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CUBS START FINAL DRIVE -Chicago, Aug. 7.-(U.R) The CliiCSgo Cubs opened their finil drive u.oovertake the speeding St. 1 rnii.r Cardinals in the National 1 ague pennant race in a 3-gaiqe series against the league-leaders today at St. Louis. Trailing the Cardinals by seven games, the Cui:.; will have to play better than .600 bull on their long swing around th circuit this month to retain even remote hopes of remaining in the race. ■ The Cubs will play 26 games, including five double-headers, on the read before they return hom Aug. 29. The tour w ill take the Cubs to I every city in the circuit except Cin- | clnuati. On their return home the , Cubs will play 19 games of their rem lining 22 games at Wrigl y Field. The Cardinals' lead is such that they have only to win 26 out of their remaining 49 games to finish' with a percentage of .597 which won the pennant for St. Louis last j year. If the Cards win 26 more j games, the Cubs will liav to take ' 95 out of 51 games to win the pen-1 nant. barring, of course, the pen- i nant possibilities of New York and] Brooklyn. In that case the stand-1 iug would be: W L Pct. Chicago 93 63 .601 St. Louis . 92 62 .597 " Regardless of what the other con-' tenders do, the Cardinals can clinch the p unapt by winning 44 out of their remaining 49 games, even if the Cubs win all their games. j ' The Cubs big chance to overhaul the Cards is to win a majority of; the remaining five games left be twern them. In 17 games to date the Cards have won 10 and the Cubs 7. If the Cubs can sweep the 3-I game series opening today, they will reduce the Cards’ lead to 4 games. If the Cubs win two out of three they w ill head east with a 6-game ' disadvantage which will be almost [ impossible to make up unless the i Cards collapse completely. The Cubs' four right hand regu- |

To our friends and depositors T' HE two banks of Decatur deeply * appreciate the patronaage of the citizens of this community. A great majority of our accounts have contributed to the success and prosperity of these institutions and made of them the sound banks for better service. Some accounts however with small ba'ances do not pay the bookkeeping charges entailed in their care as shown by a survey recently made in both banks. • I We have therefore determined that beginning with August Ist. 1931 on all accounts of an average daily balance of less than $25.00, a small minimum service charge of twenty-five cents per month will be made with an additional charge of five cents for each check in excess of five checks in any calendar month. We will, of course, be glad to continue to take care of saving accounts in any amounts without charge. * t? * ' • We ask your continued cooperation that these banks may continue to give you the very best service at all times in each department. FIRST STATE BANK, C. A. DUGAN, Pres. OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK JOHN W. TYNDALL, Pres. I

pars, Pat Malone, Guy Bush. 801 l Smith and Charley Root, are all I r ady for duty in the Cards' series. ; “We are better off for pitchers ■ than at any time this season.” com-1 1 mented Hornsby before the Cubs I departed. “I think well be able! to gain some ground on the Card inals but ill adn.it our pennant chanc s are very dim unless St. Louis hits a slump.” The improved batting of Vincent Barton, big rookie outfielder from! Los Angeles, is expected to give > the Cubs more punch than they , have shown in some time. Barton regained his hatting eye against Cincinnati after failing to hit be-1 cause of a sudden change from i night baseball in the Pacific coast league to daylight games in the majors. He won two games against the Reds by his slugging. The standing, games left to play and gam s behind of the four National league leaders today: St. Louis . 66 39 .629 49 iChicag 58 45 .563 51 7; j New v ctk 56 45 ,554 53 Sj 1 Brooklyn 57 5) .532 47 10 Team 1 2 3 4 5 lit Won; (2) Lost; (3) Percent; ■ ' j (4) Games to play; (5) Games be-; [hind. “ Lions Defeat Moose Decatur Lions junior baseball I team defeated the Moose Juniors) 9-2 in a league game at the high school diamond last evening. Glen-] denning pitched for the winners and > kept the opponents well at hay. ; 1 Schultz did the work behind the, I bat. Wynn tossed for the loosers and Strickler caught, in the fourth innI ing Strickler caught a ball on the I end of his index finger of his right hand, tearing off a nail. He continued to catch for the remainder of I :he game, however. 0 HOME RUNS Gehrig. Yankees 31 Ruth, Yankees 30 Klein, Phillies 24 Foxx. Athletics 21 I Averill, Indians 21 o Get the Habit—Trade et Home

