Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1932 — Page 6
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YANKS BEATEN IN TWO GAMES New York. Miiy 20.- (U.R) Walter Johnson's claims that this year's Washington Senators are tje finest baseball team in the histuiy of tlie Capital City were al>y ifbpporled by ills chib yesterday when they took both ends <of a ijcaible-heiider from the high-power-<sl New York 'Yankees. After losing four straight games tn their hoodoo outfit from St. bonis, the Senators came to New fltrk and displayed brilliant form by nosing out the Yankees. S to 6, tn the first game after a 10-inning struggle, and walking away with the nightcap. 12 to 7. This double victory halted the Yanks’ winning streak of nine games and boosted Washington to within four points of New York's lead. —Nearly 50.000 spectators at Yan’4f?e stadium saw the Senators win In the second contest, the Yanks got off to a flying start, thanks to Uotne runs by Ikibe Ruth and Bill Rickey. In the first 'inning Babe Ituth drove the ball into the right field bleachers for his second home rUn in two days and bis eighth for
SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY Matinee Sunday. 2 I’. M. Evening. 6:30 10c -35 c A LOVE STORY THAT FIRES DRAMA WITH THE HUMAN SPARK “LOST SQUADRON” Not an air show—But an AIR SHOW IN THE MAKING—Planes Crashing. Zooming. Plunging. Looping. Men dared Death to make its thrills. Monarchs of the sky helped make this Whirling Hippodrome of action in the air. Cast includes—■w • I s f* • Marv Astor, Joel McCrea. Rschara Oix Eru " M ADDED — COMEDY - NEWS - CARTOO r N - - Tonight - - - Saturday - IBEBE DANIELS and Warren HOOT GIBSON, champion Williams in a new kind of of the West, in diama “THE LOCAL BAD \t AN” “HONOR OF THE Action thrills. by FAMILY" Peter B. Kyne. i Also-Comedy and News. Matinee Saturday 2:30 10c* 15c ' 10c* 25c I BELL’S CASH GROCERY 1 149 N. 2nd st. Phone 292 Free Deihery—l tir. es daily—B. .C. 2 and I o’clock BANANAS, 4 pounds l7c THORO BREAD FLOUR 24 pound sack LEMONS, SunKist, dozen . 25 & 30c NEW POTATOES, pound 5c HEAD LETTUCE, 6's, per head. .. OLEO, Allsweet, pound 10c CORN. Stoop Os Ohio Select Seed | Pride. I cans . . ZamC Potatoes, bushel vl Cream of QI I RESH SPINACH ” Wheat, pkg. ... 1 V pound MV Swansdown T*/2f* package ZOC each . .... <«<» 23c <“Z 0r .37c “ ,b ; CHEESE i r Applebutter IQ pound LdC uar{ -» ar Ai/V PO p CORN SORGHUM 5 Its ZOC Genuine, gal. ..Udi TEA. Fancy QQ ■ FIG BARS lAp Imperial, tb. ...Ovv h pound Ivt Syrup. Crystal QQ | IHIPSO Qi White, | 2 gal. large pkg ZtfJLU MUSTARD lA/» n REX, Water 1Q. 4 Pint jar ivt ■ Softener. Ig.pkg. Lt/C PRUNE large 1 Corn Flakes 1 PLUMS can lOv large pkgA VC 3 - 1000 Sheet Rolls Pineapple IP Toilet IQ large cans FtlL Paper Lvv ■ Candy Beans. Kisses. Orange Slices, 1 Az» Raspberry Drops, Chocolate Drops, Choice. Ih.lvL One pound Chef Coffee, and 6 Cup Dripo Q(L, 25c pkg. Big 4 Soap Flakes and 4 (A 1 bar Big 4 Soap A VC
I the season. scoring Lyn Lin y ahead lot him. West humored for Wash-1 inglon in the third inning. j Jimmy Foxx drove out his 11th homer. accounting for four runs in I the first inning and permitting his t’liil ide phia Athletic team mates to coast to a t-to-2 victory over Boston’s Real Sox. No other games were scheduled In tlie American league. The Brooklyn Robins droppeat to seventh place iii tlie National dr.'cult by losing. 3 to 2. to the tall- ; end Pittsburgh Pirated. The idle New York (Hants replaced Brook- . lyn in sixth position. Pittsburgh ( cored two runs in tlie eighth in- | ning to take the game. i Burleigh Grimes, veteran spitbailer hui'ler, went the route ot 12 i innings for Chicago as the Cubs > , ncsed out the Cincinnati Reds. 4 • to 3. giving Chicago a firmer grip - . on first place. ■! No other games were scheduled, i i! i Yesterdays hero: Jimmy Foxx. I | who drove in all of the Phi ade - l ■ phia Athletics four runs with a a homer in tlie first inning to give i . them victory over Boston. . —o I Mrs. Lew Keller was removed : from the Adams County Memorial Hospital this afternoon to the home < ■ if her sister, Mi- McCrory on i ■! Monroe st eet.
DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY. MAY 20. 1932.
TEAM ISSUES FIRST CALL Boys who wish to play on the Rotdry bastdiull team In the Deiatu; Junior Lotgue. which will . pen the I season next month, are reqtle led to J meet a’ t u« now Adams street Jia-’ mond at ten o’cloi k Saturday morning for legistratl n and practice. Dick Fugle, former star o.i the Decatur high school 'basketball teams, wih net us coach of the Rota y tuim. He. man Ojilor and Glen Beavers ' are managers f the teana Other teams in the Junior League which is sponsored by Adams Post of tin- American Le. Hon are the 1 Lions. A.neri.an Legion and Mo sei teams. The other teams have been organ- I ized and ofticiils of the league ■ stated that the season would pen I soon after the closing of the ' schools. Berne may also enter the league I and decist a is expected following | tile dose ot sell id. The league has been in ope ation in this city for the past two years and last yea the l district seiies was played in De.a-1 tur. THE BIG FIVE By I'nited Press. Babe Ruth singled amt got his | eighth homer, accounting for five | runs, in ip times at bat. lou G hrig got five singles, ac-| com tig : | three runs, in 11 time.-, at bat. Al'Simmons singled, accounting for one run. in three times at bat. Hack Wilson singled, accounting tor one run. in four times at bat. Bill Terry was idle. Oldfield Is Manager
Indianapois. Ind. May 20- Harney Oldfield, whose name has been the byw rd of speed for many years, has arrived here t . select a driver I ind manage Harry A. Miller's latest rontiibution to automobile racing, t ie lour w heel drive car entered in i the annual 500-mile race here May I 30. Promising lietter traction n al slippery-4 ack and superior acceleration. a distribution of maximum I stress on tires, more safety as increased speed in the turns and the eliminati n of wheel spinning ten-1 den.ies, the new Miller creltion has been a sembled hi the Ix>s Angeles plant and is en route by truck to Indianapolis. Oldfield who pionee.ed in the front wheel racing car is particula - I ly interested in the performane c-f I the car in the Decoration Day race, because, with Miller, he plans to i use the four w. eel drive principle • in the p oposed const action of al huge car which Oldfield h >pes to drive at D ytona Beach next Feb- ' ruary in an effort to bring the world's straightaway aut ’mobile record back to America. "1 want to get a good boy back f t.ie wheel." Oldfield said upon I his ar.ival because I fi.mly believe that thjs new four wheel drive job f Harry’s is capable of winning the next Indianapolis 500 tnile ra.el record time." Miller has designed many successful race job- but I sincerely believe that this is his masterpiece and. properly d.iven, should sb w the way home to t.ie othe car- in the race . Although the principle has been , One Adult, 25c; Two Adults, 35c. Children, 10c, Tonight THE ADAMS j SUN., MON.. TUES. 'V JOHH BARRYMORE II -s the Beau Brummel thief — LIONEL BARRYMORE as the bulldog of the police in Arsene Lupin 1 he Barrymores toge t her on the screen for the first time! An event in • any season! with KAREN MORLEY JOHN MIIJAN Added - - Laurel and Hardy Comedy and Sport Subject. TONIGHT and SATURDAY—“THE STOWAWAY 1 ' with Fay Wray, Leon Waycoff, Men ague Love, Lee Moran, and Roscoe Karns. The Thriller of the High Seas. Added-Rin Tin-Tin in the ‘LIGHTNING WARRIOR," Comedy and Cartoon. i
