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Evening star., 1941-02-17
Six Sets Of Brothers
Will Tryfor A. A. i.
Boxing LaureIs
Petro Clan Enters Four
Ranging From Fly to
Light Heavy Glass

No less than six sets OF brothers
will be seen during the District A.
A. us five-week boxing tournament,
which opens with novice competi-
ton at Turner's Arena Friday night.
Two sets will represent both the
Apollo and Merrick Boys Clubs,
while the remaining family groups
are entered from Police Boys Club
No. 5 and Prince Georges County
Police Club.
The largest clan delegation will be
that of the Petros from Northeast
Washington's Apollo Club. Rang
ing all the way from 112 to IT'S
IT'S pound battlers, the Petros will
send in Joe, at 1l2; Danny, at 118;
Charley, at 126, and Jim. at IT'S.
Apollos other brother combination
will be that of the Hubschers, Don
and Roy, who will fight in the 126
and 147 pound divisions, respectively.
Merrick'S namesakeS are the Cleve-
lands and the Masons. Roy Cleve-
land will fight at 135 pounds and
Charley at lat, while Bernie and
Wilbur Mason are 135 and IT'S pound
contestants. Police Club No. will
have both Leo Marcopolus, senior
lightweight, and his younger.brother,
135-pound George. while Prince
Georges County's brothers will be
handled by their father, Rat"
Thomas, former professional boxer
from Southwest Washington. Thomas
will send his son, Herb, into the
novice middleweight tourney, while
Walter Thomas, who recently cap
tured the Golden Gloves novice
lightweight championship, will make
his debut in the senior division.
Entries officially close at s o'clock
tomorrow night at the Boys Club of
Washington, 230 c street NV, while
tickes are now on sale at Turner's
Arena.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Opposes Speeding Of
Medical Training
Stanford President Warns
Defense Crisis Must Not
Interfere With Courses
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Feb. IT. - Warming
that speeding up medical training
would bring unsatisfactory" results,
DR. Ray Lyman Wilbur. noted edu-
Gator and physician, today declared
that America S national defense
crisis must not interfere with the
medical educational needs of the
country's men and women.
Dr. Wilbur, president of Stanford
University and former Secretary Of
the Interior, said the Nations great
mass operation of defense extends
certain of our activities and limits
others, but in no way does it change
the essential fact that the defense
of a great democracy will require
as many, if not more, thoroughly
trained medical men as in the times
of peace"
In his address at the 37th annual
Congress on Medical Education and
Licensure, Dr. Wilbur. q former
president of the American Medical
Association. said that I'VE who rep
resent medical schools and medical
institutions should take the active
responsibility of seeing that they
are not hampered or destroyed or
even materially handicapped.
I'VE must see that they are kept
at their task of preparing as large
a number of well trained men and
women in the field of medicine as
physical and clinical facilities per-
nit"
The former cabinet member sug-
gested enactment of legislation so
that no medical student would be
drafted or volunteer for service. and
that those who are proposing to
study medicine would be given 'ade-
quate trial before they are drafted
into some other line of duty"
Evening star., 1941-02-17

Texan, who won this and five
tournaments last year. Runyan,
White Plains, N. Y, player, made
his remarks at a luncheon for
newspapermen in New York.
"Runyan beat Snead, 8 and 7,
in the 1888 P. G. A. finals. Is
that what makes him the great
est golfer who ever lived, as
Runyan says? I beat him, 4 and
3. in the San Francisco match
play. What does that make me?"
Demaret declared that Bobby
Jones and Walter Hagen were
"the greatest golfers who ever
lived" Jones'" he added, won
three British Opens, four United
States Opens, a British amateur
and five United States amateurs.
Hagen won five P. G. A. cham
pionships. four British Opens,
two United States Opens and 100
sectional tournaments.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Sports De-Emphasizers Again Astir in College,
From the
Press Box
FerreII Gets Another
Comeback Chance
By JOHN LARDNER,

