Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1942 — Page 6

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Indiana Hands Illinois First loss Os Season Hoosiers Edge Out 41 To 36 Victory On Indiana Floor Chicago F**-»» I" ' n*' Indihr* showed they can be |h k»d and now i!>!•<•■ Illinois «>|.honn> tnii-i prove they <an fake it and route back Beaten, Il to Ifi. (or the f,r«l tint, tn eight big ton basketball game*. the youinc lllinl Mill ere 'way out tn front but the > barm .'* none From now on. atari ilia with Michigan Saturday night every one of lt« woven remaining (<»•• will lie levelling at lllitml* trying to make the khl* tta< k Mlnne«ofa. etill > i-ottd with vh torU’M tin**** meel«< I'utdlle ' 5 ) .11 MilllleapOli-r In a contest that must drop one of lie in front the <a>e Indiana • ♦lit* haw an ea«y one with Chicago <" lot, Ohio State il7> playa at Wisconsin 153» and lowa tali meet.* Northw.-tern |JS al Ev.m-t n lleapite the same «ort of ragged basketba 11 they played to d-'.at Northwestern Saturday n.ght. Illinois led Indiana at the end of the flrat half. 33 to !'• and at one stage tn the second had a sit |iolnt lead at 35 to IS Three timely field c.aU by Johnny Logan revived Indiana late In the |a-rlo<l, th'-n goals by -<>plio more* Ed Denton and In Swan-on shot the Hooale -t into a lead they never h t go Gogan ami t'apt Andy Zimmer led Indiana with io point* each High scoring Andy Phillip of Illi lioiw wait held to a single field goal Purdue and Wisconeln remained In the running by smothering Northwestern and Chicago. Scoring 1" point* in th* last three mi nutew Purdue whipped Northwestern, al io io in.l Wisconsin won aw it pleawed fiuni the haltered

nrrn — Li«t Time Tonight — ‘SUNDOWN" Gene Tierney. Bruce Cabot. Geo. Sander*. Harry Carey ALSO--Short* Sc-30c Inc Tai | * WEI). &THI RS. * OCR KK. DAYS! Firwl Show Wed. at 6:30 NOTE — Due to Feature Length, it will start Thursday at I I’. M. BE SI RE TO ATTEND! MARVIN MYLES IS THE KIND OF A GIRL MEN CANT FORGET! J.1.V4 hers ~rd>l'Now ihilorr B of o left loro slecfn**. fho xroonl L HM PELHAM, jHss-y. ESQ. ■am aoaMT LAMARRYOUNG CHARLES COBURN VAN MT (OatA I HEFLIN • HOLDEN • GRANVILLE —o— Frl. A Sat—Oaanna DurbU, “It Started With Eve" —o Coming Stitt. — Mickey Heaney. Judy Garland. “Babe* on Broadway"

Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Wedntldgy Jefferson »* tletoou al Bearn. Kitkiand at Hoik. ..k Friday Commodores tn Pleawant Mills at Yellow Ja* beta gym V'llotk Jackets at Kendallville. .letfernoii al Monmouth Hanford at Petroleum. Heme at Winche-ter. Monroe nt Gray. Kirkland at latmawier Saturday Monroe ve Bryant at Berne. Maroons 51 In 31* Northwestern battled the Buller tnuk- ra point for latini until they hit a I" to 40 tie Purdue moved ahead by a point and then with thlee minute* to go. a whin I pass ! Ing attack baffled North* I I'urdui pushed in io straight ! and the Wildcat* were helph »• a> points Purdue’s Al Menke ph ked up 15 iKtinie and hi« teammate the veteran Forr--st Sprowl. added Led by Jonny Koti’ LI points ' Wisconsin won In a breeze it.mi i'ht.igo Kotl boosted his total to 133 'or the season. by far the best • itidtvidiml total in the conferem * low.l -tepiieil above a smi rating by lef afi'ig Olli" State 53 to li reVerwing i previous defe.it at , Ohio The tatld.llg*Team W L Pct TP OP lllinoic 7 I *75 !7!» but Mhin. siit.l 7 :: 750 171 ::•<* Indiana fi 3 fifi7 tit 377 Wisconsin 7. •! -.35 :>7<i Purdue .*• ; *>3s 35* ; low I 5 i 55<; t> St Northwest*-’ n 1 5 375 :•♦•! .15.1. Ohio state ' 7 tut !!•« 511 Michigan 3 fi 317 3*t» Chi. ago bill IHHI 315 553 Games Saturday Michigan at ( l llnoia Purdue al Minnesota lowa .it NorthW'>tern. Chicago at Indi ana. Ohio State at Wlsi-oiisin. liivoilo Munday Indiana tl. Illinois 3t>. Wisconsin at. Chicago 3'*, Pindiie 51 Northwestern I". lowa 53. Ohio State it FEAR EARLY FALL OF <•" I Mpa dc u.sa acroww Manila bay J'iiril-.L tile 31 11011 - |ll ec. ding th. war department's last report* from tin- Philippine war gone at noon today, woven of the enemy plane* had been shot down, the < otninunl.iue xa.d. Thia bring* the total hogtile i aircraft powltlv'iy confirmed a* deMroyed In the Philippine* aince | the outbreak of the war to 163,” i it wa* elated, with the explanation I that many uthei* piobubly were i hit and destroyed. The J.ipalUMe giege fire again**

