Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1945 — Page 4

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64 Quintets Battle Today In Regional} Indianapolis, March 3, — (UP) Defending champion Evansville Bosse and the other favorites for the 35th annual Indiana high school basketball tournament championship were expected today to clear regional hurdles in stride. Rut "Old Mr. Upset." strangely absent during sectional firing, unquestionably was plotting form reversals which would give the dope

£lflc|iet a mighty kick. Today’s games will be the last of the season for all but Hi of the original starting field of 776 teams. Sixty-four quintets survived sectional competition but '32 of them will be eliminated during afternoon games at the 16 regional centers. Tourney tickets were at a prejpium at all tournament cites and an expected 70,000 fans will watch the second major stage of the 1945 ptjip’on. of “Hoosier madness.” Hundreds of thousands of other Hoosiers will follow the results with an avid interest only a Hoosipp can display for a state high school basketball playoff. Many were unable to leave war jobs and arrangements were ipjpjp to dozens of plants to rush tj|p tourney results to workers. Radios will beam 'the play-by-play to countless other thousands of housewives, schoolboys and men on the street. . Bosse’s Bulldogs, veteran-studded dpfgpders of the highest pinacle of Hoosier sport success, will play the 2:30 p. m. game of the Evansyillp regional. The champs expected little trouble with Boonville, or tpp Oweneville-Tell City winner tonight.

Jasper’s Wideat’s, one of the top favorites to lift the crown from the Bulldogs’ brows, "anticipated an equally easy road into next week’s semi-final round of the state tourney. Jasper plays Bicknell in the 1:30 p. m. game at Vincennes and, barring upsets, meete the Washing-ton-Sullivan winner. All was not a lily-strewn road for the other title contenders, however. Bedford and Jeffersonville, for example, apparently were headed for a final game clash in the Bedford regional. Linton and Terre Haute Gerstmeyer looked forward to the same prospect at Terre Haute. So did Hammond high and Michigan City at Hammond, with Gary Emerson's upsetting Norsemen ready to take care of Michigan City in the afternoon if the Red Devils should be off stride. Indianapolis Broad Ripple, which compiled the greatest season record among the major quintets', and Anderson, a finalist last season, also were headed for a final game match at Anderson, according to the experts. Kokomo’s Wildcte, runners-up to Bosse last March, and Auburn’s Red Devils were standout powers who figured to emerge from regional tests which were not as rugged as the others. Wabash blocked Kokomo’s path at Marion. Faet-improving Fort

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Wayne North plays Syracuse, and Cromwell opposes Auburn. Syracuse and Cromwell are 20-game winners. o — Bowling Exhibition Sunday Afternoon An eight-team bowling exhibition will bo held at the Mies Recreation in this city Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. No admission will be charged and the public, is invited ’ to attend. ! Teams to bowl are Berghoff, i Messenger Corp., Stroh Beer and Hoff Bran Beer, all of Fort Wayne; Brunswick Club of Findlay. <), Kruetzman Chips of Lima. ().. and the West End Restaurant and Kraft | Cheese teams, both of Decatur. All teams have averages of about 950.

MARINES BATTLE (Continued From Page One) divisions, slugging up the east and west coasts respectively, also made small gains yesterday over some of the most rugged and bitterly-defended terrain yet encountered in the Pacific. Just ahead of the fifth division lies the small West coast town of Nishi. The fifth yesterday beat off the first enemy counter-attack since Tuesday. Artillery, naval guns and carrier planes supported the marines. and the Japanese were replying with intense small arms, automatic weapons and mortar fire. Carrier planes also made a bombing and rocket raid on Omura town and the airfield on Chichi in the Bonin islands, just north of I wo. Explosions and fires were touched off. Army liberators also attacked Chichi.

