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N.E.I.G. MEETING AT BLUFFTON niuffton, Ind., April 1 I Special)' —Representatives from nine of til eleven high schools in the North-' eastern Indiana HiKh School Conference held a meeting in this city Monday and apt the date of May !, or the animal trac k and field iiipp . The invitation extended by tin Itliifltmi school for holding the meet lure was accepted. Principal (). It. (tangs, of this city, president of ill ■ conference, presided at the meeting. Schools represented at the meeting were the three Port Wayne schools, Central, North Side an! South Side, and Decatur, Kendallville, Portland. Auburn, Hartford City and Hluffton. (larrett and Columbia City were not represented. During the meeting words were introduced to show that Central of Port Waytie had w.on tne conference trophy cup three years in succession. The conference voted to! make this trophy the permanent j property of Central. Decatur has won the basketball; trophy two years in succession and should that school w inn again next year, the cup will become the permanent property of that school. It was indicated that at least eight schools will participate in the trar,; and field meet here. Columbia City I Decatur and Clarrett were tne schools not making a definite decision to enter. The annual golf and tennis tournament will be held at Kendallvilie, May X, starting at 8 o'clock, accord ing to a decision of the schools re,>resented here. Auburn, Hluffton, Central. Decatur, Hartford City, Kendallvilie. North Side and South Side will participate. The Hluffton baseball schedule was announced today as follows. April 21 —Portland at Hluffton; April 24 —Columbia City at Columbia City; Apcil 28 Decatur at Decatur; May I—Central1 —Central at Fort Wayne. May 6—Columbia City at Hluffton; May 12-Portland as Portland; May 19—Decatur at Bluffton; May 21 — Central at Hluffton.

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Indiana Hasehull Squad Opens Season Indiana university's baseball squad under direction of Couch Everett Dean and assistant coach Paul Harrell will leave tomorrow morning from Cincinnati where the Hooslers wi.l begin a three-day series with Xavier i’niversity April 2. ,'t. 4.. The mound tomorrow will he occupied by either Gattl or Veller wi:h Ilea behind the bat. MANY ENTRIES IN INDOOR MEET Bloomington, Ind.. April I—Three1 —Three hundred and fifty-five athletes will tale part In the first annual Indiana state high school track meet to be staged In the Indiana university field house Saturday according to 0. Clevenger, director of athletics at the state institution. The nteet,is under the auspices of the I. H. S. A. A. This will be the largest group of athletes ever to lake part in any contest in the Indiana field house, according to Mr. Clevenger. The j drawings were made last Saturday land the preliminaries are scheduled !to get underway Saturday morning at ten o'clock. The afternoon session will begin at two o'clock. This large group of entries comes from 32 high schools over the state. Teams entered include the following: Alexanderia. Anderson. Attiia. Batesville. Bedford. Bicknell, Bloomington. Crawfordsville, Froebel of Gary, French Lick, Horace Mann of Gary. Kokomo, LintonStockton of Linton, Marengo. Marion. Michigan City. Central of Municie. NoLlesville, North Side of Fort Wayne, Paoli. Petersburg. Roosevelt of Flast Chicago. Salem, SharpsIville. Southport, Sullivan. Technical lof Indianapolis. Vincennes. Warren 'Central, Washington Township of | Flat Rock, Wiley of Terre Haute, Williamsport, and Worthington. o Joseph Anderson of Ceneva was a 'business visitor here Tuesday.

