Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1931 — Page 6

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BERNE QUINTET WINSEIGHTH GRADE TOURNEY Defeats St. Joe, Decatur, 11 to 8 In Hard Fought Battle Saturday The Borno eighth grade team won the blind tourney, held Satur’ day at the I). H S. gym. by. defeating the St. Joe team in the final game, 11 to 8. The game was close and hard fought all the way. Berne held a one-point lead at the fir: t half, 4 to 3. Steiner, Be ne, forward, was th» leading scorer with two field goals and the same number of free throws. Bentz ied the St. Joe team in scoring with two field goals and a foul toss. Both teams scored three field goals, Berne winning by exhibiting greater accuracy from the free throw lin“. In the consolation game, Decatur Central easily defeated the Jefferson team. 31 to 15. Tins game was close dining the first half, whicn

ended with Decatur leading, 6 to 5. In the afternoon games, Berne defeated Central, 13 to 11 and St. Joe eliminated Jefferson, 21 to 20. I i*neup and summary of all games: Berne (11) FG FT TP Neuenschwander, f. 0 11 Steiner, f. 2 2 G Stucky, c. Oil Denny, g. 10 2 Neuhouser, g Oil Habegger, g, 0 0 0 Totals 3 5 11 St. Joe (8) FG FT TP Lose, f. Oil R. Hess, f. 0 0 0 D. Hess, f. 0 0 0 B aden, c. 0 0 0 Murphy, g. 10 2 Bentz, g. 2 1 5 taub, g 0 0 0 Totals 3 2 S Central (31) FG FT TP Hollopeter, f. 5 0 101 Aesehliman, f. 0 0 0l Peterson, f. 0 0 01 Ritter, c. . 4 1 !»' Hitler, g. . 3 0 •> R. Ritter, g 3 0 6 Jackson, g. 0 0 0 Totals 15 1 31 Jefferson (15) FG FT TP Boilenbacher, f. 3 17 Foreman, f 2 .0 4 Boilenbacher. c. 11 3 Baker, g. Oil Weist, g. 0 0 0 Yancy, g. 0 0 0 Totals G 3 15

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Berne (13) FG FT TP Nenenschwander, f. 2 0 4 teiner, f 1 2 4 I Stucky, c. 1 <> 2 I Denny, g. 11 3 Nowhot.ser, g. 0 0 0 ’ Totals 5 3 13 Central (11) FG FT TP Hollopeter, f. (10 0 Peterson, f 0 11 • Aoschliman, f. 0 0 0 Reynolds, f. 0 0 11 . (’. Ritter, c 0 <1 0 11. Ritter, g. 2 0 4 i Butler, g. .226 “Jackson, g. 0 0 0 J Totals 4 3 11 St. Joe (21) FG FT TP Dose, f. .01-1 Hess, f. .12 4 Braden, c. 3 0 6 j , Murphy, g. ...... .2 0 t Bentz, g 2 0 4 Staub, g. 1 0 2 K. Colchin, c. ..... . 0 0 0 Totals 9 3 21 Jefferson (20) FG FT TP Bollenbacher, f. 2 0 1 ‘ | Wiest, f. 0 2 2 , I Bollenbacher, c. 12 4 ! Foreman, g. ...... 0 0 o | Miller, g 0 0* 0 Baker, g. 2 6 10

Totals 5 10 20 KIRKLAND LOSES TO NEW HAVEN The Kirkland Kangaroos lost a hard fought game to New Haven Saturday night a: Kirkland. 15 to 14. Kirkland rallied strongly in the second half after trailing at the end of the first half, 11 to 4. The Kirkland team was severely handicapped by sickness and injury to two regulars. Beery, who has been on the sick list for several days, played part of the Unal quarter and nearly pulled the game out' of the fire for the Kanga r oos. Beery and Egly were high scorers j for Kirkland with two Held goals ■lea h. Bolyard, Moser and Tustison ! looked the best for New Haven. The i New Haven reserves easily won the ■ preliminary, 26 to 9. j Lineup and summary: ■ Kirk'and FG. FT. TP. 'Zimmerman, f 11 3 McKean, f 10 2 i Dettinger, c 0 0 0 ■ Sch'aden g 0 0 0 Egley g .. .. 2 0 4 I Borne, g .0 11 Beery, f 2 0 4 Totals 6 2 11 New Haven Bolyard t 2 15 Hoetzer f 1 0 2 Moser, c 2 0 4 Roemer g 0 0 0 Tustison g .. 0 4 4 Totals 5 5 15 Referee: Meyer. Umpire: Horton

