Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1943 — Page 6
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Rip Sewell Scores 10th Win Os Season Pirates Beat Reds In Only Contest (By United Pre**) PltUbtirgh pitcher Kip Sewell h«R reached the halfway mark in hi* promlne to win JO Kame* in 1943 he held Cincinnati to a 7 to I defeat in a night Kame. The Kipper now ha* 10 win* against two taNM*. The Red* had to yank pitcher Bucky Walter* in th. secund inning bet re a Pittsburgh barrage. The big noise of the Buccaneer atla< k was Bob Elliot, who hit a homer in the flrat Inning with one aboard. Thi* wa* the only major league j game scheduled .Monday, Yale Win* Yale universlty'e four man team ' ha* captured the 40th national col-1 legiate golf team championship i with a 36-hole were of *>l4. The Eli* defeated outstanding! team* from Michigan, Louisiana ; State. Minnesota. Northwestern, Princeton, an I Notre Dame who flniihed in that order. Wilson I* Winner Pittsburgh'* Jackie Wilson beat Lew Banbury of Washington on a technical knockout M< inlay night In Washington. The bout wa* Mopped in the eighth round when the referee decided that a cut over Banbury'* left eye wa* bad enough to halt the fracas. Wilson. former N.B.A. featherweight champ, gave the lli-year-old Banbury a thorough boxing lesson and won hand* d.,wn. Exonerate Hagg Swedish track star. (Sunder Haug.
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hax been entirely exonerated of accepting money for use of his picture tn advertising campaign*. The Swedish speed <!• non had been accused In a roundabout way of being about to lose hi* amateur standing because of the ads. However, a dispatch from < lie of Sweden* loading newspapers *ay» that a checkup with the clients involved prove* that wonder (Sunder had not received a ”n*d <enf for the use of his picture. No Games Today There are no game* scheduled for today in either the National or American league. Memphis Team Made Up Os Old-Timers Firmly Settled In Basement Os League Memphis. Tenn.. Jun* 29 (l'P» • In Memphis. Tenn., they have a ] lull club that's firmly settled in I the cellar of the Southern league j —but they're w 11-anned with «x- --’ p» rl> nee. In fact, you might call the Chick* the most nil around experienced ball club in the country. Six of their active players repre r nt a grand total of 128 year* of play in professional baseball. The rang< run* from catcher Mickey O'Neill, wh > ha* been behind the plate for 26 year*, to catcher Joe Palmisano, who I* a comparative junior with only 17 years hi b tween there are three pitchers and an infielder. They are pitcher Goat Walker, with 19, years; pitcher Henry Johnson, with 21; pitcher Harry Kelly with 22; and Infielder Buster Chatham who has been on th job some 23 year*. With a line-up like that the Chicks can field a battery made up of catcher O'Neil and pitcher Kelly that would face the opp >•• liik batters with 49 year* of pro ba* ball experience On the other hand, if the yonng-
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Two League Games Played Last Night Cloverleaf Edges Out Schafer Team The Cloverleaf ".nd M< Millen teamb scored victori- s In City softball hagitc games Monday night at Worthmati Felld. Schale: held a 6 to 4 lead over Cloverleaf in the laxt of the sixth but the latter, ben filling by three base- on balls, add*d a single to score three runs and edge out a 7 tr- fl victory. McMillen trounced the G. E. club 9 to ft. In the nightcap, with Johnson limiting the loser* to four scatt red hit*. Cloverleaf will meet G. E. In i the first game tonight, followed by Schafer and St. Mary's. Thursday -night. Post 43 will plav a double header. meeting McMillen and St. Mary's. Two exhibition games are sch <1 tiled for Friday night. In th.- first tilt. Cloverleaf will meet Sealtest of Huntington, with Schafer meeting Airplane Service of Bluff: >n it* th- second tilt. Steve Everhart. head of the league, today urged managers of all team* to* be ready to start th» first game each night no later than 7:45 o'clock. Last night's scores by innings: R H E Schaf r 200 040 o—o 8 2 Cloverleaf ... 000 313 x 7 6 2 Si iking. II Scherer and Fuelling; Arnold. Wynn and M. Ladd. M< Millen .... 