Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1941 — Page 6

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REGIONAL NET MEET TICKETS ON SALE HERE Ticket* For Huntington ILxional On Sale At School Office Ticket* for th<- regional net tour-1 ney at Huntington Bstur'fsy went on Ml* at th* office of Principal W Guy Brown thl* noon for De-1 talar and Adam* county fan* wi«hing to attend th* event A total of 372 tickets war* al-i latted to Decatur and fan* of th*j Decatur sectional Th* tickets. en- 1 titling th* holder to attend both i th* afternoon and evening «ea«-' lona. sell for 75 cent* The tourney in espe< ted to lie a I sellout. no plana are being made I tn tell •Ingle admission tickets | The allotment given Decatur | ass the maximum and any nnaold i ticket* are to be returned to Hunt-1 mgton Friday noon Thna local tana are urged to get their ticket* aa aoun before the deadline aa poaaibie Hugh Andrew*, athletic direc tor of Driatnr junioraenior high •i hnot who attended the principal** meeting held yealerday at Hamingimi a* representative of Prim ipa I Brown. Mated that the •eat- given liecatur are among the beat in the gymnaaium The main portion of theae seats are located al ■tak-iHirt on the north aide of the gjrnt In event th- entire allotment ia needed here, additional •eat* mi the eaat end and chair* on the floor at the eaat end will be told Fan* in the county wlahing to aecnre ticketa are urged Io call at the ofll- •• aa aoon aa possible Attention of fan* to an error in the printing of the ticketa was called today by Mr Andrew* The afternoon aeaaion atari* at I So o'clock, inalrad of 2 aa marked on the, ticket* The night aeaaion atari* ’ at > p. m The Huntington gymnaaium haa

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* 0 — Last T.m» Tonight — It Uivh Tonight Forever! Your Leet Chance to tee—t -CONE WITH THE WIND" Show at 7.45—A1l teate 55c * WEI). & THI’RS. * 01 R BIG DAYS! Find Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur*, from 1:25 Starting With Feature! BE SI RE TO ATTEND! | ft ■■■■ i ■ —— m D !. .. th iwonLihlld Sob of Multi Criito, fighting ead loviig io the troiition of hia viiieit, roaaitic tut! SSS CD o—o Friday A Sat — -Four Mothere" —o Sunday™“ The Philadelphia Story"

■ a aeating capacity of 3.5 m» pluHunitngtnn wa* allotted 1.47$ •**•■ ion tfe’ket* and leportedly could aae I about 2 imhi Portland waa allotted •2&. Decatur and Oaalan (Ml eat h HlHilala of the tourney will be <' It Walla of Danville and Pnul IUI-Ilian of Harrell Play kecand Gam* Th* Yt-lloa Jacket* will play the second game of the afternoon **>■ | >on. meeting Portland, winner of iht Hartford City aectlonal al l:3» j o'clock In the first game Oaalan. winner nf the Bluffton aectlonal Will he pitted again*! the ho*l I Huntington five The winner* will play at * p m Coach Andrew* will take the I Jac ket* to Huntington Wednesday afternoon for a practice *e*»ion on I the tourney floor fmm t until t HUNTINGTON IS i FAVORED TEAM Viking* Favored To Take Huntington Regional Saturday Indianapoli*. March 4 (t’Pl - Regional high achool basket Ist II I tourney* Saturday at Huntington. Marlon. Fort Wayne and Muncie pronii*e to be humdinger* for every follower <«f the annual hardwood hysteria Remember first of all It I* out of 1 theae center* that the contestants in the Muncie «otnlflnal will eiime I Then turn to Muncie where all I signs poitH to Muncie liurrl* meeting New Ca*tle In the regional final there The perwerful Owl* should have no trouble getting by Parker in the early round Os course the Trojan* mml get i by Klclunond In order to meet Bur | rl*. hardly a minor detail Bin Mar I •hall If'iHindogi Koontz should I lead New Castle to victory, after wheih It will fall to the powerful Owls. At Fort Wayne. North Ride dope* a* the only possible regional win . ner. unless everything goe* wrong The Redskins should get by a fine | Auburn team In the early round | Little Pierceton, which *hould survive to the final, may prove a giantkiller. hut h> unlikely to get it* hand on a ltean«alk Tipton and Kokomo loom a* likely finalists at the Mirlon Regional Tipton »hould have uo trouble with the host team, a comparative weak •later Similarly Kokomo ahould slide by Somer«et The final? A to** up The super power Huntington quintet ahape* a* Hi.- big bad wolf | of it* own regional. (>*-ian is a i tough little number but inadequate to hah Huntington In the Saturday aifernoon *e«*ioa Portland in all probability will | CORT 1 • • — Last Time Tonight — "GIRL FROM HAVANA” Oenni* O'Keefe. Claire Carleton A "SIX LESSONS FROM MADAM LA ZONGA" Lupo Velez. Leon Errwl Only 10c-2Cc * WEI). &TH I’RS. * MULTIPLY IVIRYTHINO BY TWO FOR CISCO’S MMd AD VENTURI 1... It’. two-time romance And twice the trouble When the Cisco Kid Aterb An duMt!! Bre mbbL •**** 'J' iJ vaTh I Romance I I I RioGrande CESAR ROMERO •• ■ Th* Ci™ KU" Patricia Morison ■ Lyna* Roberta Ricardo Conet ■ Ckria-Pla Martin A MAC mat Pai Roa*s Coming Sun.—" Phantom Submarine" & “Miohaei Shayne, Private Detective."

