Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1932 — Page 6

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BRAVES HIT SUDDEN SLUMP New York. May 7 (UR) ">lHam H. McKeehnle would like to take a train right out of Cincinnati I but lie and his Boston Braves are stuck there for two more games. He is convinced Cincinnati is] the most Inhospitable city in the country for New England visitors, after watching the Rods topple his warriors from the National league lead yesterday with a 14 to 1 score. A targe ladies-day crowd enjoyed tie Braves discomfiture as the Reds -Itiade it two straight. Red Lttcas. .limited the Bostonians to four Mts. while his teammates' garnered 16 off Cantwell. Cun-' ningham and Sherdel. Gilliert led j the Reds' attack with three hits, and three runs in four times at; bat. The Braves' downfall was enjoyed also by another western city, Chicago, where the Cubs clantlpred onto the top rung vacated by Boston, after downing Max Carey's Brooklyn team. 3 to 1 Hack Wilson, a former Cub. forgot he was playing with Brooklyn and. contributed to Chicago's victory.' by hitting into a double play with! the bases loaded in the sixth and | by missing an easy fly in the eighth. A homer by Lefty O'Donl In the fourth prevented Guy Bush from registering a shutout. A t wo-run rally in the ninth gave the Philadelphia Phillies a 4 to 2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pir-[ ates. The New York Giants showed ) old-time fighting spirit by taking a game away from the champion St. Louis Cardinals. 4 to 3. The Giants scored two runs in the ■ sixth to take the game. A per-; feet throw from Mel Olt in rightfield to Catcher O'Farrell in the, ninth to nab Wilson, prevented the tying run. In the American league, the! Boston Red Sox lost their second' straight game. 6 to 5, to the St.'. Louis Browns, chalking up their. fifteenth defeat in IS starts Fred i Schultz homered for St. Louis in the seventh with one on. to clinch Hie game. New York's Yankees climbed to second place by shutting out Detroit. 1 to 0. George Pipgras liml * ited the Tigers to five hits, while' Earl Whitehill. Detroit's veteran I southpaw. yielded 7. Detroit dropped to third place. Cleveland dropped to fourtli; position by losing 5 to 2 to the, Philadelphia Athletics. Leroy Ma-, haffey allowed the Indians only 5 hits. All the A's runs were driven by Al Simmons, who doubled twice for the As, and Rog Cram- I er, who hit a single and a triple. | Breaking a 6-game losing streak, i the Chicago White Sox defeated the leading Washington Senators 5 to 3. Tim Senators outhit Chicago. 9 7. but were unable to' I imeh them. Yesterday's Hero: Mel Ott. who made a perfect throw from far ; right field to the plate in th» I ninth to put Wilson out as he w as | coming home with the tying run. | saving the game for the Giants. — o Miss Erma Singleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Singleton, for- , mer residents of Decatur, will I broadcast over radio station WOWO I in Fort Wayne. Monday afternoon I at 2:05 o'clock, IDST). Miss Single ' ton will sing two vocal numbers. .... _ yiw,; There’s Double Pleasure in this MOTHER’S DAY PACKAGE DON'T depend on any casual remembrance, when there's such a perfect, personal and thoughtfully prepared gift as this. Richly designed. And packed with delicious chocolates. See it today! Order it delivered anywhere. B. J. Smith Drug Co. 157 North Second St. Phone 82.

