Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1935 — Page 6

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TIGERS DEFEAT DECATUR TEAM FRIDAY, 22-20 Bluffton Downs Yellow Jackets In Loosely Played Game Here In a bitterly fought, but loosely played game, the Bluffton Tigers nosed out a 22-20 victory over the Decalur Yellow Jackets Friday night at the local gymnasium. From the standpoint of good basketball, the game was one of the poorest ever played by the two age old rivals. Many fumbl es, poor passes and weak foul shooting * marred the tilt. Decatur outscored Bluffton from the field. 8 to 7, but the Jackets made only four out of 12 chances Iron, the charity line, compared to Bluffton’s eight out of 14. The two teams wore tied at 4-4 at the end of the first quarter. Decatur held a 10-9 margin at the half. At the end of the third quarter. Bluffton held a 17 to 13 lead. Two field goals by Blythe tied the score at 17-17. McCray’s field goal put Bluffton in the lead tut two free throws by Blythe again tied the count at 19 19. Schwartz hit his third field goal of the gam • to again put Bluffton in the lead. Carson’s foul toss cut the margin to one point but Michaels tossed in | a foul shot shortly before the final , gun cracked to give the Tigers a , victory. i Blythe, veteran Decatur forward, was the outstanding player of the game with four field goals and a <

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I pair of free throws for 10 points. -Schwartz was high for Bluffton with six points. in the first preliminary, the I Bluffton high school Midgets dej foated the Central eighth grade [team. 15 to 13. The Bluffton reserv- . es made It a clean sweep for the evening by downing the Decatur ' : seconds. 22 to 21. Decatur FC FT TP Blythe, f 4 2 I'l Peterson, f 2 II 4 Myers, c 10 2 Barker, g 1 0 2 I Butler, g o 0 o ■ Carson, f 0 2 2 Hurst, c . 0 0 0 Huffman, g .000 Totals 8 4 20 ! Bluffton FG FT TP i McCray, f .12 4 1 Ludwig, f 2 0 4' Mattax. c . 0 2 2; Michaels, g Oil Flshbaugh. g 13 5; i Schwartz, g 3 0 •> I « Totals 7 8 22 J Referee: Tudor. Fort Wayne; urn-i pile: Chambers, Fort Wayne. MONMOUTH FIVE BEATS ALUMNI

Eagles Have Little Difliculty In Defeating Graduates Friday The Monmouth Eagles had little difficulty in defeating an Alumni team Friday night at the Monmouth gymnasium. 41-14. The varsity led at the half 17 to 5. Hoile was outstanding for the varsity team with 8 field goals and . one free throw for a total of 17 ;

, points. Ed Merit a scored 12 points | for the winners. Hobrock and Glen ; | Merica each scored 4 points for: the alumni. Monmouth FG FT TP E Merica, f S 2 12 Hoile, f 8 1 17 I Schuller, c 2 2 6; I Moses, g 1 0 2 ; j Gerke, g 2 0 4 Franz, g .0 0 0 1 Totals ... IS 5 41 ■ A'umni FG FT TP G. Merica. f 12 41 , 1 Heckman, f 0 0 0 Hobrock, c .2 " 1 , r ' Singleton, g ...... 0 0 0 Myers, g 113 1 Weidler, g 0 3 3 Totals 4 6 11 , Referee: Davis. Pleasant Mills. ■ Meanest Thief Ix>ng Lane. M ~ —(UP) — While . William Hutchinson, federal relief | j recipient, was attending funeral 1 servi eg for l.is wife, a thltf broke' : into his house and stripped it ct all : i loose furrish'ngs and food. Hutchi 1-1 ! son has a number of email chil ren ' ■ It? care for.

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Has 23rd Child i BROCKTON, Mas-. (U.R) — Mrs. Frank iSanlaro. who three months ; ago bi'cainc a grandmother at 40. recently gave birth to her 23rd child. Only 12 of the 23 are liv-1 Ing. She was married at the age j of 14. o COMMIESPLAY ) MARMION FIVE Illinois Academy Ouintet Will Plav Locals Here j Sunday Night Marmion academy of Aurora. Illinois, has been booked to play the Decatur Commodores at the Catholic high school gymnasium Sunday night, January 6. at 8:30 o’clock. This game, scheduled only this week, should prove one of the outstanding attractions of the season on the Commodore schedule. The Marmion team is returning from an eastern tour on which four games were carded. The Illinois : quintet played at Oil City, Pa.. Youngstown. O, and Dul’.ois, Pa.. ' closing the trip at Anderson tonight. The visiting team is coached by Howard Bond, former coach at ' Jasper academy, located at Jasper. 1 Indiana. Bond was retained as coach when Marmion and Jasper ' were consolidated a few years ago. j Bond's team has three times advanced to the semi-finals of the ’ national Catholic tourney at Chi- ' cago and last year went to the quarter-finals before being eliminated. As a preliminary game Sunday night, the Commodore alumni team will play the Cloverleaf seconds, i Season tickets will not. be honored ' for this game, with admission prices of 15 cents for students and 25 cents for adults.

