Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1931 — Page 6

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AMATEUR FIGHT SHOWS PLANNED BY ADAMS POST L o c a I Legionnaires To Sponsor Tourneys During Winter Months Ailsms Post "No. 43 of the Amer ican Leginn will sponsor and promote amateur boxing In Decatur during the fall and winter montha. decision being made at the Legion meeting Monday night. A call to boxers to begin practice was sent out today by the committee in charge of the sport. Practice will begin Wednesday night in ; the room on the second floor of the Knights of Columbus building and William Kohls, will act as trainer. It- is planned to hold several boxing exhibitions during the winter months, the first one being tentatively scheduled for November. From the turn-out Wednesday night, the committee will have an idea as to the interest and talent available. Any Decatur boy or man over 16 years of age is invited to join I in the boxing 'nntests. They are, rslieij to report * the K. of C. hall ■ tomorrow' evening. Lloyd Baker is chairman of the committee and is assisted by the j following men. Perry Short. Albert Miller. Harry Knapp. Joe Laurent. Ed Adler, Joe Johns, Harve Stevens, and Russel Weldy. The Legion staged several boxing contests in this city last spring and arrangements have been made ; to hold the public exhibitions at the Catholic high school building. The sport is promoted in the in-' terest o? athletics and to give those who desire an opportunitv to learn

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| boxing. The Legion will operate I under rules of the American Athj letic Union. o Yellow Jackets Beaten Decatur was defeated by the strong Mishawaka team Saturday by th" scor? of 53 to 0. The YellowJackets wer< compelled to be on the defensive from the start of the game and relied on straight football throughout. Mishawaka used its first t am almost the whole game ami gained chiefly on eml runs. Coach Horton took two teams along. —— —-—o 1 TWO FIGHTS ARE PLANNED New York. Oct. 27.—<U.R) —James] J. Johnston. Madison Square Gardens new boxing boss, never a pessimist, reached new heights to ! day in visualizing the return of the: “million dollar gate” to boxing with two mid-winter extravaganzas at i the Garden's Miami, Fla., arena. Johnston's plan, or dream, calls for two feature shows at Miami—;] where the garden has geen unable ' to make even one profit each seas on in the past. • ! ‘ I'll put on Dempsey with the Carnera-Camp do winner at Miami I and draw a million.' he said.C'Then I can do half-a million more with • Max Schmeling and Mickey Walk-1 er.” Johnston is ready to offer Dempsey 40 per cent of the gate for a ' match in Florida. "Regardless of the Dempsey*bout. you can just about bet that Schmeling and Walker will ’fight in Miami. There are reasons why this match will be easy to make and it looks like a big drawing card. 11 think Schmeling and Jacobs want to give Mickey the first chance at the title, probably because they think it will be an easy bout, and our February show in Miami is the spot for the contest. Boxing writers believed John-1 ston was overly confident of his ability to make th<» two proposed matches. o BARGAINS — Bargains tn living room, dining room suite, mattresses and rugs. Stockey and Co. Monroour Phone number is 44 M Ci Goblins and ghosts at P.M. H. S„ Oct. .'HI.

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THE ADAMS THEATRE Wednesday. Thursday & Friday—loc-35c MARK TWAIN’S CLASSIC “HUCKLEBERRY FINN” With JACKIE COOGAN. JUNIOR DURKIN. MITZI GREEN, JACKIE SEARLE. EUGENE PALLETTE. JOY FOR ALL THK FAMILY! A Real Story with the Thrill of Romance. Breath-Taking Suspense, and a Good Hearty Laugh woven into its heart tingling adventure! ADDED—Comedy and Cartoon. WEDNESDAY NIGHT is LADIES NIGHT. One Lady FREE with each paid adult admission! j LAST TIME TONIGHT—JOHN GILBERT in "THE PHANTOM OF PARIS” — with Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt. | Added—Short Subjects. 15c--35c