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knock over Decatur, which by pure ' I mathematic* leave* Portland and I Huntington In the final In thl* < <a«e Portland will not quite equal | •irreigth of a well-known i emriif of the *ame num*. CHICAGO STAR 1 BEST SCORER Joe Stamps I-fad* Bik Ten Scorers Despite Team’s Weakness Chicago. Mar 4 'U.P> Chicago finished la»t again In the Big Ten ba*kett>alt atandlng* today Imi from the unbroken at ring of I! defeat* Buffered by hi* team, lanky. I>e»pe« tacled Cap: J» • Stamps pulled the conference Bearing championirttip with Id* f >lnt* | Stamps galloped up and down the floor la*t night to *core 12 point*. | more than enough to snatch the . •coring honor* from U’l»con*ln'* ' f.ene Englund whole champlonahip team alreaoy had completed It* > M-hedule. Englund had acored' 162 point* during the *ea* m lieapite Stampf* effort*. Chicago i . loat to Indiana. 4V to 13 But Indi I ana ml**ed a chance to break th* j all-time Big Ten tram icoring record which II net l**t year with |MP point*. Wi*<-on*in had broken the record thl* aaaaoa with ’>J6 point* and Indiana needed *7 agalnit Chicago to get ( It back They mi**ed the mark by eight point*. ft wa* the tighth time In the lait nine year* that Chicago had finl«hed In the cellar poiltlon. either i alone or tied There wa* talk on the Chicago campu* that It might now drop out «f the Big Ten ba*kethall ichedule a* well a* deemphasizing football. Indiana'* record for the aaaaoa J wa* io and 2. J»*l short of the 11 ■■■ ■■ • - *

Bought for 51,500, Wins $89,360 at Santa Anir. BS£MI r ; I’W i^b-'***MtT'* It** 1 vm ".w t W t'. 'JMA IIHI r rerf-1 .‘<l fE* t ** v*--'’ "iJ 11W ■re View with Joetey NMk WaR up

For 11,500, Tony Pelleted of Maw Orleans, well- i known sportsman, purchased Bay View, juat aa I ordinary race bom price. Today Bay View to being I

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and I at the champlonvhlp Wi*con-| •In team. Minnesota look It* fifth defeat, I <to 3*. from lowa to flnl*h In a third place tie with Ohio Stale I ind llllnol*. Mlnnrtmta took a 12 ' to • lead early In the game but . lowa overtook the Gopher* after | nine minute* and never relln<|Ui*h-' ••d th* lead Ohio State and llllnol* were out of competition last night ‘ I’tirdiie finished the M-aion with! a Sm> average by defeating North- i we«teru. 3* to 20. The game wa* I Purdue * from the itart with Froily i Sprowl leading the offenilve by [ •coring 13 point*. Final Standing* Chicago. Mar 4 'UP' Final Big { Ten ba»ketball •landing*' w L Pct pt« o p ; M’lK-oniln.. 11 1 .SIT SM 424 Indiana .. 10 2 .133 '»?• *ST| Minneaota.. T 5*3 317 4541 Ohio State.. 71 5*3 51* 4*5 llllnol* .... 7 5 .5*3 520 st>4 Purdue .... « « 500 500 522, Michigan 5 7 4IC 473 460 lowa 4 * 333 51* S3* | Northweatem 3 » .250 453 51* | Chicago ... 0 12 tuMt 3*o flio! I At the Training Camps i By UniUd Pr* M Avalon. Cal.. March 4. — iUJP —' lam Novlffoff. highly-publicized . rookie who *tgned with the Chicago Cub* Sunday arrive* from { th. mainland today, weather per-! mltthig. to run through routine and Mart at left field with the regular* tomorrow In the flrat In- ■ traclub game Manager Jimmy j Wilaon said Novfkoff'* work recently at an oil Reid would make up for the few day*' training he mined Paiadena. Cal.—Manager Jimmy Ityke* of the Chicago White Sox i •aid today he probably would have to drop *even of bl* 16 pitcher* at- ■ ter May 15. the date on which 1 •quad* mu*t lie reduced to 25. Ex-

