Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1932 — Page 6

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Tenth Annual Olympic Opens Today

OLYMPIC GAMES OPEN TODAY Capacity Crowd Will Be In Attendance As Nations Compete « ♦ Los Angeles. July 30. — (U.S) —The. unit of distance in the Olympic games opening at Loa Angeles today Is a meter. Translated Into more familiar ■ terms: One meter equals 39.37 inches. 100 meters equals 109 yards, I one foot, one inch, or 328 feet I . one inch. 200 meters equals 218 yards. | two feet. 529 inches. 400 meters equals 436 yards, I four feet, four inches. Incidentally, a “stone" weighs 14 pounds. and if a persdn weighs “10 stone." that's 140 | pounds of course. Los Angeles. July 30 —(U.R) Nearly 2,000 athletes, dressed in the vari-colored costumes unique to their 39 nations, formed in line [ today tp become the parade which i will hr the spectacular part of. the Olympic games opening cere-i monial. Brought here for the tenth i modern- renewal of the interna- f lional contests which began with a ( simple ..footrace on the slopes of Mount Olympus in Greece, in the J days before Christ, these athletes of both sexes will stand at rigid attention while Vice President Curtis makes his set speech of 17 words officially opening the games. They will be seen by a capacity crowd of 105,000. The spectators will include part of the more than--200.000 persons attracted to Los, Angeles for the newest version of the historic tests of athletic skill, j Within the next 16 days this group of the world's greatest stars' of track and field as well as of, rowing, equestrianship, boxing., wrestling, fencing, swimming and kindred sports, will have cornpet-, ed in a program of no fewer than 135 individual events. Only one sport was respresent-j ed in today's agenda. This wasj weightlifting, preliminary tests ofwhich will be conducted tonight in Olympic auditorium. Thus the show centered today ( upon the spectacular parade of ’ nations, on which the organization j committee of Los Angeles has, been faltering for more than four: years. The program starts at 2:20 PST when the international organization committee and the Los Ange-, les committee form at the peri ' style entrance to receive Curtis, j Ten minutes later the vice pres--jjent and his escorts will arrive. | Wn will come the greetings of f'olint Henri Baillet-Latour of Belgium. president of the international Olympic committee, and of Wil-1 liam May Garland, head of the Los Angeles organization. A band will play the national anthem. A choir of 1,000 voices will sing. The parade will start. | Filially Vice President Curtis will, make his speech. Here it is: “I proclaim open the Olympic, games of Los Angeles, celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era.” There will be a fanfare of trum-l pets to herald the opening. Ten cannon will sound in salute. The! Olympic torch atop the peristyle a continuation of the large arch

Took Sixty Cadets to Death , A„ J. ■ A I ~4-* 1 » « * 1 <■ iSL -V ** v \b~ 4SK-i^^ " S 4 ..C~-^r' - *s£> ■ ./•- ••,v .-■*. - - **>« '■AIUL ****«AIMH, ’ Z ' ■ * f •■ „■-Jt rflgMn ii -i iiif«i*ii'**i#<« l !i-i>t» Here is Che German Navy training ship “Niobe” which foundered during a storm off the Fehmarn Island in the Baltic, near Kiel, Germany, taking sixty of her crew to the bottom. The ship was manned by 100 cadets and junior cadets, of whom forty were saved by the steamer Theresa Russ. The Niobe was a three-masted vessel with an auxiliary motor. Count Falix von Luckner, famous sea raider of the World War, was her first commander.

