Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1939 — Page 6

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FUELLING AND UNION WIN IN LEAGUE GAMES FuellinK Defeat* Mies; Union Trounces Friedheitn Nine Th* Mie* Re<-reatlon nine, ah** •curing four run* in th* sacoud Innina Sunday afternoon at Wurt faman Field. tailed to tally again and suffered an 9-4 defeat from th* bats of th* Fuelling team In an Adatna county WPA amateur baseball league content. In the other aame Sunday, the Union Acea swamped th* Friedhelm team. 22-1. piling up 21 hits and beueflting by* IB Frledhelm error*. Grealey held the Mies team to five hits and fanned 12 batter* Art Rak*r was the only player able to hit Greeley safely more than once. Fuelling pounded out 10 hits, with M. Scherer. L. Buerger •ad L. Fuelling gening two hits each. Box score*' Fuelling RR R H F R Scherer. Sb„ 5 0 0 0, Fran*. es 5 110 L Boer ger e 5 0 2 1 M Scherer. 2b 5 2 2 1 L. Fuelling, rs . 5 3 ! 0 H Boerger. m <2ll D Fuelling, lb <OOO ll'-ile It < 0 11 j Grealey. ff .. 3 110 Total* <0 5 1« < I Mie* AR R II K J Miller. 2b 3 0 0 2 Harkles*. 3b — 3 0 11 R. Ladd. ss .4 9 9 *1 Ritjer. c < 0 * *] Feasel. lb 4 1191 Baker, rs <l2* Rush. cf 4***l Ogg- 11 < . I o o I Slusher, p 3 11 0 l •Mie* ... ... * 0 * Bl — — — I Total* 33 < 5 3 | •Ratted for Slusher in ninth. Score by inning*: Fuelling . „ OJtt 000* 21*- * Mie* 040 000 o*o- < Union AB Tl H R Bischoff. s*7 3*l I. Rleeke If. 3b <llO E Schultz. 3b. If < 11 • G Schult* lb 14 4 0

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. R Hleeke. rs. p <320 | W llla< key. 2h . 4 2 I 1 E Schearer, 2b 3 111 II Thieme. c 4 12 0 T. Rleeke, • ... . 3 2 2 0 V Rleeke. cf 4 110, ,K. Thieme, cf 12 0 0 • ■ i II 1 Total* 53 22 21 3 . I Frledhelm AH It H K • E Gallmeyer. lb 5 0 2 3 *R. Ruu< k. Sb 4 0 12 ' Werling. 3b 9**l I W Gallmeyer. e 1 o o 0 r Caston. e . 3 0 o 3 Reifatech. 2b .2111 ' A. Ruuck. cf. * 4 0 u 2 ’II Buuck. p. es... 3 0 0 0 ' H Gallmeyer. cf 10 0 9 Neilson, rs .. . 4 0 3 1 1 N- urgs. ss 4 • • 1 Rnltemeyer If 4 0 0 1 Total* .... 35 17 15 JUNK CAR RACE IS HELD SUNDAY Local Racers Take Two Places In First Junk Car Derby Local racer* took two place* Sunday afternoon in the ffrst of a , series of "Junk Car Dreby' races. : planned to be held during the sum-' mer mmnhs at the Devil's Howl, three-fourth* of a mile northwest ' of Decatur Wayne "Pete” Peterson. of this ' city, won the first 10-lay event and 1 Vernon "Speck'* llebbie. also of! Ib-catur captured % second place. Joe Mcßride and D. D. Girod plac- 1 ed second In other events. i A large crowd witnessed the | opener Sunday Those who expected thrills from the race were rewarded early when Clyde "Snub” Wysong. of Fort Wayne, took a ; (curve too fast and rolled over. He 1 i was taken to the Adams county ; i memorial hospital, where it was learned he was suffering from a ■ • fractured collar bone, a strained ’ ' neck and back He was released ; early thi* morning. Next Sunday the races will again be stagMl with entries limited to local talent. No qualifying trials ' will he held with the oldest car j [ given the post position. The winners in Sunday * event* 10-lap: Wayne Peterson, first and , Vernon Hebble. second. 10-lap: Calvin Johnson, Fort ■ Wayne. Orst and D D Girod. Decatur. second. 50-lap feature Arthur Meyer. Fort Wayne, ffrst and Joe Mcßride. Decatur, second. Carl and Bud Hurat, of thia city, , promoters of the race, are opening preparation* for neat week's event , and promise an even better and i more exciting contest than was staged Sunday a-.. ... STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE ■' Team W. L. Pct. G.B. |St Louis ,—.. 13 g .too I; Boston 12 * .671 6* Clnclnnal 11 10 .524 It, Brooklyn 10 11 .47* 2 1 , Ne* York ... 10 12 . 455 3 |, Pittsburgh . 9 11 450 3 Philadelphia „„ * 12 429 31* AMERICAN LEAGUE Team W L. Pct G.B. New York 14 5 .737 Boston .. .. .11 5 <BB I\* Chicago 13 * ,s*i 2K* Cleveland 11 10 .534 4 Washington .„... 8 11 .421 6 St. Louis 9 13 .400 <H .Detroit 9 15 .376 1% i Philadelphia .... < 13 316 S YEffTEROAVff RESULT* National League Boston 1, Brooklyn 0. Pittsburgh 5. Chicago 2. New York 2. Philadelphia I (10 Inning*). St ixrul* 9, Cincinnati 5. American League . New York 10 Philadelphia 0. Detroit 14-7, St. Louis 4-4. Cleveland 9. Chicago 4. Boston 5. Washington 4 (12 Inning*). 0 -- ■' LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Master*. Brown*. 14 46 14 23.479 , Kithel, White Sox 16 22 15 28 .424 Foxx. Red Sox 1< <0 17 25 .417 Weatherly, Indian 16 58 6 24.414. McQuinn. Brown* 22 91 17 37 .407 O HOME RUNS 'Greenberg. Tiger* « I Camllli, Dodgers 5 ! Mi*e, Cardinal* 5 Fokx. Red Sox 6 Ott.G lant* 4 McCormick, Reds 4 Selkirk. Yankee* 4 Berger, Reda .?. 4 I Gebringer, Tiger* 4 | Williams. Red Sox 4

