Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1939 — Page 6

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KIRKLAND FIVE WINS TOURNEY AT MONMOUTH Kangaroos Defeat Pleasant Mills In Final Tilt, 24-17 The Kirkland Kangaroos won the New Year's Evo invitational tourn“s>. held at the new Monmouth gymnasium Saturday afternoon and evening, defeating the! Pleasant Mills Spartans in the final game, 37-31. Kirkland entered the finals by trouncing the Jefferson Warriors' in the first afternoon game, 33-9. | Pleasant .Mills defeated the Monmouth Eagles in the second after-! noon game. 24-17. Monmouth came back in the [ consolation tilt, played as a preliminary to the final game, to defeat Jefferson. 48-26. The iiual contest was hard | fongh'. with Kirkland leading most of the way to cop tourney, honors from the Spartans. Kirk . land Isd at the half. 22-17. Scoring on both teams was well dlvid ed. C. Arnold leading Kirkland I with 10 points and Holloway leading Pleasant Mills with nine. Monmouth had no trouble in the consolation tilt, leading at the first quarter. 7-2. at th-- half. 19-6 and at the third quarter. 30-17. Murphy and Conrad led the victors with 17 and 16 points, respectively. Bollenbacher was high for Jefferson with 10. In the first game of the tourney. Kirkland held the Jefferson Warr’ors to three field goals to win an easy 33-9 triumph. The Kangaroos led at the quarter. 7-1, at the half, 15-4, and at the third quarter. 26-5. Plessa-.t Mills came from behind to defeat the host Eagles, 24-17, in the final afternoon contest. Monmouth led at the first quarter, j-0 and at the half. 8-4. The Spa-tans rallied in the third quatter tc take a six-point margin. I 18-12. Clark paced the winners with 14 points, and Murphy was high for Monmouth with six. Kirkland FG FT TP Baumgartner, f - 3 2 8 j D Arnold, f 3 2 8 ' C. Arm.l'. c .5 0 10 Gerber, g 2 2 6 Giiod. g 0 0 0 Presdorf, f. ..1 1 3 Engle, g .0 2 2 Total.' 14 9 37 Pleasant Mills D McMillen, f J 0 4

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— « Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams ♦ — Monday I Four-team tourney at Decatur (Yellow Jackets. Berne, Bluffton and Hartford City). Wednesday J Commodores vs Central Catholic of Fort Wayne at new Yellow Jack-’ i et gymnasium. i Friday Yellow Jackets at Auburn. Hartford at Kirkland. Berne at Central Catholic of Fort Wayne. Jefferson at Monmouth. Monroe at Geneva. Saturday Huntington at Berne. Pleasant Mills at Geneva I ; Longenberger. f ... 4 0 8 ' Feasel. c 0 0 0 i Ray, g 0 0 0 W. McMillen, g.— 11 3 ? Barr, f - * 0 2 Harmon, f — 0 11 I Holloway, c 4 1 9 I Martz, g 0 0 0 1 ; Clark, g 0 4 4 Totals 12 7 31 . — Monmouth (Consolation) FG FT TP 1 i Fuelling, f 5 1 11 Murphy, f 8 1 17 j. Conrad, c ... 7 2 16 |, Kunkel, g — 0 4 4 ~ Kruckeberg. g 0 0 0 1 Totals 20 8 48 , Jefferson , Bollenbacher, f 5 0 10 , Augsburger. f 2 15 Tumhleson. c 10 2 Teeple, g 10 2 Luginbill, g 13 5 Baker, g .... --1 0 2 De Armand, g 0 0 0 To’als 11 4 26 — Kirkland FG FT TP i C. Baumgartner, f 1 2 4 ■ - Ringgnr. f 11 3 | D. Arnold, f 5 2 12 I, Presdorf. f — 2 o 4 , ( C. Arnold, c ... 4 0 BJ, D. Baumgartner, c_. 0 0 01, Gerber g — 0 0 0 |, Runkle, g 0 0 0 i Girod, g 1 0 2 Engle, g 0 0 0 . Totals .. ... 14 5 33 I Jefferson I Teeple. f 0 0 0 I ; Baker, f — 0 11 i Lugiubill. t 11 3 Kline, f 0 0 0 ! Tumblesen. c 1 0 2 s D Arnold, c 0 0 0' ‘ Bolietihacher, g .... 11 3 Kenney, g 0 0 0 i (Digsburger, g 0 0 0. ( Lautzenhizer 0 0 0 1 Totals 3 3 9 1 1 Monmouth FG FT TP ! Fuelling, f 1 2 4 ! Murphy, t 2 2 6 i Conrad, c 11 3 1 Kuukle, g 1 2 4' S Krueckeberg. g .... 0 0 0 1 Totals 5 7 17 | < Pleasant Mills D. McMillen, f1 0 2 Harmon, f 2 0 4 1 Longenberger. f 1 0 2 1 Martz, f .0 0 0 Holloway, c 1 0 2 W. McMillen, g 0 0 0 ' ; Clark. g 5 4 14 | < Totals 10 4 24 Officials—Bryan (Fort Wayne) Erne iB-'ine). CLOSE RECORDS _— | I CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | promised. The final report of the receiver, j James Barr, was filed. A distri-' j but ion presented recently by him i Ito the court was approved, and I Ihr distribution ordered to deposi- . tors. The final report was apI proved. i Tne receiver for the Farmers & —