Minister Will Enter 500-Mile Auto ( lassie Indianapolis Ind.. May 7 —A new ; I kind of dr. ult rider with a new, kind of speed will be seen when, the start.ng flag falls for the Inter- I I national alMemJle race here at the: ! ludian'ipoli Motor Speedway on] : May 30. He Frankie Farmer. philade! I phia, who started out to be a min’s- I : ter and is u w making another chai- , lenge for the most preciou- crown j •in ou most spectacular sport, auto-1 mobile racing. Orphined at the age of three. Farmer to-k a keen Interest, in tire I Bible as s on as he could read. At the age of fifteen a Wheeling do.to. sent him to the Nas.ivll’.c -Bible school to start his studies for the l ministry. When the United States entered I j the World War. Farmer, too young i I t enlist, forsook his career in til-* , cloth and went to work in a ship- ! yard. The war over and jobs vci’-ce I i he tuned to speed fi r a livelihood and raced motorcycles at country I fairf-. It was but a sh rt step to ; the dirt tra.k and soon he became the popular her.) about the Lang-' borne Speedway outside of l*hila I i delphi-j. * He crashed in his first attempt and almost went to the Valhalla of I 1 go. d racing drivers in May 1926 on | I his favorite track. Belying preda , jtions. he came back the next year; to set a mile track record and in I 1930 set a new 10>Mnile record over ' the U.nghorne strip, tompleting j , the distance in 69 minutes 53.50 i seconds. Bob Ca"ey rt cently estab- | Jished a new record f r the distance, i Although he can smoke a car I ' a ound the curves as well as any ; toy-notch pilot, the Philadelphia! hoy's early training still keeps him ! on the straight and narrow and he: : has an enviable reputation among his fell w drivers. Genial amt I i cheerful about the garage and the j j pits, he takes the track with the i I grim, fatalistic mein of a sWjsh-! I ticking, driving veteran. And he I knows his nuts and bolts just as , I thoroughly as he knows his psalms,. I Forced out early last year witii ' motor trouble. Farmer will be back ' cn Decoration Day with a better , mount and the determination to ■ 1 s i ,w tint a bible student can be-j j come a top-notch racing drive: . JIMMIE FOXX LEADS BATTERS New York. May 7. —(U.R) —Jimmy , Foxx, first baseman of the Philadelphia Athletics, lias gone tyack into the American league batting leadership with an average of .438. whereas Lou Gehrig, New York , Yankees' first baseman. who led tile i league last week, has onlv .377. Hu. i t’ritz. second baseman of the New York Giants, continues to hold the National league's batting (leadership with a mark of .427. I Third baseman Whitney with tjie Philadelphia Phillies is runner-up with .397. George Watkins of the | St. Louis Cardinals, last week's runI ner-up. has slipped to seventh I place with .360. Critz has rapped out the most hits, 32. Although in eleventh | place in the American league battlir.g averages. Dick Porter, Cleve|land outfielder, leads the league in (number of hits. 30. Foxx has 28. Bill Terry of the New Y'ork I Giants leads the National circuit in runs batted in. 20. and also leads With home runs. 7. Charley Geli- ! ringer of Detroit and Earl Averill lof Cleveland le,d the American league witii 23 runs batted in for each. Babe Ruth, who has dropped to 11th place in batting percentage, is tied with Foxx for home runs at 6 each. Ben Chapman of the New York Yankees and Paul Aner of the Pittsburgh Pirates are tied for the I base theft lead with five stolen j bases each. They lead their re|spective leagues. Monte Weaver of the WashingI ton Senators leads the American | league pitchers with tour victories and no defeats. Lonnie Warneke of the Chicago Cubs heads the National hurlers with a similar four victories and no defeats. The two New York entrants continue to lead in club batting. The Yankees are hitting .225 and the ' Giants .290. American league fielding honors are held by the Washington Senators with a mark of .981, while Boston has the best fielding ’mark 'in the National, 971. o THE BIG FIVE By United Press Babe Ruth singled in three times at bat. Lou Gehrig doubled to score in four times at bat. Al Simmons doubled twice in four times at bat to score twice and drive in two runs. Hack Wilson went hitless ir four times at bat to drive in on< run and score once. L O ! Trv our Special Slindai | i Dinner. 50c, Eats Restaurant ■ I

