Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1944 — Page 6
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Leading Grid Teams Win In Saturday Tilts Navy Again Loses, Ohio State Beats Great Lakes Team New York, Oct. 21—(UP)—The cream of the nation retained their perfect record* today after a weekend of football ii|»eti in which they mlraculoimly were spared irom defeat, but there wax Imminent trouble In prospect for at least a doien of them. The pretendera to national eml-' nence had to admit a newcomer, the taated and proven Georgia Twh engineer*. who used a gallant goal line stand to preserve a 17 to 15 victory over Navy's powerful but Inefficient Middles, but otherwise the alignment remained about the same. Army. Pennsylvania and Yale still dominate the east. Notre Dame and Ohio State the midwest, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest. BainLSAit'S WOULD A LOAN OF »2I or more ” help you? If «w don't hesitate to let us know. You set jour loan quirkl» and privately on convenient term,. We de not queellon your friend, or rviaUvM about your credit. W« make loans in any of thaw three ways. THB msr WAY: On your nuu No wCuffir required N<xr kona are wade, under proper conditron.. to bvd> tingle iwrtoot or married coupiee. ■ TMB UeONO WAV: On your car. thu plan mar wit you ibe beat. TNt THUD WAV: On your furniture Many people preler tbit plan When mailing car or furniture loan., we cmaider cbarKgr and income far more important than the value ui the property LOCAL LOAN COMPANY I near sera tad Owe Scalar star. - Talwkeae 2-1-7 DCCNtUS. INDIANA ■— ~ 1 *» jrjjggjggr Tonight & Tuesday DEANNA DURBIN GENE KELLY “CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY” ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tas —o Wed & Thurs.—" Ghost Catchers” With Olsen A Johnson First Show Wed. at fi:80 Continuous Thurs. from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! —o Coming Sun.—Don Ameche “Wing and a Prayer” | CORT Tonight & Tuesday *GIRL WHO DARED* Lorna Gray, Peter Cookson & “DANGEROUS JOURNEY” 1000 Sensational Thrillal 9c-30c Inc. Tax —o Wed. A Thurs.—" Career Girl” —o Coming Sun. — “Trail to Gunamoks” A “Three of a Kind”
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bridge naval, third air force, and .Mississippi Stair the south. Tulsa. Oklahoma A A M and Randolph Field the southwest and Washington. California and Southern California on the Pacific coast. That triumvirate of titans out west la due to be altered tonight when the Washington Huskies come out of the north for their first major test of the season against the unbeaten but twice-tied Trojans of Southern Callforla. They'll stay for a meeting Saturday with California and out of these games may come the sectional champion. The coming week-end offers two games between unbeaten and untied teams and moat of the other squads will have opposition <ff sterner caliber than they have faced to date. The third air force Gremlins of Morris Field, N. C., considered the mightiest service eleven In the southland, crash headon with the Randolph Field fliers of Texas, so powerful that southwest conference teams have begged off against meeting them In a post-season Cotton Bowl game. Tulsa's Golden Hurricane, bowlminded as usual, may get its toughest test against neighboring Oklahoma A A M, with the state, sectional and Missouri valley conference titles at stake. Army’s cadets trying to live down a powder puff schedule, should find the going tougher against Duke, while Penn's Quakers are likely to catch Navy on the rebound. Yale should survive against oft-beaten Rochester, but Wake Forest's Deacons may find Miami more than they reckoned for in a Friday night Orange Bowl game. Notre Dame, not too impressive in v.'lnnlng from Wisconsin. 28 to 13. is ripe for an upset and a fleet footed Illinois eleven might turn the trick. Ohio State, which rose to top prominence in upsetting previously unbeaten Great Lakes naval, resumes its Big Ten tide quest against Minnesota. stronger now that former coach Bernie Bierman la back in an advisory capacity. Standout games will be the order In every sector with TempleBuckneil on Friday in the east followed by Dartmouth-Brown, Penn State-West Virginia. Columbia-Col-gate. Syracuse-Boston college and New York City college of New York on Saturday, and Holy CrossCoast Guard on Sunday. Purdue, also aeeklng B:g Ten honors, goes against formidable Michigan with Wisconsin-Great Lakes. Indiana-lowa and Marquettelowa Pre Flight as sub-features in the midwest. SEN. JOSEPH BALL TO tCoattaaac. rewM 11 by a serious division among his own supporters.” "On that basis. 1 shall vote for and support President Roosevelt," Ball said. The "miraculous" American war record, he said, proved that the Michigan Cortland APPLES 2.75 Bu. Bring Container* GERBER’S Meat Market
