Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1939 — Page 6

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OHIO STATE IS RANKED ONE OF NATION'S BEST Buckeyes Tough When Razzle-Dazzle Tactics Click At Best Chicago. Oct 24 <U.R» A new scarlet scourge. with all the virIBM of rattle-dazzle at its Im-*! and the same weaknesses that cracked up the original lateral-; mad team* of IMS and IflM.! plarea Ohio Stale well up among the nation’* major undefeated, untied toolhall team* When the fancy stuff la clicking aa ii did at time* against Minnesota laat week, the Bucks are terrWw When It misfires It did that against Minnesota. too anything can happen Thia giant team may hare enough power to correct its oftenwire mistakes hut the danger now is that gome alert underdog will ana® one of those dlpsy-tioo shovel• trasses or laterals the Burks habitnaHy tos* whether they’re on your two, yard line or their own and another scarlet scourge will he just scarlet, Cornell’* ivy league champions teat Ohio State this week and if Corneil's scalp goes <m the string with that of Missouri. Northwestern and Minneaota. Ohio Stale will he past its severest crisis until the Michigan game Nov 25 Notre Dame and Michigan still rank with Ohio State as the mid weal's power teams Notre Dame's amazing yardage total against Navy lift yards for 22 first downs produced only two touchdowns hut It was sufficient Io keep the Irish among the tindefeated. 14 to 7 Michigan slaughtered Chicago. S 5 to o. largest winning total in Big Ten history This week Notre Dame play- ;> Carnegie Tech where th* cpt.-ctl , n of Notre Damn 19!D vlc’i.. , probably will be alr«-d again It may Inspire Carnegie to shake off that defeat by New York Univer-j •ity and cause the Irish considerable trouble Aided by a decision of ref re • John t Wrung Down) Get. hell, thIrish broke up last year's gam.* with a 4* yard touchdown drive! before Carnegie recovered from Its confusion Get. hell had Informed the Carnegie quarlerbju-lr, i It was third down luscead of I SLJ ■

aooMHMBNNHRHOHMSRROOBB ♦ * — Last Tims Tonight — GINGER ROGER* "BACHELOR MOTHER" Divid Hi van. Chat. Caburn ALSO—Shorta tCc-JSe bWED. & THI'RS. OUR BIG DAVS! 4 Firrt Show Wed. at fi:3o (ontinuouß Thur*, from I starting with feature ATTEND WED. NIGHT & WOID THI RS. CROWDS LOVE ON A DIME! Two Young Profrit madly in love . . . with a 3-tbrm flat for their cats tie! Could they live happih ever after? Carole Ixi.wbard in a •»!art ling transition from comedienne to brilliant dramatic atar! -sgi i ’ ci -m *HKd LOMBARD STEWART I Made for Each Other MM w DAVID O MLXNICK |[ -0 Friday A Sat. — "THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK" O O •uTWa* Bunday—"THE WOMEN"

fourth The liish took the hall ; on downs Michigan, rapidly approaching I Its peak meets Yale at Ann ArI hot. Mich . in the second of their ■ present series The Wolves won Jat Vale Inst season 15 to 12. and are strong favorites tn -epeat Tummy Harmon, who scored 27 points against lowa the week before, stayed around long enough I In the t'hi.aro gan»< to ccquire J 15 points more Yellow Jackets Play Bluffton Wednesday Those <Ad rivals—the Decatur Yellow Jackets and the Bluffton Tigers- meet tomorrow nlgtw on the Parlor City football field In i tcheir second game of the year Reports from the Yellow Jacket camp, where Coach Hugh Andrew* haw been giving the boys plenty of workouts in preparation for the tilt, indicate that the Jackets will bo iottt to avenge that 7< victory that the Tigers gained here earlier tn the season. The Tigers recently scored a win over Columbia City, which then « ame to I tv. atur to dow n the locals, but Jacket fans still believe they can turn in a win Wvdneeday nlgiit. The tilt >•> scheduled f>r 730 o cioc k. ..... o Eight Ducks Shot By Local Hunters Joe Koorw Jr. and Donald Todd, both of Decatur, returned todayj with eight ducks their "catch'' for; a day’s hunting at Luke Wawasee; Monday. Koors and Todd were the first! lc><-al ‘oint. « io -.-port successful hunting trips since the opening of duck -• -a son Monday -r Decatur sportsmen report-■ ■ dr. went cm: in -ear. *1 of the ca’lie Monday bitt as yet no word of their prowess has been learned - — o - Finland Seeking Loan From I’. S. Washington. Oct 24 — (CPt—l Fittdiattd. only European government regularly meeting Its war debt . olejigation to the United States la seeking to arrange a reconstruction finance corporation loan or credit 1 to acquire various agricultural com modifies the United Pres* iegrn«d today DiacnaMona so far are raid to bn! in a sounding out" stage and no »pe< ific amounts or quantity have lie»n mt rt toned ————SV————— Trade In a Gooo Town — Decatur

