Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1932 — Page 6

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BIG TIME FOR FOR FANS OF EXGOMMODORFS Games Tonight Expected To Be Best of Season; Is Final Wind-up Funs of tin* < '.oiiinmdores of by-gone (lavs will be given a real treat al I>. 11. S. gviiuittsitim this evening, when the ex-('.tun on wit ires elasli with those of 1 '.t.'tl-02. The players on both sides are kevett up with prosneets ol winning, anil a halt e royal is exnectetl. Ihe line-up lias not been tlefinilelv decided nn the ex-Commodore side. hut members from various teams of earlier days have volunteered tht'jf services, so that there is jjyary prospect of a real game. The prospective Commodore < are also in trim to do their stunts, ■in.) as it is the first time some of them are pla; ing a big game , they promise to show to the lied .if their ability. They are made up of the stuff that makes for ' Commodores, and the audience will be sure to enjoy their ser iousness of purpose and their en-j thuxiasm to tday the game tight. T|te Misses Catherine Seim- ' marker. Mildred Teeple. Thelma Cook, Lucile Miller. Mary .tune.' flpjgjpn. Mary Catherine Leonard, |' Jjeieii Barthel, Mary Liman. Al-1 vera Vian, Mary Margaret Keller. JJufceline Gage, Agnes Wolpert. Ifprothy Miller. Ruth Voglewede, 1 ail)J Rosemary Miller will repre- 1 sent the Lady Commodores and ■ start the bail a rolling at 6:39. i The entire series promises to be the best of the season. Commodore fans and friends of i the school ate cordially invited to ] attend this evening's wind-up of the 1931-1932 schedule. —— o j ; CHINESE BACK UP UNDER EIRE OF ARTILLERY — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE! ' military one/' lie said. "It was adopted only because of the exi-' gencies of the political situation[

P. Kirsch & Son t ANNOUNCE CHANGE IN LOCATION We wish to announce to the Motoring' Public that we have moved from our o d stand, corner Second and Jackson streets, to the Murphy & Hain building, Corner Monroe &. First Sts. We will continue to sell Hudson and Ehsex automobiles, Radios; Electric Washers. Electric Clocks and a ccmplete line of automobile pavts and accessories. We invite you to stop in and visit us in our new location. PHONE 335 ' i P. Kirsch & Son New Location Corner Monroe and First Streets.

r OFFICIALS NAMED Karl Blackburn, Domhir, unit Karl Fori Wttyn«» t will offlriaß* ui Hu* Fightli grtttlf* iiivitfiUonul tourney lo In* linn* Frblay uftfi iumiii amt 11iX111 nt I’lUlmlir bU'.li ' bool ! gym iucs in m. ♦ ♦ and presented no possibilities toi l .hi offeimfve since the Chinese I were loath to attack near the lnl-| .•rmilitn.nl settlenient. The line was parallel to the Whangpoo liver, which is domln-i ..led hv Japanese warships that; constantly kept us under heavy gunfltc. Although Chinese troops , were numerically ahpul as strong as the Japanese, actually only half' of them were effective due to the. lack of quick transportation and the necessity for scattering them'' to all threatened points. "The Japanese ha I good roads for their army tanks and artillery; and could have used the Yangtze valley to out lank us at w ill. Only I the lack of strategic perspective! induced tin Japanese to make nso-| less frontal attacks, causing hea/.vi casualties.” ' — o TWO OTHERS ARE KIDNAPED (CONTINUED PRoy i *OE ONV.# a brown waist and gray cap. Police immediately telephoned a 1 description of the car and the vie- j tim to neighboring towns who stationed patrols on the highways. — Des Moines, la.. Mar. 2. —(U.R) Ruth Bentley. 16, high school atu- j dent, who disappeared last night after leaving (lie home of a neighbor two doors away, wits kidnaped it was feared today. Her mother. Mrs. Ellen Evans, told police that a former roomer j had threatened vengeance when she asked him to leave her home. I The girl, clad lightly in a coat I and house slippers, left the homo j of the neighbors. Mrs. Sadie Hess, after making a telephone call, but : did not reach her ow n door step, j Mrs. Evans waited for an hour, i [then notified police. I o_ — Unwieldy -"Currency” In ancient Cyprus, cupper pots were useit f.H motley