CARDINALS FEEL SURE OF TITLE Editor's note: This is the ninth ; of a series dealing with 1931 pros pects of the various major league baseball clubs. By Henry McLemore, VP. Staff Correspondent I New York, April 1. —<U.R>--If coni fldence means anything, the St. ' Louis already are “In." i Manager Gabby Street and his I players envision a walkaway in the j 1931 National league race despite ' the opinion of many haselmll men ! that the Cards are not capable of j repeating their 1930 triumph. This confidence is based mainly (upon the showing of Dizzy Dean and Paul Derringer, sensational rej emits who are expected to win regular berths on the St. Louis pitching staff. Street already has! : one of the strongest staffs in the league with Grimes, Hallahan. Haines, Johnson. Rhem, and Lindsey as his “big six." If Dean and Derringer live up to their training camp promises. Street's big prob!'em will he making use of all hi? talent. If Chick Hafey, hard hitting out-: fielder, joins the club Street is expected to open the championship! I season with the following lineup: Douthit, cf; Gelberg, ss; Frisch, 2b: Rottomley, lb; Hafey, If; Watkins or Blades, rs: Adams, 3b; Wilson, c; Grimes, p. Orsatti will be thp first string outfield reserve, Watkins and Blades dividing the work in right according to the type of opposing pitching. Andy High. Ed Delker. and Jim Collins will be the infield ' understudies with Ous Maneuso and Mik Gonzales completing the ratching stafT. The first base situation is regarded as especially important to the Cards chances and Street expects ! tlie position to provide added rat--1 ting power for the club. Bottomlev, whose hatting average slumped to .303 last year, and Jimmy Collins. a rookie who hit .37(1 in the International league, are fighting for the berth. Bottomlev has been hitting in old-time form during training camp and expected to retain his post. ENTIRE nation IS SWOCKFJ) R y TRAGIC DEATH (CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE' and hastened to catch the plane in which he died, the weather was murky and drizzling, William and Knute. Jr., were red-ey.ed with weeping but they i choked hack the tears and greet- j i ed with a smile boy friends from \ i *he Pembroke school here which 'h“y attended. Vnder the fare cf Dr. N"gro. the boys boarded the j eastbound train, still smiling, and ! continued the journey, j Father Mulcaire, vice-president of Notre Dame, reached Kansas C'tv just before the train with Rockne'sj body came in from the I wer,t. * Cottonwood Falls. Kan., April 1. I— / U.R)> —The body of Knute Rockne, who was killed when a passenger jai’-nlane plunged to destruction In a Kansas pasture, wvas en route today to the city where lie built the Notre Dame football teams that made him famous. / While the body of the noted coach was on its way to South | Pend, Ind.. splinteds of steel and | w-ood on a meadow near here testified gruesomely to the wreck that brought sudden death to him and seven other persons—five passengers and the two pilots of a Trans-Continental and Western Air Express airplane. An investigation into the causes of the crash was ordered. From scant evidence available, it appeared the tragedy might be added to the unexplained .disasters of the air. A radio message reporting bad weather—a broken wing fluttering to earth —a plummet-like drop of the giant tri-motored FokI ker —little else was known of the accident. Dr. D. M. Nigro of Kansas City, 1 a Notre Dame man and an old friend of Rockne, left here at 4 33 j a. m. today with the coach’s body, j He was accompanied by Rockne’s two boys, William, 14. and Knute, Jr., 11. They were going to South Bend byway of Kansas City and Chicago. Mrs. Rockne and the two other . children, Mary Jean, 11, and Jack, 4, were en route to South Bend J from Miami, Fla., where they entrained last night after word of! the tragedy reached them. The famous coach, en route from

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I , Kansas City to los Angeles when | I he met his death, was thrown cleat- 1 of the plane when It crashed. His body was mutilated and Ills )*uid I .partly crushed. Both of his legs! were broken. Near the wreckage was found a rosary. It was he- ■ I lieved to he Rockm-'s. The sheriff took possession of It and said he would mall it to Mrs. Rockne. It I was too heart-breaking u task, he' I said, to give It personally to > | Roekne’s hoys. The two hoys had been brought | ! here by Dr. Nigro from the Pembroke school, which they attend in t i Kansas City. "Your dad has been in an auto-' l mobile aceluent." Nigro told them i in Kansas City." "1 don’t know how! j badly he was hurt; not badly, I | think.” The boys, frightened,'began to! cry. Nigro promised Ihem he, would bring them here, first calling Mrs* Rockne at Miami, Fla : Vpnn reaching here, the doctor told the hoys of their father's death. Weeping, scarcely aide to speak, (lie hoys followed I heir friend to the undertaker’s. After a moment inside, they came out. dazed, and,, began the wait through the night until the early morning train that , was to take them home. They sat with Nigro huddled in a little restaurant. one of the few places he- , sides the station that is open all night In Cottonwood Falls. Praying and weeping, the thre" i of them kept their vigil until train time. , i Earlier. Dr. Nigro had collected 1 :the few scraps that oould.be identified as Roekne's personal effeels. 1 There were two suit cases, torn al- 1 most to shreds. From one. a pair ] of the coach's shoes had been sal-1 vaged, its heels broken off by the | I force of the airplane's fall. Roekne's I clothing had been ripped to pieces, i While reports of the disaster re-! , mained vague and conflicting, the I | mechanics of investigation got j ' ! underway. A coroner's jury was j chosen last night. Two representatives of the De-. 1 partment of Commerce arrived.!' Leonard Jurden and D. M. Jacobs, i They will send their report direct j i to Washington. Several officials 1 i of the Tran-Continental and Western Air Express also were here, j ■ Four witnesses of the crash were I found —Edward Baker Baker, sons of the owner of the farm where the plane fell, and R.! C. Blackburn and Clarence H. Me-1 Cracken. All are farmers. From the stories they told and | from other known evidence, these facts were learned: Pilot Robert Frye radioed at \ 10:31 that he was flying in bad, weather, amid heavy, low-hanging clouds. That was the last heard from him. The plane crashed between 10:45 and 11 a. m. When it crashed, the plane was flying about six miles off the regu lar air course between Kansas City 1 and Wichita, the next stop on the | trans continental air lane. Its altitude was about 1,000 feet. Before j the crash, a broken wing dropped i I from the plane. The plane had been inspected twice last week, according to officials of the line, and found to be In good condition. Other data bearing on the cause , 'of the crash were largely conjee- ■ ture. One theory was that the wings of the plane had become coated j with ice. causing the breakage, but I persons who were the first to reach the mangled ship said there was no ice on the wings. Burton Stevenson, a pilot from j Kansas City who flew to the scene jof the accident, said that Pilot Frye, because of unfavorable weather. might have decided to turn back to Kansas City. To get bearings from the ground, the plane would have had to lose considerable altitude. In doing so, Stevenson suggested, the plane might have gone into a dive that caused ■ the wing to crumple when the pilot i tried to pull out. Although it was cloudy at Kan- . sas City when the plane left at 9:15 and there had been a drizzle of rain, weather reports told of clearing conditions. Only a few j miles beyond the scene of the I \ plane would have encountered fair ! skies. At Wichita the sun was .! shining. The comparatively level pasture land where the plane landed would have permitted an emergency land- \ • ing with small risk. The craft neither exploded nor | burned. I I E. G. Edgerton, Wichita, Kan., ' manager of the Trans-Continental, |said: “The wreckage was soaked 1 with gasoline, proving there was neither an explosion nor a trace of fire aboard the ship." Edgerton believed an ice-coating 1 on the plane's wing had crippled the plane. Other airmen confirmed there had been no fire and assumed the pilot had cut off his switch. Death came Instantly for all 1 those aboard. Four of the occupants. including Rockne, were thrown clear of the ship. The * others died in the wreckage. Their bodies were extricated from the twisted mass with difficulty. Mail sacks, suit cases and travel- - ing bags were scattered half a , mile from whore the plane’s three | motors buried themselves in the i ground. Tennis racquets and golf '! bags from the same case of J. H. Harper, a sporting goods salesman, i were scattered all over the pasture.

