Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1934 — Page 6

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COLORED TEAM OF FORT WAYNE HERE TOMORROW *> __ fj. E. C1 u b Will Play Wheatley Center Big Five Wednesday The Decatur 0. E. club will play the Wheatley Center Big Five from Fort Wayne Wednesday Bight at 8:30 o’clock at the Yellow Jacket gym. The visiting team, composed entirely of colored players, has a Biimher of former Central of Fort Wayne stars in the lineup. ' Heading the roster of the invaders is Nate Buggs, guard Buggs Starred In basketball, football and irack at the Fort Wayne school for several seasons, playing when JiU Lyons was a star. W The Wheatley Center team is rxpeeted to lineup for the opening thistle as follows: Tester and Jennings, forwards; J. Ridley, renter; Buggs and C. Ridley. ( guards. Other former high school flayers will be in reserve. “ The G. E. club, which has won seven of its last eight starts, will present the regular lineup Wed-) nesday night. Starters are expect-! ed to be Vernon Hill and Jake Hill, forwards: Gerber, center; Debolt and Steele, guards. As an added attraction, the G.E. seconds will play the Kirkland Whippets in a preliminary game I at 7:30. These two teams staged 3 real battle a short time ago and mnother dose contest is expected tomorrow night. v . o ■ Yon save . . WORK Let ns do this. 15 pounds..49c Doca*llr T

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Attention! The Annual FARM BUREAU MEETING will be held at the Catholic High School Auditorium DECATUR. IND. Friday, Feb. 9 Election of officers will be held at 10 o’clock a.m. Pot Luck Dinner Served at Noon starting at 11:30 o’clock. Fertilizer School with addresses by John Simms and Paul Engle will follow’ immediately after the dinner. Make Plans Now To Attend This Special Event. Everybody Welcome

WM— Nate Buggs 1 .. I 1 Jp;- ••••■ • I ...' Former 'Fort Wayne Central high school star athlete, who will hold down a guard position for tlie Wheatley Center Big Five, who will play the Decatur G. E. 1 club at the pnblic high school gymnasium here Wednesday night. Other former Central stars are | included in the visitors' lineup. —

111 1 — — National League In Annual Meeting i 1 New York. Feb. 6 —(UP) —Club > owners of the National baseball league held their annual meeting itoday at the Waldorf-Astoria to) ratify the 1934 playing schedule. . Since no other important business. apparently, was elated to l ! come before the meeting, baseball writers expected the owners to make use of their limo in making player deals. — oARRAIGNMENT OF DILLINGER IS POSTPONED ■ CONTTNUEn F*OM PACT® ONE laid plans for freeing John Dil’ inger from the Lima jail. The next move. Denniston sa’’’ ; Shouse told him. was when the I gang went back to Hamilton ano held up a bank at St. Mary’s. 0.. home town of Charles Makley. one of the convicts. From St. Marv’a they went to I Lima and freed Dillinger. Sheriff) I Jess Sarber being killed when lie I i resisted. Shouse continued. With Dillinger back in their gang they went to Chicago and ’ estab’ished headquarters Shouse said that he left the other convicts and went to California. . mee’ ! ng the girt who was captured with iiim in Paris. After a brief stay in California j Shouse and the girl returned east, i went to Fort Wayn» and planned a bank robbery at Paris. , They were awaiting completion of details at Paris when Indiana state police captured him. o I Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hendricks of | Jackson, Michigan, visited Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks and Mr. and i Mrs. J. N. Burkhead Friday.

