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Evening star., 1940-08-13
Milestone Is Touted as Good Longshot in Hombetonion
Mack Ig Bows for Developing Rip RodeLf and Lou Finne

negie Tech may drop football
altogether in a few years. The
Interstate League will play its
first all-star game in Wilmington
August 19.
Pays to advertise-Not long
ago we chronicled here that
Coach Nose Simms of st. Mary's
(Texas) needed a center. I'm
mediately 81 gridders hit the ball
for San Antonio via freight cars,
buses and the hitch-hiking
routes. Two of them still are
there and looking pretty good.
Selected shorts-Connie Mack
is bowling right and left for de-
veloping Rip Radcliff, the real
American League batting leader,
and Lou Finney, who is third.
Monty Stratton's artificial leg
cracked up while he was coach
ing at first base the other day,
but Monty doesn't blame the
Evening star., 1940-08-13

chasing the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Well, there's one thing about it,
the Dodgers in one corner and
Joe Louis in the other would
draw mighty big crowd"
Ouch! Some lug dropped
paper sack full of water on Jim
my Johnstons dome while he was
standing in front of the goth
Century Sporting Club yelling
that tonight's Pastor-Conn fight
is in the bag for Conn. That's
one way to shut him up. Texas
fans are wondering why Homer
Norton of the Texas Aggies didn't
make a better showing in the
poll to select a coach for the
college all-star squad. All Homer
did last season was have a per-
feet year, then lick Tulane In
the Sugar Bowl. There are whis.
pers around Pittsburgh that Car
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Fl Eastern Branch Boys
In Baltimore Swim

Twenty-one boys will represent
the Boys Club of Washington,
Eastern Branch, in the Baltimore
Sun swimming meet this Satur-
day at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore
Heading the local delegation will
be Leo Jarboe, 13-year-old sprint
star, who last year took the 95-
pound class 25-yard dash. He has
moved up a class and this year
will compete in the 115-pound
100-yard dash. The clubs 115-
pound relay team also will attempt
to repeat its victory of last year.
Boys Club entries:
s0-pound class-E. Thomas, 9. Moran,
r. Reh, J. West. J. Comes. w.
rison. J. Lee, J. Mattern, M. Mellett
115-pound class-L. Jarbo J. Springer.
r. Crickenberser. J. Coppage J. Potter.
Junior UNLIMITED ei.ssJ. Wratten, \.
eenio. elass-J. Nsdmau.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Billy
Conn, the light heavyweight
champ, fought six prelim fights
on cards featuring Ken Overlin,
the New York California middle
weight champ, in Pittsburgh.
Baltimore now is the glammer
spot for the better class tennis
buns. Baltimore takes care of
all expenses and keeps the big
shots around throughout the
Journeys, even if they are elm
mated in the first round. If
you're looking for a long shot
that may come through. pick
Milestone to win the Hamble-
tonian tomorrow.
Today's guest star. Louis C.
Cook, Douglas CWyo) Enterprise:
Mike Jacobs is conGeA.ng pur-
Evening star., 1940-08-13

termites. Down South all the
cabbies, railroad brakemen, bar
keeps and bellhops we talked to
wanted to know what has hap
pened to the Yanks. We told
'em they could search us. Her.
man Taylor. the Philly promoter,
is in the hospital for an opera
ton. Football brochures from
Texas Tech and Montana State
have hit this desk.
Women not admitted - The
Westchester Country Club at
Rye, N. Y, has two golf courses
the East and West. No women
are permitted to play the West
course.
Travel dept.-James J. Amann,
Cincinnati promoter. is looking
for a fast, l75-pound football
team, including player-coach.
semi-pro or professional, for .
tour Of tho Republic Of Mexico.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Philadelphia,
night.
HOrSeShOes.
Playoffs Metropolitan Tourna-
ment, Commerce courts, 7:30.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Washington at Philadelphia, 2.
THURSDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Philadelphia,
double header, 1890.
Wrestling.
Turner's Arena, first match,
$50.
FRIDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Boston.
SATURDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Boston.
Tennis.
Second round, Prince Georges
County Tournament, Whitinside
Club. River road, 2::30.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Youth Not Served
In P. @. A. Event
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSS.
HERSHEY, Pa, Aug. 13.-Big-
time golf may be young mans
game, but If you believe in
statistics a comparative odd
sters" will win this years p. G. A.
A search through the records
Of Professional Golf Association
competition discloses the fact
that the average age of winners
is 291a years.
Gene Sarazen, entered in this
years play opening August 26, is
a notable exception, taking over
the crown in 1922 at the age Of
20. Tom Creavy was % when he
won but it took Walter Hagen
until he was 28. Henry Picard
was 81 when he won last year.
The oldest winner was Jock
Hutchinson who turned the trick
In 1870 at %.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Exciting Battle
Due, But Fans
Interest
Small Gate Seen for
Split Decision Over
Route of IS Rounds
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Possibly
the safest prediction that can be
made about tonight's fight between
Bob Pastor and Billy Conn at the
Polo Grounds is that it will go IS
fast rounds to a split decision, with
the manager of the losing gladiator
yelling murder at the verdict.
A fight between two such clever
but hitting men usually ends
that way, barring a bad cut that
forces the referee to stop it. Sell
dom-around here at least-do the
two judges and the referee agree on
The winner. and the Emergencies of
opinion between these supposed ex-
perts sometimes is amazing.
So 1t is a reasonable expectation
that after the last lick has been hit
tonight and the slips have been COL
lected and the winners hand raised,
there will be some yelling and ges-
ticulating either by Jimmy Johnston,
who manages Pastor. or by little
Johnny Ray, who thinks his boy
Conn is the coming heavyweight
champiOn
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Exciting Scrap Likely.

