Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1942 — Page 6

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Boudreau Stars In Victory For American Stars First Inninq Homer, Brilliant Fielding Highlight Battle New York, July T.--(UP) Lanky Mort Coe per reared back on the mound and fogged a high, fast one straight toward the outstretched rilitt of brother Walker Cooper behind the plate. But the ball never reached brother Walker, because lx>u Boudr.au laxhed out and sen! It nailing 260 feet into the upper left field etatidn of the polo Ground*. That dramatic home run on the se<ond pitch of the contest was psychologically the ball game, although husky Rudy York contributed another four-bagger, with a mate aboard, in th ■ same first Inning to give the American leaguers and ultimate 3-1 victory over the National circuit aU-stars last night 111 their 10th mld«eason classic. As Joe McCarthy's victorious American league squad entrained for Cleveland and tonight's encounter with the Army Navy allstars, slender, dark-haired Bon dreau was the idol of baseball. Not AUCTION DOEHRMAN’S STORE Williams. Ind. FRIDAY NIGHT, July 10 Assortment of Articles, Hardware. Paints, etc. Air Conditioned I — Last Tims Tonight — * “TORTILLA FLAT" Spencer Tracy. Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield. Frank Morgan | ALSO—Short! 9c 30c Inc. Tas * WEI). & THURS. * OCR Bit. DAYS! * I First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thurs. from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! VERONICA ' LAKE ROMRT I PRESTON ► ALAN LAOO. Laird Cregac o—o Pel. a •M. — Jwdy Cowova. Allan JoMS. Trvo to the Army" -0•— ©testag fiMU—-tUY GAL SAL"

because of that first-inning wallop | alone, but because Bis superb per , formanea afield combined to make | him definitely the star of all the stars on the field. His achievements last night cansi ed even more comment among the 33,(94 fans than the bizarre events , that were sandwiched in during the classic — inclement weather ' that delayed the etart more than a half hour and a 20 rnfnute blackout that engttlft-d the Harlem horse- : shoe almost simultaneously with the last out, leaving the fans sitting stoically in the cavernous i stands and players groping for Ilockers in the dark dressing rooms. Handsome Boudreau. 24-year-old , sb rtstop ami freshman manager I of the Cleveland Indians, started lightning double plays in the first ; and sixth innings that squelched incipient National league uprisings. In addition, his spectacular, slabbing catch of Pee Wee Rees 's lino drive in the seventh ended another threat, with two men on base. latter in the dark but roaring ' dr-sslng room of the boisterous American leaguers. Boudreau i shrugged cff his fielding achievements. hut admltttsl that his home run provided "one of the biggest I thrills I ever had In baseball." Rudy York of the Detroit Tigers, who played a grgud game at first base in addition to winning the classic with his first inning homer, was justlhantly Jubilant, too. as he climbed Into his civvies. The National league's lone tally also was n home run. belted by none other than catcher Mlusey Owen of the Dodgers goat of the last world serins. Alton Benton of the Tigers, the lowering righthandhander who pitched the last five innings fcr the Americans, served Mickey a fast one down the center in the eighth inning when .Mickey, as pinch hitter, was the first man up Owen trapped ft into the right I field stande. Two players who got considerable but k slapping and hand-shak- ' ing in the victors dressing room Were Spud Chandler of the Yankees and Benton of the Tigers, both righthanders. Thein tight pitching protected the lead provided in the finst inning. Chandler allowed but two hila In four Innings and was the winning pitcher. Benton was I found for four safeties In five I frames. Including Owens' homer. Lippy I-eo Durocher. pilot of the j Dodgers and manager of the NatI Iona! squad, used 22 playere his < litlre fit squad. These included four pitchers Mort Cooper, the loser, sllowed four hits in three innings. including the two fatal horn era. In the dressing room Mort explained that the delay In starting the game after he had warmed up cooled him off, and he didn't have all his "stuff ' until the third In ning Johnny Vander .Meer of Cin I CORT i — Last Tims Tonight — * "GENTLEMAN AT HEART" Cesar Romero. Carole Landis A -LONE STAR RANGER" John Kimbrough, Sheila Ryan . *c-250 Inc. Tas I WEI). & THURS. ! Mtm ro rm mu-r ' WITH Al Al run tty -tONI IAUGNS ANP APVfNTU"? A 't 1 atin ■ —* w I MARE f C I “ flkfil 81M8BOR t I I TiatDfifi BAIL j I /<_<<'•' ' --idT r " ■DK3HOK9u3 —o ten. A Mon. — “Who ia Hope •eteylde- A “On the tenny fiteo"

