Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1934 — Page 6

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LARGE CROWDS ATTEND FIRST SEASON GAMES Total of 187,500 Attend Eight Games In Major League Cities ■New York. Apr. IS — (U.B — Granting that portents of opening <1 ty games are about as reliable as « barometer in a vacuum, returns from the first day s play of the 1934 major league season — in which the 16 clubs took off in massed flight—seem to indicate: 1 That the season will see a robust Increase in attendance in both circuits. 2 That sluggers, rather than pitcher*. will take command. 3 That the American league will have a wide open pennant fight for the first time in years. 4 That National circuit batsmen have found the “live" tall to their liking. Yesterday’s attendance at the < >ght inaugural games totalled *,»7 r 'am This dM not approach lhe opening record of 249.m5' set in 1931, but it did show a healthy : verage increase over last season when 97,500 attended five contests. This year’s average per game was 23.437. or an increase of 3.937 over the 1933 average. The largest crowd, 37.500 saw the world champion Giants wallop the staggering Phillies at New lork. and the smallest, 7.500, saw the Cardinals overwhelm the Pirates at St. Louis. Although most of the managers trotted out their best pitchers, batsmen were mighty active, registering 65 hits *in the National and 66 in the American circuit. This was an average of about eight safeties per club per game —a smart average. True, Lon Warneke of the Cubs turned in the season’s first one-hit performance against th** Reds, and Carl Hubbell of the Giants limited the Phillies to four. It must be remembered. however, that these two top-notch flingers were operating against the weak-sister clubs of their circuit. Adding lustre to the batsmen, six National and three American home runs were registered. Moreover, such upper-strata hurlers as Gomez. Whitehill. Brandt. Si Johnson. Blaeholder and Hildebrand were battered off the mound. Stirring events at Boston and Philadelphia indicated scrappy days in the American league The rebuilt Red Sox rose up and menaced the pennant winning Senators for 11 innings before the latter wriggled out with a 6 to 5 victory. At Philadelphia, the supposedly wrecked Athletics upset the highly touted Yankees, 6 to 5. Eral Averill’s home run and double featured Cleveland's 5 to 2 victory, over the lowly Browns. The improved Detroit Tigers issued a pennant challenge by walloping the White Sox, S to 3. in the National league, tne

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t world champion Giants started [ auspiciously by smothering the i Phillies, 6 to 1. The Dodgers beat the Braves, 8 ! to 7. The Cardinals entered a strong | bid tor the pennant by over- , 1 whelming the powerful Pirate; j ) 7 to 1. • STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. ’.Detroit _ I 0 1.000 , Cleveland 1 o I.ooo' Washington 1 0 l.oou i ! Philadelphia 1 0 l.ftOo , Chicago 0 1 00" I St. Ixxuis ft 1 .000 I , Boston ft 1 .ooti; ( New Y’ork 0 1 .0001 NATIONAL LEAGUE .1 W. L. Pct. I Brooklyn 1 0 1.090 j Chicago 1 ft 1000* New York 1 0 I.ooft ) St. Louis 1 ft l.fttftt I . Boston . 0 1 .000 Cincinnati 0 1 .ftoo Philadelphia ft 1 .000 Pittsburgh ft 1 .000 1 1 — AMERICAN ASSOCIATION — W. L. Pct. | . Indianapolis 1 0 1.000 , Louisville 1 0 I.ooft, St. Paul 1 » l.ftoo ‘ Milwaukee 10l M* , Toledo ft 1 .000 I Columbus . 0 1 .000 1 Kansas City .. 0 1 .000 i . Minneapolis 0 1 OOft YESTERDAY S RESULTS American League I Detroit. 8; Chicago. 3. Cleveland. 5: St Ixxuis. 2. Washington. 6; Boston. 5 (eleven, . innings». i Philadelphia. 6; New York. a. i National League Brooklyn. 8; Boston. 7. II Chicago. 6; Cincinnati, ft. ■ New York. 6; Philadelphia. 1. j St. Louis, 7; Pittsburgh. 1. ! American Association ’ Indianapolis, 11: Toledo. 6. >( Louisville. 8; Columbus, 5. 1 St. Paul. 1; Kansas City, 0. Milwaukee. 10; Minneapolis, 5. o YESTERDAYS HEROES > I I I. . ■ lain Warneke. Cubs; Shut out Reds with one hit. i Carl Hubbell. Giants: Limited Phillies to four hits. Joe Cronin. Senators: Bis 11th* inning double paved way for win- * ning run. Bing Miller. Athletics: Drove in winning run with ninth-inning pinch ’ single. o Ball State Wins Muncie. 6nd. Apr. 18 —(CPI —Ball; ; State Teachers college opened its 1 baseball season with an 8 to 2 vie-! i tory over Central Normal of Danville here yesterday. The lowers made 10 errors. Fitz-' ■ simmons of Central hit a home run. ;

