Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1937 — Page 6

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BOWLING MEET | OPENS TONIGHT American Bowling Congress Opens With Rec- ; ord Entry List ■ New York, Mar IO <U.R> When . Mayor Fiorello La Guardia rolls i Id-pound, hard rubber ball at a sei, of pins tonight, th** 27th annuali American bowling congress, great est indoor sports spectacle In American history, will be under I way. New York's first A.B.C. tourney, will be the richest, largest, long ! est in duration, and most widely | represented ever held More than Sv.Oimi keglers from I 31 states and Canada will tak 1 turns at shattering the maple before the $145,000 in prize money is j awarded May 4. The bowling wi I i continue on 28 alleys in the 212th coast artillery armory 17 hours out j of each 24 for the next 56 days, i There are 4.016 five-man teams. 5.881 pairs, and 11,773 singles who paid $218,075 entry fees to com-1 pete for the 6.000-odd prizes. All . of these figures are "tops'' in i bowling history. As soon as the brief inaugural i ceremonies by Mayor La Guardia I are over, the first squad of 28 I Pelist teams w ill take over the | alleys. Some good scores should be set up during the first night as j the lowest average for any of i these- Quintets ie 931 while the 1 highest is 1018. The entrants will be shooting at these all-time records: 3199 established by Milwaukee Tea Shops' five-man team in 1927. 1405 —established in 1933 by the two-man team of Gil Zunker and Frank Benkovic of Milwaukee. 774 individual record made by Larry Shotwell, Covington. Ky.. 193«. 2060—a1l events mark set by . Zunker in 1933. The champions risking their 1 titles are: five-man Hi Bru team of Indianapolis: two-man, Tony Slantina and Mike Straka of Chi-! cago: individual. Charley Warren of Springfield, O.; all events. John Murphy of Indianapolis. New York leads in teams entered

| CORT To-Nite - Thursday puM**’ I j A* / i St A- / &g aS»:"7 JL7 * W,’ 1. -JBWWI & ■7'¥X»'~*y^ B/ w y*F ™gl — ADDED ENJOYMENT — Geo. Price - Nell O’Day “Captain Blood” Pictorial Review (in Color) Roao' To Romance “Western Grandeur." 10c-25c Fri. “Taka Chance Nite” 10c ! Matinee starting at 1:30 Box office open until 2:30. Sun. Mon. Tues. James Cagney “Great Guy”

.With 2.9611 New Jersey is second I with 732. then Pennsylvania uitb 409, Ohio 301, Illinois 13ii, Michigan 127. and Indiana 78. Eight Canadian teams will he representI ed FORMER GRID COACH DIES Judge Walter Steffen Os l Carnegie Tech Dies Last Night Chicago, Mar. 10.- <U.R> -Funeral 1 arrr% tements were made today for I superior court Judge Walter P. Steffen, former , all American and I head football coach at Carnegie Tech. Steffen. 51. died last night after I a six-year illness. He underwent .an operation in 1930 and another two months ago. His condition became grave yesterday morning : and he died at his home last night. Steffen succeeded the great Wail ter Kckersall as quarterback of ; University of Chicago football l teams and received all-American I recognition in 1908. Later he be-1 ' came a commuting coach for Car'negie Tech, spending thfte days ' of each week in Chicago as alderI man and judge, then returning to I Pittsburgh to coach his team in ■ week-end games. He received offers as head coach of the University of Chicago and University of I Pennsylvania. He is survived by his widow, the I former Pearl Foster, and six children. Frederick, Walter, Jr., George, Patricia. Elizabeth. Pearl and Jane. o — Two Brothers Held As Livestock Thieves Rochester, Ind.. Mar. 10. —<U.R> — ! Gilbert Fansler, 29, Delpni, and j his brother. Lester, 22. Rochester, i were held today in connection with ■ theft of livestock and grain from ■ Fulton and Cass county farmers | during recent months. The' pair, allegedly connected with a gang of farm thieves operating in the two counties, were arrested yesterday by Sheriff Lester, King. Fulton county, and Sheriff Dewey Schmitt. Cass county. The officers said the younger brother confessed shortly after his apprehension.

