Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1932 — Page 6

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ATHLETICS ARE GREAT OUTFIT Chicago, Jan. 15. (U.R)—The dethroned world champion Philadelphia Athletics are not going to give up their American league title any easier than they did their laurels last fall. The Athletics' reign has to end Eventually but they are not entering the 1932 race with a brokengown machine which will be easily e-wept aside. Connie Mack seems to have a stronger team to start the coming Jenson than he did for the start of 1931 because of: 11 Stronger reserve strength. , . 21 Improved pitv.. '-. 3) Prospects of better shortstop Play. And as long as the A’s have three pitchers of the calibre of Grove. : Earnshaw and Walberg and two (Otters of the ilk of Simmons and Cochrane they will remain danger ous pennant contenders. The most important change in the I Athletics will be the replacement J of Joe Boley at shortstop by Young Bibrel Williams who has definitely crowded the veteran out of the pic- | ture. TWo other possible changes may see one of the young out Holders. Koger Cramer, Bob Johnson or Ed die Coleman, the latter two from Portland, replace Bing Miller, who will be 38 next August, in right 1 Held and Oscar Roettger from St. Paul replace Jimmy Foxx at first base. If Roetiger, who batted .357 in the American Association last season. should go to first. Foxx will be shifted to third, giving the A s an Infield composed of Roettger, Bishop. Williams and Foxx. Whether this change is made at first de-1 fiends largely on how Jimmy Dykes holds up at third. The Athletics' probable lineup follows: Batt. Av. 1931 First Base —Foxx .291 Second Base—Bishop .294

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I Third Base —Dykes .277 Short Stop - Williams .269 ' Lett Field —Simmons .390 i Center Field—Haas 323 Right Field Miller .281 I ; Catcher Cochrane .349 I With Roettger, McNair who bat-! ted .271 last season, and Boley as I infield reserves and Cramer. Johnson and Coleman as outfield re-1 serves Connie Mack has more capable replacements than he did last ! season. Coleman butted .358 last season, finishing second among Pacific Coa.U league batsmen! Johnson hatted .331. ' Grove, Earnshaw, Walberg and Mahaffey will carry the brunt of the pitching as they did last season, but the A’s are counting on Waite Hoyt, obtained in a trade last season from Detroit, and two !youngsters, Joe Bowman and Lewis! Krause to round out a stronger , pitching staff. Bowman won IS' land lost 11 for Portland last seas- ; on. After a year's seasoning i ; Krausse, who worked in only six games last season, is going to get , a chance at a regular job. . Last, year's records of the pitch- ; lets follow: Won Lost i Grove 31 4 i Earnshaw 21 7 : Walberg 20 12 Mahaffey 15 4 , Hoyt 13 13 I, liommell 7 5 it Bowman 18 11 ;; Krausse 1 0 | Mickey Cochrane, rated baseball's ! < greatest catcher, will be behind the ; I bat most of the time, with Heving| ( , second string receiver and Mad-;, jeski, a rookie from Harrisburg, I<. probably’ third-string. Q Basketball Scores - Indiana Colleges Western State (Michigan I, 37; Manchester, 26. Franklin, 27; Earlham. 21. State Normal, 22; Ball State. 21. ! FOR RENT —Six room modern house. 816 per month. Immediate possession. A month’s supply of coal free. Phone (io(> or 7871. 12t.‘i <

FIGHT PLANS ARE COMPLETE ! Chicago, Jan. 15. (U.R) — King 1 .evinsky, promising young Chicago heavyweight, and Paolino Uzcudun, I veteran basque from the Pyrenees mountains, will meet in the first [ ■major pugilistic battle of the new ! year at the Chicago stadium to-1 i night. The bout is scheduled for 10 . rounds and is expected to draw a | ! crowd of 16,000 and gate receipts of more than $40,000. Betting odds, which have fluctuated from Levinsky to Paolino to even money, favored Levinsky at 6 to 5 today. Levinsky, who recently’ defeated Tommy Loughran in New York, knocking him down I three times, may’ enter the ring at I 7-5 because most bettors favor the! ! home town product. Paolino has fought ■ most of the I leading heavyweights during the i past four years and never has been knocked off his feet. Levinsky’s host of supporters are confident that if anyone can floor the squatty basque it is the former Maxwell I street fish peddler. Levinsky’ has I a dangerous right hook. Negotiations were underway today to match the winner of to-1 right's bout with Jack Sharkey ini an outdoor match here in March. I Three light-heavyweight tourna- I melit bouts, each lb rounds, are on I tonight's program as follows: Dave I Maier, Milwaukee, vs. Abie IJain.. Newark; Baxter Calmes. Wichita, Kan., vs. Bob Olin, Newark; and I Charley Belanger, Canada, vs. Geo. I Nichols, Buffalo. In the 8-round opener Yale Okun, New York, w ill i meet Tony Cancela, Levinsky’s stablemate. AUCTIONEERS GET DIPLOMAS AT EXERCISE (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) R. E. Beck. Winston Salem. N. C. Sherman E. Argo. Wapella, 111. Robert Cleckner, Angola. Ind. R. W. Hartner. Redwood Falls, Minnesota. o— — «et the nablv -rs.-- «t

