Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1930 — Page 8

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PURDUE CLOSES MOOR SEASON Lafayette, Ind., March >1 —(UP) Purdue tin versify’* indoor athletic season, outstanding for its l.(M)t) per cent eiutin'doiiship basketball team, will end Saturday. Four minor sports squads will se» action in Big Ten championship meets and the Boilermakers' best track men will compete in the Illinois relays. Purdue boasts of brilliant individuals in each sport who are expect•si to rank among the best in their particular specialities, but the miner squads have no hopes of taking team championships. Capt, F P. Robinson, 145-pounder is expected to make a strong bid In th- wrestling championships at Illinois. providing he has fully recovered front a s de injury. Ward, 115pounde>. and Fawcett. 135 pounder, are 'wo other mat possibilities. (’.apt John Nickerson, free style sprint star, will be the leading Pu'due bidder for points in the swimming championships at Northwestern. Sheets, fancy diver, and Wheaton. 140-yavd freestyle ace. may be counted upon for points. Fencing Coach Hollis is expecting Mi < hell to place high in the foils in the titular meet at Chicago, Gym ns-’th- hopes depend largely upon strength in the side horse and Indian clubs. Major interest in Purdue's entries at the lllino s relays will be focused upon the medley relay quartet with Capt Orval Martin running the anchor mile. Martin also may defend his 1.500 meter title, providing he can catch his breath between races. Odom, sprinter; Lange, high jump Noreus. hurdles, and Doyle. 1,000yard run. are other possible poirt winners for the Boilermakers. ° BASEBALL BRIEFS I (UR) I A. ——< ' — ♦ Today's Games: Boston Braves vs. Philadelphia AthWics. at St. Petersburg. Fla. Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles, at Los Antre'es. Calif. St. Lot- s Browns vs. Buffalo, at Vnn J cudordale. Fla. Washington Senate’s vs. New Orleans ->* B'loxi. Miss. v “«terdev's Results: B’onklvn 9; House of David. 0 nns’nn Braves vs. Philadelphia A’hlet’r- —No game. rain. St. T.oids Cardinals vs. Detroit Tigers—no game. rain. (’lsavo-oter. F’a.. Mar. 14. —E rb* niivors been ent f"om th" roster o’ the Brooklvn Robins a”'’ President v o"|< Is considering n->P Herman, holdout outfield e>- nn th» market. Phchers Richardson. KridvMcKav. catchers L’ddv and Kav pnnnch. o"tfielder Vance and in Solder Pc’s were released to the Sally league -team yesterday. Avalr-n Cataßna Islam!. Calif. Mar. 14 - The Chicago Cubs regulars tminv were working out in nvon.)'it-'nn for two mo"' 1 exhihit’o” <-„w.os "’ith the Los Angeles club or the Pacific Coast league. Thev will sail to the mainland tomorrow for games then and Sunday. A second «nuad is scheduled to go to San D'ego to plav the Hollywood team on the same days. Peso Robles, Calif., Mar. IL—No wo-q h's been received todav from Burleigh Grimes sole remtininv holdout on the Pittsburgh Pirates sorad : n training here. Dick Rartell went in as shortstop during the regular morning and afternoon workouts yesterday, having signed his 193 b contract after holding out for several weeks. B'loxi Miss., Mar. 14. —Ad Llskn Hadley, Burke, and Thomas, will share the mound work for the Washington Senators in today's game with New Orleans. Pensacola, Fla., Mar. 1-I—Catch •■r Johnny Heving and outfielder Jack Rothrock are due at the Red Sox camp today. Heving, the

