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ISLAND'S GREATEST NEWSPAPB MURSDAY,
REVIEWING the N E W S «T»HI; experts said before the world series opener yester-1 day that Carl Hubbell was a hot weather pitcher.
"He's got to have the sua boiling down on him or he won't be at his beet," they agreed. They also said that "Htib-bell, if he is not at his best, will be just another pitcher to the Yankees". Being generous* your reporter will give the sports writers of the great Metropolitan area a bat-ting average of .167 on that, which, by the way, doesn't entitle them to stay in the big leagues. Or does it? Sometimes you get to wonder just what it is you have to have in order to stick with the sports writing fret were your intentions in that general direction.
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SCOTT'S SCRAPBOOK - - - By R. J. Scott
There are acme great guys among them and it is always nice to be in their company but, still being generous, they seem to have lost their knack of handicapping the outstanding performers in the . field of sports. At any rate they* haven't had much success of late and old "Long Pants" of the Giants' pitching staff sloshed around in the mud yesterday to give them the lie that he needed a boiling
-yun shining down onto his good arm in order to silence
hat have been known as the Ruppert Rifles.
At the time that their opinion was written, it made very interesting reading. There were some who took it very seriously and when the rain came and Hubbell stepped to the mound they hedged on their bets, for which they doubtless were very, very sore later in the afternoon.
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»T*HERE wasn't any sun yes-i terdsy and Hubbell didn't
need any cold water shower to cool him off after the game was over. There was a chilling wind blowing across the diamond, a steady and annoying drizzle of rain fell through the game and the pitcher's mound would have made an ideal location for a children's party, the piece de resistance of which would have been mud pies. What he did to the Yankees under those conditions makes one wonder what
ould have happened had the been shining and the ther-
meter was flirting with the mark.
That is, one would wonder did he place much stock in what is written about world series performers a n d particularly about world series pitchers. But if he went by the records, as Al Smith is want to do, he .would have come to his own conclusion that Hubbell is a great pitcher winding up the greatest year of a great life on the mound and that a great pitcher is a great pitcher in all kinds of weather, just as a good horse is a good horse whether the track is lightning fast or ankle
in mud. Hubbell was a greet pitcher
out there yesterday. His famous "screw ball" had the Yankees deep in the mire, it might be appropriate to say. At any rate they were in there swinging but they were not sending out any of the tremendous drives for which they had become Justly famous. On the heels of a season during which they had polled out more home runs than any other ball club in any season, the American Leaguers were topping or slicing their drives and looked like your reporter looks when he tries to tee off with a golfer like Harry O'Brien, the Rockville Country elub pro, for instance.
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the Yanks in the first of the sixth, had fanned Joe De Mag-gto and Lou Gehrig and had forced Bill Dickey to bounce out to Bill Terry after having two strikes on him.
Except hi the eighth inning, when the Yankees had a man on first and third and none out, Hubbell was not in any great danger. Then De Maggio lined a sizxler that Whitehead caught a foot off the ground and threw to Terry for a double play. Hubbell then let a wet ball get away from him and hit Gehrig but Dickey again bounded out to Terry to end toe inning and the Yankees' chances.
A hot weather pitcher, eh? Your reporter will take Hubbell any old day of any old baseball year and not consider the strength of the opposition.
Life's Flashes
Pens and
Margins By Frank Culver
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Today's Hard Luck Story BALTIMORE, Md. — Aaron
Homan's pants were missing today, but mat wasn't the cause of his woe: to the pocket was his ticket to the world series.
Homan got out of bed last night to answer the door bell and spied a man with the trousers in his hand. The intruder escaped through a window.
Their World. Series OKLAHOMA CITY — Daisy
McQuilliams, who runs one of those concessions in which you try to win prizes by knocking over imitation milk bottles with baseballs, took one look at two approaching customers—and almost fainted.
The two, Dizzy Dean and Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals, won prize after prize as Daisy's headache grew. Then they handed them all back.
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Eat And Live PASADENA, Calif.—Levi W.
Easton accepted congratulations on his 101st birthday from three sons, 17 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and 11 great great grandchildren. Then he sat down to a big dinner of fried chicken and apple pie.
has been the pleasure of your reporter to look upon
Mr. Hubbell on two occasions this year. Once was when the Giants were entertaining the S t Louis Cardinals at the Polo Grounds along about the time that they started their miracu-
SW lous climb to the top of the * eavheap. "Dizzy" Deen, the ace of
mti* Cards' pitching staff, waa his opponent and Hubbell beat Been by a 1 to 1 score, all of the runs being home runs and one of the home runs being made by Dick Bsrtell, me Giant shortstop, whose long slam into the upper left field stands in toe fifth inning yesterday brought the Giants back onto an even basis with the Yankees.