SCHEDULE FOR TABLE TENNIS! Sixteen Players Entered In City Table Tennis Tournament The schedule for Decatur's first ' , city-wide table tennis tourney was ■ i drawn Tuesday night, with a total : ■■< 16 players entered. All matches will be played at the j I Alpha Phi Delta fraternity ruom» ; lon South Second street and are to I , l»e played as rapidly as possible I ' The tourney is being sponsored by l 1 the fraternity. The first round schedule is as fol- ] J lows: . Zimmerman vs. Prurh; Fenni- . . more vs. Clark Smith: Huffman vs j Townsend; Smltley vs. (Wan; ; , Burk vs. Sutton; Murphy vs. Heller ] lEliitiger »s G. Smith; I’-wfrish vs I Handler. ’ , ...... ..-.p - ■—*-.m-O DePauw Track Team Scores Easy Win — Franklin. Ind. Apr. IS— (IT>— j DePauw defeated Franklin (College ! |ln a Id-inning basetali game her. . I yesterday. 11 to 6 (Franklin, playing its first game ■ 1 of the season, took a six run lead lin the first two innings, but De- ; Pauw tied the score in the ninth. ' Extradvase hits by Bateman and I Thomae brought in the winning run j in the extra frameO DePauw Wins Terre Haute. Ind., Apr IS— DePauw University scored clams in six events in a track and field meet with Indiana State Teachers college here yesterday to win. 103 2-3 tc > ; 27 1-3 Wise. Lee, Kay and Taylor led the scoring for DePauw Morgan of In liana State won both dash events. — o Lou Meyer Out For His Third Victory Indianapolis, Ind. April 18—(UP) ' Lou Meyer, the 3ft year old Calif or- ' nia veteran, will use his own car 1 this year in an effort to win his , i third Soft mile race at the Indiana i polls motor speedway. Meyer won the race in 1928 and 1933 and is the only driver other j I than Tommy Milton who has won ; more than one of the s(h) mile ’ ' ' events here. In winning last year ne drove for I i Ralph Hepburn. His car is a four cylinder Miller 'Special which was constructed dur-1 I ing the winter and whic h will be , I entered in its first rae Memorial Day. j o Notre Dame Loses i South Bend. Ind.. Apr 18 —(UP) Although scoring six runs in the last inning. Notre Dame was de- s tested 14 to 7 by Western State; i Teachers in a baseball game here ( yesterday. The Irish made nine errors. Western State scored five runs in lhe fifth inning and six in the seventh, one of the latter a home run by i miller. I o MRS. DON LUTES IS RE-ELECTED CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) j Singing” and “Tip Toe.” A number of projects were sponsored during the year by parents and teachers The parents had charge of the benfit movie and the teachers of the garden seed selling. The South Ward school will pre-1 sent the play. "The Magic Bean- j stock" in the Decatur high school auditorium on Thursday night, j April 26. The proceeds from the play will be used to buy equipment I for the play ground at the ttty ; park near the school. NEW LINDBERGH KIDNAPING CLUE IS DISCOVERED (CONTINUED FWOV PAGE ONE I ! laiston in his search of rogue’s I galleries for the man who duped ’ him while the Lindbergh child lay dead on a New Jersey hillside. —o — Youth Tells Story' Os Being Kidnaped Indianapolis. Ind-. April 18—(UP) —A story of being kidnaped, taken for a night ride to Bloomington and l Martinsville and robbed of a small ■ amount of money and an autoino- 1 bile by three men was told police here today by Lester Roush. 19.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1934.

