Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1931 — Page 6

PAGE SIX

League Baseball Season To Open Here Sunda

BOILER TEAM WILL FURNISH OPPOSITION Local Team Appears to be Strong Contender For League Title Plans for the local opening of the Wabash Valley baseball season here tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock, daylight saving time, have been completed. Decatur wdl play Butter here in the first game of. the season. That Decatur will have a I first class team in the new northern Indiana circuit is evidenced by the fact that there are almost 100 candidates to draw from. Manager Buck Baxter said today frjat while there may be a number of changes in the lineup during the 1 first few games, • prospects are 1 bright'Tbr a real ball club. It is probable that either Snyder or McWhinney will pitch Sunday j with Belxrnt or Coffee behind the 1 bat. Infield posts will not be announced* until shortly before the j gnme starts. ."Baxter may play the first sack , himself, but he said that it was. highly probable that some of the younger players would be given the > opportunity first.

— Ml — ■ ■ ■ yIW H V !ste m A • i CHECKING ACCOUNT Saves MONEY A CANCELLED check is your receipt! You will never pay a bill twice as long as you have a checking account. Money saved! Much of your bookkeeping is done for you by the bank when you have a checking account. This often i eliminates the need for a bookkeeper. At least, it’s an economy of your own time. Money i saved! Start this week. OLD ADAMS COUNTY [ BANK [

s bouts | Amateur Boxing Show I s bouts Wells County Winners - vs - Adams County Winners Monday, May 11 - Decatur Catholic High School Gym 17TWQTT ROITTT R3O o’clock (DST) RINGSIDE SEATS 50c Tickets for Ringside Seats sold at •T UtVv!) A JL> U > 0 General Admission — Children 25c, Adults 35c Peoples Restaurant and the Green Kettle.

The game will he played at South Ward diamond, hut arrangements are being made to move the home 'diamond to the lot on West Adams I street soon. The public is Invited to attend I the opening gamt*. Tickets can be obtained at the field for 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. Reports are to the effect that I Butler will bring about, 100 fans 'here with the team. o Favorites Groomed For Pimlico Race Baltimore, Md., May 9. — tU.R) — Twenty Grand, Greentree stable’s i showy three-year old, and Equipoise, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's hope for the Kentucky derby, 1 ruled as joint favorites today in the 40th annual running of the SSO,I pOO Pimlico preakness stakes. In the early betting. Surf Board •and Anchorr Aweigh, two other Greentree stable entrants, a'so were heavily hacked. With a firm track in prospect, Twenty Grand' probably will hold a slight edge I ‘over Equipoise, the bettf mudder, I when they take their positions for | the mile and three-sixteenths race. Five other horses in addition to Twenty Grand, Equipoise, Surf • Board,and Anchors Aweigh, will I compete for the $50,000. They are I Soli Gills, Mate, Aegis, Clock Tow- ' er, ami Ladder. 0 Tilden To Play Richards Tonight ! New York, May 9.—Big Bill i Tilden and Vinnie Richards, who have nurtured a cordial dislike for one another since 191 S, will partly settle their old score tonight when they meet on the tennis court in Madison Square Garden. The match is the first of a best three-out-of-five series and judging by the advance sale will attract something like a capacity house. I o Marathon Race M on By Red Woodworth New York, May 9. — <U.R> —W., “Red” Woodwcrth, Northwestern I I University football player, won the' ' annual Albany to New York out-; I hoard motorboat marathon race to-! j day. j Woodworth drove his Miss North--western, powered with an Evin- ' rude, over the 132’4-mile course in • three hours and 10 minutes. L ■ . MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By United Press ♦ : *1 Following averages compiled by United Press include games played - Friday, May Sth. ‘ Leading hitters: j Player—Club G AB R H Pct. ’ Ruth, Yankees 12 42 16 19 .4521 j Fonseca. Indians 20 5320 36 .431 1 Alexander, Tigers 22 82 11 35 .427 Simmons, Ath. 16 60 11 25 .417 Roettger, Reds 14 60 3 21 .400 o 1 HOME RUNS Hornsby. Cubs 5 Arlett, Phillies ... ... 5 Stone, Tigers 5 Herman, Robins 4 Klein, Phillies 4 Simmons, Athletics 4 Gehrig, Yankees 4 Ruth, Yankees 4 COMB STREETS TO GET JURY (CGN ’’INUED FROM PAGE ONE' ■ well will present Monday. Miss Braves died after a liquor ’ party in Gary and the state, I charges here death resulted from; : a criminal attack committed by ' j Kirkland. The second trial was' granted on pleas of defense attor- i neys that they would submit new I evidence tending to show that the I girl died after being hit by a bottle | in the hands of an intoxicated I woman. I a Rattler Business Slumps Yuma, Ariz., —(UP) —The rattlesnake business isn't what it used ‘o i l>e in the Gila Valley, near here, . I where last year 1,800 live rattlers | were caught and sold. So far this I year, probaldy due to an underproduction of snakes, less than half a dozen have been found.