George Selkirk, Yankee out* fielder, get hold of HubbeU's fast one in toe third toning and send It whining into toe right field stands. It was a terrific clout and would have been a homo run to any ball pork. This made too Yankees very jubilant because there was too chance that the game would be celled before It had reached toe ninth toning and one not looked a « * , H d M V J | . j M ^B*Sh. ̂ S> ^ d i A k K S * *aSAe*M f̂lfe
very tug, wnat wrm muring going along as ho was.
But Bsrtell tied It up and after that toe Yankees could do
Mtically nothing with Httb-The Giants wont tote too
the sixth when Ott •pped a double to left, went to 'rd on a sacrifice and came Be en Mancuse't h t came after Hubbell, facing
Phone Calls Awaited DENVER—A month passed
without a single bootlegging arrest.
So J. L White, investigator for the federal alcohol tax unit in Colorado, put an advertisement in a Denver newspaper:
"Moonshine whisky—suitable cash reward for information leading to seizure of illicit. whisky stills or automobiles transporting illicit whisky."
MUST PAY ALIMONY
Mr. Maeante Ordered to Contribute ftO Weekly to Wife
An order was filed in Nassau supreme court yesterday, signed by Justice T. Hallinan requiring Dr. Joseph B. Musante of Glen
The cause of gradual enlargment, 'hyperplasia or hypertrophy of the prostate gland in more than one-third of all men past fifty years of age is unknown. If anything more could be said about the cause of this affliction I'd say it. The characteristic manifestation of prostate obstruction gradually develops in all cases alike, no matter whether the victims have led wicked or exemplary lives—frequency, urgency, interruption of sleep, dribbling, inconitinence—and it galls any old gentleman to advertise his bladdery state even to his friends.
What the medical profession chooses for itself, grimly observes Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Jr., is usually an indication of what the public will ultimately demand. Ten per cent, of his patients who have trans-urethral electro-surgical prostatic resection are physicians. In the earlier days of diathermy extirpation of tonsils. Dr. Lewis J. Silvers noted a similar demand for the modern method on the part of physicians and their families—sometimes, indeed, physicians who had loudly condemned electro-coagulation on hypothetical grounds.
The modern method—removal of only the obstructing portion of prostate, through the natural channel, by means of special instruments designed for the purpose—is not only difficult in technic but most tedious for the operator, compared with the old-fashioned surgical "enucleation" of the gland through a perineal incision or an abdominal incision. The modern method, however, involves much less risk for the patient. This greater safety of the modern method makes it imperative that the surgeon who attempts at all should refrain from operating on such patients if he cannot master the technic of transurethral resection. There are far too many brass surgeans in Yankeeland bungling this work.
That prostatic ~ resection (as the modern method is called) is a safer procedure for the patient than prostatectomy (as the old-fashioned method is called) is evident in these figures: The total operative mortality since 1020 for 33 patients over 80 years of age treated by perineal or suprapubic prostatectomy at Brady Foundation of the New York hospital was 33 per cent, while
Dr. N. G. Alcock has reported 124 resections in patients over 80 with only 11 per cent, mortality and Dr. G. J. Thompson had 38 patients oyer 80 in 1935 without a death. i The old timers mumble and mutter in their beards about the chances of "recurrence" of prostatic obstruction even if a complete cure is obtained by trans-uretral resection. In fact the number of patients who experience a return of trouble following a prolonged period of relief appears to be less after resection than the number who suffer such return of trouble following radical surgical procedures.
It seems to be then, a question of surgical skill.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What is the best agent to remove adhesive
plaster from the skin without bringing the skin along with it? A mere operation is no ordeal at all, but when they yank off. (F. M. B.)
Answer—Plain old kerosene (coal oil) is excellent for the purpose—better than alcohol, ether, etc. The kerosene odor is not offensive and kerosene is easily washed away with soap and water.
Please tell me which foods contain the most phosphorus and about how much phosphorus the body needs daily? Is phosphorus in any sense a nerve food or builder, more than other elements, and would one with weak nerves benefit particularly by including larger portions of phosphorus-containing foods in his diet? . . . (F. P.)
Answer—Adult requires about 20 grains of phosphorus daily; growing child requires about 30 grains daily. No evidence that phosphorus is more particularly a "nerve" food than it is a "bone" or "muscle" or "tooth" or "skin" food. These foods are rich in prosphorus: Beef, milk, cheese, oatmeal, peanuts, dried beans, eggs, plain wheat, carrots, turnips. .
