Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1945 — Page 6

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Major League Club Owners Open Session I New York, Feb. 2.—(UP)-Nat-ional and American league club owners were summoned today to what may become the most momentoitjj meeting in baseball history. ftouvejiing in separate sessions, the league were to decide whether to operate in 1945 and to ratify a new major league agreement undm' Which the successor to the late Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner, will serve. There appeared no doubt but What the club owners will decide to open as usual with spring training camps—in the north— scheduled to begin operating in another six weeks. Should "work or tight.” pnutpower legislation drain the game of its 4-F’s and other players between 18-45, it probably will be forced to close shop before a fourth war-time season can be completed. Similar legislation forced the majto curtail their 1918 seasonl during World War one. A poll of club owners indicated ; that all of them were convinced ; that there will be enough players to go around to start the season. •I least. They also w-ere hopeful that fav-j fitabie war developments may ease ■ the manpower situation. Ford Frick, president of the National league, and Clark Griffith, owner at (he Washington Senators, will report on tneir conferences in Washington with selective service director Lewis B. Heeshey and manpower commissioner Paul w,l lt then will be up to the club owners to decide whether to open,” Frick, speaking only for the National league said. Griffith previously had told the United Press that on the basis of the conferences he Was sure the game will continue, although he said that manpower legislation could change the picture. The question of operating was the paramount issue although the meetings were called to act on the new agreement, drawn up by a 10man committee appointed at the ■ December baseball meetings. Both circuits are expected to accept the game’s new code and then formally adopt it as a joint meeting tomorrow. Whether an immediate successor to Landis is chosen may hinge on

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Friday St. John’s of Lima (O.) at Commodores. Yellow Jackets at Auburn. Kirkland at Geneva. Monroe vs Hartford at Berne. Jefferson at Pleasant Mills. Monmouth at Hoagland. , Saturday , Berne at Oseian. ’l what the new major league agree-1 | meat calls for. There has been; I some talk that it will curtail the i powers held by Landis, a move that! I appeared curtain of meeting oppoi sition from some of the club own- ■ ers. It also has been reported that the new code stipulates that the commissioner must receive a threefourths vote of the 16 clubs. Such a requirement may block Frick’s election for he was said to be assured of only nine votes. It was generally believed, however, that a commissioner would be chosen before the meeting adjourns. Old Fort Mills To Play Here Saturday I The Old Fort Milte, another McMillen organization located in Marion, 0., will bring its undefeated i team to Decatur Saturday night to j meet the strong McMillen quintet, i representing the Central Soya Co., of this city. The Marion team, which started its schedule late, has won eight I consecutive games from the strong-1 est opposition available. The Ohio team is composed of former college players and is I coached by Wayne Zerkel, former Decatur high school player, who is now plarit manager of the Old Fort Mills. In a preliminary game starting at 7:15 o'clock, the Central Soya five will play the Berne All-Stars. No admission will be charged and the public is invited to attend. The probable starting lineups for the feature game are: Old Port McMillen Ferrin F D. Schnepf i Shrenk F Bunker I Shively C K. Schnepf Obendtir G Strickler: Zerkel.... - G . Hohammer : oMore than 3.500,000 U. S. farms have no electrft lights or electric power, according to the Rural Electrification Administration

Decatur Junior High i Handed First Defeat , The Decatur Junior High quintet suffered ite. first defeat of the season, losing to the Hartford Juniors , on the Hartford floor Thursday af- ' ternoon, 27 to 17. A disastrous first half put a definite end to Decatur's victory skein. The locals failed to register a single point throughout the first two periods and Hartford piled up I a 15 to d lead at the intermission. | Decatur finally started hitting in j the final quarter but could not touch j the long Hartfoid lead. Dubach led the winners with 10 points, while Ogg, with six points, and McConnell, with five were high for Decaj tur. These teams will play a return I game in Decatur the afternoon of February 15, with the contest scheduled for the junior-senior high school gym. Hartford FG FT TP K. Noll, f 0 0 0 1). Noll, f 2 2 6 Monee, c . 4 0 8 Augshurger, g 11 ” Dubach, g .' 4 2 10 Totals 11 5 27 Decatur FG FT TP Thomas, f 10 2 Ogg. f 3 0 6 j Freeby. c 0 0 0 ■ McConnell, g 2 1 5 1 Bogner, g 1 0 2 ■ Hutker, f ........................ 0 '• o Grant, f 0 0 0| Dague, f .10 2; Wefel, g 0 0 0 I Totals 8 1 17 — o H. S. BASKETBALL Elmhurst 40, Ossian 26. Gary Froebel 28, Gary Horace . Mann 24. Whiting 36, East Chicago Roosevelt 25. Wadeeville 23, Evansville Lincoln 18. College Basketball Valparaiso 69, Great Lakes 61. Baer Field 49, Stout Field 44. 0 Road To Berlin By United Press The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Eastern front: 30 to 39 miles (from northwest of Kustrin, by German report). Western front: 296 miles (from point southeast of Nijmegen). Italy: 530 miles (from north of i Ravenna). - I CORTI SUN. MON. TUES. Matinee Sun.—9c-15c until 4 2 FIRST RUN HITS! 'mpl nSr’Wffl (GRACE McBONALD WALTER V BETTY KEAN ALAN MOWBRAY frO MERCER CHHIITA • TWXIE —AnDF.n THRILLER— A GUY, A GAL AND A MOB! CJtsShb !l L&Ma fl 9c-30c Inc. Tax O—O Tonight & Saturday “BORDERTOWN TRAIL” Smiley Burnette, Sunset Carson ALSO—“Raiders of Ghost City” 9c-30c Inc. Tax

