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SLUGGING BABE SAYS HE'S DONE Babe Ruth Admits lie Won’t Play Next Season As a Regular New York, Aug. 31—(UP) Babe Rut '< long and glamorous career as a r gular, during which h climbed to a niche higher than any occupied by a baseball hero, ends with rids year’s sea.-on. The mighty king of the swat, who heretofore has lie n d slant in face of reports his playing days were over, now admit he’s through. His Words merely climaxed what hi:, wobbly legs and slowness afield hav for. told. ‘ I’ll quit when Cm slipping" was the Bata’s stock reply year after ■ year as the rumors increased that he would leave the diamond as a ] regular play. r. Today he admits that time has i come. "The legs won’t stand it,” Ruth explained. “I might as well hang up the spikes. I’m through.’’ Only one more month for the king. Os course the crack of his mighty tat will not b? entirely silenced. 1 The Babe will return at intervals to pound out a long one tor the'

■ PUBLIC SALE I I COMMUNITY AUCTION SALE g Decatur, Indiana Decatur Community Auction will be held on SATURDAY, September 2, 1933 Kj at' 12 Noon ■ Selling Live Stock of all kinds, Household Goods and Farm |H Bu Implements. Mr. Grisso, of Troy, Ohio, will be here with a H load of Shrubbery for this auction. I Decatur Community Sales | [fjt Roy Johnson, Auctioneer.

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bleachers to roar over. He may be ‘ i in the holo ot u tuanag r of some . Major Leagu club, or perhaps just ; an exhibition game to thrill count- 1 less thousands In towns where he j never beard the roar of th>> crowd l us h ytfpped to the plat.. The possibilities Ruth faces are renewal of his contract with the I Yankees, unconditional release or. 1 Ik ing traded to some other club. It is admitted that with Ruth un-j able to stand the pace as a regular Colonel Jacob Ruppert could not afford to re-sign Rath at his present salary, $52. no. Whether Rabe would a. vept less is debatable as his is financially independent, large- , ly through prudent investments and savings in the last few ye.. The Babe. philosophical atant ; th whole situation, admits with a boyish grin he might take a va-1 cation for a year "And let things work themselv s out.” He has no illusions about a regular berth w ith the Yankees next year. West Enders Score Shutout Victory With Andrews pitching shutout l>all, the West Enders swamped the 1 Standard Oil team last evening. 23 to 0. Bush and Bufferbarger both ‘ hit home runs with the bases loaded. The West Enders will play a practice game this evening and I will meet the St. Mary’s team Friday evening. For games next week ‘ see Felix Maier or Don Stump.

DRAW SCHEDULE FOR SOFTBALL Four Northern County High Schools Form Softball League i -The Adams county high school soft ball I ague was formed at a m ctinv of the prim Ipitls of the tour nori hern county high schools W dneaday. ’ The sc o<ds forming the league are Monmouth, Pleasant Mills, Monroe and Kirkland. This league has j been operated tor the past seven y ars. Pleasant Mills was the lea-j ; gue winner last fail. Play will open Friday. September s. and continue until October 13. ] ; I'wo gam's will be played each Friday. All games will start at 4 p. m. i arid will be of seven inning dura- . I tion. Jim Frav.l of Geneva and | and Steve Everhart of Decatur will ; umpire all games. The complete seh dale follows: Sept, 8- Pleasant Mills at Mon-, toe. KiWkland at Monmouth. Sept. 15 Monmouth at Pleasant Mills. Monroe at Kirkland. Sept. 22- Monmouth at Monroe,] Pleasant Mills at Kirkland. Mills. Monmouth at Kirkland. Oct. 6 Pleasant Mills at Mon- ; mouth, Kirkland at Monroe. Oct. 13 —Monroe at Monmouth. Kirkland at Pleasant Mills. i Berne. Geneva and Jefferson will ■ play r gular baseball this fall and pro! ably will announce a schedule] within a few days. Worthington Wins Way To Final Match Kim Worthington won his way ] to the finals ot the men’s city sin- 1 gles tourney Wednesday evening: by defeating Bob Holthouse in an : excellently played match. 1-6. 6-0, l 6-4. Worthington will meet Pete! Reynolds for the city title Sun- 1 day. The match likely will be; p ayed at 9:30 Sunday morning. The city doubles title will be de- ] t ided this evening, with Hoffman | and Prugh meeting Parrish and | Reynolds in the championship tilt. o Copper Roofs Used Miami. Atiz. —(U.R> —Roofs of cop-1 per sheeting are being built here. ] formerly the site of some of the i state’s largest copper producing! mines. The sheets are said to be; as durable as any other roofing I material.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, AUGUST 31,1933.

