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PUROUE TIES i INDIANA FOR BIG TEN LEAD Northwestern Looms As Chief Threat To Hoosier Title Hopes Chicago, Feb. 11.- (U.R) - North-, weste. n university’s sophomore | Wm Stood out today as the chief 1 possibility to stop the drive of In diana and Purdue toward the Big •1. n basketball chr.m; ionship. The two Hoosi." teams are tied ' for the lead wlt’a. seven victories I and no defeats. Northwestern has | won three and lost two. The Wildcats, idle for two weeks because of examinations, will return to conference competition Saturday by playing Purdue at laifayette. Their schedule after that j includes home games with both, the leaders. The Wildcats showed they are back in stride by trouncing Butler, 53 to 38, last night. Butler beat Purdue earlier in the season. 411 to 39. Purdue caught up with Indiana , in the conference race by overwhelming Minnesota, 39 to 24. last night. Captain Bob Kessler led the Boilermaker attack with 17 ■ points, giving him a total of 89. > nine less than Bill Haarlow of Chicago. Big Ten scoring leader. Indiana, meanwhile, put on a ' second half rally to win a non-con-i ference game from Franklin. 39 to 29. The Hoosiers will play Ohio State at Columbus Saturday and should keep their Big Ten record spotless. Ohio dropped a 34 to 24 decision to Wisconsin last night. The Badgers were outplayed badly in the first half, trailing at one time. 18 to 7. In the final period, however, Ohio was held to one field goal, scored by CapL Warren Whitlinger. forward. The Victory gave Wisconsin a percentage of .500. placing them in a tie for fifth place with Ulin ois. The Illini, after a long layoff between semesters, routed lowa last night. 36 io 14. The Hawkeyes, who lost to Purdue by only one Executor’s Sale of Personal Property The undersigned, Executor of the estate of William Sellemeyer, deceased, will sell at public auction on the premises at 3'5 North First street, Decatur, Indiana Saturday. Feb. 15th at 1:00 P. M. All of the household goods consisting of 1 stand, 3 rockers, 3 < hairs, clothes wardrobe, couch, chest, bed, mattress and springs, tied, quilts, and blankets, mirror, sanitary toilet, hot plate gas. shovels, drop leaf table, ciwk, curtains, hard coal stove, carpets, gold watch, bed pan and chajnbcr and ONE HOSPITAL BED AND MATTRESS. GOOD AS NEW, and many other articles too numerous to mention. Terms —Cash. Herman W. Sellemeyer. EXECUTOR Jeff l.iechty—Auct.

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WEEK'S St 'HEDULE I OF BASKETBALL I Tuesday Yellow Jackets at Hartford City. Wednesday I pleasant Mills at Commodore I seconds. Thursday Catholic Central of Lima. Ohio, 'lat Commodores. Friday Garrett at Yellow Jackets. Commodores at St. John's of ’ Delphos, Ohio. | Alexandria at Berm 1 . I Petroleum at Kirkland. Bryant at Monmouth. I Jefferson vs. Geneva at Hart- ] ford. Hartford at Poling. I Monroe at Union. Saturday t Pleasant Mills vs. Geneva at i Hartford. Sunday Commodores ut Celina, Ohio. Catholic. ' point Saturday, made only four 'field goals during the entire game | and only four points in the first j half. Illinois will entertain Wisconsin j : Saturday in a buttle to remain in ■ I the first division of the race. The other games Saturday will 1 send Chicago against towa at lowa City and Michigan against Michigan State at East Lansing. Min i nesota, which has played 10 of its j 12 conference games, will be Idle. (The Gophers have won three and | lost seven. U. S. HOCKEY TEAM WINNER America’s Olympic Hockey Stars Defeat Czechoslovakia Carmisch - Partenkirchen, Geri many. Feb. 11. — (U.R) — America's | Olympic hockey stars defeated , Czechoslovakia. 2-0. in their first . match of the semi-final round to- - day. Meanwhile the IT. S. Bobsledders. defending the championship they won at Lake Placid in : 1932, got off to a flying start in the four-man race. i Scoring both goals 1n the second ' period, the blue uniformed Amer leans handed Czechoslovakia its i first licking in four starts. ' In speed skating, Ivar Ballangrud. Norwegian star, captured the 500-meter title in 43.4 seconds. Being the Olympic record set four years ago by Jack Shea of the United States. I Leo Freisinger, Chicago, finish--led third—the highest place Amer- . lea has gained in six days of competition. Allan Potts of Brooklyn tied for sixth place with Karl Leban of Austria. ! In the hockey contest, Frank Spain of Boston, speedy American center, banged home the first goal after five minutes play in the middle period. Johnny Garrison, another Bostonian, accounted for the other score seven minutes later. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Purdue, 39; Minnesota, 24. I Notre Dame. 41; Kentucky, 20. I Northwestern. 53; Butler, 38. Indiana, 39; Franklin, 29. Illinois. 36: lowa, 24. Wisconsin. 34; Ohio State, 25.