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GEN.CROWDER I EXPIRES TOMI (’apturer of Sitting Bull Dies After Career Os Fighting Washington. May 7 (U.R) Major General Enoch H. Crowder, died ■ in Walter Reed hospital here to- ! day. Ills death ended a career which ! extended from the capture of Sitting Bull in the days of Indian ; wars to the administration of tho ; selective service act during the' i World war. General Crowder was’ 73 years j of age. He was taken ill several weeks ngo while in Havana and was brought to the Walter Reed hos- ! pital here for care by army phy-' | sfeians. He entered the hospital i February 19. For a time lie seem-| i ed slightly better but a complica- . tion of troubles was too great for: ' the soldier's constitution to overI come. He died at 4:34 a. m today. Two sisters of the general were, with him when he died. ft 1 expected that Generali Crowd r would be buried in Arling-; ■ ton national >enietery. - and Mrs. W. A. Klepper atlended the funeral of Walter E. i Terry at Cleveland. Ohio, today. W. J. Krick of Van Wert. Ohio, was a visitor here Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper and j family will attend the special Moth-! ■ er's Day festivities at Purdue Uni- ' versity. Sunday. Their son. M 11iliam. is a student at the university j and a member of the Sigma Alpha : Epsilom fraternity. Betty Stults, 5 year old daughI ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Stults. I ! of 74s Mercer avenue, was bit on! I the left cheek by a dog which she| ’ was petting. Friday noon. A phy- > sii ian was summoned and it re-, I quired three stitches to close the; wound. She is getting along all right today, and unless complica-1 i tions result the injury will not; I prove serious. M-'ss Leqh Colter of Kendallville i is spending the week-end in this I city with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Colter and family. Her parents. Mr and , Mrs. Charles Colter will arrive in! i this city Sunday to spend the day. W. A. Sutt n of South Bend vis- ! ited his pa ents. Judge and Mrs. J. ; !c. Sutton here today' Mr. and ' '•ir-. Sutton will return with him ! I this evening for an over Sunday! | visit at South Bend. H >wa d Wisehaupt of Cleveland. Ohio, stopped here t .lay for a visit • with his father, en route to Chi-| Henry Dirkson of Root township was a calle here today. Pol’tics was plentiful t, day. com-1 ' I melees from both parties meeting ! I here to org'mize. Paul Scott, Wells county auditor I | and Victor Sharp, former Wells , County cis k. visited in this 1 city i today. Mr-. Howard Brumley of Chicago I , is spending the month of May in i I this city witii her parents. Mr. and | , Mrs. H. N. Shroll. Edga Gerber of Fort Wayne vis- . ‘ ited in this city t day. Mr. and M s. William Ya .or of ir ute 2. De atur. were visitors in ■ | this city today. I ira Fuhrman made x business trip ; • to Fort Wayne today. .! Ms. Je-sie Burdg and sop Dick II returned Friday evening from a , 1 several day's trip, visiting at Tole•!d . 0., Erie and Pittsburg, Pa. I The Misses Victoria Mills and . Ruth Adams, teachers in the Roch- > ester --.hoois, are spending the week-end with relatives in this t city. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Peterson and . Mr. and M s. George Flanders moi tored to Cincinnati, Ohio., to spend j . the week-end. The group of county 4-H Club ' . winners have returned from laifay-1 i ette where they attended the an- , nual Round Up a't Purdue Univer- ? sity. ■ -o * r Ex-Official Expires - » Indianapolis, M'ay 7--(UP) - Ser- ? vices will be held here Monday for] Henry Harmon Friedl/. 82. former s state fire marshal. wn„ died at Frankfort, Ind., cf injuries suffer-1 s ed in a fall while inspecting a thea- i t ter. Friedly, who formerly Was a school teacher at Blooming o.a and n lawyer at Bedford, was prominent in state insurance ci.cles. o 8 Vets’ Widows to Get Cottages n j I Charlotte, Mich. — (UP)— Addiu ti nal cottages to shelte" the wid e ows and children of ex-service men will be erected near the Veterans of n Foreign Wars' National Home, near , e Eaton Rapids. Robert F. Woodside, Home president, has announced. I Woodside said there are 12 widows y and 125 childien living in cottages i. there.

Americans Best in PoleAault | - Bv HARDIN RURNLFA —

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wjryHEN America stacks up WTt against the field in the ’ ’ coming Olympic Games at Los Angeles, the Stars and Stripes i may not wave above the massed athletes competing in distance and middle distance runs. No matter what marks our runners i may have made in practice sessions ' and trials, there is always a feel- ! -ng of inferiority with the appearance on the scene of the lean | stoics of Finland. But in the spectacular and im- I portant department of pole-vault-ing, one of the most colorful events in the Olympiad, America excels. Nowhere in any other land have athletes caught the knack. In the pole vault, the American boys will slay ’em again, as usual. Ever since the revival of the games in 1896. this event has gone to Uncle Sam—with one exception. In 1906, a French whiz named Goudet got handily over the bar. but at that time all foreign com-

