Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1941 — Page 6

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LEO OF CHICAGO WINS NAPONAL CATHOLIC MEET Defeats Indians In Finals; Fort Wayne Wins Fourth Place Chicago. March Jl—ll'Pi- The t<eo Lion* added th* national Caiholir prep taske-tall champion•hip to their Chicago Cathnllr leafs* tltl* after defeat IM a fast Rimas Indian team from S' Francis Mission ff. D. m an overtime final. 44 to 41. The Indian team had held the lead through the first half and tied the score four time* In th* final period hot were held scoreless in th* overtime period It was the flrat overtime period fam>- In the history of the 11-year old <om petition. Meaeoirr of MliOaukee scored *«*ht Jointain the last two minute* of play to wia third place by defeating Central Catholic of Fort Wayne. Ind. IMP and 1»44 < ham pions. 44 to J» Spaulding Institute. I‘eoria. 111. won the consolation tHle npibeating Aquinas. lai Crosse. Wls.. 42 to 17 H|U O'Brien, forward of the St Simon Stock. New York City. team, •aa cboen the outstanding player of the five-day tmsrnament and received Hie Loyola Vnlverslty monogram trophy The all-tournament team, chosen by tournament officials, referees and newspaper men. included Centers Tom Cuny. Holy Rosary Mission. Pine Ridge. S D . and I»on Joyce. Cretin. Bt. Paul. Minn . Forwards -Ben Tkbbltts .Ft. Francis Mission. St. Francis. S. D. Jim Fair*!!, law. Chicago, and Boh Hemy Central Catholic, Fort Wayne. Ind . Guards 4h>n Carpen ter. Messmer Milwaukee. Wls.; Jim Caufield. Rt M ctiael, I nion City, N J., and Henry Baranowski, l-eo. Chicago. *w O — lußues Warning On Shooting Os Ducks Game warden H. M McClean today issued a warning against •hooting ducks at the Shroyer lake Warden MH'lean said tha' complaints of 'he Miootlng had been ——mmmummmnma»a

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called to his attention. The shoot I lag of de<h« in th* spring la forbidden by state and federal law — —. J |*At the Training Campa * ay UeHod Preoo I ! Hollywood. Fla Mar 11 <UR> John Grodskkl. F.lwln Roe and Bill • McGee will «** mound duty today ’ for the St lamia Cardinals against the Columbus Red Birds The Cards yesterday won the second of their vitamin series ' with the > Philadelphia Nationals. I to I at 11 Miami Beach although they were I outhlt l» to 4. Kttos Slaughter homered for the Cards In the Rrst 1 inning i Ran Antonio. Tea The Rt lxul« Browns were scheduled to break I I camp today to begin their northl j ward trek First stop will be Hous I I tsm. Tea* ♦ Wednesday Th* ' squad will be reduced before It ) I leaves aa club officials assign play ‘ era to Ren Antonio. Toledo and otb|er Browns' farms Tb» Browns I yesterday collected 14 hits and i smashed the Boston Bees. IS to 2 Han Bernardino Calif. Tbe Chi- i rago Cubs complete tbeir exhibition i series against the Pittsburgh Plr- I i ate* today with left Beider U>u Movikoff limping about with a i charley horse Ixtu Injured himself In hitting a two-run homer yesterday to help the Cuba heat 'he Pirate*. * to ! Ontario. Calif — The ('hl. ago Whitt Ros arrived today for an exhibition same again*' the la>* Angeles club after shaking them- I selves out of a four-game losina ■ streak by bcntlnr ths Han Diego j , team, r to 3. 68 YOUTHS TO CONTINUED FROM PAOB ONRi IIS Rherwood Stanley Rpranger 3*»s Melvin Ferdinand Bultemeler IPX Vernon William Affolder W1 Donald Knittie i 4(13 Ambrose Joseph Rpangler 412 Luther Ambrose Bovine 417 Marcel Noah Brandt 441 Cheater John Burke I 445 Alfred John Rumschlag 471 Raymond Lewis 51* Monroe feck Fuhrman Iff Alvin Macke UP Hugh Richard Beltler *4l Homer Robert Reinerk MS Lawrraee Ear! Anspaugh Ma Paul Edward Burkhart *7* Howard Klmo Hahegger 17k Charles William RiismVernon Jerome Huffman IPS Maurice Maxwell Rmlth 400 Robert long t»"3 Herbert Ehlerdlng 422 Harold Fred Fuelling 427 Everett Woodrow Geiael 4So Francis John Wertgberger 44P Edgar Lee Archer 470 William Harold Price 4*4 Vernon Edgeli 4*o Lewis Steffen ' 732 Glen Doris Runner , 723 Clarence Edwin Overmler , 743 Glen Stage Bowman : 746 Alfred Dale Ryf 744 Theodore Henry Knapke 7*l Henry Lawrence Bleberlch 74« Herman Edward Smith 743 Wilbert Edward Kirchner , 74* Elmer Frederick Schults 77S Heber Raymond Tinkham 774 Arthur I-eßoy Poling j 7*4 Harold Edward Rtrahm 7W Joseph Rupert Halstca 744 Patrick Paul Murphy ' *l7 Norbert William Dieholt *2* l.eroy Erwin Rich *47 Ixiwell Bernard Null ■■— - -