As Legion Head Answered Critics jte’ Jr 3■ 1 IS

Part of the huge parade of 10.000 American Legionnaires who gathered at Mineola. L U to hear National , Commander Eduard A Hayes defend Legion policies recently attacked by noted clergymen throughout the

McLEODBANK BILL OPPOSED I President Roosevelt Opposes Measure To Pay Depositors Washington. Apr. 18. — <U.R* — President R-vosevelt is opposed to ! lhe McLeod hanking bill to pay depositors in closed banks affiliated ; with the Federal Reserve system, it was learned a: the White House today. The President explained that j terms of the measure were too in- j definite for administration support i and he offered specific instances; of his objections to it. He pointed out that in his dis- i cussion yesterday with Rep. Clarence McLeod. R.. Mich., and A. Mitchell Palmer. McLeod s counsel, that he raised the hypothetical question of two banks going into ■ receivership. In the case of one. depositors were paid off at the rate of 6ft i cents on the dollar, the assets sold | w ithin a year and the bank closed. I The other case was that of a bank 1 that was unable to liquidate and at the eud of the year still was in i the hands of the receivers. In the latter case the depositors < would recei' e from the government' 100 cents on the dollar under the : bill. This, the President explained. I illustrates features of injustice of | the measure as drawn. He also cited that no time limit I was set by the bill and there was j a question as to how far back the j government would be compelled to go in paying off depositors. ATTORNEY SAYS STATE TO PROVE BRIBE WAS PAID (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONF) Blunk, a fingerprint expert, and Sam Cahoon, a trusty. Both were indicted on charges] of aiding and abetting the escape but the indictments made no men-! tion of bribery. \ Dillinger Wounded (Copyright 1934 by United Press) , St. Paul. Apr. 18— (U.K) —John ■ Dillinger, elusive Indiana outlaw, was wounded when he escaped i from a St. Paul apartment three i weeks ago. it was disclosed today ’ ! with discover.’ of a Minneapolis! physician who dressed the wound and a nurse who assisted. After fleeing to Indiana, where! he raided the Warsaw (Ind.) I police station early Friday for, bullet proof vests. Dillinger is j believed to have doubled back on his trail and is being sought along the Canadian border. Dillinger's injury, suffered in a | gun battle with a St. Paul policeman and a federal agent, was disclosed in a confession which department of justice investigators said they had obtained from the J physician and the nurse. Charges have not been filed against the pair, but it was understood a complaint is being drawn accusing them of harboring a fugitive. A search through the records of all hospital and physicians In I the twin cities preceded discovery * of the clue that resulted in apprehension of the couple and their ■•confession."

nation, pictured with forest of flags during march past I the reviewing stand At left Commander Hayes is i shown as he addressed the gathering in defense of ’ the much-criUcixed veteran legislation.

