Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1929 — Page 8

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EMBRYO JACKETS DEFEAT BLUFFTON SECONDS, 38-22 Locals Even Series With Tiger Cubs For InterCounty Second Team Title Outplaying their opponents throughout the game, the Decatur high school second team evened the count at oneall in 'he three-game series with the Bluffton high seho 1 reserves for the inter-county second team champion ship last night, 38 Io 22. Bluffton hid won the first game of the series, played at Bluffton recently, by a score of 32-18. The third and deciding game of the; series will probably be played next | week. The exact date and location for the game has not been agreed up on. If possible, a neilti.il floor will be secured for the game. The embryo Jackets trailed for the first few minutes of l ie game, the sc re at one time being 5 to 1 in favor of the visitors, but once Coach Kidd's boys got started, they wefi? “dong gone”. At the end of the first half. Decatur was leading 16-7, and at the start of the second frame, they ran, the count up to 22-7. Hebble and Reynolds were the leading scorers for Decatur, the former accounting for 16 points and the latter, 12, but each of the six players who broke into the lineup played good ball. The passing was good and their' defense held the Bluffton players we'l away from the basket most of the time Coach Templin, of Bluffton, used eight players in the game in an effort to win, but was unable to find a com- , bination capable of turning the trick. I In the first preliminary last night,' the Decatur third team again defeat-' ed the Bluffton third string players. | the score being 20-14. Decatur led at the end of the half, 11-6. In the second preliminary, the Wells ! county coaches nosed out the Adams county coaches. 41-40 After piling up a lead of fifteen points in the first half I t ie Adams cuonty mentors slumped ; and theit opponents tame from behind in the second half tj t.e the count at ; 7,5 and 37, finally taking a leail of 41 37. Adams county scored a free throw and a field goal in the closing minutes. | but fell short of victory by one point. | This makes the seiies between the; coaches tied at one-all. Adams county having won the first game, 49-41. Lineups and summary. Decatur Seconds FC FT TP Beery f •* - -I Shoaf f - " 11 Hebble c ■ 16. Koc her g 6 0 11 1 Lankenau g 2 0 4 ' Reynolds g 4 4 12; Totals 15 8 38 I Bluffton Seconds FG FT TP Lee, f <’ " "I Maddux f 1 3 5; Hower f 11 3 Fishbaugh c 0 <’ <• Meyers c 0 •• 0 Wiessell g 0 11 Emswiiler g 1 2 4 Hesher g ... 4 1 f> Totals 7 8 22 Referee: Chambers, Fort Wayne. Adams County FG FT TP Laurent f 4 1 I) Everhart f 2 1 5 Coppess f 3 0 6 Johnson c .. 5 0 10 Bryan g 2 1 5 Reeves, g 2 0 4 Curtis g 0 11 T tals 18 4 40 Wells County FG FT TP Means f 2 (I 4 Craig f 2 1 5 Salisbury c 10 0 20 R. Burns g 3 4 10 I Fry back g 1 0 2 Totals ... 18 5 41 1 Referee: Beal, Decatur G. E. Quintet Defeated By Ossian Merchants The Decatur General Electric hasketba’l team was defeated in a game at Ossian. Wednesday night, by the Ossian Merchants, 40-23. The Ossian defense held the electricians scoreless from the field during the first half, which ended 18-5 in favor of Ossian. o Mickey Walker To Defend Title July 4 Los Angeles, Calif. Feb. 15—(UPI — Mickey Walker, middle weight champion, wil defend his crown on July 4 at Las Vegas in a 20-round bout. The agreement tor the bout was signed yesterday and Tom Kennedy, whe plays Villian roles in the movies, is looking for an opponent Notre Dame To Have New Law School Building South Bend, Feb. 15 —(15) —The university of Notre Dame is to have a new $350,000 building for its lav. school, construction to start in rhe spring, officials here announced.

