsace-Lor raine. Is Germany intervening in Spain today? Berlin says positively and ex pltclty that she ia not. But reports of American correspondents from Seville tell another story. Twice dur ing the last week it has been reported that Gen. FrancLsco Franco is pre paring an air attack on Madrid and that he will use as his chief weapons in this truck 20 German Junker bombers and 7 Italian Caproni bomber*. It is further reported that Oerman and Italian officer* are in charge of the planes and have been conferring with Franco. The planes, it is said, have been carelessly painted over to conceal their origin. At the Hotel Christina, in Seville, according to the same source, are 60 German aviators, co-pilots and radio men. In structlons as to how to reach the air port are posted in German In the hotel. Meanwhile. It la reported from San Sebastian that In that neighborhood loyalist gun crewa are being trained and otherwise aided by French Social ist artillerymen. Berlin delays an answer to the French request for neu trality. Berlin demands that sucb neutrality agreement must includa Russia and must extend to every thing--arms, money, men and mate rials. The whole negotiations look like a blind, like something to provide Prof. Sidney Fay with materia), 15 years from now. for another book on "Who La to Blame for the War." For intervention, if the reports are correct, ha* already occurred. The German press declares that the French are in Spain. The French press insist* that the Germans are In Spain. The British press reports that the Italians are in Spain. Will there be war. or is there already war? Ie this, perhaps, the form of war in thli epoch? War undeclared, working with the weapon of revolution, with force as a terrifying bluff? Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hit ler's pei^onal and confidential Am bassador at large, is appointed to suc ceed the late Herr von Hoe.ach In Lon don. Germany is doing her best to win Britain or keep her neutral. But the vexed question of Austria ha* brought Hitler and Mussolini close to gether. Is it an alliance or U it tem porary? At any rate it moves Britain closer to France. Gen. Marie-Gustav Gamelin, chief of staff of the French Army, arrives In Poland, Is cordially greeted by Oen. Edward Sydz-Smiglv inspector general of the army, and practically Poland's dictator. Danzig Shake* Amity. 1 Where 1* the German-Polish amity of a few months ago? Shaken bv events in Danzig; worried by public and obvious hints from London that Warsaw should draw closer to Russia: weakening through fear and the nec essity of foreign credits, which Ger many cannot give. The French gen eral will probably, we are informed, discuss a loan. The Gazeta Polski says: "The Franco-Polish alliance is the firmest bilateral agreement in Europe." From Vienna comes confidential news that the whole of southeastern Europe is sliding under German in fluence. and will fall to the Nazis, "unless a firm stand is taken." What, doe* taking a firm stand mean? It no longer means notes, protests, white papers. It is too late for that sort of a firm stand. There was once a Britain that would take a firm sta:X But in Britain those who most hate Mussolini. Hitler and fascism and pacifists: some of the Liberals still think that Germany ran be won to gentleness by kindness. King Ed ward is reported to feel kindly toward the Nazis The foreign office, the war office and the admiralty prepare for war. quick solution in Spain one wav m the other might keep the erisis lrom growing But there is nothing u» indicate that that will occur-- nothing now and nothing in Spanish history. Proud, cruel, profoundly in dividualist. and contemptuous of death, the Spaniards may continue this struggle in one form or another as long as a Spaniard is alive, fur nishing a continual pretext for in tervention. If Germans are in Spain. Germans will be killed. Four have been executed already, for reasons none of us know, and beacu e of them Germany delayed joining the proposed neutrality agreement. If German planes bomb Madrid tomor row. with or without German pilots, will that seem a neutral act to France or to Russia? It would be comforting to think that it did not matter to us. That separated by Senator Johnson's 3.00U miles of purified ocean, the fate of Europe and the fate of the British Empire was no real concern of ours. Unfortunately theae is nothing in our recent history to justify that belief We. loo, are arming. L* it just for pride? <Cop»rlKht. Wisconsin Democrats Jittery President's Forthcoming Visit, With La Follette Overtures, Causes Speculation. BY CHARMEg W. HOIJKBUtn. Special Correspondent TTv* Sttr. MADISON. WU.. August IS.--President Roosevelt'* expected visit to MAdison and Wl*con*ln during his inspection trip of drought condition* in the Northwest, while announced as non-political, is I causing widespread speculation in this State, with Wisconsin j Democratic leader* reported t* somew hat jittery about the outcome. According to reports received here, the President will atop over in Madison to confer with Gov. Philip a'lWf we F. Lafollette on the subject of eooP drought relief, but State Demn crats, who have never really had the Roosevelt blessing, fear the visit will have political implica tion* and be interpreted a* a sort of left-hand indorsement of I,a Follette. who heads the Stale 2 year-old Progressive party. The President Is expected during the last week in August or the first week in September. Two years aqo. President Roosevelt slopped off in Wisconsin and in a speech ct Green Bay paid a tribute to Senator Robert M. La Folletle, jr„ that tcat virtually an endoriement. He laid, nothing about Gov. La Follette. however, and this omission was ployed up as a "snub" by the Democrats in their unsuccessful attempt to re elect the then Governor, A. G. Schmedeman of Madison, now State director of the Federal Housing Administration, This year politics: observers are saving that Roosevelt need* me ar rive support of both La Follettes, who have large followings throughout the Middle West.

