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Evening star., 1941-03-20
sells designed to combat under-sea
and surface marauders at close
quarters.
In Touch With Australia.


quarters.
In Touch With Australia.
His indications of the form Of aid
to Britain were coupled with a hint
that the voyage of four American
cruisers and nine destroyers to the
South Pacific involved more than
the mere training which the Navy
has said was the purpose.
The plain-spoken Secretary said
smilingly that the United States
was very closely in touch with
Australia, and greatly In sympathy
with her aspirations.
However, the detachments whose
arriva, this week at Sydney and
Auckland was linked in speculation
with Far Eastern tension will re-
turn shortly to the Pacific fleets
Honolulu base. Mr. Knox added.
While Secretary Knox was speak
ing, Senator Wheeler. Democrat, Of
Montana told reporters on Capitol
Hill that 1t Is now apparent the
real purpose OF the lease lend bill
Is not merely to aid the people of
England. but Is to protect the Brit
iSh Empire in the Orient.
Wheeler Protests Trip.
Senator Wheeler referred to the
Journey of the cruisers and destroy
erS and said: There can't be any
question that they are being sent
there for the purpose of reinforcing
the British in Singapore and other
parts of the Orient"
ANY one familiar with conditions
In the Orient knows that there is
not any democracy in China or in
any British Oriental possession out
side of Australia" he asserted. LAS
a matter of fact, there has been
merciless exploitation of the people
of India and Mayalsia.
Certainly, American boys should
not be called upon to fight and die
to continue this ruthless exploitation
in the Orient by any country"
For the repair of war vessels, the
Navy has string of nine stations
along the Atlantic coast, aside from
commercial ship yards, to which Mr..
Knox made no reference. At Boston,
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
vessels up to the size of battleShips
may be overhauled and lesser craft
may be repaired at Portsmouth,
N. H; Newport, R. l.; New London,
Conn; Charleston, S. c., and Key
West, Fla.
Evening star., 1941-03-20

Laurel lived alone in the house, ac-
cording to Mr.. Thomson. He was
founc slumped over in a chair in
the bedroom, his head resting on
the bed
The Laurel volunteer fire COM
pany extinguished the blaze.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Brothers Plentiful in Army

FORT DIX, N. j., March 20 R.-
The 18th Infantry is conducting an
informal contest to determine which
of its units has the greatest num-
Der OF brothers. Company D, from
Newark, took the lead with six sets
Company L of Jersey City ranked
next with five.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Thieves Jump Season

WORCESTER, Mass, March 20
P,-As cold winds swept down from
the hills and as crews cut ls-inch
ice at Lake Quinsigamond, Mrs.
Bruno j. Skinger called police to
report some one stole her rowboat.
Evening star., 1941-03-20
Claude B. Hudspeth Dies

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, March 20
(R.-Claude B. Hudspeth, "a, former
Representative from Ell PaSo, died
yesterday. He retired from politics
in 1891.
Evening star., 1941-03-20

British merchant vessels sunk by
torpedoes in the first World War
totaled 1881.
Evening star., 1941-04-15

Five years ago-Charles War
rem won American Bowling Con-
gress singles title with score Of
735.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
ay Loop Largest Mems Bowling Unit Here, City Event Bod
Throat AiIment Puts WoIper
Off Links for Month; Little
Here on Business Visit

