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s SEEK MODIFICATION OF NEUTRALITY ACT Cards Win After Being Shut Out in First; Alsab Beats Requested Pink Star Sunk By Submarine, ·- Pennant Hopes Army Private Track Record Billion Needed Arrested on President Says ; Hit as Pirates Set by Chicago To Feed British, Vessel Was Armed; ^ Spy Charges Strikes Must Not Pj the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Sept, 23. —Rene Tie Up Boats, He Says Divide Pair Froehiich, 30. a private in the Army Bargain Colt Wickard at Fort Gover- Says Medical Jay, Corps (Earlier Story on Page A-l.) nors Island, was held today on a ^ St. Louis Now Must Federal espionage charge accusing Wins by 4 Lengths Agriculture Chief, Bv JOHN C. HENRY. him of being a member of an inter- The United States Government national ^ Win All While spy ring. After Trailing Stettinius Testify Is preparing to take steps to arm Pvt. Froehiich was held in $25,000 I merchant President Roose- bail on the same charge that re- On ships, v, Even Most of Way Lease-Lend Aid * Dodgers Split sulted in the arrest several weeks I velt told a press conference late Bv FRANCIS E. STAN, ago of Kurt Frederick Ludwig, de- By the Associpted Press. By the Assoctsted Press. today. v scribed in the indictment as master Star Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, Sept. 23 —Alsab, Testifying that England now To clear the way for this step, 4 spy in the alleged ring's American the owned was on short amend- PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23.—With activities. bargain 2-year-old by rations, Secretary the Chief Executive said, of their backs against the wall and Ludwig and three others, includ- Mrs. Albert Sabath of Chicago, Agriculture Wickard said to- ment of the Neutrality Act will be ^ the National League pennant ing two young Brooklyn workers and defeated Ben F. Whitaker's Tex- day a minimum of $1,000,000,000 requested of Congress next week. a New York woman virtually within the grasp of the young secretary, as-owned Requested by four was needed to supply England The extent of the revision of the > were ordered yesterday to go to trial after a 4-0 de- lengths in their $10,000, winner- with food during the next five statute has not been deter- Brooklyn Dodgers, October 6 on the indictment, which yet feat in the opening game, the specifically charged them with ob- take-all match race at 6V2 fur- months. mined, he said, and is still under J St. Louis Cardinals fought back taining vital American defense se- longs at Belmont Park today. Secretary Wickard was one of the deliberation. in the to crets for transmission to the German Pulling away in the final three- first witnesses before the House Ap- Mr. Roosevelt disclosed for the first nightcap today swamp v* government through agents in Spain sixteenths, Alsab broke the track propriations Committee as it started the the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9 to 0. time this afternoon that and Portugal. record, traveling the distance in hearings on President Roosevelt's freighter Pink Star, sinking of which As a result of the split, the Dod- Pvt. Froehiich was arrested on a j 1:16, one and one-fifth seconds fast- request for an additional $5,985,000,- was announced last night by the gers retained their and a half ; ^ game See ESPIONAGE, Page 2-X.) er than the previous mark hung up 000 for lease-lend aid. State Department, had been sent to lead over the Cards, with each team in bv Audacious under 119 pounds "Great Britain is dependent upon the bottom by a submarine attack having four games left to play. J 1920. North America for huge quantities about 275 miles northeast of Cape In order to win the pennant the The victory gave the 2-year-old of food stuffs," Wickard : Farewell, Greenland. « Cardinals would have to win all Secretary son of Good Goods his 12th triumph testified. "The deficit has to be He revealed further that the ship, four