Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1937 — Page 6

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Commodores Launch Basketball Practicl

COMMODORES TO START SEASON HERE NOV. 4 Twenty-One Games Are Scheduled For Deca-, tur Commodores Facing a tough 21 game schedule. | the Decatur Commodores, the locaLa Catholic high school's basketball i team, have been undergoing dally i workouts for the past week in pre-' pa rat ton tor the opening game,] which will be played here Thurs- i day. November 4. The first game on the Onmo-j dore schedule will be played at the local gymnasium on the above date, with St. Paul of Marion furnishing the opposition. Os the 21 games scheduled. 11 will be played on the home floor. The highlight of the home sched- j ule will be a tilt with St. Xavier of I Louisville The exact date for this I game has not been set, but the I contest will likely be played during the Christmas holidays. St. Xavier has consistently pro ! duced one of the outstanding Cath-| olie high school teams in the coun-| try. having produced national champions during the annual Loyola university tourney at Chicago. Other outstanding games on the home schedule are St. Mary's of Anderson. Huntington Catholic. St. John's of Delphos, Central Catholic of Fort Wayne, St. Mary's of Michigan City and Catholic Central of Hammond. Only two lettermen of the 193637 squad were lost by graduation, i Charles Cook and Fred Voglewede. I Four lettermen returning this year ; are William Voglewede. Richard, Gillig, Art Baker and Robert i Hess. Reserves who saw consid-j erable action last year and are . j

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| again out for the team are Alber-> Iding. Ktthnle and Bolinger. A ' total of 20 boys are reporting for practice daily The complete schedule follows: ' I Nov. 4 St. Paul of Marion at Decatur Nov. 9 Portland at Portland II Nov. 16 Kirkland at Decatur Nov. 24—Celina Catholic at Celina I Dec 1 St. Mary's of Anderson at I Decatur. J Dec. 7—Huntington Catholic at Decatur. Dec. 10 —St. John's of Delphos at I Decatur. I Dec. 11—Catholi Central ift Ham-1 mond. 1 Dec. 12—St. Mary's at Michigan City. ; Jan. 7—St. Paul's at Marion ] Jan. 13- Fort Wayne Central Cath- [ olic at Decatur | Jan. 14—Elmhurst at Elmhurst | I Jan. 21 —Monroeville at Decatur I Jan. 23 —St. John's at Delphos Jan. 28— Huntington Catholic at | Huntington Jan. 30-St. Mary's of Michigan | City at Decatur i Feb. 4—Central Catholic at Fort Wayne i Feb. 11—Catholic Central of Ham-1 mond at Decatur : Feb. 12 -Kirkland at Kirkland ' Feb. 18—Celina Catholic- at Decatur CHICAGO WHITE SOX TAKE LEAD i — Sox Defeat Cubs Monday, To Take Three To Tw o Lead In Series EVEN SERIES The Cubs forced the Chicago city series into a seventh and j deciding game at Wrigley field today by virtue of a 6-2 win today over the White Sox at Comiskey park. French let the Sox down with seven hits, while his teammates gathered 12 bingles off the hurling of Kennedy and Brown. Each earn committed one error. Chicago. Oct. 12 — (U.R) — The , White Sox picked Vernon Kennedy . to win the 1937 Chicago city cham-1 i pionship from the National league ' Cubs today. The Cubs, trailing three games I to two as result of yesterday's 6 to 4 defeat, elected Larry French to keep tfoeiq in the race. The Sox. outhit 11 to 8. scored once in the first, twice in the third, once again in the fifth. Two singles. a sacrifice and a long fly < produced the winning margin in i the seventh, with Tex Carleton i the losing pitcher. Monty Stratton was credited with winning, although he had to retire in the seventh when the Cubs scored twice. Marty homer-; ed for the Cubs in the ninth.

