Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1936, Page 14

"A—14 waw 8 Crisis Is Near in War on Stymie| Carrra's Rabio PROGRaMS WOL 1310k | WISV 1460k THIS AFTERNOON’S PROGRAMS Marley and Landt BATTLEWNLSTR 1.5, A SESSION Expert Golf Opinion Now Se- riously Divided on Game’s 0dd Shot. BY W. R. McCALLUM. OT in many, many years has expert golf opinion been so seriously divided as now on the stymie, with the annual meeting of the United States Golf Assoclation coming up next month and a certamnty that at that meeting something will be done and a definite stand taken. Fanned to white heat by the inci- dent on the thirty-fourth green at Garden City last September, when John Fischer of Cincinnati laid Jock McLean the stymie that undoubtedly gave Fischer the life that enabled him to win the amateur championship three holes later, the links experts of America have lined up solidly for and against the stymie. It may be a stand again in favor of the stymie. It may be that here in America only a self-laid stymie will be played, which is in line with the thought of John G. Jackson, presi- dent of the U. S. G. A. It may even have the result of banishing the stymie from golf in America, as has been done by several sectional organi- zations, among them the District Golf Association. But whatever the action of the major golf body, there isn't any doubt that among golfers the stymie is the most talked-of stroke in the game today. Champion Against Stymie. HOW do they feel about it, the nabobs of the game, and the top players? The P. G. A. strung along with the U. 5. G. A. and played the stymie in its recent championship at Pinehurst, but there was plenty of grumbling among the pros about the thing and its evils. A symposium on the stymie finds the following trend of thought among officials and players: John Pischer, United States ama- teur champion—"I favor the abolish- ment of the stymie. But I have always considered the execution of the stymie shot the most interesting, delicate and difficult in the game.” John G. Jackson, president of the U. 8. G. A—"I am very strongly and emphatically in favor of the stymie.” Chick Evans, former amateur and open champion—"I think the stymie should be retained.” Martin R. West, president, District of Columbia Golf Association—“Our amateur championship went along perfectly without the stymie after we barred it. I am against the stymie.” James L. Cosgrove, vice president, District Golf Association—"If golf is @ gentleman's game, and it is, why should a gentleman interfere with his opponent’s stroke? 1 am strongly against the stymie.” Unfair, Says Cruickshank. JBOBBY CRUICKSHANK, National Capital open champ—“It's very unfair. Time after time in important matches I have seen the stymie, re- sulting from a poor shot, penalize an excellent shot by the other player.” Walter Emery, Walker Cup team member—“It's just the same old thing over and over again—the poor shot often wins the hole over a better shot. It's darned unfair.” Henry Picard, prominent pro and leading money winner—“It's unfair to the better players, a matter of luck.” William D. Waxter, president, Maryland Golf Association — “The rules provide for playing the ball from tee to cup, and I can see no good reason for changing the code to allow lifting of the ball on the green, even if there is a line-up.” Spencer Overton, Maryland amateur champion—"A manifestly unfair rule in major competition.” And the Royal and Ancient of Great Britain—“Play the ball as it lies,” they say. But you can depend on it. The stymie is coming in for a lot of ribbing this Winter. Something is going to be done about it. BY GEORGE HUBER. COLD wave to the north is freezing things up tight, with a consequent increase in the number of ducks and geese around here. They can stand the cold alright, but they must eat, and when their feeding grounds are frozen they must fly South in search of open water. Flocks headed in this direc- tion are becoming larger with each passing day, according to E. Lee Le Compte, Maryland State game ward- en. Reports sent into the Conserva- tion Department, he said, indicate that a particularly large number of these birds are findig their way over to the Eastern Shore grounds. The largest concentration