What are the symptoms by which one can recognize lead poisoning? . . .. (J. B.)
Answer—One can't It is difficult enough for a doctor.
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Cove, well known physician, to pay $20 a week alimony and $125 counsel fees to Mrs. Martha V. Musante.
The order was made effective pending trial of Mrs. Musante's action for a legal separation. Mrs. Musante charges "cruel and inhuman treatment."
EXTRADITION FAILS
Bridge Hints J By B. V.
Informatory
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The informatory pass is an important convention. While it is net used widely, all players should understand i t When partner's informatory double is redoubled, if you hold a worthless hand, with suit divisions 4-J-S-3, in case the doubled and redoubled call is a suit, the Informatory pass shows your only 4-card suit is the one bid by opponents. In case the doubled and redoubled call is no trumps, toe Informatory pass shows partner tost your only 4-card suit is s worthless minor suit The knowledge that toe player passing holds S , cards of any suit partner chooses to bid enables him to make his best suit call without feeling obliged to framp into another call, when ho is doubled.
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East Pass, to snow toe precise character of his hand; West 3-Spades, rather than snow opponents a game and rubber: North. Double, ending bidding. As partner hod bid m
North opened his longest suit, by leading the 5 of hearts. Dummy's 6 covered and Souths K went to declarer's Ace. The Q of spades was allowed to run to South's K. Back came the 3 of hearts. Declarer's Q won the trick He led his J of spades. North's Ace won. Then the J of hearts took a hick.
The Q of diamonds was the next lead. South's 6 wagged "come on." Declarer was in with his K. A low trump was led. Dummy's 9 luckily cleaned up both hostile trumps. The 7 of clubs was led. When South played low, so did declarer. North's 9 won the trick. The J of diamonds took the next trick. When too. 10 of diamonds was led, declarer used his last trump to ruff. Then he took his Ace of clubs. He could do no more. He had to give defenders too last two tricks, but he had won six tricks, and was down two tricks on his contract, costing him only 300 points, ss his side was not vulnerable.
Except for the redouble several other things might have happened, f irst suppose tost West had pawed. North would have bidding 2-No Trumps. South been wise enough to pass ho would not hove suffered much, If any. Had South ventured l-No Trumps, whether or not West doubled, too contract would have own set
Had North tolled to redouble West's doubls, Bast must have bid 2-Diamonds and West probably would have bid 3-Spade*. West's double was all right, but he happened to find partner trlrkleaa
Gaber Ordered To Pay $30 Month ly For Support of Family
Robert G. Gaber, formerly well known in retail and wholesale lumber circles in Rockville Centre and New York city will not have to 'return from Indianapolis to face abandonment charges here, it was reported today.
Gaber was indicted on grounds that a year ago he abandoned his wife and daughter, who are still living in Rockville Centre. From the time he disappeared, until recently members of the family received postcards from him mailed at various points around toe world.
He was finally located In toe mid-western city where he had re-established himself in the lumber business. Captain Emil Morse of .the warrant squad sent Detective Thomas Bonanza to return Gaber here. Several hearings were held and a final hearing was scheduled today on extradition papers signed by Governor Lehman. In the meantime, however, Gaber was hailed Into chil-drens' court there and an order was issued tost he must pay $30 a month to his family. Further action on extradition was suspended providing toe court order is carried out it was reported.
DISABLED VETERANS FORM SPECIAL UNIT
STAND WITH BObsct
H S U — B y New
S3 pp. York:
Here is the traditional thin volume of poems. It is the first volume, so far aa I know, of the verse of Robert Francis. But it is e volume which I think will be of interest to all of those readers of poetry for whom the minor poet is as much to be loved, to be cherished, as are the "bards sublime."
Robert Francis has been known to readers of verse through e number of poems published in the literary magazines. Since some of these poems are here republished, this volume will be familiar in some respects to those who have watched the magazine poets' corners. Throughout "Stand With Me Here," the readers who have seen the previously published verse will find the same high quality maintained.
Robert Francis has much of the pointed manner of expression, the terse exactness of image and description, which we are wont to attribute to Robert Frost. Sometimes, when he turns to bigger and vaguer things than the small Intimacies or ordinary life, Mr. Francis seems also to echo some of the notes of T. S. Eliot. Yet he is neither of these. Not so big, perhaps, as either. Not so deep. Yet himself. He - is concerned with bright images of everyday things, according to the commonplace its deserved dignity by means of the swift beauty of his phrasing.
