Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1931 — Page 6

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THREE TEAMS ARE FAVORED IN CONFERENCE Northwestern. Michigan And Purdue Loom As Probable Winners Chicago. Sept. 26 —(U,R)—Northwestern' again is favored to win the Big Ten football champion-, ship, the annual United Press poll of middle-western sports writers I revealed today. Northwestern was undefeated in the Big Ten last year and tied I with Michigan for the title. Michi j gan is picked to finish second and Purdue. 1929 champion, third. The order of finish is predicted i as follows: 1 — Northwestern 2— Michigan 3 — Purdue 4— Illinois 5 — Ohio State 6 — Wisconsin 7 Minnesota 8— lowa 9 — Indiana 10 — Chicago The consensus was based on the selection of the following: Eddie Jacquin, Champaign News Gazette.) Charles Johnson. Minneapolis, Star: Lew Boxer. Columbus Citi-| zen: Bert McC.rane, Des Moines I Register & Tribune; Roundyi Coughlin. Wisconsin State Journal: Dick Cullum, Minneapolis! Journal: Oliver Kuechle, Milwau-i kee Journal: Eddie Ash. Indianap-! olis Times; Henry J. McCormick. Wisconsin State Journal; Wilfred Smith. Chicago Tribune; Ralph Cannon. Chicago Daily News; and the writer. Kirksey. United , Press staff correspondent. The conference teams fall into! three divisions, as revealed by I, the consensus. In the first group j are Northwestern. Michigan and; Purdue. The second group is made up of Illinois. Ohio State, I Wisconsin and Minnesota. lowa. , Indiana and Chicago compose the ! third group Because of the schedule neither of the three favorites play each , other and many of the writers be- j lieve that the race will end in a , double or triple tie. Three writers picked Northwestern. Michigan ' and Purdue all to come through undefeated, while three others i picked Northwestern to tie with either Michigan or Purdue. Mich’ga - was picked by three writers to win the title outright. | but four others relegated the to third place which from winning the [

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! consensus. Northwestern was picked by two writers to win the title without dispute and -Purdue was picked by one. With one vote counting for first place, two for second, three for third, etc., the final standing was: ; Northwestern. 20%; Michigan, ' 24%; Purdue. 28; Illinois. 63%; j Ohio State, 65; Wisconsin. 69%; ; Minnesota. 72%; lowa. 101%; Indi- | ana? 104; Chicago, 111. Comment of some of the writers ; follows: Jacquin: “It's child play to pick ' the conference this year. The onlv chance for Northwestern, Michigan or Purdue to lose is for over- , confidence to set in among their stars.” McGrane: "Northwestern looms as class of the league but Michi- , gan and Purdue should go through ! undefeated, too.” Coughlin: "Northwestern can - beat Nebraska and Notre Dame i and all Big Ten teams, then they ' should put bust of Hanley on ' campus and give him pension.” Kuechle: “If it isn't Michigan. I it will be Northwestern and if it isn’t Michigan or Northwestern.it will be Purdue. Illinois is the darkhorse.” McCormick: "Let Wisconsin get nast Purdue Oct. 17 and Ihe conference will have a dark-horse favorite for title in the Badgers." Cannon: “I look for plenty of i upsets. Michigan may he the first to crack and Northwestern may, ' have trouble after playing Notre ! Dame. Illinois and Ohio State I I may surprise." Smith: “Illinois might beat ■ 1 Michigan and upet all dope.” Johnson: "Purdue is much, ! stronger and may tie with North-! I western and Michigan. Illinois is : I a real dark-horse.” o * —a FRIDAY'S FOOTBALL SCORES By United Press ! + A i Temple, 33; St. Marys. 0. Oklahoma A. & M., 34; Bethany, I College, 0. Washburn College. 0: Haskell. 0. Oklahoma City U., 45; Friends , U„ 0. Aibion College, 13; Detroit Teach | |o. John Carroll. 26: Adrian. 6. Bethel, 7; Tennessee Junior Col-' ilege. 2. i Grinnell. 26; Coe, 0. i Bucknell, 34; St. Thomas, 7. i Union U., 20; Murray State preachers, 2. Denver U., 26; Colorado School of Mines, 0. U. of San Francisco, 25; Brigi ham Young. 0. i U. of California at Los Angeles. '0; Occidental College. 0. San Diego Teachers. 8; U. of Arizona, 0. Westminster, 14; Missouri B I Team. 0. St. Louis, 27; Millikin, 0. North Dakota, 22; St. Olaf, 0. California Tech, 31; Santa BarI hara College, 0. Ashland. 7; Marietta. 6. Wittenberg. 18; Georgetown I (Ky.) 7. Muskingume. 12; Wilmington. 0. University of Dayton. 39; Hanover (Ind., 0. o MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS Following average compiled by the United Press include games j played Friday, September 25th: Player, Club G AB R H Pct Simmons. Ath 127 509 106 198 .389 (Ruth, Yanks 142 520 146 194 .373 j Morgan, Ind. 131 463 87 162 .350 Hafey, Cards 119 437 93 163 .350 | Terry. Giants 152 607 120 212 .349

