Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1944 — Page 6

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50 Million In Bonds Sold At Ball Game New York Teams And Brooklyn In Feature New York, June 27.—(UP)— The people from the borough of Brooklyn. who long have been convinced that they had the beet baseball team In the metropolitan area, had concrete proof of their conviction* today and more important. Uncle Sam Wik< richer by some J 80.000.UOO In the only baseball game ever played where mutuel machines could have been used to compute win. plaie and show results, the Dodgers demonstrated their superiority over their hated National lea KUe rivals, the New York Giants, and in addition. Rained a measure of revenge from the New York Yankees. who defeated them In the 1940 world series. Conceived to promote the sale of war bonds, the Polo Grounds was scaled at 125 for a bleacher seat, SI,(MM) tor a reserved seat and Si,000 for a Im»x seat, and nearly 50,000 tans turned out for the game. The Dodgers nearly scored a double shutout in winning 5 to 1 and 0, the lone Yankee run coming — i I L a. 11 tar LOCAL Plm •ti» lo.n SrU.m "yi 11 il.odt »o eur M"— xw»e, .11 th. | lt«<*«gM of • \ Mrsl pollc» •• ' m »f DO# or )••« Sm u« tod*». OCAL LOAN COMPANY luwsarMH DtCATUR. IMUIANA Flott 0««--0h< *,»•!., *)•<« Horta S*«.«S Slrwt—Pk.«> 7-3-7 Comfortably Cool • — ♦ — Last Time Tonight — In Corgaoua Technicolor! ’HOME IN INDIANA" Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood. Lon McAlister ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Taa * WED. & THURS. * * Ol’R BIG DAYS! Find Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur*, from 1:30 |*BE SURE TO ATTEND! RrptMir Picture* pmrntt nswTOF fKjvne Havoc S’ ’/7 ' DALE EVANS aiiiom '.W- ■W»® . oATttoN i»<u» SKflt wl ’ Limcriiie H-vf+JF i ■*. IAN HUTH flflfll WT. aqaae imho > y* * 1 —ADDED HITS—INVASION! Actual news reel pictures of U. •. Soldiers storming France I PLUS—“Memphis Bolle’Mn Color Bee An American bomber dropping block-busters on Berlin! O—O Frl, A Sat—''Heavenly Body" I William Powell. Hedy Lamarr —o I Coming Sun. —“Lady In the Dark." <

while the "Bums" were in the showers. Each team had six at bats and six afield* and Paul A. Smith, an assistant professor of mathematics at Columbia university, assisted the official scorers by "charting the game," which he said required the use of a slide rule. Manager Leo Durocher said "this game was made to order for us.” as hie Dodgers rose to new heights of dafflmws by scoring a first inning run while the Yankees were fielding and counting two more in the next frame off the Giants. Durocher started his ace pitcher. rookie Hal Gregg, and he and reliefers l«es Webber and Ralph • Brama, proved too much of a • pussle for the Yanks and Giant*. Among the sellout crowd wus a i 1 contingent of 500 wounded soldiers 1 1 who came by ambulances from J three nearby hospitals to witness the proceedings that would have made Abner Doubleday, who invented the game of baoeball in 1839, wince. Pitching prowess predominated for all clubs for a change, no homers were hit in the Polo Grounds. The only extra base blows were off Brooklyn bats, Eddie Stanky getting a double and first baseman Jack Bolling connecting for a triple. There were no regular games scheduled in either league. Yesterday’s stars: Everyone who assisted in making the war bond game at the Polo Grounds a |50,j 000,000 success. Milwaukee Defeats Columbus Redbirds Four Errors Aid In Milwaukee Victory By United Press Four error* by Columbus aided the leading Milwaukee Brewers to •pile up a 6-1 score over ’he second ■place ReJbirds in the American aMOCiatlon yesterday while Toledo took a close >l2-11 decision from Kansas City lanilsvllle in at Minneapolis 104 and St. Paul whipped Indianapolis 4-1. Johnny Speer pitched the Brewers to victory. allowitiK the Redbird* to score only In the eighth Inning. The Brewer* knocked out 12 hits* off Leroy Pfund and Arthur laxpatka. Toledo registered three home runs, one of them with two men aboard, to defeat the Kaneas City Blues 12-11. William 11. Davis went the route for the Blues, allowing 14 hit* which netted the Mudheti* four runs in the third, six in the fourth, and one each in the fifth and sixth. The Blues made a final l>ld for victory In the eighth frame when they I CORT B— — ♦ — Last Tima Tonight — “BLACK PARACHUTE" John Carradlnc, Osa Masson A “WYOMING HURRICANE" Russell Hayden. Bob Wills 9c 30c Inc. Tax WED. & THURS. B IV 11 * NOW—On Every Wad. A Th«rs. program—a hilarious 2-reel comedy You’ll howl at Hugh Herbert In “Oh Baby.” O—O Coming Bun. — “TROCADERO” A "NABONGA.”

