Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1928 — Page 6

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WALKER-HUMINS BOUT ATTRACTIVE Chicago, June 19 (U.R) While promotor Jltn Mullen's advance receipts rose toward the $200,000 mark, Chicago fight fans today began the final grab for tickets to their biggest boxing bout since Gene Tltnney and Jack Dempsey climber into the ring here last fall. The 10-round middleweight championship bout here Thursday night between Mickey Walker, New Jersey titleholder, and the’Nebraska Wildcat, Ace Hudkins. undoubtedly has inspired the great wave of boxing enthuiasm in this city since the last heavyweight title contest. Indeed, like the second DempseyTunttey affair. It will attract from the outside a list of celebrities that no other fight since then has approach ed. Promoter Mullen made known today some of those who have reserved ; ringside seats at White Sox park for the bout. The list included Mayor Jimmie Walker of New York. Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks. Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones. Norma Talmadge, former Governor Charles Bryan of Nebraska, Mayor Frank Hague I of Jersey City. N. J., and Gov. Len I Small of Illinois. Dempsey. Jack Sharkey, Jim Jeffries and. of course. Jack Kearns. Walker's manager, also will be at the ring- ' side. The flashing style of both fighters, ; their reputation for bloody, smashing attacks and the championship factor have combined to make the WalkerHudkins match one of the foremost of the year. At the conclusion of heavy training today each was sublimely confident of flooring* his opponent early in the bout. The records of the men seem to indicate that, sooner or later in the evening, one of them will do so. — o 23,500 Seats Sold For I. U. Football (James Bloomington, Ind., June 19 —(INS) — Seats totaling 23,500 have been reserved for Indiana's seven home football games next fall, ticket manager L. L. Fisher announced today. The sale of the first allotment of preferred seats closed yesterday, establish ing a new record as the heaviest advance seat sale in the history of the 1 University's football attendance. The advance reservations include sections for home and visiting team students delegations. The largest single bloc hyld. 1.500, is for the Ohio looters on Oct. 27th. Approximately 1.250 seats are being held for the Northwestern student body when the •'Wild-cats" play here Noy. 27th. Memorial Stadiam seats 22.0001 versons which means a total of about i 130,000 in the aggregate for the six i home games. The first of these is a j d able header, and seats are being | held for Wabash and Terre Haute ' State Normal students. These two teams open the Hoosier schedule in j Memorial Stadium on Septemlier 29. j Babe Ruth Aspires • To Many Great Feats Before He Quits Game New York. June 19.—(U.R)—Break- ! ing his record of 60 home runs is not the only thing Babe Ruth wants to I do before he r-tiYCs from baseball. ■ The feats Babe is aiming at follow: I Hitting 500 home runs before he re- I tires. Hitting more than 400 before he asks Col. Ruppert for a raise. Leading the league in hitting again. ■ Hit a home rini over the deep center field fence at Yankee stadium and one clear over the right field bleach- j ers. Playing a season at first base. —o Berne Defeats Decatur G. E. Team, 15 To 10 The Decatur General Electric baseball team was defeated by the Berne team, at Berne Saturday afternoon, in a free-scoring contest. 15-10. The Elect) icians held a 10-9 lead at the eml of the seventh inning, but a Berne ral.y in the eighth frame netted six runs and sewed up the game. Schneider pitched for Decatur, while Grant Sm’th, former Berne high school sou hpuw. who pitched for his I college team at Naperville. Illinois, J , tbii spring, hurled fur Berne. Berne < will play Geneva at Berne next Saturday. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ * WITH THE BIG * * LEAGUE STARS * ************* —(U.R)— Rogers Hornsby: Hit home run No. 14, a triple and single in the first game, but went hitless in three times up in the second. Frankie Frisch: Went hitless in six trips. Mr and Mrs. J. W. Meibers have returned ftom a tiip to Rome City'.