Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1937 — Page 6

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NAME GOPHERS, PURDUE. ILLINI AS FAVORITES Big Ten Experts Nominate Three For 1938 Championship Chicago. Dec. 28 (U.R) The amazing era of jumpless basketball is so new to the Big Ten even the experts can’t pick a favorite for the 1938 conference championship and so far have been content to nominate three Illinois, Minnesota and Purdue. Minnesota and the hustling Illini shared last season's title with machines of radically different de- i signs but equally effective and early reports indicated they may lie even better this fall when the newness wears off the streamlined rules. Purdue year in and year out is the hottest tip in the conference and this is no exception. On a given night, however, Illinois will play firewagon basketball at its best. There is speed to burn, shooting ability in every man, and a hocus-pocus passing game built around the finest ballhandler in the midwest. Capt. Louie Boudreau, a junior. I>egan to mystify conference foes as a sophomore with backhand passes which shoot out of his hands in unexpected directions and the Illini believe he is just Iteginning to reach his peak. Os the defending co-champions. Illinois found its game more easily adapted to the stepped-up game. Minnesota won its share of the title with deliberate basketball based on Coach Dave McMillan's , short passing game but the Gophers are all young and learn quickly. Losing only Dick Seebach. a guard, from last season's championship team, Minnesota heads into the campaign equipped with more good veterans than any other team in the Big Ten. Minnesota meets Indiana. Michigan. Chicago. lowa. Illinois and Wisconsin in Big Ten games. Rarely has an Illinois team been rated so high with so little experience. Not one of the first five is a senior. Only Boudreau played with last year’s champions. Illinois has one of the toughest schedules in the conference, meeting Indiana. Michigan. Purdue. - Last Time Tonight - “SOPHIE LANG GOES WEST” Gertrude Michael, Larry Crabbe — and — “THE GAME THAT KILLS” Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth. Onlv 10c-20c —'-o—o Fri. & Sat.—TEX RITTER in "Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts.” SPECIAL—IOc Matinee 2 P. M. Saturday (New Years Day.) —o Coming Sunday—2 More Hits! "Bulldog Drummond Comes Back" & “Here's Flash Casey.”

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Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams ♦ ♦ Friday Alumni at Hartford. Saturday Fcur-teain tourney at Hartford ' City with Decatur Yellow Jackets. Berne, Bluffton and Hartford City. Chicago. Minnesota and Ohio State ■ in league games. STATE TO MAKE RURAL SURVEY Income Tax To Be Investigated In Four Indiana Counties Indianapolis. Dec 28 — (U.R) — j Clarence Jackson, state income tax director, announced today that plans are being made for a gross income tax collection campaign in rural areas of the state next month. Four test counties now are being I surveyed in reference to farm income subject to the state income tax and will be used as the basis for the broadening of the campaign after the first of the year when the payments become due. Pays tents farmers have received from the federal government for participating in the soil conservai tion program are taxable as rental payments at one percent of the total. Jackson said. Under the law gross income i tax must be paid by all persons who received an income of SI,OOO during the past year. FOUNDRY FOUND GUILTY TODAY Chicago Concern Accused Os Violating Labor Regulations Chicago, Dec. 28. — (U.R) —The Burnside Steel Foundry company. Chicago, has been found guilty by a trial examiner of unfair labor practices, the national labor relations board announced today. The report of Waldo C. Holden, trial examiner, recommended that the company re-employ U’ith back pay two persons assertedly discharged for union activity. The I charges were filed in behalf of the , Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers, an affiliate of the committee for industrial organization. The Union of Foundry Workers, an independent labor organization which new has a sole bargaining contract with the company, was ’ dominated by the company, Hold- : en’s report said. He recommend- ] ed that the company withdraw all recognition from it. The CIO union represents a majority of the company's 393 employes. he said, and recommended that the company grant it sole bargaining rights. o The United States army is exper imenting with a fighting type airplane having its two propellers in I the rear, giving the pilot, observers and machine gunners clear vision aI h pp rl

