Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1939 — Page 6

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HOOSIER COURT TEAMS TO PLAY Major Basketball Contest« Are On Schedule This Week IndUhapolls. Nov 24 UP) fhdlann'« winter mania )>a*kettall, will awing into artion in every major high »< hool confer-1 *nce In the state thia week aa th. eight top night league* present a , intal Os Si conference game* 24 of tnem on Friday night in addition to these contest*, heated aa u«uul. there will lie aev ehtl Interconference tattle* b. i»wii usually potent teams In eluded io the latter are the m«f Inga tomorrow between Muncie. Central of the north central league and Fort Wayne Central of the northeastern conference Colum-j Inta of the south central and Mart-! Insville. non < (inference anil Rich i mond of the north central and ■ Rushville of tit" •oiiih <>ntr.ii Friday night the non <ontei< nr>- 1 snaps feature M.irtlnsr ille it Redford, non i onferrnct South Rend Central of tl- i-.ist.-iti .In siotl of 'he northern Indiana high I si hind eolifeiem e and ledianiin. non conferem and U ishlngioti l of the southern conference and ‘ lini> I ing Im r-g noil-conference Perhaps the top conference, game of the week Involves two teams with the major Hoosier! winning streak* Tipton, who 1 lioasts a string of the longest in the stall' Friday will ent-Wtaln j Muncie Hums, *hi«h ha* four coo-, sei ntive vh toiles Hol h teams are ill the central cotileiemi Coluiniii.i City and Bluffton will open the week s matches in the northeastern league tomorrow > while Friday Bluffton will play Hartford City * (tickles* squad Garrett will meet Coliimld.i City, and Kendallville will open Fortt Wayne South s s< hednl* o 500 Sheets S'jill Sunrlm Canary Second Sheet a, really wrapped t.'»c. The Decal nr Democrat Co

- Last Time Ton.ght — * , Your Last Cnance To See •B ABES IN ARMS" Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Chas. Winninger. Guy Kibbee ALSO—Shorts. 10c-26c ♦ ♦ WED. & THI’RS. 01 R Bit. DAYS! First Show Wed. at 1:30 Cofltinuo'jM Thur*. from 1:30 Martina with Feature ATTEND WED. NITE & AVOID TH I RS. CROWDS • «i Everybody** Heard the “Aldrich Family" over the Radio! Now See the adventures of Henri .Aldrich, radio's favorite hard-luck kid! The grandest comedy * romance of high school I life ever to reach the I screen I V a/* 5* r ; ( I Paramount Presents * Jackie Cooper i and Betty Field J WHAT: A LIFE : with I JOHN HOWARD J JANICE LOGAN J HEDDA HOPPER I Fiedoeod eed Duoctod by THEODORE REW I • —-o—o—- — A Set. — “BLACKMAIL" Kdw. a. Rebmeen. Ruth Huseey —o Coming Sunday — "THS OLO MAID" Bette De via, George Brent

♦ • Meek’s Schedule For Adams County Baskethall Teams * —.— « Wednesday Jackson (Wells) at Kirkland. Monroe at Gray. Friday Hoagland at Yellow Jackets. Kirkland al Geneva ; Pleasant Mills at Willshire, Hartford at Monmouth. Saturday Redkey at Heine. Monroe vs. Jefferson at Berne. Sunday Commodores at St. Mary's of Michigan City War In Brief By I’nlted Press MOSCOW — Russia ord. staff in Mnlngrad military district to return fire if there are any mon* provocations" by Finnish troop- on front h r duty Finland - reply to soviet not* demanding withdiawal of Finnish Imide, hire.« I- re garded here . I»,|.| ami ilii HELSINGFORS — Finland culm, awaiting ii.-xt move- in dispute Willi lluisia aflei gin ernmeui denies Fhini-li troops Hied <.n Rtmlai Finns agree to withdraw holder form* but only if Russia does llkewls. LONDON — Naval circles report that recently British • i huh ’ *-hh' z mm 11 dlsguis.-d as neutrals Hi Ham mouth. 2 l» I ions making H'h loss in last II days of sea Wai fare BERLIN—Germ, i tnartd. also antiimnclng distraction of Hillish auxiliary muse* Rawalpindi but falling to mention pari e.f Deutschland In engagement says all is quiet on western front with j unfavorable weaihii reducing aerial activity PARIS — Wai oifl.e com mnniqile says there was noth Ing Important to >eport from I western front. Mam ice Thoreg. general secretary of French loiuuiuniat party, gets sig I years In prison tor deserting army French still unable to I app.rehe id Thorez, believe he has found lefuu. in l.nwm liourg "•“<» Sheel* A',ill _ 20 1b W hi t e Automatic Mimeograph Bond. free from lint and ■sized for pen and ink signature. Sealed — Rip-Cord opener. 11.05. The Decatur Democrat Co.