Special Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-During the
baseball players golf tournament
In Florida recently Wesley Ferrell
threw away his clubs 13 times in
the course of one round. This news
excited Mr.. Charles Dillon Stengel,
manager and wishful owner Of the
Boston Bees.
IT'S the same old Ferrell!" yelped
Casey. "At least it sounds like the
same old Ferrell. must verify this
rumor."
Suiting the action to the word
Mr.. Stengel clutched the nearest
telephone and called Jimmy FoxX.
proprietor of the golf course where
the alleged outburst Of Mr.. Ferrell
took place.
rs it true, my good man." said
Mr.. Stengel, that Ferren threw
away his golf clubs l3 times?"
Yes" said Mr.. FoXX, Naturally
the damage he did to my greens and
fairways. to say nothing of my
rough. is incalculable. Whether
will sue or not
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Airlines to lnuueurote
TruyeI Credit Plan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Feb. 17-Air travel on
a monthly installment paying plan
will be inaugurated March l by IT
leading airlines. the Air Traffic Con-
ference Of America announced yes
terday.
The plan. similar to one used for
nearly a year by many railroads,
applies to fares of $50 or more. No
collateral or down payment is re-
quired, with the cost spread over
several months.
THE airlines in adopting this
plan are convinced it will enable
them to tap an enormous new mar
ket," the announcement said. "A
recent survey showed that 63 per
cent of the persons who have availed
themselves of the opportunity to
purchase (railroadD transportation
on the installment plan would have
stayed at home had the plan not
been available"
Applications for travel credit may
be made at any airline ticket Office
or travel bureau. A service charge
for such accommodations is made.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Vinson, 'HopeIessIy Crippled
In Plane Crash, Now Flying
And GoIfing in Top Form
now and I don't get much time for

now and I don't get much time for
golf"
Opinions, of course. will differ as
to Wilson's place at the top Of the
amateur parade around Washing
ton. He came here at time when
there were some pretty good ones,
There was Roger Peacock, who was
not exactly a ham; Harry Pitt, who
knows how to carve par or two;
Miller Stevinson and Levi Yoder and
a Louisiana youngster named Hick-
man Greene. But Vinson licked
them all
In a years campaign he won the
Chevy Chase tournament and the
District championship, the only two
big local affairs in which he played
He led the qualif1ers from this sector
in the national amateur champion
ship sectional rounds at Baltimore
with a creditable lat for 36 holes
at the Baltimore Country Club.
Then he went up to Boston for
the big championship, where one
Rodney Bliss, then hot number
from Omaha, where the natives
ranked him as good as Johnny
Goodman, licked him, 2 and l. The
next year Gene left town, so he
was only around a little more than
year.
No Way to Settle 1t.
But l think he was the best
said Treder. He won, you know,
the amateur and open champion
ships of Mississippi three years in
row. I'm not familiar with the
class of golf played there, but it
isn't any clown stunt to win six
State titles in row in any COM
pany."
So Treder has started something
and there isn't any way to settle
it, Mackenzie and Voigt still are
good and Vinson is good and
Houghton is good. But as to whether
the Vinson of 1884 was better than
the Mackenzie and Voigt of 1926
is something else again. Or the
Houghton of 1928. It's like the old
Dempsey-Louis argument. which was
better. You cannot bring back the
split-second timing of youth in a
man nearing middle age.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Demoret RidicuIes Runyon's Rating Of Sneod
Texon Declares Jones and Hagen Greatest Golfers in History

at is ridiculous to compare
Snead, stroke for stroke. with
Byron Nelson or Ben Hogan.
I'll bet Hogan every day against
Snead."
Hogan finished his seth conse-
cutive tournament in the money
yesterday, just two strokes be-
hind Picard's 276, which was
eight under the record Henry
set in winning two years ago.
Clayton Heafner of Linville, N. c.,
was third at 279 and Demaret
was tied for fourth at 284 with
Tony Penna of Dayton, Ohio;
Craig Wood of Mamaroneck,
N. Y, and Ralph Guldahl OF
Chicago.
The golfers left today for the
next competition on the winter
swing at Thomasville, Ga, with
assurance the New Orleans meet,
put on a self sustaining basis this
year for the first time, would be
held again Ia ie42.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Pleas for Ex-Muckmon,
In Pen, Again Denied
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. 17.-No
immediate prospects of freedom are
in sight for Sammy ReO Crane
former Philadelphia Athletics short
stop, who has served IL years in
penitentiary for Staying a man and
a woman in a Harrisburg taproom
in 1890.
For the seventh time the Penn
sylvsnia Board of Pardons has
refused Cranes application for COM
mutation of sentence.
Convicted of second-degree muir
der, Crane was sentenced to 10 to
So years in prison.
Connie Mack, owner Of the Ath-
letics, and Ira Thomas. coach, have
interceded in his behalf before the
board several times since.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Old Dominion Breeders
Forming Association
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIDDLEBURG, Va, Feb. IT,
Virginia horse breeders will meet
here March l to select a Board of
Directors for a State association.
Donations totaling $500 toward
organization of the group were re-
ceived at meeting here Saturday
attended by 100 breeders from
throughout the State.
Kenneth N. Gilpin of Clarke
County was elected temporary chair
man, David N. Rust of Leesburg,
vice chairman; Henry w. Frost. jr.,
Of Middleburg, secretary. and Colin
Macleod, jr., of Middleburg, treas
urer. A committee of five was named
to select a name for the association,
whose membership will include
breeders of all types of horses.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
By MORTIMER KREEGER,


