Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1939 — Page 6

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808 GROVE IS JUNIOR LOOP'S LEADING HURLER Mow Grove Leads \mcrican League Hurler* In Averages • New York !>• - )'* UP- I.;inky gray haired Robert Moses Grove, wiwi il i«- e* i-n March wa* ihigreatest (dtctwr in the American Impr last ni'aniii. according t« the ofli< Ini average* released today Given ii)i fur through late in tin* 143 v season liecause of a ‘'deal! arm.'' drove m.oie tin- outstanding coim-tuo k of the 1*39 season Th*’ !{••«! Sox southpaw led the regular pitcher* in earned rutin Kith ail average of 2 T. 4 for 23 rami'* and wa* fourth in the w,.n and lout column with IS victories and four defeat* for a percentage of ?x4 It was the ninth time in 15 year* In the American league tiroli- lie* led the {eti h*i *. *>!|i the lowest earned run average and the seventh time lie ha- allowed le«* than three earned rum |irr nine inning game Sittee he sta.l ill aatli the Athletic* fit 11*25 drove ha* won 2m; game*, more than a*ty other pitcher Mill active In the liig show and pitched 215 complete game* Ted l.yoti*. White Sox right hander who II to- 4<> Jm-c 2*. tin h- ♦ • — Last Time Tonight — GINGER ROGERS •FIFTH AVt GIRL" Walter Connolly Jat Elloon ALSO —Short*. 10s 26c WED. & THI’KS. ♦ ♦ Ol l< ISM. |)AVS! Firwt Show Wed. al ( tmtinuou* Thur*. from 1:30 starting with Feature ATTEND WED. KITE A AVOID IHI RS. I iMUIIS ♦ t ONE OF THE YEAR'S outstanding hits: -fSwjjSSp ' '' iMtlweMMlme • a* Ww ««»* • A An* «*■*■■«> R«*e. —o Frl. A Sat. — Th- Mott Exciting Rrtton Drama Ever Filmed I “Mutiny In th# tig Nwm" Chas Bickford, Barton Mac Lane. 0 O earning Bondoy-JANE WITHERS. RITE BROS, in “Rack Up Year TmmMml**

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a • I Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams * • Tuetday | lacket* al Van Wert < t I Ileiie .It llutikiik Wednesday Commodore* at lliintln ton Cath- . nth Thursday darrett at H*-rne Friday Commodore* \* Pleasant Mill* at Yellow Jacket gym l«ilica*ter at Kirkland. Monroe v* .Monmouth at Rome Geneva at Rryatit i lluriford ul Y«,r**peller. ■■ ed second to drove among pitch- ; or* who worked in It* or more com plcte game* with an ••anted rtni average of 2 76. The White Sox I knuckle hall are. pitching hi* 17th' •i-.Koii with Chicago won It and' loM i; fur a .7'*' winning percent - j age Itoh pi tier, Cleveland'* young (Ire ha Her who wax two year* old when drove started hi* baseball eaieer with the Baltimore Orioles in Pent finished third itt earned riyi» with i record of 2'5 With a record o( 24 vii tone* and t* losses Feller ieil tie- league ill moist game* won and finished sev- • nth in (M-rcntagc with 727 feller copped the Mrike-out ! crown x* ft It 2p; and tied with Red Ruffing. Yankee ace. for the most Minton'* each with four He also tied Ruffing for tile llllllt complete game*, cai It with 24 Feller turn e<| in two 1 hit game*, three 3-hit , ter* ami two 4 hit!* r* for the lie*’ record of low hit game* On the other * id*- of the fence : Feller walked the moM men. 142 and unfurled the moM wild pitch j e*. 14 winner* Reside* Feller, they ! There were oniy four 2't-game w*re Red liiiffing. with 21 and 7.1 Ftilfl l.eonard. Washington, with' 2n and v and Bin k Newsom. Tig j ■ er*. with 2tt and II It was the fourth straight year Ruffing ha* I i won 20 or more game* tty heat-1 tug the Tiger* May 25 he urorril ; hi* 200th major league victory, I» 1 coming she fifth ptlrtrer Mill ai (five in the !dg show who'* reached j ; I hat total. | ICORT ♦ « — I.a»l Time Toniifht — I'KIDE OF THE IH.IKt.RASS” Etlilh Fellow h K ••(ianlry" and "UNDERCOVER AC.ENT Shirlgy Dean. Russel. G'paxon Onl> 10c-2rtc * WKI). & THI'IiS. "SELL MY CHILD? Tho hoorl-cry of o parent who mutt sacrifice ona child to protact tha others So* Ihi*, tho year* : 9reota** heart ‘k drama i Pi : FAY FRANK CRAVEN • EDMUND LOWE GENEVIEVE TOBIN Fradwad by CMAItlt ( *oof *t ONLY lOt'lSe —o—o— Coming Sunday—“ Call A Mtwton- , gar" with Daad End Kida A Llttla ' Tough Quyt A "Smashing Iho Monty Ring."

