Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1930 — Page 8

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GRIFFITH WILL ! TRY COME-BACK Chicago. April 30. —(U.R) Young Tnffv Griffith tonight will attempt to prove that the knockout, ncored ov r him by Jack Gagnon In Philadelphia was "Jimt one of those things of the prize ring” And l;>i*on will attempt to convince fistic fans that he can whip Mr. Griffith anytime the two go into th ring together. There yon have the summation of the w idely herald 1 ' d return meeting in the Chicago stadium. Each ; lighter is confident he will win and | each avows hit is in the best shape ; of his life. Tuffy, obviously out of condition j v,hen the two met in Philadelphia.! has Lome through the hardest 1 training siege of his life for this fight. He contends lie was expect- ( dig tin easy fight when he ran into Gagnon before. Tonight. Tuffy intends to follow his usual style of carrying the fight. lie says his condition will allow him to wade in. avoiding j hard right hand punches, and pun j ish Gagnon. He lias used his style, witlt. .success against several good j heavyweight punchers and believes that timing of the "roll away" from a punch is all he ne l ds to win. Gagnon, a good puncher, probab-> |v will employ the orthodox style nf le t hand out and right hand held in readiness.

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Before Gagnon scored luis victory over Griffith he was just another heavyweight trying to get some pine . Tuffy wits the acknowledged leader of the middlewestern contenders for the title left vacant hy Gene Tunney and In flooring him. Gagnon stepped into fame, at I ast temporarily. Griffith today still was favored to win, des uelpro mrtvos Jt-fw KS to win, despite over the loop tliut til fe was a $40,00(1 pool of Gagnon money awaiting ttie proper odds. So far, Tuffy has been an 8 to a favorite. • Gagnon probably will have a three pound advantage. Jack *xpeels to weigh around 186 while Giiffith's le st weight is 183. o —. STANDINGS National League \V I. Pit. Pittslmrgn 0 3 .SIS New 1 York 7 3 .778 Chicago • 7 S ,4‘'7 |St. I»tlis li 7 .4 2 Philadelphia 5 6 .455 Boston 4 5 .444 Brooklyn . 4 7 .304 | Cincinnati 3 8 .273 American League \V 1, P.l Washington . 10 2 .833 Chicago . I! 3 .007 j Cleveland 7 4 .030 1 Philadelphia 0 4 000 St. I.amis 0 0 .000 Boston 4 S .333 I Detroit 4 10 .280 j New York .2 8 .200 American Association W I, Pet Louisville 10 3 .769 Toledo 7 4 .630 Columbus 8 5 .01 r > St. Paul 5 5 .500 Indianapolta 5 5 .500 Kansas City 4 7 .364 Milwaukee 4 s .333 Minneapolis 4 10 .280 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Phi’adelphia, 5: Boston, 2 Brooklyn, 19: New York. 15 Pittsburgh, 13: Chicago. 9 St. Louis at Cincinnati, wet American League Cleveland. 0; St. Louis, 4 Chlcacp. 8; Detroit. 0 Washington, 11; New York. S Philadelphia, 9; Boston. 5. American Association Minneapolis. 10; Indianapolis. 1 I.ouisvillp, 11; St. Paul 1 Toledo, 7; Milwaukee 4 Columbus. 5; Kansas City, 1. — _ n Hatched in Flignt Croydon. England —(CP) -When an air freighter atrived at Croydon Airdrome from the Continent, several chicks had been hatched ('Hiring the flight from a consignment of incubator eggs. | Useful Prize London (UP) —A woman portraying Spring won an umbrella at a dance in North London and used her prize for protection against rain lon th" wav home.