if the Dodgers only break even. Tobey Flare-up by ran in 19 starts and his earnings made up from this country and American-owned but sailing under -<* Max Lanier, one of the four south- to $88,065. As a yearling he cost Canada unless the British are to Panamanian registry, was carrying · paws on the St. Louis club, turned only $700. lose to Nazi Germany." at least one mounted gun. in an in the 'Marks of eight-hit performance Testimony Favorite. were Requested Slight Another witness. Lease-Lend Lashes at Dictators. second game, but the heroes " With Requested the slight choice Administrator E. for Iceland with 20-year-old Stan Musial, rookie out- R. Stettinius, was Bound general of the crowd of more than 20,000, fielder from Rochester, and 37-year- at said by committee members to have cargo, the Pink Star was sailing in a Schenck Hearing Alsab returned $3.70 for $2. old Estel Crabtree. urged them to reject any prohibi- Canadian-escorted convoy. No word Jackie Westrope broke Requested tions which would bar aid to Russia. has been received, the President Rookie and Veteran Star. yet ! in front and he led at distances said, of the fate of the 34-man crew. Loew's President Quizzed At the same time, however, mem- Together they slapped out six of varying from a length to a Remarking then that all consid- lengtlj bers said Mr. Stettinius explained t the Cards' eight hits, including a Senators and a half to the top of the stretch. erations of detail to the By Probing that it was not the policy of the pertinent home run apiece. They scored five Bobby Vedder then let the Chi- constitute "a red Government now to aid Russia sinking herring ^ of the runs and drove across as Movie Propaganda cago colt out a notch and he pulled across the issue of national through the lease-lend progTam, but I single , many against Truett Sewell and Joe up within a head. They ran that ! the President emphasized that in view of the un- defense, thereupon Sullivan. A third Pirate By J. A. O'LEARY. way to the three-sixteenths pole, bitterest the pitcher, certainty of the future, restric- I assailed in terms ^ The Senate Subcommittee inquiry where Alsab took command and any 6-foot 9-inch Johnny Gee. mopped tive \ dictator-prompted war of today. was privisioru would be especially up. The Pittsburgh infield was no into motion picture propaganda under a strong hand ride pulled It is perfectly clear what is hap- ! undesirable. marked a between > help, making four miscues. today by flare-up away. pening in the world today, he ex- > Senator of New Musial opened the big fourth by Tobey. Republican, Dogpatch, ft rank outsider from 1 plained. We are facing the most and Nicholas Schenck, V. British Wheat drawing a walk, and went to third Hampshire, Mrs. Ethel Mars' Milky Way Supplies Λ j outrageous movement in all history, of Loew's, Inc., who testi- farm Mrs. on Crabtree's single to center. president whipped Payne Whitney's Declared Greatest Ever in which a certain group is trying > Musial scored and Crabtree went to fied his company nad a $3,500,000 highly touted combination of Shut I to dominate the world. investment in a British theater Out and Devil Diver in the first LONDON. Sept. 23 i/P).—Baron second on Crespi's grounder to Cox, Objective Is Held Defense. chain and owned interest in seven division of the trial. Woolton, British Minister of Food, whose throw to the plate was late. Futurity This Government is to de- ^ Australian and three Canadian Devil Diver Second. said in a speech at Norwich today trying On Marion's sacrifice, Gustine's fend the Americas, he continued. 