Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1939 — Page 6

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OSSIAN BEARS BELIEVERS IN SUPERSTITION Think Red Suits Lucky: ' Each Player Carries Rabbit’s Foot Ry Ed Huln*bury IVP Staff Correspondent» tndtanapolls. Mar Iff. — (UP) — Free throws from the fowl Um of the rational tournaments: Oaalan — The Bears have both white and red suit* . , . Rut won't wear the while as they think the ied'« Im ky , . . Each player also <w arias.. * rabbit's foot Into each name . one Bear fan carries a Iccwsc a|j6*- to each Oaalan contest .T"; And Osalantana today are cltin* the all-Huntington regional (•am to prove that the Rears' victory wasn't luck . . . Three Ossian hoys, however. Rell and Beerman made the honorary quint . . Three South Mde men plated also. HbuiUy before the sect tonal tourneys a Hoosier correspondent im-k ed ?1 of the states toughest '*um». tanking them accordin* to their- geographical location . . . After the regional smoke and flames had cleared away only si*

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.of the teams were at ill m the run* I nlng . . Frankfort. Klkkrat. Koken mo. Evansville Roane. Franklin and 1 inderaon | Only three of the 193* regional ' I champions Anderson. Greencastle. I . i and Frankfort are atm m the IS tu race Five of last year’s • regional title holders Ih>s,-<I out hi the weekend s firing . . . Fort Wayne Huulh Aide. Delphi. Ham- ; I liuahvßle slid Kendallville .... Auburn and Oaalan hung up i the first regional titles in then i school's history Fiuty Vandlvlwr, coach of the ■ Franklin <lrix«y Cuba, played on [ the Franklin Wonder Five of 1920I 21-22 . . It is reported that before > each game he mope* for day* . . . I j And before one sec tional game he said he wanted his home cleared so he could come home and go to , tied right after the game . . . win nr Jose . . How la he going to I stand up through the semi finals? ' Muncie and Newcastle, accord*, Ing to pre** reports, had practically otie-ntati-ball club* on the floor tn their final at the Muncie tegional . . . Roy Kilby. Muncie guard, reportedly was the base of the i hampion Rurris Gw I* . . .! While Ernie Tldrow kept the Troian* from cracking up , . . Roth Tldrow and Kilby made the regional tourney squad . , . A* well a* two other Buri is men . . MeKentle. a guard and H< heidler. a forward The Kokomo Wildcats showed an uneany eye for the bucket in their regional contests . . They looped In 2s in the final against | Tlptou and iff in the flrat game against Marion a . In the Tipton .cetta the Wildcats didn't sink on* free toss, while In the at'.ernocn mesa they made only flve. Evansville B- vase found them- ‘ selves in plenty of hot water against a rough and tough Owens Ville quint before the Rulidiw* : were ahle to come through and 1 win the regional , They were ' behind 6 to 4 at the quarter. 11 ■ to 9 at the half . . . They staged < a brilliant third quarter rally to 1 pull ahead. 21 to Iff. and then the I Kiekapoos came back to knot the count at 25 all with two minutes to go . . . Then Cotine netteef a , fielder and Rayburn collected a free toss before the gun bounded. Columbia City's Fahl counted a long fielder against Mentone with only two second* .. . seconds .. * to go to put the Eagles in the fluala of the Auburn regional . . . j the Eagles won. 31 to 29 . . . but he couldn't repeat in the final* against Auburn and the Red Devito will enter the semi-flnal* at Mun cie Saturday. Fr*Jt? fort's high scoring hoopstem continued their drive on Hoosier nets they looped 44 poteta rgainst Jefferson of Lafayette In the regional opener and 52 against Lebanon In the windup

