Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1926 — Page 3

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I fEAMS ABHIVE I for tourney |B f . i H i k «iur< aiholir Mentioned ■ Teams In H National Meet ■ Chicago. Mar. 17 United Press.. Bl |w) I L.-k.-iball teams from M ' ~v , .r > .. < i i<.n of iho nut ion arH rXlfalav P='" i< ;ii "' ■ tau/.k- tourn.t- | "v'e ..pm contains wm,.Tames ■ lha t makes thing- look as though the ■ fleht for ' ,1: “ ' • 0,1 Curdinal H Mundelein's nophy, will !><’ hot. ■ ' Mar( , uHl e movers ty high of Mil H wanker’ Catholic high of Decatur. ■ Indiana: A'lmnas of Rochester. N. Y.; ■| jrp a || .rack trains. In addit.on ■ Wichita. Kans.; Louisville. Ky ; ■ u>vola of Chicago; Spaulding InstiM |u „.. o f p.-oria. 111.; and (’tithed al B Win of Cleveland, are sending good H machines St. Louis university high. B Baraga high of Marquette, Mich.: B Cumberland. Md.: St. Thomas MiliH tary Academy. St. Paul; Rockhurst of B Kansas City. Mo., and Van Buren. B Maine, will he represented. ||| - — o I Kendallville H. S. Grid I Schedule Is Announced ■ Kendallville. Mar. 17.—When the ■ Kendallville high school football elev ■ en take to the gridiron on September ■ 18, they will have opened the lid for N one of the hardest seasons of foot- ■ hall that a Crimson ’eleven hos been ■ fM.ed to meet since football was ■ Inaugurated in the K. 11. S. ■ Losing only one regular from the ■ backfield, and with plenty of new ■ material to fill the Rap left by the ■ graduation of several of the linemen. ■ the sports' mentor 'should have little I trouble to develop a team that will ■ be able to surpass those of the last ■ few years. E The schedule for 1926 follows: ■ September IS—Columbia City, here ■ September 25— Elkhart, then* ■ October 2—Warsaw, here ■ October 9—Rest ■ October 16—Auburn, there ■ 23—Goshen, there ■ October 30—Open ■ November 6—South Side, here. I Central Fifth Grade I Wins Another Game ■ The Central school fifth grade l>asg ketbaU team defeated the Hoy Scouts ■ in a game played Tuesday night. 11 to g 19. The score at the end of the first I half was tied at 9-all. The game was I hard-fought throughout. The Central I fifth grade team has been defeated I only twice all seat-ton. I Lineups and summary: I Central (11) Scouts (10) I C. Hill F Brown I Buffenbarger FTrieker I McNeal C Steele I Elzey G Melchi I Myers G Kocher | Field goals: Buffenbarger, 1; C. Wil.’, I 1; McNeal, 1; Brown, 2; Melchi. 1. I Foul goals: Buffenbarger, 1; C. Hill, | 2; Elzey, 1; McNeal, 1; Brown, 2; I Trieker, 2. | o— National A. A. U. Net Tourney Is Under Way Kansas City. Mo., Mar. 17— (Vnitfd Press.)—With the draw bringing together some of the leading teams, the national A. A. U., basketball tournament was expected to provide thrills today. The games today included: Ke-nash-a, Kenosha, Wis., vs. Sou h Side Turner, Indianapolis. Hillyards. St. Joe, Mo., vs. Monon A C„ Lafayette, Ind. oShamrocks Grown In America Are The Vogue Today—St. Patrick’s Day Washington, Mar. 17.—(United ress.) — Shamrocks grown in are the vogue today— St - Patrick's Day. -’■ore than 50,000 packages Browing shamrocks were import<*d into the United States from re and last year but they were replanted in United States soil and cultivated for today's occas°n, according to the commerce department. Importation of shamrocks y is increasing annually foreign trade "Bures showed. li,^ e!ti , nß ' ~ Movie censorship regulahibit n, aVe been drafted here to p’o- , 6 B h° w ing of films which are fluence' , b h arbarous or like *y Conr , the wronK direction the c °nduct of the people.”

