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Evening star., 1940-03-15
Why Must They Die? No. 10 M:' m: i. i.,, s' 1sess Some
of Series>ot Factual Analyses of c. Traffic Fatalities

The place: Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. Immediately southeast of Thir-
teenth street.
The accident: A 70-year-old man
was injured fatally when struck by
southeastbound street car as he
attempted to cross the south street.
car track of Pennsylvania avenue
approximately 80 feet east of the
east curb line of Thirteenth street.
Inquest testimony indicated victim
was walking across the street from
the south curb in order that he
might board a northwestbouud
streetcar approaching at the time.
His body was carried approximately
30 feet before the car came to q
stop. The man was pronounced
dead upon arrival at Casualty Hos
pital. An autopsy disclosed cause
Of death was crushed chest and
skull and attendant hemorrhage
and shock.
The time: Shortly before $50 am,
March II.
Weather: Clear.
The street: Dry, straight, level.
Pennsylvania avenue at this point
is q divided thoroughfare, with park
ing separating roadways from
streetcar tracks in center.
The vehicle: A streetcar of the
streamlined type; brakes found to
be In satisfactory condition. In
n1Yacf tacti,,oonx, Indicated ~ ~v,~ !.
proceeding at moderate speed, hav-
ing stopped few moments before
accident to discharge passengers at
Thirteenth street.
The driver: A 42-year-old street.
car motorman with 16 years ex-
perience and no previous record Of
major accident. He testified he did
not see victim until latter was
about I feet ahead and to the right
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Vindicated by Snow,
Weatherman Says
Fair and Warmer
Most Of White Fall
MeIts; Ice Coating
Makes Streets Slippery

Snow finally came to Washington
early today. just few hours before
the end of the snow parking ban
and a few days after the weather
man predicted it.
Now that he's vindicated, the
weather man promised clear skies
today and warmer weather for the
week end, after drop to rs tonight
Washington's siege of heavy rains
brought Ill inches before it was
replaced by wet snow near midnight
If the snow hadn't melted rs 1t fell,
said the Weather Bureau, Wash
ington would have had more than
an inch of snow. As 1t was, only
four-tenths Of m Inch was de-
posted.
The rain resulted in stalled traffic
and flooded areas around the Peace
Cross at Bladensburg. Md, carly
today.
U. S. Route / was under a foot
Of water and the Defense Highway
had 8 inches. Ice filmed some
parts of the road jamming up the
cars and at the Peace Cross inter-
section motorists were guided
through the flooded areas by guards
with red flags.
Flooded waters of the northwest
branch of the Anacostia River be-
gan to recede with the ebbing tide
after partially flooding the parking
areas of the Dixie Pig and Del Rio
Restaurants and the front yards
OF several houses in the rear of the
Del Rio.
Storm warnings hoisted last night
along the Atlantic Coast from Della
ware Breakwater to Eastport, Me.
were changed today to small craft
warnings from the Breakwater to
Block Island, of the Rhode Island
coast.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Silver Tea Tomorrow

Members of the Sunday school
and junior choir of the Chapel of
the Redeemer, Glen Echo, Md, will
hold silver tea in the Willard room
OF Epiphany Parish House, 1917 q
street NV. from 3 to $50 pm. to-
morrow for the benefit of the Sunday
schools mission offering.
District motor accidents during
January and February Of 1910 fell
of 467 from the 2,2S6 accidents dur
ing October and November In 1885. 4
Evening star., 1940-03-15

and complete understanding be-
tween all sections of the country.
We must work for.that unbreakable
union if We would in truth be one
and indivisible."
Efforts to discredit consumer Or
CARNATIONS drew the fire of Mr.
Hartman, who urged American citi-
zens to become intelligent con-
sumers by utilizing the consumer
test results instead of following
false and misleading advertising.
The "back-alley squabbling and
name-calling" of handful of labor
leaders was deplored by Mr.. Esta-
brook, who declared that when labor
fights labor every one loses-the
wage Garner, employer and con-
sumer.
"The rank and file of labor is fol
peace and unity" he said, but with
the present labor leaders this is i'm.
possible. We must encourage high.
type men and college students tt
go into the labor movement to hell
bring peace and order"
Mr.. Shapiro declared the prob.
lens Of today can be solved '.if w
utilize the knowledge and experience
of the past and of the present.
The value of democracy, he said
lies in the fact that men may seek
the truth wherever it may be and
use it to develop their moral, in.
tellectual and spiritual powers.
Dean William c. Van Week of the
university's law school presided a,
the contest. The three prizes OF
SIS, $40 and S. for the three win
ners will be awarded at class night
exercises in June.
Judges of the competition were
Burton Fuller of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, John T.
Kennedy, president of Benjamin
Franklin University; Arthur r.
Murphy, member of the District bar
and Representative Zimmerman OF
Missouri.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Two Named for Tests

