Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1943 — Page 6

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Monroe Bearkatz Defeat Hartford Avenqe Defeat In County Tournament Th** Monro* Bearkatz gained revenge for their defeat in the county tourney lust w-ek. defeating the Hartford Gorilla* at the Berne gym Thursday night. 3t» to 31. Hartford hud upset the Bearkatz In the finals of the tourney las' Baturduy night. 36 to 34 M nroe held a 1* to 11 lead in last night - tilt at the half. The Bearkatz r.-0.-ing was well divided. Houdebush leading with lo points. Dubach was outstanding for Hartford with 14 points. Monroe Fti FT TP Crist, f 3 2 S Beef, f 2 15 Lehman. <• 2 17 Roudebush, g 3 4 10 Hlrsehy g < " 2 Johnson, f 2 0 4 Wagner, g o <» o Totals 13 10 36 Hartford FG FT TP Bertsch, f 2 2 6 Biggin* f 0 0 0 Dubach. c 6 2 14 Kistler, g 3 2k Vannette. g 113 Steiner, f 0 O 0 Moser, f u o u Totals 12 7 31 Referee. Garrett. Umpire, Garrett. Preliminary .Monroe IS. Hartford 11. H. 8. BASKETBALL Gary Emerson 3S. Gary Froebel 37 Hammond 43, East Chicago Washington 34 Gary Tolleston 4b. Crown Point 32. Allen Co. Tourney Woodburn 37. Arcola 30. Hoagland 27. Monroeville 22

LOW (OST LOANS We offer loan* on the F.H A ■nd convention!! payment plan* on home*, farm* and buamet* property, with —Low rotd rates, —Prompt service. —Favorable longterm payments. Phone or write— A. I). SUTTLES. Decatur Mortgage Loan representative. The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Phone 35®. Decatur. Ind.

"'.H 1 Public Auction Have purchased a »mail farm and will seU the following described property on the BuEenbarger farm located 3 mile* Hast and miles North of Berne. Indiana, or mile Mouth of the Springhill Church on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at l:oop.m.| LIVESTOCK: 12 Head of Cattle—4 good Milk Cows, will be fresh by day of sale; 3 Heifers will be fresh by or near day of sale; Sap ing calve* TWO HORSES One I yr. old Mare, and one smooth mouth Horse 21 HEAD OF SHEEP— 8 coming 2 yr. old; 3 spring lambs. 8 broken mouth Ewes. HOGS—2d Heed of Fall Fife. PEED-3 ton Timothy Hay; IM Shocks Corn Fodder MACHINERY ANO EQUIPMENT Model A John Deere Tractor, good shape, newly overhauled: New Me-Deering Tractor Disk; 2 - 14" Tractor Hows, good 8 ft. Me Deering Binder. Hay Tedder. Two row cultivator; one row cultivator Disk; 3 section spring tooth harrow; Wagon and rack; New Idea manure spreader 2 Hulky Plows. Good corn planter; mower in good shape Ret of harness and many other articles. Some Household Goods, including Dining room table and sli chairs, davenport. Bookcase, oil stove, and other articles. TERMS--Cash or arrange with the clerk for credit. Ira Eller, Owner |» F. SaaaißMß, AaetisMsr Er Baumgartner. Clerk. Conducted hy Midwest Realty Auction Co. tar. Indiana. ,

Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Bluffton at Yellow Jackets Commodorea at Concordia Warren at Berne .Monmouth at K rkland Jefferson at Poling Saturday Rockford (O.i at Piea-.int Mills. George Sisler Hired As Brooklyn Scout Rickey Hires Former Major Leaquc Star New York. Jan. 22 <UPi • ,Mu..ed way down in the stories of of Paul Wane, and Johnny Cooney being signed by the Broklyn Dod-1 gers, you might find a atnali item ’ < on- l ining a noth r man wh • i now working Co th'* Dodgers. His name George Sisler. Georg« ' is one of the four scouts J.iet hi:-d by Dodger president Bran- h Bi k- ’ ey, “Sis.” of course, will he remeiisbried as one of the greatest fi rat "basemen of all time. For 13 yi«rs from I*l3 to 1937 he starred as a member of the St Louin Brown* Hi* diamond activities were so brilliant that bls name I* now enshrined in lutseball's hall of fame at Coopers’own. New York. | Rickey* action in naming Sisler a Dodger scout brings George lock to organized baseball after many ■ years' alwence. He'played hfs last game as a member of a minor lea- | gue t.».im in the early '3o's. Since then he's maintained his contact with the sport, however. He has eerved for many year* as commissioner of semi-pro iiMehall. i In addition, he operated a printing plant in St lajui*