; A. C.’s To Close ’ Season Sunday The Decatur A. C.’s will close, their season, Sunday afternoon.] * ni' ting the Zanesville Independ-1 • ents on the local diamond. Cliuck [ Noel, formerly a star w ith the Fort , Wayne Lincoln Libs, will hurl for. the visitors. The A. C.’s have made a splendid i ' record this season, winning a large > majority of gamts played, and have furnished some excellent entertain-1 ■ tnejit for local funs. STANDINGS A MERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. ■ K2 43 .65ti New York 73 50 .594 Cleveland 67 (’>3 .515 Philadelphia 61 63 .41'2 Detroit 63 66 .48k j ■ Chicago 60 67 .4721 | Boston 55 73 .430 ] St. Louis 17 81 .361; — NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L Pct. I New York .... 73 47 .60S Boston .69 55 .5571 ; Pittsburgh 67 56 .5151 Chicago 69 58 .543 ] St. Units .......... 67 59 .532. ' Brooklyn . 52 70 .4261 ! Philadelphia 50 72 .4101 | Cincinnati 48 78 .381] — AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pet. ] I Columbus 92 41 .6611 Minneapolis 81 62 .566' Indianapolis 74 66 .5291 ■ St. Paul 70 71 .497, Toledo 67 74 .475 j I Louisville 64 76 .457 Milwaukee 61 82 .427 ; Kansas City .54 85 .389

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League No games scheduled. National League New York, 5; St. Louis, 4. Pittsburgh. 5; Philadelphia, 1. Chicago. 2-3; Brooklyn, 1-7. Boston, 3; Cincinnati. 2. American Association Indianapolis. 4-3; Toledo, 1-10. Columbus. 8-4; Louisville, 0-3. St. Paul at Milwaukee (to be , played at later date). o Sectional Meet Dates Announced Indianapolis Aug. 31—(UP) —Seci tional meets for the 1934 annual I state high school baskettali tournaj m nt will b - held March 2 and 3, it was announced today in a bulletin issued by the Indiana high school athletic association. Sectionals of the annual track I meet will hb held May 12. and the , finals were set for May 19. Tli annual busin ss meeting of the association will be held in the auditorium of Manual Training high I school, Indianapolis, Oct. 19, the ' bulletin said. «C_ ’ * * TEACHERS FOR RURAL SCHOOLS ARE ANNOUNCED j .-CONTINUED FHOM PAGE ONE) ;

111. Wagner, Rolland Sprunger, Ddrothy Sprunger and Vesta Rich.' Grade school, Ezra Snyder. Harry] ; Johnson. J. I). R. Schwartz. Rosamond Gould. Leo Strahm. J. Ray! ; Duff. A. E. Hunt. Floyd Johnson.' ! Ma: della Hoexer and Et.'.el Potts. Hartford township: high school,! I Lester Kerr, John Whicker, Ruth , Mahoney. Mary Trapp. Arthur Geri wig. Grade school, Louise Neus- ; baum, Lester Reynolds, Mary Sch- ' lagenhauf, and Edna Glendening. j Wabash township: high school, I Ir. O. Hunt. Nell K. Pyl , Peter W I V itz. Blanche Aspy, .Margaret ! i Rhoades and Esther Hutton. Grade; , schools, Gladys tang, Harold tang! A. Cook, Goldine Butcher, 'Eliza- ! : beth Kraner. Magdalena Hirschy. [ Mary 15. Wheat, Catherine Fravel I and Mary Brennan. Jefferson township: high school.' Olen Marsh, Merrill Tharp, Dorcas Petty, and Mina Collier. Grade school. J. Chalmer Edwards, Helen Kenney and Madeline Robin. Union Township; grade schools. Paul Spoiler, Esta Fleming and Dorothy Spuller. Preble township: Vearl Heller j and Agnes Gaiser. Washington Clyde Trputner, Georgia Foughty, Arline Becker. Martha Reppert and .Marguerite Lewellen. Blue Creek township: Russell Steiner. R. M. Houck. James Fravel and Eldon Sprunger. • I French township: Elmer Ehrsam Naomi Yager, Myron Lehman, Marcella Robin, Dorthea Bentz and Albert Stahiy. Chinese Pilot Escaped Death In Crash Boston -—(UP)— A cross wind struck a plane piloted by Rose Lok, Chinese girl pilot, at Boston airport and when the plane landed, its nose in the dirt, it was pointed straight for China. Miss Lok, member of the Chinese Patriotic Flying Corps, was unhurt. The organization is training Chinese pilots, possibly for action against the Japanese.

