Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1931 — Page 6

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DECATUR GRID i TEAM CRUSHED BY OLD FOES __ Central Os Fort Wayne Gets 57-0 Decision In Game At Fort Wayne Decatur met the stiffest cornpetition it has seen ail year and was snowed under to the tune of .*>7-0 in the football yaine played at Fort W.ivne vesterdav afternoon with the Central Tigers. Central used three complete squads while the Yellow Jackets had only one battered team. A small crowd of Decatur fans witnessed the game in the cold rain. At no time during the contest did Decatur threaten the husky Mendenhallmen. The Yellow Jackets were compelled to bo on ' the defensive from the start of the i game when after four plays Cen- 1 tral rushed down the field for a . marker. The Yellow Jackets were able to hold down the forward pass attack which proved so effective! against them in the Portland game i last week. The Tigers relied chief-' ly on end runs and line drives! with which they were able to gain at will. V. Hill who did the punt-! ing for Decatur for the first time] showed great promise of develop-1 ing into one of the best punters Decatur has had for a number of years. Conrad who has just won his Ifcrth on the first team showed: up nice. Litterer. half back, was ■ unable to play on account of an ■ inf'try to Ijis knee. The scoring started after two I end runs of twenty yards each by Hawkins and Noel resulted in c touchdown on third and fourth ' plays of Central. Shortly after Thornburg broke through for another touchdown. Central did not make either points after touchdown and the score at the end of the onarter was. 12-0. In the first of the second ouar-1 ter Decatur made a determined; d’-i’-e for a score but was stopped when Noel intercepted a pass and raced seventy yards for a touchdown. Thornburg kicked the point after Mendenhall ran in another team which scored once before the half was over which ended 25-0. I” the last half Central worked the lu.ll deep into Decatur's territory and three times pluckv tackles bv Schultz kept them from scoring. Shortly after Thornburg ran through the line for another touchdown and a minute later passed to Seals for the extra no’nt. Thornburg scored again bef-ro the ouarter was over which ended 38-0. In the final stanza Mendenhall -an fn the varsity which had little) difficulty in scoring three touch-1 downs, Nash making two of the f Scores ran twenty five yard apiece for them. Nash raced through fifty vards of Decatur players for the last score of the game. I.’nonn; Central (57) Decatur (0) Planter. LE Hill Yovng LT Roop Hart 141 Hurst Jengen C . Musser Kab'neh RC, . Conrad Hurhns RT Busse Cr'a’" RE Cloud Kerns Q Ebinger

THE CORT ' DAY. MONDAY. TI ES. Matinee Sunday 2 P. M.—loc-40c Evening 6:30—15c-40c "DIRIGIBLE” The dramatic achievement of the JW. Daring. difreicnt. with Jack Holt. Ralph Graves. Pay Wray, Aleo-Comedy, Cartoon, News. —TONIGHT— T',’" McCoy in a big Western drama, ”UNE WAY TRAIL.” Aln'-Comedy and Cartoon. 10c-35c

THE ADAMS THEATRE S'NDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY— 15c-35c Matinee Sunday at 2 P. M.—loc-35c CONSTANCE BENNETT —in—“B 0 U G H T” oen Lyon - Richard Bennett and Dorothy Peterson. “ , rJ’7 lne V *” the Bniartoßt all <l most alluring role of her far her GRE A^EsTplciu^' iOUB ' y <,reß ‘" d W ' th m ° der " * d “ 8! B> ’ ADDED—Comedy and Pictorial. n u.n ME TONIGHT —“MURDER BY THE CLOCK” — with Wm. Boyd. Lilyan Tashman, Regis Toomey, Irving Pichel. Guaranteed to make your hair stand up' The strangest of mystery thrillers! Added—Comedy and Cartoon. lOc-3fc

