Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1936 — Page 8

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OLYMPIC PLAY STARTS TODAY Basketball Stars Os Nation To Compete In Olympic Finals • New York. Apr. 3.— (U.PJ — The greatest collection of basketball •tars ever gathered under one root -sharp-shooting giants and elusive midgets—will start play late today in the Olympic basketball finals at Madison Square Garden. Eight of the nation's outstanding teams, survivors of bitter sectional eliminations, are entered in the tournament to pick the 14 players Uncle Sam will send to Berlin this summer. The tournament will be officially opened by Dr. James A. Naismith. "4 year-old professor of physical education from the University of Kansas, who nailed up a pair of peach baskets in a gym at Springfield. Mass., 45 years ago and invented basketball. Pairings for the first round games today and tonight follow; 5:30 p. m.—U. of Washington vs. DePaul of Chicago. 7 p. m.—Utah State vs. Wilmerding. Pa.. Y. M. C. A. 8:30 p. m.—U. of Arkansas vs. Universal Pictures of Hollywood. Calif. 10 p. tn. —Temple U. vs. McPherson. Kans., oilers. The survivors will meet in the semifinals tomorrow night, and the Championship game will be staged Sunday night. Although the winning team is expected to place the largest number of men on the Olympic team, players will be named from other squads. It is expected that seven men will be named from the winning team, five from the runner-up team, and two from the remaining teams. The coach of the winning team will automatically qualify for a similar role with the Olympic squad. His assistant will be coach of the run-ners-up. The McPherson. Kan., Oilers.

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who average •> feet. fiMi inches in ! height and claim to he the world's I tallest basketball team, are favor- , ed to win the tourney. The Holly wood Univerftlfe. who led th»» Oil ers, 19-7. at halftime in the A. A [ U. final only to lose in the last half, are picked to gain the final 1 with the McPherson team. —4 o I At the Training Camps By United Press Yesterday s Results Chicago (N) 4. Boston (A) 1. St. Louis (A) 8, Detroit (A) 3. Brooklyn (N) 10. Newark (D 5. Knoxville (S) 10. Philadelphia (A* 2. New York (A) 6. Birmingham (S) 5. Baltimore (I) 7, Philadelphia (N) S. St. Louis <N) 8, Atlanta (S) 7. Pittsburgh <N) 12, Chicago (A) 8. New York (N) 6. Cleveland (A) 5. New Catcher Macon. Oa.. Apr. 3.—(U.PJ Manager Bucky Harris of the Washington Nationals has looked over his new catcher, Walter Millies from Brooklyn, tn action and found him to his liking. Millies worked three innings in the Nats' 4 to 1 triumph over the Cincinnati Reds yesterday. Buck Newsom was in pitching form, allowing the Reds , but five hits. Cubs Beat Red Sox Sarasota. Fla —The Boston Red Sox wound up their stay at Sarasota with a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Chicago Cubs yesterday, and with the Cubs moved on to Thomasville. Ga., where they will engage in another contest today While Lefty Grove and Johnny Welch held the Cubs to six hits: and the Red Sox cracked out twice as many. Lon Warneke. on the mound for the Cubs, was invincible in the pinches. o The condition of Ed Green. Adamo circuit court bailiff, was still I serious today. He is a patient at the < Adaxs c inty memorial hospital.

