Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1939 — Page 6

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HABANELLOSTIE FOR SOFTBALL LEAGUE LEAD Defeat Dunbar By 1-0 Score To Tie For First Half Lead County League Standing — W I. Pct 1 Dunbar ....... 4 I *w) llabanelloa ....... 4 I .MM Cloverleaf 3 2 «•»•• Pleasant Mills -.2 3 4W Monroe L. I 4 DM Blue <’r«*k t 4 2«M| The Habanelloa, edging out a I*4> victory over Dunbar Friday night In one of the beet played games ever witnessed on the South Ward diamond, tied the Dunbar team for the first half leadership In the county softball league with the flint half tie to be played at a later date Aider llabanelloa hurler. had a no-hit. no run game In hla grasp With two men out in the aeventh Inning, but Gulliver broke the spell with a double, the only hall Dunbars drove out of the Infield Agler fanned the next batter to end the game llabanelloa scored the only run of the game In the third inning With one out. H Andrews doubled and scored a minuter later on M I .add's single. In the flrat game of the evening. Rlue ('reek came from behind to score two runs in the last halt of the seventh to nose out Pleasant Milla 6-4. Rlue Creek scored the winning t runs on three hits and an error The winners obtained six hits and Pleasant Milla five. Week's Schedule The feature of next week's- - will be the first of the < three-game series between the Ro tary and Lions clubs of this city ( Thia game will be played at 3:15 o'clock Wednesday night and will ’ be the only game of the evening Monday - Dunbar vs Fairview Nurseries; [htnltar vs Cloverleaf. Tuesday Methodist va Baptist; Reformed vs St. Mary's. Wednesday — Lions va Rotary •S’ IS p m I Thursday — Monroe va Zollner Platoua, llabanelloa va Pleasant Milla. Friday Pleasant Milla va Ruet , er Chevrolet, Monroe vs Rlue Creek -r.»4 y a •-««a T«w — tweatev

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STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L Pct. 0 11. . Cincinnati 45 2? .*25 New York 41 34 .547 li'v 1 Brooklyn 3< 34 .514 S ' St. lamia 37 3t> X% 1 Pittsburgh 36 35 .64M 9 BaStM 34 39 4«« 11*J [ Philadelphia 21 47 .3v9 22 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. U Pel. GR. New York .... . 54 23 .70! Boston 44 26 «3K < (Imago 40 35 .533 13 ClMeland 40 35 .533 13 Detroit 39 37 .517 14', Washington 33 47 .413 22', Philadelphia 30 4« 395 23', ,St lamia 22 54 .239 32 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American Leagne Philadelphia 7. Chicago 3. New York •. Detroit 3. Washington 11. St Ixtuls 9. I Inly games scheduled National League Ronton 10. St. Ixmla 4. New York 4. Cincinnati 1. Brooklyn 14. Pittsburgh 4. Only games scheduled. RED SOX LEAD LIONS LEAGUE Only Undefeated Team In Lions League; Week's Schedule Listed LEAGUE STANDING American League W L. Pct. Red Sox « 0 1000 Indians 4 1 .900 Yankees __ 3 2 .600 Tigers 1 3 .250 National League Giants 3 2 WO Pirates 1 2 .333 Cards 0 4 000 Cuba 0 5 000 The Red Sox are the only undeseated team in the Lions Recreation league, having won six games . without a lons. In the National league, the Giants are leading with . three vlctoreis as compared to two I losses. I Decatur's little "big leaguers" ! apparently are following the major leagues, as the National league teams In the Lions league apparently are having difficulty downing the American league boys. Winners of the two league races will meet at the end of the regular schedule in a "little world aeries' to decide the city championship. The schedule for next week follows: Tuesday: Yankees vs Red Sox; Giants va Tigers. Wednesday: Cuba vs. Cards; Indiana va. Pirates Thursday: Giants va. Yankees; Cubs va. Red Sox. Friday: Pirates vs. Tigers; Indians va. Cards COURTHOUSE Marriage Licenses Richard RlngenLerg. Napoleon, Ohio to Dolores Neuhauscr. Monroe. Alfred 8. Dane. Dayton. Ohio to Hila Terrill Mitchell. Pleasant Mills. Wildon Wittwer Rerne to Loal May Fr<-«Y>urn. Berne.