Son Was Pale, Thin— No Appetite Clinton, Illinois,— “Some time ago my son was taken sick. Tti'pflP' T-a The doctor said he 7 .bad ‘typhoid fever.' W \ After several weeks /k of suffering he was a to be up, but ,)a ‘ c an '' tn ' n . an j j la | n() gppj,. ffii tite. He was getting I Fv worse every day. I Orlie M. Johnson rea( j o f Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and purchased a bottle of it, and by the time my son had taken half of that bottle he was fully restored to health, and is now a strong man. Every chance I get I praise Dr. Pierce's medicines.” —Mrs. Wiley Johnson, 924 N. George St. Sold by dealers. Fluid or tablets. Send Er, Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 10c for a trial of Discovery Tablets.

iteam's lone holdout, has agreed to | terms for the 1930 season. I West I’alm Beach, Fla.. Mar. 14. The St. Louis Browns will open tlv ir exhibition schedule today In a game with the Buffalo Bison* at ! Fort Lauderdale. Outfielder Heinie Munush, short- ( stop Ralph Kress and pitcher . George lllaehohlor remain unsigned. ~ St. Petersburg. Fla., Mar. 14. , Rain interrupted th ■ New York . Yankees practice yesterday and the players spent the day visiting with . the Philadelphia Athletics and Bos- . ton Braves. r —— ■ • St. Petersburg, Fla., Mar. 11. : 1 B >b Smith and Bruce Cunningham I have tie n nominated by manager Bill McKechnie for pitching duty 1 ■ in today's game with the Philadel1 phia Athletics. The Boston infield will be reI vamped with Red Rollings slated • to replace Fred Maguire nt second 'and Bill Rniel. former Brooklyn Robin a third base. — Tampa, Fla., Mar. 14. —Manager Bucky Harris will send the Detroit ' Tigers through two practice sess- 1 ions today in preparation for ex-1 hibition games with the Phillies' ( and C nctnnati Reds. Saturday and ! Sunday. 1 Orlando. Fla.. Mur. 14. — Harry Hellmann and Bob Meusel, veteran ' . American I-ague outfielders, will . be in tile starting lineup for the) . Cineinrfitl Reds first exhibition game with Detroit at Tampa Sunday. Winter Haven, Fla., Mar. 14., — 'The Phils will have a strong I team lineup this season even if Capta n Fresco Thompson and out ! field r Chuck Klein remain hold-, outs," Manager Bert Schotton de-! dared today. First baseman Don Hurst has I been practicing to fill Klein's out-i field berth and Barney Friberg is! performing sensationally at second base. San Antonio, Tex., Mar. 14. —I Outfielder Ed Roush, last of th? New York Giant holdouts is due in camp today and is expected to' reach terms with Manager Me-1 Graw. Third baseman Frei Lindstrom and pitcher Larry Benton signed yesterday. San Anton'o, Tex., Mar. 14. — Competition for places on the Chi-1 ■ago White Sox team is keen and as yet Manager Donie Bush is unable to name a starting lineup. Tlie second string outfielder trio of Harris, Blackerby afnd Watwood ne: formed so well against the Giams that Moore. Jolley, Metzler and Reynolds mint step fast to win regular berths. — St. Petersburg. Fla., March 14 —! (UP) —Connie Mack, manager of 1 he world champion Philadelphia Athletics regards the Chiiago White Sox as the “Dark Horse” of the! 1930 American League race. "Don't misunderstand me,” said! the veteran manager here for exhibition games with the Braves and ’ankees. ”1 am not picking Chicago o finish first or even second. But I inder Donie Bush, the White Sox re lynind to be the most improve 11 all dub in our circuit. They arej 1 kely to have a lot to say before 1 ■lept. 28 rolls around." COURT HOUSE Real Estate Transfers Fr: nces Murphy. Admr. I’o acres u Monroe Township to Marian 1 Murphy for $16,500.00 Marian Murphy. 120 acres in Mon | roe township to Clara 1. Jolly, for *,16,500.00 0 TESTIMONY OF 1924 ADMITTED IN DOH ENY CASE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) —— — | tors, included the oil man's reiteration of assertions that during the >ll lands leasing period he was not 1 dealing with Fall but with E. C. Finney of the Interior department. |' The testimony hole an admission that the Pan-American company, 1 owned by Doheny, received a con-1, ract tor 31,000 acres in the Elk 1 Hills Naval oil reserve in return; for contracts to build oil storage tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 'Government witnesses will resume tei’imony after reading of the senate transcripts is concluded. I ——a o : Hire German Experts — Dairen, —(UP) —German experts,; have been hired by the Chinese mill-i tary command in Mukden to operate a noison ecs plant in connection with the Mukden arsenal, according to unconfirmed reports here. Earlier efforts to manufacture poison gas for military purposes were not es fectlve and none was used in the recent warfare between Chinese and the Russian Soviets.

