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FAVORITES WIN IN TENNIS MEET Now York, Mar. 17— (UP) Wi‘!i th-’ singles field already ro.ktei d to Hi players and five da .» o f p’ny remaining, doubles coni! ■ ’’lt lon held sway today at the national indoor tennis championsh'ps at seventh regiment armoryOnly two singles mate lies ar > scheduled today, lean Borotra of Franco, favored to take the title for the fourth time in six years, will play Edward Burns of New York in the first match. His chi, f rivel; Frank X. Shields of New York, will meet Mitchell RosenI -nm. also of New York, in the other. The first two rounds in the singles produced little excitement and to date only one seeded pl.iyej- Donald Cram of Nashville. Tenn., lias been eliminated. The n-nn expected to produce the •> inn r — Borotra. Shields. Chris‘■‘an Ponwi, Pierre Landry, Ber'■ntoy Bell and Cliff Sutter —came P-en-’h their matches with ease. Thi r d round singles matches will be completed tomorrow and tlm nnarter-finals Thursday will provide the first competition between seederl stars. Meanwhile preliminary matches in the doubles will monopolize the courts. Almost all of the singl’s entrants have entered the doubles competition in an attempt to win the honors taken last year by Perrine Rockafellow and Merritt Cutter of New York. The French stars. Borotra and Boussus. will play as -a team and are favored to win the championship. Landry, the third French competitor, will play with an, American partner. TMSKSftfWL ----- rwtei (By Pete Reynolds) Congratulations Yeliow Jackets, on your great battle in the regional tourney Saturday. You played the two best teams in the tourt.cy and made a remarkable showing. A'l Decatur is prot.d of the Yellow Jackets for their fight against odds in both games. —oOo— | And congratulations to the Bluffton Tigers for their victory and i i ham-e to make the trip to the state finals. We feel sure that every Yellow Jacket player and fan wishe; t § best of luck to the Tigers this ' week-end. / » —-000 — Decatur has had one of the best j records this season every compiled 1 y a Yellow Jacket team. The hoys went out and captured the championship of the Northeastern Ind .ana conference without the loss of a panto, the second successive year the Yellow Jackets have accomplished this leaf. —oOo — Ineii’dtiig the regional tourney and i.. invitational meet at A-i-Jnrti. Decatur lost only three ball

Ancient Rivals Meet Asain Ai ! ■ |Oxford 1031 tcx t swy s *N (WNBiWwiBI \ I ft. Jr-'" \ t— —— ■' Cam BRIDGE 1031 GwEv. ;

The rowing classic of England—-and some say of ♦ the world—will be staged Saturday, March 21st, on i the Thames near London. Oxford and Cambridge , crews meet for their eighty-second annual race and . all England is prepared to witness a gruelling en- i counter. Rivalry between these two famous scats ; of learning dates back more than a century, the boat i

'games nil season. Two of these duI teats were inflicted by Bluffton and |one by Auburn Each of these teams , wtU deleated twit- by the Yellow .l.u Io :s, <o there you are. Backetball regrets being unable to see the Decatur-Huntington game ’ Saturday afternoon. From all we can learn about that game it was a "hvmd.nger", if yoi. know what we ■ mean. “ oOo — We must ndmit It is a gre:U reflet' to see a team other than one of ’lie Fort Wayne schools represent this section of the state at the final tourney. It has been rather wearing • to the soul to watch the "big city ’ i teams go down to Indianapolis yea • after year without the “other teams j in this section having a chance. An.l he Fort Wayne teams haven't al- - ways looked cc good at Indianapo--oGo—- •| De-otur furs will have one last i I chance to honor the 1931 Yellow ■ * Jackets tonight at the D, 11. S. gym. 1 The seniors of this year's team will ' play the underclassmen in their annual battle Receipts of this garnet will be used to pay th > expenses of ‘ .the squad to ’he final tourney Fri-j ’ ' day and Saturday. 000— The game will not start tonight , nt til 8:45 o'clock. Let's everybody | (turn out and give the Yellow Jack-’ i.ets a real hand tonight. —oOo— Friend Ruck, at Bluffton, picks himself an all-regional team. For i his first team, he chooses the five I Bluffton regulars, and three Decatur Yellow Jackets. The two Bluffton substitutes are on the second team. As to honorable mention. ' i there is none. 000 Tiere are his selections: . First Team Forwards —Emshwiller. Bluffton; i ! I. Hill. Decatur: Bender. Bluffton ! Center: — Hesh er . Bluffton; | S bnep i. Decatur. Guards — Rector. Bluffton: DeBolt. D- - atur: Warnock. Bluffton. , Second Team Forwards- Bonham, North Side; R"d’cel. Huntington; Showalter. ; Bluffton. Centers — Vauris, North Side; I Furling. Bluffton. Guards —Scott, North Side; Carroll, Huntington: Zsrk'.e. Decatur.; 000 Th»v are still celebrating over et Bluffton for their victory. Can’t blame them a bit. We would co ■ the same thing here if we had a chance. Saturday night, the team was met by the fire truck, a huge bonfire was built and a regular jollification was held. Then Monday mo ning, school wis dismissed and they paraded all over the town. And they sav baske’ball is losing i s hold on the public. 000 Received quite a long contrlbui tinn th-'j morning, in fact, too long to print. The writer, or writers,, find serious fault with the failure >f the fans to properly support the Yellow Jacket team during the i regular season and in the sectioni al and regional tourneys. 000 Three Indiana teams are enter- ! "■d inethe National Catholic tourney c.t Loyola this week, according to the schedule drawn. Washington. Ind., will open the tourney at 7 pin. Wednesday, meeting Pittsburgh, Pa. Washington won the state tourney held two weeks ago at Indianapolis. Cathedral of Indianapolis, runnerup, will play Portsmouth. Ohio, at 9 a. m. Friday. Fort Wayne C.C. will play

