Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1940 — Page 6

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TEAMS PREPARE FOR FINALS OF STATE TOURNEY -■ Fort Wayne South Side Favorite For State Basketball Title By £1 Sainsbury Indianai-'ll* March 'U.R) I Forty boy* and four mm tod-iy !>• 1 Kan a rmn i-fttrut-d five day |hi«h! of work leading to th •nd <»! Indiana's annual madness the high * sc houl basketball tournament With .in extra week of r<-»t | thrown in by postponement of tl . ffltal Saturday lx.au*. of! ib. Faster holiday* the hardwo.nl | teams of l.ap-l, Mitchell. Hammond Te. h and Fort Wayne South b.c.ii [ the final practice preparations for | the lasi three battle* in th. Butlc-r i fieldhouse Saturday Most of the teams held few If any practice last week and plan tied only light workouts today li was Indicated that one o: two of the five* in ght hiv- a tough wok mH lomeriow or W-dn-*day al though It was expected that most ot the work Would he drill mi "u I tine liespite the » atis -.- ven d..ylook over 'he team* the odds haven t .hanged »n whi.h five *. most likely to win the tltb oFrt Wayne South still looms as the Ida favorite and even lhe lads who tlx the odd* haven t ye' p .-ted 'he figures for 'he Saturday in-l— Mil. hell * tall and rugged t...m gained support throughout the etale as a logical Irani to tak< ' South Side, however, while ixnh lat pel and Hammond To. h rated Increased hitereat as their records and < haraeteristi. * bee aine known to the tans !«aprl and Hammond Tech open the tourney at I 30 p m while Mitchell and Fort Wayne play In the sr< and afternoon game at 2 !<> The whiners will meet tl the final i .lash forth? crown at * p m Diartbutkm of neatly Is."*t‘ t < keis for the fleldhotiso Was <om pleted although most s< h.xds were dlasallsfied Moot tmtsirtsnt rum plaints were received from the four pnrtie ipaihg schools as the larg i est allotment of 22' w. nt to Fort Wayne Son? of the fout were ahle to satisfy all demands for tickets Fandom for the four team* planned almost unatrimoiisly to trek to Indianapolis th bets or not in an attempt to see the .optest* Plan* Were afoot for special trains from 5c HAMBURGER.k Buy ’em by lhe saek. Steak and Other Popular SANDWK HES. STOLZ DINER Formerly Beai’t o<ner Court Street •»MMMBBHMaaamamammMwsMßwmsamaammmammmm ■■ i..i i a — —J Tonight & Tuesday “LITTLE OLD NEW YORK” Alice Faye. Fred Mae Murray, Hichard Greene. Brenda Joyce ALSO — Shorts 10c 25c —o Wort < Thur* — Blond.e Brings Up Baby" Penny S<ngl*t»n. Arthur Laho. First Show Wednesday at « 30 Continuous Thursday from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND’ —o Coming Sunday — "Fighting »Pth" I I CORT Tonight & Tuesday “RETURN OF DR. X” Wayne Morns. Humphrsy Bogart A THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK" Lloyd Molan. Jeon Rogers Only lftc-2«r —o—- — < Thur*. — •■Mlefc Carter. M sat or Detective” Walter Pidgeen. R»ta Johnson Coming Sunday—’Smuggled Cargo’ B “Too Buoy to Work "

