Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1930 — Page 6

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I.H.S. A. A. FILES YEAR'S REPORT The annual financial report <> the Indiana High School Athletic Association shovs that sectional regional anti state basketball tour namenta netted the state assor-1.-t Hon a lot al of $15,701.10. Many <>l the sectional tourneys (ailed t« show a profit. Among the regional centers where tourneys were held It is Interesting to note that the center which made the least money was Washington, state champions. The Washington regional tourney noPed $2636. The association's books. which ate audited each year by certified mtb’ic accountants are said to be in fine condition. Arthur 1,. Trester. commissioner of Indiana athletics issued a statement in connection with the financial report that he and his board of control would gladly answer any question In reffttrds to the expenditure of money. A comm’ttee of three Indiana high school teachers with Walter .1. Krick, of Decatur high school ns chairman, was appointed some time ago. the report sets out. to study the financial condition of the state association and to determine what should be done with the money, which is steadily piling up in the treasury. The report sets out that after the thorough study of the problem, the committee believes that a reserve fund of SIOO,OOO should be maintained to guarantee all state events and expenses, and that boginning October 1. 1932 and at each three year period after that

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[date the surplus be divided equull I among the school members of th I association. rThe Indiana High School Atli letic association, the stronger high school association In th, ’ world, has enjoyed a health; growth for years under the lender 11 ship of Mr. Trester and his bouri lc of control which includes at pres I, ent, It. 11. Watt, of Owensville; (1 r Hay Sharp, Andrews; Floyd I. Me [Murray, Thorntown; Henry .1 f Reid. Monticello and H. 11. Moiy er, Greenfield. t) ' The annual report shows that r?t»0 Indiana high school basketball 1 teams took part In the state tour ' Hatnent, first division, which was the 64 sectional tourneys. Sixty- ' tour took part in the regionals and 'l6 teams entered the state finals at Indianapolis. Competing schools In the three tourneys divided u ] I total of $71,661.25. STANDINGS National League t W L Pct. I New York 4 0 loot) j Pittsburgh .11 .83:1 r Chicago 4 3 .571 Boston 2 2 ,50u ( St. Ixmils 2 4 .333 , Cincinnati 2 5 .286 I Philadelphia 1 3 .250 B Brooklyn 1 3 .250 American League W L Pct. _ | Philadelphia 3 1 .750 Washington 4 2 .667 Chicago 2 1 .667 ' Cleveland 3 2 .600 Detroit 3 3 .500 Bos on . 3 3 .500 St. Louis 1 3 .250 Uew York 0 4 .000 American Association W L Pct. Toledo 4 2 ;667 St. Paul . 4 2 667 | Kansas City 3 2 .6(H) . . Louisville 4 3 .571 Milwaukee 3 3 .506 I Columbus 2 4 .333 Minneapolis 2 4 .333 Indianapolis 1 3 ,250 YtSTERDAY’S RESULTS National League New York 8; Philadelphia 6. Brooklyn 15; Boston 8. Chicago 9; Cincinnati 1. Pittsburgh 6; St. Louis 4. American League Wa-hington 6; Philadephia 3. Cleveland 6; Detroit 1. Chicago 3; St. Louis 2. Only games scheduled. American Association Louisville 2; Kansas City, 1. St Paul 4: Toledo 1. Minneapolis 8; Columbus, 3. Milwaukee at Indianapolis, rain .

NAVAL TREATY SIGNED TODAY BY 5 NATIONS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) les G. DaWes. Aristide Briand, Fr.neh “oreign j minister, signed at 12:44 p. m. He was followed a minute latei by MacDonald, for Great Britain and the others in order, the chief signeis being Giuseppe Siriani, sot Italy: Reijiro Wakatsuki. Japan: j James Fenton. Australia; Philippe ■ Roy, Canada; Sir Atul Chandra | Chatterjee. India; Timothy Smiddy. Irish Free State; T. M. Wilford, New Zealand; C. T. Water. South Africa. The signing ended at 12:54 p. in. having lasted only 14 minutes. It started when MacDonald announced, in a solemn voice, “we have j now reached the moment for sign ing the treaty."