race having first been staged in 1829 lhere were i omissions from time to time but for many years the eights have met annually on the Thames course. Cambridge, last year’s winner, has defeated Oxford forty-one times. One race was a dead heat and Oxford's winning score stands at forty. Oxford is out to even matters in Saturday’s contest.

Cellar Rapids, lowa, at 2 p. m. Thursday. 000 This is ths final issue of Basketbawl for the present season. It has been a pleasure to conduct | this column, even considering a 1 few cf the handicaps, and Pete i wants to thank his readers for I their kind indulgence and forbearance during the past few j weeks. So goodbye and good luck. 000 Al' REVOIR! WESTERN TEAMS ROLL ROOD SCORE Buffalo, N. Y..“ Mar. 17.—<U.RJ— I Bowlers from the midwest rolled I into prominence yesterday at the. American Bowling Congress match-j es. W. Kemper and M. S< honacker. , Indianapolis, landed first in the | doubles with 1.287. F. Lins and H. Wellnits, Milwaukee, piled up 1.21.) , points in this event, closely followled. by H. Polana and F. Tholme.l (Aurora. 111., with 1.201. The rec-1 lord for the doubles is 1,380. In the five man event Paul Smidt and Son. Hammond. Ind., led the| I field with 2.892 points. The record is 3.199. held by th.’ Tea Shops, i Milwaukee. I C. Daw. Milwaukee, rolled 711; for fust place in the singles. Otto Jensen. Terre Haute, rolled 662. followed by H. Rebenscheid. Dan-. I ville. 111., with 611. M. Hart, Dan-1 ' ille, and A. Conk tied with 650.1 The record of 774 was made last year by La ry Shotwell. Covington. ; 111. In the all events G. Daw, Milwaukee. roilixl 1.55:l and A. Bess-1 | ert. Milyauk-’e, scored 1.532. F Olson. Elgin, tolled 1.522 and ’ I E. Hornberger. Indianapolis, scored' '1,819. lite record cf 2,019 was 1 made in 1923 by William J. Knox, I Philadelphia. | , , _ 0 . Eddie Vonr in Signs Cleveland Contract New Orleans. La.. Mar. 17. —<U.R) —Eddie Morgan. Cleveland first baseman, has deserted the ranks iof majnr league holdouts and will I play with the Indiana again in j 1931. Morgan signed a contract late: last night after a long conference! with general manager Billy Evans. The contract is believed to call for SIO,OOO. 1 SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF TERRIBLE DISASTER CONTINVkI) FROH PAGF ONE' | , u d b»en ramme.l by a powerful i ’ >amer and there was a roar like j the exploding of a hundred tor- ■ : edoes. .The men along the main berth ! ’ ’ on midship to forecastle were I I , -brown out of their berths. Others we ■ knocked down. We were all ' rinz’d by a terrible crashing sound I 'and the --hip dipped. The lights I ent out. We were dazed for a moment ; n 1 then there were screams on ; .11 sides. We struggled to mqke I our •■’ ay' to deck. I believe that ’ ■'-(■y man forward of the engine' loern escaped without injuries t'ior ■ serious than a few I raises. ' all oi’t - n the ice soon,!

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931.