NEW TEAM IN GRADE TOURNEY j St. Hyacinth eighth grade basket ! ‘Mill leant has I'eplaeed St. Andrews i in the fiiiir team invitational tour-1 noy to lie held at Lutholle high i : school gymnasium Friday iifiernnnn I [and ulglit. Iloli We.nhuff SI. Joe! 1 1 ii.icli and sponsor of the tourney ; : uuiliillllced today. | Ail mi ion to I li.- al'li i noon ses j | sion will he If, cent , and the same j I price will In- ohj ged :or the final ; game i Friday night. All four teams are evenly matched and indications an u 1.1 gumea ! will lio dose and inter sting. The lirsl game starts at 2 o'clock Frl- , day afternoon, with the second > game starling un hour late . Tae consolation game of the finI als will start at S: 10 o'clock and the i final for the four-team title will l start immediately after the eonsola- [ tion. o — ♦ a At the Training Camps By United Press ♦ ♦ Hy Lnite'd Press Clearwater. Fla.. Mar. 2—Hack Wilson, dynamic outfielder and erstwhile home-run monarch of the National league, donned hts undo, m as a Brooklyn Dodger for his first workout with the Flathush aggregation today. Ft. Myers. Flu., Mar. 2— l.efty Grove, former holdout who has entered the fold, will take his" first workout of the season today with the Philadelphia Athletics. I>efty signed yesterday, for the reputed sum of $30,000. Bradenton. Fla. Mar. 2—Frankie Frisch. Cardinals' second base-1 man. has quit the holdout ranks. | according to Sam Breadon, presi dent of the St. Louis club. Sam said Frisch has come to terms and will report Saturday. St. Petersburg. Fla., March 2— Tony Lazzeri, having agreed to terms with the New York Yankees will report at the end of the week. That will leave Babe Ruth the only Yankee holdout. Mineral Wells, Tex.. Mar. 2. The Chicago White Sox were scheduled to journey 300 miles southward today to Sail Antonio, their training camp. Manager Fonseca expressed himself as pleased with the early condition of his men. St. Petersburg, Fla., Mar. 2 Tlte Boston Braves are swinging along smoothly in spring training without a single holdout, a rarity

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY MARCH 2, 1982

• * LINEUP NAMED The Alumni lineup for the Commodore ex Commodore ha* kelhsil game tonight will he j elected from tile following: Altdy Appelmalt. Ed Vian, . Pete My lot I. Art Miller. Jerry Gage, Carl Kohtie, Boh Hum selilug. Dave Baker will ofl'lcla o, at least he will slut I lo officiate, j jl i j in this season of salary slashes. Los Angeles. Mar. 2 Melvin DM hit a home run with two on liases yesterday to provide a highlight In a practice game of the New York Giants. But McGrow's regulars lost to Bancroft’s loam. 7 to fi. Paso Robles, Calif., Mur. 2. The Pittsburgh Pirates'first practice game of the season is scheduled for tomorrow. Gus Suhr is slated to play first, Tony Piet second. Floyd Young short. Pie Trainer third. Hal Finny on the mound, and the Waiter brothers and Forest Jensen in the outfield. Avalon, Catalina Island. Mar. 2 Another practice game is scheduled for the Chicago Cubs tomorj row. In a seven inning practice i game between the regulars and the Yannigaps yesterday, the regulars slamnted out an 8 to 1 victory. Savanali, Ga., Mar. 2— Boston Red Sox pitchers and catchers went through their first workout yesterday. Tampa, Fla.. Mar. 2 — Cincinnati's Reds held a strictly routine three-hour practice yesterday, with eight pilchers taking turns on the mound during hatting drill. Wally Roettger. outfielder, was the only arrival. MISS MARTIN GIVES ADDRESS CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONF.) MUa lla Scott. Home economics teacher at Decatur high school, and the pupils of her beginning and Advanced sewing classes attended thy meeting. Miss Martin stated today that the Adar.s County Club leaders are starting with the second year project work. Officers elected At the morning session organization tor the year was held anil plans were made for the year's work. Mrs. E. W. Rusclie was r' elected county p esident; Mrs. Dale Mives was elected secretary-trea-surer; Mrs. Nettie Svphers of the! St. Marys township club was named vice chairman from the north: Mrs. Fred Blum of the \V. M. F. cln'i was named vice chaicman from ihc south, and Miss Ruth Schwartz wujj elected county nenv reporter. BIDDLE. MARTZ ARE SENTENCED CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) typewi iters from Monroe high school on February 20. They were identified by F. 11. fabler of Monroe as the men who I n-ld him up on February 1 ami look $34 in cash. They confessed lo this robbery, as well as robberies occurring in New Ilium and Ossian recently. Lyle Fennig, 23. Geneva young man,'who is being held in the Adams county jail after confessing the robbery of the Campbell filling station, smith of Decatur and the Geneva Milling company, implicated Biddle and Martz. Fen-! nig will be tried in hte Adams eir-j emit court. It is expected that three more men will be arrested soon, who are implicated in a number of the robberies committed by liiildle, Martz and Arnold. Peru. Mar. 2. —Norman Biddle. I 28. of 1207 Elm street. Fort j Wayne, has been sentenced to 31 to 10 years in the reformatory on a charge of second-degree burglary for having entered a filling station here the night of February 21. Biddle was sentenced by Judge Hurd J. Hurst of Miami circuit court, who chose the lesser of two charges placed against Biddle. The court ruled that the automobile banditry law, which carries a mandatory 10-year term, was not designed to apply to cases of this type Biddle is a brother of Charles Biddle. 36, one of the t.io which held up the Wertzberger confectionary in this city Fedfruary 23. He was tfTrested by Sheriff Burl Johnson of this city and Sheriff Fred Lunz of Allen county. Sheriff Johnson recovered the typewriters stolen from the Monroe high schcool at Peru. Tax Checks Mailed Indianapolis March 2 — (UP) — Cheeks totaling $1,201,288.21 were being mailed today from the state auditor’s o'fice to Indiana cities as their share of gasoline taxes for the past 13 months. Based on 1930 population figures, cities received the following amouwts: Bluffton $2,904.75; Decatur $2,951.70: Fort Wayne. $65,804.14; and Hartford City, $3,785.80.