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HOOSIER FIVES TO OPEN WEEK | OF BUSY PLAY Purdue, Indiana An <1 Notre Dame All Play Tilts Tonight Indianapolis. Dec. 28. (U.R) East flieets west and Rose Bowl; football will lose the sport spot-| light temporarily tonight as Pur-, due and Indiana meet University . of Southern California and UCLA ' in two of the nation's big hardwood j battles. Notre Datne at Illinois Is I the third tangle which Indiana I cage critics will be watching. The barnstorming Boilermakers,, who have averaged nearly Co, i points a game while holding rivals j to 3tt. will play Southern California tonight and UCLA tomorrow. Indiana university will be the! I other Hoosier quintet against I’C-j , LA tonight and Southern California tomorrow, laist season Southern California placed second in the southern division of the Pacific coast conference and was one of | the few teams to beat Stanford university. Coach Ward Lambert probably will start his five Purdue regulars— Young and Sines at fori wards. Anderson at center and I Dickinson and Malaska at guards. I Scoring honors have alternated ! among them this year and the western teams will have the problem of stopping what no other quin-' ■ tet has fathomed this season. Victory number 20 Is the aim of | i the Irish tonight when they meet the defending big ten champions who shared the title with Minnesota. The Illini have worn four out of five this year, dropping one to Temple university last week. In ten games played between the two I schools, the Illini have won six. o | Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) • « Pasadena, Calif.. Dec- 29. —(U.R) ■ —Tipped off by a newspaper headline as big and black as a python that California and Alabama planned secret practices. I disguised myself yesterday hi a suit made of daisies (because daisies won t tell) and watched them workout. I hart little trouble getting past the gate at the California field, as the sophomore with the villainous crew hair cut and sinister pink cheeks mistook me for a floral tribute to Coach Stub Allison, and passed me right in. Once inside I wasted little time. From a secret compartment in the heel of my left shoe I stealthily withdrew a bottle of invisible ink. a goose quill pen. and some almost miscroscopic bits of rice paper, which could be rolled into balls and thrown over the fence to an accomplice. I hadn't been inside the walled enclosure five minutes before I understood Coach Allison’s demand for secrecy. Sure that he was safe from prying eyes. Coach Allison sent the Bears through their entire repertoire of calisthenics and limbering up exercises. I thought as 1 watched Chapman, Bottari, Meek. Herwig, and all the others sent through their paces, what Coach Frank Thomas of Alabama would give to be a spectator at such a revealing scene. Secret Jog The Bears followed this with a secret jog around the field, and i while this was going cm Coach Allison spotted a group of eight, nine, and ten-year-old boys perched on a far fence. Quickly he summoned a student manager—a sinister appearing fellow, who wore tennis shoes to soften his footfall, and a sweater with a mystic "C” on the front of it. "Go ask those boys their names.” ; Allison barked, “and remove any who answer in a southern drawl.” Secret disclosure followed secret

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Oil these young stalwarts depend Alabama’s hopes for vanquishing the mighty California Bears when they meet in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena on New Year's Day. Fhoto shows, left to right, front line,

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I i disclosure after this, and I was I kept busy throwing the pellets ofj information over the fence. I not-' ■ ed such "inside" things as that Chapman kicks with his right foot. I Herwig has curly hair, and Bot-‘ i tari’s jersey number is not divis-1 i ible by two. Discards Daisies I changed my disguise before; sneaking over to the Alabama prac-| tice field, substituting a suit of! mail for the double-breasted daisy' outfit. The armor came in handy,! because there was a near stampede about the Alabama gates as > hundreds of persons charged in for the secret practice. The work-J out was about as private as a dr- 1 cus parade. But Coach Frank Thomas didn’t seem to mind- Like Allison, the Alabama coach showed l his full calisthenic hand, and then j followed it by allowing his boys to, make their secret punts, secret punt returns, and hush-hush dropkicks. The feeling of secrecy was heightened by th- behavior of the Alabama players themselves. From t the moment they cascaded out of the dressing room, until they cascaded back in two hours later, me ( boys yelled at the top of their lungs. (The fact that the top of: their lungs never did answer them back, didn't seem to dismay them).

Dempsey at Home With Kiddies . A” A. 7 ■ X J k ' «... W ’ j A'" ? !’■•' -I’d daughters ■■ * One of the few pictures ever taken of Jack Dempsey and his two daughters, Barbara, 15 months, and Joan, three and one-half, was snapped as the former world champion showed his youngsters how some of their. Christmas toys worked.

