Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1938 — Page 6

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Commodores Are Defeated By Delphus High

CRIPPLED FIVE IS BEATEN BY 31-22 SCORE St. .John’s Os Delphos Defeats Commies Friday Night Haggard old Lady Lock sharpened her scythe of misfortunes last night and cut a wide path through an already crippled Commodore five that had taken the floor at Delphos, Ohio against the St. John's five. When St. John s sharpshooters and bad luck were through, the Commies were on the short end of a 31-22 score. Playing without the services of Hain, who is suffering from an ear infection and Norb Hess, who failed to set his dock with Ohio time and missed the bus. Coach fleorge Laurent elected to start Bob Hess, despite strained ankle ligaments, which had threatened to Reep him out of the game. Then with one minute remaining of the first quarter. Art Baker, veteran Commie scoring ace was severely injured in a tusstle for the ball After delaying the game for more than half an hour while Art was undergoing treatment, play was once more started. Utterly demoralized, the Commies were no match for their bigger opponents. The Blue and Gold led 15-11 at half-time after a deadlocked 6-6 quarter. They then built up their lead to 25-18 at the end of the third period. Hackman led the locals with seven points, while Grothouse pilot! up 10 markers for the opponents. Commodores FG FT TP Hackman, f 3 17 Baker, f - 2 2 6 Terveer, f 10 2 Hess, c - 0 2 2 Bolinger, g - 113 B. Holthouse, g 0 0 0 Roop, g 10 2 T. Bolinger, g 0 0 0 Totals 8 6 22 Delphos FG FT TP Grothouse, f — 3 4 10 Grew, f — 0 0 0 Vanermse, f 0 0 0 Daysman, c 3 I Detto. g „ 3 1 " Klausing. g - 2 8 7 Totals 11 9 31 Referee. Archdeacon (Ottoville) Preliminary Decatur 13. Delphos 35. — o —— H. S. BASKETBALL Bluffton 34, Ossian 33. .North Side (Fort Wayne) 17, Decatnr, 111., 12. Plymouth 31. Columbia City 22. Jeffersonville 29, Rushville 27. Huntingburg 29, Ben Davis 25. Newcastle 35, Shelbyville 23. Elwood 18, Pendleton 16 (overtime). Greensburg 27, North Vernon 24. Rossville 24. Delphi 20. . Garfield (Terre Haute) 29, firaril 19. Froebel (Gary- 37. Horace Mann (Gary) 15. College Scores Indiana 46, Butler 29. Wabash 36, Centenary 24. Nebraska 38, Wyoming 30.

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k Decatur Bowling League Results | LEAGUE STANDINGS Elks League W L Pct Hoofs 27 18 .600 Tails 24 21 .533 Legs 24 21 .533 Antlers . 15 30 .333 Minor League Casting - 33 15 .688 McMillen 27 21 .56*, Burke . 26 22 542 Kuhn 2'l 22 .542 Cloverleaf 26 22 .542 Mies 23 25 .479 Gambles 17 31 .354 Hoff Brau 14 34 .272 Merchants League Schafer 39 9 .813 Smith Ins. 33 15 .688 Monmouth 28 20 .583 Upholster 26 22 .542 Bank 21 27 Preble • 20 28 .417 Conservation 15 33 .313 Wren . 10 38 .208 Major League Hotel 29 19 .604 Hon-E-Krust 28 20 .583 Frlckles .. 27 21 .563 Doc’s 12 36 .250 WEEK'S SCHEDULE Elks League Monday —7 p. m. — Legs vs Tails; Antlers vs Hoofs. Minor League Tuesday— 7 p. in. — Kuhn vs Mies; Burke vs Gambles. 9 p. m. — Hoff Brau vs Casting; Cloverleaf vs McMillen Merchants League Wednesday —7 p. tn. — Monmouth vs Preble; U>7iolster vs Smith Ins. S p. tn. — Bank vs Wren: Schafer vs Conservation. Major League Thursday — 7:30 p. m. Frickles vs Doc's; Hotel vs Hon-E-Krust.