Service Stars Play American Stars Tonight Expect Bob Feller To Start Toniqht For Servicemen Cleveland. 0., July 7--tt'P) — Memories of the brilliant record America's fighter-athletes complied : during World War 1 will be revlv-1 ed tonight when an all servicemen's 1 baseball team meets the American : U-ague all-stars in a war relief, benefit at Municipal Stadium. .Many names familiar to sports fans represented the armed fores 1 lof the nation in 1918-19. In 1942. • with Amerla again at war. It Is the same story. Tonight Lieut. Mickey Cochrane, former manager of the Detroit Tig-1 ers and now coach of he tervicemen's earn, plans o start firebailer t Bobby Feller when ire game gets underway at 8 p. m. <CWTI. Joe .McCarthy, manager of the New Yoik Yankees and pilot of thv American League team tha' I trimmed the National League allI stars. 3-1. In the Polo Grounds in New York last night gave the nod to Jim Bagby Thus two former teammates will 'be on the moond for the ciobs. Tonight's contest. as well as laa: night's New York affair, which drew a crowd of 33,694, Is for the benefit of Army and Navy relief. Advance sales so far have gone close to 59.000, Indicating that a crowd of «0.000 will (>•■ in the huge | Mkefront Stadium when play getsl underway. A crowd of 80,000 can | be accommodated. Cochrane, aside from predicting that hlo boys "would give them a I battle." and admitting that Feller I would probably start, refused to | name a complete starting lineup.' He said the only sure starters for the game are Ernie Andress, his third baseman who has never played in the majors, and Don Padgett, former St. Ixiuls Cardinals' outfielded, now a Coxswain 'n the Navy Cochrane employed subtle strate.i gy when he managed Detroit to i two pennants and one world series. Today he did the same thing, keeping bis lineup such a closelyguarded secret that the following group of "possibilities'' was the nearest thing to a startin' t<nm that could Im* designated. From a squad that included 13 Navy men and eight Army players. Cochrane <nay field a team like this-• Pitcher —Feller or Rigney. Catcher-Frank Pytlak or Ken Silvestri. First Base—Johnny Strum or Chester Hajduk Second Base Benny McCoy or Emmett Mueller. Short Stop -John Lucad>llo or Cecil Travis. Third Base—Andress. Right field—Joe Grace or Pat Mullin. Center Field Sam Chapman or Morris Arnovk-h l<eft Field- -Padgett. < Innati succeeded him and gave an impressive display of fireball throwing, aliening but two hits in thre frames. Claude Paaseau of the Cubs allowed one wafety In two Innings, snd Bucky Walters of the R*ds permitted none for his lone session. Largely because of the poor I weather, the attendance of 33,694 and the estimated receipts of |95.out) were unespertedly small, as lhe American league registered its seventh victory In 19 all-star classics. Proceeds go to the bat snd ball fund for V. R. service men. — Ct— BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY —The "breen Kettle” at public auction 2:00 P. M., Wed July Kth. Will nell to the highest bidder. 3 4 7 LOANS $lO to S3OO OIMKIf MB MHVkTtLT Mfißt Wc try u> wuks ths borrowiag oi munry < umpie crvaMitum. Yoe do not iuvt to avk frwnd* or rcUtivs* to •*.-> your nou L<»ni »rv mute without mhsrruMg c ntn Mqairwa BVMMar Apt* far shea is As pray s4ysßsowslMs,arin MS prrvM* coumksdM neew U fasMta SSMlMaaMltaM WWWS**ad*MWSMW rrjr.mniw vR ul es yue sad ms finw-* arnw fafiy. Ym *m sadw as «AgM i yas da aw *A* a Ism. I OOTtM. mtMm" LOCAL LOAN COMPANY, INC. •wr SMeM SMu OSH NMS SmM IM M.M MJ Mcsrva. iwuai saj-—