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and ihcn we realized what had happened. U’e saw .ill the after part of the Hi) blown t« pieces—parts of the lock and sales. mizen mast and anarter deck and everything mov■thin scattered about the ice. 'more the wreckage we could s"e ''.lies Ivimr motionless and other men struggling to get out of the u < keen. Th°y were moaning ami ca'ling for help from all sides.l % Tho aft part of the vessel had "i-noet disappeared except for the v rb' knge strewn o.i the ice. A f'r> started in the engine room ' also from lhe second deck the forecstle. Some closely packed ice kept the forward part of the sh’i? from sinking rirht away. Some of the m»n tried to get back between decks to get food and clothing. They couldn’t get i much. The flames and smc'.ce made ft imposs-'hte to get below t ,>t some of the men got a 'itt’e food before the fire had t urned much. Wo h"ln°d the injured men to «et out of the wreckage. Some | of the men were killed and others ■ or-' ma'indd and died soon. Some [bore died on the way to shore. s’o’ivtv knowe how many were' ’’lied. but we think there were al-out 22. I don't know how mauv ' were in hired. There were two! ■’awaways on the ship. Both of ■ ‘hem reached the island safely. > pd uninjured. 1 have not seen the New York men s’et-' th” explosion, but I heard T’-’seell was with the snr-vi-.-'"-s on the ice. Wo 'on’t know what caused the , ■x’>!o'’i'>n. but don’t think it was 'he toi’er because the damage was -roatost am:d»htp. Most of the n : -"dng were killed in theik berths , ’nd went down with the ship. Carte’n Keen »•.,, rescued in an "■"'•"smoiin condition. I think snntf 1 of the injured will, ■each shore. n>"( fuse their ship-' -n.ite> are sticking bpr them. ANOTHER riot BREAKS OT T IN JOLIET PRISON ICONTINUFO FROM PAGE ONE), in the prison for minor offenses, | isurged and battled back and forth i in the bandroom. Guards stationed nearby but outside the room ditj. not hear the disturbance. After 15 minutes or so the convicts quit cf their own accord and the injured ones started toward the hospital. * t Kness and Hill said while several of the men were cut guards l were unable to find any knives. Apparently the convicts Jought with ’ saxophones, trombones, drumsticks |or whatever weapons they could .lay their hands on, Hill said. Hill attributed the riot to the , general unrest in the two prisons j four miles apart after the more serious rioting last Saturday. Only , Sunday Knesk unearthed a plot for [a wholesale break, confiscating six ; saws and a code message which ■ contained plans for the break. o_ Aircraft Construction The average airplane contains at least :<u kinds <>f wooden parts. lh»- ■ Pepa 11 men) ol Agriculture points out. stressing the vital Importance of glue In aircraft construction I 0 FOR SALE—Plenty pork cracklings for chicken reed, 2c a pound or $1.75 per 100. H. P. Schmitt Meat Market. . 65t3

* Ihe machinery ot this giant project na- < en -et in T motion by Secretary of the Interior Ray I ymati Wilbur (right), pictured with Dr Elwood Mead. Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation as the contract calling for construction was officially signed. (Upper) An artist'- drawing showing how Boulder Dam will look when completed

SEALER VIKINGG IS WRECKED OFF NEWFOUNDLAND i CONTINUED FROM CAGE ONc.’ expressed the belief that tile three Americans were killed in the ex-, plosion. He was in a critical con-; dition, awaiting arrival if relief ships with doctors and medicine, and painfully made the following' statement: “I am unable to account for the I cause of the disaster. It was due,] in my opinion, to an explosion in j the magazine while the boatswain and men were opening a powder, keg for the next day’s use. That is merely a surmise, of course. ?! “I think all the men in the cabin section were killed outright by the explosion. They included Frissell.’ Sargent. Penrod, the engineers, wireless operator, navigator, cooks, cabin steward and boatswain. The mate had a leg broken and I don't think he will survive.” St. Johns. Newfoundlan 1. Mar. 17. — (U.R'- -A band of wounded and exhausted seamen of the shattered I sealing ship Viking waged a dog ged battle for life today on the ice > floes off Horse Island, scene of one’ of the worst disasters of the north 1 in many years. The seamen —some of them dying and others who refused to' abandon their wounded comrades —were the marooned survivors of the Viking, which was wrecked and■ burned Sunday njght by an explos-, while held fast in the ice. They were struggling against the breaking of the ice floes and| against a stiff wind which slowly: carried the ice out to sea, diminishing hourly their hopes of rescue. Early this morning the latest in-j formation from Horse—lsland said i the survivors on the ice were making progress toward safety. Several who reached the island report ' ed that the others were making tedious advances because the wind was blowing the ice out from the I shore and " the temperature was dropping. Some of the injured were unable to walk. All of them were suffering from lack of food and water and were eating ice to relieve their thirst. A; few had small quantities of hard i bread. They said they feared some of the injured would not survive | the night. There were about -140 to 150 Newfoundland seamen and three United States citizens on the Viking. Os this number 20 to 34 were , estimated in various messages to have been killed outright by the 1 explosion. A total of 62 others j reached Horse Island in small i groups after hours of struggle over eight miles of ice. The number still maroonedy in-I eluding the dead, was estimated at between 80 or 90, with officials atj Horse Island unable to estimate the number of survivors because! the injured men were dying on the ice. The survivors who reached the island were unable to give a coherent story of the disaster or to estifnate accurately the number of dead. The missing included Varick; Erissell, Yale graduate and scien-l Hist of New York, who was making, a motion picture of winter sealing activities; Henry Jackson Sargent of Boston, an amateur explorer and l a graduate of Harvard; and A. E. Penrod of New' York, camera man for Frissell. Captain Abram Kean, Jr., master of the Viking, was carried to Horse