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Ohio Slate, Purdue lead In Conference Purdue-Michigan, Ohio-Minnesota Chicago, Oct. 23 -(VP) —From here on the Big Ten football race becomes a rough and tumble affair with all teams gunning for Ohio State's high-riding Buckeyes and Purdue's persistent Boilermakers. Ohio State and Purdue are the only teams undefeated in conference play, but their roads to the championship become rocky starting thia weekend. The Boilermakers meet once -defeated Michigan, which tied Purdue for the title last year, and the Buckeyes play Minnesota. The other conference game Saturday matches thrice-defeated lowa against Indiana. Ohio State proved its ranking as title favorites Saturday by a lastquarter touchdown spree to hand Great l-ak<M its first defeat of the season. 26-6. The Buckeyes should have little trouble with Minnesota Saturday but the tail-end of their schedule, which includes Indiana. Illinois and Michigan, promises lit be tough. Purdue will meet a stubborn challenge In Michigan's Wolverines. who rode the bench last Saturday after roiling up four victories in five games The Purdue game will be the last time Michigan will have its first-string backfield Intact. Bob Nussbaumer, star running halfback, has received navy transfer orders for Oct. 30, white fullback and (’apt. Bob Wiese an„ quarterback Jim Aliber are scheu-' uled to leave Nov. 5,« Purdue's Boilermakers gained championship prestige three weeks ago by beating Illinois but since then have slumped. They lost to lowa Pre-Flight two weeks ago and were unimpressive in beating lowa, 26-7, Saturday The Hawkeye* had been trounced by Ohio State up.d Illinois but Purdue needed a 20pofnt second half rally to gain its second Big Ten victory. if Purdue gets hy Michigan Saturday the road will still be a long one with Wisconsin, Nov. 4, and Indiana. Nov. 25. big obstacles. The Badgers and their CO-mlnute left halfback, Earl tJugt Girard, played a gallant game Saturday in bowing to Notre Dame, 28-13, and marked themselves as a dangerous team. Indiana, which has been rolling along at a smooth pace since losing its conference opener to Illinois, will go after Its third conference victory Saturday against lowa. The Hawkeyes are shy of passing and running material to match Indiana's Bobby Hoernscbemeyer and fullback Harry Jagade and George Sundhelm. Although the Hoosiers' leg power was stopped Saturday. Hoernschemeyer's pitching carried them to a 14-7 victory over Northwestern. Illinois built Its meeting with Notre Dame this Saturday into a headline affair by smashing Pittsburgh. 39-5. Saturday. Featuring the touchdown sprinting of Paul Patterson and Buddy Young, footloose negro halfbacks. Illinois will provide a major test for Hie undefeated Irish at Champaign. Wisconsin, which has met two of the nation's best teams. Notj-e Dame and Ohio State, the last two Saturdays, will take on another major power Saturday In Great Lakes to round out the schedule. o COLLEGE FOOTBALL Notre Dame 28. Wisconsin J 3. * 'Purdue 36, lowa 7, Indiana 14. Northwestern 7. Ohio State 26, Great Lakes 6. Illinois, 39. Pittsburgh 5. 'Wabash 14, DePauw 7. Indianapolis Stale 13. Illinois Normal 6 Army 76, Coast Guard 0. Georgia Tech 17. Navy 15. Brown 24. Holy Ctom 24 (tie). Central Normal 27. Earlham 18. 'Missouri 31. lowa Btate 31 (tie). H. B. Football Fort Wayne South 37. Crlspus Attacks 14 South Bend Riley 52, Fort Wayne l North 6. 'Michawaka 33, Hammond Tech 12 RUSSIANS POUND (OsatiaoM From rage t» Goldap area after swarming across the Rominten Heath, just north oi the Suwalkl triangle. Nasi transocean agency admitted the Russians "achieved some rather deep penetrations, despite tenacious German resistance.” German counterattacks were being mounted south of Gumbllnnen in an effor to ent off the Red army supply lines. DNB news agency reports described house le house fighting in Goldap and Mid luttwafe nails were supporting the wehrmacht with lowlovel strafing attacks. Just north of the Bast Prussian battle ground Soviet troops were driving the Gormans back oa tbeir Metnel perimeter defenses a»d So country is stronger than ever de spite "changes In federal policy and administrative mistakes the past 12 yeara."
