Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1938 — Page 8

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LIST SCHEDULE FOR SOFTBALL Games To Be Played At South Ward Three Nights Next Week A full schedule of softball activities has been listed tor the South Ward diamond next week, with two Kames under the lights each of Monday Tuesday and Thursday nights. Only two regular Adains county softball league encounters are scheduled for the week, with the remainder of the games to lie exhibition tilts. The complete week's schedule follows: Monday—Decatur Casting vs City Light of Fort Wayne: Berne Dunbar ve. Monroe. Tuesday—<St. Joe CYO of Fort Wayne vs Monroe: Kokomo vs Decatur CYO. Thursday—Berne Dunbar vs Castifig; Cloverleaf vs Huntington Cloverleaf. o Child Falls 40 Feet; Unhurt Cleveland. — (U.R) — Three-year-old Sheila Hahn fell 40 feet from the window of her bedroom, but suffered no injuries. She was sitting on the window sill swinging her heels when the screen gave way and she fell to a concrete drive below. o Meeting Taken to Members Lorain, O.— (U.R)—When C. O. Streeter was too ill to attend an important session of the United Spanish War Veterans, the organization "took' 1 the meeting to Streeter, and held it in his home. o Trade In A Good Town — Droitur SUN. MON. TUES. Continuous Sunday_from 1:15. “COLLEGE SWING” Martha Raye, Burns & Allen, Bob Hope, Edw. Everett Horton, Ben Blue, Betty Grable. ALSO — Cartoon; Bob Benchley Comic and Novelty 10c—25c —o—o—o—- — Time Tonight — “Shopworn Angel” James Stewart, Margaret Suliavan. ALSO — Our Gang Comedy; Sportlight i News 10c—25c SUN. MON. TUES. Continuous Sunday from 1:15. “PRISON BREAK” Glenda Farrell, Barton Mac Lane & “Special Agent K-7” Walter Mac Grail, Queenie Smith Evenings 10c—15c Last Time Tonight—BOß BAKER, "Outlaw Express" ALSO—“Fighting Devil Dogs” Cartoon & Novelty ONLY 13c

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I STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE * W. L. Pct. Pittsburgh 65 40 .619 f New York 63 47 .573 Cincinnati 60 48 .556 .Chicago 59 50 .541 ' Boston 51 55 .481 l Brooklyn 52 56 .491 !- St. Louis 47 60 .439 j Philadelphia 32 73 .305 o; I AMERICAN LEAGUE p i —_ W. L. Pct. , New York 72 34 .679 , Cleveland til 43 .597 5 Boston . 59 44 .573 Washington 56 55 .505 ■ Detroit 54 53 .495 j ( 'hit ago .. 44 56 .440 ’ Philadelphia . 38 67 .362 ! St. Louis . 38 58 .358 1 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League New York 4, Philadelphia 2. Brooklyn 1, Boston 0 (11 in-, nings). Pittsburgh at St. Louis will be played later date. Only games scheduled. American League Detroit 8-7, St. Louis 7-4. New York 5, Philadelphia 2. Boston 4, Washington 3 "(10 innings). Chicago 7, Cleveland 2. o Beer Cited as Peace-Maker London —(UP)—(Beer a.; an in- < trument for fostering world peace was recommended by <>en. Sir lan Hamilton In an address at Chestnut. "There is only one way to stop war, and that is to let the rank and file meet and drink a glass or two of beer together,” he said. o Youth Seems Frivolous at 79 Salt Lake City — (UP) — The , trouble with youth today is that it’s too frivolous, according to Mrs. Sarah Eggersten Cluff, 79, only living member of the first graduating class of Brigham Young University. ’ “Young people nowadays want to 1 play too much,” she said. o « Woman Champion Angler Milton, New South Wales —(UP» Mrs. A. W. Sams of this city won , the Australian championship and a ( $2,000 prize in the big game fishing t competition during the 150th Anni- | versary celebration of the founding of Australia by landing a 3‘JC-pound I marlin. j o Princesses Learn Tap Dancing London —(UP) —Princesses Elizebeth and Margaret Rose are learn- f Ing to tap dance. Colombio Porselli London shoemaker reveals that the . young princesses' head nurse visited him recently and ordered twe ■ pairs of tap dance shoes and that he made them from Pink Place Kid. o Dollar-a-M inute Fine Buffalo, N. Y. —(UP)—A dollar-a-minute is the penalty imposed on Charles Sullivan. 23, for blowing his automobile horn at 1 o'clock in the morning. Charged with violating the city's anti-noise ordinance, Sullivan was fined $lO by City Judge George W. Woltz. o Trophy Ring Wedding Band Cincinnati, O. —(UP) —A ring which Hank Growdy, former major league catching star and now a coach for the Cincinnati Reds, won as a member of the Boston Braves "miracle team” of 1914, serves as his wife's wedding ring.