ANNUAL PURDUE CLINIC OPENED / Fifth Annual Football Clinic Opens At Purdue University . Lafayette, Ind., Apr. 3.-—(U.PJ - Several hundred coaches from Indiana and neighboring states assembled here today for the opening sessions of the fifth annual Purdue university football clinic. , Paul Beck, coach at Obling. 111., which won the Wabash valley high school basketball tournament last January, was scheduled to open the clinic with a discussion on i •'Getting the best out of your material.'' Other coaches on today's program included Carl Huffing. Hammond. and Murray Mendenhall of Central of Fort Wayne. At other sessions the mentors were to hear a discussion of three widely different styles of football presented by Elmer Layden. Notre Dame; Lynn Waldorf. Northwestern. and George Halas. coach-own-er of file Chicago Bears profess-j ional team. laiyden was to describe the! Notre Dame system. Waldorf, the single and double wiug back and Halas, the successful pass attack used by the Bears. Highlight of the two-day meeting will be the annual -banquet tonight presided over by .dark Wake field. Central of Evansville, and j President of the Indiana coaches; association. Speakers for the banquet include Dr. E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue; Elmer Layden. Lynn Wai--dorf. Dr. Laurence M. Thompson, first aid field representative of the Red Cross, and A. L. Trester, commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. ( OLD WAVE AND •ONTINt’ED FROM PAGE ONE) . ~ . | frame houses on the city's western outskirts saw the tornado apI proach. It struck the southwest- j ern corner of the city first, smashed an entire block of small homes flat, skipped into the air for halt a block, and roared then with al-' most unbelievable havoc across the entire width of the city. None of the thousands of perI sons in its path had even an inkl- ■ ing of its coming until their houses crashed about them or rose in the air from over their heads to an accompanying roar of wind | and the instantaneous blotting out out of light. So powerful was the wind that; - - The Suit You'll Wear Easter We cover the _ Suit mode with dramatic- variety and welcome -r.-x_ prices—every important fashion i_«is to be found in jHI our collection. A Special Group at KoK j sl2-75 11 1 HI II others from * ; F $7.95 to 24.75 CASUAL U J COATS Swing intb spring in a new swagger or ••dressy" coat. Every one is fashion right fresh from their, wrappings and specially priced. $lO-95 Others from $9.95 to $19.75 New Arrivals DRESSES $3-95 „,$10.95 tyMsaul Mrs. Ixniisa Braden Cor. 3rd and Monroe

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were driven through stone walls. Telephone poles were snapped. o_ Decatur Bowlers Beat Fort Wayne A team of Decatur bowlers defeat t d a Fort Wayn ? team in a match contest at the Mies brothers alleys here Wednesday night, with a total -f 2.611 pins to 2.222. Green bowl- ! ed the high three-game total with ! 553. whie Miller had the high dingle 1 game with a 222. COMMITTEE TO I i'ONTINFED FROM PAGE ONE) ers paid admissions of 25 cents 1 each and added a collection of |2,000. Sheridan Downey, Townsend's counsel, complained Bell refused: him permission to testify. He said r.oney wao "in:'. minded" in Cali-, fornia to defray expenses of the third party movement but that the movement is now "dead.'' He said there was no official connection between Oarp and the third partymass meet I;, i. , John . ’h Detroit pub lie accountant, testified that he and four other accountants employed by the committee had exI amined Oarp books for ‘ fifteen or sixteen days" and found them “incomplete” and “muddled" to such an extent that it would require ! from $30,000 to $40,000 to get a “complete" accounting. The investigation, under the resolution, is limited to total expenditures of $50,000. Committee members were uncertain whether they should ask for more money

