Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1939 — Page 6

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TO STAGE NEIC BASEBALL MEET HERE SATURDAY Four Trams To Compete For Conference Baseball Title Hartford City’s Airdale nine will attain be th* overwneiming favorite, Saturday when the Airedale*. Deca tur Yellow Jacket*. Bluff’on Tiger* and Kendallville Comet* op. n competition In the annual Northeastern Indiana conference haaeball tourney at Worthman Field. The favorite* will meet Hlufftos in the first tilt at 8:30 o'clock Sat-‘ urday morning. Decatur and Kendallville will pair off In the second game at 10:30. The two winner* will ftt«et at 3:30 p m. for the campionship Admission will be 15 cent* and a g<>od crowd I* expected to attend tne game*. Coach Deane Dorwin'ai Yellow Jacket* are given an even j chance of toppling the Comet* in their first game. A victory In the morning would nrobebly mean meeting the favor- 1 tie* in the battle for the title. While the locals would be given only an outside chance at the title. ;he Jacket nine is expected to tak- advantage of any "break" that comes Its way. Coach Dorwin's charges drilled Lm the last time thi* morning be fore entering the contest tomorrow 12 Starting Positions Are Open At Speedway ladlanapolis. Ind. May 24—<UPt —With 12 starting positions sttil!

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»<>-n. qualifying trial* were held at the speedway again today for next | Tuesday's 500 mile Memorial Day I race Three more car* qualiiied lets iyesterday, bringing to 21 the num I her which have succeeded tn gain : mg starting post*. .There are 11 ■ starting positions. Yesterday's qualifiers were Rex j May*. Glendale Calif.. 124.413 ' milers per hour; Emil Andre*. Chii ago. 121 212. and Juel Thorne. New Rochelle. N Y.. 122117. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct OB St lamia ..... .20 0 film Cincinnati _ 21 10 .477 ....„ I Chicago 17 1& 531 4<« Pittsburgh 15 14 484 4 Boston 14 17 452 7 New York 14 18 .43* 7% i Brooklyn 12 17 .414 8 Philadelphia .... 11 20 .355 10 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. GB. New York 23 6 .703 Boston 14 10 .415 s>, | Chicago 17 IS .547 <4 Cleveland ... 15 14 .517 8 Washington 13 IS .448 10 Philadelphia 11 17 .303 lit, 1 Detroit .... 12 21 .344 13 St. Doula 11 21 344 13% YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League New York 5. Detroit 2. Cleveland 11. Boston 0 Washington 4. St. Louis 1. Chicago at Philadelphia will be , played at later date. National League Cincinnati 4. New York 1. Philadelphia 8. Chicago 7. Brooklyn 8. Pittsburgh 3. St. Louis 7. Boston 1.

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LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pci. Arnovich. I*hllli<*« 32 123 17 48 .374 PoM. Red Soi .217519 28 373 McL)uinn. Brown* 32 130 25 48 389 J. Martin. f'erd* 20 <5 17 24 389 Dickey. Yankees . 38 105 20 38 .382 HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers | McCormick. Reds k . Camilll. Dodgers . ... g i Lombardi. Reds 7 ' Mite. Cardinals f Ott. Giants - Purdue Scholarship Winners Announced Lafayette. Ind.. May 2<-(UP>— Alams County winners (or tbe county scholarships available to Purdue Vnlversity a ere announced 1 •day. The scholarships are worth Mo per semester and are ;_<>od fiw ’he academic year starting In Bept rnber. under provisions ot the ind--1 tana law providing for the scholastic awards. Winners from this connjtj are: George Calvin Hahnert. i Monroe high school. Monroe town ship; Henry Duson Marshall. KirkI land — O _ Program At Preble Next Monday Night Charles AffoMer. farm Implement ueaier at Preble, has arranged an Interesting program tor the public at the Preble school house on May 38. Light reels of moving pictures •Hl be shown, including two soil conservation plcturee. two conics •wo news reels and two of the Ab Ils-Chalmers plant Mrs. Affulder levies the public to attend The pro-. gram la free and the pictures will be augmented with singing by «; | quartet. ■ ■ 0 Traffic Violator Haled Into Court Morris A. Gelae will appear In Jua|tHe of peace court Saturday to answer to chargee of running a red traffic signal In Geneva. Geiee was rrresied by Russell Prior of the state police force. o Ex-Federal Judge Dies In Florida Miami. Fla.. May 28—(UP)—WU•lam Fllaon Charters. 83. retired federal judge and former resident of Indianapolis, died yesterday after an lllnssa of five weeks Coon ’ chase Sunset Park. Tuesday. May 30th. all day.