Herbert E. Fritts, 2418 Third street
Massachusetts, avenue NV, have
been designated as candidates eligi-
BILE to compete for appointment as
cadets in the United States Coast
Guard Academy at New London,
Conn, by Rear Admiral Russell r.
Waesche, cemmandant of the Coast
Guard announced today. The exami-
nations will be held May IS and 16
in cooperation with the Civil Serv-
ice Commission.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Artists to Be Presented
By Mrs. Morqenthuu

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., will
make the introductions when par
ticipants in the Washington Self
Help Exchange present a musical
program tomorrow at / pm. over
Station WRC. The program will be
directed by Gertrude Price Woilner
Those to be heard include Mrs.
Lena Robinson, Mrs. Odessa Wilbur,
Lilly Catoe, Alfred Butler, Rogers
Coleman, Chauncey Simms and
Gene Bluff.
Evening star., 1940-03-15

Men should take their wives shop
ping because they have better tastes
than women, Elizabeth Hawes,
leading American fashion designer.
said today in a Town Hall lecture
that delved into the subject of
girdles and into the atrocities of the
new hats.
She made the women laugh at
their own style foibles, urged them
to make known their own wishes in
the field of fashion and viewed the
future with hope for trousers.
The author of Fashion Is Spin
ach" and Men Can Take 1t" had
much to say about many things.
Here are few of her views:
When you 60 to buy a hat and
you are not sure whether the hat Is
funny or serious, and you want
serious hat, don't buy the hat If you
are in any doubt, because it is prob
ably funny"
"Our grandmothers were held up
by steel and mothers by whalebone,
we are held up by elastic and our
children will be held up by their
SPINE"
She said she wouldn't design
clothes while a woman was wearing
a girdle.
Hits Mems Figures.
Men ought not to say that women
cannot wear trousers. Their figures
are as bad as ours"
People behave the way they feel,
no matter what they wear. If you
wear slinky, sophisticated gown to
dinner and then burble and hirt,
you will get your dinner partner all
confused. If you want to burble
and flirt. get clothes for burbling
and flirting"
Men have had too much of silly
hats and their comments are making
themselves felt. The hat is getting
back on the head again"
Skirts should be above your knee,
if your legs are pretty. Otherwise
in the middle of your calf
She predicted that the time would
not be distant when work clothes
would be worn once and thrown
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Flag Dedication

Two f1ags-the American flag and
the Christian hag-will be dedicated
at the National City Christian
Church at the II am. service Sun
day.
The flags were the gift of Miss
Minnie May Hardy of 110l Fifteenth
street NV. in memory of her par
ents. Miss Hardy is past department
commander and now national
executive committeewoman of the
District Department of the Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary.
Evening star., 1940-03-15

Diagram indicates how 7oyear-od pedestrian received
lata injuries when struck by sreetcar while attempting
tracks outside of crosswak Striking black and curved
line front OF represents point Of stopping impact
denotes point Of impact encced tx" signifies spot at
which body picked up Motoan testified tree indicated
in parking might have been responsible his failure to see
victim sooner.
OF car Mooman added he sound responsible his
ed gong and applied fvctin sooner
broes Coroner Jury verdict: Death
striking pedestrian testified careessness of do
parking ceased operator
to right OF track might have been Grated.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Dr.. Dyer to Speak

Dr. J. Francis Dyer will speak at
meeting OF the Civic NarionaI
rnlum 3,e at pm. Sunday In the
Wnltelaw Hotel. His subject win be
Modern Inventions ana piscov-
eries." ''A~
Evening star., 1940-03-15

city consulted-and said no cure for
the rare trouble Is known.
Mr.. Beckert says his son was at
the hospital for two and q half
weeks and was given five blood
transfusions. On February "a he
took the boy home, so he could die
happier"
Frank Beckert, jr., died Wednes-
day night. Funeral arrangements
are not yet completed.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Schools. Easter Vocation

Washington's more than 10000
public school pupils will have their
Easter vacation beginning Thurs
day at 3 pm. and continuing to
April /.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Traffic Record