_ CORT — Last Tima Tanifht — "RING of th* NEWSBOYS" Law Ayrat, Helen Mac* A "WOMAN DOCTOR” Frieda IneecouH. Henry W-lcoaoe ONLY 10e20c -0 WEI). & THI’RS. HI (QUID STILL SMACI IM OOWIL..MIO HI Ml X.JW TOMNtOWN-NANGKY CONSTANS MOOM WEUAR NASRff I jSK, jbv —ifimi ■k #kT '^ 9ti ■A : 'Aay**3r » ! —o—o— earning Suneay~"*AlNT IN LON DON" A "HIGGINS FAMILY.**

JACOBS HALTS LOUIS BOOTS Farflußß Exhibition Tour By Heavyweight Champ Cancelled New York. Oct 24 <U» Proi mot er Mike Jacobs' perturbation over heavyweight champion Joe Louis' propoeed exhibition lour stimulates the belief In cauliflower canyon that the first topflight heavy who romrs along will wrest the title from the "brown bomber." Ixmia was tentatively slated to give exhibit lons In nine American < lties during October and Novem- ' her, hut Jacobs lias called th* whole thing oflf with the exreption of a four rounder at Flint. Ml<-h.. on Oct 27, and another four‘rounder at Richmond Ind, or. Oct So Jacobs cancelled the tour be- ! cau«e some promoters like the one at St Uniis were matching the bomb.-r with a fair third rate opponent and advertising the scrap as for the world title John L Sullivan may have gon*

1 barn storming about the country. 1 offering tn knock out any so-and-.so In the house, hut not Jne lamia - who stuns a bit too easily when walloped in the head Promoter l.i is fal> s no chances with his precious hit of le.zing hrlc-a bra< who already earned for lamia ind managers more than 11.500.000, i under the Jacobs' gonfalon Uncle Mike Is willing to let Ixmls -tsk his crown against anybody In the world, when the gate promises to be more than fioo.floo and when I'ncie Mike has a five-year contract on the challenger before said I title hollt Jacoba will have that contract | . with Arturo Godoy of Chile when j , Godoy fights Ixruls for the crown I at Madison Square Garden on Feb t and for all future title bouts He will have It on the next "gold-t-n boy" of the heavyweight division And who is that "golden boy" that gold mine «m the hoof, who will lick Ixruis* That’s the ques--1 tfon creating an immediate rift be I tween Jacobs' 2'o h Century .club) and a large slice of the bodng I fraternity Promoter Jacobs and hl* matchmaker. Johnny Attell. believe that Rtllv Conn of Pittsburgh, current ' light heavyweight king, will sac1, < eed Ixmia as heavyweight champ But most experts along battlers' ' bund Insist that Patrick Edward. 1 f'-unUkey will be the next heiry' j ruler Gomiakey of Paterson. N s J . will be I't years old on Friday. ' seems to be the hardest punching .leather fosser In the ring today And pnncherw are the lads who pnhlb-ized the < hampkm'* great weakness ft- hm-llng knocked Joe put tn their first meeting; Jim Braddock had him on th* floor In the first round: novice Jorge Brescia had I-ouis out on his feet at | the Hippodrome, and Galento stunI ned him In the first round and had him on the floor In the third Billy Conn la a fast, amart boxer Bob Pastor was smart and fast too Pastor lasted 10 rounds by running away In th* first Ixntls meeting and he was knocked out in th* 11th in their second when Bob «urprla'-d everyone In Detroit by making a fight of It That's why most neutral observers believe that Cumiskey the tall, rangy Irishman with the piano punch will ultimately take care lof Louis When Pat hits 'em they ' stay down It's like the kina from a big Bertha He belted ont JU opponents tn 22 professional fight Hell be ready for Ixmia aboui a ; year from now Meanwhile you can take fast < stepping Billy Conn, or wait for i f'omlakey in your choice of the 1 next "golden buy "