| CORT — Last Time Tonight ~ * "THEY ALL COME OUTTom Neal. Rita Johnson A TAILSPIN TO'MMY ■n DANGER FLIGHT" Only 10c-20c WED. & THI’RS. IMMftlHßrnvyWU I 9 * 111 *■ I- pH I I■ k nJ I 1 ill Wy-™ OMwwsnwu •••• “•■«»»»■ HCTVSI DUmtedbyShes Vide. —o ' - Combi« Sunday—' Midden Rower* A "No Place To Go."

Decatur Bowling league Result* ] Central flayo League Brown was high in the longue Monday tiirht with u 64* Kelly's ’ ' 219 »s> high single game Racu. ► with a 2ul. Iniwled the only other - I 200 go rue. I Trtii kers won three games from I Office, 2.144-1.746. laiburatory won . three game* from M tiers, 2.3722.391 Solvent Plant won three games from Maintenance 2.401-1,-997 Kvpellers won three from F.*d Mills 2.300-2162. Truckers Harris 164 17* McMillen 140 124 Friend . 112 107 Brennan 149 132 Little Uo 133 IM Hobbs 146 167 165 Roop 127 ' I Totals 7ofl 70S 736 Office Kirschner 114 114 123 l.i-onard 104 99 I<>l Dellinger 72 76 94 S Mi Millen 197 173 176 100 Jimi too SlMit ' 44 44 44 j Totals 5*7 412 434 Feed Milla ft Artz 141 115 R Hleeke 139 137 \ 142 Maz.-lht 94 125 Melton 159 155 154 .1 Little 164 144 1711 Ijishe 129 139 Spot 14 14 16 Totals 706 494 71'' E speller* Kelly 149 147 219 Dill 143 14* 173 Von Gutiten 135 104 Rowden 14" 139 134 Corson I*! 179 171) Howe 9S Totals 772 730 904 Bstvent Brown 193 177 179 1 Harris 156 152 111 II Merriman 129 135 121 Tropic 178 140 154 Ranch 201 144 147 Totals 957 768 774 Maintenance Winteregg 190 139 135 K I-ehman 142 113 154 ’Fleming 124 111 112 Chapman 174 192 117 |oo Dm Jimi Totals 734 445 414 Laboratory Mann 143 144 Maby 150 193 172 Kruse 142 157 14* i Mie 140 143 173 Soldner 179 172 154 Flndlaysrm 104 Totals 793 921 759 Misero ) Sheets 150 159 137 | Archer 139 , Hawkins 140 144 174 I Brunner 175 144 129 Srhlkkman 145 191 151 Osterman 93 127 , Spot 10 10 10 I Totals 779 7*2 730 1 : Today’* Sport Parade fey Henry McLemore ( • • Sew York. Nov 2* <U.R> If I had enough concrete, and a place to pitch It. I would build a football stadium with 5.000.0 M seats, print myself 5.000.1MN1 tickets at live y bucks a throw and Introduce the round-robin bowl I hiring the last week of December and the flrat week of January. | I would hold enough games for I the recognized four top team* In I the t'nlted State* to play one anI other and determine to the satisI faction of all 5 000, <><m> and myself I whl< h was the really ties' team In I he country. I At the risk of having some chronI Ic nagger* write in and complain. I I will name the four lop teams in I the Vnlled State* now They are. I and the order in which they are I named means nothing. Cornell. I Tenneasee. Tezaa A 4k M and the I Vnlveraity of Southern California One la from the east, one from the f southeast, one from the wmi and lone from the southw-est Between them, they already have demonstrated their superiority over claimant* from all other aectlon*. I doubt If any foot tall season within memory ha* produced four h 4uch topflight eleven* I htva seen three of them-Tennessee. Corj nell and V. S. C. — and heard ■ enough about the other to know j that It belong* In the tame braeI ket But no amount of argument I ever will aetUe the question of * which is the best of the four, bes cause there I* no way Ir. which they can meet and settle the argument with * football Take If from me, there la little 1(o 1 hoose between them The flrst I saw waa Tenneaaae. and on the * day the Yola smashed Alabama. 21-*. you couldn't picture a team capable of beating them. That la. , until you mw Cornell let oft th* . floor after a terriftc beating by a fine Ohio State squad, and show s’ an IrrMlstlble attack. Cornell had .everything in Its comeback drive pj'hat Tennessee had against Ala-