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Central League All games postponed National League 'I B ton 10 0; Chicago 2-12. Brooklyn 4; Philadelphia 3. . I Cincinnati 3; St. Louis 2. Only games scheduled. American League I I No games scheduled. American Association Kansas City 6; Minneapolis 5. Other games postponed, rain. CROWD SEES COON CHASE The corn chase anil field trial held Sunday at Sun Set park was a highly successful event. Autos filled with :dogs came from eveiy direction and ftom adjoining states. Between 500 and 600 men, women and children enjoyed seeing the sport. The tree judges were Leonard Moore. , of Bluffton, and Chai les Hickman of Decatur. The line judges were Mr. Zimmel man and A. Zeser. of Decatur. Fred Schurget was field marshal and had I full charge cf stalling the dogs. The dogs and owners were given a square deal in each event. There were 13 preliminary heats, the final heat and a free-for-all heat. Prizes were given the winners. The final taco was won by a dog owned by M. E. Stewart, of Fort Wayne, Mr. Stewart's dog won first line money and first tree money. Second 1 tie money went to Fred Beery, of Middlebury, Ohio. Another chase will be held soon, it j is said. The state coon chase may be held at Sun Set park next year, it is reported. o ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ * THE * * CAMPAIGN * * LOG * ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ —(U.R)— Governor Albert Ritchie withdrew as a*candidate for the Demo- i ciatic presidential nomination in favor of Governor Alfred E. Smith of | New York and said he would suggest the 16 Maryland delegates to the I state convention cast their votes for the New York governor. George Van Names, preconvention , campaign manager for Governor Smith, was expected in Houston late today to open the Smith headquarters. Twenty-four delegates from Virginia to the Democratic convention will be named at a state convention today. They are the last Democratic delegates to be chosen. Vice-presidential possibilities discussed in Washington included Jesse H. Jones. Houston millionaire; Huston Thompson, former federal trade commissioner; Major General Henry T. Alien of Kentucky; Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana: Governor Vic Donahey of Ohio and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler warned that disaster might overtake the Republican party should the voters consider the dry plank in the party platform to mean the Republican party was the "dry" party. (y. Girl Endurance Driver Visits Decatur This Noon Miss Ebsex, who started from Fort 1 Wayne today on an attempt to drive an Essex coach continuously for 100 hours, without stopping for sleep or i rest, was in Decatur from 12:10 until i 12:45 o'clock tills noon. Owing to a misunderstanding in regard to the i time of Miss Essex’s start at Fort i Wayne, it had been advertised that ; she would be here at 1:10 o'clock this i afternoon. However she started on daylight saving time, putting iter in Deca- : tur an hour earlier. She will be in Decatur a ■ lin next Thursday. at'l2:lo o'clock no n. The young woman is securely shackled to the steering wheel of her car. A guessing contest is being conducted by P. Kirsch and Sun local Hudson and Essex dealers, in cqnnection with Mi«« Essex's drive. Prizes will be given by the local dealers to the persons guessing the closest to the number of miles which Miss Essex win cover in her drive. » • i , — Bluffton Lawyers To Have Half Holiday Each Week Bluffton, June 19 —The lawyers of the Bluffton Bar on last Saturday in I open court by unanimous vote, voted I to close their offices on Wednesday afternoon of each week commencing next Wednesday until the first of September, 1928. The law offices will therefore, be closed on Wednesday afternoon up until that time. The .following exception may, however be noted; that is to say, if any attorney should have a special engagement for that afternoon or any other special nr gent business, such business can he accepted and transacted, but the offices will not receive any general business on those afternoons.