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TWMwn. i 1 I Standings W. L Pct. | Berne " 2 •“ • i Kirkland 9 3 750 Commodores .7 4 .636 I Hartford " 6 • r,s:! Yellow Jackets 5 4 .555 j Monmouth — 6 5 ■•'s•s ■ Pleasant Mills 6 5 .545 Geneva 5 6 -’ 5 “ ! Monroe .2 8 .200 I Jefferson 0 11 000 —oOo — A New Year In the sports world opens today, the legal holiday for New Year's. — oOo — For Decatur sports lovers, the first attraction of 1939 will be staged this afternoon and night at the new gymnasium, with the Decatur Yellow Jackets hosts at the annual fourteam invitational tournament. —-000-— Other competing teams are the Berne Rears, Bluffton Tigers and Hartford City Airdales. This is the third annual tourney, with Hartford City winner of both previous meets, held at Bluffton and Hartford City, respectively. —oOo— The opening game will be played at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the second game starting one hour later. The championship game will be played at 8 o'clock, with the afternoon losers meeting in the consolation tilt at 7. The draw for the tourney will be made at 1 o'clock. —oOo — The Decatur Commodores will launch the New Year's regular schedule Wednesday night, with one of their feature home tilts of the season. —oOo — The Commies will be hosts to Central Catholic of Fort Wayne Wednesday, with the game to be played in the new public high school gymnasium. Central Cath-! olic has compiled a fine record this season, losing only two games, to Central and South Side of Fort Wayne. The Irish marked up another victory last Friday night, when they downed Cathedral of Indianapolis, 33-28. 000 The C. C. Game will be the Commodores only engagement of | the week, hut the Yellow Jackets , will swing back into their regular schedule Friday night, traveling to Auburn to meet the Red Devils. —oOo — Four games are on the Friday card for Adams county teams, with the Berne Bears taking the spotlight with their game at Fort Wayne against Central Catholic, i Other tilts Friday are Hartford at Kirkland, Jefferson at Monmouth and Monroe at Geneva. —oOo — Two contests are billed for Saturday night. Berne entertaining Huntington at Berne, and Pleasant Mills traveling to Geneva. o Buffenbarger's Team Wins Eight Straight The Southport high schoi! freshman basketball team chalked up its eight consecutive victory during the Christmas holidays, by defeating the Howe freshmen, 27-6. The freshman team is coached by I Carl Buffenharger, former Yellow Jacket star athlete, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Buffenharger of this city. o OVER SIXTEEN ' CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of persons who had previously j been ineligible because they had no covered earnings after March ' 31 this year. By the time SIOO clause" claims ■ became payable early in Septem-1 ber, the upsurge in industry and ' commerce was well under way and ' benefit claimants by the thousands 1 returned to private employment, In the first week of October, 66,000 checks for $736,000 were paid for an all-time high, but this was an artificial figure insofar as actual employment conditions were concerned. It included thousands of claims wiiich were delayed because the Division was unable to get sufficient personnel to meet the emergency. The Division has consistently made payments promptly, due to excellent cooperation of employers who have worked closely with local staffs in speeding the handling of claims. The division has taken evrey possible step to protect the interests of both the jobless and the potentially jobless as well as the nearly 10,000 employers whose contributions on payrolls maintain the Indiana unemployment compensaMerchants Bank of Geneva was appointed in 1928. The Old Adams County Bank closed in 1932.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, JANUARY 2.1939