Pleasant Mills Class Play Wednesday Night The junior cine. of the Plaaaant 1 Milk tilth acbool vIM pment the annual ciaa. play. ' Phantom Belta." | at the school auditorium Weda<<«day evening al 7:M icioch W” ■■ ' —■■■ N. A. BIXLER optometrist I Eyas Event lead Qlaaan Pitted HOURS * :M ,<:M * ,:0 ° Saturday a. St 00 p. n». I———— | LOANS | loa« ssicklv Aao vaivamv ram m VWS SWS B6AATwM AM MCOMTY VMI CAM BCMWCW ata ah txs tta «nMW« <d . tarn. Wt asm I Wtf to LOCAL LOAN CO. i'* , *t&S?T®Sr w -' I SFSCUIL TNNC PLAN FOO FAMMDRS k Ut ACM. K WdtoZd/avrtamNm | BBS tern*aaMi.nMomaaWlNS SB*

I MINOR CHANGE IN NET RULES Three-Second Offensive Rule To He ( hanxrd •Next Season . Kansas City. M>- Mar 11 <v'R> I F I — Modification of the three-second rule to give mote llbrray ou ofI sense will be the print Ipel change in basketball rcgulatl.ms next I year, the national basketball rules , committee of the t'nlted Rtatrs and Canada decided today , The committee, la a I4*» hour I session, considered many changes. , but made only a few. and they I wen minor 11. V Porter of Chicago, sect*- , tary, said ranches throughout the i country were agreed on the need | tor standardisation of equipment i The committee went on record as favoring replacement of th* old. rectangular backbos-ds with fanshaped boards and standardisation of the molded type basket hall. The three-serand rule was changed to permit an offensive player ' with th* hall Io operate without re- ! strte'.loa In th* outer half of th* I free throw circle, behind the free throw line. However. If a man I pcMaesse* the boll for longer than I three seconds In the area from the i free throw line to the end line, the ball still la to be awarded to the i opponent out of bound* Oth-r principal changes provide for substituting of players at any tlm* the hall la dead, including the time after a Beld goal is scored, and surrender of the ball immediately to the nearest official by any player guilty of a rules infraction Previously, the offending player was required to surrender the ball I only in case of a double dribble The committee heard suggestl.ms i mad.- by the coaches’ association i at it* meeting In New York last ' l week but none was adopted Floyd Rowe of the board of education. Cleveland O. was reelect-' led chairman. J W Ft Clair of Routhrrn M-thodlst university st Dallas waa named vice chairman ; and Porter was reelected secre- ' tary BOARD RESUMES CONTTNt'Itn FROM PAOE GHB cards are to be returned also by mlla. and must be returned in time 1 for the results to be tabulated for the next meeting of the director*, j Monday April 7. The cards will be mailed to a. post office box and Wil! he turned ‘ over to special teller*, who will I announce th* result* to th* director* Th* elected dlrec'or will serve until January of 1*43 Nomine** from whom the new director will be named, are Al Beavers. Dr Harold DeVor, Dr Ben Duke. Harry Grube. John Halterman. Robert Holtbouse. Roy Price and Jesse Button KIRKLAND PLANS "'ONTINCED FROM PAGE ONE! provides for a brick concrete and steel building, which will adjoin the present building on the south, and fae* west. The present build-1 Ing Is 42x44. facing the wmt, and two stories high The four class room* will be 21x IS fe*t *ach. providing space for 43 puplla The community room, which will he used as an auditorium-gym-nasium. will be »41»4 feet. wi>h permanent seats erected on the •Id* It will seat | non persons, in sddltkm to tbe space on the stage, where chairs can be placed Th* floor space will Le of regulation • IS*. M 174 feet The stage will be 24x42* feet On each side of the stage, plan* call for two rooms, one for the athletic director, a band room and two

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Alley Oomph for Annual Meet J f This unusual angle view shows Dorothy May getting In some prartirw for participation in the 24th annual tournament of the Women • international Bowling Congress In U»s Ar.gr’es. The winsome Dorothy is enured in tbe booster divUioa of tbe W.1.8.C.

