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Well-Balanced Club Features Capital Team (Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four stories dealing . with probable team alignment at the four semi-final centers of the; Indiana high school basketball! tournament which opens Feb. 22.) ' Indianapolis, Feb. 8. —(UP)—The, contrast between the big city "Slickers" and the small town boys j may be drawn sharply in the in- 1 dianapolis semi-final meet of the j annual state high school basketball tourney. Six quintets have established themselves as the cream of the central-southeastern section crop. Two, Technical and Broad Ripple, rail from Indianapolis, largest city in the state. The other four are the pride of towns ranging from 400 to 2,189 population. Whiteland (population 400) and Waynetown (population 644) reach ! ed the semi-final round last season and both have practically the same I teams back this time. Danville (2,093) has won 17 ou* | of 20 games in the strong smaller | school mld-staTe conference which produced a pair of tourney semifinalists a season ago. Scottsburg, defending champion i in the southeastern Indiana conference, has lost only once this seas- . on —to Jeffersonville in the third game of the season, 33-24. Coach Ralph Feeler believes his quintet lacks enough height to be a state title challenger, but the Scot'smen’s fast break has cut a wide V'W VW® —TODAY— Continuous from 1:30 “ATLANTIC CITY” Constance Moore, Brad Tavlor ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax BE SURE TO ATTEND! —o FRI. & SAT. o—o h SHE'S A GAL OF I || 1,000 ADVENTURES °Oc7 Z, .X, Or -*/ ®' i I II G<wil ’•a t j I M AM I f & M-G-M’ I S PICTURE ? iBHIHsSbfIMS&S&Ss ■' stwriag I ANN SOTHERN i wHk JOHN HODIAK TOM DRAKE MARTA UNDEN PAUL CAVANAGH AVA GARDNER f ” ■ ——?s—b— Sun. Mon. Tues.—Army Air Force in “Winged Victory.”

| swath in the SEIC and the Scotties now own a 12-game winning I streak. Os the six, only three could reach the “sweet sixteen” round next March 10 since either Tech I or Broad Ripple will be eliminated I in the capital sectional and White- ' land, Scottsburg, Danville will be ' tossed into the Shelbyville region-. ial. | Most of the “smart money” will ! ride with the Big Green from Tech. i Currently ranked seventh in Indiana, Tech has lost only twice in J 16 starts and could grab the north ; central conference title if Kokoi mo's Wildcats falter in their two I remaining loop games. The Big Green’s biggest advantage is a well-balanced club. Seven I man are used interchangebly as I regulars, although forward Dick ! Moody and center Bill Larsen are the mainstays. It's a big. rugged and fast club, with adequate rebound strength and the ability to come from behind when the going gets tough. Broad Ripple solved Tech's pressing defense through judicious use of controlled ball mechanics and snared the city championship by trouncing the Big Green. 36-26. Most of the Rockets’ attack rests I in the hands of Dee Baker and ! Ralph Chapman, but the club has i won 16 of 17 games and rates 10th I in the state. Whiteland retained nine of its ; first 10 of last season and forward I Bill Henry is the only newcomer to the starting five. Dick Dunn, diminutive forward with a deac.ly eye for the Basket, heads a hign--1 scoring attack which- has netted 13 decisions in 19 games. The warriors struck terror into the south central conference — which provides most of the sectional and regional foes of Whiteland —by running up a 21-4 lead on Franklin recently and coasting to ,an easy victory. Franklin etill has a chance to snare the south central championship. | Waynetown carried an undefeat- ; ed record into the 1943-44 semi-final I and the Montgomery county quintet now has stretched its undefeated regular season span of triumphs to 48 games. The “big six” alignment in the capital city semi-final section may be upset by the “now -I’m-up, now--I’in-down” play of half it dozen other fives. Anderson’s Indians cake-walked to victories their first eight games and ranked second in Indiana. “VIMMY i YONSON’S YOB” I A three act comedy drama, presented by St.. John’s Y. P. S. Feb. 10 and 11 MONMOUTH H. S. GYM i CORT) t o O — Last Time Tonight — j "MAN IN HALF MOON ST." Nils Asther, Helen Walker ALSO—Comedy 9c-30c Inc. Tax O — O FRI. & SAT. Hopalong Cassidy “BAR 20 RIDES AGAIN” William Boyd, Gabby Hayes Sun. Mon. Tues.—" Murder In the b Blue Room” & "Under Western Skies.”

