Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1939 — Page 6

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INDIANA BEATS IOWA TEAM TO RETAIN MARGIN Dro And Andres Out Os Lineup As Indiana VV’iny* By Steve Snider CUP Staff Correspondent I Chicago. Feb. 21.— (U.R) —The honeymoon is over for Indiana's ■ rippled Hoosiers. Lead hi a the big ten basketball race after four easy games against second division opponents, Indiana picks np its last top-flight foe of the year this weekend and two of its stars still are hospital eases. Loss of ('apt. Ernie Andres and sophomore Bob Dro didn't hurt mnch against last place lowa last night, but the title probably hinges on the tough Minnesota game Saturday. it takes real power to shatter a Minnesota defense, whether it's football, basketball, canoe-tilt-ing or chess Other games this week pit Ohio State's second place Buckeyes against Wisconsin. Illinois against Northwestern at Evanston and Michigan against Purdue at Lafayette. Ind. lowa proved dangerous near the end of each half and the Hoosiers finally clinched their eighth straight conference victory by freezing onto the ball in the final minutes. The 45 to 40 defeat was lowa's eighth and pushed the Hawkeyes into undisputed possession of the big ten cellar. With high-scoring Andres and Dro both out, center Bill Menke and guard Paul Armstrong again ■■—J———■— I Ml II !■ I - -was* *

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Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams t -4 Tuesday Jackson at Geneve. Thursday Pleasant Mills at Monmouth. Friday Yellow Jackets at Berne. Monroe at Hartford. Saturday Monroe vs Kirkland at Berne, i i teamed up to pull the Hoosiers through. Each scored 11 points. Ben Stephens. lowa's lone scoring threat, showed no efi'euts of i his recent illness and picked up 1 15 points although heavily guarded. Other games: Ohio State 30, Northwestern 28 | — Free throws kept the Bucks in the running for the title. Each team scored 12 field goals, but i Ohio State sank all six of its free throws and in turn committed only three personal fouls, (’apt. Jim Hull returned, slowed by his illness. and scored nine points for a season total of 109. Illinois 35, Purdue 26—This was I a game of long shots. Even big I Pick Dehner, who still leads con- i ference scorers with a total of 112. picked up only one field goal tin- , der the basket. He made seven I | points during the night, content I to let Bill Hapac ami Johnny: Drish handle most of the scoring. I The victory was Illinois' seventh in 10 games. Minnesota 34. Wisconsin 32 — Minnesota, like Illinois, retained an outside chance for the title. It took late rallies in each half to |do it—and Johnny Kundla's best scoring achievement of the year. 15 points. Minnesota came from 1 four jioints behind in the second half to a one point lead with two i full minutes remaining. They i brought out their short passing game and held the bail almost until the end when Gordon Spear, center, finally was fouled. He | sank it and Minnesota managed to . hold the Badgers scoreless the last few seconds. It was Minnesota's sixth triumph in nine conference games and Wisconsin's sixth defeat over the same span. —.— Monday Library Day Nashville, Tenn. (U.R) — Greater number of persons take books from the Nashville public library on Monday* than any other day |. of the week. Fewest people visit ( the library on Friday Librarian , F. K. W. Drury said the figures ' indicate people turn to pleasures 1 on weekends and back to cultural ‘ pursuits on Monday. 1