seems to be at Holland Straights, Barren Island Bar and at the head of the Honga River, all good ducking areas. The Chincoteague Bay section should be looking up soon also, although early reports from over there were anything but encouraging. If you've ever been over that way, you know that much of that section was made to order for ducks. That's why, in pre- vious years, many redheads and canvasbacks Wintered there. PFederal ban on shooting them has if 3 = rong i L g H g E 5 i JEE 3 : | H g PORTS. better game by any invention that makes it easier. Fred looked over the newest thing in putters—the Gouveneur putter used by Bill Mehlhorn at Pinehurst— snorted derisively, and rammed home a 10-footer with the little aluminum- bladed implement he has used for 15 years. “And it didn't take any trick gadget to hole that one either,” he chortled. Freddie is a good chorte ler. Kind of a chuckle from one of America’s older and most respected professional golfers, a man who has grown to be a sage of the game. Freddie’s chortles don't hurt, but they fall thickest when he glimpses one of the new-fangled gadgets that are supposed to make the game better. He chortled when the sand wedge first came out around six years ago. But he still sticks to the lit- tle rasor-edged mashie-niblick which he uses with such deadly effectiveness from the sand. Sarazen and lots of pros would like to be able to play bunker shots with ‘ 7 OU can’t convince Fred McLeod that golf is getting to be a their wedges like Freddie plays 'em with that orthodox little club. | “We've had a flock of changes in | this game in the 40 and more years I've been playing at it,” Fred says. “But I notice one thing about it. It's still played with a club and a ball and you've still got to get that ball into the cup. It's the same old game, no matter how many new wrinkles they add to it. Sees Game Given Spice. “JRUT these new clubs certainly have added spice to the game. Take the sand wedge. Personally I don’t use it, and wouldn’t use it if they made it an automatic holer- out. But there’s no doubt it has improved the bunker play of a lot of golfers who might stay in the sand for the rest of the year if they didn't have the wedge. The steel shaft has been a great improvement. I play ’'em myself, but I can't bring myself to think they are better than the old wooden shaft. “And now we have this new putter. Bill Mehlhorn used it pretty well at Pinehurst, but I didn't notice that all the boys lined up to get one. Of course, Bill never has been the best putter in the world, and if he can use it, that's fine, but I didn’t see where some of the better putters like Horton Smith and Denny Shute were using it. “Nope, this game still is played with a club and a ball, and that idea about mechan- ical devices being barred seems to me to be fairly sound. “Hope they stick to it. “But understand me. I haven't any- thing against this new putter. It may be darned good, but I think we should stick to the orthodox manner and make of golf clubs. They are good enough for any man.” | East Potomac Change. 'HE old fourth green of the east course at East Potomac Park has vanished and in its place S. G. Leoffler now has a spick and span new | parking space to go along with the new swimming pool, | built between the two field houses. He needed the parking space before, but he’ll need it more when the guys and gals get to splashing around in the new pool next Summer. Mrs. Ralph Guldahl was so sure her husband was going to win at Augusta that she wasn't a bit sur- prised when they told her he had grabbed first money of $1,000. She told him, according to Bob Harlow, that they might as well give him the money without making him take the long trip from Miami. That's a new angle in winning psychology. field are filtering in, and they indicate that those who chose Allegany County | were the fortunate ones. Last year | Garrett County produced about twice as many deer in the five-day period, | but so far the kills in Allegany are | outnumbering it 2 to 1. As all deer killed must be reported to the Conservation Commission within 24 hours, a pretty close check on conditions can be kept. Most of those reported have been eight and nine point bucks, a fairly | good size for this part