Evening star., 1943-11-07
Grid Game at Stadium Today
To Raise Funds for Boys Town

footoau team Will play GOnzaga
High School eleven at 2 pm. today
at Griffith Stadium and the net re-
ceipts will go to the famous Ne
braska institution, which is sup
ported entirely by public subscrip-
ton. 1t now is educating 400 boys
from broken families.
Despite reports to the contrary,
the game is not a Sellout. There
will be plenty of grandstand seats
on sale at the stadium today for
S1.10, Ted Miller, business manager
for Father Flanagan, said at the
Statler Hotel last night. A little
more than 5000 seats have been dis
tributed in the advance sale, he said.
Due largely to the interest of Sen
ator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma,
the event is sponsored by more
than 200 prominent persons in
Washington official, diplomatic and
social life. Supreme Court justices
and Senator'S have taken tickets and
said they intend to be there.
Enlargement Planned.
Father Flanagan built his institu-
ton up from five boys and a rented
house in 1917 to the present one of
IS buildings and 1000 acres. He in
tends to enlarge it until he can
take care of 1000 boys at a time
When first assigned to an Omaha
parish. Father Flanagan began
mission among the itinerant harvest
hands Of the grain season. He found
most Of them came from broken
homes. He decided he would have
to start with the boy to help the
man. A Police Court judge turned
over to him three boys that were
to be sentenced to a State institu-
ton.
Father Flanagan borrowed $50,
rented a house and, with two other
boys, started in. Newspapers played
up his work He moved 10 miles
out of town to his present site. He
has turned out 5000 boys and says
none of them has been in trouble
with the law. The boys he accepts
are usually less than 10 and from
broken homes. He takes a few from
the courts. They continue at Boys
Town until they are 18.
List Of Sponsors.
Mrs. Roosevelt, Vice President
Wallace and Mrs. Wallace head the
list of sponsors. Others are:
Active patrons-Senator and Mrs
George D. Aiken, Justice and Mrs.
Thurman Arnold, Senator and Mrs
Warren r. Austin, Senator and Mrs
Joseph H. Ball, Senator and Mrs.
John H Ban.head, Senator and
Mrs. Warren w. Barbour, Inspector
and Mrs. Robert Barrett, Judge Fay
L. Bentley, Senator Theodore G.
Bilbo, Mr.. and Mrs. David Hunt
Blair, Senator and Mrs. Homer I.
Bone, Senator Styles Bridges,
Senator and Mrs. c. Douglass Buck,
Senator and Mrs. Harold H Burton,
Senator and Mrs. Harlan j. Bush
field, Senator Hugh A. Butler.
Senator and Mrs. Harry Flood
Byrd, Mrs. Irene Caldwell, Inspector
and Mrs. Harvey G. Callahan,
Senator Arthur Capper, Senator
Hattie w. Caraway, Judge and Mrs.
Walter J. Casey, Senator and Mrs.
Albert B. Chandler, Senator and
Mrs. Bennett Champ Clark, Senator
and Mrs. D. Worth Clark, Mr.. and
Mrs. James. E. Collifower, Mr.. and
Mrs. Prentiss L. Coonley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald w. Corrick, Mrs. E.
May Craig, MI. and Mrs. Edward M.
CuTran, Representative and Mrs
Thomas D'Alesandro. jr., Senator
James J. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Davis, Frederic A..
Delano, Bernard F. Diamond,
Senator and Mrs. Sheridan DoWney,
MI. and Mrs. Rosa F. Downing,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B. Dulcan, ST.
Joseph B. Eastman, Senator and
Mrs. Allen j. Ellender, Col. and
Mrs. Dale D. Fisher, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert V. Fleming, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gwynn Gardiner, Senator and Mrs.
Walter F. George, Senator and Mrs.
Carter Glass, Senator Theodore
Green, Mr.. and Mrs Clark c. Grit
fifth. Senator Joseph'F Guffey, Sen
ator and Mrs. Chan Quincy, Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Halsey, Senator and
Mrs. Carl Hatch, Senator and Mrs.
Carl Hayden, Senator and Mrs. Lis
ter Hill, Mr.. and Mrs J. NJ johann
sen, Senator and Mrs. Hiram w.
Johnson, R. C. Jopling, MI. and
Mrs. AL P. Kane, Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Kane, Senator and Mrs
Harley M. Kilgore.
Col. and Mrs. Charles w. Kutz,
Senator and Mrs. William LANCER,
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Leahy,
Justice and Mrs. F. Dickinson Let's,
Senator and Mrs. Henry Cabot
Lodge, jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Brecken-
ridge Long, Senator and Mrs. Scott
w. Lucas, Representative Clare
Booth Luce, Senator and Mrs. Fran
els Maloney, Mr.. and Mrs. James