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GENEVA SCORES FIRST VICTORY I Cardinals Defeat Pleasant Mills For First Victory Os Season The Geneva Cardinals scored, their first victory of the season 1 Friday night, defeating the Pleasant Mills Spartans at the Commo- j dore gym, 27 to 11. Geneva led at ; the half, 15 to 5. Buckingham was the leading scorer for the winners with six : field goals and a free throw for a ,! total of 13 points. Wil’amson scor- 1 ed five points for Pleasant Mills. I In a preliminary game, the Pleasant Tuills seconds defeated the Heaven reserves. 22 to 20. In a game played after the varsity contest. 1 the Pleasant Mills Red Hots de- ( feat»d the Wiltshire independents, I 22 to 20. Geneva FG FT TP f Grile. f . 2 1 5 ‘ Fenstermake: * 0 11 j Shepherd, c 0 0 0. Buckingham, g 6 1 13 Charleston, g 1 2 4 Beerlower, f 2 0 4 Totals.. 11 5 27| Pleasant Mills FG FT TP j Clark, f o 0 0 E. Williamson, f 0 0 0 L. Williamson, c 2 15 Anspaugh, g 1 0 2 Fdeell, g 1 I) 2 DeArmond. g 0 2 2 Riley, g 0 0 0 Teeple. g 0 0 0 Totals . ... 4 3 11 Referee: Beal, Decatur. — o WYOMING LIKES EPIC PLAN Cheyenne. Wyo., —(UP)—A program strikingly similar to that v h ch w n for Upton Sinclair the Deme, ritic nomination for governor of California will be laid before the next Wyo Ting legislature by the Wyoming State Federation of Labor. The c ie* feature of Sinclair’s FPIC p’un (End Poverty in California) is that the state shall put unemployed persons to work in idle factories and on unused land. Wyoming Libor croposee that: "Th"’ state shall a .quire, lease, or cause to be taken over idle lands, idle mines, factories and refineries, and operate the same by unemployed to supply the ne?d<? of the unemn’oyed. or f r state requirements, -’ut the pro-lucte from such oper;lons shall not be placed on the open n-erket.” The etate federation of labor also adapted an amend Tent at its Casner convention urging that the state ab nd n the contract system in public works in favor of a plan In wi’jieh the state, counties and mpnic|.palitien would control construction, using only Wyoming laborers. • o Bride A Truant Springfield. Mo. — (U.R) — Titian haired, 13-year-old Marguerite White Tate found that even a marriage certificate won’t exempt her ; from going to school, at least for a while. After the young bride had ‘played hookey" to go honeymooning for a week, truant officers told the 21-year-old bridegroom, Deward Tate, that she must attend until she is 18 or passes the eighth ;rade.

KIRKLAND FIVE BEATS COMMIES FRIDAY, 19-16 Failure To Register Free Throws Is Again Costly To Decatur The Decatur Commodores, for the second time this season, were defeated by the Kirkland Kangaroos Friday night. The final score was Kirkland. 19. Decatur. 16. Kirkland held a slight lead of 3 to 2 at the first quarter. At the half, the two quintets were tied at 6-6. When the third period ended. Kirkland held a 12 to 10 margin. Failure to register a fair percentage of free throws again proved disastrous to the Commodores. |With io chances from the foul line. I Decatur made good on only two of i the attempts. Each leant scored seven times 'from the field, wit It Kirkland makj ir.g five out of seven fr.-e throw ;. Scoring honors on both teams I were well divided. H. Wullimati |led Kirkland with three field goals and a free titrow for seven points I Smith scored live points, C. Augs- | burger four and D. Augsburger l three. Don Hess was the leading scorer for the Commodores with three 1 field goals for six points. Braden 'scored five points. W. Baker and 11. Baker two each and Murphy one. I Murphy, regular Commodore guard, was forced from the game late in the second quarter on personal fouls. The Kirkland seconds defeated the Commodore reserves in the preliminary game, 17 to 9. Decatur FG FT TP Lose. f. 0 0 0 ID. Hess. f. 3 0 6 Braden, c. 2 15 W. Baker, g 10 2 Murphy, g. Oil H. Baker, g 10 2 R. Hess. f. 0 0 0 Totals 7 2 16 Kirkland FG FT TP D. Augsburger. f. 11 3 C. Augsburger. f 1 2 4 H. Wulliman, c. 3 17 Adler, g 0 0 0 Smith, g 2 1 5

