Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1945 — Page 6

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Lisi Favored Quintets For Regional Play Indianapolis, March 1. — (UP)Coaches ordered tapering off drills today as the 64 sectional champions of Indiana high school basketball neared the end of practice for regional assignments Saturday. The. fans either scurried about madly in quest of elusive tickets or smiled smugly in the knowledge that they would be among the estiabated 70,000 who will watch th“ crowning of the 16 regional .titlists. The self-styled experts waxed veMement over the ability to predict unerringly the outcome of the semi-final games (at 1:30 p. m. and | 2:30 p. tn.) and the finals (8 p. m.) of regional play. From here, the picture was something like this: At Anderson — Anderson’s In-j dtans, who have been superb and comkal at various stages of the i season, figured to collect the scalps i of Danville and then Indianapolis Broad Ripple. Ripple anticipated little trouble from Eden, and could stage' a surprise at night. At Attica — Undefeated Wayne-1 town was expected to run its win«!hg streak to 27, with opposition from Clinton, Covington and Bainbridge. At Bedford —Jeffersonville, th? next state champion (it said here a few days ago) held the edge over Paoli. Brownstown and Bedford, although Bedford has stopped Jeff four straight times in regional play and seemingly was not hurt badly by the induction of two regulars late in the season. At Evansville —A cakewalk for tlie defending state champions, the Bulldogs from Evansville Bosse. Owensville, Tell City and Boonville were the soon-to-be “also fans.”

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At Fort Wayne —Auburn’s Red Devils, beaten only twice and then by one-point margins, looked best among an otherwise weak field of Cromwell, Fort Wayne North and Syracuse. At Hammond—A three-way tosslup between Michigan City, Gary Emerson and Hammond High. Hammond has an afternoon “breather” in Remington, but ' Michigan City takes the title, nod. At Huntington The host Vikings | by a slight edge over Chester Center and then the Dunkirk-Berne winner. At Lafayette—Two “perennials” in the state title picture—Lafayette Jefferson and Frankfort trade buckets with two “upstarts,” Zionsville and Oxford. The Jeff-Frank-fort afternoon game was expected | to decide the crown, in favor of Lafayette. At Logansport — The question here was whether Peru can whip the Loganberries three times in one season. For that reason, Logansport, Flora and Monticello round out the field. At Marion — Both Fairmount, which meets Wabash, and Jackson Centra', which meets Kokomo, were confident of beating the favorites, but the name teams were expected to come through, with Kokomo triumphing at night. At Muncie — The Bearcats of Muncie Central seemed headed for their first regional title in seven years, but will have trouble with Richmond in the afternoon. Parker and Lewisville are afternoon foes. At Rushville — A well-balanced meet.with Batesville a slight favorite over Rushville, Lawrenceburg ( and Liberty. At Shelbyville —Franklin beat Madison during the regular season, but coach Ray Eddy's boys should reverse the tables and continue on against the. GreensburgHope winner. At South Bend—A real “.toughie” involving South Bend Riley. Rochester. Jamestown and Culver. Riley has the best record, so—Riley. At Terre Haute —Terre Haute Geretmeyer figured to beat Bloomington and Linton was favored over Spencer, thus setting up a "natural” between the west central league powers. Linton, victor over Brazil and Terre Haute Garfield which have defeated Genstmeycr. was picked to win the regional. At Vincennes— Jasper’s Wildcats are the standouts and expected little trouble from Bicknell. Washington or Sullivan.

— o— Ex-Angola Athlete Is Killed In Action Angola, Ind., March I.—(UP) — Lt. Dan Barnes, 21. former captain of the Angola high school basketball team, was killed in action over Romania June 24. 1944. according to word received from the war department today. The co-pilot’s mother, Mrs. Mary Barnes, said he had been listed as missing previously. o The only woman who ever had her picture on U. S. paper money was Martha Washington.

