Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1931 — Page 8

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TWENTY GRAND, MATE FAVORED By Junies M Kerr (United Press Correspo...li-tif) Louisville Ky., Muy 15 • (UP)— Twenty Grand und Mate, week lone eholceit, continued to rule uh Joint fnvoriUiji today to capture the fifty seventh annual running of the Kentucky Derby tomorrow. The chances of the showy three-year-old oP the Greentree stable, runner-up to Mate in the preakness were increased yesterday when the sun partly dried up the ‘.rack on Churchill Downs. Prospects are that the racing strip will be dry although not lightning fast, when the field of probably 11 horses go ft» the post tomorrow. Z.OII a dry track, it is expected that Twenty Grand will be made a slight favorite over Mate, Although the latter Ttas gained much support since his voctory in the Pimlico ciassics.* Should the turf be muddy Hquipoiae, 1930 money - winning champion among the juveniles, probably will become a favorite. Pittsburgher, carrying the chief lu>pe of the west and a great mudder, has gained little support despite his sensational workouts while Sweep All and Spanish Play, considered the l>est op the other western candidates, are accorded onlq an outside chance by veteran horsemen. Mate, little heralded until the preakness victory, will have an opportunity to accomplish the unusual. Only two horses in history have won the preakness and the Derby in the same year—Sir Barton and Gallant Fox. Should Mate cross the finish line first he would become known as one of the greatest three-year-olds of all time. Outside of this record —which only can be tied —only one mark can be broken. That is the track record of 2:03 2-5 set by old rosebud in 1914. None of the mounts entered in the Derby this year have a c hange of piling up record winnings .'or the season and it is unlikely that even the course mark will be shattered. A crowd of approximately 75,000 persons is expected to witness the renewal of the classis. The bund reds of thousands of dollars that are bet on the probable winning each season were being cat lied into Louisville today and although the 'betting machines do not open until tomorrow morning it was estimated that about $2,500,000 would be wagered this year. In addition to that amount there will be thousands of dollars handled by book-makers throughout the United States. One of the most distinguished visitors arrived yesterday. He was vi< e president Charles Curtis, who was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann. Curtis probably will present the trophy to the owner of the winning horse. Boxers To Hold Meet All members of the American Leg on amateur boxing team are ask ed to meet at Legion Hall at 7:39 o’ lock tonight. Several important oi’.estions will be discussed and all team members are asked to be present. Prof undity One distinction nowadays Is tn writg a lM>ok so Incomprehensible that at least a dozen Interpreters, who think they know more than the author, will write explanations of the original "riL—Richmond Times Dispatch

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STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. * | St. Louis 14 4 .778 | New York 14 6 .700 ' Boston 13 9 .591 .... , 11 8 Pittsburgh 11 12 .478 i ! Philadelphia 9 12 .429 t Brooklyn 8 15 .348 v I Cincinnati 3 16 .518 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. ’ Philadelphia 13 7 .650 | New York ......... 14 8 .636 j Washington 14 11 .560 Cleveland 12 12 .500 ' i Boston 10 13 .435 Chicago 9 14 .391 , St. Louis 6 14 .300 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION >1 W. L. Pct. Ist. Paul 14 7 .667 : j Columbus 13 9 .591 - Louisville ... 12 12 .500 I Milwaukee 12 12 .500 ■ Kansas City 10 13 .435 ■ I Toledo 10 13 .435 Indianapolis 10 13 .435 ' Minneapolis 9 13 .409: YESTERDAY’S RESULTS I National League I All games postponed, rain. American League Philadelphia. 5; Chicago, 2. "| New York. 14; St. Louis. 2. Boston, 4; Detroit, 3. ; Washington. 5: Cleveland. 4. American Association Indianapolis. 7: Kansas City, 6. Milwaukee, 13; Louisville, 8. Columbus, 21; Minneapolis. 11. St. Paul, 3; Toledo. 1. WILL HONOR BALL TICKETS II i J Tfikets purchased for last Sun- : day’s independent baseball game will be honored at the game this coming Sunday, the local manageL ment announced today. The game r l ’ ! next Sunday will be played at the I West Adams street diamond and i will start at 3 o'clock daylight sav1 1 ing time. A: vil a independents, one of the , I strongest teams in the Wabash Val- . 1 ley league will oppose the Baxter- . , men hern Sunday. Manager Buck ' j Baxter slated today that he was. | well satisfied with the work of his i ' | players and that if injuries did not | break up the local lineup, Decatur, ' ; would 1,3 near the top at the close ( ' ! of the season. Tickets for Sunday's game can I be obtained at the baseball lot before the game at 25 cents for adults ' and 15 cents for children over 15 ; i years of age. Children under 15 years of age will be admitted fiee to all games. ; o Booklet Explains War On Furniture Moths ■i ♦ Washington, May —'.U.K—The • troublesome little moth that leaves | behind its trail many small holes I in furniture, especially that finish I ed in mcha"e, can be halted if the I housewife makes a fortnightly inspection. says Clark B. Kelsey in I a booklet, published by the Nationi al Committee on Wood Utilization. I The booklet, “Furniture, Its Se- , lection and Use,’’ says the home 1 owner ought to inspert furniture I at least once a fortnight, brushing it briskly with a stiff brush. This. ■ it is explained, crushes the eggs of i the moth that are laid in various i parts of the furniture. o Woman Operates cn Fowls Rochester, Minn. —<U.R) —Using a sharp razor as her scalpel. Miss i Helen Brundage, successfully operates on hens and chickens suffering from perplexing ailments. Most 11 of the patients are crop bound.