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BERNE JUNIORS BEAT DECATUR . Win Deciding Game Os Annual Series By 18-12 Score The Berne junior high basket- , hall team won the deciding game of the annual series with the Decatur junior high team, the Berne lads registering an 18-12 triumph at the local gymnasium Monday afternoon. Berne held a lead of 9-4 at the ! half, and this margin was too much for the Decatur team to over- I come. R. was the lead- j Ing scorer for Berne with four ' . field goals. Andrews and Schnepp . each tallied four points for Deca-1 tur. Berne FG FT TP | Luginbill, f .... 0 0 0 IJ. Sprunger, f 0 2 2 I 'R. Lehman, c 4 0 8 j McCrory, g 2 16 L. Gillioni. g 113 Totals .... .7 4 18 Decatur FG FT TP Hakey, f 0 0 0 | Rlckord, f . 1 0 2 I Andrews, c 2 0 4 i Neldigh. g 0 2 2 McConnell, g . 0 0 0 | Schnepp. f 2 0 4, Eichorn, f .000 1 Spahr, g 0 0 0 i Totals 5 2 12 CUNNINGHAM TO RACE DON LASH Two-Mile Race In New York March 4 Feature Os Season New York, Feb. 21 —(UP) —Glenn Cunningham, mile specialist who ■ i-aliz.es today he is inferior at a lesser distance, will step out of his I class again March 4 to meet Don .'.ash at two miles in the footracing I feature on the indoor track season. invincible at a mile. Cunningham i sought competition at 1,000 yards i and found too much of it in Johnny Borican. middle-distance sensation of the year, in the main attraction of the Seton hall games at Newark last night. Borican. lanky Elberon, N. J. Negro, scored his eighth viclory In 10 starts. The Cunningliam-Lash meeting, a special feature of the 1. C. 4-A games at Madison Square Garden, threatens to steal some of the spotlight from the National A. A. U. indoor championships at the Garden Saturday night. The race wll send ' th.' holders of the world indoor mile and two mile records against each other at a distance favoring Lash. , It is a test that track fans have , been talking about for several seasons. but the promoters couldn't get | Cunningham to sign for the longer haul. Frequently Lash has cut his < specialty in half to try and give Cunningham a race, but so far has < been unable to gain a victory. Lash, who formerly held the outdoor record at two miles, set the in- ' door standard, 8:58 at Boston in 1937. Cunningham, ex-holder of the f outdoor mile mark, boasts an indoor achievement that betters the 1 Present outdoor record. Glonn's 404.4 over the Dartmouth boards last season was the fastest mile ever run by man and compares with the t 4:06.4 registered by Sidnay Wooderson of Great Britain last summer. , o Orange Peel Evidence j Porterville, Cal. —(UP) —A single orange constituted the principal evidence here against two men charg- ■ ed with stealing 15 boxes of oranges. Chief of Police Lee Martin noticed that one of the oranges had a section of the peeling missing. He took it to a nearby orange grove and found attached to one of oi the trees a piece of peeling exactly fitting the missing section. [loans $lO to S3OO WiikHii fadrt&eAS QUICKLY ANO PRIVATELY MADE It is easy to qualify for a loan with us. therefore, our service is available to nearly every individual with ability to repay. You pay a reasonable interest charge on just the time you use the money. You may repay all or any part of your loan at any time. No embarrassing investigations made of employer, friends or relatives. How to Apply I. Call at office. 2. Telephone us. 3. Cut this ad out —Writ* name and address on it and mail it to us. A courteous representative will call at your home and explain our service to you—without cost or obligation. Loans are usually made the same day you apply LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorporated Over Schafer Store 1101 f North Second Street Phone 2-3-7 Decatur, Indiana Losmi ma df in Adamt, Walk, Allan aad Jay Ctuntitt L— iiid

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HOAGLAND DRAW IS ANNOUNCED Two Adams Co. Teams In Independent Net Tournament Hoagland, Feb. 21 — The draw for the imlependent basketball tournament (o be staged here Feb. 23. 24 and 25. under the sponsorship of the Hoagland Lions club, was announced today. The tourney will open next Thursday night at 6:30 o'clock witli Convoy meeting City Light of Poll V/fiYH?. Thrft® other sranies involving the Decatur Cioverleafs and International Harvester of Fort Wayne at 7:30. Waynedale I Fleetings and Bi own Cleaners of I Fort Wayne at 8:30. and Hoagland Merchants and Zanesville Shell | anes at 9:30 o'clock will complete the opening session. The draw follows: Thursday. February 23 Game 1. 6:30 Convoy. O„ vs City Light Tigers. Game 2. 7:30 International' Harvesters vs Decatur Cloverleafs Game 3. 8:30 —Waynedale Fleetwings vs Brown Cleaners. Game 4. 9:30 —Hoagland Mer-' chants vs Zanesville Shellanes. Friday, February 24 Game 5, 6:3o—Markle Boosters vs Ossian Pickups. Game 6. 7:30 —Leo (Ream Nursery) vs Kirkland Whippets. Game 7. 8:30 —Winner 1 vs win-{ ner 2. Game 8, 9:30 Winner 3 vs winner 4. Saturday. February 25 Game 9. 2:3o—Winner 5 vs winner 6. Game 10. 3:30 — Winner 7 vs winner 8. Game 11. 7:30 —Loser 9 vs loser 10. Game 12, 8:30 Winner 9 vs winner 10.