top amateur golfers, Is In town to-
day for one of his last rounds OF
golf before joining Uncle Sans
armed forces.
frankie is one of five golhng
brothers, and during his earlier
years was a protege and pupil of
Witty Cox. He was to play today
at Congressional with Cox, John
Lane and w. r. McCallum, follow
ing round at Columbia yesterday,
where he scored a two-over-par 72.
With him were Lane, Chris Heu-
rich and Barge Hartz.
Frankie was runnerup in the
North and South amateur cham
pionship last week, losing in the
final round to Skip Alexander, for
mer Duke University star, who has
played here.
The Strafaci youngster, "a years
old, Is setting good example for a
lot OF young amateur golfers by
beating the draft call. 1t comes
about in this way. frankie and his
brothers support their parents in
Brooklyn. Frankie's draft number
was far back, but that of his broth
er Patsy came up two weeks ago.
frankie and Patsy went to the
Brooklyn Draft Board, and both
suggested that frankie start his
years service right away, so Patsy
could remain as one of the family
wage earners. The board agreed to
this, put Frankie through a physi-
cal examination and found him
o. K.
So Frankie will report to his draft
board next Monday ready to serve
his country. He has played his last
tournament for at least a year.
No p. G. A. Tourney Friday.
There will be no golf tourney next
Friday in connection with the initial
l941 meeting of the Middle Atlantic
P. G. A.
Witty Cox, prexy of the sectional
pro organization, announced today
that the meeting will be called at
pm. at Beaver Dam, and will not
be preceded by the usual amateur
pro tournament.
1--WE find that when there is a
meeting and a golf tournament, >
says Witty, "the boys are thinking
more about golf than business. Sc
we'll cut out the golf and do some
business. There is plenty Of time for
golf tournaments later" Cox plans
to hold four meetings during the
year, two in Washington and one
each in Baltimore and Richmond
He will announce P. g. A. vice presi-
dents for Maryland and Virginia
Friday night.
Evening star., 1941-04-15

Bobby Browneu, Manor Country
Club youngster, wearing the South
ern intercollegiate crown. will be
back in the thick of the links wars
around Washington this year as
probably the foremost of the younger
players around town.
Bobby wasn't noticeable among
the winners last year. In playful
college prank he broke a leg on
the soccer field at Duke University
in the spring of 1910. 1t put him on
the competitive golf shelf for the
entire season. He did not play in
the District championship which
went to Ralph Bogart for the second
straight year.
But this year Brownell Is on deck
with notice that he is back in his
old groove, good enough in 1896 to
win the District amateur title, and
good enough in intervening years to
win flock of Journeys. Bobby is
% years old now and is senior at
Duke. He will be back in Washing
ton early in June with a real bid
for the top spot among the amateur
linksmen around town.
Last year Bogart and Earl Skinkel
were the two top youngsters around
Evening star., 1941-04-15

Forty-four Masonic League bowl
srs will be on the firing line at 7:3O
tonight when the 2s-year-old fra
ternM loop stages its annual Shah
Cup rolloff at Convention Hall.
Abe Povich of the Samuel Comp
ers team, who established an all
time. league average mark OF lbs,
will be the only scratch bowler
shooting for the coveted prize. Only
bovlers who have rolled in all
league matches during the season
are eligible.
Other contestants will be Johnson,
Mattern, Scott and Daoud of Albert
Pike; Hazel of Anacostia; Franklin,
n. D. Sonneman and K. o. Some
man of Columbia; Patrick, BOYD
and Robinson of Dawson; LIE Rosy,
Ball and Reilly of Gompers; Steven
Of Harding; Lasover and Keefer OF
Harmony; Shaw of Hiram; Diller
of Hope; Phillips, Dixon and Rains
of King David; Fellows of Lebanon;
Jenkins of Joseph H. Milans; Free
man Of National; E. and j. OBrien
of Naval; Miltner and Werntz OF
Pentalpha; Morris of Roosevelt;
Robb and Props of st. Johns; Lus-
combe of Stansbury No. 2; Thorne
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Treasury and Church
BowIers Oppose in
Match Saturday

Picked bowling teams of Treasury
Recreational Association and Ninth
Street Christian Church will shoot
it out in the second annual Brook
land Recreation interleague elimin-
alton series Saturday at pm.
Rolling for Treasury will be Ed
BarroWs, Rich Reeley, Lou Howder,
Gas Bloyer, Champ Clark and Julian
Poore, while the church bowlers COM
batting this strong quint will be
Charley Hughes, Kenneth Laws, ES-
kew Grant, John Mayhugh and
Charles Hatten, captain.
In the first-round match, West
ern Electric's selected combination
smothered the Letter Carriers, 1,718
to 1881. The winners, after squirting
to the front with 631 to gain a o.
pin lead, had easy sailing as Dick
Lauxman's 374 and Cy Hogarth' s
37l featured Al Gray's 354 was best
for the losers.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Capital Y Gymnasts
Aiming for Top as
Hosts 10 Meet