COMMIE GAME IS POSTPONED Flay Huntington Wed* * nesday Night; Jacket* To Van Wert Tonight T h <• Commodore • llnuiington * gam* which wan to have i- • a played on the Huntington county floor tonight has lieeit postponed. Pet he. Alvin athletic director of 1 the local school atlnonneed thl* ' j morning Postponement of the game until Wednesday night wna asked hy lh<Huntington school official* since a charity game ha* been scheduled for ihe Huntington gym. Approval wa* given the new date mid the Commodore* wilt go jto Huntington Wedmaday nb.-ht 1 tonne time is ,4 15 o'rloek. with a j reherve tilt nil hour earlier. Jacket* To Ohio The Yellow Jacket* travel to the l!-|i key*- state tonight to do Rattle Iwnh the Van Wert Cougar* Little j* known altont the 1 strength of the Cougar*, except that they won an IMS overt Ira* , ilit against Greenville, Ohio, last ■ j Friday night Decatur Dowling League Results j o • Real Si hull* was high man last night in the Soya league at Mu’* Recreation with .i 643 and Hi Her * had 221 (or high Single game Office l.eoiutnl 123 134 123 i Woodward 135 154 lilt Kleepcr X* 92 <*« Rellinger Hhi 123 131 Ken finer sh lot 113 Start 4o 40 40 Total* 405 44* 442 Solvent Plant I Broun 154 IT* 174 . H utch 17! 1«o 157 T.eple 142 Is»> 117, Merrtman 133 14* Black !!Mt 154 153 1 ;1 1 Harris *5 Total* *on Tin *59 Trucker* Brennan !3o (44 121 1 Hoop 121 134 !4o Mi Milieu I lit 143 It Litlle 114 I*4 142 Harris <65 JrtJ 144 Friend 129 j Spot 24 24 24 Totals 495 *25 799 Feed Muse* j Sheet * 154 I*3 125 I H iwklu* 144 144 134 An her 155 179 177 Runner 194 171 143 Schlit kttian 154 154 157 1 Total* *22 «S 3 754 Laboratory Mann ICO 156 164 | Km»e 170 202 Ml ! Flndlayson 14* | •(, t(!2 ; Maby 119 154 144 Roldner 144 140 1151 Total* 772 744 Tim Expellart I Heller Mo 155 221 Kelly 134 144 114 | Howe 149 142 Rowden 171 144 162 Chi son 173 173 147, Itill 116 Ip I 22 *2 22 Total* .. 4no *2O *24 Mamtananct Wlnteregg 116 la*hman 101 Hi Hake* 155 134 131 I Bauman 120 13* 117; Wheeler 1M 144 Mit. hell 110 125 131 1 Fleming 113 Total* 5»5 44« 43* — — -1Give ozna for Christmas HIV.I.ESS Full Fatxh ion How Make her feel like a Quean Huy a half dozen or a dm ea They come In aarytre weight, chiffon IS or 4 thread! sheer par silk. Mir llnsc Calf I Hut D j MORRIS f 5c and 10c lo fl Store I -

DECATUR DAN.Y DEMOCRAT TIT.SD \Y, DF.CF.MRF.R 19, 1939.

