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LOCAL BOXERS MAKE SHOWING INTOURNAMENT Decatur Wins Three of Eight Scraps With Ft. Wayne Amatures Adams county fij?ht fans got a real treat last night ht the American Legion boxing tourney at Catholic high School gymnasium. Fort Wayne amature boxers won from the Deca! nr team 5-3 in wight three-round scraps as! 600 people cheered their favorites on. "'The feature scrap. Eddie Lobsig-1 y 1 vs. Manes. Fort Wayne Golden (♦love winner, was a disappointin'nt to local fans who had twice seen Lobsiger knock his opponent y> the canvas. The scrap last night was completely reversed and Lob- . Mger’s seconds tossed the towel into the ring in the midtUe of the third round. . The local entry was on even terms with his heavier opponent until the last round when he took a severe trimming. Lobsiger fell to his knees after making a brilliant effort to exchange blow for blow and before he could get to his feet, a towel was tossed into ♦he ring giving Manes a technical knockout. A youngster by the name of Fiayle Smith at 117 pounds beautifully I trimmed his 123-pound opponent Wilson from Fort Wayne in the best exhibition of the evening. I Smith was outweighed, but the I handicap did not seem to bother him and from the start of the first round he assumed the offensive which won for the Decatur entry by a big margin. Smith gave Wilson about thre c [ blows for everyone he took, and j from the look of distress on his op-' ponent’s face he must have carried ’ a dynamite wallpp. The crowd stood and cheered as Smith left '• the ring. The first bout b tween Johnnie I Hain, Decatur and Squirt Laisure j of Fort Wayne wasn't so much. | Johnnie had a big weight advant | age and twice had the little fel-> low on his knees for a count. The' jftdges awarded Laisure the scrap! for his gameness. Glen Martin. 113-pound r and I Hurst. 11l pounds, staged a three-! round draw affair and Martin for-j felted the point to Hurst when he i refused to go into the fourth round.. Nr decide the winner. Martin put | up a great scrap and the fans voiced a loud disapproval when the judges called the event a draw. Martin won the first round by a wide margin and probably lost the second. The third rohnd. however went tp the Decatur scrapper in the opinion of fans, but the two ! Fort Wayne judges outgeneralled 1

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tile one Decatur Judg and a draw was finally decided an. Martin had I received a low blow and refused to scrap an extra roßnd. Fanning at 127 pounds and Zol-1 lars of Fort Wayne as 131 pounds staged a dandy, the event going to I Fanning after a elose contest. For' a three round tota] Fanning proved too fast for h's opponent who used his reserve strength in the first round in an effort to win early. j Young Btirkliend, 140 pounds, I trimmed Dick Crawford at 138 pounds after a three-round exchange of hard blows. Burkey was ■ groggy for a second in the last round but he came back with a series of fierce punches that almost sent Crawford to the canvas. The entire scrap kept fans on their feet j and was one of the most active, scraps of the program. J. Crawford. 157, Fort Wayne, gave Eddi ■ Anderson, 175 pounds, his first trimming. Eddie almost bad Crawford out in the first round but his failure to walk in and send the visitor to the mat was costly, j In the second and third rounds Crawford made great use of his left, and continually was smacking EtJ.-' die cn the lip. The last two rounds, and fight went to the Fort Wayne I entry. And Moser at 163 pounds was a little small for Red Freeman, 178pound scrapper from Fort Wayne. I Moser fought a game scrap and waded in on several occasions, ‘ much to the approval of the crowd.' Freeman’s ability and reach weigh ed heavy on the local entry and in the third round the visitor piled up enough points to win the scrap. | i The large crowd was handled in ' good shape by the Legion and little I [time was lost between scraps. Col. Roy Johnson was the announcer, and Jack Ellsworth was the Decatur judge. o BALL TEAM IS ON ROAD SUNDAY Decatur's independent baseball i team will play its first out-of-town | tame of the saeason tomorrow at | Columbia City. It will be Decatur’s! I second start in the Wabash Valley ! league, the local team, having won , i last Sunday from Arvilla 4-3. Manager Buck Baxter announced today that the players would d<> I part for Columbia City at 11:46 ! o’clock, daylight saving time and I would leave from Pat Ctfffee’p Shoe I Shop. The players who will make the' trip besides Manager Baxter are I at Coffee, Melvin Ladd, Andy Api pieman. Bill Bell, Al Schneider. Mci Whinney P. Ladd. Hez Cochran, ! Dick Engle. Fanning, P. Busse, Bebout. The game will start at 3 o’clock, daylight saving time. o BARGAINS — Bargains «n living room, dining room suite, mat tresses and rugs. Stuckey and Co Monroe, our Phone number in 44 1 168-ts