of the country. really big broad heads are found. FIGURB from Maine, where the duck and geese season has closed, give some indication of the number of water fowlers who went out this year with Federal regulations against live decoys, baiting, redheads, can- vasbacks, brant and large, multi-shot guns hanging over them. Last year over 5,000 duck stamps were sold. This year only 3,182 crossed the counter. Some of the waterfowl which escape the hunter’s gun die anyway as a which is being | La: Of course, in the limestone sections o o!Penmylvmh:ndNevYarkmgr THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1936. v HE toughest golf champion- ship in the world to win? ‘Why that’s a pipe. I'm you even brought it up. It's the P. G. A. championship, of course. No other tournament in the world takes so much good golf, and so thorough a combination of medal and match play as the P. G. A.” Fred McLeod, Columbia Country Club pro, should know. For a good many years Freddie was one ‘of the better competitors in the title tour- ney, where he got to the final round back in 1920 and was bumped off by Jim Barnes, the lanky one from Eng- land. 13 'OU can take your American ama- teur and your British amateur and lump ’em together and you wouldn’t have as tough a champion- ship as the P. G. A. to win,” says Freddie. “Of course, the average of skill in the professional cham- pionship is much above that in either amateur tournament, and in my judgment is the highest in the world. “But over and above the skill re- quired you have the combination of two qualifying rounds, and then six match rounds, four of them at 36 holes. In the first place you have to qualify for the P. G. A. in your own section, and that isn’t so easy. It re- sults in bringing only the best players to the scene of the championship. And then, after they get there the boys have to qualify again—64 of 'em— over the 36-hole medal play route. That’s bad enough, where a missed putt may knock you smack out of the tournament. But then you have to win six matches in a row to win the championship. Tough? Why, laddie, it's just like Georgetown licking the Chicago Bears and the New York day. Any guy who wins that cham- | plonship can just about claim to be of winning. “Now take your United States ama- teur tournament. First you have to qualify sectionally, but there are plenty of places open for any golfer with a chance to win. Then you have to win eight matches, which is two more than the P. G. A. tourney has. iBut there again the question of class comes up. In the amateur you won't find more than four or five stand- out golfers. But in the P. G. A. you haven't a standout. Any guy in the field is likely to bump off a headliner any time. Take that recent one at Pinehurst, for example, where Sara- zen, Runyan and Revolta were .knocked off on the first day. Tommy | Armour, too. A SITUATION like that in the ama- teur championship would corre- spond to John Goodman, John Fischer, George Voigt and Scotty Campbell all losing in a single day. The class in the P. G. A. is 50 scat- tered and there are so many good ones in there pitching that anything | is likely to happen. “Yep, it’s the toughest tour- nament in the world to win. I've played in a good many of ’em, and I found it out. Wish I could have licked Jim Barnes that day back in 1920, but Jim Was too hot for me that day.” “How about that qualifying of 64 | men and the fact that Leo Diegel and | Walter Hagen didn’t make it at Pine- | hurst?” we asked Freddie. “Well, you'll find some star fails to qualify in every championship,” he said. “But I guess Walter and Leo didnt deserve to qualify, if they weren’t good enough to score 156. But don't ask these funny questions. Any golfer should know that the P. G. A. is the big champion- ship of the world. It's a golfer’s tour- :m 'm. and only a real goifer can CUE LEADER MEETS DANGEROUS ENEMY by Bozeman Despite Carom Loss to Reiselt. CH!CAGO. December 7 (A)— Johnny Layton of Sedalia, Mo., now leading the fleld with five vic- tories and one defeat, will run into one of the most dangerous entries in the world three-cushion billiards tournament tonight in Young Jay Bozeman of Detroit. Bozeman, although defeated last night by Otto Reiselt, 50 to 44, in a 