Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1939 — Page 6

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CARDS GAIN ON CINCINNATI BY WINNING TWICE Medwick Hitting Sensationally As Cards Win Nine In Row New York. Aug 7— (U» - Only a few day* ago th* Dodger* Cuba, and Giant* were ready to peel off enough greenback* to acquire Joe Medwick from the Card*, but It'll take another trip to the hank and an armored car to lug enough coin to pry him Inoue today After aqnabbllng and making up with manager Ray Blade*, the clouting Cardinal outfielder ha* been hitting everything that came near the plate He la the big reason that the Cardinal* are riding U. nine-game whining streak and represent about the laat threat to the (Tnctnnatl Reda In the national league pen nab t race. In hla laat four game*. the Hungarian hitter from Carteret. N. J . 1 ha* hit aafely 11 time* in 1* trip* and hla wallop* Include a homer triple, and four double* Th I* I* at the rate of .dll. and If he can keep It up for a few more day* he will be challenging for the hatting leadership He got alt aafetle* In 11 time* . at bat yeaterday aa the Card* took a twin bill from the Philllea, 114> and 8-3. to cut the Red*' lead tn 1 7*4 game* l-efty Roh Welland pitched a five-hit ahutout In the' opener and rookie Morton Cooper | scattered nine hit* In the night-1 cap The Red* salvaged the aftermath. 8-8 after the Brooklyn Dodger* had won the opener. 54> Luke Hamlin outpltched Paul Derringer In the opener, allowing but four hit* a* the Dodger* ruahed all ; their run* home in the ninth. The largeat Cincinnati crowd of the aeaaon 30.853. saw the Rhinelander* come from behind with a 1 three-run barat in the eighth tn take the nightcap An overflow crowd of 37.885 at Pittaburgh rooted the Pirate* to a 8-0 victory over the Giant* after the New Yorker* had taken the opener. 0-5 A 18-hit barrage off five pitcher* by the Giant* broke Joe Rowman'a four-game winning •treak in the flrat game, but Roh Klinger choked off the Terrymen with five blow* In the aecond Mar West'* 12th Inning home run gave the Boaton Bee* a 9-8 deelaion after the Cuba had pounded three run* home In the ninth to I tie the acore Baseball'* largeat crowd of the •eaaon. 78.753. poured through Yankee atadlum tumatilea and aaw the world* champion* humbled twice. 5-4 and 7-1. by the Cleveland Indian* In the first game Bullet Bob Feller won hla first game since his memorable all-atar perform•nee for hi* 18th victory, when j Jeff Heath hit a homer for the de< k|ing tally In the seventh. Fell- ’

Tonight and Tuesday “TARZAN FINDS A SON*’ Johnny WeiNKtnuller. Maureen O'Sullivan and huge cant. ALIO— Artie Shaw A Band: Cartoon A Pott Smith. 10c-2Sc —o Wad. A Thur* — “Naughty But Nleo" Ann Sheridan. Dick Powell. First Show Wednesday at «:JO. Continuous Thursday from 1:15. BS SURE TO ATTEND! —o Coming Sunday — "Only Angele Haue Wings" Cary Grant. Joan Arthur. | CORT Tonight and Tuesday “GANGS OF NEW YORK” Chae. Bickford. Ann Dvorak & “FOR LOVE OR MONEY” Robert Kent. June Lang Only 10c-20e o—o Wed. A Thura. — “Grand Jury Seerets" John Howard. Gall Patrick. —o Coming Sunday — "Adventures of Jane Arden" A “Bulldog Drummond's Bride."