[CHICAGO PLANS SPORTS POLICY Chicago University ’ Against Over-Emphasis On Sports 'i Chicago Feb. Il -(UP) —Illinois and MI liigun are the preferred conference football rivals of Chicago it wan revealed today after the univ.’r.sity board on co-ordination of .itudont Intercuts clarified and approved the school’s now Athletic policy. The new policy was Instigated when T. H. M ‘t.alfe .became Athletic director, lie submitted hw re- • ort on the iprogresa of the plan yesterday. The board is composed of administrative heads of the school. Next to Illinois and Michigan. (Ohio State and Wisconsin are preif< rred as football rivals. Minnesota and Purdue are next and lowa. Northwestern, and Indiana last on ith" list. I The board approved the plan whereby only athletic rivals of equal str ngth or similar scholastic standards will meet. Four or five big ten football gantes a season should be seven or eight, with not more than five in which rivalry is great, the board said. Other suggestions of Metcalfe | which the board approved were; Participation of students in intercollegiate Athletics should Ibe considered worth while. The opportunity to complete in intercollegiate sports should bo considered a privilege which the university permits its students to enjoy, and not a sforvee to the university. No pressure should be put on a limy to play on a term. No squabs should be cut and equal attention should be given by 'the coaches to each candidate. No individual star should be balilvhooed to augment gate receipts. | 1 Schedules for all aports should .[be kept relatively light. Indiana Rallies To Beat Franklin Bloomington, Ind.. Feb. 11.—(U.R) —After trailing. 15 to 13, at the I half. Indiana university defeated ( 1 Franklin college, 38 to 29, in a [ basketball game last night. The Indiana varsity, paced by Wendall Walker, guard, who scored 11 points, started the second halt and went into the lead two , minutes after the period opened. Shafenacker, forward, was high I scorer for Franklin with 10 points. oBall State Team Defeats Earlham Muncie, Ind.. Feb. 11. — (U.R) • I Paced by Stout, forward, and ■ Shuck, guard. Who scored 10 and ■l4 points, respectively. Ball State , defeated Earlham in an Indiana i conference basketball game. 47 to j 31, last night. j Ball State led 28 to 13 at the . I half. Notre Dame Wins Ninth In A Row ; i South Bend. Ind.. Feb. 11. —(U.R) —Notre Dame won its ninth consective basketball game last night defeating Kentucky 41 to 20. 1 I More than 5,000 fans saw the I Irish pile up a 29 to 7 lead over j the southeastern conference | champions at the half and then ! coast to victory tn the second per- , iod. Johnny Moir, sophomore scoring ace, and Paul Nowak, center, scored 28 points together, to lead the ! Notre Dame scoring. By scoring 17 points, Moir ran his season's total to 188, within 24 points of the all-time scoring record of 212 held by Ed Krause. Everett Scott Will Bowl Here Wednesday Everett Scott, former major league star shortstop, and proprietor of Scott's Recreation at Fort Wayne, will bowl at Mies Brothers alleys in this city night at 8 o'clock. Scott, one of the leading bowlers in the middle west, accompanied by his partner, will bowl an exhibition match with Stump and Garard of this city. Fourth Consecutive Week Sub-Zero Weather Wednesday is expected to mark the fourth consecutive week of daily temperatures of zero or below. The thermometers recorded as low as two degrees below during the night and hovered around the zero mark at noon today. The weather prediction for Wednesday indicates no great relief, though above zero temperatures may prevail. Defense Attorney Chagrined Kirklaud Lake. Ont. —(UP)—Although he continued the defence of his client, charged with theft, Bruce Williams must have found it difficult. The court produced exhibits among which was Williams’ watch.

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CITY BOWLING Roop's Restaurant 1 Spangler 150 175 193 I ROSS 148 156 168 1 | Young 160 124 1931 Stump 183 165 199 ‘ Frisinger 188 170 146 Totals 809 790 8991 Cloverleaf Steele 152 163 172 [ Peterson 123 Smith-Barth 107 125 145: Barns-Hooton 98 153 135 ■ Kelley-Kaylor . 107 135 136 Farrar 145 132, Handicap 113 113 113' Totals7oo 834 853 Ford Sales Callow 134 169 142 Leonard 150 143 135 Peterson 130 167 100 Lytle 158 125 184 Handicap 26 26 26 [ Totals 589 630 587 McCormick-Deering | Zelt 147 146 146 iCocanower 171 118 92 | Stevens . 124 157 187 i Bert Gage 148 134 IS9 Totals. .590 550 614 Standard Oil Keller 167 144 176 'Appelman 123 143 151 Burke 152 143 159 ■ Heare 110 162 147 1 Bonitas . 156 193 156 | Handicap .26 26 26 Totals .734 811 815 St. Mary's i Briede 125 157 • [Ladd 173 187 Green 161 152 164 jGirad-Gallogly 160 146 ISS I Fr. Hennes 193 151 180 Miller 138 158 Totals 812 744 877 ; — General Electric Schultz . 189 209 173 Hoagland 136 163 168 Don Gage 162 195 166 Mclntosh 181 142 153 Schafer 140 151 199 Totalsß3B 860 858 ' Mutschlers Lister . J 67 129 163 Keller 168 146 123 Fisher 153 140 160 Heiman 192 127 149 Mutschler 144 152 142 Handicap 44 44 4 4 Totals 868 718 781 o ' Church Board To Meet Thursday The official board of the Christian church will meet at the home of Dorphus Drum Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. All members are asked to be present. o Taxpayers To Meet In Union Township A taxpayers meeting will be held at the Lucky school house in Union township Wednesday evening. John W. Blakey, chairman of the group, will have charge of the meeting and urges all interested to attend. o Pay Final Respects To Charles Curtis — Topeka, Feb. 11 —(UP) —Kansas today paid last respects to one of its favorite sons, Charles Curtis, former vice-president who died Saturday in Washington. The ibody arrived at 10:45 A. M. and was taken to the capital where it lay in state in tho routunda. Funeral services were set for 3 p. m. ! All state offices were closed and flags over state buildings were at .half mast. A special military guard of honor stood guard over the bier.j