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MAJOR LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn U 21 -712 St. Uiuls 43 29 .597 8% Cincinnati 41 43 .647 12 New York 40 37 .619 14 Chicago 38 41 .481 17 Pittsburgh 24 40 .459 18% Boston 35 48 .432 21 Philadelphia 21 54 .280 32 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Naw York 50 26 .858 Boston 48 30 .805 4 Cleveland 45 35 .583 7 Detroit 44 38 .537 9 St. Louis 37 41 .474 14 Chicago 31 44 .413 18% Philadelphia ... 32 61 .393 21 Washington 29 5o 367 22% YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National Ltagut No games scheduled. American League No games scheduled. o— - • ——-—■ ■ -a Today's Sport Parade • Reg. U. S. Pat Office By Jaek Guenther • En Route To Second All-Star Game At Cleveland. July 7—(VP) ; - The tenth annual 4>useball circus may now be filed away in a wrapping of lavender and old lace, and member. of the baseball writer's association won't mind a bit if you life them away with it. What with the thunderstrom. the 52minute postponement, the blackou’ and a wee’bound train which left New York Just two hours after the game ended, they’re still as Jittery as the Wright boys that day at Kitty Hawk. Trying u> drive a bail through that American League infield combination of Rudy York. Joe Ger don. Ixmi Boudreau and Ken KeltMr— an the National League players will be quick to tell yon was something like trying to drive the same ball oat of a hotel room with the door locked, the windows herded and the key-hto plugged. Although the gate .'.Hied the bat and ball fund 195.904 the Nationals stUl don't think R waa worts it. All Boudreau did waa knock the second P'teh of the ball game tor a homo run. start two double plays and end the Nationals' one big scoring chanee with a brilliant running stab of Pee Wee Reese's stinging line drive in the seventh inning The tans bad quite a Mt to any about the performance of the young Cleveland manager, as did Leo Durwher If you are iatereof•d what Durocber said Will be mailed in a plate wrapper Befors the game. theTi, were ready for a community ate g of that old Harry Lauder favorite -~Roamta* In The GioamiD — As ft got under way. they began expeetteg a revival of "in darkest Africa ” Tarpaultea were spread 00 thiekly

that the only things left exposed I were the knees of the little lady in the front row center The changing light conditions made tile players as nervous as a dog in a new apartment, but the evening's moral -never trust an American Leaguer after dark—was soon brought home. Batting against Mort Cooper in the first Inning was something like playing grab bag at a booth where every string io attached to first prise. The top of the American League batting order fattened up on him like a dowager cutting loose In a confectionery shop. Oh. well. Just another case of a Cooper being over a barrel. Joe McCarthy came out of a sick bed for the game but he had more time on his hands than a traffic cop patrolling the Bronx parkway since the gas rationing program was effected Boudreu wasn't Just a star, he was the whole blamed big dipper. York was as much in demand an last year’s bathing cap. And Gordon gobbled grounders the way a pin ball machine consumes nickels. As that Dodger fan said* though, how could the Nationals expect to Win without French. Carn i 111 and Walker? Cloverleaf Trounces Wayne Novelty Team Cloverleaf trounced Wayne Novelty. 20 to 4. in a City softball league game Monday night at Worthman Field. Novelty failed to score until the Anal Inning. In the exhibition tilt. Bt. Mary's edged out a 2 to 1 triumph over fit Andrew's of Fort Wayne, scoring the winning run without a hit In the sixth Inning. Scores by Innings: RHE Cloverleaf 606 512—20 it 2 Wayne Novelty 000 004— 4 3 7 Faulkner and Strickler; Rultemeter and Snyder. St Andrew’s .... 000 100 9—l 2 2 St. Mary's 100 001 I—2 4 5 Springer and Schoenle; H Baker and L. Hackman. Bollinger. —" " a Farmer Is Accused Os Poisoning Three Accused Os Killing Uncle, Two Aunts Edwardsville. HL, July 7—(UP>Murder warrants accused Saia Hall. 39. a farmer, today of having pel iOMd his uncle and two maiden aunts whose M-acre farm ho Inherited after their deaths three years ago Justice of the peace R H Larner of Gracile City Issued the warrants •4 the request of Mate's attorney ‘ W Burton while c coroner’s Jury at Edwarduvllle returned verdicts homicide aft nr Its Investigation »f the deaths No was held at the time of the deaths because the victims were believed to have died of natural canoes The Jury reported that Hail's oe * Marton Hall. P 9 had died of •twaic poisoning sad Martoa's an warned staters Laura. 71. and Magnolia. M. had died of arseaie sad mercury polsocf:* AU died within a stx-weok period.