Washington Y. M. C. A. gymnastic
team will be out to improve the sec
ond-place rating won last year when
the national "Y" championship meet
is held here on Saturday.
More than 125 star gymnasts will
complete as representatives of Chi
cago, Fort Wayne, st. Louis, Cleve-
land, Columbus, Philadelphia, Ger
mantown, Lancaster, New York,
Brooklyn, Boston, Newark, Elizabeth,
Baltimore and Washington.
Howard Burger captains the
Washington team. Other members
are Frank Scanlin, Edward Black
more, Conrad Beneshan, Phineas
Indritz, Clyde Bauman, Ernest
Gather, Allen Eney, jr.; Frank
Stern, Rudy Velebir, Philip Gray,
Thomas Winstead, Paul Lein and
William Mood.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Leo Walper, former Middle At
lantic P. G. A. champion, will enter
a hospital, probably tomorrow, for
q throat operation which will keep
the Bethesda driving range pro out
of golf for at least a month.
The operation, according to Wal
per, Is not serious, and will correct
q speaking condition which has
bothered him for some time. Over
the past few hours X-ray pictures
and microscope tests have been
made, and Walper has been assured
that the operation itself is not
serious and that he will not be out
of golf for any considerable length
of time.
Leo was the private professional Of
National Amateur Champion Dick
Chapman for several months during
the winter. Now that Chapman
probably will be called for Army
service within a few weeks Leo is
back in town. He is trying to lease
his driving range on the East-West
highway, near Bethesda, but he
wants to remain as the teaching
pro.
Walper has an idea that a great
future lies in the teaching of golf,
and he believes he can handle that
end of his job without being tied
down to the task of operating the
driving range.
Meanwhile, Leo, a pretty rugged
soul, isn't greatly concerned about
the coming operation. Its to
eliminate a growth on the vocal
organs" he said. They tell me Bing
Crosby had the same trouble. But
I'm not any Bing Crosby"
Lawson Little in Town.
Lawson Little, jr., National Open
golf champion, is in town for few
hours, and if he decides to remain
over, he may play golf tomorrow at
one of the local clubs. For today
however, Lawson is pretty we'll tied
up with one of the local department
stores, where he Is making a personal
appearance.
The personable Little, winner of
the National Open title last year in
playoff against Gene Sarazen,
plans to go to Fort Worth, Tex, late
in May for ample practice sessions
in advance of the title tourney
starting June S. Lawson would like
to be one of the few pros who have
twice in succession won the open
title. 1t happens to be one of the
toughest achievements in sport.
Last pro to do it was Ralph
Guldahl, who won in 1897 and 1888.
Little has all the equipment, but
there are Is or 30 other fellows who
can win, given a hot putting streak
during the championship.
Strafaci to Don o. ID.
Frankie Strafaci, the little Italian
American lad. who is one of America s
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Game Ends as Boy
Must Milk Goat

By the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. April Is.
The mighty Casey failed his
team when he struck out, but In
this case-Wade Gray had to go
home to milk his goat.
The Section 7 baseball team
of Minnie Holman Grammar
School was leading Section 9 at
the beginning of the seventh in
rfing.
Then Wade responded to the
pleas of his nanny goat in a
nearby lot. Because no other
player was available, the game
was called of.
Another game" said Glass
Secretary George Hopson, will
be played if Wade can get some
body to milk his goat for him"
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Patty Berg Is Flashy
In Taking 4.Sfroke
Lead at AsheviIIe
Scores Is Despite Some
Costly Putting; Helen
DettweiIer Has 86
By the Associated Press.

