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LAIRD JOINS DECATURTEAM; PLAYS SUNDAY Former Shamrock Player To Return To Decatur: Avilla Is Opponent Hopes of Decatur beating Avilla in a Wabash Valley baseball game here Sunday moved upward today with the announcement that Gordon Laird, who played third base with Decatur Shamrocks 15 years ago had joined the De- : catur team. Laird is a .350: hitter. Laird has been playing baseball for 20 years and should add some real strength to the Decatur team, i Buck Baxter, manager of the De-, catur team stated that ’Bill Bell! would be moved to second base in ' tomorrow’s game and Laird will go' back to his old post. Two new: fielders also have been added to the local team. Tomorrow's game will start at 3 I o'clock; daylight saving ftime at 1 the West Adams street diamond. ' The Avilla team has lost only one' game and that was to Decatur I several weeks ago after a 12-in-I ning scrap. It is probable Baxter said that I Cochran and Coffee will form the ! starting battery for Decatur. Al I Schneider will play one of the field positions unless he is called on to, pitch, it was said. Admission to the game will be | the same as usual. 25 cents sor 1 adults and 15 cents for children ! over 16 years of age. Other chil-, dren are admitted free to all games.' Frank Peterson will umpire. 0 BRAVES TRIM CARDSAGAIN New York. June 13 —<U.R) —The Boston Braves threaten to ruin the! 1931 pennant hopes of the St. Louis Cardinals. After demonstrating their super-1 iority over Chicago, New York and i Brooklyn, regarded afc their mosti formidable rivals, the Cardinals: have lost three straight games in 1 their series with the Braves. The] defeats have reduced the Cardin-! pls* lead in the National league to I two and one half contests over the I Giants and Cubis, who are tied for! second. Previous to their defeats by the! Braves, the Cardinals had threat-! eued to pile up a lead that other : clubs could not overcome. They! took three out of four from the Giants and duplicated that feat against the over-rated Brooklyn Robins. But their reverses have tightened up the National league cam-'

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* » i paign to such an extent that it i still is a three-cornered affair between St. Louis, New Vork and ! Chicago. The Braves, while not I out of the running, can hardly be l expected to continue their pace of , the last three days and probably will have difficulties finishing in the first division. Ed Brandt registered his ninth ! victory yesterday as the Braves ' won. 7 to 5. The Braves knocked , Burleigh Grimes out of the l>ox in I the fifth inning after shelling him ! for 15 -hits. The Cardinals got ' seven blows off Brandt. The Cubs made it three in a i row over Philadelphia, 7 to 4, to i gain a full contest on the Cardin-1 ' ! a’s. Lester Sweetland held his for- | mer teammates to ten hits. ' New York trimmed Pittsburgh. 8 to 2. After a bad first inning. ; Fitzsimmons settled down and, ' he'd the Pirates saf|e. Mel Ott, i with four hits in as many times j at bat. led the Giants' attack on! 'I three Pittsburgh hurlers | Lefty Clark of Brooklyn shut out I I Cincinnati, 3 to 0. Clark allowed I eight hits but effective work in I , the pinches and brilliant fiplding by Glen Wright enabled him to I keep the Reds away from the I plate. | Philadelphia retained its three] ! and one half gam,? lead in the I ! American league by defeating St. | i Louis. 6 to 2. Mahaffey allowed ! '' the Browns only four hits. i Washington kept pace with the j Athletics by making it three straight over Cleveland. 7 to 1.1 ' Fischer. Senators rookie, allowed . eight blows in turning in his sev-' enth victory. Wes Ferrell was batted hard and retired in the , fourth inning. Henry Johnson pitched the New York Yankees to a 11 to 2 decision l over Chicago. Johnson allowed hnt four hits. Home runs by' Gehrig and Knight brought about the downfall of McKain, the start ing White Sox hurler. The Detroit Tigers dropped a 3 to 1 decision to the Boston Red Sox. Russell held the Tigers to : three hits. Yesterday's Hero —William Wat- ! ► m Clark. Brooklyn southpaw, who i I shut out the Cincinnati Reds, 3 to 10. Clark yielded eight hits but , was invincible in the pinches. •— o :— Edison's Smartness A school teacher asked pupils to ! tell who the world's smartest man ; Is, and give the reasons One urchin i ! suggested Thomas Edison “'because he Invented the phonograph ! and the radio so people could stay 1 up all night and use his electric ' light bulbs” When Columbus Died Christopher Columbus' will and other evidence indicate that he did | ' not die in poverty, and that he was ! in possession of a considerable ! amount of wealth at the time of his . death at Valladolid. Spain. In 1506. I He was very much disappointed. ! however, that he was neglected hy < j the court, but he was not In destl ; tute circumstances at the time of his deulli i _ Will Phillips of Lima, Ohio, is I i visiting with h’s mother. Mrs. Bello I • Phillips, in this city.