I Hammond and Fort Waytie At > i.ap-1 and Mil. hid) special busses were planned in addition to the I horde of private automobile* thu’ I were expected to carry the crowd I to the games As usual the fieldhouse will h* I jammed to the rafters for the sei j les Many of those planning 10l I make lhe trip to Indianapolis without tickets hoped to pick up a linat-board from some dlsgrun I led supporer of a team defeated in I tl..- afternoon Police Indicated that the usual 1.-ew would be posted to prevent • any speculation hi tickets outsld** I the fieldhouse CAPITALS STAY IN HOCKEY RACE Indianapolis Cap* Rally To Beat Providence In Third Game Indianapolis. March 25 (UP? Th- Indianapoll* < .ipital* t.sluy Vmeri.an hen k-V league solely by Provider,l. last night The Cap* pounded through three ' t|;.-lr firs' playoff *-rie* vi< 1.., . | 3 to 2 Incidentally -h. norlng over. am. th. h.-mesi* ..f MikKarskas Stella, Providence gouli?. who In th- two previous game* I had h-ld the Indianapolis *ix tn - only one < mini.--Had Provident- won th- thr.e 'and w-st-in division champion* week The two t-am* tangle ..gam to it|e An Indianapolis victory wen,. I ' tie th- count and <**ure a fifth end th- serie* While Indianapolis w.<* th.ittl.-d kas brilliant work n th- nets I !O% »<*• |b< •• 4 111*'41 TA.I' I > 4 K*‘ n ifjiil ■li»y »• pp.*r» imy *.<>ul4n t loaq, Tb»-1 ih»* t».-r hi m r'i-k Wilder rammed in th.- firm *<or. ’ at ? minute mark in the third period With 1.-MM than four mln iif*M to play. Llacomhe Uninred l»ai k for th* !iip«'*>dUtg overtime and with ten* Ihmi two niL'nte* to gn l*kß*eblNMi*||t took a jahoulder high Karakaa head i Profh|en<>« threw everything inIto the final minute, tn« hiding the I removal of KaraU« for a forward. 1 hut the determined Capa with atood the threat "' r ■ ' O At the Training Camps By United •’’■ess Reds I West Palm R.a< h Fla March 125 u.PI The Cincinnati Reds j were M-h-dnleii to meet th- Rm h . -ater Red Wing* of the InternalI lotial league imisy The Reds i los nd their series in Havana yesterday with a M. IS-innlng He with th* Cuban all stars The game was called to allow the Red* to cat. h I a i kwh. Giant* i Winter Haven Fla. Winners of I only four in 11 exhibition starts. I the New Yotk Giant, play the St I laiuls Cardinals her. today The Hoatim Red Sox came from behind yesterday to shad, the Giants. «- 3. snaring one run In the third and three more In the sixth to win Yanka** St Petersburg. Fla — The New York Ya i kr«»w < l<nu- (h»* Ht. Petershurg chapter of their spring trsin I ■«!!!! ."! -JIMS ‘JfieMeut'Ptan LOAN SYSTEM Th* M*rlt Plan l/wn offer* mklabse ea*S rrWH up U. |«jo U» and wit* or stag l .* f*r«oaa YOUS PLAIN NOTE OTHER SECURITY TO APPLY— Yom may o~ any of th* threw wars You s*e under no shttsstiss if FSS de Mt take s lom. I You may trieivhrmr '*• and tel! ue of your money need* I t. You may *w< thi* ad out—vrrite ii your name and addrom on H— I and then mail it to ua. 1. Or p«B at conveniently i k--al*d Private ror».«HatU>e I ruum* I Txasne mad* mune day you ai>t»iy. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY ’ | nwee J.M Onwtoe Mui lose. •• AJoaw. W»U. AUe ... /•f reooMe.

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tie grind today whim they mwi th Kunses Cfly Biting of the Ant erh .111 Association The Yanks bleak <amp tomorrow and after playing the Giants in Winter Hat «»n take up lodging In Seining Athletic* San Fratuisco Connie Ma. k s Philadelphia Athletics seek an j edge on th« Pittsburgh Pirates ,n ; the third nt their five game spring ' et e, here today The Hu s won tit* fit at gam*, but th* A** came hat k with an * I der ialoti y—ster- * •lay a« ■ a> h tilth |a<e ] on! 12 hits ' A aetond game carded for (took • land yesterday was rained out i Cubs Loe Angeles. Calif The Chicago I White gov took a holiday today I w hile their city rivals, the Cubs | met th" law Angeles kngels after going one up m the < ity series; *iih ;» « to .*i victory. Th- vw lory was the seventh in j succession for the Cubs They : used Claude Passeuu ami latrry | French to win over the goy Pete Xppleton was the losina pili het Today’« Sport Parade * By Henry McLemore Sebring Fla March IS <U.R> The New York Yankee foundation for the rehabilitation of fallen pitchers Is alanit ready to effect another remarkable rare In a month or so I fee! quite safe in announcing, patient No Hl. one Lee Grissom. will be turn pletely healed Proof that the renowned Yankee cure was progressing In Grissom's case was furnished on Saturday by Grissom him self, when he pitched five scoreless innings against the St Louis Card inala When the Cincinnati Reds let him go last winter Grissom seemed to be a pitcher who had gon- to the well once too often He had won but 11 games In two full sea sons with the Reds and his pitcher had just about as much on them as a strip (eater. Then the New York Yankee foundation took an intercut in him Almoat immediately the sparkle returned to his left arm and both his right and left eyes One by one his miseries flew from him. as doves from a cote, and his blanket of melancholy lifted as though It were a fog touched by the sun By the time patient Grissom reached the foundation's winter clinic at St Petersburg, and chief diagnostician Joe McCarthy had his first look at him. he was a picture of health and high spirits, and needed only a leopard skin to double for Lionel Strongfort When I waa In St Petersburg a few days ago I stood back of the hatting cage while Grissom worked on the bitters. His fast bal lhad an omlnour bum. a him that told of blistering speed and his curves performed after the manner of acrobatic swallows There was a laugh on bls lips and be Joked and bantered with bls fellows I asked Bill Dickey and Gomes how he looked "Like be had plenty- plenty of everything.'* they answered Me Cartky thinks he has plenty, too. If Grissom la completely cured by the Yankee foundation he woo l be the first to have responded to th*, remarkable treatment Red Rnlflng once was a patient He came from the Ibiston Hed Hog bearing a case history that was packed with defrwts and very few victories. In 1*39 and 193* with