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GEHEVA LISTS I CAGESCHEDULE _____ Cardinals Face Strong Schedule, Including Yellow Jackets | The 1937-38 basketball schedule i of the Geneva Cardinals was anI nounced today by Coach John BauIman. Faced with the task of build- | Ing an almost entirely new team. 1 with most of the last year's reguI lars lost through graduation, the 1 Cardinals will play otje of their : strongest cards this year. For the first time in recent i years the Cardinals and the Deca- | tur Yellow Jackets will meet in I a regularly scheduled game. The j Cardinals come to Decatur on . November 26. Following is the complete sched- ! ule: • Nov. s—Pleasant Mills at Gen ! j eva. Nov. 12—Monmouth at Geneva. Nov. 13—Jefferson at Geneva. Nov. 17—Bryant at Geneva. Nov. 19—Gray at Geneva. I Nov. 26 —Decatur at Decatur. Dec. 3—Kirkland at Kirkland. Dec. 10 —Monroe at Geneva. Dec. 17—Hartford at Hartford Dec. 23 —Berne at Geneva. Jan. 7 —Petroleum at Geneva. Jan. 14—Coldwater. O. at Geneva. ■ Jan. 26 —Bryant at Geneva. , Jan. 28—Bryant at Geneva. Jan. 28 —Jefferson at Geneva. Feb. 4— Monroe at Monroe. Feb. 11—Kirkland at Geneva. Feb. 18—Hartford at Geneva. Feb. 24—Pleasant Mills at Decatur. Feb. 2—Monmouth at Monmopth., AL BRADY, SCHAFFER (CONTINt'ED FROM PAGE ONE) with federal agents.” Two federal agents and a city | policeman, all heavily • armed, guarded his cell. Later federal agents revealed that in the gangsters sedan, be-1 lieved stolen in Ohio, they found three or four machine guns, shot. guns, rifle*, revolvers and hun-1 dreds of pounds of ammunition., I Also in the car was a pencilled diagram of the interior of the Merrill Trust Co., only a few blocks [ from the scene of the gun battle. The spectacular coup, which fed- ■ eral agents said wiped out Indi- • ana's Brady gang, was engineered; in the holiday atmosphere of a 1 New England main street. A hard- [ ware store clerk's tip-off to the | police chief was credited with end- i ing an 18-month hunt. Two weeks ago this clerk sold to Brady and Shaffer a quantity of ammunition, The unusual size of the sale caused him to report it‘ to police chief T. I. Crowley. He j in turn sent to Washington to check the customers' descriptions 1 against federal records. A circular listing Brady, Shaffer ■ and Dalhover came back and the I clerk identified the first two as; the customers. The clerk recalled that the customers had said they would return "in a couple of weeks.” bn the basis of Crowley's report. 17 federal agents were sent here and bad been In Bangor the past four days. Indiana authorities were notified and di.#atched state police officers who would be able to identify the desperadoes. This imposing army of officers were concealed in and around i Dakin's sporting goods store when the gangsters’ sedan, bearing Ohio license plates, was driven up and parked shortly before 9 a. m. EST. Dalhover entered the store first and was greeted by federal agents. "Where are your partners?" an agent asked. Before he could answer Brady , and Shaffer began firing from the ) street, drilling holes through the | store’s plate-glass windows. A ' fusillade of bullets dropped Brady ; and Shaffer as they spun around i and headed back toward their car The bullets narrowly missed ■ James Seeley, 22. clerk who was sweeping the sidewalk. He flattened himself on the walk while bullets whined above him. Six customers inside the store sought shelter behind counters. Shep Hurd. 40. the store manager, said “25 or 30 shots” were fired. When the shooting ended, Brady and Shaffer lay dead in the street, Walsh was sprawled on the floor with blood streaming from a wound in the right shoulder, and Dalhover was struggling in the grips of other agents. Mrs. Grace Hardy, who witnessed the clash, described the experience: “I was sitting in a parked car in front of the federal man's car. which was parked in front of Daki in’s sporting goods store. I was I writing a letter. "A man —I guess it was one of the federal men standing behind my car — shouted ‘Look out'!” Then I heard a rifle shot and dropped to the floor. There were

