Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1931 — Page 6

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YELLOW JACKET BASEBALL TEAM PLANS SEASON Local Team to Play Portland Here Wednesday Afternoon at S. Ward Decatur liiyli school base-: b 'll team will open its season Wednesday a I t e r n o o n at South Ward diamond in th s '•ilv :d 3 o’clock with Portland high school diamondeers fiirnishiiu* the opposition. Coach Tiiiv Horton st;ded lodav that the local battery would be Fred Brown behind the hat and either Harmon or Schamerioh on the mound. Prospects for a successful season for the Yellow Jackets were bright. Not a single one of the 30 candidates for the local teain is suffering injuries and among the 30 boys. Coach Horton said there was plenty of good timber. The Jackets boast three good left handed sluggers and several r'tching possibilities. The infield has been working out all this week and indications are that it will he one of the fastest inner- 1 garden combinations the local school has had in the last several years. Coach Horton stated that there were already 8 games scheduled and that probably the complete spring schedule would call for 10 games. Little is known of Portland’s strength. o Gibbons Not To Contest Ownership of Cartridge Indianapolis, April 14. —<U.R) — Floyd Gibbons, writer and lector-, er, will not debate possession of ■ 'be first shell fired in the World , War with Alex Arch. South Bend, | Ind., according to word received here today. Arch may have the shell for the asking. Gibbons is quoted as saying in New York. Gibbons’ statement followed 1 publication of a protest taken by ' Arch before the Indiana State e Council of Veterans of Foreign' Wars. Arch told the council he'' had given the cartridge to Gibbons ’ soon after it was fired so that it might be taken to Paris to be , ’ Photographed and placed on exhi-j; I tion. Since then, he complain- j ed, he had been unable to get it t ba<|; and contemplate,l seeking the aid of the veterans’ group. CHICHESJERS.IILLS Ladle#! Ask your DrnffffUt /X /wf ft- A for Chl-rhe#*t«*rs Diamond/ Brand Pills m Bed sad tioldV <>> boxes, sealed with Blue WlfKibboa. Take no other. Buy v I T J /CFof your Dru<«i"L Ask for I QTCfll • CBES.TEKA DIAMOND I X ® BRAND PILLS.fur 40 years known fr as Best, Safest. Reliable. Buy Now I ’/" SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHIRi

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C’Cbons said he had not received a communication trom the Hoosier soldier asking for the case. The cartridge case is now in a trunk at the home of Gibbons' brother. Edward, the lecturer j asserted. South Rend, Ind., April 14 —(UP) I —Alex Arch, laying claim to the j first cartridge fired in the World . War, assumed a defensive air i here today when told that Floyd ■ Gibbons was ready to surrender I it for the asking. •’Well, he can send it to me," : Arch said. o DECATUR WILL ENTER LEAGUE That a Decatur independent baseball team, will enter the new northern Indiana Sunday and holiday league is almost a certainty. J according to local baseball fansj who conferred yesterday with: Clarence P. Maulin of Fort Wayne, I one of the sponsors of the league. I Representatives of several northern Indiana towns will meet with' Maulin at Fort Wayne Thursday night to make final plans and de i termine which teams will be given i franchises. A schedule will be: drawn up immediately and officials will be elected. The present plan calks for six teams and a 24-game schedule, divided into two halves, with a championship series in September between the first and second half winners. All games will lie played on Sundays and holidays, according to the present plans. Towns baling considered in the league are Fort Wayne, Decatur. Huntington, Markle, Roanoke, Avilla. Columbia City and possibly Wabash, Peru and Geneva. Several Decatur sport fans will attend the Thursday night meeting. ■—— o FOREST FIRES STILL RAGING i (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE, . An airplane was sent from Mil waukee to patrol the area. Scores of boys were detailed rb ride horse back through the timber to watch for flareups from fires believed to have been extinguished. The sky was hazy for hundreds of miles with pungent smoke from ; charred timber. o Schmelling Arrives For Exhibition Boxing Match Indianapolis, April 14. — (U.R> — Max Schme’ling, world heavyweight boxing champion, arrived here today for an exhibition fight tonight. L o Get the Maoit —trace at Heme.

