Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1944 — Page 6

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Bucky Walters Shuts Cardinals Out Third Time New York Yankees Take Second Place In American League New York. July 15. (I'P) If winning •!>»- National league pennant wu< strictly an affair to be Milled between the St. Ixiul* Cardinal a| '<l one Bucky (The Owl) Walter*. St. Unite National league stock would be Beilina at about one Itenny per share today. Walters, the creates) night pitcher in baseball and a very capable performer at any time as far as the Cards are concerned, turned buck the hard hitting circuit champion* with ala hits last night to gain a 3-0 victory for the Cincinnati Red*. It was Walters' fifth shutout of the season and his third against the Cardinals. St l»uis described ae one major league dub playing In a field of minora, has scored but one run off Walter* in the la»t 40 inDings they have seen hi* offering* Billy Southworth, manager of the circuit champs, started his ace. Mort Cooper, who recorded Ills 15th triumph against three losses, and naw Cooper's victory string broken at eight game*. Kay Mueller, catching his 14mh consecutive game for the Beds, started the winning rally in the seventh inning with a single and scored on 'Steve Me*nor** triple. Cooper balked tne next run acroM and Walter* was assured of the triumph and the major league's best pitching record. The New York (Hants scored a

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21 arc light triumph over the Philadelphia Phillies as Harry Feldman recorded his eighth win of the season. Reliable Ace Adams •M called in for relief service in the ninth inning and threw two ball* to retire the Phillies In the only other National lea gue game scheduled the Chicago Cubs snapped the Pittsburgh Pirates' winning stieak a' five games with an 11-5 trouncing. There were five homers in the game and. 1 oddy enough, four of them were authored by the losers Tommy O'Brien hit two. Pete Coscarart one and Babe Dahlgren the other. Stan Hack belted out bls first of the season fur the Cubs to assist Hy Vandenberg to the triumph. The best pitching job of the day wan turned In in the American league where Frank (Stubby) Overmire tossed a two-hitter to give the Detroit Tiger* a 2-0 shutout over the Chicago White Sox Both hit* against Overmire were of the scratch variety and he faced only .30 batters in his chore. Newcomer Dick Wakefield, just out of the navy, tapped Bill Dietrich for two of Detroit's eix hits, one a homer and the other a double, to assist Stubby to his fourth triumph of the season. Rookie Steve Grotnek. Cleveland right hander, earned hi* salary by tolling 14 Innings against the league leading St. Louis Browns before achieving a 3-2 victory Oromek broke up his marathon duel with Bob Moncrief by singling home the winning run for the Indians in the fifth extra frame. The New York Yankee* moved Into second place, ahead of the Boston Red Sox. by beating the Beantowners. 43. Hank Borowy gained hi* 12th triumph of the season as Tex Htig'neon, formerly the Yank's nemesis, suffered’the defeat. For 80-Sox errors and some timely hitting supplied the MeCarthymen with all their runs in the first three innings. The Philadelphia Athletic* came out of the junior circuit's cellar with a bang by winning hoth ends of a douhleheader from the Washington Senators to move into a sixth place tie with Detroit. Both games were won by the narrow margin of 4-3. Bobby Estalalella's single with the base* loaded in the ninth Inning of the opener, scoring two runs to bring the "A's" from behind to victory. Philadelphia came from behind in the finale too. to hand Early Wynn his first defeat hy them since he entered the league in 1941. He had won nine from them previously. Two runs In the sixth tied the count and two more in the eighth 10-d the game. Yesterday's star: Frank (Stubby) Overmire, who held Chicago to two scratch singles, as Detroit shut out the White Sox.

Reds, Pirates Are Recreation Winners The Reds defeated the Cults. 9 to 4. and the Pirates downed the Giants, 8 to 2. in recreation l»«xue nmr> Friday The Reds made sewen hits and tiw<> errors, the Cutai three hits and three errors. Batteries: Reda. Gillig and Egley. Cubs. 3. Gillljt and Freeby The- Pirates made five hits and imo errors the Giants one hit and three errors. Batteries: Pirates, Jacknou and 011I bert; GGlant*. Lichtonstelger and Ahr. Next week's xcedule Mohnday— Tigers v* Yankees: Indiana vs Senators. Tuteduy—-Reds vs Pirates: Cuba vs Giants Thursday—lndiana vs. Yankees; Senators vs. Tiger* Friday <'n»m vs. Pirates; Giants va Reds. i MOOSE TO INITIATE _____ ' ICnntlnuod From rags 1) I will attend as delegates. | Mooseheart Is one of the phllantroplc institutions maintained by the Moose lodge. It Is known as the Moose Child City and was founded in 1912 by Senator Jame< J. Davis. As of June 1. 1944. there were ' 575 Mooseheart graduates in the

