Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1936 — Page 8

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OFFICIALS FOR STATE TOURNEY Glen Adams, Nate Kauffman To Officiate Final Tourney Indianapolit, Mur. 27. — (U.R) Glenn Adams of Columbus ami Nate Kauffman of Shelbyville will officiate at the final state high school basketball tournament tomorrow at the Butler University fieldhouse according to an announcement by Commissioner Arthur L. Trester yesterday. With the selection of officials the commissioner completed most of the preliminary details of the tournament in which Central of Evansville. Central of Fort Wayne, Frankfort and Anderson, the 1935 champion, will battle for the 1936 title. The installation of seats to bring the Butler University field house up to its capacity of 14,883 has been completed. Concessionaires will begin moving in several tons of peanuts, popcorn, and hot today to assuage the appetites of the fans. The Indiana High School Coaches' Association will hold its annual meeting tonight at the Hotel Antlers Mark Wakefield, coach of the Central of Evansville team, one of the tournament contestants, is president of the association. o I At the Training Camps | I By United Press I Yesterday's' Results Buffalo (INT) 7. Columbus (AAI 6. Baltimore (INT> 7. Albany (IN T) 0. New York (N) 7. Chicago (N) 6. Rochester (INT) 6, Brooklyn <N> 2. Montreal (INT) 9. Chattanooga (S> 3. Boston (N) 3, Philadelphia (N) «> St. Louis (Nl 8. Detroit (A) 5. Boston (A) 10, Washington (A) 8. Philadelphia (A) 19. Newark (I NT) 0. Toronto (INT) 6. Minneapolis (AA) 5. New Orleans (W) 6. Cleveland (A) 2. Tulsa (Texas L.) 14, Pittsburgh (N) 11. Ruffing Signs Petersburg. Fla.. Mar. 27. —(U.R)

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. Charles "Red Ruffing, big New I York Yankees right-handed pitchI er, has ended his holdout cam- • paign and signed for the same $12,000 salary he received last I season. This leaves only Ben 1 i Chapman, outfielder, outside the | I fold Colonel Jacob Ruppert. Yun , kee owner, said today that noth- t ing had been heard yet from bias- » Ing Ben. indicating that Chapman < would not he signed until the < Yanks stop off in Birmingham, t Ben's home town, for a two-game series on April 1. ( Cubs vs. Tigers t i Ukuland. Fla. —Before today's j i "seventh game of the world ser- ; | ies" between Detroit and the Chij cago Cubs, manager Charley f 1 Grimm of the Cubs vowed. "There t i will be no more trying out of class t B rookies." He was referring to ( the disappointing performance of f two rookie pitchers, Kenneth t Weafer and John Hutchins, who al- t bowed five runs in the ninth in- , ining of yesterday's encounter with j the Giants at Tallahassee. Char- « 1 ley. who remained on the sidelines , yesterday, planned to play the full e nine innings of today's first meeting of the Tigers and Cubs since j ( the world series. White Sox Win s Bisbee. Aria. — The Chicago „ (White Sox sharpened their batting , j eyes here yesterday at the ex- t ' pense of a team of local stars, win■nlng 22 to 2 on 24 hits. Monty f ' Stratton. Les Tiet je, and Babe i Phelps divided the Sox pitching , J duties and allowed but four hits. I Shows Plenty Clearwater. Fla.—Max Butcher's ] impressive hurling demit with the Dodgers brought the smile back to manager Casey Stengel'S face to- , , day despite Brooklyn's defeat yes- I I terday in Rocheter. 6-2. Butcher.: ! whose debut had been delayed by : ' (an infected knee, pitched the first | d 'five innings. Although tabbed as < the losing pitcher, he might have j * hurled shotout ball — with better support and a little luck. He 8 j showed plenty of stuff. I T" ; E. BOWLING *| ♦ t Maintenance Schufi 154 212 157 Hancher 140 IS3 134 Meyers 142 138 146 ' . F. Busse 141 151 170 ■ ’ Mclntosh 166 212 106! Total 743 899 713 I Flanges Engle ISO 149 200 • H. Lankenau 195 131 123 . ( .P. Busse ISS 175 151 \ , I McDougal 226 169 158 I I Schafer 147 179 153 1 Total 936 803 785 ‘ Rotors j Eady 147 145 ’ (Lindeman 134 152 150 * i Spade ... 114 144 ) D. Gage 167 159 163 j Warren 134 146 119 , Hi.-m 142 108 Total 690 743 685 j Inspectors I - Breiner 129 125 166 1’ i Lengerich 141 145 139 1 Steele 149 132 124 ( j Chase 214 151 167 90 90 90 ( Total 723 643 686 , Assembly forfeited to Tool Room ‘ and Stators forfeited to Welders. ( o Reynoldstown Wins ; Grand Steeplechase £ Antree. England, Match 27 — 1 I i (UP)—Major Noel Furlong's Rey- 1 ’ ncldstown today won the grand na- 8 ; tional steeplechase. the seventh 1 | horse in history to win the warld s 1 I tost exicting jumping event twice. I Reynoldstown won last year. | Ego was (second and Bachelor 1 I Prince Third. Davy Jones, after leading all the ’ way. ran cut at the last turn. Reynoldstown won easily, going ( away. ( o Mercy Asked in Old Killing Farmington. Mo.. —(UP) —Cotin- ‘ t y officers are seeking a commo- , tation for Elmer Huff, sentenced to Life Imprisonment for a murder 32 years ago. Huff came to the sheriff here last May and confessed killing t Henry Mayes at Pilot Knob, Civil , War batt!? site. May 24. 1904. —< a Traffic Error* Tabulated , New Haven. Conn., —(UP) — A ( record of all motor vehicle viola- < tions will be written on the back , of every operator's license in Con- , neeticut hereafter, the Motor Ve- i hide Commissioner has announced. | Thin move is one of several to re- I duce the heavy death toll on the | highways of the state during the last year. t o 1 1 Trade in a Good Town — j FLASH! 1929 Olds Coach, good mechanical i condition, good paint. SAVE AT I P. A. KUHN CHEV. CO. II Decatur.