pert*. considering Ted Lymt*. Pete ■ Appelton. Bill Dietrich. Thornton j L-e John Rigney and Fiddle Smith i a* fixture*, thought flrval Grove or Jack Hallett al*o would get the : nod. Miami — Short Mop Billy Jttrge* ha* been given permlulon to con■ult doctor* of hi* own choke in | an effort to cure recurrent dlzxy, •pell* manager Bill Terry of the i X> • Y.>:k G atit« Mid today An accidental heanlng by pitchler Bm-ky Wallen of Cincinnati | ’ la*t *eaaon ha* affected Jurgea j ' He neemed to be rounding Into I condition thl* year, however, until Sunday morning when he Buffered hl* wont attack of dizzlnee* Jttrge* *aid he experienced for the fint time numbnea* in hl* ling-1 i era ai well a* falntne** and dizzii lira* St Petersburg. Fla — Gut flelder Joe IHMagglo remained the only New York Yankee*' holdout today a* the spring mining camp spec’s- ■ lated on the buccobb of the new | Infl-Id makeup for I*4l Manager Joe McCarthy announc cd late yesterday that Joe Gordon, regular second haaeman for two year*, would be converted into a first baseman to succeed Babe ‘ Dahlgren, who was sold lo the Boston Bee* last week. Gordon signed for approximately 115.000 earlier in the day. McCarthy’* new Infield lineup will have Gordon at flrat. rookie* Gerry Priddy and Phil Rizzuto at second aud short, respectively, and , Red Rolfe at third. St Peteraburg. Fla-Two talk* with president Bam Breadon were enough to convince pitcher Clyde Shotin he should sign hl* I*4l con- ' tract and today all regular m--m---i her* of the Bt. Ixmls Cardinals' hurling staff were In the fold. There was nothing to report re--1 gardtng other Red Bird holdouts. Including slugger Johnny Mize.

| hailed as the new king of tha turf fotlowtng a victory in tha rich Santa Anita, Cal., Handicap. Bay I View won 188,340 for Pelleted to that race elona,

DECIDING Gin SERIES BATHE I HEHETHDKSDIf Junior lli*ch And St. Joe Teams To Play Thursday Evening Th* third and deciding game of the annual city *»rl*« HU between the Hi Joseph eighth grader* and th. Decatur junior high live will he played at th* Decatur juniorsenior high gym Thursday night An Interesting hsrdfoughi battle for the 1341 grade c hampionship Is expected with each of th* teams holding a close victory in previous m-*1 Ing*. Decan** of the Lion* club banquet that night honoring the Com modore and Yellow Jacket players, the *tarting time of the game will be delayed half an hour A preliminary tilt between the two reserve team* will start at 7 3u o'clock and the feature game will follow one hour later. Admission to the game will be |0 cent* per person and a good crowd la expected to lie on hand The Junior high live won the first game, by nosing out a 1512 victory In the second contest, played several Weeks ago. Bt Joe retaliated by coming from behind to edge out a IP-15 win Both Couch Steve Everhan of the Junior high and Ted Zayner of the St Joe team have been drilling their squad- in preparation for this crucial tilt. To the winner o{ the game Thur*- | day night will go the Wrmhoff' trophy for a year — -e —.i WITH THE ARMY AND NAVY • • The Navy Rec rult ng Service I* now putting on a drive for applicant* In the Naval Reserve Aviation ! Branch The number of applicants , are unlimited and rec ruiting sta- | turns are accepting all who qualify ' After completion of one month at a ' reserve aviation base applicants I are appointed Aviation Cadets and •ettt to Pensacola or one of the new > I stations at Jacksonville. Florida or ! Corpus Christi. Texas for further ■ Instruct lons The pay of a Cadent . during his instruction period 11 ||os per month plus a governmen* ; insurance policy of Slfi.nou. the premium* hemg paid 4>y the government Cpon graduation the Cadets are appointed Ensigns in the V. H Naval Reserve and called to active duty with the Fleet. The pay of an Ensign. Including flight and has* pay. subsistence and quarter* allowance is altouc 1245 per montli. ' I'pon appoinzment a* Ensign the life insurance policy carried hy the government la transferred ’.otheap- I plicant. who la then required to pay I the premium or drop the insurance When officer* of Ihe Naval Reserve. who have undergone training a* Avlatlop Cadet*, are released from active duly that ba* tteen continuous for one or more year* they are paid a lump sum trf |soo for each < omplete year of active service The qualification* for aviation cadet are good physical condition. 20 to 27 year* of age Mid two year* of collage with haff the credit* required for a degree Applicant* or the training may apply at Navy Recruiting ft tat ion in the following Indiana cßle* Indianapolis. Fort Wayne. Terre Haufc. latfay ette. Rchmond. Anderson and Columbo*. - t TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY ♦ - ... - j March ♦— Harding and Coolidge Inaugurated president and vice-pre-sident a* Wilson and Marshall retire after eight year* Now congress ha* 300 Republican* and 132 Democrat* in house and ’be Republicans have a major ity of 22 In Ute seavta. Charles W. Yager announces he Don Padgett and Martin Marlon. An entuaiastlc workcut yealerday convinced Breado nthat the vitamin Bi pill* be ordered served to player* dally "certainly must be makhiir cood ** The Card* will hold their first intra squad practice game Wedne* d*y