6l-inning game, played fine all- around billiards and has a better average than most of the leaders. The four games he lost in seven starts were among the closest of the meet. Tied for second place were Kinrey Matsuayama of Japan, and Welker Cochran of San Francisco, each with four wins and two losses. Willie Hoppe, defending champion, was third with three victories and two defeats. One of the leaders saw action yesterday. Allen Hall of Chicago defeated Earl Lookabaugh of Chicago, 50 to 19, in 41 innings in last night's first match. Then Reiselt took Bozeman into camp, building up a lead which withstood the Detroit star’s late rally. HR BG. }%5 gg k] H H L : _ Looks ¥ BRI Ins. o b mcosstam Men0 oIz BRBBES 313 Yesterday's results: L baugh. 19 {41 ini H d -y oy ety t V8. abau Thurnblad _ vs. Matsuysms. Layion va. Bozeman. Hoppe vs. Reiselt. > £ Varoff Tutoring Kin in Vaulting By the Associated Press. e B fooh N o e s | he shared with Mike Turnesa of New the best golfer in the world at the time | Trouble for Layton Is Promised | GULDAHL FLAMES INBILTMORE GOLF Paces Pros Into Stretch of $10,000 Chase With His Subpar 207. BY the Associatea Press. . ORAL GABLES, Fla, Decem- ber 7.—Ralph Guldahl of St. Louis led the golf pros down the home stretch of a $10,000 chase today with a 54-hole, sub-par card of 207, in the seventh Miami Biltmore open. He added a third round of 69 on the par 71 course yesterday to previous scores of 68 and 70 and had only to hold his pace for 18 more holes today to collect the $2,500 first prize. He won the $1,000 first money in the Augusta open the week before. Horton Smith Breaks. Gm.DAHL stepped out ahead when Horton Smith blew up. The blond | i1: Chicago pro, who won the tourna- ment last year, led the field for the first two days, but was unable to keep his approach shots on the greens yes- terday and took 77 for a 54-hole total of 214. W. Lawson Little, jr, a newcomer to the brigade of money seekers, found himself in second place with 213 after posting a third round 73. He can col- lect $1,250 if he remains there through the last 18 holes. Smith was tied for third place with Denny Shute of Coral Gables, new P. G. A. champion; Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., and Jimmy Demaret of Houston, Tex. Sarazen Erratic. GULDAHL and Picard, who also had a 69, were among the very few to continue sub-par golf. The veteran Gene Sarazen of New York shot an erratic 74 for a total of 215, a spot York. Tony Manero of Greensboro, N. C., national open champion, whose 67 Saturday put him in the running, promptly ruined his chances with a 78 for a 220 total. VIRGINIA SLIPS ON GRID. RICHMOND, Va., December 7 (#).— Foot ball teams of Virginia won 17 games in competition with out-of-State colleges this year, while teams from outside the State scored 32 victories over Old Dominion elevens. Musical Moments 'What's in a Name? R.tchunrd (zrooh 20,0?? Yr:, in Sing Sing| mm:rd rzlmber's Orch. Contented Program National Radio Forum: [Secretary Ickes News Helen Hayes in “Bambi” lodiana “ Greater Minstrels “ w Jack Pearl Singin’ Sam Music for SPORTS. [Editorial and News Bobby Worth Waltz Themes 3 Arthur Reilly Dance Music “ o w (Concert Prevue Veloz and Yolando ‘Tonic Time Treasure Chest Detective Mysteries Stamp Club of the “PFive Star Final” Rendezvous WOL Concert Bulletins - Moderns Julie Wintz’ Orch. News—Night Owl Arthur Reilly Midnight Frolic [Dance Hour [Peace Conference Slumber Hour Bill Strickland’s Orch. Braggiotti's Orch. Gordon Hittenmark 4 e e T Gordon Hittenmark e “ Night Watchman Night Watchman (1 hr.) |Al Kavelin's Orch. EARLY PROGRAMS TOMORROW Today’s Prelude ‘Wake-Up Club o "|Cab Calloway’s Orch. | Paul Pendarvis’ Orch. Ol |Education Series Concert Miniatures Apple Creek News Arch McDonald [Peace Conference Renfrew of the Mounted Poetic Melodies Popeye the Sailor Goose Creek Parson [Boake Carter Heldt's Brigadiers 7 Pipe Smoking Time . . [Radio Theater Alr “« w ‘Wayne King’s Orch. T (Moon Dial Buck O'Neill Ozzie Nelson’s Orch. News Bulletins Eddy Duchin’s Orch. Abe Lyman’s Orch. Sleepy Time Musical Clock Art Brown w . Gordon Hittenmark “ w Gordon Hittenmark The Old Timer The Streamliners Morning Glories - Morning Devotions Dick Leibert, organist Cheerio News