The traffic record as revealed
at police headquarters for a.
hour period ending 8 am. to-
day:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 40.
Motorists injured, 1.
Motorists arrested, 293.
Pedestrians injured, 4.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation Of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 3.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Morgo Lee Carries D. C.. HOPES
At Maryland Net After Hunt
Is Overcome by Van Horn

defeated Mary Hardwick, English
Wightman cupper, 3-6, e3, 60,
to go to the semifinals against Mary
Arnold, rising California star.
Valerie Scott, another English
star, beat Helen Mernhard of Los
Angeles, third seeded, Ga, Ga, and
will meet Alice Marble, the national
women's singles champion, in the
Semis.
Margo Lee Helps in Upset.
Margo Lee of Washington paired
with Emily Lincoln of Boston to
score one Of the tournaments major
upsets by ousting Miss Betz and
Gracyn Wheeler, 60, 3L6, 81. in
women's doubles. Displaying excel
lent teamwork Miss Lee and her
partner gained an early lead and
showed surprisingly strong staying
power to stave of their more famous
opponents finishing burst OF power,
They are to face the English pair,
Miss Hardwick and Miss Scott, in a
Semif1nal.
Miss Marble teamed with Miss
Arnold to gain semifinals berth
IN women's doubles, trouncing Helen
Petersen, Stamford, Conn, and
Barbara Bradley, California, 81,
6-3. They are to play Helen Bern
hard and Louise Brough Of Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Walden, Reaching
Net Final , Seeks Delay
To Heal B|isters
Scores Three M. A. Wins
On One Day; Bensineer
Beuten in Sentinel
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July 19.-As soon
as the blisters on Tom Wadden's
feet subsidies the Washington youth
expects to finish the job of winning
the junior Middle Atlantic net title
he began 50 well yesterday.
In an afternoon of hard and often
brilliant play Walden won three
matches TO gain the final round.
His victims were Charles FSchoew,
defeated TO. 60, 60; Maurice
Cowan, 81, e3, and Vincent
Thomas, 2-6, j3, Ga. ..t
Walden pulled up with blisters
and requested a postponement of
the final round until tomorrow.
Officials indicated the request would
be granted.
Bobby Bensinger of Takoma Park
bowed to Fred McNair of Annapolis,
60, 6-3, in the semifinal.
Washington's lone entry in the
boys division, Jack Tomothy, lost
to Howson w. Cole in the first
round, 60, 60.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Dempseys Back Injury May Mean Retirement for Keeps
ifo

pretty Pittsburgher doesn't weigh
at least $50 for the Pastor tight,
he (Ray) will eat all the coal In
Pennsylvania, chunk by chunk.
Today's guest star - Wilbur
Wood, New York Sun: Henry
Armstrong isn't half the fighter
he used to be and Lew Jenkins
isn't half the fighter he was sup
posed to be-"
Autumn 's-in-the-air note: In
less than four weeks the New
York "Jints" football club will
head for training camp. Suffolk
Downs got OF to a bad start (be-
cause of the weather., but is now
about a quarter of a million
ahead of the same time last year.
II the Dodgers win the pennant
they may play their World Series
'.home games" in Yankee Sta
dunn, where about twice as many
customers can buy tickets. Base
Evening star., 1940-07-19

ballers still are chuckling over
the wire Lefty Gomez sent to
George Selkirk the day Twink
was benched here during the
White Sox series. 1t read, Sorry
you're not In the dne-up," and
1t was signed Thornton Lee"
Questions (but no answers) de-
partment: Are the Dodgers dick
ering for a stratoliner to bring
them back to town Sunday? Was
that Colorado tennis tournament
really open" or were the Denver
sportswriters lax in their words?
What American League club is
interested in Pitcher Frank Mel
!, ton of Columbus? And why aren't
big league scouts camping on the
doorstep Of John Leonardo, pitch
er for Du Pont in the Virginia
Intercity League? All He's done
Is huri Ave shutouts this season,
the last four Ia succession.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Home Fandom Makes
Hostak 1913 Choice
In Bout Tonight
Manager Denies Heovy
Hand Wrop for Title
Bottle With ZuIe
By the Associated Press.