A REAL CHRISTMAS By Vera Ashton

{(/AH. lookit, lookit, Jimmie. ( ) Doesn’t it look like a real baby? Just ’magine it’s for me!” And little Sally’s face was radiant with the imagined joy. "Ah, that’s nothin’ but a doll! You girls!” and Johnnie’s nose turned up with disgust. "If you’re lookin’, just lookit that!” and he pointed to a scaoter that leaned proudly against the wall in the show window. "That’s what Santa Claus has picked out for me.” And Johnnie’s eyes shone. A well-dressed man standing near them heard the words, and looked curiously at the ragged children. As he saw his wife approaching, the children started on, but not before he heard the boy say to his sister, “It's no use 'imagining anything this year. Aunt Meg doesn't even have a chimbley for Santa to crawl down, and he probably doesn’t even know that daddy and mother aren’t here any more,” and his brave little lip quivered. The man turned to his wife, who had just reached him. “Madge, look at that window." But her voice was shrill with a hysterical grief, as she exclaimed: “Oh, Phil I can’t look at those toys. You know I can’t. When little Elsie is dead, and we have no one to make Christmas for.” “But Madge, that is what I mean. We have someone to make a Christmas for. See those kids there, just going round the corner? They are the Mayne children, whose father and mother were killed in that factory fire last month. They’re living with their aunt, who already has four children of her own, and her husband is only working part time since toe fire.” He said no more but watched his wife anxiously. Her look of grief turned slowly to one of questioning and then pleasure. "We’ll do it!” she exclaimed in glad tones. “I heard them tell each other what they wanted,” Phil said joyously. So on Christmas morning Sally and Johnnie were surprised to have an auto drive up in front of their Aunt Meg’s house, and have a fine big man ask them to go home with him to dinner. And there, when they had taken off their coats and hats, they found a lovely Christmas tree with a beautiful doll and a perfectly grand scooter, and a new suit for Johnnie and a dress for Sally which made her dress sparkle with joy. “We don’t want you to go home,” Mrs. Vigars said when toe children began to talk about having to go, after the dinner of turkey and cranberry sauce and all the fixings. "We want you to stay, don’t we Phil? 1 ’ "Indeed we do, for we need a little boy and girl in our house,” Phil Vigars replied, with a happy smile on his face. And he added, under his breath, as he gave his wife a mighty hug, “This is a real Christmas, Madge. I’m glad that there wag plenty of room at this inn.”

SPARTANS BEAT EAGLES FRIDAY Pleasant Mills Rallies To Defeat Monmouth, 33-25 The Pleasant Mills Spat tans, after trailing by eight points at 19-11 al the end of the half, rallied in the third and fourth quarters Friday night to defeat the Monmouth Eages at Monmouth. 33-25. Clark was the scoring leader for Pleasant Mill with 11 points, followed by McMillen with 10. Conrad was high for Monmouth with 11 points. Pleasant Mills FG. FT. TP. D. McMillen f 4 2 10 Feasel f 0 0 0 Harman c ....... 2 0 4 l.ongenberger g . 1 3 a Clark g 5 111 Martz f ' 0 0 0 Holloway f 113 W. McMillen c 0 0 0 Totals 13 7 33 Monmouth Ward f 10 2 Delong f —- 12 4 Conrad c 4 3 11 Kunkel g 3 2 8 Mahan g 0 0 0 Totals —.... 9 7 25 Referee Dorwin (Decatut) Umpire Hebble (Decatur) Preliminary Monmouth 28. Pleasant Mills 14. o BOARD APPROVES (CONTINUED FKOM PAGE ONEY 17 The report also shows the distribution of the 13.129.84 collected tn poll taxes, which is; special revenue. $1,602.28; common school relief. $80114; tuition fund, $57.22; special school. $185.10. and corporation poll. $484.10. Fees to the county treasurer a mounting to six per cent on collections of $2 193.18 in delinquent personal property tax. amounting to $131.59. NEAR TRAGEDY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sicians described the injury as a blow to the spine, which caused temporary paralysis. After arrival in this city, the local school physician was summoned and he was again examined. The doctor stated that nothing serious resulted and that he needed quiet and rest more than anything else. o THIEF STEALS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE CNE) front door to prevent the Butlers from surprising him at his work. He left by a side door. The thief was seen by Col. Fred eppert. who lives next door. Seeing the thief leave with a basnet. Mr. Reppert thought that he was carry-