Kraft Beats Lane's In Nine-Inning Tilt McMillen Defeated In Exhibition Tilt Scoring two runs without a hit in the second extra inning, Kruft Cheese defeated Lane’s 4 to 2. in a aofoball league game .Monday night at Worthman Field. Three errors and a fielder’s choice gave Kraft the game in the extra frame. Kraft had acored once in the second inning but line’s came back iwith two in the fourth. Kraft then evened the score in the •sixth Inning. International Harvester of Fort Wayne defeated McMillen, 4 to 1, in the exhibition game Nabrwald limited the local team to only one hit. The G. E, Clteb will moot Ossian in the exhibition game tonight, with G. E. then meeting Moose in the league encounter. laist night’* scores: R H E Harvester 300 100 0- 4 9 2 MiiMillen 000 MB 1-1 I 3 Nahnwuld and .)•’«-n*ler; Selklng and Snyder. Kraft (40 001 002 -4 4 8 lame’s 000 100 (HH> 2 4 7 (Sherer and i-add. Eichhorn and Pettibone. 0 Today's Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) ♦ — —-A Pittsburgh. June 27 (UP) An Innovation In selling war bonds was presented at Forbes Field last night during the Zivlc Bell boxing show. Between preliminaries, highest bidders In bonds were able to tiecure the services of well known Pittsburgh sports writers for a day or night of menial or screwball services. Although the unfortunate writer* volunteered to be "sold" for such services as mowing luwns, washing dishes, of chauffeuriiig, such were not their deatlnie* by the time that nationally famous tobacco auctioneer. L. A. "Speed” Riggs, completed his famous radio mumbo jumbo over them. Once Riggs got the abashed scribes into the ring, he promised the fans ANYTHING if they would bid high enough. Theue lads were adept, he proclaimed. 11l washing babies’ dldles, cleaning stables, diguing ditches, collecting butterflies, washing 10th floor windows, etc. Accordingly bond bids reached 110,000 or more for three of the somewhat-horrified gentlemen of the press—Chet Smith, sports editor of the Pittsburgh Press: Al Abrams, boxing writer of the Pittaburgh Post-Gaxette; and John L. Hernon of the Tri-State news bureau These lads will have some pushed two runs home l»u> Harry Kimberlin was sent ot the mound to replace Clifford Fant’ln and quelled Ihe uprising. la>ui*ville staged a seventh-inn-ing rally that netted the Colonels eight runs and a so-4 decision over the Miller* The Colonels scored a single run in the first inning and then went scoreless until the seventh when they broke loose, blasting two Minneapolis pitcher* from the mound. (Another run in the eighth rounded out the score. Ernest Rudolph had little difficulty in pitching St. Paul to a 44 decision over the Indiauauolls squad, allowing the Indians only seven hits, good for a single run in the eighth. St. Paul hitters recorded 13 safetie* to give them single scores in the first and sixth inning* and two more in the seventh.

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lively moments during the next week when their "buyer*" demand services according to specifications. We suggested that oodles of bonds could be sold in any metropolis by Speed Rigg* on the same basis, if the persons auctioned off were baseball umpires or boxing referees. Most of our more affluent baseball sane certainly would buy 315.000 or 320,000 worth of bonds for the pleasure of having their "blindest robber” of an umpire ride them about the city on the handlebars of a bicycle, or tote their luKgaK'* (loaned with bricks) all around the town. A flock of worse services could be thought up. if a feller just set hl* mind to IL If boxing referees were put on the bond block, some limits would have to be set for the torture of servility; otherwise the fight game would be missing many of its mo*t loudly booed arbiters. Invasion Movies In Decatur This Week Two outstanding short subject attraction* add interest to the Wednesday and Thursday program at the Adams theater this week, where , the feature picture will lie “<*usa-' nova in Burlesque," with the comedian Joe E. Brown "Memphis Belle," a 40-mlnute f.-atu-ette in technicolor, tells the stirring story ot an American Ixiiiilht by that name, and takes the spectator on an actual bombing flight over Berlin. The other Interesting strbjec’ will be the Pathe news reel showing the actual invasion of Prance, (’amera-1 men made these pictures und<-r a hail of fire, and they ahow the convoys arriving, the 4x>mtbing planes In action, and American boys storming the 4>eache* under machine gun and artillery fire. — o • ■ — Two Pirate Players Are Classified 2-A (Pittsburgh. June 27—(UP)- The Pittsburgh Pirate*' hope* to retain their second place spot in the na-