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or abandon the idea of the audit. Clements claimed the $1,700 was turned over by Ed Gordon. Oarp state area manager at Los Angeles, to Edward J. Margett, state area manager at San Francisco. o APPROVE FUND (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) laundry tubs will be located in the basement and will be double. Plumbing is already available for I them. Garages were considered when the projeit wan first announced. Uu epected increases in the cost of ma terials and labor made the original c,i. rc-priati-cn too small to include the garagee. o JUNIOR SCOUT tCONTINUHDJFROM to Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, chairman of the PTA council. During the discussion that followed, the Rev. George Waton, president of the Decatur Ministerial Association, stated that the mini " eof the city approved the plan tad u -uM do everything in their power to as-’ . It. o Junior C. Os C. Directors To Meet Directors of the Decatur Junior Chanibei' of Commerce have been requested to meet at the Rice hotel at 7 o'clock Monday evening. The membership cards must be turned in at that time. ._o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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1 Mention Bowers As Dark Horse I mdianatpolM. A->rll 3. (UP) ~ I ciande G. Bowers, author, orator ! and ambassador to Spain, was men- - tinned as a possible “dark horse | candidate for the Demo- ratic guh--1 ernutorlul nomination by the Indianapolis Tim - Washington correaI pondent. It was pointed out that Bowers .T.ay -)e ineligible under the state law requiring five y arn residency in the stateBowers, former Indianapolis - newspaper man is expected home from his Spanish assignment thisj summer to parti.ipate in the Democratic campaign. —————■- -O" ■— —-— Dismiss Lamson Murder Charge San Jose, Cal April 3—(UP)- , David Lamson, former Stanford j University campus li-ader. -became - a free man today for the first time In three years when ; barged of murdering his wife on which he was tried four times were dismissed. District Attorney Fred Thomae requested the charge be dropped after an unsuccesful effort to con-, vict Lamson in the fourth trial, i which ended March 24Kirk McKinney Denies Rumors Erazil. Ind.. Apr. 3— (U.R) — E. Kirk McKinney, former state manager of the HOLC and candidate i for the Democratic gubernatorial ' nomination denied last night that he was either "a puppet of the pe.'ly" % or totally ''anti-adminis-tration." “It has been mmored that I am merely in this race to obtain a ; block of delegate votes to control : the convention and that I wotild 'accept the office of lieutenantgovernor." McKinney said. "That iis untrue. The only office that 1 j would accept is tliaW of governor." Q Labor Terrorism Is Blamed For Trouble Brazil, Ind.. Apr. 3 —(U.PJ —Labor “terrorism" was blamed today by U. V. Price. Bloomington contractor. for sabotage attempts at a highway construction camp on state road 59. near Ashboro, south of here. I Several shots were fired into 'i | * 1 -»«■ > 1 > Ji 1 si I i 1 1l* H I | jM| ... IsiVjlO' 2 8 11 1934 Chev. Coach, new tires. 11931 Chev. Sedan. 6 W. W. 1931 Chev. Sedan, 5 W. W. 1931 Chev. Coach, new paint job 1930 Chev. Coupe, very clean 1930 Dodge Sedan 1929 Dodge Sedan, good paint 1929 Olds Coach, recondi- • tioned ! 1929 Ford Coupe ; 1928 Chev. Coach, good tires 1928 Whippet Coach 1927 Chev. Coach 1933 Chev. 157 in. chassis and cab. : Liberal Trades and Easy Terms. Convenient $2. $3. $4 and weekly or monthly or semi-annual payments can be arranged on any car in our stock. SAVE AT P. A. KUHN CHEVROLET CO. Decatur Phone 170

the camp last night and two dozen sticks of dyntunlte were found be ■’tween gears of a «team shovel in a subsequent Invostlgiuion. Price, awarded contract by tho ’ state highway commission to pave ' the road between here and Ashl)oro. said he had been visited hy men claiming to be union rtvpresontatlvos demanding union wages . be paid on the project. —_ -o- — 222 AV PA Employes Fired By Director South Bend, lnd„ Apr. 3—(U.PLi DDmissa.l of 222 WPA employes !. because of ‘‘ineffeciency or instth- ; ordination" was announced last night by Charles W. liegeman, district director. Ix-geman said the dismissals I of them had been transferred from wore "n« a last resort" after many | ono job to another in an effort to ; i find work suitable to the men. He added that the dismissals i were in line with tho WPA policy to dispense with employes who do not display eagernese to work. “They represent men who not I only refuse to work but attempt to keep others from working." ho I said. Covered Bridges Vanish New Haven. Conn.— (U.R) — Only i seven survivors of the covered I bridge era still stand in Connecti- ; cut to recali the days when lovers ; sought the dark recess of the briges in which to pledge their troth.

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