Seven Athletes Al Northwestern Ineligible Evanston, 111., Feb 15 (I'l l—Four I track men and three members of th< wrestling ti am at Northwestern tell hi | the wayside in se:n< -’ter exatuinati nr ! Einar Hermanson, sprinter, Eddie Far hell, middle dlstinc - man. Bob Wood . wo, th and Frank Flakier, weignt men I all failed tn make the requir 'd grades las did Cail Waluon, Robert Wolf and i Ralph Haug, wrestlers. -o BLAME POLICE FOR MASSACRE OF GANGSTERS trnwi'iNCKn rnon pack ovk> at 5:30 p.m. yesterday. They travelled here in a large auto . mobile which, according to police, I was stolen in Chicago, January 17.1 lit caviled license plates of another, make of car, issued to George Dob I bons. of Hammond. Nine aut malic pistols were found , concealed on the alleged bandits per-; sons and in the machine. Chicago, Fell. 15.— U.R) Fear, not of the law but of the leaden hail which mowed down seven men in gangland's first massacre, drove the leading figures in Chicago's beer traffic to the safety of their own castles and pick ed guards today. The Mexican "standoff " execution of seven associates of George "Bugs" Moran, recorded as the "St. Valentine's Day massacre.'' presaced cer-; tain death for any powers of gangland wiio dared venture outside their own strongholds. The throne of "Scarface Al" Capone was tottering for the forces of one of his trusted allies, Moran. were wiped out. Moran’s Aides Slaughtered Tlie flare of machine gun and shotgun fire directed at the seven men lined against the brick wall of a northside beer truck garage left Moran virtually unprotected. Various rumors said he had been wounded, but police believed it impossible that lie could have come out alive if he had been an intended victim of the executions. Joe Aiello, tycoon of one of the alcohol gangs and deadly rival of Capone, was out of the city and Capone himself is said to lie wintering in Florida. Only one witness to the slaughter: remained alive today, a cowering po-; lice dog which looked on. chained to’ a beer truck, while the five execution -| era herded their victims against the I brick wall and riddled their bodies. ; One Victim Lives An Hour One of the seven victims lived Lri an hour after lie faced the machine and shot guns of his rivals, but ini that hour he slung to gangland's code' and refused to admit even that he had! been shot. Police reached the scene while the blood still flowed along the line of | execution. The scarcity of bullet' marks on the brick wall and the rid- j died bodies testified to the marksmanship of the executions. Eighty empty machine gun and shot gun shells were on the floor, less than fifteen feet from the wall, presumably the distance the executioners stood from their victims. One theory which police considered today was that Detroit gunmen might have done the killing, with hijacking of beer trucks the motive. A short time ago, police captured two trucks loaded with liquor which ha.l come from Detroit. The driver said lie was supposed to meet "some redhead" here and deliver it. George Moran has red hair. However, it was pointed out that | the gunmen hardly would stage their j s’augliter in Chicago if that, were the motive. Rather they would catch the gangsters while making deliveries, it I was said. Squads of police scurried around town throughout the night. The murders were the most spectacular in the long and bloody feuds of the liquor traffic and they served to arouse an unprecedented determination to rid, the city of gangsters. It is highly doubtful, however, that’ the men who committed the massacre will be brought to offTetal justice. There is little question but that they ; were imported killers, difficult to trace or identify. State’s Attorney John Swanson, whose election was hailed as a revival of civic virtue, issued orders for all men picked up to be brought to his office. John Egan, captain of detectives was placed in charge of the questioning. However, only a few hoodlums were biought in. When news of the killings flashed through the gang districts, there was a hurried holdup movement. Those who might have had knowledge kept under cover. Nut more than two score were taken in by the squads. Most of these were the lesser lights who declared vehemently they didn’t know a thing about Hie shooting or about gangsters. o— Get the Habit—Trade at Home. It Pay