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Moose, McMillen Take League Games Defeat G. E. Club And Legion Teams — Moose nosed out a 4 to 3 victory over the G. E. Club In a softball league game at Worthman Field Friday night, and McMillen scored a 5 to 2 triumph over the la-gion team in a league game played at Berne. The Van Wert V. M C. A. team scored 10 run* in the fifth inning to wallop Lane's 13 to 3. in the exhibition game here last night. O. E. held a 3 to 0 lead after three and one-half inning* of play but Moose tallied once In the fourth and came up with three in the fifth for the victory. McMillen scored three runs in the first and two in the third to rack up their triumph at Berne. Next week's schedule: Monday: G. E Girls vs. Van Wert; Moose vs. Kraft. Tuesday: Kraft v*. Lane's; McMillen vs. G. E. Thursday la’gion exhibition; lame's v*. McMillen Friday McMillen vs. Fort Wayne Studebaker; G E. vs. Kraft; Moose at Berne. All team managers are requested to meet at the fir-ld at 7:15 o'clock Monday evening I<ast night's score*: R H E Van Wert 200 0(10)1 o—l 313 0 Lane's 100 200 0— 3 7 6 Ford and Montgomery; McClenahan and Faitrote. G. E 100 200 0372 Moose 000 130 x 4 8 3 Arnold and Windmiller; Kruckeberg and Tschannon. McMillen 302 000 0 5 10 1 I Legion 020 000 o—2 3 1 Keldel and Snyder; Lehman and Neuensch wander. AMERICAN NAVY (Continued P.om race I) Sawar airfield in the Sarmi-Maffin ■ sector of Dutch New Guinea without resistance. Far eastern air force bombers, renewing attacks on enemy ship, ping along the Dutch New Guinea i coast, sank a 3,000 ton transport loaded with men fuel, and ammunition off Haltnahera. A communlqtt, from southeast Asia headquarters reported that the last Japanese had been driven from the Imphal-t'khrul road In India completely opening the 45 mile all.wcathtff- supply route.

NEW ASSAULT ON (Continued Preat regs IV St. Lo. Porters and U*ssay sectors sohrtly liefore noon yesterday and by early evening they had advanced everywhere despite increased enemy artillery and mortar tire and heavy terrain obstacle*. “Very substantial gains" were reported east and northeast of St. Lo. with the Americans gaining positions from which to mount the final assault on the city, Ixi Creterle. armed forces. All of the 1942 and 1943 boy graduates of Mooselo-art are in the services which have never rejected a single l»oy who was a graduate of the school. Since 1919 there have been 1.655 boys and girls graduated. The Ixtyal Order at Moose has Invested 527.0U0.000 for buildings and upkeep for the orphan children. In addition, the lodge gnalntalns .Moosehaven where husbands and wives live In three room cottages on sunny Palm Beach. Florida. There are 112 members of the Adams Ixulge No. 1311 Loyal Order of Moose in uniform serving over the world. The lodge has also done its part in the purchase of war bonds.

ADMIRAL LORD MOUNTBATYEN RN. supremo commander, Allied Eastern Force, makes inspectior of an American aircraft carriei in Indian waters. The carrier took part In actions by combined Aliiec forces. Official United Sister Navy photo. (luttrnMioattl)

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three mil<M north northeast of St. j i Lo abo was seized, while others j forces con«olldted their hold on newly-won terrain northwest and southeast of the city. < ■■ o — I Bible School Closing Here Sunday Evening Closing exercises of the Church , (»f God daily vacation Bible school t will be held at the church Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. (Studento of the school, which had 1 , 98 Itoy* and girb enrolled, will pre- j sent a demonstration <tf their work. Rev Glen Marshall pastor, stated that the average dally a'lendance wa* 77. The public b invited to attend the closing exercise*. —o I' Says Shroyer Lake Safe For Bathing Shroyer'* lake h perfectly safe for Imthlng. <he chemist for the ,1 Indiana State board of health who I examined a sample of water taken ! from the lake, advbed Ben Shroyer

