Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1926, Page 18

s = PINCHOT BACKS BIG FIGHT; WILL ATTEND Tells Protesting Clergyman P!e Won’t Stop Bout—Cites i . $75,000 Revenue. BY the Aseociated Press ARRISBURG, Pa., September 22. -4Bov. Pinchot will not interfere with th Dempsey-Tunfey fight. Instead nefwill attend it himself, and he hopes Géne.Tunney ‘will win. @ so informed Rey. Charles Scan- lofl of Pittsburgh, general director of th department of moral welfare of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, last night in a letter refusing o request that he siop the match. The governor defended boxing 15 a sport and as “onducted fonally 1n Ivania un- der the present law, then summed up 'his own posi- tion in these words: “For all of these reasons, and for many others with which I shall not burden you, I be lieve that I have done the right thing in standing behind the Pennsylvania law in the matter of the Dempsey- Tunney boxing match. So believing, 1 see no reason why 1 should not attend the match myself, and I have ar- ranged to do s Also I earnestly hope 10 see Tunney win." The text of Rev. Mr. Scanlon’s let- ter was not made public, but at *he executive's offices it was said it called upon the governor to take action to prevent the champlonship match to- morrow night. The governor characterized boxing as an “admirable exercise” and one of the principal factors in conditioning American soldiers in the World War, and pointed out that the money the State collects as tax on boxing matches goes toward a fund for Penn- sylvania memorials on the European battlefields. - The amount which tife State will get for this purpose result of the 9 fight is expected to Under the State w the tax amounts to 5 per receipts, exclu- GOV. PINCHOT. sive of any Federal ta The governor called the clergyman’s attention particularly to the fact that “the nations in which boys and men are in the habit of doing their fight- ing with their fists are precisely those in which they are not in the habit of using the knife or the bullet for that purpose.” AUTOMOBILE EXPERT WILL AID IN BUS CHECK | Barber Assigned to Public Utilities | Body to Take Inventory for Rate-Making Basis. 1. «. Barber, the District govern- ment's automobile expert, has been loaned to the Public Utilities Commis- sion to make a check on the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co.’s in sistant engincer t'umm(\ ed to public utilities. The commssion now is studying the { valuation claim of the bus company in connection with its request for financial relief in the form of a straight 10 cent cash fare. Maj. Covell believes it will take the com- mission several weeks longer to com- plete the review, when the hearing on the company's petition for a higher fare will be resumed The company claimed a valuation of $635.000, but the commission's ex- perts plan to trim this figure ma- terlally for use as a basis for rate- making purposes. The principal re- ductfon is expected to be made in the figure it placed on real estate holdings and bus equipment. Cost and present- day prices were used by the company in the valuation claim. it was pointed out, without muking an allowance for depreciation Reserve Officers Commissioned. Commissions in the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued by the War Department, as follows: Frank S. Flynn, 141 North Carolina avenue, as a captain in the Ordnance Department; William S. Culbertson, Department of State, as a captain in the Military Intelligence Diviston; Ralph McT. Graham, 6810 Eighth atreet, as a first lleutenant of In- fantry; Barbour N. 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Andrew White, popular radio sports announcers, will be the “eyes” of the vast radio audience during the Demp- sey-Tunney champlonship fight to- morrow night .in the Sesquicentennial Exposition grounds in Philadelphia. McNamee will be at the ringside microphone for WEAF and the sta- tions linked with it, while Maj. White will describe the battle for W. JZ and its associated stations. ‘Washington's powerful broadcaster WRC will be linked with WJZ. The fight broadcasting will occupy all of this station’s early program, which will start at 6:30 o'clock with the pre- liminary bouts. The Dempsey-Tun- ney battle is scheduled to begin at 8:45 o'clock. Besides WRC, stations which al- ready have subscribed to the fight service are WEAF and WJZ, New WEEI, Boston; WJAR, Provi- WTAG, Worcester; WFI, Phila- a; WCAE, Pittsburgh; WSAI, Cincinnati;: WTAM, Cleveland: WGR, Buffalo; WWJ, Detroit; WOC, Daves port; WCCO, St. Paul-Minneapol KSD, 8t. Louls; WG, Chicago; WCSH, Portland, Me. 1C, Hart- ford; WDAF, Kan: . WADC, Akron, Ohio: Springfiel KDKA, Pittsburgh; WGY, Schene tady; KFKX, Hastings; KYW, Chi- cago, and WHAM, Rochester. Ar- rangements are being made for a short-wave relay to KOA, Denver, and || KGO, Oakland, Calif. other stations also join in the hook- up. SLOOP IN POTOMAC SEIZED AS RUM BOAT At least a dozen are expected to With representatives of both the || local prohibition unit and Coast Guard on board, a Coast Guard pa-|| trol boat, which had been on duty || here last week during the President’s || the auxiliary || Cup regatta, seized sloop Grayling and its captain, H. A. Haven, late vesterday in the Potomac River off Breton Bay, not far from Leonardtown. The arrest was made by prohibition officers, and the Gray- ling will be taken to Baltimore. A small amount of liquor is alleged to have been on board the Grayling. The patrol boat, 'in addition to checking up on alleged liquor vio- lators, will inspect ships for the pur-|| pose of holding them to observance of marine regulations as to licenses, life preservers and other things. It has been ordered back to its patrol off the Virginia Capes. Prohibition officials made a big hau! vesterday in the woods near Great Md., when five stills were and more than 400 gallons of destroyed. seized, whisky Baltimore today, but sone, Shapiro, who was recognized by pro- hibition agents, escaped, and a war- rant will be scorn out in Baltimore || according to R. L.|| for him today, Livingstone, deputy ministrator. Two 500-gallon stills were in full operation, and three other new stills were being set up. About 26,000 gal- lons of mash was destroved. The four men arrested were Scott Calloway, H. M. son and Joseph Jordan, all of Great prohibition ad* Four men were || arrested, and were on their way to | Isador || Miller, Robert Jack- || THE FIGHTBAN SOUGHT IN PENNSYLVANIA Another Injunction Plea Filed by Coliseum Compahy Against Bout. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September 22— Another injunction suit was filed in Common Pleas Court today to stop the Dempsey-Tunney bout here to- morrow. This time the Sesquicenten- nial Exhibition Co. and the Pennsyl- vania State Athletic Commission are the defendants in an action brought by B. C. Clements, president of Chi- cago Coliseum Club. Clements also filed an_application for an injunction yesterday against Dempsey and Tex Rickard, the pro- moter, to enjoin them from carrying out the bout until Dempsey meets his contract with Clements to fight Harry Wills, the negro heavyweight. ‘The injunction proceedings brought vesterday will be heard this afternoon by Judges McDevitt and Bartlett in Common Pleas Court. It is probable today's action will be heard along with the application filed yesterday. INDIANA CASE REOPENED. INDIANAPOLIS, September 22 —Arguments on a motion for a Frank EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER attorney for Jack Dempsey, in an in- junction suit brought by B. C. Clem- ents of the Chicago Coliseum Club, began in Superior Court today before Judge Clinton. H. Gavan. Sol. H. Esary, represented the Chicago organ- ization. Judge Given several days ago is- sued an injunction intended to pre- vent the title bout between the heavy- weight champion and Ger=» Tunney at Philadelphia tomorrow night on the ground that the Chicago organization holds a contract Ww'.ereby Dempsey must meet Harry Wills, negro heavy- weight before any other opponent. POSSE TAKES THIRD NEGRO BANK BANDIT Fougth Is Sought Following Wreck of Auto and Recovery of $500 Loot. Special Dispatch fo The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., September 22 —Luther Watkins, third member of the negro gang of bandits who held up the Boyce, Va.. Bank Monday night, was captured in Four-mile wood, on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, near here, early this morning by a posse headed by Sheriff Small- wood of Clark County, Va. Possemen are still in search for| James Adams, fourth of the gang. In the capture of William Carter the $500 obtained by the bandits was recov- ered, Carter carried the money in a paper sack in his hand. James Lee, who was shot when captured after the automobile in which the bandits fled the scene of robbery struck a telegraph pole, is reported to be dying in a Winchester Hospital. The rob- ber e from Hagerstown. 1 | L ° the shoulders. 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