Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1931 — Page 8

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JUNIOR LEAGUE OPENS SEASON; MANY ATTEND Lions Only Decatur Aggregation to Turn in First Day Victory Winner Brand and Linedin Life junior baseball teams of Berne and Lions of Decatur were the victors Thursday in the opening of the Adams county junior baseball league sponsored by Adams post of the American Legion. More! than 500 people witnessed the onening of the season at the West Adams street baseball diamond. The two Berne teams staged the ’ surprises of the day. both teams showing a lot of class for youngsters and today, after the glamour I Os the opening day wears off all the boys in the league are talking ■ baseball and just how much chance • their particular team has of win- , ning the American Legion championship. In the first game the Winner Brand team swamped the local Moose team, 13-2. Maurice Smith, winning pitcher, let the ag- : gregation down with one hit. Shipdler was the catcher for the . winning team. Carl Ritter, losing pitcher, played a great game, but l ragged support in the pinches cost the locals- the opening game Strickler was behind the bat for the losers. The Lincoln Life aggregation trimmed the American Legion en‘try of Decatur in the second game by a score of 4-2. A 13-year-old youngster by the name of Guckli : Steiner who is about as tall as the , bat he swung, was on the mound for the Berne aggregation and he tossed curves until the local team was groggy. The Legion entry started out with a 2-run advantage, and things j looked good until the fourth inning

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i - when an overthrow to third permitted some scares to come in and the Legion was unable to come back in the closing frame. The winning battery was Steiner and 11. Stucky. The last game proved to be a i washout, the Lions beating the I small and less experienced Rotary 1 I entry by a count of 31-6. The Lions looked good and the support behind Hernandez upset the Rotary; . team several times when the bases ! were loaded. This afternoon, the Winner! Brands play the Lincoln Lifers at I Berne and the Lions and Moose tangle here. Following is the standing: Team W L Pct.' Lions 1 0 1.000 Winner Brand 1 0 1.000 Lincoln Life 1 0 1.000 Legion .... .. 0 1 .000 Moose 0 1 .000 Rotary 0 1 .000' 1931 ACTS TO BE PUBLISHED CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ied down by the state supreme court, refusing a writ of prohibi- , tion dissolving an injunction which prevented publication. The injunc- | tion was obtained in circuit court ‘ here by Indianapolis and Muncie lon charges that fraud and conspiracy attended passage of house bill 1 6. Mayr had asked the supreme court to nullify the injunction His plea was nailed in the majority . 1 opinion of the court, but two other I views were also drawn up by the , judges. The three, one of which was opposed to the majority, were interpretted by Ogden as permitting publication with omission of house bill 6. which removed control of truck and bus lines from cities land placed it with the public service commission. o Mark Development Incunabula are the beginnings or earlier monuments of an art. race or other product of historical change or development. A more specific use of the word Is "spec! mens of printing ami block engrav ng that apjieiired before or soon ' a or +'*w> S D ' t

AVILLA PLAYS i DECATUR TEAM | HERE SUNDAY Two Teams Will Fight for Second Place In League Standing ‘ Decatur’s independent baseball team will clash Sunday' with Avilla at the high school baseball diamond on West Adams street. The game will start at 3 o’clock, daylight sav-i ing time. Avilla anti Decatur played a 12-inning game sev-i eral weeks ago at the local; diamond with Decatur winn-' ing by a score of 4-3. The Avilla team and Decatur are ■ tied for second place in the league, ■and a battle is expected Sunday., Manager Buck Baxter stated today that probably Hez Cochran, veteran Decatur pitcher would start the I Sunday game. If Cochran is not . in condition to start the game it is likely Al Schneider, who pitched 10 innings of the first Avilla i game will be on the mound. Admission to the game will be 25 cents for adults; 15 cents for children between the ages of 16 . and 21 years and all children under, 16 years of age will be admitted ,free. Word from the Avilla team Is to [ the effect that their line-up has | been strengthened and fans in that ! town have high hopes of winning the Wabash Valley league pennant. Manager Baxter said that his starting line-up would be slight y I altered. Coffee will start behind i the bat: Baxter will play first: the second base position is still in' doubt; R. Ladd will play short stop j ami Bell will handle the hot corner , The field positions have not been | announced. To date Decatur has won two games ami Est one. The loss was sustained two weeks ago at the , hands of the tail-end Fort Wayne team. Three games have been *