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# Today’s Sport Parade By Hsnry McLsmors I» d | Atlanta. Ga Oct. 24 - <U.R) - Kotes on southern foutball, where the game la hotter than the insidej of a baked yam and tougher than ‘ a field hand full of rem whiskey with a record of IPS victories and only 12 defeats Major Bob Ney land of Tennesaee la getting so I hard to beat that some of his rival coaches are almost hoping for American participation In the war . . . they figure that he would bei called up for active duty, snd that ‘ while war is hell it isn't any worse than playing the major's teams on Nsturday . Navy had better have all decks cleared for j action and every man at his bat I tie station when t’lemaon reached I Annapolis on Saturday, because th# Tigers are a red hot team . j tn one Banks McFadden they have one of the great hackr of the, country a long-legged traveler who gained M* yard* last year,, completed in of D» paaaes for IC9 yarda without an interception.' and had a kicking average of 4P yards Ken Kavanaugh ISO- i pound I. Sl' end has stored 42 points to take the lead in south-; •astern conference scoring . . . he has snagge-l five touchdown; passes from Leo Bird, sophomore halfback, and Intercepted two enemy passes for stores . , (\>ach W A Alexander of Georgia Tech, member of the natltmal foothail i roles committee, will urge that august teidy to restore the rule making a punt a free ball, raying that It would » a great help to the offense and add to the apet - tacular gaiety of the game . . . Alexander does not believe the rules vommlttee wUi heed his suggestion. however There are 22 Pennsylvania players operating in the southeastern

“Babs” Linked With Golfer r r ' W J&V .j* SMI W 5 * V< "> Tbdto’V J? > ■k 4 « yv' SSQI Jrlml Will Count«M Barbara ran RaugvtU-RavenUow. Woolworth hrtrtM. marry Robert Sweeney after getting M American divorce from the Danish count. Kurt ran Haugwtu Reventtow* Such to tlw report in New York following Um arrival of "Saba,” bar huebend and Sweeney. 2lPycar*old yotfft now living Ut England. Sweeney won ‘ Um BrlUMi Mnfttfvr golt Ui 1937.

J conference, and at Duk* N it'arolltin State, anti North Carolina |. ... Petinsylranla. you know, is tv, Ithe production of football players what the Kimlterb-y mine, are to; diamond* tht <oa< h*< ti> th<J con ft-renct- aid those at the th ••• North Carolina *< (tools really hav ? set their trap lines for players' I j over a far-flung area . . . th* rest- \ era of the teams list men from 32 ' stales and the Canal Zone . .1 i the next thing you know they'll J be tapping Ellis Island for hroadshouldered immigrants . . . .New (York City Is likely to get a look jat its first bare-footed kicker .when Georgia takes on N Y I' . t'l i j the Polo Grounds this week I Jimmy Fordham. Georgia fullback j learned to kick tninua shoes at Graymont Summit the Eton and 11 Harrow of South Georgia, and he! ■' is good for M yards a whack . , all southern coaches are eyeing 'young Bobby Clfers <4 Ktiigairort. ■. Tentiewsee a high school boy. ' Whose record tops that of Hill De > Correvont Kentucky has the i. Inside track on his services de . [spite the fact that he has a broth-1 '! er playing end sot Tennessee this - j year I' Homer Hasel Rutgers all-Amer-' i lea back of some years ago. has two sons on the University of! Mississippi varsity . . . but. the- ■: best brother set in football is st i Duke where Oaot%» and Wesley McAfee are running wild espe< laliy George , , . Ossie boletti , Byracuse coach, said aftor the; game with Duke last Nameday: - that H was Impossible to con- 1 I struct a defense capable of check 1 > ing George . . . Tulane's 225-pound UM-kle. Hill Ktrchem. has been I timed in for the 22u-yard 1 dash snd he la second string . . ,1 - If you want to see southern bos pitaiity at its fried chicken, corn ! pone, and barbecue treat. ' then l turn spot tswriler and go to Knox

*' i l i m ">«' l ——- i villa to rover a hiw . . . the folks there wont actually kill you with* kindneee, hut they'll cripple yon —~ .<>.ooo SLIT • CONTINUKU FROM KAUC UNB) phdntnt asks |r>.Mt» The suit wn« vrtiuc-d here from' Alien county 1.. It iMinten Is plain-’ itiff's attorney. I ORT WAYNE TRAIN BSMMMMS CTYTINUKM FR>>M FAOB UNO) Chisholm. Minn ; James Alford Sts. Fort Wayne. Lewie Jones. 55. Valparaiso. Ind . Kathryn UiovaUlni 64 Chisholm. Main . Paul li Htrong. Chicago; and Mrs. John lirwar. A3. Waahtnston, h C. <» — Athenia's Owners Deny Arms Carried Washington Oil 24 (UJS gee-rotary of State Cordell Hui! Imlay mad-- public a note given him by Canadian minister Loring C Christie denying in behalf of the owners of the A then la that the Vessel Was armed when sunk with the lom of 2k American lives. in view of recent reports appearing in newspapers concerning the lllfated Atheula." the note said, 'i am Instructed to inform you that formal assurance has been received by the Canadian government fr<»m the fsinsldennAtlantic line that the At Benia carried no guns, ammunition, or munitions of war. either as cargo or as stores " Held For Driving Without Permit A charge of operating a car without a permit was continued against Koger Courtney. 1«. Hiußton high ■M-h-ail student, ui Bluffton city court Monday. Courtney was arreut-i rd by officer Kuesel) Prior. Mayor, Franklin Buckner took the under advlaesnent. pending further investigation. ■!"""!" .