020 140 2 9 9 2 G E. Club.. OtMt Odh o—o 4 4 Johnson anl dSnyder; Andrews. Miller and Conrad. Boltsberry. MAJOR LEAGUE A | STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct. G.B. St. Loul* 37 22 .627 i Brooklyn 40 26 .606 I Pittsburgh 32 28 .533 s>, I Cincinnati 30 29 .60S 7 Philadelphia 30 31 .492 8 Boston 28 30 .483 8»4 Chicago 23 36 .377 15 New York 23 39 .371 15«4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York 33 24 .579 — Washington 34 29 .548 1*» B <in 32 31 .508 4 Cleveland 30 31 .492 5 Det r- It 27 30 .474 6 Chicago .... 27 30 .474 6 Philadelphia 30 34 .469 St. Louis 26 « .456 7 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 1. (Only game acheduledf. American League No games scheduled. o Recreation League Games Played Monday The Red Sox defeated the Browns. 9 to 7. and the Indians walloped the White Sox. 10 to 1. In Recreation league game* Monday at Worthman Field. Ladd and Mcßride pitched and Egly caught for the Red Sox. with McConnell and Gilbert the Browns' battery. For the Indian*. Baker and Busse formed the battery. Zlner and Ogg hurled for the White Sox. with Hackman catching. The Indian* and Senator* will meet in Wedmoday * second game IworOG- > sters went in t*> pitch and catch. Joe Palmisano would be handling the deliveries of Goat Walker and there would be a total of only 36 years' exp rience represented. At least for the present the Chicks apparently are safe from draft lours ism WOULD A LOAM OF IM or mor. ” nri* T If as. dsw't bratau te knew. You g«c your loan quirkin and prtTatatr oa agevanient tens.. We do Kt quaaUoa root (Kowda or relaUvee about four er*dtt. We make loan* la an* W Utea* three way*. THS R*ST WAV: On roar genond note No «**»•»» re*u*red Note lean* m me*. imdrf p*.p<* coadxtMa. <o both ■«*!< (x'Kr* M meened tooglr* TMg MCONB WAT: O» row at. Am Han ■** eat roe the ko*. TMg TWISP WAV: Oa mr fanttiwe Man* pole, due pba Wtea makm* a> a faraSUSb Uuw •• Stirs'rfisß.SLK •eer Steatar Stan - T>ta**cw »te*rva. tsstsa* W
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j Indianapolis Adds To League Margin (By United Pre»si The league-leading Indianapolis Indian* piled another game onto their first place standing yesterday. ■ They chalked up an 8 to 1 victory over Toledo. Kansas City knocked off the Bt. Paul Saints by an 8 to 5 score; Milwaukee beat Minneapolis 5 to 4; and Ixiuiivilie at Columbus was postponed. c MORE OF COAL (Continued From Pag* 1) Kentucky ctsil op rator* and the trl-county coal operators associations. Th>> miners had decided to take a 10-day vacation after operators paid them only 620 of the vacation
DEATH NEAR FOR TRAITOR E ' wflE . ./j ib i I Jr |F f/ k/ V *'%..)>; . ♦ 2, ‘M w* { j HH , , v ffi DRAT 44 BY MANO4NG to vary naar now for Mu Stephan, lower right, Detroit raataunutt operator and convicted traitor against the United •utaa, Long legal proceeding* through the court* had delayed hie evertrtiew. wMeh originally wao scheduled for April 77. but now be to to mount the scaffold to the Milan, Mleh. federal penitentiary m July X Arrow hi photo at top right indicate* the scaffold where a prevtouo execution waa performed ta the prieoa. Stepban waa convicted of having aided the escape from a German prison eamp of German OtorUoutenant Hana Peter Krug, left, (JaferutieaaO
| bonus ordered by the war lalxtr i iHiard COURT REVERSES (Continued Prom P*g» 1) ' espionage statute. De spretter I* charged with supplying espionage information to (*>hml'.z with full knowledge that It wa* being sent to Germany. Ix>hmltz ha* admitted receiving a Brewster bomber aircraft book from De Spretter for transmittal to Germany. De Spretter. who wa* born In Uruguay, ha* never been naturalized. He went to school In Germany and wa* a lleut fiant in th.-* German army in World War one. He faces the death sentence or a maximum of 30 year* imprisonment. i o--■— — Trade in a Good Town — Decatm
Wounded Evacuated By Flying Hospitals 600 Patients Daily Flown From Africa New York Jun« 29 <t Pl Hying hospitals have evacuat d 18.000 sick and wounded men from North Africa Brigadier General David Grant, air surgeon of the army air forces, say* sometime* planes flew as pinny a* 600 patients a day. Grant told a meeting of th- advertising federation of America that quick evacuation to medical treatment ha* been out* of th main factors contributing to the low death rate among the wound d. Other factors, he said, are blood plasma, sulpha drug* and surgery According to the mi dical air officer, the use of aerial evacuation aid* the wounded psychologically a* well a* materially. He said th* will to recover Is much greater when a wounded man knows he will sunn Im* in a safe, friendly area, clean and comfortable. Hartford City Man Killed This