British Olympian w w* • < _ Here is the baby of the British Olympic team, shown as she had her first glimpse of New York, where she arrived enroute to Loa Angeles. She is 16-year-old Mary Kenyon, one of England's foremost girl swimmers, who hopes to add to her laurels and at the same time aelp her country at the intarnational games. at Hie stadium entrance, will be ■ ignited. The choir will sing, this! time, the Olympic anthem. As i the last note is heard 2,000 pigeons will be released. Next comes the dedication to ' be delivered by Dr. Robert Gordon I Sproul, president of the Univer- | sity of California. The choir will sing a sacred hymn. The athletes will take the Olympic oath. The choir and band together will sing the recessional, and the parade in reverse formation, will file from the stadium, ending the gala ’ show. Incidentally, the parade will be led by the Greek athletes. This ' honor was given because Greece I held the first Olympic games. Last ’ in line will be the largest delegation. that of the United States. In , between are representatives of, these nations: 1 Argentina, Australia. Austria, Belgium. Brazil. Canada. China. i Colombia. Cuba Czech Slovakia,, Denmark, Egypt. Eptonia. Finnland, France. Germany. Great Britain. Haiti, Holland. Hungary. | India, Ireland, Italy. Japan. JugoI slavia. Latvia. Mexico. New Zeal i land. Norway, Philippine Island,. Poland. Spain, Sweden. Switzer-* I land. Union of South Africa, and I Uruguay. Most of the pre-game squabbles I which had marked the week before the Olympic fortnight had | ' died down today as the contest-’ ants gathered for their quadren-! I nial parade. There was one distinct excep-! 1 tion. This was the one . brought | i about bv the refusal of the inter- ! national amateur athletic federa-- ' tion to reinstate Paavo Nurmi of Finland. He accepted the deci-i ( sion in good grace, but members ’ ■ of the delegation of which he is’ | now a nominal member, were out-1 I spokenly bitter over the ban. o LEADING BATTERS By United Press G AB R H Pct Foxx. Ath. 101 386 105 139 .360 j Hurst. Phil. 98 376 72 135 .359 I O’Doul. Bobin 93 378 74 134 .354 ’ P.Waner. Pir A 97 411 69 144 .350 I Klein. Phil. 101 431 110 150 ,348 o th* t—

DODGERSNOW i SHOWING LIFE Steady Playing of Team Puts Them in Fifth Place New York. July 30.— (U.R) —The i past week has witnessed the resI urrection of Brooklyn's pennant ’hopes as the Dodgers swept Into fifth position in the National league on a wave of scrambled pitchling and revitalized hitting. I After completing their longest losing streak of the season, five straight, the flatbushers made an about face and won six games out ■of seven. They scored five victories out of I six at the expense of the champion ! Cardinals, who dropped back into I sixth place. Every day a parade of Dodger pitchers strode out to the mound. Joe Shaute, old Jack Quinn, Freddie 1 Heimach and even Dazzy Vance, proved winning relief flingers. The pitching situation became so jumb- I led that Quinn threw one ball in a game and was credited as the win-, . ning hurler. Meanwhile Tony Cuccinello. . Glenn Wright, Lefty O’Doul and I Hack Wi.son were working overtime at the bat, and the combination proved a winner. | The Dodgers made it five a*tt of six over the Cards yesterday by winning. 7 to 4, aided by Hack Wilsons 18th homer of the season. The Pirates extended their lead half a game by registering their sixth consecutive victory over the Giants, 4 to 3. while the runner-up ■ Cubs were idle. Ed Holley bested Benny Frey in I a pitching duel as the Phillies ’downed Cincinnati, 10 to 2, boost ’ ing the Phillies into a tie for third | place with the Braves. Chicago at Boston was washed | 'out. In the American league, the run- ■ ner-up Cleveland Indians beat the ] leading Yankees, 4 to 3, despite I Babe Ruth's 29th home run of the reason. Earl Averill homered with two on in the seventh for the winning run. Washington downed the Browns. 10 to 6. and the White Sox nosed out the Red Sox, 4 to 3. They were the only games ached* ► tiled. Yesterday's hero: Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians, who accounted for three runs in the 7th I inning w ith a homer to beat the Yankees. o THE BIG FIVE By United Press Jimmy Foxx was idle. Babe Ruth made a home run and a single in three times, accounting for one run. Ixm Gehrig doubled in four , times up. accounting for one tally. Al Simmons was idle. Bill Terry went hitless in three times. o HOME RUNS By United Press Foxx, Athletics 41 Klein, Phillies 30 Ruth, Yankees 29 Simmons. Athletics ... 25 Averill. Indians 25 o_ America Has Chance to Win Cup From France Rolnnd Ga:ros Stadium, Paris, July 30— (UP) —America gained a fighting chance to wrest the Davis cup from France today when itsJ Doubles team of Wilmer Allison and Johnny Van Ryn defeated the vetera Fiench combination of Henri Cochet i.nd Jacques (Toto) Burgnon 6-3, 11-13, 7-5. 4-6, 6-4. By virtue of its clean sweep of the two opening Sales singles matches yesterday, France leads two matches to one. The issue will be decided tomorr w when Allison meets Jean Borora and Ellsworth Vines plays Cochet in the two concluding singles engagements. Victories in either match will enable France to rebi in the cup for the sixth consecutive year. o .Hurst, Philadelphia Leads National League Batsmen New York. July 30—<U.P) — Don Hurst of the Phillies has wrested the National league batting leadership from Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, according to figures released today. Including games played Thursday. Hurst has a percentage of .357, while Waner has dropped to third in the list with a mark of .351. Lefty O’Doul of Brooklyn has risen into second position with an average of .354. I Jimmy Foxx of the Philadelphia . I Athletics continues to head Amer- ’ ’ ican circuit batsmen with a mark , Os .360. Jimmy aiso leads the American home run hitters with

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, JI LA 30, 1932.