LINCOLN LIFE j TEAM LEADING JUNIOR LEAGUE . — I i Berne Midget Team Is Winner; Moose Trims Lions Entry i Ihe Lincoln Life baseball > team of Berne trimmed the I Winner Brand Junior league ■ entry at Berne Friday night 17-6 and the Moose entry of Decatur trimmed the I Jons chib team. 16-7. The latteri I (fame was played at the West Adams street diamond. The bunch of midgets representi 1 ing the Lincoln Life Insurance Co. i of Berne handed their much bigger l rivals a sound trimming and | Guckli Steiner. 13-year old pitchII er scored his second win in as many starts. The Moose team defeated the Lions team here Friday night. The Lions, after winning their first game succumbed, probaldy to overI confidence. Schamerloh. who I started on the mound for the los- | ers had a bad afternoon and Sonny i Eninger relieved him. The Lions team after tying the count at 7-all blew sky high in the closing innings and allowed their opponents to score 9 runs. The Lions go to Berne next Monday where they meet the Winner Brand aggregation of that ; town. A number of local fans are planning on going to Berne with the team. League Standing W I. Pct. Lincoln Life 2 0 1000 Winner Brand . 11 .500 i Moose 11 .500! Lions 11 .500 ' Legion o 0 .000 Rotary 0 •* .000 Monday s Schedule Lions vs. Winner Brand at Berne o PENNSYLVANIA TROUBLE GETS VIOLENT TODAY I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE' I as George Dulavy. Edward Malich, and John Calich, all of Kinloch. Other violence occurred at Im t perial where one man was injured and one arrested. Three women ' who refused to leave the picket line |at Hildwood were arrested. The Coverdale disorder marked I the first open fighting between the two rival unions, officials of which I have hurled charges against each ;other since the beginning of the | walkout. Governor Pinchot has called a conference between representatives of the Pennsylvania Terminal Coal Company and United Mine Workers officials for June IS. in an atJ tempt to bring about an amicable ! agreement. Meanwhile, federal labor investigators were in Washington today to , j urge Secretary of Labor Doak to I call another conference between all . operators and strike represents- | lives. R, S. Rauschenbush, an inI vestigator for Governor Pinchot, termed the walkout a "pure hunger strike” after he had visited mines lat Avella. Ellsworth, New Kensing|ton, and the California districts. DOUMER TAKES FRENCH REINS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE' were outriding the two horsei drawn landeaux. At the Elysee, Dovmergue with bis staff and members of the government and parliament awaited. 1 The two presidents spoke, one expressing hiS thanks to his staff I and the other his optimistic hopes for a peaceful regime. The change of power occurred when they shook hands and retired to a smaller salon off the great Ambassadors court where the new president put across his chest ‘.he broad red sash of grand master of the Legion of Honor, the only outward sign of power of a French j president. Doumer was presented with the grand collar of the legion. Outside the palace, troops fired the salute 6f 21 guns to the old president, who had closed seven years at the Elysee, and to his 74-year-old stfccessor, and bands played the national anthem. A warrant. of the ceremony was drawn up and signed. Ambidextrous Indians A scientist who studied the workj mnnsjdp in ■'tone blades made by | prehistoric tu-lians concluded that j the Indians were left-handed or am I bidextrons to a grc» er degree that II civilized man.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1931,