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'he Red Sox Ruffing 'oat 47 games • The bracing air of Yankee* stadium { worked wonders for him Monte Pearson. formerly of Clev-land Bump Hadl-y. formerly! of Washington, and Oral Hildebrand once of St IxHli* and Cleve > land, are others who were rejuv ' 1 -naled liy th. Yank-e foundation , You know. I think 111 pitch for! the Yankees during my vacation | ‘his summer I could do with a Utting toning up myself INDIANA WINS i COELEGEMEET I. I '. To Meet Kansas Saturday In National Finals Indianapolis Ind. March 25 Indiana's battling lia*k>t’«ll team! , 'oday held light workout* piepara I I tory to departure for Kansas City | to nt"et the Kansas Vnlversity five i ■ Saturday in the final* of th- nation lai collegiate athletic association * annual hardwood tourney. The Hoosiers, ladly off form. , gained the right to repre-ornt the' •cast at the Butler Fieldhouse at Indianapolis Saturday by staving off a final half Duquesne rally to ! win. 3* to 3<> Kansas meanwhile ; downed Southern California. 43 to 42 Indian* leaves for Kansas City Wednesday and Coach Branch Me-1 Cracken planned workouts tomor- ‘ row and Wednesday plus easy practice session* on th? Missouri tourney floor Doqueane staged a lilatlng rally In the s-.cmd halt against Indiana Saturday and at one time pullecl within four point* of th? fast 'riving Hoosiers Indiana led. 25 to 13. at the Intermlssiori after taking an early 7 to 0 advantage The Iron Daka*, however, rammed through two quick field goal* and then outdrove the Indiana team to force the l|oo«tet* to the utmost to stay ahead. With less than five | minutes to go the Pittsburgh five was hehinr. 33 to 29. but McCracken Inserted a string of fresh men who managed to stall the battle enough to chalk up the nine point margin

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HIGHWAYS TO BE IMPROVED Road IIS Included In Ft. Wayne District Improvements Indianapolis March 25 (UF) - Bids will be received April 11 on i the first phase of a program to esurf c. 1 mile* of state highways in 3« counties, including ImI provement of highway routes hi ! more than 30 cities and towns, the Mat? highway commission an- . nounc cel today. The- April II bid* will be on th? cpplicstlon of the preliminary treatment and separate- bid* or- the laying of th- resurfacing material 1 will tie a***uod »n April IS Count lea in which the work will Ibe done are- Luke. Porter. St I Joseph. ImC.rang* Whitley. Allen, i Kos< iuako. Hnntington Wells. I Miami. Adams. Tippecanoe. Beu . ' ton, Newton. Vigo. Clay. Grant, j Howard. Henry, Hamilton. Delaware Madison Wayne, rtuah. Itenl cock. Randolph. Greene. Vsnd»nburgh. Warrick. Orange. Mwrence, Scott. Jackson. Ripley. Jennings 1 and Clark Among the proect* are Fort Wayne district. 53 19 miles 1 — road 3 from road 124 to Zane*I Vl'*’ road 9 from ImGrangr to Howe, roads 24 and 27 In Fort Wayne, road* 5. 24 and 224 in Huntington: road 230 from road 24 to Ohio line, road 31* from Bluff . ton to Wells c ounty Mate game- pre. serve: road 14 from road 5 to road 9. roads 21 and 24 In Peru; road 11* from road 11* through Berne; road 2*l from road 124 to road 31*; road 21* from road 31* to Well* c-cmnty alate gam? preserve; road 25 from Warsaw to road 15; and road 3 north from Fort Wayne - ■ Plan Formation Os New Boys 4-H Club County Agent L. K Archbold has b.--en invited to meet with a group of boy* and their parent* Wednesday evening at the Kt. Peter school in Root township The purpose of this meet Ing is to discuss the for-