CHANGES MADE IN FISH LAWS Indiana palls, Inti.. Juno 19 (Special) —Although widespread publicity has been given to the changes and additions to fish laws enacted In 1927, many persons who fish do not know them. That this Is true Is proven by the numerous inquiries received dally by the fish and game division of the conI nervation department, and especially I concerning the laws relative to the eleven protected game species. j Until June 16, the season was closed i on large and small-mouth black bass, I rock bass, more commonly called gog gle eye or red eye, yellow perch. I krr wn also as ring perch, pike or picke;el, crappie, bluegill, red-eared sunfish. silver bass and pike perch. The latter is better known as wall-eyed pike oi jack salmon. The act reads that It shall be unlawful for any person to catch, kill, pursue or possess any of the above species dining the protected or closed season. The matter of ]>ossession makes it unlawful for fish markets to handle the protected species in closed season, there being no ptovision allowing possession of of sale even when shipped in from states. Many people have difficulty in identiflying rock bass and blue gill, confusing the latter with the common sunfish cn which there is no closed season. In view that so many persons are unable to identify the protected species. George N. Mannfield. chief of the fisli and game division, suggests they confine their efforts to catching suckers, carp and catfish and they will be in no danger of violating the closed season law. For those that wish to be 1 able to identify all species, the department has for sale the Everman and (Talk Report of Lake Maxinkuckee at $2 for residents. This work consists of two volumes, 1172 pages, and one is' beautifully illustrated with colored i pictures of the different fishes of In- i diana. 0 , Watching The Scoreboard —(U.R) — Yesterday's Hero: Pat Malone, , I husky right hander of the Cubs, who , I pitched a one-hit game against the Boston Braves, Zach Taylor’s double , in the eighth being the only hit registered off him. The Cubs won. 12 to i <l. but lost the first game 10 to 2, ! when Zeke Barnes, late of the Giants, i ' made his debut with the Braves by pitching an eight-hit game. Ray Kolp’s single in the fourteenth!] broke the St. Louis Cardinals' eightgame winning streak, the Cincinnati Reds winning. 3 to 2. The defeat cut the Cards' lead over the Reds to two games. < Babe Herman's single in the ninth ' gave the Brooklyn Robins a 4 to 3 1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies ( i I THE BIG FIVE G AB R H HR PC 1 Hornsby ... 51 179 45 74 14 .413 1 Gehrig 55 209 55 7J 16 .364 ' Ruth . 55 188 63 61 25 ,324 Cobb .... 51 211 26 67 1 .318 ' Speaker 44 171 27 45 3 .263 ' o YESTERDAY'S HOME RUNS Season’s i Player and Club Total Cuvier (2) 7 i Hornsby (1) 14 Bottomley (1) 14 i The Leaders Ruth 25. Gehrig 16, Hornsby 14. i Bottomley 14, Bissonette 13. Jack I Wilson 12. Hauser 10. 0 7 i Will Rogers To Appear At Winona Lake July 26 Winona Lake, Ind., June 19 —(Special) —Will Rogers w>ll appear here July 26. and the motion picture. "King of Kings." will be shewn August 27-28 By perserverance and persistanee ' the above attractions have been finally secured for this season at Winona. Will Rogers has been in the "limelight" for some time especially so in the last few years. He has been called the "the most humorous man since Matk Twain", and is one cf the most widely advertised men in the world. His articles in the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals have been increasingly popular. "The King of Kings" is the undisputed masterpiece in the motion picture annals, countless words of praise and commendation have been spoken and written- about it. Men from all walks of life speak highly of it. o Switzerland To Teach Young Girls How To Become Housewives By International News Service Geneva. — Switzerland will soon boast the best housewives. A new system of apprenticing girls so that they may become excellent housewives has recently been adopted by fourteen of the Swiss cantons The apprenticeship begins after ojre year of service. When the girl successfully passes her elementary examinations, she is turned over to a • competent housekeeper who trains her in more difficult duties. Very good , positions are guaranteed the qualified . apprentice. Get the Habit—Trane at Home, It Paya