» FAMOUS BABY IS QUIET TYRE 1 (CONTINUED FORM PAOK ONF.) j s-* -. ■** ** \ iirange juli e diet any change of nurses; till were duly recorded In Hie press lit greater detail Ilian ! if the youngster had been heir to I it throne. The greatest interest seemed lo I| he centered on the baby's first i flight. I The baby never has been 111 an i j airplane M "There would he no point lo !i 1 except to say Hint he had flown."| , | Lindbergh told A visitor. "It J would lie safe 'enough, hut he , i wouldn't In able to appreciate It y so soon." The visitor suggested Lindbergh probably would want to he th*', . one to teach Ills son to fly. just i . as he h id taii-'ht#ita wife. Maybe he'll want someone more' , up to dole by that time," the flier said, and chuckled. , Only a few friends, visitors at | , the Lindbergh home, were per J mined to see the baby because of j the purents' desire tn keep him: from public clamor. A / Herd who saw Charles. Jr.. . watch the antics of a Scotch Ter-I . rier puppy, described him as a I "happy, attractive child." > Relatives had gathered- at tlte i Morrow estate here in June, 1930, J ostensibly for Mrs. Lindbergh's i hit day. For months, however, i , the tabloid press had heralded the arrival of an heir. The estate was barred to newspaper and camera men. . "There's no escape from them.", i the gateman complained of Hie . news camera men. "They’re there, day and night. They are relieved every 12 hours. They take turns j sleeping in tile ears. '! wouldn’t ask you to believe * it. hut one of them allowed me j $2,000 in SSOO and SIOO hilts. He, I sjjd lie'll give it to me if I’d give! him a ‘scoop' on the baby.” But when the first pictures were received by the press it was the father, who had taken them himself. who furnished them. And because of the annoyance of cer | lain newspapers. Lindbergh did ■ not furnish them with pictures. Hawkers had prepare 1 in advance all sorts of novelties —postcards congratulating the parents, somrs and souvenir airplanes. Meanwhile the child slept peacefully far from the noise of the adulation of the multitude, ate liisj men's regularly, rode in his baby carriage about the Morrow esta'e. and lived as any normal child. The Lindberghs have made