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When Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New ■ York Yankees, arrived at St. Petersburg, Fla., to talk terms with Babe Ruth, he completed a quartette of baseball figures probably never before equalled -n one oicture They are (above, left to right) George Herman Ruth, greatest box office a traction baseball nas ever known; Colonel Ruppert. generous owner of the New York Yankeqj?, in some respects the most remarkable ball club

4 HET TEAMS I LEFT IN MEET -—.— Kansas City., Mo., March 14 — I (UP)—Four baskeiball dubs, two ■ of them college teams and one independent live and a dub team, will I play here tonight in the semi-f nals of the national amateur athleti'union tournament. The .earns are: Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., Olympic Club, of San Francisco; East Central I Teachers College of Ada, Okla., and HemjwCloth ers, Wichita. Kan. the Bethany five went into the semi-finals when it defeated the * East Side Turners of Indianapolis. | 21 to 15. Olympic Club vanquished the K. nsas Ci y Athletic Club. 30 to 25. to move into the semi final tankings. East Central defeated Murphy-did-f.it of Omaha, Neb.. 44 to 33. Tite llenrys bested the Ke-Nash-I A Club of Kenosha, W-s., 26 to 21, |in an overtime game. The dubs | stood tied llf-all at the end of the game, the college five di awing away quickly during the overtime ! period. Ton gilt’s schedule: Bethany College vs. Olympic Club East Central vs. llenrys of Wic--1 hita. • ° “ VESTAL SEEKS ANOTHER TERM [ (continued' fhum page one) ' ism; and my work in behalf of the soldiers of all our wars, their wid lows and dependents; for the bettermeat of mad service in the 1) strict: ■ land the prompt attention given eac.i and eveiy request of every constiItuent timing tiie past years—meet ' wi.h your approval. 1 wdl appreciate I you. suppo. i in the coming Pri- [ mary. My legislative work and position n the House make it necessary for me to idma.n in Washington, and I will therefore be aide to spend bu. little lime in the Distr.ct before the Prima: / . ’ ZIMMERMAN IS UNDER ARREST 1 (CONTINUED cRUM PAGE ONE) which includes Eckhart. The new .ndictment returned by 1 I the grand jury .* similar to the old ones on which the defendants were' to lace i..al in the April erm of federal court. Capiases for Zimmerman and Eck halt were out, but had not been served. The two walked into Atkins office and later were released on bond, Zimmerman’s surety being set ■ a $4,000 and Eckhart’s at $2,000. Deptuy U. S. Marshal Atkins served a cap.us on Leo Miller, who was released under bond of $2,000. Miller is charge:! ,n a federal grand I jury indictment with conspiracy to 1 violate the national pronib.tion act. I o Want* of Man .Nature Is content with little. And yet you shall hardly meet with a map that complains not of some want. —Izaak Walton. o Speaking of Reckless Driving Pedestrians will have reached tin era of greater danger about three weeks after the meek have inherit ed the earth.—Toledo Blade. o Penalty of Success It Is the laud of the free until you become a success, and then you are doomed to address luncheon clubs I for the remainder of your life.— , San Francisco Chronicle.