i Hawkins LH. Townsend | Noel RH Odle 1 Thornburg F 8.... Saunders | Officials — Referee. Geller, Fort Wayne; umpire. Reno. Sturgis, ; Mich.; head linesman. Logan. Fort I Wayne. 1 Substitutions: Decatur. Alwein, I Parrish, Schulz, Eady, Helm. Huff-' J enbarger. Baker; Central, Burton, MacDonald. Smith, Korn. Hart. '] Hosier. Hayes. Seals. Weingard. J Dixie, Kies. Miligan. FRANKIE JARR SCRAPS OCT. 21 Fort Wayne. Ind., Oct. 17—Fran- ; ><i Jar , Fort Wayne bantamweight i and Duke Callowey. colored scrapper from Toledo, will open the indoor boxing season in Fort Wayne ] i with a bang next Wednesday night. I Octob u 21. These HS-pounders meet in the 10 round windup at the ; I Strand theater. Henry Stoeff. veteran promoter] .of boxing and wrestling here, is I 1 promoting the show. On every I ' Thursday night. Stoeff presents a j wrestling card. The semi-windup of the Fisticl j program brings together KO Peaks, i ‘ i Fort Wayqne knockout artist, and; I Biz Andy Nuell, Union City. These I ‘ men are heavyweights, and will go I ' | 10 rounds. The feature ot the two six round ! preliminaries matches young Billy i ! Edwards. Fort Wayne amateur! | champion, and Guy Stubbs, another | colored battler from Muncie. Ed-1 | wards will make his first proses-; ; sional appearance. He has an excel- | lent record as an amateur. Twice he . reached the semi-finals in the Gold- i Jen Gloves tournament at Chicago. i Edwards and Stubbs will weigh in lat 112 pounds. The curtain raiser brings Jackie I Coogan, veteran Muncie pub. and Young Puryear. Fort Wayne, toge i ,ther. These men will weizh 120 I pounds. I The card is under the direct su- I pervision of the state athletic commission. Frank Newport will referee ,jail bouts. —« — o- * — ♦ FRIDAY'S FOOTBALL SCORES By United Press ♦ «; • Sacramento-West Coast Army 25: II California Aggies 6. Pasadena-Occidental 1.1; Caltech 0 Stillwater-Oklahoma Aggies 42; I 1 i Haskell Indians 0. De Paul 20; St. Marys 6. I St. Louis U. 7; Missouri School I of Mines 0. Detroit 7: Marquette 0 J Carthage 12; Culver-Stockton 0. ' Cent* re 6; Xavier 0. ■ Millikin 22: Crane Junior 0. ' Suoerior Teachers 46; Eau Claire II Teachers 0. 1 Northland 46; Duluth 0. Drury 7; William Jewel 7. Tulsa 24: George Washington 7. ' North Dakota State 28; Morning side 0. ■ Wittenberg 99; Eastern Kentucky ' i Teachers 0. ' Lovola of New Orleans 12; Ogle 1 ! thorpe 7. Penn 7: Upner lowa 0. | Citadel 6: Clemson 0. i Louisiana State Normal 12; Louisj iana College 7. 1 Mercer 0; John Carroll 0. > David Elkins 59; st. Johns 0. ' : Temple 0: Bncknell 0. - Oklahoma Baptist 30: Murray 1; Aggies 0. > : Nebraska Wesleyan 26: Doane 12 1 Union 46: Transylvania 7. r. St. Ambrose 7: Parsons 0. » I incoln 12; A A T.. ♦. , Muhlenl’erg 7: St. Joseph 0. ; Mt. Union 25; Kent 0. I Mississippi Jr. 7: Lane 0. I Tuerhford 7: Marshall 0. Austin 13: Howard Payne 7. J Hays 3; Empria 0. Minot 12, James.own 6. i West Virginia Wesleyan 13; DayI ton 7. Muskingum 19: Bethany 6. ' Bluffton 18; Findlay 0 John Carroll 0; Mercer 0. I Taft Junior College 12; Santa Maria Junior College 0. v ! Duquesne 0; Georgetown 0. i Bowling Green 13; Detroit City a College 0. ; Olivet 32; Gene Mtrs. Tech 0. c Detroit Tech 6; Assumption 6. rset the Haplt —Trace st