ROOSEVELT ON [ 5-DAY CRUISE President Sails At Noon Today On Five-Day Vacation Cruise Poughkeepsie. N. 5 . Aug. .11 (UP) President Roosevelt sailed; shortly att r noon today for a five ; day cruise aboard Viu ent Astor s yacht Nourmahal. Th? sleek six thousand ton craft ' pulled away from her dock here at ' 12:15 P. M.. a half hour after Mr.! Roosevelt wont on board I Mr, Roosevelt plans to remain on I th- water until Monday night or I Tuesday morning w ten the Nourmahul will put in at th WashingI ton navy yard.. The cruise will be j spent far off the shore of New Eng- I land. Before he motored to the dock from Hyd ■ Park the President talk- , , . d with Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. Re- ! | invery administrator, by telephone] I from Washington. Johnson informled him that steady progress was ] being made in pi rasing the coal I code and that it would be ready for I ixecutive approval next week. Johnson had been instructed to report to the President on Henry ; I Ford's unwillingness to enlist un- i der the blue eagle but it was ex ; ! plained that there was nothing new - in that situation today. Members of the Roosevelt family i | came down to the wharf to say' [goodbye to the President. Mrs. I ! Sarah Delano Roosevelt, his moth- ! er. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall. I daughter and her two children. I Sistie and Buzzie. were in the party. > "Goodby. Pop" Sistie shouted ] as the Nounnalial pulled away, "goodbye. Sistie, see you soon." the

President called. Mr. Roosevelt has named the 15 members of the planning and co- ! ordinating committee to aid in, carrying out provisions'of the code for the oil industry. Three of the members will represent the NRIA. Twelve the oil industry, and all wili j work with secretary of the interior itekes who this wee,; was named oil , administrator. FORD EMPLOYES OUT OF PARADE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE; I startled by the silence of its biggest I single manufacturer and no one j . i was willing to hazard a prediction I ! of what Ford, an individualist, had . i in mind. There was no wide discre- j pency lietween hours of work and | , | wages per hour now paid in the > I Ford plants and those prescribed under the automobile code to ■which ; ' t all manufacturers except Ford have { ~ agreed. ; Today’s celebration parade’ in, which 15.000 workers will partici- I pat? was closed to Ford employes ; I by parade officials. The United Pr.-ss interviewed | several Ford workers. One worker] thought "it would be nice tc have a i I blue eagle to paste on the wind-, ] shi. ld of my car.’ * Another employe said: "I'm getting paid every day. and ' i I’m working after being laid off; more than a year, so it makes no! I difference to me whether wo work i ■ according to rules or noL" The unskill d worker in tne Ford - L.