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Cloverleaf’s Win Game Decatur Cloverleaf basketball team journeyed to Leipsic, Ohio Thursday night and trimmed the 1 Leipsic Merchants by a score of 52-39. The game was fast and Decatur held a slight lead most of the , time. The Cloverleafs will be hosts to the Fort Wayne Hoosiers next Mon- ! day night at 8 o'clock at Decatur hleh school gymmnasium, it was I announced today. O T DP.SKgBAWIT I Tonight is an important one for I Decatur high school Yellow Jack- ! ets because it will show how much I the local basketball team has imI proved in the last two months, if I any. Our opinion is that Auburn will be beaten by a comfortable margin I —Auburn has a good team, however, and in' all probabilities will make a big effort to stay in the win column. At 4 o'clock this afternoon two teams, future Commodores and ! Yellow Jackets will be battling for ' the city championship at Catholic high school gym. Coach Ever- ! hart of Central will be trying to ' chase his boys through to a vicI lory which will cinch the city title. Coach Bob Wemhoff will be priming his St. Joe aggregation for a victory to even up the series. It will be the last Central name for Ralph Peterson, star Central guard, who goes to high school Monday. Dasketbawls today received the following letter: ’Dear Basket bawls: ‘‘Due to the fact that there will ho no second team tournament, we the undersigned members of the Kirklar.-J second team claim the Adams county championship. YVe beieve we have a just claim to this title because no Adams connI ty second team has beaten us. "The Kirkland second team has j won 11 games. Defeat came only when Borne was out of the lineup. We have scored 316 points to our opponents’ 179. If any team doubts that Kirkland is not county champs, see our coach. Bill Bryan, ■ about scheduling a game. “Layke Scherry, “Gareld Roth. "Harry Beavers. "Walter Levy, "Boyd Stepler. '"Meredith Sprunger. "Noah Borne, “Sale Stoneburner.” To which Basketbawls says | Amen. The Kirkland Whippets contin i ued their winning ways Wednesday night by trimming a fast Berne Athletic Club team at Kirki land 39-23. The game was not as! , close as expected and the Whippets were superior in all departments of the game. BEAT AUBURN. Tomorrow the Yellow Jackets I ro to Bluffton for the 4-team tourney. This Bluffton sports critic I or what have you. has a peculiar ! way of figuring things—from the i trend of his chattering he appar- . ently believes that Bluffton is at I least 20 points better than Dera | tur; 21 points better than Ken- ■ dallville and some better than I Auburn — AuMirn and Decatur . both have trounced the Suburbanites rather soundly. It’s a funny world—We’ll know; tonight tho’, just about what chance we’ll have to win the 4 team tourney tomorrow. BEAT AUBURN. Berne goes to Montpelier—The Bears have been in a bad slump — | but they have a good team and if they snap out of their bad ways—it will he a "too bad" night for the Montpfflier crew. BEAT AUBURN. Zeke Young is rather cocky about tonight’s contest — he believes his Auburn team is state ! championship material—but We’re from Missouri. BEAT AUBURN. The few unsold tickets for tonight’s game will go to the first callers at the gymnasium at 7 o’clock tonight—Better he there—' . it s going to be a great game. I — beat auburn. in 1695 the town of Eastham. i Mass., passed an ordinance requir-l | ing every unmarried man in the' I township to kill six blackbirds or; 1 three crows.