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ing the family laundry away It is thought that the thief walked to the rear of the home towards the river bank and then followed t long the bank to the road. o CHURCH PLANS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) star, by Betty Jean Roop. Remarks about each point by the Pastor. Offering. Dramatic story — “The Place where the "Young Child Lay.” by Applegarth. Jlyma “O Little Town nf Bethlehem.” Prayer. Story — ‘ Follow the Star.” Benediction. o Neck Fracture Surprises Sydney. Australia —(UP)—Charlie Ward, tripped up by a fellow garage employe, caustically remarked. “You might have broken ‘my neck.” As the neck was still stiff when he arrived home, he treated it with liniment. X-rays a few weeks leter showed that the neck was really broken. Now Ward wants SB,OOO damages. o Paying Habit Lingers Salinas. Cal. —(UP) —Felipe W. Montoye, local Philipino. allowed by

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tne court to pay a S2O fine on the installment ;plan at the rate of $5 a weeks acquired such a habit of it that after the full fine was paid he showed up again at the end of the week with another $5. Only an examination of the books finally convinced him that he was out of the red. 0 ... V. E. McKissic (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEY sons and one daughter are deceased. The body tras remored to *!’•' Jahn funeral home at Bluffton, where funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday, with Rev. W. J. Lichau officiating. Burial will be in the Elm Grove cemetery near, Fluffton. 0 | Bus Driver “Service Man” Houston!!, Tex.. —(UP)— "Extracirricular" activities of W. C. (Bill) Fleet has made him a popular bus driver. He wakes early risers with his horn blasts so they can catch ; his bus going back to town takes , care of children for busy mothers, brings ice from town buys groceries i tips housewives to shopping bargains. o Trade In A Good Town — Deeatnr

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KIRKLAND LOSES 10 LANCASTER Kangaroos Drop 29-28 Decision To Lancaster Quintet The Kirkland Kangaroos dropp- ! ed a tough one-point decision to the Lancaster Bobcats in the Wells county gymnasium. 29-28. Lancaster ted at the half, 19-15 I but the Kangaroos rallied in the ! second half to come within one point of the Wells county -lads Baumgartner was Kirkland's high scorer with five field goals and three free throws for 13 I oints. Decker led Kirkland with seven points. Igmcaster FG FT TP I Linn, f I 1 3 • Decker, f 3 17 Byerly, c 2 0 4 Stuff, g 1 4 6 Smith, g 2 2 6 Durr, f 0 3 3 Brown, g 0 0 0 Gerber, f fl 0 0 Totals 9 11 29 Kirkland FG FT TP Baumgartner, f 5 3 13 iD. Arnold, f .... . 2 2 6 : C. Arnold, c 2 2 6 ' Gerber, g 10 2 I Girod, g 0 0 0 Engle, f 0 11 RunTcel, g 0 0 0 Totals 10 8 28 Referee. Pegan (Huntington). Preliminary | Kirkland 15. Lancaster 13. o Wolf Hunters to Organize Chandler, Okla. —(UP)—A fourcounty wolf hunters’ association is envisioned by sportsmen here. G. W. Ross, vice president of ’he Deep Fork Valley Hunters' association, said that the projected org mization would incorporate associations in Lincoln. Oklahoma. Creek and Okfuskee counties. o Deer C< sllenges Auto Goderich, Ont. - (U.R) — A 200pound deer challet.ged a motorist’s I right to use a highway free and ended up as a meal for needy families in Bayfield Village. An automobile driven by Leonard Sararas struck the stag as it emerged from a ditch and faced ihr cas with head down. Dogwoods Mark Valley Forge Valley Forge, Pa(U.R) —There are more dogwood trees in Valley I Forge state park than at any other spot in the world. Thousands of visitors from all over the nation come here early iu May each year to see the pink and white dogwood blossoms. o Poor Eyesight? Another Hit Kenton, O.— (U.R) — People have i warned James Hastings, 83. to I give up hunting because of failing j eyesight, but he went hunting any- | way. He fired 25 shotgun shells I and returned with 17 mudhens.