GARDEN HEAD ASSUMES POST New York. Oct. 17—(U.R) —James Joy Johnston, who. during his 40odd years has been everything from a hay and grain salesman to a collector of grandfather clocks, is just about ready to cap his long and eventful career by becoming a Moses a boxing Moses. Johnston had not been informed of his new job as head man of Madison Square Garden more than 10 minutes before he was planning plans and scheming schemes ! to lead boxing out of the wilder-! ness in which it has been wandering ever since Tex Rickard died. ' Now Johnston' is no Rickard, and doesn't claim to be. But he is ! the smartest man in boxing today. Johnston is the sort of man who can do a lot with nothing, as wit-; nesses his magnificent management of Phil Scott. Scott, with a j glass jaw and a tissue-paper stoni-, ach. never had any right to tn x 1 with the better heavyweights, ystl James Joy had him up there fight- , ing for the biggest dough, not ! once, but several times. If Johnston can do so much 1 with nothing, he is apt to raise all I sorts of fireworks when handed a I lot to work’with. And he will have a lot this winter and next I summer. Right now the game boasts as fine a crop of heavy-1 weight fighters as it has in the ! last 10 years. More than a dozen [ top notch big fellows are ready to i answer Johnston's call. Heading the list are Schmeling. ! the champion; Sharkey, who has I sworn off being a prima donna and decided to get to work; Jack I Dempsey, the greatest drawing j card of all time: Primo Camera. I Stribling, those sensational slugging youngsters. Steve Hamas. Charley Retzlaff. and Stanley Por- j eda. the rejuvenated Tommyl Loughran. the hard-hitting and: willing Ernie Schaaf. Campolo. Griffiths and Paulino This large and imposing group! of heavyweights is a source of 1 much joy to Johnston, for like Rickard. James Joy likes his fight-1 ers big. Johnston will stage his first i show on Nov. 13 when he will pit 1 the dumb but strong Paulino. I against the strong* but dumb: Camera. If Johnston doesn't succeed it, won't 1»■ because he hasn't a box ’ ing background. The man has j been eating, sleeping, breathing i and talking fights tor the last 25 years. He is not likely to be outwitted by any of his competitors, for the man is shrewdness personified. He is so shrewd, in fact, that ] more than once he has had to! slow down his mental processes. 1 lest he outwit himself. o POISON TRIAL IS RECESSED (CONTINUED FROM PATF "'NE' ods was employed by authorities' in questioning Mrs. Simmons in | her cell immediately following the | fatal picnic. Mrs. Wilbur Small, wife of the] Boone county sheriff, and her sis- 1 ter. Miss Loleta Clifton, testified, they had heard “loud language" in which the word "damn” was | used late at night during the questioning. In line with the attempts of the defense to direct suspicion upon a relative of Mrs. Simmons. Scott Jones, a neighbor of the Simmons family, testified for the defense that George Simmons, son of the defendant, showed him a sandwich several days after the picnic. All of it had been consumed. Jones said, except a small portion in which there appeared to have been one of the strychnine capsules. This evidence. Jones said, later was destroyed. Defense attorneys announced Mrs. Simmons would testify in her own defense late next week. She is being tried only on charges of poisoning Alice Jean Simmons. 10. Another daughter. Virginia. 14. a’so dim! from the effects ot the strychnine-filled sandwiches, i while others at the picnic became ill.

JAPAN SENDS NEW CHALLENGE TO LEAGUE MEET (CONT'NT'FD FROM PAGE OKF> move and Tokio asked President Briand whether a majority vote instead of an unanimous one was legal. In event the council holds the majority vote sufficient. Yoshizawa will learn whether such conduct will be followed in future votes. The government also asked when the league's study of the entire legal question of its action can be started and what the league proposes to do should the presence of an American be held illegal. Unofficially, it was suggested that if it were proper to admit an American, whose government is not a league member, the same privilege might well be asked by Soviet Russia. The soviet attitude

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAt SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1931.