DETROIT STAR ENDS HOLDOUT Hank Greenberg Signs Contract To Play With Tigers latkeland, Fla., .Mar. 27. —(UR) Big Hank Greenberg grabbed up his fish net of a first baseman's glove today, ready to Jump into the "seventh game of the world series" between the Tigers and Cubs—after ending his long hold out last night by signing a contract. "I'll play against the Cubs if manager Cochrane thinks it advisable," Hank said. "Otherwise I'll Just work out. I'm in pretty good shape right now." The amount of Greenberg’s new salary was not revealed when his three-hour huddle with club presi dent Walter O. Briggs and Mickey Cochrane ended at 11:15 p. m. but from the smiles that wreathed the big first-sacker's face it was indicated that the American league's most valuable player of last season had been boosted from about SIO,OOO (last year's salary) to nearly $20,000. Hank had demanded $25,000. "The only compromise was in the club's attitude toward me,” Greenberg revealed. “They all seemed sort of glad to see me again. I'm mighty happy about the whole business. That's all I can say about it." Neither Briggs nor Cochrane offered any additional information other than expressing their delight that Hank tad been signed. Business Man Lost On Lake Michigan Ice Petoskey, Mich. March 27 —(UP) | Rain and snow driven by a high I wind for.ed rescue parties to abandon their search this afternoon for Cecil Booth, prominent Harbor Springs, business man. who has been lost on the ice of Lake Michigan .since yesterday. Fears were expressed for Booth’s safety when ice off Seven Mile point began breaking up before the •storm. Coast guardsmen failed to get their boats into open water during the eear 'li this morning. Movie Party Is Trapped By Snow Lewiston. Idaho. March 27—(UP) Sncw today trapped a motion picture party of 35 on location in the Clearwater national forest, 105 miles northeast of Sere. A searching party left the movie cam' again today to look for two truck drivers who went out tp open UK roads They were many hours overdue. THOUSANDS OF flood dangers today to Kentucky, Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin. Rain in Louisville and above Cincinnati swelled the Ohio river closer to the danger point in Kentucky. The weather bure-au at Louisville warned residents of the increasing seriousness of river conditions. Coast guardsmen who rescued 2.000 persons in the east arrived at Louisville with two Amphibian tplanes to direct the movement of rescue Itoats. The steamer Kanke.kee and fleets of motor boats and flatboats were organized to help families evacuate where neceecary. Minnesota weather bureau officials said a sudden thaw following the six-inch snowfall Thursday night caused serious flood conditions in southern Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin. Three hundred families near La Crosse, Wis., were prepared to evacuate their homes in event of a sudden rise of the Mississippi. Lowland residents near Redwing and Winona. Minn., packed their movable goods so they could leave at a moment’s notice. Wheeling To Rebuild Wheeling. W. Va„ Mar. 27—(U.R) —This industrial city laid plans today for an unprecedented era of building, made possible fey one of its greatest disasters. With the Ohio river receding from its second rise, which reached a crest of 39.6 feet late yesterday, rehabilitation work was resumed by the Red Cross, WPA, and various other relief organizations. Between 6,000 and 7,000 families still were homeless, their houses either destroyed or so badIv damaged that they are uninhabitable. More than 20 buildings and private homes have been condemned by building inspectors, who are Just at the start of a city wide survey. Yesterday, 11 buildings and homes and one fire station, weakened by the flood waters which caused nearly $10,000,000 damage locally, were ordered torn down. The result has been a great demand for labor atid building materials.

