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= By Dan Parker

at right field and was al
most killed by fly balls bouncing
off his head.
Practical Joker
Frank Macken, a Philadelphia
practical joker, who was in the
hat business, rigged UP q brown
derby in a fancy box and called
on Damon to make the speech.
Babe thought he was getting
something good until he opened
the box and plucked out the con1l-
cal-looking russell chapeau.
Travis Jackson's eyes went back
on him last season and haf the
time Stoney couldn't see ground
balls till they were. q few 1eet III
front Of him.
Two Giants players, Hank Lei
Der and Harry Danning, who gave,
among other reasons for being
holdouts, the fact that Manager
Affable Bill Terry didn't speak to
them for a good part OF last sea
son, are different from all other
players I've known. The rest OF
'em always considered themselves
fortunate as long as the manager
refrained from talking to them
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stepped into the ball with all his
accustomed grace and power, and
his whole performance was en-
couraging.
Finds Batting Eye
Frank Hogan was another
athlete who found his batting eye
swiftly against the easy hurting.
The big catcher was slapping the
ball between third and home,
which is where Shanty figures to
hit them when he is swinging
right.
Hogan gives every evidence of
developing into the answer to a
club owners prayer. Griff right
now is counting on Shanty work
ing in more than 100 games.
He's q gIutton for work."
said Griff, "and he's going to be
popular with Washington
crowds. He's q county fair
catcher; waving his arms and
shouting all the time. And after
every inning he walks back to
the bench with the big smile on
his face. That is the sort Of
ball player whom the crowds
like. He soon will have . fol-
lowing.
81 expect Hogan to catch 100
games for the Washington club
this year." said Griff. He is
powerful. He's q right-handed
hitter. / like him."
To Report Monday
Right then and there the vener.
able president settled the status
of Cliff Bolton, who is one Of the
three players who has not signed
his contract.
Johnny Stone and Buck Newsom
are the others. All are expected
to report on Monday. If Hogan
catches 100 games, Bolton will be
used as a lefthanded pinch-hitter.
Walter Miles will go to the bull
pen.
Clark Griffith talked to Buck
Newsom over the ong-diStance
telephone last night. Newsom has
been Ill, he said, but still would
like certain concessions from the
Washington ball club. ....
Griff wrote a curt note, setting
forth that unless Newsom reported
at once, he would be placed on the
list Of unsigned players, and COM
PEELED to condition himself at his
own expense. Some how or other,
Griff is bearing the strain Of New
SONS holdout right bravely.
There is still a chance that the
trade between washington and
New York involving Newsom and
Gomez, will be made.
Buddy Lewis, the young third
baseman, arrived in camp several
days ahead Of schedule and will
go out for practice today. The
Gastonia kid has been in the cot
ton business all winter, and ex'
poets to make this his work after
baseball is all over for him.
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'up. He is now q doctor in ST.
Louis and offers to treat Babes
eyes free Of charge.
First Sports Announcer
Freddie Lindstrom was the first
baseball player ever to talk over
the radio, and Fred BendeL New
ark sports writer, was the first
sports announcer Of the air. Both
had WOR as their channel. Lin
dy's talk was In 1924, after the
final game Of the Giants-WaShing-
ton series. Bendel started in 1921
and once had to talk for an hour
and a half without a stop when
an orchestra failed to show up.
Chief Myer, the Indian catcher,
was an intellectual. He spent his
spare time while out with q ball
club visiting museums and art gal
lerieS.
The saying "You win the brown
derby" was originated by Damon
Runyon in Philadelphia one after.
non when he made a presentation
to Babe Ruth at home plate in
Shibe Park, the day after the
Babe had broken in with the
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He launched his baseball career
right here in Washington as a
catcher in 1886 and played actively
for 10 years. Meanwhile, in 1894,
he also undertook the management
of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Then he
was at the helm Of the Milwaukee
team until 1901 when he moved
into the pilot house Of the new
born Athletics, where he has been
since.
To establish the fact that age
is no bar in the executive branches
of baseball, it might be best to re-
mind you that this winter Connie
Mack was made president and
treasurer Of the Athletics, which
posts he holds in addition to that
Of manager.
LauD of Averages
Upon the general subject Of men
retiring at 70, Mr.. Mack depoSeS
and says:
81 think the President must
have been thinking of the law
sOf averages when he decided on
his retirement bill for Supreme
Court justices. You see when
you get a group of nine or Is
men together, you've got to con-
slider them as an organization.
"By the law of averages, one
or maybe more of a group Is
apt to begin to slip in efficiency
when around 10 years old. Why,
one might be over the crest at
65 years of age. But over a
course of years, 10 might be the
average age for the beginning
of q decline.
Its different when consider
ing men as individuals. Take
my case. Every once in while
someone asks me when I'm 60
ing to quit or why don't re.
tire. Frankly, I stay in base
ball because / enjoy it. l couldn't
have as much fun any other
way. Why, if someone asked
me right now what I'd like to
do most of all, I'd say 1 wanted
to see a ball game.
, Interest Increases
'Im here in Mexico City with
AN urge to get back to work. If
such a thing is possible, I'd say
Pm more interested than ever
in my ball club. I've work to
do to bring my club back into
the thick of the American
League pennant race. Maybe i
won't be in the first division in
September but / know we'll be
battling for the pennant in 1888
and I'll be IS years before 1888
rs over.
'My case is no different than
many men my age or close to it.
That's why I'm sure those who
think President Roosevelt meant
all men should voluntarily re.
tire upon reaching 70 years of
age have misinterpreted his
meaning. He's looking solely at
groups like the justices of Su.
preme Court rather than at indi.
Viduals.
do yen believe q man like
Continued on Page IS, Col. n
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Billy DettWeiIer Gets
Ace at Congressional

