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Hearts & Showers. In Falls City, Neb., nine-year-old Jimmy Shafer rode his pony into an auction ring, started weeping as the bidding rose, wept increasingly, set the bidders blubbering, finally caused the auctioneer to sob out: "I just can't do it." The sale was called...
...Congressman Inquires. Representative Paul W. Shafer (R., Mich.) stormed that the Selfridge situation "smelled to high heaven" and vowed to get to the bottom of it; he hinted that McRae might have been shot for learning of some irregularity. In Detroit U.S. Attorney John C. Lehr said he would ask indictment of at least 50 civilians involved in efforts to bribe Selfridge officials...
Touchy Congressional isolationists jumped a mile. Snorted Representative Paul Shafer of Michigan, a member of the Military Affairs Committee: "You, Colonel Wedgwood, are one of the principal cogs in Great Britain's propaganda machine. . . ." Said Montana's bull-like Senator Burton Wheeler: "I resent a member of the British Parliament coming to the United States to criticize the American Congress...
After winning his first heat, Donahue went on to take third place in the 60 yard high hurdles, beating out all but Ed Dugger of Tufts and Todd of Virginia. Roger Shafer, who ran in the same event, did not fare so well, and came to grief in the semi-finals, where he tripped on the second hurdle. Also in the semi-finals was Doug Pirnie, who fought unsuccessfully for the 60 yard dash crown...
Perhaps the best performance of the day was turned in by Roger Shafer. He ran second to Donahue in the hurdles, running the 120-yard highs in 14.8 seconds, his best performance to date. Pushed into the 220-yard dash because of the absence of the regular sprinters, he finished second in the creditable time of 22.2 seconds...