Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1930 — Page 6

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COMMODORES I I PREPARE FOR LAST NET TILT St. Johns of Lima to Furnish Opposition Here Friday Night *f Coach George Laurent sent his Catholic high school Commodores through one of the season's best workouts Monday in preparation for the (losing game on the Decatur team's schedule. St Johns of Lima, next Friday night at S o'clock. A capacity crowd is anticipated. Extra effort is being made by ■_B school officials and pupil*, tn hrr-e the largest crowd of the s -ason. The proceeds of the game will be pitted with the proceeds from the K. of ('. Mins tel show to be given soon to send the Commodores to the state tomney March 7 and 8 at Indianapolls. St. Johns has the best team In the history of the Lima school this season, and indications are a battle will be witnessed by all who attend the swan song tilt. St. John defeated | Decatur earlier in the season at Lima and the Commodores will be out for revenge Friday night. A few weeks ago the Commodores found their old fighting spirit which had been sent to the wash earlier in the season and since that time no team has dared to even suggest victory when playing the Ixiureirmen. The Commies certainly have made up for lost time the last few games and if the fans help a little Friday night by filling the gym. there’s ho doubt that the Commo dores can retain that spirit of "We Will.” If they continue their present brand of basketbail, five guys by the names of Gass, Mylott. Lose Wemhoff, and Gage will be coming home from Indianapolis March 9 wi it a state title tucked in their hands —and it the Commodores win the state tourney —Look out world. The Friday night game starts at 8 o’clock, preceded by a preliminary at 7 o’clock. The public is urged to attend the game, and see the filial game of the season. —„ 0 WMAWL* I Mgs The drawing for the state Catholic net tourney will be held next Saturday night at 8 o’clock. According to the decision of the Catholic state board of control — the north teams will be placed in one box and the south teams in another*—one will be drawn from each box and these two teams will play in the first round—and so on and so on. —oOo— If the Commodores get the least llttfe "break, in the draw, the Laurentmen will go to Chicago as Indiana’s representative. —oOo— We’d hate to think the Commies couldn’t take the count of C. C. or any other team, since they're all in ship-shape. —oOo — Twelve teams including the best Catholic teams in each section of the state are entered in the state meet March 7 and 8 at the Indianapolis Armory. —oOo— The Commodores will establish headquarter# at the Elks homo in the Capitol City. —oOo — More than 100 Decatur fans • are planning on attending the Catholic net tourney—this attendance no doubt will be quad-tripled if the Commodores win a game or two. —oOo— An<£ here's the best one yet— Central high school officials in charge of the sectional net tourney don't think it would be fair if Decatur high school Yellow Jackets would practice on the North Side floor an hour this week. —oOo — We’ll bet this certain Mr. Croninger who holds the title of principle of Central is about as popular in Decatur as Mr. Trester, who holds the I. H. S. A. A. whip, reins, and all. —oOo — Well, Yellow Jackets, in our opinion, you don't need any pracItice to beat anything in this part of the state—We bellevt more every day that the Curtismen trill sweep aside all opposition and be at the state net tourney the middle of next month. —oOo — A big factor in the CentraiDecatur game will be whether

i Carl Gerber can outjump Lyons. Central pivot man. Carl did it very consistently down here a few ago — and we’re sure he will do it next Friday afternoon. 000 Herb Curtis just laughs at bad breaks when Informed by Cato Krick of Decatur hign’-school that the Curtismen had bWn refused permission to drill on North S de gym. Herb just smiled and said | well we'll have to boat them anyway. --oOo—i After nil, that smilin’ nt tough • breaks, and keeping right on driv 1 ing ahead and doing your best is what Herb's been teaching here for four years now — and if yon ask us we think Decatur high school boys are getting thousands of dollars worth As benefit from association with Poach Curtis. — 000— The General Electric orchestra will play between halves nt the G. E. Club—Allamont Girls basketbull game at Decatur high school gymnasium tonight. —oOo — The Kirkland