Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1945 — Page 6

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Capital City Quintet Edges Into Big Ten

Indianapolis, Jan. 22.—(UP)—Indianapolis Technical’s "Big Green” eagers, a collection of tall, rugged boys who love to coine from behind in the closing minutes, today surged into the Indiana high school basketball “big ten” rankings for the first time this season. Tech took over 10th place, which was vacated by another Tech — Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, to climax a long, uphill fight to gain stalewide recognition. The Big Green's toughest battle was against tradition.which placed the worth of any capital city quintet as practically null and void in (he statewide scheme of things. It was away back in 1934 when Indianapolis last had a schoolboy team In the state tourney semi-final round, but this season Tech has its partisans talking about the “good old days” when Johnny Townsend and Leray (Cowboy) Edwards were leading Tech to victory after victory. Tech applied the clinching touch | to Its "big ten” bid last Friday by I whipping Anderson at Anderson, 34-28, three days after Anderson's ppach Charley Commlngs predicted that his boys were “on their way.” lue upsurge of Tech rated the biggest news of a week which saw Elkhart lose for the first time, Jasper extend its unbroken string to victories to an even dozen and Bedford mark up its 11th in a row. So, with Hoosier cage fans sitting back in expectancy for the “battle of titans” between Jasper and Evansville Bosse's defending state champions next Saturday at Jasper, the ninth United Press rankings of 1944-45 .with won and lost records in parentheses) was as follows: 1. Jasper (12-0). 2. Bedford. (12-1). 3. Evansville Bosses (10-1). 4. Gary Lew Wallace (14-1). 5. Elkhart (12-1). 6. Jeffersonville (12-2). 7. Kokomo (12-2). 8. Linton (13-2). 9. South Bend Kil y (1.2-2). 10. Indianapolis Tech (11-2). Well-regafded fives were Auburn (13-1), Scottsburg (111). Anderson (11-4), Michigan City (11-4). Terre | Haute Gerstemeyer (12-2), Terre State (13-2), Culver (13-2), Wabash

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday (Huntington Catholic at Commodores. * Jefferson at Hartford. Friday Pleasant Mills at Yellow Jackets. Commodores at Delphos 40.) (Bluffton at Berne. Jefferson at Kirkland. Monroe at Geneva. (11-3) and Indianapolis Broad Ripple (101). Gary Wallace, marking up decisions over city rivals Horace Marin and Froebel, nudged Elkhart from fourth place after the Blue. Blazers took it on the chin for the first time in a midweek game with South Bend Riley. Riley was the bardluck team of the week, dropping to lightly-re-garded Mishawaka on Friday as both Kokomo and Linton advanced a notch to skid the South Benders from seventh to ninth. Gerstmeyer was upset by city rival Garfield, -.0-37, In the Wabash Valley tourney and slipped out of the “big ten” after two weeks in 10th place. Results Listed In City Bowling Meet

Boi> 'Werling and Leo Hoffman took the lead in the doubles division of the annual men's city Bowling tourney Sunday, roiling 1286 for the early lead in the tourney, which will he completed next week end at the G. E. Club alleys. Charles Heare, with a 704, took over leadership in the singles division. (Mclntosh still holds the high single game score with a 268. Present leader in the all-events (actual pins), is Don Stump, with a total of 1739, racked up with a 569 in the team event, 580 in doubles and 590 in the singles. An estimated 18 prizes will be awarded in the doubles, 20 in the singles and 10 in the all-events. Scores (including handicap) rolled la's! weekend, are as follows: Doubles— iWerling-Hoffman 1286; I’. Ko neman-Laurent 1138; StumpMurphy 1132; Shoaf-Busse 1114; Strickler-Reber 1095; KrueckebergC. Heare 1087; Schneider-Dysert 1042; Smith-Hoffman 1041; G. Bul-temeier-M. Gallmeyer 11'22; Schen-manu-E. Koeneman 1002; W. Gall-meyer-'Boenker 1080; Moellering-E. Gallmeyer 1092; Tutewiler-O. Lankenau 1099; Appelman-Schneider 1101; Petrie-Zelt 11153; Vizard-Sny-der 1098. Singles—lC. Heare 704; Schroeder 63t2; Stump 614; Shoaf 593; B. Hoagland >587; 'Laurent 578; Strickler 554, P. Koeneman 550; Murphy 546; L. Hoffman 536; Krueckeberg 535; Busse 531; Reber 517; Werling 492, G. Bultemeier 551; <M. Gallmeyer 618; Scheumann 544; E. Koeneman 532; W. Gallmeyer 543; Boenker 535; R. Buuck 590; Gallmeyer 565; Vizard 552; Snyder 578; Schneider 571; Appelman 607; Petrie 606; Zelt 571; Tutewiler 590; (Lankeuau 555,