Yesterday, while his sister
Helen was giving Patty Berg the
battle Of the latter'S golfing life
at st. Augustine, Fla. Billy Dett-
weller, the second half Of the
Dettweiler family's contribution
to golf. scored a hole-in-one on
the 225-yard fourteenth hole Of
the Congressional Country Club.
Young Dettweiler, now a
student at Georgetown Univers-
ity, was playing with G. F. Mix
kelson and A. B. Schtworchi at
the time. He was out in 42 and
back in 80 for a IA. It was
Dettweiler's first hoie.in-one. He
has been playing golf for .
number Of years.
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c ! ! n C h ed the
National League
pennant, a cou-
pie of New York
baseball writer's
5 a W Manager
Will Terry give
a porter two
bottles of cham
payne to put on
Ice for h i'm.
T h a t evening.
as the train was
rolling through
Illinois, a wag-
gish writer or.
dered the din
inp car waiter
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Lobby Conversation

series and thus didn't have a
chance to pitch for the AS against
Matty. Later, Rube confessed to
a newspaperman that he had in
jured his flipper while making
good his boast to a crowd OF ad.
mirers on a vacant corner lot that
he could throw a curve with a
brick. He had to heave so be-
fore he got one to break.
Hub Pruett, Of the Browns was
the only pitcher who had the In
dian sign on Babe Ruth. Hub
famed Babe 13 out Of is times
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Signs
Griff Contract

ORLANDO, Fla, March 5.-Ben
Chapman, center fielder Of the
Washington baseball club, today
telegraphed President Clark Grit
fifth that the terms Of the last
contract sent to the outfielder were
satisfactory. Chapman told Grit
fifth that the would arrive in Or.
lando tomorrow or early on Sun
day. =,
Baseball men generally attribute
the rise Of the Washington club
to fourth place In the American
League last year to the sensational
playing Of Chapman.
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Raleigh Pinmen
LoopLedders

Raleigh Haberdasher bowlers
upset the leading Kanns crew in
the Department Store Bowling
League by winning the odd game.
Lansburgh's team crept right up
in the pennant race by sweeping
their set from the second place
Palais Royal.
Good sets rolled last night were
Bowman, 367; C. Aylor,. 1856;
Scrivener, 355; Minoux. 353, and
Moore, 351. standings:
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to serve the champagne for the
newspaper boys. The waiter poured
Mr.. Terry's champagne, and the
writers proceeded to pour it down
their throats. Terry burned for
several days after the gag.
Back in 1905, the first day Bill
KLEIN umpired at the Polo Grounds
John McGraw gave him ball-and.
The Washington times., 1937-03-05
Junior Soccer Test
To Open Tomorrow

Play in the Junior soccer elimi-
nation series of the national junior
soccer cup tournament will start
in Washington tomorrow.
Rosedale and Capital Heights
teams will play on Monument
Field, No. 2, at ii a. m. Another
first round game will be played
Sunday at ! p. m. on the same
field. This game brings together
Hoover and Park View.
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briefly s k e t C h
his b a S e b a IL
background, so
as to gu alify
him q little bit
more completely
for those W h o
have forgotten,
or never knew,
Just how long
he has b e e n
around.
Cornelius NC
Gillicuddy, or
that's his re a ]
name, was born
Dece ber %,
1862, at Brook
fjo1d MaSc
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was TO buy q plke HLIu E1u6 III over
Baltimore.
Joe McGinnity. the iron man.
was q bit rusty the day he was in.
vited out to st. Johns in Balti-
more by a brother who had touted
a gangling kid catcher to him.
Joe turned him down without CIV
ing him a look, because he already
had two catcherS on his Newark
club. The boy was George Her
man Ruth, the well-known orphan.
Rube Waddell hurt his arm
shortly before the 1905 world
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and Hogan Find
Batting Eye Quickly
In Camp Drills
Bv FRANK BUCK" o'NEILL

