Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1934 — Page 6

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GIANTS DEFEAT CARDS. 4 TO 1 Add To League Lead; Detroit Gains Full Game On Yankees New York, Sept. 15. —(U.R) --'Hal Schumacher gained another stride in his campaign to supplant Carl Hubbell as the Giants' ace moundsman. with a five-hit pitching performance as the New York Giants captured a 4-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. It was Schumacher's 22nd victory of the season. Freddie Frankhouse, Braves' right-hander, turned in his 17th victory of the season, when Boston defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 4.2. I Seven hits were all the Reds j could get off his slants, while his ' teammates came through with I timely hits for four runs. Other National league games j were rained out. Charley Gehringer ended a 12- j inning nip and tuck battle when he blasted a home run into the! right field bleachers scoring Coch. | rane ahead of him to give the De-1 troit Tigers a 6-4 victory over the . Washington Senators. Bob Burke, hurling for Washing-1 ton. gave up only two hits in eight : Innings and was on the long side of a 2-1 score, when Hank Greenberg. who collected three of the] seven hits the Tigers garnered, i homered in the last half of the 1 ninth to knot the count. The Cleveland Indians made it one game each for the series when they smashed out a decisive 12-5 —— I — —

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victory over the New York Yankees. The Indians annexed a lead which they never relinquished, when Earl Averill hit his 27th home run of the season In the first inning, after Galutzer got on base by virtue of Crosettl's fumble. . .Milt Gaston rose to unexpected heights when he hurled a brilliant 1 to 0 shutout over Wes Ferrell, as the White Sox opened a four game series against the Boston I Red Sox. > The Chicagoans took advantage I of Ferrell’s wildness to score the only run of the game in the first inning on Simmons' walk. Bon lira s single and successive buses on ' balls to Uppling and Hayes. After • that Ferrell was every bit as good a pitcher as Gason. The Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Browns divided a 1 double-header, the A's taking the , curtain-raiser 9-7. then dropping I the nightcap. 5.2. ——. —.—-o * Play Tennis Match On Asphalt Courts Announcement was made this' I morning that the Decatur Portland i , i tennis match will be played Sun-i day at the asphalt courts n West i I Adame street, instead of the South ! Side club t-ourts on Winchester I street, as ureviously announced, i Five singles and two doubles; I matches will be played, with the ,! first encounter scheduled to start : at 1 o’clock. I Floral Company Team Is Winner The Decatur Floral company ; I team defeated the United Brethren ' team. 2 to 1. in a softball gam*: II played as one of the features of the ; 11 fall festival at the South Ward I school Friday evening The winners i 'obtained cne hit and committed six I errors, with the church team hitt- ■ ing safely three times and making I three errors. Krud p and Brokaw formed the battery for the winners I | with Evert and Baughn in the points I I for the losers. —o Display Standard 1934 Home Toronto. Ont. —(U.R) —A replica of the standard 1934 home is on view , at the Canadian National Exhihi. : tion this year. Featuring the ex- : hibit is a large bed. fully equipped I with ropes, interwoven to form 1 "restful" springs. Resting on the “springs” is a huge straw mattress! said to have been a real luxury 100 years ago. o Get the Habit — Trade at Home

I CORTI Watch Our Ad Daily, Your Name May Appear Next. Hello Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Saylors ! You are ‘nvited to our theatre Sunday matinee as our guests. Please bring this ad with you. Not transferable. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Lobenstein, Monroe, will be our guests Monday night. SUNDAY MONDAY. TUES. The Year's Funniest Comedy “Friends of Mr. Sweenev” Charles Ruggles. Ann Dvorak. Eugene Paliette. Dorothy Tree. Plus-Mickey Mouse, News and Comedy. 10-25 c — TONIGHT — Tim McCoy. Shirley Grey “BEYOND THE LAW" Pius—Comedy, Cartoon. Screen. Snapshots. 10-15 c ft 1 Sunday, Mon., Tues. Continuous SUNDAY from 2 to 10 p. m. Matinees Mon. & Tues, at 3 p. m. I WALLACE BEERY and JACKIE COOPER ! in “TREASURE ISLAND” Wi t h Lionel Barrvmore, Lewis Stone. Otto Kruger. ‘Chic* Sale. Added--Cartoon. 10c -25 c -1 ■ TONIGHT —“BACHELOR BAIT" with Stuart Erwin, Pert Kelton, 'Skeets' Gallagher, Rochelle Hudson, Berton Churchill. Added — “LOST JUNGLE” with Clyde Beatty, and WILLIE WHOPPER Cartoon. 10c-15c.