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vlet Wanihlps were said to be plying freely in the central Baltic, menacing German sea communication*. with Sweden. On the far nothern front Soviet forces stood’at the Norweigeit frontier from the Barents sea to Lake Kuotsjaervl, knocking the German Lapland division across the border and threatening the German Arctic base of Kirkenes. German reports admitted the Russians were threatening to cut off Kirkenes. Soviet warships were operating in the Norwegian fjords where they sank five enemy ships In the Varanger area, preparatory to possible amphibious operations. o_ Indianapolis Caps Tie With St. Louis By United Press The Pittsburgh Hornet*, early front runners In the American league hockey race, took a half
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game hold on first place today after winning their third victory in four starts, 8 to 4 over the Providence Reds in the home debut of the Rhode Island club Inst night Buffalo won Its first game after two losses, defeating the Hershey Bears 6 to 2 with a late attack that netted three goals in the second period and two in the third. The Indianapolis Caps played a 1 to 1 tie with the Bt. Louis Flyera. making their debut in American league play. o— Ring Lardner's Son Is Killed In Europe Aachen, Oct. 20.— (Delayed) — (UP)—David Lardner. 25. son of the late Ring Lardner and war correspondent for the New Yorker magaxine, died Thursday night of, injuries received five hours earlier, when bls jeep struck a German land'
Green Bay Packers Defeat Cleveland Fifth Win In Row For Packer Eleven New York. Oct. 23—(UP)—The Green Bay Packers end-tfl at least temporarily today the -getifrichquick" auccero utory ot the amaring ing Cleveland Ram* sod moved on looking tor Otfter national rootbal! league opponents to conquer. The Ram*, a motley collection at best, threatened to do In foot-ball what the Ht. U>um Browne did in 'baatflntll. but Green Bay cooled their aspirations and furthered it* own yesterday with a 3» to 21 Victory. Its fifth utraight without defeat in league competition. The game was bitterly fought with Cleveland scoring first and remaining wlrhln striking distance most of the way, >but in the end being unabl- to match the combination ot packing and tricky running which provided the packer victory. I Ben Starrett, Joe latws. Ted Fritch, and lx>u Brock scored for the Packet* with Tommy Colella making two touchdowns and Jim Benton one for the Rams. The New York Giants, cumblnlng a slamming offetMive with a stout defense, maintained their leadership In the eastern Division with a 23 to O triumph over the Chicago (’ardlnal-Pittkburgh steel-r combine. Bill Paschal, exGeorgit Tech player in his second year with the giants, scored all three touchdowns on broken field rune. A safety and three conversions, two by Ken Strong and one by Ward Cuff completed the scoring. The Philadelphia Eagles, providing a success of long runs by fleet ■backs and a 50-yard field goal by quarterback Roy Zimmerman, won easily from the Boston Yanka. 38 to 0. Joe Aguirre calmly kicked a 32yard field goal In the flna> period to give the Washington Redskins a 17 to 14 triumph over the Brooklyn Tigers In a game that was closer than had been expected. Sammy Baugh, who flew tn from bls Texas ranch, alternated with Frankie Fllchock to pace the redskin imae attack. The Detroit Lions gained a 21all tie with the Chicago Bears with the passing and running of Frankie fllckwich. who apparently has remine. His jeep driver was killed and a companion, Russell Hill, 26. New • York Herald-Tribune war corres- ' pondent suffered a broken right arm, forehead cuts, and nose abraisII ions.
“ ...... covered from his appendleltH at- fc« tack, sparking the play Hinkwieh Mlchls»n f averaged 3.5 yard* per carry with rhe bail and competed seven of 17 n . * Z_. passes for Jl6 yards. KOtOfy |q Enteff Ol DEWEY HEADING P ° ta ‘° Cl “ b A D MK (Continued Ftmsb r>ge 1) tary rural ft As the schedule stood upon de- nuunc *' < * today partur»- from the New Yor» state '".ub capital. Dewey’s special train was ’“' !r >’ '’aadue to return to Albany directly Y "•■•■tinr at g J Wj&yl from Chicago, arriving Thursday 141 '‘ 'X M s r :>, afternoon. the exhibit w In view of th* fact that he has * ho,n * hy * P M announced no other speaking en- * M ‘ •‘"'“’•t <lu(> gagements until Oct. 31 at Buffalo. '’' b” Rotirj s’ however, it was considered possible w « r <l w'j H that stops in Ohio and Michigan H “** an ' l * IV " the may yet l»e added to the present Members of the m mldweatem tour. GOP leaders in ar, ‘ T °m Miller. E i | w those states have been urging him J<e-ph A.h ni , to make appearances at Cleveland Kericb G. :x ,• <;iu Wr , and Detroit. Unger. Jame< Stricter If he doesn't stop in those states Stricker Bryan l.*!im»s D> this week about the only free time - Dolores Shen-, j remaining between now and elec- Uarol Kirach. Hon day would be between his Bos Schnepf St.-ward ton speech Nov. 1 and his Madison Sommer. Foremw Square Garden appearance at New Ah r. Bobby Fuhnasg, York on Nov. 4. Eastern leaders Hailey Car! K'-rlch. are hoping he will use that time to *“* r ' Jr Rolh-h Ton a < campaign in Connecticut and New Kingsley K nn**.-, p. Jrtl . 5 Jersey. lot* Harold Ma»h. President Roosevelt carried Ohio a,l< i Rutter: Haley in 1940 by a margin of 140.000 o- . ' votes and the late Wedell L. Will- Trade in a Go,* f<>
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