NEW WELL SITES GIVEN APPROVAL BY STATE BOARD (CONTiNUKD FROM FACE ONE) | lona Case property needed as roadi ways for the Sabsisteace Home stead site were filed and approved by the council. The land was do j nated by Mr and Mrs. Case as an outlet to the homestead site. A petits>n for an electric light at the alley near the Kirsch planing mill was referred to the electric I light committee. Alva Buffenbarger appeared bei fore the council and complained of (the dust and dirt on Dayton aveI nut. dne to the heavy trucks which j operate from the Decatur Casting Company. Mr. Buffenbarger ask ed relief from the condition and the j latter was referred to the street 'and sewer committee. An agreement with the Nickel ' Plate railroad relative to the city cutting under the High street crossing with the water mams to the Homestead site was filed and rei lerrvd to the city attorney for examination and approval. Bills were approved by the coun i cH and the session adjourned. COURTHOUSE Estate Cases Estate of Henry C. Getting, petiI tion to determine inheritance tax I filed, referred to county assessor. Estate of Gerhard Kohne. inheritance tax appraisal filed, notice ord ’-red returnable May 11. Estate of Katie Sprunger, applications for letters testamentary ' tiled. Bond tiled and approved. Is’tters reported and confirmed. Under Advisement Helen Rowley vs. Red Top Cab Company, damages. Motion for a new trial submitted and taken under advisement. Petition For Continuance Janies W. Barr, receiver of the ■ Farmers and Merchants Stce Bank of Geneva vs. Eli C. Stucky and Beulah E. Stucky, pete, foreclosure tof mortgage. Petition by Eli C. Stucky, defendant, for continuance | of proceedings filed. First Joint Stock Land Bank of | Fort Wayne xs. Walter Bultemeier 'et ux. Note, foreclosure of mortgage and appointment of receiver. : Motion for a continuance of pro- < eedings tiled by defendant. Walter ' Bultemeier. Summons Ordered ' Rudolph Schug vs. J. A- HendI ricks et al. note, complaint filed, i Summons ordered for all defend- • ants to sheriff of Adams county re- ; turnable May 2, 1934. Order Granted Gladys Smith vs. Archie Smith, divorce. Petition for restraining order submitted together with application for suit money. Request granted, defendant ordered to pay the sum of 85 per week for support of wife and children during proceedings. Alias Summons Ordered Amelia A. Tonnelier vs. Rose * Tonnelier et al. partition, alias summons ordered returnable April 30. 1934.. Complaint Filed Sam Nussbaum vs. Ida Nuss- ; taum. divorce, complaint filed, summons ordered for defendant returnable April 30. Case Dismissed The First State Bank vs. Rudolph Weiland et al. note and fraudulent conveyance. Cause dismissed and

costs paid. Real Estate Transfers Smith Shoemaker to the Peoples State Bank inlots 395 and 720 in Berne for >I.OO Edgar Mutschler to iida B. Gilson, inlots 758 and 757 in Decatur for 81.00. Eleanore Buettel to Arthur Shock e< ux inlot 4 in Decatur for 81.00. Marriage License Ellison Neuenschwnader. stock clerk. Morris Five and Ten Cent Store. Goshen, and Elfrieda V Habegger. stenographer. Berne. WiUiam Jeese Cobb, denlbst. Detroit. Michigan and Elizabeth A. Frank. Detroit. Michigan. o 1— Get the Habit — Traue at Home

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REDUCTIONS in RATES ORDERED Public Service Commission Orders Hutfe Savings To Consumers Indliihnpollm Apr. 18 (UP) —A ! sweeping electric .ate red notion | j estimated to ««•«■ approximately' , SS.ftOO Indiana potrona of the Pub | ||, Service Company between I 8800.0'W and 81.'»0ft.0i»ft annually. wio ordered by the public service ' commission hen* late yesterday. The order will become effective ■ May 1. and will affect electricity! users in 270 cities and towns in central and southern Indiana. Urban and rural patrons in ,sft coun-1 ties will benefit by the rate reductions. the order shows. Cities iiiduded In the order ex lend m far north as Lafaye.t?. west beyond Tern* Haute and east beyond Newcastle. The commission placed no estimate on the actucl saving to be exacted from its order, hut Sherman Minton, public counselor for the commisscioner, said it would exceed 8800.000 annually. He has ‘ ed his estimate on the business ' done by the utility in 1933. All discriminatory, special cookR | ing rates, two meter rales, active 1 room rates and odd block rates are eliminated by the new schedi, ules. Likewise, differences ber tween so-iallod standard rates established in the Bloomington t rate case of 1932 and those later set out for communities and rural ! districts in central Indiana, are ! eliminated. ‘ I Comparison of present rates 1 j with those ordered by the com- ' mission in a general way. show the following differences: Class Al towns cent cut per • kilowatt hour in the second 30 | KWH used per month and adi vancement of the 2.5 cent Kfi H i Iwo cost step to third instead of ' 1 fourth place, thus plat ing users in

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