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I Derby Favorite Is On Injured List Lexington, Ky„ April 30 (U.R) A knee injury reportedly has put J Dedicate out of the Kentucky derby. t l According (o an X-ray examination. there Is a bunchy growth on the horse's left knee which will . noroHsitate use of the firing Iron. ! That will mean the colt will be , turned Into pasture for several j months without a chance of get ing ■ back Into racing form before this 11 fall. > 1 Tlie X-ray report was a serious 11 disappointment to owner Fred A : Burton of Chicago. It was the econd time that he has been I forced to stand aside while a derh” favorite went into temporary retirement. In 1924, Wise Counsellor was declared out of the race a week be- | fore it was run. This horse later recovered aud went on to greatI HPHS. O BASEBAIL BRIEFS i * * Major league managers today discussed all thoughts that changes > had been made to reduce the resil- • ieney of Hie "lively hall." and were i|s eking pitchers capable of halt I ing the hatting orgies which have ' featured competition during the past two days. Tuesday's games provided a new I hfeh scoring mark for the year. ' with a total of 123 runs and 181 \ hits in 7 games. Thirty-nine piteh- ' ! ers saw action, with Ray Gouge of ' the Phillies and R d Falter of th" : Chicago White Sox, the only ones ’ to go a full nine innings. Brooklyn's Robins and the New York Giants set the scoring pace, battling through three hours and 10 minutes of wild play, with' ( Brooklyn winning. 19 to 15. The; . Robins scored 11 runs in a second ’ I inning rally to come within three ; ’ | runs of th modern major league! record of 11 runs in one innings held jointly by the New York Yan kees (19201 and the Chicago Cubs I 1(1922). Brooklyn established one record | in that every player scored a run. 1 made a hit and drove in a run during the 11-run attack. Eight pitchers participated in the contest, the Giants using five. Pittsburgh staged a 7-run offens- ' ive against the Chicago Cubs in the sixth inning to win, 13 to 9, and take th. 1 National league lead. Washington's Senators retained th" American league lead and hung up the season's longest winning streak —eight victories- by beating the New York Yankees, 11 to 8. Tii l world champion Philadelphia Athletics pounded three Boston I Rod Sox pitchers for 17 hits and I a 9 to 5 victory, moving to within j j half-a-game of second place. Red Faber, veteran White Sox 1 pitcher, allowed Detroit 14 hits but eked out an 8 to 6 victory and the I Chicago t ant held second place. Ray Rmge, the only other pitchr to go the route, let the Boston Braves down witli five hits and the Phillies won. 8 to 2. The game was a pitching duel between Benge and Bob Smith until the eighth when the Phillies drove Smith, off the mound and scored all of thrir eight runs. ,! Willis Mud lin and Wesley Fer--1 rell held th • St. Louis Browns to seven hits to give the Cleveland ndialis a 6 to 4 victory. Meil Ott of the Giants and Carl j Reynolds, White Sox outfield rs, | led the home run hitters for the day with two each. Cissell of the] White Sox; Hodapp of Cleveland; .McManus of Detroit; Terry of the 'j Giants, Herman of Brooklyn and . Rell of the Cubs aeh got owe, Bell clouting his with the liases filled. SPOUT SHORTS 4 * 1 0 Ann Arbor. Mich., April 30. — Michigan and Chicago meet in a big ten baseball game here today. Dick Montague, the Wolverine mound ac? was expected to pitch i against the invaders. Chicago, April 30. —Chicago turf fans prepared today to gather at tiie reposition race track in Aurora tomorrow for the opening of racing in this district. The season ; will continue, without any breaks. I ito November 1. with some of the largest purs's in the country offeri ed to horse outers. Chicago, April 30. —Casey Stengel, manager of the Toledo club of the American Association has been definitely suspended by President Thomas J. Hickey for his alleged participation in the near riot in the Columbus-Milwaukee game last Sunday. A New One London . — (UP) — George Tryst Coomhes, found hdlng in a cupooard at midnight, old the police. I ‘i am waiting fibr a lady, and being t a gentleman I will not give her name.” Monopoly Revenue Up Sotockhclm —(UP) —The net revenue of the Swedish state from the ! Tobacco Monopoly amounted to 71,920,000 kronor during the past year ! which is al>oi,t 6,000.000 kronor more than during 1928.