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* -♦ SCHEDULE CHANGES Changes in the schedules for i this week's basketball were an- j nounced today. The Pleasant | Mills-Commodore B game, card- | ed Thursday night, has been | | cancelled, as has the Mon- | mouth-Geneva game of Friday. Replacing these, Monmouth | and Pleasant Mills will play at | Monmouth Thursday night. Officials of these schools announced today that season tickets of both schools will be honored as admission to the | game. 14 4 FRENCH CONFER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) must go uii because lack of ''lnternational confidence” bars an early disarmament conference. "Our armaments are for defense alone.” the prime minister declari ed in opening the second day of debate on Britain’s defense loan at almost the same hour King George VI was launching the first of five new British battleships at Newcastle. “It Is the duty of the govern--1 inent to watch for every opportunity to try to persuade other governments of the folly of the I course we are all pursuing.” Chamberlain said he would not > hesitate to call a disarmament ! conference if he could believe it would be effective. “But.” he added, “a conference that failed would be worse than none.” He said that international con1 fidence was not yet sufficiently established to make a conference practicable at present. “But.” he emphasized, “all Britain is united in supporting the re armament campaign of the government as an unfortunate necessity in view' of tlie international situation. “1 think that all parties are being forced by the facts to sometiling like agreement on tlie neces-

CONCLAVE WILL OPEN MARCH 1 Conclave Os Cardinals Io Name Successor To Pope Pius Vatican City. Feb. 21.—(U.R) H was announced officially today that the conclave of cardinals to elect a 262nd Pope In succession to Plus XI would open March I It wan expected that all 62 mem bers of the college of cardinals would attend the conclave, and remain Isolated from the world until, by a two-thirds vote, they had named the new Pope. The getting of the conclave for March 1 assures that all foreign cardinals will be able to attend. Os eight cardinals now absent from Vatican City, five are Italians who can come here at any time. The others are Cardinal O’Connell, archbishop of Boston; Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, and Cardinal archbishop of Rio De Janeiro, who are due late on the evening of February 28 or early on March 1. Cardinal O'Connell is aboard the steamship Saturnia. The South American cardinals are on the Neptunia. It is planned that Cardinal O'Connell shall disembark at Gibraltar and board the Neptunia, which will race directly for Italy. With the formal announcement that the conclave would open ' March 1, all was ready for the ' completion of preparations to immure the 62 cardinals and their 175 aides in the little triangle of the Vatican bounded by the courtyards of St. Damasus, Marshal and i Saint 'Uffizi. Doors and windows inside the , conclave precincts will be sealed with lead. Window panes will be whitewashed. All telephonic communication will be cut. Three doctors, one a skilled surgeon, will be among those isolat-1 ed. The cardinals and those with ' them will receive food, censored letters and verbal communications only through six booths which will be guarded by six “captains of the wheels.” o CELINA WOMAN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mouth, his car skidded and left the road, further injuring the victim. He escaped without injury, however. The GUlig & Doan ambulance was then summoned and yi r o '“/fi® hmmrh? !hr* balance of the way here in the ambulance. A man. who gave his name as A. E. Karns, brought Miss Howard to the hospital in his car. All cars involved in the crashes were damaged extensively. Deputy Sheriff Leo Gillig was called to the accident acene to investigate. Police Chief James Borders aided in the investigation. o • Mann Act Violation Is Charged To Woman i Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 21 —(UP) i —Virginia Woods, 28, was being l held here by police today for federal 1 cfficials at Huntington, W. Va.. for alleged violation of the Mann Act. I Authorities here found the woman after a house-to-house canvass in the rooming house district. She is being held under 12.500 bond, authorities reported. Police stated that she is wanted for allegedly transporting a woman across the state line for immoral purposes. o Town Resents Snow Stories Flagstaff, Ariz.--(U.R) —Free board and lodging awaits the travelers of Northern Arizona highways who become snowbound in this city during the winter —if there are any. The local chamber of commerce. hotel operators and restaurant owners, irritated iby reports of snow-blocked highways will be the hosts. o Collar Bone Harness Devised Seattle —(UP)—Dr. Roger Anderson. Seattle bone specialist, has designed a device that repairs broken collar bones with comparatively little discomfort to the victim. The apparatus, made of rubber and metal, holds the armpit and shoulder rigid until the bones have mended. sity for re-armament,” the prime minister said. "Neither the opposition nor Mr. Churchill (Winston Churchill, conservative Insurgent)—who is bogey number 1 —even would think of starting a preventive war if they had charge of the administration of the country. “It would not be a bad thing if we showed more confidence and refused to believe every tale of aggressive Intentions that comes to us." * j Mr. Chamberlain did not make any specific reference to alarmist reports and threw no light on the reason for President Roosevelt’s remark in Florida last Saturday that he might have to curtail his scuthern cruise because of ominous reports from abroad.