JACKETS PLAY FRIDAY NIGHT Annual Senior • Vnder* cloMNmen Game Here Friday Night Hit member* of the Decatur Tellow Jacket* basketball team will make their final appearance In a Decatur uniform Friday night ■ when the annual senior tinderctosamen |« staged at the new junior* senior high school gymnasium. The . game was scheduled tor Thursday but today was changed •to Friday night. The game i* to get Underway at 815 o'clock. A preliminary game will be played one hour earlier between the fifth and I sixth grade team* Admission to the game is 25 cents and ticket* are being sold by member* of the squad All pro cuuffn will be used to help defray expense* of taking the team to the state Anal* at Indianapolis March ( The six seniors who will be mak- • in* their ltii.il appearance are (Claret/ce Htapletou. John McConnell, Jim Highland Junior Zrrkel. 1 Kenneth Gaunt and la*wt* Shoe | Charles Andrew* and Bob Staple- , ton. who saw considerable action the past season with the varsity squad, will lead the uudm lassmen quintet, augmented by armlent of the first and second teams ■— w At the Training Campti * I By United Press Cub* Avalon. Calif. March Iff—ft’Pl — Rookie Steve Messner received new tribute* in the Chic;go Cubs training camp today so rhi* consistent hitting in three Rub* Yannii'ana game*. Messner- whose batting was instrumental in Yannigan viclories in two previous games, re-‘ I laced third baseman Stan Hack in the regular lineup yesterday and hit a homer which helped ’be regulars to a 13 to 2 victory. H.u k. pit<her Earl Whitehill and shortstop Dick BarMl were on <ht* injured Whits so* Pasadena- Calif. .Manager Jimmy Dyke* withdrew Thcrnton Lee. suffering a twisted ankle and named Johnny Digney. Clc Fra«*<r and Johnny Whhehead to pitch for hl* i. . and Lafayette scribes said the triumph over Jefferson was due io the "Laughner purchase” ;. . . lai ugh tier collected 8 flelder* and one gift toss against the Broncho*. while Splinter Johnson picked up six fielder* and five free throws ... In the nightcap Laughner counted 12 points while Johnson scored 27 . . . Johnson had a total of 4* for the two , game* ... Yet Jeff managed to | take a 2219 lead over the Hol Dog* at one point in the contest. I'CORT Tonight & Thursday jssSs * f iWPI/ / * I ’/ f * «A UN la Ban* FWfwrq w.r* BONITA GRANVILLE '<** imt ■ »*WS IffSMUMM rixsiit r*ouis 3|ky >»ut*« *t wittisn ttiitai ALSO — Selected Shorts. ONLY 10c-15c Sun. Mon. Tu*s.-*"Off the Record" Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondcll.

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I White Sox in their first apring 1 tame with the Chicago Cnbs at Loa I ' Angele* Friday. I Tigers Orlando. Fla. — Washington Sen.xtors Intensified their tralnng today In preparation for their first trainng game with another major league team Detroit Tigers — Saturday. ' Meanwhile. In Washington it vra* announced that Walter Johnson — The Senator's big train tor many year* —would be with the team this year as a radio commentator ■'"<>' •)- ----- * Decatur Bowling League Results | Gamble's won two games from J Cloverleaf In the Minor league at ( Mies Recreation last night. 2.819 to 2.MC. Mies Recreation won two J game* from Casting*. 2.798 to 2.- ( 725. Rurke'* took three from McMillen. ISYS to 2 442 and Mul»< h- . lets took two from Hoffhran Two hundred scores: Tutewiler. < 21B; Railer. 2»4 Thom*. 2<*l; C. ( Farrar. 2<M: Frisinger. 227; Lyon*. , 258: Reiukmg. 218; Hoagland. 2M>. . Ros*. 220; Udd. 225. Mclntosh. 2lo; Stump. 2»5 and 209; Hobbs. 2«7; Green. 245; Ahr. 202; Raker. 2i>o and Macklin. 203. Minor League Mte* Recreation Lyon* 180 183 258 .Walter* Uff 190 14* Relnking 150 159 218 ' Gallmeyer 182 199 155 Mie* 138 191 199 Spot 38 38 38 , I Total* 815 980 1014 Casting Co. ' Hoagland 183 200 171 Young . 192 188 157 Gallogly 151 174 1&7 I Roas 173 193 220 !Udd . !?• 182 225 j 1 Totals 878 917 920 Burke'* Burke 184 Keller 153 158 189 Bonita* 147 193 MB] Mclntosh IM ISC tlO I Stump 205 2U9 185 Hobbs 188 207 Spot ? 7 71 Total* *l4 89! 870 j McMillen's E Schults ... 181 174 146 I Brewer . 1«2 172 178 Bucher 128 148 171 Soldner 129 124 168 ■G. Schults ... . 122 117 148 Totals 700 783 809 Mutschler'* I Brtede 147 180 153 (Green . 245 191 178 i Mutm hler 147 178 179 'Ahi 156 184 202' lamkensu . 174 181 182 — — —I Totals 888 874 894 Hoffbrau Baker 133 186 2001 Bones 151 178 153 Macklin . - . 176 203 178 j I Reynolds — 178 159 199 Spot . 87 87 37 Totsls 800 873 897 Cloverleaf Frlalnger ..... 227 149 158 C. Farrar — 179 205 129 (Hooten 149 143 193 IR. Farrar 143 ...... 145 (Thom* 118 201 153 A. Farrar ...... 174 ...... : I T0ta15..... 818 873 771 y Osmbles I R Woodhall 174 185 198 ! Tutewiler 163 210 181 ’ I Baller 159 149 204 IB Woodhall 151 . 182 ! K. Woodhull 172 .... 157; I

