Show I A AA A A WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By Lemuel F. F Parton NEW EW YORK YORK YORK-If If President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina of the Dominican republic persists in his impromptu war val with Haiti and ande President e it r t spurns B Ball II Player Payer 1 a Roosevelt's offer Might Solve of mediation it is Latin Feud possible that they might buy him off with a fast black shortstop and a couple of outfielders President Molina is a rabid baseball baseball baseball base base- ball fanatic and only last June he was accused of stealing many of the best players of the American negro teams The charges quite violent and vehement they were were made by the National Negro League of America comprising six teams and were backed up by Ferdinand Q Morton New York civil service commissioner who is the Judge Landis of the league It was asserted that agents and emissaries of the President did repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly re re- re- re by trick and device snatch an ebony ball player wherever wherever wherever ever they might find him that they had thus cashiered some of the best talent of the negro league The Pittsburgh Crawfords were especially especial especial- ly loud and insistent in their com com- plaint The dictator of Santo Domingo learned fighting and ball playing with the United States Marines with them eight years until the end of the period of occupation in 1924 When he took over the country in m 1930 by double-crossing double old President President President dent Velasquez his enemies said he made baseball a major detail of his planned economy He helped build up the Central American league and brought through quite a a. a ww tj r He d d Summon a few pennant win win- Army to Get ners He throws Star Player big biS parties for the visiting teams at athis athis athis his palace in Ciudad Trujillo Hell He'll practically call out the army to surround surround surround sur sur- round a good ball player He was a farm boy when the marines marines marines ma ma- rines came along He worked up in the Dominican army from private private private vate to brigadier general gaining the presidency by a clever coup In 1933 he liquidated a strong opposition by putting it in jail Several thousand exiles have for several years maintained a junta in New York city led by Dr Angel Morales former Dominican minister minister minister minis minis- ter to Washington They have accused accused accused ac ac- ac- ac President Trujillo of wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale killings and of ruthless suppression suppression suppression sup sup- of all political rights and civil rights When Sergei former secretary of war was murdered in New York in April 1935 the political political political ical enemies of the dictator said his agents had committed the crime When he became president in 1930 at the age of thirty-seven thirty he was the youngest ruler of any sovereign state S THE HE Republicans like the Democrats Democrats Demo- Demo Democrats go to the Grove of Academe when they are short on ideas Word Vord from Washington is istha that tha t they are Savants May sounding out Har- Har Aid G. G O. O P. P ris Willis Villis Dodds in in Comeback pre president sid e n t of Princeton James Bryant Conant president of Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard James R. R Angell president emeritus of Yale and Robert Gordon Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don Sproul president of the University University University sity of California for the work of drafting a comeback program for forthe forthe forthe the party A former member of the Republican Republican Republican lican National committee who still keeps a few pipe lines open tells me chances favor President Dodds as to both choice and acceptance of the chairmanship of the program committee President Dodds who looks and works like Woodrow Wilson is a specialist in government He has hasa a generally liberal slant but has been vigorously outspoken against bureaucracy and has cried down the juggernaut state The curse of he says is the worlds world's greatest menace He would appear to fit into the picture of a rejuvenated and realistic party re re- re organization He has for years been known as asan asan asan an expert on plebiscites electoral practice and mu- mu n ji D L Dodds Book g govern govern- o 0 v ve e r 1 n- n 1 Saved Jersey ment He was a aSI SI 1 14 4 technical adviser in the Tacna-Arica Tacna boundary dispute and refereed the Nicaraguan election of 1928 Later he saved New Jersey by bya a word digest of a governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental reorganisation survey lIe He is a nat Ilat nat vu vc of Utica Pa educated educated educated edu edu- at luve C rove City college Pa and Princeton with a doctorate from Irom the University of Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania He lectured on political science science sc- sc ence at Western Reserve Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania vanla and Swarthmore and became a traveling student of Latin America America America Amer Amer- ica finding there a useful laboratory of political techniques Princeton made him a lecturer on politics It all sounds pretty dry but he is always alert to the human equation and stipples his thesis with a dash of color 0 Consolidated News Features I Service |