ipplied to trucks, this Is the first time It has been applied to high speed cuts. The new Miller Job is powered with an 8 cylinder, 46 degree V-Installed motor with a piston i displacement of 308 cubic Inches I capable of developing 2mi home I power at 5,500 revolutions per minute. Ihe transinia-d n, mounted beI hind the engine in a conventional I manner conveys the d ive t.i tlie I front and rear axles by a pair of t ansfer gears mounted on the rear of the t utrsmls-i n case. The dosed propeller shaft ft offset to the right band side, made in two parts, one | extending alongside the engine to I the f ont axle and the .ther secj tlon. of c nirse, extending to the | rear axle A differential Is Interi posed between the front and rear | drive shafts. • Tlie otr i« c inventions! in ap- ' pearance, resembling a front drive s. ••edster with the V shaped motor permitting unusually narrow lines. “Keep your eye on the new fourwheeler" Barney enthusiastically ■pv "T.iai'll be easy because it will be out io front." WAGE At TION IS POSTPONED iCONTINI KD rhiMi HAGF <»NE' I m three years experience shall re- ■ <reive five and one-half per cent on | their general average, equivalent I to $940 for the school year. "(’ ass (’ teachers witli four and | tile years experience shall receive i six per cent on general average, equal to $1,050. Class D..teache;s with six yc.i s experience shall receive six and ene hi, i per cent, on genera! average. or $1,150.” Several teachers receive $1,400 to $1.500 per year and one receives $1,900. Mr. Worthman stated. Ii is likely that a scaling down will be made in the higher salaries.
but official action will not be taken until the first of August, when the next school year begins. The term of M. F. Worthman. as superintendent expires this year ind members of the school board stated that a new contract would be offered to him. Forty teachers are employed in the Decatur schools. CONGRESS TODAY By I'nited Press Senate: Continues debate on tax hill. Banking and currency committee i ontinues stock market investigatien. Agriculture committee considers farm relief bills. Judiciary sub-committee continues bearings on bankruptcy bill. ! Mines and mining sub-committee I continues hearings on Davis-Kelly coal bill. Special bi-partisan committee continues work on economy program. House: Considers flood control legislalation. Ways aud means committee continues hearings on Hancock birthcontrol bil'. Foreign affairs meets on World Court appropriation bill. Banking and currency considers Home Loan Bank bill. — o
COURTHOUSE] Real Estate Transfers George W. Pyle, pa t of in I t 67. | i vv’e t Lawn Cemetery to F ank Morical for $14.00. ■!' Jesse C. Sutton, in lot 550, De- , atur to Cabell G. Sutton fir SI.OO. 1 ! Jesse E. Escliibaeh et al. Rec. land ' [in \V. shin .ton township to The | Mutual Benefit Life for $1''.425.86. I I Interstate Farm Mtg. Cm p. land i [ln Washington township t; The Multi.al Benefit Life for SI.OO. i Ames Neuhauser et ux. in lots 66S j | 669, 610, 671. Berne to C. C. S; run- , I ger so SI.OO. I —o — i Faces Murder Charge | LaLporte. Ind.. May 20—(UP)— | Norman Sallwasse, prone, u tor, has : announced that evidence in the in- i I ciueration of M s. Jo in Mor nk at 1 the New Durli m towndhip dairy I farm home, will be p.esented to the i .grand jury next Monday. John H. F.ster, county coroner, returned a verdict pointing to ‘very su picious circumstances" in the death. John Moronk, husband of : the victim, is held pending action . f the : and jury. It has been in-, timated that in event he is indicted ' he ill offer an insanity defense. o | Calvary Eangelical Church ! 4’alva y Sunday School won the ;. Town.-hip Sunday School Penant, II last Sunday. Thia should spur the sch ol on to new activity. Tjie I Sunday School will meet in regular I ession next Sunday at 9:30 with I l Eldred Shitfer’y Supt. P ayer ser-| I vice and Bible Study will follow r , the Class Period under the leadership of the Clii-s Leader. Worship I with sermon by Rev. M. W. Sunder_’mann n Thursday night. ( I n e Federal Agents Busy e i Huntington. Ind., May 20.—(U.R) • Mine raids in Huntington and - ’/ utington county Tate yesterday • resulted in arrests of nine persons | and confiscation of fixtures in ttiree I alleged speakeasies. I