SEATTLE, July l9.-After an ar
gument over the amount of hand
bandages had been settled, every
thing-including the weather-was
ready. for tonight's 15-round fight
between AL Hostak of Seattle ard
Tony Zale of Gary, Ind, for the
46-State N. B. A. middleweight
championship. =
Eddie Mati1o, Hostak's manager
disclaimed any desire to wrap the
Seattle Slav's hands in anything
but gauze, and scoffed at reports
Al would bandage his hands heavily
to protect his oft-broken hands.
His hands are better than ever
He'll knock out that Zale. You
wait and see.' spoke Eddie.
Hostak broke the back of his left
hand with wild left hook in the
fifth round of his fight with Zale
at Chicago in January, and then
lost an overweight decision.
He blames the loss on the hand.
The zale camp says Tony was beat
ing Hostak anyway.
Hostak was a 1913 favorite before
his hometown crowd.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Alexandra Carrasquel, who owes
his current major league existence
to the fact he was somewhat of a
flzzle with minor league outfit, is
demonstrating the dizziness of at
tempting to dope the baseball in
dustry. Branded incompetent by
Jersey City and returned collect to
the Mats, the angular Venezuelan
has proceeded to win three games
in five days.
On one of those occasions Car
rasduel merely strolled in and out
of the game at time when Wash
ington was hammering home seven
runs IN one Inning but his mates
nevertheless feel he has played q
vital part in the Mats five-game
winning streak. It seems the mo-
ment he ambles on the diamond the
Mats are transformed into oppor-
tunists.
Carrasquel Brings Luck.
Since being rejected and returned
here by his International League
companions, Carrasquel has hurled
four relief assignments for the Mats.
| Three times he has checked the op-
position with shutout singing and
has been instrumental in hosting
the Mats out of the cellar into sixth
place, only three and one-half games
removed from fifth place.
The solemn Carrasquel may have
found his niche in those relief roles.
For an inning or two he can silence
enemy bats and present Washing
ton an opportunity to wedge its way
back into the game, and lately the
Mats have taken great glee in rally
ing behind him.
Today, as the Mats sought to snare
their most prolonged winning streak
OF the season against Chicago in the
finale Of the three-game series with
the White Sox, review of their
chain of conquests reveals they have
come from behind to win four times.
Hudson Faces Browns Tomorrow.
Twice the Mats spotted Cleveland
and Chicago three runs in the first
inning and on two more occasions
found themselves trailing, 20, be-
fore they came to bat. Timely
swatting and several smiles from
Lady Luck have collaborated in
erasing those early leads and en-
abling the Mats to win in the late
innings.
Eighteen games out Of the league
lead five days ago, Washington has
whitfield four and one-half games
Of that margin. The Mats are
harboring no illusions of inheriting
a f1rst-division berth. but they have
an immediate and sizzling ambition
to top the second division. Walter
Masterson was to strive to bring
them a game nearer that fifth spot
today as he squared of with Thorn
ton Lee.
Providing Masterson obtained No.
8 straight for the Mats, Washington
appears well fortified to hope for
sweep of the three-game series
with st. Louis. The floundering
Browns will be dealt Sid Hudson as
their mound foe tomorrow and the
youthful rookie, who whipped St.
Louis on one hit in his last ap-
pearance against that club, will be
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Yanks in Scrap
After Pushing
Tribe Off Top
Odd Win Over Bosox
Gets Tigers Lead;
Dodgers Pick Up
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

The American League still Is boil-
ing over, like pot of hot porridge,
and there doesn't seem to be any,
thing any one can do about it. z
The Cleveland Indians stumbled
into their fifth consecutive defeat
yesterday, 60, at the hands of the
ever-dangerous New York Yankees.
Four losses got 'em into first place,
but five took 'em out.
Both the Boston Red Sox and Dea
troit Tigers had chance to scoot
into the lead, but when they finished
battling each other at the end of IL
wild INNINGS, it was Detroit that
was on top, 1913.
This was game that had every.
thing, including triple play. Tho
Red Seekers scored all their eight
runs in the first three innings.
Then the Tigers, using five pitchers,
held them helpless the rest of the
way.
Boston used four hurlers, the last
of whom was free and easy JACK
Wilson. =
Wilson Free With Walks.
The Tigers had kept nibbling
away at Boston's margin and had it
down to 81 when Wilson came on
duty at the start of the ninth. He
gave a walk, single and a long fly
for the tying run. In the 11th he
walked three men to fill the bases
and Pinky Higgins spanked 2-run
single to win the game.
The Yankees sewed up their VIC
tory in the first two innings. Buddy
Rosar homered with the bases
loaded in the first and Red Rolfe
hit for the circuit with one on in
the second. Joe Di Maggie extended
his hitting streak to l3 consecutive
games by polling his 18th home run
in the seventh inning.
Although they are in fourth place,
the world champions are only four
games behind the leaders.
The streak to end all streaks was
the one the st. Louis Browns ex-
tended to IA games, all losses, yes
terday. This isn't a record-yet-
but it is one more defeat than the
Browns ever had suffered in sue
cession before. The 1913 victory
that the Philadelphia Athletics took
from them was, a combination OF
five-hit hurting by Johnny Babch
and 17-hit assault on five st. Louis
singers.
Dodgers Gain on Reds.
The National League program
was abbreviated to two games and
the Brooklyn Dodgers made the
most of the idleness of the Cincin-
natl Reds by whipping the Chicago
Cubs, IA, to narrow the gap be-
tween first and second place to
three games.
Credit for the triumph went to
Lefty Vito Tamulis, who blanked
the Cubs for six innings on one hit
after Chicago had got rough with
Curt Davis in the third, when Bill
Nicholson and Hank Leiber hit
homers. The Dodgers made good
use of II hits and three Chicago
errors to spread their scoring into
five different innings.
Carl Hubbell got the chance he
wanted to work in a night game and
handcuffed the Pittsburgh Pirates,
81, on six hits, although his team
mates on the New York Giants fell
apart with five errors. They gave
Hub" plenty of assistance with
their bats, though, banging out l6
hits.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
CorrosqueI, Misfit in Minors
Proves Star in Relief Roles
As Mats Bag Five Straight
shooting for his seventh successive
pitching victory.

