Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1942 — Page 6

PAGE SIX

EnAPOKLfe

Writer Picks Favorites In Tilts Saturday Gory, Washington, Madison And Muncie Doped As Winners Indianapoli-. March IS. < I'Pt Horace Mann of Gary Washing ton* Halchela. the Mund. Burris Owls ami th* Madison Cuba there's your (out «tate tourney fin al Ist*. and brother, it’ll*ba Ilk* ■trolling through a meat grimier tor the team that wail--* through that kind of competition. It's only a prediction. of course, arrived at t>> mean* of statiatlrs. dope, a divining rod and the flip of a coin, on that hast*. the«e four should emerge from Hahirday'* s-ml finale Two of the choices are obvion* The other two are pray er*. In the Murule and An demon playoff*. Ilurrl* and Madison would he dlflliult to Ignore, although these tourney* are studded with da tiger, hi* dark hor*e*. At Hammond and Vlncenne*. the competition la ao ( lone that anything may happen and pmbahly will. Breaking It down by center*, here'* the way the seml-fiiials ahould. but probably won't, alack up: At Hammond Horace Mann. The Horaemen tnu«t pray their way past Frankfurt in what loom* a* the hotteat game In the attae Everett Caae is *t--eped in the lore of how towin tourney*, especially when the ship* are down Mann ha* the ability to win All they need I* the mental altitude and lota of light. Houth Rend Central figure* a* the team to down latganaport in the opening tilt, but Central will have a fight Like Case, coach t Cliff Well* hold an ace in tourney play, Welle doe* not have a world beater thia year, hut he coached Bloomington to the crown in 1919 and Logansport In 1934 He could do It again. Horace Mann won t have a actup in the night gan.- They'll have to light again, but It ahould be an anticlimax after Frankfort. Also, if Mann doea beat Frankfort, it'a likely to he by In or IS point*. If Frankfort win*, the wore ahould be more like 25 S 3. That'* the type of game they play Mann fa*t and lotme, Frankfort tight and set. At Vlncenne*: Washington The Hatchet* meet their toughest tourney teat thia year in Central of Evansville. the five that dished out the only Hatchet defeat thia season. Then Redford ahould overthrow Terre Haute Wiley in the second content The Hatchet* «hould whip the Ntoner-Utter* 111 the deciding claah a* they have twice before Ihi* season. 25 to 17. and 30 to 2*. Rut both Hatcb*t victories loom a* aavage battle* Redford had WashIngtou licked for three and one-half quarter* on Jan ». but then fell be-

NOTICE To Patrons Hecaune of unavoidable rirrumutaneex it will be neceaNary to diweontinue Nerving Sunday Dinner* for a abort time. PEOPLES RESTAURANT A. Heimann. Prop. IW. GUV BROWN J2C Lin* fit. j • t =■ TMb waMm as **arM*y aad >*•> mmi mat MWWammmA.»-awmAMw