COURT SETS RECORD IN ! CASES HANDLED • Adjourns For Summer After Clearing Most Os Docket Washington, (UP)—When the United States Supreme Court adjourned for its summer recess it not only hud decided many intricate Questions of law, hut had establish- ! ed a new record in the number of ' cases handled. The constantly growing calendar of the court was cleared as far as it is possible to do so under its methof of procedure and no cases were held over after argument for decision next fall. While lacking some of the sensational questions presented in previous years the court handed down many rulings which cleared up the le-alistic chaos existing on many poinis of law. Industrial Rulings ] To industry the court gave decisions on the trade practices employed in the oil business, delivered several rulings on the radio industry. particularly in its ruling on the Langmuir patents, defined how far the motion picture industry could go in eliminating certain irregularities in the- trade, and decided a wide variety of tax cases. Probably of most general interest were its ruling’s on prohibition capped by its reiteration of the validity of the 18th Amendment in the Clark case. In addition to passing on many criminal convictions for violations of the Nation's most controversial law. the court also went further in defining its stand n the laws governng search and seizure and the forfeiture of property. Personal Liability Scarcely less interesting were the court’s ruling on several cases involving personal liberty, the chief of which served to bring out with greater emphasis a point that had been largely overlooked before. This was the new alignment of the court with the socalled liberals on several occasions in the majority. This new tendency was not strong enough to permit the liberals to write the court's opinion in th© eases of the two conscientious obiectors who sought citizenship. Miss Marie Averill Bland and ProfessorDouglas Clyde Macintosh. But it did serve to carry the court in the Indiana chainstore tax case and in other cases involving state's rights. In the one instance where it had a chance to express itself on a labor question the court ruled emphatically in favor of the lalior for-! ces when it found that the Arkansas fulltrain and full switching crew laws were still valid. Criminal Decisions In the realm of criminal jurisprudence the court passed on but few of the numerous cases presented. Thia may be explained in part by the ’frequently remarked tentency of well-to-do malefactors to obtain a delay in the execution of their jail sentences by appealing. Where there has been a decided threat to the constitutional right of the individual the court has apparenly not hesitated to protect even the poor criminal. This is perhaps best illustrated in the apueal of Alfred Scott Aldredge. convicted slayer of a white policeman in Washington. The court not only reviewed Aldredge’s conviction but gave him a new trial after Chief Justice Hughes in heated terms denounced the refusal of the trial judge to ask prosepec’ ive ju-ors if they had any racial prejudice. o OBSERVANCE OF FLAG DAY URGED (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE; Betsy Ross' stitching the first I American Flag, but no one disputes the fact that the legend has become part and parcel of Ame-i---can folklore. In any case it is known that Washington had an intense personal interest in the creation of a national flag, and may have had a part in its design. And no one disputes the fact that he accomplished more than any other American in giving that flag a meaning and in unfurling it over a strong and united nation. In 1932 it will be the country's privilege to render new honors to George Washington’s memory, and new loyalty to this immortal symbol of his greatness. » ‘‘Meanwhile, this year, it is well to recall some of the great dates in the flag’s history. Its first display by the Continental Army was on August 3. 1777, at Fort Stanwix. the present city of Rome, N. Y„ during an attack by the British. It was first carried into battle by George Washington’s troops at Brandywine on Septemlser 11.1777. It was first saluted by the British at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga on October 17, 1777. “For the Navy, John Paul Jones took the first salute to the Stars and Stripes on February 14, 1778, when he sailed his ship “Ranger" into the harbor of Quiberon, France. In the same* ship he forced the first striking of colors to our Flag by the British ship

■ 1930 Champs Are Favorites I I ir * i ; iIE b Considered by many dopesters as tavontes to win the intercollegiate rowing regatta on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, the crew of Cornel] University, 1930 champions, is going to find plenty of competition from the eight other shells racing against them June 16 This picture shows the Ithaca. N. Y.. college boys starting out for a practice run with their ski ppi r. Commodore Heidelberger, shown at right and veteran Coach Jim Wray at left.