RACE DRIVERS AT SPEEDWAY — Indianapolis, May X, —'(U.R) 1 —Billy Arnold, the young racing drivers who captured the A. A. A., speed championship lust year, and two track veterans. Cliff Durant and Leon Duray, arrived at the Indianjapolis motor speedway yesterday to prepare for the American Grand Prix, to be held May 30, They were the first of the out-1 standing racers on tills year’s entry lists to appear at the track. Arnold was here on a temporary visit, but Durant and the burly Duray, who holds the speedway one-lap record of 124.018 miles per hour will be here until after the race. t Durant's two autos arrived last' night from the west. It had been j announced that Duray would drive lone, but Durant surprised racing Ifamj with the statement that he I would pilot the other. Observers ' I believed that Durant, one of the sparkling “old-time’’ speeders, had long since permanently withdrawn ■ from active competition. He has i been in northern Michigan for two! I months getting in shape for the j drive, he told track officials. Durant entries have many times ; competed in the Grand Prix but! never have finished higher than, second. Duray will be making his! eighth assault on speedway honors. ' The Durant entries are holding keen interest, since they represent radical departures from convention- l al racing autos. Duray’s mount 1 lias no camshaft or valves, the gas being forced into the engine by a, positive displacement supercharger. .It is one of the five 16-cylinder 1 autos of the 71 machines entered in the classic. With a two-cycle motor, it has the same high flexi-i ibility as a 32-cylinder, four-cycle,' ! engine. Only a few ofher autos are in the | rows of garages back of the pits j at the speedway. Arrivals are ex-' ' pected to come in rapidly next ■ i week, however, and by the middle' lof May virtually all entrants will -be speeding around the oval daily I jin preparation for the qualifying' , rounds. To be allowed to face the I starter May 30. each auto must l . make an average speed of 90 miles an hour in four laps around the ' two and one-half mile oval. Os I this group, only the 40 fastest will -be permitted to compete. o jSCHOOr PLAY WELL RECEIVED CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 1 gram after the banquets. The' spectacle of a man letting 2.000,000! ! volts of electricity pass through ‘his body, held the greatest atten-l tion of visitors to the electrical engineering building. Two girls from Huntington' county, Irene Minnich and Delight Parker, both of Warren, won the i girl’s demonstration team contest.' The Parke county team from; Marshall, composed of Ruth Dor-' tin and Thelma Parker, was sec- 1 ond. Hancock county girls werethird, and Delaware county fourth. i Seven teams tied for fifth place— Madison, Wayne, Jennings, Kos-, ciusko, Jasper, Tippecanoe and Vigo. o CERMAK STARTS FUND INQUIRY (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) ! I who discovered the discrepancies short'y after he succeeded August i B. Singer as city treasurer. It I was planned also to summon forI mer Treasurers Singer and I Charles S. Peterson, Another wit-| ■ ness expected to testify is Chief I Cashier Earl G. Bingham who was I in the treasurer's office for nearly j 20 years. ] I Each of them disclaimed any responsibility in the affair. Singer said the shortage did not occur during his regime and Peterson said he had nothing to do with it. , Bingham was noncommittal. Charles S. Deneen, attorney for |kPeterson and Singer, pointed out that shortages are covered by bonds and “the surety companies will make good the losses, if any."

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931.