Something of a disturbance in the State Progressive party is ex pecied.next week when a group of right wing" Progressives meet in Mil waukee to protest present party leadership. These party members, none of whom have any Stale-wide reputation, object strenuoualy to Progressive party participation in the Farmer-Labor-Progressive Federation, a State wide coalition of political, farm and labor groups. Since Gov. La Follette j has refrained personally from joining the F. L. P. F.. he is not one of the Progressive leaders under attack by the dissenting group. Party leaders here, notably Thomas M. Duncan, executive secretary to Gov. La Follette. j discount the importance of the protesters, saying they represent few voters. Meanwhile the F. L. P F has made if clear that it does not care to hare anything to do with the State Communist party organ» nation. Henry Rutz. Slate organizer, last week issued a sizzling statement repudiating several indorsements voted by the Communists, declaring such indorsements were not wanted and acted against Progressive candidates and in favor of their Democratic and Re publican opponents. In the midst of the three-cornered fight between Progressives. Repub licans snd Democrats another political group made Itself heard last week-- the Wisconsin Prohibition party. With Dr. D Leigh Colvin of New York. Prohibition party candidate for President, as their chief speaker, dele gates assembled in Madicon end nominated Prof A. F. Fehlandt, acholary Ripon. Wis., political t>el ence teacher, as their candidate for Governor. Someliow or other in wet Wisconsin the Prohibition party manages to hold spirited Conventions, althoi gh their State 'Ote Is infinitesimal. In 1934 they po'l?d less than a thousand voles. Every two years, however, the Prohibition party makes newspaper headlines, this year with Dr. Colvin'* statement: "Only through t Prohibition party can we save the Nation." The suspending of the 10 unions in the Committee for Industrie' Organization from the American Federation of Labor had its reverbera tion* in Wisconsin as leaders of the effected union* planned a g-era. meeting to decide upon a course Of action. State labor leaders scofl at the posisbility of a serious split in Wis consin organized labor, predicting the settlement of present disputes. The recent State convention of the Wisconsin Federatio of Labor drafted a rompromiae plan for settling the Green-Lewis disagreement and went on record in favor of industrial unionism. CONGRESS CANDIDATE IS UPHELD IN OHIO Democrat Had Right to Accept Union for Social Justice In dorsement, Says Judge. By »he A'ftoriattd Pr**a. COLUMBUS. Ohio August 15.--Su preme Court Judge Edward S. Mai thiaa held yesterday that Republican and Democratic congressional can didates who accepted Indorsement oi the National Union for Social Justice before the primary did not violate the Ohio corrupt practices act. He also held that it was no cor ruption or bribery for such candi dates to promise to vote for their i pnliriral rivals at the November elec firm In rase they did not receive the nomination. In making his decision Judge Matthias dismissed a suit contesting the nomination of Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown, as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the nine teenth district, brought by iocke Miller of Lowellville, a prominent op ponent. asking cancellation of Kir wan's nomination certificate. Mrs. Mary Hope Thompson Dies. Mrs. Mary Hope Thompson, for merly of Washington, died Thursday at the home of her son Charles at Brantford, Ontario Province. Canada, according to word received here yes terday. Mrs. Thompson was the mother of the late Hope K Thompson, i a practicing attorney here. N. B. C. BUILDS AIR BEACON ANTENNA 640-Foot Tower to Serve as Key Outlet for Blue Network. B C. has started construc tion of a new 640-foot verti cal radiator antenna for WJZ at Bound Brook,. N. J., which will make the key outlet for the •■blue" network one of the world's most modern radio stations. It will be completed in time for operation on N. B. C.'s 10th anniversary, No vember 15. One of-the most interesting