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Evening star., 1938-05-12
Should Have Been All.Star Pick.

Every and then this will baseball
ball players at single position will sudden
Detroit had Corane Washington Sewel
had Hemey and
1888
now Washington has owned the best Of them all
somehow people don't push pubce
should
he wasn't named the
named
bman 1887 and unless off
find better fielder addition
Lewis at 2l better third baseman
better hitter begin with He Higgins
Werbe Cliff Owen, Keltner?
OF what he showed Washington
Kener the third
and throw bat ought
all
well
the
Evening star., 1938-05-12
BALL FRANCHISES OPEN
Room for Four Clubs Remains in
Boys Club Southeast Loop.

Four franchises still are open in
the Washington Boys Club (Southeast
Branch) Baseball League, two in the
pewee class, boys IA years old and
under, and two in the insect class,
boys 16 and under
- Applications for membership in the
league will be received by Charles
Reynolds, club athletic director, at At
lantic 0s49 until next Saturday. The
league will begin play on Saturday.
May 21, and all games will be played
on the Fairlawn diamonds.
Evening star., 1938-05-12
Vats Hopes for Winning Tour Spared BY Surge
Wn, Lose or Draw
Good Third Bosemen Plentiful in American League
Buddy Lewis Of Mats Belongs at Top Of List.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

n MICKEY COCHRANE said,
M trade Walker a
/ Vern Kennedys doing all right
Mr. Mickey Cochrane of
league standing
Athletics leading the
Kennedy is doing all right, Mickey
straight
out of the league was l.
develops however Kennedy filling
JOY In that big
owen Walker
AS
gamble Donald
as Sugger Hank Greenbe
expect to rapidly
poisoning OF
the
or outhelding But
league lacks good third basng The
White Sox protection at that bag
the Tigers Rookie
The other Western a
In the the caiber third
Buddy apologize
Evening star., 1938-05-12

Despite Rookie George Cases bad
showing yesterday, Manager Bucky
Harris is determined to leave him in
the outfleld for the time being. If I
give up on him now, said Bucky, Il
may make great mistake" F. IS.
Evening star., 1938-05-12
Outfielder Gee Walker, has won four
games and lost none.

Jo-Jo White got good lead against
Ken Chase in the sixth inning and
broke for second base on steal Rick
Ferrell caught the pitch. threw. and
crack! Ricks peg struck the bat
of Dixie Walker, who was at the
plate, and bounded away. 1t was a
play for the books.
Evening star., 1938-05-12
Official Score

sBatted for Kelley in nth.
tBatted for ChaSe in seventh.
tBatted for Phebus in ninth.
Detroit - O4O 900 OOO-4
Washington ------ 600 600 OO1-1
Runs batted in-Kennedy. Greenberg.
Walker. Myer. 'Two-base hits--Ross.
White. Double plays-Gehringer to Rogell
TO Greenberg. Greenberg. to Rogell to
G6rsenhfss Gre ROseli to oehFinEer 70 Green
ington. g. First base on bails-On Kelley,
a, 4 of IL Kennedy; 4 Of Chase; /; Struck
On Kelley. in 5 innings; off Chase. none
in 2 innings; of Phebus in innings.
Losing pitcher-Kelley. Umpires-Messrs.
Evening star., 1938-05-12

and he pays less attention, if that's
possible. than his cool, calm and COL
lected southpaw mate, King Carl Hub
bell
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14
CREAMERY MEMS
MEETING CALLED
Plan To Vote On Advertising
Program For Dairy Products
OF Minnesota and Elsewhere

Creamery officers and creamery
operators from all creameries and
dairy establishments over Stearns
county are being called together by
the county agents office for a meet
ing at Albany on Wednesday eve
ming, April 20, to discuss the plan
Of the Minnesota Dairy Institute
Committee. Under this plan dairy
establishments owned mostly by
farmers are for the first time get
ting together to vote on an adver-
Using program for dairy products
in this state and elsewhere. The
Minnesota legislature at the last
session made a small appropriation
to put the program underway and
creameries in all parts of Mime
sofa are asked to join and make a
definite appropriation to the com
mittee for dairy products advertis-
ing.
For years it has been universally
accepted that dairy products have
tremendous merits from a nutri'
tional standpoint in the human diet
but so far little has been done 10y
the dairymen to call these merits
to the attention of the consuming
public.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

