Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1925 — Page 6

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CASEYS DEFEAT LEADERS, 35-24 Locals Outscore Visitors In Second Halt But Fail To Overcome Lead The mighty Cuscys i-aliie, W* ; :*W and they conquered. The Fort Wayne Knights of Colum bus basketball train, bearing a wide reputation throughout the professional basketball world, guv- nn exhibition of their caging ability on the high school gymnasium floor here lust night, while the Decatur Leaders fought gamely against them. After the forty minutes of playing the score stood 35 to 24 in favor of the Caseys. Eight hundred people saw the game and, although they would enjoyed seeing the leaders down their famous opponents, most of the fans enjoyed the exhibition. The Leaders got away to an early lead in the game when Tabby Andrews caged a pretty field goal. The Caseys tied it up with a field goal anil then Mendenhall made it 4-2 for Decatur by dropping in two free throws. I The Caseys then took a lead of 7 to 4, but another field field goal by An-1 drews and a free throw tied it up at 7-all. The visitors braced then and' went into the lead again, never to relinquish it during the remainder of the game, although the locals threatened during the final minutes. The first half ended 23 to 9. The Leaders appeared to gain a little confidence in themselves during the rest between halves and during the second half they outscored th® Caseys. 15-12. Murray Menden ] hall found his basket eye in the sec-| ond period and sank three field goals and three free throws. Oliver and 1 Kennedy each eaged a field goal and a free throw. The game grew a little ! rough in the closing minutes and several fouls were culled, the Caseys being the chief offenders. : Mendenhall and the famous Stone- . broker were tied for individual score honors with eleven points each. Men-! denhall caged three field goals and five free throws, while Stoney sank four field goals and three free throws. Not a substitution was made by either team. Manager Yager had secur-' ed the services of Mike Nyikos. the ] South Bend star, for the game last 1 n gid. lull he missed tiu n connei-tion.-uand was unable to reach Decatur in time to .play with i leaders. Scores of local fans wer. disappointed when Nyikos failed to show lip, hut his absence was unavoidable. Lineups and summary: Leaders (24) Caseys (35) Andrews F B. Miller | Mendenhall F McCleary | Oliver C Stonebraker ; Kennedy G Shiinek Crist G It. MilletField goals: Andrews, 2: Menden hull, 3; Oliver. 1: Kennedy, 1; 11. Miller, 2: McCleary, 3; Stonebrake:-. 4; Sh'mek. 3; It. Miller, 2. Free throws: Andrews. 1: Mendenhall. 5; Oliver, 3,- Kennedy, 1: McCleary, 1; Stonebraker, 3; Sliimek, 2: It Miller. 1. Referee: Bills. o Butler And Franklin ’ Meet Saturday Night Indianapolis. Fell.. 11. —The Butler basketball squad returned from South Bond today in good condition and started work at on.-e for the Frank tin tilt on Saturday. Interest in the game went tip several notches when word came from Franklin that the great Fuzzy Vandivier would n all probability take his regular place in the Baptist line-up. The presence of I I the "ace" of tlie five hasketeers will make the Baptist machine about as, good as ever and the Bulldogs will I have to show some real improvement j in the next two days if they are en-| tertalning any hopes of repeating last i year’s victory. Coach Page has been j carry ng a large squad all season and I is having quite a bit of difficulty in nicking a five-man combination which he can mold into a smooth working machine. All of the fifteen men on the squad were taken to South Bend and one or two new faces got into the battle against the Irish. o Field Goals [ By Mark M. Upp * - The Caseys play more basket hull a-ul less football since the manage ft-. nt got rid of Haggerty, Voss and a few other*. Titre was less dirty I work in the game here lust night than I