Bulletins Breakfast Club “ . Art Brown Art Brown Morning Concert News—Music Police Flashes—Music Sign off 8ssh! | Sun Dial 0 T7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 8: 8: 8: 1 3 4 0 15 30 | j 848 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 Sun Dial Jean Abbey Richard Maxwell Betty Hudson Mrs. Wiggs John’s Other Wife [Just Plain Bill Sheffter and Brenner Viennese Sextette Josh Higgins Aristocratic Rhythms Views of the News ‘Timely Tempos Ballad Hour Jack Ward, organist Betty and Bob Modern Cinderella 10:15 John K. Watkins 10:30 (Hymns of all Churches | 10:45 | 10:00 Today's Child{en David Harum ' Backstage Wife The Mystery Chef The Wife Saver 'The O'Neills Personal Column Vic and Sade Edward MacHugh TOMORROW AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Moods in Rhythm Musical Potpourri Ed Fitzgerald & Co. Milky Way 1 | Melodies 11:15 The Big Sister 11:30 | |Home Makers' Exchange 11:45 | P.M, Merry Go Round Story of Mary Marlin Myriad Voices - DYER ASHEVILLE LEADER. ASHEVILLE, N. C, December 7 (#). —Eddie Dyer, president and field man- ager of the Columbus, Ga., club of the South Atlantic League last season, has been named president of the Ashe-| ville Piedmont League club for 1937, Air Headliners Domestic. 12:00 m.—Merry Go Round. 12:30 pm.—~WMAL, National Farm and Home Hour. 1:00 p.m.—WJSV, PFive Star Re- vue. 1:15 p.m.~WOL, William Low- itz, pianist. 2:00p.m —WRC, Character Building Forum; WMAL, United States Navy Band. 2:15p.m.~WJSV, American School of the Air. 3:00pm—WMAL, Rochester Civic Orchestra. 3:30 pm.—WRC, Vic and Sade; WJSV, Columbia Concert Hall. 4:00 p.m.~WRC, Hour of Charm. 4:30 p.m.—WJSV, Chicago Vari- eties. 5:00 p.m.—WMAL, “Let's Talk It Over”; WOL, Fo- lio of Facts. 5:30 pm.—WOL, Tea Dansant. 5:45 p.m.—WMAL, Evening Star Flashes. Evening Programs. 6:00 p.m.—~WRC, United States Army Band. 6:15 p.m.—WMAL, Peace Con- ference; WJSV, Arch McDonald. 6:30 p.m.—WJSV, Peace Confer- ence. 7:00 pm.—~WRC, Amos 'n’ Andy. 5 pm.—~WRC, Uncle Ezra. 8:00 p.m.—~WMAL, Helen Hayes in “Bambi.” 8:30pm~WRC, Richard Crooks; WJSV, Pipe Smokigg Time. 9:00 p.m.~WMAL, Greater Min- strels; WJSV, Radio ‘Theater. 9:30 pm.~WMAL, Jack Pearl; WOL, “Five Star Final.” 10:00 p.m.—~WJSV, Wayne King's Orchestra. p.m~WRC, National Ra- dio Forum. 11:00 p.m.—~WOL, Art Brown, or- 1 ganist. 11:15 pm.~WJSV, Ozzie Nelson's Orchestra. 11:30 pm.—~WMAL, Slumber H our. 11:45 p.m.—~WJSV, Eddy Duchin’s Orchestra. 12:00 mid—WMAL, Night Watch- man; WOL, Cab Cal- loway’s Orchestra; ‘WJSV, Abe Lyman's Orchestra. Short-Wave Programs. 6:00 p.m.—~ROME, News in Eng- lish, operatic selec- tions, 2RO, 3l.1lm.,, - 9.63 meg. 7:00 p.m.~MOSCOW, Review of Week, Russian Les- son, RAN, 31.2m., 96 meg. 7:15p.m—P A R I S, Theatrical Program, TPA-4, 25.6 m., 11.72 meg. 8:00 pm~SCHENECTADY, Spanish Program, W2 XAF, 314m, 953 meg. 8:45 p.m.~BERLIN, Folk Songs, DJD, 254m., 1177 meg. 9:30 pm.—~MONTREAL, “C'est un Rendezvous,” CRCX, 492m. 6.09 meg.; CJRO, 48.7m., 6.16 meg; GCJRX, 25.6 m., 11.72 meg. 10:25 pm~LONDON, Tak by Asst. Police Supt. Kenys, GSD, 255 m,, 11.75 meg.; GSO, 313 m., 9.58 meg. Chas. Stenross’ Orch. High Hatters Dan Harding's Wife Gran and Smith Farm Honeyboy and Sassafras Armchair Quartet Farm and Home Hour “« . and Home Hour - 'Vaughan de Leath Dot and Will Hillbilly Tunes News—Music Luncheon Concert Church of the Air | The Gumps 12:00 | Between Bookends I 12:15 [Romance of Helen Trent | 12 Rich Man’s Darling 5 Christmas Seals Paul Pendarvis' Orch. Afternoon Rhythms Elsie Thompson Merrymakers 1:15 | 1:30 1:45 Band Lessons Mary Mason Words and Music Music Guild Wakeman's Sports - - Page Song Stylists 7 |School of the Air - 2:30 | |Happy Hollow 2:45 | Pepper Young's Family Ma Perkins | Vic and Sade The O'Neills Musical Mosaics |Chasin’ the Blues | Consumer’s Program |Sundown Revue Tom Mix Jack Armstrong BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. N THE semi-finals of the Capital City Chess Club’s major title battle, Martin C. Stark, 1935 champion, faces E. M. Knapp, who may upset Stark’s present winning streak and whittle down the erstwhile Harvard player’s lead.. As runner-up Knapp is only one point behind Stark and a victory in the eighth round will mean the mutual score of 