His poetic creed seems to be expressed in the lines that follow, which compose an entire poem called "Cloud in Woodcut." , Mike a woodcut of a cloud. Poli«h the wood. Point the knife But let your pointed knife be wise. Let your wilful cloud retain Evidence of woody grain. Teach your knife to compromise. Let your cloud be cloud—and wood. Grained in the art let there be life.
"Grained in the art let there be life" is a maxim which I believe Robert Francis has followed in his own writing. Here is an example from his poem, "Hay": All afternoon the hayricks have
rolled by With creaking wheels and the oc
casional swish Of low tree branches brushing
against their sides. The men up in the hay are s i
lent. Sun And the scent of hay and the sway*
lng of the ricks Hare* taken away all their desire
. for talking. They have lost count of the loads
already In. They cannot count—they do not try
to count The loads to come. More hay lies
eren the long-cut and ready
To be loaded than est afternoon
Can harvest.
There are brief, strong character sketches among these poems, as witness the verses about the, "three sisters." And there are slight events which have been crystallized into poetic expression, as in the poem "Meeting," in which the poet describes his meeting with a tortoise. And there is a deep note of mortality in some of these numbers, as in the sonnet that follows: We are the lonely ones, the narrow-
bedded. Our last "good-nights" are Inter
changed below. Then up cold stairs alone—the edd,
the unwedded. What do we know of night? What
do we know? What do owe know except that night
la blindness. or lies
is
a bed one sleeps.
SAFETY UNIT TO OPEN
Several hundred school teachers and principsls are expected to attend toe opening sestion of toe Nassau Safety Institute at police headquarters audltoilum, Mlneola, tonight
Notices of too meetii
principals and teachers to county slthough Inspector Frank E. McCahill declared that all these Interested are urged to attend MHjS>Uk£th ̂ HSk w4fcJaww - a a a l i ^ J • M ••Ja% — Pit
wueuier »*ey r sew van invitations or not
Dr. Floyd Eastwood of How York University, who will bo to charge of the safety pwgiaia tots year, will outline plans, university credits will be given to those attending toe classes, Dr,
Membership Will Be Limited To Those Enraged In Some Type
Of Government Service A new county-wide unit of the
Disabled American Veterans of the world war limited to municipal and county employees was in process of formation, it was reported by Ludwig H. Finke of Hempstead, state executive committeeman, today.
The chapter will meet October 13 at 7:30 p. m. to elect permanent officers. The meeting will be in the county courthouse. Finke is acting as temporary chairman.
A committee will report e proposed constitution for the chapter at the next meeting The committee Includes Willam M. Hanley, Fred Kornahrens, John R. Kearney, William W. Harvey and William B. Clayton.
"Membership in the chapter," said Finke, "will be restricted to governmental employees in the service of the nation, state, county and villages, where the disabled veteran is a resident in Nassau county."
That on awake..
That after too long waking sleep kindness.
That for the unsleeping, day will sometime break?
Oh. we know mere. We can tell how wind sounded
On windy nights, and how the winding rain
Hissed on the roof, mice gnawed and something pounded
Orer our heads—or under the counterpane.
We are the lonely ones. When we are dead
We'll be well suited on a narrow bed.
The chances are that this, with its discontented note, is an early poem. In its resignation to bewilderment, it is reminiscent of the younger EUot. It is representative of the minor beauty of much of Mr. Francis's expression. "Stand With Me Here," may be obtained at the Rockville Centre public library.
The WHIRLIGIG News Behind the News
TIERE'S s marked difference in the way the two major parties are going alter the veteran vote. On the
Republican side Hanford MscNider is in chsrge of veterans' activities. Mr. MscNider is s former national commander of the American Legion and ex-assistant sec-
masvLum rotary of war. He has kept his wide contacts in veteran circles well sunned
and watered. There was some little inside irritation when MscNider was first picked for the job.
Ted Hayes of Chicago—a much more recent legion commander than MacNider—has e——
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plenty of friends who thought he was entitled to the post At first there were indications that they might sabotage MacNidei^s efforts, but this little misunderstanding has now been smoothed out.
MacNider is alert and aggressive in pursuit of his mission. He has built up effective state and local groups of Republican veterans in a remarkably short time. If the G. O. P. doesnt get the lion's share of veteran ballots, it will not be for lack of trying
The Dmocrats, in contrast to their rivals, have so far been distinctly casual about the veteran vote. There was a flurry of enthusiasm about lining up the ex-soldiers at the time of the Philadelphia convention, and Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana was more or less officially assigned to take charge of this chore.
But Mr. McNutt went on record at the time that his job of carrying the state made the assignment impossible for him.