DFCATVR DAILY DEMOCRAT TCESDAY. NOVEMBER 2«. 1939

i Tackles Lead Armv and Naw in Big Game of Week , —: : a—- . , v. i •Ly • V fll m. 5. .-Xta- AMry-*; «*<■ W Alien Bergner , . . Navy Harry Melia . . . Amt,

Tackles Harry Stella of th* Army and Allen Berg- I tier of the Navy, captain th* service team* In the annual struggle in J-hiladelphia scheduled for Sat- I

bama- speed, drive, him king, precision and power. Then came Saiurday nt Routh Bend and a glimpse of th<- Trojan* in their victory over a Notre Dame team that had Iwaten seven powerful foe* Southern California had all Cornel land Tennessee had. plus a little more manpower. The quarterbacking of the Trojans was I a bit at fault, but that didn't matter. Any signal brought a fast. , 2'H)-|M>und>-r tunning in trotn some- i where. A* for Texas A. ft M . men who see more of a fiuifhall game than co-eds and pom pom*, tell me coat h Homer Norton has corralled some of the wildest young brute* «een outside of a rodeo and pollnhjed them up into one of the smoothest unit* the southwestern conference has developed th) siond thought. I doubt if 5.ihmi.'iihi seat* would be enough All of Texas would Im- there, all of I Tennessee, all of Southern Cali"ortila and all the New England- ■ er* who haven't had a really good 1 ivy league eleven aince Pudge Heffelflngrr wa* not only pudglng but Heffelflngers here in the dear old east If you have a concrete miser and option* on these four team*, don't hesitate to call me. no matter what time of night. A more concrete idea wouldn't hurt either.: Q- —. 1 jT I* v n*l 1 * 64AUM *■ / C Safa In a recent newspaper I re«d that the Honorable Recretary of Interior. Mr. Ickes, had made the Matemen: "he wished he had an armored car and could proceed down th* high-

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| ur<!ay. Dec. 2. Neither th* Army nor th* Navj has enjoyed good record* this year but a capaclt) I crowd is expected.

way and knock tiff some of the if ruck* o* our roads." What Is Mr. Ickes talking about ' Doeac't he know that same of the liest highway safeti rectirds In the country hate been developed by fl-eta of trucks? Doesn't Mr. Ickes , know that from 1927 to 1fe.39 tbe I fatal accident rate for trucks degreased 39'.. and that the number of inn ks involved in fatal ac< idents ! was It'S lower In 19-19 than In 1937* j Isn't he aware that some of our j truck drivers have driven Ptindredr <■< tluMisands of mile* without an wcldent of an* kind* Doesn't be | know that truck companies and; fleet owners are spending thovs-: and* of dollar* for safHy annually I and that these dollar* are an invest-! men I In wife driving? DueitaT he know that the young men on these I trucks are devoting a lot of thetr film- to the development of safety record* that will is- dkffi<tilt to •*|iial? It I* dta 'Uiraging to have govern-1 ment offk-ials give an opinion about I «vne type 4>f business when the fact* prove just the opposlie This befuddling remark is entirely uhcaiied for and is dii— i anjUMifleJ Icrltlciaut of the trucklM and trans portal lon Industry. There may be exceptions In certain cases, bn: certainly the entire jindustry sbtnld not be called on the .carpet for one or two Individual driver* I I m for the trucking Industry be »c*u«e or tn* tpiendtd *aret> peri or-1 imances their driver* btve turned OUt. * South Whitley Woman Acquitted By Jury Columbia Clky. Cnd . Nov. 29 — ' (DPI— Mra Ruth Abbott. *». Routh Whitley, was free today from a Charge of aaaaalt and battery with '

