Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1936 — Page 6

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* A New Year has dawned upon us, and to Adams county teams. Basketbawl wishes many victories and a highly successful season. —oOo — One of the best attractions of the season for Decatur basketball fans is scheduled for Friday night. with the Yellow i Jackets traveling to Bluffton to meet the Tigers of the Par- i lor City. —oOo— Bluffton has lost only one game this season, to the Hartford Clt> , Airdales by a close score, and the Tigers are out to avenge the foot ball defeat sustained at the hands : of the Yellow Jackets the past | fall. Despite the fact that two' members of the Bluffton first squad have been declared ineligible for' competition, the Tigers have since; that ruling defeated Huntington and Rockcreek, so the Tigers evi-j dently are still plenty tough. —oOo— With the Yellow Jackets still smarting from that decisive defeat handed down by the Berne Bears? Friday night's contest should be a real battle. Many local fans are expected to make the trip to the Parlor City Friday night and to those who wish to be assured of admission to the gym. we would recommend that they call W. GuyBrown now and order their tickets. —oOo — Read what Buck has to say about the oncoming tilt: "It looks very much like the De-catur-Bluffton game would be tnc battle of the week. Despite the fact that the Yellow Jackets droplied a game to Berne by a lop-sid-ed score, we think that the Adams county seat is still tough enough to give any team a hard scrap. With the Tigers engaged in a sort of reorganization move, they mayfind they have a real job cut out for it evening. A large crowd will no doubt be on hand for the battle." —oOo — After tangl.ng with the Tigers Friday, the Yellow .ackets will return home Saturday to do battle with another species of animal, a pack of Bulldogs from Pennville. t Champions of 1935 | « • World's Champions—Detroit Tigers. American League—Detroit Tigers. National League—Chicago Cubs. American Association— Minneapolis. Internationl Leagu—Montreal. Pacific Coast League—First half, Los Angeles; second half (x) San Francisco. Texas League—Oklahomo City. Southern Association—Atlanta. | Western League—St. Joseph. NewY o r k-Pennsylvania League j —First half, Scranton; Second half, (x) Binghamton. Piedemon League — First half, Asheville; second half, (x) Richmond. Three! League — First half, Springfield. 111., second half, (y) Bloomington. East Dixie League — First half, (x) Pine Bluff; second half, Jackson. West Dixie League — Jacksonville. Mi?tle Atlantic League — First half, fx) Huntington; second half, Dayton. Western Association—First half, Springfield, Mo.; second half, (x) Ponca City. Arkansas State League — First half, (x) Rogers; second hal?; Siloam Springs. Nebraska State League — First half, (x) Norfolk; second Tialf, Sioux Falls. Evangeline BiState League — First half, (x) Danville; second half, Far-go-Moorhead. Pensylvania State League — First half, Washington; second half, (x) Monessen. Georgia-Florida League — First half, Albany; second half, (x) Tallahassee. Kitty League—First half, Lexington; second half, (z) Portageville. (x) —Won playoff. (y) —Bloomington awarded the championship when Springfield failed to play off protested game. (zi—Jackson and Union City finished first and second but were disqualified and Portageville was awarded first place. No playoff i held. I j