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SENATE TO GET NAVAL TREATY ON EARLY DATE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) wliil Borali and Ids colleagues are engaged in a broader examination of the treaty. Chairman Britten, Repn., 111., of the house naval uffalrs committee plans hearings, too. ftoblnson's unequivocal support later to he reinforced by Reed and possible by Morrow, probably will pr v at some criticism which otherwise might he voiced on the floor. The treaty uhundnns the American policy of building only large, heavily armed cruisers. Instead A met leu will divide its tonnage between six ami eight-inch gun (inis rs. It gives Japan a greater pro|mrtinnate strength in auxiliary vessels than that nation enjoyed in capital ships. Tlie treaty contains a contingent ; clause enabling any signatory to exee d treaty tonnage levels merely hy informing th other two of its intention to do so. Tlie treaty , will requite continued expensive building. It failed to obtain reduction in the ctuiser class. All these counts are bring ruisjed against the document by s n alms. The administration chalh ages each hy citing counter bal am ing advantages. ( HURCH GROUP HOLDS SESSION (CONTINUED FROM CAGE ONE) ; formed hy members of the conimision each to consider and report m liar ieular phases of tjie brother | tood's pension movement. Tonight : < a e and regional groups will coni vene.' Committee chairmen, announced ' today. Include K. C. Mobley, Okl *- lnraa City, likla.; M. F. Branch, San | F. anci ao. Cal.: J !,. Wilmeth, Phili.h Iphia. Pa.; .1. R. Mi Wane. Birningham, Ala.; Mrs. R. 11. Renfrew. St Louis, Mo ; Ray Scott. Marsbulli own, la.; Chester B. Grubb. Bloomington. ill.; Merle Sidener, Indiaia polis, I nil.; (Lilt Itiafiton. Kinsi"i. N. (’.: Paul Pres on. Dallas. Lex.; M:s. W. F. Rotlienbnrger, Bilianapolis. Bid.: George \ Miller, Jniaha. Neb.; W. A. Shullenberger. Indianapolis. 1n,1.; "C. M. Rodefer. Bellaire, Ohio; E.S. Jouett, Louisilie. K.v.: W. .1. McGill. Shelbyvilie Ky ; and J. H. Goldner, Cleveland, O. General sessions of the pension ommission w*H dose tomorrow following a discussion of the plans o laise $8,090,000 as a reserve fund i c (lie new pension law It is exerted that loo,ink) church meniliers ill be asked to conduit die soliciatious for this fund. KOCIIER HEADS ROTARY CLUB (CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE( j Secretary; William Rowers treasurr ami Paul Edwards, sergeant at | iritis. The new officers will assume ot-1 ice at tin- first meeting in July Each officer is a director of the •Inti. They were elected a week ago. ("'aimer Porter, president of the club, will also be a member of the hoard, serving as immediate past-/ i: esidmit. Mr Ko her is a former director of the Rotary club and lias been i member of the organization for many .veers. 0 New School Head Is Named In Indianapolis • Indianapolis, April 30. — (U.R) — Paul C. Stetson. Dayton, 0.. will succeed Daniel T. Weir as superintendent of Indianapolis city schools, effective August 1. the board of duration announced today. Stetson lias beeiKpuperintenlent of the Dayton schools for nine yea’s. The position carries a salary of $12,000, an increase of $3,000 over the present salary paid ! in Indianapolis. Bloomington Shows Big Population Gain Bloomington, Bid., April 30.—(U.R) —Bloomington's population growth duiing the last 10 years is equalled only hy that of Gary, according to | the Indiana university bureau of) business research, and substantial-1 ed by 1930 census figures. The city’s population has increased by 6,619 since the last enumeiation. The 1930 figure Is 18,214. and was 11,595 ten years ago. Bloomington is the largest city in the second congressional district with Vincennes at 17,532, second. In 1920 Vincennes was a few 1 thousand residents ahead nf Bloomington. o Kills Game Wardens South San Francisco, Calif. April ; 30 (UP)— A fisherman shot it one • with two game wardens who tried to seize his catch here today. He killed them both and suffered moital w'ounds himself. One game warden vyas believed > to have been Andrew Curry. The - other has not yet- been identified, r The fisherman was> Anton Andor- ■ son, giant swede waterfront character of Crockett.

ICE-BREAKING 1 SKIPPER GETS :! ANCIENT HAT i Honors of Toronto Harbor Conferred Affording to Custom —— 'I Toronto. Out.. April 30 (l!P) Captain Bob Wright, master of tho ’I sand-sucker Sandland has been • ceremoniously crowned with an nescient silk hat as a reward for be ‘ ini! skipper of tlie first craft to en--1 ter Toronto harbor after tlie break-’ '! inc "p of the Lake Ontario Ice. Since 1864. tlie Toronto harbor, I master has observed the custom of (presenting a silk lint to the eap- ! tain of tlie first boat entering toe cliartmr in the Spring, marking the | formal opening of tin* lake navlga- ■ tion season. i The same hat has been used in . the ceremony for the las; 70-odd . years. The original hat Jias been i considerable wear and tear, so to (add some material value to the honor of award of the hat, a brand new sky-piece is presented to th ■ honored skipper after the harbor mas er goes through the ceremony of placing the time honored headgear on the proud skipper’s head Shortly after the Sandland was tied to her dock, after bringing a load of sand from the banks of tlie Niagara River. Captain F. J. Mangold. harbor commissioner who is . his former capacity of skipper of tho Dalhousie City h.»l won the hat . 10 times, placed the ancienj top-hat on Captain Wright's head while harbor commission officials and officers of several steamship lines looked on. Bandits In Jail Break Mt. Vernon. Bid.. April 30. — 'U.R) Polio- searched today for two alleged bandits who cut though thick iron bars to escape from the •osev ccuntv jail last night. The pair. Luther Burkett, 22. San Pedro, Calif., and Steve Evans, 30, were held for the burglary of a general store here Saturday night. Their escape was effected when they cut liars on windows of the "bull pen" and dropped into the basement under the sheriffs residence. o UNITED STATES C. OF C. BLAMED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ed support of (he farm board. Selecting a comparison of vital j interest to his audience. Leggo said it was ftt’ly as important to prevent a decline in farm prices as to avoid a collapse in security prices on the stock market In the past. I-egge said, the | chamber has favored the co-oper-ative marketing of farm products, j But he added that the attitude of the chamtier in recent months lias offered “considerable evidence that entirely too many of your members were for the principle of cooperation only eo long as it didn't j work.” "I am spre most of you will agree that you know more aliout the agricultural marketing situation and how to meet it than I do,” he said. "A considerable percentage of your membership lias made that quite clear, nnd perlwips the best answer 1 can make is the statement that if this he true, and you rea'ly do know so much about it, that situation presents a very severe indictment of the organizaMon which, having full information nf the facts, lias made so little '-Port to remedy the situation. “1 do not recall in years gone by of hearing you business men making any such complaint against government aid that was extended Ito tlie manufacturing industry, to transportation and to finance.” Increase in Missing Berlin - (UP) —An nveiage of 13 "sid"'!' l of Berlin every day were •eported missing in 1928, while h - iaily average rose to 14 in "cording to a police report just isoted. Approximately half the missing persons were between the age 3 I f 14 and 2U less than one-tenrh I being children under 14, while the j est were ever 21. In 1929 :he police 1 succeeded in clearing tip all but a—vh 200 of 'he eases.