show the proper Social Security Ac-
count Number issued to each Of
their workers. Without proper num-
bers. 1t was pointed out, 1t Is diff
ficult for the division to properly
credit the accounts Of workers and,
consequently, will delay the pay
ment Of benefits to such workers
should they become unemployed
and file benefit claims.
Penalties provided by the law will
be enforced in cases Of delinquency,
the division warned.
Employers new delinquent in re-
porting for the fourth quarter of
1887 are urged to make returns
promptly to avoid penalty and to
assure prompt payment Of claims
filed by workers who have filed
claims since April L." Frank T.
Starkey, Industrial Commissioners
in charge Of the division, stated
Claims filed by unemployed work
ers on and after April 1 are to be
determined on the basis of earnings
during the entire year Of 1887 and
delinquent fourth quarter reports
will delay the processing Of many
claims"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14
Counties Get $7,250,OO0
For Highways
Gas Tax Provides Record State
Aid Total Despite Drop In Road
Bridge Revenues

Minnesota's 81 counties this week
were awarded q total of $3.50, 900
for local highway improvements,
the largest sum ever allocated by
the state Board Of Allotment for
county aid and state aid local roads
in the history Of the state.
The allotments to counties, made
from state one mill road and bridge
tax funds and the counties one.
third share of state-collected gaso.
line taxes, was $685., $50 larger than
last years recordIbreaking total
despite the fact that revenues avail.
able from the road and bridge taz
were S12,75O lower. This increase
in the total Of county aid was due
TO returns from the additional one
cent gasoline tax, which provided
the counties with 100000 more
than they received for highways ir
1887.
Road and bridge fund revenue:
for this year provided s1,250,OO0 tt
the total allotments, and gasoline
tax revenues an even 100000 a!
compared to $5,30000O fer 1887.
Stearns county will receive $3.50,
732 for it's share, under the division
of funds made by the Board of AL
lotment, consisting of State Treas
urer C. A. Halverson, State Audi
tor STAFFORD King, and State High
way Commissioner N. w. Elsberg
The above is the total Of the TIVE
funds. the one mill gas tax and thu
gas tax, which for the county wa
divided as follows: 1-mill tax $19,
314; gas tax, Sill, 418. In addition
to these totals special allotmen
of $500 was made to the county
Todd county received from the tw'
funds a total of $85, 331, and a spe
| cial allotment OF 5000. The board
at its previous meeting in Marcl
had allotted $4,037,171.n of thi
/ years state highway revenues t
nav bonds and interests.
The increased county allotment
this year are expected to be USE
in part by more than 50 per cen
CT the counties to match the $5SO,OO
federal aid for secondary road
that. for the second annum, is avail
able to the counties en- dollar-for
dollar matching basis.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14
City News Items

To spend several days over
Easter Mrs. r. e. Hansen, Miss
Nell Hansen, Miss Wilma Boehmke
and Miss Helen Hedin left yester-
day, Wednesday for Columbia,
Missouri. They will visit Miss
Hansen, q student at the Step
hens College. Miss Hansen is
allotted no Easter vacation TO en-
able her to come home since a
trip on which the college took the
entire student body was part Of
the vacation.
DR.. and Mrs. Claude Lewis, of
st. Cloud, were Sunday visitors in
this city with Mr.. and Mrs. A. T.
Watson.
Miss Olga Houghton and broth
er, Russell, arrived from Amman
dale and are spending this weeks
vacation in this city with friends
Miss IIoughton teaches in AMMAN
dale.
Mr.. and Mrs. ". T. Conklin, &C
companied by Miss Clifford Ever
hart, left Wednesday for Hartford
and Dowagiac, Michigan. Miss
Everhart will accompany them al
far as Lacrosse, Wisconsin. Ir
Hartford the Conklin's will visit
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. e
d. Conklin; in Dowagiac with Mrs
Conklin's mother, Mrs. Nina Gil
bert. The Michigan stops are tht
first lap in a trip that will takt
them to Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr.
Conklin said the trip was busin
ess trip, but they will visit witt
an uncle, c. A. Tuttle, in Witchits
Falls. Enroute they will take 6
new route new to them. through
the Arkansas Ozarks. Mr.. Conklir
said they expected to return abou
the first of May.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Bishop, o:
Park Rapids, and Mrs. p. G. Mel
son, of Long Proirie. were business
visitors in this city Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. e. Bushe.
motored to Arlington Sunday wher'
they visited with Mr.. Bushey;
mother, Mrs. Rose Bushey.
Mr.. and Mrs Newell Barnard
and SON, and Miss Nancy Millner
of Bertha, autoed to this city Sun
day. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard visitet
with Mrs. H. Fielding. Miss Milne
visited with her aunt, Miss Mari
Millner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Hedges, o
St Paul, visited Saturday and Sun
day in this city with Mr.. and Mrs
s. B. Wiener.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. K. Miller an,
Miss Dona Miller, of st. Paul
came Saturday for a weekend sta,
at the home Of their daughter an,
sister, Mrs Allan r. Meigs an,
family. Mr.. and Mrs. Miller re
turned Sunday while Miss Mile
remained over Monday.
Mrs. A. E. Peterson, who ha.
been here three weeks with Mis-
Jennie Tolefstrud, returned {.
MINNEAPOLIS Saturday. With he
was Miss Tolefstrud who will re
main there for few weeks.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14
Jobs Risk Reports
Due By April 80
Starley Urges Promptness To
Avoid Delays in Benefit
Payments