Aviation the High Road to Glory But Fame Pays Small Dividends * * * * * * * * * Few of the Great Air Feats That Thrilled the World Have Brought Worthwhile Financial Returns to Famous Fuel's. Veterans Ask Does Glory Pay?

- ~. - -T — v..„. I A V F Ik- is \ v ' gl • 1 ...w J ; 1 T W' Mr IE & lil Mml • Ckremce CpunetßUN • Roger Q tUiLiiayi? • Cololnev CrMoecR.GH • Vilev -larovo Gatty With the conquett of the Pacific by Herndon and P angborn, few more fields are left to conquer by airman who travel the sky route to fame. And they bemoan the fact. But the old-timer* at the game look at the struggle for glory from a different angle. They lay that fame won in the cloud* doe* not pay and they point out ca*e* to prove it. It ia true that Lindbergh’* dash to Pari* netted him an amount estimated at from $300,000 to $1,000,000, although he refused to commercialize the feat. And Admiral Byrd, who flew over two Pole*, cashed in on his exploits, through his lecture* and writings. Bui Clarence Chamberlin, who flew from New York to Germany, did not profit much financially, nor d«d Holger Hoiriis, who flew to Copenhagen. Holger i* now barnstorming for a living. Although the Post and v->atty flight around the world in eight and one-half days was acclaimed as the greatest feat in the history of aviation, the daring flier* did not receive any considerable dividends from the fame it brought diem. The same is true of the Pangborn-Herndon flight across the Pacific. Although they won a prize of $25,000, offered by a Japanese newspaper for the flight, they lost two more prize* of the same amount each because they did not fulfill the required terms. The conquerors of the Pacific are actually in the red for $2 0,000, it is repo-ted

New York. Oct. ’"—(U.R) — With I the Herndon-Pangborn conquest' of the Pacific, the last barrier that ' provoked the efforts of glory-seek-1 ing airmen has fallen before the all-conquering march of aviation. Young fledgings who had hoped 1 to soar to fame in one breath-tak-1 ing dash as did Lindbergh are now racking their brains in an endeavor to think of a stunt that has : not been already accomplished. I but there is a dearth of green' pastures. On the other hand, the veterans of the game are looking back ovir I the infancy anl adolescence of, aviation, reviewing the feats that ( made history and following the; fortunes of the men who wrote: their names in the history of aviation in letters of gold. The mental, review of these men always ends with the age-old question that has never been satisfactorily answered: “What price glory 2” If the average person were asked to name the first man to fly , the Atlantic the chances are that he would say Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. So fleeting is fame that . the names of Alcock and Brown, pioneers of the trans-Ajlantic flight, would never occur to him. But it was Lindbergh who first : captured the popular imagination; with his colorful dash to Paris. ] That flight and the behavior of the man that made it in refusing to commercialize the feat .

on the Manchurian crisis, in view ’ of its interests in Siberia, been a matter of open anxiety to Japan anti China. Yoshizawa was instructed further to attend all sessions of the council. Authorities here anticipated that the league first would 1 attempt to induce China and Japan to negotiate terms for the' evacuation of Jananese troops,' after which a diplomatic settlement of the general Manchurian situation would begin. | Tokio continues to insist that l the Kellogg anti-war treaty is in-j ’ applicable to the present case since Japan already has pledged that it will not resort to war under ; any circumstances. In the latest exodus of Chinese from Japan. 76 Chinese dooks deserted their posts and crippled more than a score of Japanese owned restaurants here. o FEDERAL SUIT ON WATER RATE I (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) . at $215,642. ! The U. S. circuit court of appeals also set the fair return on the Mon- > ey at 7 per cent, the water company - contends. It points out that its • earning in 1930 were $5,714.09 short > of the 7 per cent reurn on investment, as set by the court. I The usit was accompanied by a > volumnious history of the case, int eluding the public service commiss sion ruling and rate schedule. Defendants are the Public Service 1 Commission, John W. McCardle, 1 Frank T. Singleton, Howell Ellis, I and Jere West, and Harry K. Cuthi bertson, commissioners; Attorney t General James M. Ogden, Governor * Harry G. Leslie, and the city of r Vincennes. s The history as related in the suit,