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Huge Sum Received For Townsend Plan Washington. Mar. 27. — (U.R) — Robert E. Clements spread out records of the Townsend old age pension organization on a congressional inquiry - .•mmitted’s table today and . dimated that nickels | diines, aud quarters were flowing in late last year at a rate which would net a minimum $2.333,00(11 annually. The resigned national secretary j lof Old Age Revolving Pensions. I Ltd . could not give the house com-, I mittee definite figures on receipts ( 1 of national and local Townsend organizations. but his best estimate was for last October, November, and December, when the national headquarters alone received $350,-1 000. Pressed for further figures. Clements said that receipts of Oarp. Ltd., since its inception Jan. ; 1, 1934. were $951,964. o Heavy Increase In Income Tax Returns ludinapolis. Ind. March 27 —(UP) , An approximate increase of 65 per cent iu income tax collections in ndiana during the first quarter of 1936 as compared to the previous year was reported today by Will H. Smith, collector of internal revenue. Collections from Jan. 1 to March 25 totalled $7,142,626.71. an increase of $2,818,058 over the ejections from January 1 to March 31, 1935. Smith said 100.000 returns were filed in Indiana this year, as compared to 75.000 in 1935- ,— o Says Dillinger Intelligent Man Indianapolis, Ind.. March 27 — (UP) —John Dillinger was an intelligent man and not the killer as ixany pictured him to be, Louis Piquett. Chicago attorney, and counsel for the slain gangster, said here yesterday. Piquett, vkdting John Dillinger., Sr., on the latter's farm here, paid respects to the one-time public enemy. “John was not stupid, 'but one of the most intelligent clients I ever had." Piquett said. “Hie reputation

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REPORT CHANGE IN LOBBY Bill Senate Anti-Lobby Bill l> Refused By House Leaders Washington. Mur. 27— (U.R) - House leaders have dumped tho ( senate's firastic anti-lobby bill In | the ash can and have scheduled ! for consideration today a substitute which will miss some of tho , most effective lobbyists in town | by upwards of half n mile. j The bill of Sen. Hugo L. Black. D.. Ala., passed last year sought I registration and reports from all ! peruons who arcepte l puy for attempting to influence legislation lor to Influence any government I . department or federal employe , anywhere. A similar bill passed I the senate in 1928 but got nowhere ; in the house. The house Judiciary committee • now has reported to the floor for tonsideration a bill prepared by Rep. Howard W. Smith. D.. A a., which would exempt departmental lobbyists from registration. • "At the present time." the committee reported to the house, "it is the opinion of the committee that legislation relating to the subject of the collection of and for the purpose of influencing legislation and of lobbying should he confined only to the legislative branch of the government." i The committee did not etate the reasons for its opinion. Tho effect of the decision, however, will be Ito exempt front r» cMrutfvi highly paid lawyer-lobby ists an ( oth- ' ers whose activities are related more directly to business before government departments than to legislation pending in congress. Any lobbyists who attended to departmental business involving contracts and such matters for their clients would not come nearer than half a mile or so to the capitol and the proposed proscription against unregistered persuasion on legislative i*mes. j President Roosevelt demanded early in 1934 that lawyer members of the Democratic national committee resign their party jobs or cease practising law in Washing-

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