OXNAM STATES ■ JAPANISWEARY DePauw President Says ’ Nation Has Too Many U. S. Missionaries 'I Greencastle, Ind., Jan. 15. U.R) I —Japan is weary of Christian missionaries. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. president of Depauw University, Methodist school, believes. ; In an address before members ! of the Depauw faculty. Dr. Oxnam advocated that Japan be permitted to decide what missionaries shall remain there, and that the others be sent home. He quoted one Japianese native as saying, "we need the missionary but we don’t want ilhe ones we have now." Dr. Oxnam. who recently returned from a three months survey of conditions in Japan, indicated he was dissappointed with Christian schools. Many of them are inTer- ) , * lor to state schools, and in some eases leaders of Christian schools send their children, to state institutions, he said. "The old-style missionary," Dr. 1 Oxnam said. "wa,s a pioneer who 1 was willing to sacrifice even his ’ life in the cause. Today there is 1 a professional atmosphere in the : work. It is now a job, just like teaching.” He laid a portion of the respon- > sihility for the change on the JapI anese themselves. "They no long- • er are followers,’ he said. “They • have become leaders.” He pointed - out that approximately 9(1 per cent > of Japanese natives are literate. WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN BED 1 (CONTINUED FORM PaGE ONE; ■ 1 | Adolph of Kirkland township; John ' of Bluffton; and Fred at home; and i Mrs. Bertha Myers of Fort Wayne. Edward Smith is deceased. Three hrothe.s also survive; ‘ Ciist Neuenschwander of Pellston. Michigan and Peter and Godfrey Neuenschwander of Conway, Mich, i 1 A sister. Mrs. Godfrey Raui'h and ■ Fred and John Neuenschwande.’ are deceased. Funeral services will be held Sunday aiternoon at 1 o’clock at the 1 home and at 2 o’clock at the Vera Crou» Reformed Church, with the I v Me." jstroth officiating. Burial will be made in the St. Johns cemete y at Vera Cruz. COUNCIL NAMES EIC HEN BERG ER FOR VACANCY CONTINUED FROM I’AGE ONE) appropriation for conducting tlie tuberculosis cattle test in the county. This amount was request-! ed by the state veterinarian.] Other appropriations included 1 court reporter, $400; special judge $1200; circuit court expense S2OO. The council adjourned at noon and no date was set for another meeting. o ENTERTAINERS COMING HERE J .CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE; features of her program. She is also an entertaining reader. Miss Andrus is a real musician as well as an entertainer. She has a lyric soprano voice of fine quality, and is also a splendid violinist. 1 One of her most famous numbers is the Doll Song from the Tales of Hoffman which she sings in costume of a mechanical doll. This program promises to be very entertaining. Tickets may be secu.ed from members o. the senior i class or at the door. Tuesday evening. NINE MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY STORM VICTIMS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. but the 200 children were all safe at home at tlie time * (By United Press) Winter waS crowding spring off tlie weather map of North America today; claiming ten lives in a Tennessee tornado as it drove eastward. Midwest and Atlantic seaboard regions where flowers are blooming and record warmth has belied the season begun to whiten under snow. Clouds hid the sun and rain fell in manay places where boys went swimming and girls took sunAll In/ Intestinal poisons are sapping JL jour energy, steaUnrrour pep. making you ill. Take ffl g -NATUU’t MINUtT-the / safe, dependable, vegetable /TA hl IMI T laxative Keepa you feeling / TAb 4/f VcgefaAle Laxatiyr /*"' rha Qui<!lt * TUNS ror ”dind>ge«t>on and

S Tow fell in Los Angeles today for the first time in 20 years . was the firs' snow thousands ..1 I persons ever had seen, except on distant mountain peaks. The fall continued an hour. Ihf temperature was 38. Damage to i citrus groves was feared. Icy blasts swept down from an ad a where temperatures plunged as low as 38 degrees below zero. In ! Nebraska, mantled by two to eight » ' inches of snow, the mercury dropI ped to 18 below at Norfolk • The hold of spring-like weaihei i ■ on the eastern half of the nation; was relinquished grudgingly. Ati- '! Altoona, Pa„ where an 1 ! thermometer reading of DH b Hgrees in the sun was reported yes-■ I terday, farmers were doing spring. I I plowing today. ■ The death toll was recorded near 1 ! Trenton, Tenn., where a freak tor 1 ; nado killed nine members of on.- ! family and a neighbor’.’ child. . I — Hartford City Girl Holds “Office Boy” .lob Indianapolis Jan. 15 il I’l Am erican Legion National heaiiquaiielßkwas minus one of its best ‘Ol liHriibys." today, and a high school 1 gi i lost her fiance, all in one blow ’! "Dick ( batman." who for the | ’I pa.it nine months had rendered ex ' emplaiy service, resigned when ! friends rom Hartford City identiied * him" as "Elizabeth Chatman a girl of that city. 1 he Idow was most seve.e to the daughter of "Dick’s" landlady, who only a tew day •■ ago had announced , that she and “Dick’j were to be mar I ried "as soon as Dick gets a good , job somewhere." Legion officials and employe said they had no suspicions of the I true sex of the "office boy" Who ! posed as a 17 year old boy. but in ■ I 1 reality is a 28 year old girl. •‘'Dick” smoked an underslung 1 "Dawes style” pine nonchalantly. | and talked in a voice with no mo e ! squeaks, they thought, than might be expected of one of "his" years. "Dick " had professed to he from I Louisville. Ky. I'he location o Miss Chatman was mystery today. The former land I lady and her daughter said "Dick ' was n Fort Wayne. Hartford City ; f. tends believe she was hiding out in Indianapolis. She is the daughter of a former editor of the Hartford City News.