List Financial Report On Meet Held Last Week I The Decatur sectional tournament, held last week at the Yellow Jackets gym, showed an increase of more than SSOO in grossreceipts over the previous year, according to the financial report, released today by W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur junior-sen-ior high school, and tourney manager. Receipts totaled $3,270. as compared to $2,774.80 for the 1914 i tournament. | < Expenses were also heavier this : | year, principally due to the in-j, crease in federal government tax | to 20 percent as compared to 10 ( percent in previous year. Expenditures totaled $1,021.26, as | compared to $734.46 at the 1944 , tourney. Government tax this year £ was $542.73, as compared to $264.78 ( at the 1944 meet. The referees re- £ ceived $l4O, an increase of-S2O over the previous year. £ The sale of season tickets show- j ed a decided boost this year, with ? the participating schools selling 1,678 as compared to 1,226 last year. . In addition, 131 season tickets were 1 sold at the gym doors. Single sess- ' ion ticket sales totaled 1,131, as 1 compared to 2,492 last year. The gross receipts, less the ex-: 1 penses, left a first balance of $2.-1 ■' 257.74. From this figure, the tour-1 r ney center school received SIOO. ‘ Then was deducted $97.56 for transportation of teams, S4B for lodg- « ing of teams and another SIOO for, t the tourney center school. From j t ►this balance, the Indiana high. £ school athle'ic association receiv-p ed $19.12. leaving a balance of sl,- f 893.06. One-half of this sixth balance, or ( $946.53, was divided pro rate I among the 10 participating schools. £ with each school receiving $94.65. ‘ The other half of this balance, * also $946.53, was divided among the • 10 schools on the basis of season •

ticket sales. Each season ticket, sold at $1.50, returned $.5641 to the schools. The division on the season ticket basis is as follow®: Berne - x 221 $124.60 Decatur 474 267.38 Geneva 172 97.02 Hartford 57 32.15 Jefferson 19 10.72 Kirkland 159 89.69 Monmonth 87 49.07 Monroe 145 81.79 Pleasant Mills 73 4LIS Decatur Catholic 271 152.57 o I. U. Quintet Beats Illinois, 65 To 55 Champaign, 111., Mar. I—(UPI1 —(UPI Coach Doug Mills gathered up the pieces today and tried to patch up his Illinois basketball team for its crucial finale Saturday with lowa’s league-leading Hawkeyes At lowa City. Only seven days ago, the Illini were in thick of the championship fight but since then they have dropped three straight games. Their latest loss was a I killing 65-55 defeat at the hands of Indiana’s cellar-dwelling Hoosiers last night. Indiana closed out its season in a blaze of glory as center Al Kralovansky poured in 23 points *o boost his conference total to 139. Indicative of Illinois’ slow pace was the performance of Walt Kirk, brilliant Illini guard and the team's high scorer, who failed to score a point. Illinois hit only 25 field goals in 103 attempts while Indiana sank 25 out of 80 to end the season with three victories and nine defeats. If lowa defeats Illinois Saturday it will give the Hawkeyes their first undisputed basketball championship in the history of the big ten while a defeat will drop them into a tie for the title with Ohio State's defending champions. Fort Wayne Re-Routing Bill Facing Defeat Indianapolis, March I—(UP) — A. Bill giving Fort Wayne authority to re-route the Nickel Plate railroad within the city was eligible to be called up again for final passage today after it failed of a constitutional majority vote in its first test. Senators voted 19-22 against the measure last night, but sponsors of the bill nor its opponente could muster the 16 votes necessary to pass or kill it. Additional attempts to pass it may .be made during the fast four daye of the general assembly session. Beg Pardon iln the story of the Finrt Aid meet ing of Boy Scowte held at she Lincoln school gym, the name of Don Mac Lean was omitted. His patrol, the Coffrra of troop 81, received an A rating.