Rockne Rise s From Poor Immigrant To Fame Notre Dame Coach Was Football’s Most Dominant Figure; Known Throughout The Country As Great Leader — (Editor's Note; Following Is the first of a series of four stories on the life of Knute Rockne). By George Klrksey, United Press Staff Correspondent Chicago, April 1 <U.R) Knute Kenneth Roekne's span of life saw i him rise from n poos immigrant Wny to become football's most iloniln- 1 ant figure. He died nt 43 dramatically snuffed out at the very summit ol hls| career. Memory is still lresh with the achievements of the last two, football trams coached by him. They were undefeated, untied national; hr.mplons with a record of 19 straight victories during 1929 and 19.19, j Rockne was the greatest of all football coaches, hut lie was even more than that. He was unique. He had a dynamic personality which j hit an indelible impression upon every person (brown in contact with, li'm. The hundreds of boys who played under him during his 13 years, ns head coach at Noire Dame worshipped the ground he walked on. Ilf was famed throughout >)i<> — ■

land, not alone for his football genius, but for his wit. his kindly ph.'los'T by and Ills vibrant personality. Don Miller. Ohio State hack field coach and one of the famous “Four Horsemen.” gives a keen Insight into the sort of man Rockne was when he says: “I wasn't much of a player in high school and I couldn't even make tlit* freshman team at Notre Dame. 1 was discouraged and readv to quit when Rockne astonished me one day hv pulling me in the regular hackfleld. And lie kept me there. He had seen something in me that even 1 didn't know I had. I have lost one o* j •he finest friends a man could , have.” Miller's case is only one of, many. Rockne was a judge of j men and he was an inspirational ! leader. Players battled to exhaustion for him through the hardest footfall schedules any team .ever played. They did it for Rockne, net liecause he wanted them to. That's what they thought of him. Rockne did not choose football for his career. After he was gradrated from Notre Dame in 1914 he sco- ted a place on the coaching staff under Jesse Harper, then heed coach, as something to do whi’o “looking around for a job." Tie became head coach in 1918 and 'Hiring bis regime his teams won 108 games, lost 12 and tied foor. Five of his teams were undefeated in 1919, 1920. 1924. 1929 and 1930. His worst season was 19°S when his team lost four Ro Vne was born at Voss, Norway. March 4. 1888. son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rockne. His father was s carriage maker. In 1893 the elder Rockne came to the United States to exhibit one of his carriages at the world's fair here. His exhibit won a medal ami he was so pleased with this country that he decided to remain. Two months later his wife, son and two daughters toined him. Mrs. Martha Rockne. mother of •he football coach, is still living hem. and today recalled her son’s visit with her recently on the occasion of her 72nd birthday. Even Mrs. Rockne never dreamed that her son would become an Mhlete. much less the peer of all football coaches. “Knnte was a serious hoy." she recalled. “He loved to read. I had no idea that he would ever follow the profession he did. His tastes and inclinations didn't seem to run that way. “Am I proud of him? No, not exactly. I knew my son was a good man. And that is all any mother wants to know of her son." The Rockne family lived in the