shooting for his seventh successive
pitching victory.
Leonard Tolls Sunday.
For Sundays double-header Man.
ager Bucky Harris probably will
elect to pitch Dutch Leonard and
Rene Monteagudo or Joe Krakaus-
kas. Monday the Mats will head
West with fond desire to continue
jumbling the league standings and
at the same time improve their own
position. III
Harris isn't inclined to disturb
his winning hne-up, so until the
Mats lose Cecil Travis is out of a
job, despite his lofty batting aver
FAge and against Harris better judg-
ment. Travis returned to action
yesterday In the role Of d pinch
hitter and succeeded in obtaining a
hit to prolong the streak of games
IN which he has hit safely to 10.
1t was a stirring rally the Mats
unveiled in the eighth inning to
produce two runs and spank the
White Sox, 5-4. Trailing, 4-3, en-
tering the inning, Washington
chased Jack Knott from the mound
and handed a rude reception to
Edgar Smith. his successor.
Big Run Walked Across.
The White Sox had spurted into
80 lead in the first inning through
the medium of Julius Solters' home
run wallop into the left-field
bleachers at a time when Mike
Kreevich and Joe Kuhel were on
base, but walk to Jimmy Blood
worth, Buddy Myers triple and
Jimmy Pofahl's long fly sliced that
advantage to 80 in the second.
Ken Chase was nicked for an
other run in the fifth on singles by
Skeeter Webb, Kreevich and Solt-
ers, but Chase's double and George
Cases single in the same inning
kept the Mats trailing by a run.
Gerald Walker inaugurated the
Mats eighth with a sharp single
to left and. after Zeke Bonura flied
out, scooted to third on Travis sin
gle to right. Smith replaced Knott
at that point and Myer dropped a
neat bunt down the first base line
for his fourth hit to score Walker
with the tying run.
Smith then walked Pofahl and
Rick Ferrel In order. forcing in
Travis with the winning run, and
Carrasquel, who had disposed of
the White Sox in order in the
eighth, dealt them the same dose in
the ninth.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
BY EDDIE BRETT,
Associated Presa sports Writer.

NEW YORK, July 19.-Sallies
down flstic alleys: Don't be sur
prised If the Manassa Mauler is
really through this time. That
back injury he suffered in De-
troit is no joke. Mrs. Kate Jen-
kins said, 'Lew's. mistake was
that he grew a little careless
when he had Armstrong where
he wanted him." eve musta
missed that.) Hats of to Buff
falo for sending down Jackie
Donovan, best-looking prospect
among the prelim boys at the
fight Thursday night. Hype
Igoe, the old smartie. still is
taking bows for publicly picking
Make Baer to stop Galento In
eight and Armstrong to jar Jen-
kins in six. Johnny Ray, Billy
Couu's manager, says II the
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Southworth Had Wings Flying
Before Shifting to Cards

up from Glass c and B leagues to
replace ST johnson, Dusty Cooke,
Sam Maroon, Jack Sturdy. Marty
Marion and Ken Raffensberger, who
were veterans of the 1889 team which
placed second to the Jersey City
Giants.
Southworth since has moved up
TO manage the st. Louis Cardinals OF
the National League, Rochester's
parent club, but the morale of the
team remains the same under Tony
kaufman, who took over the reins
June %.
The Wings scored 43 victory
over Buffalo last night to stretch
their latest winning string to six
and picked UP q half game on
Newark which split double-header
with Syracuse.