| CORTI • ♦ — Last Time Tonight — “DISTRICT ATTORNEY in the CARTER CASE" Jame* Elliton. Virginia Gilmore A “MARRY THE BOSS’S DAUGHTER" Brenda Joyce. Bruce Edward* M*S Inc. Tom * WEI). & THI RS. * e war/body’s / Z ■ 4/ /Jy faugh J at ma! /«> i 1 ,-I • 11 A WAHNCS BROS HIT mW ““ —/ tdwrt tvwstt HOUTHI. Herbert XHOUSM Msstsd ky I HOM UMMAH Onp<* Hw ho, w OMo* k» Ins liw A Uomr Bmt hm Aooo.tr ALSO—Loot Chapt. “Jungle Girl" —o Coming Sun. —“CADET GIRL" A “TRAGEDY AT MIDNIGHT"

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Freddy Fitzsimmons Popular With Fans — Brooklyn Hurler In Demand As Speaker X. A York. Feb l‘» It l’i ! I'r.-lx.x sport* jMtin H.i»> ii.ill Freddy Fiizslmnion*. I popular pitcher of the Itooklyn {lodgers. who is th. oldest active I play- in the National letgue. hnsj .■nother claim tn has- ball tame he* going to spring training <ampl ; tu rest I'iizMmmons was trad.4 by th<- T-w York Giant* i» i Brooklyn In IM’ unit since thru ha- ih-i min- an outstanding figure. I not only on the team. but as a member of that basehall tn.nl cominunlty .. so w.-ll liked ha« Hu chunky righthander become that I he averages three speaking appearI inees per week and that in addl--1 tlon to operating a well-paying la.wling establishment . . He adj rnitn. though that he wouldn't trade j places with any other player in the ! Kame. The -hist of the 80-ton Brave* i and S' laiuis Brown* back to Florida for spring training this 1 year, bring* the numlier of major i league club* training there 10 I! . . Boston koc* to Hanford and St , laitils to Ileiand. Basketball - They're calling i Lieut J. It Cook, athletic officer at the I' S Naval training station. | Great Lake*. 11l . the luckiest j coach 111 the business . . . Among ' the all-star player* he has are 1 Ernie Andre*, who once *cored 31 IHiinis for Indiana; Frank Baum holtz. an All-American at Ohio I’.! i Boli Calihati. another All-American from I'niveralty of Detroit; Johnny Adam* from the I’nlverslty of Arkansas: Bill Menke. Indiana; Forest Anderson, Stanford, Dick Klein. Northwestern. John latb- ! »lger. Missouri anil Bob While of ' Dartmouth. Track A determined effort Is to j In* made this year Io revive the midWMtern track and field chainthe S fort* standing In Manila Bay continued tor the fourth day.

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I plonshlp* whh h have been dor-1 | unfit for lit year* David City J ! Neb. is Itlteiested In holding them | Frank Cilhel. former lowa ath . lele who placed third In the I meter huddles 111 the IM* Olympic* | j and won the National AAt lost i hiudles title that same year, now ! I i* Java observer for the Mutual Broadca ding company .. J F. : Facey of Boston ha* in-eii appoint ! e<i chairman of the national long i dlstaiice running committee to 1 succeed the late Mel Sheppard Incidentally Hal Van Every,] ' Green Bay backfield star from' j Minnesota, is stationed in (’alitor-1 I nla as a memlw-r of the navy air I corps Cemetery Committee Is Named At Berne Berne. Ind., Feb. 10—C. IL Museimun. chairman of a commit- | tee to Improve, lamistape, possibly rename and otherwise Improve the , MKE cetnei. ry here, today named . the ollie, members of the commitle They are Dr Kulus Von Gunten. O. F Gilliom. Mi* Grover | 1 Neuensi hwander, C. T Michaud I and Ezra Hahegger. The Berne town Imard is to name an addli tlonal member to this group Work on the Improvement project Is to start at once. Berne Native Dies At Home In Ohio Berne. Ind., Feb. 10-Funeral aervlce* were held at the Kidron. I Ohio Mennonlte church for Mr*. - Mary Nussbaum Miller Moser. 77. wife of Jacob Moser, who died at - her home near Orrville from a stroke. She was a native of this i community. Surviving are the husband. several children, two sister*. ! Mre Katie Llddy of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Emil Badertscher of i Berne and a brother. Isaac Nussbaum of Kidron. Burial waA in ! Wayne county. Ohio.