tar allowed only five hit*, the same ! number Left Gome* guv* the I Tribe, and he fanned nine. Mel Harder doled out four hit* In winning the nightcap I The double setback pared the | Yankee lead to eight game* over | the Boaton Red Ros. who apllt a pair with the Detroit Tiger*. RooI kle Freddy Hutchinson, who could | not make the grade at the begin- ; nlng of the aeaaon and waa sent to Toledo, acored hla aecond victory since being recalled tn the I opener. 10-1 He gave up only al* 1 hit*, but he had to pitch hlmaelf ■out of trouble never*l time* aa a result of seven passes The Bosov took the nightcap. 8-3. behind Jack Wilson's seven-hit slingin Another capacity crowd. 38.000. turned out at Boston The St. Ixtul* Brown* took a pair from the Philadelphia Athlet*lca 11-4 and 8-8. Vernon Kennedy •cattered nine hits to win the opener and Harlond Clift's homer , , with a mate aboard in the ninth ' I decided the laat game. The Washington Senator* scored their seventh straight win. 4-3, i over the Chicago While So*, but | not because Dutch out- | pitched the veteran Red Lyon*. .Three of Washington's run* resultfed from error* Yesterday's Hero: — Freddy | Hutchinson of the Detroit Tiger*, who not only pitched sls-hlt ball [to prove his major league caliber. I but helped win his own game with . four singles in four trip* to the i [ plate, batting in two runs and acor- ; Ing three himself. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Cincinnati 82 S 4 646 'i 18l l-ouls 55 42 .567 7>* [Chicago 5.1 46 535 10*, Pittsburgh .... 49 44 .SIC 12«$ | j New York 4k 48 Soo 14 Brooklyn 4k 48 500 14 Boston 42 53 44k Ik Philadelphia 28 <7 .290 34*, AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York 89 30 .897 Boston 80 17 619 8 Chicago 55 48 .545 15 Detroit _ 52 4k 520 ITKfc {Washington ... 45 57 .489 28 Philadelphia .... 38 <3 384 33 ■t Ixtuto 29 89 298 39«% YESTERDAY'* RESULTS National Laggue New York 9-0. Pittsburgh 5-d. Brooklyn 5-8. CincSinatl 0-8. 8t Ixmls 11-8. Philadelphia 0-3. Boston 9. Chicago k <l2 Innings). Il American League St. Louis 11-8. Philadelphia 4-8 Detroit 10-3. Boston 1-8. Cleveland 5-7. New York 4-1. Washington 4. Chicago 2. o |< LEADING BATTERS • Player and Club G AB R H Pct. (DlMagglo. Yanka 87 249 55 99 398 Foxx. Red So* 90 341 54 124 384 | Arnovich. Phillies 93 348 50 131 .348 i McQulnn. Brown* 99 400 74 138 .345 Bonura. Giant* 94 364 84 122 .345 HOME RUNS I " 1 1 Foi*. Red Bos 27 ' Ott. Giant* 21 Greenberg. Tiger* 20 Mice. Cardinal* 19 1 Selkirk. Yankoag . 18 ——— o —— ’■-•de In a Good Town — Oecatu-

' »* t lot to ■- . s. CASH LOANS OF SIOOO to S3OOOO MAOf ON Houtvhold Good*, Livettock, Implement* and Automobile* - m " Up to 20 Months to Pay A Special Repayment Plan for Farmer* I Decatur . Loans Discount Co. Locally Owned and Controlled DECATUR. INDIANA

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. AVGUST 7, 1939.