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■ rained out. The league officials will meet in the next few days to | determine when the postponed j ■ games will be played. I The first half of the league seaI son ends July 4 and the second half II starts July 5. It is understood j | that some of the postponed games ■ j may be played some Saturday. I , ' SIDELINES [0- _6 The Junior league drew a big attendance yesterday at the opening, and the kids and grown-ups all enI joyed the afternoon, thanks to the i American Legion. t Abe Miller, chairman of the baseball league, enjoyed the day as J much as anyone at the diamond. | The teams are fairly evenly matched, and before the season is I over there are going to be some real baseball games. The Moose team, which should Ibe up in the money before long proved a disappointment yesterAlay. Numerous errors were exj pensive. Tink Ritter at third base ■ accounted for the first double play , of the season. He was unassisted lin the play. Carl Ritter pitched a good game I for the Moose, but, spotty fielding ! accounted for a lot of runs. « ■ The pitching of Smith of the Win ! ner Brand team was almost perfect. The local team got one clean hit and possibly some scorers would have given the Moose team a second hit. The official score showed one hit, however. The Legion looked good at first against the Lincoln Lifers from Berne, but a little over-confidence ! | cost the locals Hie game. The I Berne team is composed of little 3 footers who know a lot. of base- < I ball. No matter how many games he' i ; loses during the season, Guckli Steiner has the satisfaction of win- , ning the opener for his team. The', kid is 13 years old and has a curve: that would make him valuable on : I almost any high school team. He's i . been pitching since he was nine years old. Il i I The Legion entry is a comer and, i has a good bunch who ought to wlnll ■ i lot of games. The Lions won the only Decatur i j victory. The team is made up of ! a bunch of good-sized boys. Eddie j Kauffman at first did somet

s fancy work in the last game of the i opening program. Sonny Ehinger, 1 at ceuterfield position saved a couple of runs by backing up the • keystone sacker on overthrows, f I Dave Campbell’s Rotary team is t small, but the boys are willing and may cause some trouble before the iseason is over. Dave has until, June 36 to strengthen his team in | a few spots. ) — The whole Lions team worked pretty good for the first game, and J tonight will test any ability they , I might have. The Lions and Moose play tonight. o SEEK HIGHER FREIGHT RATES FOR RAILROADS (CONTINUED FROM tion or business depression forces railroads to retrench both the employment and purchases, the effect is felt in every industry. With re- . turn of their buying power. Gormley said, their demands for materials undoubtedly will have a substantial influence on economic life. J, Belief has been expressed in rail- , I road circles that the administration I will look with favor on an increase , in freight rates as it would obviate | the necessity of wage cuts and r some opinion is that the interstate t commerce commission is likely to | i speed the matter throhgh as an , emergency measure such as was , passed in 1921. » ( , f MAIL BANDIT MEETS DEATH J (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) L by the special agents. O. P. Tuttle, ■ 1 special agent for the Railway Ex- £ press Company, was said to have f shot Holiday when tae ban j dit pointed a shotgun at him, and t threatened to kill him. f H. H. Hauvey, special agent for I the Missouri Pacific, who was with u Tuttle, then shot Harmon in the arm when the former convict start- j ed to draw a revolver. j The woman was captured in an t automobile about a quarter of a.f mile away. The motor was run- v ning. She told officers that she t had no idea that a robbery was t planned. She was held, with Har- j mon. at the Johnson county jail in r Olathe. o I f Devert Unce Blooming The thJil desert, now one of the ' most desolate plnce* ot the earth. I' was once a center of abundiini c ’ tJaiiis and animal IHe _

LEAGUE RACES BECOME CLOSE New York, June 12.— <U.R> — The i pennant hopes of the Washington Senators, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants were revived today. Continuing a winning streak which has kept them at the heels of Philadelphia, the Senators gained a full game on the Athletics yesterday in the American league race while the Giants and Cubs also won I back lost ground in their pursuit of the St. Louis Cardinals, current j pace setters in the National cir|cuit. With the Cardinals and Athletics t each holding four and one half I game margins and meeting reputedly weak clubs, championship hopes of the Senators, Cubs and Giants were at a low ebb before yesterday’s contests were played. But when the St. Louis Browns beat the Athletics, 8 to 2, and the Boston Braves, shut out the Cardinals, 3 to 0, pennant hopes of the three teams began running high again. The defeat of the Athletics, convincing because Rube Walberg. who had been pitching away as if he never would lose, was knocked from I the mount, cut Philadelphia’s lead to three and one-half games. St. Louis' setback also cut the: margin of the Cardinals over Chi-' cago and New York, who are tied for second, to the same number. Wallace Herbert, a rooklt, held • the Athletics to seven scattered I hits as the Browns were pounding Walberg and Kraiisse for 14 blows, including home runs by Goblin and Burns. Four Philadelphia errors I also helped the Browns. The'Senators ran their winning' streak to six straight at the ex-' pense of the Cleveland Indians, 12 to 5. Rump Hadley pitched effec-; five ball after relieving Lloyd l Brown in the third. The Indians used three pitchers. Socks Seibold allowed the Card I inals on'y four hits in registering I Boston's shutout. Three hits went to Colijhs, first baseman subbing for Jim Bottomley. Rabbit Maranville’s single in the third brought in 1 two runs for the Braves off Sylvester Johnson while Berger’s double ! in the ninth brought in the third i rally. Steady pitching by Bob Smith ! featured the Chicago Cubs 4 to 2 decision over Philadelphia. The, Philly runs were made on Chuckl Klein’s 15th home run of the seas-: on and a four-bagger by Hurst. - The, Giants kept pace with Chi-1