st. Paul, April employers sub
ject to the Minnesota Unemployment
Compensation Law this week re,
ceived forms for filing contribu'
ton and wage reports for the first
quarter of 1888.
Contributions and reports are due
on or before April 80. Those en-
ployers who do not receive forms
by April 10 are required to apply
for them.
Employers are cautioned by the
unemployment compensation divis.
ion that their wage reports are tc
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14
County Work Program

A $4,000 work program was
started April z in Stearns county to
improve various county roads and
reconstruct and repair bridges and
box culverts, according to the St.
Cloud office of Harry Phinney, dis
trict WPA director. On receipt Of
authority from Victor Christgau,
state administrator, to start the
project, 65 WPA laborers were as
signed with work scheduled TO con-
tinue as relief labor and funds are
available.
The Stearns County Board of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. M. Wernig and
daughters left Friday for Detroit,
Michigan, and Chicago, Ill, for a
visit with relatives. In Detrot they
will visit their son, Don, and I'm
Chicago they will visit with the
lady's sister. They will return
home after Easter.
Mr.. and Mrs H. r. Steinkraus
and children and the lady's father,
J. H. Hartly, Of Bertha, were in
the city Monday transacting busin-
ess. Mr.. Hartley stated that IS
years ago Monday he first set foot
in Sank Centre. He commented on
the changes made in the city and
that most Of the familiar faces he
knew during his residence here I'M
Til 1908 have disappeared.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold e. Dickson
spent Sunday at the Harold Han
sen home near Little Sank. The
ladies are sisters.
Mrs. Emma Ellis and daughter
Barbara Jean, and Miss Matilda
Forsberg, Of Minneapolis, arrived
Saturday in this city and are this
week at the home Of the lady's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Fors.
berg. They expect to return to Min.
neapolis Easter Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Beidlemar
and Miss Nellie Pangburn motcred
to Fergus Falls Sunday where they
visited at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Elmer Shaw. !
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Otto, Sr.
Mrs. Bertha Janecke and Arnold
Janecke, of Minneapolis, were Sauh
Centre visitors Sunday. Once for
mer residents of this city, they were
with friends during the day.
The Misses Prudence and june
Arndt, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs
w. p. Arndt, spent Saturday ant
Sunday in this city. With then
came Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Gilbertson
Of Minneapolis, who visited at the
Arndt home and with Mrs. G. r
Gilbertscn. Miss Prudence Arnd
is an employee in LeSuer.
Miss Theresa Bastien, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. III. F. Bastien, lef
Wednesday for Brainerd where sh'
Is spending a part of the Eastel
vacation with Miss Lorraine Weis
ner, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
Weisner.
Miss Lois Besser is this week Wis
iting in Clear Lake and st. Cloud
In the former with her grandpar
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Lane, AM
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Larson
in st. Cloud. Sunday her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Besser, will joil
her.
Patricia and Michael Graham, o
lMankato, arrived Sunday at tn
home Of their grandparents, MI
and Mrs. George Brown, for
weeks visit. They will return t.
the home of their parents, Mr. AM
Mrs. Gilbert Graham, Sunday.
| George Conkey, Jr, returne.
Wednesday from a several days va
cation visit with friends in Willard
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Gilbert an,
daughter, Eda, of Osakis, were Sun
day afternoon and evening guest
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Pau
Domke. Mrs. David Osgood, o
Hutchinson, was q Monday after
noon visitor at the Domke home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

Herbert wadedl and son, Of Will
MIRA, and III. +. Schmidt and son.
Junior. Of this city. left Sunday
afternoon on q trip to the northern
part of the state. They. visited Hib-
bling. Duluth ad other Range cities,
and also stopped In international
Falls and Fort Francis, Canada.
They returned home Tuesday
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