SECOND PLACE IS UNDECIDED s New York. Sept. 26.—(U.R) —The second place in the American leat gue was at stake today as the New r York Yankees and Washington ' Senators met in the concluding ' daubleheader of their four-game .', series. [ Trailing the Senators by %-game (and scheduled to meet the champion Philadelphia Athletics in their final game tomorrow while the ’ Senators meet Boston, the Yankees were faced with the necessity of '. winning both of today's games to nose out Washington for the coveted berth. A double victory for either team todav will assure the r winner of second place. The Yankees clipped a full game off the Senators lead yesterday by ( whipping Walter Johnson's charges. 8 to 3. Babe Ruth led the ] Yankees attack with two homers . and passed his teammate. Lou; . Gehrig, in the race for the major, league home run championship., Pennock and Combs also hit homers for New York but Gehrig was i , held hitless and now is one be-, t hind Ruth in the home run race' ,; with 45. Only one other game was played in the major leagues yesterday. . with Philadelphia's world champ- ! ions defeating Boston, 7 to 1. Louis | Krausse, 18-year-old pitcher, who ■ joined the Athletics this spring direct from the Media, Pa., high .I school team, held the Red Sox to ; , four hits. I O HOME RUNS Ruth Yankees 46 j Gehrig. Yankees 45 Averill, Indians 32 Klein, Phillies 31 Foxx, Athletics 30 o DECATUR MEN TO CONGRESS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON®I l the Cross Reformed Church chorus, i i The morning service will begin at 10 o'clock, and the afternoon pro-i gram will begin at 2:30 o’clock. The officers of the 1931 Congress i | are Dr. Nevin E. Bretz. Goshen, j 1 president; Richard E. Hughes, [ Blutton. vice-president; Willis D. Widner. Goshen, Secretary Otto. j Gumpper, Fort Wayne, treasurer. Many of the men from the local ■ , Zion Reformed Church are planning | I to attend the Men's Congress, and 1 I i for the convenience of these men.! the regular Sunday School session at the local church will begin! ; promptly at 8:30 o'clock, instead of . the regular time. This will allow time for the men to motor to Berne, ( . I following Sunday School. o APPEAL STILL UNANSWERED ■ CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE | dispute by direct negotiations while I China sought advantage of her > i membership in the League council (achieved after three years for the . primary purpose of using member--1 ship to settle disputes with Japan. o Murder Ends Quarrell Jeffersonville. Ind.. Sept. 26.--(U.R> —A family quarrel, spurred by ! ’ i a divorce and arguments over cusI tody of children, resulted in the murder of Mrs. Gcldie B. Kent, 37. i and wounding of her aunt. Mrs. j Lola Baxter. 55. here. Alvah R. Kent. 41. a section hand, surrendered to police, who said he confessed the slaying. Kent and his wife were divorced I several months ago, with custody of two daughters given to Mrs. Kent. Kent was directed to contribute to their support. Last Monday Kent was arrested on a charge of child desertion on a warrant sworn by his former wife. He was released on his own recognizance. When Kent went to the police f | station to surrender, he said to the ,; patrolman on duty: “I just killed 1 my wife. She nagged me for 1 years. Do you blame me?" »!MARATHON OF l PRAYER HELI) I (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) | ters from other towns, gathered in the little church at dusk yes- . terday. , “We are here to pray for termination of the business depression," declared the solemn faced, . gray haired minister as he strode , to the pulpit, to begin the night > of prayer. A total of 98 prayers were offered before the meeting adjourned. At the end, 30 persons still re- , inained in the church, determined to pray until dawn despite the fact they were cold and weary. ? Only a few left before 11 o'clock, but liy that hour wintry winds Were whistling about the unheated church, heads were nodding, and the enthusiasm had died down a bit. At 2:30 a. m. the praying had not stopped, but not all those still in the church would keep their I heads up. Several who went to