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Friendship Ends In Fatal Shooting Affair , Chicago, April 30. — (U.R) I rug- j oily's shadow lay today over the tumble down lints of the Squatters'; < colony on Lake Culumet. where the 1 or- boats come In. 1 Torn Cavanaugh and Robert And- ' erson, both 65 nnd boon cnmpnu-. 1 ions over may years, will never 1 again meet in Cavanaugh's shack \to talk over old times. For Anderson, u laborer, 4 was dead. Police j said * Cavanaugh, a muskrat trap- j per,- confi ssod to shooting him last night wlien the two argued wliil" drinking together. Mrs. Anna \nderson, 45, thp widow, found her husband's body > jin Cavanaugh's shack when lie did : , not return home early today. o Adams County Bankers Hold Meet at Berne The Adams County Bankers' j association met last evening at; Berne. After a banquet held at i the PeojVes Restaurant, a round table discussion took place. Plans for a credit bureau for Adams; county were discussed. Officers j were then elected, Elmer Baumgartner. cashier of the Bank of Heine, was re-elected president. Marl I vlmrgor of Linn Grove was re-elected' secretary, and Lewis Aimsftong, of the Peoples Loan and Trust company, of this citv, was appointed chairman of the protective committee. i Those in attendance from thU city were: M. Kirscli, C. E. Bell. C. L Walters. Lewis Armstrong. jC. A. Dugan, Theodore Gralikor, B. Glendenning. H. Krnkeberjji J. IV. TyndaT, Robert Melhers. AIIs’i t Scheiman and Frank Si hirI meyer. Demonstration Is Urged — Indiana Harbor, Bid., April 30— 'UP)—A May day demonstration! t Indiana Harbor is urged in litera- j are distributed among workers 1 throughout the calumet district, avoiding to authorities. It is charg'd that communists have issued the all Violence is reported urged in the ’iterature and workers are told to Tght authorities. Police said thev would move to prevent a meeting. Tells Strange Story Anderson, Bid., April 30—(UP) — ;> olice today were investigating tho story of a mysterious attack upon Mrs. Jane Vernon, 35. Indianapolis, ■ ’lie she lay in the hosipral ward <f the co ’ll y jail at Anderson.

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Mrs. Vet non wns found unconscious in a ditch along the new castle-Pendleton pike, three miles west of Murklesvflle, yesterday, apparently thrown there from an auto She told sheriff Frank Daniels a disconnected stoiy of a quarrel wi a her husband, and having'accepted a tide to India*.i polls with u .stranger. Mrs. Vernon said she could re mmemhe: no further. The husband has not been located, Town Curfow Stolen Wabash. Ind . April 30. (U.R) The curs.-w Hltall not ring ut Rich Valley, (ive miles west of Wabash, until next September. After alt the villug rs had retired someone climbed Into the sclioolhotise tower and stole the ticll usisi lo call tlie children In the mornings and lo send them home In the evenings. School officials said the Isdl would not in' replaced until the fall term op ns. Sops Dry Law Death Indianapolis, April 30.— (JJJ?) — Doom of the prohibition law within live years was forecast today by Clarence Harrow, famed criminal lawyer and agnostic, in a friendly lire akfast table discussion with Rish.ip E. 11. Hughes of the Methodist church. The gi av-haiml bishop turned a

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