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BENEFIT CHECIf FIGURES GIVEN Number Os t'nemploy* ntent Benefit* Top 200,000 In District Fort Wayne. Iter 19—The number of unemploymenl Insurance . h.-< k* Issued 10 person* In the Fort Wtiyne district has lopped the 2ttn(MNi mark. It wa* announced today hy K F Kixmiller. Job ln*urI a nee manager for the district 'This milestone was passed.” Mr Kixmiller said, ‘a* 7I» payment* valued at f7.lfW.f6 during the week ending Decern ha r 9 push!*d the total amount paid to claimants ill this area lino- the last of ’ April. 1434 to 12.3*0 MO About IT >»Mi of the approximately 55.tssi workers in Insured employment In the district have drawn some bene- j fits. Most of them drew hetteflt* In only one period: more than 2.- i Otto have established betieflt rights a second time and a few have established even a third henflt period "Over the long range, betteAt l>aym*nt* have hero-rally parallel- , - d the up* and down* of employ ment. The average number of weekly payments this November j was shorn 430 per week and early December payments Have been '•een slightly higher Over the -pan of 65 week*, the average for the district has been 2.350 checks for 126.040 per week. 'The Fort Wayn. district covering Allen. Wells. Whitley. Mtenhen. IteKalh. northern Adam* and eastern Noble counties, ha* drawn the fourth highest amount of benefit*, j — 1 ■ ' ———•————— Fvvd Mill* Bleeke 144 164 176 Melton 136 114 156 l-oshe 101 136 116 ! Art* 111 l<»« I Rchult* 204 170 169 100 . Total* 714 6*4 731

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totals paid to date having been ex- | ceeded in the Indianapolis district. with 63.350.tHW drawn by about j 29 iMHi person*; Kvanarllle dlatri.-t ' with 62.342.immi paid tn about 17.7<mi • taliUHnis. and South Bend district. 93.305.0 M claimed hy ap--1 proximalely 17.»oo person*. The Kvanavllle district has about 44,000 j Insured workers. South Bend about 46.000 and lndiana|Milis approxl- ! niately 1411.<mmi These figure* emphasize how Job Insurance varies to meet Individual and loraliie.l condition*.” — -o —- COLLEGE BAfKETBALL Southern t'slifornln 44. lie Usui 42 lovertimet. Illinois 41. Princeton 25. Butler .75. lowa 32. Kastern Illinois Teachers 40; In dlana State Teachers. 3* Indiana SI Ptilshiirgh 35. Michigan 62. Connectlml 45. Amateur l.fajiUf Schedule Listed ________ Thta week's schedule In the Adams county amateur basket)-a!! league I* as follows; Tonight — rtorerleaf at Hartford; Thursday McMii'.cn at Blue Creek; Kirkland at Pleawtnt Mills. Geneva al MonmntMh — o Three Arrested For Liquor Violations Hammond. Ind . Dec. 19 <UJD - State extlae police late yesterday arrested Paul Pisskcr. 43. of South Mend Joseph Wy*o< ko, 43. of (iery. and Grice Chandler. 57. of Indiana Harbor, mi charge* of Iran* port ing and piMmeMln* untaxed liquor Thmarmrts were part of a drive to halt the food* of llllnnl* holiday liquor into the state. Three bullets were llred Into Plssker's cart to end a lon* chase The machine contained 17 caae* of whiskey purchased In Calumet fny. HI Plasker waa arrested In Hammond laat June on a similar charge.