Wemwi Y~| The Decatur Yellow Jacket* oc-I <upy the spotlight of Adam* ci tin-, ty basketball tonight ax they intertain their old rival*, the Bluffton ‘ Tigers. on the liecatur floor. Lt will he another Northeastern Ind! , ana conference tilt for both team*. I with the Jack-1* still seeking their 1 first loop triumph —oOfr— Decatur’s Commodore* also have their work cut out for them tonight, when they travel to Fort Wayne to meet the Concordia quintet Concordia defeated the Crmmies on the local floor earlier in the season and the Decatur lads | hope for revenge. —-000— In county game* tonight. B rne ! will entertain Warren. Monmouth I play* at Kirkland and Jefferson plays at Pt ling. Saturday night, the Pleasant Mill* Spartans will be most* to Ro« kford. Ohio. —oOo— Basketball fan* of the county greeted yesterday'* announcement that the sectional tournament ha* again been granted to Decatur with enthu*ia*m. The 10 team* of the county wilt compete in the local tour ney. to be held Thursday. Friday and Saturday. February 25.

HUB OF OFFENSE - - By Jack Sords f ART K 1 op COACU CtoUft Wk- \ J MILLS'ItLIAIOIS OFFeMSE. X. ■ / W f dF'f LD w -:t AT 2i3 fbdAPS APT IS Od& X4X 4*-*"* r LAs^esf ALMOST euGsepceMTees im rne. MtDPLB west

28 and 27. —oOo— The 194.3 sectional will mark the first appt-arum «■ of the Decatur Coinmodorts In the annual Hoosier sports classic. The Commie* entered th<- Indiana high school athletic association last summer after the IHSAA opened its membership to parochial school*. Thus, there will be H* team* In the Detatur tourm-y a* compared to nine in previous yearn 000 - The tourney will start Thursday night. February 25. with three games on the -ch-dule Three m re game* will he played Friday night, with semi-final* Saturday afternoon and the final game Saturday night -000— Ticket price*, a* announced bystate officials, are 40 cents per single session. Season tickets, for , four-sesNloti tourneys, as will be played In Decatur, will be priced at 11.10. —oOo — The winner of the Decatur sectional will again compete in th* regional tournament at Huntington Saturday. March 8. The Decatur winner will compete against sectional winners from Hartford City. Bluffton and Huntington. The regional winner will compete in the Muncie semi-final, with regional winners from Fort Wayne. Muncie and Marion. —oOcThe Bluffton Tiger* and Kendall-! ville Comet* are tied for the lead I In the Northeastern Indiana confi-r- ' ence. each with four victories and one defeat. I-oop tilts scheduled tonight are: Bluffton at Decatur 1

It Was an Opera House—but Nazis Paid a Visit ' i jT- ’I *!» ’*• .m ra. - t i i-* l_ _W f * a. Bl H I* Malta, Britain's island stronghold in th* Mediterranean, ha* been bombed time and again by the Axte but Um islanders aUli go about tbett buamess, taking IL Above to Um rain* of Um Opera House in Valletta. !

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- -- . . .. . I !and Auburn at Kendallville. o()oNEIC Standing W L. Pct. J Bluffton 4 1 .*OO Kendallville 4 1 .800 Columbia City 3 1 .750 Auburn 2 2 .500 (larrett 1 4 .200 Hartford City 0 3 .0001 Decatur 0 4 .000 | ( California Jeweler Is Executed Today , i San Quentin. Calif. Jan. 22 —tl’Pi ! Leslie Cireth went to bi* death in , the San Quentin prison ttss < ham- • ber this morning. The Glendale, Calif, jeweler en-' tered the chamber without dksclos- > ing why he killed 21-year-cld Dorena Hammer at San !x**ndro Isat ' July 15 He was sentenced to death I after he admitted the slaying. Dunkirk Marine Is Listed As Wounded Washington. Jan. 22—IUP1—<A - n*»w casualty list released by the [navy department this morning Iktt* i one Kentucian a* dead another missing and two Hoosier* are wounded Marine private McCoy Reynolds of Mailie. Kentucky, is reported killed In action. Machinist's mate Lloyd Ntrink of Russell. Kentucky, is miming. The wounded Indiana men are marine private* Harold Kenyon of Dunkirk and I-on Walters of Jeffersonville. Kenyon is the son of Robert Kenyon and Waiters 1* the ' the son of Mni. Aiiorah Wenning