LEGION BOXING •| TOURNEY WILL ; BE HELD HERE 1 Tickets For Big Event On i Sale; 30 Rounds of Good Scraps Are Promised The spring boxing tournament of Adams post. American Legion will lie held Monday night. April 20, at i Decatur Catholic hig.i school gymnasium. it was announced today I y the committee in charge of ti’e , event. The first Itouf will start at i 8 o’clock. Thirty rounds are ached- , tiled for the night’s program and from indications of the way blows are being struck at the nightly ' training at Catholic high school j gymnasium, next Monday promises I ’| to be a banner night for boxin; I • enthusiasts of the county. 1 ' Entries in the tourney will lie j ‘ accepted any time until Friday I ■ night, it was announced today. All I I persons contemplating entering the ■ ’ i tourney are invited to work out at | ': the gymnasium every night this i week at 7 o’clock. The public is in ! ' vited to visit the training quarters Hand witness the practice bouts. ’ I Entries will be divided into ’ classes, according to present plans land the best scrappers of each • weight will be plaeedyn the tour--1 rey. It is believed that about 40 or 1 50 will be entered in the final tournament. Ringside seats for the tourney f lean be obtained at Peoples Restau-1 rant for 50 cents and general ad | mission tickets may be obtained from any member of the American Legion for 35 cents. Children will ’ be admitted for 25 cents. _ o ; INKLINGS’ GETS ALL AMERICAN PRESS RATING j '■'ll FROM PAGE ONE) Editor, Salome Schmitz: Alumni [Editor. Loretta Malley: Feature . (Writers, Rose Mary Schurger, Cath- ■ erine Schumacker, Marceline Gage. Mary Catherine Leonard: Exchange Editor, Henrietta Spangler; Reporters, Mcnica Heimann. Mary j Miller. Mary Jane Colchin. Patricia Fullenkamp: Joke Editor. Thomas Vog’.ewede; Associate Editor, Edward Lose. Business Manager, Robert Holt house; Associate Business Managler. Janies Fisher: Advertising Manager, Arthur Krick; Advertising ■ Committee. Carl Lose. Marcellus Miller. William Gass, Charles Omlor: Circulation Manager. Dick Wertzberger; Associate Circulation Managers. Robert Kleinhenz, John Junk, Dennis Schmitt; Mailing Manager. Robert Eiting: Staff Advisor. Sister Vera; Business Advisj or, Sr. Helen Clare. 1 o JUNIOR HIGH AWARDS MADE (CONTINUED FROM PA-'’* "'NE ette Christen, Lewis Fennig, Eugene Friedt, Kathryn Kohls, Jane Krick, Irene Sell. Diggers: Lewis Smith. Betty Campbell. Rosella Heare Diggers: Phyliss Hoagland, Booby Wortliman, Lyle Haxby, Ralph ( Hurst, Richard Girod. Donald Arnold, Virginia Breiner. Grade Six B Leaders: Johnnie Durbin, Ralph (Steele, Dwight Kimble. Diggers: Helen Britzenhoffe, Kath leen Banning. Mary Maxine Martin, Laures Meyers. Grade Five A Leaders: Imogene Bright Gilbert Egley, Mary Eichorn, James Krick, Rosie Moyer, Zula Porter, Marguerite Staley, Lena Teeter Jeanette Winnes. Diggers: Dorcas Hoagland. Rich- i ard Jackson, Kathryn King, Rob-1 ’ ert Lehman. Eleanor Niblick, Janet: Schrock, Jessie Smith. Grade Five B. Leaders: Betty Hunter, Mary Steele. B fly Hunter, Evangeline Fuhrman. Martha Baumgartner. Diggers: Betty Hamma, Kenneth Shell. James Highland, Donald Drake. Dody Is Identified Valparaiso, Ind., April 14 —(UP) — Fingerprints served today to partly identify the body of an unidentified man believed to have been taken “for a ride’’ Sunday night, as that of Sam Vubi, of Chicago. -. _ o If you need Money for faxes and have any livestock, i farm machinery or other personal property you want: to turn into cash, bring it to the Decatur Community Sale , Saturday, April 25th.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. APRIL IL 1931.