intent to kill after, v circuit court fury late yesterday feuad her not gullD. Prosecutor lat Well P« fley iudlcat'■d he would move to dismiss a slm- ! liar charge against Mr*. Abbott's huaiiend. len-. 29 The (ouple was ac< uaed in contißdlou with the sboo'mg of Dur|rell Aids'll. 20. brother of l*ee Ate isut. last June 3. — .... —— WPA Basketball League Schedule POUT WPA tasketf-al) league COUtests are s< hrdutal this week, all: ion Tiinrnd*' night These are as i follow*; Hartford at Blue Creek. Cloverteaf al Pleasant Mills. CYO ■at Geneva McMillen it Kirkland ■ . ■■ n.oii ■■ ■ SENIOR CLASS i'ONTINL'KD FROM PAUK <>NH» Hleeke. Vance Kirby, a good sport John Gerber. Maxine Haven. Irvings sister , Kathleen Frybat k Ruby Anson, the neighbor girl - Peggy Gannt. Vera Sprague, Peter's girl friend Phyllis Hunter Rosalie Margent. a 19year-old Jean Zimmerman. Carolyn Dwyer, the acbool teacher Maxine Hilton Mrs Haven ns,sou Duke. SlOftOO felll Found Minneapolis, Minn <UPJ Kdward Hermann st'Miped over and plucked** 110.000 gold cerliflcate, out of the gutter. The certlfiat te proved to be one atolen from the Philadelphia treasury building dur-' Inga Are In 1935, so the government rewarded him - with a re-, ceipt.

FOUNDER OF NET CAME IS DEAD i Dr. .lames A. Naismith, Inventor Os Baskethall. Dies Today laiwrnnce Kan. Nov 24 qjp) Dr. James A Naismlth. 79 who invented basket tall 4* ytwrs ago and lived to see it draw the largest attendance of any acholaatle sport ■ in America, died early today He had taen crlttadly 111 sines' last Thursday when he Mffered a heart attack This followed ah amazing recovery |n ,| a y, j(MIJ i from a cerebral hemorrhage He died at 1:50 a m Present In bis horn* just off the I'nlverslty ■ of Kansas campus, the school h* served for years a* phythal edu cation director, were hi* second wife, Florence. three married daughiers. and two son* Naismlth Invented basketball in I*9l At the time he was an assistant to Luther W Gulick, head of the physical education de partment of the Y M (• a rollege at Rpringfleld. Maa* Gulick asked him to devise an Indoor game one that could he played botween foottali in lhe fall ami tasetall In the spring that would Ite vigorous, yet not too rough for the 19 young men then training at Kpringfleld to become Y .M C. A ■wcretarle* Naismlth combined the fundamental* of duck-ou the rot k la crouae and soccer He dw ided to ellmlnata tackling because he considered It liM> rough for indoor play A goal on the floor mad>the game too eaay. so he elevated two of them -one al each end of . a rectangular court over the players' heads The height hr- se lected was nine feet, still standard For goals he used pea, h , I basket*, the only available round ; object* All of the 19 men in the class participated tn Naismlth'* first game of basketball with nine on each side, tat In later years the number was teduced io seven and then to the prearnf five Nuisinilh made 13 rule*. 12 of which survive Frank Mahan, a member of the I class, pointed out that the game needed a name He suggested i ''Naismlth Ball " Naismlth ohjec' ed however, and II was agreed that since the game wa* played with a basket and a hall It should he called taskettall Naismlth *a* a native of Almonte. Ontario, Canada 11* re reived hl* A H degree from Mr Gill I'nlverslty In 1*47. and he also received degrees from Presby letlau College Montreal, and the V M C A College S|»> Ixwfi.-LI I Mass. - • Britain Rationing To Start Jan. H Ixmdon. Nov. 28 tl'P>—Stan of rationing In Britain haa been detlayed until Jan. 8 when regulations will go Into effect Hmitlng supplir* of butter and bacon to four oanca* ‘of each per week to each consumer, minister of foods William 8. Morrison announced in tbe hou»r of <ommon* today. Morrison said that delay Ir

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