Because neither fighter is a
knocker- outer. the match has not
created a great deal of interest and
might not draw more than $4,000
at the gate. Still. it should be an ex-
citing scrap. for both Conn and Pas
tor are fast, smart and willing, and
they are soft hitterS only in COM
parison to sickening puncher like
Joe Louis.
It still is mystery to at least one
impartial observer why Conn has
been favorite ever since the ar
ticles were signed BY every yard
stick in common use-eXperience,
weight, defensive ability and fire
power-Pastor appears to have a
distinct edge. Anyhow, he looms as
the more sensible choice. Yet the
gamboleers still were offering slight
odds against Pastors chances at the
last call-over
There are several intangible fac
tors that have Influenced the odds.
The sharpers think maybe Pastor
had a year or two of his career
knocked out of him in his last fight
with Louis in Detroit. They have
no proof, but they simply are unsure
of a man who has been jolted solidly
by the Bomber.
Another angle is that Promoter
Mike Jacobs undoubtedly would pre-
fer for Conn to win and provide him
with an opponent for Louis, the only
fighter who makes important money
for a promoter today Mike has no
intention of putting Pastor in with
the champion again.
Mike Not Under Suspicion.
But it is difficult to figure wherein
Mixes preference will have any
bearing on the outcome tonight. His
severest critics have never accused
him of attempting any real skull
duggery since he took over boxing
here. Fun might be made of the
States three boxing commissioners,
but they do police the game with a
heavy hand and a bilious eye.
So it will be strictly Conn VS..
Pastor once they get in the ring,
with the result toss-up. Conn,
the light heavyweight champion. is
facing a good deal the best fighter
he has met since he began bouncing
Fred Apostoli around here nearly
two years ago. Pastor is meeting a
young Irishman with flaming
spirit and a pair of lashing fists, who
thinks he can whip Joe Louis.
One wavering vote for Pastor.
Evening star., 1940-08-13
Totals 40 IL 81 13
Totals 80 2 "A 10
600 600 O0O- n
900 ITO l0x-l2
Baltimore
WASHINGTON

Errors-Whitmore Miller (2). Taylor,
base hit-Petitt. Stolen bases-Edwards,
Schneider, Holbrook. Greer. Double play
Halloran to Hofberg to Waple First base
on balls-On Rinssdorf 4 of Boundford.
2. Hit by pitched ball-By RinRsdorf
tBoundfordl. Struck out-By Ringsdorf,
more, 4: WASHINGTON, 3. Umpires-Messrs.
Schultz and Blenke.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Maj. N. {. Higbie, 48,
Dies al Mount Alto