Uy today's signatures the United <1 States, the British Empire and c Japan agreed to abandon construe « lion of 26 battleships of 35,000 toneach. which normally would have i< been laid down before 1936. They s also agreed to scrap immediately " a total of nine battleships. Th United States abandoned construe a tion on ten battleships, the British " Empire on ten and Japan on six. e The battle ships doomed to scrap oing are the United States’ Florida. ” | Utah and Wyoming (all built be- w twe n 1911 and 19121; the British 7 Tigers, Emperor of India, Iron Puke, Marlboro, and Benson <al’ " built in 19141. Both the United *' States and Britain will retain one f ' ship—unfit for war use—as a train- 1 ing ship, and Japan will make the Hiyei unfit for war use so that ° it may be retained as a training ‘ ship. A total of 229,950 tons ot a capital ship will be dismantled or 11 ent to the bottom. S] Next to declaration of a battle- a ship holiday among all five powers until 1936, the scrapping of ships ’’ by the three powers, the most itn o portant provision of the treaty was fixing of exact tonnage of the United States. Britain and Japan in cruisers, destroyers and submarines until 1936. The table of tonnage follows: Category U.S. Britain Japan a 8-in. gun t( cruisers 180,000 150,000 108,400 n 6 in. gun cruisers 143,500 189,000 100,000 0 Destroyers 150,00 b 150,000 105,500 Submarines 52,700 52,700 52,700 ]j This fixation of definite levels t] for warships not. hitherto covered tl by the Washington naval treaty tl

wits as of highest slgnifl ciince and importance because ii I prevents competitive building or i r ' naval race and gives the three mi tlons a sense of security arisinu from knowledge of plans of th» other chief powers. 8 When the treaty" is fully executed the total fighting strengths ot the three nations, including battle 1 ships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, * destroyers and submarines will be as follows: , Englainl 1,616,450 tons | United States 988,700 tons | Japan 633,120 tons The United St ites and Britain are given paiily. the div rgence In ' total tonnage being made up by the granting of more larg ■ cruisers to America. France and Italy agreed the battleship holiday with reservations permitting constructions of 70.000 tons (unbuilt from the ton nag ■ allowed them under the WashI ington treaty) If they consid -r such i program necessary in view of [the new G-rtnun ‘'pocket'' battleshins.

o DEATH COUNT REACHES 317: MANY IN.IUREi: (CONTINUED FHOM PAGE ONE penihiiiitirv here lust niulil. and injuries Iron) which 3(H more may die within the next few days. i Six hundred prisoners out I of X 35 herded within the cen- , I rat h: II of the west cell block I fought unsuccessfully for I freedom in ;i raging furnace, [and were brought out dead or Jdvinj» after the flames died down. Today the prison morgue and hospital were choked, and the cattle barns of the state fair buildings, near the prison, had l>een converted into an improvised death house. The blaze, one of three supposedly set by vengeful lifers, was part of a p’ot to throw the penitentiary into an uproar and. in the excitement, to seize control of the institution. It was 5:40 p.m. when the flames were discovered in cell unit 1. an unused prison block. Wooden stairways, constructed as a part of temporary repairs, fed the blaze, and it spread to cell units G and H. where the prisoners were returning from supper to be locked in their cells. This was the moment chosen by the conspirators for their mutiny. The red tongue of flame, creeping up the stairs of cell unit 1, was to have been the signa! for revolt. Instead, it lighted a pyre, welding the locks and fusing the steel bars that held nearly 1.000 men prisoners within a trap of their own making. Inside the fiery pit the fearcrazed convicts beat against the doors and shrieked their demands for release. Alternately they cursed and prayed to the guards, outside, to strike off the locks and let them hatter their way to freedom. But the guards, standing grimly by 'heir orders, refused. They feared a general uprising, releasing nearly 5.000 convicts, was in the making The blaze raced upward through 'he open corridors of the cell house, finding little timber to feed upon until it st nick the heavy roof and ate its way through. The screaming men below liegan to writhe from showers of hot embers. and redoubled their im- | precations. Epics of heroism —and of cowardice —were written in the three; hour chapter* of horrors. There were men who expiated a life of' crime on the altar of sacrafice for ' their fellows. There were others, j desperate, cntel men in life, who | cringed before danger and ran i away. Not all the prisoners had been i locked up when the first danger signal was sounded. These .the guards tiled hastily to herd into their cells. The fear of plots is always uppermost in an institution where escape is in the mind of every man.