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SOLON BACKING TO VANDENBERG 12 Michigan G. O. P. Congressmen Endorse Senator For Race Washington. May 25 (UM-The 12-man Michigan Republican congressional delegation today unanimously endorsed Sen. Arthur H Vandenberg. R.. Mich., for the 1940 Republican presidential noml-1 nation. The move abruptly posted Michigan against trespassing by other contenders. Vandenberg now Is certain to be the favorite son candidate of , the Michigan delegation to the Republican national convention neat year He has not announced his candidacy but thia week Informed a yues loner that: “Os course 1 would not decline I th* nomination -but 1 do not have the remotest idea that the situ- j at ion will develop any such neces ' ally " Political Washington appreci- j •tea the senator's modesty, but j properly counts him as a hopeful and likely candidate for the nomi , nation The United Press is In- : formed that a deal haa been ar J ranged whereby district attorney Thomas K Dewey of New York ( •will noi attempt to poach on Vandenberg's Michigan preserves j Dewey was born In Michigan Vandenberg might have had the 19S8 G. O. P. nomination if he had i battled for it. His privately expressed opinion long before the June 1938 Republican national convention was that Ihe nomix. atio nthat year was of no value because President Roosevelt wr.uld ,be reelected. Despite that, he almost let himself be talked Into accepting the vice presidential nomination on the tall of Ihe Alf M landon ticket. Today's endorsement is notlflca- , tlon to Dewey and Sen Robert A. Taft. R.. O„ that they are In for a tight for 1940 top honors They, with Vandenberg, consistently have topped polls rejecting i Republics nsentlment. Darkest of i the horses In the G. O. P. entry , to Gov. John W, Bricker, of Ohio. But some of Washington's smart money la sorely tempted to back him. o ■ Final K. C. Dance Is Held Thursday i ■ The last In a series of dnnees until the fail sear on waa held at the Kntahta of Columbus ball tost right. A good sited crowd of mem-t-»rs. their wives and swecthtmrts ' attended the event. ' DANCE SUNDAY SUNSET l| ' —

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FELLER HURLS ONE-HIT GAME OVER RED SOX Young Cleveland Sen sanation Narrowly Misses Hall Os Fame New York. Msy 24 <U.»- With the Yankees killing off interest In the American league pemtant race, i about the only thrilling content I left .In the junior circuit la the struggle for premier pitching laurels. Even the Yanka horn In to thia ! too with the great Charles Iler-, bert i Red I Buffing and Monte Pearson. but the people's choice la Robert Williißn Andrew Feller, the 20-year-old lowa farm boy wlyo i thrown them for the Cleveland In-, dlana. Feller acored hl* 7th triumph in spectacular fashion yesterday, narrowly missing the ball of fame with a one-hit. non-run game. Only Bobby Doerr* single In the second inning prevented Feller I from getting * non-bitter a* the Indiana crushed the Red Sox. 11-! «. and helped lengthen the Yanks' I lead to 5% game* Ken Keltner ' hit three home runs for Cleveland. ‘ Feller fanned 10 and walked 1 five and only two Red Sox reach-. ed second base Bob walked two men In the third inning and then I tn the fifth on two error* permitted another runner to get past ; tirst Feller is operating close to la strikeout per Inning schedule. J He has fanned 48 men in 71 InIning*. In pitching in nine games Feller has allowed 54 hits, and walked 34 He has loat two game*. : one to the Yank* tn 14 innings and lone to Washington last week Buffing's record la superior to | Feller's; he has seven victories and no defeats; but big Red has the Yank* behind him Luck was with Buffing as he won INo 7 yesterday from Detroit. 5-2. Archie McKaln. whose father was • burled in Kanaaa yesterday, had the Yank* beat. 3-1. going into the M-venth. With one out. Red Kress booted a double play ball and net up a four-run rally. McKaln. relieved by Schoolboy Rowe, allowed | only four hits With Venetuelean Alex Alexandra pitching a three-bitter Wash | lugton won from the Rrowna. 4-1. | 'lt wa* his third victroy. Glenn's ■ single. a stolen base and Rerar- j (linos double prevented Alexandra