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'signn Square section of Chicago I n the early days, the same neigh- t hrhond that produced Johnny f •"onion, former world's bantam- t veixht chamnion. 1 1 Rockne himself, so the legend i oes. was a pugilist in his younger ( lavs, fighting at small clubs to ' help earn enough money to go to t tchnol. Roekne's flat ami some- l what disconnected nose seemed tu •<>•>!• out this popular belief. \ 1 He attended old northwest division high school, now Tilley, and : worked in off hours. One of his first jobs was with the Chicago i postoffice at a salary of $5 a week. | He asked for a raise and his pay i -as increased to $5 50 a week. | That was one of the reasons why fie determined to get a college | education. Another of his jobs I vas delivering newspapers. Or'glna'lv Rockne planned to *nter the University of Ill'nois, •”t was persuaded by friends at s he last minute to go to Norter (Mine. He did not ?o to "'rme as a foot!till player. His best sport was track, in which the I uarter m'le no'-* vault and broad 'men wpre his three best events. Th“ Rev. Charleo L. O'Donnell, • rr«i ( ipnt of Notre Dame, recalls Ro-krtp as was when he enter-, ->d Notre Dame in 1910. Father j O'Donnell was prefect of Corby Ha - ’, where Rockn° lived. I "Ho was one of the shyest men in the dormitory,” said the Rev. O’Donnell. “He was slight of tmi'd in those days and nobody could have predicted for him hie | own personal success as a foot- ! ball player. "Indeed, he was far better ' known es a keen student of chem- ’ i«trv. Up was offered and acoent- ' , ed an instmetorship in chemistry noon h'n rraduation 'n 1914. Put even in those days the versatility of his genius was apparent. " "Apart from his splendid aoad-i t emic record and his brilliant j career as n’ athlete. h<* plaved In I th" university orchestra and was , 'o'mitah''- comic in student vaude- 1 . vi’'e. Hi« humor on the stage and off was original." i , 1 Rockne plavpd the f'utr in the i (college orchestra. In the prodne- . tion of “The Girl of the Golden ! West.” he tool; the part of a j I “squaw.” Rock”o n'avpd end on the Notr*, ■ Jb""" football teams of 1911, 1912 and 1913 and was cantain of the ■ team h's last year. His first bid i for national athletic fame came i In October, 1913. when an unknown Notre Deme team traveled to West Point and defeated a powerful i I Army eleven coached by Major • , Charier; Dalev, 33-13. ' | That game was significant for - I more than one reason. It was

the first time a middle-western, team had traveled east and defeat-1 ed an eastern team on Its own field. It was the first big game in which the forward pass played the dee (ding factor. Charley Dorns* 1 long, accurate passes down the field to Rockne bewildered the Army team and paved the way for Notre Dame's smashing triumph. The Army was so impressed with the Notre Dame style of pluy that Rockne and Do mis were Invited to remain several days tit West Point and Instruct the Army players lu this; new aerial weapon. (Tomorrow : Roekne's highlights I ' ns player and early coaching dhys \ 1 will he told in tomorrow’s In- | stnllment). Mu«t Have More Than Red Face to Be Drunk i Columbus. Ind.. April I—(UP)1 —(UP) Drunkeness consists in doing more' than eating cheese and crackers, disagreeing ,w It h others views on the soldiers bonus and having a red i face, according to Judge Charles! Baker, of Bartholomew county. The ruling was made in the ease of Reymond Wolford, of Hartsville, j who was alleged to have done oil; the things mentioned, charges against Wolford were dismissed. TOWNSPEOPLE HONOR ROCKNE (CONTINUED FROM PAG*' ONE Hinkle, all flags in South Bpml werp at half mast. While Notre Dame officials awrlted the cortege bearing Roekne's body, expected here at 11:20 tonight, plans for the funer•i! "ere delayed pending arrival of Mrs. Rockne Thursday. She is on her way here from Florida. Mon-'av was set as a tentative date for *he rites since, according to Notre Dame officials, no masses I may Ip said on Good Friday, and requiems are not held on Saturdays or Sundays. Details of the funeral will he arranged by Dr. Michael Nigro, Kansas City, a close friend of the Rocknes, it was j indicated. School was abruptly suspended | yesterday when news of Roekne's ' death reached here. Semester ex- ! a initiations, scheduled to be held today, were postponed until classes resume after spring vacation next

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