Tonight & Thursday * NOTE * First Show TONIGHT at 6:30. Come Early! Matinee Thursday at 1:30 Box Office Open until 2:30 ♦ ♦ V I k f AI SO —“A Girl’s Best Years” Musical Comedy. 10c-25c O—~~O ■ ■ i Fri. & Sat. — Robert Young, Ann I Sothern in “Dangerous Number.” PLUS—G-Man thriller “You Can’t I Get Away With It” with J. Edgar | Hoover. ■ —o Sun. Mon. Tues. — Grace Moore, Cary Grant, ’When You’re in Love' Hear Miss Moore sing “Minnie the Moocher.”

| Decatur Bowling League Results MINOR LEAGUE General Electric Hoagland 220 167 16! ' i>. Gage Lso i2x Mclntosh 130 164 174 1 E. W. Lankenau 118 131 Brown 163 166 158 , Busse 189 17» Total 781 814 814 Castings Co. Spangler 203 181 223 Roas no |M WI I Cline 178 150 154 I 1 Strickler 167 237 198 .' Young 176 176 173 Total 894 936 926 St. Mary’s Briede 186 165 152 Green 191 162 165 Ladd 191 177 158 Gallogly . 160 117 158 Ulman 130 126 169 Total 858 747 855 Kuhn Chevrolet Ahr L3B 177 177 Zehr 188 166 167 Reed 182 152 186 Mies 185 200 151 o. Lankenau 161 155 194 Total 854 850 875 Monroeville .1. Richards 115 117 164 Beachot 97 127 Zimmerman 139 148 177 Bucher .110 135 148 N. Richards . 169 164 154 . .... 140 35 35 35 Total 708 696 805 Cloverleaf Frisinger . 172 149 215 Thoms 146 105 155 Peterson 147 191 138 Hooton 117 134 123 Farrar 180 160 173 Total 762 739 804 Ford-Lincoln Lister 146 160 201 Gaga 145 126 133 Scheiman 171 179 148 Keller 186 164 135 Lytle 133 179 116 Total 781 808 733 Riverside Garage Zelt ... 156 203 ISI Cherry 126 146 IS3 Miller 146 177 lai Mutschler 170 185 186 Stump .... 175 159 147 T0ta1773 870 834 o | Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) * « New York, Mar. 10 —(U.Rk—Putting the sport shots here and there: Never overlook a bet department: when Edwin Crawford, University of Tennessee heavyweight, fought his first fight in the golden gloves extravaganza, amateur seconds were in his corner . . he looked very good in winning, and so when he entered the ring for his final bout he was seconded by a brother of Jimmy Johnston. Madison Square Garden matchmaker . . . Louisville State university recently laid $25,000 of very negotiable dollar bills on the line to pur chase an 18-hole golf course for its students . . . and the money was sugar straight from the sugar bowl game . . . and with more sugar from the Sugar Bowl a brick, steam heated, and air-conditioned home was built for Mike, the foot ball team's tiger mascot . . . and while I'm down Louisiana way. so to speak, allow me to thank Red Dawson. Tulane head coach, for i the football parka he lent me to wear during my trip tip the Mississippi at flood time ... I was the warmest refugee between Cairo and Delta . . . Dave Levin, the Jamaica butcher i boy who left the hams on the wall to join the hantes in the wrestling ring, has been in a Brooklyn hos- ' pital for six weeks, suffering from an infection which fololwed a rope burn . . . he'll be out of action for a year . . . speaking of wrestling, who are the "world chamnidns" Farr-Way CLEANERS 3 WAYS TO GET MONEY CONFIDENTIAL DEALINGS 1. PHONE our office, tell us of your money needs. 2. CUT this »d out—write your name and address on it —and mail to us. 3. CALL at office —conveniently located. Private consultation rooms. j You can u?« any of these three ways and you are under NO OBLIGATION if you do not accept our service. You ran easily arrange a loan ON YOUR SIGNATURE, furniture, auto or other personal property. Also Auto and Merchandise Financing with or without down payment. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorporated 105% North Second Street Over Schafer Store Phone 2*3*7 Decatur, Indiana

