Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1931 — Page 6

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MAJOR TEAMS ADD STRENGTH New York, Aug. 12—(U.R) —With the 1931 p nnant races virtually dttaided, major league club owners are concentrating their efforts these days days towards strengthening their teams tor next season's campaign. The New York Yank es were the first club to start the re-building process, purchasing Saltsgaver, a second basement, from St. Paul, American Association for 1932 de livery. Since that time three National League teams have mad.' major transactions. Chicago purchased Herman of Louisville, a second baseman, while Brooklyn bought Benny Southern, j outlielder, from Baltimore. They announced the purchase* of Leonard| Koenecke, outfielder, from Indian-1 spoils. The acquisition of KoeneekoJ who is hitting around .375 in / American Association, is believed to be the first step of Manager John McGraw toward a complete I reorganization, it is known that ] the veteran pilot lias been dissat- ; isfied with the performance of' junta of his players this season. The Giants will st nd Indianap-1 olis several players who aggregate! value total. $75,009 in exchange for I Koencke. The Philadelphia Athletics and ! St. Louis Cardinals, who have all: Out cinched the Amt rican and National League pennants, respec-' tively this season, have thus far failed to acquire any new talent. ! There is a general feeling, howev-! er, that both clubs are strong , enough. The Cardinals ha ve ; strings attached to a half dozen ’ promising players and at least one I ot them—Dizzy Dfsin, Houston | pitcher—is considered ripe for the majors. Only three games were played in the majors yesterday. The I Athletics retained their 10 game l lead in the American league by j whipping Detroit. 8 to 1. Lefty Grove registered his 14th consecutive victory and his 23rd win of the season in setting the Tigers I back with eight hits. The second place Washington'

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[Senators kept pace with a 3 to 0| j decision over Chicago. Boston defeated St. Louis 4 to 3 I in the other contest. Two singles i and a base on balls accounted for | the Red Sox’s winning tally in | the eighth inning. j Yesterday's Hero —Fred Marber|ry, who pitched the Washington 1 1 Senators to a 3 to 0 victory over 1 i Chicago. Marberry allowed only 1 three hits. '; o MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS '| I The following averages compiled by United Press include games of August 10th. Player, Club G AB R H Pct. Simmons. Ath. 11)9 410 94 163 .382 J Ruth, Yankees 98 366 97 139 .380 Webb, Red Sox 105 406 73 146 .360 West. Senators 93 375 63 135 .360 j -Morgan, Indians 93 332 57 119 .358 HOME RUNS Gehrig, Yankees . . 31 Ruth, Yankees 30 Klein, Phillies 26 Foxx. Athletics 21 Averill, Indians 21 °— GARY GAMBLER IS RELEASED ! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ; the kidnappers $5,000 later. The ; first ransom demands were for , SIOO,OOO but were quickly scaled to I $50,000 and later still lower, it was reported. Flanagan was a well-known figure ' in Gary, having lived there 20 years. ■ It was his habit to take his dog i 1 for a walk early every morning and | it was while on one of these jaunts j that he was forced into an auto- ; mobile last Friday but two or more 1 men who threatened him with pistI ols. Harris made several mysterious I trips from Gary, reported to negoItia’e with the ikdnapers. Shortly after he arrived, Flana- ' gan, whose chief dis comfort during I his captivity was lack of a shave, i went to bed. SHIP WITH 26 ABOARD IS LOST ' CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE' I was suggested. The Omar was not known to be missing until late yesterday, when a man giving his name as Alfred Bernhard culled police and said his brother, a member of the party, had not returned. Then calls from other relatives were received. Eight coast guard cutters and : four police launches went out in search. They spent all night playiug their searchlights over the water, overcast i.y murk and rain. Toward morning the clouds began to lift somewhat. Th'> possibility remained that the boat might have put in at some small Jersey port or cove during the storm. Cottly Pests Damage done by rats to produce and property in the United States totals $200,000,000 yearly— Assn clatPd I’rrQS