! placed Lindbergh in the forefront of aerial pathfinders, both sen-. I timentally and in terms of cash The Colonel's revenues have been estimated at from *300,000 to *1.000,000. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who | earned undying fame by flying ' over both the North and South i Poles, made a considerable amount ; of money through bis lectures and i writings. It can also h° said of him Hint glorv pahl rich dividends. On.- the other hand, there is Clarence Chamberlin, who made the great flight from New York to i Germany, carrying Charles Levine as a passenger. The practical re- ! ward in his case was infinitesimal. ] The same is true of Bernt Balchen. Admiral Byrd's pilot, and Captain Herman Kochi, of the famous Bremen trio, who is now flying an air mail route in his native Germany. Another to whom fame did not bring much financial return is Hloger Hoiriis. the pilot who flew with Otto Hillig to Copenhagen. Hoiriis is now earning a livelihood at his old profession of barnstorming. while Hillig is back in Liberty. N. Y.. running his photographic studio, the spotlight of fame having illuminated him for a brief instant and passed on Aviators all over the world are unanimous in protfiaiming the flight of Post and Gatty, around i the world in eight and one-half

shows that on April 20, 1928, t.he| Public Service Commission valued the plant and equipment at $725,0001 and fixed rates to yield $52,216 30. The water company sued the Pub i lie service commission in equity in Federal court. The suit was lost, and appealed to the U. S. Circuit 1 court of appeals. It was then that the valuation of "nots less than 1 $1,032,064 was set. Together with all-important rulings that 7 per cent was a fair return on the invest ment. The water company maintains that the rates and charges set by the public service commission on | October 2 are not sufficient to earn i the amount to which it is entitled. ■ POVERTY GIVEN AS CAUSE FOR GRIM TRAGEDY i CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE 1 Ritchie, the baby, still was alive but died a few moments later. ■ The radio was blaring the notes of a jazz orchestra. Prostrated by grief. Ward said he had feared such a tragedy and had removed the cartridges from the revolver several days ago. He was unable to explain how his wife had reloaded the weapon. o 420 Persons Indicted South Bend, Ind., Oct. 17—(UP) Four hundred and twenty persons were named in 255 indictments returned here by the Federal grand Jury before Judge Thomas W. Slick late yesterday. The indictments comprise only a partial report. All but 17 of the persons named were charged with liquor law violations. They include the federal divisions of Fort Wayne, Hammond and South Bend.

days, the greatest air feat in the history of the game, but they are not much better off financially than when they left New York at the start of their breathless dash Although Pattgborn and Herndon won *25,004 offered by a Japanese newstpaper for their flight, they lost out* on two other prizes of *25,900 each, having fai'ed to fulfill the conditions, a'-co-ding to the donor o f one of theorizes. Colonel Eastcrwood, of Texas. Consequently the conquerors the Pacific are *20,000 In'the red. Tims one can readily understand why the old timers ask “What price glory?" More especially can we coni' rehend their att'tude when we stop to realize the huge fortunes that arc made ly hoofers who Jig their wav to millions on nimble feet behind the footlights, or melting-voiced crooners who warble “I wonder will you love me when I'm gone" over the radio. Os course the erstwhile famous aviator can always get a certain meed of self-satisfaction out of the stacks of front page clippings that once blazoned his death-defy-ing feats to the world. Imt press notices do not assuage the pangs of hunger. One is inclined to believe that: “What is fame? Tis but to fill a certain portion of uncertain paper," is more truth than poetry.