NEW ORLEANS, Feb. ia
bunch of the boys were sitting
around the locker room after
Henry Picard had licked them in
the New Orleans Open Golf
Tournament, and the gist of the
conversation was that Paul Run
yam was off key the other day
when he called Sam Snead the
greatest linksman of them all.
Some of golf's biggest names
were there, but all were shy Of
being quoted - except Jimmy
Demaret, who said enough to do
for the entire assembly.
who is Paul Runyan to say
snead is the greatest golfer that
ever hved7" demanded the
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Rosslyn's Girl Primers
Trounce Florida Men
suecial Dispa atch to The Star.

5ptC'al DlSpalcn 10 Inc star.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. IT,
Another Southern bowling victim
was added to the string of the tour
ing Rosslyn (VaD girls team today
a local mems outfit bowling to the
Old Dominion lassies here yester-
day by SO pins. Ida Simmons 387
set paced her teammates l 1,695 score
while Mabelle Herring was runnerup
with 369.
Miss Simmons also appears to be
a cinch to capture the Miami Open
following her 661 score. Lucy Rose
already has won the Miami mixed
doubles championship with Charlie
Stoy, while Francis Robertson and
Gait Davis finished second and
third, respectively, in the mems
open.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Youngstown Lands
National Amateur
Baseball Tourney
b. the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-THE Ma
tional Amateur Baseball Federation
has awarded its 1941 tournament to
Youngstown. Ohio, for the week of
September 6-14.
The federation, meeting here over
the week end. also voted to hold its
summer session at Youngstown,
July 1920
j. A. Downey. jr., Birmingham,
Ala, was elected president of the
federation; Frank Novario, Cleve-
land, secretary treasurer: Virgil E.
Zetterlind. Detroit, first vice presi-
dent; Henry Schubert. Dearborn,
Mich. second vice president: Will
liam Haddock, Pittsburgh, third vice
president.
The new three-man Board Of
Commissioners is composed Of Will
liam T. Duggan. chairman, of Cleve-
land; Frederick Howell, Dayton,
Ohio, and c. z. Brewer, Detroit.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Fire in War Ministry
Probed by Argentina
BY the Associated Press.

by IIIt ASSOCIdItu FItAs.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Feb.
1.-THE War Ministry ordered an
investigation today to determine the
cause of fire which swept through
one of its buildings yesterday, caus-
ing damage which officials said
would reach into millions of pesos.
The blaze, in a building used to
store equipment, uniforms and army
supplies, was controlled after a IA
hour fight.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
st. AIbuns Host to A. A. u. Mat
Tourney Slated in March

Tentative dates for the junior and
senior District A. A. U. wrestling
championships have been set for
March IA and Is at the St. Albans
School gymnasium. according to an
announcement today by Bob Nor
gan of the Boys Y. NJ. C. A. chair
man of the local committee.
At a meeting Saturday repre-
sentatives of six teams which will
compete in discussed plans for the
event which last year was won by
the Central Y. M. c. A. in the
senior division and st. Adams in
the junior.
Those attending the meeting were:
Evening star., 1941-02-17

Don Kennedy of Gallaudet College,
Ray Engel, Police Boys Club; Phil
Bernstein and Charley Reynolds of
the Washington Boys Club. Roland
Ackerman and Dave Armstrong,
Central Y. M. C. A., and Thomas
Clayton. st. Adams School.
Preliminary and seminal matches
will be held Friday night at 7:30,
according to present plans, with
the finals slated for the following
night at the same hour.
Entry blanks will be available in
about a week, with definite an
nouncement of the time and date,
Morgan said.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Psychic and Therapeutic
Methods Moy Aid Wes

MI. Mccarthy shook his head
sadly. The next spring Ferrell re-
ported with the Dodgers.
With the Dodgers, he just did not
have it. Leo DWocher let him go
reluctantly. and Wesley once more
was a free agent.
Casey Stengel is skilled hand
with old or ailing pitchers. It may
he that he will wiring some value
out of Ferrell with his psychic and
therapeutic methods. If he fails. he
always can tap Wesley for $4,000
to buy the Bees.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Uniforms as Souvenirs