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from getting a shutout Cincinnati won its 10th straight — longest Red* winning streak since ISM when a Cincinnati team • won 14 in a row—by dumping th* Giants 0-1 Whitey Moure won hl* fifth game but grew wild hi the I eighth after holding the Giants to jtwo hits. Junior Thompson com I plpted the game, allowing one more bingle, Ernie latmbardl led | the Reda attack, driving Carl Hub I bell to cover with hla seventh .homer and two single The Cardinal* held their slim 'National league lead, again beut Ing the Ree* Rob Welland and I Bob Bowman combined to hold Boston to al* hit* aa the Card* iwon, 7-1. The Dodger* and Phillies Anally •napped their long losing streaks. Brooklyn, behind Forrest Preaaneli'* seven-hit pitching, defeated 1 Pittsburgh. 8-3. ending a string of *l* straight losses. Fred Rington led the Dodgers' attack with four hit*, a double and three single*. The Phillle* battered the Cub*. 5-7.1 j terminating a seven-game losing streak The Phils slugged Page ‘and Russel) for 15 hit* but juat | managed to stave off the Cuba in I ' the ninth. —4— Yeaterday'a hero: Bob Feller. Cleveland* youngest bal Iplayer. | who broke the Fenway park jinx by pitching a one-hit. 11-0 game against the Red Box. the ffrst time In hla career he had won or Antoh••d a game In Boat on ATTEND JUBILEE I tCONTINVKD PROW FAUK ONW> Academy and will be attended by a numtier of the clergy. In addl- J Hon to members of Father Hel-j man* pariah Wichita Is the 1 archdiocese of Kansas Father Helman ia known here I He has visited here often and ia 73 years old. Auctioneers Hold Sale At Kentland i Fred Reppert and Roy Johnson Decatur auctiooeets. win (onducti the auction sale of a 2.040 acre farm | at Kendland Saturday morning. Thia farm, the Orchard Lake faim. was owned by the late Warren T. McCray, former governor of the state of Indian* Sargent Resigns As Railway Head Chicago May 2t-< VPt -Smnu*l i H. C»dy. vlce-prealdent of th* Chi|cago and Northwestern railway tompany. announced today that

'Fred W Sargent ha* re*ittned **l I resident and director of the rcud because of illae** Cady said Aargant handed in on ■ esigpatlon Wednesday *»veriu< all connection with th* north west ern ' because of 111 health, whietJ w.ll make it Impoesibie tor me tu du any work tor at least a considerable period of time and fossibly not at all” The reslynauon taas* ■r'fect June 1. SUIT ON TRIAL 'CONTINt'KD FROM PAOto ONK| son; William McGahey. Pike, liar old Wright. Knox; Lase Goff, pack son; Jesse A. Zlgler. Knox; Edgar i B Freemyer. Bearcreek, and Grace J Stansbury. Penn —— -a Gen. Moseley Charges i Smearing Campaign Atlanta. Ga. May SA—tVPi—Maj. r-general George Van Hern Moseley. retired, today said charge* connecting him with a group working against communism were pert of a * smearing campaign and added h«' waa ready to make an luiereatlng | rtat«enent before the Diea commit • tee. Mo*»-ley said fce wa* not 'directly.

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