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'Junior High I i Wins Decafur Grade Title Junior High regained the city grade school basketball championship Wednesday evening, defeating St. Joe. 37 to 16. in the second game of the annual series, played at the Commodores gymnasium. , Junior high won the first game of the series, played January 24. 33 to 15. By its series victory, Junior High gains possession for one year of the George Wemhoff trophy, which has been held the past year by St. Joe, who won the city title . last season. The first quarter of Wednesday's game was close, with Junior High holding only a 6 to 3 margin as | the opening period closed. The new city champions, however, held St. Joe scoreless in the second quarter while tallying 16 I points to take a commanding lead of 22 to 3 at the half-time interI mission. St. Joe outscored th‘> winners in the third quarter, 8 to 7, leaving Junior High with a 29 to II margin going into the final period of play. The champions’ scoring was well divided, with Thomas, Ogg and McConnell each tallying eight points. Cable was outstanding for St. Joe with eight points, exactly half histeam's total. Junior High FG FT TP Thomas, f 4 0 8 Ogg, f 4 0 8 Freeby, c ....- 3 0 6 McConnell, g 4 0 8 Bogner, g . 0 0 0 Wefel, f 0 0 0 Grant, f 0 0 0 Kohne, c Oil Busse, g 0 0 0 Hutker, g 11 3 Dague, f.. 11 3 * Merriman, f.. . ......... 0 0 0 Totals 17 3 37 St. Joe FG FT TP ' Cable, f 3 2 8 Parent, f ' 1 0 2 Brlede, c . 0 0 0 Kintz, g 2 0 4 D. Gillig, g 0 2 2 Keller, f 0 0 0 Terveer, f 0 0 0 Rumschlag. f .... 0 0 o Myers, f 0 0 0 Vhrick, c 0 0 0 Miller, g .. 0 0 0 Schmidt, g .... 0 0 0 Zeser, g 0 0 0 B. Gillig. g 0 0 0 Totals 6 4 16 Referee, Kleinknight. Huntington Team To Play Here Tonight The McMillen team will meet the Caldwell 'lnsurance quintet of Huntington at the Lincoln gym in this city at 8:30 o’clock tonight. No admission will be charged and the public is invited. The Central Soya and G. E. club teams will meet in a preliminary game at 7:30 o’clock. o ■ ■ Bowlers Re-elect Oscar Lankenau Oscar Lankenau was re-elected president of the Decatur Bowling Association at the annual meeting, held Wednesday night at Mies Recreation. Don Stump and H. H. Krueckeberg were re-elected secretary and treasurer, reepeetivly. Other officers are: Gerald Vizard, first vice president; Robert Houser, second vice president; Harry Young, third vice president; Waiter Hilty, fourth vice president; Bun Keller, Roily Ladd. Al Schneider and A. J. Zelt, executive directors. o Unprecedented Coal Deposits In State Brazil, Ind., Feb. 8. —(UP) —Miners in the Brazil area today worked on unprecedented coal deposits in the Indiana fields after revelation of the discovery of a 10-foot seam of Brazil block coal at tha G. and F. company diggings south of here. Block coal veins usually run less than four feet in width, miners eaid. Earlier this week, strippers in the Staunton pits of the Ayrshire Colleries corporation uncovered a 16-foot vein of bituminous coal. • They broke even in their next 10 starts despite a lineup which includes Johnny Wilson and Carl Erskine, both all-state performers a season ago. Batesville, with seven lettermen back from last season’s great club; i Shelbyville, Greencastle, Aurora i and Madison are other teams which showed considerable praptise ot> * frequent occasions. “