IRISH TRACK TEAM VICTORS — Milwaukee. May 23—<U.R>—Six varsity meet records and two freshmen marks were Shattered last night as ’ Ire Dame Univer- | sity won the sixth annual central intercollegiate track ami field carnival under the floodlights of Marquette stadium. As a reward for its victory, Notre Dame was given the Knute K. Rockne trophy to keep among its sourvenie s for a: least a year. List night’s track meet was con-, ducted as a memorial to the late !coach. Marquette University carried off i second honors with 37', points while Michigan State was third with 32%. The others ended as follows: Butler. 24; ‘Milwaukee I Teachers, 11; Detroit. 8; and Loy- ; ola 1. Quincy College and Armour Tech failed to place. Three individual stars were out-! standing in the meet. Clark Chamberlain of Michigan | State, for instance, came within irne-tenths of a second of tying the American Intercollegiate rec- ‘ ord in the two-mile His time was 9:18.7 which was good enough to shatter both the meet and rhe stadium records. Cham-j berlain set the old central inter-j collegiate mark in 1930 when he, covered the distance in 9:32. I Jack Tierney of Marquette, a sophomore, established two new varsity meet records in winning both the 100 and 220-yard dashes. I His time in the 100 was 9.8 and j in the 220 was 21.2. E. R. Gerboth of Milwaukee. State Teachers college was high of the meet, winning first in the discus throw and second in | both the shot put and javelin throw for a total of 11 points. Gerboth’s throw of 137 feet 2 inches in the discus set a new, meet record. The old mark of 134. feet. 4 inches was set by Hoffman of Notre Dame in 1930. Other records fell in the 880-* yard run and high jump. Sivak of Butler won the half mile in 1.55.2. The old mark of 1.57 was held by i i Little of Notre Dame. Nelson of Butler, former indoor. I champion, won the high jump with ! a leap of six feet 1% inches and bettered By 2% inches the old j mark set in 1928 by Gitter of Mar-j I quette and Diehl of Lombard. Michigan State freshmen won' the distance medley relay in 10:44.2 from Marquette and Ix>yola fresh. Marquette won the freshmen 880-yard relay in 1.32.3. Both were new records. # The varsity mile relay was won by Notre Dame in three minutes, 23.2 seconds. Butler was second, ’ Marquette, third, and Michigan State fourth. o Ralph Gates of Columbia City j was looking after business here Friday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 23,1931.

QUALIFIERS START TODAY Indianapolis Speedway, May 23. I —(U.R) —Qualification trials for the nineteenth annual 500-mile Memor- , ial Day auto race here, opened ■ clear, with moderate temperature ; under ideal weather cfnditio*a—today. , Tlte weather inducement, coupled with the fact that many of the fastest drivers on the track had; their mounts In better mechanical i condition than usual for the fij-stl day, led to the prophecy that there 1 be an unprecedented ntnn-' her of trial runs before sundown, to win the coveted positions in the first starting line. Forty autos will be permitted. to compete in the Decoration Day chissic. Trials will continue I until Wednesday. Eddie Edenhurn, i A.A.A., representative, announced I today. All gasoline - fueled machines; must make 90 miles an hour for four laps of the two-and-one-half I mile brick oval. The one <561-1 Brning auto, the Cummins' Diesel, has to make only 80 miles an hour to qualify. 1 Dave Evans, veteran driver, had 1 the Diesel on the starting line 1 early today. He expected to be the first to qualify. Track follow- 1 ers conceded Evans a place with the “oil-eater” in the starting line. I Should more than 40 qualify, ; the slowest — not including the ( Diesela -will be stricken from the I list. Billy Arnold. 