Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1931 — Page 6

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FIGHT TOURNEY SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY NIGHT Few Good Seats Remain For Annual Legion Boxing Tournament Final workouts were held Friday night by 80 Decatur young men who will take part in the annual boxing tournament sponsored by Adams post of the American Legion to be held Monday night at 8 o’clock at Catholic high school gymnasium. The committee in charge weighed the Ircxers in Friday night I and paired them off for the big scrap Monday night. More titan half the tickets have been sold fori the event and those in charge stated that a capacity crowd was expected. A few ringside seats are still available at Peoples Restaurant and can be obtained as long as they last. General admission tickets can be purchased from any member of the American Legion or at the door the night of the tourney. | Arthur (Pat) Hyland will officiate the bouts. William Kohls and George Mason, the latter from Bluffton will act as judges and Jesse Rice will serve as time-keep-keeper. The first bout will start at S o’clock. Doors of the gymnasium will open at 7:15 o’clock. Fans who have not yet secured tickets’ are urged to get them at once. ______ o SOPHOMORE IS DECATUR HIGH HONOR LE ADER (CONTINUED FBW PAGE OVE Ida Mae Steele 2A 1A IB' Sylvia Ruhl 1A 3A IBj Wilma Andrews 1A 2A IB Charles Ehinger 1A 2A 18, Miriam Haley 1A 2A IB Richard Parrish 1A 2A IB Theodore Sovine 1A 2A 18. Alice Vance 1A 2A IB Dorothy Young 1A 2A IB Ruth Foughty 3A IB Mamie Niblick 3A IB Helena Rayl 3A IB Marie Teeter 3A IB Ruth Macklin 2A IB . o Ot the Habit— Trade at Hoirr

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STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. j i Boston 3 o l.doo St. Louis 3 (I 1.000 Chicago 3 1 .750' New Yoik. 2 1 .667' , Philadelphia 1 2 .333! Pittsburgh 1 3 ,250 l 'Cincinnati o 3 .060 Brooklyn ... 0 3 .tiooj AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. I New York 3 0 1.0001 St. Louis 2 1 .667 * Cleveland 2 1 .667 Washingion 2 1 .6071 l*liila<li-I|>h::i 1 2 Chicago A 12 .333 Detroit 1 2 .333 Boston 0 3 .000 — AMERICAN ASSOCIATION . W. L. Pct. I St. Paul . . 3 1 .750’ Louisville 3 1 .750 ‘ Toledo 2 2 .500 ■ Milwaukee 2 2 .5001 Kansas City 2 2 .5001 Columbus 2 2 .500! Minneapolis 1 3 .250 Indianapolis 1 3 .2501 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Chicago, 5; Pittsburgh, 4. SI. Louis-Cincinnati, postponed, wet grounds. Only games scheduled. League No games scheduled. American Association St. Paul. 6; Indianapolis. 5. ■ Louisville, 6; Minneapolis. 0. Kansas City, 10; Toledo, S. Columbus, 11; Milwaukee, 3 o DECATUR DROPS DIAMOND TILT J- <atur high school baseball i "m lost to Huntington high -:r hWol 'jit Huntington Friday afternoon by a score of 13-7. The 'el 1 "v Jackets were unable to hit F. Hosier for four full innings, Teusch was sent on. to the mound for tne Vikings the Jackets came to life and threatened in the sixth inning whe-t' ■■o”e"»ed 6 runs. '■ hrinerloh, Ogg and Harmon were on the mound for Decatur '"■inc tlie 7-irning fracas and F. ttos’er Teusch and W. Hosier! n'tched for Huntington. ’’’hr Yellow Jackets will meet Cnlum' la City here next Tuesday afternoon in a conference game. Folic "'Ung is the lineup: DFCATUR AB H E Coffee, ss '2 fl 2 Schollz. ss 10 0' Mack’in, ss 10 0 Snedeker, 3b 4 2 2 F Brown, c 4 0 1 , K. Brown. If 3 0 1 lb 2 0 1 1 Ehinser, rs 2 0 0 S heimann, rs 0 0 0 Push, rs 10 0 Boffenbarger, 2b 4 2 3 Hill, cf 10 0 S -hamerloh, p 10 0 Harmon, p 110 De o -, n 0 0 0 HUNTINGTON Rudicel, 2b — 10 0 Hummer, 2b 0 0 Overmeyer, If . 4 1 0 W. Hosier, lb 4 2. 0 j Forst, 3b 4 10 Kramer, ss 3 111 [ Carroll, c 3 2 0’ Kennedy, cf ...2 0 0 F. Hosier, p 3 1 01 Milner, lb 2 0 1 j McClure, 2b 2 0 0 Teusch. p .... 0 0 0 Berringer, 3b 110 Shafer, p 110 Cult, cf 10 0 - ■ -Q ■ - - ■. Moose To Have Team The Moose Junior baseball team is being reorganized for tin coming Junior baseball league competition, it was announced to-[ day by Charles (Buck) Baxter, manager. All boys who desire to J try out for the Moose team are asked to file their names at the! Moose home on Third street in the next ten days. CREAM STATION MAN IS SUICIDE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE’i ing to remain until next Tuesday I until a new man was broken in. I Mr. Titler is survived by a wife land two small sons. Funeral serI vices will be held Monday afterI noon at. 2 o’clock at ,the home I in Jackson township. Burial will bi made in Roselawn cemetery. o Get the Haoit—Trade at Home.