1 theaters. in the last sixteenth that Great Britain now had throw went wide of second into Pulling away bigger and has made clear in- stocks of wheat than ; Congress its Mr. Schenck had insisted through, of the six-furlong dash down the at any time In Λ center field, Crabtree scoring, Crespi i tention to help in every way those a series of questions that he beat Devil history. going to third and Marion to second long straight away, Dogpatch ! opposing the dictator nations. ( could not recall the names of all Diver, winner of the Hopeful at Sar- Great Britain is the third on the throw-in. j1 entering Such a policy, he went on. tends subsidiary corporations connected a and a half in the of war Martin then threw out Mancuso atoga, by length year with plentiful stocks of also to prevent the dictators from with Loew's, in which he is a di- fast time of 1:10. Shut Out wound all he added. ^ and also Lanier. On the latter play, sorts, gaining footholds where they may rector. and hisses followed sixth as Herbert M. Wolfe's Con- however, Fletcher tried to catch j Applause up The Food Ministry reduced the threaten this Nation. That is why, Senator exclamation: landed in the third Marion off second, his throw was Tobey's traduction spot, controlled price of a four-pound he explained further, American "If you are Exhibit A of the aver- ! a half back of Devil Diver. loaf x late and, in the confusion, Crespi length from 8'4 pence (17 cents) to 8 forces are in Iceland today, why we age corporation director in this Off its one-two decision in the t broke for home and scored when ! pence (16 cents) effective October 6. are keeping the sea lanes open to country, God save the stockholders." the of Devil Divei Smith dropped Cox's throw. j Hopeful, entry these outposts, and why we are I on Loew's ^ Mr. Schenck's testimony and Shut Out was the odds-on- foodstuffs Cards Boot Game sending and all supplies , Away. in Canadian and with ; holdings British, choice at 3 to 5. Dogpatch, Other to Britain to keep them going. The Cards fell two games behind motion fields League Games i Australian picture only one victory to show for eight There is little in the pace-setting, idle Brooklyr honesty any ^ came during an hour-long question»· i previous races, returned $61.10 for $2 AMERICAN LEAGUE argument which tries to obscure Dodgers because they could get onlj details of , ing about the financial Fenelon Wins Manhattan. these main he six hits off Ken Heintzelman, PiraW I At New York— objectives, concluded. i the Loew's oreanization. William Woodward's Fenelon gave their own Cites Precedents. > southpaw. Although pitch- Schenck Remains Calm. Philadelphia 001 001 502— 9 11 2 a fine exhibition of speed and stam- Asked then if the desired J ers allowed only five hits, the Car- dur- protec- Mr. Schenck remained calm ina in the mile and a hall New York... 001 122 110— 8 4 winning 13 tion of shipping might not be ac- dinals' infield committed as manj the inquiry and replied to Sena- ing ! of the $10,000 Manhattan Handicap Batterie»—Vuihii. Bern and Winter; easier with Mr. errors and St. Louis never was ir ftuffinc, Branch aa< complished guns, ^ tor Tobey's remark that he had ! from six rivals. Jimmy Stout sent Dickey. Ronar. the game. Roosevelt replied that is probably answered all questions to the best the well-backed son of Sir Gallahad At St. Louis— Morton who started the correct. Cooper, of his ability. There was loud 3d into the lead around the going Detroit 0 — It was at this that he > opener for the Cards, lost his fifth 000 100 point said applause when he added: j first turn and he never was headed he — believed the Government to be successive effort to capture his 14th me St. Louis ... 00 010 0 "I don't think should a -■ you put winning by three-quarters of ^ ■ toward a failed to last ar TTTT^— 111 M I heading policy of arming victory. Cooper this kind of a workout. I from Mrs. Payne Whitney's Batterie·—Treat and TebtoHai Man when the Pirates through length erief and Ferrell. American merchant ships, and help- Inning put togethei know business well." W. E. Welcome FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE—The U. S. S. my very Corydon. Boeing's QUINCY, MASS.