Snyder 143 | Zelt 119 Spot ... ... 31 31 31 Totals 850 836 933 JUNIORS LOSE FINAL CONTEST I Decatur Junior High Is Defeated By Adams School Tuesday The Decatnr Junior high school basketball lost its Anal game of the season Tuesday afternoon, dropping a 29-25 deeiaion to the Adam* school* of Fort Wayne. I The game was played at the Cen- | tral gymnasium In Fort Wayne. The team* were tied at 11-11 at I the end of the first half but Decatur lost its regular center. Andrew*. on personal fouls shortly after the start of the third quarter. and Adams gradually pulled , away. Andiew* was the leading scorer j for Decatur with nine points A.Mesen and D Mescii eac h tallied ' eight point* for the winner*. Adam* FG FT TP Ahlersmeyer. f .... 2 15 Lafever, f 0 0 0 Zent. c 10 2 A. Mesen. g 4 0 8 | Worman. f . 2 0 4 . Young, g 10 2 Taylor, g 0 0 0, Total* 13 3 29 [ Decatur Spahr, f —,.... • 0 0 ( Schnepp. f 2 2 6 Andrew*, e 3 3 9 Neidlgh. g 3 15 Rickord. g ..102 Rlckord. f * 0 3 3 M i -.Hn.-11, f 0 0 0' Eichhorn, c —... 0 0 Hakey. g ... 0 0 01 Total* 8 9 551 o Duquesne Football Coach Quits Post Pittsburgh, klatch 15— tUPJ —I ( Coach John Philip I Little Clipper! | Smith, whose Duquesne I'ntver-1 sity football team* slipped after ( a succeasful 1936 seaflon. today re-1 signed as foothaH coach and ath-1 letic director at Duquesne Smith, capuln and guard of the Notre Dame 1927 eleven, gave no reason Immediately for hl* reslg nation while his contract had one year more to run. but It was reported that there was a bloc at Duquesne which was not entirely | In accord with hl* ragtene You Don't Have To Be Sick t • Chiropractic can help You This treatment which relieve* spinal pressure on vital nerves eliminates the cause of most disease*. and health is the natural result. Com* in today 1 Roy H. Andress Chiropractor 624 N. 2nd St. Phone 265 —