BOSTON HOLDS ; OWN IN RACE 1 I New York. May 15 U.R). The I • I Boston lied Sox. considered the ' i weak sister i f the Amerii lea- • ’ gue. are more than lidding theirl ''own against the western c'ubs in ' i their circuit. Boston, after losing 11 or 17' games against eastern dubs, open ied its intersectional competition by giving the championship aspiraliens of the Cleveland Indians a ; severe set-back. The Indians, who i hail piled up a substantial lead li against western teams, dropp' d > | three in a row to the Red Sox anil i I slipped into the second division. ! After their success at Cleveland lithe Rod Sox moved on to Detroit i where they lost the first two coilI tests, 2 to 0 and 2 to 1. They came back and defeated the Tigers, 4 to i 3 yesterday, however, to give them I -a record of four victories against! two 'defeats in competition with , western aggregations. , Boston bunched five hits off Waite Hoyt for its four runs in the sixth inning. Durham, Lisenbee and i Moore held the Tigers to 11 scat-1 Itered hits. i The Philadelphia Ath’etics and! New York Yankees continued their struggle for the league leadership Iby turning in victories, the Ath-1 letics defeating the Chicago White Sox. 5 to 2 wh.’le the Yankees over-J i whelmed St. Lcuis Browns. 14 to; 2. Although both clubs have won six mote games than they have' Jost, the Athletics hold the leadership by .011 percentage points be-; cause they have played fewer con-' ! tests th,in the New Yorkers. Al Simmons’ sixth home run of: I the season with one man on base! featured the Athletics’ nine-hit at-[ ; tack on Vic Frasier and Ted Lyons. I l Walberg held the White Sox to ! seven hits. Lou Gehrig was the dynamite in Jhe Yankee 1.3 hit bombardment of i Gray Stiles. Coffman and Stiely. j i Gehrig hit two home runs and a 'single. Ruffing held the Browns i h’tless until the eighth and runless until the ninth when three St. Louis .hits shoved two runs across the plate. j “Sad Sam” Jones- pitched and I batted the Washington Senators to a 5 to 4 victory over Cleveland. It was the Indians fifth consecutive defeat. Jones'double in the second inning accounted for two Senator ' runs while he held Cleveland t,o 2 I hits after the Indians had counted ! three times in their half of the I third frame. | For the second consecutive day I all games scheduled in the National league were postponed because |of rain and cold weather. — Yesterday's hero: Charles Ruff I ing, who pitched the New York (Yankees to a 14 to 2 victory over 'the St. Louis Browns. Huffing had > a no-hit contest within his grasp, I until the eighth inning when Stiles ' singled. He allowed but four hits, three of which were bunched in the ninth inning for St. Louis’ only talHlies. ,! 0 Hen Lays Egg In Death Lindsay, Calif. —(U.f&— Biddy, pot; •I hen of Earl Houghton. Strathmorel G rancher, proved faithful even in ■;death. Biddy strolled into the road! | near the Houghton farm and was; ■ I struck by a speeding automobile. I ■ I Death was instantaneous. When ' - Houghton wont to pick up the dead' ! bird he found a freshly laid egg be-1 ■ side her. ; o Sea Scholarships Popular i Philadelphia —(U.R>— College life on the high seas is gaining in popularity with more than 100 applicants seeking 25 scholarships to the Pennsylvania Schoolship, Ani ■ napolis. There were only 16 cadets Jon the ship’s first cruise 11 years - 1 ago. Fourteen of the 80 student -'sailors on board the ship will gradt' uate which will make room for the men who win the scholarships.-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MAY I.\ 1931.