* WEEK’S SCHEDULE * I OE BASKETBALL •- * Friday Yellow Jackets at Bluffton. Commodores at Avilla Kirkland at Monmouth. Geneva at Jackson. Pleasant Mills at Hartford. Monroe at Lancaster. Saturday Pennville at Yellow Jackets. Jefferson vs. Poling at Berue. -000 — Pennville won the Hartford City sectional last spring and has been going great guns so far thia season 1 It Is the first time in many seasons I that the Bulldogs have been on the i Yellow Jacket schedule. —o()o — The Decatur Commodores will 1 attempt to start the New Year j with their ninth straight victory of the season Friday night at Avilla. 1 Little is known here of Avilla's | strength but the Noble county ' team is reported to have practically the same team as last year. I which was plenty tough. —oOo — Ernest Curtis .principal an d I < oach at Monmouth, announced toi day that the Willshire girls team wi7. play Monmouth Saturday ' night. As a preliminary, the boys' second teams of the two schools . will play. The girls are also I scheduled to see action Friday night, playing the Kirkland girls in the preliminary to the KirklandMonmouth game at Monmouth. —oOo — The standing of Wells county teams follows: Liberty 8 1 .888 Bluffton 71 .875 Rockcreek 8 2 .800 Lancaster 7 3 .700 Petroleum 5 4 .556 Union .3 6 .333 Chester 3 6 .333 Ossian 0 11 .000 I ~ ~ ANTI-ITALIAN fCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) glider fliers by the end of 1937. France and Britain also have agreed, it was revealed, to consult early in January on a plan to invite Germany back into an arms limitation conference. G rmany left the world disarmament conference and the league in 1933 because the powers would not , recognize her right to defense weapons. FINAL SESSION ' (TONTIXIED FROM PAGE ONE) delegates from 11 states to encourage development of co-operative eating clubs, groceries, lodgings, book stores and tailor shops on the campus. William H. Moore, a student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, was elected president. The group was organized in connection with the consumers' cooperation seminar of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. States represented at the conference were Oregon, lowa, Missouri, . Connecticut, Illinois, Wisconsin, I Ohio. California, Washington, Kansas and Michigan. WOMAN DENIES j£ff*TlXt pj, FPOM P'GE ONE) quoted the mother as promising him insurance money amounting to anproximately SI,OOO which she j would receive upon the estranged 1 husband's death. Immediately after the youth's I confession, a DeKalb county grand ' jury returned Indictments charg-. ing him with first t-.nd second degree murder. Young Webb was re-arrested several days ago after a coroner’s jury returned a verdict of suicide in the father's death. Questioning i under a lie detector canned his second retainment. OBSERVANCE OF FROM PtGEONE) New Haven and Hartford railroad announced that at least 6,000 New Englanders had poured into Town for New Years eve, approximately three times the number that used I the road last year. Police swept before the irreslstable throngs muttered that the crowd was perhaps the largest to | congest Times Square in a long time. Traffic had to be shut off 35 minutes earlier than last year. | There were few arrests and few untoward incidents. One man dropped dead of heart disease. o — Houston Fights Beggars Houston. Tex.—(U.R) —Merchants have protested to city officials against activities of professional beggars, swindlers and short change experts who take an estimated $15,000,000 from Houstonians annually.