CARL HUBBELL HURLS VICTORY OVEB PHILLIES Giante’ “Meal Ticket" Pitches First Game Os Season New York, May 15 - <u.PJ —I There's rejoicing today In Carthage. Mo. Meoker, Okla., and Ft. Worth. Tex — the three towns which c laim Carl Owen llulile-ll because the "meal ticket' has survived with flying color* hi* first , teat along the comeback trail. Hubbell. Icorn In Carthage, raised in Meeker and now a resident of Ft Worth, won his first start of the season yesterday by def*at-, ing the Phillies. 2-1. In Io innings. ‘ and every liaaeltall fan in theme I three southwestern cities and at every other < roas road from Time* ' Square to Hollywood boulevard take* special pride In Hub's triumph There is no more beloved player in haoehall than the quiet,' modest southpaw wkag* career: hung In the balance after his el-1 I how was sfft open last August for j I the removal of splintered hones, j But nowhere was there anyone' j happier than Rill Terry, who went 1 we*i with (he Giants wealing a I smile for the first time thi* seas j on. The Giant*, without Hubbell' were strictly second division — with him they are quite likely to! scramble hack into the crazy-quilt i National league pennant race It took llublH-ll to give the! Giant* their first victory of the I 1 season over Doc Prothro's peaky' Phillies. They nicked him for 11 hits, but many of thrm were ■ wratchy. He paced himself w*U.j I and when In trouble was hl* I ‘ beat. In the tenth after Arnovteh i had walked and May singled. Ilut> liell stopped the threat by forcing [ Whitney and Rchareln to fly out 1 In the tenth with the score tied | I 1-1. Ken O Ilea batted for Hubltell •end hit the game winning hornet ; Whitney's homer was the only run made off Hub. Yesterday brought nut the heat pitching of the *ea*oti Roh Fell er gave a courageous exhibition In winging Cleveland to a 9-4 victory over the White Sox He fanned six and allowed only six hit? Be-.i Chapman hit two homer* and a 1 triple Lefty Grove won hi* second ' triumph by pitching the Red Brn i to a 5-4 triumph over Washington | ( in 12 inning* The 39-year-old -southpaw weakened In th* ninth and had to he reacued with one 1 out Tabor's single and double*; by Doerr. liesautel* and Cramer featured the Red Sag * winning 3-run rally. Red Ruffing, rolled on to hi* fifth straight victory as he ell<(wed ' only four hit* in giving the Yank* a 199 win over the Athletic*. A < run outburst in the sixth bumped George Caster, who had allowed only one bit until that round Babe Dahlgren hit hla second homer. Detroit snapped out of it* slump with a twin victory over the . Brown*. 14-4 and 7-4. Hank Greenberg hit homers Nos. 5 and ' 6 In the opener and Rudy York's ' pinch home, with the base* load ed In the ninth featured the aec- ( ond game Lou Fette grabbed pitching laurel* in the National league with a 4-hit game, in which the Bee* beat the Dodgers. 1-0. It Was Fette* fifth victory. RMfe Miller * single with the bases load ed won the game In the ninth The Cardinal* triumphed over the Reda. 9-5. knocking Whitey Moore on 1 of the box and dropping Cincinnati 10 third place Bit) Werber made three errors and Billy Myers on*, contributing to the Red* downfall taimhardl and (’raft hit homer* but they came too late. Pittsburgh won its first gam* from the Cghe since August 22 last year when the pirate* slugged Gene Lillard for five run* lu the first three frame* tb triumph. 5-2. Jim Tobin kept the Cub* 11 hit* scattered Yesterday s hero -Carl Hubbell, who pitched hl* flrat gam* since be was operated on last August and triumphed over the Phillies. 2-1. WPA DIRECTOR tCONTINUBD FROM FAUB ONK) employment Is greatest In winter when condition* for outdoor work ■re moit unfavorable. 2 WPA c*n‘t hold it* beat worker* by offering higher wages | "We make them go when they have a chance to get a private , Job." 3. Rkllled end unskilled WPA ! workers put in a different number 1 of hours of work per week be- j cause of the necessity of paying prevailing wages on an hourly basis while furnishing only a sacurlty Income par month. Col Harrington defended aocalled "white collar” project* for women and clerical worker*, contending 20 per cent of the country 1 * unemployed fall in this category.