5! wins and 1% losses for both players. In round nine Stark op- poses Donald Mugridge, 1936 champion of Capital City, with the probability of a hard-fought game that may log- ically end in a draw. In the ninth, or final round, Knapp meets Du Bois and he has every chance of defeating him, which means that with a draw in prospect for Stark against Mugridge and a possibility of a loss by Start to Knapp, then Ernest Knapp will be the new club champion. But this is speculation and the choice of the gods remains to be seen. Standings to date in the major tournament: Player. M. C. Stark napp-Ponce Eaton-M_C. Stark _ - Kirby-Du Bois . Jeffers, bye. Pairings for the semi-finals—Du Bois vs. Eaton. &l 'k Knal Pol N D, nce vs. Mug- Tidge. Chase ve. Jeflers. with a bye for Col. Kirby. the fi named players shifting the white pieces. Gay or Mundelle? Wfl‘fl the confidence of youth, Octo- genarian W. B. Mundelle has forged to the front in the Four C's minor tourney, winning seven and los- ing no games thus far. On the heels of the leader is Gay with a string of eight victories and no defeats. In the eighth round of the minor fray at Capital City, Gay was paired with Mundelle, but the match was postponed and none can predict the ‘winner of the impending clash between the topnotchers. U. 8. Have You Heard? \ Wellesley Orchestra Dog Heroes - Tea Time Your Health 'The Singing Lady Marine Band Wakeman's Sports “ “« ~3:00 3:15 3:30 | __3:45 Page |Al Pearce’s Gang Library Musicale Today's Winners Johnson Family Cocktail Capers assails Stevenson, while Mundelle pits his veteran experience against Weeks. | Knox Adjourns Game. CENTRAL‘S chess quintet practically has cinched the interhigh team championship for the Winter tourna- | ment and placed two legs on the I. S. Turover Cup, donated last Easter to encourage match play among local high’ schools. Capt. bert Knox, now that his team battles are out of the way, is concentrating on the individual cham- pionship tourney of the Washington Interhigh Association. As local cham- pion he is defending his right to the association title. David Margold, the red-haired chess fiend from Woodrow Wilson, was swamped by Knox in their individual encounter. Reamy Pierce of Tech tared no whit better than Margold. John Dickman of Woodrow Wilson also dropped his game to Knox. But Wallace Magathan of Roosevelt, with something of the pluck that character- izsed the past year’s struggles of Knox and William Heatwole, past captain of the Roosevelt team, who now is at- tending Wilson Teachers’ College, braved the threats of the interhigh champion with & cool determination to win and forced the game into a lengthly session that called for a mutual adjournment. Knox stoutly maintains that he has a won game and all he needs is addi- tional time to effect the mating com- bination. Magathan avers that he is waiting for the best Knox can produce and then he is going him one combi- nation better. So what? FLEEING AUTO DITCHED ST. LOUIS, December 7 (#)—An automobile which'eluded police after & running gun battle overturned and rolled down a 40-foot embankment in St. Louis County last night. Chief Deputy Sheriff Arnold Will- man found an injured man at the car who said he was the owner and claimed he was kidnaped Friday night in Lawrence, Mass., by two men and a woman, who brought him to St. He said he was Roland Robichaud, proprietor of a taxicab company in Lawrence. Sees Ace Jumper As Star Hurdler Folio of Pacts Library Musicale Billy Mills & Co. |Evening Rhyhms Music You Remember Evening Rhythms {MAJ. G. H. HARRELL, \U.S. A., RETIRED, DIES. Native of North Carolina Served Here Twice in the Militia Bureau. Maj. George H. Harrell. 64. U. S. A, retired, who served on several tours of duty in this city, died here yesterday after a long illness. Maj. Harrell's last Washington | service was in the Militia Bureau from June, 1927, to June, 1931. He also had served in the office of the quar- termaster general from March to June, 1918, and again. from June, 1919, to August, 1923. A native of Bertie County, N. C., Maj. Harrell first served in the Army as an enlisted man and rose to the grade of quartermaster sergeant. In August, 1917, he was made a captain in the quartermaster section, Officers’ Reserve Corps, and was called to ac- tive duty in that grade September 15 of that year. In August, 1918, he was promoted to major in the Quarter- master Corps and served until his va- cation of this rank in September, 1920. Subsequently, he was appointed a first lieutenant'in the Regular Army in November, 1922, and promoted to captain in it in April, 1923. He was retired with the rank of major Oc- tober 31, 1935. His widow, Mrs. Ada L. Harrell, lives at 410 Cedar street. There’ll Be Nip In Garden’s Air N!W YORK (#).