1930 DROUGHT | DANGER OVER Weather Bureau Head Says Danger Is Past for Present, At Least I i Indianapolis, May 15- (UP). The I 11930 drought, with its far-reaching' devastating effects, has ended, J.] ill. Anninvton, chief of the Utii'ed I Stales weather bureau here, an-1 | no.'ii. ed after a survey of precipita-; tion reports. He udded, however, 1 tha: .lunger of recurrance of the dry I spell in the state is greater than if I normal rainfall had oi-i-uired last ' year. I At present there is plenly of ’ water in the sub-soil, Armington i i i xpln-ned. The ground in general. ! is sufficiently moist to give crops] a good star;, and If normal weather I continues for the remainder of the growing season, no more ill effects of the worst drought in Indiana his- ; to y will be feit. But far beneath the surface, at ; the level where water which has seeped through the soil begins to I drain off, there is still a dearth of! moisture he said; Deep wells-have ; not recovered their usual supply and until a normal condition is reached at this depth, water will continue to sink more rapidly. For | this reason he said, danger of re-' ] eurri-nce is not yet past, since if i rainfall is scant for the next month ’ water in the sub-soil now will gradI ually sink to the draining level. Armington prepared a chart ; showing the precipitation for 1930] for each month. The first two ; weeks of January were (.00 per : I cent above normal, the map Indi- ! cates. Beginning with February the ' Ira nfall line settles below normal , and in southern Indiana, from March 5 until August 10 there was no time at which rainfall neared ;no:mal. From September 10 until the 15 the southern portion of the state experienced the only substan-1 ]tial tainfall of the entire year, exI eluding the first two weeks. The central area was slightly less affected. Six times during the year ! .ell far below the average point, i The northern districts were more ' fortunate than either of the other ; i wo. In this quarter rainfall was I above normal eight times, but it al-' so experienced periods when it was below average for long spells. Armington commended upon 'droughts and their efiect. He coma ed the 1930 drought to the diy jpell of 1901. The latter, while not early so extended as last year’s brought much greater damage to the corn crops, he said. The reason was an excessive num- i her of days with temperatuies above 90 degre ■- combined with hot i dry winds, i.uilugton explained. Crops may go a long time without' lain” Armington said, "if the wea- 1 ther is cloudy and fairly cool. But t i consecutive days are extremely hot a d humid, ths damage is much = reate. The weather expert also com- j mented upon the term ’drought." , Fa.mers are prone to term any j short, hot dry spell a drought, he said, whereas it should apply only ' when rainfall is lacking for ex-1 tended periods. A comparatively short, hot, humid spell is not a drought, be said, although it is, cranted the damage to crops may j be much heavier during such a i time. | Approximately nine inches of raid has fallen since January 1 Armington said, which is more than five inches under the normal. The rains during thetlast two weeks have not been heavy, he explained, but have done more benefit than if water ( had fallen in harder showers. “In a thunderstorm” he said, “much water may come down, but it runs off ! almost as rapidly as it dei'.cends. The ra ns that help the farmers are | long, slow and steady. Such condi- ! tions permit enough to sink into j the soil to give the crops their full 1 advantage.” rt- ; To Plan New Border Roads Poland Spring, Me.—<U.R> Maine <uid Quebec highway officials will I meet here June 13 to plan a co-op-j erative program for better roads . across the Canadian border. J. Perrault, minister of roads and . mines tor Quebec, will head the i Canadian delegation to the confer- . ence. Governor William Tudor ; Gardiner of Maine is expected to II deliver an address. O Dance Saturday night, l>ee ■ Fryback’s Orchestra. Ladies dance free. Sunset Park.

-—- -' •" —— I Seeking Victory in Derby Wl J | I Among the many thoroughbreds on which hopes of victory are centered I in the forthcoming American turf classic is “B’ar Hunter.” crack three-year-old, training at Louisville for the Kentucky Derby, May 16.

—— CANNING PLANT TO BE LOCATED IN THIS CITY < I, CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONErt eras of the Chamber of Commerce met this morning and discussed the matter. Farmers who are interested in the growing of an acre' of tomatoes, under terms of the] contract to be provided them, are asked to get in touch with Mr. i Ashbaucher at once. Three possible locations for the . tomatoe canning factory are under ( consideration and it is expected ( that a lease for one of the buildings will be closed today or Satur-1 I day. | Farmers state that raising toma-! toes at the rate of $lO a ton is a ; nr- fitable crop and it is expected that the 75 or 100 acres will be ' easily secured. A t-matoe canning factory operates three to four months a year,', hesfiles giving employment to persons engaged in the raising of the tomatoes. As the plant grows it is expected that other vegetables Swill be added and that in time farm ! ers will grow other products for the canning factory. j Mr. Morris and his associates, it - was stated, own three other canning factories in the state and have a reputation for being progressive! ; and honest business men. HOOVER SHOWS MUCH INTEREST IN CONDITIONS ' (CONTINUED FROV PAGE ONE, I federation is without power to do more than withhold its support frem such a strike, President Hoov- ; er has from time to time remarked lon the virtual absence of labor (trouble during the depression. I Green said labor leaders were extremely reluctatnt to abrogate the agreement not to strike, but! ' intimated that if the pact is broken ; on a wide scale by employers, there may be nothing far labor to do lent strike as a measure cf self-preser-pation. According to federation figures, | the 1921 depression was marked i