CU3S,CARDS OPEN SERIES •< Ch’cago. April IS (IJ.R) The St. I Louis Cardinals mid Chicago Cubs, j foremost contenders for the Na-1 tional League pennant, opened a! 4-gamo series here today with first place nt stake. Three straight victories rtver Cincinnati enabled the Cardinals to get away to a flying start and; left them tied with the Boston Braves for first place. Half a game behind the two leaders were •lie Cubs, with a chance to take lb" lend by nightfall. If the Cubs win they will go into first place providing the Braves lose to Brooklyn. Pat Malone, who won 20 games and lost nine last •season, was scheduled to make his first appearance of the season in the box for the Cubs. Wild Bill Hallaban. who won 15 games and lost <i for ’ho Cardinals and who pitched a against the Athletics ! n the world series, was expected to nitch for St. Louis. Rogers Hornsby's playing and managing dominated the Cubs during the opening series against Pittsburgh. The Cube won three out of four games from the Pirates. and home runs by Hornsby a< (Minted for two of the victories. His home ptin on Wednesday gave the Cubs a 6-5 triumph, while he bit another yesterday with two men on base to give Ills team a 5-4 victory. In yesterday's game, Hornsby's clover handling of pitchers broke up a Pittsburgh rally with the lyin'” and winning runs on base in the ninth inning. With Guy Bush faltering ho took him out ami sent '•> j.n«(-r Sweetland, a southpaw, to pitch to two lefthanded bat(e- ’. Then he derricked Sweetittml for Boh Smith, who had • eaten th" Pirates in the second rime; end who again stopped tlnm It wr-. Hornsby himself vha sm"'n<-rnd back of second to • ■’ke <’• morosky’s grounder, and • brow him o”t to end the game. tn tb» Cubs’ firSt four games, K’k’ Cuvier. Riggs Stenhenson, I osto- rod I and Gabby Hartnett star rd for their new boss. Steph"pson batted .538. Cuvier .429, Ben .385 and Hartnett. .308. Hack Wi’son and Charley Grimm wer" in a lotting slumn. Wilson made only two hits for a .167 average in the cleanup position. Grimm's batting average was .071. During th" Pittsburgh series the Cubs played to almost 100.000 persons, including 20,000 women on ladies’ day yesterday. St. Louis was idle yesterday, being rained out at Cincinnati, in tlm only other scheduled major league game. The Cards have gained confidence in their sweep of the Cincinnati series and expect to continue their success against the Cubs. Oth°r National League games •ed"v include the opening of a four-eame series between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, at Cincinnati. and the final contests in 'opr.o-ame series between New York an’’ Philadelphia and Brooklyn and Boston. American League clubs will return to competition, after a oneday holiday, to complete the series started Tiie yay. ,After ' fdny's games a'l clubs will change foes, with the new lineup bringing Phil'Cnlva to New York; Boston to Wash’Pgtpn: Detroit to Cleveland and Chicago to St. Ixiuis. Yesterday's Hero —Roger HornsI'-, Chicago manager, whose homer with two runners on base gave •he Cubs a 5 to 4 victory over Pittsburgh. FORMER LOCAL MAN PAROLED CON’r’NUFD FROM PAGE ONE his taxi. Barone ordered Smith and Miss Werling to "put up their hands." Smith refused and Barone opened fire. The two men escaped in the taxi without securing any money. A pease of 150 men organized and Barone and McDaniels were trapped in a woods north of Preble late in the afternoon. In the meantime Cole, who had come to Decatur after his wife, who was visiting here was arrested and after questioning by D? Burt Lenhart. then prosecuting attorney, he ■ 'imitted taking the two men to the scene of the hold-up. Barone and McDaniels were captured later on June 9 and the next day troth confessed to the r.'"prvade. They wanted to plead guilty to auto banditry at the I’me. hut Prosecutor Lenhart refused to permit them to. because it was believed for several days that Smith might succumb to the wounds. Smith recovered and the two men were sentenced. Cole proved

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. APRIL LS, 1931.