ORLANDO Fla, March 5-Buddy Myer, champion hitter
of the American League in 1885, around town this morn
ing grnnng the widest grin that has adorned his features
since he won the batting with fierce fire Of base hits
in the final game of the season.
All of this gnnng occasioned by the fact that Buddy
found in the first batting drill of the 1887 that he
could hit that ball with might and main.
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I'M TELLING YOU =

HAVANA, March 4.-When the
Giants were returning from the
West last September, after having
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Duckpin Honor Roll
At Lucky Strike Alleys

at GUIhy 1GI tS0 6GtCHO
Clarence AppIer (CirculatiOn) ...... 1S1
At RoSSly1l Alleys
Methodist Protestant League
F. COgsWeIl mt. Tabor No. D...... 139
Bus MahOney (Ft. Myers Heightsl.. 1871
Bill Hayghe IN. c. Ave. No. D.,.... 1875
Ladies' District League
Lucy Rose (ROsslyn) .............. l42
Gladys Lynn (ROsslyn) .......,.... 131
POuline Ford (Highway) ........... 12S
Arlington County League
Eddie GoIdblatt (Sher. g. Cohen) -. 40
Talbot Marcy u. o. u. A. M.).... 129
Roy Chiffon (G. w. DeMOlay) $50. 1913
At Arcadia Alleys
Ladies' Federal League
Dorothy Sparks (Resettlement) . 1870
Elsie Romero (Agri. No. - )......... 12S
Rosemary (RFC) .,................1 1871
G. & p. Ladies' League
Helen Beyers NORTH ............. 107
AnnabelIe Totten (Plant) ........ 106
Anna Vito (Aux. Sec. Bu.) ..... 1O6
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N MdCk Scouts
10 As Age
T0Retire
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Seventy three year
old senior Conni i e
Mack, now in Mexico
with his thirty seventh
edition of the Philadel-
phia Athletics, is glad
he's not a Supreme
Court justice.
Because, were Connie faced
with the proposition that his
usefulness to the only business
he ever knew, baseball, might
be curtailed automatically be-
cause of some arbitrary age
limit, he would be a very
miserable man indeed. His life
has been baseball. He always
wishes it to be that.
The least talkative man in base
ball, has obliged, with what for
him amounts to a treatise, on the
Administration judicial retire
ment proposals.
Qualified to Speak
But before quoting the venerable
leader of the Philadelphia Amer
lean League ball club, let me just
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Master Of Arts
At Recreation Alleys

Master OF Arts
William Watson Lefty" Clark,
the Dodger pitcher, has q master
Of arts certificate from the Uni
versity Of Mississippi.
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Qualified to Speak

But before quoting the venerable
leader of the Philadelphia Amer
lean League ball club, let me just
The Washington times., 1937-03-20

A patchwork quilt or pillow with
pretty maids all in a row" will
be the quilter's pride. Sunbonnet
Sue needs but the simplest patch
pieces for bonnet and frock, so
that scraps may be used if you so
desire. Pattern 1874 comes to you
with complete, simple instructions
for cutting, sewing and finishing,
together with yardage chart, dia-
gram of Guilt to heln arrange the
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blocks for single and double-bed
size, and a diagram Of block which
serves as a guide for placing the
patches and suggests contrasting
materials.
Send 10 cents in stamps or coin
(cOin preferred) for this pattern
to The Washington Times, Needle.
craft Department, 81 Eighth Ave-,
New York, N. Y. Write plainly
PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME
and ADDRESS.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-11-26

A volunteer fireman, Robert
Thompson, So, of New Lexington,
O., has admitted setting three in
cendiary fires, according to Sher-
iff James Adrian. He has been
bound over to the grand jury UNI
der $4,000 bond. After Thomp-
son, rural mail carrier and for
mer Ohio national guard officer,
set the fires, he would go out and
fight them, the sheriff says.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-11-26
pEAD THIS FIRST