Indiana And Purdue In Action Saturday Only Biq Ten Loop Contests Scheduled • By United Press* Indiana unlv-rsity and the Hawkeyes of !<;wa headline the schedule in the Big Ten basketball league Saturday. Ohio State tackles Purdue at Lafayette, Ind., and Chicago play* a nun-conference tilt with Western Michigan at Kalamazoo. Michigan. The remaining conference quintet* are idle becau* of semester examination*. Indiana is one < f the two undefeated teams in th.- Illg Ten. But the Hoo«iers have gained little recognition for their early season performance because of the more impressive scoring of perfect-rec-ord Illinois. lowa wasn't a match for the Illini last week and Indiana* encounter at lowa City should provide some indication of th- rel aHve strength of the two league leader*. Purdue lacks the balance of the Illinois and Indiana squads But nonetheless the game with Ohio States is expected to be an interesting contest to the fatw. Western Michigan like ail opponents of Chicago rat-s as the favorite over the hopeless Maroon team. Many Stations Close In South Bend Area South Bend. Ind. Jan. 27- (UP* Fifty-five of the 93 gasoline station* In the South Bend und Mishawaka area are reported dosed as the | result of gasoline and tire rationing. Oil industry spokesmen way they expect 15 more stations to -impend business i Florida sponge fisheries have an ■ annual yield of |6<*o.ooo. |- —; ; Leningrad Hero BBr rd I I /iF i ~ JI ■ • BE' Commander of the Russian Army that rolled back the Germans , from the gates of Moscow last winter, Marshal Gregory Zhukov, above, now is being hailed as a j hero again following the breaking of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, Russia’* second city. With Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, Zhukov broke the blockade around the industrial metropolis, which has been ringed by the Nazis for 17 months. Zhukov was made a marshal for his work at Leningrad. ———— ————

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Nixon Appointed To War Savings Staff i Indiana poll*. Jan. 22 il'Pi State war savings staff chairman I Eugene Pulliam announced the appointment of Joseph Nixon of Peru , a* newspaper consultant to th* staff this morning Nixon is vice president of the Nixon newspapers, which include the Peru Tribune, the Wabash Plain Dealer and the Michigan City New Dispatch Pulliam says Nixon already has aided the s’aff in war b nd drive* by inaugurating Idea* of hk« own. — -o— Three Nazi Planes ' Baqqed By Fortress London. Jan 22 tl'Pi Six Nazi fighter planes were right on tintail of a flying fortress racing horn--from the raid on laiiient. France They peppered the wings with cannon fl re. The fortress heeded violently, and lore Ix’th the pilot and co-pilci from the controls. The big liomber nosed straight down 7.000 feet before the pilot. Captain Tribbett of Thorntown. Ini., fought I his way back to the controls and I brought her out of the dive Then the crew went to work They poliehed off three, of those Nazi tighter planes, and the rest of them called it quits. o— - Evacuate Californians Threatened By Flood Marysville. Calif. Jan 22- IVP i State police are evacuating 200 residents of the Wheatland. Calif, area who are 4hreaten«-d by the rampaging waters of the Bear river. The stream broke through a levee and lnundat'<d several thousand acres o< U«w4 Principal damage Ac far is

| CORT SUN. MON. TUES. Cent Sunday—All Seats 10c to 4 2 TERRIFIC PICTURES! Springing sat of th* I shadow* of a man's heart! UNDYING ! MONSTER 1 km: auini in* ELLISON ANGEL HOWARD 2q* —ADDED LAUGH HIT— Evenings Sc-2Sc Inc. Taa —o Tonight & Saturday GENE AUTRY “BELLS OF CAPISTRANO” With Smiley Burnette ALSO— Last Chapter “King of the Mounces" »e-28c Inc. Tag KIDS—Sc Set. 1:M to IF. M.

■EV49«av"i* HMaiaiHailMiaiaillllMMliaaavHl<ll>niiaill I Important Move , H - | r* < vsif 4 - ■. ADisclosure that Maj Gen. Alot ander M Patch, above, forme: commander of U. S. force* in Neu Caledonia, la now stationed in the Solomon islands indicates, observ ers say, that U. S. Army grounc forces are replacing war-wear) Marines in the battle lines In the Solomons. Also, the apparent arrival of additional Army forces it believed to forecast a new drtv< by American units to rid Guadal canal of Japs. believed to be In large herds of livestock. 1-ate reports say the break in the protective wall still Is expanding. The B»-ar river la at full flood level and the Feather river-Into which the Bear empties—is also rising. The Sacramento river — which carries oft the water of both tributaries -is also getting higher

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notice! Adams will h, A our sale everv 'brntiai fgß Horses, fal to fair -ha»M to be Used for killing poses. Also have a ft«H buyers for coll- md i horses. If you hate wH thing of this kind i*r -mH to attend this >ale. tS have a number of Irniß Cows and Springer- ii-’B for this sale. Mmui ijV head of good feeding ll .x® also Sheep. < ahe-. >ijH miscellaneous article. E Special, Breeding (a!tle.E 25 head. IF ABR SALESfj Doehrman A Gcrrr az'i K Msris Ahr, clerk H - * ■ lIUII Mil. ■■ 111 ■! - - . —— — — - - — ——