HEAVY GARD FOR JUNIOR LEGION Legion Team To Play Five (James Next Week; I Decide District Winner The Decatur American Uglon 1 junior baseball team faces a heavy I. schedule next Week, with five ! games scheduled i The first game will be played i Monday afternoon at Van Wert. Ohio. Auburn will meet Decatur r al Worthman Field Tuesday after-I noon and the local team will travel' i to Bluffton Wednesday to meet > the Mason Juniors. The Junior le-glon nine will face a real task Friday afternoon, when they tangle with the Albion Junior I - I .eg lon team at Wotthman Field The ItecaHtr and Albion team, will play a double header Friday, f with the first game Scheduled t<-'' start promptly at 4:30 o'clock. i Them- two games will decide th- - winner, which will repr<- 1 sent the fourth district fa the ' state tournament at Indianapolis 1 the last week in July. The Junior I-eg ion team Is coached by iH-sne Ikirwln. coach ! of the high school iMtselml! nine, with Hubert Cochran as the Legion P manager LEACH REQUESTS 7 • CONTINCED FROM PAGE ONBt « Ing workers ended protest strikes ® (against new national works prelects administration rulings and 11 agreed to join a national one-day protest movement July 20. I .ess than 2.00" workers were i Mill on strike today as county M | units at mass meetings decided to'" I return to work and eliminate any ■ chance of dismissal under the fiveday ruling set up by national off! I rials The five-day ruling provided , that any worker absent tor five | days would la- dismissed More than .’.tat workers In Indi-* ana polls at a meeting last night passed resolutions demanding the restoration of prevailing union wage scales, cessation of which IMI to the nation wide strike, and for- an amendment to stop the 3dday layoff which has been announced by national officers. They also agreed to join the one-day proteat July 20 OPEN STUDY OF ■ CONTINUE!* FROM PAGE ONE, investigate the value of traffic lawenforcement as an accident prevention measure; (2) to determine present enforcement practices and .the weaknesses thereof. (3) to de- , termine the laments of a sound I program of tinffi. la a enforce-

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mem; <4l to secure the upprovul and upot lon of this program by all i law enforcement agencies; 16l to develop public support for law an- ' for, ement agencies following ibis ( prorram I OU AT E FREI I •CONTINUED FROM PAGE «>NRI , The "Whirling Wofiderd." the "mod ',rn exponents of awing >n roller 1 -katea." will (appear there dally. Heel and toe catches, fancy figure skating, buck dancing on skates I - • these and many other are Included In the revue on Wheels The members of Ute entertain-nt-nt committee, who booked Dm evejts and will have charge of the i.tctg during the fair are: John L. | DsVosa. chairman; Hob--r' Krick, i and Clarence J Reavers. YOUTH RELAY F.S (CONTINURD ON PAGE SIX' that was the man." They drove toward Chicago and -topped at lake Geneva. Wls.. for gasoline. Kgholm said An they drove Into the filling station the man told him: "Don t fool around I'm wanted In more than one state. One more matt won't make much difference I won't let one more stand in my way." When they reached Klgin. the man turned Egholm from the car ■ after taking his idmitlllcation and license cards. Ik-fore he drove 1 off. the kidnaper leaned from the t window of the car and said, "you'll I find your car tomorrow In the < ISM block on West Madison street i In Chicago " • Chicago police broadcast that I he car, a sedan, bore Oklahoma 1 license R-935 t F.gholm. a decorator, was visit-