■ —————M . . | THE WHIP I is in your hand I 1 W When our grandmothers went shopping they were pre- fl pared to match their wits against the shopkeeper’s. His H was the whiphand. Prices were anything the dealer had fl to pay, plus a profit. And his profits were as elastic as fl his necessity- or opportunity. fl Our grandmothers had a very fine knowledge of II woolens, cottons, si.ks. They used their eyes and fingers |9 in buying. They tasted and sniffed at foodstuffs. Our fl grandfather’s knew an intimate lot about woods, ve- II neers, stains. They knew leather's and machinery and jl cutlery. They had to. I » ill Today you can shop with assurance by designating I this brand of this and that brand of that, and hardly I bother to cheek the price on the bill when it comes. You S can send a twelve-year-old to market with a note and ■ never have a doubt of kind, quality or price—if you buy advertised goods. • Advertising has established standards, established values and established confidence. Advertising forces 1 fair dealing and honest merchandise. Tt puts the whip in your hand. • 0 i i Do vqu read the advertisements? Decatur Dally Democrat

| every es nrt to keep their son away i from the Influence of the unpnrul 1 le|e,l publicity that followed his father lie was a quiet child md at all i nervous, A visitor to the home | reported the follow In* Incident. •| noil I that the radio was | playing it rather loud orchestra coin position, unh I I4‘gan to wonder that II did not iiwnken the Pahv who whs sleeping upstairs, Ihe said "Bill they told me Char I |e* A Lindbergh. Jr., is not *• I nervous child. O KIDNAPING OR FAMOUS BABY RECALLS OTHERS (CONTINUED FROM CAGE ONHD notorious desperado, confessed the, 1 kidnaping. He was tried in Onm j i ha and acquitted. I-ater he became j 1 a lecturer ami reformer. 11l 1909. Willie Whit la. 8 year I | old son of a Sharon. Pu., attorney, | I was kidnaped. Payment of a $ in.nun ransom effected his return | Two abductions in 1927 attract , el nation wide attention. In February 4-year-old Billy i ! Gaffney was kidnaped from his I I home In Brooklyn. He lias nev-r been reported since On Dee. 15, 12-year-old Marian! , Parker, daughter of a Los Angeles j banker, was abducted. The fath-i ,cd pa il a $1,590 ransom to The ' Fox" and received in return the mutilate)! body of his daughter. . Several days later William i Hickman was arrested in Pendleton. Ore., and confessed the Park|er kidnaping and murder. He was executed tit San Quentin. Grace Rudd. 10. disappeared June 3. 1928. after leaving her Greenwich Village, New York, j home with a man known as • "Frank Howard." She never has ! been found. A'diictlon* and criminal attacks Involving children have been 1 numerous in the last four years. CONGRESS MAY PASS DRASTIC KIDNAP LAWS ! (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) said Harbour. “I want to express the hope that this shocking occurrence will enable the immediate; passage of this or any other meas-, tire to punish kidnapers." Rep. Cochran. Dem . Mo., told the house he was very glad Presi-' dent Hoover had acted, adding, "if Imy hill had been law it would not have ls-en necessary for the Presi-i

dent to act." Segfr llrose when the house cult- , vetted, saying that "the country and the world i* deeply shocked hy I the kidnaping of Ihe sou of Colonel . Lindbergh "I can think of no crime Him , iiir- at the heart strings or par , cuts or cause* more anguish than . this uiieg tie said. . "| appeal to you as a parent and grandfather to I**** these hills promptly." i Soger, wlm explained he was a neighbor of the lute Senator Mor low. New Jersey, grandfather of the Lindbergh baby, praised President Hoover who, lie said, called upon Hie justice department to ai t 1 In Ihe ease. o — - Service Is Hampered La port e. liul Mar. 2. (U.R) 1 Electric and communication lines jin many parls of Laporte county i were broken hy lons of ice sheath ,|ing on ihe wires. The town of Westerville was without electric service. | Extra gangs were rushed to the •task of restoring communication and utility lines. Get the Habit — Tradj at Home

MOVED! We have moved from our nldH location, in the rear of the Kirsch & Son Salesroom, Second and Jackson street, tu uurH new location. ■ in the icar of Ihe Murphv & Hain |B Bnlldinc Coiner Monroe & First Sts. ■ _■! We are again ready for husineviH j! and invite all car owners to ralfl at our new establishment when I in need of auto repairing". H Kern Garage! ■HHaaßannnHaßnawiMHnl

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