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Society Metron Bails Out Communist Leader New York. Ost 24 <uM E,rl Browder, general secretary of! the communist party, was freed today <>n 17,500 hall provided by • soslety matron after spending th* night In the federal house of detentlon following bls Indictment on charges of making fraudulent statements to obtain passports Mrs. Heater C. Huntington, who had tried unauccimshilly to obtain i Browder's release after his Indict I ment yesterday, appeared today to have the necessary paper* signed , She Mid she did not know Bro*. [ d»r personally but was acting be i cause of the principle Involved ‘ She 1s a m-mber of th* Interna j ttonal def.-ns* - - —«» —*«,,* frim.e. ' St. Paul’s league To Present Play A three act play, entitled "That'si Dne on Bill,” will be given by the St. Paul's Wsdifter league of Preble tinwnahlp at the churtflt October 2« snd 2» The public Is corOLalb Invited to attend the affair, which will start at « o'clock. 41*Year*Old Cow Im Living Near Ossian Mrs Bert Merriman, of thia city, brought a picture of a cow Into this otfice. The cow Is 41 years old ind was botn In June. UM It la believed by Its owners. Effie Rapp aud 'ata Hedrick, of Ossian, that the anima! In the oldest row la th* I I’nlted States Mrs. Rapp Is a cousin of Mrs Merriman - ... . * TODAY * COMMON ERROR * Never say. "Due to bad weather. we could not come " say. I ’ ber-auae of." CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers are req newt ed to give old and new address when ordering paper changed from ont address to another. For example: If you change your address from Decatur R. R. 1 ♦.« Decatm R. R. 2. Inst rue I us to change the paper from route one to route two. ■■gg-BI!_”! JSaLL... 1 .,

PUBLIC SALE I M — ACRE FARM - Mi » W» wfl! eel! at Public Auction the ih!L--;r.« 4-c located * miles Rast and S miles South of Bluff' :. ’ 1 miles West of Berne, g nt Hrs Jtoulh and 1 mil-. «-»• .* on the premises. M THURSDAY. (XT. 26th f al ' » r. M. |L FARM—(O Acres of gold level fertile soil al! under except « acres of woods pasture • IMPROVEMENT*— Consist of good 5 room H »T* wfl basement; J room brick summer house Ft ellet.’ B»- Kd>V ItffM wind break adjoining* Hog house ijr’* » h rwi ***■ crib: Implement shed 24x*O; Poultry house ifx2« SwokMilk house <stt: Wcatd house ldxl« Th*a«- butidh-ar class repai; with good roots, good paint and concrete frwr.4t'«M» line fencoa are good Drove well Eleitrlri’v sill I* ' the very near future it you are iooklnr for v r ' i 4 « >"• “■ proved don't fall to look at thia farm sny time TKRMR -gtkAOOO Cash day of sale, halanc.- <m -Miv-rv rfhdfl abstract. Farm is clear of debt ■ Harvey E. Meyer, Lovins Alw| R. J. Meyer H 4 Hoy 8. Johnson Auctioneer J ■■MnNMußMFfNmaungMiiutiiikarunaiauifissßMtorfi®.-'*-® • ... g / Riverside! ONE-STOP I TO 24 Hour I Service Station | —1 Experience and e<|uipmcnt . are needed to do a thorough 1 m*ea»e job —to find every | lubrication point on every make of car. j Wt tovHa yew to vWI cur lubnckUm laborhtory Sec the m * fh u which thoroßfhly rvmo'et- all o oil and STUMP through heal ano r ware and finally rvflacet. it tong kutlns high grade lubrican'*I ITS TIME TO <’HA>‘*L Tn WINTER RIVERSIDE Super Serw When Yes ThHtk Vs

Imt.bre, ■! .. ■ ■ ’ h ''' - ■ . ' ' ' /QI F'nwmum , ■ Mj * 0 ’ J- Smith NotJ Ihr f"U"»'t>r of the Ihr.itur ri.'tliun -.nil a;;,*) .* J®| lent ion „f ihr V -- ana Denial Wai nr. ine.r Ji chro-d W* Wednesdai ai® Thursday, •; Oct. 25 andl Ei Dr. Roy Dr. Fred PatteM Dr. Harold IM*' Dr. Joe Morri K, Dr. Ray