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RACE IT FORT WAYNE SUNDAY Frank Funk To Oprn Season At Fort Wayne Speedway May 21 Frank Funk, the veteran Winchester auto racing impresario, who ha* been staging dirt track auto race* since 1914 ha* again leased the Fort Wayne Motor S|>eedwag under the sanction of the Central States Auto Racing Association, and ail of the leading drivers will be in the competitions at the season • inaugural auto race* Alone, ten racing cars represent a total aggregation of |<o.i MB. Five of the cars which the famous speedster* will failot over the c S.R.A. circuit during 1939 will be entirely new. Boom of th* popular veteran* who Intend to be back for the 1939 competition are Jimmie Wilburs, the Los Angle*. California, youth - who wa* CJB.P. A. champion last season, driving a new 315.000 Of-1 fenhouser: Joe Chittwood the Tulsa, Oklahoma Indian; Evert , Saylors. Dayton. Ohio daredevil.' who holds most of the track rec-1 ords who will be at the wheel of a new dryer special costing SR.-; Ooo; Spider Webb, under the Vance colors of Itayton. Ohio, with sev-, era! uew principle* in motor con- > •traction; Duke Dinsmore. Los Angeles. California; Clay Corbitt, Columbus. Ohio; and Morri* Music. Dallas. Texas. These are just a few of the leading driver* that will compete here on Sunday. May 21at, in a six-event program. Timet rials wilt be called the morning of the race at 11 o'clock, i EST All races on the afternoon program are to start at 230 o'clot k, EST., and new free parkIng arrangements are being made.

Quiz Another in Poison Case -' ’ -•**' ;.. ' M. >sol'' Mr». Meyer 'henlunrn and detective Another "poison widow." Mrs. Meyer Shenkman. shown with a detectlve. has been arrested for questioning by Philadelphia police In connection with the bizarre poison murder*for-tnsurance ring Mrs Shenkman is the 13th widow to be questioned in the case. Her hu* ound. proprietor of an army and navy store, died under mysterious alrcumstanceft HU body was to be exhumed for an autopsy.

besides a new Improved racing plant reconditioned with asphaltic cement. SERVICES HELD tcoNTixvED from paqk onk> of man's depravity, of the Ravtar'a deity. Os Ihe sinner's justification alone by faith, the dm trines of baptism and of the Lord's Supper; a* well as every doctrine contain'd in rhe Apostle's Creed. Thi* and nothing less b tffe faith once delivered Io the saints." Deploring what he called "present tendencies to minimise the importance of doctrinal difference*.' ba warned against "union* whet* there is no unity." Hit* Liberalism "Liberalism infer* that God's revelation Is unclear, that It yields to contradictory Interpretation* Liberalism aaya. 'Forget your difference*.' God *aya: ‘Remove your differences' Liberalism say*: Compromise,’ God ■ay*: "Contend ' "If t’hrlsi. If the A|M>*tlea. if Luther, if our forefather* a century ago had refused to contend ' for the faith. If they bad been content with a colorless compromise ■ and an evasion of the eternal issue* Involved, we today would I have no faith for which to con- , tend. "It I* thi* spirit of a militant j confessional ism which ha* characterised our church throughout the past century and which we wish to paa* on to our children , a* a most precloul heritage." o NAME DANIELS tCOVTINI’EU FROM PAOB ONK) dresses at the afternoon and evening session*, respectjvely. Rev. 0 E Eddy, Rev. F A Armstrong led in the devotional* and special music wa* furnished by the congregatlcms jn the township. I ' •e0» te * c.eea Tew* — »>,—»« |