Radio Man Hero in Sinking • \ > ■Je “ T ’ Wl3l ' Z '> ’ ■ 9 * g t VW A /* WT ■ ■. ak fllk J g- . ■ ■'*< uJUt ISBBBBBBBr •<'*■* Kenneth Maynard and Captain Paul H. Browne Kenneth Maynard, hero of the torpedoing of the tanker, China Arrow, sent to the bottom by a U-boat off the Atlantic coast, la Shown at Lewis, Del., seated beside the captain of the ship, Captain Paul Hoffman Browne of New York. Maynard, radio operator aboard the vessel, stuck to his post as two torpedoes struck the tanker He rigged up an emergency transmitter and kept sending distress signals Before ordered to abandon ship, he placed a book ever the key of his set so that a continuous signal would be sent until the vessel sank. The entire 37-man crew was rescued from lifeboats by a coast guard cutter.

Four Yankees Sign Contracts For 1942 1 ■ l ■ • New York. Feb 10—iVPI— Rookies Ken Sears. Hank Borowy and Mel Queen, and regular Phil i Rizzuto became the first four | members of the .New York Yankees to sign their IM2 contract* I today | Shortstop Rizzuto. recently re-1 > covered from Influenza and u ! I sprained ankle, and pitcher Bo I | rowy. winner of Di «am«« for New : i ark last year, signed at the Yan- ■ kee«‘ office here. Rizzzuto. under- | weight, will report at St. Peters- i I burg. Fla., with the first squad I Feb. 21. « Queen, a 14-game winner with Glnghatntoii of the Eastern league last season, and Sear*, who hit .Jul for Newark mailed their contracts. The Giant* announced the aigni Ing <>f former St. Louis pitcher Bill McGee for a reported $7,500 Me- ; Gee came to the (Slant* from St. I»uis last May 14 In exchange for I pitcher Hairy Humbert and cash. He won two and lost nine and now >* conditioning at Hot Springs, ; Ark. — o Adams County Farm Brinqs Hiqh Price 1 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Berning i have purchased the Bernlng-t'cheu-mann farm, one-half mile west of St. John's Lutheran church at a price of 212.200 for the til acre*, it was reported here. The figure was said to ba one of the highest since the first World War. The purchase wa* made from Hubert R McCletiahsn and Ferd ' I L. Litterer. commissioners appointed by th« court, and wa* conduct- ' ed through Walter J. Bockman, lo- | cal real estate agent.

Devote Friday Night Tilt To Golden Jubilee Proceeds Os Commie Gome To Be Given To Game Memorial Ftlday night’* game between the Decatur Commodore* and the Pleaaant Milla Spartan*, the final Deratur appearance of the Commlm thia »ea«on. will be dedicated to the Golden Jilblilee of basketball. Rev Alvin Jaainaki, athletic director of the Decatur Catholic high uchool. haw announced. Tile game Will lie played at the Yellow Jacket* gymna*lum. The entire net proceed* of the game will lie donated to the fund ' which I* being ralaed to e*tabll»h I a basketball hall of fame in Spring field. Maaa.. the birthplace of the •port 50 year* ago. The game of haekelball wa* •farted M year* ago in Springfield by the late Dr. Jame* Naiemilh. and the hall of fame will be dedicated to perpetuating the game. Each team which conduct* a golden ball game will receive a handaomely engraver! acr 011 worthy of being framed and hung with athletic trophic*. Indicating participation in the Nui*mith memorial; will have the new*paper account and box *<ore of the game placed 111 the archlVrM of the milaettm; and will have the picture of it* team in the temple of ba«kethall In a aectlon devoted «ole|y. to golden ball game *pon*or«. TO DISCUSS FARM I tXiNiiNcau enow ca.ia .*wn< gram are I, M Vogler, agricultural adjustment administration, chairman; E. II Shldeler. farm «ecurity administration, vice-chair-Iman. W. L. Bayne*. *oll conawrvaI lion »ervlce, aecretary: L E. Hoffman u«*l*tant extension director; M M. Ju«tln. agricultural marketIng aervice; J. F Hull, farm credit administration; Rudolph II Gra- | bow. fore*t »ervlce; Frank J Hurion. rural electrification admlni*tratloti: John It Kohlmeyer, bureau of agricultural economic*; and Edward H Carry, aurplu* marketing adminlctratlon. I ax* I Imanl member* wno will attend the Huntington meeting Include Winfred L. Gerke. agricultural adjustment administration; Roland J Newman, farpt xecurlty administration: Leland A Ripley, farm credit administration: Sam J. Fogle, rural electrlflr-ation administration. •—— ■ 0 TODAY'S COMMON ERROR A luink president In a small town may live in a large, pre tentiou* dwelling or house, but It I* not a mansion. Strictly, a mansion I* u manor-house of ‘ a lord