KIDNAPED MAN (JAINS FREEDOM CONTINUE! 'ROM PAGE ONEwished to eat and outside of the discomfort of the handcuffs 1 suffered no harm.” The original demand of the kidnapers was tor 150,000 but in later ommnnir-atfons it was believed reduced to about HO.OoO. Police were reluctant to comment on the allduction but both officers and representatives of the Chicago Secret Six have been working closely with the family to obtain the youth s release. Max Miller, father of Gustav, is prominent in business here and owner of a chain of grocery ami | malt stores. o SAYS SYSTEM IS APPROVED 'CONTINUED FROM ''NF- , times when it was necessary for ! me to use from three to seven or j eight clerks. I will spend the | equivalent of Mrs. Manlove’s salI ary on the average on extra clerks. ' In some years I spend more." Rep. Manlove said he had three I regular employes In his office now , I besides his wife and he was | obliged to have two or three oth- ; ers to work at night occasionally. Asked what required so much’ office work when many congressmen manage to exist with one or two clerks on active duty. Manlove said he encouraged correspondence with his district. Many members continue the , employment of wives, children, in-; i laws, or political workers despite I j state laws against nepotism. A, I congressman is regarded as a fed--1 eral officer and is paid from j federal Instead of state funds so I that legally they are under no compulsion to observe state laws in this respect. For instance, Utah enacted a lav; a year ago against employ-

petition folded up. Through the time of Hoyt, Baxter, Dvorak, Gilbert and Cook, Babcock, Foss, Barnes, Graham and Carr —up to i our present day Lee Barnes, Fred Sturdy. Barney Berlinger, Bill Graber and many others of Eke calibre, the Stars and Stripes have dominated this field. The record, gxt this writing, stands at 14 feet. l*g inches, held by la>e Barnes, of Fresno, Calii fornia. There are at least six pole vaultI ers in the United States who can do better than 13 feet 6 inches, and most of these fellows can do about 14 feet when pressed. The best pole vaulter in any other land is Lindroth of Finland, who has gone over the bar at 13 feet, 314 inches in official competition. Next in rank is Wegener of Germany, who has done 13 feet, 3 inches. Third stands Nishida of Japan, whdse best mark is 13 feet. 1 ’j inches. The modern pioneer of pole

ment of relatives by state officials. I Yet th rep of the four members Os the Utah delegation continue to; employ relatives on the congressional payroll. Senator Reed Smoot, who formerly had at least two members of his family on thei payroll, claims to have none. One reason advanced by those who insist on employing relatives is that unquestioned loyajty is ] essential in a congressman's office.; fie must let his secretary hand'e much of the correspondence with his district. The story is told of a disloyal se- ret ary who trapped, a southern 1 i congressman by writing a letter 1 which the congressman signed 1 without reading. The letter waSJ . sent to a negro of the district in- ! I citing him to visit the renresenfa- 1 i five's home and have dinner on 1 I Ids next trip to Washington. Pul*--j lication of this letter resulted in! ■ defeat of the congressman in the' i next election. o MEANS IS HELD AT WASHINGTON (CONTINUED FROM PAGE CNEed from Moans' cell. The order went out after reporters had visited the affable, often-indicted and | t vice-imprisoned sleuth and found him still smiling his cherubic s> ile and still denying the charge of "larceny after trust" on which i he was arrested. Moans struck to his story that after Mrs. McLean demanded return of the money, he handed it over to a stranger who whispered i “eleven" in his ear. I "Eleven" was a secret designa-i ; ficn which Means gave to Mrs. Mej Lean. “Twenty-seven" was hisj i own number in the fantastic pro-! ! ceedings which led Mrs. McLean II on futile trips to Aiken. S. ('.. and > Fl Paso Tex., and failed to effect >i the return of the baby despite! ( Means' constant promises. i Asked if he knew where the; 11 Lindbergh child was now. Means' lifted his forefinger and said in

• - vaulting, of course, was Salm ■. Carr. This great Yale • athleti . matriculated at old Eli at a tim< i when it was considered an ab.-o I lute physical impossiblity for an I , man to lift himself over a ba- : i more than 13 feet and a half frorr ■ ' the ground. Carr, all by himself, raised thi.level to fourteen feet, and latei [ added another inch. The fact that I his mark has since been exceeded detracts none of the glory from Carr’s achievements. He went out ami showed the world that “physt 1 cal impossibilities" should not b- ' taken for granted ' It will be interesting to watch the effect of tho new type of pole ' recently introduced for use in this ■ event Many times the old type of I pole broke while tho athlete was in mid-air The new pole, it is ' claimed, will not break. If this . new security has a beneficial psychological effect. as seems ■ likely, what new marks are in prospect ’ ‘ I CopnKSt IMS Sins K-i:ue- Svmtlrale. inr.