Mai. Merton Eugene Higbie. 48,
War Department engineer and World
War veteran. died Monday at Mount
Alto Hospital He will be buried
with full military honors tomorrow
In Arlington National Cemetery after
services at 2 pm. in Fort Myer
Chapel.
Born in Rawson, Ohio, Maj. Hig-
bic was graduated from the engineer
ing school of Ohio Northern Uni
versity in 1913 AS member of the
Ohio National Guard, he saw action
In the Mexican border campaign.
During the World War he served
as a lieutenant in the Army and was
gassed and wounded in the Argonne.
He remained with the army of oc-
cupation at the close of the war,
and on returning to this country
was commissioned major in the
National Guard.
Maj. Higbie had been civil en-
gineer with the War Department
about three years He made his
home at 1903 Maple View place Sc.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Bertha Higbie; his parents, the Rev.
Frank E. Higbie and Mrs. Higbie of
Bowling Green, Ohio; son, Grant
Higbie, and a daughter. Miss Mere
dith Higbie, both of Washington;
two brothers, Merritt and Calvin
Higbie, both of Toledo. Ohio, and
two sisters. Miss Dorothy Higbie of
Wellesley Hills, Mass, and Mrs.
Percy Thomas of Perrysburg, Ohio.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Eight Other Fire Alarms
Durinq s.. Peters Blaze

While most Of the city's fire ap-
paratus was employed in fighting
the blaze at st. Peters Church to-
day, reserve equipment was dis
patched back and forth across the
city answering eight other alarms,
all within less than two hours.
Most serious fire was at 1911
Newark street NV, where f1remen
fought for an hour to quell a blaze
which destroyed most Of the roof
and third story of the home of Kirby
Kibler.
Brush fires accounted for most Of
the other alarms.
The police radio announcer be-
came so accustomed to broadcasting
fire alarm reports some rather
humorous confusion resulted. At one
point he announced a local alarm
at Georgia avenue and Rittenhouse
street NV. and then had to add an
apology, with the explanation that
police were wanted at that inter-
section to investigate a traffic acci-
dent.
Sparks blown from a rubbish fire
by gust of wind today set fire to
the porch of the summer home of
the Sisters of the Ursuline Convent
on Beech avenue. Bethesda, Md.
Firemen from Bethesda and Chevy
Chase. who prevented the blaze from
spreading to the 10-room frame
house, now unoccupied, estimated
damages at several hundred dollars.
Evening star., 1940-03-27

to the ground from a small spire in
the rear of the building, where
other firemen were battling the
flames from the ground.
Father Connolly and two priests
from the rectory adjoining the
church rushed in and out of the
blazing building, carrying to safety
blessed vessels, vestments, chalices
and other movable objects from
sacristy.
Bits of slate and pieces of timber
soon began falling also in the in
terror of the church. and the sal
wage operations were forced to cease
Section of Roof Collapses.
One large section of the roof COL
lapsed at one time, with loud roar.
The flames. which started under the
roof directly over the altar, spread
rapidly toward the front of the
church.
Above the sound of water playing
on the roof came the cracking noises
of the loosened pieces of slate as they
slid off the edge and sailed to the
ground.
Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, assist
ant superintendent of police, ap-
peared on the scene to take personal
charge of the policemen who had
been dispatched to the area.
Engineer Commissioner David A
McCoach also rushed to the scene
| from tho District Pui1dinp tn assist
in directing f1re-fighting operations
Evening star., 1940-03-27
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the air and onto nearby houses,
details of police began clearing oc-
cupants of dwellings for several
blocks around the blazing building.
The second tower was put in
operation on the opposite side of
the church, with the hoses shooting
five streams of water onto the tall
Spire.
The alarms were sounded in rapid
succession, the first at 1913 o'clock
and the others following at 1O:15,
1919 and 1925. The fifth and gen.
eral alarm went out at 1880, leav-
ing only reserve firemen and equip
ment away from the blaze.
In all, more than 100 firefighters
and 40 pieces Of apparatus were
called to the scene. Many of the
reserve companies were shifted to
the downtown area, where the first
alarms had drawn most heavily. At
1890 all firemen off duty were or
dered by radio to report to their
stations to replace the large num-
ber dispatched to fight the church
blaze.
Hospitals in the area sped all
available ambulances to the inter-
section soon after the third alarm
was sounded.
The injured fremen-A. L. Craver
"a, of 902 Maryland avenue NE,
attached to No Engine Company
and Paul Knight, AZ, of 1901 Nine
teenth street Sc, detailed with No
Truck Company-were rushed to
Providence Hospital.
Doctors feared at first that the
men had been burned, but an exam
ination revealed they suffered mostly
from the effects of smoke. Mr.
Craver was unconscious when he ar
rived at the, hospital, but was soon
revived.
Firemen at the scene asked the
Board of Surgeons of the Police and
Fire Department to send medical aid
from the clinic.
Firemen OF Duty Called In.
Trucks from the Department of
Vehicles and Traffic we're ordered to
the area with equipment to close
off streets. Traffic was routed around
the scene four blocks in every direc-
ton.
Motorcycle men from all pre-
cincts were dispatched to the area
A mass of burning rafters crashed
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Wife Slayer Is Freed;
Jury Refuses to Indict
Nv the Associated Pres

