Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1934 — Page 6

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CENTRAL LEAGUE IS REORGANIZED Fort Wayne Is One of Six Cities In New Basehall League Fort Wayne. March 26 il'l't Tbit cUy will again place a team in Wgatlized iuisehftH this season. This fact wa, assured Sun lay atternoon when the Central league was reorganize! at a meeting here. Six clubs were taken into thei orCanizalioi at the meeting, with ■ a possibility that two more teams, may be milled before the season i ope’:-1. I Cities definitely In the league are ; Fmt Wayne, Grand Rapids, Mttske-' won, L.ipsing and South Ren i. The sixth club will l>e either Jackson or Kalamazoo, with Ray City ami Flint also under consideration for mem-' te'ship: Terre Haute was represented at j’ the meeting and was ready to go. Imt was the only city of the pro- ! po.se.l southern half of the circuit . on hand so it was decided to res* trict the league to northern Indiana , and southern Michigan cities. E. \V. Dickenson of Grand Rapids was r. lined president, secretary and . treasurer. The only other officer is J. H. iMub) Hart of Fort Wayne. ' who is vice-president. Plans call for tie opening of the .season May 11, with a schedule of 120 games. .Night baseball will lie played in all cities, t will probale ,

ADAMS THEATRE Tonight and Tuesday “GOING HOLLYWOOD” with i‘ Marion Davies. Bin? Crosby, Stuart Erwin. Fifi Ned Sparks. I’atsv Ke’lv. ADDED - - “ROAST BEEF ' AND MOVIES” a Colortone Comedv and Travelogue. * 1 WED & THURS. Francis Lederer, Elissa Landi, “MAN OF TWO WORLDS.” A SOI L ON FIRE WITH RED ROM XNCE! Now you’ll know why thousands fought to see him! COMING — ‘BOLERO." "• — ■ WfIU ,

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ly lie a split season. Th" salary limit was place I at *I.BOO a team or i 175 for an Individual player. 59 Freed From Liquor Charges Philadelphiu. March 26 (I'l'l- - Senator John J. Me 'lure and 58 eo-d«-fen l ints were freed today by the It. S. Circuit court of appeals in one of the most sensational liquor cases of the dry era. NATIONAL TITLE TO JOLIET, ILL Catholic High of Joliet Defeats California Team In Finals Chicago. Mar. 26 (U.R)- For the third time in the eleven year history of tlie National Catholic High school basketball tournament. Catholic High of Joliet. 111., has won the (hampionship. Joliet won its third title last night by defeating St. Mary's of Stockton. Calif., in the final game 20-17. Joliet previously had won the title in 1927 and 1928 under the name of De larSalle. John Carroll coached all three chantpionship teams. Joliet led at halftime. 19-9. St. Patrick's Academy. Chicago, won third place by defeating Prairie Du Chien. Wis.. 25-16. St. Rita High. Chicago, won the consolation title by triumphing over Quincy Academy. Quincy. 111., 34-15. ASKS PROBE OF WIRT CHARGES (CONTTNI’RD FfiOV PAGE ONE) and physics text books, a 6'i-year old educator who turned from the the three R’s to national economies smiled placidly today on the tempest raging about him. Dr. William A. Wirt, who holds a *15.000 a year contra-1 as superintendent of schools in this smokepallel city of steel mills, calmly stood his ground as repercussions of his charges against President Roosevelt's "brain trust” spread acrops the country. "I meant every word of it and I'll have more to sav if I am called before an Investigating committee in Washington” he said as three telephones in his sparsely furnished office jangled with long distance calls. o ■ — . — Get the Habit — Trade at Home