To Conduct Trial Here On Washington Birthday Anniversary ('an u court trial be conducted I on i» legal holiday? For the Infor j mation of courthouse attaches who had been discussing the scheduling of the jury trial of Ornull Stauffer on a drunken driving charge Wednesday, which is also Washington's birthday. Judge J. Fred Fruchte asserted that it can. Judge Fruchte's assertion was corroborated by opinions of Former Judge J. T. .Merryman. County Attorney Henry B. Heller and others well-versed In such mat tent, who recalled that a judge can make any legal entry on any day except Sunday, and that a man was sentenced to prison on Christmas Day by a judge of a northern court. The result—The trial of Ornell Stauffer will be tried per schedule ( Wednesday. Judge Fruchte stat-, ed that had he known it was the j practice here not to schedule I trials on legal holidays, It would not have been set for Wednesday, but since that had had been chosen. no extra expense to tlie county and inconvenience to the jury I would lie insurred by a |M>stpone-i meut. - ! ' — O — ~ — SEE ROOSEVELT (CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE) | tary and naval experts loaned to , i Brazil. I if this country renders effective j i financial or commercial aid to ! Brazil, then the same logic of con- i tinental defense probably will exert ‘ an influence on relations with Colombia and Venezuela, which also i have long Atlantic coast-lines. o Praises Indiana Aid To Industry —— Indianapolis. Ind., Feb 21—(UP) —ov. M. Clifford Townsend claimed | “more than 1100.000.000 worth of new business has been attracted to Indiana in the last few years,” speaking last night at a meeting of the International Harvester executives from tlie United States and Canada. Townsend predicted that “some day the largest population center in the world will be on Lake Mclhiran with the Calumet area a part of it.” He cited advantages Indiana offeis manufacturers tn "its iocation. ; taxation, transportation facilities. ' education and fairness in dealing with labor problems. o —»— Kancner To use Plane Richgrove. Cal. —(UP) — Hugh . P. Burum, local rancher, believes he is the pioneer in a new field of necessities for the future farmers and ranchers of the United States. He has installed a hangar for his airplane which he regards as an essential part of any equipped uptodate farm or ranch. o New Guinea Forests Opened Canberra —(UP)—A large area of forest country in the Bulolo dirI trict of the Australian mandated i territory of New Guinea, containing 1 50,000,000 super feet of hoop and ’ l.linkii pine and a quantity of cedar i and secondary timbers, is to :be ‘ thrown open by the administration far milling. Tea Pouring Shirked Berkeley, Cal—(U.R)—While women have been drinking tea at noon at the women's clubrooms of the University of California for 14 years, the tradition may be dropp,ed this year. Reason: there are 1 plenty of tea drinkers but very few who care to help serve it.

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Two Miles a Minute t Coing Some riiifißVfj f -and speaking S lof Marvels . Q, 4all H ■ that costs you | esi ffffj BILLS TO AMENM | (CONTINURD PliiiM r A(!P ,1 Flank T. Miilis or i and .1. Frank Smith of Uf aj M They also said they ' sist on passage of a bill <|is lr ß ing more motor vehi, 1,. llmi ß the counties and i.-iltu i>... income tax on rota Lr- to npsH of one percent ■ I Meanwhile, the powerful i ways and means committee ■ ' tinned whittling away at the H 301.416 biennial budget bill mended last wi| k by the sB I budget committee ■ In its first session yegterdajH ’ ternoon. the < onmutt.-e niadel duetions amount mu to i the biennium, leaving the tm a |H 1 the bill at $84,423,288. ■ Enters Guilty Plea Tol Non-Support Chai George Steiner, formerlv of B city, who was arrested In yfnff upon a local affidavit. ihargingß lire to support, pleaded guilty «■ arraigned before Judge J. B Fruchte today. ■ Steiner was remanded to ■ while his punishment was ufl i under advisement by the rourt.B first entered a plea of not gtfl later re-appeared and plead gufl Epidemic Closes Anderson Schol I Anderson. Ind. Feb. 21— (I’M Dr. George Metcalf, head of I Anderson board of health, today! : dered the city’s schools closed I I of nil o n !d-inJc of i Action was taken after it was I ported that 1600 children were I sent and Dr. Metcalf said to kt the schools open would only help spreading the disease. Royal Emblem To Appear a Ottawa, Ont. —(UP)—’The 3trictions against the use of ro emblems and portraits ot K Ceorge and Queen Elibabeth souvenirs will be relaxed in Cam during 1939. The Canadian S retary of State has announced t the ban will be removed to per Canadian manufacturers to rej duce the royal emblems. Theater Has "Cry” Room I I Dunkirk. 0. — (UP) — Mothi who bring their babies with '.been the newly remodeled Dunx theater no longer not'd to leave 1 show when junior starts to c William Day, owner and opera cf the theater, has installed a sou proof observation room to a<co modate mothers and their :nfan