Mayor Cormak,hns refused to divulge the names on the 1.0.U.’s I j given for salary advances and j "loans" from the treasury. It is rumored that aidermen, city emI ployees and a few judges were | involved 1 . , The mayor said he believed ' making loans with city funds had • been “a good old Chicago custom for years."* Borrowers gave per-! sonal notes. He charged that the I present shortage was due to practices of officials during the reign of Mayor William Halo Thompson, Itis predecessor. MACHINE SENDS EXACT MESSAGE i THROUGH ETHER Facsimiles Transmitted at 1 Cost of Telegrams ' And Cables , ;i By Wallace Carroll, UP Staff Correspondent. , Hendon, Eng., May — fU.R) — A ! new facsimile machine, capable of 1 transmitting the entire contents of t , a newspaper across hundreds of miles in a few minutes, is being < perfected here in the laboratories < of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company. I Tests indicate the new invention 1 may revolutionize methods of trans- i mitting documents, news and bus-' iness messages over long distances. < Business houses in New York I will be able to send letters to j clients in Chicago. St. Louis and i Los Angeles as speedily as they j now send telegrams. Furthermore, i the cost of transmitting and repro- < ducing the letters exactly as writ- i ten, will be approximately the same as a telegram. < Foreign Reports < The machine, its inventors claim. will make it possible for the entire t | foreign report of a newspaper to be i flashed across the Atlantic and de-! I livered to the editor's desk exactly < as written by the newspaper's for- ] eign correspondents. I The perfected machines will trans- t mit 120 printed pages containing 180,000 words in an hour. A labor- 1 atory model sent 60 pages an hourj over a theoretical distance of 200. j mi’es. I: The new invention differs radically from telephoto and other sac- 1 smilie machines. In the first place,l • !it merely transmits messages in ■ 'black and white, such as letters or! j line drawings. It cannot reprt?' I duce half-tones. The second unique feature of the machine is that it transmits page] after page without interruption. Other machines must be stopped . between pages for adjustments. Photographic Paper Used I At the receiving end, the mes-‘ sages are reproduced on an endless strip of photographic paper, I approximately as wide as ordinary I typewriting paper. The photograph ic sheet is developed immediately ! after being received. • The transmitter of the machine I consists of a point of intense light, for scanning the message into a I series of fine parallel lines. The message moves continuously on a !horizontal plane beneath the scanjning beam, which rotates on a| plane parallel with the message. while a combination of prisms and' lenses focus the beam- on the i ; message. The light reflected from the mes-l sage is caught by a pair of mirrors and conducted through photo-elec-tric cells to an amplifier. The signals then pass through a trigger j , circuit to the receiver. The principal feature of the re-j ceiver is an argon tube, the inten- i sity of which is controlled by the’ incoming signals. A combination of’ i prisms and lenses concentrates the glow cf the argon lamp on the photographic paper which moves at ex-1 actly the same speed as the mes-| sage moves through the transmitter. -janbuou oj qj|q.» qii-" PJoms aqj puu o)«A||du.> ql uuuqaqt ‘’Mil Jo urns aqi s| ssaupuDJ jo |a3Bnfj

ROAD DETOURS I ARE ANNOUNCED Indianapolis, May r .—(Special)—i Elimination of two detours ami changing one to piovide a better! 'road surface to accommodate all traffic loads, marked chief changes in the state highway eommis-! slon's traffic bulletin issued today.! The detour change is on U. S.! 21 around paving between Wolcott and Reynolds. The old detour was narroW and had several weak bridges making it advisable that heavy thru traffic avoid. The new detour route which is the same' mileage, is partly over state roads and a splendid county gravel highway. John J. Brown, department director, said. The bulletin cited completion of I a bridge on road 36 near Rockville,' and repairs concluded on a bridge on road 59 south of Brazil. Detours, length, surface conditions, on the state system at this time are: • Road 1 Detour from Brookville to Connersville account of paving, is 23% miles. Road 2—Detour at west edge of Lowell account construction, is %• mile. Road 6—Detour east of junction l of road 49 account overhead bridge; construction, is 2 miles. Road 7—Detour between Columbus and North Vernon account of paving, is 32 miles over paved roads 31 and 50. Road 15—Detour at 1 mile north of Marion account paving, is 8; miles. Detour from Goshen to! junction of road 20, account paving is S miles. Road 18—Detour from Roll to 1 mile north of Fiat on road 3, a<jcount bridge construction, is 14%' miles. Road 22—Detour at 1 mile west, of junction of road 9 account bridge I constructio nis 3 miles. Road 24—Detour from Wolcott! to Reynolds account paving, is 12 miles. « Roads 24 and 30 —Detour at east edge of Fort Wayne account of paving, is 2 miles. Roads 24 and 53 — Detour just south of Wolcott account paving is 2 miles. Road 28—Detour just east of Tipton to relocate bridge is 2% miles. Detour from 4 miles east of' Elwood to Alexandria account pav-j ing, is 6 miles. Road 29 — Detour from Marion ! county line to Kirkland account of paving, is 34 miles. I Road 35—Detour from 1% miles south of Marion county line to j Bargersville account paving, is 6% : miles. Road 36 —Detour from 9 miles east of Rockville to Morton account paving, is 14 miles. Road 40 —Repairing pavement between Cumberland and Greenfield. • Drive carefully as one-way traffic is enforced where men at work. Read 43—Detour at east edge of Wanathah account overhead bridge construction, is 1 mile. Road 46 —Detour from Bloomington to Spencer account paving, is 20 miles. (Only fair condition). , Detour at east edge of Columbus for grading, is 6 miles. (Effective cnly in wet weather). Road 50—Detour in city of Washington account street paving, is 11% miles. Road 56—Detour from Madison i west account grading, is 7% miles. Road 61—Detour from Petersburg j north account paving is 7% miles. Road 66 — Detour from Hatfield to Rockport account grading and paving, is 13 miles. (Narrow road and bridges.) Road 144 —Detour from Bargers- ! ville to Franklin account paving, is ! 10 miles. Roads not mentioned and parts , rtf roads mentioned but not speei- ! fled, and all detours not otherwise described, are in good surface condition.