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Miners, Operators Open Wage Confab Recess Is Taken At John Lewis Request Washington. March I.—(UP) — The United Mine Workers and IHtuminoiw coal mine operators formally organized their join wage conference 'today. But they immediately recessed until mid-after-noon without taking steps in actual negotiations for a new contract. At stake in the negotiations will be an uniterrupted coal supply for the nation's war plants. The recess was proposed by II MW president John L. Lewis. He suggested that in the intervening hours rules and credentials committees decide on recommendations for seating of delegates and size of the negotiating committee. (Actually, it was understood that Lewis desired the recess for two reasons. One was that he felt his opening address —which traditionally is the first step In actual negotiations—would not receive adequate publicity if given at this time because it would be overshadowed by Pnsdent Roosevelt's speech to congress. The second reason was that Lewis wanted to he sure that the negotiating committee would be large instead of email, as desired by the operators. Lewis feels he has a better chance of getting regional groups of operators to capitulate to his demands in a large negotiating committee. Ezra Van Horn, Cleveland, a leader of the operators' group, was elected chairman of the conference for the fourth cneecutive time. Thomas Kennedy. Hazleton, Ja„ UMiW secretary, was chosen conference secretary. The wage discussions are held every ttwo years. In 1943 they were ; punctuated by a series of wartime j strikes. Lewis apparently is set to ; call another walkout if no satisfactory agreemnt is reached by Marell' 31, when the current contract ex-I

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I plree. Lewis notified the government j four days ago that he wants his j 400.0001 miners polled ou March 27, four days before the contract ends, to determine if they want to strike if his demands are not met. Lewis' official publication, the United Mine Workers Journal, today defended his decieon to serve the strike notice in advance of the wage talks. The Journal said edi- . tomally that it was a “protective . measure in the event the operators . and government agencies gang up . to defeat the purposes of collective . bargaining.” I Hut the operators, in a statement issued last night, labelled the rei quest “a doubt in Lewis’mind that . these negotiations” will result in a naw agreemnt. o Tokyo Says Ryukyu Islands Are Raided American Carrier Planes In Attack Washington, Mar. 1— (UP) — Tokyo announced today that a • big force of American carrier planes raided the Ryukyu islands just south of Japan for at least six hours today. A Tokyo broadcast heard by the United Press at San Francisco said approximately 600 planes participated in the attack. The broadcast said several waves of planes attacked the naval base island of Okinawa, ,335 miles southwest of Japan and 925 miles southwest of Tokyo. Tokyo also said the planes attacked other islands in the group, which stretch from the southern tip of Japan to Formosa. The planes presumably came from task force 58. which has carried out three devastating raids on Tokyo in the past two I weeks and made other diversioni ary attacks in support of the in-; | vasion of Iwo island. A Japanese imperial headquart-1 1 ers communique said a "great i ! number” of carrier planes began I

the attack on the Rytikyus at 7:30 a. tn. (Tokyo time). At 1:30 p. tn., the communique said, “both sides still were engaged in battles.” At least 31 American planes had been shot down and 23 damaged by 1:30 p. m„ the communique said. It was recorded by the FCC. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's task force 58, now operating with the fifth fleet, last was reported officially in action last Sunday and Monday against Tokyo and the island of Machijo. ISO miles south. In those attacks, the carrier planes -destroyed or damaged 233 enemy planes, 31 ships and two aircraft, plants. Tokyo also was attacked by the task force Feb. 16 and 17. Another Japanese communique broadcast by Tokyo claimed that the Japanese garrison on Iwo had killed or wounded 13,500 marines in the 11-day battle on Iwo. In addition, it said. 226 tanks were knocked out and 21 warships and 31 transports sunk or damaged heavily. An earlier propaganda broadcast had placed the number of American casualties on Iwo at 20,800, but at the same time conceded that the “decisive stage has been reached with the launching of a major assault by the marines.” Tokyo conceded that its forces had suffered “considerable losses in firearms and other things” in the face of the American offensive and said its forces had withdrawn to rear positions from the area of Motoyama and "navy fortresses.” Motoyama, administrative center and largest town on Iwo, lies on the central plateau. Black Market Rinq Believed Smashed (Indianapolis, March 1 —(UP) — State police superintendent Austin R. Killian said today that the arrest of former convict Willard F. Kelley, 46. iby state and federal officers was believed to mark the end of an Indianapolis black market in stolen and counterfeit gasoline coupons.

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A From where I sit... fy Joe Marsh. America Has its Portrait Painted

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