—ANOTHER LINK IN UNCLE SAMS I ing to arm those of other nations * an error by Shortstop Martin Mar- Later. (Only Games) Promises Statement Pass was another length and a hall the United States as she as well. a double by Fletcher and sin- Massachusetts, 35,000-ton battleship and the newest addition to Fleet, ion. the audience reaction. Sen- back. j Noting Fore River As the hull cleared As precedent, he pointed out that > gles by Vince Di Maggio and Garms remarked: NATIONAL LEAGUE slid down the ways at the Bethlehem Steel Co. yard today. huge ; ator Tobey Packing top weight of 120 pounds American merchant had been for a 3-0 lead. the U. S. S. a new cruiser. The ships v "When the professional clique Fenelon covered the distance in 2:29 the ways, an overhead crane swung into place the keel for Flint, In the the Bucs the i At Pittsburgh—First Game— armed against French raiders in fifth, applied make a statement." a as well as ι gets through I'll only three-fifths of second off the Massachusetts will have a main battery of nine 16-inch guns, mounted in three turrets, 1798, against British raiders in 1812 > finishing touch when Relief Pitcher of I St. Louis ... 000 000 000— 0 S 5 I Senator McFarland, Democrat, track record. broadside The new is and later the Shoun made a wild throw a battery of the latest type anti-aircraft and secondary guns. battleship against Barbary pi- Clyde "When .. Arizona asked the witness: Amphitheatre Wins Close One. Pittsburgh 300 010 OOi- 4 5 0 rates in the Mediterranean. intentionally walked Di Maggio the fourth to be launched under the capital ship expansion program. (Story on Page Α-1Λ The you go to Denver and buy a theater, In a three-horse *head-and-head Batterie·—M. Cooper, abouti. Butchin- of this a I non furnishing protection had ^ yielded scratch single to Pinch- a and Mancuso, W. Cooper; Heintielnaa —A. P. Wirephoto. i for convenience you may organize finish, Amphitheatre, from Mrs. and enabled American vessels to hitter Elliott and watched Marion Lopei. beat company there to run that theater, Charles Shipman Payson's Manhas- ! make his second of the At Game— t See-ROOSEVELT~Page 2ÔC7T- erj-or game and you know Loew owns that set Stable, won the second division Pittsburgh—Second ^ This made it 4-0. j theater, regardless of what may be of the Futurity Trial in the role of St. Louis.... 100 320 300— 9 8 0 the name of that separate corpora- the heavily played favorite. I Pittsburgh 000 000 000— 0 8 4 Di Error Late News Bulletins Alexandria isn't that the situation?" Maggio's Housing tion, After trailing during the early Batteries—Lanier and Manenso; Sewell, Mr. Schenck said that was exactly of the the son Sullivan and Smith. Wind Reaches stages 6-furlong dash, to 2 More Vessels Periled by Lumber Fire right. Earlier he told the commit- ol Sir Gallahad 3rd came fast under At Philadelphia—First Game— Ship Strike Spreads tee he had trained himself to to the deci- Gives Nats Special Dispatch to The Star. put Alfred Robertson gain New,ïork... 002 000 000— 2 7 1 Victory NEW YORK (Λ5).—The A. F. L. Seafarers' International out of his mind "things that are fin- sion by the narrowest of margins in ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23.— 75 M. P. H. on 400 200 20x— 8 13 1 ished" and that otherwise he could 1:10.2. Warren Wright's Some Philadelphia Union announced today that the ship strike called in a dis- Fairfax and Alexandria firemen late not do his job as head of the con- Chance took the place with another Batteries—C. Melton. Bowman. Witti* In 4 to 3 and HartnetL Blaemire; Maeterson and Ninth, pute over war bonuses had spread to two more ships, bringing this afternoon were battling a stub- cern. head margin over the Paragon Sta- LiTinaaton. Texas born fire in a of Coast were the Waterman Co.'s pile lumber which Mr. SchencK vigorously denied at ble's Anibras. As the choice, Amphi- At Game- the total to 25. They Steamship Philadelphia—Second Boston Outfielder Fumbles to the afternoon session that five major theatre returned $4.30 for