| Expecting where otherwise noted those indicted are charged with < liquor law violations: Fort Wayne division: Annie Armstrong. Blanche B. Baker, Earl. Alias Ed Balke, James H. Bantz, Arthur Barter, Clark G. Beehler, Lee i Casso, Marco Evanoff Lloyd Fos- ■ t r. Albert Fry. Stella Keak, Joseph J Koorsen, Donald May, Ward Miles. Sam Ochstein, William Joseph Qverley (Dyer Act). Jesse Pattee, George Petrie. George B. Pra- | ger, Alex Seewa'.d. Pete Shurboff, Peter ('. Skurbeff, Frank Smith, Jai cob Spielman, John Spira. Joe I Wachlinger, Bertha Wolf, Paul o Sheriff To Sell Church Newcastle, Ind., Oct. 17—(UP) — | Unless providence intervenes. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church will be sold over the heads of Mrs. Fled Thurman, pastor, and parishioners. The church building is slated to go to the highest bidder at Sheriff's sale October 24. to satisfy a judg ment of $8,851.30 by a Newcastle loan company. ————————q r——— — Whips Wife; Kills Self Evansville, Ind., Oct. 17—<U.P.) —Gustave Grossman, 48, beat his wife probably fatally, inflicted severe injuries upon his stepdaughter.- Burdette Smith, 17, then shot himself to death with a shotgun while a daughter, 10. and a son. 3. looked on. Mrs. Grossman was suffering a skull fracture from which physicians said she had slight chance of recovery. Free Confetti Dance tonight Sunset. o— ■■■ Get the Habit—Trade at Homa

ALL HOPE FOR ; EDISON GONE' 1 1 Inventor’s Death Is Expected Momentarily Report Says j I West Oranze, N. J.. Oct. 17— , (UP) Thomas A. Edison slowly , neared the end of his life today as his doctor and members of the fa ' mily ie:nalned at the bedside or L within call, waiting for the tragic , word of his passing. A bulletin issued this morning by ’ Dr Hubert S. Howe, said: “Mr. Edison has remained all J night in a condition which'has all the appearances of a normal sleep. He is breathing quietly and easily. His pulse, however, is poor." Dr. Howe remained at the stately Edison home throughout last night, the first time since the elderly Inventor, whose great genius has , brought many ot the world's comforts, became 111 weeks ago. He still remained at the house this morning and indications were that he would continue there through the day. Definite statements were difficult to obtain, other than the official bulletin, but attendants at the home j indicated that Edison was in a very | grave condition Ihe end. these attendants indicated, may come at any time. THEATRE WAR NEAR CLIMAX CONTINUE! ('Kt)M PAGE ONE it among them, but that he blundered and th.? bomb exploded in his lap. Office! s said the incident un loubtedly would prove the climax jf the controversy which lias been for weeks between owners if 104 independent theaters and the Union operators whom they locked out. During these weeks. 16 bombs have been hurl-ad, 14 of them al theaters involved in the fight. Un til last night, all were exploded outside the showhouses. The 14th and 15th, both thrown yesterday, were ! nuned at theaters not involved | Owners said they must have been I r'oT.rse d oOwnes "errors". Besides Mooney, the other two seriously hu.t last night were Ed vard Foy. City fireman, and Edward Schaeffer. Several women were slightly hurt. MUDDLE WORSE IN LOUISIANA (Ct'NTLNUED FORM PAGE ONE objectives were: First, to draw a salary (the contracting business is poori. second, to relieve the cotton far mers; third, to help in democratic organization of the next session of congress. Meanwhile the two "governors" who want Long's job here prepar fed to file suits so they can become bonafide governors. Dr. Paul Oyr planned to file suit calling for the ouster of Long. Oyr, as the legally elected lieutenant governor, expects the ouster automatically to make him governor. Oyr. however, has been removed from the state payroll by Long, and A. O. King, president pro-tem of the senate, has been sworn in to Succeed him. Walter L. Aldrictj, unemployed bill collector who took the oath of office as governor “just for the hell ot it" expects to fiie suit against Oyr, thus placing himself in office. Meanwhile the state is blessed with three native lieutenant governors. not including Oyr. And yesterday in New York three unemployed seamen, navigating from jungle to jungle on lower Manhattan Island, borrowed a Bible and took the oath. Governor William H. Murray of Oklahoma, who lias played a leading role in some of the midwest's political plays or sideshows depending upon the point of view, noted developments in Louisiana

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