Part Os Legion Tourney Entries ■ ' ■ “ j Ji- -I f ’ ~Xi■J'ove is a photogriph of part of the local boxers who have entered the American Ix»gion boxing tourney whi( h will be he'd Monday night at Catholic high school gymnasium. Dan Zener and Lloyd Baker, members of the Legion tournament committee have had charge of the preliminary workouts. Tile tourney wi'l start Monday light at 8 o'clock. A few ringside seats can be obtained at Peoples restaurant for 50c each. General admission seats are selling for 35c. All proceeds will go to Adams post. American Legion.

in his trial that he was threaten-', ed at the point of a gun to take } the men to Preble. Barone was I first taken to the state reforma- j tory and later transferred to Michigan City. Chief of Police i S pints Melflii was Sheriff at the ! time of the first attempted hold- | up. ’ I Barone was taken to prison on | October 11. 1921. The parole I effective at once states tliat lie I will bo under probation to state I prison officials until the rest of I his term expires. j EACH STATE TO HAVE BRANCH; PLAN STARTED (CGNTINCr n pagf r»NF’ ! also were appointed. Secretary Doak at the same time announced that a committee is now being assembled to make a thorough study of the problem of ' technological unemployment" ’ and for making a survey of the j general employment situation throughout thd nation. I , Additional appointments an- | nonneed by Secretary Doak in- i eluded: A. D. Lewis, Illinois, superin- 1 tendent of mining and quanting. ‘ State dire tors of employment include: ’ Illinois. R. B. Howard. Chicago. ’ndiana, C. W. Baker, Indianap- ’ olis. * lowa. T. L. Taggert. Sioux City. 1 Kentucky. George Baker, Cen- ’ tral City. , 1 o i £ NEW COAL MINT j , UNION LOOMS, rr NTINJ’Fn FROM PACE ONEI / 1 lacklist if immediate action took place. As a result delegates from Kan-xi sas. West Virginia. Ohio and Indi- t ana. hopeful at tlie beginning Tof g the convention that a new union would'be set up, acquiesced to the ( Illinoisans. t Tim fight against the rule of President John L. Lewis of the ] United Mine Workers will be car- t ried on through the five states by district policy committees that will ] agitate throughout the coal areas f when "the time is ripe" according < to Alexander Howht, Kansas mill- t tanl leader of the battle, "a new j national organization will lie set i up.” ,1 i In Ohio, according to Joseph < Truax, anti-Lewis chief, a new i state union will "be horn within < a fortnight.” < "We will have a charter drawn up and seals printed on my re- n

Illinois Youth Shows Form r a \ , MAJS’ . ' j I W' Cf uiflF <—|*- Marking the first outdoor workout for the season, the camera caught this striking action picture of Limoine Boyle, of Rockford, 111., a member of the track team at the University of Pennsylvania, hurling himself a long distance as he practises at the broad jump.

\cu League Head? I owenng mgh above a list ut < an didatrs for ihe post <>• tieail of 'he AmeHcati League is William H M’-Cnrthj (above i. of San bran cis." His war on gamblers and excellent record as president of the t’acifx Coast League are reasons fur his probable selection turn." Truax said, “and we will carry on the fight through a new state organization that may be known as the Ohio Miners Union.” C. F. Keeney, president of th" West Virginia Miners union, an organization of 13,000 miners, most of them in the southern part of the state, said the union he heads will continue its fight against the Lewis organization, and expected to have 24.000 members within a few months. o T SIAMESE KING STARTS EAST .CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) took chances of endangering himself by-exposure when he greeted accompanying officials late yesterday. 'the train carried no special nurse. Her majesty, Queen RambaiBarni. assisted in taking care of the ill ruler. When the king and queen appeared together yesterday for the fir-' time shier the party arrived on this continent, they resembled a pair of youngsters on an excursion. The queen's face was wreathed in smiles, but there was a motherly expression also as she. closely watched heT husband preceding her past officialls and down the gangplank from the liner Empress of Japan. She had 1 een at h:s bedside almost constantly, doing much of

I the work which a nurse ordinarily | would have to do. ! Os a slight build and small in i stature, only King Prajadhipok's I regal bearing betrays his identity. He appeared to be far younger Ilian his 38 years, and his beautifu Iwit'e could easily pass for a gill of 18. Because the king had been ill and unable to meet officials, Prince Svasti, liis uncle and the father, of Queen Rnmbai-Barni. look the 'monarch's place in receiving Canadian delegations at Victoria ) and Vancouver. Hoover Goes To Camp | Orange Va.. April 19 — (UP) - ! President Hoover, on his first weekend outing of the year, arrived a’ I his camp on the Rapidan at 10:30 |A. M. Today after a three and a half hour drive from Washington through llossoming orchards and under an invigorating spring sun. —— o Sorority Will Elect Indianapolis, April 8 —(UP) —Re- ; ports of committees executive meetings and a program by the DePauw university choir were scheduled today for delegates to the Kappa Kappa Kappa Sorority in convention here. Elec ion& were to be held this afternoon. o *. Ath'ete'i Malady The term athlete s foci ■>riginatr<' with I'r t'lmrh’s F l':ili'i to de> igrutte ringworm of the i>»>t.