a $2 win threatened spread to the Naval (Earlier Story on Page A-l.) New 8 11 at Staten Island and the Alcoa Puritan, which ar- film could or would seek York... 220 201 010— 1 Lafayette B? the Associated Press. companies ticket. Cramer's Drive, Which Defense Housing Project on Duke to control the success of pictures Philadelphia 003 000 012- β 11 3 rived at Los Angeles today. PORT O'CONNOR. Tex., Sept. 23 street extended, police reported. produced by other sources. Batterie·—East and O'Dmi Jones and Also Scored Run —Winds reaching hurricane forci Livinrston, Barman. Tying (Earlier Story on Page A-3.) In the of the fire are the Monopoly Angle Questioned. Home Runs x vicinity and high tides spreading destructior Today's Lee-Jackson High School and the Chairman Clark of Idaho told the At Cincinnati— BURTON HAWKINS. sent several score residents fleeinf American League. By Alexandria-Fairfax witness he was to to County Foundry. going try ascer- New third 040 010 000— 5 9 01 two runs on Mail *o safety at Port Lavaca today as ι Ruffing. York, inning. Chicago The Nationals fashioned Dr. Brinkley Indicted Fraud Charge tain whether five companies have Di New fifth dangerous tropical storm approachec Maggio, York, inning. Cincinnati 000 001 000- 1 8 4 one out in the ninth inning to the power to determine the success with LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Λ»).—Dr. John R. Brinkley, the gland the Texas eoast. National League. Batterie·—Lee and Sehefloc Vander Boston of what he described as three other Lombardi. register a 4-3 victory over Northward 65 miles at Freeport Musial, St. Louis, 5th inning. Meer, Turner. Belli and specialist, his wife and six employes of a hospital formerly "satellite" companies. Stadium. Late Races where important defense industrie: Crabtree, St. Louis, 7th .inning. (Only Games) today at Griffith Senator Clark named as the five operated here by him, were indicted by a Federal grand jury are located, the wind blew 70 to 7i Roger Cramer delivered a single major companies Loew's, Inc.: Earlier Results, Ravian's. Other an hour and a seven-foot tid< to score the tying run, and Center- on of maU fraud in connection with services Warner Bros.. Paramount, 20th Cen- today charges Selections and Entries for To- eked water Into lowlands. Fielder Dominic Di Maggio con- eles tury Fox and R. K. O. The other offered by the hospital. morrow, Pafe Z-X. Only a skeleton crew remained or tributed an error on that smash to three, he said, are Universal, Colum- Nazis Declared Down at the Dow chemica: Bogged the run to cross the Btrty $25,000,000 bia and United Artists. allow winning and at the Sul- Havre de Grace plant Freeport Senator Democrat, ol plate. Serb Outlaws Kill 104 Croat Soldiers Co. Downey, SEVENTH RACE—Purse 51.000: claim- phur California, testified earlier that the In Warfare Worse Than Verdun Washington extended its win- ing: .3-year-olds and up 1A miles. Time far there had been no re- to Buddy ZAGREB, Crotia (Λ*).—Ninety-eight Croat soldiers and six Creepy Mouse Remers'd) 10.20 5.00 3.30 subcommittee will have difficulty ning streak six games. 4.10 2 βΟ of loss of life. Key Man (Bodioui porte I justifying to the American public By HENRY C. CASSIDY, Lewis batted for Jimmy Bloodworth officers have been killed Serbian outlaws who defied an Allergic Robinson) 3.10 Indications were that by Time, 1:48V Matagorda its effort to turn the war Associated Press War Corresponaent. in the ninth and walked. Pinch- Decatur, en ^ propaganda to Also ran—Ballotant. Mightily Matagorda Bay, was deserted ir fouled but ultimatum by the Nazi-controlled government of Serbia Gay Boo, feed Patch, Hazel W. inquiry into a monopoly investiga- WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE CENTRAL FRONT, Sept. 23.