Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1936 — Page 6

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Commodores Leave For National Catholic Tourne]

COMMIESPLAY FIRST GAME IN MEET THURSDAY Decatur Five Leaves This Morning; Hess, Murphy Named Captains The Decatur Commodores left this city at 1(1 o'clock this morning tor Chicano, where they will compete in the 13th annual national Catholic interscholastic tourney, which will open tonight at Loyola university. Eight members of the team, lie-, companied by Coach George Laur-i ent. Rev. Father J. J. Hennes, ath | letic director and Leo Miller, student manager, left by automobile. The Commodores "’will be quartered at the Sovereign hotel in Chicago. Pat Murphy and Don Hess, sen ior members of the team, were i lected co-captains at a meeting of the Commodore squad this morning shortly before the departure for Chicago. Members of the team making the trip are Hess. Murphy. Braden. Hain. Daniels, Bob Hess. Walter Baker and Wolpert. The Commodores will make their first start in the tourney Thursday j afternoon, meeting Holy Family of i Union City, New Jersey. This' game is scheduled to start at 1 p. m„ Chicago time, or 12 noon, Decatur time. A total of 32 teams are entered in the meet, with Xavier of Louis-

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, vllle, Ky, the defending champion. Other Indiana teams entered jin the tourney are St. Mary's of Anderson. Indiana slate champion land Memorial of Evansville, run-Iner-up to the Anderson quintet. Coach Laurent this morning reI ported the Commodores in good I condition for the tourney Braden, who sustained a broken arch in the state tourney, has practically 'recovered ami able to go at near top speed. Murphy has been suffering from a heavy cold this week but was considerably improved I this morning. First round games will be playled tonight, Thursday morning, afternoon and night, with the last first-round games Friday morning. I Second round games will be played Friday. No games will be played Saturday morning, with quarter final tilts on the schedule for Sat- ; urday afternoon. The semi final contests will be played Saturday night, with the ; championship contest Sunday j night. :—o ♦ ♦ j At the Training Camps By United Press * « | Yesterday's Resuits Boston (N) 7. Cincinnati (N) 6 j S:. Louis (N) 8. New York (A) 7 i Detroit (Al 18. Milwaukee (A AI 14 ’ Washington (Al 9. Albany (IL) 7 j New York IN I 27. Atlanta. (SL) 7! Chicago INI 3. Pittsburgh. (N) I. j Release Two St. Petersburg. Fla.. Mar. IS. — i i <U.RY — The New York Yankees today announced the release of 'catcher Bill Baker and outfielder Bernie I'halt on option to their Newark International league farm. Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yanks, is due here tomorrow and there may be some development-! i regarding the club’s two holdouts, Red Ruffing and Ben Chapman. Rookie Impresses I Winter Haven. Fla. —Morris Ar- j novich. young Jewish outfielder from the Hazelton club of the | New York-Pennsylvania league, who has batted at a .455 clip in' exhibition games this tspring may win a regular berth in the Phillies' outfield. Manager Jimmy Wilson has Icon impressed with his work. Dizzy May Sign BRADENTON. Fla.—Dizzy Dean j and Branch Rickey were nearer a solution of the Cardinal pitcher's salary dispute than at any time I since he announced he wanted y.pnmn Rickey wrote Dizzy on Monday night, asking him to conI ter with him at the Cards' hotel. This letter did much to soothe Dean's ruffled feelings, but he has sent word back to Rickey to meet him a,t his own home, located five miles from here at Palma Sola. Baseball writers here believe Dean will be signed before the j end of the week. Leads Dodgers Clearwater, Fla. —Jimmy Jordan Brooklyn utility infielder, is lead ing the Dodgers in batting in the four exhibition games they have played with a. mark of .500. If Jordan keeps up his hitting, Mani ager Casey Stengel may try to find a place for him in the Dodgers' jinfield at second or third. Lieber Signs Pensacola, Fla. — Hank Leiber. I New York Giants’ outfielder, today I signed his contract, believed to j j trail for SII,OOO. He received $4.50 ( ■ , lu.-t year, and was offered $9,000 his season. He held out for $13,000, liut compromised with Manager Bill Terry after a long j holdout siege. Shipment Os Quails Is Received Here A shipment of 150 quails to be I released in Adams county, were j i received here today by truck from j the state department of conservation. The birds were incubated in , Puiaski county. Willis Fonner and Joe Geels, of the Adams county fish and game j conservation league signed for the birds and will distribute them in various locations in the county, where the need is deemed the greatest. o ELECTRIC COST TINTED FROM PAGE ON Indiana Public Service Co., $332,000. and the Indiana Service Co., $30,000. Reduction orders against other utilities totaled more than $1,250,000 annually, the report showed. A five per cent reduction in rates also was made by the Indianapolis Power and Light Co., an audit and appraisal of which recently completed in preparation for a rate case before the commission. The average monthly bill of patrons using 25 kilowatt hours was $1.66. Steps also have been taken to reduce costs of municipal street lighting. Three years ago the average cost of lighting II one street lamp was $33 while toI day it is S2O. the commission said. o I Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Commodores Leave For Tournament 1 I . . |K> w &S3F W f Erf SSolllßk f I SMiii laHt Jillsg?. .7 x& w Jr k w -aßi The Decatur Commodores left this morning for Chicage. where they will compete in the 13th annual national Catholic interscholastii net tourney at laryola university. The Commodores will play their first eamc Thursday afternoon, meeting Hol.' Family of Union City. New Jersey. _______