Jerry Chandler, son OF . country
clergyinan Ii modest circumstances,
aIIer course at faie, finally meets
AillnI LIE Brun. now 81. LOUIS soCte.y
Sne IS cousin OF Lionel Clark, Jerry
only close friend at college. All three.
with several other young people, are at
a Name camp presided over Dy olga
an attractive young woman VINO maj
RED MlmIs wealthy grandfather short
Nv before he died. jerry has Just met
ANDY Fuller who is in love with Mimi
Ana now Jerry is with Mimi herself.
More impressed tnan ever with Mimi s
charm, jerry feels he is gong 10 ENJOY
The. house party. AT nearby dance
me first evening, Jerry begins to re-
sent Andys aItentiveness to Mimi.
nov. back from the dance at a. M,
iLiorel decides that Jerry must read TO
the group play they have written.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-11-26
CHAPTER Is

THE AMMIDON twins and
!Girard Sylvester decided not to sit
up for the play reading. They had
made plans for an early morning
fishing trip, and included in their
plans were two house guests whom
have not Observation-Disclosures
Hancock and Luther Dean. They
made no apologies for their de-
sertion. Anne Ammidon was
dead for sleep and confessed 1t
without shame.
Run along, Baby" Lionel told
her; you are too young for sucn
late hours anyhow, Jerry's
play might go to your head"
cit isn't my play" I objected.
"An the love scenes are yours,
he said. You wouldn't let me
touch them"
Katherine Merrill looked at me.
you don't mean that you are as
old-fashioned as that?"
LAS what?"
LAS to attempt the romantic"
Il haven't attempted it; 1 have
achieved it," 1 said lightly.
She did not know whether or not
I was in earnest, nor did the rest
of them, and 1 felt had scored a
point by my daring.
It was, as have said, the day
in which we worshiped at the
shrines of Shaw and Pinero and
Henry Arthur Jones. But Lionel
and I had followed no model. We
had flown high, and perhaps too
high. We had taken the story of
a man who, seeing the hope of his
country in a return to democracy,
applies it to his own life and be-
comes, as his grandfather was be-
fore him, a cobbler. By day he
tmends shoes, and at night he lives
among his books and studies the
stars. There comes to his little
shop summer visitor-a girl who
wants her slippers mended. She
lis the ward of a rich aunt and has
been brought up in luxury and
lidleness. The cobbler falls in love
with her, and the dramatic action
is based on his fight to bring the
girl to his own democratic point
of view and to save her from a
richer sutton.
The whole thing was, as have
intimated, crude-the effort Of two
boys who knew nothing Of the
stage. But there was imagination
in it, and now and then it struck
IL. I had written the speech in
the third act where the cobbler
made his plea with the girl for a
simpler life, and I had written with
a pen of fire.
It needed, however, more than
a fast-driven pen to make the
situation plausible. It needed, in
deed, genius. Yet the work was
strong in some parts. I have the
old play now: I wish I had the
boys fine fervor, as he dashed off
the lines!
My audience grouped itself about
the hearth in a half-circle. Mimi
was in Olga's high-backed chair
with the bearskin background
for her beauty. Andy lay on the
rug at her feet. Thus enthroned
among the shadows-for there
were only the candles and the light
of the fire-Mimi took on a nys-
ferrous aspect. She seemed less a
girl, more of a goddess.
Olga had chosen a deep chair a
little removed from the others.
think she slept while read.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-11-26

Prince Ludwig of Hee and his BRIDE the former Margaret Campbell
Gedde pictured after their wedding London which followed
air crash which the Grand Duke Hesse and four members
family flying wedding killed Ludwig
through the tragedy The brides father Sir Auckland Gdd
time British Ambassador to the United States.
central PressI
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-11-26

Wendell Z. Wi1lkie (above), chair
man of the Commonwealth and
Southern Co., is shown as he left
the White House, where he had dis
cussed the standing and future OF
utilities corporations with President
Roosevelt. Willkie agreed with the
President that utilisies should scale
down their capital structure
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mad the pages for several years.
When she and Simpson separated,
the mysterious laws of social rec
ognition tolerantly carried her
along as Mrs. Warfield Simpson. "
But, when she takes king from
the British throne and as his wife
rates as duchess, even though not
her royal highnesS," the social
register drops her with dull thud
that can be heard from Newport
to Cannes.
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Drive Checks Bacteria

been decreased from 100000 10
1000 and the count on q fork
had dropped from 100000 to 1000.
The department also said that
the lowly cockroach was being
studied as a possible factor in the
transmission of bacteria.
DR.. r. R. Ashworth, director Of
the food inspection service, met
today with 40 restaurant operators
to give them instructions in sani-
tation.
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Mute Veteran Cured