MAJOR LEAGUE sKes NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. GB. St. Ixiuis 41 18 .719 Pittsburgh 31 25 .554 9>4 New York 32 29 .525 11 Brooklyn 33 30 .524 11 Cincinnati 31 30 .508 12*4 Boston 27 30 .429 17 Philadelphia 22 35 .386 19 Chicago 19 35 .325 20(4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B St. Ijouis 38 27. .585 Chicago 30 27 .526 4 New York 31 29 .617 4(4 Boston 33 31 .516 4’4 Washington 30 33 .476 7 Detroit 30 34 .469 7(4 Philadelphia 29 34 .460 8 Cleveland 29 35 .453 8(4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League No games scheduled. American League No games scheduled. i tlonal league were strengthened today when It was learned that catcher Al Dopes and pitcher Nick Strincevich bad been notified by their draft boards of 2-A classification, fxipez, 35, i* regarded a* one of the finest catchers in the league. Btrincevich, 28, has won five and lost four games thin seat Ton • — oIn the first 3 days of tne invasion ot Europe, Allied planes used an estimated 6o million gallon,) of gasoline enough for 76‘j million miles of pleauure driving.

Divorce Suit Filed In Circuit Court Ml >l. —■» Cruel Treatment Is Alleged In Suit Alleging that he kicked her out of bed. which act Injured her back and caused her great mental dis. tress, called her vile 'names and was guilty of cruel and Inhuman treatment, Alverga De Lee Schug asks a divorce from Walter C. Schug, filing station operator of Berne. The complaint was filed In the Adams circuit court today by G. Remy Blerly. attorney for the plaintiff. The complaint states that the couple was married June 30, 1939 and separated June 26, 1944. The plaintiff alleges "that de. | fendunt was guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment; that as a man and husband he has display, ed a bad disposition and an un. governable temper; that the de. feadant called her vile and evil names; that the defendant has absented himself from home at nights, and has refused to eat meals prepared for him by the plaintiff." The' alleged kicking incident was committed on June 22, the plaintiff stating, "that on the night of June 22 the defendant kicked plaintiff out of bed and this ad caused injury to plaintiff's back and caused her deep mental dis. tress and humiliation; that such act and former acts have caused plaintiff to become extremely ner. vous and has adversely affected her health.” The complaint did not state the defendant's income or wealth and the amount of support or alimony to be asked wus left blank. The defendant asks "that the bonds of matrimony Im* dissolved.”

- ■ —" -1 i f fl 1,000 telephone poles a day I to get the enemy’s number! I r EXTRY 48 hours, the U. S. Signal Corps uses enough poles to string a single tele* phone line from New York to Philadelphia— g that’s at the rate of more than 1000 a day— Z ’ 377,000 in a year. Most of these telephone poles are required \ in conquered territory to establish communica* V tion lines to the battlefronts. And every one of, , • these poles must be delivered to the Signal ji 1 Corps from this country. I\ I l\ • fl 9 * Telephone poles are just one of the more than Kjl M&jfl * 96,000 items Erie and other American Rail* roads must carry for this one branch of the Army. / v As more troops go into action, the day by day fj&9F / need for transporting vital supplies and equip* / ment to the front grows greater and greater. g . But your railroads will get the job done with * / the help of the public, shippers, and government g < / agencies. In war, as in peace, you can count on w / l | your railroads to deliver the goods. K < / g- I / I (\K I / ; USMM—<m — ! I _2\,nmesc—,— / K I Z’i / w Erie Railroad | / OM Os S SAMOAM-gy UMIIIO KX VCfOCV If/ iI / J /■ mv* '440 -wen * w / 7 -W I * I / aiiyS r H«/po»rb«ys / I I / I Jt LI I B»y d"bk ibtßflinber A I r\ B Stamps . C&B ik I r 1 tfcr I BET S I x' 2 I I \ IfZ IwV ; . •. KaKfflfeF'Alki ML i!* i

Decatur C.Y.O. Team Undefeated To Date The St. Mary's C. Y. O. team of tjiTs city is leading tne C. Y. O. league which playa at Fort Wayna on Sundays, wi’h. three victories without a defeat. The Decatur team's record: Decatur 9. Fort Wayne Rt. Mary's 2; Decatur 23, -Monroeville; 3; Decatur 11. Sacred Heart 2. In its only other game, the C. Y. O. defeated Lane's of this city in an exhibition game, 12 to 2. (MdClenahan haa been the hurler In all four winning games. Q Yankees, Senators Winners In League The Yankees and Senators defeated the Indians and Tigers in recreation league games Monday at Worthman Field The Yankees, with 10 runs, six hit* and no errors, held the Indian* without a run or a hit while the Indians mada stx er-

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