DECATUR DaiLY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MARCH 11- IMO

" ever seen; Bob Shawkey, one-time champion pitcher of the Yankees, who is now manager of the former world’s champions, and Lou Gehrig, who, were it not for the Babe, would today be crowned the greatest hitter in the big leagues The Babe agreed to sign a contract calling for SBO,OOO a year for two years, ending a longstanding controversy. (liiteinational Newateei

Big Game Hunter Has Served Year on Island 1 <! hiSIW 3! I wltlr OSH 1 : ’ i I ' ' VV-: ■ ' "W > I * p ® Mrs. Esther De Forest Wilson, I society woman of Washington and hunter of big game, has been re- | leased from the a’ Welfare Island, N. Y , on parole after having served almost a year ■ of ar. indeterminate sentence so” I shooting her husband, Dallett H. ; . Wilson, lawyer. Hnieritattonal Newsreel) DIGEST STRAW VOTE RELEASED ' (CONTINI ED FROM rAGE ONF) ■ dents Coolidge and Hoover with a : rather close estimate of th ir I popular votes. "Tc'U’ar of Fortune" During the frequent wars which occurred In Italy before the mill fary pr ’fessfon became so general ly prevalent in Europe. It was usual for men of enterprise mid reputa . tlon to offer their services to the ■ different states that were engaged | I They afterward extended their services and under the title, “sol dlers of fortune." fought for em ployment in any country or state i that would pay them. o Lasting Monuments The most persistent of all monu ments nre imide neither of steel nor stone, but of the-fragile thoughts of men and a scrap of paper. Moreover, they are multiplied again and again, forever renewed and yet persistently the same. Every library cherishes tliem, and thereby the mimes of their makers are kept green. They arc books and the things written therein, whose antiquity makes all ordinary memerials seem like the play things of architects.—Philadelphia Let I ger. — o— Nugget of Wisdom Cheery people help weary people ,o forget their woes.

State Tourney History ♦— — ♦ Indianapolis, Mar. 14. — This ithe nineteenth year of the state basketball tournament held under the auspices of the Indiana High School Athletic asseciat on I The history of the final games 0 past tournament’, giving w'nncr I runner-up and score, follows: 1911 Crafordsvll’. Lebanon. 24 17. 1912 -Lebanon. Franklin. 51-11. 1913 — Wingate. South B>nd. 15-14 1914 — Wingate, Anderson. 41-S. 1915— Thorntown, Montmoieucie, 33-10. 191 G Lafgyette, Crawford ville. 27 26. 1917—Lebanon, Gary, 34-26. t'i'B- Lebanon, Anderson, 24-23. 1919 —Bloomington, I-afayette. IS 15. ’92' —Franklin, La’ayette, 31-13. 1921 —Franklin, Anderson. 35-22. '22—r'anklin, Garfield, 31-15., '923 —Vincennes. Muncie, 27-18. 1924 —Martinsville. Frankfort. 36-30 b l ' -b’rankfort. Kokomo. 34-20. 1926 —Marion. Martinsville, 3 4-22. 1927 Martinsville. Muncie. 26-23 192 S Muncie Ma:tii sville, 13-12. 1929- J-'iankfort, Technical, 29 23. o — TEAM GUESTS OF ROTARIANS iCONTIM FI) I-ROM PAGE ONEI he sport taught confidence ami coopera ion. His talk was warmly I received by the Commodore squad land reference was made to it by ■ Father Hession and Father Seimetz I who we. e called on tor short talks. Members of the squad who were ' guests of the club were, William Gass. Frederick Mylott, Gerald Gage, Carl Lose, Robert Hol house, R< bert Kleinhenz, Edward Vian. | i.- o Schultz 0 —; Names Omited - • The names of Pumphrey Jewelry I tore. Keller Jewelry Store and j Campbells Service Sta’ion 1 aiteniialiy omited from the Home I Owned Store page advertisement 1 which appeared in last Wednesday i issue.