In commemoration of Mahatma
Gandhi's 72d birthday, spinners'
association in Lahore, India, pre-
pared 500 spotless white uniforms
as Gandhi souvenirs to be sold dur
ing the Gandhi Jayanti week, and
no one was permitted to purchase
more than ons uniform.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Procope Will Speak

Hjalmar Procope, Minister Of Fin
land, will give George Washing.
ton anniversary address in the audi
torium of the new building Of the
Beth Sholom Congregation, Eighth
and Shepherd streets NV, Febru-
ary % at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1941-02-17
Sports Mirror

BY the Associated Press.
Three Years Ago-Clif Bat
ties, Washington Redskins grid
ace, quit pro football to become
baskheld coach at Columbia for
Hepa1ted aAlAgy q kkeA
Evening star., 1941-02-17

Today a Year Ago-Charles
fChick) Fulmer. 80, baseball star
& NTo-SQ, died.
Evening star., 1941-02-17

In one month recently nearly
1900 900 pounds Of tomatoes were
shipped from the Bahamas.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-16
Battle RACES
at Alexandra

With Second Army IN Louisiana,
Sept. 16-AP-A battle for Alexan-
Gria. last major stronghold OF the
Third Army along the Red River,
ragged today in central Louisiana as
the armored force of the Second
Army slowed UP its drive south
ward TO allow infantry and artil-
lery to organize their lines.
AS Gen. Ben Lear's army swung
its right flank down from Shgition
was met and 1t appeared that by
midday the Red battle line would
run westward from Alexandria to
the Texas border.
With advance infantry across
the Red River joined with the two
armored divisions the Second Army
vas in a position for a direct drive
south as o o as the heavy artil
lery is put into place.
The 155 nm. howitzers brought
up the rear movement across pom
toons and bridges of the Red River
from Shreveport to Alexandra. and
an entire cavalry division moved in
darkness TO Join with the mechan
lied forces Of the first armored
corps.
Infantry and artillery. trying to
take Alexandria. found a stubborn
blue force holding tight. The city
had been captured early yesterday
morning, but Gen. Walter Krue-
gers infantry and mechanical col
umns retook it in a pitched bat.
tie In the business district.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-16

Ypsilanti merchants are entering
intellectually into the Retailers
Fall Festival and Defense Rally
Week which opened here Monday.
Attractive arrangements OF. fall
goods are on display in store win
dows, and retailers are stressins
the purchase Of bonds and stamps
for sponsorship Of the defense pro
gram.
Streets are decorated with Unit.
ed States flags and Fall Festival
banners. Merchants have placed
placards and stickers in store win
dows announcing their support of
the Retailers Rally for Defense.
Today. retailers competed in
trimming windows for the most
interesting defense display. First
prize for the contest, to be judged
Saturday will be $40 In defense
stamps. Second award will be IS
in stamps.
A novel Treasure Hunt and mis-
placed item contest are planned by
merchants for their customers this
year. Blanks for entry in both con
tests will be dropped from an air
plane flown by Eddy McEnnan,
local flying instructor. Wednes-
day at $3.50 over Ypsilanti city
streets. In case OF inclement
weather the flight will be made
Thursday or Friday.
For the Treasure Hunt, leaflets
with numbers, goods for valuable
window prizes Friday. will be print
ed. Residents are expected to To-
cate numbers corresponding to
those on their leaflets. The con-
test will be conducted from 6 to
9 p. m, stores remaining open
until $50. Prizes may be claim
ed by submitting the numbers to
merchants in whose windows they
appear.
The misplaced item contest is
scheduled for Friday night and
Saturday. In the windows of
stores listed on entry blanks. the
contestant. will find an item OF
merchandise which does not be-
long to the merchant in whose win
dow it is found. The item must
be named and the store from
which it came designated. Per-
sons Identifying the greatest num-
ber-correctly will receive SIS in
defense stamps. Second prize viii
be SO in defense stamps and third,
S. in defense stamps. Blanks can
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-16
Deferment of Students Will
be Less Difficult This Year