THE CORT - Last Time Tonight - BETTE DAVIS. Gene Ravmond. Monroe Owsley, Frank McHugh | “EX-LADY” ALSO - "Broadway Brevity" and Bosko Cartoon 10-15 c SUNDAY—“FROM ARIZONA TO BROADWAY,’* James Dunn and i Jean Bennett. I COMING—“GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933.” IIIWWH i UW Ml HMM JOSHIS THEATRE! - Last Time Tonight - “Jennie Gerhardt” with ' Svlvia Sidney. Donald Cook, Mary Astor. H. B. Warner. Theodore Dreiser’s celebrated novel of a woman’s life. ] Added-Comedy and OrganloEue. 10-15 c FRI. A SAT.—-MIDNIGHT CLUB’ with Clive Brook, George Raft, Alison Skipworth. Helen Vinson. We know that you will like this l one. SUN. MON. TUE—“HOLD YOUR I MAN” with Jean Harlow. Cl»rkl Gable, Stuart Erwin. Another Big Hit!

I nlant l« pslri f minimum of 40 cents an hour Th/ scale ranged upward to 9 0 cents an hour for trained workers. Some times, during tlie| rush season, some departments, hav worked 48 hours a week. T.e automobile code prescribes [43 cents an hour minimum wage* I forth Detroit area, anil a 35 hour, week. The code, however, permits lan Increase to 48 hours a week ' j during any rush season that does j not exce.d six we -ks in length. r— O '7O Million Given For Work Projects Washington, Aug. 31. (UR) The public works administration al- ! loted 370,000,000 to (he War De- | partment today for ninety Yiver ! and harbor projects throughout the j country. The program included thirteen river projects, one ocean Inlet, i seven infra costal waterways, six [ (Great takes connecting chaannels,; ' nineteen sea coast harbor projects on the Atlantic, twelve sen coast harbor projects en the Gulf, e'even . [ sea coast harbor projects on the Pacific coast, seventeen harlior projects on the Great Lakes, three sea coast harbor projects in the Hawaiian Islands and one in Puerto Rita. 1

In DecaturTandlAdams County! Will your hoy be properly dressed when he m a r e h e s off to ■ school? He deserves to be for lots of hard work lies ahead of ■ him. He will want to be as well dressed as his “buddy” who ■ likewise has purchased many school needs at this store. ■ ’ ■.u<*~ L ?SE K 0 Boys School Suits I — oml \ | ‘Lth Long and Short I’ant Suits, finely /j \ fr jw/l tailored in the newest styles and /X V \ r 11 patterns. Every school boy will find f \ Ai US * the su 't " an ‘ s ’ so complete , # j t ’ « ** our se i ect i° n ’ L;' H s t/ji 2 Long Pants 2 Knickers | S 10.00 $5.00 /I I Il p. to ,o ■ i|V $16.50 $9.50 \1 1 Lot Boy’s Long Pants $7.50 i Boy’s Underwear Boy’s Dress Shirts Shirts and Shorts or Union J Boys Fast Color Shirts in a Suits. Both are serviceable f ' ne se,ection of co,ors and ■ 51 1A patterns. It takes many for the school boy. Better lav in his supplv now. /' | JZlip-L \ want several. 50cto$1W 75c NECKWEAR HOSIERY Hats and CapT New Fall patterns that Hosiery in socks or golf Hats or Caps lor the will appeal to the boy in style in the new fall H flvs ; n neu 1 all pat-four-m-hands to Ue al- patterns. The kind of na lha t he s sure to ready tied or bows. Let socks built for hard ltrn th ‘ h us show you them, at wear. like. 25c50c 25c 50c 50c $2.00 Sweaterssl to $4 The oung Man bound for College will also find our store ready to fill all his needs. Everything from head to toe in* eluding the luggage he will need to carry it with him. HOnHOUSEIiULTU co

SCHOOL SURVEY SHOWS CHANGES IN CURRICULUM Enlightening Facts Found By Educators Working For United States Washington.— IUP)-’Wl<”Wttad | . hang* in the courses of study offer d to students In the secondary schools of the nation Is on- of the many enlightening facts brought [ I out by a survey of the system of ; secondary schools of the United. States, conducted under the aus-1 pices of the Department of Inter-1 ior -s Office of Education by author-1 ! ity of a $225,000 congressional ap- j j propriation. Typical Change This change is typically Hlustrat- ; •h1 by on group of schools, which j within a period of 20 years in< reas- | .si the number of courses offered 1 from 53 to 306. This study also ] i showed that the number of students i taking courses in foreign languages i ! and mathematics had decreased '

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