Perron Shoemaker, Jim Ryba, Lou Bostick, Jack Matchtoff, Leroy Monsky, Jim Tipton, Tut Warren; (backfield) George Zivlch, Charles Holm, Henry Cochran, Jew Kilgrow.

i The 'banta boys have a set cry i when running through formations.! As near as I got it through my' armor, it went like this: “Let's get hot and go to town! ; Ifit's get hot and go to town! Let’s get hot and go to town!” j After a whfTe I did begin to get I hot inside my iron suit and did go | to town. I would like to ask anyone who ! reads this to please regard the inI formation about the teams as confidential. and not to give it to the rival coaches. Thank you. (Copyright 193“ by UP.) — o — I . Cuyier Signs As Coach, Player, Unnamed Club Alpena. Mich.. Dec. 28 —(UP) — i’azen (KikV Cuyier. one-time star 'outfielder of the Chicago Cubs, told ‘the Alpena Rotary Club that he hae i signed a Major league contract to serve as coach and utility outfield!er. i Because other players are involved in the deal. Cuyier said, he could r.ot now divulge the name of the team he wiii join. Last year Cuyier rlaved with the I Cincinnati Reds, but announced bis retirepieht as an active player after 'an indifferent season.

G. M. C. MAKES CUT IN FORCE Company Announces Lay Oft To Be “Larger Than Seasonable” Detroit, Dec 28 (U.R) - General Motors corporation unnounccU to I day a reduction in its working S force by approximately 30,000 1 | men, effective Jan. 1. The an-j ' uouncement was made by William j ' 8. Knudsen, president. "The corporation regrets to an- i notince that recession in business I j makes a readjustment of its working force necessary," Knudsen ' i said The reduction is effective i I throughout the United States. ! Approximately 20.000 of the 30.000 ‘ to be laid off. however, wtti be in Michigan. Knudsen said "The corporation has kept its' i men employed up to very recently : by r»‘ducing hours for each man in | order to help the general economic J situation." Knudsen continued I ‘lnventories, luith in the field and | at the plant, accumulated through j this policy have reached a point : where adjustment must take place. 1 Therefore, on or about Jan. 1 the ‘ working force w ill b- reduced in order that people who will con-i I tinue at work will have reasonable income for their needs. Largi Payroll Left “This may effect a considerable number of men in all locations.: I but there still remain on General Motors payrolls in the United States more than 205.000 men and the monthly payroll will exceed 1 $24 000,000. “The corporation regrets circum- ■ stances which make this necessary \ but sincerely hopes that the cotidii tion is temporary and spring will see return of normal employment " Knudsen described the layoff as “larger than seasonable." Plants will not be closed down 'in any instance. Knudsen said. ! and the curtailed schedule will call f for a 24-hour work week, with I each employe working eight hours. There will be no wage reductions, he added. General Motors is the largest automobile manufacturer in the world. Reduction, of the GM payroll to 205.000 represents a layoff of 60.000 workers since Octolier. when the payroll totalled 265,000. Knudsen (minted out that the corporation payroll reached an all-time high oi 2“v,6vv last spring. RettdjßZtments during November and December accounted for the 30,000 reduction prior Io the corporation’s announcement today. A knife moved by sound vibrations has been invented in Holland for cutting sound tracks on motion picture fi'ms coated with a dark, opaque layer that do pot require developing. I CORT - Last Time Tonight - “SECOND HONEYMOON” TYRONNE POWERS and LORETTA YOUNG ADDED — Good Comedy, News, and March of Time. 10c -25 c WED. - THURS. | FOOTBALL IS iN L WIUJMI g|. '•-• HOPPERf ' What k'._ ~ ' • b«if-back! IUNE rIBIN TRAVIS Kt J , What J?-. * •‘on.yl J W **■' lOBSHIE tD AV I S 1 What W a laugh-back! w Remember •Vanity Show’? ALSO — Pathe News and “Calling All Kids” special comedy. 10c-25c Fri. • Sat.—“lt’s Love I’m After.” Sunday—“ Submarine D-1” fIHHBKnSBBMKVSMSr

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YEGGS FOILED IN ATTEMPTS Broom, Lack Os Brains Thwart Robbery Plans In State Logansport, Ind.. Dec. 28.—<U.R> —Robert Beverly. 19. a would-be badman is now contemplating his attempt at banditry from the inside of a cell due to the courage of David Elder, 84-year-old produce merchant. The elderly man siezed a broom, yesterday when Beverly shoved an imitation gun against his side, and beat the robber on lue head. Th.' i bandit ran outside to a tar which held two companions. Police overtook the car and captured Beverly and his brother Carl. 17. both of Benton Harbor. Mich but the third man bad fled front the car and The Beverly boys confessed, police said.

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