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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
THIEF ESCAPES

New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 8 - ~. P)--Agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation today spread . New England-wide search for Har- old-ack Thompson, Si. Branford, be- lieyed to be the mysterious George Hammond sought for alleged yio- iation of the national motor vehicle theft act.
 Thompson cvaded two police traps here recently. He now was believed in northern New England.
 IE0 allegedly obtained nine auto- mobiles under fraudulent auspices, took the machines across state llnes and sold them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
Child ldren o. CityP Play
 TheirO O.vnS Santa Claus
But It Will Be the Morning Before Christmas crat Will Stage Party at LOew.POli Theater;
 Poor Children to Benefit

Twas the night before Christ mas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Now that's all very well for the night before Christmas, of course, but for the day before Christmas, of course, but the day before Christmas--well, that's sorne- thing else again.
 There'll be plenty stirring on the morning before Christmas because that's the morning when every youngster in Waterbury will have a chance to be Santa Claus to the families who might not otherwise have very good Christmas dinners.
 Morning Before
 The morning before Christmas Is the date of the great Christmas party to be staged by The Demo- crat at the LoeW Poll theaer. This annual event Is expected to be big ger than ever this year and that means 1t will be plenty big to spread the Christmas spirit. into many c home where 1t might not enter otherwise. For here's what happens: Through
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08

avenue. UnoffiC!ally 1t was report- cd that 06 of the children who had been transferred from Croft school were absent today.
 Truant Officer Advises
 While Truant Officer Edward j.. Donahue worked in one circle warn- ing parents of the legal consequence to he suffered by them If they con. tinued to disregard the rulings Of the school board; missionaries of the protest committee continued their work of visiting parents of the transferred children. Each was urged to continue her defiance of the board by keeping tho children ct home.
 pr. Condon Waiting
 Dr. Condon refused to state today just how long he will give the par- entS to comply with the transfer
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
MAD SPECTATOR

Boston, Dec. S-(UP)- Enraged when a local play. CT was penalized during the hard. fought Boston Detroit hockey game at Boston Gar. den last night, a fan ripped the slats from his seat and threw them onto the ice.
 When an usher tried to restrain him, the fan yelled: "Listen, l paid for this seat and l guess l can do what I want with it"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
TWO STATES HELPED

Seekonk. Mass, Dec. 8-(UP)-- Bremen from two states joined to- day in battling fire that destroyed Charlie's Diner on the Fall River Providence, R. T., highway. Loss was set at $25,000. Some 300 feet of hose was laid by Seekonk and East Providence firemen. The fire stated in the kitchen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
PREMONITION

Manchester, Conn, Dec. s -(UP)-Walking with his son to their night jobs at a local paper factory last night, Peter Mikaszauskas, 55, turned and said: ;. q don't think I'll live very long,"
 Just then, he slumped to the ground, dead of a heart ailment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
City Prosecutor Meyers Confers
 hSupt. Condon
Parents Are Not Scared Off By Threat of Arrest-At Least 65 of Their Children Are Absent From
 Morning Session of School Today
Prosecuting Attorney Mitchell

Prosecuting Attorney Mitchell Meyers said today that he had been conferring with Superintendent of Schools Thomas J. Codon on the subject of issuing warrants for the arrest of parents who refuse to send their children to any other grammar school but Croft In the face of this the parents protest committee kept their children from assigned schools and prepared for another meeting tomorrow night at Workmens Circle Hall on Spencer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
Nanking, Capital OF China, Ls Encircled By Japanese Ring OF Steel
Desperate Chinese Repel All Infantry Attacks; Japs Now Pounding Walls
 of Capital By Air, Land, Water
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff CorrespOndent)

Shanghai, December g. - (UP) - The Japanese armies took recourse to long range boarnent today in their siege of Ranking pounding the walls of the Capital from the air. land and water when infantry assaults failed to dsoge the Chinese defenders Land and river batteries sheed the capital and airplanes made bombing raids
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Dec. s--(UP)--Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for tho current fiscal year through Dec. eth, compared with n year ago: This Year Expenses Last Yenr $S,26i i,117,99s.36 $2,9SS,6SS,0S6.7e ss.4s9.o7 o.oJsso 'sl.7Os.Sos.s7ssO
 Deficit
 $77f,147,0i6.o5 $i,275,1s4,1bs.5s
 Cash Balance $2.7os.sos, ,o44.oo si.1so.1li.4is.ss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
DIES OF INJURIES

Danbury, Dec. 8-(UP)--William Kelly, 58, died late yesterday in Danbury hospital of injuries suffered in a cave-in of @ gravel bank, November 22.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08
The Weather

Mostly Cloudy Tonight; Thursday Cloudy Colder Full weather Report Page {.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-08

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Evening star., 1937-12-23
CARDINAL BOXERS,
TRACKMEN DATED
Six Events for Scrappers and 13
for Thinclads Booked for
Winter and Sprinp.