Changes Possible For World Series Advisory Council To Decide Conduct New York, July 7—(VP)—The major leagues were concen'iatlng on tonight's all-star game with the service squad at Cleveland but behind the scenes today a three-man advisory baseball council was making plans that may revolutlonlxe conduct of the classic world series in SeptemberNormally, 'he world series l» played on a best-of-seven basis in the cities of the teams which have won the respective big leauge pennants. But when Commissioner Kenesaw M. I«andis. president Ford Prick of the National League and President Will Harridge ot the American League come to a decision. the annual diamond extravaganza may “hit the road” on an extended barnstorming tour. The big leagues met in separate sessions yesterday and then pooled their members for three hours in Joint conclave that produced some of the stormiest inter-leagae debates since night baseball addicts first tried to make the arc-light affairs genera! In the rnajort. However, the oniy matter defInltely settled except nomination of the "big three" to handle the series question—was a denial ot owner Clark Griffith's plea to allow his Washington Senators to play the remainder of their schedule—evceptlng Saturday*. Sundays and holidays—as night games The American Oague approved Griffith's suggestion at their earlier meeting, but at the Joint session he met a solid front of protest from the National league Landis caat the dissenting vote to break the deadlock. The senior circuit's action may have been motivated by the rival loop's objection to the proposed changes in the series setup. The National Ueaaue favored the change which would take the series on tour through minor league cities oa a best 8 ot 16 schedule. The first four or six of th-) games would be played In the pennantwinning cities. Then the teams would travel through cities such as Ixm Angeles. Calif., or Dallas, Tex. for a double-barrelled reason—to Increase the eventual lake for military relief and arouse Incn ased Interest in the game. a Germans Conscript Jews Into Service African Prisoners Tell Forced Service By Richard D McMillaa (Copyright, 1942. By United Press.) With the British ArtiPery, El Ala mein Line. Egypt. July •—• fa m — (UP)— Two German prisoners, aged 39 and 31. told me today that they just had been conscripted so 1 asked them why the Germans had waked ao long to call them. *’We are Jews," one of them said. 'They have Just begun conscripting Jews in Germany.” For 48 hours now the British and German guns have fired day and night in a ceaseless artillery duel. The Germans have brought up heavy pieces which are couc<*ntrat--1 Ing on the British dug in petitions The British 30-mlle front is Miff I with guns, in the words ot a head--1 quarters officer, and tor days I have been watching more guns 1 coming Into the lines at racing ’ speed to reinforce our taat’eries. A gunner told me that he had ' never fired so many shell! In this war. though be bad fought in ' France and Greece, and a German 1 prisoner aald: "It has been hell, day and night ” The thunder of the guns fills the desert air in a crashing symphony, at night the bursts light up tha aky and mingles with the flares ot signal rockets and the explosions of the bomba dropped by the British Hall has been in custody since June M when a chemical analysis disclosed that Marion Had had been poisoned with enough aroenie to “kill a doaen men." Hall has insisted he knew noth lag of the deaths Circuit Judge Mauries V. Joyce ordered tbs bodies exhumed Jum 30 at the request of Hall's brother. David, and hia elater, Mrs. Esther Bobematleal. who said they believed tbeir three relatives had been poisoned. AutteriUoe did sot reveal the tests of their belief or explala why the reqeeat had not bean made previously. Bam Hall lived with bls nets and aunts oa ttelr term satf tokerited It after tbeir d««tbs. He i was married sooa after the third i death and la the tetter of a twu-year-old son i Burton disclosed that HaU ted ’ teen gives a lie deteeter teat last Vrttey by R T. Piper, chief ot the l lllluoto terete of criminal mveetigetioa. sad Leonard Kester. CMcn- ! go. operator of lie detection de vices.

