Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1927 — Page 6

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English Athletes Fail To Shine At Penn Relays Philadelphia, April 30. —(UP.) The second day of (lie Penn relay opened today with promise of providing more new record* and more possible 1928 Olympic material than yesterday's slow session furnished.* Tlie outstanding feature of the first day's competition was the flat failure of the English invasion. Lord Bttrghley, captain of the Cambridge University team Os five, ran second to Johnny Gibson of Fordham in the 400metcr hurdles. His teammate, T. <’. Livingstone Learmonth, was third. G. Weightman-Smith qualified for the finals in the 120-yard high hurdles hut failed to finish in the money in the finals and the other members of the team were unable to place in either event. The only new world's record made yesterday was established by the Mercersburg Academy 440-yard relay team which went the route in 42 4-5 seconds after Lawrenceville Academy had set a new mark of 43 2-5 in a trial heat. The old record was 43 3-5. The I’niversity of Pennsylvania 440yard relay team equalled the collegiate record of 41 3-5 for the distance. Vernon Kennedy of Missouri State Teachers' college established a new Penn relays record for the decathlon when he won the ten events with a total point score of 7236.5575. The previous record was 7169.1600. Four decathlon marks in individual events were broken. They were: disiscus throw, Kennedy. 128 feet B’4 inches; 110 meter hurdles, Sturtridge (Depauw University) 16 seconds; pole vault, Kennedy and Logan (Emory), tied. 11 feet 8 inches; 1 500 meter run. White (New York University) 4 minutes 31 2-5 seconds. o — Seven Records Shattered At Annual Drake Relays Des Moines. la., April 30. —(UP) — Track and weather conditions were ideal today for the final events of the eighteenth annual Drake relay games and several more records were expected to be broken. Seven records were shattered in th? running of yesterday's preliminaries Two were of major importance. The quarter-mile relay record fell when the University of Kansas during their trial heat, negotiated the distance in 41.8 seconds. The old record, 42.5 seconds, was set by the Jayhawkers in 1925. The other record to fall was the low? .Sta;..'- Med lev When io.. .. St tlij d 31.8 the Oid record of 8:40 flat, set by Illinois in 1925. The new time is 8:08 2-10. Eight Yellow .Jackets Compete At Kokomo Today Eight Decatur high school athletes are at Kokomo today, competing in the annual Kokomo high school relays. They were taken to Kokomo in cars driven by Coach Herb Curtis and Ralph Yager.

♦♦+♦++++♦♦++++++ * SPORT TABS ♦ + ++++++++ + + + + + + >i(By United Press) CHICAGO — Ike Boone, Chicago White Sox slugging outfielder, is recovering satisfactorily from an operation performed here for appendicitis LOS ANGELES —Jack Dempsey, ex heavywieght champion, has filed a general denial in suit of Murray Shewitt for $1,200 which he claims Dempsey owes for tickets he bought his friends for his fight with Gene Tunney in Philadelphia which resulted in the latter winning the heavyweight championship. LOS ANGELES—The University of Southern California baseball team defeated the Waseda University, intercollegiate champions of Japan, 4-3. LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Purdue University beat Indiana at baseball 7-2. Maxton, pitching for Purdue, allowed the visitors only three hits. MINNEAPOLIS — Indianapolis took the opening home game of the season from the Minneapolis Millers 31. KANSAS ClTY—Bunching hits in the first inning, Kansas City scored 4 runs which proved sufficient to beat Columbus 4-2. CHICAGO —The Chicago White Sox have released Leslie Cox and Homer Blankenship, rookie pitchers, to the Shreveport, La.,, club of the Texas league. BUFFALO—Tiger Flowers, Georgia, hammered Chick Wiggins of Buffalo through ten rounds to get a unanimous decision.

J BASEBALL’S BIG FOUR ■ — '" l' (By United. Press) Rube Ruth came out of his slump j with his fourth home run. a double ( and a single in four times at bat. Hornsby kept up his terrific batting with a trio of singles in four times up , Cobb went above the .400 mark when he slapped out a triple, a double and a single in five attempts. , Tris Speaker caught on the uost for single in five trips. AB II % F HR Hornsby 52 24 .462 .990 1 Cobb 62 25 .403 1 000 t Ruth 48 15 .313 .962 4 Speaker 48 14 .292 1.000 ( —_ o ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦< ♦ BASEBALL STANDINGS < ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦< National League W L Pct. New York 10 4 .714 St. Louis 8 4 .66, Philadelphia .... 8 5 ,61f Pittsburgh 8 5 .611 Boston .8 8 .50’ Chicago 6 7 .46: Cincinnati 4 10 .28( Brooklyn 3 12 .204 American League W L Pct New York . 9 4 .69: Philadelphia 9 5 .64: St. Louis 6 5 .54t Detroit 6 5 .545 Chicago 8 7 .53: Washington 77 .50( Cleveland 6 9 .404 Boston 2 11 .154 American Association W L PcSt. Paul 9 3 .818 Kansas City 9 3 .SIS Minneapolis 8 4 .667 Milwaukee 7 5 .581 Toledo 5 5 .504 Indianapolis 6 7 .46' I-ouisville 3 9 .254 Columbus 3 10 .23 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Brooklyn. ; Philadelphia, 0 New York. 10; Boston. 3 ch'rago-Pittsburgh. rain. Cincinnati-St. Louis, rain. American League Detroit. 5: Cleveland; 2 Philadelphia. 8: Washington. 7 New York. 9; Boston. 0 St. Louis-Chicago, rain. American Association Indianapolis, 3; Minneapolis. 1 Kansas City, 4; Columbus 2 St. Paul. 4; Louisvil's 3 Toledo-M 1 waukee, postponed. o Chicnoio Phys Indiana Basebail Team Todaj 1 Bloomington April 30—(UP) —Indiana University will play its third con ference game of the season here thisafternoon when Fritz Crisler's Uni versity of Chicago team comes tc Bloomington. Indiana will have tw former Chicago high school players forming the battery, Voptech an' l Burke, while Zimmerman and Webste: will work for the Maroons.