“EDERLE DAY" AT WORLD FAIR Gertrude Ederle Cheered On ChannelSwimmiiiK Anniversary New York. Aug 7- (UJ9 -It waa "Ederle Day" at the world's fair today, the world of tomorrow ■aiming a glorious feat of yesteryear the first swimming of the English channel by a woman And leading the celebration waa Grover Whalen, the same man. but with a fresh boutonniere, who met Our Trudle" at the dock and motored her down hero highway to ' the cheers of million* after her 1 record breaking swim 13 years lago. In those day* Whalen was the official greeter for Mayor Jimmy Walker. Never before had a returning hero been acclaimed aa wildly aa waa Mlaa Ederle during her drive to city hall A lot has happened to Trudle since 1928. and today's celebration was aa much a I tribute to her game fight from al* ■ years of aeml-lnvalldlain hack to health aa If waa her historic pad dlr from Cape Grll Ne* to King* : Down. Although thia day was art aside a* "Ederle Day.” actually I It waa 13 year* ago yesterday that Trudle bucked wind. wave, and ; tide to the phonograph accompaniment of “Yea Sir. She's My Hahy." across the channel In 14 hours and !31 minutes, which knocked mote than two hour* off the beat previous man's record. No sweeter music ever came to the ear* of Mlaa Ederle. however, than the spontaneous barrage of applause that followed her every .stroke across the blue horseshoe of Billy Roar's acquade yeaterday ’ It le-gan when she appeared at one end of the pool In her black bathing suit and red cap and Increased until she paddled tinder the frlng rd backdrop. “It certainly waa a awell 12th' anniversary." she said aa ahe toweled off later. "Honestly. 1 j enjoyed it more thsn the timej they phraded me up Broadway.** j At 32. Miss Edarle Is aa healthy looking aa any specimen of womanhood you'll find anywhere today. and a vastly different girl from the wan and peaked young lady who waa operated on two year* ago for a rupture That op eration was a distinct setback to her battle to recover from the back Injury she had suffered four year* before. Doctor* told her she'd never walk or swim again —- O Today’s Sport Parade * By Henry McLemore New York. Aug. 7 Putting the sport* shot here and there: Who aald anything about the power of the pre**? After reading a full ten thousand articles on how he will get hla head knocked off when he meets Joe Loula for the heavyweight title next month. Boh Pastor went out and bet 12.500 that he would win...of hla own money,! too. which establishes a new record for optimism, confidence, dafflneaa. or something like that...at 184 pound*, which to the weight he expect* to train down to. Pastor will be the lightest heavyweight challenger alnce Carpentier, the "orchid man." tackled Dempsey in the Jersey meadows. The American Davis cup team won't be officially named until just before the matches with Australia. but I have It on what the Washington correspondents call "unimpeachable authority" that our aide will consist of Bobby Rigg*, the man who walks like Charlie Chaplin; Frankie Parker, the "million dollar legs' boy. and Don McNeill, the Oklahoma kid... Rigg* and Parker will handle the singles and Parker and McNeill the doubles. ..Alice Marble. Mia* Tennis of 1939. thinks It to good enough to retain the cup. and foresees two victories for Rigg* and one for Parker aa the point getters... Mlaa Marble to the young lady whose tennis hat-a baby blue contrivance resembling a crosa be tween a baaeball and a jockey cap •was complimented by the queen mother after thia year's Wimbledon final... Thia muat have pleased Mlaa Marble, a sport a wear atyl- , tot. Immensely, because the queen mother has long been famous for her taste in millinery. Maureen Orcutt will be the aentl 1 mental favorite in thia year* national women's golf championship ... Mlaa Orcutt Ir the Mac Smith of gala golf...she has won all the other titles, and played enough good golf to win 10 national*, but the chamr I 'm*Mn | always slips her by Just about the hardiest animal of them all la the trotting horae, who ha* hla day of glory at sleepy little Goshen, N. Y.. this Wedt.o* day ... unlike the running horae. trotter* and pacer* are bred to take punishment and revel In It -it to not unusual for a trotter or a pacer to prepare for a race with two miles of warming up. then go another mile or more In scoring at the start, and then pace or trot three or more mile beat* ...and all of thia pulling a racing sulky equipped with a stout old

UPSETTER .... By Jack Sords S’ I IUHMM X— Jr I WbW, RtoeFtCß JTifUfß WAS «** L STAR— He UPSET RtGOf WlM&LettoAJ OUMPtOsI iM-THe SEABW6AT

gentleman driver . and trotting horae time* don't suffer badly In cvtmparlaon with running horae time*. Seventy-five thousand Finns are studying English in anticipation of the 1940 Olympic game* tn Helsingfors. the Idea being that Eng-: Hah and American visitors will have a more comfortable stay It their hoat* talk their language... Jack Hurley, who managed Billy Petrolle for ao many year*, now claim* he has Petrolle* successor In BiUy Marquart. "135 pound* of claaa. brain* and dynamite." to quote Hurley's unbiased opinion Dick Met*, one of the top ranking pro*, believe* that a match play tournament between th* pro feaaloual* *nd amateur* would outdraw any other golf tournament save the national open... Bud War of Spokane ahould win the national amateur in Chicago next month ...he only finished a shot off the pace In the open in June and from tee to green played far aud away the beat golf of any player In the Geld ... had hla putting been a shade better be would have beaten the proa by four or five shots .. Helen Jacob* look* like a tired, ’•red girl out there on the court, and on* who need* a long, long r*»t from forehand chop* and volley*. G. E. Team Wins WPA I-eaßue Title Th* General Electric learn won th* championship of th- Adams 1 county WPA basoball league Sun-

Bandit Kills Man, Wounds Girl iIKI at*-j I Wwl BA® ■ 1 ' fl F I and the .hooting of Elisabeth CvJlina. Nug.nt*. sweethrort to wtom X «w Nugent .. man .. 8"8 —W escaping after the shooting of Cohen In a waahroom.