planes. It Is still a complete mystery why the German airforce ia so weak In the desert, almost ‘he only planes we see are those of the Roy. al Air Force. It may be that the Germans have lost so many planes over Malta and In the earlier phases of this dssert fighting that they have only a skeleton force left and do not dare to draw planes from the Russian front or from the Western front, in fear of attack by the combined British and United States air fortes. If the British could g*t a few hundred more bombers and fighters from India or elsewhere immediately. they could clinch the issue In this battle for the Nile The enemy is using a new type of mixed wheel-and-tractor long range machine gun. It resembles the British Vickers but is much more mobile. It Is added evidence of the variety of weapons th? .Nails supply their fighting men In contrast to the narrow range of types of fighting tools the Britlsii getx 0 Two Men Lost When Ship Is Torpedoed Survivors Spend Seven Days At Sea An East Coast Port, July 7—(UP) —Two men were lost when a small American merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean on June 7, the navy disclosed today. The 29 survivors were landed at a West Indian port and later brought to U. fl porta. Attacked without warning in daylight. the ship sank in seven minutes. One of two lifeboats wao destroyed when the torpedo exploded but the men launched the remaining boat and two life rafts. The submarine commander and j some of hia men. all wearing swimming trunks, appeared on the sub’s deck and asked the merchant captain the usual questions about his cargo, the name of bls ship, and its destination. The U-boat commander gave the men tbeir position at sea and their exact mileage from land. The submarine then moved in among the floating debria and picked up some cases of cargo which had not sunk The survivors were seven days In making land. .Q One plodder on the road Is worth two speeders in the ditch.

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China Reports On ’ Heavy Jap Losses | 2,500,000 Losses I In Five-Yeor W o ,l Chungking. July 7 up, ■ han suffered more " un caxualtiex and loet J :,i.| -, jM 14 major battles and lux; J la skirmishes in the w » r N the Chinese, the Chine.* \ J Military Council annoumwW as SinoJapane.xe hostiHtiql ed the sixth year. L In a special fifth aunive- J communique, the council q Japanese casualties ln< 000 troops killed and ;fl wounded. In addition. sonera were captured and :fl pieces of war boo»y »e!x*d 1 The report said 800 (nW J J troops and about l.Ois) jfl planes now were ihimo'si'fl China proper , The booty included no I lery pieces. 8,676 ma<hiafl 192(420 rifles and 8.841 uifl rlea and automobiles. A military spokesman isl figure for Japanese < j.ua?fl "conservative" and that It fl only troops ot Japanese nrifl The report covered the fml of war beginning with the .J for control of the Ma-til bridge over the Yin<t!n,'l near Peiping In 1937 T.il dent marked the l>eginnn;l fight that has spread out -»a richest and most populoui fl of China, driving an estinufl 009.000 Chinese from thei-fl along the coasts to bleak fl regions. (J Chungking, capital of I Issltno Chiang's governing 1 ' brsted the war annlveru fl ( enthusiasm, displaying la ri ners expressing detenninafl “drive the Japs to the isbaj —J PUBLIC AU( TKj MONDAY, July J 1:00 p. m. CWT. I at my residence. 7 it ’ northwest of Det-alut" Highway 27. Household Furniturt* Essex automobile, tiu Rev. R. TrudJ — i tei. '