SIG TEN TRACK MEET STARTS Evanston. 111.. May 20. (U.R) -M-i most 300 athletes were entered to'day us the Big Ten truck mid Held I opened with quuli•, >'tying trials In 11 of tlie 18 events l The flu Is in a l eventa will lie held tomorrow. All proceeds will lie I , donated to tlie American Olympic i | fund. . | Results ill the preliminaries toi day were expected to throw eon ■slderable light on the probable win . 1 ner of the.32nd annual meet. Indiana, Indoor champion, Mich ■ igan. winner of 11 Big Ten titles, and Ohio State! long a contender but never a champion, were rated Hie three strongest teams. Ulin ols, which ulso has won 11 titles, was cooytfleh d an outside I o*sibilii , Qimntying tr.ia s were sehedu ed in the high and low hurdles, 100. 220 and 410 yard diishes and halfmile run i tithe tracks events and I (he shot, discus, broad Jump, bumliner throw and javelin throw in it lie field events. I Six of last year's champions
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! were buck to defand their titles., I They lire Jack Keller. Ohio State’s! ■great hurdler, winner of tlie 220 I yard low hurdles; Ted Shaw .Win-! loasln and Cam Hackle. Minnesota, who tied In the high Jump: Ed Kuh ' pill, Michigan, quarter mile; (Tarerne Munn. Minnesota, shot put:' 'mid dreg Kabat, Wisconsin, discit ' Another champion, George WiVelit, Wisconsin who won the 2-mL’e in 1 record breaking time, wi'l be unable to compete liecitlse of illness. Henri Brocksinith. Indiana, and Frank Purina. Illinois, are coneed-' |ed tlie best chances to set new records. Broi ksmith. wh > has .brrtken both the mile and 2-tnile records already this season, may wipe out tlie present mile mark of 4:l‘>.S and the 2-tnile mark of 9:21.9 Pur!ina last week bettered the discus record of 155 feet. 2 inches. - - o WITNESSES ARE MISSING CONTINUED FROM PAGE < NE) im tn Sachs a (’u, was th§ first I witness today. Sin e the cwmmtttee resumed ' its hearings testimony has dealt more with bull operations than | w.jh bear deals, ami today it was announced that Harry Warner ‘
, motion plctute magnate, had been I subpoenaed to testify about pub licity in relating to transactions which resulted in slii,ooo.<mo (Mil i profit in Warner Brothers stock. I Tlie Semite Investigators have I re mt. led tlie stock exchange till i have been a miraculous fountain 1 of iinick. dazzling riches flowing' from sei urlty pools. A multimillionaire, it developed. thought nothing in tlie hoom days of 192 S and 1929 of paying a ;mari market operator and three iss.ii inles $1,351,162 to dispose of mine of his surplus stocks. Tlie multi-millionaire was Rn ! dolph Spreckles, and tlie stink was Koister Radio. The trader s.is George F. • Breen. Oscar Alexander. Arthur Cutten, and L. P. Fisher of the fattdms Fisher Brothers, were partners with Breen in -the Speckles transai- I lions. Each was paid $333.788.131 ash for selling Spreckles’ stock it prices satisfactory to him. Breen sold 25u,0u0 sharwi of, Koister Radio for approximately I $19,000,000. Gray's question that! Breen's operalion was “riggingi the market" was denied. Breen said it was "buying and selling."i In the process of selling til-: 250,000 shares. Breen actmilly sold ' ISC.min shares and bought- 200 900. 1
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