fore a late rally. Al Mumia. Ilurrl*. That iipaet demon. Wolf latke, tee* off again*! the Ilurrl* tin I* in the early round, but Ilurrl* won't he caught napping a* Fort Wayne Central was. Tipton versus Huntington appears to lie a* clow u tattle as any in the alate, but Tip tun I* doped a* winner Harris ha* beaten Tipton twite thix year and should repeat In the filial game At Anderson Madi*on The opening tilt key* the entire tourney a* the Cub* face Craw forduville Madison'* persistent I power should overcome the Ath*n I ian*' great offen«- In the other game, lawreme Central should I dump Aurora simply because latwrelice ha* a good team that ba* suddenly tinned hot. And becau*--Aurora'a com pel H loa this year ha* not heen tile hrel. Madison will dixpoae of laiWretire in the limit clash, however I Now any game that doe* not end a* predicted automatic .illy be come* an iiimet I • o Red Sox Manager Beset With Woes Players In Service, Injuries Beset Sox Harasola. Fla. March 13. tl'l'l The major league manager who ha* the moat right to let hi* hair down and have a good cry I* Joe Cronin, ho** of the Bo*ton lied Mo* But Cronin isn't crying, he'd the most cheerful pilot in Florida It you don t think Cronin's applecart I* loarled with headache*, look over ihi* list: The Tetl Williams caw (the *upreme headache of haaehullt. Frankb- Pytlak. No. 1 catcher, who won't report until next week because of an Infected toe. In addition Pytlak ha* been classified in I-A. Jimmy Foxx. broken toe on hi* left foot. He'U he unable to undergo hard training for 10 day* or two week*. Pitcher Emerson Dickman, who enlisted in the naval reserve, likely to lie called up any day. Three potential regular* Mickey Harris and Karl Johnson, southpaw*. ami first baseman Al Flair, <ottflted on to succeed Fogg at first, already in the army. Third ha*eman Jim Tabor, pulled tendon in heel, likely to be out of training for a week or longer. That give* you a general idea ol what Cronin ha* to contend with In trying to pul together a ball <luh to overtake the world champion Yankees in the American league penniint race It'a disheartening. to say the least, but Cronin Isn't wearing hie trouble* on hl* sleeve. "I'm going along free and easy," Cronih say*, "doing the best I can with what I've got to work with. It’s silly to make any plan* or to worry over had break* in time* like these. There are more Important thing* at stake. If we lose a few ball players to Uncle Ham, we'll get Mimebody else to replace them We are mighty promt to do our share. "A* for Ted Williams, there's nothing I ca nsay. The kid I* in a had apot, there's no doubt about that. I think his cane has been greatly misunderstood He wa* reclassified by the board of highest authority and they must have been satisfied that he was entitled Io deferment Nobody can help him out now. the whole thing la up to him." **' 1 ' »'■" ■ At the Traininq Camps By United Prasa fi ———- ■ - 4 1 Miami. Fla.. Mar 13 — (UP) — Opening a three-game week-end aeries with the Dodgers today, the New York Giant* will use three regular pitchers of whom much Is expected thia season. They are Carl Hubbell. Bob Carpenter and Hal Mchumacher. Cheering reports were received concerning the injured arm of first baseman Johnny Mile. The tape was removed yesterday and Mite took a long, easy workout. The Giants defeated the OPA-Locka naval air station team yesterday, lfi-1. «< Peteraburg. Fla. - The New York Yankee*, happy about the signing of Joe DiMaggio, go into exhibition action against Cincinnati today. Loa Angeles. - Chicago's Cutet and White Box both play their first exhibition game of the season today and In doing ao reopen a bitter city feud. Cabs manager Jimmy Wilson will start veteran Claude Pxaseau on tbe mound in an effort to avenge the walloping which tbe Cube took in tbe city eerie* last October. Rookie Ed Welland wll pitch the first three inning* for the White Sox. Sox manager Jimmy Dyke* announced the signing of fro* agent

« pgAps o*ie c* f4e t fl» - rl —\ MAftoiAu / ru i I rfAsue ueauy / CtoSe, f AAfiu: *AB arfivß uts I it z / .• lIIUK/NJ leecoKPorusr \ Mil, /mP***» c wot 1 1 _ w y c*a sit s 7 lJf W| <*SAieoFMtxe /if 1/ S « IfAtJsfc Fl«f BASS / W Fed xkNI OPffM fur CA-f y if f Wlk saJpmi, a tepi- y / k*- ' IJB— 1 , UANPtP MAvteff W ' < cocuMSus, cam ‘ v’vmte TAg fbsiT<pd juos-rnrcMUsisio* fl j \ r y MlliW jriX , .» fl 4 / MuSIAL, 7Me‘ , Rooieit nJD,” *o* 26 6am6 x k • s exPec-rep To wim ode of tme ouT&etP fbcqousroM Jh . v Jobs WifMTeweyAfiooee jup emos sjßueAtrn lM i<Ml eerpfQE. K / •** AML MDMfM OF TUe M0LO14& DdWal w OTHER Ttfifo. N i2€AMes dCusJid&TMfr tw «Q4l FENNAdfCMASe rbiiEf Fo« CARDS LATC LAST SEA So M 3T>*d 'fi WSI SttoMPCUM N WiMMiMG- lT A'/fBAOC 0F.#26 serreMeEß. fwg