'day afternoon by nosing out a 9-8 I dw'alon over Fuelling, aecond plac* nine Detail* of the game were not .1 reliable for today'* paper. Plea- , rant Milla won a forfeit from Frei4- . helm. The G. E. teaan will pUy in the I sectional tournament at New Haven n.-xt Sunday afternoon. Two other - team* will be in thia tourney, the New Haven Lion* and toe winner c< the Wntmah county league. A double header will be played, startlug at 1:30 p. m. CDBT. with th# draw one hour earlier. o MUST APPROVE tCONTINUED FROM r»OH t>NX) ah»et. ’ The medical certificate roe* to the civil service commission, which doe* not approve any candidate en t'rely until it approve* him phy- ’ t-lcally. All this procedure It waa aald. will require up to 80 day*. JOHNSON LEADS (CONTINUED FROM FADE UNK* it waa estimated that leaa than 50.000 ballot* were cast despite a lengthy list of candidates for seven state offices, 100 seat* in the atate house of representative*, half the senate and various offices. Jefferson county < Louisville) authorities arrested alx persona on | charge* filed by Brown'* campaign organisation Uiat they had voted 'several times James Howard, a farmer, waa ■ shot and killed at Baxter to

CROWD ATTENDS;, RACES SUNDAY lurne Crowd Attend* Junk Car Races East Os City Sunday In a fast and thillllhg fat'd •Ma*. wsa witnessed by a large crowd.! Bob Bowman, of Decatur, repeated-. | lv shook off the blds of ht» comp, tit lon to cop first honor* In the feature race of the Junk Car Dertry. east of Decatur Sunday afternoon. Bowman, who had won a place in the feature event by fmlshlng In third place In the aecond elimination. grabbed an early lead In the hlg race and held It throughout despite attempt* of Jack Holtbouae of Decatur and Albert Stihl of Geneva. to wreat It from hln< Carl Hohenbergrr of Monroeville copped first place In th* opening 2«”>lap event, which proved to be the closest and most thrilling of the day. Kenneth McKtoalCk. Genera and Harry Jacoba. Fort Wayne. , who led the earlier part of the way. finished second and third respectively. A sideswipe In this race resulted in no damage, but gave spectator* an added thrill. Holthouse won hl* way Into the final with a win In the aecond elimination. nosing out Stahl and Rowman In the consolation event. Glen Bowman of Decatur, Robert Miller of Fort Wayne and Virgil McCammon finished In tLat order Aa an added attraction, two bicycle race* and a horse race were staged. Joe Hatelwood copped both the bike race*. Dick Mllh. of this city wa* injured in the first race when he spilled on a turn. 28 Acres Os Wheat Certified Here _____ Robert Bovine, a St Mary'* township farmer, thia year certl- ' fled 28 acre* of rudy wheat. This to the first wheat that ha* been ■ certified In this county for a num--1 ber of year*. Certification of any • grain mean* that the grain to true to variety and the man asking for certification must submit tags Issued by the certification committee and accompany the wheat be purchase* together with an application to the certification committee The committee then send* 1 a representative to the farm who examine* the wheat in the field to see that there are no mixtures . or other grains present. The 1 grain muat also he free of disease and no noxious weed*. Mr. Sovlue'a whaat ba* made all of these requirement* The next teat that he will lie required to make la that of germination and there to noi question bur what he can make this requirement. Hl* average yield per acre wa* 28 bushel*. o Decatur Man Fined In Fort Wayne Court Jerome Bos*e. of Decatur, waa f ned 835 In Fort Wayne city court today on a charge of purchasing liquor from an unlicenaod dealer. Bosse denied the charge but a police officer who made the arrest Bunday teatlfied that Boaae told him at that time he bad purchased several drinks. Twenty-two person* wen caught in the liquor raid* conducted by state excise officer* and city polka Sunday. Five others were I ned toduy and other oases were continued. Plan Exhibits Os Land Terracing Newspaper* have been full of stories on land terracing and the benefits of terracing for the past few years and now Adam* county farmer* will have an opportunity to see some terrace working In Adams county. At 1:99 p. m. Tuesday, there will be a meeting on thw Herman Klpfer farm on the Wells-Adams county line just east of Vera Crux or three miles south of state road 124 on the Adams-Welle line Mr Klpfer constructed thpae terraces with the help Purdue agricultural extension department last fall and winter and thia spring he seeded the field to oata and u grnaa mixture. The terrace worked perfectly und there I* no gullying on this field. On an adjoining farm belonging to Leon Neuenachwander. can "bloody" Harlan count? after the poll* had closed Saturday night Police said they had a suspect In cuatody and that the rhootfng had no connection with the election. [ LOANS 1 $lO to S3OO 09I9XLY BND FIIVATILY MABE Itoady «a*h-T s •saly-C.U .r Skon, Dvtaf. •HifalKe" LOCAL LOAN Um WM , Mln