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by 2,400 strikes. In the present emergency, admittedly more severe, there are not more than 70 labor disputes now before the department of labor for arbitation, according Ito Hugh 1.. Kerwin, director of conciliation. Os these disputes, he said, not more than 60 per cent were strikes. None of them are nation-wide or affect an entire industry. On the basis of tnese figures labor proudly insists it has kept its primise to the President. On the other hand it cites many cases of wage reductions, some slight, ‘some drastic, which it charges are in direct violation of the agreement. Since Green has oeen head cf the I federation, and to some extent under the late Samuel Gompers, organized labor in this country has pursued a markedly conservative policy, with a maximum of cooper- , ation with capital and an avoid- ! ance of strikes wherever possible. This policy has led to severe 'criticism of (he federation and its leadership by left-wing laborites, wlio say it lias degenerated into little better than an association of "company unions," with no fight left in it. Others have held that this development was inevitable in i view of the fact that nearly every laborer in tlie United States is an actual or potential capitalist on a small scale. What will happen to this policy of conci iation and coeperation if the federation feels itself driven to use again the weapon' of the strike is arousing considerable conjecture. Certainly the fedt ration appears determined to resist to the utmost any attempts to lower the hard-won . standard of living at which European labcr generally marvels. —r —O •Bandits Superstitious Urbana, ill. —\U.R)i— Even bandits are superstitious it was revealed here recently when burglars entered a confectionery and rifled a cash register taking S2O and leaving a $2 bill. Egotisms One Value Eg'itlsm is the .Illes! belle which mil m e gives us I" deaden the pain "1 being n fool —Herbert Slmlield

I PLAY PLEASES LARGE CROWD — J*AGE ONE) tions. awaken the sleeping children and lead lhem to the land of Dream Come True. During the Intermission between the acts « Dunce of Clocks and song, and a Negro Dance and song take place. The second act takes place in ! Mother Goose land, und the childI ten are Introduced to Mother Goose I us interpreted by Katherine Knapp and the Old Woman that Lived in a Shoe, La Vera Meyers. Maiy Ann Feinthei) plays the part of Bo Peep I I Richard Colter enacts the roll of I Jack Horner, and Marjorie Mas-; Minee plays the part of the Queen of Hearts Other characters in Mother Goose I Land are Boy Blue, played by Jack i ■ porter; Miss Muffet, Patsy Gar-1 ard; Son John, Rii fiard Linn;! '• Jitlv, Dixie Miller, Jack, John Krick; Contrary Mary. Betty Cook; ' Aiino.e Jtick, James Egley, The G’ant. Ernest Wilson. The third acts marks the awakening ot the childien at the edge of I the forest, and their playmates come running to play with them, j The four children are bewildered

J Help Us Keep The 1 STREETS ClEll The city street force is making every effort W Io get the streets ot Decatur clean and to B keep them that way and we ask your ■ co-operation. ■ A number of peop’e are dumping grass K and refuse from the yards in the streets, K causing a bad appearance and it is impossible S *o gc over the streets each day. Such debris ■ Fhoukl be hauled away or placed in recep- IB tae’es instead cf being dumped out in the B • e‘ r po4 s . y\’p are trying to make this the H p-a city of its size in the state B and v/e will do it if you will help. B Please don’t dump the yard ■ refuse in the streets, B Amos Fisher I STREET COMMISSIONS! B H t ~ ■ i ■ H : Footwear Savings! D H —‘ — - ■ GO pair of the Finest Work Shoes —Lion Brand ■ ! included—all solid leather, sizes 6 to 11. sold ■ rciU arly at pair, $3.95 —Special Saturday 1 $2.79 d — 11 a Lad ies and Grow in ? Girls Footwear, pateni-s ►- kid. gun metal, 'ario® style 0 * heels, values to 1 Sai .. $2.95 / Mens and Young M** ■ Oxfords, tan and bM regu’ar at a,palr $3.95 Child’s Barefoot Rollin s Run Sandals, B'/ 2 to 2, Hose, all :^r ial 9Bc jijL | NICHOLS Shoe Store

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