ASSEMBLY SESSION (Continued From Page One) and yet to be enacted into law amendment and the biennial i budget measures. Their status today: The election hill’s trip from the legislature to the governor’s office hinged on agreement of both chambers to the report of a conference committee. Both houses passed the bill, but the house amended it. Then the senate dissented, although no major changes were involved. The liquor bill was ready for second reading in the senate after passing the house. It faced further attempts to amend, and concurrence by the lower branch on the basis of major changes made in a senate committee. The budget bill, setting up estimated expenditures of SBB,500,000 for the next biennium, bad passed both houses. But when the senate deleted a $1,000,000 appropriation for a northern Indiana crippled children's hospital, house concurrence was required. This was expected today.

GEN. EISENHOWER (Continued From Page One) Eisenhower's second narrow escape was at the end of his inspection trip. Enemy shells landed on an airfield only a few seconds after the general and his British military assistant, Col. James F. Gault, took off for their headquarters. The general seemed pleased with the results of the week-old offensive as he visited the 29 th and 83rd infantry and second armored divisions, and the 19th corps. o— Triplets Born To Huntington Woman Huntington. Ind.. tMaroh 3—(VP) —-The day-old premature triplets of Mr. and .Mrs. .Cyril Burns were reported to be getting along fine today ‘by their phyeician. The triplets, two gitte and a boy. were thorn yesterday, fltix weeks early, according to Dr. J. B. Evis'on. They were placed in incubators shortly after their birth. The doctor said he thought they would survive all right. The boy weighed five pounds, one ounce, and the girls each three 14 ounces.

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Seek 100 Percent Reni Registration 25,000 Residential Units Registered . With nearly 25,000 residential rental units registered with the district ORA rent dt'fice. John E. Williams, director of the Fortt WayneDecatur defense-rental area, eaid today thalt his office was attempting to hrinig the registration as near to 100 per cent as poesilrle. tMr. Williams spoke specifically to those tenants who sub-let their places for a month or two during the winiter or eummer months while they go aiwtay for a vacation. “Just as soon as a person sufielets his home," he said, “he becomes a landlord. even though ho himself is i also a rent payer.’’ •Tn such cases." Ml Williams j continued, “unless tlte person who : sulblets registers the renttal with the area rent otlfice, he is in violation of OPi-Vs rentt regulations, and eulhjet t to the penalties of the Emergency price control act.

of rental units," the rent diredtor said, "is the keynote of the success of t’he rent progrann. For effective control of the second largest item in the average family's budget — rent — we must have a maximum legal rent established for every unit in the Fort Wayne-Decatur area.” dbmis’raition forms are available at i he area rent office, Ideated at 228 'Utility Building. Fort Wayne, Ind. 'The OPA rent director said that he fe]t it necessary to restate the conditions governing eviction of t’he existing tenant iby a purchaser w hen a house is sold in view of the increasing numlber of such sales in recent months. Three months must elapse as a general rule between the time a rental house is sold and action can be started under local law to evict the present tenant. "Not only must three months elapse ifrom the date of the sale,” iMr. Williams added, “but no certificate authorizing the start of eviction action will be issued until at least 20 per cent of the total purchase pnice has been paid. This certificate authorizes pursuit of eviction action in local courts three months from the date the petition requesting the certificate Is filed and approved by my office.” There are exceptions to this, Mr. Williams said. "One of them is where equivalent accomodations can be found into which the tenant pan move without undue hardship or loss. However, witiTh the housing situation as tight as it is in Fort Wayne, this exception won’t be put to use very often. -.’’ln general, I want tenants to know that they will have at least three months in which to find other quarters if the place they now live in is sold.”'

o STALINGRAD-LIKE (Continued From Page One) heavy aerial attack. The entire Siegfried line west of the Rhine from Cologne to Nijmegen was turned and useless as a defensive barrier for the Getrman Ruhr, and the Nazis apparently were abandoning all of that 65-mile stretch of the Rhine bank. Dispatches from the IT. S. first army front before Cologne, however. said the Germans showed no signs of giving up that ancient fortress. 0 Efficienty is only another name for doing the right thins at the right time.