Belleau Wood and Chateau
Thierry and was member of the
Army of Occupation. He sud.
denly lost his voice after he re-
turned from France. On a train
this week, he suddenly heard him
self reading aloud, he related.
He became so excited he could
not stop talking until he was
exhausted. The following morn
ing he discovered he could SPEAK
normally. ..
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Health Officer George c. Ruh-
land stated today "the disgraceful
restaurant sanitation in the Dis
trict has not been solved, but we
are making some progress" He
pointed out that the departments
new bacterial scoring system put
into effect November l was re-
sponsible for the progress.
AS evidence Of the progress, he
said that in one restaurant the
bacterial count of a spoon had
The Washington times., 1937-11-19

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Nov. 10.
G.N.S0.-Speechless for II years
as a result of shell-shock suffered
in the battle of Chateau!Th
during the World War, Arthur S.
Low, AZ, who since then had to
resort to paper and pad, regained
his voice while reading a news
paper on a train.
The shell-shock did not affect
him Immediately. He went un-
scathed through the battle of
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names.
Blue-pencilled also was Capt.
Ernest F. Simpson, whose mar
riage yesterday to Mary Kirk Raj
fray would have been too late to
make the edition but, as it turns
out, it didn't make any difference
because he didn't get in anyway.
The ways of the social register
are strange and the fate of the
duchess is the perfect example.
AS Mrs. Ernest Simpson, she
The Washington times., 1937-11-19
Struggle Within
Rabbi Metz Topic

"The Struggle Within" will be
the subject of a sermon by Rabbi
S. H. Metz at services at Adas
Israel Congregation tonight at 8
o'clock. Cantor Louis Novick, as
sisted by a choir of 16 voices, will
conduct the services. Charles Stein
will lead an open forum in dis
cussion of THE Partition Of Pales-
tine"
The Washington times., 1937-11-19
Scarlet Fever Hits
College Sorority

URBANA, Ill, Nov. 19.-Three
pledges of the Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority at the University
of Illinois are in the university
hospital for observation for signs
of scarlet fever. Thirty-nine mem
bers of that sorority and employees
have been placed under a temp
orary quarantine.
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Social Register
Drops Duke, Wife

NEW YORK, Nov 10 GNS.).- Minus - oh, very much
inus-any reference his royal ghness the Duke of Wind
sor and her grace duchess the New York Social Register
for 1888 was out today pruned those usrous international
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-06
POLICE SEEKING
 ACID SUSPECTS
Two Men, Woman Sought for Attack on Joseph
 Dander of Fox St.

Police today continued theii search for the perpetrators of . crime early Saturday morning wher Joseph Dander, 58, of B FoS street, suffered the loss of an eye as a results of burns received when acic was thrown into his car by un. known persons.
 Dander is said to have informed police that before being scared witt the fluid he noticed that the attack ing party consisted of two men anc a woman. John Hedderman, g, oi 39 Fox street, a passenger in the Dander car also received severe burns, but was released from St Mary's hospital Sunday after receiv. ing treatment.
 The crime was investigated by Motor Patrollnen Joseph Mccarthy and James Magner who reported that when the Dander car drew ur to a stop at the intersection wom- an in a parked machine screamed That's him." Both Dander anc Hedderman were so surprised that they did not discover what really had happened until the trio start. ed to run.
 At the time of the attack it wa, discovered that Dander had carried revolver on his person and ht was placed under arrest for carrying concealed weapons. He told police that one night early last week h, was the victim of another attacl which took place. in a garage in tn, rear of his home on Fox street. Ht sasid he was struck several time;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-06
FUNERALS

The funeral of Peter F. Col- Her was held yesterday morning from the Bergin funeral home to St. Margaret's church where d solemn high mass was celebrated by Rev. Edward Doeley, c. $. Fp., assisted by Rev. J. Oliver Cronan, deacon and Rev. James T. Kilbride, c. S. SD, Rev. John A. Conlan was seated in the sanc- tuary. Bearers were Edward Lane, Franklyn Wall, Martin Mo- Donald, Edward Bracken, James Butler and Joseph McNellis, Burial was in the family plot, St. Francis cemetery, Naugatuck with committal services by Father Dooley.
 The funeral of Thomas J. Re- gan took place yesterday morn ing from his home, 192 Baldwin street to the Church of the In- maculate Conception where a sol- emn high mass was celebrated at 9o'clock with Rev. Jerome Cook celebrant; Rev. Geore Reilly deacon, and Rev. Donald OLeary sub deacon. Seated in the sanc- tuary was Rev. Patrick Flynn A special musical proram was given under the direction of F F. Harmon, church organist with William O'Brien as soloist. Burial was in Calvary cemetery. The