fea tures of the new antenna is a lighting system. On top of the tower will be located an aviation beacon with dup licate filament bulbs of such bril liance. under favorable conditions, the light beam will be visible to a pilot beyond Philadelphia. The ground system for the new antenna will consist of 90.000 feet of copper ribbon, buried in radial trenches centering at the base. The tower Itself will be connected with the WJZ transmitter by a transmission line consisting of an outer metal tube 10 inches in diameter, sur rounding an insulated inner conduit approximately 3 inches in diameter. A FT HR,% brief rest from his ex periences In Ethiopia- Floyd Gibbons, the famous "Headline Hun ter," has gone to Spain to watch the revolution, and will broadcast what he has observed there during the "Magic Key" program on N. B. C. August 33. Station EAQ. in Madrid, will hurl his speech across the At lantic. 8. C. has juggled Marion Tal ley's broadcasting schedule and. beginning September 6, she will be heard once a week for 30 minutes Instead of for 15 minutes twice a week. Her last 15-minute broadcast will be August 36. on beats and at intersections, but she still thinks Yost is tops. One orange juice drinker she helped at Fourteenth street and Park road turned out to be an old friend who had become a policeman since the last time they met. Capt. Ira Keck, chief of detectives, looked at the blonde hostess, whom he never had seen before, and exclaimed: "Don't tell me you're Ed Batchel ler's daughter! I've known him 20 years." Capt. Keck was right. Miss Batch eller's father is now in St. Louis, where he is chief accountant for the Jeffer son National Memorial, being built along the city's river front With State and P. W. A. funds. This is the hostess' true feeling about the policemen: "I'd like to serve them as well as they serve us." Capital's Radio Programs Saturday, August IS. icopjri.bt. ltm Pastern Standard Time j W RC 950k WMAL 630k i WOL 1,310k WJSV 1,460k I P.M. AFTERNOON PROGRAMS P.M 12:00 Merrv On Round Skipper Radio Gan? Bobby Worth'* Songs New* Bulletin* I 12x00 12:15 Red River Valley News--Music Poetic Strings 12:15 12 30 Farm and Home Hour In Music Room* Buffalo Present* 12:30 12j45 The Tell Sisters _| Dukes of The Ukes 12:45 1:00 Clint Noble's Orch. Farm and Home Hour W. P. A. Concert Afternoon Rhythms 1:00 1:15 I A1 Roth Syncopators 1:15 1:30 Harl Smith'* Orchestra Whitney Ensemble Jack Smith ,Labor News Review 1:30 1:45 "__ i Pianologues Clyde Barrie 1:45 2:00 Blue Room Echoes The High Hatter* Cocktail Caper* Nationals v*. Boston 2:00 2:15 jOale Page 2:15 2:30 Olympic Games !Hessberger's Orch. Empire Ensemble 2:30 2:*5 1 News--Music 2:45 3:00 Olympic Games Middleman's Orch. Robert Keller, organist Nationals v*. Boston 3:00 3:15 j Afternoon Concert 3:15 3-30 j Joan and Escort* Swing Music 3:30 3I _Transparent Woman This^Rhythmir Age 3:45 4:00 Olympic Games Davey Rose's Orch. Today s Winner* Angelo Vitale* Band 4:00 4;15 Sunday School Lesson 4:15 4:30 Kaltenmeyer's Kinderg't n String Ensemble Charlie Brant's Orch. 4:30 ,4:45; Ruth and Rons 4:45 5:00 Olympic Games'Resume Evening Star Flashes Folio "of Facts H.V. 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Stuart Sdwin, motion picture comedian; Joe Marty, star outfielder of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and Grace Saxon, Broadway night club enter tainer, also will contribute to the hour's broadcast. A portion Of the seventh Chicago land Music Festival will be broadcast by WMAL at 8.15. The festival will open with a prelude tenths third act of "Lohengrin" played by the Festival Symphony orchestra under the direc tion of Henry Weber. "When I'm With You," and "These foolish Things." lead the "HU Parade and Sweepstakes" selections to be played by Harry Salter's Orchestra on WJSV at RENOVlZE Ratified Th»»*»»d* 91 T»»r*. Com»et«nt AftlldR* EBERLY'S SONS i mm k w.w. 5 rRjr r IHenifv v»*f hnimml wn+riv'/r MA, FA, SONNY SIS EN. JOY THEIR SWIMS AT THE FINE CLEN ECHO CRYSTAL FOOL. WHY NOT YOU* i ^hhhhhhhhhhihhhhBHHHHBF Headline Folk and What They Do Jim Mutrie, Pioneer of American Base Ball, New 91. BY I.EMI fl, F. PARTON. WHEN Jim Mutrie first, played bs.'