CHANGE OF SOX - • By Jack Sori •MM i • -U- Ml V xis * I ‘ -JF V \ ; f \ j Y, x-'"- / IC of fuez L. J tK; Jos-Tom Reo Sox , Tub mMits so* for. ucaj air. mad To Pass a rssr OaJ Mis BePof?E 'THE- WAl'tESow vAJOtJi-O accept MiM

tion trust fund. It has been equal- f ly concerned in speeding qualified , claims and stopping those nos qualified. The trust fund, which in effect constitutes a mammoth guaranteed | income plan for nearly 700,000 covered workers, winds up the year with a balance of $23,000,000. only $4,000,000 under the figure when benefit payments started. o ———- FRENCH LEADER rvwTTNT’En WHOM PAGE ONE) 1 Ababa. Saturday. Within the past. week the government has ordered ; military and naval forces there al-! most reboubled. VIOLENT DEATH — C’tN'VINURr FROM PAGt? ONE) j in a mad attempt to grope his, way to freedom was George Merritt. Searchers stumbled over him hours after the others were taken to the surface. He was behind one of the canvass doors and had not been seen. A little work crew of sevqn men smashed their way with sledge hammers through five partitions blocking the trapped miners from a back entrance to reach the chamber in which the miners had sealed themselves. They were greeted with cries of Joy. Some of the men knelt and Grayed. They had been entombed