Picturesque Olympic Figures | By HARDIN BURNLEY “ n i I* 7 IM THE OL'/MPICS/ ‘Trf V PATra'CK O'CALLAGHAM SPECTACULAR IRISH ALLC Ywf / AROUAJD athlete--a sure T" LaJ/aj Mere. EASTMAN - ff J -MOST COLORFUL. OF ALL THE U-S- T(2AC< STARS.' KT/ Jp *> 19IZ, King Features Syndicate, Inc, Great Britain nghev reserved y: V < je, \ MATTI JkISVIAJHAJ- \ /U J -JAVEUAJ CHAMP-HE AMD K' - yI) H!S BROTHER kRU. CARRY OM Y THE T(2AD(TIOAJ OF ROLANDS/ FAMOUS- FAMILY? Z x ■

TH AT mystic something which for a better name is called color —a person has it or hasn't it—and which is demanded of prize-ring luminaries, seems to be just as much in demand in other fields of sport. The track star, the auto racer, the baseball player, the gridiron star who has it. stands out from the throng. For the next few weeks athletes from all over the world will be competing at Los Angeles for Olympic honors. And among the hundreds gathered from all corners of the earth there are bound to be men—and women—who will win the appellation—colorful! From Ireland comes the giant, Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan, with the reputation of being the Emerald Isle's greatest all-around athlete. The Doctor specializes in the hammer-

41. while Chuck Klein of the 1 Phillies has the most homers in the National league. 30. Vernon Gomez of the New York Yankees still is the leading pitch-1 er in the Amercian division with 17 victories and five defeats. Steve Swetonic of the Pirates heads the National flingers witn 11 victories and two defeats. TTT Decatur Cardinals Play Preble Team Tomorrow , The Decatur Cardinals will play I the Preble Baseball team at the Preble diamond. Sunday afternoon i .it one o’clock, it was announced to-1 day. 'This game was formerly schedul ■ ed in Decatur but the place wan i changed in favor of the Snedeker, team. All Decatur and Preble fans I are asked to note this change in place. — o Stella Walsh Breaks World Discus Record Los Angeles, July 30 — (UP) — I Lithe Stella Walsh of Poland and I Cleveland, lone membei of the "un-1 holy three” to survive an official I Olympic inquiry, regarded with pride today un unofficial world disI cus record. America's controversial Polish , woman athlete, in a workout for the ! , 10th Olympiad which starts this ’ . afternoon, broke Halina Konc.packa 1 world ecord with a toss cf 40 meters 11nd 13 centimeters. I The Holland Girl’s official mark : of 39 meters. 62 centimeters, was , . l et at the 1928 Amsterdam games, i Stella is confident she will carry away a new recotd for her native ■ i Poland—-the land she left for the I . United States when u baby of 18 I II months. -i —- o 11 Get the Habit — Trade at Homa |

i throw and he is credited with tossI ing the 16-pound weight a distance ■ of 184 feet 4 inches in practice, just ' about five feet short of Pat Ryan’s ■ record throw in the United States ■ championships of 1913. . Dr. O’Callaghan competed in the > 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam, and . at the time was comparatively a novice, but he managed to win the > event with a throw of 51.39 meters. ■ Since then he has improved and it • would not be surprising if he won s the event again this year with a toss • surpassing Ryan’s record heave. O’Callaghan is a giant of a man. ■ possessed of tremendous strength, and he has that knack—which spells . the difference between class and ■ mediocrity —of applying strength • and speed when it does the most ? good. And the good Doctor has per- ■ sonality—too.