OLD ADAGE IS ' FAILING YANKS New York. Aug. 7. (U.R) The oh! j: theory that “as Ruth goes, so go ' i the Yanke-s” no longer holds true. Manager Joe McCarthy wishes it!, did, for if the Yankees team as al whole would play up to the stand-[ I ard of Ruth, New York might be | i leading the American league pen-j nant race instead of trailing the , Philadelphia Athletics by 14 games. Ruth, although slowing percepti- , ; bly in the field, still is playing a , brand of ball that makes him a con- , tender for recognition as the lea- , gue's most valuable player. He still , is the most dangerous man in th j league at the plate and although ; , he is far below the home run pace lof previous seasons, he has an ex ! cellent chance to capture the majority of the league’s offensive lion- ‘ ors. Babe’s chief competition is being furnished by his youthful team- ' mate, Lou Gehrig, and Al Simmons, 1 Athletics ace. Between the three of them, these players almost mon- 1 ! c.polize offensive honors. Ruth 1 [leads in hitting at .384 with Sim- 1 monds second gt .382. Gehrig leads the league in home runs with 31. in ; 1 runs scored with 109 and in runs I batted in with 116. Rutli is the runner-up to Gehrig in home runs with 30, in runs scored with 97 and 1 in runs batted in with 114. Simmons leads the league in hits with 163 and is third in runs scored and 1 runs batted in with 90 and 100 re- ' spective!y.« Each of the stars added to their laurels yesterday as the Yankees defeated the Athletics, 5 to 3. Ruth hit his 30th homer, got two hits, scored one, and drove in two runs, j , Gehrig also got two hits and scor- I ! ed once while Simmons collected I ( two hits, batted in two runs and I , scored once. The Athletics’ defeat enabled the second place Washington Senators j to gain a full game and they capi-I talized the opportunity by defeat- ; ing Boston. 15 to 1. Firpo Mar- | berry held Boston to four hits. Poor relief putching cost Detroit