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MONROE NEWS Dr. Orval Allen and Mrs Allen and son Jimmy of Marion, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Meyers Sunday. Mrs. M. J. Scherer and daughter Jesse of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Landon Smith and daughter of New York were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Scherer Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Ray entertained Mr. and Mrs. Don Essex and family Saturday evening. Jean Coppess is spending the week with Miss Coleen Settler at Battle Creek, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks is spending the week at Kalamazoo, Michigan, the guests of their son, H. G. Hendricks and wife. Mrs. Mary Ijewellen and daughter Marguerite visited Mrs. Lewellen’s sister Mrs. Sadie Scherer at Warren Friday. Mrs. Scherer has been ill. Mr. and Mrs. Ford Smith of Fort Wayne visited Mrs. Smith’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bahner Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Don Essex and family left for their home at Dewitt, Arkansas, Monday after a several week's visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Orval Hearst of Pittsburgh. Pa., visited Mr. and Mrs. Glen

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* iff t<V « ! ™vs fl Hi 'bj * ) i Jfflbggsgi s S»WI ij|||r i|||| k feSfcwl SS W W (’ Julius Williams . . . makes retraction Justice Feidinand Pecora committed Julius Williams, hulking Negro ward heeler, to jail on SIO,OOO bond, following the latter’s retraction of a sworn statement linking James J. Hines, Tammany Hall leader, with the New York policy racket. Williams repudiated his statement when called as a w ! tness at the trial of Hines, charged with being "fixer" for the policy ring.

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Stucky for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Criot spent Saturday afternoon in Fort Wayne the guests of their daughter, Mrs. Hubert Meyers and family. Absolve Railroad r Os Wreck Blame r Washington, Aug. 20.—XU.R) —lnl terstate commerce commission officials today absolved the Chicago, . Milwaukee, St. Pam and Pacific 1 railroad of responsibility in the wreck of its crack passenger train. , the Olympian, on June 19. The l wreck caused the death of 47 passsons and 75 were hurt. ( The train was wrecked when it went through a bridge weakened by flood waters of Custer Creek, at Saugus, Mont., near Miles City. Local Restaurant Owner Is Arrested 3 Lawrence 'Roop, proprietor of . I Rtkjp's restaurant, was arrested i this morning about 8 o'clock by ' Police Chief Sephus Melcbi on a ’ charge of public intoxication. ■ Chief Melcbi stated that charges j would be filed this afternoon. The . | chief stated that Roop was arresti ed in the rear of the restaurant i and that employes told him the ; proprietor had run them out of the 1 store, brandishing a butcher's ■ : knife. | o Conservation League Plans Special Meet I i The members of the Adams counI ty fish and game conservation league are planning a special meeting to be held September 13 at the Decatur high school building. J A. Kleiser, head of the state department of engineering, will be the chief speaker of the evening. Mr. Kleiser wil ispeak on "stream , pollution and conservation.”