Pat Page Is 111 Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 17 (United I’r<'-H) -''Pat” Page, former Butler University football coach mentioned In connection with the coming appointment of a coach at Indiana University was ill at his home here today. Ills wife denied that he had signed with any school yet. HOFF SMASHES TWO Norwegian Athlete Wins All-around Indoor Track Championship New York, Mar. 17—(United Press) —Charlie Hoff, Norwegian athlete, achieved his greatest track success last night when he smashed two world's indoor records and won the all-around indoor championship with a remarkable exhibition of staminia and skill. The Norwegian, competing at the garden in the annual Knights of Co- | lumbus games cleared 23 feet % inches in the running broad jump and set another record when he pole vaulted 1.3 feet 7 inches. The Heptathlon event was marked I because Harold Osborne, one of the j three contestants. was forced to re tire after the fourth event with a strained tendon, and Emerson Nor ' ton was disqualified in the hurdles ' However, Hoff's total of 5,855.3 point' • was than any figure Nortoi i and Osborne could have hoped t< » amass. Another world’s recon? was broker ' when the Georgetown 1.600 meter re r.lay team travelled the distance it >3(22 3-5. 0 >1 'DUNKIRK GIRL FREED ON BONE Girl Charged With Murdei Os Her Infant Babe Released From Jail Portland, Mar. 17.—Thelma Wolfe 20, of Dunkirk, who ts charged witl murder of her infant baby on Febru ' ary 28, was admitted to bail yestet day afternoon in the Jay circui ' court, after Prosecuting Attorne; ’ i Williamson agreed to the release. ’I Four prominent Dunkirk men pro II vided the $5,000 bond and the gir ’ was taken to the home of her par Kents in Dunkirk. The plea for bai 1 alleged that the charges against th< girl were not substantiated witl sufficient proof to hold her and tha 1 conditions at the jail made it sucl i that her health was endangered. '| The girl is alleged to have wrapp • ed her infant babe up in newspaper; i and put it under the front porch a ' her home, to die of exposure. A sec . ond degree murder charge is als< . pending against her. , o PURDUE MAN TO SPEAK IN COUNTY FROM PAGE ONE) girls’ work. In addition to Mr. Austin’s address motion pictures, showing scenes a one of Purdue’s "Club Roundups” wil be shown. Since trips to the “Round ’ up" serve as several premiums to bi awarded in the club contests this year boy and girl members will be partic ularly interested in this part of the program. Cash premiums wen in the corn and sugar beet clubs last yeat will be distributed at these meetings Al Imembers are urged to attend. Wm. Linn, chairman of the agricul tural committee of the Decatur Industrial Association, h in charge of the Decatur meeting. Mr. Linn states the meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Decatur high 'school. L. L. | Baumgartner, chairman of the agricultural committee of the Berne Business Mens’ Association, has planned that the Berne meeting be held in the Community Auditorium. The meetings will be/in at 7:30 o’clock and everyone interested, is invited. o Earth Tremors Registered At University Os Chicago Chicago, Mar. 17.—(United Press)— Sharp earth tremors were registered on the University of Chicago seismograph at Ga. m., today. The tremors continued until 8:15 a. m., ( reaching a maximum intensity at 6:12 a. m. They were estimated to be 2,050 miles distant. *

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COL. COOLIDGE I STILL SINKING Physicians Expects No Change In Condition During Next 24 Hours Plymouth, Vt , Mat. 17—(United , Press) Dr Albert M. Cram looks for no new developtm nts during the next 24 hours in the condition of Col. John C. Coolidge, iK-cordlng to a statement the physician made public just before noon today following a two hour visit to the home of the President’s father. | Plymouth, Vt.. Mar 17-(UP)— | Col. John C. Coolidge was reported . considerably weaker today than at any tmie during his current illness. I Early reports from the colonel’s I household were that he had spent a comparatively restful night, how- ’ ever, and Mrs. Mae Johnson, his ’ nurse, stated that there was no marked change in his condition this 1 morning except that he was extreme- ' ly weak. 1 Throughout tho night, a largo roI tary plow pushed slowly through the snow bound road between here and Ludlow, the nearest railroad point. It probably would be over that road " that President Coolidge would come II to see his father. i MERCURY FALLS " TO ZERO MARK 3. :s ” Street Thermometers Reach ■° Zero Early This Mornn ing; Sun Warms Air i en < Coming on the heels of a sevenI inch snowfall, the mercury took a I tumble last night and early this i morning, the thermometers register Jed near the zero mark. A few street themometers even reached the zero mark, it is reported, while several I others stood at two and three degrees above. One report turned in was that it was 1 degree .below at 6 la. m. today. A bright sun this morn ing soon sent the mercury soaring I" upward, however, and by noon the thermometers registered only a few degrees below freezing. Indicationsare *that the snow will be melted be e, fore Thursday night. th W. J. Archbold today brought in u- records that show’ that the mercury r . fell to zero twenty years ago today, it March 17. 1906. The records wore. >v kept at the Winnes shoe store. Th ■ shoemaker at the store at that time, o- said that if St. Mathias found ice on i-l the 17th of March he would break it. r . If not he would mAe it. He found il the ice. -4>ut evidently failed to break ie it. as the zero mark was reached h again on MTlrch 28, of that year. n pythTians seek MORE PLEDGES p- , s (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Nelson, Joseph L. Hunter, Janies c ' Bain, Fred V. Mills, Sam Shamp, A. i 0 D. Suttles, Dore B. Erwin, and Roy j Mumma. j At a meeting held last night, plans

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