National Sports Honors For Year Won By Detroit

New York. Jan 1— (U.R) — The name Detroit was a magic one in American sports during the 1955 ’ campaigns. Major national honors camo to the Michigan city no fewer th in four times. Detroit, thanks . to fighting Mickey Cochrane and a hustling club, won Its first World Series baseball championship. Detroit's Lions, coached by I’otsy Clark, captured their first national pro football crown. Azucar, owned by Fred Alger. Jr., of Detroit won the Santa Anita Hand'cap. richest race of the year. And fin ally Detroit produced the greatest fighter since Dempsey in Joe ’ | Louis. Seldom, if ever, has one city '' boasted such a wealth of prini clpa) glories. Greatest civic pride, naturally, I was manifest in the American League baseball championship and subsequent series triumph of the ; Tigers over the Chicago Cubs. A great baseball town t ver since tho ' first Tigers club was organized, , Detroit often came within a pace or two of world championship. As recently as 193-i the Tigers were within a single game of a series win, only to have the jinx hold ~ true. But finally, due chiefly to the | superb pitching of Tommy Bridges I and great play of Charlie GehringII er, the championship flag came to the Tigers, and Detroit's eelebra11 tion over the victory was a New ■ Orleans Mardi Gras and a Ken- ’ j tucky Derby rolled into one. 11 Unmatched in Pro Football 1 . Detroit scored a well-earned 'win in the professional football i, race. There was a close fight I throughout the season but the final playoff game, with Detroit representing the West, and the ■ New York Giants the East, was a runaway 26-7 triumph. Azucar made the racing season .i a success for Alger. The Santa ' ■ Anita was one of the most covi j eted prizes of year, and was I worth $108,400 to the Detroit ; sportsman. I Joe Louis, towering Negro, color l of coffee with lots of cream, pulled boxing from the rocks and established himself as the greatest fighter since Dempsey. One of the other magic names of the year was that of Lawson Little. This San Francisco col- , legian owned the name of the ! year in golf with his repeat vic- ' tories in the British and United ( Statsb amateur -championships . ! rounding out his total to fesu- . straight. Never before had one , player won four major amateur itles in succession, and if Lit- , tie's feat Is less glorious than Bob Jones' grand slam, it’s the nearest approach the game has known. Park's Triumph Resented I The ether principal golf name i of the the year was Sam Parks of , Pittsburgh, who won the U. S. . I open. Parks, like Little is a , I much misunderstood man. Neither l Little nor Parks is of the show- ! i I off type. | . TJltile golfers generally credited t Li.tie with his triumphs on their merits, rival pros were exceedingly j ungracious toward the man who J beat them to the world’s most important golfing honor. To them [ and to more than one self-appoint-ed critic, Parks was an "acoiden- | tai” champion. Anyway, Parks was a dark-, , horse winner, and the situation j was the same in the British open j which went to Alf Perry. The U. S. women's titles went to Mrs. Glen- 1 Ina Collette Vare, a former win- . ner, and the British women’s to 'Wanda Morgan. /. Wilmer Allison's triumph in the JU. 3. national championship was a high spot of tennis. It was an , unexpected victory as Fred Perry, the seemingly unbeatable English! I man, was entered. But Perry I could not beat off an injury and iso bowed to Allison jn the semifinals. Allison beat Sid Wood in • the finals. Helen Jacobs Titalist Helen Hull Jacobs again won the national women's title. This i victory was tempered by the fact' | that Mrs Helen Wills Moody did : not play in the tourney. Mrs 1 | Moody met Miss Jacobs in an all-! . California final of the all-Eng-land at Wimbledon and, in an amazing rally beat "the' other Helen. Having done, Mrs. Moody i elected to hang up her competl- , tive racquet for the year. Perry .2L C ?? r ® e won the me n's title at 1 Wimbledon. ! „ A , mer,ca ' s Davis cup squ ad gain took it on the chin. The L. S forces captured only the one doubles matches but England i retsf H th \ f ° Ur S ‘ ngles joUßts t 0 • retain the historic tennis cup. > tt, BO u lng . has not been Uke “ off the serious" list of the sports ■ hospital but the crippled, battered! pas.ime was given new hope of i lif.- by Joe Louis. It's a bxoing ad-' age that other divisions go as does the unlimited class, and this was Partially if not wholly true dudng ' The potent combination of > Louis and Michael Strauss Jacobs 1 brought boxing its first million- . dollar gate since the second Tun- ■ ney-Dempsey affair-Louls and bls ■ artistic glove-pitching, and Jacobs | and his shrewd matchmaking and, I