VAG5. n. "A. xAdnu dhio 0duSnIciSs
Harriet, Of Belle PLANE, visited
Wednesday and Thursday at the
home Of the lady's mother, Mrs.
August F'ois. Saturday MRS. @. w.
Gresty, Of Osakis, was visitor with
Mrs. Fois and daughter, Miss Onei-
da Fois. Sunday Mrs. John Pap
berg and Mr.. and Mrs. Morrin, Of
Hamel, were their guests.
MRS. T. e. Sullivan and son, Tom
my, Of st. Paul, arrived in this city
Sunday and are visiting this week
at the home Of the lady's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. G. Hildebrand.
MIR. and Mrs. Earl Gray and
daughter, Gwendolyn, OF st. Paul,
are visiting this week with relatives
here. They are guests OF Mrs. J.
A. Allen, the lady's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Klein, of
Minneapolis, spent the weekend in
this city visiting the gentleman's
father, Tony Klein, ST., and his
brothers, and families, Tony and
John Klein.
MIR. and Mrs. Swan Thornblcom,
Miss Ivy Eildebrand, and Mrs. T.
e. Sullivan autoed to st. Cloud to
spend the day Tuesday.
Margaret Ann Kettlewell, daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs. r. B. Kettle
well, will leave for Minneapolis
Thursday accompanying Miss Dor
otbv wilson. teacher. Miss Kettle
well will visit her grandparents, MT
and Mrs. H. r. Edwards, until Mon
daN
T. II. Arens was an overnight
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Borgmann Monday. He was
On his way from st. Paul, his home
to Fergus Falls.
Early spring vacationists are MI
and Mrs. Philip Steiner when they
leave, today, Thursday, on TIFF
to Missouri. Their destination Is
81. Charles where they will Visit
Mr.. and Mrs. James johnson, the
ladies are sisters. MIR. and Mrs
Steiner expect to be gone about ter
days.
! Mrs. C. e. FIenneman returned
Monday from North Bay, Ontario
Canada, where she spent the WIN
ter with her daughter, Mrs. 8. ~
dewey, and husband Mrs. Henne.
man left this city last October and
visited with her daughter during
the winter.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. D. Byers and
daughter, and the lady's mother
Mrs. Jennie Byers, of Clear Lake
Iowa, came to this city Sunday
evening for short visit in thu
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Pend
roy. Mr.. and Mrs. Byers and theil
daughter returned to their home
Monday. Mrs. Jennie Byers remain
ed for a weeks visit with her aunt
Mrs. Pendrov, after which she will
leave for Voltaire. N. d.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. ]. Malloy. whit
spent the winter in the East ant
South, while on a business trip, re
turned to their home in this city
Saturday. They went from thi!
city to the New England states
and then worked down the coast II
Florida.
Jack Casey, president of thu
Workers Alliance of this city, ant
several cars of members motoret
. to Little Falls Friday evening, ant
attended mass meeting of work
ers of two County Alliances. TIL,
court house was filled to overflow
ing. Independent merchants, o
Little Falls, sponsored an event t.
raise funds and the money wa!
turned over to the Alliance. Speak
ers at the meeting were Harold At
wood, State Railroad and Ware
house Commissioner; and Han!
Miller, district WPA supervisor
lib. L. Mcfarland was presiding
chairman.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

Commissioners Is sponsoring the
Improvement program which Is de-
signed to eliminate many hazardous
conditions and insure public safety.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

Their contribution amounts TO APP
proximately % per cent Of the total
fund necessary to meet costs incl
dent to the project.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

Vigro for your flowers, lawns,
gardens, shrubs and trees-a COM
plete plant food. Hillerud Hdwe.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-28
SEVEN PERSONS
DIE OF VIOLENCE
That Was Toll in State
For Wednesday-Three
of Them Suicides
(By United Press)

Seven persons lost their lives
through violence in Connecticut
Wednesday. Three were suicides.
Two Hartford boys, Franz
Kearns, 10, and Bernard Novick, 8
drowned in Pennington river al
Windsor when their oarless rowboat
drifted away from the shore. A
companion, Anthony Deloroso, 10,
saved himself by floating to shall
low water.
An unidentified man, about 80,
gave his last dollar to three chill
dren playing in Hartford's Keney
Park and then threw himself into
stream. He was dead when res
cuers recovered his body.
At Norwalk. Miss Margaret Car
roll, 26, Bridgeport, succumbed to
injuries suffered in an automobile
accident at Westport Saturday
night.
Michael Stahura, IT, Danielson,
died at Putnam hospital from a
skull fracture when he dived into
Assawaga river from a bridge.
Emil j. Weyer, Al, Willimantic
insurance agent. committed suicide
by inhaling carbon monoxide gas
fumes in his parked automobile.
Also a suicide by the same meth
cd was John G. Melville, 26, Hart
ford, at Collinsville.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-28
Relatives Will Bury John
Ward, Suicide, Tomorrow