At Probe Into “Red” Activities

• - B* /W / %- - Jilpi / ■// * JL. j ; -ssM Mfr I w IHf wfipwi ’ x 4 •' if ’V' m . . „• »*y <*. ■ W ft ( I W.'. ' ‘M; Helpern, Sobel and Sullivan at hearing Two disillusioned young deserters from the ranks of Americans who fought in the Spanish government army told a congressional committee in Washington investigating “un-American” activities that hundreds of their former comrades wanted to come home but were held "virtual prisoners” under Communistic pressure. Alvin Helpern, left, and Abraham Sobel, center, both of Boston, were the two witnesses summoned before the committee by Edward Sullivan, right, investigator. Helpern testified he received two threatening phone calls demanding him to keep silent.

Training Tower for Firemen Toledo — (UP) — Firemen here will train under realistic conditions of smoke and flame, jumping into nets, smashing windows, and carry ing victims from a new 68-foot training tower. Fires, built in the lower part of the tower, will accustom the fledgling fire fighter to the heat and smoke. o HOWARD HUGHES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) fore you breathe it. It is worked on a different principle than any other mask.” Asked to describe the mask he used, Hughes said: “It is made of a sponge rubber composition and has a sort of a bladder on it that vibrates as you breathe in and out.” The mask was developed by Dr. Richard Lovelace, of the Mayo foundation and tested recently on a flight. Hughes said that “there was less tail wind on this flight than on any flight I ever made.” Asked what his average speed was Hughes took out his slide rule and after a second's computation, said he “figured it at an average of 238 miles an hoar." Hughes then turned to Harry : Connors, who as navigator, accompi anied Hughes on the flight, along , with Charles Perrine, radio opera- ! tor, and Glenn Odekirk, copilot, and asked Connors to work out the ! "official time of the flight and the ■avetage speed and everything.” Connors said the time of the flight was 10 hours 32 minutes and 20 seconds, figured on the time the plane crossed Floyd Bennett field, the average speed differed from Connors said that his figures on Hughes slide-rule calculation. Connors placed the average speed at 229 miles an hour. He said that the distance was 2.478 air miles.

I* ♦ | Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Sunday, August 21 Leisure annual reunion, Lehman park, Berne. Johnson Reunion. O. T. Johnson Home east of Decatur. Blossom Reunion. Lehman Park, I Berne. 23rd Martin-Leimenstall Reunion Mrs. Lena Martin's. I Lindeman and Bioemker Reunion, Sun Set Park. Crist Reunion, Imke George Smith Reunion, Sun Set Park, all day. Hawkins Family Reunion, Ilanni Nuttman Park, Basket Dinner. Rellig and Roehm reunion, Sun Set park. Dellinger annual reunion. Sun Set park. Brentlinger Reunion, Welker's Grove. Steele Reunion, Franke Park. Fort Wayne. Eighth Annual Weldy Reunion, Hanna Nuttman Park. Roebuck reunion. Memorial park. Davis family reunion, Sun Set park. Annual Kuntz reunion, rain or shine. Sun Eet park. Chattanooga Zion Lutheran picnic, Sun Set park. Sunday, August 28 Bell Reunion, Hanna • Nuttman Park. Yost reunion, Hanna-Nuttman, park. 19th Davison Reunion, State Park East of Bluffton. Tester Reunion, Sun Set Park ; Hakes Reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Parker reunion. Sun Set park. Davie annual reunion, Sun Set , park. Sunday, Sept. 4 1 , Roop annual reunion. Sun Set 1 , park. Sehnepp and Manley reunion, ■ Suu Set park. Annual Urick reunion, Sun Set ' park. I L. E. Marr reunion, Sun Set park. Monday, Sept. 5 Slusser - Gause Family Reunion, Willshire, Ohio Park. Straub Annual Reunion, Sun Set Park. Anderson Reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday, Sept. 11 Wesley reunion, Sun Set park. Barker annual reunion, rain or , shine, Sun Set park. Miller and Snyder annual re- . union, gun Set park. — o Golf Organizer to Be Honored White Sulphur Springs. W. Va. —(U.R>—Russell W. Montague, one , of the founders of the first organized golf club in the United States, will be honored during the White ; Sulphur Springs open golf tourna- ■ ment here next November. Montague is a resident of Richmond. I Va., and will make the trophy pre- . sentations during the tournament here. o Sharpe-Minor in Music • Sacramento, Cal. — <U.R> — C. ■ Sharp-Minor, Los Angeles, has fil- ; ed incorporation papers for the - music and radio clinic of Los AnI ' geles. o Mother Gets Navy Burial J Vallejo, Cal. —(UP)—The plans j l of Mrs. Mary Lyons. 80, of Kencsha, Wis., who 17 years ago obtained permission of the Navy Department to be buried in the Mare Isand navy yard cemetery, where her . only son, a former marine is Interred. have been carried out. »