MINNESOTA IN SECOND PLACE I I Indiana Surprises lowa With 3-1 To 25 Victory Monday Chicago, Fob. 6 <U.R) Minne-1 I sota's surprising young basketball' team climbed into second place today Iti the Big Ten basketball race as a result of Its fourth < .straight triumph. Tito Gophers, nosed out Chicago lust night. 23 22. for their third victory by one point. They bin! previously be.it en lowa and Northwestern by one point. Indiana brought about a threeway lie between lowa. Illinois and Indiana for third place by defeat/) lug lowa. 34-25. The defeat dealt a crushing blow to lowa’s title hopes and dropped the Hawkeyes out of second place. Purdue con- . tinues to lead the race with four' victories and no defeats. Gordon Norman. Minnesota center, scored S points against Chicago and -neroased his lead in the individual Big Ten scoring; race. Norma.it has scored 731 points to 64 for Lyle Fisher. Northwestern center, who was out of conference competition last night. In non-conference games the Big ; Ten broke even. Northwestern defeating Wabash in the last minute) of play. 24 23. and Michigan State triumphing over Wisconsin, 2.3-22. ■ in another last minute rally. The Big Ten standing follows: W L Pet. ■ Purdue < 4 0 1.0-M1 Minnesota 5 3 .625 lowa .3 2 .600 , Indiana 3 2 .600 . Illinois .3 2 .600 j ' Northwestern 4 3 .572 I Ohio State 3 5 .370 Michigan 2 4 .333 Wisconsin 1 3 .2501 Chicago 1 r ‘ .167 Saturday night games: Wisconsin at Minnesota; lowa at Purdue: I Chicago at Northwestern; Indiana at Illinois. o DASKTOWL Hs by — In our excitement over Pleasant ! Mills’ first victory of the season. Basket bawl failed to figure the defeat sustained Friday night., Pleasant Mills’ record is now one game won and 11 lost, instead of one and 10. » cOo The Yellow Jackets will have their hands full at Hartford City tonight when they do battle with the Airdales. Hartford hrs lost only one game this season, to Central of Fort Wayne, and has dei seated — among others —Muncie, Marion. Bluffton, Columbia City and Huntington. 000 The Airdales moved into a first place tie with the Columbia City Eagles in the Northeastern Indiana conference race last week by defeating Auburn. Each team has now won six games and lost two, j

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, The surprise of las| week s conference schedule was Garrett's first victory of the season, the Railroaders upsetting the Kendallville Comets. In other conference games. i Bluffton defeated Decatur and Central downed North Side. 000 Conference Standing The conference standing. with ' gam. s won. games lost and gnn.es io play, is ns follows: W L TP Hanford City « 1 'Columbia City 1 I Central *'■ - 1 South Side 423 North Side 2 - •' Auburn :t t 2 Bluffton 3 4 2 Decatur 1 •' Kendallville 1 r ' 3 Garrett .17 1 000 Tho conference schedule for this week: Tuesday- Decatur at Hartford I City. Friday North Side at Auburn: Hartford City at South Side. I iSutnrday North Side at South Side. 000 Tim schedule tor Adams county teams this week follows: Tuesday *— Yellow Jackets at Hartford City. Thursday New Haven at tho Commodore gym. Friday—Commodores at Berne: Kirkland at Monmouth; Jefferson at Petroleum; Bryant at Hartford; Monroe at Poling. Saturday — Yellow Jackets at Wabash; Geneva vs Poling at Hartford gym: Pleasant Mills vs Monroe at the Kirkland gym. PETERSON NFWS Mr. and Mrs. Gust Bleek ■ moved from the Weber farm to Peterson hist week. Robert Beery from South of Peterson is sipending the winter hi New Mexico. Floyd Bright and son Donovan of Montpelier. Ohio, visited with George Bright and Nelson Abbott. Tuesday and Wednesday. Mis. Roll ,Houck. Mrs. George Bright and Mabie Marshoil spent Thursday with Mrs. John Arnold. Mrs. Frank Spade and son Ralph nd Mrs. Otto Dilling and daughter nan of Preble spent Thursday with 'rs. Delton Passwater and daugh?r Fern in Decatur. Miss Frances Abbott spent Friay.evening with Miss Velma Spade Mr. and Mm. Charles Zimmerman called on friends in Peterson Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Aungst of Fort Wayne tailed on Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ball. Sunday. Oscar Weldy called on Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Weldy Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Bright of Decatur" ailed on Mr. and Mrs. George Blight Sunday. Miss Frances Abbott spent Suni day with Miss Clara Ellen Mamma. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spade and daughter Velma spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dilling and family in Preble. o •— COLLEGE SCORES Indiana 34; lowa 25. Minnesota 32, Chicago 22. Northwestern 24; Wabash 23. Butler 33, Creighton 32. Michigan State 23; Wisconsin 22. o Tilden Wins Lincoln. Neb. Feb. 6—(UP) —Big Bill Tilden defeated Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena in a professional tennis match here last night, 6-1, j 7-5, 6-1.

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CINCINNATI TO START SYSTEM New President of Cincy Reds Inaugurates “Farm” System New York, Feb. 6. —(U.R) —As tho first step toward establishing an extensive “cooperative ranch’’ system, an innovation in baseball, officials of “the Cincinnati Reds announced today that they had purchased an option on the Toronto club of the International league. Under this option the Reds can send players to Toronto and obtain from the leafs any tnen they be-; jlieve have oig league ability. The deal was arranged last night after a lengthy conference among Powel Crosley, Jr., the new millionaire president of the Reds; Larry!