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ADAMS COUNTY ISM .rA™ ’'T.'! *'" l '‘"’t™*’'" « ADAMS COUNTY tor rhe yrer IMS T«i»« Oil worth of Taxable REAL and PERSONAL property, and each POLL in the severaHmb, ha ' ged lhereon The following table shows the rate of Taxation on each SlwO Due Jan. 1, 1939—First installment delinquent after first Monday in Miv t . h . .. m alter urst .Monday tn May. Second installment delinquent after First Monday in November. """ ' . —————. , , , JEFF LIECHTY, Treasurer Adams County TOWNSHIPS CORPORATIONS 0 1, ADAMS COUNTY * Z • » 5 TAX RATES FOR w Q ? Q <o O °F I 1 > ~ * YEAR 1828 5 x § 2 I - > T 5 i .1 I Jr S PAYABLE IN 1939 u O £ £ < O “ < « E W 2 2 > °2 3 b 3 | 5 t * I £ £ > O $ J | < < | | Z 3 ■mu.i-»J s w w ° 2 V 1 I State General Fund ~ 1)285 ~ ®L 3 ° Q Q O ! 3—S 2 I Common Schoollßelief Fund 767 — — L I I T li I I . f 3 | State Forestry Tax 7002 | ! ! I I II - 07 . j ! J I — U S A E 4 | State Board of Agriculture 4)035 I ’ I I II •<»> I i I Isl RATES 5 | State Teachers Ret. Fund 024 j — I! I I l| .8035 I |. H 6 | Educational ImpTTund ,~02 1 — —7~ I I I jI -024 | | I ck 7 | Ind Wolf Lake Park Fund ~002 | i ~ - ’II ■ j l' .02 lcl =^==== I Tout State Rate M5~~d5 15 « I I I 0 .002 I j _ ——fl 1 I County General Fqnw i 3577 ~ — —-- B 15 - 15 I ' ls '~ ls I - 1!t ~ I - 15 I -18 I .15 £5 .15 jQ ir 3 | County Bonds fc Interest [704 ’ ! ■ I I | .3277 T I COUNTY 4 | Hospital Maintenance |~Ol4 i — IT I [ l : -04 I i I I RATES 5 County Welfare Fund - | .fi ~~ ' ’jl .014 ] j i . ■ B School thind & Interest | QQB3~ ~ F | | ij .11 j i -‘J — 1 Tot>l c »unty Rate I .50 1 .50 50 i~sh~ ' M j ' I I I | || .6oSQ I ; I -fl CIVIL 1 i Township Fund~ ~ fi ■ u — - 50 I I- M -50 ~50~ .50 .50i|.50 50 .. ' TOWNSHIP 1 Township Poor j~.b4 106 < ;1 05 !08 ' 05 I WTHfI ro~S _ T~l7~ fl RATES jq_±Mile_Road_Bondi- ’ 1 , 30 “09 7 2 0~ - 7 I' U TWT' il | .91 I c32~~| F' 1 Tottl T«wwshlp Rates | .50” | .25 .34 ° 8 -L. 05 _ 23 1 15 °9 15 .08 | .09 .15 | 13 _-4-fl 1 I Tultlo? Tax 101 1 op ■- t ==~===^=LJ^-— 1 I -44 .45 .32 .44 . 20 20 .44 | .32 | -fO_Jtfl RATES 3 Bchool Bonds | | —-2 dEZj B , ‘ 6 -16 «$ IT -55 .61 .61 | '49 jTS i ~ 111 -oJ -JLIJS F 25 —Tj r-35-—22— I 11 Uhoel U- lbr « | -y I -26 I .65 i .74~-<g--iTTvi 65— m H 09 .06 I .06 j Mg 1 J Oti>l Sch- Lt|j | J6 -—1 06 .25 .98 .23 1.34 1.33 1.20 I .»» M co , R^T, i 150 *’l 1 T,rt>l Rate ‘ ; -p ] ] I I | 40 10 --- 6fi ■ ‘-fl | TOTAL RATE ! TOTAL RATE~ |1,41 1.59 FlSq'" <49 ~ I I-645 .40 1.40 | .66 .4° A L- EA CH INSTALLMENT I .706 JFL J-60 2.15 145-iL95 r 1.32 2 l—Statell,oo r 66 1.4175 1.29 1.345 1.305 £2 ? .fl 2 ; State School I ,50 ,50 | r — 00 !£> £OO £OO 1.00~ 100”1 00 1 .Ofl— yoy" 1 TAX Z~yHon— | .A i £T£pecUl_gcnooi- , j~ 1 ' 1 .. I I F~ M F ' • 1 Corporate i j L. I I I R Too r i S i' • -• • 1 Tot *' T * x ~ I 1 - 80 I LOO 10U-TOO t ; I STATE OF INDIANA, ADAMS COUNTY S. S ’ i l ’ Bo | 1-50 2.76 12.50 12.50 |&56~£50 I, John W. Tyndall, Auditor of ADAMS COUNTY, hereby certify. that thp ~ * - JOHN W CO TYND C ALL°Auditor X T&XeB Collectlble in the year 1939

’ neatly 200 feet underground, a half mile from the main shaft, for 12 aours by a fire that started when a power line short-circuited neat some inflamable material. ; The blaze, roaring through rich veins of bituminous coal, quickly shut off means of escape —o OBSERVANCE OF (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ted noise-makers added to the din at the stroke of 12. Tuesday the city will return to routine life. School children will ( return to classes, while workers and employers return to their res--1 pective duties. Students in the rural I schools of the county returned to school today, but the city ’tudents i were given an additional holiday. Milwaukee Completes Its “Safest” Year Milwaukee, Jan. 2. —(U.R) —With 41 traffic deaths recorded in 1938, Milwaukee completed the "safest" year for otorists and pedestrians since the beginning of fatality records in 1922. Dr. B. L. Corbett, secretary of the city safety commission. said today. The recorfl of 41 deaths applies only to deaths by motor vehicles, in accordance with national safety council records. Including deaths due to street car, horse drawn and other vehicles the traffic toll for 1938 totalled 46 deaths.