o Brother Os Judge Os Jay County Is Killed Portland. Ind., April 29. —Judge R. D. Wheat has received a letter from W. L. Lowri, U. S. consul general at Wellington. New Zealand, giving particulars of the death of his brother. Arthur Burt Wheat, who was killed there on February 25. The letter says that. Wheat met his death while driving in an automobile along the road near the coast, a short distance from the hotel at Tokomaru Bay. At a point along the road where the sea wall had been washed away, it ap pears that his car overturned, after getting too far out of the road, and fell down about fifteen or twenty feet on some rocks. The car fell upon Wheat, crushed his chest and killed him. Judge Wheat was notified some time ago of his brother’s tragic death and burial in New Zeland,' but no particulars were given at that time. The deceased formerly resided in Jay county, and was a well-known oil worker, and had drilled wells In many foreign countries, including Egypt and Jerusalem. O ! Desire To Spit Causes Death Gaston, Ind., April*3o.— (INS.) —A desire to spit brought death to Vinton L. Nickey, prominent resident of this city. Nickey was riding in a sedan with friend. As the car turned the corner. Nickey opened the door to spit and was thrown to the pavement, suffering a fractured skull.

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♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦ (By United Press) Yesterday's hero— Ty Cobb, of the Philadelphia Athletics, who got three lilts in five times at bat, a triple double and a single, enabling his team .<» defeat the Washington Senators, 8-7. Going into the sixth inning, the Senators had a 4 1 lead, but Philadelphia staged a vicious attack in their half I of the inning, pounding Thurston' Marberry and Braxton for seven runs.! It was the fifth straight victory for! 'he Quakers and put them within half * game of first place, now occupied >y the Yankees. Jim Elliott, former Seattle pitching star, held the Philadelphia Phillies to 'our hits ami Brooklyn won its third game of the season, 7-0. Only one Philadelphia player reached second. Home runs by Terry, Tyson and Lindstrom aided the Giants in a 10-3 victory over Boston. Garland Buckeye, husky southpaw jf the Cleveland Indians, was pound'd for ten hits in seven innings, and Detroit took the second straight game I from Cleveland, 5-2. Dutch Reuther and Babe Ruth of the Yankees, beat the Boston Red Sox, 9-0. Reuther allowed but six hits, while Ruth pounded out his fourth home run of the year. Other games scheduled were post- , toned on account of rain. • o MRS.SNYDER TO REST TWO DAYS

Defendant In New York Murder Case Must Resume Testimony Monday By Paul W. Wliite (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Long Island City. N. Y., April 30 — For two days Ruth Snyder may rest; then she must go once moie t-> the witness stand to face a cross-examinn tian designed to tear down the third rtory she has told of the murder of ter husband, Albert Snyder. And within a day after the blonde housewife has completed her testi-J niony it is probable Judd Gray will b •; tailed upon to supply an entirely different account of the slaying, denouncing the woman's version as an invention calculated to save her from a verlict of first degree murder, for whica the penalty is death. j When police first invaded th"’ Queens Village home and found Snyder beaten, chloroformed and strangled. Mrs. Snyder told them he hnu been slain by burglars. Then, the state charges, she “broke’ j and signed the confession introduced in evidence against her. In the statement she assumed almost equal responsibility with Gray in planning and prepetrating the murder.

But now, before a jury of her peers and the curious stares of ore of tne largest crowds ever to gather in a courtroom, Mrs. Sny’’er has denied all that has been said before, finally building up her story to tile point where she swore she was not implicated in her husband’s death except failure to subdue Gray. Court stood adjourned today until Monday morning, at which time Mrs. 1 Snyder will go to the staml to resume her direct testimony. She then will he cross-examined S»nd Edgar H.izleton, her attorney, hopes to complete j her ease before the end of the day. o COOLIDGE ASKED TO VISIT FLOOD ZONE IN SOUTH icojrriwuKD from page onki stored in warehouses in the flooded area have been caught in the flood. I Indications now are a large part of the sugar cane in the delta section will be destroyed, thus putting the growers two years behind as a crop requires two years. Waterlogged cotton can be used for some purposes, so stored cotton which is innundated is not a total loss. If it is recovered after two or three 'weeks and dried quickly, it can be used for low grade fabrics, rayon (artificial silk), artificial leather and many other things. —o • D. C. H. S. Senior Class Play, “When a Feller Needs a Friend” Catholic high school auditorium May 4. It