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operator of the place, this morning. In the face of wild rumors which have been going around the past two weeks. -Mr Shroyer sent a aan«|>le of the lake water to the state board of beaWh last Wednesday. Thb morning the chemist called him and stated that the Wats'* did not contain bacteria and was perfectly safe for bathing. The anti bathing ware developed following the illness, of a young mtn who wa* stricken with cerebral mengitb and without foundation the tumor go* started that the lad contacted the disease while iKithing The song "Yankee Doodle" wa,< written in 1755 by an English army surgeon, and was Intended to ridicule the untrained American troop* of those pioneer day*. Argentina is one third a* large a* continental U. S.. but contans a population lees than that of New York state. Firwt known reflet’lng telexcor? was believed constnicted by sir Isaac Nowton in 1668. o Picnic at Shroyer Lake

MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE — W L. Pct G B ' St. Ix'ilie 52 22 .703 Pit shttrgh 40 31 .5(13 10'4 Cincinnati 43 34 .55810)4 New York 38 30 .494 15’4 Brooklyn 33 43 .434 20 Philadelphia 32 42 .432 20 Chicago 30 41 .423 20’4 Boston 30 4(1 .395 23 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G B SI. lamia 46 36 561 ... New York 41 36 .532 2>4 Boston 43 38 .5.31 2’, Washington 38 41 .481 614 Cleveland 39 42 .481 6’4 Detroit 38 42 .475 7 Philadelphia 37 42 468 7'» Chicago 31 39 .466 7’4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS I • National League Chicago 11. Pittsburgh 5. Cincinnati 3. St. Louis 0. New York 2. Philadelphia 1. Only games scheduled. American League New York 4. Boston 3. Cleveland 3, St. Ixrub 2 <l4 innings). Detroit 2. Chicago 0. Philadelphia 4-4. Washington 3-3. o— SEEK ADDRESSES OF (Contino*! fioui Pace >1 are to be printed in August for the service people. Mr. Trontner pointed out that the latest military address must lie given. He said a "joker" had been written Into the law by the Republican controlled legislature over D mocratlc objection* and proposed amendments, which prevents his office from correcting military addresses even when the parents arc notified of th. change of address. The Ohio law permlls any rein, tive. including the following to notify the clerk of changes before the ballots are mailed; "wife, husband, father, mother, father-in-law. brother, sister of whole or

- .. 1 al i ’ . . t ... I l J* jfcl TWENTY-YEAR-OLD SUBMARINE $-28 has been lost during training exercises with all of her r*tr '"J 60 officers and men. The Navy department has announced that the veteran of the undersea fleet 4 down from an accidental cause in Pacific water so deep that salvage will be impossible, and h-? I been abandoned for the recovery of the missing personnel, Th a 8-28 was comma:: 1 -! by Comdr. Jack Gordon Campbell of Chicago. (lut.init-A "w-v-A* hbH H I j J &Ji 1 BL SMBmf IMt I .‘t-'> - i t LONDON SCHOOL CHILDREN arrive at a railway station where they wffl board what they L“Doodlebug Expreas” which wifi take them to safety sonea. More than 66,000 youngsters h««. I evacuated from the English capital to southern England and other safer areas in an effort to J • them from thg German robot bomb manera ■*•<* -Ires'}- - fesavy Uli.

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half blood, son, daughter, adopting parent, adopted child, stepparent, stepchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, grandfather or grandmother." None of the relatives can change an Indiana address. Mr. Troutner also said that in failing to approve the federal ballot all'of these service p< ople who fail to get applications or have changed their address after making an application wilt he prevented from voting. Therefore, he urged relatives or friends of sevlce people who have noi received an appllca'lon. to re» l>ort the address Immediately and an application will be sent. This application must be returned !•> the service man or woman and this will register him or her. A ballot is then sent and the ballo’ is returned and counted. Under the proposed federal ballot used in many states, the service man or woman needs only to fill in blanks and the ballots are already on the spot.

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