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lots of other shots "When the shooting was over I looked out and saw two men lying in the street in front of my ear. It was awful.” i Hurd got out movie camera at the start ot the shooting and recorded 50 feet of film. Afterward he said: "I was the one who furnished the police with the original tip on thia gang and they tell me I'm in line for a $1,500 reward. SSOO on each of the gangsters." After examining Walsh. Dr. Herbert Scrivener reported that the bullet apparently had grazed the upper right lung and lodged in the shoulder. "It Is not possible at this time to say when we can operate to, remove the slug." the surgeon said. Walsh's condition was considered “not critical." Dalhover was held without specific charge in the city jail. He suffered minor cuts in trying to free himself "Public Enemies” Indianapolis. Oct. 12 — (U.R) —I Slaying of Al Brady, notorious self-styled successor to John Dillinger. and his lieutenant Clarence Lee Shaffer at Bangor. Me., today climaxed a lurid trail of crime that I made the 26-year-old outlaw one of the most sought after “public enemies." For more than a year and a half, the short, sullen gunman and his associates had terrorized the middle-west in an effort to make good their leader's boast to make "John Dillinger look like a piker." In the course St their maraud-, ings, Brady. Shaffer. James Dalhover, and Charles Geisking. who later was tried and imprisoned by • Ohio authorities on a robbery. . charge, eluded trap after trap laid for them by federal, state, and , county law enforcement agencies. I, At least four murders, including , 1 those of Sergt Richard Rivers of 1 ■ the Indianapolis police force, and : I State Policeman Haul Mlnneina i.' and innumerable bank robberies < and holdups were attributed to 1 the gang Operations of the Brady gang 1 i centered chiefly in the mid-west — 1 particularly Ohio, where they first 1 attracted attention of police. %nd j in Indiana, home state of Brady, 1 ! where they staged the major por-' i tion of their crimes. Early in 1936, Brady and his i henchmen started to carve their I bloody path throughout the rniddle- [ west. At Lima, Ohio, they lobbed | the Kay jewelry store on March I 19, 1936, of $35,000. It was this robbery and trans ! portation of the loot across the Ohio state line into Indiana, and ! not the murders attributed to, them, that brought federal agants into the chase. A month after the robbery In- , dianapolis police surrounded the! I home of a physician where GeisI king was being treated for a gun- t shot wound received in the Lima I holdup. The gang shot their way i out of the trap, however, killing i Sergt. Rivers. Geisking was cap- | tured. Six days before that battle the | gang shot and killed Edward Lindsey, a clerk in a Piqua. Ohio, grocery store. Three months later Brady, Shaffer and Dalhover were trapped byChicago police and returned to Indianapolis where they occupied cells in the Marion county jail, awaiting trial with Geisking for the Rivers' slaying. All but Geisking subsequently kere taken to the Hancock county jail at Greenfield. Ind., on a change of venue where they escap- i ed after slugging Sheriff Clarence Watson with an iron bar wrenched from the cell window. The first year of their activities ended when they held up the Car-I thage, Ind., bank and killed Patrol- , man Frank Levy in Anderson. Ind.. | as they attempted to rob the treasurer of the Elks club. In April of this year they were . identified as the bandits who held