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929

Field Goals By Mark M. Upp Tlie Zero hour approaches. We must. beat Central! Only a few of the 500 tickets for the Decatur-Central game tonight, which were sent hero, lemained unsold this afternoon. That’s t le kind of backing that makes ball teams. Il was a nice comeback that file Yellow Jacket second team staged last night to even the series with the Bluffton seconds. The locals had a lit tie trouble making their shots good in the opening minutes of the game, lint once they started lifting, it was too bad for the Tiger cubs. The third | game between the two quintets should I be a dandy A pep session was held at Decatur high school this morning in prepara tion for the Central game tonight Coach Cuitis gave a shirt talk and t le student body engaged in a round of peppy yells and songs. Here's hoping everybody takes tlieir pep with them tonight. The Commodores are Cincinnati bound. A tough battle is in prospect when they tangle witli Elder high tonight. With Laurent s machine (lifting cn all five, it should lie another victory for Decatur, and Indiana basketball. Why, Cash! “Perhaps it's a, good thing that George Purcell doesn't reside at Decatur or Bluffton (a good thing for northeastern Indiana, that is, and not for tins particular section). Else he probably would lie demanding a Tresterorial investigation of how Kenneth Clapp, star basketball player at Cleat Creek, happened to move to Huntington—whe:e the lad will conveniently fdl the one gap in the Viking lineup for next season,' —Cash Keller, Wash ington Herald. "Central with three hurdles still to take before an undefeated recard can be written into Foi t Wayne's net history will approach each without the services of Fitz Lyons. He shouldn't really be needed in the Decatur and Warsaw games of this week unless the Yellow Jackets and Tigers prove tougher than expected but Horace Mann of Gary, althiugh its last few tilts have been nothing but defeats, wil lie a real stumbling block for the Blue unless the big colored center can be ready for action at that time” —Spoil Onceover, News-Sentinel. Do you remember when Decatur defeated Bluffton here on December 14, 1914 by a score of 31-22? if not. perhaps the following paragrapli from the files of tile Daily Democrat might bling back tue memory: “Each side indulged in rough playing and it reached a climax *viien one of the visitors handled Dwight Peterson, a local for ward, so roughly that he was rendered unconscious. Spectators lost their heads and tan out on the floor and for a time it looked as though there might lie something doing not on the regular program. Older and cooler heads finally controlled the situation and the game was finished." Conducting a basketball column in Frankfort must be a soft job. All Happy does to produce his column, “Hardw:od Stalls", in the Morning Times is clip wise cracks, sarcastic remarks and paragraphs of praise hurled at Coach Case and the Frankfort Hot Dogs by other columnists. Happy’s only Double seems to lie keeping th a length of his column within the limit fixed by the .managing ed. Another lively scrap on tonight will be the Berne-Kirkland game at Kirkland. This is sue game that each team wants to win, and no foolin'. Central, We are coming. o Three Men Saved From Execution By Stays Chicago, Fell. 15 —(UP)—Three convicted minders were saved from execution, scheduled here for early today, by last minute stays. Dave Shanks, negro, convicted of beating to death a ycung Peoria school teacher, was the last to be reprived. Judge Dennis Normoyle gave Shanks' attorneys 21 days to draw up a petition for clemency. This was only a few hours before Banks was to have died in the electric chair. Chailes Walz and Anthony Grecoo, convicted of murdering a policeman, were granted stays until next Wednesday. They will appeal to the supreme court for a writ of supersedeas. o Girl Conspires To Help Former Berne Man To Break Jail; Sentenced Marion, Ind., Feb. 15. — i.U.P? —Because she loved too fervently, Opal Highlen, 20, will spend the next three months in the Grant county jail. She