Drake." on April 24. 1778 The ship “Bedford,” of ftassachusetts carried the first American Flag into a British port on February 3. 1783. It was first carried round the world by the ship “Columbia". ' sailing from Boston in September, I 1787. Captain John Greene, in the I Empress of China.” had previousi ly taken it to China in 1784. “It was first flown in battle in ■ the Pacific by the U. S. Frigate "Essex,” in 1813. The next year i Francis Scott Key wrote the ’Star j Spangled Banner.’ In 1818 Con-1 gress decreed that henceforth a new' star should be added on the > Admission of each new State to the] Union; but. before that, on Janunrv 13. 1794. after Vermont and I Kentucky had been admitted to the, Union, the stars and stripes were) increased to fifteen. The 18181 Act reduced the stripes to thirteen; and decreed a new star for each i new State, which made a jump at once to twenty stars. "On April 6. 1909, Admiral Peary, planted the first American flag at the North Pole. Within the last decade-. Admiral Byrd has carried it to both the Poles.” o COURT SESSION CLOSES TODAY; TWO ARE JAILED CONTINUttO t’ROM PAGE ON3. The case of State vs. McClure,' charged with violation of the pro-' hiition laws was continued to the l September term by agreement of parties. *. A new trial motion was filed by ' the defendant Blanche Bilderback in the case of Lawrence Hendrie vs. Bilderback and Fred Young, suit 1 for damages. The case was venued here from Allen county and the jury awarded the plaintiff $1,200 damages several weeks ago. The suit is the result of an automobile accident at Fort Wayne. o CAPONE CROWD GETS HARD BLOW lUONTINUEp FROM PAGE ONEi in his spectacular and dizzy rise to fame and power. The new charges specify 5.0001 separate offenses by the gang. The, indictment traces, briefly, the rise! of Capone from the days when pre-i vious “rulers" sent him out on such I ignorable errands as buying trucks I to the recent day when, he sat in high backed, bullet proof "Throne”, or lolled on his Florida estate with 1 evidence of his milions about him.' With the revelations of the inner workings of the Capone gang came' one bit of information that caused the investigators to smile. Capone, they learned, was not known to the members of his “inner; council” as "the big shot." His most trusted lieutenants did not call him "Mr. Capone’ or “The Boss” They called him “Snorkey.” That was the name other gang- 1 sters used when they called Capone at the Lexington hotel, the government said. The operatives learned of it by tapping telephone wires. In the same way, they learned the lo- j cation of many Capone stills wnicn i they later raided. They learned too,; of specific amounts of money which Capone handled. These amounts, it' was disclosed, were the basis for charges filed last week that Scar- ; face Al owed the government more ; than $200,000 income tax. never hav- , ng paid any. ’ Prosecution of Capone on the ii-| , quor charges will be handled by! i first assistant United States Attor-j i ney Victor E. Leßue, who recently! i tried 43 persons on similar charges

at Rockford and convicted 36 of them. —— o LIMA MURDER. BEING PROBED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE; I locate the body of Eart frugsuale, ! i 20, whom they believed was killed I as he estcorted the girl home from ’ a datice. May 30. Trugsdale's automobile was found near the quary the folowng daiy. A belated examination of Trugs- ! dale's car early today resulted in ! the discovery of a blood stained I sledge hammer concealed under the ! rear seat. Coroner Frank Smith I said it probably was the instrument! with which the girl was struck be-1 ! lore being trussed and thrown into ! | the quary hole. It was believed laid ' ; under the seat to divert suspicion I :o tiie gn l s escort. o Advertising a State Georgia was one <>r the first states In the Uni >n to nroonlm Ils attractions thriii,gh advertising Gcnersl i Oglethorpe having n-ed space In ; ‘ rhe London tmpers as early a« 1733 : • t< extol Its climate and other sd I vantages

The Big League ' -■ ’" •'I 5 . 4 OU ,o lhc Junior I < baseball HaitiEARLY training in the back yard is the stepping tone to the big league. Ear’y training in the habit ol saving will provfe a big step in the future success of your boy or gn-l. A dollar bill will start a savings account at this hank lor any number of your family. Bring in the "future president" today and introduce him to the banking habit. THIS BANK IS A GOOD ENVIRONMENT Old Adams County Bank “There’s Safety in Strength”

COURTS TO RULE ! ON RADIO PLAN I FOR CANADIANS Jurisdiction of Dominion And Provinces Holds Up Development Ottawa. —(UP) Whether Cana- ■ da is to establish a national monopoly in radio broadcasting or perI mit the development of broadcast ling enterprise will not j be determined until the courts have decided the constitutional question i of juristdiction between the dominI ion and the provinces. That will not be for some time, depending on whether there is to be an appeal to the judicial commit- ’ tee of the Privy Count il in England I from the decision of the Supreme , Court in Canada. In any case, broad | easti. g policy cannot be settled un- ' ti! the 1932 session of parliament. In the meantime radio development in Canada is at a sthndstill ' and has been for two years. Froni I September. 1929, when the report of the commission headed by Sir John Aird recommending nation- : alization was received by the gov- ] ernment no new licenses for the l establishment of broadcasting staI tions hve been issued and in the : unxertainty of the situation, own- | ers of existing stations have not

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