auxiliary cla»s room*. I’nder the stage, there will be I tocher rooms a manual arts sod . : domestic arts rooms, showers, toll ‘ els and a principal'* <>*!«» Ample apace for storing Janitor » ' supplies and portable seat* and ’ stage equipment wilt he provided ' Notice of the intention to !••*• ' the *47 mm tn bond* I* printed tn J today's paper Th.- law provide* i for the hearing of objections ou f'-v • txHld issue The members of the advisory ; I board are John Borne. O V. Dilling j and Wilmer Warthman Kirkland high school has an an- I , rollment of im* student* With the ■ ' conaolidailon the school will li'Wise I ' approximately 230 pupils. Roop Funeral Rite* Are Held Saturday Funeral aeevh-o* were held Rat-1 nrday at Iteiatur. Illinois for J. j ' Ix»wl* Roop, a former Adams coon ty rrildrat arrd brother o f Nathan Roop, of this city, who died in a | Decatur. Illinois hospital. The deceased was 10 ytars old ! He was bora In Willshire. Ohio 1 August 34. 1*44 For the last IS I years he had lived in the Illi-

Fishing—America’s leading Pastime Young and old rich and poor, men and women, boy* and girls—sll enjoy the thrill of "going fishing " Fourteen million Americsns Join annually In the Great American Sport. If you are one of them—or yearn to become one you'll certainly , want the new booklet "The Fisherman's Guide." Juat off the pr«-*s at this newspaper * Service Bureeti It la a practical treatise on the art and science of angling - In hroofe river, lake, seashore and ocean—based on active fishing experience by ike au’hor. Don Carpenter, all over the land, and la deafened to help you In yonr quest for enjoys hie and successful fresh or salt-water fishing Send the coupon below with a dime enclosed, to cover return postage handling and other costs, to get yonr copy CLIP COI'PON HERE F. M. KERBV. Dept. B-144. Daily Democrat's Service Bureau. ICI3 Thirtsentv St.. Washiaqtasi. D CHere * my dime Rend my copy of the new "Fisherman's Guide” Booklet to;— f NAME STBEET and No. ... (TTY STATE I read tbe Decatur Dally Democrat. Decstar. Ind.

nois city Sturvtving ar* th* widow, two daughters. Mrs. Harold Paine of Dmatur. Illinois, and Mrs. Leo Flanagan of Toledo. Ohio, tbe brother In ibis city; a sister. Mrs John Walk* of Fort Wayne, a grandson. Thurman I-eight on of Toledo Th* brother. Nathan, atj leaded the servicee. > Indiana Bankers .Meet Thia Week Bloomington. Ind March 31 -T. j r Grailher. president of tbe First State Bank, tsreatur. baa sent In j hi* reservation for the third annual Indiana tanking confscene* to be held Wednesday. Thursday and Friday at Indiana University. Approximately 344 bankers of Indiana ar* expected to st'end tbe , three-day < oißrronce. Defense Hiatts, tank* and treaa- , ury financing, mvesunen'* mortgage lending, convwmer credit, tank lending, and other hash oper- , at>ng problems will b* considerrd by expects in the different fields. —s—— a- - 1 The value of paper dishes made In I’ 41 factories exceeds *2<'ooo.<u«> annually, the census reports.

FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Mr*. Lulu Shaffer Die* Thin Morninic At Irene Byron Sanitorium Mrs Lain Rhslfer 4*. former lie cstur resident died this morning at I 14 o'riork «t tbe Myron sanatorium near Fort Wayne Hhe bad bran a patient there for the past I* months. Mrs. Mvhsffer was born In Illinois on January I*. 1*43. the daugh ter of Jacob and Jennie M<Bnd» Rhe was married to IHck Hhaffer on November 34 I*l2. Surviving beside* the husband, are a aon. Richard, sis brothers and a sister Rhe had lived near Fott Wayne la Alien county for four years after residing la Deca tar for 14 year* Hb.- was a m*mtier of the local United Brethren church. Funeral services will be held Wedne»day morning at 10 o'clock at the resident*, north of Fort Wayne, and l« 3" o'clock at th* Cedarville church near there Bur lai Wil! be is the Monroeville rene 'ery Rev (I. T Rnsselot. of Decatur. win sdficiat* OTTO SMITH. JR.. 111 tCXMXTINUBD FROM FAOff coroner asserted "He was a hind of a daredevil.” | Mlaa Wulllman asaegied. and waai giving us a little demon*, rat lon of i bls flying ability " Bia** Nsee Demeitohed The nose of the plane, a 24-horae powered Aeronica C-3. waa completely destroyed The motor was shattered Into fragments snd only the hardness of the dry ground 1 kept It from being burled The instrument panel and cockpit was also a mass of twisted wood and metal Rcattered bl ind stains on the panel and the twisted right door of tbe enclosed cockpit l evidenced a bleeding bead Injury 1 that the pilot suffered Rmlth was born In Monroe town •hip 23 years ago to tbe day he died He attended school at Klrh- i land township later and was grads ated from Klrhland high school In 1434 In recoat years be had reaided on roate two. Fort Wayne with hia wife, the former Alice Baumgartner of Berne, and sm>. Carl David He had l>»en employed at the Rea Magnet Wire company Father Killed Us 1427 Otto Rmlth. Br, father of the victim, who waa known for bls dar Ing aa a stunt flyer, lost bls life In s Montpelier plane craah In 1427. i The elder Rmlth was stunting at a I high altitude when the plane noaed down and plunged to the earth. Art Bmith Fort Wnyne'a "hlrd hoy and probably tbe moat Ulus trtous of tbe trio. w*« a cousin of tbe elder Rmlth He. too. was killed in a plane craah Flying 4<ne« 1434 The victim had been flying since Msrch. 1431 snd soloed In January. 1434. He received his Instructions from O B McVey who had been laught by Rmlth. Re Young Bmith held a Hying permit from tbe Smith Baer field at Fort Wayne' and a student permit from tbe elvil aeronautics authority Fort Wayne filers aaoerted that he waa one of tbe beat yoang pilot* is tbe eity.i He owned tbe plane, which he par chased shout five weeks Ago. and kept it at the Meaa* airport. Surviving, besides tbe widow and aon. are tha grandparents. Mr and Mrs. Simon Smith at Fort Wayne After his death, the body was taken to ibe Yager funeral borne In Berne It will be removed from ; there to the reoMence of the father Inlaw. Joseph Baumgartner east of Berne. Tueaday morning where It may be viewed until time for tbe funeral services. Funeral Wedaeeday The services will he held W’edneoday afternoon at 1 oeiock at the Baumgartner home and 2 o'clock al the Cross Reformed church in Berne Burial will be In tbe M R E. cemetery beside tbe grave of bls father. Firm Fatal Creek Thia waa Adams county’s first j fatal plane end Although a num her of resident* of the county have ' taken to tbe air. only “minor craek- j ape" have occurred on local soil. Smith's plan*, a yellow-colored Job. waa sighted flying over Decatur by many persons, as ho waa enroute to tbe Wulllman home After the crash hundreds of ear loos sightseers and souvenir Ebnt ers flocked to the accldsut acene Som* over-enthusiastic spectator clipped the fence around the Wulll mau farm In order that ho might mere easily ecter the field and get clone to tbe wracked plane. This opening waa as Invitation to bundreiis more to climb through. Sheriff Ed Miller who was call >d. shortly after arrival, ordered tbe plana removed to prevent farther dmtruetioa of tbe Wulllnmn farm. Volunteer* aided tbe sheriff In righting the plane and pushed It several hundred feet west near the ’Tallhnsa bant This preventad further damage to tbe fence and tramping la tbe Wulllman field bet was no blocked* to sightseers Tbs Wulllman term yard then

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liecame a perking ground for scores | of autos Th* sDiatterad front of I the plan* dwindled rapidly a* a souvenir busier snatched a piece of th* propeller, a bit of lln*n from lb* shattered left wing or other, part* of th* (lane Th* roar »nd of the fuselage.! which waa barely damseed In the i crush, bore evidence of the Ingenuity of th* young man In flnane Ing bls hobby of flying In large red letters had been painted the , advertisement of a Fort Wayne grocery Reports that he had stalled the ptatne In an attempt to lift II above telephone wire* were brarded as untrue in the assertion* of Mis*. Wulllman who stated that be was flying west Into th* wind and that. the wire* were al least 24 feet i I north of his plane at all times ——~»i m — — COAL STRIKE CALL CWnNUKD Ftinm FACIK GNK I tha case began Previously the txmrd had obtained Agreements ending strikes at the I’nlversal Cyclops Steel Co ' plant, Bridgeville.- th* Condenra’ ' Corp of America. Routh Plain

No “Back To Work’’ Here ’yn l B 1 ■BBHbvI d In II 1 In defiance to the governmeet s plea that tbe C I " 1 ttI— JJ Worker* union permit striking memtars at the All- 1 "'‘’J factoring plant at Milwaukee to return to work on vital i strike delayed sine* January, more than 44<H» ws>rk<- > plant's entrance* when It reopened at the government - g above picture shows polkr holding tack a ■'! demonstrated against returning production workers U rara™ra«*™*mmra*™mmmumummnnuu«s*mss*e*— rara—— Injured in Steel Rioting F. 1 - . - Ejyle- ** - j I i AlffiAMMffir kra -4 -<* ' Ancaf than* tnjurad bi Urn rtottag about the Bsthlehem «*«••"* 1 pony plant at Bethlehem, Pw. Andrew Pavsllcky, a striker, is »»** l feeling his tmttmd head as two friends sympathise with M"* * ptahatfeff wk remaned about the Bethlehem plant, both sW* to attMnpt a mtUmnL

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