I I Thc ,e,e P h ° n ' a ■ / doten coov * rta, ‘ on ‘bt one t imt I 7A on p*' r of I MARVELS, the ci(trvttg / / of cartie* »ati*facti, B H -I *® millions of smoker* at big aavingi. fAA •) Ask for MARVELS H irmRVCLs The CIGARETTE of Quality I . *v**M*e seeviMa*. roo.«, *• * ■

he seen how well rye and grass work In preventing the washing of gullle* and It to poaalMe that Mr Neuenachwander will have a large diversion ditch under construction at the time of the meeting Every farmer In Adam* county Interested In the possibility of terracing or in the use of grass waterway*, to urged to attend this meeting. Cincinnati Reds Buy Indianapolis Hurler Cincinnati. 0., Aug 7— <VP> — The Cincinnati Reda today acquired the immediate service* of pitcher lohn Nlggeling from Ind anapolla of the American Association. Nlggeling will report to manager Bll’ McKechnle at Chicago Tuesday to reinforce the Red pitching corps which faces five game* In three day* with the th<rd-place Cub*. •Nlggeling. 34. has won 15 and lost 7 game* for Indfanapcfli* thia season. Cash and two pla/ei* to be ■tamed later will be paid to Indianapolis. a Red farm club. -o ' Midget Auto Racer Is Killed At Lima Lima. 0.. Aug. 7—(VPI— Rrneat B**rrlnger. 32. of Connersville Ind.. driver of a midget autcmioblle, died today of a skull fracture received when hl* car turned over during a rwe here Sunday, be lost control cn a curve and was pinned under thc vehicle. o . . Many Compliments Received On Float The county agent's office baa re-< ■?tved many compliments on the *P’endld 4-H Club float that wa* mod in the parade on Wednesday. August 2 and It to belleveo that the | .tany frledds of 4-H Chib work will! be pleaaed to learn that the junto- j leader* organlfttlon of 4-H Clntr memAter* earned the mony for making the float by holding an Ice cream social and by selling pop at. Ihe Fourth of July cel>bnation

Guard Aged Farmer-Slayer . - *** ’ ”** • ■ —1 - fharleo Allen Held It Lexington. Ky.. Jail for safekeeping following his taconnoctlon with the slaying of Police Chief George M. Dickey of Cynthiana. Ky., Charles Allen, 71-year-old farmer, arranges his tie as the photographer snaps hie picture. Dickey was slain as he m B complaint that Alien had taken a young girl inw • !* rn r * ar of hta home A!l,n fl*d and in the ensuing hun.fr I” • *ch Involved considerable shooting, several persons »<_ wounded. Finally he gave himself up at the home of relatives nea Cynthiana.

•’•h.-y boitcht' th- n>a'.-r.*| v *,l" and trlnnn.-d the f! *> r« IV.-S The truck ».,m by Al D. Schmitt. M The beautiful corsages the queen and th-S's-s of th.- R. nt, . ■ o M Dies Committee To ■ Continue llearinfl Washington. Aus 7- >rp. ■ The house ronin, . . . K I'n Amerh an j. -tr. . . . S ned an exhaustiv. in.| :-r "fl affair* of th.- German Vt.-i.M bund when it In-gins - ...fl inga Aug 15 or Sept. 1 9 One memto-r of the .omwofl which la head..| by Rep M -M Die*. D. Tex . said that shea fl he*rines are ftal«h»-d 'th.- >.ifl will be pretty thoroiu'hh fl v*i." ■ Three Arraigned On I White Slave ( harvA Indianapolis. Au;. 7 — >lTi 9 •Threo persons cha-aed « r-9 . tag the white slave traffic ty o>9 'sting a carnival 'nude »hw 9 Boonville. Indians were —sinfl . >odar before I’. S CwriMiofl Fae Rttrick. I A hearing will be held next hfl dav and bond* of 86.M9 were fl for Irvin Lewi*. New York X ■ and John Morton. Detroit Bond I Mr*. Lowi* wa* set at H.HM c 9 I she wa* freed but the man were 9 I rble to make their ball. I ■ , Terre Haute Couple | Killed In Sevierville. Tenn . Aug 7-<<’!■ —Mr. and Mrs Leland H»rt 9 i Terre Haute. Ind. were killed yefl I terday when their rar collidfl j head-on with an automobile drtvfl Iby Dan Harris of Knoxville | Billy Roe. f\ve year old *o* 4 . Mr and Mr*. Irvin Roe of ea»t fl | town, to 111 at the home of tl» r»tfl patent*. Mr. and Mr* W. H. i ty. The lad to suffering trotn *» tfl faction In hl* left leg. I