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Show CAS1D. GIBBONS SUGGESTS MEMORIAL TO BABE RUTH NEW Y'jRK, Jan 10 -Cardinal Glblpns has proposed a memorial to "Base" Ruth champion home run hil-ler, hil-ler, Instead of accepting a similar honor hon-or bimself In i' letter from his sickbed in Baltimore, Bal-timore, read Sunday at 0 meeting of the supreme board of directors of the Knights of Colpmbus, the cardinal irgsd that st. Mary's industrial School, of Baltimore, which Ruth once, attended attend-ed and whn h recently was destroyed I by fire, be replaced by the Ruth School of Dependent and Wayward Boys. Brother Paul, head of the In-I In-I stltutlon. informed the directors that I the citizens of Baltimore bad proposed I to i rect a new cathedral In honor of tlu cardinal, but that he suggest-j suggest-j ed their efforts be diverted to rebuild- ing the school. "fhc unparalleled work which the Kniihtr of Columbus accomplished in var days." he wrote, "probably 1 makes .if target for many money sohemea I do not presume to ask the i Knights of Columbus to adopt St. J .Mary's, but 1 do ask that ou approve an appeal to your members to Join In a national testimonial io Babe Ituth." |