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MARITAL ROWS CAUSE DEATH! 11 — Man Is Killed and Two Women Injured In Chicago Gun Play Chicago, April 18.- (U.R) 1 —One i inun was killed and another man i and two women were" seriously I I’.urt today as *the result of mariuiL 1 'troubles in Chicago. 1 David Scheclitmnn, 38, nn insur-, 1 ance salesman, died of gunshot! wounds which Similes Hayden, 40,!' was charged with inflicting. Hay-; 1 lien and his wife had been separ l ated since last Christmas. He told J police she had been associating' with Scheehtman. II lyden, police said, shot'and ser imisly wounded his estranged wife 1 ' at the home of his sister, then went 1 hunting for Scheehtman, found J him and shot him. Mrs. Isabelle Smith, 21, and her'|j employer, Martin Schmidt, were stabbed in the back as they; * I left Schmidt's candy factory this morning. Mrs. Smith's husband.' Floyd, was charged with the stab-- ( bing. Physicians said Schmidt prpbably would die. Mrs. Smith told hospital attendants she and Schmidt had carried! on a “harmless flirtation," and that ( he frequently took her home from , the factory. SPAIN PLANS GOVERNMENT * - - (CONTINUED FROM P4GH ONE themselves would remain strictly neutral in regard to religious affairs. The problem ot autonomous gov-! ernmetit lor the Basque provinces I also was in process of solution it was announced alter a late meeting ‘ of the government ministers who , also made known that al) financial ' obligations undertaken by the Mon arc. ial government would be recognized. "The government bases its action on the belief that the country will return rapidly to normal in botn poli ii s and economics” saitflminis ter ot Finance Indalecio Prieto. The announcement was expected to strengthen the peseta of the exchange. The cabnet discussed the Catalonian problem for hours last night while its representatives headed ' by minister of national economy; Nicolau D'Owler were in Barcelona [negotiating with Francisco Macia, I [head of he Catalonian government. Maria agreed to adhere to the ! pact signed with the Madrid repub- [

111 S '"l ShlZi '''""luniaii '“’l 7 s '" work wlt'H ftu'lion ami r(i *Kj l'">'iii .P’ l initiiru, ih H n " il 'i Sll, " 1 ha,l J"' will he aslj i iaht to , arrv mu i‘« al ’ and present asseiiihl', -| ... . '»»»| •" u!t"inpt to , IHP f 10 s "'i' repttb^ 1 Hi" muusn.rHf, ' i;-l that there ha(| t ! " Bl, y t "f Spain i„ ft ho '' rs ' "“'' "lona has and orderly since t| lP (Tuesday w (>lt I leased from jails. A campaign will he icariy culiural aIHI , * iprovements to all p J I towns of Spain. General Datnaso n,'r Pai J tner dictalor returned tn j. I last night and visited the ki. [of Interior asking that the to lineut detain hitn to | gen of responsibility for ’ [lion ot ('apt, Fermin (; a | a j | (’apt. t'arcia Hernandez i ea J I the Ja-a Rebellion w h n ha I made "Martyrs' hy the repaid There re, ently has i)e Pa bitterness against Rerennt the minister declined to-intiti [saying it was not empowers!ti rest anyone. Rerenguer tail 1 would be ready to surrender, ever he was wanted. ’ ; — „ 1 ADD PARAGRAPH To_restrap i CONTINUED FROM PAJ3J Richard Ewbank, one of theg I neys seeking to halt publican Besides the governor, other; ■ sons who may be called to e [are Lieutenant Governor Bush; Walter Myers, spetka the house; Dick Heller, honied and L. K. Fishbaek, senate tie House bill 6 abolishes home of truck and bus lines. Tin junction to halt publication brought by Indianapolis and! tie. Pewter Utensils During the Eighteenth cel the following pewter articles Used: Porringers, pinta, I platters, sugar howls, dram , I teiipots. pep|HT casters. It plates unit qiuirl »n,l pint Spoons appeared in the Intis of the century In the eurlj | old and new silver te„'|»«U | listed Tankards and tliu<*» ’ on the earliest list, but |el, , etppeared early in the Mil.