Whippets tackle the Berne A. C. netters st Kirkland tonight — That ought to be a good game, too—The A. C.'s are one of the few net aggregations which have defeated the Whippets in the last two or three years. —oOo — Berne Bears are feeling optimistic concerning the Bluffton sectional Kirkland Kangaroos believe they nave a chance to win—of course the Bluffton Tigers have the advantage of the home floor, which is some edge—But that tour ney should be a good one. —oOo — There is some doubt as to Whether Decatur high school will have a baseball team this spring —To abandon baseball would be a great mistake, in our humble opinion — Next to basketball, we believe that baseball is the greatest interhigh school game—lt develops muscle, and brain and it's all done cut in the sunshine too. —oOo— Old Buck, weather-worn bugle sounder for the West Suburb NewsBanner has probably taken h s last fling as Basketbawls until next next season. It’s been a lot of fun, Buck, this scrapping back and forth —here's hopin' we’ll both be living again next season — and here's hopin' the Tigers are good I enough next season to crawl back on the pedestal of northern Indiana basketball, instead of playing .subI zero shoot as shoot can ball. —oOo— The suburb should have a good team next season—ls that team continues to play Decatur a few more seasons, we believe it can be taught some of the fundamentals of the game——oOo — And down by Berne, where tit? two psalm-inventors have almost shoved themselves into convulsions writing about Decatur's great team, here's even hoping for the best fo* the Bears — And may the Berne team next year be so improved that it can at least make the affair nteresting if Coach Johnson con descends to play the Jackets. —oOo — COMMODORES BEAT ST. JOHNS OF LIMA. —oOo— YELLOW JACKETS WIN THE SECTIONAL. o— SPORT TABS Springfield. 111., Feb. 25. — Nick Manusos, hurling star in Chicago semi pro ranks, has been signed for a tryout witli the Springfield Three-Eye league chib. He has had tryouts with both the Chicago Cubs and White Sox. Chicago. — Survivors of a series of preliminary tournaments. 20." youths of the middlewest begin competition in the Chicago Tribune's annual Golden Gloves boxing tournament tonight. Sixty bouts tonight, the same number tomorrow night and the 30 championship bouts Thursday night are on the program. Champaign, Ill,—lllinois saw its western conference basketball championship hopes fade last night when the University of Wisconsin quintet won a 23 to 17 decision. Detroit. —Jack Reynolds, world's welterweight wrestling champion from Cincinnati, successfully defended bls title here last night, defeating Cyclone Mackey of St. Joseph, Mo., in straight falls. o Can't Be Done Missoula, Mont., — (UP) — To catch fish through the ice is a physical impossibility, replied Justice of the Peace Julia Poirer, to an inquiry of the legality of such a practice. “Anybody that cqn do that is a wizard." she smiled, “Os course, it’s possible to catch them through a hole in the ice? No it can’t be done, legally or any other way.”

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LOUD SPEAKER ’ TO GET MMES e The Decatur-Central basketball game, scheduled for next Friday uf.enioon at 4 o'clock will be re celved via radio at the Eats reatuulant, Joe Lose proprietor announced today. Mr. Lose has made arrangements to Install a loud speaker from his residence itidio and tin I game will be received over WOWO with Gunnar Elliott at the mike I Mi. Lose sated today that lie yvould be glad to accomodate as many as possible In his restaurant during the game. Proprietor Lose also stated that the speaker would be retained for the rest of the sectional tourn y and also for the regional tourney a week from next Saturday. The state Catholic tourney, also will be re eeiv d and if I. H. S. A. A. tourney is broadcast’ it also will be received at the Easts. o—*~BASEBALL BRIEFS * (U.R) ♦ Fort Myers, Fla. Feb ff- Willi 13 players in camp, the world champion Philadelphia Athlet’cs were to stage their first workout of the 1930 framing season today. Clearwater, Fla.—First baseman Del Bissonette of Brooklyn, who had thiee operations performed during the winter and was only recently discharged from the hospital, was laid up today. He swung his liat too hard in practice yesterday and weakened himself. St. Petersburg, Fla. — Outfielder Jimmy Welsh threatens to quit or ganized baseball rather than accept the contract offered him by Judge Emil Fuchs, owner of the Boston dub. Chicago.