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Week's Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Kendallville at Yellow Jackets.... Commodores at Pleasant Milla Berne at Winchester. Hartford at Petroleum. Kirkland at Lancaster. Monroe at Monmouth. f Pennville at Geneva. Decatur G. E. Girls Wallop Wats, 51-10 The Decatur G. E. girls swamped the Wacs from Baer Gieid, 51 to 10, at the Lincoln gym in this city Wednesday night. Decatur led at the half, 21 to 5. Thatcher led the winners with 17 points and Dippy and Moss each counted four points for the Wacs. Decatur FG FT TP McCoy, f -.... 2 0 4 Thatcher, f 8 1 17 Royer, c 5 0 10 Smith, g .. 4 0 8 McLean, g .... 5 2 12 Miller, c . 0 0 0 Hoffman, g 0 0 0 Bower, g 0 0 0 Totals 24 3 51 Baer Field FG FT TP Dippy, f -1 2 4 Brongato, f -1 0 2 Snyder, c ...... 0 0 0 Sanders, g - 0 0 0 Moss, g 2 0 4 Spaulding, f 0 0 0 j Kerkes, g ....................... 0 0 01 Totals 4 2 10 I o —— Fort Wayne Waitress Found Dead At Home Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. B—(UP)8 —(UP) —Dr. D. R. Benninghoff, deputy county coroner, said today that he didn’t believe foul play was connected with the mysterious death of Miss Pean Lee, 26, a waitress, whose body was found beside her 'bed late last night by police. The officers said she had been dead for more than 24 hours and thought at first she had been poisoned by someone. However, Dr. Benninghoff said he would have a chemical analysis of her stomach and blood made before issuing a definite statement on the death, although 'he thought it was caused by a heart ailment. — o Youth Sentenced To Life Imprisonment Springfield, Mass., Feb. B.—(UP) — William Roach, 15-year-old Indianapolis orphan, today began a life sentence for the fatal shooting! of his teen-aged girl friend last! June. Roach, who was named the “allAmerican boy” by Junior high school classmates last year, pleaded guilty yesterday to second-de-' gree murder charges. After hear-

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Purdue Scores 62-48 i Win Against Indiana By United Press 'Basketlball sane of Indiana University and Evansville college were j explaining today about the “First game” while carefully avoiding too much discussion of last nights defeats. ’ 'lndiana edfff'd Purdue earlier this season ait Bloomington, 51-50, but las night in the Boilermakers’ homo Bailiwick it was a different story as PundUe marked up its 55th victory in 73 games of the hitter Ri- , valry, 02-48. (Likewise, Evansville had the ttablw turned by Western Ken-’ tueky. The purple aces upset the Kentuckians last Saturday night, 45-41. Last night, however, western Kentucky drubbed Evansville, 48-36. I 'Purdue skipped into fourth place in the Big Ten race by rallying .from a 33-26 deficit in the first | half. It was Purdue’s sixth victory In 10 conference games and Indiana’s fifth loss in seven loop starts. iPaul Hoffman, who missed the first Indiana game because of an injured foot, slipped in seven baskets, while Bob Lewis scored 21 points and Mryin (Red) Anderson notched 15 points. 'AI Kralovansky, Jim Copeland and Noitb Hermann dropped in 36 of the 48 Hoosier points. ■Harold Brown took over the lead in the state’s individual scoring race as he contributed 17 points to (Evansville’s futile cause against western Kentucky. Evansville trailI ed at the half, 23-22. Elsewhere last night, Taylor captured its third straight Indiana collegiate conference games against no defeats by clipping Huntington, 29-27, and Bunker Hill navy made ; 1; two in g row over Central Noimal | 56-45. Il was Bunker Hill’s 19th vic--1 tory in 24 games. Tonight DePauw attempts to put the clincher on Its Hoosier conference title claims by invading Franklin while Valparaiso’s "world’s tallest basketiball team” takes on a ‘'breather” in Central Normal. McNutt Reports On War Job Placements — Washington, Feb. 8. — (UP) — War manpower commissioner Paul V. McNutt reported today that WMC placed more than 277,000 workers in toppriority war plants j under its inter-regional program in 1944. He said this meant filling 75 percent of the urgent job openings authorized last year for int<r-re-gional recruitment on recommendation of the national manpower i priorities committee. Most workers went to west coast ship repair ! yards; shipyards building assault cargo and troop transports; B-29 and improved fighter aircraft 1 plants; radar manufacturers; shell casing and explosive plants; forges and foundries; coal mines, and secret military projects. ing the youth’s confession that he took Carblyn Bennett, 14; into a park on his bicycle and shot her “because she was going out with other fellows,’’ Superior Judge Edward T. Broadhurst said, “there is only one sentence I can impose.”

H. s. basketball Leo 40, Fort Wayne C. C. 15. Garrett 42, Butler 32. Monroeville 29, Harlan -3. Marion 38, Muncie Burris 2!>. Wabash 62, Monticello 48. Waynetown 48, Hillsboro 32. Terre Haute State 37, Terre Haute Garfield 35. Decatur Central 41, Indianapol’s Cathedral 22. — Road To Berlin By United Press The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Eastern front: 32 miles (from Kienitz). Western front: 296 miles (from point southeast of Nijmegen). Italy: 530 miles (from point north of Ravenna).

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