by JQe ASSOClhLeQ FIcoes
ASHEVILLE, N. c., April 15.-
Red-haired Patty Berg of Minneap-
oils, MINI, former national titlist,
had four-stroke lead today as some
of the Nations ablest feminine
golfers started into the second round
of the Land of the Sky medal tour
nament for women.
She took a one-over- par rs yes
terday and outside of erratic putting,
did some nifty playing. She four
putted one green and took three
strokes on two others. To partly
offset her earlier slipups she made
25-foot putt on the difficult thir-
teenth.
Jane Cothran of Greenville, S. c.,
runnerup last year, was second with
an 80 and one stroke behind her was
Jean Bauer of Providence, r. l., de-
Tending champion.
An 86 was turned in by Helen Det-
tweiler of Washington, and Mrs. E.
T. Nolan of Newcastle, Pa, had an
81. Jane Crum, the University of
South Carolina coed, had an 88;
Mrs. J. j. Lawlor of Scarsdale, N. Y,
a 81, and Mrs. Ben Parks of Char
lotte a 81.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
T Saving Course
To Stort Thursday

Members of the Y. w. C.. A. are
being offered an eight-week course
In life saving, with the first lesson
scheduled for Thursday and subse-
quent instruction to be given each
Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Each session will last from 7:30
until $3.50 O'Clock.
Robert S. Fulton. senior aquatic
instructor at the "Y," will be in
charge and interested parties are
urged to register with him. Red
Cross and Y. M. c. A. life saving
certificates will be given to those
successfully completing the course.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Povich Only Scratch Bowler
In Mosons' Shah Cup Event

of Takoma; Kilbreth, Lee and Cor
don of West Gate, and Bittenbender,
Scott, Burtner, Lawrenson and
Brown of Centennial.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Bob BrowneN May Be Golfer
To Beat Here This Season

town. But Brownell will make a
trio this year and it won't surprise
any one If tow-headed Bobby makes
the others sit up and yell Uncle" I"
That whole year without competi-
ton hurt Bobby, but it doesn't mean
anything. 1t may make him a
tougher competitor, if he wasn't
tough enough already.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Ruffing-Deun Slab Duel
Due in Bronx Opener
RN Il E Associated Press,

By tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 15.-The New
York Yankees, already leading the
American League as result of their
"preview" victory at Washington
yesterday, joined in the general
opening festivities today before
an expected home crowd Of $4,000.
The Philadelphia Athletics supplied
the opposition, with Southpaw
Chubby Dean opposing New York's
veteran Red Ruffing on the mound.
Due to an injury to Rookie Gerry
Priddy, Manager Joe Mccarthy had
to send Joe Gordon back to second
base for the Yanks and Johnny
Sturm to first. Besides Sturm, Phil
Rizzuto. Yankee shortstop, and
Eddie Collins, jr., and Pete Suder Of
the AS were making their major
league debuts.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Fair Golfers 10 Open
Season With Miller
Memorial Event
Washington Club Host
To Meet Next Monday;
Pros to Plan Slate