URed to churacterize the Careys’ gam es. Maybe they are not so gentlemanly when they are harder pressed. i , Oliver Jumped about i-ven «Uh the veteran Stonebral >-r at ,-enter last night. Both players were so anxious I to get the tip Unit the ball was hit on its upward course most of lire time If the referee heu culled n technical foul each limn the bull was hit going I up there would have been more free throws than anything else The Portland Panthers are the next visitors to our city. They come here Friday night for a fri‘ endly romp with the Yellow Jackets. The locals hold one victory over the Jay county lads and they are anxious to make it two. There should be a big crowd of fans out to root for the Yelow ” Jackets and help them win their seventh straight game. Up until lust night’s game between] the leaders and Caseys, the four,' leading Decatur teams had won a total of 44 games and lost only 13 this; season, for a per centag® of .772. | The lowest per centage of the four, 1 | held by the G. E. eagers, is .624.1 | which is far from a bad average. We ,' i challenge any town or city to dupli-.' .cate the following record: 1 Won Izist l*<-l. j 1 .Cahiolic High 14 0 1006 ‘ Leaders 14 I .77.8 ' High School 11 *; .647 : General Electric ... 5 3 .625 ' TOTAL 44 13 .772 1 iFirst call for dark horses. Get [i those ponies ready, boys, the I race will soon be on. Coach Comer is casing up on the« ( practice sessions of the Catholic high eagers this week, since the gren clad warriors have no contest slated for this week. However, they will get back to hard work again next week, in preparation for SS. Peter and Paul' at Huntington on February 19 and St. Johns of Unia here on February 23. I ,Will the Yellow Jackets put the pant in Panthers Friday night? o Indiana Wrestlers Win i Easily From Northwestern I — ’ | Bloomington. Feb., 11. — Indiana • : wrestlers blinked Northwesters <•>•>> i piers here last night in a Big Ten ’ wrestling meet. 23 to ft. Hoosier mat! men took falls in the 115. 125 am! ) 145-pound divisions, ami decisions in >1 I the other contests. *i o . ■ , Butler Wallops Notre Dame Cagers, Score 32-23 — South Bend. Im!.. Feb. 11. Butler i crashed through Notre Dame’s de- ' fens'® in the second half, and defeat- ‘ ed the local learn. 32 to 23. The Irish led at tie- end of the first half. IS to " I' Illinois Captain And Star Out For Season Urbana. 81., Feb. 11. --- Johnny Mauer, captain and star forward of the Illinois five, pulled several ligaments in his left knee during practice yesterday and probably will be ’ out the rest of the season. The lllini play Northwestern here tomor-' row night. Average Citizens Paid Bulk Os Income Tax I Washington. — (United Press) - I Your share of the income tax whether yor not you paid it last year on your 11922 income was $7.86. | Os coin so, if you were among the , lucky 6.2 per cent of the nation's [population filing returns, you paid .more. The average for the (1,787.481 [returns filed was: Income. $3,143; ;tax, $127, according to treasury department statistics just issued. Individuals paid total taxes of $861,057,308 on income aggregating $21,336,212,530 — an increase of 1.8,8 per cent in the number of returns. 8. 98 per cent in the taxable income and 19.69 percent in the total tax. as compared with the previous year. The corporation income returns jtold a sad tale. Nino out of every 20 failed to make enough money to payincome taxes, assuming the figures are true. Corporations reporting totalled 382.883, and 212.535 of them paid in $783,776,268 on taxalrie incomes aggregating $6,963,811,142. The others didn’t have any taxable incomes at least said they didn't. The total income tax revenue was $1,636,367,462. s 1 Sixty-seven individuals reported incomes of more than $1,000,000 a

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year, of whom four reported more than $5.90(1.000 each * Th.n® multi millionaires don't pay for th*- government’s expenses, how - over. I>« cause jU-re aren't enough of them Th" Mail'll*’’- Imn that 67 per cent of the returns und II per cent, of the taxable Income was reportI • ci! in th® returns of lu'iween sl.(xxi nnd s'l.iHftt a year. I The Individuals reporting between $3,000 and slo,imu taxable made up 23 p»r cent of th*- total number, ami 23 |w»r cent of the taxable Income. In actual money paid to the government. however those with incomes from $5,000 to $100,009 paid more ihan $463,000,000. or f>4 per vent of the total revenue. Bachelors turned in 1.823,535 returns. more than one-fourth of the total but paid only about $142,000.0*10. one sixth of the total tax. Spinsters and widow -. paid |6R,09*1,000. about one-seventh of the total. Tlie major part of the revenue from individuals came from heads of families, and married men and women. Exemptions of income of indivld ■uals, however, totaled $14,909,329,482. [or two <*nd one-half times the taxed income. I The total income reported, therefore was $21,336,212,530. from is derived the average return of $3,143. | Interesting rises anil falls of wealth inrecent years shown in a list of 436 individuals all of whom reported incomes of morn, than $300,000 a year. lln 1916 the year before the war the, 436 total net income of 292 million dollars; in 1917. 