Efforts were made to draft him for the job and A the pressure came from high *up. But he quietly sidestepped and the honor went nstead to yet another former national commander of the American Legion—Louis Johnson of West Virginia.
Mr. Johnson is a friend and protege of Clem Shaver—campaign manager for John W. Davis in 1924. He's a loyal Democrat but distinctly belongs to the conservative wing of the party. Sources who should know say that he isn't exactly breaking his neck to make a success of his task. Whether this is the reason or not, organ
ization work among Democratic veterans lags far behind comparable Republican effort
New complications in New York City's perennial transit unification problem may become quite a factor in the New York election campaign.
Samuel Seabury—arch-enemy of Tammany—and ex-brain-truster A A Berle, Jr. are sponsors of a $460,000,000 uni-cation proposal now being studied by the.New York transit commission. This commission was appointed by the governor. By law, no solution of the transit tangle can be put into effect without its approval.
The commission has shown a decidedly unfriendly attitude towards the Seabury plan at recent hearings. Its special counsel is John J. Curtin, a prominent organization Democrat from Brooklyn. He once managed a campaign for ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker and is generally assumed to be close to Al Smith. Mr. Curtin has been particularly critical of the Seabury proposal and adept at bringing out objections to i t
This situation has led to a lot of undercover conversation to the effect that Tammany is trying to block the adoption of any unification plan until it regains control of the city government in 1938. A Tammany victory in the 1937 mayoralty election is already conceded generally. The inference is' that there's a lot of money to be made out of unification if the boys just stall it along until they can get their hands on it.
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH now ranks as the Roosevelt administration's Political Enemy No. 1. They
no longer dismiss him as a man who tossed away his birthright and influence when he five-starred at a "duPont family reunion."
The New Dealers were openly contemptuous of the president's old friend after his Liberty league appearance.
Their private checkups did, through the summer, indicate that his power to influence votes was negligible. But now they recall that he was the original "red menace" finger-
He inspired Publisher f-
WASHINGTON B7 SAY TCCKEB
pointer Hearst and Chairman Hamilton when he perorated that Americans must choose between two capitals!—Moscow or Washington. And in that same speech he hinted at a religious angle by branding communism as "godless.""
The smearing squad will soon open up on Mr. Smith. They're investigating the report that Bishop Cannon recently commended the New Yorker, figuring that will weaken Al in New York and New England. They will also advertise that many of the happy warrior's Liberty league friends seem eager to trade with Russia—and hailed Russian recognition with a merry banquet at which the red flag was hung and the Internationale was off-keyed hilariously.
Though sealed in a thick envelope and locked in the desk of the clerk of the house, the Bell committee's report on its investigation of the Townsend plan's collecting-and-spending devices is not such a confidential document as its authors suppose.
The majority findings severely condemn the system of raising funds from old people and paying them out in salaries to organizers whose average age is below fifty — or twenty years from the retirement birthday.
Last publication of the conclusions antagonizing the Town-sendites against the administration, Committee Member Tolan. California Democrat, has submitted a minority report. He absolves the white house and Democratic leaders of all responsibility for sponsoring the inquiry. He also softens the charges of his associates.
It's dollars to doughnuts that the report will not be published before election day. Politicos figure, belatedly, that the investigation was a blunder.
The Townsend movement developed a minimum of strength in the primaries, and doesn't need further devaluation. So Speaker Bankhead has been urged to defer opening of the Bell envelope until the house assembles next January.
Despite personal and political opposition because of his sup-p o s e d Tammany affiliations, Representative John J. O'Connor will be elected Democratic leader of the next house by a spanking majority. Private polls show him far ahead of his most formidable rival, Rep. Sam Ray-burn of Texas.
Higher-ups feel it would be •mart Democratic politics to name a northern man as chief aide to Speaker Bankhead, who hails from Alabama.
NAMES CHAIRMAN
Mrs. Per M i s s Let-toe UnK
Mrs. Raymond Sentz, president of the Roosevelt American Legion auxiliary, announced her appointment* of committee chairmen et a meeting last night in Bauer's restaurant Nassau road.
They are: Mrs. Thomas Clan-ton, press; Mrs. John chaplsin; Miss Barbara sergeent-abmrms; Mrs, Clews, legislation; Mrs. Yvonne Hasher, national defense; Mrs. Malcolm Clark, welfare and mobilization; Mrs. John Cruger, fidac", Mrs. Waiter Pruehtenieht
night to South Side High Rockvme Centre. The next new meeting will be held October 12 at l p , m. in the hone of Mrs. Clark, Park
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