Initial feminine golf tournament
of the year will be staged next Mon
day at the Washington Golf and
Country Club, when field of
around 125 women will start in the
Miller Memorial event, an l8-hole
affair to be run of by the women
of the Washington club. Entries
will be taken up to noon next Friday
by Mrs. E. r. Hotze at Chestnut 8755.
Mrs. Edward Fox, tournament
chairman for the Women's District
Golf Association, has called a meet
ing of her committee today at Ken
wood at 10 am.
ID. G. A. Head at Pinehurst.
DR.. Paul M. Stewart, president OF
the District Golf Association, has
gone to Pinehurst with Paul, jr., for
week of golf.
That start Jim Ferrier had on
the last nine at Chevy Chase Thurs
day was one of the finest ever
recorded. He started the last nine
2-4-3-3-3, which put his score
six under even As for that stretch.
But he was bunkered at the 17th for
5. A 4 on that hole would have
enabled him to play the last nine in
80 strokes against the par of "a. But
his 66 was good enough.
Allan Lard, inventor of the steel
shaft, walked around watching the
top pros hit those mighty wallops.
Very few in the big gallery knew
that Allan Is responsible for one
of the major changes in the game.
He invented the steel shaft around
IT years ago. Today use of steel is
universal.
M. A. Pros Tilt Friday.
Pro golfers Of the mid-Atlantic
sector will gather Friday at Beaver
Dam for their first tourney and
dinner meeting. They'll arrange
their schedule for the year at the
meeting.
Dave Thomson, the diminutive
Washington Golf and Country Club
pro, put on hot round over his
home course. Dave scored s.
under-par ST with a 4 at the par-3
second hole, and IS at the 9th and
7th holes, both oar-4 affairs. Dave
was playing with A. G. Dezendorf,
DR.. w. r. McLister, Elmer Jenkins
and Freeman Stricklin. He had
seven one-putt greens in his round
of 34-33-67.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
All OF "a Teams 10 Go
On Drives April 80
III Lucky Strike
Live Organization Boasts
Many Star Performers;
lilIey Sets Record

safeway Grocery bowlers will
make April 80 red letter night in
the forthcoming Washington City
Duckpin Association tournament at
the Lucky Strike, it was made
known today as r. P. Hazelton,
president of the Capitals largest
sll-mens bowling loop rolling as a
single unit, announced that the 34-
team league would roll in a body on
that date.
With some of the city's leading
bowling enthusiasts as it's hackers,
including Dallas Pratt. j. R. Fagan
and H. A. Smith, former presidents;
Mel Tallant, present scorer, and
Billy La Billie and Crawford Bitten
bender, former officers, little Won
der the original 10-club loop has
grown to its huge size since 1880.
Earl Grant serves as vice president
and B. r. Warner is secretary treas
urer.
Has Plenty Of Enthusiasm.
Annual banquets and sweepstakes
long has been yearly features to in
still interest in the league, while
Mack Langford, president of the
Safeway Grocery Co., never misses
the chance to roll the first ball in
season openers.
With the deadline for entries that
will appear in the printed program
set for tomorrow at midnight, all
boWlerS are urged to either send or
bring their filled out application
blanks to the Lucky Strike in order
that the Schedule Committee may
classify and allot special rolling
dates. Scorers also again are re-
minded TO send in the averages of
their respective leagues.
Bill Behncke, who will see action
In the 31st annual championships
was redhot last night at Penn
Recreation when he fired a season
record of ITS in the Kilowatt League
which enabled his Transit quint to
nick the pace-setting Station En-
gineers in the rubber game with 631
and move only a game out of first
place. Walter Smith of Sales No.
was tops with 381. Distribution led
with LIZA.
Sets Record for League.
Chet Lilley, who has won his share
Of blue ribbons in former w. C.. D.
A. tournaments also was on a ram
page last night when he posted a
season record string of 187 in the
Prince Georges County League
which enabled Smiths Tavern to
boost its season high mark to 685
and jolt Galliher & Huguely, 81.
Lee Shapiro, missing Horace
snowden's former high by one stick
with 1873, featured the first-game
win. Lilley, sandwiching his whop-
per between games of 1913 and lit,
had 427, while Shapiro counted 423.
Perce Wolfe fired top set of 428
with 158 high game as Del Rio took
the odd from Game Club, while
Harry billiards 167-395 were the
winning punches as Terish Market
swept the Romeros.
Ray Moore, who may give Al
Wright run for the distinction of
being the busiest bowler in the tour
nament, banged out top game of
$50 in the Navy Departments League
at Arcadia to aid his United States
Engineers to maintain a second
place tie with photographic and
Yards and Docks. Jim Flack, who
will be at the helm of the Ordnance
team in its class B championship
tournament bid, garnered set hon.
ors with 800.
Evening star., 1941-04-15
Thomson's S Pro List
Leaves Off Driver
px the AxxociataS praxs