Morning Hartford City. Ind.. June 29 — <l'P> A Hartford Chy man was fatally injured in the collapse of a barn near here today. The victim was William Brown. Republican candidate for Blackford county awieasor in 1942. The 55-year-old man was killed Instantly when the barn he wa* dismantling collapsed and crushed him. o Adams County People Make Blood Donation About a acore of Adams county people went to Fort Wayne today to contribute blood to the Red Crew* plasma liank for the men in the armed force*. H. H. High, chairman, wa* in charge of the group which left here at noon. Youth Is Drowned In Elkhart Swimming Pool Elkhart. Ind.. June 29-H'Pl— Firemen have recovered the Ixxly of Carl Dewitt Adams, who drowned last night In an Elkhart Swimming pool. The death of the 20-year-old youth brought to four the number of peteons drowned at Elkhart In the last two month*. o ... New Superintendent For School At Wren Howard Godwin, superintendent of schooM at Cable. 0.. has been named superintendent of the Wren. O . consolidated rchool. it was announced by Dr. R D. Stewart, president of the Wren achool lioard. Mr Gidwin suecaeds (tiarles Shell, who served as superintendent for three yeaso and a* a teacher for 13 yeai.t. . ■ — 0 " ■ ----- Reduce Meat Rations To German Farmers Stockholm. June 29—(L’Pl—It’s verboten for a German farmer to eat unlimited amount* of meat even from hlo own livestock. Swedish newspaper quoting a Berlin source uay* the fanner* hare been reduced by 100 gram* weekly to bring their ration* down to the general level. Acreage of al! vegetable* raised for sale, except potatoes, amounted to 1.475.274 in 1919. compared with 3.773.682 in 1934. a gain cf 155 percent In 15 year*.
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40 Synthetic Rubber Plants In Operation Baytown. Tex., June 29 —(VP>— Secretary of commerce Je*se Jones say* that by D cemlmr we will have a manufacturing capacity of more than 800.000 ton* of rubber * year — more than the Vnlted State* has ever used. Speaking at the opening of a new synthetic rubl>r plant at Baytown. Jones said a 6700.000.000 synthetic rubber industry has been set up since 1942. According to Jones 40 plants are in operation throughout the country. —o--Germans Claim Two Allied Vessels Sunk l-ondon, June 29—(UP)—Report* from Lisbon say. without confirmation. that German bombers have sunk two Allied merchant thipa oft the southern coast of Portugal. The Lisbon dfapatch say* two wave* of plane* were seen to attack an Allied convoy. The tlr*t wave »ank one whip and the second disabled another. An attack the following day finished off the damaged merchant vcasel.
JULY 1 Deadline t For ZNDMN/i MO7OR/.S/S i You may lose your right to drive if you can’t prove financial responsibility I 1 I If you have an accident after July 1»L cau ,,,n F bodily injury of property damage exceeding $- • you're in serious trouble-unless you can csta '»’ your financial respexisibilicy. The new Indiana State Law says you rznnot regular your car... or drive it... nor can anyone c w | drive it,.. unless you are prepared to prove jour financial responsibility after an accident. You may even lose your job if it require* jour car! i The easiest way to be safe is through automobile insurance. The Maryland gives you nationwide service—friendly help from any of 1 <>.<•< Maryland agents and broken in the United State* and Canada... whenever you ask for it. And, ** '< recent reductions in races, the low cost will open your eyes! Before July Ist arrive*, see your Maryland agent or broker. THE MARYLAND MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY. PALTIMOfI RcprwMted in Decatur by Ed. F. Berling In*. AgnTnsat Ct, Bldg. lw
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Allen County Boarl Refuses Poll Tax I No Assessment Off Those In Service The Allen county l>o»-J I view has joined with the jl and Wells county l«>ard« in I ing to enter poll tax *sseii*a against men In uervhe, them lioard ha* learned I Members of the local b.iar® to Fort Wayne yesterday ‘ * <jl the mater and they are inffl that the Allen group is not al by the ruling of the state atfl general's office. I The matter was first brotif the public's attention <-ir!jl month when Erne.t Worts county assessor and ex-fl chairman of the Adam* efl board or review, announr -o ts tltude of the local group I The board is rapidly nearifl end of Ila 3(>-day session «■ making flnnl foot entrie** on afl ment records before it adjfl on Raturday. I