—The second contingen' of the Chicago Cubs, made up of outfielders and infielders, left h' re today for Catalina Island where they will join the battery m“:i of the 1929 National league pennant winners for the spring training campaign. Such notables as Hack Wilson. Riggs Stephenson, Kiki Cuyler. Woody English, Lester Bell, and Charley Tolsbn were among them. En route they will pi<*R up Rogers Hornsby, Charley I Grimm and Clarence Blair. Avalon, Catalina Island. —Lewis Warneke, rookie pitcher witli the Chicago Cubs, was the first casualty of the spring trailing season Warneke was hit over the eye by a bat. Three stitches were required tor tlie wound. San Antonio, Tex. Sam Leslie, New York Giants rook e first baseman from Memplii Southern league club who will be concerted into an outfielder by John J. McGraw, starred in the first practice game here when he made a single, double and two triples in four times at bat. o Golf Tourney Starts At Bubs Dread Course Orlando, Fla., Feb. 25. — (U.R) — The first 18 hole round of the >2 • 000 central Florida golf tournament at Dubs Dread Country club open ed today with a star field number ing 75. A final 18-hole round follows tomorrow at the Orlando Country club. Starters include Horton Smith winner of the Savannah open last Satin day. I.iurie Ayton, Chicago; Bobby Cruickshank, Purchase, N Y.; Al Espinosa. Sportsman Club, New York; Al Watrous, Detroit; Tony Manero, New York; Mike and Joe Turnesa, Elmsford, N. ¥.; Johnny and Jimmy Farrell, Quaker Ridge, N. Y.; Harry Cooper, unattached; Niel Mclntyre, Indianapolis, and many other pros and amateurs. days each week at all grocers. Miller’s Raisin Bread for sale Wednesdays and SaturNo More Gas • In Stomach and Bowels V ytra wish to permanently ra Saved of in stomach and bowels, take Baalmann’s Gas Tablets, which are prepared especially for stomach *aa and all the bad effects resulting frwsi gas pressure. That empty, gnawing feeling at tbs pit of the stomach will disappear; that anxious, nervous feeling with heart pal Eitation will vanish, and you will again e able to take a deep breath without discomfort. That drowsy, sleepy feeling aftes* dinner will be replaced by a desire for entertainment, Bloating will cease. Your limbs, arms and fingers will no longer feel cold and “go to sleep** because BaaLn&nn’s Gas Tablets prevent gas from interfering with the clrcule tion. Get the genuine, in the yellow pack*. ’ age, at any good drag store. Price >l4 Always on hand at Holthouse Drug Co.

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Ruth Plans Training St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 25. - (UP) -"I will stmt training Marcli •I whether 1 mu signed or not,“l said Babe Ruth today on his re I turn from u fishing jaunt. The Yankees' holdout plans to leave today or tomoiiV# for Miami to attend th * Scott-Sharkey bout I Thursday night. Twenty-five Yun I kees began l ruining under Manager B<di Shawkey yesterday. FIGHT PLANS ARE COMPETE Miami, Fla., Feb. 25. <U.R>—All the boxers who will bo employed Thursday night to entertain tlr crowd at M.ami's second annual mid-winter boxing festival, were winding up their training today and most of the activity will be confined to the promoters. Tljeir great problem will be to find pun-lias rs for the remainder of the 40.000 tickets they hop.- to sell. Although early ticket sales were I good, pecul'ar as it may seem, the sale has not been as heavy as hud been hoped for since the supposed fight crowds began to arrive Friday. It would seem that while thousands have been poured into town, a lot o;' them took advantage of the low tares to Florida offered foi the fight and may not see the fight at all. However, nobody was downheai ted almut it today and th ra was a feeling that ticket sales would pick up before Thursday and put the fight onto a profit-making basis. Phil Scott did what was expected to be his last serious boxing before the fight yesterday. He may put on the gloves for a while this afternoon out of courtesy, to 250 sailors from three British warships in tlie harbor who will visit ills trailing camp. But he will not wink hard. Jack Sharkey also is through with heavy work and what be does to lay will be in the way of tapering off’. . Tommy Loughran, training at Palm Beach, has introduced a new wrinkle into liis road work with the assistance of Lawson Robertson, University of Pennsylvania tra’.ner. He has adopted the plan of running for three minutes, the length o; one rouffd of boxing, and then standing still and resting ipr one minute as is done between rounds in a fight. The star-stop method. Loughran and Robertson claim, accustoms the nervous sys tern and th.