GIVES REPORT OF SECTIONAL Financial Report Os Sectional Tournament Is Announced W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur public high school, has received the detailed financial report of the sectional tourney, held at Sorth Side high school Thursday. Friday and Saturday. March 5. K and 7. Decatur received a total of $145.23 as its share of profits. Selling a total of 29 season tickets, the local school received $29.76 in this distribution. Each participating school received $115.47 from the fir. balance. Monmouth received a total of $166.75. with a record of selling ">ti season tickets, the third highest among schools outside of Fort Wayne In addition to.the above amounts. Decatur and Monmouth also were paid expenses for transportation, lodging and meals. A total of $1,712.71 was realized from the sale of tickets, with a total of 1.828 season tickets sold at $1.50 each. LEGISLATURE FROM PAGE ONE) ' signature and the state will claim federal grants before April 1The cons rente committee report approved by both houses contained | the provision guanteeing that the i newly created public welfare board would not interfere with the control of direct relief by township i trustess. McNutt Attacks Untrue Statements Wabash, Ind., March 18—(UP)— I i Criticfem of Republican newspapers i ter “not giving the truth about : present administrations" was expressed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt I in an address here last night. The governor attacked specifical- : ly th=> practice of headline writers ■ ‘ntisrepreeenting facte of news arI ticles which in many instances com- | mend the new deal programs.” II? also charged the “Republicans j have neither a state or national • j candidate strong enough to win the • ejection in Indiana next fall.” Committee Favors Anti-Lobbying Bill i Washington, Mar. 18 — (IJ.R) — - The house judiciary committee t today reported favorably the Smith r anti-lobbying bill after disclosures • by the senate lobby committee revealed congressmen attended f social functions given by railroad 3 and utility lobbyists. 1 The house committee action - came as the compiittee headed by 3 Sen. Hugh L. Black. D., Ala., ; pressed a request for a, SIO,OOO ap- - propriation before the senate to . provide funds to employ counsel to defend the committee against r injunction action brought by Wil-

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ASKS BILLION frONTINI’ED I ROM T'OE oXI-D amount roughly < 'lunl O' 3 * total d •’ would be within the Jimlt set by the budget message.” he said, •■and would in effect provide for the third successive year a reduction in the deficit. on this basis, he said, he wou.d be Justified in requesting a strajght WPA appropriation of S2,<K*).OOO.IHM). ‘•I am. however, not asking this congress to appropriate 13.000.000.000.” he said. "I am asking only for an appropriation of $1,500,000,000 to the works progress administration. It will he their responsibility to provide work for the destitute unemployed.” The president made it clear that the whole of the appropriation I should go to the works progress administration that makes jot's at a yearly average of $650 a year per man. including •seeuritv" I wages, and cost of projec t materi' ials. Roosevelt’s message clearly end Icd possibility of new non-federal i public, works, for which he alloted < $330,000,000 under the current j $4,880,000,000 program. The new deal, through its 19361937 pla.ns. also abandoned slum- | clearance and low-rent housing as :a work-relief activity. At present, the public works administration lis constructing 48 housing projects with $120,000,000. The president's recommendation for WPA came when the agency. ; directed by Harry L. Hopkins, was under heavy fire of criticism for alleged partisan politics. Only today, Hopkina issued a general letter to all state WPA directors banning political activity on all his projects. The special message was in effect a request for a $ 1.500,000.000 ■’blank check" to be spent as Mr. Roosevelt directa through WPA RAGING WATERS (CONTINUEn FROM n */; E r >N E1 Ohio valley in danger. Maryland Cumberland —Potomac river raging through city. Water 10 feet deep in places. Six thousand persons removed from home- safely. Oamago

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