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' now ’ . . . or has everyone lost count'.’ . . Hard to believe department: * the story from Sarasota that Al ' Schacht, the baseball buffoon, :s ' working out with the Ringling * Brothers clowns to get new material . . Al had better not change his ’ routine, because the fans have ” i seen him go through the same old ’ paces so long that one innovation and they'll throw him out of the ’ park as an imposter . . . ’ Note to National league hitters: Paul < Daffy I Dean's weakness is 1 fielding bunts toward first base . . ’ he'll probably be efficient at the business by the opening of the sea--1 son, however, because Manager Frisch makes him practice the play half an hour a day . . . our 1 guess is that Bill Tilden will beat ' Fred Perry when they meet in the ’ Garden late this month ... as ’ good a money player as he is. Big ’ William is even better when prid ■ is at stake . . . and they'll both be ’ riding when he meets the Englitr.man . . . 1 The Philadelphia Athletics are ’ stopping at the Snail Hotel in Mexico City, in the event you care J to wi ite a white elephant a note. Francis Albert'anti. public rel.eI tions counsel for the bowling congress. was a prizefighter publicist for so long that names of others ' than boxers floor him . . . for instance. bis handout for today con tained the fact that the first ball , of the tournament would be rolled 1 by Mayor Fidel La Guardia ... I he meant, of course, to write Flor- i ello and not Fidel . . but Senor Al-1 bei tanti still remembers Fidel La Barba, the former flyweight champion. (Copyright 1937 by United Press I i i At the Training Camps By United Press I • « Phillies Winterhaven. Fla.. Mar. 10.—(U.R) — Dolph Camilli, slugging first baseman, was the only holdout when Manager Jimmy Wilson called the roll for the Philadelphia Phillies' first training session today. President G. P. Nugent would not reveal the amount Camilli demanded. but said his 1937 contract called for a 30 per cent increase

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('over his 1936 salary. Camilli was believed to have asked $15,000. Dodgers 1 Clearwater. Fla.—Only SSOO stood ( between the Brooklyn Dodgers and 4 j two star holdouts today. Pitcher i Van Lingle Mungo wants $15,000 ’land has been offered $14,500. First ' baseman Buddy Hassett threatened 1 "to go back to his Brooklyn home, 1 j get a political job and play with ‘; the semi-pro Bushwicks" unless Dodger oftiicials upped his contract another SSOO. He is believed ’; to have asked for SB,OOO. Tigers Lakeland. Fla.—Three infielders and three outfielders who are not due in training camp until next Sunday have reported with the Detroit Tigers' hatterymen now working out. Mickey Cochrane was the first major league manager to sign ' i all of his players. Reds Tampa. Fla. — Manager Chuck Dressen of the Cincinnati Reds announced today that he will start his team off in high gear by send- ' ing two squads through a full nine inning game tomorrow. It will be the Reds' first practice tilt of ’ the year. Rookies will do the pitching. o GOV. MURPHY iCONTTWFr* rpr-we — s --n- nvw' I cy brigade." | As the Chrysler conferences re- • sumed. Richard T. Frankensteen, ! UAWA organizational director, an- ; nounced that the union would : press its demand for sole bargaini ing rights on three grounds: 1. UAWA wants industrial peace. With two factions in i Chrysler plants, industrial peace ( can come only if one of them is given sole bargaining rights. 2. The UAWA represents a majority of Chrysler workers l 3. Sole bargaining rights must t be granted because of the future : possibility of strife between the committee for industrial organiza- • tion and the American Federation i 1 of Labor. In regard to the third point I Frankensteen expressed belief - that the A. F. of L. would att tempt soon to organize workers ! not affiliated with the UAWA.