County Clerk Buys third Street House A D Ruttle*. real eatste agent, announced today tb* ••!* <«f th* Sludshaker horn* on Third street to county clerk <l. R*my Ri*rly. Il l« • double house, located directly j lu-rmis tb* street from the court I ous* Mr Rlerly intend* to remodel It next year. The purchase price •a* reported to he 55.090. || 9 111 ” 1 ■ I. U. Alumni To Banquet Tonight Flnsl arrangement* have been made for <h* annual Adam* ('ounty l.idlana University alumni society banquet, to be held this evening at <:3O o'clock in the Rice hotel. The speaker wll Ibe Prof. E, U Yeage.-. of 'he 4. U psychology department An election of officer* !» to be L'id ■■■■ IL DUCE SAYS tCONTINUBD FROM PAGE ONB* first move toward a solution and neither ha* yet given a definite ■ign of abandoning the attitude Russia Reject* lamdon. May 15 <U.R> Rov'et Russia wa* understood in author! tatlv eaource* today tn hare po lltely rejected Great Britain's proposal for adherence of Mcuu-ow |n the European anti aggression front. The Russian government, in a note to Britain, described the British formula as "inadequate." It stood pat on the original soviet suggestion* for a more compre henaive mutual aid »greem-nt with Great Britain and France Adherence of the Moscow gov ernment ta the antl-agg > sion front has become a key factor In : the British French effort tn form I a barrier to future aggressive ex-1 psnskm in Europe The adher-1 ence of Turkey to the united front I l*|t week appeared to mak< more, likely the Inclusion of th<- am let* in the aeries of alliances and It I was believed generally that liegn-! nations would lie continued bi an I effort to arhieve that goal British circle* believed th*t ar-1 rangem.nt* for bringing Russia j Into the united front in one way or another might be work'd oct when Vladimir Potemkin, the) soviet vice-commiasar of foreign : affairs, goes to Geneva toy the! league of nation* council meeting, i May 22 It wa* understood that the »oviet note insisted on: 1— A mutual aid pact among Great Britain. France and Soviet Ruaala 2 — three-power military con ventkm 3— A system of three power guarantee* to protect the small i nation* from the Baltic to the I Black Sea against aggression Britain has been particularly lelactani to enter into a military 1 convention for fear that *ach a 1 move would force Japsu. Spain p and poaaibly Portugal a, n>>ai|le toward Mowow into an alliance | with Germany cud July. — ■ oMoose Becoming Scarcer Regina Sask <UJ*> The moose.

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What’s This? I'illinTsHjH JI IM R dm, " 'to, Mrs. Ixiuise Schuette .nd pet, Because Bingo, her pet dog gave birth to more could feed. Mr* Louise Schutte of Escanaba Mich device constructed. It mechanically mixes corrvv milk with sugar

king of all Canadian big game ani- j mala and the hunter's favorite, is hard to find, according to reports from northern Saskatchewan A j shortage of fur in the northern Itans of Saskatchewan is appar--1 ent. as ta a leaner shortage of wild game oOwn Tombstone Carved Saratoga. Cai <U.PJ — Harry L. Tracy. 76-year-old caretaker of the Madronia cemetery here, has Mart ed a job which he admits he will i never be able to finish He ha* ' carved his own totnbstone and erected It on an empty burial lot. The tombstone cat rie* the year of his birth

REAL ESTATE ATTjjj Public Auction Q The property of the late Dr J C <.rand»tiff Ind. Sale on the premises to the high- -! : aider. reserve. KB WEDNESDAY. Mav 17.1939 |FO( at 1:00 I’. M. ■ _ Completely Modern 8-room Bungal- a. 1 ' Carage; 3 room office building; 2 large catena; well; Gas; Shade trees, flowers, shribi-ery. home. Modern in Design and Equipment posaeMion. BB HOI SEHOI.I) GOODS — Walnut I': > R «>mi StiiU.lll bination China Closet; Porch Glider. 1. g beds, springs and mattresses; dresser. 2 1"“"' top office desk and chair, like new . me. bed; Circulator Heater; 2 stands; 2 rugs ‘.'xl2 Sewing Kitchen cabinet; chairs; clock; man. -* too to mention. B'j TERMS—on Real Estate. 4 cash, balance long use K PERSON AL PROPERTY— Cash In-prction of invited. Call Roy S. Johnson, Decatur. Phone b' l< r I<>22. L < MRS. J. C. GRANDSTAFF, o«t| Roy S. Johnson—Auctioneer. La Ist IN VALUE I MW*SASANV | Ist I IN SALES I Saylors Chevrolet Sales I 116 South First St. J

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