O Hunter Lassos Cougar Eugene Ore — <UP) — William Clark, hunter of Oakridge, Ore., whose reputation for veracity is good, related a story of lassoing a nice-month-old cougar with a rope and capturing it alive. He plated the anima! i” a cage at Westfir, Oregon.

Illmberlost REPORT FILED | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Qultlng frerr. the report of Mr. • i Diggs he Hays: “A park at this lo- | -cation will serve a considerable urea of Eastern Indiana, not now | within an easy driving distance of I a state park. A large lake in this section would undobutdly be an at|t aetve feature as a recreational ! ground, and provide tin excellent i preserve for water fowl. j “While it is believed that a large reservation of 15,(umi to 20J8U) acres : in this section of the state, includ-! ‘ ing a lake of some 5,000 to 5,000 ! acres would provide out-of-door rec- I reation to many people from the! ! surrounding counties, the cost of such a project would be very great." i Quoting from the report of Mr. Dog-ett, in regard to a lake in coni nection with the park, he says: i "To form the lake and properly j care for the overflow during times of heavy rainfall, a levee and spill-' i way paralleling the state highway I is necessary. In addition a high! water spillway by passing the town 1 of Geneva, will lie necessary. 1 "A.ter the lake is formed, drainage ou.'le's above the flow line will 1 , be affected adversely when the lake i ’ is high, due to the backwater effect. I Several important highways will ne- i cessarily have to be rerouted also. I 1 “It is my feeling, after viewing j I the area and learning -that the j depth of water in the deepest por- * I tion of the proposed lake will be 10 1 to 12 feet, that a considerable portion of the area will ,be extremely shallow water, and will lend itself to the propagation of masses of aquatic vegetation, restricting the area of open water to considerably , less than 6.000 acres. “The watershed is large enough I I to keep the pond filled, 1 believe at j all seasons of the year. According j o a local engineer (William Cor-; ! win. the foundation for the dam is | i of impervious clay and very satisI factory.’’ . Reference to funds for the puri chase of land for park purposes. ! has to do with financial aid tentatively promised by the Isaak Walton I League, and other organizations inj terested in the memorial. Various • propositions have been advanced , to raise money, most of them seasI ible, but no direct action has been j taken as ve*. According to statements made to two Portland men iat Geneva last week, the Geneva Chamber of Commerce is preparing to form at: organization composed of prominent people in a number of surrounding counties, this organI ization to be incorporated under state laws for the express purpose of raising funds for the memorial. — o ELKS TO HONOR THE MOTHERS J CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) -iThe Old Refrain Kreisler . That Wonderful Mother of j Mine Goodwin • i Dr. Neptune His Lullaby ... Bond Mrs., Schrock f Mothers O’ Mine Tours Machree Ball Mr. Smith -'Songs My Mother Taught ’ | Me Dvorak ! Mrs. Holthouse ’.All Through the Night. Owen j Mrs. Holthouse. Dr. Neptune, Mrs. Schrock, Mr. Smith. o

CLUB ROUND-UP AT PURDUE ENDS j (CONTINUE!) FROM PA’Tc "'NE) I light saving time. Admission to the i auditorium will he 50c for adults and 35c for chldren. Everyone is ininvited to witness this humorous production. — 0 Morrow’s Daughter Reported Engaged New York. May 9. —(U.R) — The Daily News said today that Miss Elizabeth Morrow, eldest daughter of Senator Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey, is secretly engaged to a minister who was widowed on his honeymoon two years ago. The minister, the paper said, is the Rev. Clyde H. Roddy, pastor 1 of the First Presbyterian Church |of North Arlington, N. J., two ■ miles from the Morrow home at | Englewood. When asked about