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Ruins of squatters* colony 3 Discovery of the mutilated bodies of two more victims of j "torso killer” caused police to raze and burn a squatters' colonel the lakefront, eliminating a possible hideout forth,murderer. Twelve slayings have been attributed to the killer who has been operating for the past three years'

WILLSHIRE NEWS l i — Miss Mary and Harriet Detter ( , were guests Sunday afternoon of I Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Detter and i family in Waynesfield. i Mr. and Mrs. Forest De Armond • 1 and son Don. and Mr. and- Mrs. Dale , De Armond were dinner guests ' Thursday of Mr. and Mrs. Herman 1 Myers and son Gene. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Banserman and daughter of Fort Wayne were 1 Sunday guests of Rev. and Mrs. S. E. Bruner and family. j 1 I Eight members of the "Willshire '■ Flower and Garden Club” motored 1 to Berne Thursday afternoon and attended the Flower Show held in < the anuditorium. Many vases of I beautiful flowers were artistically l displayed and .prizes given the , winners. The ladies were taken on a tour, and visited ten of the , neautiful flower gardens. The ladies were entertained in the Mrs. Edison Sprunger home, where cooling refreshments were served. Ladies > r from other flower clubs were present. i ( Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bargehiser of . Toledo attended the funeral Thursday of Leslie Stanton. o Four Generations in Choir Suncook. N. H. — (UP) —Four generations of the Bellerose family sang in the choir at the Whitsunday . high mass at the St. John the Bap- - tist. They were Jonathan, S 3; John ! 56; Octave. 28. and Roger, 2 years -old. Milk Used To Quench Fire , Bethal, Transvall —(UP)—Milk was used to put out a fire in a farmhouse near here when the water supply ran out. An explosion in a petrol engine started the fire, which spread rapidly to every room in the house. —o Trnde In A Cood Town — Dewntue

ACTIVITIES (|B ADAMS COUNTW 4-H CLUBS M Monmouth Rooters The Mo>i:i;n I; . of Root : ■ t; , ening. August 11. at the Arthur Worst. |M Every club m.-mb.-r gave a■ minute talk on "Why I like Farmer Boy". The next ni- --ting is to at the home of 'lrrman Thursday o'clock. A pot Im k supper served. E\. i \ ■ ’ Adams County I] Memorial Hospitß ♦ ■ Admitted- Miss Irene neva; Mrs. Janu s H.a'.Dh Dismissed: Mary Ann route 2; Mrs I.awrenee daughter Lorna 1. ■ st.; Elizabeth i:hi-r M Donald erling. Preble; Cauble, dam'll'-.>• |i. sA o Bl 500 Sheets fl White Paragon Bend J writing paper 55c. ThO catur CHANGE I OF ADDRESS 1 Subscribers are r«|B ed to give old andß address when ord® paper changed fronfl address to another. ■ For example: Ifß change your aM from Decatur R. i’-B Decatur R. R= 2, insß us to change the M from route one to <■ twn fl