HE'LL RUN, TITLE AND ALL w \ * I cJBmM ssir • / Aw • - w »* X <a . Jf ( 'Xj .esMfe. * r ’X’ IZ - ' ' 4. “Go it. your lordship!” This cry may resound across f ranklin Field in’the annual University of Pennsylvania relay games this vear. For a genuine, first-waler lord, Lord Burleigh. >s a member of the Oxford team entered in the event. Recent matches in England show the lord to he in great shape lor the 120 and 110-yard hurdles. Two pitchers of him are show n above.

United States Stands Tenth In Literacy; Has Many Adult Illiterates Washington. April 30. — (UP.) — The United States is tenth in literacy; among nations of the world, with nearly 5,000,000 adult illiterates, who I 'confess they can neither read nor' write. In an effort to lessen this number before the 1930 census, the general . federation of Women's Clubs is now making a national survey of one, county in each state to the end that illi:crates may be taught to read and write before the census. “After trying all the sources from which information it. regard to illiterates mikht logically be expected.” said Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morriss. direct- ■ or of schools in Buncombe county. N. 1 C.. who is directing the survey, "we persuaded an interested pupil to join ins in a house-to-house pilgrimage. From these visits have come fivesixths of the pupils. “However, other sources that yield some illiterates include: federal census, principals of schools, school chiliir.ui :.,x iisrs. p- | era, associated charities, juvenile court, jail, health department, storekeeeprs. public spirited citizens, postmasters. banks and labor uniong. ’’ Early reports inideates success of the work in single counties will prob- ■ ably result in state authorities taking I up the work where club women leave i off. Mrs. Lawson said. This will make i the listing and teaching of illiterates statewide, and subsequently nationwide in scope, she believes. ) 0

Hero Os Yellow Fever Fight To Be Rewarded South Bend, Ind., April 30 —(INS) — John R. "Yellow Jack” Kissinger, 49year old hero of the world’s triumph over yellow fever in Cuba in 1900, z is going to have a $5,000 home, if the drive for funds, sponsored by the American Association for Medical Progress, is successful. Wlssinger, who lives at Andrews, Ind., now is being paid a pension of SIOO monthly, for his heroism in offet!ng his body for experimental purposes in determining whetner or not the silver striped Etegonyia mosquito was responsible for yellow fever. Os three men who offered themselves. Kissinger was the only one to recover from the bites of the insects, and he has been in ill health since that time. . 0 Badges And Souvenirs Placed On Display Here M. McStoops, of Petersburg, Indiana has on display in the window of the Daily Democrat, a large number of badges and souvenirs gathered by himself and wife during the past forty years. It includes a campaign badge used by Blaine boosters in 1884, one of James R. Bobo, when he ran for congress, badges of the campaigns of BryI an, Marshall, Cleveland Ralston; G. A. I R. souvenirs; old home fairs, lodge ribbons war mementos and a number of badges of unusual interest. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Paya

Monthly Debates Planned Hartford City. Ind., April 30.—(INS) —Questions of civic, state and national importance will be threshed out on the public platform once a month here, under plans adopted by the local chapter of ihe American Legion. No decision will be rendered in the debates, officials of the Pau 10. Moyer post announced, since the arguments will be for the purpose of informing the public of the various phases of topics chosen. Speakers and subjects will be chosen by the Legion. — o Get the Habit—Trade at Home. It Paya

A Message To Our |F Telephone Patrons As customary, we will again publish a new Telephone Directory which means we must have the correct name, address and telephone number of every one of our subscribers. The copy lor this book must be in the hands of the printers within a very short time in order to insure distribution of the directory' in June. „ All patrons .whose name or address was listed incorrectly in the last book, are requested to call the local office and notify us of the change in order to obtain the proper listing. • All rural patrons, whose route has been changed or who have moved to another route should also notify our office of the change to assure them of a correct listing. Please cooperate with us in this matter as it is our aim to publish the directory with as lew 1 unpropcr listings as possible. I Corrections must be in by May 15 as the forms for the book close on this day. Won't you help us by attending to this matter now —today? The Citizens Telephone Co. DECATUR, INDIANA

NEW LEVEES GIVE WAY, INUNDATING MORE TERRITORY (OMTINDBD FROM PAM MB) Parish with from 8 io 10 feet of water for a distance of 9 miles and is rapidly rising there. Engineers believe (he break will (fef nindy save New Orleans from its greatest flood threat; In history, but it was made only after sacrificing the homes of 3,000 people and covering rich farm and trapping lands with water which had been straining the levees the northward, Military authorities ordered the draw bridge at Violett, 10 miles south of hero, cloud, shutting off ail traffic in the danger area. Vicksburg, Miss., April 30.—(United Press) —Break in the waterfront levee hero today crippled transporta-

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