WOWL Standing W. L. Pct. Geneva 11 2 .846 Kirkland 9 2 .818 Berne 10 5 .667 Commodores 7 4 .636 Hartford 5 7 .417 Monroe - 5 7 .417 Monmouth 6 10 .375 Yellow Jackets 4 11 .267 Pleasant Mills 3 9 .250 Jefferson 0 8 .000 —oOo — Seven games are on *he schedule for Adams county teams this week, two on Tuesday night and five Friday. —oOo-— The Decatur Commodores face a busy week, with two games carded, one at home and one on the troad. The Commies will entertain an old rival, Huntington Catholic, at the Commies gym Tuesday night, and will travel to Delphos, 0., Friday for a return game with St. John's. In other games on Tuesday night, the Jefferson Warriors will meet the Hartford Gorillas at Hartford. —oOo— Dacatur Vallow Jackets will s the home fare for fans

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lowa Meets Indiana In Crucial Battle Chicago, Jan. 22 — (UP) — lowa's undefeated Hawkeyes, who have been atop the Big Ten basketball heap since the season opened, face a crucial test when they meet Indiana at lowa City tonight as Ohio State's resurgent Buckeyes play Purdue at Columbus, 0., in a major bid for the conference lead. With defending champion Ohio State hot on their trail in second place the Hawkeyes strike for their fourth straight conference victory tonight in an effort to remain the only undefeated team in conference competition. lowa has been leading the Big Ten since it opened its season two weeks ago and the pace has begun to tell. After breezing past Minnesota and Purdue, the Hawkeyes squeaked past Michigan Friday by two points and now must face Indiana, an inexperienced but fast team which always has been a nemesis to the lowans. 0.5. U., however, is in the midst of a comeback. After squeezing past Michigan with an overtime victory and losing to Purdue, the Buckeyes knocked Northwestern out of the conference lead and then smashed Michigan in a return engagement Saturday, 61-47. Everything will be in favor of the champions tonight, they'll be out for revenge for their single loss to Purdue and will be playing before a rapid hometown crowd. Tonight’s game at lowa City could go either way. The Hawkeyes were unimpressive in whipping Michigan Friday, 29-27, while Indiana was equally laggard in defeating cellar-dwelling Minnesota, 48-46. It will be a case of which team comes back strongest, with lowa credited with the most resiliency, After tonight’s match, lowa must rise to heights again Friday when it meets Illinois, a team which has come a long fast and ranks as one of the most dangerous in the midlands. Last weekend’s results sharply re-arranged the standings as Illinois and Indiana moved into a tie for third place and Northwestern —an early season frontrunner —dropped to a tie for sixth with Purdue. Two teams were all but knocked out of the title running during the weekend as Michigan and Northwestern both lost two games. They join Purdue and Minnesota in the conference's lower division of teams which have lost three or more games ind which have little chance of moving any higher than fourth place. — o Catholic Schools Dismissed Today

'Classes were dismissed at the Decatur Catholic high and St. Joseph’s grade schools today, in observance of the Feast of SL Agnes, patron of the order of the Sistery of St. Agnes, instructors at the school Friday night, entertaining the Pleasant Mills Spartans on the local court. The Yellow Jackets came up with their second victory over the Bluffton Tigers Friday night after a dingdong battle. Friday night games on tap in addition to the two Decatur tilts, are: Bluffton at Berne, Jefferson at Kirkland and Monroe at Geneva. Indiana’s annual sports classic, the state basketball tournament, will be launched just four weeks from Thursday night, with approximately 800 high school quintets starting after the state championship. Decatur, for the sixth consecutive year, will be host to the 10 Adams county schools for the sectional, won last year by the Decatur Yellow Jackets. Splendid crowds have attended all past tourneys here, and with the 1945 esctional looming as a wide open affair, capacity crowds should again be the vogue. The Auburn Red Devils, defending champions, are the only undefeated quintet in the Northeastern Indiana conference race. Auburn has won four and lost none, with Columbia City and Garrett lied for second with three victories and one loss each. The Decatur Yellow Jackets have an even split in four games, defeating Bluffton twice, and losing to Garrett and Columbia City. The Jackets have three conference games left to play, at Auburn Feb. 2, Kendallville here Feb. 9 and Hartford City here Feb. 13. The conference standing: W. L. Pct. Auburn 4 9 1.000 Columbia City 3 1 .750 Garrett 3 1 .750 Decatur 2 2 .500 Hartford City 1 J .s'oo Kendallville 1 4 .200 Slufftouo S .000

H. S. Basketball (Fort Wayu« .Central 4», Lebanon Fort Wayne North 49, Michigan City 33. Indianapolis Tech 30. Indianapolis (Manual’2B. lEvanovllle 'Memorial 53, Evansville Reitz 36. Washington 42, New Albany 32. Gary (Horace Mann 31, Hammond Tech 29. •Hammond 51, Gary Tolleston 26. Hammond Clark 53, East Chicago Roosevelt 35. Allen Co. Tourney Leo 44, (Hoagland 36. New Haven 45, larfayette Central 28. Leo '43, New aven 37 (final) College Baaketball Purdue 52, Northwestern 48 (overtime). Indiana 48, Minnesota 46. Ohio State 61. Michigan 47. Notre Datne 55. Great Lakes 6.1. LePau 45, Hamline 41. Valparaiso 53, Western Michigan 43. (Ball State 47, Anderson 24. Concordia 48, Baer Field 39.