* heart to tlie tempo of a fight and Loughran puts great stock in it. He will wind up his training today. The big event of last night was the arrival of Gene Tunney, former champion, who has been recup from his operation performed in N w York just six weeks ago He has been on the Florida west coast for three weeks. o I CONGRESS TODAY ♦— -(U.R) ♦ Senate: Continues tar ff debate. Resumes -lobby investigation. Interstate commerce committee resumes inquiry into power commission. House; Takes up bill to increase the pay of witnesses appearing before house committees. Interstate commerce committee takes up b 11 to regulate motor bur lines. Banking committee starts in I vestigatioti of branch and chain bank.ng. o New York. — Negotiations for a n ddleweight title bout between Mickey Walker, the champion, and Rene De Vos of Belgium here in March •struck a snag today when Jack Kearns, Walker's manager, demanded the seats be scaled from S2O to $3. Over 60 Countries Now Treat Colds Without “Dosing” Modern Vaporizing Ointment Fast Replacing Old-Time Interna] Remedies , A generation ago, it was the custom to give large doses of internal medicines for colds and almost every human ailment. Then, a North Carolina pharmacist originated Vicks Vapoßub, the modern method of treating colds without "dosing.” Today, the whole trend of medical practice is away from needless “dosing.” As more and more people adopted .his modern external treatment, I the fame of Vicks spread until today it is the standby for colds—idults’ as well as children’s—in over 30 countries. This ever-increasing demand is shown in the figures of the familiar Vick slogan. Made famous when i Vicks reached “17 Million Jars Used Yearly,” and later raised to “21 Million,” these figures, too, have been outgrown, aa there are now “Over 26 Million Jars Used Yearly,” In the United States alone,

ALLEGED FRAUD INVESTIGATES Madison County Prosecutor Questions Agent Concerning Incident Anderson, Ind., Feb. 25 (U.R) Clarence Scoff, 30. illstib tdl*-pnty ■ 'U Mndlstin mid six adjacent conn- | t lofor (he Insurance division of 11 he Modern Woodmen of AmA iea. ■ was questioned today by Prosecil'ing attorney Oswald Ryan and an - Insurance company Inspector, concerning an alleged fraud that may amount to SIO,OOO. Scott was arrested when he returned to Anderson after an ab- 1 sence of several days. He had been held for a few hours a week ■igo. lint was re’eased on bls own recognizaime pending iiive iigaiion. Alleged new evidence, discovered by Charles S. Ixicknane. inspector for the Woodmen’s Insurance eomnnnv. led to the ieincarceration of Scott. Authorities lielfeve the district agent either criminally responsible in a case In which the comDiny paid a $3.00b death benefit it was not required to pay. or that lie has not made a full report of • lie atTiiir. Mrs. Evelyn Hudson, 2G. Pendleton. was killed at nn Anderson - railroad cro sing Nov. 22, 1929, when her automobile was struck bv a Big Four switch train. Although she had apnlied for Modern ! Woodmen insurance, the po’icv ; was not Issued until five days 1 after her death and was not bind- ; intr on the company, it was said. Six weeks later a report giving i Dec. 22 ns the date of death was ! sent to the home office of the in-1 urance company. The claim was honored and a check for $3,000 issued to Dewey Hudson, husband and beneficiary. ’ e Scott admitted accompanying Hudson to an Anderson bank where the check was cashed. He said it was then he learned of the alleged fraud for the first time, and although he wanted to clear the matter, he did not know how to proceed. Authorities also are investigat-; ing the death of Roger Self at , Jonesboro. Ark., June 8. 1929. Self i was aid to have taken out his in-1 surance policv while visiting in ! Anderson 14 days before Ills death. ; but investigators claim Self never had been in Anderson. The investigators are working. on the theory that some person ini Anderson familiar with Se'f's state' ->f health apn ied for the in iiranc". | A $3,000 claim was paid, the check being issued to the widow, | Emma Self. Scott held in the county jail, is | ‘•aid to lie related to both tlv Hudson and Self families. S'nce the Investigation stalled, i two persons whom the investigators wished to question, have left Madison county.