CIX boxing matches, all but one at
home, and 13 track meets we're
announced today for Catholic Uni
versity athletes this winter and next
spring.
The ring schedule features home
battles with Maryland, Pittsburgh,
Villanova, Western Maryland and C.
c. N. Y. and the mittmen will travel
to Durham for bouts with Duke
Track competition will start with
the Millrose games on February 13,
with two other indoor meets, both
out of town. following. The first of
10 outdoor meets will involve c. U.
in triangular meet with American
University and Gallaudet on April %.
The complete schedules:
Boxing.
January 90, Western Maryland, c. u;
rusry s, Duke T. Durham. N. G.: Il,
sss ssTsh ys;. Z: T. N.Fsh y g. city oSiss' q
Track
nndoor Meets.)
rSUFudIs MlIlTOSS games, view IOIk
26 Southern Conference games Chapel
HILL N. c.: March IL, Maryland indoor
games, Baltimore.
(Outdoor Meets)
April 90. triangular meet. Gallaudet
american p.nn u Cathq,S y 2s
triangular. Randolph Macon, American
U. Catholic U. at C. u; 7. Mason-Dixon
Johns Hopkins. Baltimore; IA, wake For
est at C. U..; Is. Delaware at Newark
Del (pending) or Western Maryland at
c. U; 81, La Sale at c. u; IS. D. c. A.
A. U. championships at Maryland U.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

CONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY
CLUB today became the third
golf organization around
Washington to toss an all
winter lunch party for the caddies
who tote bags over the golf course
without more income than the paltry
few bucks they pick up in caddie fees
For several years the caddies at
Chevy Chase and Washington have
been on a free-lunch schedule dur
ing the winter months. Every day
during the cold months, just before
noon, a big tureen of hot soup goes
over to the golf shop at both these
clubs, for the regular caddies, along
with bread or crackers. For many
OF the boys it's just about the only
square meal they get, and the cost
to the clubs is so small it isn't missed.
Club managers figure it costs about
a nickel plate to feed the boys a hot
lunch. We're sure if some of the
other clubs knew what a good thing
it is to help the caddies along during
the winter they'd all jump to it, Just
as Congressional has done, starting
today.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
HEURICH DRIBBLERS
SKIP CELEBRATION
Must Hustle to Keep in Fettle
for Tough Games With Rens.
Hope for Sweep.

MATED to meet the nationally
famous colored Renaissance five
Christmas night and Sunday after
noon, the Heurich professional bas-
ket ballers must forego holiday. cele-
oration to prime for what they con-
slider the toughest tussles on their
schedule.
Last year the Brewers broke even
with the Rens in two games. Now
greatly strengthened by the addition
OF Mickey Shoenfeld and Ben Gold
faden, they are conceded good
chance Of sweeping the games.
In 1885 the dusky dribblers won
III games and lost Is and last sea-
son took 122 and dropped 10. They
also boast the longest winning streak
among pros, having won SO in row
in 1894.
Organized by Fats Jenkins in 1925,
the Rens include "Bruiser" Saitch,
Tarzan Cooper, John Holt, Wee Willie
Smith, Lou Badger, AL johnson and
John Isaacs. Saitch, the musta-
chioed forward, last year astounded
the fans who jammed Heurich GYM
nasium with his fine floor game and
deadly eye.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Work Is Spread Out.

EVERY club around Washington has
its regular caddies, who show up
every day. sometimes get work and
more frequently sit around waiting
for job in the winter time They're
all right in summer, when there are
lots of golfers playing every day, but
in winter when play falls of the boys
have to toll in rotation to spread the
work around. That's when they really
need little help.
Lots of our caddies count the free
lunch as their big meal of the day"
says Sandy Douglas, caddie master at
Chevy Chase. Plenty of our boys
need that hot lunch at noon," says
Brick Wood, Washington caddie mas
ter
Il think it will work out fine at
Congressional" says Gene Gooding,
caddie boss at that club. Like most of
the other clubs, we have our regular
caddies, and the going gets pretty
tough in the winter Any time snow
lays on the ground for week or more
these boys are cut of from any in
come at all A little bit of lunch helps
keep 'em together and keeps their
spirit up"
Evening star., 1937-12-23
K|LRA|N CROSSED"
BYTOSSEDT TOWEL
Second Hasty in 75.Round
Fight With John l., Jake
Always Claimed.
By the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
n IEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23.-That
last bare-knuckle fight be-
tween John L. Sullivan and
Jake Kilrain-75 rounds
must have been a wonder.
Jake's death at the age of 78 in a
Quincy, Mass, hospital yesterday sent
sports writer's thumbing through yell
lowed newspaper files in search Of
what happened before and during that
fight on July 8. 1889, in Richburg,
Miss
The Daily Picayune described Kill
rain as pale, but with hands big
and hard and yellow, results produced
by the much-written- about picking
process" 1t said Sullivan kept in
training exercising with '2-pound
dumbells, putting them out thou
sand times" and told of the many
shower baths he took
Gov. Francis T. Nichols of Louisi-
ana. Confederate veteran, said mix"
to the fight in his State. Gov. Lowry
of Mississippi said nix" too. He or
dered out troops. but place for the
fight was found IN Gov. Lowry's
State.
Evening star., 1937-12-23