Ham We*t, 37, veteran oinfieldet released by the Washington Hen-1 ator*. In a move to increase the, team’s scanty supply of outfield re- i serves West wired Dyke* he' would report Saturday front lath-luH-k. Texas laxkeland, Fla The Detroit Tlx ers Were ni lwduled to meet the Ht. latui* Cardinal* today ill the opening game of a thirty-game spring training program. ’ Manager Del Baker, Impreaaed with the practice game tterform-1 ances of Harold N*wh«u»er and I'aul * Diary t Trout, nominated lhe I two young huriera for action against the duh which ie favored to dethrone th* National league champion Brooklyn Doilxer*. Harasotu. Fla Their hatting punch apparently discovered, the! Washington Senators moved in here today to meet the Boston Bed Sox. with Steve Sundta, veteran right hutfder. nominated by ntauax ei Bu<k> Harris io open on the mound. Yesterday, the Nat* knix kt-d off the Cleveland indiatts. 10-7, with first baseman Miikey Vernoa'a horn.- ruii with two on the big blow, laikeland, Fla. With only the Veteran cati hor Gua .Mancuso to steady them, manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals banked on a lineup of rookie* again today in a training ramp game with lhe Detroit Tigers. The youngsters'had a field day yesterday at Tampa, reining on the Cincinnati ace. Bulky Walters and coming home with a 7 to I victory. Deland. Fla After more than a week of calksthi-nica ami routine exercises, the St Louis Brown* had a garni- of baseball under the belts today. .Managei (.tike Hew- ll split up the regulars and the rookie* for a camp game yesterday and the ffrst stringer* came up with a

Have Important Jobs 2 — - (TV 1 wH* - wjl.— X Mr HtaCoM Grippe OspL ottror l.yttletow These two British diplotnsf* are In the news because of new and important joba given them. Rir Stafford Cripps, member of the British war cabinet, former ambassador to Moscow and government leader of th* house of eommonut, goes to India to sound out Indian leaden on a British government plan to smooth th* way for eventual dominion statu: Tor India. Capt. Oliver LytUeton, who formvriy Served aa Britain’s resident minister in the Middle Bast, has been appointed British minister for production Most parliament member*, it is reported, belteve the pltw mapped out for India contains an Important military condition which would leavq Britain in full control ©f military operations in India to the end of the war and offers Ms* than the immediate independence demanded by some Indians.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR. INDIANA

Joe DiMaggio Signs Contract With Yanks Yankee Outfielder Signs For $42,000 Ht. Petersburg. Fla. March 13 11'1*1 Joe Dimaggio, poWPrhMS* 1 New York Yankee outfh'ldei voted i the moat valuable player m lhe i American la-ague last season, lieI came lia*t'taill * highest aclaried I player us HH2 today by signing a 1 ion tract reportedly calling fur M 2.IHMI Dimaggio etidi-d hi* hold-eut last I j night after a one-hour ceuference i with President Ed Barrow. who ’ said they had "compromised." 11 The contract is the ****oad high ‘ e*t in Yankee history. Bab.- Hittti I made Smi.ihmi for two -en«<>n* ami i tiie l-a'e l/ui Gehrig. Iron man first ! Itaseman. previously was tin- »ec- - mid highest paid Yank** at IM.UM Joe, who won't Im- 2k until Nov--1 I ember, turned down lhe club's ori- ' ' glttal offer of |37 Mui the same sal- , ary he received last year. He de- ! mended I’ll.t'iMt on the grounds of ■ Ifi to u victory. ■ Clearwater. Fla. - Manager Lou Ro.idreau'e youthful brow is crews- ■ i ei| w lUi twq new worries today ami • both of them are caused hy his pitching Itlaff The highly touted Charlie EmI bree made hi* debut against Wa«hington yesterday and the lowly Heni ator* handled him roughly. Then i Al Miltiar, *u|i|*>se<| to be the Tribe - mainstay this eeuson. went to lhe II badly battered Rmbree'a rescue -' and wa* pracllt-ally murdered I The litdian* lost. 10-7. with two •! of their ace hurlers blowing a S o I lead, and Boudreau I* now betting i! lonesome for a guy named Feller.

hi* 'S-gatne hitting re-ord and Hi* all-around play which led lhe Yank* to the world champt mshlp Barrow countered with a tfe.eoo offer. "We split it down lhe middle.” Barrow said. "I expected a fight with Dimaggio over hl* salaty hut It wa*n't so tough at that." Dimaggio reports today for hl* seventh year as a Yankee regular and Barrow said that he ptnlrably would ready to play witb'ir four or five day*.