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13 WITNESSES JIAVE APPEARED IN MURDER ( ASE mtwvtaMrv — .. - -.«•*-«■ (OONTJNt ED FROM PAGE <>'<>”> will not ranch the Jury I latter part of this week or the ; first of next week. Booher was again present "U dnv today nntl he appeared the I same us usual, sitting at th'' shle "W of his tins never -liown anv sfVain shu-* Hie opening of the trial Inst week. After each snssioii many of Ills 1 fr onds gather about him with '’ oonsolii'g teiuarks mid he always , smiles back nt them. I Attorneys for the state contl'i-| tied today to build a series of dr , '•unistances around the death oi Arch Beerhower In Adams circuit , <-ouii In the c.i'o < f state y j I Boyd Booher charged with th-* i first degree murder of Beerbower ' <it Geneva Juno 2, bv admin- . 'storing poison to him through a * Ir'ttk of liquor. Dr. J. ('. Grandstaff. Adams eoenty coroner testified forth" fate this morning and told of the various phases of his inquest and investigation into the case, until I the stomai 11 of Beerbower was sent to Dr. B. W. Rhamoy at Fort j Wi’vne for further investigation. D l '. Rhamey followed Dr. Grandstaff on the witness stand, an.l answered a -eries of questions | I concerning the investigation and test of Beerbower's stomach. He | I stated that the stomach was brought to him by Sheriff Harl Hollincwworth and he was asked ♦o analyze the contents ns to alcohol nnd strichnine. He stated i I that in his onlnton there wa- suffii cient strichnine in the stomach to cause death. The de’ense then asked Dr. , I P.hamey questions concerning how j I sure hi* was that it was Beerlsiwi er’s stomach to which the doctor | answered that all he knew con- ! penning the stomach was what i Sheriff Hollingsworth told him when delivering it. Dr. Rhamey was retained on the stand for a few more questions after the noon r°cess hut the questions pertained large’y to chemical terns and phrases. Mrs. Rebecca Beerbower. mother | l of Arch B*erhower was the first | > witness cal l'd by the state in the > ; second day of examination of wit-1 i ncsses Mrs. Beerhower was asked l I several general questions concerninr the morning of June 2, 1929 | end then she was asked by R. C. i Per-'sh. .‘-tate attorney, if she bad I a conversation witli her son when I she was called to the home after I he became ill. i Mrs. Beerbower stated that she I b-.d The state then- asked her to tell the court and jury what the conversation was. At this point a heated argument I arose as to whether Beerbower's 'utterance should be entered as | evidence. Both defense and state i attorneys argued the cause and I Judge Sutton asked the jury to retire while the question was ■ argued further.

Both Hide* presented references mid the defense objected stronll()11sly to admitting the utterance, saving that It wa» 1,1 1,0 ,7®* “ (b in g statement. The object on W!1(1 merruied however and he wjtnes „ was asked to answer the question. Mis B'el'bower stated that eh« said. "Arch, who gave you that nasty stull. (i) She then said that her son re-1 plied, "Boyd Booher". T-.jPS,. were the lad words utter>d by Beerbower before he died. It the fil’-l complete victory fjjr state since the trial started. Ou several occti-sions the defense otm-iieys. W. 11. Eichorn of B UlTton ami l>. B. Erwin had forced the state to change tactics nnd yester-

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