One group of prisoners wore being hurried along by the guards within their doomed cell house. They rebelled and turned on their keepers, striking them down with fists and snatching the keyes from ‘heir hands. Unlocking what doors they could they drove several hundred prisoners to open air. A guard, himself unable to enr-y out what others called their duty, ioined the convicts In wrenching away the locks and hauling other prisoners to safety. Outside, the prison siren was splitting the air with shrieks for assistance. It brought the fire department. every available policeman of Columbus, and a company of federal troops from Fort Hayes: it called national guardsmen from their homes to mobilize in the state armory and move, in full battle equipment, to the scene of disaster. it brought ten ambulances and a dozen army trucks, and called to duty scores of physicians and nur-es. Every agency for the protection of life and property was on guard within an hour. Within the warden’s office, two lines of strategy were mapped out; the first campaign was to subdue the fire. The second was to see that of these nearly 5,000 men,

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1-, one-ten sh of them apparently doom t oil to death and torture, the r< 11 nuilnder should not tear down tic '• very walls in their rage and feat iind produce the greatest Jail breal '■ In history. I Warden P. E Thomas orderei the gates opened for the fire de f partment; the lite fighters cnterei the yard, only to find themselves 3 face to face with u jeering, entz) • mob of rioters. The fire depart inont was forced to withirraw teni < porarlly. < Arrival of the national guards < | men reinforcing the police an 11 federal troops, who had thrown ti i steel ring aound the prison, gave enfflcient strength to the author!- - j ties to make their first drive against the 4.000 milling convicts .'They wobt in. with bayonets, and cleared the way for the firemen. The penitentiary took on the an- : pearanee of a siege. The walls bristled with machine guns, and military forces guarded every exit. The strategy of the warden and his men was working out; whatever might happen to the trapped coni victs within the burning cell block, there would be no wholesale Jail j delivery. Gradually the prison yard took jon a eemblance of order. The I dead were wra.nped in blankets and laid in silent rows. Long lines lof ambulances rolled up to the j I.risen doors and departed with their loads of burned —and many plying prisoners. Under the guns of the military [ forces, another morgue and ho-plt-:a! wore established on the state fair grounds near the prison. o — JUNIOR BASEBALL NOTICE The Junior Baseball League will hold a committee meeting Wednesday at eight o'clock at the Atnerican Legion Hall. Hubert Cochran. < hait'inan of the league, announced today. All interested organizations are invited to attend. o —— Governor Kohler Trial Starts In Wisconsin Sheboygan. Wis.. Aptil 22 —(U.P) Powerful political enemies come into a court arena today when Governor Walter J. Kohler was called to trial here on charges of 1 excessive campaign expenditures. I which, if proved, will mean his re- , moval from office. Pitted against the governor, I known as "Kohler of Kohler," millionaire manufacturer of plumbing 1 fixtures. wa« Philip F. Lafollette. j who signed the complaint against Kohler and who ran for Republi- ' can nomination for governor in i the September primary election. Lafol'ette, who is 35 and a son of tire late ‘‘Fighting Bob" Lafol- j lette, stayed in the background when the case was called, his , accusations having been taken up

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