1930 winner, an- 1 nounced that he would try to 1 qualify today. A thrilling battle ' for the three front-row positions ' was indicated, with four star ( pilots fighting for the pole position; first on the front row. Each year stiff competition is ‘ waged for the front row berths, 1 because they give drivers the best 1 chance at the SIOO lap prizes. Louis Meyer turned his circuit i ( at 117 miles an hour Thursday end has not touched the auto. since. Meyer, Arnold. Shorty ( Cantion in the 16-cylinder special, and Bill Cummings in an Empire ‘ State Special, were regarded as having the best chance for the ( front row. A galaxy of other drivers with I, speedy mounts also hoped to make their trials today, among them Russell Snowberger, Philadelphia; j Ernie ’f’riplett, Los Angeles, west | coast champion; Bab? Stapp. Los Angeles; Lora Corum, Indianapolis, 1924 winner: Deacon Litz. Dubois. Pa.: Louis Schneider, Indian- | apolis; Peter DePaolo, Los Ange- ! les. 1925 winner and holder of the | track record; Tony Gulotta, Los Angeles: and Joe Caccia, Bryn' i Mcwr. Pa. Barney Oldfield, official starter, I arrived from the west last night J Odis Porter, chief timer, and S. ■J. Williams, his assistant, have been here for several days watching practice sessions. Chester Ricker, director of timing and scoring, also was on hand foi the preliminaries. BIG TEN STARS ARE IN ACTION Evanston, 111., May 23.— 'U.R' —A close struggle between Michigan, Ohio State and Illinois was expect|ed today in the finals of the 31st ! annual Big Ten track and field championship at Dyiche stadium. In the preliminaries yesterday Michigan qualified 15 men, Ohio , State 14 and Illinois 13. lowa, with 16 qualifiers, unexpectedly topped 'the three favorites, but the Hawkeyes were not expected to, furnish ! serious opposition to the leaders. , Four of lowa’s qualifiers were hi I the hammer throw. w The .other qualifiers were divided ias follows: Wisconsin 9, Indiana 8, ! Minnesota 7, Northwestern 3, Chicago 2, Purdue 2. Eddie Tolan, Michigan’s “midnight express”, won both his heats l in the 100 and 220-yard dashes, but , had slower time than Jess Fags. (Ohio State, in winning the century. Tolan’s time was 9.8 and Fazekas’ 9.7. One of the biggest thrills of the , meet was expected in the two hurdle- races today, with perhaps a new record hung up in one of them. The final outcome might possibly revolve around the two hurdle ' races. * I In the trials of the 120-yard high hurdles yesterday Jack Keller, Ohio State, Lee Sentman, Illinois, and Hatfield. Indiana, each won his heat in 14.8. Keller also qualified lin the 100-yard dash. If Keller ishould win both hurdle races and garner fifth place in the century, he would undoubtedly win high point honors and possibly enable Ohio State to win its first Big Ten track championship. Michigan's chances were aided when Dale Letts, Chicago star, elected to run In the half-mile instead of in the quarter-mile, making it almost certain that Russell will win first place for the Wolverines in the 440-yard dash. Lett’s stepped the half mile easily in 1:59.8 and had his time

bettered by Brown, Ohio Shit' [negro, who ran his heat in 1:59.2.1 Clarence Munn, Minnesota's foot I ball captrtfn-eh‘ct, sprang a surprise when he led the qualifiers in the shot put with a toss of 47 feet, 11% inches, nosing out Sammy Behr, Wisconsin, who for twn> years has held the Big Ten shot-put title. Seven of the eight men qualified by Wisconsin were in the weight events, four in the shotput and I three In the discus. Kabat, Wis-[ consin, topperl the discus qualifiers! with a throw of 149 feet, 8% inches.' lowa was considered certain to capture two first places, with Ed iGordon, negro broad jumper, and! ' L. D. Weldin, javelin thrower, both! I defending champions, far out ini | front of the qualifiers in those! .events. Gordon leaped 24 feet, inches and Weßlon threw the spear' 191 feet. 4% inches. No trials were held in the pole I vault, one mile and two mile runs, high jump and one-mile relay. o — ROBINS START BIG COMEBACK New York, May 23. —YU.RN —After an early season slump that all but ruined their 1931 pennant hopes, I the Brooklyn Robins at last appearto have hit the winning stride ex-[ pected of them. , The Robins, who lost ten of their first 12 games against Boston, Phil- J adelphia aod New' York have won six of their last eight contests and today were in fifth place in the National league standings. Their margin over the sixth place Pittsburgh club is but a few percentage noints while they are two games behind the Chicago Cubs, holders of fourth position. Until yesterday when they advanced two positions by virtue of i a double victory over Philadelphia, I the Robins