SIXTEEN TEAMS START MARCHES FOR PENNANTS Basehall Opens In Eight CiHes Todav; ('lose Races Are Predicted New York. April 14--<U.R>—Base-ball's Ift major league clubs start"d their season today. Here is the American I-eague schedule: Detroit at St. Ixmis Chicago at Cleveland Philadelphia at Washington Boston at New York. An<l this is the National Longue . schedule: Brooklyn at Boston Pittsburgh at Chicago St. Louis at Cincinnati N«w York at Philadelphia. I Thus there will L> eight games in as many cities. Since they are the first games of the season they will bo marked hv capacity attendances and by the usual honusbologntts. The honusbolognus will include ench proper items as raising of flags and placing of pieces by lands. It will include also that ; lovely but dumb occasion wherein : a leading citizen will Ihrow-out-i the-first-ball to the customary ! accompaniment of embarrassed tittering and insincere applause. I Once the extra-athletic festivi-i l ties have been dispensed with, actual play will start. The spec- : tutors then will be treated to a pitcher’s battle, a slugging bee, a nip-and-tuck contest, an extrainning thrill .or a tie game. The same 16 clubs which formed the two leagues last year are starting afresh today. Thin does not mean that the same players will, in all cases, (perform for the same cluL®. Byway of example, I Brooklyn has acquired the servt'ces of Fresco Thompson, a second baseman. and Frank (Lefty) O’I Doni, a left fielder. They were m n in‘'tavs of the Philadelphia Nationals last year. Another transfer of consequence has brought I Lu Blue, a first baseman, from the St. Louis Americans to the Chicago White Sox. Further, three chibs have new 1 managers. They are the New ’ York Yankees. Bdston Red Sox, 1 and Chicago Cubs. Joe McCarthy is the New Yankee manager. John (“Shano”) Collins is new at Boston. Rogers Hornsby is starting the season as leader of. the Cubs. He acquired that posi-1 tlon just before the last season ended. By almost universal agreement. > the American league race should i involve principally two clubs, Phil-' adelph'a ami Washington, with I New York a third championship possibility. Five team® have been forecast as possible National league winners. Thev are St. Louis, Brook-J lyn. Chicago. New York and Pittsburgh. These clubs along with the others of the 16 will strive to win championsh'ns of their respective leagues. Philadelphia won last year in the American, and St. I Louis in the National. Philadel-' phia then won the world series, j Baseball is called the national ( pastime. Once it was that without ! a doubt. Now. with the constantly increasing popularity of go's, tennis and football, the title is clonded. There is these days something less of the seeming insanity among, the spectators that once marked l playing of the game. This lessening does not. however, apply at Brooklyn. There are no fans like those of Brooklyn Despite the claims of the game’s , adverse critics, it is a fact that j -nr.ro neopie saw major league! baseball games last year than in . the year before. However, the attendance covered the leagues as wholes, and there was scanty attendance at many games played bv also-ran clubs. This would indicate that baseball fans like a winner. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth . is starting his 15th season in bas“ball with the New York Yankees. 1 Despite his age, Ruth is baseball's most colorful figure. o NEW REPUBLIC TO SUPPLANT OLD MONARCHY (CONTINUED FROM Official sources understood the royal family would proceed to Paris tonight by a special train. The king struggled to the last to save his throne by peaceful means, but he capitulated when he realized that to defy the republicans would throw the cointry into civil war and bloodshed. The republicans, who carried almost every city of Spain in Sunday’s municipal elections, were in the saddle, and they gave the king to understand there could be no compromise. At first, the king offered to ab- ! dicate in favor of the Prince of ■ Asturias, heir apparent to the , | throne. ,! Alcala Zamora replied that the , republicans would not accept anything less than complete renuncla-

tlon of power. A meeting of the revolutlnnaryK cabinet was held Inst night al which monarchist representatives made a plea for u two monilis'. truce. The republican leaders replied that they could not grant it and had their forces ready to act. Apparently the king decided to avoid bloodshed and accepted the republican terms. The end came with dramatic sud denness this morning when Alcala Zamora announced that the king would resign at 3 p.m. As the news spread, a tremendous crowd assembled l» front of the royal palace, where heavy detachments of guards were on duty to protect the royal family. Alcala Zamora telephoned Alex ander I.erroux and Manuel Aznna. republicans, who have been hiding in .Madrid, that they could now; walk the streets openly. Both pra-| < ceded to the house of Miguel .Mau-I ras. whFre the revolutionary government was being established, and participated in the deliberations. Damaso Berenguer. minister of

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war. conferrt'd with General San < Jurjo. commander of the civil guard, regarding the possibility of J having the guard accept the new ■'state of affairs and obeying the orders of the republicans. - KNOWN DEAD IN TUNNEL FIRE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE other unidentified • workmen who l |were in the tunnel when the fire ■ started; and Policeman Harry \\. 1 Fielder. Chicago April 13 <UP) Sixteen 1 men were found alive today in the flaming sanitary district tunnel on the southwest side where ll others had been killed during the night by . clouds of poisonous smoke. :! A hurkhead in tie tunnel hail I held back the smoke and fumn, I which Killed the others while j squads of firemen pumped fresh ■ air into the shaft in the hope of jnalntiiining life until a rescue couht he effected. Among those who had survived

the night of horror were nine fire- i men and seven tunnel workmen. < The men ran shouting from their i prison mid boarded the little eleva- , tor whl< h could carry only four men at a time. They had released themselves from the protecting barieude wnen they heard the powerful blowers sucking out the poisonous air. Division marshal Patrick Pierce gingerely opened the small bulkhead door, sniffed the smoky air. ' I shouted, "come on men, it's safe” 'and out they ran. i None appeared much the worse ' for his borrowing night’s exper- j i ience. o SPAIN MAKES NEW HISTORY AS KING QUITS — .CONTINUED FROM PAGF O>TE ■ the king had been thinking for i some time on the necessity of re- ! linqutshing his throne, ■i And rather thatr call a former I minteter of the crown who is now a Republican leader Alrtila Zam-

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