COUNTY LEAGUE GAMES PLAYED Monmouth And Monroe Down Pleasant Mills And Kirkland I The Monmouth and Monroe high school softball teams were victorious in Adams county league games played Friday evening after school. The Monmouth team defeated I Pleasant .Mills. 6 to 3, and Monroe downed Kirkland, 6 to 3. The games were played at Pleasant Mills and Kirkland. It was the second victory of tha season for .Monmouth, the Root | township lads defeating i.Morq-oe Tuesday evening. 19 to 10. The Kirkland-Pleasant • Mills gam;', i postponed from Fridofy, Sc .Mem Iter 7, will be played tarly next I week. i Scores by innings: Monmouth 100 140 0 • 6 10 1 I Pleasant Mills 10l 000 1- 36 1 E Merica and Frttxinger; Ar- ■ tnond and Edgell. I Monroe 100 103 1 • 6 I Kirkland 000 010 2-3 Andrews and Wolfe; 1). Adler and Huffman. - Games Next Week Friday. September 21. Mon- ' month and Pleasant Mills at Kirkland. STANDINGS — AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. I Detroit ... 90 49 .647 | New York 86 51 .611 Cleveland 75 64 .540 I Boston >0 69 .501 St. latuis 63 75 .457 Washington 61 76 .415 ' Philadelphia s'B 78 .426 Chicago 49 87 .360 NATIONAL LEAGUE * W. L. Pct. New York 88 51 .632 St. Louis 82 56 .594 ; Chicago 80 56 .588 ‘ Boston 70 66 .515 1 Pittsburgh 66 67 .496 I Brooklyn .. 59 77 .43/ | Philadelphia 50 83 .376 Cincinnati 48 87 .356 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. ■ Minneapolis 85 63 .574 I Columbus 82 68 .547 | Milwaukee 80 70 .533 I Indianapolis 76 73 .510 . Louisville 76 73 .510 , Toledo 68 81 JU St. Paul 66 8.4 .4401 i Kansas City 65 86 .430 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League Chicago. 1; Boston, 0. Philadelphia, 9-2; St. Ixniis, 7-5. I Detroit, 6; Washington, 4 (12 innings). Cleveland. 12; New York. 5. National League Boston, 4; Cincinnati, 2. New York. 4; St. Louis, 1. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, rain. ; Chicago at Brooklyn, rain. American Association Milwaukee, 4: Kansas City, 3. 1 Minneapolis at St. Paul. rain.

Consider Soviet Membership at League Session * The new $3,000,000 League of Nations palace in Geneve'.

Scene during league session. 1 j Most important of the business to be transacted ' I at the new League of Nations assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, is the nomination and election of i ] Soviet Russia to membership in the world parlia- ., ment of nations. Dictator Stalin and Foreign Min-<.. ister Maxim Litvinov, partly because of tenseness . i toith Nazi Germany and Japan, have decided to

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934.

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NEW BRIDGES ARE ACCEPTED CONTINUED FROM PAGE CNE) tors expect tn place the top surfacing within seven days. When completed the road will be one of* the shortest state high-; ; ways in the state. It will be only . eight miles long. Tlie pavements have already been placed over the following bridges: Borem Run. near the country duh: Raudenbush. near the road which turns off towards tlie county infirmary, and Yellow Creek, near Sunset Park. The load department will begin laying - pavement on the fourth bridge over Blue Creek, six miles from ; Decatur, next Monday. The Ohio State highway depart-; ment is completing a stretch of' paving on their state highway, | number 54, which will connect with the Indiana rond. This will , make an improved highway from ] Decatur and IT. S. highway 27 to I Lima and Cincinnati. o ONE MAN KILLED IN GUN BATTLE (rOVTTNUED FROM PAGE ONE) ••••• • • ♦ * • brought down one of the fleeing gunmen who were making for an j automobile parked nearby. The remaining two stopped long | enough to exchange shots with Richards who was unharmed but ( who claimed he wounded one of : the remaining two in the battle. I Hauling one of his wounded com- ; panions into the ear wiih hira, •the. third gunman drove away. The wounded man left behind was in serious condition and was I unidentified. Motive for the shooting of ! Adduci was unknown. •Wells County Farm Is Sold By Col. Reppert i The Sim Mayer farm, 40 acres, (two miles s uth of Bluffton on state