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1931.

Hitler Gets the “Upper Hand” iff 1 w-w ' aSC- -g, — Ekl/ -

These thousands of upraised hands may symbolize a future new order of things in Germany, if the dreams of Adolf Hitler, shown taking the salute in inset, and his cohorts of the National Socialist organization in the Fatherland are realized. The

e \ ictor and \ anquished • IHI R I Mm AM ■' I T1 W | 1\ \ i < I. 1 \ b.. _ c-uS Wt J Penny Shute (left), of Hudson. 0.. and Tom Creavy. pro of Albany, -u. a . L*° f ' nansts ‘ n J he national professional golf championships played at Providence, R 1 , are shown shaking hands before playing the round which decided which youth was champion. Shute defeated Billy Burke, national open champ, in the semi-finals, while Creavy eliminated the veteran Gene Sarazen

-sleep with their heads on their arms were awakened from time to time and asked to pray some more. It was Kinney himself who suggested abandoning the plan to prav until dawn. “We have done all the good we can," he dedared. “It is not right for us to stay here when you are cold and tired. Go home now.' but continue to pray! It is all 1 that is left to do. The only way ' to end the depression is to go | down on your knees and pray as • we have done here tonight.” During the night, telegrams ad-1 dressed to Kinney arrived from' Chicago, Cleveland, and other cities. They were from persons i praising Kinney for his action. The 98 prayers offered up covered a wide range of subjects, bust- i ness men prayed for better bust-1 ness. miners prayed for work, the j rmers nravrd for higher cron | orices. and the ministers prayed for better times for everybody. “O. Lorn, grant that all the' prpyers offered here tonight be granted." was the final-word, of-l sered lly Rev. Kinney. “Amen." responded the congre-1 gatfon. arising to depart just as the clock struck 3. GANG SCHEME IS DISC OVERED BY OFFICIALS — CONTINUED r ROM PAGE ONE) ! Washington. It was said ThUplot j already had advanced so far that a representative of the gangsters had carried to Washington a ■secret report which was intended to arouse suspicion of Johnson. It was hinted several prominent names might be involved if full details of the scandal were made public. One man involved was said to be a lawyer whom Capone gangsters kidnaped and held prisoner until he agreed to aid in carrying out the plot. So detailed was the reported scheme that dozens of persons throughout the country were involved. Federal investigators working on the present case have noted certain similarities with the scandal tn 1925 when former Sheriff Peter Hoffman and Warden Wesley Westbrook were sent to jail on the strength of testimony given by Druggan. who ha* been theiri prisoner. The scandal at that time was caused by charges that while Druggan and Lake were county

stern-looking troops are shown pledging then allegiance to Hitler during a monster rally at Gora, Germany. Some 10.000 men paraded before their leader to accord him the Fascist salute and in tum receiving a gesture reminiscent as Italy's duce.