—Spectators won't be comfortably warm at Madison Square Garden's Win- ter sports show, December 9-12. ‘To preserve the artificial gnow that makes for the best skiing condi- tions, the refrigeration plant will lower the temperature of the Gar- den to 26 degrees—10 degrees be- low that anticipated outdoors in New York City at the time of the ICKES T0 DISCUSS HOUSINGIN FORUM Future of Public Works and its Problems Also to Be Discussed. ECRETARY ICKES of the De- partment of the Interior and public works administrator will g0 before the microphone dure ing the National Radio Forum to- night to discuss the future of housing and public works and the problems involved. The forum, arranged by The Wash+ ington Star, will be broadcast by WRC and a coast-to-coast network of other National Broadcasting Co. stations from 10:30 to 11 o'clock. For more than three years Secretary, Ickes has been in charge of the Gove ernment’s public works program. Projects of all kinds and in every State of the Union have been started under his direction. and many of them have been completed. Public works were undertaken on a huge, scale to help the country toward ree employment and recovery. THE dramatic piece de resistance tonight will be the Radio Thea- ter's production of “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter” on WISV at Elissa Landi, international film star, will play a leading role opposite Robert Montgomery. Between the acts Cecil B. De Mille will interview Vince Barnett, Hollywood's profes- sional prankster, and Dorothy Buck- nall, head of the research depart- ment of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RICHARD CROOKS, Metropolitan Opera tenor, returns to the Voice program on WRC tonight at 8:30, to sing a duet version of “Parigi O Cara,” from Verdi’s “Traviata,” with Margaret Speaks, soprano. As solos Crooks will sing Clutsam's “I Know | of Two Bright Eyes,” Tours’ “Mother of Mine.” Massenet's “Elegie” and Oley Speaks’ “Morning.” Miss Speaks’ solo contribution will be Oadukka's “El Relicario.” HELE’N HAYES will land another job 1n the eleventh episode of her serial, “Bambi,” on WMAL at 8 to- night. The episode is entitled “There’s Always a Tomorrow.” 'HE “20,000 Years in Sing Sing" program, starring Warden Lewis E. Lawes on WRC at 9 tonight, will offer another interesting drama of prison life called “Murder Will Out.” PACKING a program with melody is the achievement of Morgan L. | Eastman in planning the “Contented | Hour” on WRC at 10 tonight. He vill present a potpourri of “Minute asterpieces,” made up of 14 nume bers. The selections include Tschai- kowsky's “Dance Trepak,” from the “Nutcracker Suite”; tre “Gold and Silver Waltz” of Franz Lehar and Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” featuring the brass choir. The crack saxophone sextet and orchestra will play the sprightly “Nola.” UTSTANDING among the musical programs this afternoon will be the Columbia Concert Hall program on WISV at 3:30. The featured artist will be Aaron Copland, distinguished young American pianist, composer and lecturer, 'HE answer to whatever happened to Tony Wons: He has been appearing as guest master of cere- monies at a suburban cafe in Chicago - - - Ed Smalle’s Seven G's have been renewed on Phil Baker's show . . , Fred Waring’s new contract with the automobile manufacturer will limit his show to a half hour weekly . . . Jack Oakie has signed as master of ceremonies for the Caravan show, re- | placing Rupert Hughes. The change is effective December 29 . . . Irene Wicker, the “Singing Lady,” will ex- pand her Friday broadcasts to 30 minutes instead of the usual 15, as soon as N. B. C. can clear time for the change. 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