cago by trimming Pittsburgh, 8 to 6in 11 innings. Pittsburgh tied the score in the eighth but in the llih ■ singles by Terry, Jackson and O'i Farrell were instrumental in scor- ■ ing three runs. The Pirates came ; baek and tallied once before John Berly, who had relieved Hubbell in ■ the ninth, retired the side. _ ' Cincinnati won its second straight , from Brooklyn, 2 to 1, in 11 innings, ■as Si Johnson bested Dazzy Vance and Jack Quinn in a pitching duel. I The Reds scored a run off Vance in ' I the fourth but Brooklyn tied it up .in the ninth on Herman’s infie'd ■ hit and O'Doul's triple, in the j eleventh, Cnccinello’s single scored ‘ the winning run. ■_ ■j Yesterday's hero; Cocks Seibold, Boston Braves pitcher, who shut lout the St. Louis Cardinals. NationI al league pace setters. 3 to t). Seibold allowed only four scattered I hits. I I o DIARY DEEPENS DEATH MYSTERY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE, highest personages in the society ard politics of two large eastern cities. In the enigmatic past of a beautiful girl whose half-dad body was ; washed up on the sands 6f Long Beach, a seaside resort near here, Authorities have found enough ma- [ I terial lor a dozen mystery stories, beginning Jti scenes of feverish night life episodes of Manhattan, ! I the drama reaches out to touch pro-I I minent Boston circles, officers and [ I passe- gers of Trans Atlantic liners I I and episodes in London hotels. Through it all the figure of Starr ’ Faithfull, ueeutiful impetuous, some ’ | times haughty and sometimes gaily | vivacious, moved mysteriously. She I ! appears t<< have confided little of j i her life to anyone. Even the little | i diary, a record of adventures with I I men dating back to her boarding I ■ school days betrays few moves that I are spilled out.. Hut ’.here are many j I initials. T have experienced every sensa-! I tion life holds." she wrote in it! lonce, “and if —Does not meet me soon I have nothing to live tor.” That was two years ago, however,' i and since then Starr had met and i ' fallen in love with many other men I besides the anonymous admirer, i District attorney Edwards practical- | y has eliminated the theory that I she took her own Ife. Mostly, the small book mirrors the instedility of her emotions as i she moved through a party-mad I set of friends in Greenwich village | on Ocean steamers during her eight I trips to Europe, and in London. The day’s most important dewi*U|. i

between NewY,^ 8 " *“MiJ 'his city <lete, lives for two num beic-ved t with Starr a week hav ’® she disappea, ed froi '‘ her stepiather, Staniy »ho lives ln n „nee. ari 5 )i , F ' l '® now somewhat Greenwich Village. ' The men w „,„ |, elj ■ hpen those to whom thel’B 'nan was introduced she was taken supposedly ed alter (he boat h . tl | , .' land. District attorney workmg on a theory that, W j w,th these men frequently ■ime of her death. “1 had a wonderful tiln ■ men today." Starr had ten,’ j her younger sist.-r, Eli **■ er Faithfull, a few dav disappeared. "I’m '*■ them again tomorrow" V Francis Handu J ■ mard Line an<l of Boston s most prominent fall was said to haw l„. PII in t with Miss Faithful! and 't h 1 men on the Fra:„ oni a Hamltn. who denie s he knew | in anything but a bushel to New York in the investigation. I More details about the F ranp l Episode, however . i amP troni l don, as well as details of , 1 which Starr, he, sister, and I [mother. Mrs. Helu, Wymann J j full, made to London in On that visit according to J I ed Press dispatches today, a ■■pj Ison" who knew the famiiv saM« Starr went about London drj in expensive gowns and with phi of money while her family 3 I entiy financially enibarrassedl i the moment lived in want at a S J place in Chelsea. I An unofficial London inquiry J [revealed Rudolph Haybrook, a l i nic artist, who claimed to have J [ one of Starr s best friends in | I British capital. Haybrook said I his opinion she was murdered I cause she was the principal wita i in a $25,000 out-of-court settles I which would have caused a set I tion if it had been revealed i which involved a prominent peri District attorney Edwards I not abandoned the theory that I prominent politician" had area . for wanting to see Miss Faitl dead, he said today. — —— o — Edison’* Smsrtneu A school teacher asked pufdls tell who the we-hi's smartest nt Is. and give the reuvtns itneurr suggested Thomas Edison “1 cause he Invented the phomieni tend the rmllo so people could st up all night ami use his elect, t Wsdtt bit lbs "