■ELEVEN TEAMS : ENTER TOURNEY * I Eleven teams have entered the fourth annua) state Catholic tout ' ney which will be held at the NaI tional Armory at IndianapoliS. FriI I day and Saturday, February 27 and 1 28. Sacred Heart, of Indianapolis. ' has entered in addition to the ten 1 teams which were announced last > week. > The schedule will be drawn so - that no team will be forced to play , two games Saturday to qualify for • the final round. No Saturday morn- . ing session will be held this year. Four games will be played Friday ; I afternoon, starting at one o’clock I with three games scheduled for Fri- ■ day night. The semi-finals will be , played Saturday afternoon with final battle at 8 p. m. Saturday. Bi. h Bayh, of Terre Taute, and John Miller of Anderson will officiate during the entire tourney. They will be assisted during the Friday session by Nate Kaufman of Shelbyville. The drawing will be made at Cathedra* high school, in Indianpolls, at 8 p. m. Saturday Febru-' ary 21. 0 Commodore Seconds Have Game Tuesday The Commodore seconds will play the C. C. of Fort Fayne seconds here Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock. There will be a prelimin ary game at 7:30 between the St. Joe eighth grade team and the Hartford township eighth graders. Admission prices will be 25 cents and 10 cents. o — NORTHWESTERN ■ STILL UNBEATEN Chicago. Feb. 16—(U.R)-With the Big Ten basketball championship vtrtna’ly assured for Northwestern, the Wildcats today set their goal for an undefeated season. Having won 12 straight games—seven of them in the conference — Northwestern will meet Illinois at Evanston tonight in one of the-five remaining games scheduled for the unbeaten Wildcats. Two games ahead of its closest rival, Minnesota, and with only five games left to play, it seems that nothing less than a complete collapse can keep Northwestern from coasting home to the cage championship. Os the five games left for Northwestern to play, two are with the last-place lowa team and one eacn with Illinois. Minnesota and Ohio State, the latter trio already deI seated by the Wildcats in previous I games. The hardest spot in Northwestern’s remaining schedule appears to be the game with Minnesota at Minneapolis. February 23 In thei'first meeting Northwestern tri umphed, 35-26, after trailing at half time. Three other games are scheduled tonight besides the Northwest-ern-Illinois battle. They are Wisconsin lowa at lowa City; Chicago Ohio State at Columbus, and Pur-due-Minnesota at Minneapolis. Every team will be in action Saturday with Chicago at Illinois, Northwestern at lowa, Indiana at I Michigan, Wisconsin at Purdue and | Minnesota at Ohio State. Saturday’s results: Northwestern. 27; Chicago, 15. Purdue, 28; Indiana, 15. Illinois, 26; lowa, 23. Minnesota, 42; Wisconsin, 15. Pvthians Honor School Where Ritual Was Written Marquette, Mich., Feb. 16.—(U.R) —The little school house at Eagle Point where Julius Rathbone, then a teacher, wrote the ritual for the Knights of Pythias, will be dedicated July 11 as a national Pythian shrine. For many yearj the school was abandoned, but recently, Michigan Pythians restored it to its original site and repaired it. Eagle Harbor is < coupled in the w.ntei by a few fishermen. In the summer It Is a summer resort. o Man Married Three Times Died Sunday Noblesville, Ind., Feb. 16—(UP) — Eleven children survice Elijah Steele. 75. farmer, whit died yesterday at his home in Western Hamilton county. Steele survived thi ee wives, two of them sisters, and the third their ,sister-in-law. Seven children from I the first two marriages died. I