ONE SPEARHEAD (Continued From Page 1) in the Baltic states. Already, historic Tannenberg, which was the scene of Russia’s most overwhelming World War I defeats, had been overrun by the Red army. “The Soviet offensive on its Uth day continued to gather momentum, with Konigsberg, Danzig, Poznan and Breslau as the Immediate objectives," United Press correspondent Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow.” “The German defenses were crumbling iike a house of cards, and Soviet, officers were changing their operational maps several times a day,” Shapiro reported. “The Russians now are deep in what they call the ‘beast’s lair’ and are measuring the distance to Berlin." o CH ARGES MAN POWER (Continued From Page 1) tended by a few shop masters." Mead said deferred workmen make “valuable hand carved furniture” and for shop masters and that “many days work” were spent on the erection of an elaborate Christmas tree and a model village with elaborate lighting. “All of this work was directed to be done by supervisors,” he added. Mead said workmen were told to "stretch out jobs and to appear to be working” and a few minutes before’investigators appear “Paul Reveres" tear through the shops giving the alarm. “Our committee did not receive this treatment.” he said, “probably because we appeared on short notice. It was worked on others.” After describing what committee members had seen, Mead commented sarcastically: "This is the yard which is asking for 4,400 additional workers.” The committee, he added, “Is in possession of information,” indicating that manpower is being used inefficiently "in a great many war plants.” o - Discretion In speech is more than eloquence. —Lord Bacon.

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WOULD FORCE AUTO ■ ... . -— (Continued From rage D “ a vote Which followed party Bries, the motion was tabled and the hill aefft to third reading. Another house bill, which outlaws advertising by dentists, struck a snag on second reading when R.p. George .). Edick. n„ Plainfield, sought to table the measure indefinitely. On a standing vote on the Edlek motion, a 36-36 tie resulted. On second vote, the motion was defeated 43-37. Estates of World War I servicemen killed in action or who died of diseases or injuries contracted while in service would be exempted $25,000 in Indiana inheritance taxes under a measure introduced in the senate by Sens. Charles Fleming, D., Hammond, and Lr-o J. Stemile, D„ Jasper. “Now estates of these Hoosiers are assessed 5 per cent on amounts more than $500," Fleming said. —— -o —— * 0 Fred Pocock Dies Suddenly Sunday iFred H. Pocock, 61, prominent Fort Wayne resident and leader in Masonic circles, died suddenly Sunday at 'St. Petersburg, Fla., of coronary thrombosis. He is survived by the wife, two daughters, Mrs. Mary G. Cook of near Decatur and Mrs. J. Margaret Brown of Shaker Heights, O. The body will be placed in a vault at St. Petersburg and will later be brought to Fort Wayne for burial. — o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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Japan Announces Work Mobihzation • Washington. Jan. 32 —(I P) ~ Japan announced today thn «l workers in non-essential industi lea, along with students, retired worker and the jobless, would 'be required to register for war work as “the first step toward total mobilization. ’ The move followed Premier Geu. Kunlaki Moiso’s admission at the reconvening of the 96th imperial diet yesterday that reserves in the Philippine*’ and increasing alr ®ttacks had 'brought Japan to the ’ dividing line between survival and death.” — —o_—- —-* Civil War Veteran Dies At Fort Wayne •Ft. Wayne, Ind., Jan. 22—(UP)— Funeral services will be held Wednesday fw Richard Foss, 100-year-old Civil war veteran and member of the G. A. R., who died last night after a two-week illness. Foss was iborn in South Huntington. Pa., Jan. 16, 1845, and joined the Union army in 1863, belonging to company B of the 16th Pennsylvania cavalry. His G. A. R. membership was in the Florida post, for he came to Fort Wayne only five years ago to live with a niece. Surviving are several nieces and nephetar ' 1 “ ' — A healthy mind is the result of clean thinking, true thinking, and hard thinking; therefore, think. A sorry spectacle is the eanger of two persons who have argued over something neither of them knows 'anything about.

Aubrey Williams To Succeed Slattery Named By Roosevelt To Become REA Head (Washington, Jan. 22 — (UP) — President Roosevelt today nominated Aubrey Williams, former head of th., national youth administration, to succeed Harry C. Slattery as chief of the rural electrification administration. Slattery resigned in December climaxing a long dispute over his handling of the office. He charged that he had been “by-passed and displaced" in authority by secretary of agriculture Claude Wickard, who named a deputy REA administrator with “cordinate" authority. Slattery previously hud defied White House efforts to obtain his resignation. In December, he dhid he was resigning “to carry this fight to the public" in View of Mr. Roosevelt’s order forbidding government officials to engage in public controversies. Williams resigned in September, 11943, as administrator of the NYA when that agency’s funds were eliminated <by a hostile congress. President Roosevelt indicated at the time that he felt Williams was too valuable a man to lose and might be expected to return to government service. Since he resigned from NYA, Williams has served as director of organization in eastern and southern states for tho national farmers UnI ion, (he more leftish of the major I farm organizations.

Williams came to Washington in 1933 as an executive of the federal

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