words II the semester's work IS
well under way, they may obtain
deferment, Dean Isbell said.
In all cases OF deferment for stu
dents. the interest Of the nation is
the basis Of selection, not the in
dividual's desire. Dean Isbell point
ed out. n the respective %selective
service board feels that an indi-
vidual student Is being fitted for
work that will be Of direct bene-
tit TO the nations defense, he may
be deferred TO continue that study.
The Navy has made an especially
inviting offer 70 college students
Dean lsbell said. whereby a stu
dent may enroll in the Naval Re-
serve and he deferred until he has
completed his full collegiate course.
He will them be required 10 take
special naval training az the end
OF which. u he passes satisfactorily,
be will he commissioned an ensign
in the United States Navy.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-16
Merchants Enter Into Spirit
of Fall Festival Activities

be placed in ballot boxes in drug
stores and the Board Of Commerce
office.
For Friday. retailers have pre-
Jared a program OF music and en-.
tertainment. The John F. Barn
hill Memorial Band is to play at
$3.50 and vaudeville entertainers
are to appear at 9 in the city mar
ket. S. Washington st.
Saturday. the final day OF the
weeks festivities. wondering min
strels from Roosevelt High School
are to appear from : to $50 p. m,
Each retailer is purchasing de-
Tense stamps and is requested to
give stamps instead Of change, to
customers who will accept them
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-16
Board
Raises Wages

Salary increases for Principal
Norris Wiltse. custodians and Miss
Martha Wolter. secretary to Supt.
E. H. Chapelle, we're approved at
the Board of Education meeting
Monday evening at the school.
At the July meeting Of the board
increases were granted the teach
ers when a salary schedule was es-
tablished.
The principals salary was raised
5000 a year, and that of the custo-
dams and Miss Wolter, $40 a
month, The increases will add
50 120 to the years budget.
Official approval was given by
the board for the hiring OF eight
new teachers. These include
Harvey ]. Adams. who will teach
industrial arts; Miss Alice Allett,
sixth grade, Prospect School; Miss
Leota Digs, third grade. Harriet
School: Joseph Hill, English; Miss
Eltrieda Overmann. physical edu-
cation; Miss. Margaret kennard.
art; E. W. Shadford, physical edu.
cation; and Miss Alma Strong,
sixth grade. Harriet School.
Since the last meeting Of the
board, two designations had been
received. They included Mrs.
Kathleen Witherspoon. who had
been teaching the sixth grade at
Prospect School and Miss Virginia
Olmsted, who had been teaching
physical education.
In the absence of Auditor A. B.
curtis, Supt. Chapelle reviewed
the auditors report, which mem
bers agreed was in fine order. II
showed cash on hand as of August
81 of s41,402.76. The report
showed a debt service cash bal
ance Of ~$16,125.22 and the operating
cash receipts and the operating
expenditures were listed-the esti'
mate. the amount received to date.
and the balance. Upon the sugges'
ton Of Lester Miller, II was de-
cided TO include the debt service
figures in the monthly auditors
report.
The board members Informally
discussed the textbook problem and
Supt. Chapelle will check on the
success of the rental system and
the free books system employed
in some schools.
Bills for August and September
totaling S6,4S6.66 were approved.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-16
Negro to Face Trial
on Assault Charges

Examination on felonious assault
charges were waived by James Mar
tin. p. negro. 3O7 Harriet St. in
municipal court today, and he was
bound 70 circuit court for trial.
He is held in county Jail in lieu Of
& 5r1 50ud.
Oncers Charles Knapp and VIII
liam Reiman. were dispatched 20
the rooming house after Mrs.
Harry Bennett. the landlady. re-
quested police TO cuiet a disturb
ance.
Martin is said to have drawn a
knife, and attempted to take OF
dcer Knapp's pistol from him.
Failing. he fled from the house,
and was arrested later by Sgt. Emil
Susterka at the local bus station.
The prisoner is six feet tall and
weighs 10 pounds. He was born
In Los Angeles. Calf, and lived
for the last ten years in Toledo.
o.. he told police. He has been
In Ypsilanti only TWO mont $. hav-
ing come here and secured employ.
ment on construction at the bomber
plant
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-16
New Telephone Rate
Reduction Effective

Lansing. Sept. 16-Another inter
state long distance rate reduction,
providing estimated annual say.
ings Of 100000 for Michigan Bell
Telephone Company customers. be
came effective today.
The new reduction applies to
calls between Michigan points la
miles or more apart, and brings the
intrastate rates down to the new
level Of interstate charges made
effective July 10 on agreement be-
tween the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company and the Fed
eral Communications Commission
The Michigan Bell Company filed
It's new rate tariSs with the Michi-
gan Public Service Commission
during August.
In addition to reducing intra-
state long distance charges, the
new schedules also reduce the
overtime rate on most person-to.
person calls to that applying 20
Standardization calls.