j— | I — | Announcing the Re-Opening OF THE NEW AND MODERN West End Restaurant Saturday, Jan. 16 VXeie ready and open for business! We take this meansol extending a cordial welcome to all our friends and customers to visit us and to call on us when «n need of anything we sell. V e promise a complete and efficient service at all times and will continue to feature the same high class merchandise as befoi e. | Light Lunches -Candy of all kinds A lull line of confections including Cloverleaf Tasty Ice Cream ICE CREAM CONES FRF.F we will serve a CHICKEN 1 "’ ’ aV ° nl> 25t Stop in and see us-You’ll like our Place WEST END RESTAURANT Gregg McFarland

RACKETEERS BUSY AGAIN Chicago Has A l-ea-ler To Succeed Capone; I olice Are Busy chlC ago, Jan. 1T- (U.R) Tttol ! red anew today to fight an atbletn ] | vulin g man who has stepped into 111,e gangster's place. ! This Unto the conflict cropped! ’out in the cleaners' and dyers con-, ~-oversf with the murder last ; v ,.cell by gang executioners of Benjamin Rosenher. ; Today found the "secret six. . < rime-fighting corps of the Assce , iation of Commerce, leaders of the, Illinois Manufacturers' Association, hhe state's attorney and police comJbined to fight the latest gang men-| I And it had revealed Murray | Humphreys, a calm-speaking, black !haired voung hoodlum with the, ! liui | d of an athlete, as Hie success-, or to "Scarface Al's" control of the rackets. ... ■ Tlie man who steps into Al s Ishoes will go out quick, was the underworld shop talk after Capone's conviction on chalge.s of in'come tax fraud. Tlie place was offered to Johnny; Torrio. who held it before Cairnne came to Chicago 11 years ago. Torrio . nt oack Io Long Island. I’ it Humphreys "took a chance, ]it was learned today, and assumed chieftancy of the band of gunmen. sluggers, bombers and extortionists that Capone had marshall!ed to corral millions of dollars fol ithe syndicate. Rosenberg's murder brought the war into open. He had stood his i ground when vandals poured acid over thousands of dollars worth of (clothing taken from his cleaning land dyeing establishment. He j complained to police. Therefore ; he was slain. Two west side hoodlums. Philip Mangano, brother of "Dago Lawrence," and Louis Clementi, still were sought as suspects. The story of the succession to (Capone's d. minance was told to a I nited Press reporter as follows:

“Murray Humphry J hooked up with T».<| v the North Side. When to take Al's shoes, to the loop ami sized U “ situation. Pll * "He found th.. n I rackets and gambling i n , • j Times were hard and I any money. Tin- i,„ Vs | were getting so,- ~a ihl(. 7! ,was so .small. They saW * {to have more douch ()r J** "Humphreys 1„.,k,,| a * 'knew big money had h-.., * terrorizing the el.-an,,,. jers. it's a ay “ I loess. He saw in I|)(1 * racket away to ~. a „ , ” {quick, and hold th- ?ai * ■ et ’ George (Red I Barker ' !ed-tough from th- valley nJ camo Humphreys right Barker was an old hand a", ling in on business groups Il>or unions. He was fonX head of the coal tej nistPrj , only when he was sent to k An ex-convict. Barker » a ,j as a man afraid of nothJ once walked into a croud# I hall while a meeting bj.i workers was in pi-ogr-m u ! nonneed: "Well, boys, this outfit la to me new. Kick in. if yd| I you'll get yours The racketeers also have-, ed in" on the linen supply j, and the sausage making t w .1 The present “enforcement! , lis said to he led by a ferae | ger man for Cap .me —v, |Gun" Jack McGnrii E’hil | , ano and Louis Cl-m-nli are| as members of his crew. The reappearance j n ciufew days ago of Georae , Moran, veteran enemy of Cm gave rise to reports he wsj tempt to get his shire in tv now that Capon- is in jail. Moran, fresh from the rag - ning racket along the 1 .border, appeared at a loop I and handed out cards anting ■ he was proprietoi of the i, ‘.Cleaners and Dyers. o Fliers Want Roads Maoi t Trenton, N. J ,U.R)-As a •'to aviators, the Slate Hgl I Commission has been aslta mark main routes with lettm v to 20 feet long The requmi II front Gill Robb W ilson sot rector of aviation.