All-American Bride * ■■ * . f 1 4 > , I' ■ ' Mary Angela Broderick of Chicago, who is to wed Edward Anderson, AllAmerican in 1921, when he played end on the Notre Dame football eleven. Tlie couple will make their home in Clrcago after brief honeymoon. was sentenced after pleading guilty to charges of entering into a conspiracy witli Martin Eisenhart, her alleger sweetheart, to break jail. According to her story told Judge O. I). Clawson, she smuggled hacksaw blades into jail so that Eisenliari and three others could saw their way out. Tlie woman was arrested when she visited Eisenhart at the jail after Sheriff J. C. Campbell had been warned of the plot. Eisenhart was sentenced to three months on the state farm. Eisenhart is a former resident of Berne. . _ o Personal? When a feller in a little town resigns a job’to accept a lucrative position in some distant city, his neigh bors all begin to spaculate on his git tin' his ole job back. “Wheels” is flapper fer auto in case you hear your daimjiter mention ’em over the phone. —Abe Martin, Indianapolis News. Miss Josephine Archbold will go to Fort Wayne this evening, to be the weekend guest of Miss Jane Wilson and attend the Decatur-Central basketball game tonight, and also several social affairs which have been planned in her honor. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lose and Mr. and Mrs. Dick D. Heller motored to Cincinnati, Ohio, today, where they will attend the Commoodre and Elder of Cincinnati basketball game, tonight. Dr. N. A. Bixler, local optomistrist, will leave Sunday for Columbus, 0., to attend a special post-graduate course at Ohio State University next week. He will be gone all week. Private George Whittenbarger has returned to Fort Benjamin Harrison, after spending a furlough with relatives and friends in this city. Miss Helen Gerber, of Fort Wayne, spent the day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Gerber. o 4" — ■ -HIM „ _ — , Mr. and Mis’. Albert Ewell. Decatur route 4, are the parents of a girl baby, which wa.s born early this morning. Friday, February 15, 192.), at the Adams County Memorial hospltal. The baby has not been named as yet. o Get the Habit —Trade at Home. It Payi

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TRAPPING SEASON IS NOW CLOSED Indianapolis, Feb. 15. (Special) The season for the lawful inking <>l, fur-bearing animals, name); -ueeooii.j skunk, opossum, fox, mink ami mnsk i rut ended February l’> «'“• letnalns dosed until November 1". when it again will be lawful to take. nap. shoot, kill and possess these an mills. There Is pending in the legislatuie a bill which, if passed reducesi the open season thirty days and es an open season only from Novotna-; ei 15 to January 15. A provision in the present law. ox-, plains George N. Mannfeld, superintendent of the fish and game division , of the state conservative department, . permits keeping any of the aforementioned animals in captivity for bree. Ing purposes, providing they are propI c-r!v registered with the lish and game division. Under this regulation each person, firm or corporation possessing in captivity during closed season any of the biids or animals protected by said closed season, is required to fib' with the superintendent of fisheries and game, an application setting forth a statement of the number and each description of the premises where the same are held, within ten days after the close of the season. No protected fur bearing animal can lawfully be taken alive for breeding purposes when the season is closed, but one may purchase brood stock from persons who are lawfully holding them under a certificate of inspection (license) from the department of conservation in this state, or from lawful bredera in other states. o— Four Street Cars Figure In Collision Indianapolis, Feb. 15. —<U.R)—Thirteen persons were slightly shaken up and two others injured seriously; enough to be taken to a hospital when f air one-man street cars figured in a collision here today. l According to witnesses, three of the cars had stopped in line and a fourth, unable to sto-p, plowed into the group, throwing passengers from ( their seats. The last two cars in line were damaged badly by the crash. The Impact, tcre trolley wires from overhead which endangered, lives of the passengers as they scram-. U’.ed from the cars. — o S**¥»****»**Si * HOSPITAL NOTES * J*. »¥***¥¥****?> Mrs. Mary Miller, Bryant, route two, is a medical patient at the local hospital. Her condition is very eriti-; cal. — o From the Latin Tlie rrord “sincere" originated from two Latin words, "sine cera." meaning without wax. In the days of ancient | Rome cracked and chipped vases were made as good ns new by filling up the ; cracks with wax. Highest Helpfulness Who helps n child helps humanity witli a distinctness, with an immediateness, which no other help given to human creatures in nny other stage of human life can possibly give again.— Phillips Brooks.

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