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[up the Farmland. Ind., bank and esI caped wllh approximately SI,OOO. : Robbery of the ('enterpoint bank, ten miles southeast of Brazil, Ind,, also was attributed to Brady. i Last May 25 three men held up I the Goodland, Ind. bank and obtained $2,500. Matt Leach, then captain of the state police, said I the bandits were Brady and his , henchmen. A state-wide manhunt was launched, invllvlng an estimated 500 police officers, and during its course Minneman was slain and Deputy Sheriff Elmer Craig of Monticello wounded when ambushed by the gang. After the Goodland holdup and the slaying of Minneman. Brady eluded every effort of state police, cooperating with enforcement agencies of Indiana's neighboring states, to effect his capture. The gang dropped from sight for | a few weeks and then was involved in a shooting fracas in August with officers at Baltimore. Identification of Brady was made through two women who had ! known him under an alias. Indiana state police detectives were sent east to aid in the search but the gang again vanished until their trail was picked up by federal agents and they were trapped at Bangor today. Partial vengence Hammond. Ind., Oct. 12—(UP) — Beatrice Vinkowski. Hammond's nurse and sister of Paul Minneman. Indiana state policeman shot by the Brady gang, said today she felt that the death of her brother was only part’y avenged by the gangster's’ death. , “I only wish they had been made to suffer like my brother did when . I nursed him," she said. Express Relief I Baltim.-e, Md.. Oct. 12—(UP)— The Rainmondi sisters. Baltimore girls who married two Brady gang- i 1 sters. when the latter were hiding ! out under different names In Baltimore last summer, today expressed relief at the killing of the men. “Feel sorry for thoee bums? Not on your life “Said Mrs. Minnie Shaffer. who married Clarence Led Shaffer. "I'm glad he's dead. It's n re'ief . to know everything is over. It was : creepy to feel they still were alive ) and might c. .me hack. No I'm not going to send flowers or anything else.” ’ Mrs. James Dalhover. who married another gangester known as "Swartz” said “I loved him until I heard what he'd done. He played a dirty trick on me and I'm not sorry he was captured.’” Marquette Football Star Joins Bears Chicago Oct. 12—< UP)—Ray Buivid. star Marquette University halfback in l&*f>. today Joined the Chicago Bears professional football ! team. Coach George Halas said Bui vid accepted a Bear offer yesterday and probably wi'J see action against the I Chicago Cardinals here next Sunday. -j Denunciation Os Aggressors Backed Fort Wayne, Ind.. Oct. 22—(UP) [ —The Fort Wayne industrial labor council last night approved President Roosevelt's denunciation of aggressor nations and war. Bernard O'Connell, connci! president, said “We favor the President's 'quarantine' plan and intend t-» boycctt Japanese made products. We are agaist invasion of oWater Argument Deepens Hugo. Okla —(UP) — A water well 300 feet deep is being drilled one-halt block from Hugo's busiest street dry an irate water customer, i Charles Hassing. manager of a , creamery here, decided to produce his own water supply after he failI ed to agree on the amount of his i monthly bill from the city water department.

PLAYER TRADES ARE EXPECTED Giants Expected To Make Several Changes In Lineup New York. Oct. 12.—<U.R> When winter trade winds blow, the champion New York Giants will be in the thick of the bartering. It , was believed today. As the 1937 world series passed into, history, ft seemed certain j that the Giants would need addi-1 tional strength if they hope to re-1 tain the National league pennant.. Chief needs will be a top notch ■ I first baseman and a centerfielder who can hit. To get them. Manager Bill Terry is expected to place pitcher Hal Schumacher, outfielders Wally Berger and Hank Leiber I and first baseman Johnny Me- i I Carthy on the block. One trade that may be consummated is the exchange of Schumacher. Berger and Leiber and i cash for Van Lingle Mungo, fire-1 ball pitcher of the Brooklyn Dodg- [ ers. Terry, it is believed, thinks that Mungo would be a winning pitcher with a winning club. The Giant centerfield problem is acute. During the world series. Terry used Hank Leiber and Ixm Chiozza. Chiozza is a great fielder but a weak hitter. Leiber is a poor fielder but he can hit. McCarthy seems destined for the gate. When Sam Leslie Jturt his wrist. McCarthy became the regular first baseman. Toward the last of the season his fielding and hitting were great, but in the last week of the season and during the i series he slumped again. The Yankees seemed certain to stand pat. with only one or two minor exceptions. If they can get another first class pitcher, they , may cast off some of the reserves. I •Manager Joe McCarthy, who pil- |

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