on her liz average, picked up sticks
on Lucy Rose when the latter counted
326.
HE pennant scramble in the East
ern Star League is keener TODAY.
following the champion Mizpah's
shutout Of the leading Bethany girls.
The victory gave the title holders the
runner-up spot. one game back Of the
pacesetters. Ruth Abrams with ll4-
80 led the winners. The Martha
cellar crew trimmed the strong Unity
club two games
l.. P. Steuart and Emerson & Ornne
Service, leader and runner-up, respec-
lively, held to their winning pace in
the General Motors League when the
former swept Pohanka and the latter
tripped Ourisman for all three games.
Capital Cadillac, in third place,
smothered Stohlman.
WINNING 20 Of ~ games rolled, st.
Elizabeth's No l team Is topping
the American Federation OF Govern
ment Employees League Tariff Com
mission Is the runner-up, four games
back.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
MACK, Is, LONGING
| FOR 10TH PENNANT
Vet Leader of AS, Health
Improved, Eager to Get
Back to Baseball.
a, The As.ocist ted pres,

By the ASSOCIATED Press.
~ HILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.-Con-
- ME Mack. veteran baseball
leader. celebrated his 18th
birthday anniversary today by
getting plans ready for next season, u
when he hopes to win his 10th Amer
ican League pennant.
There was no birthday cake, for
Mack is on diet these days as a
result of an indisposition since last
August. But he has no idea of STEP
ping down as manager of the Phila.
delphia Athletics.
My principal thought now" he
said, is getting palms ready for next
season. When I concentrate on base
ball matters forget that have been
ILL.,"
Mack, born at East Brookfield.
Mass, as Cornelius McGillicuddy, Is
anxious TO get back into baseball at
mosphere.
"I'll be glad when it is time for
me to leave for the training camp. I
may go ahead of the players to get in
some golfing and fishing, I know it
will be good to get back in the play
ing atmosphere"
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Pennants in BuncheS.

LIS first title came in 1902 and he
repeated in 1905, but lost to the
Giants in the World Series. The AS
swept through the World Series in 1910.
1911 and 1913, but fell prey to the
Boston Braves in the 1914 classic.
The years passed-until 1929. 1880
and 1881, and three consecutive pen
nants came again to Mack's team.
The first two years they also brought
back the bacon from the World Series.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Two KnOckOutS Scored,

HOWE remained upright through
the first two rounds. but two blows
to the jaw sent him down twice for
nine in the third. He was not
knocked down again until the ninth,
and then only for an instant. In the
seventh and eighth rounds he held
Hutchinson practically even.
Two knockouts featured the four
bout card. Johnny McShea of Potts
vile. Pa, put away Frank Spina of
Chester in the second round and Bobby
Green Of Philadelphia knocked out
Bobby Washington Of New York In the
third. In the other scrap Billy Mariner
OF Camden, N. j., outpointed John
Donnelly of Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
SNEAD IS FAvORITE
TO WIN MIAMI OPEN
Revolta, Guldahl and Oliver Are
Other Strong Contenaers in
$2,5OO Event.

