Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1929 — Page 8

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STATE COLLEGE MEET SATURDAY Bloomington, Ind., May 16 Th* biggest truck event in Jlooaierdom will be held here in memorial stadium Saturday afternoon when teams repre seating eleven state colleges and universities compete (or the track and field championships of Indiana. Z. G. Clevenger, director oi athletics, announced that the following schools have entered: Indiana. Pujdue. Notre Dame, DePauw, Butler, Earlham. Indiana State Teachers' College, Bail Teachers' College, Rose Poly Tech, Manchester, and Normal College of the N. A. G. V. Notre Dante, which has carried away first place more times than any othei school, a strong favorite again this year along' with Indiana university and Purdue university. Butler and DePauw are the most outstanding of the other schools. Last year Notre Dame won the meet with at otal score of 36 1-12. Indiana and Purdue were second and third with 35 1-3 and 34 1-4 pounds respectively. The other schools finished in the following order: DePauw. 28 1-3; Indiana Central. 10: Hal! Teachers' College. 7; Oakland City. 5; Manchester. 4; Earlham. 3; Rose Poly, 1; Butler. 1. Central Normal and Indiana State Teachers' College failed to place. Clevenger announced the official starter for the meet as Major John L. Griffith, Big Ten commissioner of athletics. Major Griffith is well known in collegiate athletic circles over the nation, and was one of the principal speakers at the dedication banquet of Indiana's new field house last December. Members of the various state teams who placed first in the 1928 meet and who wil enter the meet Saturday are: Elder. Notre Dame, 100-yard and 220yard dashes; Abromson, Indiana, 440yard dash; Martin. Purdue, mile and half-mile runs; Fields, Indiana, twomile run; Todd, Indiana, pole vault, and Sindelar, Purdue, javelin throw. o Watching The Scoreboard —(U.R)— Yesterday's hero—Harry Heilmann, Detroit outfielder, who scored from first base on Alexander's double in the ninth with the run which enabled the Tigers to beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 6 to 5. Heilmann was knocked unconscious when Gordon Cochrane. Athletics' catcher, tagged him on the head, but the latter dropped the ball. Two sensational catches by Earl Averill featured Cleveland's 7 to 1 victory over the New York Yankees Lou Gehrig's eighth home run of the season was the only run made off Joe Shaute. It was the Yanks’ fourth straight loss. Scoring three runs and driving in two more Willie Kamm starred in the Chicago White Sox 8 to 4 win over the Boston Red Sox. Kamm hit two doubles and a single. Manush's double, Schulte's triple and Kress's single drove in two runs in the eighth inning and the St. Louts Browns beat the Washington Senators. 5 to 3. Ossie hit a homer. Mike Cvengros stopped the Braves after they had hatted Guy Bush out of the box in the fourth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat Boston. 7 to 4. Kiki Cttyler returned to the Cubs' lineup and hit a homer with a man on base. Two rookies- Joe Stripp and Evar Swanson —played hero roles as Cincinnati swept the series with the New York Giants, 12 to S. Stripp hit two homers and drove 'n four runs. Swanton hit a homer and made a clean steal of third, running his stolen bases for the season to eight. Babe Herman hit one of the longest home runs ever made inside Ebbets Field but Brooklyn dropped its eighth suaight game to Pittsburgh, 9 to 4. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home. It Pav»

J£ GALA OPENING 1929 SEASON I SPEEDWAY J HUNTINGTON, INDIANA j| DEATH-DEFYING! THRILLS GALORE! I Auto Races || World’s Greatest Dirt Track Drivers I SUNDAY, MAY 19 T H 1/ 2 P. M. Sharp! (Central Standard Time) GENERAL ADMISSION 75c to, Acres of F REE Parking Space.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Central League ■ | Dayton 11; Fort Wayne 4. Erie 3-3; Canton I*6. Akton-Sptint’fieid, wet grounds. National League Chicago 7; Boston 4. * Pittsburgh 9; Brooklyn 4. i Cincinnati 12; New York 3. i St. Louis 3; Philadelphia 1 American League ■ I Chicago 8; Boston 4 I St. Louis 5; Washington 3 . Cleveland 7: New York 1. Detroit 6; Philadelphia 5. American Association , I Kansas City 6; Columbus 5. I Toledo 15; Milwaukee 1 Indianapolis al Minneapolis rain. Louisville at St. Paul rain. D. H, S. NINE IS SHUT-OUT VICTIM : Tlie Decatur high school Yellow Jackets were victims in a no hit, no J run baseball game, played against Fort Wayne Central, at Fort Wayne.: i Wednesday afternoon. The final score was 6-0. Henning, star hurler for the Tigers, j [was in rare form and he let the De-, ' catur team down without a hit or, inn. His teammales played errorless ball behind him. The Yellow Jackets played one of I their best games of the season, committing only one error. Schamerloh, ■ j Decatur hurler. turned in a good game, also. He allowed nine hits, but | , I kept them well scattered except in j I i the sixth inning, when the Tigers I ■ scored all six of their runs. Score by innings: RHE I Decatur 000 000 o—o 0 1 Central . 000 006 x —6 9 0 o Two Women Want To Drive In 500-Mile Race — Indianapolis, May 16. — ftj.R) —With - . two women owning cars entered in the 500-mile race to be held here May 30. another attempting tp stretch rigid rules to permit her to be in the pits, two others have completed a drive from Los Angeles to Indianapolis which would cause consideration i to be given them if they made entry ~ to drive in the contest. I: They were Mrs. Lou Moore, whose II 25-year-old husband was second in the i' 500-mile drive last year and Mrs. i Jerry Wonderlich, wife of one of the youthful veterans of the sport who has retired. Alternating at the wheel, the two, wonie nwhirled across the 2,500 mile stretch in five days. o Glenna Collett Advances To Finals Os Golf Meet St. Andrews, Scotland. May 16.—(U.R) I —Glenna Collett. American women's ’ golf champion, advanced to the finals of the 'British women's championship tournament here today by defeating Miss Doris Park of long Niddry. in > the semi final round. 4 and 3. — SUNDAY EXCURSIONS via Nickel Plate Road Low Round Trip Fares from Decatur ' I I $2.75 TOLEDO Good Attractions at Theatres. Museums and Zoo. Baseball. Seasonal Sports. Consult Ticket Agent.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929