INDIANA BEITS PITTOUINTET Hoosiers Trounco l*illsfnirjf, 51-35; Butler Defeat* lowa Itidisnapolls, Ind . Iter. I‘» (ITt "Indiana'* speed mad basket hail team today had confirmed the rrlt|c* wlio picked them aa oil Island ing contender* for the llig Tett i h.unpFtn*hlp. hy their 51 to 35 victory last night over a tried Pittsburgh quintet. The Smoky City crew Reid the llocwler* nearly even during the flrat half and were Rebind only 24 to 22 at th- lateratlaalon, lluw ever, the hrane five inereax-d it* speed during the second session to run away from the mvader* Bill (Menke, ||oo*l*r center, droppe.! In 13 polnta sot scoring honor*, while Paul Armatrimg and Bob l)ro each netted nine for Indiana Kd Strainskl and Sam Mltinovlrh. Pitt reserve*. |taced the visitor* with •even counter* each In other state college game*. Boiler Increased It* prestige J»y dropping road-weary lowa t'mversliy. .7.6 to 32; Franklin edged out Karltiani. 34) lo 24. In a college conference Rail!*, and Indiana abate traveled to Kastern lilioni* Teacher* college lo lose a 40 to 3# decision. Butler continued Hr undefeated »4>le only hy a powerful cnm.rtiack that carried it through after lowa had taken a leid Tin- Bulldog* were five points ahead midway in the firm period, hut til- llawkeye* tallied and held a 20-17 edge at the half Butler managed to lie the score at 22 all early In tho second half hot the lowm five pulled away again and th* Bulldog* were unable to catch up until Steiner nett- ‘ ed a free throw and Atkinson and j Bunn dropped Beider* to take a j one trtU'H lead. IHet*. Steiner.Hunt) and Neat then managed to count a field goal i|.lece to keep, the tlnlldogs ahead of the lowa j quint. Itei ause of Bolt Anderson and ' Iron Reichert. Franklin's undefent- j LOANS sll to SIN UJitUoidt /jtrfrtirt!* ' QUICHIT AAO MRivATCIf MSSE V( try is mi. th borrowing M monoy t || vn*. lunNbtowi too 4o not kart ud 1 fio'd. or rthtnyn w *f* yovr now Loom l{ e. pr .urir msdo ■ vnoily thr umr J«y I you >*fi< V. nut* ■ no rrotxf.Mb.ng *n- t qwrun »nj you mil Csm*l*t< — rrjuv ywr kun on w*u«ee* *We • try libt.il trrsn. u—*»«»»n«* „ . . ■* ■ wu —a Too <mr anruu yosr fauncul rtfwri ».ck r . in ...i <»- w in Htut (on64mw. Blot I loon m tkr yrincy of you own Iww. m • torofl M ogh*. ykonr or »<*nunlit.tt «Jt (ill on you uvi nginu out iaasto! «»»*• <u!l. You tn m*h no okk«ii*u d ran A> not ukt • low I "Row*#- wort—si iirptcr LOCAL LOAN eOMPANY tw Xitrtir Man lie. Duo. *MW Strut swul-H •icatua. inotana OPEN EVENINGS TILL CHRISTMAA mm VtS .. $ 24 y » - Other Watchen - Wntlfleldn 510.75 Elfiitrt 517.50 Hamilton* S-17.50 DflerrH Pnvments. SUTTON JEWELRY 1210 Nn. 2nd Bt. OPEN EVENINGS TILL a I CHRISTM AS.

ed record in the college conference also wa* *af«. Both hi! field goal* during the final inlmile of play to pull the flrlxille* out of Hie hole i ipTarlham. leading 26 to 24 al the j last minute, adopted a stalling game, hut the two long shot* Wore .-Hough to win. > C AST IS GIVEN iCONTtrtUKU rnua . AUK UNO) B<.l.hy Krtteckeberg. Tommy Mater. Ilraydon Foreman. Mux Myer*. Max (iilpln. Johnny Heheimaim and Merlin Lister Cinrinnati Musician Found Dead At Muncic Mttncle. Ind . I»ec 19. — (U.PJ Joseph Klllotl, 50. clarinet player in the riiirhinati symphony orchestra. wa* found dead in bed at a Monet* hotel ycNterday. He had played a concert at Ilal! State college and had planned to go to Mulberry in Clinton county. Ind. ye«tvrday. Ill* body was found by hi* father In-law. Archie John-

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