Island in a serious condition, sufI sering from concussion of the brain and bodily injuries. It was feared he would die before doctors reached the island. The weather remained good, with ! the sky clear, as the rescue effoits. were speeded by ship and by every 1 means possible on the part of residents of the island. The steamship Foundation Franklin of the Montreal Salvage Company, out of St. Johns, was due to reach the scene 1 this morning in an effort to pick ■up the marooned seamen before 1 they are blown far out to sea. The government steamer Sagona was due later in the day.' Messages from Horse Island said strong hope still was held that the J marooned men would reach the island, which is surrounded by tightly-racked ice which becomes floating ice cakes several miles 'out from the coast. The wind was blowing against the me n, however, and late Monday night some of them were reported about 12 miles from the coast, whereas the explosion occurred only eight i miles off shore. The rescue ships en route from St. Johns were expected to searchi ,the ice floes off the ccast in an i effort to pick up the suivivors who I were ma ooned on floating ice. | I Horse Island, sometimes called St. | Barbe Island, is a small body of land about 16 miles off the north-; I ern coast of Newfoundland ami some 225 miles by air line in a, j northwesterly direction from St.; I Johns. A group' of seven survivors who i were the last to reach Horse IsI land on Monday night said that ■several of the wounded in their; party had collapsed en route. Some' lof the seamen in the party had re ' ; fused to leave the exhausted men and were standing by at the risk iof their own lives, although they would have been able to continue. I to safety had they desired. The men had been exposed to' ! cold and had been without food I since 9 p. m. Sunday, when an explosion — probably caused by the dvnamite which sealers carry to break ice blockades or perhaps by a defect in the boiler —destroyed the 50-year-old Viking. The radio I operator at Horse Island heard the ! rumble of the blast and saw a great j sheek of flame leap into the sky. I The aft part of the ship was wrecked, the survivors revealed later, and virtually all of the men in the cabin were killed. The United States members of the party ■ had quarters! in the cabin. The i blast hurled wounded and dying j onto the ice and the others escap.i ed from the burning ship only to I be stranded on the treacherous ice. I They were all in. a pitiful condiI tion from shock and wounds as i they began the eight mile trek across the ice to Horse Island. The flames frem the ship lighted their i'path at first, but later they fought i on in the darkness, aiding those ■ who were too exhausted to go on. II Part of the struggle was witnessed i from the shore, where watchers > could see men slip and fall to the f ice or into the water. Men from Horse Island, accus-j t! tomed to the rigors of an ice-lock--led home, went out on the'floes to [laid in the rescue, but the difficult [ ties of crossing, the ice hindered t their efforts. Late Monday morn--1! ing, the first group of 15 survivors . staggered to the shore, exhausted t and incoherent. There was a lack of medical supplies to care for r them and there were no doctors s to attend to the dying. Physicians

and nurses-will not roach the is-1 land until the steamer Sagona makes Its way there through the Ice. The survivors were given every possible attention on the island, hut several of them were uircon | scions and others were In urgent' need of professional medical cure. | Some hud be.en exposed to cold for' 18 hours or more after falling into! the water in the scAumble to escape from the sinking Viking. Several were drowned at the side of the ship. —o 1 VIOLENT BLAST ROCKS DENVER (('ONTINL’FD FROM that lights had been seen in the house an hour before the explosion. Mr. and Mrs. P?”ks. both inva-; i.nd suffeied

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