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i pron otlon. Tho mlllion-doilar gate i was at tho Louis- Max Boor affair ; whl- h was both the best and worst I bout ot the year Beat because of crowd, glamour and toldo. and i worst because of the miserable 1 showing of the once feared and I reaper ed Baer Braddock Upteti Odds Lou s' aecendary will go down . as a vastly more Important mat- . ter than the < hanging ot possession of the heavyweight title. When Jimmy Braddock of New Jers< ■■ was matched with the ; "killer" Baer who held the title, i almost everyone and certainly the present writer along with 99 of - every 100 of his pas laughed loud- . ly and long. i But Baer trained badly, failed to land even one telling blow and J was soundly outmaneuvered and ; outpointed by the courageous . Irishman from Jersey Among other major title changes came In the light heavy class where John Henry Lewis of Phoenix rules the roost instead of Bob ; Olin: in the middleweight where Babe Risko of Syracuse took the i title from Teddy Yarsoz of Pitts- ; burgh; in the lightweight where ■ Barney Ross, polished Chicagoan vacated the title because of weight trouble and was succeeded , by former champion Tony Can- . zoneri, and in the f< therwelght class Freddie Miller, clean-cut ■ youngster from Cincinnati, came I into general recognition as title* j holder. College football enjoyed a great I season. Minnesota was generally rated the team of the year, and • Jay Berwanger of Chicago the ace of ace players. Southern > Methodist turned in a brilliant , record in the southwest to earn a Rose Bowl shot against Stani ford, best on the Coast. Princeton was the class of the East. Army walloped Navy in the service i classic. Cries of professionalism, subsidation and other "evils" went , up with reports of greater gates. A scattered few educators advocated open payment of athletes. Cubs Win 21 Straight Professional baseball generally showed an upturn. Winning clubs made money and losing clubs did not. Highlights were the Detroit victory; a winning streak of 21 ■ games by the Chicago Cubs which • put Charlie Grimm’s team in the I series; failure of the New York i Giants, with a team that looked surefire to capture the National ■ league race, and Babe Ruth's short ' and turbulent career with the ■ Boston Braves. Individual cnamps i included Arky Vaughan of Pitts'i and Buddy Myer of Washington, National and American leaders: Bill Lee of Chi- : cago Cubs, and Eldon Aulker of Detroit, National and Americ; z pitching champs; Wally Berger oi Boston Braves (34 homers) and Hank Greenberg of Detroit and Jimmy Roxx of Philadelphia (36 ' each). National and American home run leaders. Thoroughbred racing had the best year sin 1930. William Woodward's Omaha won the Kentucky derby as one asignment i i a season which brought him $142,255 and made him top notch tnon- . ey winner of the year. A. G. VanI derbilt's Discovery was the horse of the year. This 4-year old won 11 of 19 starts and won more than SIOO,OOO. Jesse Owens of Ohio State and Eulace Peacock of Temple, both Negroes, were the best track and , field men. Owens broke three I world records and equalled a fourth one afternoon. Peacock was a consisten winner in broadjumping, and set a new world mark of 26 ft., 3 in. Keith Brown of Yale was another standout. His prize achievement wae a new world pole vault mark of 14 ft., % in. California Crew Best One of the thrillers of the year was California's hair raising victory in the Poughkeepsie regetta. It was California’s third straight : win. Another was the victory of Kelly Petfilo of Los Angeles in the Indianapolis speedway 500 • mile race. Petillo set a record of 106.240 in. p. h. in this event. The Montreal Maroons won the Stanley cup. emblematic of world ice hockey supremacy. Danna O'Mahoney of Ireland came over here a virtual unknown, lifted heavyweight wrestling championship honors from Jim Londes and held firmly to his prize. At the end of the 1935 American athlestes were either prepping for the winter Olympic games at Gar-mish-Partenkirchen or studying their chances of making the team for the summer games in Berlin. —— ——o NEW OFFICERS "'nv-rtvi-Fn FROM pir.E one) i two college degrees, teaching and administrating schools for many years, and in serving two terms in 'he state legislature will ass'ot I him in orienting himself to his new duties. « Mr. Bierly was bom in Eli-a-beth. Indiana, 48 years ago. He "ttended the Harrison county grade schools. As there was no high school in the town he was , compelled to continue his educa-