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I Ing hla sister. Mr* Eunl<* Piero*. Kenosha i Russell, once known as "the sing - mg cowboy." because h* sung to i bls rubbery victims, escaped from the state prison al McAlester. Okla . Tuesday night lie boasted before be D-d. that l»r WuUld cum* to Chh'ugt, I" kill bis wife. Mary, who catised his arrest Ik moblhs ago for roblieties In Oklahoma A police squud was guarding her ’ home During his flight Russell kidnap • ed two men, one of them believed i to have bee,, Hamilton. The vic- . Um. shot through the bead and i clad only In underclothing, waa .‘found in a field northeast of Ring- , worn! 111. about 40 miles north , west of Chicago There were„burn« on the chest and shoulders. Indi- ; eating fa- had been tortured ■■ - — ♦ Adams County I Memorial Hospital Admitted: Noah Hendricks. Monroe. route one; Sam Stahl, Decatur, i route two: Arthur Fosnaugh. Mon-1 roe. Dismissed: Ollie Mills. 127 N T»uth; Mrs la»rvs P Ka*hr and son. DecaYur; Christie O. Fran*, j Decatur; Karl Cottrell, route 3. 0 Newspaper Advertising Values Are Related Culver. Ind . July 15 — (U.B —A | stable farm Income tn Indiana in- , dlcatea that advertiser* make a . mistake when they do not consider state newspapers in their pro- ' grams. Thomas R. Johnston. Pur-: due university director of public information, told the Indiana Weekly I’reas Association last night |i II- iwdnted out that Indiana's

farm Incom* waa »2M.O«hi.MO last yeur and that It Is one of the mo«' stable farm Income states In the i nation because of th» wide diver I slty of agriculture, "We have nsver had what Is a real crop failure." he said "If < crop Is short we haw enough var,at lon Ilf our production that we i make It up on others." ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Ix»r»s P. Kaehr of 3U3 Grant street, are the parents of a baby boy. born Friday nigh' 1 at 9:25 o'clock at the Adams court--1 ty memorial hospital. The baby. ’ i weighing eight pounds, has been I named Jerry Wayn* J Fred Bays Praises New Deal. McNutt 1 New Castle. Ind.. July 16—<UR> I Fred F. Rays, stale Jb*moctatlc j < h.iirman. praised new deal ■ cies and Paul V. McNutt at a I | county wide Democratic rally here last night. "I wish to leave a plea for con-1 atant harmony with the ranks of, democracy." he said in his speech ‘ "Mt's patch up our differences. I I carry on the banner of the new I deal, back the <andida« y of Paul' V. McNutt for president, and be| hack of Roosevelt lan policies and 1 | our own governor. (Tiff Town-1 i send " O Airplane Thief Is Returned To Frankfort Frankfort. Ind.. July 15-dUJB— Ernest Pletch, the "Rying txMSiln- ; -ar" who allegedly stole an strI lane here ond conducted a rotn|aitce in it over Illinois and Mianonri. was held in the Clinton county jail

I today after hla return from Ya«oo t'lty, Mias- where he was attested -hla week lie was returned last nUtht t»y Isuus policeman Uster Clinton county sheriff John Hamit I ton. Whitley said that Hatch vdmllted utlng the plane, tut wwt unable to KlVr Atiy I Hut hi* father wanted him lo work ! on a farm and he dldn t want to. o- ■ ■— * PREBLE NEWS ' . — Mr. and Mrs Forest El**' of D*Icatnr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vlrnan ' mid daughter Beatrice of Moline. ■II . and Mr. and Mrs. Donaid An*tut ugh of Brysn. Ohio spent Tbuts lay evening with Mr. and Mrs. ' Douglas Eltey. Mr. and Mrs. Frank C'amer of Grand Junction Colorado, and Mrs lOlto Niggll and son John Otto ot‘ Sturgis, Mich., were the guests

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'Mr and Mrs daughters Iren-- ' K Shack ley, Tuw..i,n Hi t abv of Maglev . ,11.4 u .’ .f'M M. Richard Aiiu.id a#ll Wednesday -n.., R| Mrs Fr.-d E„ k>. 4nd I M and daiiKni.. '.rn Rickhoff vt«,i<.) Mis Hop. , M* Margaret , ..,. h ening. Darrel RhSckl. v JH 'rom Uk* W*g>« r Ing due to the d.-, ! 1 *'®| •nother. Mrs William ■Harriet and S.,nnx k a2u H Monmouth u .md Erma Kl,. hit. 1 „ :nv H Any 6 or K exposurt A Develop'd and Prints S 25c. Edwards Studio B Month Se.on.l