B, the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 23.-The winter
A'A golfing brigade began firing to-
day in the $2,5o0 Miami open, third
event in a schedule Of year-end tour
naments, which total $4,000 in prize
money.
Hard hitting Sam snead, who won
the $500 Nassau open Monday and
took fourth money a week earlier in
the $4,000 Miami Biltmore open. was
4 slight favorite in the field of 1876.
Bracketed below Snead Is likely win
ners were Johnny Revolta. who won
the Biltmore svsnt; Ralph Guldahl,
national open champion, and Eddie
Oliver of Wilmington, Del, who has
been scorching the course with sub
par practice rounds.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
ss!yn Jumps Ahead Of Suer Spring YIe Bowling Entries
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR

CUPID" LOvELESS, Charley
Wright, Johnny Baum, Ray
Chaplin and Harry Oehler are
members of the crack Continental
bowlers fighting for the District
duckpin title.
George Washington basketers
bareIy nosed out the Business High
quint, 1916, III the last local game
before the holidays. Witt scored
eight points for the winners.
Jim Thorpe has announced that
he may quit baseball and devote his
time to some oil wells near the
old Oklahoma reservation. He's
been trying TO make good in major
league baseball for five years, but
he still can't hit curve ball.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
WESTERN T0SSERS
BEATEN BY ALUMNI
High School Champs Routed,
53-34-St. Johns Grads
Bow to Students.
ALUMNI team proved a stun

4 N ALUMNI team proved a STUN
~ bling block for one scholastic
~ quint yesterday, but another
was defeated by the current
court representative of its alma mater.
While a group of former Western
High greats was routing the team
which will defend the Red and Whites
interhigh championship, 1884 St.
Johns graduates bowed to the 1887
SO edition of the Johnnies, 1922.
With Tony Latona, courtman-tennis
star-playground director, going on a
2o-point scoring spree with nine field
goals and two free shots, Westerns
alumni never was threatened. George
De Witt and DAILY of last years team
We're able running mates for Latona.
Western produced three men who
scored four field goals apiece, but they
were not enough to match the 46
points amassed by the Latona-De-
Witt-Daly combination.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
MILDLY LEADERS NAMED
Hardy Heads Harriers, Fitzpatrick
Captains Soccer Team.

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Dec. 23 R.-
Captains and managers of the 1888
cross country and soccer teams at the
Naval Academy have been announced
by Comdr. Andrew c. McFall, gradu-
ate manager of athletics
j. D. Hardy, Rochester, N. Y, was
elected captain Of the cross country
team, and M. fitzpatrick, Ardsley, N.
Y. captain Of the soccer team.
r. @. Shoaf, jr., Lexington, N. c.,
will manage the cross country team.
" T. Boatwright, jr., Portsmouth,
Va. was elected manager of the Soc
Ger team.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Proud of Life Work.

MACK will be starting his 55th
year in the game when he takes
the AS South next spring to Lake
Charles, La.
Looking back over his past success
rs and drawing from them inspiration
for the efforts he hopes will carry
his team to the top again, the gray
ing manager found much to be thank
full for.
Baseball improved all along the
line last season in point of interest and
attendance" he said, and I look for
further improvement next season"
AS an afterthought, he added:
Its a grand game and I never re-
gretted taking it up as life work.
Oldest manager in the big leagues,
Mack holds the record for continuous
service as a manager. Since he took
the helm Of the AS in 1901 his teams
have won nine league pennants and
five World Series.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Congressional Is Third Club
To Ciue Caddies Hot Lunches
During Lean Winter Pickings

good as Hinshaw." says Red Banagan
L guess Freddie hadn't hit a prac-
tice shot in 20 years before Hinshaw
got him into the habit. He's hitting
that ball as well as ever he hit it."
Hinshaw several years back built a
driving hut out near the eighth tee,
where he and Mcleod 60 for practice
on days when the weather prohibits
golf
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Fight Has $4,000 Gate.

q w. RICH, sawmill operator at
Richburg, Miss, allowed a ring
to be staked out on his property.
Bleachers holding 1000 spectators
were put up, About. $4,000 worth of
tickets were sold.
Sullivan wore around his waist a
plasted made of "buckskin and lined
with pitch pine, expected to be of
great help to him. the accounts
state. Jake wore plaster, too, mostly
on his back.
BY the time the two men started
after each other in that first round
the Daily Picayune had used 40 para
graphs and three colmns of type. No
one was ~ learn until about four
columns later, away down in the
seventy-fifth round, that Sullivan had
won
Said the Picayune. "As he seated
himself in his corner the Boston
wonder scowled for a moment at his
opponent and then, raising his head
proudly, sent defiant glance around.
His skin was flesh-colored in its tint. "
Evening star., 1937-12-23

Plans for the next ringer season
will be talked over, then the ringer
ties will blast away at the naples
Few of them will receive handi-
caps in The Star tournament, but
virtually all will have franked
sticks in the scrap for the Speaker
Cup. Harry Woodfield, secretary
OF the D. H. p. A., will set the
handicaps.
The horseshoe hurlers are asked
to report to Woodfield Sunday at
the Lucky Strike at / pm.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
St. Johns Quint Smooth.

st. JOHNS, on the other hand,
started its veteran team Of Batiste,
Swaggart, Giebel, Gallagher and Null
vihill, which took an 1879 lead in the
first half. From then on it was con-
tent to use substitutes at will each
regular being replaced.
Ed Scanlon. Bill Counselman and
Mike Simone played well for the
alumni, but they were overpowered and
outclassed by the smooth-working prep
school champions.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
SKEETMEN TO ELECT
National Capital Club Meeting Set
for January IL.