TWO IMPORTANT MEASURES PASS LEGISLATURE CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Re.p.. offered an amendment to provide for a blanket 20 per cent reduc- j tion in all appropriations. This was I voted down 59 to 28. An amendment offered by H ward S. Grimm. Rep.. (Auburn providI ing specific reductions of 5 to 20 ] per cent in salaries of Employes] I of s'i te schools, likewise failed. An I addition by Fred S. Galloway. Dem.. Indianapolis, to stiike out the ap- | pfopriation of the oil inspection department, was rejected. Speaker Walter Myers was pleasI ed with the house action. He commented that it was the first con- , structive legislation dealing with I tax relief to pass either house. The budget induction measure I was one of 12 selected by Myers in his iprogram to save Indiana taxpayers an estimated $32,700,600. o— GERMANY TO VOTE SUNDAY I CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE -*•***•*•**«•*•••^«««*•* tc elect a reichstag from which there could bo formed a cabinet to bring the country back to parliamentary administration. I “The real source of our despair ] and discontent will be found in I the Versailles treaty." Chancellor I Von Papen said in his address to ( the American people, repeating the 1 declarations he had made earlier | in the week in the first interview I since he assumed office, given Io Hugh Baillie, executive vice pres-1 j ident of the United Press. Von Papen said the threat of ; communism, whose leaders he] blamed for recent disorders in' i Germany, had endangered the | country "by the aspect of civil war” but that the government had

And then there is our own Ben ■ Eastman, “Big Ben,” regarded by : the experts as unbeatable at 40(1 i meters. In fact his record per ■ formances have won for him exemp tion from the trials in this event ! Eastman will also try for the 80e ! meters "Big Ben” is a colorful per i former and when he faces the start ■ ing line all eyes are focused upoi . him. From Finland come the colorful i Jarvinen brothers to carry on the athletic traditions of the famour Jarvinen family. Matti, javelin , champion. Akilles, decathlon cham . pion. A picturesque pair. 1 A great show, this 1932 Olympiad. [ and certain to be the finest ath ■ letic exhibition ever seen on this- • continent. Copyright, 1131. King Features Syndicate. Ine

complete control of the situation. He denied a dictatorship was planned. Hitler’s Munich headquarters denied reports of a contemplated I "Putsch” to seize power by force if the fascists do not obtain a , majority in the new reichstag. The cabinet apparently intended to remodel the government after the election, giving the Nazis three or four posts in the minis- ‘ try, probably those of interior, j labor and transportation. o — Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gattschall visited in Fort Wayne Friday. Sole Wendel Heir? 1 t . * w Here is the latest claimant to the $75,000,000 estate of the late Ella Wendel. New York recluse, who, if | ne proves his claim, will inherit the entire estate. He is Thomas Patrick I Morris, of Dundee, Scotland, who asserts he is the son by a secret marriage of John Gottlieb Wendel, brother of Ella He says he has documentary evidence to prove his assertion.

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HICKS MARRIED AT BOXING SHOW ■■ ■ I Local Scrapper Married In Ring Before Capacity Crowd Charles Arthur "Tarzan" Hicks, local heavyweight fighter was the I feature artist at the open alri arena Nixing show last evening as ( (he starred In three events. The biggest feature was Hicks wedding to Miss Evelyn Anspaugh I of Pleasant Mills, which took placeb in the ring and was performed by | Harry Thompson, a former local j minister. Hicks then went in to do six rounds of boxing, taking on two opponents three rounds each. His first opponent was Big Boy I Cox and after much argument with I the manager of The Jamaica Kid. finally met the colored man in the I last Ibut of the evening. No de-1 i dsion was rendered by the offi-| cials in these two bouts but they, could be classed as pretty wellj ; even. Several of the other bouts dur-. I ing the evening proved interesting i especially the Burkhead - Clint scrap which was a slugging match I from start to finish and ended ini a knockout for Burkhead. Elton, Archer also secured a knockout over Cletus Dick, Conrad securer! a techincal knockout over Lobsiger and Snedeker knocked out Stevens. The fight was witnessed by a[ capacity crowd and all bouts were refereed by Kilgore, of Bluffton. j o REMAINDER OF BONUS OUTFIT ROUTED TODAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE | stations. The bonus army is moving north. It is occupying Johnstown. 1 Pennsylvania. Washington, July 30.— (U.R) —Police routed the stragglers of the bonus army today —an army that had flags but no permanent base. (while government officials gathered ' evidence intended to prove that , most of the besiegers were not vet- ( erans but communists. United States army troops, who used tanks, gas, bayonets and machine guns to convince the E. F. members they should leave, completed their assignment by burning scattered bonus camps that escaped the fire Thursday night. The veterans hurried across Mary and. into Johnstown. Pa., by I highway and byway, anywhere to escape the prodding of state po- ( lice, local police, and army forces ( who had been ordered to "keep them moving." The district authorities were moved to such activity by President Hoover’s letter to them in which lie made it plain that he expected the police to "strictly enforce every ordinance of the district in every part of the city.” Also at President Hoover's direction, local and federal authorities were investigating the communistic activities. The administration blamed alleged communists for the rioting which the President said , I caused him to call out the tro.-ps The department of justice appeared certain that communists aided 1 in the rioting, and prubably caused it. Secretary of War Hurley exl pressed the same sentiment. Genr eral MacArthur, chief of staff, said 1 not more than one in ten of the ■ bonus army was a veteran. • Oscar Luhring, District of Columbia supreme court justice, in charging the grand Jury which will I investigate the rioting, expressed the hope that the jurors would find . the rioters were “mainly communists and other disorderly elements.” Walter Waters, commander of the bonus army, disputed all claims that the force he commanded was dominated by communists. He claimed not more than 500 were communistic, and they were members of a “'.eft wing" group not under his command. "We checked the service record of every man." he said. The casualty list of bonus army victims as compiled by police, when checked against service records, so far has failed to show a single bonus army victim of the rioting was not a veteran. The check is not completed. Forty-two persons were taken into custody at a meeting sponsored by the Workers' ex-Servicemen's League, alleged communist organization. It was this group that clashed twice with police in attempts to picket the White House. Twenty-five of left wing" < group were release and sent out iof the city. These included James ; |W. Ford, negro, vlice-presidential t candidate of the communist party, [ and Emmanuel Levin of • | a leader in the Workers’ League. 1 | The other 17 were being held for J i Investigation by the labor depart- ’ j ment. They were unable to pro , duce proof of citizenship or legal i right to be in this country. The [labor department planned to de-

