Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1943 — Page 6

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Athletics Win Only Major League Game Blank Boston Nine In Only Contest iUy I'nited Preus) Major league activity was confined to one game yesterday. But a minor league marathon which laated 21 innings hit the headlined. The big league game was between the Philad-Iptila Athletic* and the Boston Bed Sox. The Athletics won and. y u guessed it. by a shutout. The score wae to 0 for the Athletic*. with Ruas Christopher and Luman Harris splitting th- pitching for Philadelphia. The victory was the first of the season for the Athletics. The marathon game w.m an In ' ternallunal league contest between th.- Toronto Maple lz-afs and the] Baltimore Orioles at Baltimore. Il went 21 innings before darkness intervened The score was 2 all at the send of the 21.<t. Dick Conger. Toronto’s starting pitcher, was the oututandlng play er of the game He was taken out ' in the 19th inning after pitching I 14 straight scoreless fram* s His| ■ nly lapse came in the fourth In-i nlng. when Baltimore scored its . two runs. After tha' he was in-; vincible The Leaf* got one run hack in the esventh. and tied the score In the eighth From there on neither team came near to home plate The game was the Jong st on record in the International league Today's major league schedule has the Philadelphia Philll* s at Brcoklyn. the New York (Hants at Boston, the fit. laiuis Cardinals at Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh at Chi- ■ cago in the National league. In the American league. Washington plays the Yankees at New-

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York, the Boston Rod Sox are at Philadelphia, IMroit Is at Cleveland. an I the Chicago White Pox meet the Browns at St. Louis. MAJOR LEAGUE A STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. (IB Cincinnati 2 0 1000 Brooklyn 1 0 1000 Chicago 11 -500 1 Pittsburgh 11 -500 1 Philadelphia •> « "<»<» 1 1 Boston 0 (' 000 1 I New York « 1 .000 Ity St. laiilis 0 2 .000 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L Pct. (IB New York 1 0 1.000 Ist. Louis 1 0 1000 I Boston 11 500 > a i Detn It 11 500 % | | Cleveland 11 .500 | Washington 11 500 I Philadelphia 1 2 .333 I i Chicago 0 1 .000 1 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League t No games scheduled*. American League Philadelphia 5. Boston 0. (Only game scheduled). a TANK PRODUCTION (Continued Fro-i Faa» i the shaft are the last strikers among approximately 2 000 c >ai workers who left their Jobs earlier this w»ek The others have returned to work at three other mines in the area. The High Splint miners struck In protest against what they describe as delaying tactics by the company on wage arbitration. Independent Union Washington. Apr 24 — ll'Pl — An Ind pendent union will serve as elective bargaining agent of employes of the Allison division of General Motors corporation In Indianapolis. The national labor relations board has certified the Vnlted Aircraft Engine Workers. Incorporated, as the wimi r of an election h-ld at the plant on April g. Today's announcement st Washington rays that the independent union received 54 percent at the ballots egat by production, maintenance and mechanical employes in the engineering shop and in plants 5. H and 7 of the Allison division. The CIO Vnlted Automobile. Aircraft And Agricultural Implement Workers of America received the remainder of thvotes. — o Seymour Truck Driver Is Killed By Wife Seymour. Ind.. April 24—(UP)— Jacksen county authorities are conducting an Investigation today InI to the fatal shooting of Orville Reynolds Sheriff Cletus Sneeds •ays that the wife of the 34-year-old Seymour truck driver haw admitted that she shot her husband during a family argument. The aheiiff adds that Mm Reynolds claims the -shooting occurred after her hasItand threatened Io kill her. No charges have been pieferrej

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Tells Grand Jury Wk ■ W" 1 N** v ’ ; ' WTIVEU aMa Vit .i i * j hLi IRENE PASTERNAK, above, clerk in the specifications unit of the Car-negie-Illinois Steel corporations Irvin works, appears to testify in Pittsburgh before a federal grand jury probing charges that com- ■ pany shipped sub-standard steel ' 03 var orJfr *- (International) against Mrs. Reynold* and she haa been permitted to remain at home to care for her eight child-1 ren. Frank Bohnke Awarded $65 For Suggestion Frank K Bohnke. employe of the I Decatur works of the General ElecI trie, has been awarded MS in the , latest lint of suggestor winners an nounced by the company Mr. , Bohnke's suggestion, his sixth accepted of nine submitted, was for I regrinding mica undercutting saws. II Approximately H.MO was distributed In the last two weeks for more than IM suggestions submitted. Decatur employes who were awarded from »5 io »29 for suggestion are: Noah J. Graber. O. A. Me Manama. Doyle lx* and Gerald V Zimmerman. o —— German Collapse In Two Years Foreseen Buenos Aires. Apr. 24 —(I’PI— The collapse of Germany within two years is predicted by Enrique B rger. an Agentine engineer who has returned home after four years In Berlin. Berger, who witnessed the royal air force March 1 raid on the Nasi capital, said that blockbuster bombs brought terrific havoc. He adds that the morale in Berlin to high r than In the Rhineland, where he found the greatest destruction and wide® demoralisation ■ Homs to Sound Alerts Reading. Pa. — <UP» — Air raid alerts to residents outside the siren sounding areas may be heralded by modern Paul Reveres.” The county defense council to planning to have automobile horns blast three dets and a daeh—tne “V tor Victory signal—to rural areas. Ofll rials explained wiring for Installation of more sirens cannot be I obtained.