YOUTH'S REMARK IS SONG HIT I ! New Orleans, —(UP* —A little Carolina boy’s whim, on being forced by divorce to choose between his parents, has been interpreted in music by a New Orleans housewife and the song promises to be one of the popular hits of the year. The childish author of the phrase "When the leaves are turning brown in Carolina’’ has been lost in his obscurity. His expression, however will go to the hearts of millions in the next few months in the form of radio selections and sheet music. The song already has been broadcast over the NBC chain, pronounced one of the best popular tunes of the year, and is being considered for the theme of a talking picture by Warner Brothers. Mrs. Jeanette Conrad Tucker, of i New Orleans, has received a check for advance royalties from a New York publisher, who estimated her net return would amount to between ■ $15,090 and $20,000. Mrs. Tucker memorized and composed the song as she went about her housework. She was inspired, she said by a newspaper story about the little Carolina boy whose parents were divorced and who was given the choice of staying with his mother or his father. “I like to stay with mother, but I really want to be with father when the leaves are turning brown in Carolina.” the boy replied. The phrase ran through her head Mrs. Tucker said, and last November she wrote out the composition and submitted it to W. J. Herbst, New Orleans music publisher. -— o HOOVER SEEKS NEW SURVEY ON UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 206,000 cots available in the war department for emergency relief. This is not considered a dole. Proposals are being made from private sources to utilize the farm board's wheat surplus in some form of food relief and to finance local relief agencies through longterm federal credits. These suggestions have thus far been held to involve the "dole” in some form. Officials promise that the necessary relief will be provided, preferably without any vital legislation. Mr. Hoover contemplates no extra session of congress. He prefer# to devise a relief plan administratively. with some sort of national relief organization head ing up and financing the activity. The administration hopes to head off numerous extensive relief plans which will be agitate 1 in the coming congress. With senators and congressmen facing another election campaign, pressed by constituents in hard circumstances, and with both houses evenly divided politically, the temptation to be big-hearted with treasury funds wil be great, administration officials fear. Already the vanguard of the relief .army is heard. President Edward A. O’Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation has just announced reopening of the fight for an equalization fee to relieve agriculture. Senators John J. Blaine. Repn., Wis„ has written President Hoover urging an extra session in September, saying the necessity was never gi eater and that “oncoming winter presents a dark picture with its promised hunger, poverty and distress widespread." Senator Gerald Nye. Repn., N D. lias come back from the prairies suggesting a "two to three-year period of federal price fixing” on farm products and a moratorium on farm mortgage loans. Rep. Wright Patman, Dem., Texas, has appealed to Mr. Hoover to fix prices on oil, cotton, wheat and corn. Oil producers, coal operators, railroads, lumbermen, wheat and cotton growers, the unemployed, and even those who want nothing more than just a cool glass of beer are pitching their voices toward Washington. A sharp jump in the higher brackets of the income tax may be inescapable if the present deficit of neatly $1,090,000,000 (billion) is materially increased. On the other band, officials of the United States chamber of commerce. John Barton Payne of the American Red Cross and administration officials generally are gathering in close formation to support the president in his struggle to maintain America’s “rugged Individualism" through the crisis. DEATH CALLS TOCSIN WOMAN CONTINUE!" 1 ’’ROM PAGE ONE) George Davison of near Toledo; and Mrs. Mary Ravis. of Peru. Mrs. Sowards was a member of the Tocsin Pythian Sisters lodge. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the home with the Rev. A. S. Elzey of Ossian officiating. Burial will be in the Prairie View cemetery.

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VALUATIONS OF UTILITIES ANNOUNCED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE 1 phone Co., $195,040; Craigville Telephone Co.. $1,953; Farmers Mutual Tel. Co., $270; Hoagland Switchboard Co.. $280; Home Tel. and Tel. Co., $1.584; Inter-Commun-ications Corp., $2,028; Jay County Tel. Co., $10,696, Poe Farmers Co, $270; Preble Tel. Co., $2,513; Star Tel. Co.. $450; The Ohio Cities Tel. i to., $3,159; Indiana Bell Tel. Co., j $3,990; Railway Express Agency, I $228,840; [lliads Pipe Line Co., i $422.83J; Indicia Pipe Line Co,