BLAME HUMAN NEGLIGENCE FOR CLINIC DISASTER (CONTINVKD FROM HACK OXKI rous oxide or a bromine and iodine vapor. Bodies Discolored By Gas Twelve bodies, soared and yellow<<l by the gas, were found in the X-l Ray room. Twelve other bodies, equally discolored, were taken from the roof. Between those points were sprawled many bodies of dead and Injured. surrounded by cracked walls, i broken pi]M-s, shattered windows and overturned tables. A nurse was found dead across a i chair bearing a patient she had tried I vainly to wheel to safety. Some patients were trapped and killed in I bed. Others ran partly dressed toi ward exits, only to die before reachi ing safety. The first warning was when pa- , tients heard a muffled roar from the 1 X-Ray room. All fire doors immedi- ; ately closed, but poison gas poured I through the ventilator shaft, forced I along by the heat. Thin yellow wisps were seen floating around the second floor, eddying upward through a court into the thi'd and Tburth floors and emerging through the blown-out skylight into i open air. Confusion Breaks Out Those on the first floor ran to l

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snfety’or remained to warn persona on the floor* above. Telephofie opeiatora stayed at the! rpoata to give warnings. ('ontuaion Indescrlbale followed. Fire raced up a rear stairway and spread. Fifteen minutes after th" first explosion, a second came, driving rescuers back. Forty-five minutes later a third cocuned. tearing out ’ pipes, crumbling the walls and breakj.lng al) windows In the cl tile and ad j joining structures. Little of tin j IniHding interior was left intact. Persons standing outside were felled by the force of the first blast. On" passerby was reported to have been; knocked to the pavement so fiercely that his arm was fracture. A policeman hurried up, smelled the fumes yards away, and dashed away to an alarm box. Soon ambulances. fire apparatus and commandeered automobiles choked streets leading to the scene. Ladders were strung to windows of the three upper floors. Policemen and firemen with gas masks carried | out dead and injured, and laid thenii in rows on the lawns. They spread[ life nets to catch those leaping t-> safety. Doctors gave first aid treatment and ambulanqes carried the victims to hospitals. Dr. George W. Crile, noted surgeon and bead of the clinic, hurried from i tlie clinic's operating room nearby.j White-faced but calm, he directed the; first aid. 1 As night fell, the morgue became

the center of tragedy. Bodies filledi tlie drab, gray structure. Only relatives were permitted to view the dead Shrieks rose when wives, mothers, and sisters identified kin. The hoarse cries of husbands, ftUhets and brothers broke In now and again. Among the dead were Dr. ( itarles E. Locke, brain specialist; Dr. Edgar I Hunter, an expert on tlie clinic stuff. Sevetal nurses lost th.dr Ilves One imlnutf they were the chief reliane<> ;«,f scores seeking life and health. I The next minute they, like their patients, w<ye dead because ot th" i X Ray, an instrument of their science. I J Barker Smith, secretary-manager jot the Cleveland Athletic club and president of the National Association of Club Managers, was another of those killed. Dr. Carl Helwig, bent over a cot at Mt. Sinai hospital to treat a victim of tin 1 explosion. The vicflm w:t-' dead. It was his wife, technician at the clinic hospital. o House Leaders Agree To Accept Senate Farm Bill i Wash ngton, May 16,J-(U.PJ—In order not to block farm relief legislation House leaders agreed today to accept the Senate faint bill and send it to a c nference of committees rep iresenting the Senate and tlie House jso diffetencea between the two I houses might lie thrashed out. j House leaders were confident the disputed debenture clause can be

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