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JOHN L. LEWIS (Continuad Frwm *-*»• l» one suspended worker. And across the border, in Windsor. Ontario, the great Ford plants, comprising Canada’s largest war factory group, are still tied up by a stoppage involving 15.000 men. Ontario labor minister llechun says the r sponsiblllty for the stoppage rest* solely on the company Back In Washington, lhe wartime tax problem Is up for another test today In the house ways and means committee. The committee will vote again on th Carlson version of the Rumi plan. However. administration forces are expected to have little difficulty In substituting chairman Diughton’s 5o percent cancellation bill for the Carlson measure In the commltt- e. But It's clear the labor lutard doesn’t Intend to deal too gently with Lewis. It referred the Jurisdictional strike of t’.MW workers at 'he Celanese corporation's Newark. N. J., plastics plant to Presld nt Roosevelt last night. If Lewis' follower® don't go back to work, the president is expected to tell lhe anny to take over the plant'. Meanwhile, responsibility for a stoppage tying up production at Canada's biggest war factory, has be n placed on the Ford Motor company of Canada Ontario labor minister Peter Heehan says It Is up to Ford to accept the offer of 15 000 CIO workers to return to work. Heenan declares the company is keeping thre plants locked despite the workers' willingness to resume production. V. . o - — Thurman Rayl Is Accepted By Army Thurman 'Buck' Rayl, last member of the April 14 selective r rvlce contingent to be held over for further examination, has been accepted by th* U. S. army, the local draf board waa officially notified this morning.

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Leader Os Escaped Prisoners Caught Georgia Police Seek More Os Escapees Savannah. Ga., April 21-(VP) Oeorgla police ar- on the trail of two companions of escape-artist Forrest Turner who was captured last night after a week of freedom. The two men are beloved to be Land Harvey and D. (’. Black. They fled into the marshy land near Savannah when police shot the rear tlrro off the car In which they were riding with Turner. Turner, who surrendered without a struggle, led a mass escape of 25 prisoners from Georgia’s' mode! Tattnall prison on April l<l Earlier police had found the body of George Parker, another of the escaped prisoners. He had drowned while attempting to swim a stream near Savannah. The 28-year-old Turner has escaped prison eight previous times He began h!a crime career at 19 and has an aggregate maximum term of 115 years. Tattnall was supposed to be an escape-proof prison. But a Georgia legislative committee has reported that the Institution was luidly corrupted. —O— —— Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

LEON TROTSKY SLAYER SENTENCED if ~ ‘ i \ ■ A* MF \ if i ■ wjr ~ f H' IHHHH l CONVICTED aa the myster.oua aasaaain of Leon Trotaky. exiled tor- 4 tner Bolaheviat leader, in Mexlto, Jacques Momard is sentenced to I serve 20 years and six months in prison. Instead of the prisoner s ■ bring brought into court to hear sentence pronounced, the Mexico City Judge and court attaches stand outside Mornard’s wire cage, r top, judge leaning against the cage. Momard is seen listening to the sentence, lower photo. (lattrntuoatl)

Consider Possible Havens For Refugees Hamilton. Bermuda. Apr 24. H I 1 ) North Africa and the Isle <>f Man in the Irish Sea are being omsidtred as porslble havenc for some Os the 70.000 refug'who escaped from Germany and Ax'?occupied Europe. , Till-) waa revealed to lay by a , I spokesman at the Anglo-American r-fugee conference in Bermuda. If wever. (he spokesman, undersecretary Osbert Peake of the Brit- , ish home oftlce. Indicated Hist no d chion had Iteen reached. YANKEE SOLDIERS iCuunoueU r rum es*» li Planes of our tactical air force bat-j tered the enemy troops and his air- . fields and supply lines c aselewdy. I Two Axis ships were attacked hy 1 flying f rtresses off Stelly and one was left buring. We hot down nine enemy planes during th- day. Six of ouns are missing. Meanwhile. Rommel again is reported to have left Tunisia. Several reports from lllthr's Europe say the Germans realise they can't hold Tunisia and are organising a Mediterranean line for the def-nse of Sicily and Ita'y. Radio Vichy says Rommel is in Sii'ily I : complete defense plans. o — — It is more difficult to be the sacrifice than it Is to offer a aacrlflce.

HOLD FATHER IN BABY’S o&Jt| *-I J Rl k z <w. Wit 1 ' 9 — : ' ■■ ■■ I \. fl \X' I DEATH, according to Chicago police, of | )a by I rZi l: !r > - X months old, resulted from a severe beatir.j. t v h, r X". Bartell, 2«. left. The unemployed father. v.bo’;s U.— an inquest, admitted slapping the little fc :.i ta enforca discipline,” ths pol.ee said. C. D. Needs Your Heipfl ©New A r Ra.d now being forsied. workers are needed tl place of these catted in ordei to keep all If you are interested a in this organ.lation, the blank below to — BH T. J. METZLER or Hi GEORGE CHIEF AIR RAID and you will be coetattet AIR RAID WARDEN CITIZENS DEFENSE CORPS g ADAMS COUNTY. IND ■ Gentlemen: K I want to do my part in the Citisans Defense Corps. I my services as an ff AIR RAID WARDEN I Name f . Address -

Noted Publisher, Wife In Hospital New York. Apr. 24 -(UP)-Pub Usher William Allen White and his wife are recuperating from In fluenxa In a New York hospital They became 111 Monday after arriving to attend the convention of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. The Whites hope that they will be well enough by next week to take a second honeymoon trip. They plan to visit Santa Fe. New Mexico, and Eat a Park, Colorado, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of their marriage on Tuesday. White Is publisher of the Em-

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