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MacPhail. vice-president and business manager; Bob O’Farrell, manager. and George Oakley. Toronto president, and Ike Boone, Toronto manager. MacPhail explained that this was (the only deal of its kind that would be made with a double “AA’’ club, but that he expects to make several wth class B, C and D outfits. ! "We already have a similar agreernenf with Bartlesville, Okla., of the western association," he said. "And we expect to make one shortly with Beckley, W. Va„ of the MidAtlantic league." — o Early River Navigation The first trip m 1 the ohic rivet by gteamixiat w;>s Hade In May 1815. by the Enterprise of 75 tom- ) Rhe traveled from New Orleans tc j Louisville tn that year the trip tak fng 25 days The steamer Washlny ton made “he same trip in 1816 ano Inaugurated steamboat navigation la the .Misstasltipi valley

»IILS | COLORADO MAN Madman Slashes Two In R a d i o Broadcasting Station At Los Angeles Ixie Angeles, Feb. 6 (U.B -A ••madman” who walked Into a , .Udlo station and slashed two vie , tims. one fatally, with n huge Jack knife while s< reums were carried , 1 into the microphone, aummeroa out a weird atory " r "putling blue I rings around the tmW today tIM he awaited a sgtiily hearing. A radio cooklug class was In j j session when Clatence L. Walters. <4l went berserk In an adjoining room and before he could be I quelled Kdwi'i Wolverton, 21 of Grand Junction. Colo., lay il.'»‘X and Warren Fehlman. 40. fiimnclal writer for the Wall Street Journal. was wounded. "I went to the studio to show them how to put blue rings around the moon" Walters declared n the psychopathic ward of Genera! i Hospital, “if 1 stabbed a boy he . must have got in my way Wolverton was wounded as ho wrestled with his assailant. The latter’s knife pierced his skull to the brain. He died In Georgia . street receiving hospital within a) , few minutes. Fehlman. who also sought to ’ overpower Walters, was slashed ’ about the head but his wounds, ’ were not considered serious. 'i Walters accosted G. E. Wylie.! 1 station manager, in the corridor. ■i Wylie struck him a glancing blow : • with his fist. Walters fell and before he could i egain his feet. . other studio attaches overpowered [! him. The pandemonium penetrated ' the audience room where Mona Van Eyke was broadcasting cook- ■| ing lessons ip the presence of 1 ->•• I other women. A panic was averted when attendants barred the door. MONROE NEW’ Mr. and Mrs. John Floyd entertained Rev. .and Mrs. E. M. Dunbar and Mr. and Mrs. John Crist at six | o’clock dinner Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wagoner and

family of Montpelier j|| gmsts of Mr and' Sprunger. ' Mr. and Mrs. R ( . ilb „ n ■ and family and m, no Wittwer of H,.,,,,. ~i (| ; ■ Mrs. Ix»yd . lh| Bluffton visit,-,| m, , lhi) '’™® Brandpborry Sun luy R Howard 11iamM,,.,, v polls SjiMlt ih,- w „,.|, ~h || piireiils. Mr. and M R|( ’ ■ dyberry. 11 w Mrs. Frank Moor,. „ r J spent the wo.-ken.| Aith ents, R«v. and Mr,< i; M I Mrs. Lewis Burnett ~f, b Ohio, visited Mrs. || ,rrir ( c S and Mr. and Mr-- , J land family. I Mrs. Martha L;uh, lt 0( I ) Wayne Vlsitid Mr. an,| B ! Wagoner Th ursdai ■ Mr. und Mrs. Gerald Mrs. Don Essex of Howitt, ij sas. arrived Fridar i,„ Mr. Essex's gran.l taih.-rJ M J .sex and other rehitn.a They accompanied by m, . E ma ii W J ter. who has been i idling | IHr B Allen Valentine at D-witt. I Mr. and Mrs. Huliert MeyJ Fort Wayne spent the wwj with Mr. and Mrs. ,1. p Crist, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde || WI J and family of Fort Wayne yj Mr. Hendrivk's parents, M r 1 Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks Snnd a J Mr. and -Mrs. Alfred Ha:iii fr t| daughter Loma. Le.- Miller and I Lewis Barnett motored to J ■ Ohio, Sunday and spent the! ' with relative* and ft tends. I

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