Ign yesterday. He was on hunting
trip in Vermont at the time of his
sons leap. He learned of it through
Vermont police.
The motive for Wards act re-
manned obscure. He suffered from
manic Oppressive psychosis, which
elevates its victims to extremes of
exhilaration only to plunge them
into depths of despair. He had at
tempted suicide twice before, and
feared he would be sent back to a
hospital where he once received
treatment.
His mother said he had been in
love with woman he could not hope
to marry. The youth himself threw
little light on his mental problem
during the II hours on the ledge
Once he said:
II have a momentous decision to
make. l have to think this thing out
for myself"
He did not say what this thing
was,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-28
POLICE COULDN'T
TALK CHIMP AIMEE
Therefore Twelve of Them
Fail to Capture-Owner
Did Easily

Newark, N. j., July 28,-UP)-
The only thing wrong with Henri
eta, 125-pound chimpanzee, was
that IL policemen chasing her
couldn't speak her language, her
language, her owner, Fernando Susa,
explained today.
Henrietta's language was Portu-
guese. Susa spoke but two words of
it and she came down out OF the
tree and went quietly home to sup
per with him. He said, Come,
Henrietta"
Susa captured her six years ago
in the Belgian Congo when he was
manager of an oil refinery there.
He keeps her in the basemen. of his
home. He was detained at his office
yesterday evening. At supper time
Henrietta got hungry, broke out OF
the cellar and cavorted in trees and
on housetopsof the neighborhood for
several hours. There were two squads
of policemen and an army of neigh
bors in the case by the time Susa
got home.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-28
'MICKY' NORMAN
KEEPS SMOKING
Seven Years Old Today,
But Likes One Cigar
Every Day

Terson, N. j., July 90 (UP)--
Charles (Micky) Norman, who
smokes at least one man-sized cigar
every day and losses off a beaker OF
beer now and then, celebrated his
seventh birthday today.
Micky, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Norman, has been regular smoker
for five years. He is one of the most
robust members of his class In the
first grade at Public School No. 7
here, weighing SIS pounds and being
four feet, one inchc tall.
Apart from his penchant for to-
bacco Micky isn't much different
from the other kids in the neighbor-
hood, and early today he was root
ing pretty hard for birthday party
He said he was pretty sure" any
way that some of ehe newspaper
fellows" would call around with a
cake or some candy as they usually
do.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-28

New York, July 28-CUP)-John
Ward will be buried in Brooklyn to-
morrow after private funeral SER
vices for which members of his fam
lily asked police protection. The 26-
year-old Southampton youth perched
II hours on a 18th floor ledge OF the
Gotham hotel before leaping to his
death Tuesday night.
His family disclosed that they had
received letters from persons asking
permission to attend the rites and
view the body. The funeral will be
held at the New York and Brooklyn
Funeral Home at 2 p. m. All day
yesterday the curious thronged the
corner OF Fifth Avenue and 55th
Street, pointing to the ledge on
which Ward stood while friends, rel
atives and detectives sought vainly
to lure him to safety.
The youths father, John A. Ward
a Railway Express employe at South
ampton. Joined Mrs, Ward in Brook
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-07-28
COURT MARTIAL
OF CIFFIN ENDED
Twelve Colonies Gather at
Governors Island to
Decide His Fate

New York, July 28-CUP)-TWelve
colonies convened in court martial
on Governors Island today to decide
the fate of Lieut.. Col. Stewart S.
Giffin, charged with having been
drunk and disorderly on six occa-
sions last year.
A two-thirds vote was necessary
to convict. II the colonel were
found guilty, he would be dismissed
from the service. If exonerated, he
will be retired on pension next
March after 80 years service.
Chaplain Licks Witness
A week of testimony was climaXed
and ended yesterday when the COM
planning witness, Lieut.. James D.
Smith, Jr., of the army reserves, adj
mitted that he had filed the charges
because the colonel would not lend
him money. and the Rev. r. j.
Stewart, former Catholic chaplain
of CCC camps at which Smith was
stationed, testified that the lieuten-
ants reputation for veracity was so
poor that he would not believe him
under OATH" Father Stewart was
asked whether he had had fist