OLD ROMAN IS ' BROUGHT HOME Chicago, Oct. 27.—(U.R)—The body of Charles A. Comlskey, who died j yesterday at his Sand Lake farm estate at Eagle River. Wis., today was brought back to the scene of his birth and his rise to baseball! fame and fortune as owner of the, Chicago White Sox. 1 I Accompanied by his only son. J. I Louis Comlskey, the body of the! 72 year old baseball magnate was : ■ I taken to the family homestead on. ‘ the South Side immediately after | 1 . its arrival. The funeral and burial rites will be held Thursday morning from the family home to the St. Thomas The Apostle Roman Catholic church. Burial will be in the Com iskey plot in Calvary cemetery. The active pall bearers will be selected today, probably from among the "old Roman's" asso- ] elates in' the baseball world. The honorary pall bearers will be selected from leaders In business, social, political and sports circles. j Hundreds of messages of condol- , ences and tributes to the memory of Comiskey continued to pour In today from friends, associates and I i admirers in all walks of life, but , ! none better described the late I W hite Sox owner than these few words fiont John Heydler, president of the National league: "If ever a man fought to pre- , I serve the good name and honor of our game of baseball, it was CharL les A. Comiskey." It grieved Comiskey to the very lend that it fell his lot to be the only owner of the only baseball club in modern times to sell out to gamblers. On the morning of the second game of the 1919 world series, after the Cincinnati Reds had knocked Eddie Cicotte out of the box in . the first game and beaten the White Sox. 9-1. Comiskey went to Reydler and said: “John. 1 think some of my players are crooked and are trying to throw the series, but I can’t get anything definite on them. I need • help." Heydler advised Comiskey to go !to Ban Johnson, president of- the \ 1 American league, or Gary Her--1 mann, president of the Reds, who with Heydler formed the National i commission, which ruled major leaI gue baseball before the advent of i Commissioner K. M. Landis. "I can't go to Johnson because we are not on speaking terms and I dare not go to Hermann because ' it's his team that we are playing." Together Johnson and Comiskey • had conceived and started the Am- , 'erican league in 1901, but they later became enemies and the final breach came when Johnson awarded John P. Quinn, the oldest pitcher still in baseball, to the Yankees in 1916. When the crooked work in the 1919 series was exposed the next year, it was Comiskey who insisted that the eight guilty players— Jackson. Felsch. Risberg. Candil. Cicotte. Williams. Weavers and McMullen — be banished forever from organized basetali. Even though he might have traded some of the players to other clubs, he railroaded them out of baseball at a personal loss estimated at sl.(•00,000. He spent another $1,000.000 or more trying to build up another pennant winner. For 55 years Comiskey was connected with baseball. He started out at 17 as a S6O a month third i baseman for Milwaukee. In his early twenties he was one of baseI ball's greatest first basemen. At 26 he was captain and manager of I the old St. Louis Browns of the American Association which won the world title for the old Chicago ' White Stockings" of the National league. At 36 he was captain, manager, owner and first baseman of i the St. Paul club of the Western league, which eventually became ; the American league. At 40 he was owner of the White Sox. which I won four pennants and two wqrld championships under his banner. 666 LIQUID or tablets Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia' in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. fififi Salve for Baby’s Cold.

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By HARRISON CARROLL. 4 Copyright, 1831. Premier Syndicate, tne. HOLLYWOOD, Cal.. Oct. 00.— Hollywood’s rumor-hounds will have to guess again.

Sr i Al Jolson.

They said Al Jolson was through with pictures, but *AI i now is definitely scheduled to do a United Artists talkie in February It will be eithtSr ‘‘Wonder Bar" or “Sons o' Guns." Al favors the former, because he has an interest in the show On the other hand, United Artists already own “Sons o' Guns.”

The singing star will bring his road tour of “Wonder Bar” to a close in Los Angeles somewhere ! around the first of the year. Between now and then, to quote I another and seemingly authentic rumor, the United Artists studio is due for a shut-down of several I months. FAIR WARNING. Hearing that musicals were back in favor, an amateur songwriter succeeded in meeting Buddy De Sylva. Before Buddy could stop him, he spouted off a lyric in which “Mountaineer" was made to rhyme with “Far and Near." "Well. Mr. De Sylva,” he said, “how much would you give me for the lyrics?” Buddy looked suggestively towards the door. “Five yards start," he snapped. GOSSIP I HEAR. Ann Harding says she has resigned herself to the studio’s will, and. hereafter, will do any story they want her to. It is no secret she has opposed “Prestige” .. Margaret Livingstone will build a bachelors’ apartment house in I Hollywood. She already owns part interest in one Wynne Gibson's i mother and father have come out ;