264 millions; in 1918, 209 millions; in 1919, 215 millions; in 1920 169 millions, in 1921 147 millions in 1922, 310 millions. Thes figures indicate that as the surtaxes on higher ] incomes are increased, as they were lin 1919-21, the amount of income re'ported decreases. Chinese Withdraw From Opium Conference Today By Henry Wood. (IT. P. Staff Correspondent) Geneva. Feb. 11.—The Chinese delegation which last wek followed the example of the Americans and withdrew from the narcotic conference, today announced its withdraw! fro-.n tin- first, or opium conference as well. The withdrawal nullifies the work i of the entire conference, since it is impossible to regulate the opium evil without China’s help. B. Sugarmura, Japanese spokesman, announced. It is doubtful now if Japan can sign th® various protocols. Dr. Sez head of the Chinese* delegir on, left after the conference had (tailed to reach satisfactory agreement fur suppression of the use of prepared opium. Tlie break comes at a moment when tlie nations most interested were endeavoring to demonstrate that the Americans acted too hastily in leaving Geneva and thitt satisfactory and useful conventions could lie sign®)!. Lord Cecil had just returned Io London announcing all difficulties at the drugs conference had been overcome. The bitterest fight of the narcot.c conference was due today when a vote was to be taken on a Finnish resolution declaring the opium impasse due to illicit traffic in arms to China. The resolution indirectly implicates the United States as one of the world's largest arms manufacturing countries. HOPE OF SOLVING POISON MYSTERY IS W ANING TODAY (Continued from Page One) complained of sleeplessness . Dr. Goddard's task is to analyze tin- minds of )>oih students for possible signs of tlie “master criminal'' or "moronic complex" wlyich Chester be-liev-s may be nt the bottom of the poisons. Columbus. 0.. Feb. 11—(Speial to Daily Democrtl) —Investigators of the strychnine deaths at Ohio state' university neared the end of their resources today. The release of Louis Fish, first student to lie arrested as a suspect, reduces the probability of further arrests to two. Both of these two students have be®n questioned before and are to be re-examined today. John J. Chester, police prosecutor in charge of the probe, said one of the students gave testimony "not thoroughly satisfactory ” The other aroused suspicion by complaining of slee;,’ ’=si»ess. .Although school phys’cians say he is suffering from no physical ailment. Unless tlie prosecutor finds a clew to Hie poisonings through questioning the students today he will be confronts-d with a deeper mystery than ever. Louis Fish turned out to bo the vict m of what Chester referred to a- an "unfortunate qlrcumstanct).”

» At the request of David Puskin. Fi >* * obtained the capsules from the ills ' f enrarj which caused Pu- kins death ’ Fish took them out of a buttle label f ed "quinine" and did not know Hm <ltu> had boon adulterated with strychnine. Further qn* tlonlng of Fish would throw no light on how I th*- strychnine came to be In th® >i quinine bottle. I Dr. Harry II Goddard, phyaiatriat. i i-xamlned Fish and pronounced him i 1 perfectly normal. The* student was I released with a clean bill of health | i.fti-r spending 24 hours in the city ■ prison. - ,| -WITHIN TEN FEET OF HIS PRISON TODAY (Continued from Page One) to hasten work, was abandoned today as (he workers drew nearer the roof of Collins' cell. They fear to break in upon him. Inquiry being conducted info rumors that Collins entombment la a grand hoax staged for purposes of publicity was to be resumed at 9:30 a. m. today. William Burk Miller, Louisville newspaper reporter, testified yesterday before the courtinartlal conducting the investigation, that he had seen Collins in the cave and touched him. * I was threatened with death when I tried later to entei; the cave," Miller said. B. G. Fishback. rescue worker, testified Johnnie Gerald hm! warned him not to enter the cave "Did you gather he did not want you to go into the cave ” the court asked. "I did.” was the witness’ answer. TRIBUTE TO BE PAID TO LINCOLN ' HERE TOMORROW (Continued from Page One) teenlh president of the United Stfftos. was born near Hodgensville. Ky., Feb. 12. 