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AMERICAN WAR (Continued From Page One) during the past two weeks. »An air ministry summary listed Othe British ‘bombload for February as 51.240 tons, all but 600 tons of which iwas dropped on Germany Eig'ht.h air force flying fortresses and Liberators contributed another 51,000 tons. o RIVERS IN INDIANA (Continued From Page One) maneuver heavy towboats of valuable war materials through the swift current and under bridges. ... .. .... — j- In ' l >• ' ■Cjr. _B** p * r aSsawßfc - Jaßr SISSRSSSK RICHARD C. STOCKWELL, above, holds some kind of a record with his “on the battlefield” promotion from corporal to lieutenant, but when records are discussed, we’D give him top honors for the manner in which he celebrated the military boost. Stockwell led his company to the capture of 21 German vehicles and the killing at 65 Nazis. (Internationa/,)

ADM. MITSCHER (Continued From Page One) lations, Nlmitz listed the following damage: Four aircraft shot from the air, 37 aircraft destroyed on the ground,- some of which, may, however, have been previously inoperational. Shipping sunk included one destroyer, one motor torpedo boat, six small cargo vessels, two medium cargo craft, an ocean going tug and two luggers. Probably sunk were one medium cargo vessel, six small coastal cargo craft and six luggers. Listed as damaged were four destroyer escorts or patrol craft, one medium transport, four medium cargo vessels, nine small coastal cargo craft, one small freighter and 10 luggers.

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Sinatra Disqualified For Military Service Jersey City. N. J. March 3—(UiP) —(Frank Sinatra has been disqualified for military service, his local draft ihoattd said today. ilea W. Caldwell, chairman o>f local Ixtard 19. said he had received a letter from Washington this morning advising him that the crooner was ■classified 2tVF until Septem- ’ her. The cFassificatlon was described as an occupational deferment for I a man not physically qualified for military service. o_. 0 _. Tractor School Held In Decatur Friday A Ford tractor owners school was held Friday at the Dierkes auto parts, with approximately Bio farmers in attendance. Lunch was served at noon and prizes were awarded at the close of the meeting. H. F. Carson of the Ford Ferguson Co. conducted the school on a question and answer basis, with an open forum at the close. L. E. Archbold, county agent, spoke on education of youth in the use of farm machinery and soil conservatian.

Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities MIES ALLEYS Central Soya League Research won three from Analits; Truckers won three from Pilot; Erasers won three from Solvent; Better Halves won two from Elepeller; Master Mixers won two from M & R; Traffic won two from Pencilpushers. Standing W. L. ' Pencilpushers 18 6 : Traffic 18 6 Truckers 1? ” ; Research '............. 16 8 , Erasers 13 11 j M& R ................................... 12 12 : Pilot 10 I 4 i Better Halves 10 H Elepeller 9 15 Master Mixers 9 15 I Analits _ ” 1" : Solvent - 5 19 ■ High series; Men —Snyder 558, Rowdon 519, Buck 561, Roop 523. ■ Women —Young 558, Mac Lean 498, Kihgsley 487. High games: Men: Rowdon-226, Buck 224, Sanders 223. P. Myers 200. McClure 202, Snyder 203. Wo-men-r-Young 213. Mac Lean 198, Kingsley 196.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3,

Major League Kraft won two from Home proeery; Smith Bros, won two front Weet End Restaurant; Kohne Drug won three from McMillen: Standard Oil won two from Mutschler. Standing W. 1 . West End 1® 11 Mutschler 15 12 Home 1:1 Standard 1,1 13

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Kraft Smith . H I McMillon .. U 1 Kohne High series: Tu tewller 1 202-219), Top,. 602 'll Ahr 610 (197-231-182) 81J5 < High games: Young ots ~ 202, Mies 206. HMgla “ S ’M Bleeke 212, Hoffman 20’ v » 221, L. SmJth 221 . Koeneman 211, Lord 2«o. S