port them ill Eighteen agents ~f lh „ . hartment .'.'/''jl other vetera.,.. . “’W agitators 11„. . , r -« their evidem.. t., ~ bls| lumbla grand , . W General Mlt. b, ;. V gate bonus arm. . ... The war depai • n,. i,i Wds ing by che.klnv ■ Isinus mar. In i - General Dougl. - .; „ v ., . ' ■ army chief „t , X|l , Vef that not onmarchers was ominaml. i \V. . hotly disputed " W| dec'ared the r, h a j the discharge ".wl The mop up ~f i,,,,,,,. w«e complet-.i 4 , day by 3uu • j fantrymen ’l 1,. . into the . tiie main bonus . ..■ ed ruins. The troops of ramshackle : -i,.. ■■ i Capitol Hill, r,..: (avenue camp ti scene of riotina About 10(1 ■ a of spectators tear gas ami - ... then set tire to | n minutes the. w . Even with gaj some diffic. uln ■area. An old m.. : with two s.i< k- ... step quickly el. cavalryman 11. - , hand by a sabre Another - ice i ream pedd.- ' him witli his sal- ~ trampled slim’. , chasing a groui .Jr-n were jeering them. Traffic lie. ■ med and reside- . hood complain.- .- ra(was their seom.l . « v Hoops came m' The troops tie: -■ • -.1 Depart mem ' and destroyed ' . ' ■ rude huts mad. : and old sheet iron H "The show is ov.-r, Ferry Miles is done This m As dusk sett • d :■ 'ed slowly back t. post at s.yer. across th.t'antry unit was .---rrdtraO arity in an old bmiding oearH navy department I' *iimM to move out today. M Maj.-Gen Van H ■■ sistant chief of staft -t thesaid: M "It is now a job tor the of Columbia poll. the troops will . ■ 'a •hand if the poli. e .ostsufl (but the task is to c-p the ’ ers from drifting 1.0 'and prevent i-rowo- ::mi gating." ■ The only casimit' of operations was i :1 liams. troop F of the Third airy, who was bm:md »hr:O gas bombs he was ed accidentally - nian Scott, whose skull tract'll when a bonus mire !■■ ’ lot him a brick, remained ■ i critical dition. Nearly ail .'herilM ed had been dis. i - : from ■ pitals. B Bolivian Troops I Take Blockhoiuß La Paz, B.livia. Id' Bolivian troops lim ■ -.iken :«'o J aguayan blockhous - t! ,e ’B "after bloody cornua’ it '**®B nounced here today ' the '.diiO staff. ■ The action occur:. I in ments L -n Thursday .rd attacks being repra.- i - /J gtmyan raid on Fo tin f B Bolivian troops ha'- I * li J Casualties in F.rdays were not given. (’ ■- killed Thursday

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