' COURTHOUSE Venued Granted I * -rifled aPPHeaium I change of wnue so nlhe U to filed by the pl«l»I l J 1 „ iort . > collect notes und t»re< | against Tillman L. Nus “U | others. The applica ion wa mitted and sustained, me ia...,..! M JI Heller and .lohn L available special judl* fllp(1 1 An amended comp la in ‘ ((J j in the stilt asking a >na 1 compel the performance of ofll < J : duties, brought by the state <rf In »” 'l'.l.'.'Tc V-”” Barger and Dr. J 1 verified 1 against Walter Oillio- f A motion for a change of jjd« filed and approved, "n nominated Decker, judge of the Wells circuit court James 1 Moran, judge of the J-O ) court and Otto Krieg, judge of th ! Huntington circuit court, as a . able judges. Finds For Defendan.

I The court gave a decis ion in the I | suit to collect notes brought by I I Rose M. Clark, administratrix o ■ the estate of Robert E. Meibers I : against Bernard Clark, finding n ' I the defendant on the counter claim I in the sum of $55.93 and cMts. I The defendant was called and I defaulted in a suit to collect a I executor of the estate of August I note brought by J. Fred F ' r,K^ ,e ’ I Walter against Louis Hoile. The I ; case was submitted and evidence ‘ heard. The court found and rend- I ' ered a judgment for the plaintiff I : in the sum of $471.93 and costs. Twin Bovs Are Born In Different Years Chicago. Jan. 2.— 4U.PJ Mrs. June Stepanski, 35, had the distinction of giving birth to the last Chicago baby bom in 1938 and the first born in 1939. At 11:56 p. m.. Dec. 31 she gave birth to a boy and four and one-half minutes later, in 1939. she gave birth to its twin, also a boy. —0 Shoe Firm Workers To Be Directors Milwaukee. Jan. 2—(U.R)—President Henry L. Nunn of the Ntinn-

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Bush Shoe CO.. Mild today shop employes und employes in the firm's retail outlets hereafter will be lepresmted on the company S| hoard of direct ora. Th e new board members will be elected thia week. They will be added to 'he board, and will not replace present board mainbets. The company also has had in effect an annual wage plan which guarantees plant workers 52 pay checks each year. Many employes own stock in the company. PLEASANT MILLS Those present to a delicious Christmas dinner and gift exchange held Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ehrsatn. were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Foor, son Roger Mr. and George Foor, sons Marlon and Herbert. Dale Harper, Ernest Ehrsam. Mr and Mrs. Merle Foor and daugb•ers Myrna. Murill Ann and Ada

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Mae. Mr. and Mrs/cjj'' eon Ray and daughter ; noon callers were M r i Harold Hike and son Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Wiliia a tallied their children. ol milieu to an all day tnix., B •Tint. After the nooi were exchanged and i Later In the afternoon, x, J I Noll, son Lowell, Winztogß and Harry Manley tnoteruß Wayne to visit a few home of a son Gerald ' wife is quite ill and w dS .J attend Those who I were Mr. and Mrs. Wlnm* J j daughter Arlene sou Bobby’J Mr. and Mrs. Claud H.eJ Fort Wayne. Harry Mani.,, r Donald, Vivian Noll of pS Glen and Ruth Clark. ■ 500 Sheets White Paragon Boni I writing paper 55c. Tbl catur Democrat Co.