MICHIGAN WINS BUTLER RELAYS Negro Track Star Leads Team To Victory In Relays Saturday Indianapolis. Mar. 26 /U.R>- Led I l.y Willi i Ward, negro star, the I I'niversity of Michigan won team | honors in the second anniffil RutI lor relays here Saturday. Ward's individual brilliance was equalled only by Heye Lamberths el the I'niversity of Nebraska, who set a world Indoor mark of i 6.7 seconds in the 60-yard low , I hurdles. Michigan won the team chant-' ; pionship with 18% |«oints. The I University of Kansas was second with 15%; Indiana third with 15 and Purdue fourth with 14. Other teams finished as follows: Illinois 10%: Notre Dame 9; ' Eastern State. 8; butler. 8; Ne- ■ hraaka. 7; Michigan State. 6; | Michigan Normal. 5%: Kansas i State, 5; Ohio State. 5; Miami 1 university. 4; Depauw university. I 3; I'niversity of Chicago, 3; Carleton college. 2; I’niversity of Pittsburgh. 2; Ohio Wesleyan, 1: I Hillsdale. 1: Drake, »$. Glenn Cunningham. Kansas uni-, versity. easily won the mile run : from Ray Sears of Rittler in 4:17.9. 1 Cunningham failed to live up to | his promise to break his own 1 world indoor mark of 4:8.4. Sears led for the first half mile ' ' lint Cunningham went ahead at I | the end of five laps and was never seriously pressed. Milow of Chicago finished third and Glendennng of Purdue was fourth. o Adopts Report On Commodity Measure Washington, March 26 (UPl—i The house adopted the conference report today on the Jones-Connally bill adding seven agricultural pro- 1 ducts to the AAA basic commodity list. The revised measure must be ap- 1 proved by the senate before it goes , to the White House. o Hartford City ’s First Mayor Dies Hartford City. Ind.. Mar. 26—(U.R’ —John A. Bonham. 72. prominent i Hartford City attorney, and tonne;-1 Republican memker of the Indiana , legislature, died at his home here , today. He was the first mayor of 1 Hartford City. — o Local Churches To Give Cantata Several of the Decatur protestant 1 churches will combine to present | an Easter cantata Sunday. April 1,1 at the Methodist church at 4 p. m. The name of the ca.ntata will he : Life Everlasting" by H. W. Petrie. Mrs. Dan Tyndall will be the directress and Mrs. Carrie Haubold will be at the organ. Singers from ’ the various churches will take part. | The complete program will be announced later. Pay Depends on Rain Dover. 0.,-(UP —Some folks get the blues when it rains, but John Dilger, weather observer, gets paid only when it rains. He will receive ' no pay for last October. November I and December, he learned, because i the rain tall was not heavy enough to record. He is paid 50 cents for I each rainfall message the only pay I e gets. o , Alaska Commerce Up Juneau. Alaska.— (U.R) —Alaska s total commerce for 1933 showed an I increase of more than *3.000,000 over 1932. Shipments in 1933 were valued at *64,080,445. of which i *43 263,678 was outbound and *2O, I 826.267 inbound.

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Principals in the alleged poison plot that has centered the spotlight of public interest on the quiet community of Spring Lake. N. J. Center, Robert C. Miller, official of the American Legion and wealthy contractor, who

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still '‘TAKING IT.' OF /* 'C camera is a \ TARGET f-OK. 4 .1’ CRITICISM AND la t/** 11 ijgia'.u ■ a 'T>' \ abuss-the most ■ / a. UNPOPULAR OF J 9 ALL heav/ MF N - SoMH CRITICS HAVE .. RUT*" HS CAVE TOMMy CALLED HiM A CHEESE <-OUGH«AN A BAD CH AM Pl OM, AND SAY x A ~fT BEATING- AND THAT BAER. WILL KNOCK. X TOM BEAT him our-- ’ V eAFR ’ —A--& x X. x. \

Tit For Tat New Britain, Conn (U.R)—Joseph Polewaczyk was on his way to city hall to testify he witnessed his friend, Joseph Symolon receive serious injury as result of a tali on an icy sidewalk, when he slipped in the snow and cracked two ribs. When he got out of the hospital both men testified in each other’s itehalf. — o Four Villages Sold Istanbul.—(U.Rl — A rich Jew of Palestine is reported to have purchased four villages in the DjebelDrttz zone of Syria for *6S.(HtU. The' villages are to be evacuated with- , in six months to make way for the ' installation of Jewish immigrants. ■ o Poor Box Robbers Caught Boston —(UP) —The poor box at ' SS. Peter and Paul Church, South l Boston, is the bane of thieves. Sev- i enteen thieves have been captured 1 during the past two years while attempting to rifle it. In each case the capture was effected through a home-made burglar alarm, the in-

Warns of 'Great” Auto Strike — ■ M WB t x h, W B ML. BR 9 Despite pacific efforts of deneral Hugh Johnson (lower left), NRA Administrator, tension increases in automobile industry as W. S. Knudsen (upper), executive vice-president of General Motors flatly tells National Labor Board his corporation will never recognize an American Federation of Labor union or sign a contract with it. At right, President William Green, A. F. of L., as he predicted greatest strike in history of auto industry.

is accused of attempting to poison his wife, Mral Elizabeth C. Miller fright) with cyanide of potassium! in tea. At left, Mrs. Milfred Conklin, friend of Miller, held in SI,OOO as material witness