Maple Rumblings A 210 posted by McClur* in the women's league at Mlc* Kei -eation la»t night was tops for the efforts of the ladle ... Mie* recreation won three form Zwii-k*. Hebble'a two from Bruce's Grille and Vivian's Beauty Hhop two from Belmont. tieven dimlile century count* were rolled in tbe Merchant liagu'They were: Siinerman. 710; If Hunter. 8W; Goohorn. 215; A. Hchamerloh. 2<>l; R Buuck. 212; Deport. 21S; D Frislnger. 202. Paul's Lunch won three from Blue Creek, Ashhaui-ber's three from <>»*iati. Andrew* Caf- three from Heven-l'p. Mie* Recreation two from HtopiN-nhagen, Stltxer’s two from Hhearer's and Pu«< Office two from Hchafer's The standings: W. L. Stiller'* It 8 Andrew* Case .... |H 6 Paul's Lunch 17 7 Hnveu-Up IS 11 Pimt Office .. IS 11 Shearer's HU Ashlmueher's 13 11 Mie* Itecreation 12 15 Ossian Tin Hhop in 17 Sohafer** 9 II Htoppenhageu . ...T g it Blue Creek 7 20 0 *1 inn W* Basketball Jamboree At Pleasant Mills The Ht. Mary'* township conservalioh club will aponaor a Imkethail jamboree at the Pleasant Mills gymnasium Wednesday night, wturting at 7:30 o'clock. The featurs* of the evening will b«: 1— Fort Wayne Colored Giant* vt. Pleaagnt Mill* All-Btar*. 2— Town Dudes v* Farm Rube* (none has ever played basketball) the referee has never seen a lame. 3 -Kitchen Maid* v*. Milk Maids thigh school girl*.) ♦— Hkyscraper* (over S feet tall) v». Bungalows (lea* rtwn 5 feet). Single admission will be 21) cents, and family admission will be 50 cents. STUDY CONTROL CONTINUBU FHOM PAW* UNB a repreantative of tbe national a*sociatlon of manufacturer* today hl* organixation * IM2 war reveau*

ret ommenda tlon "»oake<l'' small buslne** and left "a 10l of big one* out.” "Your plan." Cooper told J. Cheever Cowin, chaltanan of the N A M tax committee, ' does favor the largest corporation* In the country." Cooper, who is chairman of the house way* and means tax sithcommitfee. confronted Cowen with the example of a corporation '-irtiing 5100.0M.000 111 1942, with iverage earning* from 193 d to 1939 of |W.noo.oofl "That corporation would pay Mit.ttfib.FHHt under your program and Il now pay* t47.OM.fitM* under the present law". Cooper said. 0 People who will do unfair things for you are likely to do unfair things against you.

=====l SUN. MON. TUES. » A W w Cont.nuou. Sunday from 1:15 EKbIMUMaIUJ ONLY 9c-3(k Inc. Tax HITS tm s< I ‘ w*o* **" d> M A dl * uNfoaoinAOU / F o / |“ T M« WAITIg ANO I OtTHI ■£=-" ICMtMUH® 4 * * w *«aunl Flciur* ..... - ■ JiOKaMbOl ALfiO- Cartoon; Pet* Smith Comte < Novelty — 0 O — — TONIGHT AND SATURDAY - When th**s two *er*w-ball* join th* army, th* army ga«a craiy—with hilarity I it’s th* funniest roryic* com.dy yat-wWt load* of pretty girl* and song hitel ’ “YOU’RE IN THE ARMY NOW” •tIMMY DURANTE, PHIL SILVERS, JANE WYMAN, the Gorgeoun Navy Blue* Sextette, Matty Malneck ALfiO-OUR QANG, Filling Nov.lty < N.w,

