Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton EW YORK if president rafael eleonidas NEW leonidas trujillo molina of the dominican republic persists in his impromptu war with haiti and spurns president haff ballplayer r Roosevel ts offer might solve of at mediation it is 13 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 fanatic and only last juno june he wms wais accused of stealing many of the best players of the american negro teams the charges quite violent and vehement they wore were were made by the national negro league or of america comprising six t teams cams and were backed up by ferdinand Q morton morion 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 peat edly by trick and device snatch an ebony ball player wherever they might find him that they had thus cashiered cashi ered some of the best talent of the negro league the pittsburgh crawfords Craw fords were especially loud and insistent in their complaint the dictator of santo domingo learned fighting and ball playing with the united states marines with them eight years until the end ot of the period of occupation in 1924 1024 when he took over the country in 1930 by double crossing old president velasquez his enemies said he made baseball a major detail oi of his planned economy he helped build up the central american league and brought through quite a hed he d summon few pennant win army to get ners ile he throws star player bs big parties tor for the visiting teams at his palace in ciudad trujillo hell practically call out the army to surround a good ball player he was a farm boy when the marines came along he worked up in the dominican army from private to brigadier general gaining the presidency by a clever cou coup P 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 to washington they have accused president trujillo of wholesale killings and of ruthless suppression 0 of all political rights and civil rights when sergei belsome Ben some former secretary of war was murdered in new york in april 1935 the political enemies of the dictator said his agents had committed the crime when he became president in 1930 at the age of thirty seven he was the youngest ruler of any sovereign state T HE republicans like the democrats go to the grove of academe when they are short on ideas word from washington is that they are savants savanis may sounding out har aid G 0 P ris willis dodds in comeback president of princeton james bryant conant president of harvard james R angell angeli president emeritus of yale and robert G gordon 0 r sproul president of tile the university ar of california for the work of drafting a comeback program for the party A former member of the republican 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 president wilson is a specialist in government he has a generally liberal slant but has been vigorously outspoken against bureaucracy and has steadily cried down the juggernaut state the curse of he says is the worlds greatest menace ile he would appear to fit into the picture of a rejuvenated and realistic party reorganization he has tor for years been known as an expert on plebiscites electoral practice and Dodds r jjr Book a L mu pi 9 govern 0 v e r n saved jersey mont he was a technical adviser in the tacna arica boundary dispute and refereed the nicaraguan election of 1928 later he saved new jersey by a word digest of a governmental reorganization survey he is a native of utica pa educated at grove city college pa and princeton with a doctorate doc torale I 1 from the university of pennsylvania he lectured on political science at western reserve pennsylvania I 1 and swarthmore and became a traveling student of latin america r finding there a useful laboratory of political techniques princeton made him a elect lect lecturer aurer 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 Q consolidated news features SeI |