Fvention of the Rev. James iA. O'Rourke, the pastor. o Swamped By Contest Naples. (U.R.- -<’ity officials, who recently announced a contest of "ideas” to fill the post of Chief Civil Engineer, have been swamped with plans, documents and suggestions. One candidate sent his material, containing suggestions for 2,000 different projects, in ten trunks, delivered by truck. o Married 76 Years Macon. Mo —(U.R> —A 76-year-old marriage ended recently with the I death of Mrs. A. G. Wither, 92. at ! Glencoe. Okla. The couple was 'married 76 years ago last Dec. 22. Wither, now 97 years old. and five children survive. ______ Humanity's Crucible Throughoirt history. courage character. Intelligence and hard work have wrested victory from the most adverse circumstances —CWMer's Weekly

* \t the Training Camps By United Pres* I Los Angeles. Mar. 26 f U.P' Touched off by Alky Vaughn's homer the Pittsburgh Piratei^ unleashed’a three run rally in the ninth to defeat the Chicago White Sox. 8 to 5. at Wrigley field yesterday. Th" victory gave the Pirates' a sweep of Ute two game series. Melne and Smith kept Chicago's 10 hits fairly well spaced, while the Pirates hammered out 16 off Finney. Lyons. Hoving and Pomorosky. Sacramento. Cal.. Mar 26 (U.R) After twice tying the score, once on Gabby Hartnett's home tun, the Chicago Cans dropped a 5-4 ver diet io Sacramento here yesterday when the Sacs pushed across a run in the last half of the ninth. Mai one. Warneke and Daven|a»rt were nicked (or eight hits. Winterhaven. Fla.. Mar 26—(U.R) Outfielder Ivy Shiver, who was purchased yesterday from the Detroit Tigers, was expected to join up today with the Cincinnati Reds It was a straight cash deal. The amount is understood to have been *16,000. Winterhaven. Fla... Mar. 26. —(U.R) Captain Dick Bartell of the Phillies. ace shortstop of the National league, will l>e out of today's game with Cincinnati. He may be on the sidelines for more than three weeks because of a I,ad sjdke wound. Miami Bec.h. Fla.. Mar. 26.—(U.R) - Outfielder George Watkins, whom the New York Giants acquired by trade with the Cardinals for Geo Davis, is in camp, signed and ready to play.. St, Petersburg. Fla.. Mar. 26.— (U.R) —Babe Ruth seems to have discovered Pone ce Leon's fountain of youth. The Babe has slammed out six home runs thus far in exhibition games, a new high for the bambino. He connected for his sixth yesterday against the Braves, who broke the Yanks' victory string at six straight with a 5-3 defeat. o •— Get the Habit — Trade at Home

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> TO PAY FUTURE LOANS IN BONDS ’ (CONTINUED FROM rary*Lenltart that t’te federal farm - mortr nge corporal ion bonds will , |,» urt attractive Investment. I ' They will be as readily marketable as bonds of the United States i government and they will be quoted In all of the principal markets." i Ik continued. "Holders who have • to dispose of these bonds should . not sell them without first nscer- . talning their real market value. The governor particularly stressed the fact th it country banker's >1 probably will be large Investors in 'i these securities since the creditors • of farmers who are being refiu- - i am ed may not all be in the posl|tion whore they can hold the i bonde so acquired and will find it necessary to sell them. Secre--1 tary Ix»nhart states that these ! bonds, which will he tendered to I farmers' (reditors in payment of i: the refinanced indebtedness, are . i "exempt from all federal, state, municipal and local taxation, exi cept surtaxes and estate, inheritance and gift taxes. They are . lawful security for fifteen-day i borrowings by member hanks of the federal reserve system. They are also lawful investments for I all trust, public and fiduciary funds of which the deposit or InI vestment is under the authority or . control of the government The . payments of the interest on these bonds and the repayment of their principal are guaranteed by the United States, which means that I if the federal farm mortgage cor- ; poration should ever lie unable to ' meet the payments on the bonds, the treasury will assume such payments. | "These tends will be issued in denominations of *!(<(>, *SOO and *I.OOO. However, amounts less than *IOO wlil he distributed in cash. For example, aloan of *965 would be made in a *SOO bond, four *IOO bonds and the rest in j cash. In addition, to provide tor 1 certain debts, such as taxes which j cannot be paid in bonds, cash covi ering the required amounts will I be provided. ' "Loans which have been applied for and approved, but on which

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