BAfICE RESIGNS STATE POSITION i i t .J! Edward Barce Quits Post As Deputy State At-torney-General Indianapoll*. Mur. 10. <U.R>-At-torney General Omer Stokes Jack ' son today announced the resignation of J. Edward Barce, deputy attorney general under Indictment in I’urk county on charges of extortion and accepting a bribe. Jackson said Barce resigned to ! return to private law practice at Kentland. The indictment against Barce, who conducted the state's invest!- ' gution of John Dillinger's famous i "wooden gun’’ escape from the' ' Crown Point jail, was returned by' the Parke county grand jury Jan.; ' 23 in connection with three trials of Mrs. Hazel Adams, Cayuga, on, murder charges. Barce assisted in prosecution at the three trials of Mrs. Adams in connection with the murder of Miss Aileen Randolph, 22, on July * 29, 1934. 5 The grand jury indictment acf cused him of soliciting money from ? Park Randolph, father of Aileen, , to continue the prosecution. 9 Barce and Philip Lutz. Jr., who was attorney general at the time of the trials, answered the charge , with public statemnt saying Barce ! received only a contribution made * by Randolph to help defray ex- , penses of the state's investigation t and that the contribution was duly . recorded in state records. Miss Randolph was found dead ' on U. SS. road 41, two miles north of Kingman, supposedly a victim of a hit and run driver. ! Subsequent investigation resulted in murder charges against Mrs. Adams and four other members of a drinking party Miss Randolph * had attended. t ' t Indictments against the group were dismissed after Mrs. Adams had been tried three times, result- , ing in an acquittal verdict the last , time in Warren circuit court at Williamsport. o Schmeling Wants To Fight Jim Braddock ’ New York, Mar. 10.— (U.R) -Max I Schmeling today offered heavy- [. weight champion James J. Brada dock a guarantee of $250,000, posted in a bank in a neutral European country, to defend his title against the German this summer in Berlin. Schmeling. who has threatened Braddock with a lawsuit if Braddock goes through with a title fight in Chicago this June against Joe Louis, offered the plan as a ' sort of compromise measure to end bickering and injunction threats. 1 Max said the moment he signed a contract to fight Braddock in Germany. $250,000 would be post1 ed—either in France or England ' —and it would be free of German taxes. > o ‘ STEEL WORKERS 1 iCONTINUED FROM PAOK 08’9) j C. I. O. by hie own union and ear- . marked for the new drive wh-ich he i described as “number one" project of the C. I. O. t Tillman eaid he would immediatef ly open offices for the T. W. O- C. in - New York City, and that approxis mately 40 organizers would be rustled into mill territory as soon as

Nation’s Bowlers Strikes Here! / t 11|— * —k IT I ?? sr i i view all *y»l lit I I CtffH& p r -I ! gL| f' •{ g »11 - .-..Taj u_ .» j min aim r i ,«. i— i niw BIgffIWHaMMMMMBMiir A I < J x ~ 4 wk*? On these alleys in the 212th Arm- aewt SSwR 'if ory in New York, some 22,000 '* ’SrS??-#' bowlers are firing away for a share in the $140,000 prize tnoney ' .A '.?■ I in the annual American Bowling Hfr* l ffißwEM .■..'*£'s£’ . Congress tournament. The tour- Mb ney. which opened March 10. can- K\ Hr tlnues foi more than 50 days / Two of the Viterans entered are (|i Mort Lindsey, left, and Joe Fal- ; -<- :i J2 caro, right, world's champion. . Lindsey and Joe ~

ipossGile. file said that all tactics of the, drive will be planned front the New : York office and that regional cen-| teie will be eet ttp In New England land the nouth, with approxiuiately a dorm stkh-ceriters Boston, Provid|ence, or Lawrence probably will be chosen to supervise the campaign In New England Woolen Milta Another principal biib-ccnter will likely be selected in the CarolinasIt was I urncd slmultaneousy that the C. 1. O. had refused to 'ake over the textile delve unless the United textile workers, a subsidiary union agreed to abandon ail leadership to the National C. 1. O. Officers. The U. T. W. conducted an uneticceesful and bloody strike in 1934 and the C- 1 O. wishes to avoid any repetition of thie. j oLOYAL FORCES - - (CONTINUE!' i Gen. Mola, is moving along two i main roads which join just out- ■ side Guadalajara, 30 miles north- j east of Madrid, the most Important city in the path of the attack-1 ing force. ,— 0 .. ... DePauw President Inaugurated Today Greencastle, Ind.. Mar. 10.—<U.R) —Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, DePauw alumnus and prominent educator, today formally was inaugurated as the 14th president of DePauw university, educational affiliate of the Methodist Episcopal church. The invetiture. held in conjunc-' tion with ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the school, was conducted in Gobin Memorial church and attended by a colorful robed procession of representatives of 135 colleges and universities. Rihop Edgar Blake, Detroit, presided over the services and the formal charge to the incoming president was given by Bishop Francis J. McConnell. New Y’ork

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Still holding out for a sizable salary increase. Earl Averill takes it easy in his Cleveland home. The slugging outfielder of the Indians is asking $17,500 for his u services this year.

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Millicent Hirsh (above), of ■ York, scored an upset in bej Norma Taubele, of Califonij win her way to the finals iifl women's indoor national championships at New Yotß