, the engagement report, the pastor I was quoted as saying "the announcement should come from the Morrow family," Ikit refused subI sequently to confirm or deny It. HOOVER TAKES UP EXPENSES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sident’s car. Other army officers were enroute :o the camp to join j the conferences in the afternoon. Lawrence Richey, the President s | confidential secretary, was the only ' one pf the party to go fishing. Theo- ! dore Joslin, newest presidential sec- ! retary also was in the party. It was his first trip to the Rapidan. o Quake Recorded In Colorado Denver, Colo., May 9. — (U.K) —A 14-minute earthquake of destructive force was recorded today on Regis college seismograph. Os third degree intensity and between 1,70|) and 2,000 miles from i Denver, the quake was said by | seismologists to have occurred ! probably on the northern part of ! the South American’ continent, or possibly just off the coast of north- ! ern Sojith America. The quake started at 3:44 a. m. I (M.S.T.) and lated until 3:58. o I Republicans To Rally in Ft. Wayne Republicans of the new Fourth congressional district will gather at the Pennsylvania Club rooms in ! Fort Wayne on Thursday evening, , May 21st for a rally. The new i Fourth district is composed of the ■ counties of Adams. Wells. Whitley, , Noble, LaGrange, Steuben, DeKalb, • and Allen. Preparations are being made for the entertainment of j more than a thousand persons. ’ ! Free sandwiches and coffee will be ! served. An orator of nation-wide reputation has been secured to deliver the principal address, and all Re-

J. V/. Keys Poultry Co. I W anted I 1 B LIVE POULTRY AND CALVES ARE IN DEMAND. ■ JUST CALL DECATUR 77. ■ -*» w——ea-r ■■— --■ . ■»■. —a-r-v I ; THE ADAMS THEATRE , SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY —15e-35t ■ FIRST Sunday Evening Show 6:30 (Standard) 7:30 (Daylight iavin|) ‘ Matinee Sunday 2 P.M. (Standard) 3 P.M. (daylight saving time) M Victor McLaglen and Marlene Dietrich in “DISHONORED" . Sure of her power over men, she uses them as prey for her chants« her dangerous game . . and Wins! Until Love loads the 01 Don’t Miss This Flaming Drama! Added—“THE DEVIL’S CABARET” A Technicolor Novelty. LAST TIME TONIGHT— RICHARD ARLEN & FAY WRAY in’’TH* CONQUERING HORDE.” Thrill's of the West! You'll throb at ® pulses over this exciting outdoor classic! Added-7th Chapter i OF THE WILD" and "TEACHER’S PEST,” A Bimbo Cartoon.

THE CORT SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY Matinee Sunday 2 P. M. (Standard time) — 10c-40c Evening 6:30 (Standard time) — 15c-40c “REACHING FOR THE MOON" A fast mnvino spectacle with DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS—BEBE DANIELS # Racing, romping, leaping through countless thrills to risk •> m 0( | erl . love of a girl lie had seen but onc.e! Here's the greates o entertainments! ADDED—Good Comedy and Movietone Nev*- TH ( ' TONIGHT — The first chapter of the new serial “ HE drama , FLAMES.” Also—“THE SEAS BENEATH,” a sea a George O’Brien. 15c —35 c

Bi • Holxh's Reports Killed In \V r W 1 Mav Mb “ '"p"" . Ml ‘">’l Mi Pa«tor»| R UI , HF p..;., li:lr llas|iir|i ca l- I" del:;.., s, s Wg '■"•y serve* IlV'l.f H | h a at their ..'.tn c', ; r.-| ie s <a a.lvamv he plans io tie iil.Metit \, lt - "Ut.—New Y..rn fit,,,., WE Fragrant SawafrM 4 It was t'.e lll.fiulu coveie.l tUt- s! | h . of tlie fi iigri.nl Ir.rk iU ,| sassafras an.l |...<>«! the earlv I r.-n. |i . H i<| Spanish Ilers I . -ci us (imi snfras e.|..r aafiel p i trils of (’..l c.'.iis on hi. 111,1 age and < ■"' -11>. '.'l him that « I(S neat I 1 »rrtf n| plant: have t.ie fr.-;.' ’.OHO HEY MA! LET'S GO! V IOOTLK.HT FROLIC E ST. JOSEPH'S HALL fl May 15th—8:15 fl Adults 35c Children