. By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 27. -
Frank Leschisin, 67-year-old ele-
vator operator, looked gloomily at
the jailer as he unbarred the cell,
then heard him say:
you can go now; you're free"
Even then he never uttered a
word-just walked from the cell he
entered a week ago after he shot
and killed his wife Mary, 81, in their
apartment and voluntarily sur
rendered to police, saying:
Eyes, shot her-I should have
done it IS years ago."
He was free because county
grand jury refused to indict him
after hearing testimony from his
son John, his wife's sister, whom he
called after the shooting March 20
and instructed her to summon po-
lice, and several neighbors. A coun-
ty prosecutor said they testified for
him and that so others wanted to
appear to urge his cause.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
:AItnark al Kiel
After Slipping by
British BIockaders
Former Nozi. Prison Ship
Uses Norwegian and
Dunish Waters
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 27.-The German
naval auxiliary vessel Altmark ar
rived at Kiel, Germany, late this
afternoon after long and adven-
turous war cruise abroad.
The Altmark, raided by the Brit
ish destroyer Cossack in Norwegian
territorial waters on February 16,
when 200 British merchant seamen
prisoners were rescued, reached
German waters safely by slipping
through the British blockade. She
steamed down the Norwegian coast
and through Danish waters.
When the Altmark was attacked
by the Cossack she was backed into
Josingfjord, on the Norwegian coast,
and run aground. Her propeller
was damaged and she remained
there for some time.
The 12,000-ton Altmark comes
home after having been at sea since
before the beginning of the war. She
formerly was freighting in the West
ern Hemisphere.
Outf1tted as an auxiliary naval
vessel, the Altmark was used as a
prison ship for the raiding German
pocket battleship Admiral Graf
Spec. After the Graf Spec was
scuttled last December II the Alt
mark presumably headed home.
Evening star., 1940-03-27

District motor accidents during
January and February Of 1910 fell
of 467 from the 2,286 accidents dur
ing October and November in 1899.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Site of St. Peters Occupied
By Catholics Since 1920

as the Very Rev. William Matthews,
Daniel Carroll of Dudington, Will
liam Brent, James Hoban, Nicholas
L. Queen, James Peter Callan, Ed
ward Mattingly, James Spratt and
James David Barr. Mr.. Carroll do
mated the land.
Edward Augustine johnson was
the first person to be baptized in the
church at ceremonies September %,
1921. The first pastor, who conduct
ed the ceremonies, was the Rev.
James F.. M. Lucas, who later joined
the Jesuit order at Georgetown.
Two colored children, Emile and
Ann, according to reports, were the
second and third to be baptized.
First convert of the church was
Thomas Bayne. 20, who was con-
ditionally baptized August IA, 1922,
and the first confirmation class was
a group of 200 in 1923.
The first mass was said August IA,
1921, and on November 4, the church
was dedicated to st. Peter by the
Rev. John Tessier OF Baltimore.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Daddy Snooks' to Wed

LOS ANGELES, March 27 (P.-
Hanley Stafford, Daddy Snooks" of
the radio, and Vyola Vonn, singer
and actress, have applied for a
marriage license. They plan the
ceremony April II, with Fanny
~Baby Snooks" Brice as a guest.
Mr., Stafford gave his age as IS,
Miss Vonn's as 81.
Evening star., 1940-03-27

The site of st. Peters Church.
swept today by five-alarm fire. is
repeatedly the oldest Catholic
Church site now in use in the Dis
trict.
Although st. Patrick's Parish is
the oldest in the District, the present
church at Tenth and G streets NV.
is not so old as St. Peters. The
first st. Peters Church was con-
structed at the Second and C streets
Sc. site in 1920 to meet the need
for church east of the Capitol.
The present building was con-
structed in 1889.
Oldest church of any denomina-
ton in the District is given as the
st. Paul's Rock Creek Church found
ed in ITO
At the time the first st. Peters
Church was constructed, the money
was raised by a committee which
collected subscriptions from more
than 200 people. Members of the
committee included several persons
we'll known in District history such
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Appropriations
Continued From First Page)

crat, of Georgia called an admitted
Communist"
Williams Denies Charges.
Mr.. Williams told reporters later
that the charges against him were
untrue, political and unimportant.
Representative Marcantonio stir
red laughter by remarking that he
agreed the Stokowski tour would
be subversive because he'll be play
ing Bach, Beethoven, Verdi and
Wagner-alien influences"
Representative SABBATH, Democrat,
of Illinois and Representative Tar
yer, Democrat, of Georgia defended
Mr.. Williams. Mr.. Tarver said the
attack on him was patiently unfair, ="
since he had not been afforded an
opportunity to answer the charges
in detail.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Mother of Boy Who Died
In Iron Lung Found Dead