By the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April Is
Jimmy Thomson, long driving
golf star here for benefit match,
selected today what he termed
the ideal golfer.
II would take Horton Smith
for putting, Johnny Revolta for
chipping, Ben Hogan's short
pitches, Henry Picard's No.
irons and Lawson Little's spoons"
Thomson modestly neglected to
name a driver.
Evening star., 1941-04-15

Three years ago-New York
Yankees, Detroit Tigers and
Cleveland Indians selected one
two-three in Associated Press
American League pennant poll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-16
UPSON TO RESUME
 STATE POSITION
Draft Board Chairman Now Eligible to Serve on
 COP Committee

The way was paved today for rein- statement of J. Warren Upson of this city on the Republican state central committee when state head quarters of the party announced a ruling that members who resigned because they held places as Selective Service officials would be allowed to withdraw their resignationS. MT. Upson, chairman of Board l5-B, resigned last week after ruling that the Hatch Act covered draft officials even they received no pay. This ruling has since been reversed.
 Col. Ellery Allyn, secretary of the state central committee, said that members reSigning because of the first ruling would be reinstated un- less their places had already been filled. The same procedure would be followed, he said, in the cases of those resigning from town com- mitteeS.
 Mir. Upson is state central com mitteeman from the 18th district.
 MT. Allyn stated today: "A great many members of Republican Town organizations or State Republican committee whe were serving on var ious draft boards promptly resigned their political positions when it appeared that to retain them would
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-16

An urgent appeal for at least one-hundred additional qualified young women to apply at once for admission to the fall classes of nursing schools in this state to pre- pare for professional nursing careers was made today by Miss Marion H. Douglas. president of the Connecti- cut State Nurses Association, in pointing out the serious need of reg istered professional nurses in Con- necticut Seven-hundred young wo- men have already been accepted by our schools of nursing for the fall classes, and will enter sometime this month. While this number is an in- crease over previous years, because of the defense need. our schools of nursing are expanding their facili- ties to make 1t possible for 100 ad- ditional young women to enter the schools of nursing.
 "For the past few years. the de- mand for services of professional nurses has increased steadily" Miss Douglas said, "hut this last year. 1t has taken a tremendous spurt be- cause of the gigantic defense pro- gram in which thousands of addi- tional registered nurses are called
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-16
Lists or Delegates
 Named By Democrats

Democratic convention delegates named last night were as follows:
 First Ward
 First ward, city convention, John H. Cullinan, Charles J. Bennett, Charles P. Sciullo, Kathryn Stan- escki Fergus A. Madden, Louis V. Chieffo; alternate, John J. Law Tor; school convention, Henry Mini cucci, Ella Keavaney, Dorothy Dunn, Catherine F. Callahan, Paul c. Egan, Thomas J. Bowling; al- ternate, Robert Bosco; town con- vention, Stephen A. Homick, Ed ward Loughran, Joseph Hryniewi- cki, John Ladden, Joseph Caputo, Amy Cadotte; alternate, Patrick McKenna.
 Second Ward
 Second ward, city convention, Jo- seph F. Mulville, Winifred McDon- aid, Mary F. Hennessey, Luigi Bria, Evelyn Phelan; alternate, Antonio Pope; school convention, Walter A. Jarvis, Joseph A. Hackett, Alfred Finkelstein, John T. Sterling, Sadie A. Lynch; alternate, Michael J. Grout; town convention, T. Gordon Hutchinson, Frank T. Healey, Car mine c. Cipriano, Joseph H. Me- Ardle, Bernat Holczer; alternate, Marie F. Beckley.
 Third Ward
 Third ward, city convention, Vim cent A. Scully, Michael V. Blans- field, Maurice T. Healey, Michael Colucci, James A. Phelan; alter nate, Patrick D. Brown; school convention, Patrick s. Bergin, Charles Fl. Audet, Margaret Down.