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| a 4to 3 defeat by Cleveland. Sor|rell relieved Herring in the ninth I with the score tied, loaded the bases and then walked Sewell to force in the winning run. Carl Reynolds’ . seventh inning home run with a mate on base gave the Chicago White Sox a 7 to 6 victory over St. Louis. St. Louis and Chicago, National |league leader and runner-up were I idle, but the third place New York I Giants passed up the opportunity to gain ground on the leaders by I dropping a 6 to 4 decision to PhilaI delphia. Brooklyn scored four runs in the | first inning and went to beat Boston. 7 to 3. with relief pitcher Luque ; checking the Braves’ fifth inning [attack and pitching shutout ball during the final four sessions. The Cincinnati Reds broke a 7-1 gam losing streak, defeating Pitts-' [ burgh. 3 to 2, behind seven hit I pitching by Rixey and Benton. I Yesterday’s hero: Henry John-i son, Yankees pitcher, whose strong relief pitching enabled New York to def at the world champion Philadelphia Athletics. 5 to 3. Johnson entered the game in the ninth, af-| ter the Athletics had scored two tuns off Gomez and with the bases loaded and only one out, retired the side. o STANDINGS National League W L Pct. St. Louis 66 39 .629 Chicago 58 45 .563 Now York 56 45 .554 Brooklyn 57 50 .533 Pittsburgh . 48 52 .480 Boston 48 53 .475 Philadelphia 42 62 .494 Cincinnati ... 38 67 .362 American League W L Pct. | Philadelphia 76 29 .724 \ Washington 64 A’.* .6221 New York 61 42 .592 Cleveland 50 54 481 j St. Ixruis 43 57 .430, Boston 41 63 .394 Chicago 39 62 .386 Detroit 38 68 .358 j American Association W L Pct. ] St. Paul 67 56 .545 Indianapolis 56 53 .514 Columbus 55 54 .505 Louisville 56 55 .5051 Kansas City 55 56 .495: Miinneapolis 51 55 .481 Milwaukee % 52 56 .486 ( Toledo 47 64 .423. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League New York 4; Philadelphia 6 Brooklyn 7; Boston 3 Cincinnati 3; Pittsburgh 2 Only games scheduled. American League I Philadelphia 3; New York 5 Boston 7: Washington 15 St. Louis 6; Chicago 7 Cleveland 4; Detroit 3 American Association Milwaukee 5-1. Indianapolis 3-3 Kansas City 3. Louisville 8 St. Paul 8. Toledo 5 Minneapolis 10, Columbus 7. o MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS Following averages compiled by I the United Press include games played Thursday, August 6th: | Player. Club GAB R H .Pct. I Ruths, Yankees 96 359 97 138 .384 I Simmons, Ath. 106 427 90 163 .382 ; Webb, Red Sox 102 396 72 145 .366 [West, S nators 90 364 53 131 .360 [Davis, Phillies 84 270 19 95 .352 o Welshing Bookies Waxed Fat During This Derby London, —(UP) —The Epsom DerI by race meet has for many years been noted as the welshers' paradise. This year the number of gents who decamped with the. takings vas greater than ever. [ Thousands on fbe outside of free part of the Downs who bet Carnerpnian. the winning favorite, or bet 1 Orpen, or Sandwich, for places were I amazed to find their bookies had flown. During the excitement of the race the welshers and their clerks had disappeared among the crowd. The police could do nothing for the swindled bettors, so the crowd had o console themselves by smashing he welshers’ banners and list boards to pieces. As no license is needed, anybody an stand up and become a bookmaker on Epsom Downs. The welshers, trading under all sorts of assumed names, are not easily detect- • 'd by those who perhaps attend a ace meet only once or twice a year. Regular followers of the turf have sually little difficulty in spotting lhe doubtful bookmakers, because welshers offer a tempting bait of longer odds than others. Sometimes if the takings are small the welsher will stand his ground and pay out a few bettors, promising any others a later payment. He will often gain time for the nq t race by pretend ing that he has backed the winner by means of tic-tack agents in Tattersall’s ring and is awaiting the cash. Generally speaking the four-day Derby meet was a losing one for most bookmakers on account of the large number of first favorites which "got home.’’ Several of the smaller operators packed up when the favorite Brulette won the Oaks on the last day of the racing.

SIAM ROYALTY’ I AT BANFF FETE ’! Banff. Alta.. Aug. 7.—(U.R> —Siam and Scotland will shortly be linked 1 in spirit when the King and Queen I of Siam, appearing incognito as I Prince and Princess Sukhodaya, i formally open the fifth annual Highland Gathering and Scottish; Musical Festival at Banff, in the) Canadian Rockies. Staged as be i fore, under the patronage of the |, Prince of Wales, the festival, which h will last from August 27 through [ Aug. 30, has won the interest and [ support of King Prajadhipok be- , cause of his lifelong devotion to I I the study and performance of an-; cient Siamese music. The Kingi, j will be welcomed by two lieuten-ant-governors, Dr. William Egbert. | of Alberta, and Robert Randolph] i Bruce, of British Columbia, the lat-1 , ter a descendant of Scottish kings. ] In the Canadian west, where nine i out of every ten are of Scottish; birth or descent, the waggle of the, I kilt, the skirl of the pipe and the burr of the speech have persisted since 1792, w h n that rugged Scot I ( Sir Alexander Mackenzie first cross-', cd the Canadian Rockies to the!. Pacific coast and started the fur; , trade. Scottish pioneers followed j j Mackenzie, cleared the land and I helped in the upbuilding of the C.m-[ adian Pacific railway, which this! 1 year has celebrated its 50th birth-1 day. [! Delegate pipers from 17 highland ! , regiments in the Dominion will j' compete for the E. W. Beatty t’hal-; j lenge Cup. and other trophies and ] prizes are offered in open < ompeti- i tion to these and other pipers. I Highland dancing contests will en- i