INJURED GRID } PLAYER DIES West Point. N. Y.. Oct. 27.—(U.R) -Cadet Richard B. Sheridan, whose death followed an Army-Yale battle on the football field, will be I buried with al the honors of a soldier fallen in war. The military funeral on the windswept bluffs overlooking the Hudson will be Wednesday at 4 p. m„ 1 accompanied by the martial splen-1 dor of Dick Sheridan’s fellow cadets ; in their army blue. Mrs. Sheridan, who won a dramatic race with death to her injured I sons bedside yesterday afternoon, consented to the plana for a milltary funeral when urged by West 1 Point officials. There will be a short service in the chapel as she requested. Then the cadet corps will bury their comrade's body in the academy burial; ground where it will rest near that i of General George Cubter, Richard ! C. Anderson of Port Sumter, Gen-; eral Georgas Geothals, and General r Winfield Scott with whom Grant served in Mexico. Military escort was provided at , once for her son's body enroute I this morning from New Haven to West Point. , Cadet Sheridan died as a result of a broken neck received Saturday when Army fought Yale to a gruelling 6-to-6 tie in Yale Bowl, but not j until after he had fulfilled one ambition —a touchdown for Army. i The touchdown Sheridan wanted came the week previous in the Harvard game. Members of his family described his ambition, and part of a letter he wrote last fall when he was a substitute. "Just think, I got into play with the Arrrfy team in the Yale Howl,” ho wrote then. Sheridan got into play again Saturday. He brojte up a dying wedge of Yale men clewing away for Lassiter, carrying the ball. He I brought Lassiter down, but ' limp on the field. His neck was dislocated. One I vertebra was factured. Some of America's most skillful! 1 specialists, in New Haven for a convention, treated the Army end when summoned. Relatives were notified the boy was ffijured. Mrs. Sheridan, at Asheville, N. C.. started homeward to Augusta. Ga. Hurled messages caught her at Greenville, S. C., and told her of the seriousness of the injuries. With another son, Gerald, 16, at her side, Mrs. Sheridan began the race northward to the older son's bedside, a sorrowful anxious, and dramatic race with death. For Richard lay dying, death delayed only by the skill of human science that bad perfected a "respirator" or artificial lung to per- . form the task paralyzed lung muscles no longer did. Mrs. Sheridan reached the bedI side of her son. She spoke. He ' did not respond. He had remained • unconscious from the time of injury. > The mother, distraught and ex-

fto live with her. .. Maritime tragedy: Two of John Miljan’s fancy goldfish, valued at $l5O apiece, were gulped down by a marauding seagull . . . There’s a gas station operator in West Hollywood named William Fox. . . Julanne Johnson opened a dancing engagement at the Roosevelt Hotel . Sylvia Sidney is burned. Someone gave her a pair of love-birds, which pro- ! ceeded to fight viciously. The I truth finally is out. They are both | males. ! SENSATION DUE. ' Paramount’s football picture, I “Touchdown,” is due to create a j stir, because it deals with proses- ! sionalism in colleges. Dick Arlen i plays a coach who goes out and buys players. Some of the sting is removed by vindicating the college authorities themselves of any knowledge of the affair. The alumni in general also come in for a whitewash. From preview rei ports, this film is Dick Arlen's best | in years. HERSHOLT’S BREAK. Jean Hersholt is slated to play oppoSte Marie Dressier in “Emma." He is a millionaire in the picture and Marie is his house-

keeper. They, marry and he I wills her his] money, provid-1 e d she looks! after his chill dren by a pre-] vious marriage. | The story ex-] tends over a | period of 301 years and Marie] will wear a red | wig in early se-j quences of the] film. I Richard Cromwell has a

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sympathetic part as one of the sons. Direction is by Clarence Brown. DID YOU KNOW: That Joan Blondell played onenight stands in China. Australia and Germany?

Ihausted with no sleep since Satur day, went to bed when advised by physicians. Gerald, the admiring younger brother, remained at the i dying cadet's side. At 5:10 p. m.. a brother by his side, his mother asleep near by. Richard B. Sheridan, Jr., the boy who won his way into West Point from the ranks, breathed his last. ! The father, in failing health back in Augusta. Ga„ was resigned to I the tragedy. He indicated his son was better dead than crippled for life. 1 _ o Night Games Banned Indianapolis Oct. 27 —(UP) — A disorder which followed a recent ! night football game here, purportedly responsible tor an Injury to one student, appeared today to have ‘ ended night games between local 1 high school teams. School authorities will meet tomorrow afternoon to make a final decision on the matter. | Robert Lock wood. 15, student at Washington High, was injured seriously by a stone hulled after a [ game between his school and the [Shortridge team. School of.iciala i expressed the opinion that such 1 occurrance here less likely when | games were played in daytime. INDEPENDENCE NOT GRANTED CS)NTINUED FROM P4(4F IINEi llished before it can be accepted. Premature independence without I such assurances yould result in a collapse of all the islands, he said. ■ It is understood Secretary of ; War Hurley today gave the cabinet a report of his observations during his visit to the islands recently. • The Hoover statement was accepted as an indication that he as well as the cabinet does not believe the time for independence has yet come. — Condensed Population The smallest of the Central Amer lean republics. Salvador, Is the most : thickly populated nation In the western hemisphere. Although inly about as large as the state of Mary , land, it has a population of more than one and one-half millions, mostly Mestizos or Spanish Imlbi ns o Prize Halloween Masquerade square dance.Wcdnesday ! night. Sun Set, “. .? ■"