Maxim Litvinov c join the league at last in order to ally public opinion on their side should war break out. In order to prevent humiliation for Russia, should its candidacy be in danger of blackballing, France, England and Italy have discreetly lined up votes so that the Soviets will find the welcome mat un-

i highway No. 1 1 yesterday for chaser beinf : Bluffton, wh The sale v ' Fred Repper National Rea Bartlett of M buyers from tent and the .udlcations a lands are or number of been made re Realty Comp ganization e states. FEAR A? OUTB Al CONTINUE! the League < yesterday by Waldenegg, . ister, was s earnestly for independence Tlie Nazis the putsch t putsch would planned, and much suppor they obtained ren in Gernn The imme appears in Ju Nazis in Gt curbed by Cl because indig pected Gernu putsch. Reliable s< nearly 2,000 11 storm troopei into service the southern bordering on 200 men are pathla, a tot I frontier, not forces, whose ment refuses I Heiniwehr be guarding roads and pi

. 1. was sold at auction >r SBS per acre, the purig Howard Sawyer of lo kt paying cash. was conducted by Col. rt of this city for the alty Company, C.l. Carl Muncie, assisting. Many i a distance were pree bidding was spirited, are that prices of farm >n the increase and a excellent salee have ecently by the National pany, which has an orextending over many o NOTHER IREAK FROM USTRIAN NAZI p FROM PAGE ONE' of Nations at Geneva y Baron Egon Berger Austrian foreign nonsignificant. He asked >r support of Austrian e. failed ignominously in of July 25. The next id be better timed and 1 would depend on how rt, especially financial, ■d from Hitlerite brethlany. ediate danger, if any, ugoslavia. the Austrian iermany having been ’hancellor Adolf Hitler ignant big powers suslany fostered the July sources divulged that hei4.wehr and Catholic ers have been pressed along the frontier of a province of Styria, n Jugoslavia, while 2.e under arms in Cartai of 4.200 along the counting federal army le strength the governs to divulge. men were reported to all railroads, bridges, lublic buildings.

SPEECH FRIDAY BRINGS DEMAND i FROM LEADERS —— I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE >*-**-**-«* < < ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • • • • the strike. "The President's investigating board is better qualified to judge whether the strike is Justified than Johnson." he said, "we await their report with confidence." Woll said Johnson's attack would not disturb the strike leadership. President Roosevelt was watch ing the situation closely as he steamed tow’ard the strike torn New England area aboard the yacht Nourmahal. He asked sec retary of war George Dern and Major General Fox Conor to meet him at Newport, R. 1., today to discuss possible need of federal troops. This need seemed abating 'oday. Rhode Island was fairly quiet and the state legislature adjourned without action. One flareup occurred at Worcester, Mass, where 10 persons were arrested at a mass meeting led by Ann Burlak. communist "red flame.'• Governor Theodore Francis Green’s action in calling out the national guard in Rhode Island received the tacit approval of Gorman who said he believed the executive was attempting to protect rights of strikers as well as property. Green said strike leaders themselves had urged use of the militia to replace hostile ■private mill guards. o CROWD ATTENDS FALL FESTIVAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) them last evening Mrs. Don K. Lutes, president of !the South Ward Parent-Teachers i association was chairman of th-> program. o Chicago Gambler Dies Os Wounds Chicago, Sept. 15.—(U.PJ — Paul (Sunny» Cuprea. 34-year-old gambler and handbook operator, died in a hospital early today of wounds | received when he was set upon by three assassins in the midst of heavy traffic on the near north side. A few minutes before his death Cuprea told police he was shot by holdup men but authorities were skeptical of the story and believed he had been "put on the spot” because of his gambling activities. Cuprea said the gunmen entered | his car and shot him down when he attempted to flee on foot. Scores of passing motorists witnessed the shooting. MANY REFORMS IN GOVERNMENT ARE ADVOCATED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) at less than $5,000. 'Licensing • f all taverns and inns to sell whisky by the bottle or drink. Reduction of gasoline tax. Abolition of "loan shark" agencies. Removal from the gross income tax law of the clause taxing municipal utilities. Making membership of the state industrial board elective. Opposing working of municipal employes more than eight hours a day. Condemning NRA codes providing