jail prisoners they were allowed (o make visits outside almost whenever they wished. Drugganl : testified at the time that he had lirilied almost the entire jail force. ' Many detail of the present plot reportedly were learned by a I Washington 1 secret service man from Harold Hayes, owner of the Metropole Hotel, former head- , quarters of Al Capone. The gangsters, according to reports. planned first to create an j impression that they had dealt ' | through a prominent unnamed I i southern clergyman. This plan failing, it then was plotted to make it appear Druggan dealt wjth John- ! son' through the Chicago attorney. The plot as revealed did not make clear exactly what m< 'L >d ; he would claim he used in j Johnson. It was hinted, however. the plan was to claim that notes signed by Johnson were to be | taken up and paid off in a round I about way by Druggan or his 1 representatives. —————————O— —— —. Lagrange Bankers Are Under Arrest Kansas City. Mo., Sept. 26—<U.R) —Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, arrived today ostensibly to gather data from agriculturists concerning benefits to be received by resumption of the manufacture of beer. Secy. Hyde announced before j leaving Washington that an in- ■ vestigation was under way by his denartment. He denied that it had been requested by the President or that it was to be used in an effort to bring about a modification of the prohibition laws. It is expected that information will be given him concerning the number of people that could be employed if breweries were opened in this territory. SWANK’S CASE PECULIAR ONE iCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE' her baby was born six weeks ago. Miss I .on e. a Hammond nurse. I said that after holding up and killing Duckworth, Perry gave her $44 ■ of the loot, then went to church . and calmly dropped his remaining I dollar into the collection plate. She said he admitted to her that he : killed Duckworth because Duckworth resisted being held up. Police said, however, there was evidence Duckworth did not resist. The young mother said Perry

was not the father of her child and , I that she had known him only a( | few months. Her testimony con-; (tradicted Perry in that he at first [told police he burned the money, i I During the service, he said, he became sorry for his deed. | Mrs. Perry Swank. Sr., denied I the boy needed the money fort | school books, as he claimed. “He must have just wanted a thrill," she said. Whatever punI ishment he gets, he deserves." I And it was in the matter of pun , ishment that Prosecutor Robert G. i Estill and other authorities admit-! ted they faced a problem. “What." they asked, “is the [ psychological explanation of this! 1 strange crime and the boy's! strange disposal of the money’” Estil indicated he probably would not ask the death penalty although! he said Perry had made a complete I confession. Miss Long told the jury she had given the )|| to Duckworth's wid- ' ow. GANDHI VISITS COTTON TOWNS 'Ut.N tNUISD FROM PAGE ONEi < -X . >-x^x.— XX- X- . at the Darwen town hall. He was up early at Springvale, where he spent the night at the ; home of a local social worker. He ( prayed, bathed and took a walk i through the streets before break- | fast. Later. Gandhi received a few I residents of Darwen. Springvulle, i and neighboring towns, including members of the clergy.

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TRIALS START ON CRIMINAL DOCKET MONDAY .CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) forming a criminal operation also Is scheduled for early in October. Prosecutor Nelson said that the grant! jury would not meet during the time of any of the trials but that it had not completed it’s work, it is reported to be certain . that a murder indictment will b-> returned against Joseph Everett.! It Is rumored also that other in-j dictments will be returned, several on liquor law violations and gambling charges. FOSTER WINS SECOND TILT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) court in Elkhart county. post dated by ve bal agreement, and had a witness to substantiate his claim. The state signified its Intention >f tilinz a new at idavit in circuit NEW COLLINGS CLUE PROBED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ?NE) Collings' murderers. She would i not give any details regarding the two men. however, saying she would be “bumped of! — my life wouldn't be worth anything" if she talked. loafer she informed him her attorney had advised her to say ! [ nothing. The second meeting had been arranged at the first aboard the I yacht. i I Later last night Gauthier, accom- . panied by other Jersey City and Bayonne police officials rowed to the yacht but the doctor ordered . I them not to board. One of the questions Gauthier ■ asked Miss Muttert concerned a ;! doctor supposed to have performijed an illegal operation on a young I Italian girl of this city. The girl, I believed to have died from the opi eration, was said to belong to a i family in which the father, mother, and two brothers were living. I The lack of an apparent motive ■| in Collings’ murder has made the case a standing mystery. Even i the dead man's attractive young i widow was unable to furnish any I clue to a possible motive in her } five-hour account at the Huntington inquest yesterday—an ordeal i (which resulted In her partial cols lapse. ! Collings was killed the night of • 'Sept. 10 aboard the yacht Penguin f in Long Island Sound. Two “pir- • ates" one an elderly man and one s i younger, boarded, beat the retired (engineer, tied him. and threw him overboard, to drown, she said. • (Then they took Mrs. Collings away i. [ill a canoe, leaving her child. Bar- < liara, alone on the Penguin, to drift ‘helpless until rescued.

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