BLOODY BATTLE ’ BEING FOUGHT ' IN SPAIN WAR — Rival Forces Battle In Severe Weather In Civil War Hendaye, French-Spanish Fron-i tier, Dec. 24 — (U.R> — Fighting through blinding snow and against an icy wind. Spanish nationalist troops today stormed and captured the first line loyalist trenches on formidable Montseeh, dispatches; from the front reported. Navarese troops, moving off at dawn tn the sector 33 miles north of Lerida, attacked the loyalists with hand grenades and followed up with the bayonet, it was assert ed At 4 500 feet altitude, slipping; in the blood stained snow, the nationalicts and loyalists fought band to hand until the republican government troops were thrown back, according to dispatches. The nationalists said that their first and second columns, which were based on Balaguer, had ad-: vaueed north and south of heavily fortified Montseeh. They said a third army haa established a seven nvle deep foothold on the loya’is. (east) side of the Segre river and that a fourth army captured the powerfully defended Grosa Hills east of the Segre. More tnan 500,000 men —280.000 nationalists and 240.000 loyalists —were engaged in battle on a 50mile front knowing that for eithei-1 side decisive defeat might mean overwhelming disaster. In the first day's operations the nationalists claimed an average | gain of 7mile- and the capture of 2.000 men on the front extending southward from Sort to Lerida The loyalists admitted having been thrown back in the early phase of the opening day's oper-1 at ions but asserted officially that' they recaptured all lost ground and particularly that they inflicted a severe defeat on the Italian

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’Fascist division, •UdinTXj surgwiti. V •t was a ba (fl,. ()I) ~ I I Os a Savagery .eldom equa j the 29 months or the most j I' J ,n history SJI , physical enormity ~f , \ Ttl l I which engaged Sp liniln . a , J al 4 Arab mcslems, the Ge rinan , n f , Italians aiding lh( . Il atio 11 . I | ist ,'*4 . which every engine of hl0(1 J warfare was Invoked, was e lllp J sized by the condition, . which the battle was being Tne st ow which fell 1 ' lhe northern half or thp J I front to oe Htahied with blood anl debi Is a» artillery shells and "1 plane bombs struck in the |JI demoisllzed communications k the southern half of the front -h temperature was below zero ■ I times, and suffering r ro[n . ' was intense As broken down transport a i blocked roads disrupted the fio- - rat lone to the front, the me .on both sides consumed the WI tents of the Christmas boxes B e a them, in lieu of meals. Four rationalist armies were a the offet sive, In what was rough) a converging movement aimed a Barcelona. Lerida was the ke point of the drive, with two u ionalist armies moving along th railroads extending from it i nt loyalist territory, one road extern i ing through Cervera to Barcelon lhe other to Tarragona. According to the nationalist they had "broken"the loyalist lia at four points yesterday and take quantities of arms including tank and artillery batteries. The loj alists said that all the natlona ists, and especially the two mai I armies (’Derating between Lerid and Balaguer. were driven bac to their starting points; that th two Italian divisions involve after occupying the peak of Cros Hill with the aid of overwhelms ’ mechanical support, were drive back by a brilliant counter attack It was asserted that the loyalist took many prisoners, including a 1 Italian l.eutenant colonel. Mushroom Weighs 23 Poundl Canton, O. (U.R) — Ten giant musurooms have been found seal Waco. Ihe largest weighed 23t pounds, the smallest 10.