Four Relief Workers Are Killed By Train Hammond, Ind., Feb. 11—(UP)— Four relief workeia were killed instantly today when an automobile in which they were riding was .-truck by a grand trunk train at Maqttard, in the southern end of i Lake county, it was reported here 'today. The dead are: Peter Meeter, 50, father of eight children, Cornelius VVrbek, 48; Garrett Vanderhook, 55, father of five children: and John Kruit. 42. The first three were killJed instantly and Kruit died on his way to the Hammond hospital. High School Plans Lincoln Day Program French Quinn, local historian, will speak to the stud-nts of the Decatur high school Wednesday morning at the regular chapel period in commemoration of Lincoln’s birthday. o Wedding Costs Judge Toledo —(UP)— One dollar and fees was the cost to Municipal ■ Judge Frank E. O’Connell for a wedding he performed- After the , ceremony .the bridegroom confided ' that he needed *1 to get to his home in D*troit The judge obliged him on his assurance to pay as soon as he had earned the money.

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[LAUNCH BETTER HOME CAMPAIGN ! 15th Annual Drive I <» Community Improvement Is Launched Lafavette. Ind, F’’.b. 11—(VI)— Inauguration of the 15th annua, drive for community Improvement., sponsored by the better homes in I America, was ani.ouncKi today by i Ml.se Isabel Hodgkins, camptdgn <’i Hector. Distribution of more than s,mu iconipnign guidebooks to better homes chairman throughout the I country marked the opening of the drive which will culminate in better homes week April 26 May JThe 1936 campaign stresses improving and modernizing the entir ■residential block rather than isolatled homes. Miss Hodgkins said. Demonstration houses, essay contests. local touts, special Sunday 'sermons In churches, lectures before women’s clubs, schools and business organizations, will comprise the campaign. Nerd for useful and more reliable information on .home building i« pointed out by Dr. Edward C. Elliott ’ president of Purdue university, in a foieward to the 1936 guidebook. ThLs is particularly true in view of the concentrated drive that has . been made by the government and other agencies in promotion of bet- , ter housing throughout the nation, Dr. Elliott said. 'I I O—7T 0 —7T - Plymouth Man X ictim Os Slugging Bandit — ■ Plymouth, Ind.. Feb. 11—(UP)*— John Young, manager of the secur- ’ ity loan company here, was knocked unconscious with a blackjack ’ and robbed of JSOO in cash last night by an armed bandit. The ibandit forced Young at tho point of a gun to open the loan company safe, then hit him on the head and ran. 1 Suffering Os Stray Dog Is Ended Today — 'i Policeman Ed Miller was called ■ upon today to play the part of a (humane officer, when residents of ithe southern part of the city called I 'the officer to end the misery of a l stray dog. that bad been frequenti fng -the neighlmrhood. ■ The dog had been running loose I in that part of the town, gaunt, half- . starved and with its feet frozen. Mr. Miller obliged by taking the animal (from the neighborhood and ending its suffering.

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I Thomas P. Riddle Out For Congress — I Clear Lake, Ind.. Feb. 11—(UP)— Thomas P. Riddle. Democratic can didate for congress in 1930, anI nminced today that he would seek the party's support again for tho 11936 election. .1 Riddle will oppose congressman t James I- Farloy of Auburn for the fourth district nomination. He now i is an employe of the Indiana high- | way commission. — Electric Fly Trap Perfected I | Johannesburg. South Africa. (U p, New ways of "swatting tho . fly" with electricity have been devised hy the Department of Agri- | culture in South Africa. A flat I screen of electrified bars fits over a window where insects are abunI dant A fly coming in contact with the screens is immediately I killed.

Public Auction FRIDAY, February 14... 10 A.M. 30 - HORSES -3« Extra Good Brood Mares and Colts. Extra good Milch Cows, heifers and stock bulls. Imported Short Horn Bull, extra good. Brood sows, gilts and boars. « bred gilts. Some good ewes. Oliver Biding Breaking Plow. Miscellaneous artids “““ DECATUR RIVERSIDE SALES E. J. AHR and FRED C. AHR. Managers Johnson A Doehrman. Auctioneers.

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