1809. His father was a poor farmer, who in ISI6 moved to Indiana. He lived with his parents in Spencer county. Ind., until 1830 and then moved to Illinois. With another man ho acomplished the feat of splitting 3fto rails in a day and gained for himself the title of “the Railsplitter." In 1834 he was elected to the Illinois legislature. In 1844 he was defeated for the United States * -nate by Mr. Douglas. In 186 ft lie was nominated for president and was elected although lacking on*’ million votes for a majority. If® was Inaugurated as president on March 4. 1861 and was re-elected in 1864. taking ottiiee the m-xt March and on April 14. 1,865 was shot by Edwin Booth, dying tlie next day. Mr. Lincoln, as president, carried ho nation through the terrible Civil war ami was able to keep the states together. His speeches, although simple in words are considered as bi ing among the greatest ever delivered by an American. SUPERPOWER LINEFIHISHEOj Ga . And Electric Company Comnletes Great Power Plant And Line Completion of the superpower line of the Calumet Power company and the superpower substation at Aetna just east of Gary, was announced tod:: y. Service from the superpower sulfstat on will b->. inaugurated next Thursday, February 12. The cere-, inony in connection with the inaugu’ra ion of service will include the throwing of a switch by Mayor R. O. * Johnsen of Gary, which will feed 55 000 horsepower of electrical energy over the superpower line into the | -ub -etion from which it will be distributed over the six high tension 1 ties radiating from the substation to I the widespread transmission and distribution systems of the Northern : Indiana Gas and Electric Company 1 and th • Calumet Gas and Electric company. Tlie switch will be thrown at three : o'clock in the afternoon and will •.make the Calumet-Gary section of ' northern Indiana a part of the great- : est power zone in the world. The ■ Inauguration of service fiom the I superpower substation at Aetna will ■ make this district an integral part i of »he - great power zone in and around Chicago, ’< This new transmission line carries ■ 55,000 horsepower of electrical energy 1 but has been built to carry an ulii- ' mote capacity of 150,000 horsepower. It will serve the great industrial dis- ) tricl of Hammond, East Chicago and > Indiana Harbor and adjoining eom- ’ munition through the transmission

. ami •!. Sto -ly-toms of Northern Indiana Oa« and Electric Company and th*- Calumet Gas and Ele,-irii tompani . This superpower line, extend-) from Hhe Indiana IHlnola xtut® line n®»r F Munster to Aetna, a distance of six teen miles. Al ’l«* ,lne ’ 11 H . connected with similar lines built by the Commonwealth Edison Compan* nnd the Public Service Company nf Northern Illinois. It is connected ! directly with the Calumet genornt , Ing station of the Commonwealth Edison Company near the state line In South Chicago. An additional power supply is received from the Joliet station of the Publi* Service Company of Northern Illinois. The superpow* r line was bulb by the Calumet Power Company of which Samuel Instill is president. The line will be operated by the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric . Company and the substation will be operated Jointly by the Northern Indiana Gas nd Electric Company and the Calumet Gas and Electric company. whose transmission systems It forves. • The Aetna substation is really the big jmwer distributing (enter of northwestern Indiana. Electrical * iergy received in this substation from the superpower line will be reduced in voltage and feed out over smaller transmission lines to th* substations of the Norther)! Indiana Gas nnd Electric company and the Calami t Gt.s and Electric company from which it will be. distributed over the widespread distribution systems of those companies. NOTICE RADIO FANS Tune in on W-H-B. Kansas City, Mo. Sweeney School station at 7:30 tonight, and hear the best Monument story ever told. Wemhoff Monumental Works. It —- ■ o Those wishing to hobnob with wealth and royalty may have their wishes gratified by attending “Just For Fun.'’ th® Bth grade play tonight and Thursday. It o BANKS TO CLOSE All of the banks in this city will be closed all day Thursday, February 12, in observance of Lincoln’s birth- , day. mOrSe-S LAXA-PIRIN Aspirin Combination / BEST FOR ALT, \ I many persons ahet takiug quinine.l I i eere of euccebs. Different, Quick, I I Pleasant. 25c—or a sample tree. I \ For COLDS J \ laorippe, A \ HEADACHE, f A NO Alt General t'j-.? INIHE l'u»us. I, . ,

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