— hitter Buddy Myer out, Lazarus. the face of the incoming hurricane and at that and Bar Ship. tion. drive George Case walked, come out of their mountain hideouts willingly or be bombed Efforts to reach the town by tele- Maj. Gen Vassily Sokolovsky declared today the Nazi had Arriving this morning to take juncture, Cramer slashed a single failed. Officers believed down into mud and trench warfare 10 to 100 times as de- it was learned phone everj his at the committee bogged to left-center, scoring Lewis and out, tonight. Belmont Park one in the of place table, village 1,250 person; structive as the World War Verdun. sending Case to third. When Di EIGHTH RACE—Purse $1,500: allow, had moved inland to safety. (See MOVIÉsT"Page A-5.) ances: .'t-year-olds and up: 7 furlongs. Gen. Sokolovsky, a representative·! Maggio fumbled the ball, Case scored Fire Found in Bound for Britain Warlock lAndersoni 19.00 8.40 8.70 Ship (Bierman) 3.70 3 20 Soviet command on the Rus- with the run. Equator of the there now winning Maepeace (Wall) 8 80 serted, "in the sense that was discovered in a coal sian western front, told foreign cor- Nats entered the ninth trail- NEW YORK OP).—Fire today Time. 1:23V has developed something like a The Also ran—Grand Party. Grail Bird, German losses in the a bunker of the Greek Odysseus as the ship, Cheese the Rod ana Chart of $10,000 Match Race respondents continuous grinding of men and ing, 2-3, the Red Sox producing 4,575-ton freighter Obash. Straw. Spare tremendous in the central Par Avion. BELMONT PARK. Ν Y,. Sept S3 l/P\—Two-year-old Special Race: purse, 510.000. fight material closely resembling Verdun, run in the second inning and two loaded with sulphur for the British Ministry of Shipping, ill to winner: e'r furlonxs. Start good, won ridden out. Went to post 3:3fi: on as sector had been twice as heavy more in the fourth to offset Wash- Are Winner, b. c. (2) by Good Goods-Winds Chant by Wildair. Owner. Mrs, A. but 10 or a 100 times greater be- moved down New York Bay. A fireboat brought the trainer. Russians' in men and five times Park A. Swenke. Value, $10,00tC all to winner. Times, 0:33 V», 0:46*s, the cause the means of destruction in ington's two runs in the third inn- Narragansett Îabath;:084s. 1.16 (new track record). in and under control. SI.100: claim- as heavy material, planes the hands of Russians are so Ιησ EIGHTH RACE—Purse. Horse. Wgt. St. V* Vi Pin. J°ckey. the ing: 3-year-olds and up: 1 mile and 70 ALSAB _ 122 3 2 3 1' l4 R. L Vedder artillery. much greater." Ted Williams, leading hitter of yards. REQUESTED ",122 .1 1» l1 2 2 J. Westrope Russian armies, he said, had Arabesque (Dattilo) 7./0 4 βΟ 3.10 the had his average Nazis Claim Soviet 6.70 4.30 In the mutuel was to 7 to He said the Germans were dig- major leagues, Battleship Major Β (Hettinger) betting Alsab 17 20; Requested, 10. shoved the Germans back 6 to 30 2.80 a to .405 since he Epitory (Briggs) ging in along hundreds of miles of shaved point only a Soviet battle- 1:45. ALSABWbrok*r'ae bit slowly and was rated alone back of the pace for the first hall miles in the direction of Yartsevo, BERLIN (Λ®).—German planes bombed Time. in three to Mount Echo, Pea- fciie. Midway of the turn Vedder used his whip on ALSAB The colt responded with front and added: obtained one hit trips Also ran—Madison. northeast ol on * 60- a condition in the Gulf of Cave Hill. Dave Alexander. Au*. rood eourage At the head of the stretch ALSAB moved up to the leader ana in a lew Smolensk, who and left It in stalking nut Lady. "What lies ahead of than Isι the plate against Sid Hudson, ship today Goodnesi Sake and atrides ran by him. He increased his advantage to the finish, but boy took no mile front. ana Lyon. Rhiniz. the new· agency D.N.B. reported late tonight. Lady Roma. thance* and rode him out. REQUESTED broke alertly set a faat pace, but »t Uw top hae h« u- (See Page A-».) 9B£ bactbaTjIi, fSjS 3-x.) Finland, mi thj «treteh he becan to tlr· and gradually dropped back, a well-beaten horse. "Blitzkrieg failed," CASS*DY.

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