RUSSIA READY TO FIGHT FOES Soviet Defense Iziders Warn Nllb On “March To The East” Moscow. Mar IS <U» - ! Russia's praemtim* *rmy strength I* mor. than 3.500. i»» men defense i ommissar Klementl Voroshlkiw , I told th* 18th commoaM patO ,on ' | ' gresa In »n apparent warning against nstl Gsrmsny's "march io the east " With foreign observers speculating on whether Germany I* head i Ing toward the soviet t'kralne. the ( , Russian defrttae < ommissar declat led that lhe red army* great war j • plane fleet could carry 6.0 W tons , lof bomb* In one ma*a flight and {that It is ready "al any moment' to light an invasion In view of lhe armament race , everywhere, he said, the red army | had tmen compelled to abandon its former organisation by territories j and become entirely a profession' ; ally-oflltered organliation. trained' in "the spirit of Internationalism ' I Hi* announcement apparently' i meant that such separate divisions a* the tar eastern army — which 1 was an autonomous fighting force I - had been brought under a high ' comfhand He addressed the 18th congress , . <>f the communist party at the Kremlin on a crucial subject as the German army charged through j Ctechoslovakia In Its "drive to the east." the goal of which i* the rich soviet I'kraine Nasi domin alien of the three western t'xcho•lovak province* would bring lhe German army to within 2<Hi mile* lot the I'kraine. and it It doinlnat ed'ftuthenia. the eastern province. I which Hnnaarian troops occupied today, the nail spearhead would have reached within 90 mile* of ( the soviet I'kraine. j In 1934. Voro*htlo« said, the red i army air force could life 2.000 ton* of bomb* tn a single ma** fllht I Now. he said, the capacity had t>een increased 208 per cent. He said this "mas* of deadly metal '. an be carried over great di»- | tance* ahd can be a pretty good soviet *traighijacket for raving aggressor* If they run amok and come to soviet territory." SOCIETY MARKS ! ■COXTINfKD FROM FAOK ONIS! Zimmerman. colle g e student. Gladys Miller; teacher. Mr*. Harriett Mills; young man. Boh Mann; •ecretary. Mr*. Edward* Memory scripture in charge of Mr*. Htuckey. Doxology Benediction. Refreshment*. ■ o - Adams County Cows Establish Records Peterborouh, N. H-. Mar. Iff.—A ‘ new record, exceeding the average IoC the Guernsey bred for her age . and cla** ha* just been completed I by a flve and one-half year old I cow. Audrey of Washington 363913 of Decatur. Ind . tested and owned .by P R Lehman Her official record supervised by Purdue University and announced by the American Guernsey cattle dub I* 16.861.9 popnd* of milk ar.<t 800 4 pounds of butter fat in class A. A new record, exceeding the av--1 erage of the Guernsey breed for I her age and class has just been - completed by a two-year-old cow. | Dutchman's Lassie of Elm Grove I 501639 of Decatur. Ind., tested and owned by lisle D Moses. Her of- ' fldal record, supervised by Purdue University and announced by the American Guernsey cattle club la j 6.933.8 pounds of milk and 373.1 | pounds of butter fat In class GGG. I- -•' o | n a V*ew« (W«Bfm

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TAX PROPOSALS NEAR SHOWDOWN Pr<»po!*al<4 To R r p e ft I ••Deterrent" T«xen Near Showdown W»«hlngton, March 15 <UW I Proposal* to repeal "deterrent"' i taxes gjtortiai’hed a White HoU*<I showdown today Conservative ( advocate* of huslneaa irpprosc h- ' ment definitely were on the defen ' sive and threatened with defeat Chairman Pat Harrison. D. Ml**. of lhe senate finance cum* mil tee and Rep Jer* Cooper, D.. I s Tenn . of th* hotiae ways and means committee will confer with President RooSeVell on tax iegls- ( Ist lon today. Hsrtlson has been , a leader of those seeking tat rei vision Their White House conference , and the vidume of money received I today In laat-minute income lax | payments will lead shortly to a de< Isloli whether Mr Rooarveh I will accept or ontmae r»-p«-al of | cherished new deni levies Mr Rnseveß avoided commit I | mg himself at yesterday's press i conference on repeal of "buslnes* deterrent" taxes but suggested • serious potential objections to , change llarrtaon. Informed of the While House tax statement, remarked cryptically that It waa ; "In thorough accordance with what I thought his plan* were." The evidence so far I* inconclusive hut without substantial promise for those attempting to blast the corporate surplus act capital gain* tax out of the revenue structure Hen Walter F George. D.. Ga. of the flnaflce committee said tax adjustment ws* the only major job congress could do at thia ae* slon, social security and naltoual labor rt-latkma changes being 100 ‘ hot to handle Home business appeasement ad vocatra appear pessimistic Their' economy hope* have collided with Mr. Roosevelt's Insistence upon a 8150000.000 additional relief appropriation and the hard fact that there is not much opportunity for economy unless such emergency ■pending to drastically curtailed The bright spot In the conaerv atlre recovery ■ economy program , generally referred to as business appeasement flashed In the conference of bouse and senate reaentattve* on the national de-

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