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Maple Rumblings A 151 by Hetty Row* and a 171 by Mrs. Molly Mies led the Wie men a League at Mie* Recreation last night, as Stol» Diner won three from Vera'w Beauty Shop. Eve's swept their aerie* With Wilel's. Kettle won two from Gerber * and Hill-Smith three from Schafer'* ... Alley official* taported t.xlay that Betty Schneider'* Ml rolled In the mixed double* Friday night wa* one of the top single game* rolled by a woman at the hH al alley* . . . Iler M»2 total for the serie* Is al«> beUevml j top. . . The women's leagu. standing*: W L Hill-Smith » S Kettle * < Gerber's ..75 Wiley* • • Stull • • KVe'* k * Schafer's -I • Vera's : ■' Minor League In the Minor league last night Charles lleare posted a big 6l!» to lead all efforts . . . His game* were 333. IS* and IM . . . Ini Identlally Mgr Molly Mie* stated today that Charlie unintentionally wa* robbed of the honor of posting high single game In the recent bowling tour- | iiey . His 3<5 was the be*t single game of (he classic, rather than

“TRAILER VAGABOM)"~| i By WARREN BATI.ET

Carson City. Nevada. The population of Nevada might ea*ily be a race of hermit*. There is a generous square mile of territory here for each and every resident of the State. With lin.gvd square mile* of country for 110.247 Nevadan* to live In. these people might never see each other if they were scattered evenly over the State. Rut they’re not In fact fully a third of Nevada I* etill unsurveyed — 7COOC.OCO acre* practically uninhabited and unexplored. With so much land to take care of and *0 few people to pay for th<> Job. you'd think the finances of Nevada would be on the rocks Add to that the fact that there are no Stato Income, corporate. Inheritance or sales taxes and you're sure of It. But you're wrong. Nevada's Treasury is In ths pink instesd of ths red snd hasn’t even a psnny of bonded indebtedness. Which is mors than the Tressuries of msny tax-ridden State* can boast. It has taken folks a long'time to wake up to the fact that, from the standpoint of taxation, this Is the Ideal place for rich and poor alike to call home. Only a alxth of Nevada I* now privately owned —and half of that belong* to railroad*. But that condition may soon change. As we wander through th* stat* w* see evidence of increasing population. People ar* hearing about taxless Nevada and are coming her* to stay. Nevada's small population I* partly due to her coming of age very suddenly. Instead of going through the usual long period of development. Rhe sprang Into sudden world prominence when silver and gold began to pour from the mines a few mile* north of this Capital. That metal and the outbreak of the Civil War got Nev

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ada Into the I'nlon in «ptt»4 small population Th<-s. .11 127.381 people each Repressti'a' iNevada had but (".“"V Tml wanted the wraith o* WI stock Lode to bo stt- c-«M it ha* been said that t«« • * western Nevada wo" t*e I War. Although loyalties in fluctuated between the I and Hotith during the *tt( residents matuig-d to rain President Lincoln ths a amount of money per rad any State or Territory. ■ end of the Civil War a M lion dollars in gold and dim come out of the t'otnstoci I A Ilka- amount has hern iff Since. Acquiring Nevasa Mexico in 1848 proved « H of the most fortunate psN ever made by the U 2. A Though mining donnt now what it did dut-ln* M “Age of Silver " It contiaS be the chief activi'y of th!»T Nature made up for giving ’ da a barren soil by piant>*| tune* in minerals beneath • kaline surface. Mine* ‘ brought the fli«t nub or a here and are responsible ** every development But aomethmg b**lM’ mine* I* now attract ng ’»■ Nevada. Few and lenient u» le* sound good to the Ht»* retired from th.- Joh on st pension and to the big f* l should retire on h!« nr- ■‘’-o actively engaged > n . other state* <an • deuce here in forty-two ■ —one minute a day ' or ** - and then ’ , ’ n ‘ ;-J law* of Nevada *" '' heading th.* way ’o r residence. *o maybe **"'» • # wide open spaces will ®«2 up-