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1928.

Retains Tennis /Title .. . Lc--f * Miss Mary Dixon Thayer, of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, who retained her Pennsylvania and Eastern States singles championship when she defeated Miss Anne B. Townsend, of Merion. 7—5, 7—5, in the final round of the title play at the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa. .- j. International Illustrated Neva I

Three Trunks Used In Building Manger Last Fall. Blossom This Spring Linton, Ind.. June 19 —(INS) —Four small tree trunks, two wild cherry and two elm, used in place of ordinary uprights in construction of a manger by John Combs, living near here, in his stable last fall, have all blossomed and are in full leaf. The freak of nature is causing considerable comment among local naturalists as the tree trunks were sawed cleanly from the roots and were not buried in the ground when set fo>uprights. The manger was used all i winter and the bark was worn from 1 the trunks in many places. Combs insists he will eat cherries from his manger this season. o SCOUT COUNCIL ELECTS OFFICERS (CORTTIWUED FHOM PtfiK OVE) Garrett, Kendallville. Ango'a. Decatur. Bluffton, while Auburn and Columbia City are expected to beenne participating members shortly. Other towns of the area will Be organized as soon as the residents show their desire to have the scout program used by the churches, clubs and other organizations having contact with boy life. • J. L. Anguish, area scout executive. gave a general outline of the area council organization and outlineif a program of activities for five years in advance which contemplates a thorough organization of the entire area. ‘The area assigned the Anthony Wayne Area council offers a unique opportunity and challenge for the development of scouting in all its various phases as is offered to few councils of the nation. Within a radius of 40 miles of the council headquarters, there is one city of 110,000 population, one city of 16,000 population, two cities of 6.000, 20 towns and cities of 1,000 to 5,000; 51 towns of 250 to 1.000; 92 communities 25 to 250 and a rural population of 27,000. The territory covers eight counties having 3,229 square miles and a population of 283,000. All points within the territory are easily accessible by steam roads, electric lines, bus routes and good paved roads. Few other councils have a territory that offers such an opportunity and at the same time such a challenge as ours.” 0 rBaby Born In River; Mother Nearly Drowns Budapest- (INS) —A baby was born in I the Danube near this city recently when its mother fell into the river by I accident. She was picking up firewood i along the banks and fell headfirst Fishermen rushed to her rescue which was very difficult because of the swift current in this spot. When tliey finally reached her. she was more dead ; than alive but had the newbern baby ! in her arms. The child lived only for a few minutes and the mother was taken to the j hospital in a critical condition. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays

I I NOTICE Ladies and Gents I have taken over the 0. K. Shining Parlor at the O. K. Barber Shop. Dying Shoes and Cleaning Golf Shoes or shoes of any sort. Robert Hesher, Manager Jimmie Cowan, asst.

SDITS AGAINST DUVALL MULTIPLY Indianapolis. Ind., June 19. —(INS) — ; Former Mayor John J* Duvall’s law suits continued to multiply today. Already n defendant In an action brought by the Century Building company for $6,000 rent for premises occupied by his defunct newspaper The Indlnnapolis Post, of last summer, the ex-mayor today was defendant in anothei suit for $5,000. The latest suit was brought In superior court No. 4 here by Milton L. Clawson, n local attorney who averred that Duvall owed him $5,000 for professional services in connection with the $1,000,000 libel suit which Duvall j flh'd last.summer against D. C. Steph-1 enson. former grand dragon of the ] Indiana klan. Court Asher, Stephen- | son's lieutenant. Thomas H. Adams, i ciuiading Vincennes publisher. The] Chicago Tribune, The Scripps-How- j ard newspaper alliance. The Indianapolis Tinies. The Richmond Pallad- j him. The Anderson Herald. The Rush- ] ville Republican and the Huntington Herald. Clawson alleged in his petition that Duvall settled this suit for $50,000 based largely on information dug up by Clawson. Former Mayor Duvall denied he had settled the suit for $50,000. "I got nothing out of that suit," Duvall said. "I owe Clawson nothing. I have paid him all I owed him in that connection." Duvall's libel suit was based on the publication of copies of an alleged agreement between Duvall and Stephenson in which Duvall agreed to make city appointments as suggested by Stephenson. Stephenson filed a cross-complaint to the suit seeking damages from Duvall but this suit was dismissed when Duvall’s action was dropped.

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Law Regarding Use Os Fish Snare Is Explained Many pels ms uro inquiring from the fish and game division of the state L onset vntlon department If use of a I Millie or grappling hook Is lawful in I taking fish. The law permits carp, suck

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