FOR SALE The undersigned will offer PUBLIC AUCTION nt the East door of the Court House at ten o'clock a. m. on the 29th day of Sept., 1934, part of Inlot 546, located between 10th and 11th streets, and belonging to the estate of Mary E. Fisher, deceased. E. BURT LENHART. Administrator MADISON THEATRE Matinee 2 P. M. TONIGHT 6:30 ! “THE LAST MILE” featuring Howar'l Phillips and Preston Foster. Added-Episode 5 Buck Jones in “Gordon of Ghost Citv.” Comedv, “Meeting Mazie” with Sfering Hollowav; Universal News. 10&15c. Sunday, Mon., Tues. Matinee 2 P. M. Sunday “IN THE MONEY” featuring l Skeets Gallagher, Lois Wilson j ADDED—Sammy Fain, Melody I Maker featuring songs by the , Eton Boys. Puzzlegraph. Univer- | sal News. 10c & 15c

I leas than a decent living wage or 'more than 30 houre work a week. 1 The convention also went on rec- > ord as affirming the Innocen-e of T m Mooney and demanding his 'immediate release. I Another resolution contained a petition to the National labor board t to appoint G. T. Watson. Indiana I polls, as examiner for the South Bend region after the dissolution of the regional labor boards Sept. O' Sleeping Sickness Takes Another Life 1 Alexandria, Ind., Sept. 15 <U.R) ' Floyd E. Casterllne, 27, of Alex- i undria, died in the Blackford | 1 county hospital yesterday of encephalitis He was stricken while' ' at work Tuesday and brought to' the hospital where doctors diagnosed the case as sleeping sickness. o ■ Woman Found Dead In Hotel Bedroom J Chicago, Sept. 15 -(U.R)—L-ashed to a bed post and garroted by i neckties, the body of Mrs. Mar- . garet Routnel, 35, was discovered | I today In the hotel room of her di. [ vorced husband. . PolTfe. who believed at first she . had been murdered, ordered a i i search for her husband. G. T. | . Routnel. He operates a tavern di- 1 r rectly across the street from the . loop hotel where the body was found. | Later they discovered two notes.

New Fall Hats; $2.95 1* Our splendid asso r t m e nts embrace all the new favorites — from the popular new / V dark tones to the smart light \X e 1 shades! cl ' Sheets Brothers Cleaners and Hatters 213 N. 2nd st ■ ■■ " Thank You! It is with all sincerity that cordially wish to express our thanks to the many persons who took advantage of our demonstration of the CHRYSLER AIR FLOW and other cars during the Belta Theta Tau parade of stars. We enjoyed it as much as you did und are p’eased with the enthusiasm and words of praise you have given these great cars. With Pleasure We are glad to inform you that i “Luiky Teter and his Hell Driv ers” will give a thrilling demonstration of the PLYMOUTH Sponsored by the Fort Wayne American Legion at the F" 1 ’ 1 , Wayne speedway, ’ SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 . 2 o’clock Decatur time. A (wo hou r performance "f breath-taking, death def yi »<• stunts in fast and powerfu automobiles. , Phil L Macklin Co. i

one containing ln.t Wcl |„„ " disposition of her “ other addremu t 0 .Mr,'p, ’ Creery, Went Phlla^u^ he| I Routnel formerly i lv 'i ‘ * Philadelphia and * son there. Sergt Frank D„ nal coroner a xtaff .aid he »' 1 .vince.l the attractive b nm 1 '■“« Ohio High ( ourt To Hear A ppe> Columtbw. O hio , Sept. lu —Ohlotv aupreme court win l next Wednexday argument.? peal of the conviction. ll( | Pieris.nt and Charlo Maki., I bers of the gang o f th „ I Dillinger, who are under <|mu, * 1 fences. “ * Defense counsel claims ernwt trial proceedings for the tw u sters who were <■ mvlcted of a Ing sheriff Jenee L. Sarber, u in delivering John Dilling,’, the Allen county jail almost ago. An earlier hearing of the apg motions waa prevented by the■ 1 mer rece;« of the high court ! will reconvene Tuesday. Arthur D. Unversaw, Bernem ney, who la moving his office i Decatur ha-s rented rooms ig < ' Peoples Ixvan & Trust hink builfl l.le will not share offices witkj mer judge C. L. Walters as errg jeously stated in the Democrat ]. evening.