-e ball, a batter got four strike* and nine balls, with a slab-sided bat; players were bare-handed, which Mr. Mutrie a knobby finger* attest: there were no hot dogs and a sandwich man rang a big bell; beer and stronger sniff was *o]d In the stand*; admission was 5(1 cents, with 25 cent* extra in the RTandstand: the pitcher box was 43 feet from the batter, in. stead of so as it. 1* todav, and Jim Mutrie* blow torch moustache flared out bravely in t i»e breeze. In 1880. Mr. Mutrie brought, jtm Mutrie. professional ba.-o ball to New York, under hi* stove-pipe hat. a* it wa* just an idea then, and all his. And now. at the age of 91, he* a grav wraith at the National Leagues 60th anniversary celebration at the Polo Grounds. His arm is withered »nd his moustache tamed Sometimes he gets ghosts from his pantheon mixed up In the batting order. Base Ball Treasured Memento. In his tiny house at an alley s end on Staten Island, he fondies his on® treasured memento of better times. It. is a base ball which Roger Connor betied just one-fourth of a mile from the home plate of the Polo Ground; to the intersection of Fifth avennp and 114th street. That historic swat has been quite thoroughly certified. In the 60s and 70s, in Chelsea. Maw. his birthplace, young Jim Mutrie occasionally picked up as much as *60 a month playing base ball. His plan to organize professional base bail took him to New York. Tall and imposing, never seen without his nigh hat, he was an impressive figure. He was a good promoter. August Bel mont. the financier, let him have a block caller) the Polo Grounds, be tween IlOth and 111th streets and Fifth and Sixth avenues. John B. Day, a wealthy tobacco magnate, barked him. They organized the Metropolitans." In 1884. the Metropolitans lost, but Day and Mutrie made *90.000. They cleared a similar amount in 1885. The 'ear 1888 was a whirlwind year. Tim Keefe pitched 17 straight vic tories. That was when Jim got th# idea of calling his outfit the "Giants." Refused to Pay Graft. In 1890, two slick-looking gents step ped into Jim's office. They were ter ribly sorry about it, but it had become necessary to run a new street smack through Jim's polo grounds. Howe'er, it could be squared for *4.000. Jim was reaching for a ball bat when they left. His was the valor of both cour age and ignorance. In no time, they rooted him out of the ball park. He tried to start again in a swamp up in 155th street, but things went badly. The American League broke up and Jims National League was reorganiz ing. The politicians hooked fast ones around his neck. Before he knew what had happened, Jim Mutrie. one-time base bail mag nate, was four-bitting along with little newsstand at St. George Ferry, with nothing much left of the old days but his stove-pipe hat. He tried run ning a hotel at Elmira. N. Y. Nothing came through. In 1923, base ball writers discovered him in bitter cir cumstances at his home in Staten Island, his wife seriously ill, and the years crowding in on him. They stirred up a fuss about it, and McGraw assigned him a small pension, which, at last accounts, was still going. Few of the polo grounds players or crowds ever heard his name. But it was Jim Mutrie, out of the shadows and in the sunlight for an hour, who laid out. the big league diamonds of America. iCopTright.

HOOVER SEES DROP IN CRIME FIGURES Report on Last Three Years Is Based on Statistics From 1,127 Cities in U. S. Bj 'he Assented Press. t J. Edgar Hoover, director of t,h# Federal Bureau of Investigation, as serted yesterday there had been a Nation-wide decrease in crime during the last three year*. Hi* report was based, he said, on statistic* supplied by police depart ments of 1.127 cities. Rape, which inn-eased 15.7 per cent, was the only crime to show an In crease. Decreases were reported tu follows: Rnbbtg-v. 26.5 per cent; automobile thefts. 26.2: killings. 13.6; aggravated assaults, 8 5. and burglaries. 8.4. The reductions in crime were chief ly noted. Hoover said, in cities of more than 100,000 population, though many smaller communities also re ported substantial decreases. i