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[list boys and girls, as well as adult groups. The provincial track and field championships of Alberta will be decided on Aug. 29. There will | :be a competition in Scottish song j for a trophy present'd by Walter) Scott of New York. o Trio of Indian Tribes End Ancient Feud — Seminole. Okla., —(UP)--A feud of several centuries’ standing be- 1 tween tlie Seminole and Sac and Fox Indians lias ended. No one knows how far back it [ extended, apil although there have I been no violent outcroppings, recent-1 ly. the bitterness was perpetuated by ambushings of one tribe or the other, years ago. During the recent powwow here, when more than 500 Ind ans gathered. Sac and Fox chieftains bid for peace. Chili Fish, Seminole chief, accepted the offer and the two tribes crowded around the barbecue spits and broke the bread of peace. o Wool Superintendent With Plant 65 Years East Rochester, N. H„ - (UP) One day in 1866. just after the Civil War. an eight year-old boy appoa el at tlie Coeheco Woolen Manufacturing Company’s plant here and asked for a job. He was put to work, tending a cloth dryer at 50 cents a day. Tlie “boy" is still on the job at tlie same plant. Thomas 11. Gotts, 73, with an unbroben record of 65 years' service, is now superintendent of the wool department ami has no idea of retiring in the im-] mediate future. 0 ;—. Get the Habit—Trade al Heme.

MONKEYS CAUSE DREAMS OF FALL .: Mount Vernon. la. - (UP' When I ; you dream that you are falling you < never strike bottom because your 1 'monkey ancestors, who fell from I their pe: idles in the forest and tail- ; led to hook their tails over (he limb lof a tree din ing the descent never 1 [lived so that you could remember I I crashing to the ground. And if you should dream that von; suddelilv awoke stark naked in < front if a roomful of people, that ' too. is a carry over from preliis- 1 | to: ic times when man went about ’ un< lothed. . So believes Prof. William E. S light, professor at Cornell ( ollege, who for a qua: ter of a century lias studied “that mystery so akin to death—sleep.” Ho lias probed thousands of dreams, seeking to I find their origin, ami generally is able to trace them either Io hereditary causes, such as the monkey |' failing from Hie tree, or to some > t vivid experience in the past life j' | of the dreamer. Slaght is an ardent advocate of j tailor-made boils. “Every person.” he says, “should 1 ] sleep in a bed built especially lor him. Some people need hard ones, some people soft ones. You can't ; 'jump into any old bod and sleep. ; any mo. o than yon can jump intoj, any old suit of clothes and be com-. 1 foi table.” And about this business of eight : .hours’ sleep a night. There’s noth-; : ing to it. says Prof. Slaught. Sleep j is a men'al condition, and a man [needs only as much as lie thinks he I needs.

Episcopalians To SettL Status of Divorced |>' San Angelo, Tex. <vp Protestant Episcopal church I national convention at De n ’ v 4 September, will declare i-, se |/ ly for or against the rem arri ° divorced Communicants, a to Dr. Arthur E. Whittle, nJ tlie Emanuel Episcopal and a delegate from u lis , liotft At p.esent the < Inn, h IWnil remariage of only the inii Ol . eill ty to a divorce granted for in: i y. Dr. Whittle said. The Denver coin, h | wi |] cuss several proposed <-lian ge the church’s tenets wi’h t| lP J that an arrangement 'iiisfa,! to a'l communicant . wil resul'l rector believes. — o _ Faithful Turtle Returns Pomeroy, O.— (U.R) — f ar j ' Mulberry.” a pet tori o|| Paulin farm in Nease settlew was a victim of tin dry w,. !lt was dispelled recently when aged sh II creature appeared a) under the tree from which is ceived its name. Tlie turtle hears tlie initials of Daniel Pai and his son Marvin, was nils last summer for the tir time 53 years. Pushes Cart to West Coast Wheeling. W. Vi 'U.R)—(' Darnion. this city's official pi icart pnsher. is en route to the ce : pushing his push cart. Then icart pusher reported to friendsh a slight accident to liis cart 1 Sisterville, W. Va., when an auti [pushed the cart ov r a hill, dart ling it considerable. Dunion 1 ' lhe cart repaired and pushed ; lie wrote.