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Reprimands Browns For Side Agreement I Chicago. Feb. 2. —(UP) —The St. Louis Browns were set down on two counts today in decisions handed down by Leslie M. O’Connor, chairman of the three-man major league advisory council, who sharply reprimanded the American league champions for violation of the major league agreement. In the first written edicts since i assuming the council chairmanship, 1 O’Connor denied a claim by pitcher I Louis (Bobo) Newsom against the Browns for an allegedly promised $1,500 bonus, and also directed th j St. Louis club to reimburse Tom Hafey the month’s salary he lost while being shunted from the : Browns to Washington to Oakland. O’Connor, former secretary-treas-urer to the late commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis, sharply rebuked | the St. Louis management and Newsom for entering into a verbal agreement in direct violation of the major league pact, which states “the making of any agreement between a club and a player not embodied in the contract shall subject both parties to discipline by the commissioner . . .” President Don L. Barnes of the Browns and Newcom had verbally agreed at the time Newsom was transferred to St. Louis from Brooklyn in 1943 that the burly, right-handed pitching star would receive a $1,500 bonus if he performed creditably for the Browns. Noting that there “has been a regrettable persistence of clubs and players” to enter into such agreements, O’Connor also decreed that “in the hope of stopping this bad practice” future decisions in such cases “will Include a fine of SSOO for a major league club’s violation of the rules and contract terms, $250 for a minor league club . . . and SIOO for a player . . .” In further reprimanding the American league title holders and Newsom. O’Connor said “the convent, rule and notice are printed in the contract to direct attention as forcefully as possible to the necessity of stating all the terms of the contract and not leaving anything to confidential ‘side agreements' . . . there is no more essential rule and none which should be more readily observed by the club and player.” -)— Noire Dame, DePaul To Battle Tonight Chicago, Feb. 2 — (UP) —Notre Dame and DePaul, fighting for recognition as the midwest’s No. 1 independent basketball team, clash tonight to highlight a doutfleheader presentation at the stadium which also matches Northwestern against Purdue in a Big Ten garng. The meeting of the two Catholic schools, both currently averaging 61 points a game, brings together two of the highest scoring combinations in this section. DePaul’s smashing offensive, which has annexed 13 victories in 14 ries, is carried by center George Mikan — who has averaged 21 ooints per game — while Notre Dame’s point-mad pace is set by I ockie center Johnny Boryla .u-pjint .-.''crage) and forward i ohnny Dee (13-point average). Notre Dame’s speed, which has Tarried the Irish to 10 victories in 13 games against the toughest jompetition in the midlands, is expected to hajid DePaul its severest challenge to date. The twinbill will be opened by Purdue and Northwestern, both scrapping for a first division Big Ten berth. Purdue has split even in eight conference games while Northwestern —featuring the conference’s leading scorer, Max Morris—kas won two out of six games. The only other Big Ten action | tonight sends Wisconsin, tied j with Purdue, against sixth-place i Michigan at Ann Arbor, while the Big Ten race hits full speed again tomorrow with the league’s co-leaders, lowa and Ohio State, playing Michigan and Wisconsin | respectively and Minnesota performing at Indiana. The stadium card will do an ‘ about face tomorrow night with : Notre Dame meeting Northwesti ern and DePaul playing Purdue : in a round-robin affair. --n — i Valparaiso Defeats | Great Lakes, 69-61 tJreat Lakes, 111., Feb. 2 —(UP)- — A 46-point scoring spree by Valparaiso players Bob Dille and John Janisch last nighit gave the crusaders a 69 to 61 upset victory over 1 a Great Lakes naval training station basketball team. ■The sailors held a one-point lead. 32 to 30, at halftime but were overtaken early in the second period when Dille and Janisch perfected their double-barreled attack scoring i 23 points apiece. ' It was the Bluejacekts fourth loss in 26 games this season and their I first to the Valpo team.

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Bulgarian Prince Executed In Treason Conviction By People's Court By United Press The Ankara radio reported today that Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, former premier Bogdan Fiiov, and Lt. Gen. Nikola Mikov. former regent, wen executed in Sofia last nigtht after being condemned for treason by a people’s court. The Sofia radio reported earlier I that the court passed senfences on three former legonis. ' j cabinet members, nina king's counselors. and 66 former members oi parliament. The regents were Cyril, brother : 1 of the la‘e King Boris and uncle j of the boy King Simeon 11: Fiiov i and Mikov. Prison terms were given 49 other deputies and the court ordered confiscation of the property of the defendants, the broadcast said. A crowd of 150,000 gathered in . front of the palace of justice to hear the sentences passed on the officials, convicted of. dragging Bulgaria into the war as an ally of

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' Ge-many cud of ’’evil deeds" eonj necied with the war, Sofia radio Tw> other former premiers-Do ■ hri Bishilqv and Ivan Uagrianovals.i were sentenced Io death. o Bluffton Soldier Is Given Prison Term Paris, Feb. 2.-(UP)—Two Indiana soldiers were among seven enlisted men given dishonorable discharges and long prison sentences by the U. S. army court-martial for stealing cigarets. rations and cap: tured German clothing. Pvt. Robert D. Vawter, Indianapolis. with three others, pleaded not ' guilty and drew a sentence of 25 years at hard labor, after dishonor- | able discharge. Sgt. Donald S. Starr, Bluffton, ' and one other soldier, pleaded guilty through counsel and requested reinstatement in. military service. His request was refused, and he was sentenced io five years in I prison, and given a dishonorable ' discharge. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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