had held seventh place: practically since the start of the I season. Until recently. Lefty O’Doul, Babe Herman. Johnny Frederick and Wally Gilbert were not hitting anywhere near their normal marks. Glen Wright, handicapped b/ a bad ankle, and A! Lopez. Cuban catcher. still are in a slump, but the rest of the Brooklyn stars while their batting marks still are low, show promise of regaining their 'O'.d stride. In their last Ijmes out, Phelps, Vance and Luque have indicated that .they are ready to tak c their regular turn on the mound. Vance and Shaute pitched Brooklyn to a double victory yesterda!y i in the only major league games. In] the first contest Vance held the Phillies to, seven hits as he beat them. 3 to 2, while in th? second game Joe Shaute coasted to a 5 to 2 decision. A two run rally in the sixth on a double by O’Doul, sing es by Bissonette and Wright and a long fly by Gilbert, clinched the first game for Brooklyn. Vance was forced to retire in the ninth inning when struck in. the face by Whitney's hard grounder but Jack Q'.’.lnn pitched . s way out of a hole when he retired the side after runners were on second and third with only one out. Babe Herman's home run with two mates on base in the third inning was sufficient to defeat Philadelphia in the second .encounter. Shaute’s victory in this contest was the fourth of the year he has registered over the Phillies. Lombardi, rookie catcher, got four hits in as many times at bat. Only two other contests were scheduled. They were the American league games between Chicago and Cleveland and Detroit and St. Louis. Both were postponed because of rain. 'Yesterday’s hero: Babe Herman, slugging outfielder, whose batting played a big part in Brooklyn’s two victories over Philadelphia. Herman’s single accounted for one of the runs the Robins scored in the, first game, which they won 3 to 2, while his home run with two mates on base clinched the second contest. which went to Brooklyn, 5 io t 2. ’ o SCHOOL BANDS MARCH TODAY 'CONTINUED FROM ONE) Ind.; Menasha, Wis., and Denison, lowa. The 42 bands will be consolidated under the direction of John Philip Sousa famous march king, after the parade. Three march songs were to be played. Bands which will compete in the machlng contest late today include: oplin. Mo.; Chillocthe, Mo.; Fairfield, Neb.; Texas; Aurora, Ill.; Miami, Okla.; West de Pere, Wis.; Pine Bluff, Ark.; Menasha, Wis., and Lorimer, la. Other bands were privileged to enter the (competition later in the day. The contest closes tonight and the homeward journey of the contestants was to begin soon after class A finals and the announcement of winners. o Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Annen had as their dinner guests, Friday, Mrs. Riley Crissman of Chicago, Illinois, and Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Farr of this city.

JOHN GARFIELD IS FOUND DEAD (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONI'D Since, Jun. 1, Garfield had b»en associated with the Boland -4 Cornelius (ompaiiy, Cleveland steamship operators. Previously he was a district manager wit It j the Isthmian Steamship lines. His widow, Mrs. J met Dodge i Garfield, and five children survive. Garfield, who was 39 years old, was commander of the Crusaders, j national anti-prohibition organizai tion, and a world war veteran. Ho j saw active service in the St. , Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives as a captain of the 134th ' field artillery. He also served es [ a private in the Ohio National - guards in 1916 and 1917 during I the Mexican border warfare. He was a graduate of Williams Col- . lege, cJass of 1915. I * o SEEK TO CLEAR DEATH MYSTERY -CoisTlNiJaD ’■'HOm PAGE ONE) ' ! who was sent to San Quentin by Clark about five years ago in the i young attorney’s first big battle ! against the underworld as a proseI cutor. “We believe Miss Taylor can give jus some va'uable in.' rmation on I Clark's movements after Spencer and Crawford were shot,” said Blayney Matthews, Fitts’ chief investi-j j gator. Clark's wife, Nancy, the daughter of a late circuit judge, said she was convinced of her husband's innocence. Her sister. Miss Molly Malone, supported her contention. “My sister and I believe that maybe Dave visited Mr. Crawford and that something terrible happened that, even though he was in- i nocent, put Dave in such an in ! j criminating position that he»hid 'until he oculd protect himself.” | Mrs. Clark said. “Or maybe he (wasn’t even there,’’ she added. “I ' know very little about Dave’s affairs.’’ , Clark continued his defense plans for a preliminary hearing next Thursday. He was arraigned late yesterday. While Clark maintained a smiling silence and the law sought to clear up mysterious angles of the case, plans were completed for burial today of “Good time” Charlie Crawford, the “Grey Wolf of Spring Street,’’ and Herb Spencer, the mild mannered newspaperman. Crawford's body lay in a $15,000 casket. Late in the afternoon the I Rev. Gastax Briegleb, who convertled Crawford a few months ago, will 'conduct tlie services at St. Paul’s Presbyterian church. It was in this church that the “Grey Wolf” startled Los Angeles

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| when lie announced he had "seen | tlie light” and dropped a huge dia ' tnond ring into tlie collection box, i He followed this with a $25,000 do ' nation and wa| said to have made ! 1 other gifts. | Although Crawford and Dr. Breigj lei) declared the former's political , ambitions ended when he joined the the city hall’crowd never , was convinced. ' Spencer, scion of u California family of the '49 gold rush, forme; city editor of the Evening Express and associate editor of the Critic of Critics, a liberal magazine which threatened to expose “rackets,” will ,be bunco <n Mountain ,<>w cemetery. , Meanwhile Frederick <’. "Mike” i Schindler, editor-in-chief of the Critic of Critics, announced he would issue 50.000 copies of his , magazine soon to meet a demand. . He said policies of tlie publication j would lie i ntinued. POPE ISSUES FULL TEXT OF ENCYCLICAL I I CONTI v-POM PAOR ONFI admitting that some phases of; libetal thought have approached! the ideals of Hie church, the principle of Pope Leo’s "Rerum No-1 varum” concerning the impossihil-1 ity of compromise with socialism! was reiterated and the theory of I private ownership was reaffirmed., I Such ownership, however, must be upon an enlightened basis "which would take heed of the good of all society, it was made clear. Referring to the menace of trusts and the accumulation of wealth and power, the encyclical said: “This power becomes despotic ii* the hands of those who, posI sensing money, dominate credit and control loans. Such people! ’ are, in a sense, distributors of the b’ood whereby the economic org-l anism lives. Tliev have the soul. of economy in their hands; no one 1 can breathe without their permisi sion. Thus there is a concentra-! tion of power.” i “This is the result of a tenrporary economy with unrestrained; • competition, allowing only the > strongest to survive. That is most ' violent and most conscienceless. “This concentration of wealth • generates three kinds of struggles: ; first, for economic supremacy, • secondly! for political power, and thirdly, a struggle between states. i “Free competition has destroyed ■ ifeplf. Economic hegemony has •taken the .dace of freedom of! I, markets. Greed for power lias. • succeeded to desire for wealth, I 1 and our whole economy has thus ; : become terribly hard, inexorable' i' and cruel.”

1(1 '" rrl " K "> r '”' lh "" 11 tS "" lint and !"'* I K -r is ■">.: i ' l, ''i'V(’nti fln in not Injure, hut r IH'iiH-ipJe £ W "Taking into (on ,u M |,r,,s ’"' situation """ , ll,: ■ <s liTj® another. Wealth is ■ "“’"'tri' -he worker.' t-.u W tr.'hanieal s'® f, [ to ’4® tli><ou:l, common labor l» fl j tutors ami W(l rkers. ® shouhl not he tm fl I '‘""’over. that thp . r W both futile llnl ® I ha(l Ki'"'' the natural ,'lfl I nature.” dl »B ARGUMENTS TO i HE COMPLETE I NEXT MOS J 'CONTINFFD from p»qhJ “I didn't know any one attacked her that night." Testifying at a previo^J j which resulted .in his IW |g jand sentence to life Kirkland wept, but yestgM remained composed during tuj | hours he was on the stui. ; He said Miss braves b«qj ( toxicated at tlie fatal party.an ted by 17 others, and fell tng I chair. Communist Goes To Prison For All Indianapolis, May 23-M A communist organizer'satUM obtain release fiom a mu|| court fine resulted in a priwie tence and a higher fine incnaj court here. He waa Theodore Luesse, HI dianapolis. long a communistg er. He first was ordered to fine of SIOO in municipal com a charge of threatening policetl I evicted a local family April I When he appealed the ctftd I other Judge imposed a W Q ' and ordered Luesse to seneifi year term on the Indiana 'farm. The sentence was the id mum pe’ altv for the offense, j