t.on in Maylon College. At this Institution he received first his| high school diploma and then a I B. 9. degree from the college In 1911. Mr. Bierly continued his «tudi»-«~ nt Indiana Utt'-e Teachers' college | at Terre Haute. After inking n four year course at this college | ho went to Indiana University i where he received his A It degree : During his last year at Indiana ■ University ho won the Foster I Prize for an essay on the con-itl-tu'lou o.'id theory of government.. Later he took post graduate work at tho University of Chicago. Mr. Bierly taught in a district school In Harrison county, and in the high school at Elizabeth before becoming principal of the Tocsin high school. He served successively as assistant principal at l*ennville, principal of the Brva.ut high school and principal of the Poling high school. Friday Mr. Bierly resign* d ,is principal of the Poling high school. This institution is located five miles west of Bryant. Mr. Bierly married Mi’s Flor- 1 ence Fink on June 18. 1913, who also lived in Harrison county. They have five children, who are: Florence Marie, who teaches school in French township; Fern, the new deputy clerk; Georg l .

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Frederick and Joan, all at >“»» • Until a week a.<o the Bo)h| family resided on a farm in Hartford towuzhlp just north of the I Jav county Hue. They have now I rented the Tervoer property nt jthe corner of Fifth and Madison streets. Mr. Bierly i» a n>' ,nib, ' r of i Knights of Columbui l<xl«e. thoj 'Patrons of Husbandry and the | I Decatur St. Mary’s church. Mr. Bierly I* a Democrat. long ic.-Hve in mditics. From 1912 to 1914 he served as a member of i the house of represeu atives of the stalo assembly, representing Harrison county. From 1922 to 1924 he served a second term, representing Hat risen and CrawCurd cuuutivs. He succeeds David D. D»’*PP Berue. LINDBERGH AND | (CONTINUED FROM PiGE ONE) meTbors of hie family before leaving the United Staten Gr’gory said: "That is an absolutely personal matter with the Colonel, don’t you think? The Colonel definitely refuses to comment on the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (convi.ted Lindbergh kidnaper) or any circumstances regarding kidnaping

■ and crime in the I’nlted Spates. Lindbergh’s refusal to hold direct ■ntcrvl’ww or discuss his reasons for fleeing tho United States dis- ! comflted British Newspapermen who told Gregory that Lindbergh must either be an exceedingly shy Iman er »r.;!oylng some subtle means of obtaining publicity. Gregory denied the latter saying. If you knew Lindbergh jou would Know that la not the case He explained that Lindbergh hod given no Interviews in seven yesre. Gregory also denied the British newspapermen's suggestion that LiLndbergh had a "contempt of the public.” —o Seaplane Falls Into Ocean. Twelve Lost London. Jan- 1— (U.R) -The admirc.'ty said today that 12 person-*. Including nine passengers, were missing from tho Imperial airways flying boat, the City of Khartoum, which fell into tho sea late yesterdva off Alexandria. Egypt. • Only Pilot C. Gorry Wilson was rescued by 11. M. S. Brilliant a mile and a half northwest of the entrance to Alexandria harbor. • the admiralty was advised. The crash apparently was due. tho admiralty said, to aJI three

of Ihe groat ships tnoi, JM J t Absence of wreckage in t ,'l9 ) bor left little double ti lal , 1 . 1 had sunk with the nlm. ‘"I ! gers and three member, crew aboard. "W J o- - CCC Camp Enro|| ees « Show Good AUend a y I Indianapolis, Ind.. J ln . ■ A commendable record of oLj.M i tendance during s. j ni!) ‘ r 'w| ber and November of uv, ‘ tabliehed by 11.00 Civil',',! ration Corps enroll., i.°H ' Brig. Gen. William k Inounced today, M The enrolleee attended ‘ 62 641 times during the was reported. ‘ t "This comarendabD ro< Ohl I I trays in an outetandine nu nD JB character of tboae enrolled h im camps in Indiana," Brig. G Jn ■ ' lor, commanding general ot Benjamin Huriton dfstrie; '• 2 —-—— —— « Boys Find Ma.l Cash xt Florence, Kan.—(U.R)-A vai her mall pouch was caught <) | tho wheels'of a train and :;!■ tents, including |1,500 in b |, r , small denominations, was < -ss ed to the winds Small bo, • trieved all but sll3. ra , *y I