is best detective manner, “that's confidential.” Whether Means, who once told a senate committee that "being it dieted" was his business, will laIndicted in this ease will be seen Tuesday when fc grand jury reports. — o RADIC ALS HURT DURING RIOTj (ONTfN- cl) !•"<' V I’M E ONE I T . t'on by police and arrest of four children for distributing r.tdical literature. Melrose' Park, where the disturbance occurred is an industrial suburb about 12 miles west of the city. The population of 10.000 Is largely foreign. LEGIONNAIRES PLAN REUNION IN THIS CITY ! -iONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ! Angola. A meeting of local legionnaires win be held Monday evening w.th Mr. Holthouse at which chairmen and committees for the day’s event will be named and plans made to make the meeting one of the outstanding Legion gatherings In Indiana this year. —. o * Town Greets First Train Sweet Hame, Ore. —(UP) —This town, up in the Cascadias, now j boasts freight and passenger train j service. Every one of the town's I 200 citizens celebrated the arrival of the first train recently. It was ! a 25-car special. A band played. (Schorls were dismissed. Chamber lof Commerce’ offirfils welcomed visitors.. Town officials spoke. o Miss Elizabeth Leyse. Adams ; County teacher, will leave Sunday for To re Haute where she will attend school at Indiana State Teacher's college during the summer | term.

LEGISLATIVE ROLL CHANGES — Sixteen House Members i Defeated In Efforts To Return To Power Indianapolis. May 7 (U.R) Six- ! teen of the 61 nu-inbers of the I house of representative:) who | .-ought renomination this week to : the 1933 legislature failed to gain i tin support of their constituents. 1 iicconling to a United Press sur- | vey of «ile< tion returns. Os the 45 who gained renomlna- | tion, 16 were unopposed. In the senate, 16 sought renomi- ' nation. Eight were defeated and i five of the successful senators had ! no opposition. I'ive members of the 1931 house ‘of representatives obtained nomination to the senate and four representatives unsuccessfully sought senatorial nominations. Four women sought nominaI tions to the senate, the survey showed, and only one was successful. She was Lettie M Ferguson. Fort Wayne. Eleven women sought nomination to the house of representatives but only three were successful. They were: Bess Robb'ns, Indianapolis; Florence B. Smith. Avilla: and Bertha Zimmerman. Terre Haute. Among th)' unsuccessful candi dates for renomination were Byron Huff. ' | rtinsviile. member of the budget committee; J. Cldye Hoffman. Indianapolis, member of the stale tax survey commission, ami Earl Rowley. IgiPorte, who was regaided as an administration spokesman in the 1931 senate. Included among the successful aspirants was James J. Nejdl Whiting, proponent of old age pension measures and oldest mem ber in the senate in point of ser vice, airl Alonziv Lindley, King man, farm leader in the senate.

Seeks G. A. R. Post Indianapolis. May 7 (U.R) G. A. R. post commanders in tlie state i have received a circular letter I from James Bowden, Muncie, announcing his candidacy for state' commander. The election will be] he'd at the annual G. A. R. encampment at Richmond. Ind., the week of June 19. Bowden sets out liis Ctvil war, record as follows: "I served in the Eleventh Mounted Infantry when I was Ini '4 'ears old. and fought in the Civil war at 15. "I had six older brothers in the Civil war beside myself fighting against every relation we had —i Ithey were all slave holders in the rebel army. | “I am opposed to the moving of >ur headquarters from the statelioi'se, also I am opposed to any tempering witii bur state organization which might be the ruin of it.” HOOVER GETS APPROVAL OF MANY PEOPLE iCIINTINUED FORM PAGE ONIO troversy was not "between the President and congress or its members." “It is an issue," he said, “to the people against delays and destructive legislation which impairs the credit of the United States. It is also an issue between the peop'e and the locust swarm of lobbyists j who haunt the halls of congress seeking selfish privilege for special groups.” The incisive wording of his state- - ment wms emphasized by the manner in which he read it to reporters. He emphasized his statements with vigorous shakes of his heal, and in fighting m<lod declared: “What is urgently required is immediate action upon and conclusion of these questions. This is a serious hour which demands that all elements of the government and the people rise with stern courage above partisanship to meet the needs of our national life.” The President had looked for attacks on him by Democratic members of congress, and the reaction there was discounted at the executive mansion as less important than the reaction of the people themselves. Senator McKellar. Dem., Tenn., originator of the senate plan to cut al! approriation bills by 10 per cent, immediately replied to the

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