Lafayette's Ace and N'xt Year's Captain i .. ** -121111 s i I ,| - i '1 B ■i ■■■■■■■■.-..■-"gWWml Bliss Sergeant, 140-pounu wresting ace of Lafayette College, paston, Pa., has been undefeated ; ihis season and has scored vic-' . lories against formidable oppon- ! Inta from Yale, Lehigh and Rutgirs. He will be Lafayette’s first | ptry in the intercollegiate wresting championships and has been , dected captain of next year’s var- j i tity wrestling team. Newsreel) I

( AST IS NAMED FOR OPERETTA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) When everything looks dark (<>' Davy his aUentlon la called '<> :l|, ‘ I World War. where both Davy ami "Dude” have enlisted. " v oundod in. the war ami on b - ' death beil 'confess.w to Davy <■! I his "fiiinie-np " Davy returns from I the war ami is acclaimed tb | "college hero" and a happy ending I is In store for everyone. The (horns numbers which Inchide snug and dance seem s are I an enjoyable addition to the op'" I «dta. Thev are composed o 1 1 boys and girls from the glee clubs ami girls from the Freshman choruses. The operetta will be presented nt the Decatur high sehoo' auditorium on Thuradnv ••nd Frldav, March 2" ami 21 ami is being directed by Mis- Di-ssolee Chester. The east of characters is as p-’lnv-s; | Umpire F.d Mu s»r ! Daw Carson Harold Melchi | 'St"bby” Coales David Heller i Jack Arthur Schanierloh I Pot Ruth Macklin I Helen Kathryn Fritzlngor I "Proxy” Jiimesi Eilgeler Dean of girls Anna Winm-s I "Dude" de Forest Vaufan Snedeker ! ‘ Foxy” Wilbur Reynolds I “Sweety" Carl Buffenharger I "To’ pv” Sherman Koos I “Babe" Harry Ib-bb ‘ SAYS SUFFRAGE OF WOMEN WIL! CONTINUE LAWS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of healthful recreat'on because of ’he eight-hour day; the automobile I •nd other developments of the ma-, chine age. He also declared the legalized i 'inner faff'c helped kill it el r by i 'aw violation and political comip tion. "Even the wets p'ouslv ilecla'e they do not want the saloon.” he' lei lared, "but a rose by any other name is still a rcse. The saloon 's simply a place where ni.-n drink liquor and more liquor—and modification, the Canadian system or •freight out repeal would bling u ; the saloon back again in on? form ir another —even if we painted ’t vhite, sold 1 lies at the door an I had Uncle Sam for a bartender." “President Hoover will win on ! hi -- issue every time. Congress as i a whole will win on this issue every I

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Plans Legal Attack on • Late Ambassadors Will k 2 • 'V A itsW ' z ’ k '' ' Miss Dorothy Russell, daughter of th- late Lillian Russell, famous actress, and step laugh'er of the lat- | ier's second husband, the late Alexander P. Moore, is planning a I -gal attack for ’h" purpose of | breaking the will of .Mr Moore, ihe former Ambassador to Spain 1 ho caused some surprise through lis will by leaving the sum of iIOO.OJO to the Queen of Spam (international Newsreel* | I time. Each congress since adop-l tion of the 18th Amendment hast I been dryer than the’ preceding.; The prseent congress is the dry-1 lest of them all. That is pot an i accident. 1 “The cr me and lawlessness of jhis hour i-- an aftermath, a backvash of the great war. Millions | of the youth of great nations, taught to disregard the life and property of the alien, now allow i their appetitics and greed for gain free don: nion tinder a wave n* force and disregard for law am' ! authority." Robins also criticized Alfred E. ' Sni th. former Democratic presiIcntial candidate, as "the foremost i official nullifici.uonist under the* j tlag.” '■Fortner Governor Smith has al great record, but he has one blot upon it." sai.l the witness. “He u'h’ng d the platform of his party.! "He diil not lose because of the elieiovs issue, b. cause on that he i gained as many votes as h? lost.’

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