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Rwkic Slated for Yank JobW <' V ■ lx u I % I Wire J I ■ tl */ .» V 'WS| j ® Ij/'wtt Pul ■ ijR J Jw M r B -u J Babe Dahlgrew ' Jlmmt wturm New York Yankees Mil Rahe Dahlgren, first lawn v • •>.?, Bees leaving the way open for Jimmy Sturm. r<».kir t., a varsity job Kturm was with Kansas City last y-at It fail* to make gmsf. It I* expected the Yank* may try o , Georgs Miqumn from the Brown* or use either lot y I Joe <Jordon at the bag ■■

New Eskimo Family At Indiana Sports Show March 22 to 30 W'eJFJr tit jiff -w T WWt Kepeh Ibiaaaa, SO-year-ald Esbime metber, with Elaya, her I-year-aid baby boy. INDIANAPOLIS.—Experienced Eskimo walrus and seal hunter* in •psanng their prey era adept at a tnck of making a complete rollover under water in their kayak*. Carl Ibionna of Cape Prince of Wale* la the first Eskimo to be brought to this country who can accomplish thia “roll-over" and bo will perform the feat daily at the Indiana Sportsmen's Show at the State Fair Grounds, March 22 to SO. Ceil haa brought to UtM country hie 20-ycar-old wife. Kopek. , hi* 3-y**r-o!d daughter. Posina. -and hi* 2-year-old baby boy, Elaya. They will all appear in Dave Irwin's Arctic and Alaskan exhibit at the Sportsmen's Show. — -i" will not. be a candidate for reelection a* mayor of Decatur. Itecatur lose* first game In district haskeritall tournament to Pennville, 25 to IP. The event I* j being held at Bluffton Chakner Poi’er leaves on a Irnslnes* Gp to Minnesota and lowa. — - Farm Pries Rise Fsrscaet Rochester. N. Y —(UP) -A general rise In farm prices with morc unlformlty between the cost of things purchased aad sold by farmer* la visualized by Dr. Van B Hart. Cornell university economist. He believe* the present Is “a good time to gel farm business in shape"

Announcing A New Magazine Service for Decatur. FREE DELIVERY on Magazines, Carton Pop, Candy, and Cigarettes. Front 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. The Stop Back Phone 269. _

BRITISH DRIVE I ON IN AFRI| 10,00 H Italian I’ri-onfl Huge Store*' Os plie» Taken B \,ir>i. K ■ ll ■ H *• ismi - f•■.hi”-! .iii'l ■■ -Ol|. - 1.11 - " ■* iMiddl’- t Cairo -aul 111 >'!<> a- ih>- <lnt. ! frontier of Eih .qo,, • BMI British I ••• :i. ward th- . • 'H| Ethiopia Ini. - . ' 6<> mile frmu i tier at liulo Hu" ’ ’* column at I•< , IL. , bout 1"» mil"“Mrge •t.xk- ■ fodriuffs and -’.ori continue to l»- il < I uommualque -ai l r » ■ -id'-r thl-- tmi. . . captured The captured is now "These capture- .< ,-t irf enemy forma'io"- " ' Ji,l,a give the lie : ■ by the Italian* Rue i'c ■ •" land has been volute.' I ed ** , Trade In * Good T"»' |l "jj

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