By the Associated Press.
. ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. March
27.-Mrs. Martha Yon, As, whose 16-
year-old son, Jules, died yesterday
in an iron lung after a four-month
fight against infantile paralysis,
was found hanged today in room
of the hotel which she and her hus-
band operated.
County Physician DR.. Isaac E.
Leonard termed her death suicide.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
One Missing, Six Huri
In Gas Blast Aboard
Navy Destroyer
Neutrality Petrol Ship
Damaged OF Newport;
Captain BIomes Leak
~ the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
NEWPORT. R. l., March 27.-One
sailor was missing and six others
were being treated for injuries to-
day in the wake of a terrific blast
which damaged the u S. Navy de-
stroyer King yesterday at its moor
ing in Newport Harbor.
Capt William S. Farber, COM
mander of the neutrality patrol unit
to which the 20-year-old, 1,190-ton
vessel was assigned, said the explo-
sion was caused by leaking gas in
the after deckhouse, the forward
bulkhead of which was demolished.
Several containers of the gas,
Capt. Farber said, were in the deck
house. He declined to identify the
gas and ventured no opinion as to
what ignited it. Announcement of
the official cause of the blast await
ed a study by a naval board of
inquiry, to be appointed.
One Critically Injured.
Richard Carl Oehlert of Denver,
Colo, fireman, first class, was re-
ported missing after musters of the
crew, and naval sources said he must
have been thrown oversize by the
blast.
The King, a flush decker" with
an overall length of 314 feet, was
moored about a half mile off the
south end of the city when the blast
let go shortly after 4 pm. (E. S. T)
with roar that was heard through
out downtown Newport.
Men Burned and Shocked.
The injured were Charles E. Nc
Coy. Corpus Christi, Tex; G. E.
Hagg of Reserve, La; Lee Con-
cannon of Davenport, Iowa; o. F.
Fletcher of Keefeton, Okla; ]. H.
Cole of Monette, Ark, and r. E.
Crow of Elkhart, Ind. Some OF the
men suffered first-degree burns,
some suffered shock, others had
punctured ear drums, while Cole
and Crow were stricken with trau-
matte deafness.
The King, completed in Camden,
N. j.. IN 1920 and equipped with four
5-inch guns, one 3-inch gun and II
21-incn torpedo tubes, had just come
In from neutrality patrol off the
New England coast.
At the Naval Hospital, all of the
six injured were described today as
"doing very we'll and their complete
recovery was expected.
Three boats from the torpedo sta
ton joined a search for Oehlert's
body.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Bomboy Textile Strike
Flares Into Violence

BY the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, March 27.-The strike
of 10000 Bombay textile mill work.
ers, now in its fourth week, flared
into violence today for the first
time. Ignoring a government order
prohibiting picketing, strikers as
saulted a number of strikebreakers.
There was no immediate report OF
casualties.
Only "a of the city's 64 textile
mills are working part time as a re-
suit of the strike launched by work.
ers March 3 to enforce demands for
a Is per cent war work bonus.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Federal Playhouse
Proqrum Toniqht

The Federal Playhouse will give
another in its series Of programs at
the Agriculture auditorium at 8
o'clock tonight, with the Playhouse
Chorus, directed by Lloyd Garrison:
the Playhouse Dancers, under Hazel
Richards; a jiu-j -jitsu exhibition and
motion pictures on the program.
Lee H. Shugar directs the Play
house. which is presented by Agri-
culture Branch of the National Fed
GRAFTON of Federal Employees.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Paul R. Muttix Heads
Commerce Division
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Paul r. Mattix was appointed
chief Of the Automotive- -Aeronautics
Trade Division of the Commerce
Departments Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce yesterday
Mr.. Mattix has been assistant
chief since 1886 and is a native of
Kokomo, Ind. He succeeds Irving
H. Taylor, who resigned to enter
private business.
Evening star., 1940-03-27

MANY hundred thousand sandbags
are being made in India.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Citizenship Day Urged

Creation of an annual citizenship
recognition day will be recommended
to the Senate Judiciary Committee
by Senators Wiley, Republican, Of
Wisconsin and Chandler, Democrat,
of Kentl1ckv