Members of the National Capital
Skeet Club will hold their annual
meeting Tuesday night, January II, at
o'clock at the Army and Navy Club
Seventeenth and I streets NV.
Don johnson, chairman, Al Walker
and Ray Curry form the Nominating
Committee that will supervise the
election of officers for the coming
year. Members are urged to attend
as plans for the new season will be
discussed.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Ringerites Shoot for Spares
Horseshoe Fippers to Have Own Section in
Evening Star Bowling Tournament

7 r ORSESHOE pitchers Of
- Washington. Maryl q n d
and Virginia will chuck
= bowling balls instead OF
irons next Sunday, when the Dis
trict Horseshoe Pitchers Associa-
ton holds its annual meeting at
the Lucky Strike.
While competing In The Evening
Star tournament, the ringer flip
pers will be battling for q trophy
presented by Vent Speaker OF r.
Harris d Co.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
SMILE ON FOOT BALL
Man Seeing Game First Time
Saws It's Like Roping Hogs.

OTTAWA, Kans. R.-Sixty-four-
year-old D. U. Monroe saw his first
foot ball game and then remarked:
Its sorta like catchin' wild hogs
It reminds me of the time down on
the farm when I roped a big calf
I threw a rope around its neck and
1t dragged me half a mile. Foot ball
Is rough, too"
Monroe, filling station operator.
"just didn't get around to going to
q game" until recently.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Dixon on Top Again.

biAoH on lOp again.
THE Lucky Strike, with more than
400 participants, holds its Gus
tomary place in the lead of major
alleys, with the Arcadia, Convention
Hall and the Columbia running
stronger than in other years.
The high man at Rosslyn is Harry
Dixon, whom bowling veterans will
recall as the Agricultural Interbureau
Lacquer who for several years held
the District record for a league set
with 445. Dixon rolled 66l with a
handicap of 35 pins to make sure of
a place in the final at Rosslyn
Another bowler of note to mark up
a qualifying score at Davis alley is
George L. Isemann, secretary of the
National Duckpin Bowling Congress,
who shot 658 with 80 franked sticks.
Davis is one of the most dangerous
pin shooters in metropolitan Wash
ington. but appears a little proud of
q set of 653, including l5-pin handi-
cap, which assures him of being in
the roll-of to take place next week
for nearly $500 in cash prizes.
Rosenberg Exercises.
A FEW years back Gait collected S13
in the tournament by rolling the
high game from scratch in the final
172-and finishing not so far down in
the list of five-game scorers.
Max Rosenberg Rosslyn entrant,
Joins large group of star bowlers
who will be bystanders when the heavy
fireworks go off next week. Max pid-
died a set of 543.
Lucy Rose, member of the champion
Rosslyn team of the Ladies' District
League, tops the girls at Rossyln
with $3.50.
Following are the Rosslyn scores to
Evening star., 1937-12-23
Consider Playing Series.

THOSE behind the venture at
Miami stated that they would
like to make it the outstanding sports
spectacle Of the country They are
very anxious to get the playo1 game
as an annual sports feature"
Carr said there was an outside DOS
sibility that the playoff might be
placed on a "two-out-of-t three" basis
and that if such a plan materialized
Miami might get one of the con-
tests.
Should the Florida city get the play
of the countrys two winter garden
spots" would hold monopoly on the
late-season football classics, California
holding the Collegiate spotlight with
the annual Rose Bowl fixture be-
tween the collegiate greats" and
Florida getting the topnotch attrac-
ton of the up-and-coming profess
sional game.
Evening star., 1937-12-23
HOWE IS PLUCKy
IN BOXING DEFEAT
Knocked Down Three Times,
Nearly Lands Kayo on
Hutchinson.

n JEW respect for Kid Howie was
nj manifest in local colored box
v ing ranks today as result of
the District featherweight' S
ability to last the full 10 rounds with
Jimmy Hutchinson, ranked ninth in
his class, at Turner's Arena last night.
Although knocked down three times,
HOWE did not hit the canvas until he
had Hutchinson on the verge Of a
knockout In the first minute of the
fight. A series of rights to Hutchin-
sons head had him hanging on the
ropes, but the visitor got out of trouble
with several well-directed right and
left jabs