Japanese Attacks On Corregidor Costly — Japs Lose Heavily In Aerial Attacks With Gen MucArihur'e Army In ih* Philippines. March it. tUPi • iltelayedi Corregidor, Gen. Ihiugla* MacArthur's tort re«* Island lit the mouth of Manila -Bay. stand* Aim today after taking what its meh believe to lie. pound for pound ami acre for acre, the heaviest alrplam- taimhlng attacks on record Il has rust the Japanese I*o planes officially chimed and many more damaged and undoubtedly downed to bomb Corregidor. Nur |y one half of some attacking fleet*, heavy, medium, light and dive bombers, have been shot down hy the Island * guns. It-cently the Japaneae have confined themselves largely to uulu atice ami reconnalsaance raid*, and Corregidor. Its bailie scar* disappearing and the stars and stripe* flying from ilia highest point, eon linii-s to be the greatest headaclte of the Japanese war lord*. A*ide from lhe bombtega they had *l<mml up under, bombing* which they believe to lie heavier than those mt such place* a* Malta. Chungking and Coventry considering that Corregidor ie only 15 square miles in area, tbe men of the fortress claim another record. The crew* of the gteal coastal guns *ay these are the first American sea niaal gutta to Im- fired at an enemy target since th>. Uivll war. They say that mayhe this claim may be dispute hut at least they are the first to he fired on an enemy ground trig>p concentration That was when the If Inch mortars kmaked out a Japanese force which Ismled on the coast, on the flank of the Bataan peninsula troofM last month But it Is In the theatre of aerial warfare that the Corregidor men have taught lhe Japanese a costly lesson. Corregidor lies three mile* out j from Gen. MacArthur's Bataan [ peninsula and eight miles from the I southern shore of tbe bay. The Japanese have Manila, hut they ' van not use its harbor. Conservatively, tbe men of the Island estimate that the Japanese have dropped 1.500 luimh* on them, most of them high explosive and many of them 1.000 pounders, with the addition of some inveiidlary | bombs. Count less bombers have clouded

FkIDAY, MARCH 13, J

lb* *ky There 111 heavy Imiuilhi , ( , t| ■ l-.lllhet*, pi |y fiyhter*. unit a« u,.,, , have been droppt>| lh , Destruction ) Mr bee,, and beyond tloubt i h „, t l( ihg to Tokyo it ,i reports. Thl* liefenae ha* a larrisou which h», plane* 'to prolv< t have done the 1 4() , moment, at leu the JapaneM- h( , plane* prohibit)!. H Never hit* .i J„| H allat ke,| it,.. )ii( Ullßtuthetl tn, one third to t.. 4l iv t:i> klnr foil e ... ~, M Word Is Received Os I Fofmef Priest's Deotk I Won! wa* rv<--i'..<t y. Most Bev .1 F Null Wayne, of the <l>,nh tiei hferiliK in ft. y many on January l* q |r terliix was foitu. , ~ Mary * church m l',.it retired In IS2T <i„| »„ n . Germany. ■ He wa* Mi yeti - „|,| 4tll| B of lhe oldest I'.hliolh lhe world ll<- ».,t ( e|| here having Vl»ii.-<| time* with the 1.,:, K,.! Wilken, and lh<- 1,.-.- n,> Nelmetx. forint i pi ..r Maty * t hurt h ■

RADIOS ■' WHILE Till I \*rfc ZENITH. I’lllltti 4 n ■ CKOSI.EY ■ TABLE MODELS K CONSOLES COM BIX VI IONS BUY NOW! K rSEDKSDIOS K Open E’-enmif*. » UHRICr BROS_| [cortl SUN. MON. TmK Cort. Sunday An Scali TWO SO( KO hits: K SONS of the SUMS l| ' Bottle for A Break! ■ K Did FORM 1 Anne 6 WOlft BILK HAlOf Kg J? A HUNTZ HAU K .j| GABRUi DtU W BERNARD PUNSI’ K —AhDED THllll l lUCKIE’S CAVC-HT-1 in a crwstfirw 1 I of bullstx and woman K K. Cv,n."t< 9e2S< ,nt I Tonight * o Sa<“r da ’ I ROVROfIEK’ I “JESSE JAMES J AT BAY” I ’ With G*oroe (Gabby) H ”" | ALSO-'Ridvi of OMf" th |: Vaitey” *•»* J p m ■