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1931

ASKS CHAIRMAN TO RECONSIDER (CONTINCn'D FROM PAOK ONUB :cago concerning Legge’s projected retirement. He expressed regret J and said the country were I losing H devoted friend. Ptesident Hoover, according to reliable sources, also feels that Legge has been doing n good job which Is only half finished. Ho would like the chairman to remain until his task is further along the road to a definite set-up, it wan I said. i The action of the president, seeki ing to retain one of his big business friends in comparatively lowpaid government service, became known following publication of additional reports that Legge wants to return to private life after March 4. Legge as chairman of the Inter national Harvester Company is believed to have drawn a salary of about SIOO,OOO a year. In the gov-! ernment service he received but, $12,000. While liis personal fortune might permit him to remain' indefinitely at the smaller salary,l his friends say his understanding | with 'Mr. Hoover was that his chair-! manship on the farm board was to! be only temporary. He was to get the machinery well organized and then turn the operation of it over to someone else. He believes his plan is in full operation and is ready to relinquish it to other hands. Furthermore, associates say his strenuous efforts to bring j relief to the farmers have brought

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down upon him much criticism j , | which does not rest well. » The matter was recently discussi ed at the White House by Vice - Chairman James C. Stone of MisI souri. Who might succeed Legge if i the harveste rchief Insists upon re- > turning to his original field. Slone luis declined to discuss his confer- > epee with the President, but lie is ! understood to be one of those who i is representing Mr. Hoover’s alii- • tilde to Legge. EIGHT PERSONS ARE KILLED (CONTINUED FROM PA-’’?: ?NE) ■ 28. was seriously hurt. ’ Traveling southward, the Budek car struck a pile of stones which • workmen had left in the street. It siwerved suddenly and crashed into the northbound street car. Tire front of the street car was . <aved in and the automobile was ■ tossed back, rolling over ar.d over I ito the curb, 20 feet away. . No one on the street car was ! injured seriously. — Goshen. Ind., Feb. 16 —(U.R) — i Vernon Shriner, 19. of near New ! Paris, Ind., was killed near here 1 Sunday when his auto was struck by a train. Shriner had just left the home of his sweetheart, half 1 a mile from the crossing. t Shelbyville. Ind., Feb. 16 —(U.R)-- • Collision of two autos near here t Saturday night caused the death of Mrs. Opal K. Stainbrook, 27, . and serious injuries to Mr. and ' jMrs. Virgil Stainbrook, occupants ; of the same machine.

lesl “Sub-Polar Atmosphere” kA' 2 ’ W tr tq.j.hal exp’oration of the icy a( Camden, N. J-. about Arctic wastes, Captain Sloan su hmerge in a test of the new D:■nenhower. who will command “synthetic air” his crew wil s.r Hubert Wilkins’ submarine breathe when submerged.

Clarence Stainbrook, husband ot the death victim, was uninjured. | John Jongs, occupant of the other auto, was taken to a hospital with injuries, but others in that machine , esiaped with minor hurts. Mishawaka, Ind.. Feb. 16 <U.R> — Two Nappanee men were killed, and their women companions were injured seriously, when their

auto was struck at the Taylor street New York Central railroad crossing here Sunday. Jes.se E. Overholzer, 42, and Paul W. Erbaugn. 36, died of injuries, and Miss Margaret Delury, 22, „nd Miss Margaret Rensberger, 22, were injured. Both the women were expected to recover. Erbaugh is survived by his widow and three children.

SENATE TAKES 1 UP NAVAL Bill FHOM PAGE o J al vessels. The deck cruiser is a li).iioo- lon ,. ”1 mental type to mount , IS '] guns. The second cruiser mount six-inch guns ami , liay T"l any tonnage up to lO.oiio, I The usual six-inch gun crutal of 7,500 tons, but at the |2j naval conference American "J urged upon the American ,|,|J tion the advantages o f an ( . K ,J mental type which would carry j minimum six-inch gun p nW( . r J attain the maximum of lo.uoi) J permitted under previous lit,J tion agreed to for cruisers ut j Washington arms conference. J navy has not completed designs fl this second cruiser and its t., nn J is not determined. Radical change is .planned il in tennage of the aircraf carr.J i The proposed carrier would j I comparatively small, 13.800 ton The purpose of this change tr i i the la. ger vessels is to obtain plane-carrying units. The treat | limitation on aircraft carriers 1 135,000 tons. The navy general board also re ‘ ommends smaller submarines at ' proposes to restrict Hie four whit would be authoiized in this bin ! 1.100 tons each. i Some insurgent republicans at several Democrats in the sen 'are hostile to naval construction this time. The brief time rental ing before adjournment March p.obably will prevent the sena acting on the measure.

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