EXTENSION OF PROGRAM URGED See. Pat Harrison Advocates Extension Os Trade Treaties ■ Washington. March 2'. <UP> Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee today advocated extension of the reciprocal |rude agreements program as a '’beacon light’’ to guide warring Furopean nations ba< k to channels of peace and trade Opening th? senate firht over a thlrd-year extension of the pro-, grsm. Harrison desirlfw-d the agreements as "the greatest hi fl it--nee" to promotion of ' rational". international trade and the mainteuance of peace "If the polity written in this re«olutlon is destroyed." he assert- I ed. "If we as a great government turn our backs upon it —a polh y which we inaugurated—ls we re- j nnunce this program, we throw to ! the winds an opportunity in the future to help the peoples of the I world along rational, unselfish and just principle* of International trade." Administration leaders,were con- > fident that the senate would vote ‘ by a small but safe margin to ex-1 tend the trade agreement law in the form Secretary of State Cor dell Hull wants It. The closest vote will be on an amendment to require senate ratification of the I agreements. An admlnlairation | pol. Indicated this would he defeated by five votes O'. BOY AND GIRL coNTnmwD rttoa raoa oaa> around on top. The horse, which had been Injured was led away . The boy and the girl were both I dead. County Coroner J Jerome Yager i was one of the first to arrive rm the accident scene After a preliminary Investigation there, the bodies were taken to lhe Yager maiion of a fray* 4 H club In thi* community Considerable interest is being shown In the matter and it I* likely that the nelghlairhood is to have the advantage of « H club ; experineces These people have observed the splendid progress mad- by the boy* I c lub in I'nlon Township, a neigh-; lairhood tn which 2K or ZJ hoy* are interested in such O H club pro | Jecta as corn, sugar beets, garden, j pig and lamb. In nearly every r ase. 1 the earning* Indicated by the rec-1 ord laaik belong to the tw/ and re ports Indicate that with this mon- ! ey they are buying school books, ■ clot be* and bicycles, a* well as imiMing up a saving* account - —.-- ■ » N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Ey*a Ksamlnad • Glaaaaa Fitted HOURS 8:10 te 11:10 12:10 te 8:00 Saturday*. S:00 p. m. ▼alaahowa 1M March 2S, 29. K. ’MC

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funeral home in Kerne. i Coroner Ysger stated that the girl suffered a broken neck, a , fractured shall at the base of the brain and that the boy sustained a fractured skull and a crushed left , best The- drivers of the buggy tend rar received only superficial The buggy was completely demolished. only a set of wheels giving evidence of what the Vehicle had le-en Police Chief James llordet* of this city returned to th- wreck scene with Ofllcer Prior! and Sheriff Miller to take pic-tutes of the wreckage Lights on Buggy The buggy was e*Ulp*ed With lights, according tn evidence found In the debris. Since Roth is thought to be the only eye-witness, | Il is not definitely known whether | 01 not the lights were burning The children were two of a famiy of 13 Their parents are Jacob J. and Mary Schwarts. Both were I born near Herne, the girl on July 21, 1915 and the boy on October 19. I 1923 Surviving, besidc-a the parents, are six brothers: John, Joseph. I Amos. Noah. Rudy and Henry, and I five sisters. Fanny. Anna. Mary , Karlwra and Kligabeth Funeral services will Im- held i Wednesday morning at J o'clock The Ihmlic* will remain at the- Sc h-1 w*rtg home Services will tie held i at the Schwartx home and also at I the Aaron Zook home, directly' across the road Burial will b? in the Schwarts cemetery, three mile, north and one-half mile east of Berne - —— w MARKETS AT A GLANCE Stocks Irregular and quiet Curb stooka: irregular Bonds irregular. V. S govern-1

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