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| >409.650; Chicago and Erie rail- , road. $1,565,154; Pennsylvania | inilroad, New York. Chicago and St. Louis railroad, $814,900. The assessments divided among ihe different taxing units follow: I nion, $6,605; Root. $442,495: Preble,, $60.1.029; Kirkland. $272,-1 61’3; Washington, $1,085,731; Si. Marys, $866,407; Blue Creek. $137,614; Monroe $427,986; French I $128,315; Hartford, $9,884; Wabash. $199,576; Jefferson. $22,522; Decatur-Root. $10,041; Decatur ; Washington, $579,363; Monroe, ’ $21,029; Berne, $202,710; Geneva, $117,295. All <jf the figures were tabulat-

ed liy Auditor Harlow and will be used in making up the county's total net valuation for taxation purposes. o — U. S. Marine Killed Edinburg, Aug. 12. (U.R) Word has been received here by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bozell, parents of Howard Bozell. 23, U. S„ Marine, that | their sou was killed in Shanghai, China. Bozell has be n witli the Marines in China for the last two years. No details of the son’s death were given, but the communication said the body would be returned here for burial.

Road Contracts Signed Indianapolis. Aug. 12 (U.R) Paving contracts on lour stretches on US-50 and state road 6, were signed by the state highway commission. A three and one-half mile project on US-59 forming a "Y" connection with road 29 northwest of Versailles, in Ripley county, was awarded to Sherill-Blackwell Construction company. Bedford, tor $58,746.82. A .7 of a mile slab' through North Vernon will be paved Ry the same company for $14,410.24. On road 6, 16.3 from US-31 to! Nappanee will be paved by the E. A’. David Construction company, I Michigan City, for $256,940.24,! and eight miles from Nappanee to I road 15. and the B. & 0.. and I Wabash oveihc-ad gaps on road 15 in Kos-iusta) and Elkhart counties, will be constructed by the same | company, for $137,019.99. o Police Dog Is Stolen Owensville, Aug. 12. —(U.R)— Leo- ’ nard Mounts locked his police dog I within his home as a guard against '■burglars when the family left for la day’s outing. When they returned, the house 1 had been ransacked and the dog I stolen. II ° - i Youngster Is Found Castle Rock. Colo . Aug. 12. (U.R) , —Three-year-old Benjamin Saul. i missing 36 hours in the wilds of I ; Jarre Canon, was found alive to-1 . ! day. ■ i A party of Denver tourists found i I th? boy lying about 50 feet from ' ■ a trail leading through lion infest-1 ed canon.

He was weak from l atk and thirsty. He had i ost h !( W shoe and stocking. (li ' ™ -ollen. He a 'fl He was taken to a s **’• C ° lorado for Burglars (Jet U ot I Indianapolis, Aug. ■ Women s coats and jut $10,090 n.-arly a ,| „ r ' ot the Rnyniond Cooper j alsc ® Shop, were stolen during th/ 1 ”"® jby thieves who loaded |i, ( , lr trucks and escaped. 01 iiiM . Entrance was gained tllro h ■ i r<l " }he e S t :lblish g “« | located '■» a pr.ncipai near Hie ilowniewn ' lar ® "7° ■ ■ Plan Civic Canning H Morion, Aug. 12. (U . R )_ A J canning program for tli ■ of preserving all av; t ilai,|.. (,!?■ and vegetables for i, cn ., B the unemployed was i aaugur J here by the Commtinitv ci sl J™ the Publice Welfare ' of the Marion department ,| U S Church kitchens will be ■■.,.. ! the conning operations. ■ n Seek Order Dismissal ■ Washington. Aims' !;■ , rr . ■ .The senate campaign ■i l .„j , nv , B J ,-ating committee to 1.,. asked t 9 ■district of Columbia io dismiss Bishop Janes c an| JJ IJCs application for a wright O fp3 hibition by which lie soiq-ii; lo p/B | vent the committee from j lW: ,ia J | into his anti-Smith a 1 i.itie S i Q 119418 campa'gn. ■ I George Morris of Bluffton was fl business visitoi in Dei-atnr today ■