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It’. Wulliman. g. " " " Totals ’• 5 1,1 • R-f.-roo: Markley, Rockcreek. , - ■- --O '- ARREST FORMER 11 coxtinved from pac.b oxi: I mrnt and ;>tlng deposit wh-n I the Lank was known to bo insolI vent. I; The grand jury n port aid that j the bank, while operating "tt a restricted basis, traded approxl- : matrlv $6<M),tMH> worth of good I securities for worthless securities land used money made on the ex I change to meet other obligationi No reeoid ; of the missing secttrli tiso wore kept by the bank, th I grand jury charged. Old Grindint, Stones Found ; North Loup. Neb. —(U.R) —Ancient grinding stones, believed used by ■some primitive inhabitant of Nebraska. have been unearthed here. .Leveling a hill, workmen, discov'ered the flat gr'nding stones with flint arrowheads, pieces of baked I clay and bones. Presence of ashes mingled in the relics gave rise to the belief the find may mark the sito of some ancient camp. o — LAWYER SAYS CoXT I XL'lit' I'ltoM PAG B ONI? Lindbergh in two court sessions . that teemed with sensation, and in contradiction of Lindbergh’s detlaratfon that it was Hauptmann's voice lie heard during th ransom payment in St. Riymond's cemetery, the defence will present the following alternative theories the United Press learned today. 1 — That members of the Lindbergh household in the great white manor at Hopewell, servants whom the Lindbergh;’ trusted, might have participated in the crime. 2— That John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk who was convicted of obstructing justice by committing 1,9 i celebrated hoax, actually w is in touch with the real kidnaper; and that Cid. Lindbergh had proof ho was in contact with them. 3— That envy and enmity for the Lindberghs among the Sourland hill peopie may have inspired the kidnaping. 4 — That the ‘rime was plotted by underworld character-, well known to such New York Imotb gging circles as those in which Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz

I were minor cnieiianm. -' 5 That the Purple gang of »• ' troii Mich., a mob then dlslnte-, through (With and cup ! Ituro had an interest. t; That K- i'lor FP' b. Iho do-j leased tur cutter who had some, 'vague business luuociatlon with Hauptmann, was u participant 1 and the instrument through which' Hauptmann b‘<ame innocently in-' j volv<‘<l. PRESIDENT TO 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE . "An appropriation for public works Is expected to be authorized in the early future,” he con-, . tinued. Robinson revealed that President Roosevelt's social security program. expected to he presented to congress next week, probably would be incorporated in a single bill. Fish Story V. RFNTHAM. Muss. (U.R) EdI gar A. Dart liooked two sish —one I . in-ide the other. A member of the , Wrenthain Sportsmens Associa- . tion. Dart caught a 2MrPOund pickerel and inside was an eight-, inch trout. Stole Hot Water SPRINGFIELD, Mass. tU.P.) When Peter Pantazelos was nr- ■ ■ rested he found himself in hot wa-; 1 ter. He hail tapped a neighbors' 1 hot water pipe and misappropri ! ' ated the supply over quite a per- i ‘ iod. It cce.t him a $25 fine. o Veteran Newsman Passes CAMBRIDGE. O. (U.R) Frank S. I Dolliscn. 62, veteran newspaper j man here, is dead. Dollison had ■ been on the staff of the Daily Jes-! 1 tersoniun 42 years and for .0 ■ • years had been city editor. o I "0-*0 Dane* Sundav Sunset.

HORSE SA L E | At LA FONTAINE. INI). | Wednesday, January 9, 1935 | Sale starts at 12:00 o'clock sharp I 75 HEAD HORSES ? . If you have a horse you wish to sell, bring it along. We hml I uyer. If you want to buy one, we have the very horse jt.l i looking for. I (A horse for everybody.) ; C. W. Speicher and Chas. Reeg a P. 5.—35 coming yearlings, best in the land.

tourney gn| IS AMil Seeoiid Tu'imToumß Wil! Be Held At hK January The drawings f or <lu.v. Jai'itary !.' ;;. ;b .£Wg superintend- • • i: Striker'-; w ill enter team Hg Four gam. •* ~ morning will begin at 8 o'< lock. of admission b>: -...hs be 15 cents. IM The schedule u, r th» games will b„ 1., . lHiir) , I Monmouth; an( | Monroe and it- ■ and Hartford M| The same . g'g ably enter th-- ti:-t te rnent to be held t f„,;, The drawings !■>: g before Hie seii,in! ■ Admission to -. varsity games wiii b,. Chemist Rece. Chsv.sd Hill. N. C. A S Wil.- Her < hemistry depa: ■ versity cf North -1 ceive! a gr nt o: mocev It ekefeller F 1 his studies in cynt-to- W ■ No Speed Limit ■ Mobnrly, Mo.. 'l'l'i-Tii® its temporarily u. .n speed law. A s;.-n,> e niphfl opted the ordi .1: ■ failed to in-sert tl - ; I tying a penalty Th . discovered in an u: tlon trial. i