. i _ THE CORT LAST TIME TONIGHT ‘"RHE BRAT” . | A snappy, breezy story of a .[ Bowery imp who takes a tumble into society and a fall out of high hats. SALLY O'NEIL and good cast. [ —Also— Comedy—News—Cartoon. 15c--40c

MRS, SIMMONS I Will TESTIFY, Defendant Expected To'; Take Stand Soon In Own Defense Lebanon, Ind.. Oct. 27 —(U.R) —! Relatively little defense testimony remained today before Mrs. Carrie Simmons was expected to testifyi in her defense against murder charges in connection with strycli-nine-dosed picn Ic % sandwiches which proved fatal to her two daughters. Yesterday's session was devoted h'efly to testimony of Mrs. Sim- 1 i rnons 1 two sons. George and Dale, as the trial dragged into its fifth week. George testified that it was impossible for his mother to have inserted the strychnine capsules , in the picnic sandwiches at any lime without being observed. In addition, he said, she had no reason for poisoning her daughters. Dale, the day's last witness, describe! relations between his family and Horace Jackson, broth- ] er-in-law of Mrs. Simmons’ hits- 1 tand. John. The defense repeatedly has tried to direct suspicion' against Jackson on the ground of! a family quarrel Dale, however,: testified that he scarcely knew Jackson and had seen him infrequently. Bedford J. Parkeu. former Willowbranch. Ind., merchant, testified that he heard Jackson threaten “to get” the Simmons family in conversation a number of years I i aKO ' - o r~ ' RALPH CAPONE EILES APPEAL 'TINTINUEr "tuy PAGE ONE. income tax return for four years, I finally wrote a letter to the intern-, il revenue collector falsely claiming that his money was made ini gambling and he had to borrow ] money to pay even part of his! taxes. The brief asserted that Ralph I "was extensively engaged in selling and transporting liquor.” Instead of having to borrow money, the Chicago gangster, according to the government, deposited in banks under various fictions names over a ‘‘period of five years and four months sums aggregating $1,251,840. COLD WEATHER HITS MIDWEST CONTIN’ EO FROM PAGE ONE) cities felt the effects of the storin area and government meteorologists predicted still further unpleasant weather changes. "Rain and decidedly cooler" was the forecast for Illinois and surrounding states. A sample of the kind of rain it would be came late yesterday when a chilling shower sent thousands of residents

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I hurrying to start up the fires in, their furnaces. ! Most of Colorado escaped the : rain and snow that swept across i Wyoming and Montana, hut at | Denver the force of the storm was I I felt when the mercury dropped 27 , I degrees in 24 hours. In Wyoming' ' the snow became so heavy in' I some places that telephone and ’ i telegraph communications were | disrupted. Airplane service was! J delayed throughout the mountain i I region; ■ Probably the most severe wi ath- i er anywhere in the west was at ■ Quincy, 111., a where a 25-minute < cloudburst swept automobiles off the highways, flooded llasements and caused much discomfort. TEXAS MAY HAVE RAGING BACK — Austin. Tex.. —(UP) —Horse race] fans see two chances for renewal I of racing in Texas. One is a decision by th ■ courts that the Missouri plan of contribution wagering does not violate the I Texas statute against "betting ' on horse races, and the other is a ! ! possibility that the legislature i meeting in 1933 will repeal the ex- | isting law. Attempts to repeal the law have ' . tailed at the past two sessions. Rep. Pat Dwyer, of San Aantino, race enthusiast, announces that a; new attempt will be made before' the next legislature It will be pre-' ceded by a campaign to get mem tiers committed to repeal of the pre sent law. | Decline of horse breeding in Texj as,- effect of the law on the state Fair and various county fairs and the keeping of capital out of the state are relied upon by racing en-1 ‘husiasts to force a cliang > of sen- i titnent. One test case of the present antiI betting law was carried to the TexJas ('ou t of Criminal Appeals on , haveas corpus. The court did not I rule, decid that the case did not ’ reach it in proper form. Meantime W. T. Waggoner, oil | i and ranch millionaire, continues his ] faith that th“ “sport of kings will I return. He is maintaining his track! and breeding farms at Arlington! Downs. oEdwards Gives Answer Indianapolis. Oct. 27—(UP) Mar ion's youthful mayor. Jack Edwatvls : came to the defense of bis city, i which Attroney General Janies M. j Ogden said was "seething in cor- , ruption." countercharging that Og- ; den’s allegations were part of a republican plot to eipbarrass Demo-! cratic administrations injmltana. o— Workers Duplicate Injuries and Experience Toronto, Ont . —(UP)- Two men. bot-h working for the city waler works department, doing the same 1 job were injuied by the same piece o. piping, in the same place and ! were sent to the sam? hospital, at-

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